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U. 8. Air Defense on Emergency Basis; Almost All Combat (Continued From First Page.) Biates Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.; Edgewood Arsenal and Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Most of the G. H. Q. Air Force sub- ordinate headquarters have been re- organized and redesignated; nine base headquarters and their squadrons have been constituted, chiefly from discontinued station complements and other entirely new organizations have been created, such as the two new staff squadrons at Bolling Field. Seven squadrons in various parts of the country, among them the 14th Bombardment at Bolling Field, have been assigned to the G. H. Q. Air Force or to Corps Areas and made in- active for the present. In a critique of recently concluded field maneuvers, involving the various types of Army aviation, Col. Bradley pointed out that attack and bombard- ment form the striking aviation, with bombardment as the chief assault weapon. Attack aviation forms the most potent and dangerous. weapon against mechanized ground forces, he said, citing as proof of this conten- tion the disastrous results of an at- tack made by Spanish rebel airplanes on a column of 200 Communist gov- ernment trucks. He quoted a report that the truck column had been en- tirely destroyed by repeated air at- tacks, with bombs and machine guns. Another effective weapon of attack sviation is gas, some attacks with harmless gas substitutes during the course of the recent maneuvers in this country having produced from 80 to 100 per cent “casualties” on their targets. Pursuit Aviation. Units Are Affected “Last December the entire G. H. Q. Air Force concentrated in Florida from points as far distant as Cali- fornia in less than 2% hours. “‘On more than one occasion during these maneuvers, bombardtent avia- tion flew approximately 1,000 miles non-stop, day and night, good weather and foul, and delivered & simulated attack at the appointed time. “Our navigators are so skillful that fiights hundreds of miles to sea are of frequent occurrence. Regardless of the distance flown, we expect now an accuracy of about 10 miles in over-water navigation, and hope to improve on that. “The accuracy of our bombing is indicated by a demonstration held last week at Fort Benning, Ga., in which a mean deviation of 4 mils (40 feet) was recorded from 10,000 feet. Good results have been ob- tained in high altitude bombing and training along this line is being stressed.” Deliveries Soon to Begin. Deliveries to the Air Corps soon will commence on a contract for 13 giant four-engined Boeing bombard- ment airplanes, each of which can de- liver 2,000 pounds of bombs on a target 1,500 miles away and return to its starting point non-stop and, in addition, can carry sufficient de- fensive armament to make any at- tacking force give considerable thought before engaging in combat. Airplanes of this type, the War Department holds, can reinforce the | aerial defense of Panama, Alaska or ‘Hlvllll, flying non-stop. Excluding | other factors of superiority, it is as- | serted, these modern engines of war cost less initially, cost less to main- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SEPTEMBER 27, 1936—PART . TWO. Article XIX that “The Assembly may from time to time advise the recon- sideration by members of the League of treaties which have become in- applicable and the consideration of international conditions whose con- tinuance might endanger the peace of the world.” But this article has been a dead letter. Although the peace treaties have been revised, the League has stood aside from the revision. This is as much a ground of attack upon it as its failures to keep the peace in Africa and Asia. What can be done about 1®t? This is the question which the Permanent Studies Conference has been considering throughout the last year, and on which it will hold an in- ternational meeting next Summer. Last June I had the privilege of at- tending its interim meeting at Ma- drid, at which the subjects were shaped up for this year's work by the various national organizations, com- posed of outstanding authorities in political and international law. We have divided the subject up into the following fields: Raw materials; markets; population pressures movements; colonies; methods and instruments of change. that behind these academic topics lies the pressure of te “have not” nations over against the “haves.” How can the dissatisfied be satisfied? A little serious thought will show that the answer does not lie in mere- ly taking things from