Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-12-22

You remember, back in 1914, all the
horror about treating solemn agree
ment between nations as a scrap of
paper" When Uncle Sam was helping
Europe to yell about that, he could
not imagine that in 1882 an agreement
to pay billions of dollars lent to friends
in distress would be treated as another
scrap of paper"
Overworked at this moment is the
word "technocracy," invented to de-
scribe problems created by excessive
production by machinery" Everybody
asks what the world is coming to. with
one machine producing hundred
times as many shoes, coats, horseshoes
or nails as ten men used to make,
working without machinery
The real answer is that the world
is coming to better times, greater
prosperity, more leisure.
With all our ''technoeracy" and
reproduction" this country has
only produced 10 per cent more than
It could use. We have consumed 80
per cent of our production, exporting
10 per cent.
Does anybody think we should have
any surplus to export if all the people
Of this country had all the things that
they need, to say nothing of all the
things that they want? Suppose that
every family had an automobile, good
shoes, clothes, plenty of good food, a
good house. good furniture, library
of good books, every farmer the neces-
sary modern implements, every mother
proper care in childbirth
Suppose the much-dreaded "tech-
nocracy" had been made the servant
of the people, to increase the health
and prosperity of all, instead of being
made the servant of a cunning few to
create unnecessary wealth and unnec-
essary depressions, would there be any
"technocracy" problem? There would
not. We need more achinery, greater
production. shorter hours, higher pay.
better distribution. Better brains will
give us all those things and more.
The League of Nations, dealing as
gently as possible with Japan, which
happens to be well armed and indie
pendent, suggested an international
Cancellation Commission to settle the
Chino-Japanese controversy over Man
churia."
Britain, Japan's former ally. advised
Japan to accept. but Japan says mo"
She lives in Asia and will settle her
own affairs there. Meanwhile China
has resumed diplomatic relations with
Russia. This is considered = menace
to Japan, and caused decline in the
Japanese stock market.
The most interesting stories are not
true. William Tell never shot the apple
from his sons head. The she wolf did
not nurse Romulus and Remus. George
Washington cut down no cherry tree,
therefore never told the truth about it,
Now Professor Tyler, teaching history
at the University Of Kansas, says
Pocahontas never saved the life OF
Captain Smith.
Smith was not lying with his head
on stone, waiting for an Indians
club to dash his brains out at the or
der of Chief Powhatan. Pocahonta,
did not rush up and put her head OF
top of Captain Smiths head to protect
him. The thing just didn't happen
None the less, all these narratives
like Santa Claus. stimulate youthful
Imagination and cause brave deeds in
others. Better imaginary heroism than
none.
Harvard Astronomical Observatory
made spectrographs, first ever made
of the Leonid meteors thai fell last
month. They contain calcium, essen
tial element in building human bone.
and iron, essential to blood as calcium
is to bone. Without iron your blood
could not carry from your lungs to the
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