Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-10-28
This Week
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
But Our End Is Not Yet?
A Japanese Army.
Surprise for Nit. Sinai.

The MARKHAM wish is father to the
Soviet thought.
Our capitalist industrial system, re-
placing military feudalism, is only be.
ginning. 1t will end, in time, as mill
tary feudalism ended, and the slave
system and all the other systems, to be
replaced by something better.
But the present little capitalistic de-
preston spasm is merely slight chill.
It will not last.
You cannot shake so great a system
to the earth in so short a time.
II Russia has sympathy to spare she
should turn it toward China. In that
unhappy country, with 250,O0O soldiers
fighting each other in one single prov
ince, civil war, brigandage and hunger
are almost everywhere among the AGO.
100000 Chinese.
The so-called christian" General
Feng Yu-Hsiang, one of the most ener.
getic killers, has come out of retire
ment to create more trouble.
Rival generals fight each other, al
most literally on the backs of the mis-
cradle coolies, taking or destroying
their crops, compelling them to Join in
the game Of murder.
If Japan can carry out her plan and
suppress atrocities such as these, in
the State of Manchuria, 1t is difficult to
nd 70 nd vhxrfh he 7 rs ok
and especially this country, should OBJ
ject.
Lieutenant John E. Wright, U. Q.
Army, retired, says Uncle Sam in Ha.
wall is training ian army for Japan"
1t is not an army to fight Japan in
case of trouble, but an army to fight for
Japan. Hawaii has a militia, largely
Japanese, and Uncle Sam enlists Japa-
nese and other Asiatics, gives them
thorough military training, under
white American officers. And there,
says Lieutenant Wright, we are train.
ing an army that would be useful to
Japan in case of trouble.
Uncle Sam has done so many foolish
things that he could hardly be expected
to omit this one. Fortunately, march
ing soldiers in the next war will not be
important, no more important than
bows and arrows. A nation might
have ten millions of them, and it would
be only so many more units for fiiers to
gas and bomb.
If another war comes, whoever has
the best planes, bombs, poison gas and
pilots will have the victory.
It would be interesting to know
what official goose in Washington i'm.
agined that an American army uniform
would change any Japanese into a
fighter for the United States against
Asia. Every Japanese, much to his
credit, remains patriotic Japanese to
the day of his death, no matter what
uniform he may wear.
Russia seems to have adopted q
maxim quoted by Charles E. Mitchell,
head of New York's big National City
Bank, never interfere with the enemy
while he is in the process of making
q mistake"
Russia believes that Japan in Man
churia is draining away her resources,
money and men, and that it will take
years, and many millions to carry out
the Japanese program which includes
suppression of Chinese rebels and
brigands. Russia will hold aloof and
watch, not interfering, while Japan
weakens herself
1t may be, however, that Japan pos
including "living off the country" with
which other nations are not familiar.
1t may truly be said of Japan that since
she opened her ports and Joined the
ranks of so-called Civilized nations"
she has been the only important nation
that has made no important mistake.
While this country sent three mil.
lion men and lent ten billions Of dollars
In the big war, Japan sent a handful
of observers" to "listen and learn"
This is really interesting, strange
and unusual, which means that 1t 10
news.
The Smithsonian Institution will o.
tablish an observatory on that noun.
tain in the Sinai Desert which was
climbed by Moses when he went up
alone, and came down with me Ten
Commandments.
That particular mountain now called
mount St. Katherine" is a desolate
peak rising out of the desert almost
5000 feet above sea level.
II the workmen that build the solar
observatory are at all religious they
will have some queer feelings, ham.
mering and building on that particular
spot.
Farmers near st. Paul, getting from
one to five dollars a ton for "prairie
hay" are advised by DR.. Gortner, of the
University of Minnesota, to use the hay
for fuel, in place of coal that costs
from ten to seventeen dollars a ton,
This recalls the old days when shelled
corn was selling for ten cents a bushel
and farmers burned it in their stoves.