one people and giving them to another. what happened in the peace treaties. The nation which cries most for a new international deal may not have as good & claim to it as others. Who is to say what is just? Examine Nature of Claim. Our problem has to be solved by examining the nature of every claim. Take raw materials. It is evident That was It is only in (Oontinued From First Page.) —_— decision of the Supreme Court the N. R. A. statute would have become in time as completely ignored, as utterly impossible to enforce as this statute about taxes. Number of Violators. Under this tax statute it seems clear that tens of thousands of Americans could be brought into the criminal courts, including filling station opera- tors who post the amount of Federal Government tax in the price of gaso- line and theater and base ball mana- gers who print the amount of the Fed- eral tax on the tickets they sell. If any business man, butcher, baker or shop keeper wishes to make & fair esti- mate of the amount of tax, direct or indirect, included in the cost of what he sells, and if he wishes to tell the amount of this tax to his customer, by written or oral word, he would seem to be in a position not differing from that of filling station operators and theater managers. The statute would seem to apply not merely to merchandise and busi- ness men. It would seem to subject to equal guilt any newspaper which, in advertisement, news dispatch or editorial, mentions the element of tax in the cost of any commodity. If Attorney General Cum really wishes to test this old statute, he can find a shining mark—no less than Gov. Landon. Mr. Landon, in his speech at Buffalo, said there is 2 cents of tax on the price of every loaf of bread: “We cannot buy a stitch of cloth- ing without the Government's taking in taxes a part of the money we pay out. We cannot buy an ounce of food Campaign Tactics of Roosevelt Held Defensive, With Party “Tax Conscious” coupled with these corn contracts a stipulation limiting the amount of hogs to be raised. Right now, during these very weeks when enormous quantities of wheat are being im- ported from abroad, Triple-A is pay- ing out money to farmers for not planting wheat which, if it had been planted, would have been harvested last July or June. Up to June 30 last the amount paid out by Triple-A for not planting wheat last Fall was $45,424,000. Triple-A did make it a crime for any farmer to raise more potatoes than the limited quots which Triple-A said each farmer should raise. (This potato part of Triple-A did not really take effect, for the Supreme Court in- validated the whole of Triple-A be- fore potato control got under way.) Triple-A did buy up and kill 222,- 149 sows about to bear young; and in addition 6,188,717 little pigs; and converted most of the little pigs into fertilizer. True, this hog-killing op- eration took place in 1933. True, Triple-A claims that since the hog is & quick-breeding and quick-growing animal the slaughter of more than 6,000,000 in 1933 did not necessarily reduce the hog crop of 1936 and did not necessarily affect the present quantity of ham and pork chops, nor the price of them. Whether to ac- cept this assertion by Triple-A is a matter of judgment. The stark fact is that the number of hogs in the United States today is the smallest at any time in this generation. Defense by Anticipation. The most striking illustration of | the administration’s defensive psy-: chology, the strategy of defense by D9 * kX kA kx kA kx Kk Kk k K Roosevelt orLandon? How W il] the Natwn Voted The battle ison! The struggle for political supremacy is being bitterly fought! As the campaign swings into the home stretch the fight for victory is tense, dramatic . . . the most interesting in two generations! anticipation—counter-attack in ad- vance of attack—came directly from the White House. Late in the afternoon of Saturday, September 19, newspaper correspond= ents at Washington were given a statement by Mr. Stephen Early, sec- war-time or under conditions of war | economy—such as now prevails in |central Europe—that they present | any serious question. Otherwise lhey‘ are, for the most part, on the world | market at market figures. British | rubber is now hunting for buyers. But tain, and require few combat and maintenance officers and men than | the number of present bombers re- quired to carry an equivalent bomb | load. “Bombardment aviation,” Col at our grocery stores without being taxed to support the Government. * * * These hidden taxes—Federal, State and local —amount to about 20 cents out of every dollar we spend. In the