Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-02-02
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Money Is a Puzzle.
We Die, and What ThenP
Far Down, Below Zero.
Useful Common Blood.

OSeful Common Blood.
A strange thing is money. Every
day you wonder whether anybody real.
ly knows anything about it.
Recently, as you may have read here
New Zealand deliberately inflated it's
currency by twenty-five per cent, max.
| Ing four dollars into five dollars, BEST
Minds" of the U. S. A. brand would
have told you. There they go, no hope
for them now"
But what happens? A boom devel-
ops in New Zealand values of stocks
and products go soaring. We ought to
believe what our Best Minds tell us,
even though they have not been bril-
liantly successful of late. But It is all
most puzzling. And Canada is plan
ming to do the same. They are not ex-
actly "crazy radicals" In Canada, a
land free from bank failures, while we
have thousands of them.
Professor Herbert S. Jennings, zoolo-
gist and geneticist of Johns Hopkins
University, says biology and science
generally do not indicate that life con-
tinues on the other side of the grave.
1t continues only in other individuals,
Just as life continues in the forest.
When one tree dies, another tree
springs up. But it is not the same tree
that continues living.
Herbert Spencer said, dismally:
my intellect forbids me to hope for
anything but humiliation" 1t is not
necessary, however, even for those
lacking the blessing of faith to take so
gloomy a view. We may not live on
In our present shapes. We could hard
ly imagine Divine Providence presery-
Ing the ape-like primitive men forever,
with their big jaws and low foreheads,
and we are not much better. That does
not mean that life, spirit, conscious
ness. soul, or whatever it is that con-
stitutes individuality must perish.
Water on this earth is constantly
rising to the clouds and falling. The
stream that fifty years ago was turn
Ing . little water wheel in New Eng
land is now supplying power to an efi-
Gent turbine, doing more useful work.
The thinking power locked up in our
imperfect mental machinery may go ON
working in machines ever improving.
That would be comforting. Matter and
force continue. Why should conscious
ness. that creates thought, be de-
stroyed?
A strange discovery described by the
very sincere scientist, DIR. Albert Elm
stein, as miracle, is the change in
certain metallic alloys at low tempera.
ture. approaching the "Kelvin" tenn
perature, three degrees from the point
where all heat vanishes. In this ex-
IRENE cold, more than 400 below zero.
certain alloys offer absolutely no re-
sistance to the passage. of electric cur.
rent.
This may help to explain how the
warmth and light Of the sun come
through 100000 miles Of ether at
absolute zero without loss of power.
DIR. Goetz, conducting experiments
that amaze the learned Einstein,
hopes to produce steel alloy 200
times harder than any known. With
that. cutting steel rails would be like
cutting cheese with an ordinary knife.
and shaving or forests like shaving q
beard.
In the ancient chapel of his 7OO-ysar.
old castle. Prince Heinrich Of Stolberg
married Erma Erfert, 2O-year-oid
daughter Of "commoner." Nobility
and royalty stayed away. Such mar
riage could not be countenanced.
That marriage Is probably the best
thing that has ever happened to the
Stoiberg family, for Prince Heinrich
and his sister are the last of their line.
Prince Bismarck was no prince when
he started, yet what there is left Of the
German Empire IL his work. There
would have been no World War over
Serbia with a Bismarck in power!
There is nothing like little com
mon" blood to renew the life Of worn
out aristocracy.
The mother Of William the Con.
eueror was a tanners daughter, not
married until after the Conqueror was
born. The mother OF Leonardo da
Vtnci was peasant girl. Leonardo's
noble father never married her.
Senator Pittman wants a constitu-
tional amendment limiting Presidents
to one term of six years, no second
term.
In favor Of the idea 1t is said that
q President, as soon as he is elected.
concentrates attention on a second
term, instead OF concentrating on the
business OF the hour.
There is another thing to consider.
With only one term, the President
would have nothing more to expect
from the voters, whereas he might
have q great deal to expect from cor
porations and special interests, treated
kindly In his six years.
That would have NO influence on
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