Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-11-25
This Week
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
New Air Record.
20 Will Come Flying.
Outlaw Poison Gas?

| establishes a new California champion
ship. with new east-west flight from
the Atlantic to the Pacific in II hours,
SO minutes, beating by two hours the
record OF Frank Hawks.
This is big news. The world awaits
something to end this depression and
the flying machine may do il.
Steam started one great boom after
Waterloo; the gold rush in 40 started
another; electricity used for light and
power started another; the automobile
started the recent great boom. which
wars squandering raised to frenzy.
For men the most important thing
is life, and next comes movement. The
perfected airplane. America to Europe
in ten hours. New York to San Fran
cisco, or Seattle to Jacksonville, Flori-
da, in ten hours, may start the next
big boom. But don't wait for that;
with intelligent hard work man may
start his own private boom.
Mussolini is "Doer of the Word"
When the great exposition OF 1888
opens in Chicago a loud noise will be
heard. and Mayor Cermak and all the
notables hurrying out to the Municipal
Airfield will see something worth
while. General Italo Balbo will come
circling down. leading twenty Italian
planes from Rome to Chicago.
Perhaps by that time this country,
like Italy, will have = separate De-
partment Of Aviation, and Governor
Roosevelt, who will be President be-
fore the exposition opens, may go up
to meet the visiting Italians .aking his
Secretary Of Air" along with him.
1t would interest the old navigator
Columbus to know that his tiny neet
would be followed across the ocean by
twenty ships of the air. landing on
big lake one thousand miles west Of
the oceans edge.
When you read of RirDlane disasters.
remember that such disasters do not
occur on the we'll established CONNER
cial flying lines.
The airplane that unfortunately
landed and crashed in Tennessee, in
the darkness, recently, killing the pilot
and two women and two children, was
privately owned, piloted by the owner.
Transportation by well established.
commercial Airplanes is safe trans
portation, as Will Rogers can testify.
He recently few from California. down
back to New York, close to twenty
thousand miles, without trouble or
danger
Japan suggests that the League Of
Nations bar poison gas absolutely, ma
tons not even allowed to use against
those that might use it against them.
Japan would even forbid manufacture
Of material for defense against poison
gas" That is all interesting.
But the United States, which does
not attack other nations, and does not
propose to be successfully attacked
by anybody, should have for its de-
tense everything known to science, in
GLIDING the most deadly gases, and
the most powerful air and submarine
fleets. We should be able to say to
other countries: Don't disturb us. We
shall not disturb you. Come here and
see for yourselves that if you do dis
turb us you will be wiped out. and no
advice from the League of Nations
will be asked
Clipperton Island. 1000 miles out in
the Pacific Ocean, southwest of Next
CO, is turned over to France by the
Mexican Government without struggle
or protest. That island, occupied in
turn by Spain, England. the United
States, Costa Rica. France, Mexico,
was finally claimed by France, and the
question submitted for arbitration to
King Victor Emmanuel, OF Italy. Italy
decides for France and Mexico ac-
quiesces. It's a good way to settle in
ternational disputes. but you can't
depend on ii.
President Hoover invited Governor
Roosevelt to talk about war debts,
} bringing, IL he chose, important Demo-
Gratis. Governor Roosevelt will discuss,
I but he thinks the meeting should De
wholly informal and personal" which
means only Hoover and Roosevelt
: present
One hundred and twenty million
( Americans that directly or indirectly
( will pay the war debt IL Europe doesn't
/ pay 1t, would be interested in a steno-
I graphic report OF that discussion.
Suppose America hatly refuses to
d: cancel and Europe refuses to pay. As
! 10 probable. What then?
One plan would say to Europe, I'VE
I lent you eleven thousand million dol
7 lars, sent you three million men.
squandered many billions OF our own
in your war. Yours is debt of honor
We shall cancel nothing and be in
( terested to see what your word of
honor amounts to. Each of you may
set upon 1t his own valuation"
There is faint element of humor
in Europe's war debt attitude. France
and Britain come together like two
small boys that agree to ring strange
! doorbell and run. Neither wants to