case of the Federal Pursuit aviation is designed and ¢rained to intercept and destroy hos- tile aircraft in flight, the acting chief of staff of the G. H. Q. Air Force ex- plained. “In recent months,” he said, “new | pursuit tactics have been devised ‘whereby the fire of many pursuit air- planes can be concentrated at one time on the target, instead of placing reliance entirely on the World War tactics of successive diving attacks. “However, the problem of intercep- tion of the enemy will always be present to plague pursuit, and I think #t is not unfair to say that any inter- ception of an enemy bombardment or attack formation without the assist- ance of a ground intelligence net is pure luck. At night, in my opinion, o interception can be depended upon. “And now for bombardment. I have purposely left this to the last, because we of the Air Corps feel that its present capacity and future devel- opment are such that it is destined to play a major part in any war. In these maneuvers, the participation of bombardment was more to show its ecapabilities than to assess results. ‘This was necessarily the case because the limitations of time and space did not permit the maneuver to be so drawn as to afford even partial scope to the employment of bombardment aviation. “Although we do not like to put it #o bluntly, the war-time mission of the soldier is to destroy. We train during the years of peace to destroy our enemy in war—to destroy his! soldiers, his property, his will to attack us. Our national policy is one of defense. Our geographical situation, with friendly neighbors north and south and vast oceans to east and west, is such that an enemy must cross those oceans in tremendous force to impose his will upon us. Powerful Defense Agency. “Although bombardment aviation in Europe may be an instrument of aggression, with us it is a powerful agency of defense. Bombardment aviation can destroy nearly anything built by man. It can destroy ships easily and an enemy must come to us in ships. “To indicate briefly the power of todern bombardment, let me cite a few figures: Twin Specters at Geneva __(Contlnu:d From First Page.) hind it, the new defection is ex- tremely serious. It is here that the Spanish civil War comes into the international pic- ture. Every one knows how it en- dangers the peace of Europe, and yet the League does nothing about it on the technical ground that it is do- mestic strife. The same initial in- ability to act, evident in the previous Zfailures, is all too evident now. What hope, then, would there be for Geneva to exert any restraining influence if the conflagration should spread over Europe? Under these cir- cumstances, the governments of cap- dtalist countries, including the So- cialist government of France, faced with the double danger of foreign and domestic war, are turning to policies of quick decision and arm- ing day and night to make that de- cision pre: The methods of the League are being discarded for those ©f blood and iron. Proposals of Reform. Is there any likelihood of this ®flight from the League” being checked? Most interesting in this Tegard are the proposals of Soviet Russia for League reform. It will be recalled that all League members have been asked for suggestions as to how the League could be strengthened and made adequate to its task. The mas- ters of Communist Russia are at least the equals of Hitler and Mus- solini in realism, and their answer, submitted in detail, is worth careful study. For they have as much to gain, as things stand now, by keep- ing the League as the center of European policy. as the Nazis and Fascists have in discounting it. Now, the outstanding point in the Boviet plan is that collective security, organized regionally, be planned for speedy action. When regional pacts are planned in harmony with the spirit of the Covenant, that is to say, for defense only and open for member=~ ship to even the prospective enemy— as in the Locarno agreements—then their terms can be carried out auto~ matically without waiting for the Council of the League to pass upon the case. ‘This proposal is distinctly strategic. ‘When war is at hand, every moment counts. That is why, in 1914, the control of events passed so swiftly from foreign offices to general staffs. In the phrase “the deadly time table of the general staffs,” there still lin- gers a faint memory of the horror of that surrender to fate. Application Can Be Swift. The present.plan recognizes the need for action, but permits it only under conditions previously set forth for all the world to examine, friend and foe alike. In this way it links