Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-09-30
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Why Have Ambassadors?
The Cost of Crime.
The Restless Philippines.
Opium, Pipes, and Gold.

Last week you may have read here
some comment on Mr.. Edge, American
Ambassador in Paris. At the dedica-
ton of a monument, built with Ameri-
can money, in France, sort Of return
present for the Statue of Liberty that
France sent here. Mr.. Edge took 1t
upon himself to make for the United
States a feeJIe half way promise that
il France or some other foreign coun-
try should get into another war, this
country would again rush in with men
and money.
1t was suggested here that this
country would do nothing Of the kind.
We did that once. We sent mil
lionsof men, and our grateful Euro
pean friends assure us that those men
really had nothing to do with winning
the war.
We sent billions of dollars, and the
grateful recipients do not repay our
loans, although we have voluntarily
reduced them by half and more.
We are told that sending dollars
was the least we could do, because
we had kept out OF the war too long.
Once Is enough for the United
States.
For an ambassador supposed to
represent American public opinion, al
though this particular Ambassador
does not represent it, to suggest that
America would again finance and sup
port = butchering enterprise in Eu-
rope is calculated to encourage war,
besides making this country ridiculous.
A Federal Judge has said that crime
in the United States costs annually
between eleven thousand and thirteen
thousand million dollars. Every year
crime costs the country more than
the total sum we lent Europe in the
war. An expert says racketeering
costs Chicago alone one hundred and
forty-five millions year. Legitimate"
business Of many kinds, important
branches Of union labor, and many
other lines Of effort, are victims, and
some times originators, of racketeer-
ing.
This country needs to clean house
in more ways than one.
Our patriotic fellow Americans IN
the Philippines seem uncertain as to
their desires. Recently, they have been
telling us they would separate from
the United States entirely, to be free
and Independent. Then 1t occurred tC
some that If they did that they would
not be able to send sugar and other
products here without paying duty,
also that they would have nobody to
build roads and public schools for
them.
Now Guillermo Capadocia from the
Island of Negros, says:
1--WE want to run the Americans out
of the Philippines"
Simultaneously, he with FIVE hun
bred associates waving red flags, carry
ing banners reading Long live the
Soviet Republic" demands cash dole,
payable weekly. 1t is complicated sit.
uation there.
The British are wise. Gandhi, whose
sincerity enables him to rule the minds
Of millions in India, says to the Brit.
ish: II shall starve myself to death
if you don't do so and So" Wise Britain
replies: you must decide about that,
but you will not starve to death in
our prison." The British tell Gandhi
that he may leave prison and fast OF
starve at his leisure somewhere else
The wise man knows when to give
way.
The process of drawing conclusions
Is interesting.
When shipwrecked men in ancient
Greece found on the sand geometrical
| tracings showing that the sum
of two right angles is equal to one
triangle, they knew they had reached
civilization" and thanked Zeus. Later
in the dark ages others shipwrecked
saw gibbet with human skeletons
hanging in chains. They knew that
! they had reached civilization" and
| thanked God.
Now in far Japan the army says
1t is absolutely certain that China's
General Ma Chan-shan, was killed near
Hardin. in spite of Chinese denials.
To prove that the great Chinese
General is dead, Japan shows a col
lection of articles that include three
opium pipes, package of opium, more
than twenty bars of gold, Japanese
and Chinese bank notes, and General
Mas military decorations.
Young ladies that write for news
papers discuss the importance of a
college degree in life's struggle. Unless
the world is changed, such a degree
ought not be absolutely necessary.
Hypatia had no college degrees, but
she created college of her own and
made such q success Of 1t that com
petitors found 1t necessary to kill her
Bertha, mother of Charlemagne; Nan.
cy Hanks, mott er of Lincoln; George
Eliot, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rosa
Bonheur; the mother of Edison had nc
college degree.