Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-07-13

for fish worms. and all sorts of queer
creatures darted and scampered, an
noyed by the sudden light.
Small nations, hanging to the gold
standard by their eyelids, realize that
they must let go. France, more power
full, because of her gold hoard. almost
equal to ours. is described as raging"
and Gin wondering amazement."
The solidly important news. for
America, comes from England. Prime
Minister Macdonald told Senator Cou-
zens, American delegate: "Cancella-
lions are pouring into Northern indus
trial England from all over the world.
These cancellations are coming be-
cause Of the cheap American dollar"
II those cancellations mean more or
ders for United States factories and
farms, and more work for United
States workers, we shall all regret
Britain's loss, but not regret our aban-
donment Of the gold standard.
Britain's respectable Manchester
Guardian, In an editorial headed IAN
Appeal to Anarchy" says Roosevelt
is playing to the home gallery"
To Americans that is a welcome
change. Their government has been
playing to foreign galleries long
enough.
The European gold bloc" France,
Switzerland, Holland and B .lgium, all
still on the gold basis, beg England to
help them to "stay on" That Is not
easy in world that seems suddenly to
have lost It's interest in the precious
yellow metal.
England, first OF the big nations to
abandon gold after forcing it on India,
tells France, "Sorry, but we are busy
looking after our pound sterling. You
look after the franc"
The American dollar can stand a
drop, for it was actually worth 100
cents and has still long way to go
before becoming worth as little as 100
cents.
The franc on the other hand has al
ready been officially cut down by
eighty per cent of its value. The
Frenchman who had five sous in the
old money, about equivalent to one of
our nickels, now has only one sou.
The French say they do not know
what will happen II anything more is
cpt from the value of the French
peasants franc.
The rest of the world is not worry
ing much about that, England not at
all. France also cut most ingeniously,
eighty per cent from the value of
franc bonds" that Englishmen bought
to help France in the war.
Chancellor Hitler discovers a buga-
boo, and warns Germany. 1t is the Sec
ond revolution, supposed to be organ
lied against his Nazi revolution, but
he will turn ruthlessly against It," so
let the bugaboo beware.
Mr.. Hitler's speeches indicate the
possibility OF war, which at this time,
with Germany Ill prepared, would be
bad thing for Germany and the Nazi
Party.
France has four or FIVE thousand
fighting airplanes that could travel
speedily from Paris or from the Mont
Saint Michel to Berlin.
The parrot left alone with bulldog
remarked when 1t was too late and he
had lost all his feathers, "The trouble
with me is talk too much" q
Governor Moore. of New Jersey, will
demand law chasing sleeping truck
drivers with drunken motorists, IS re-
CARDS punishment, In case Of accident.
Many accidents on New Jerseys
roads have been caused by truck driv-
ers falling asleep at the wheel, be-
cause Of long hours on duty"
1t may be desirable to jail the sleepy
drivers, but what about employers that
compel or permit such long hours?
Why not limit the length of truck driv-
ing hours. with confscation of the
truck. plus q heavy fine, as punish
ment?
In these hard days a driver must
take the hours OF work offered him.
He does not, by choice, drive q truck
fifteen or twenty hours at a stretch!
DIR. Lutz, who attends to insects for
the American Museum, proves that
bees and butterflies see colors invis-
ible to human eyes. Ultraviolet, at the
upper end of our spectrum, which we
never see, is their faVorite color. Proof
was obtained by painting ultraviolet
the entrance to the hive. The bees
went to that colored entrance, and.
with the color changed, would not
enter.
DR.. Lutz says beeS almost seem to
think" Those bees, watching the giant
doctor arranging his experiments, may
have said to each other that he almost
seemed to think.
Bees and other insects that were at
work here, millions OF years before
men appeared, are supposed to have
adopted mental grooves. now called In