Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-10-07
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Wheat for China.
Running an Old Name.
War Costs Money.

! emma. CHINA onerS TO buy the wheat
\ The question is, whence is the money
| to come?
In view Of the fact that millions are
starving in China some way of shift
ing the wheat from our surplus into
starving Chinese stomachs should be
found. We managed to send ten thou
sand million dollars to Europeans, kill
ing each other, and we shall not get
the money back.
II we sent fifteen million bushels of
wheat to starving Chinese men, women
and children Providence and the farm.
srs certainly would applaud, even II
we never got the cash.
The ancient market city Of Nizhni-
Novgorod has been renamed "Gorki,
in honor of the distinguished Russian
writer.
Maxim Gorki's genius deserves any
reasonable honor, but Nizhni-Novgorod
does not deserve to lose Its ancient
romantic name, and Cork probably
will be first to protest against the
change.
To Nizhni-Novgorod's great fair trad
ers came from all over Mongolia and
Russia. There, the strange creature.
Ivan the Terrible, inflicted some Of his
worst brutalities on men and women,
including nuns.
It was bad enough to take from st.
Petersburg the name OF the Gear who
created the city and the power of mod.
ern Russia, to name 1t for Lenin.
To rechristen ancient Nizhni-Nov-
gorod is as bad as 1t would be to re-
name Venice "Lagoonville," or re-
christen the Taj-Mahal my Best Girl. y
Rear Admiral Sims calls the Spanish
American War pension system "a steal
of the nastiest kind and an outrage on
the American taxpayer"
He says the war lasted ia days,
fewer than 400 were killed, fewer than
5000 died of wounds and disease.
More than $4,000 Of the 100000 in
United States forces are drawing pen
sions now amounting this year to
s11s, 100000.
War is expensive. especially when
you pay the bills that follow It.
All the Improvements that this coun-
try needs, with billions to spare, could
be paid for with money that the big
war is still costing the United States.
General Won Seeckt, called the most
famous German military strategist. "
says that since other nations will not
disarm, Germany will bring herself up
to full military strength and there is
no force on earth that can prevent
Germany from becoming a great mill
tary power"
That is true. One victory means
nothing. France lost in 1870 and won
in 1918. Germany lost in 1918 and
inevitably will be making another at
tempt to wipe that out. and take back
Alsace and Lorraine before the cen
fury is half ended, unless human be-
ings suddenly become enlightened and
refer national quarrels, as they now
refer personal quarrels, to legal de-
cision
Not long ago human beings of high
position thought 1t beneath their dig
nifty to refer quarrel to anything or
anybody except their swords. Duels,
miniature wars, decided who was right.
Cardinal Richelieu did a great deal
to discourage that. Some way should
be found to discourage international
numbering, the wholesale duels called
"war."
In Italy, according t. Mr.. Knicker.
booker, who has been talking with
Mussolini and learning lot, workers
are not allowed to strike and wages,
already low, are cut thirty per cent.
But there are few out of work and
there are compensations.
For instance, the workers, arrang.
ing festival. have good wines for ten
cents a full quart, the best wine for
! fifteen cents. Workers of Rome can
see Greta Carlo, three cents admission
for adults. two cents for children. You
can't do that here and you can't get
/ good wine for ten cents a full quart.
What you get for your money is as
| important as how much money you get.
Sir Arthur Eddington, learned
astronomer from England, seeks, on
the radio, to popularize his theory that
the universe is expanding "like the
swelling of rubber balloon"
He has contempt for scientists who
say the universe is only ten thousand
million years old 1t is hundred times
older than that, according to Edding.
ton, and you will be interested to learn
that through calculations made with
purely physical data, using the ratio
Of curvature of empty space, and the
number Of particles in the universe, he
finds that the observed recession of
galaxies is normal"
It Is a pleasure to know that the uni
verse is expanding. The more room
the better.
1t is even more pleasant to know
that this little earth will last at least
a hundred million years longer, with
| men living on IL.