Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-01-05
This Week
by Arthur BRISBANE
The Greatest Woman.
Obstinate Russia.
Kindness to Animals.


gained a popular contest, to select
the twelve greatest women leaders
in the last 100 years of American his
tory" Mary Baker Eddy won with 1922
762 votes, Jane Adams came next
with 99,147 votes. AL were admirable
women and well chosen. But the
greatest artist Is he WHO paints the
best picture, the greatest soldier is
he who wins the greatest battle and
the greatest woman is she who pro-
duces the best child. The two great
est women in American history during
the past hundred years are the moth
ers of Abraham Lincoln and Thomas
A. Edison.
Most annoying to our best minds"
Is the fact that. for some mysterious
reason, Russia's government refuses
obstinately to "blow up. and. go to
smash. demonstrating the fallacy of
Soviet hopes"
Mobile, Italian air man and. engineer,
engaged by Stain, is building six
semi-metallic dirigible airships.
These dirigibles, to be called 1.-THE
Lenin Squadron" will be used for
aerial surveys, inspections, explora-
ton of forest and water routes, seed
planting, wars on agricultural para
sites and military maneuvers."
Gentlemen who object to being
taxed for adequate air protection
please consider that. +i@
The Russians will not confine their
airship activities to fighting "agricul-
tural parasites" They viii turn, when
the time comes, against others that
they describe as .fcapitalistic para
Sites"
Those particular parasites" still
necessary ts,ithis country's system and
salvation; should persuade those. whom
they send to Washington that the next
war will be an air war, that this coun-
try, poorly defended, is at the mercy
Of any big "Lenin Air Squadroa" that
might come sailing over Washington,
New York, Boston, San Francisco, etc.
There is no menace in this little
"Lenin Squadron" of six semi-metallic
dirigibles. In fact, they may be a
blessing, If they awaken our national
sleepy minds to the fact that a bank
balance is no air protection. -.
At Fort Myers, Florida, dog chased
q kitten up pine tree. The kitten,
afraid to climb down, stayed aloft all
day and all night. Men laughed, their
wives did not. Three of them, accord
ing to the Associated Press, told their
husbands they would not eat q Bite
until they brought that kitten down.
And they didn't eat while the kitten
stayed in the tree, piteously meowfng,
for three days.
The husbands, worried not about the
suffering of the kitten but about their
hungry wives, called the Fire Depart
ment. The kitten was rescued, 1t and
the three wives ate. M
That is more important than 1t
sounds, proving what needs no proof,
that woman's kindness, the strange
moral superiority that nature has
planted in them, has gradually
changed men from big-toothed, low
browed savages, to semi-civilized men.
Those that worry their minds about
"Technocracy." convinced that we
have too much and too efficient ma
chinery, will view with fresh agony
the gigantic post office nearly finished
in Chicago. Costing $21, 900, 900, il will
have railroad trains in the basement,
airplane landings on the roof, Is miles
OF wide carrying belts, able to dis
tribute 1s,000,000 letters day through
out the building.
In ten years the Government win
save, through greater efficiency, all
that the building cost, and that will
worry the democracy persons, whose
mourning is about as intelligent as
that Of the ancient cave man on the
invention of bow and arrow. He
warned his contemporaries that such
perfected machinery would make men
too lazy. to catch their own game by
running it down. There would be an
over-production OF meat and the world
would go to the dogs. What civiiiza-
ton needs is more and better ma.
chinery. more and better labor saving
devices, with shorter working hours.
better pay and more leisure.
Our present needless troubles will
pass, since they are caused by q
stupid selfishness that makes impos
sible distribution of the nations sur.
plus wealth.
And science, which is the technical
name for knowledge, will give men ali
they need. But, making them think
clearly and freeing them OF the man.
superstitions that hold them back will
be q long, slow process.
Our best minds. asking each other,
What do you think?" will be inter.
ested in the thinking OF Lord Melchett,
able Britisher. He says, "The Sociaiir
doctrine OF a class war is all bun
combe. We are emerging from a cha
otto condition Of industrial affairs and
must have an orderly planned sys