up | pea: sction with debate. The debate takes piace earlier, when the plan is ac- cepted; the application of the plan can be made with hair-trigger swift- ness. s , Of course, there is danger that the Bradley said by way of summary, “is the backbone of every air force | in the world today. No one can stop its development nor predict its ulti- mate achievement. We of the Air Corps often speak of independent air operations and are occasionally mis- understood in our use of the term. We refer to the unquestioned tactical independence of bombardment avia- tion from ground troops. Strategically, there is the greatest of interdepend- ence under one commander—the chief of staff in peace and the com- mander of the field forces in war.” With the present reorganization completed it is anticipated that more | and more of the time of wings, groups, | squadrons and individual pilots of the G. H. Q. Air Force will be devoted to the actual flying of combat prob- lems of the type they must solve in case of hostilities. “Attack” at Sea. Planes of the 7th Bombardment Group, Hamilton Field, Calif., recently completed an interception attack 18 miles at sea, using the Army transport ship Meigs as the target. Although 186 miles off the Golden Gate, the Meigs was intercepted only 67 minutes after the bombers left the coast. The Tth Group is expected to fly at least one interception mission at sea each month. Eighteen bombers of the 2d Bom- bardment Group, from Langley Field, recently delivered a non-stop simulated attack on a mythical enemy at Ran- toul, Il .Then, augmented by the | 1st Pursuit. Group and 13th Attack Squadron, from Barksdale Field, the group delivered another attack on Fort Knox, Ky. In all parts of the country the active, aggressive squadrons of the G. H. Q. Air Force may be observed, in fair weather or foul, preparing themselves for emergency action. “We are proud,” Col. Bradley said, “to be a member of the Army team and we expect, should war come to this country, to acquit ourselves well of the responsibility which will in- evitably be reposed in us.” trigger may be pulled by a nervous or plotting hand, using the League as a cloak for aggression. But that dan- ger exists under any arrangement so long as the war system is with us. The point which the Soviets make is that the strategy of peace must be as ef- fective as that of war. What short memories the commen- | tators on these matters have! No- where in the press comments on the Soviet plan have I seen any referenee to the fact that this was all worked out in the early days of the League, in the draft treaty for disarmament and security of 1923, of which Lord Robert Cecil was the chief proponent. The plan to permit immediate auto- matic action under the terms of a regional agreement was presented by colonel—now general—Requin of the French general staff. It has been re- peated more than once in the plans of succeeding years. But it is now to the forefront of those suggestions which are being made to give the | League vitality. Along the same lines is the pro- posal, made by nearly all governments, to do away with the unanimity rule in the application of Article XI. This is the crucial article of the Covenant— the one which declares that war, or the threat of war, anywhere “is a matter of concern to the whole League, and the League shall take any action that may be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of nations.” It is a definite break with the theory of sovereignty to have decisions of such gravity taken by majority; but, after all, the first step in this direc- tion was taken in the clause just quoted. Additional Protocols. The changes in the technique of Geneva will not be made by a revision of the Covenant, but by additional protocols. If the doors were opened to Covenant revision, two opposing schools of thought would make agree- ment almost impossible; the same two sides would line up as in the Senate debates of 1919. ° 2 On the one hand, there are those who want to strengthen the obliga- tion to apply sanctions; on the other hand, it is claimed that nothing is gained by putting promises on paper that will not be lived up to in prac- tice. The weight of opinion is with the latter, but the former group is still strong. So far we have been dealing only with war prevention. But there is another side to the League’s activities which must be kept in mind if it is to be something more <han an instru- ment for maintaining the status quo. It must provide as well for peaceful change. Otherwise the demand for change will be a continual menace to ce. Now, this is the hardest