Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-03-30
This Week
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
A Mad World, and Tired.
Full of Sound and Fury.
Germany's PIED Piper.
Her Republic viii Return.

| Cermany'S PIED Piper.
Her Republic VIII Return.
/ The world is paying for its big war
/ in strange, serious ways. Depression,
/ lack of money, insane gambling. burst
/ ing banks, closed banks, impoverished
farmers, reckless squandering on arma-
ments for other wars, millions Of men
/ idle, the greatest number in this rich
est country" which had no business in
the war. Such are few items in our
paying -for-the-war schedule.
Widespread confession of mems in
ability to govern themselves is an
other item. The will of one man, Stain.
rules 150.0O0,O0O in Russia. Another
mans will rules Turkey, another Italy.
and now Hitler. imitation of Musso-
lini, rules with absolute power in Ger
many. Even in this country the die
tator idea becomes fashionable. Mil
lions believe that Congress, supposed
to make laws, should step aside and
let one man, President Roosevelt. do
everything, on the ground that the av-
erage elected official is more or less an
idiot, lazy or dishonest
The British alone retain some conf
dence in their ability to govern them
selves, as well as a great deal of con-
fidence in their ability to manage 9TH
ers. including this bewildered nation.
Impoverished by war. puzzled oy
worldwide depression, obeying the
mob instinct, strong in every primitive
human being, many nations that
thought themselves civilized follow
mob leaders.
The French say. truly, Aux grands
maux, les grands remedies. Great evils
require great remedies" And serious
illness calls for disagreeable medicine.
The world is taking unpleasant medi-
cine now, but will get better.
The hatred and ingratitude that Hit
Ter, fustian Mussolini, displays to-
wards Jews are a most serious, dis
graceful feature of Germany's sudden
devotion to a self-appointed "Pied
Piper" Jewish Industrial. CONNER
cial and financia! genius has done won
ders for Germany. 1t has built great.
sound German banks, developed Ger
many's commercial shipping, built up
her industries. Yet a spokesman of
the new regime declares, without re-
Duke from high authority, that if any
individual should fire one shot at a
Hitler official, even though the shot
missed" there would follow "a pogrom
which nothing could stop"
In other words. thousands of Jewish
people, innocent of any wrong doing;
might be massacred because Of crime,
perhaps that OF maniac, for which
they would be In no way responsible.
A man well informed says France
worries about the danger of going of
the gold standard Strange what pow
er is possessed by the fetish gold. We
have our supply safely locked up, like
the genuine tooth Of Buddha in the ORR
entail temple and mean to hold on to it.
Norman H. Davis is en- route to
Europe as Special Ambassador on Dis
ornaments and Economics" Ramsay
Macdonald and Mussolini are said to
have agreed on five-year plan to save
money, help peace and recovery of the
oc hnr
TO borrow that Give Year Plan" idea
from Russia.
Uncle Sam is asked to come over, as
usual, and say amen.
President Roosevelt probably will
not allow the United States to be tied
up in any agreement that might inter
fere with future plans.
A young British officer, lieutenant in
the Seaforth Highlanders. now a pris-
oner in the Tower of London, is &C.
cused of selling his governments mill
tary secrets to Germany for fifty
pounds.
The charge made positively by his
superior office, backed up with facts
and the proof that money was received.
looks bad. 1t is easy to understand the
bitter disgust aroused in Great Britain.
The accused man, son of British army
officer, asserts that the money received
from Berlin was sent to him by "a
woman with whom once had love
affair" He does not know her name.
The Harvard Teachers Associa ion
says examinations for admission TO co.,
leges, and school examinations general
ly, are based on false system. Dean
Holmes usefully pricked one foolish
educational bubble denying that ~al
study trains minds" At least half the
study in preparatory schools, high
schools and colleges stupefies minds OF
boys and girls.
A father asks some learned peda
gogue: why do you waste a boys few
years Of study and good memory OIL
things that will be of no use to 999 out
OF 1,000-Greek, Latin, mathematics
He is told "AnY kind Of studious con
centration trains the mind
That reply might be made by No
hammedan pedagogue compelling boys