Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-09-23

Sixth Reader. that Influenced his boy
hood. The names Of the fourteen
books make you understand that in
boyhOOd, as in the Waite House, Cal
win Coolidge was serious person. No
Jack in the Mountains" no story
By Captain Narryzt. not even West
ward Ho,7 "HucklebeTy Finn" ~GuI-
HTers Travels" Robinson CrusOe" OF
Swiss Family Robinson" appears in
the Coolidge bOyhood library.
The list includes q Life Of Garfield,
another Of Captain John Brown,
Washington and His Generals" THE
Life and Public Services OF Abraham
Lincoln" Choice Poems and Lyrics"
Ar. Coolidge's grandmother Coolidge
used to read out loud to him. Perhaps
she helped select his library.
Mr.. Edge, our ambassador in Paris,
presenting TO France an expensive
memorial built by the United States
near Neaux, suppo ssdly in recognition
Of the Statue Of Liberty sent to US,
took occasion to say that when the
American people see q territory over
run, they "instinctiTely resolve to
throw their moral, and. Il need be, their
material weight on the side Of the
invaded"
This halfway promise that II some
body attacks France or some other
European country, the United States
will rush in as it did in the last war,
is fortunately not official.
Mr.. Edge is mi-taken. And, what
is more, any President or public official
that should undertake to send men
and money from the United States
into another war, without letting the
American people vote on it, would be
kicked out Of ONCE, and ought to be
impeached for treason. Once is enough.
England pays on, sharp on time, her
debt to France, two thousand. five
hundred million francs, about one
hundred million dollars, borrowed Of
French bond buyers about one year
ago. The British. taxed for this pay
ment, must remember, with a little
bitterness, that money lent to France
by Englishmen, when the franc was
worth more than nineteen cents, was
repaid in francs worth less than four
cents. eighty per cent cut from the
amount due to English lenders. The
English, carelessly, bought bonds
Payable in Francs" and had to take
franc whatever they might be worth.
We made many foolish mistakes in
our sdiotic pouring out of American
money, to any nation that would take
it, during the war, and to anybody
that would borrow it, after the war.
But. at least, we made our bonds pay
able in dollars.
You may remark that it matters
little In what the debt is payable, II
1t is not paid. but, At least, they owe
rs dollars.
Campers near Elrama, Pa, digging
into . hillside, uncovered skeletons
Of human beings that lived in America
thousands Of years before the noble
redman came. supposedly from Asia.
These earlier Americans, according
to scientists examining their skulls,
had more intelligence than the Indians
that followed them. They were "dolico-
cephalic," which means long headed"
and their skull bone was thin, which
indicates that they had been thinking
for . long time. But their jaws were
heavy and primitive. showing lack Of
balance.
Invaders from Asia, probably better
fighters. wiped them out.
The learned Professor Darwin, now
eighty-two years old, son of the great
Darwin, says our civilization is going
to pieces soon IL we do not breed a
better race Of white folks. The kind
produced Is about ready to go down.
ward, as other civilizations have d, ne
before US. What we need, according
to Darwin, Is more sons and daugh.
tiers with intelligent fathers and
mothers, in place of the present plan,
which leaves most breeding to the
lower classes"
However, a so-called "lower-class"
mother that wants q baby, and is
ready to nurse it, may be better for
civilization than a higher class lady
that turns the jauy over to somebody
else while she fixes her eyebrows and
her lips.
The government is asked to supply
money to endow or subsidize a national
theatre. And It is suggested that the
Federal Reserve Board advance money
to responsible theatrical producers for
their new plays.
The suggestion is interesting In a
nation supposed to have such a horror
Of "paternalism." especially with ten
millions and more idle.
1t is also interesting to note that
Q nation with a horror of anything
like the dole can dole out eighty mil.
lions of public money to bank in
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