task.of all; much harder than organizing palice. How ‘can nations be induced to give up things to other nations when they to prevent a corner by monopolistic owners is a genuine international question and calls for international control. There is, of course, the advantage which the owning nation may possess in paying for the materials in its own currency. But what is wanted is the chance to flood a colony that possesses raw materials with the de- preciated currency of the motherland, justice is hardly served by arranging for such a settlement. Again, the use to which the raw material is put may be a question of international interest. If it is manu- factured to be dumped on the world market, or held behind prohibitive | trade barriers, to be dispensed at will by the owning nation, nothing is gained for peace, because discontent soon grows in other countries. Problem Held Universal. It is evident that some kind of a League of Nations is still called for to deal with a continuing problem of this kind. It is one which cannot be settled by “blood and iron” but by business- like dealings among nations. And it should not be left to the two or three strongest nations to work out by themselves: the problem is universal as well as intri . The same holds true of population movements and 6! “colonies. Much propaganda is afloat in the world about the needs, of rapidly expanding populations 16 R#ye larger places in the sun. There is something in it; but the real measureof population pres- sure is not the number of people to & square mile, but the standard of liv- ing they can maintain. This, in turn, | raises questions of economic justice within nations as well as among na- tions. Enough has been said to show that the provision for a changing world calls for a different kind of approach than that of which Mussolini is the mouthpiece; and that in exact pro- portion as Hitler turns to follow the iron policies of Bismarck instead of co-operating to strengthen the League—which he yet may do—he is standing in the way of economic recovery as well as of peace. Basis of Confidence. For business, in a world of credit, has to build on confidence in the future; and the only confidence that can endure is that which is based on economic justice rather than eco- nomic supremacy. At persent the trend is not in this direction. The pathway to Geneva is no longer thronged. as it used to be, by the feet of European nations, contrary, it looks as though policies of power were to be given their test. It is by such policies that Central behind them lies communism, ready to break through the shattered fabric of Western civilization. The inevit- revolution. That is the hand-writing on the wall. PUBLIC LIBRARY ‘WORLD. N CONNECTION with the mass l meeting on religion and church in Constitution Hall on Tuesday, September 29, the Public Library pre- sents a short list of recent thought- of various faiths. Modern Interpretations. PREFACE TO RELIGION, by B. I “While the author leans decidedly toward sacramentalism, he has a breadth of view that wins the sym- book is outstanding in the way in which it arouses interest, challenges indifference, shocks complacency, tian attitude.”—Rittenhouse Neisser. PATHWAYS TO CERTAINTY, by W. A. Brown. 1930. CC.B826p. ty in religion is not different from other types of conviction, and that the pathways to its attainment are au- ment.” E A COMMON FPAITH, by John Dewey. 1934. BR.DS513. the Terry Foundation, the author at- tempts to formulate a faith not con- fined to any sect or creed, and accepta- feel the need of some religion in their lives.” MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF 1931. CE.G39. “This volume offers a reconstruction of religious faith that is intellectually working out policies of peace. On the Europe is largely ruled today. But able consequence of despotism is RELIGION IN THE MODERN loyalty in a democracy to be held provoking books on religion by leaders Bell. Harper, 1935. BR.B42. pathy of the thoughtful reader. His awakens thought and cultivates Chris- “Prof. Brown shows that certain- thority, intuition, reason and experi- “In three lectures delivered at Yale on ble to modern men and women who MODERN DOUBT, by G. G. Gilkey. frank and spiritually constructive.” ELEMENTAL RELIGION; the Lyman | Beecher lectures for 1933, with three sermons on the main topic, by L. P. Jacks. 1934. CC.J12%e. “Dr, Jacks discusses elemental re- ligion as ‘the normal experience of the plain man, grasped in its entirety and elt!’ are in pleasant occupation or owner- ship? The Covenant provides \ Government alone they amount to | more than $5 a month for every | famuy.” | “Consciousness of Defensive.” 