Democratic people must equally fight those seeking to perpetuate plutocratic control and those seeking dictatorship, he added.
The President further recalled that the Constitution was a layman's and not a Jawyer's document but that the past 50 years had been an unending struggle between broad constructionists and "those who would shrivel the Constitution into a lawyer's contract." He said the later group always eventually lost, He emphasized the methods of slowness of reform twenty years before income taxes and woman's labour. laws were constitutionalized.
"Twenty years already... obtain for the Constitution to permit the Nations to regulate child labour. There is no justification in the Constitution for the delay of reforms which the mass of American people demand," the President concluded.
The White House announced to-day that President Roosevelt will start for the west coast on Wednesday.
The announcement said that Mrs, Roosevelt would accompany the President on a visit to Yellowstone Park and to inspect several important New Deal projects. Included on the Roosevelt's itinerary are Bonne-ville, Fort Peck and Grand Coulee Dams and a brief visit with the President's daughter, Mrs. Boettiger, in Seattle. It was believed likely the President and First Lady would a to Washington on October 7 or 8, The President plans no formal speeches, but informed politicians believed the President wishes to sound out public reaction on his legislative objectives; he considers the Far-Eastern and European situations considerably improved; and, that the President may possibly plan London, Sept, 18.
Six bombs were dropped near the British destroyer H.M.S. Fearless (1,350 tons) to-day when she. was off Gijon by an replane which then returned in the direction of Gijon. There were no casualties and no damage was done to the destroyer,—Reuter, of Chochow a fire in Chinese military concentrations caused great confusion, Notified that Chinese troops were fleeing in disorder, Japanese military planes suddenly attacked Laihsien, north-west of Kaopeitien, inflicting heavy damage on Chinese positions, the said. He added that the fleeing Chinese were repeatedly bombed near I-hsien, west of Kaopeitien—Domei, 2
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