Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-08-17
This Week
A Strike Moratorium.
All in "a Years.
The NRA Test.
Mussolini's New City.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE


velt's plan for moratorium on strikes
and lockouts. Already, thanks to con-
Citation, with plenty Of power back Of
1t, fifty to seventy thousand Pennsyl-
vania coal miners will return to work
next week.
If action by the President can end
the criminally stupid system OF set
thing industrial problems with strikes
and lockouts, that one achievement
will do enough good in the long run to
Offset all the evils of depression.
1t will not be easy, for employers
will assert their godgiven right to
hire and fire" as they choose. And
labor leaders will not willingly relin-
quish power that makes them seem i'm
portant, in addition to yielding a good
income.
But fair hours and wages, adjusted
by law, will be better than any adjust
ment by labor fights.
There is fair chance that industry
may really be made to operate on
commonsense, just basis.
The French fiers landed in Kayak.
Syria, having broken the straight line
nonstop distance record" Between
Saturday and Monday they few from
New York, over the Atlantic, France,
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Jugo-
Slavia, and on across the Aegean Sea,
passing between Greece and Macedo.
mia.
To realize aviation's progress it is
only necessary to remember that
Bleriot, who built this Rossi-Codos
long distance plane, earned a prize of
ten thousand pounds from Lord North
cliffe for the first airplane fight across
the English Channel, a distance of
about thirty miles, and that was only
twenty-four years ago.
Now Bleriot manufactures a plane
that flies in straight line over the
ocean and across all Europe, nearly
5000 miles. So much has been accom-
plished in the last twenty-four years.
What do you think will be done In the
next twenty-four years?
Do you doubt that around-the-world
flights for passengers will soon be COM
monplace or that long distance travel
BY railroad will be as much a thing of
the past as long distance travel by
stage coach is now?
The first important test of the MIRA
M ont mi f,,
settle strikes, replacing violence with
arbitration.
Twenty thousand coal miners in.
Pennsylvania disregard the instruc-
tons of their union labor chiefs and
reject the plan of the President.
In New York State, trucks carrying
milk to market, guarded by State
troopers, were fired on with a machine
gun.
The Government presumably will
find a way to convince all citizens that
when Uncle Sam takes charge all other
management ceases to operate. Until
it does this, the MIRA will not go far.
First Mussolini conquered the Pom
tine marshes, that Rave plagued Rome
with fever perpetually, succeeding
where all others had failed in one thou
sand years Of trying.
Now Mussolini lays the first stone of
q new city, Sabaudia, to be built on
reclaimed marshes that were once un-
inhabitable. The Italian ruler works
quickly and expects to have his city for
$4,000 people, ready next year.
Not since Alexander the Great have
cities been thus built to order. Alex
ander did not live to carry out his most
interesting city plan, which involved
carving stone mountain into a statue
Of himself, with a highway running
along his outstretched arm, and a city
built in the palm of his hand. But he
did build in the Mussolini fashion.
In this building, Mussolini helps
solve the employment problem and
benefits Italy for all time to come. Our
Government is working along similar
lines in the Tennessee Valley projects.
Mussolini, who has a low opinion Of
self government, has said democracy
In the last analysis can only talk" Per-
haps this Government will show him
that President Roosevelt's kind of de-
mocracy, with General Johnson and
Lawyer Richberg in action can do
more than talk.
Eugene S. Daniel, Jr, young Boston
lawyer, graduate OF Harvard, is in
dicted for placing tear bombs in the
New York Stock Exchange, driving out
1000 brokers and others in tears.
Mr.. Daniel is head Of a party, in
vented by himself, objecting to capital
ism as responsible for human ills.
Without prejudging charges against
him. 1t may be pointed out that trying
to discourage capitalism by gassing the
Stock Exchange is placing the cart be-
fore the horse.
Many now soliciting life insurance,
or engaged in other useful occupations,
might be living on accumulated capital,
II there had never been any Stock Elk
change.