1 suspect that every competent econ- | omist and statistician would sup- | port what Gov. Landon says. And | T suspect the Governor “vill not go to | Jail for saying it. Nor will any one else. The administration shows conscious- | ness of being on the defensive with respect to the cost of food, the amount of food being imported and other ef- | fects related to Triple-A. As the ad- | ministration wishes to see it—and, I | think, vishes the rest of us to - se it— | all this sort of thing was caused by the drought, and only by the drought. | Directly and tacitly, in official outgiv- | ings and in campaign s ->ches, it was only the drought that reduced the quantity of foodstuffs and raised the price. A recent publicity “hand-out” of Triple-A began—the italicized words are significant: f “Employed consumers can still buy more food with their present earnings | than they were able to buy in 1928 or 11929, in spite of the record droughts | of 1934 and 1936.” { It is true the drought was part of | the cause of lowered food supplies, and increddd prices, and the necessity ‘for enormous imports of foed from abroad. But we cannot forget, much | as the administration would like us to | forget, that the quantity of food in | America was enormously reduced by Triple-A. “Not-Raise” Program. Triple-A did reduce the quantity of | food, did it deliberately, systematic | ally and on an enormous scale. Triple- A paid large sums to farmers to not- raise wheat. (“Not-raise” as a hyphen- ated word, seems to be an addition | to the American vocabulary made de- | sirable by the New Deal) Triple-A paid farmers to not-raise corn, and | Religion for the Modern World, by W. P. Montague. 1930. BR.M76. The author “believes that religion as the foundation of morality should | be abandoned, but that there is still | the possibility of a religion that should be a supplement and sequel to morali= ty instead of its basis. This is the re- legion which he calls Promethean.” RELIGION COMING OF AGE, by R. | W. Sellers. 1928. BR.Se455. | “The keynote of the present book is | the union of humanism and natural- ism The spiritual must be naturalized and humanized. ‘A religion founded | on realities is a religion coming of age.’ | (Preface).” NATURE, MAN and GOD; being the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Glasgow in the aca- demical years 1932-1933 and 1933- 193¢ by William Temple. 1935. BS.T24. . The Archbishop of York's lectures “cannot fail to stimulate thought on the central problems of religion, and it will guide the reflections of many, even among those who are unable to accept | some of its theses."—W. R. Matthews. THE PLAIN MAN SEEKS FOR GOD, by H. P. Van Dusen. 1933. BSG.- V8. “A thought-provoking and clear presentation of the theistic problem. It breathes the atmosphere of the re- ligious quest, rather than a purely ac- ademic discussion.”—A. S. Woodburne. Professions of Faith. AS I SEE RELIGION, by H. E. Fos- dick. 1932. BR.F78. “Religion as Dr. Fosdick sees it is not an inherited faith or a system of opin- ions, but an individual, psychological and creative experience which gives | meaning to life and dignity to human personality.” WHAT RELIGION MEANS TO ME, by H. E. Fosdick, A. B. Curry, E. F. Tittle, and others. 1929. BR.W55. Short articles on their profession of faith by outstanding men in the re- ligious world. ‘THE PERMANENT HORIZON; a new search for old truths, by Ludwig Lewisohn. 1934. FE.LS584. “Essays embodying the author’s views on various problems in modern | civilization and culture, including the mechanism of urban life, the sex ethics of Bertrand Russell and the political theories of the Communists, and showing his reaction against all forms of modernism, lberal and radical.” THE UNKNOWN GOD, by Alfred Noyes. 1934. BSG.N87. “This deeply thoughtful book is the record of a poet’s search for God, & search that led him from agnosticism to a satisfied and reasoned acceptance of the Christian faith.” RELIGION TODAY, s Challenging Enigma, ed. by A. L. Swift, jr. 1933. BR.Sw54. “The chapters of this book * * * are written by men representing the Jew- ish, Catholic and Protestant faiths.” Find Watch Charm in Steer. ‘Two years ago B. F. Huntsman lost a Masonic watch charm in his pasture. It was returned to him recently by & Fort Worth, Tex. packing concern which found it in the stomach of s steer sold by Hunteman. A " retary to the President. Mr. Early made himself authority for the state- ment; it goes without saying, of course, that the authority of Mr, Early had come directly