Show SIGNS X ACT the other day an army plane winged southward trout washington bearing a document that finally reached the president at sea was w quickly signed by him this was the now new neutrality act hurried through house and striate senate by congressmen with an 11 anxious eye on the turbid european war situation the act is a compromise between the advocates of at mandatory neutrality that Is a law which forces the president to forbid trade with bel li lle gerent erent nations and one which permits him to use his judgment in ill the light ot of circumstances the new act Is not perfect hut but it Js is regarded as being about as aa good as is could bo be had and great hopes tor for keeping america out of war are bound up in it it places an embargo on oil arms to fighting nations and in the event ot of war it gives the Pre president discretionary power to list goods that cannot be exported to belligerents belligerents use ot of our to lo deny ports etc important aion oll extends this authority to civil as well as hiter wars war in europe this summer perhaps this fall sure is ia heine being talked by some rome but there has been much talk of that kind for several and no general war has broken out yet it looks as if tile the powers are uncertain of their rela tive strengths are doing a considerable amount of blustery bluffing |