Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-10-05
This Week
by ARTHUR BRIsBANR
Diamond, 1000 Carats.
Germany Does. Why Not Wep
New Coast-to-C Coast Record.
Good Railroad News.

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read with excitement: "In upper wa
ters of the Soabento River, Brazil, pros
pectors have found collection of large
diamonds, including one weighing 1000
carats, next to the biggest ever dis
covered"
Diamonds are something like human
brains. This diamond, If of fine quality.
would be worth $4,000, 900, whereas,
If of inferior quality, good only to make
diamond drills, 1t might be worth only
$1,000.
The brain Of Edison, creating work
for millions of men, is worth many bill
lions, while millions Of other brains
are not worth ten cents the dozen.
Also, this diamond emphasizes the
importance Of the right education and
training. Left in the rough, the dia-
mond would be only curiosity. It must
be cut and polished, then comes its
value.
So with human raw material. II
needs the cutting of education, and the
polishing of experience.
What applies to diamonds and hu.
man beings applies to other sub.
stances. A ton Of iron in the rough
might be worth ten or fifteen dollars.
The same ton of iron, scientifically
treated and made into q ton Of fine
watch springs, would be worth several
million dollars.
Herr Eckener, veteran German fier.
will take his big Zeppelin from Ger
many to South America, then from
Brazil to the Chicago Century Of
Progress Exposition.
This country, which has the money.
the engineering skill. practically ev-
erything but the enterprise and the
courage, will look on while Germany
does what this country has been I'M
able to do.
We are going to tag on to the Ger
man achievement, however, by print
ing postage stamps at fifty cents
apiece, to carry Zeppelin mail to the
Chicago Exposition and give us a little
income.
There was day when the American
nation, If it saw another country flying
across the ocean to South America.
north to Chicago and back to Germany,
would not be content merely to print
hfty-cent stamp in honor of the
event. Perhaps when we get over our
little patching of payrolls and hours
we shall return to doing real things,
indicating power and ambition.
A ray Of light comes with the state
ment that the Government is planning
to print fifty million new dollars each
week. and use them for some OF its ex-
penditures. notably for taking up
bonds. It might well call in ten billions
Of Government bonds now outstanding,
and give the owners nice money, fresh.
ly printed, which would be as good az
any money in America, or elsewhere.
This could easily be done, since the
Government now can do anything. If
bonds were called In and money paid
out. owners Of the suddenly acquired
ten billions would find 1t necessary to
invest 1t, to get interest, and that
would mean spending and more pros
perity.
There are plenty OF good invest
ments to be made, including good mort
cages, even in these days.
Colonel Roscoe Turner again beats
the ocean to ocean flying record, this
time by thirteen and q half minutes.
Trains make the journey in four days
and three nights. Turner made 1t in
less than eleven hours. That must
make intelligent railroad men think
hard.
The Pullman company has news to
comfort advanced railroad men that
would like to escape from horse and
buggy and Civil War railroading," as
William B. Stout, Of Dearborn. Mich,
apply calls modern railroading.
This column has been bowling and
yelling, during sixteen years, for
streamlined, light passenger coaches,
capable Of high speed, to replace the
present slow coaches that carry twen-
| ty passengers and weigh one hundred
and sixty thousand pounds. A new Pull.
man coach, built by Mr.. Stout, pre-
sumably for w. A. Harriman's Union
Pacific, will carry fifty passengers and
weighs only twenty-five thousand
pounds, thanks to light duralumin con-
struction.
Its streamlining reduces air resist
ance by fifty per cent, and it will go
ninety miles per hour.
Wind resistance in an ordinary coach
at that speed would use up ninety per
cent OF the engines energy. Such light
cars, driven by Diesel engines, could
carry passengers from coast 70 coast
at twenty dollars each, make q good
profit and end automobile bus compe-
tition.
When an editor wants to emphasize
his meaning he can only underscore
words or print them in big type. ia
pans army has . better emphasis. It
recently warned Peiping authorities
that General Fang must withdraw
from the non-military zone in North
China.
By way Of emphasis threa heavy JAP