from Mr. Roosevelt. The statement said, in effect, that “my attention has been called to a planned attempt” to “make it appear that the Presicent passively accepts the support of alien organizations hostile to the American form of gov- ernment. The President does | not want and does not welcome the vote or support of any individual or | group taking orders from alien sources.” Such a statement from the White House was, of course, sensational. The explanation appeared the follow- ing morning, when Mr. William R. Hearst printed in his many new. papers excerpts from what was de- scried as a report to Communist party chiefs at Moscow from Earl Browder, Communist candidate for President and executive secretary of | the Communist party of America. ‘With the material published in the | Hearst newspapers most of the pube lic is familiar. The White House advance repudia- tion was carefully and accurately phraged. It said that “the Presi~ dent does not want and does not wele come the vote or support of any ine dividual or group taking orders from alien sources.” | But the question—at least one of the questions—is: Are the Come munists in America supporting Mr. Roosevelt for re-election? The fair answer seems yes. I listened, with ex- ceptional care, to an address of a half hour or more made to the Na- tional Press Club at Washington by Communist Candidate Browder. My recollection is that he said, in the plainest possible words, that as re- spects the present campaign the prin- cipal objective of the Communists is to prevent the election of Gov. Landon. That is, of course, the same as saying that the Communists' principal obe jective in this campaign is the re- election of Mr. Roosevelt. I do not | think Mr. Browder will object to this | interpretation of what he said. In| fairness, it should be added that Mr. | Browder was careful to say he did not regard Mr. Roosevelt as a Coms munist or as having Communist ideals; on the contrary he regarded Mr. Roosevelt as—I think this was his phrase—*"capitalist-minded.” But Mr. Browder said, as I recall, that he felt the Communist program in America would be helped and hastened by re- election of Mr. Roosevelt. He felt that if Mr. Roosevelt were re-elected, there would come about, by 1940, a farmer-labor party, and that upon this the Communists could build their own party. The words and spirit of Communist Candidate Browder on the occasion when I heard him, are borne out by much other evidence. It seems abun- dantly fair to say that the Come munists in this campaign wish re- election of Mr. Roosevelt. Not, I re- | peat, that Mr. Roosevelt of his own | intention would deliberately or for- mally promote the Communist cause. It is rather that the Communists, ob- serving Mr. Roosevelt, what he does and the forces to which he appeals, think that the cause of communism would be advanced by re-election of him. Incidentally, the White House’s rather excited repudiation, in advance, of what Mr. Hearst was about to pub= lish, must have given the publication the utmost of sensational publicity. One wonders whether, as political strategy, the administration’s cefen- sive psychology is the best for its in- terests. (Copyright, 1936,) Rimless Octagon Glasses With SOLID GOLD Center Mounting 9.45 —Clear, white single- vision lenses complete in a rimless mounting with SOLID GOLD.center ... Offered at this Jow price. Use Your Charge Account or Our Convemient Budget Plan. G. GOULD LINCOLN The Star’s Famous Political Expert is again touring the United States to " follow trends and cast predictions. GOULD LINCOLN PREDICTED “My belief is President Coolidg will be elected: He may be electe by an overwhelming majority.” RESULT: Coolidge 382 electoral votes: Davis 136. GOULD LINCOLN PREDICTED: “It’s Hoover and Curtis. For the first time since reconstruction days there is a chance that the Republicans may break into the “solid south” in a presidential election.” RESULT: Hoover 444 electoral votes: Smith 87. GOULD LINCOLN PREDICTED: “The American people will vote for a ‘change’; for Roosevelt and Garner. Only a political miracle could upset the new deep seated resentment against hard times which has accumulated during three long years.” RESULT: Roosevelt 472 electoral votes; Hoover 59. GOULD LINCOLN PREDICTED: “The New Deal, Roosevelt-backed two-year-old, will romp home a winner in the Congressional handicap on Tuesday. The Republican entry . . . seems to be in for a trimming.” RESULT: Election of an overwhelmingly democratic House and Senate. coln will travel to every important . 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