Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-12-29
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Gen. GIassford's Job.
Science at Work.
Hit the Man, Not the Pig.

General Glassford, recently chief Of
police in Washington, D. c., undertakes
a job much more important even than
keeping order in the nations capital.
He will devote his experience, energy
and knowledge of human beings to the
welfare of the thousands Of boys and
very young men now drifting aimlessly
about the country, in search OF work,
not finding it, and becoming more dis
couraged and desperate as each hope
less day passes.
General Glassford will arrange camps
in which these young wanderers may
find useful employment, until they be-
come self-supporting.
Nothing could be more dangerous
than wandering hundreds of thousands
Of youths, each with just grievance
against society.
Intelligent men and public officials
cooperate with General Glassford in
the important work that he has under
taken. To keep young men from turn
ing to crime is more important than
locking them up to live with confirmed
criminals, after crime has conquered
them.
News from Washington appears to
confirm the suggestion made in this
column concerning the French debt de-
fault, that France probably would re-
consider and pay the trifiing item of
nineteen million dollars.
Many things this country might do to
collect its due by indirection, In
creased tariffs, taxes on shipping, ex-
ira Panama Canal tolls, etc.
But it seems unlikely that, after ma
ture reflection, any such measures will
be adopted.
After the war everybody was deter
mined to hang the Kaiser because he
had violated Belgian neutrality. 1t
wasn't done.
The governments in default may de-
eide to pay If they can, and of course
France can, having billions Of gold in
her vaults, rather than establish a
precedent upon which other public
debtors might eagerly seize.
A pompous British coal mine owner,
who asked a famous scientist, what
practical good is all your science?" was
surprised to learn that he had wasted
thousand of pounds boring for coal
through certain strata below which
coal does not exist.
Other mine owners, worried by gas
explosions that destroyed innumerable
miners, got from Sir Humphry Davy
the miners lamp that ended the ex-
plosions.
Wherever you go science is at work
visible or invisible. John P. Bickel,
of the Mcintyre Porcupine mine in
Northern Ontario, tells what science
does for gold miners, that work far un-
der ground, during the hours of sun
light.
Leaving their work, they take of
their digging clothes and walk through
series Of showers graduated in temper
ature, and get rid of the dust of the
mine. Then they sit, naked on moving
platform, with brilliant artificial sun.
light shining on them, stimulating their
blood through the power of actinic rays.
Their ride Of few minutes through ar
tificial sunshine lasts long enough to
give them exactly as much of the rays as
doctors want them to have. equivalent
to six hours in natural sunlight.
They change to their surface clothes,
refreshed by the showers of water and
actinic ray baths.
That is an improvement on mining
methods of old days, when women on
their hands and knees, in low tunnels
Of British coal mines, dragged cars
loaded with coal, attached to chains
around their necks, running under their
bodies.
Five British steamships, Majestic,
Lancashire, Mauritania, Aurania and
Britannia. will bring to Uncle Sam $95..
$4,000 in gold now "earmarked" in the
Bank Of England's vaults.
Some will ask what real difference
can the moving of this gold across the
ocean make to Britain or the United
States? II it was lying still, doing moth
ing there, it will do the same here.
1t cannot be eaten, or worn, or use6
as machinery; in spite of its incorrupti
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