Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-09-07
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Science Goes Ahead.
Back to Gold, Perhaps?
John D., Jr., and Dante.

Marconi, truly great, because he in
creases knowledge, comfort and safety,
announces short wave instrument to
protect airplanes and ships. 1t will tell
the flier his height above the earth.
and the ship captain how near the bot
tom is to the ships keel. Marconi pro
vides the improved "altitude-measur-
ing" machine that fliers need.
Less important news, coming from
Berlin, says Chancellor Hitler will
dress his police hereafter sin red stripes
and gold braid" That will please them.
Men love ornament. Kings knew it long
ago, when they put fancy uniforms and
feathers on their fighting soldiers, with
music leading them, leaving peasants
and ditch-diggers in their rags.
But red stripes and gold braid will
not make better policemen Bullet-proof
vests would be better.
New York State is trying to fight
the crime wave financed and built up
by prohibition folly.
Governor Lehman signs a bill max
ing it felony for any but a police off,
Ger to possess or sell q sub-machine
gun. favorite, efficient weapon of crime.
Such law, well meant, will mean
that criminals only will have sub-ma-
chine guns, Just as prohibition has
meant whiskey only for bootleggers.
As that line Is written comes an
nouncement of President Roosevelt's
decision to let American gold producers
sell their precious metal, where they
can get the best price for it. The orig
inal ruling compelled American gold
miners to deliver all gold to Uncle
Sans mint, taking for it, per ounce,
in deprecated paper dollars, the price
paid when our dollar was gold and
worth 100 cents. The Treasury will re-
ceive gold, allowing owners to sell it
abroad or at home, for as many dollars
per ounce as they can get.
This rule will help gold producers,
and be far better than allowing gold
mats" or concentrates to be shipped
abroad, giving the work of refining to
foreign workers and smelters. 1t will
mean, also, that United States gold will
be drained out Of the country, building
up the gold reserves of foreign coun-
tries. How much, II at all, that will hurt
this country, depends on our final gold
attitude.
1t sounds little like drifting back to
the old yellow basis. II we do not re-
turn to our golden calf, Uncle Sam GER
tainly should be more liberal with his
dollar supply, not making new paper
dollars more scarce than the old gold
ones.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., urging
Americans to back the NRA and the
President, says: I'VE found ourselves at
the crossroads, hesitant and uncertain
as to which road to take" Mr.. Rookie
Teller reminds you, without intending
1t. Of the first lines of Dante's Inferno.
Del mezzo del cGnntin di nostrd vita
MI ritrovGi per una selUd oscNrG,
Che la direttG Ola era smdritta.
Which means that Dante, middle
aged when he began his moral work,
found himself "in the middle Of the
road Of life," in an obscure forest, with
the straight road not clear.
Mr.. Rockefeller speaks In well-de-
served praise Of President Roosevelt,
who, according to Mr.. Rockefeller,
says: II do not pretend to know all
the roads, but know something about
them. may take some wrong turnings,
and we may have to retrace our steps
at times, but II you will trust me and
follow me and all keep together, will
lead you out"
Mr.. Rockefeller and his assistants,
including some Of the ablest business
men in America, believe that MIRA will
succeed. That should encourage others.
Changing times make changing con-
ditions. A little while ago, at Versailles.
France, with the help of the other AL
lies, was cutting both arms and legs
and most of the body from the Austrian
Empire, leaving only Vienna, the head.
Now Daladier, French Premier, says
France will protect Austrias liberty,
meaning against Hitler, of course.
Already Europe takes 1t for granted
that another war is wanted, and as
quickly as convenient, this time, by Mr..
Hitler. The French postponed their ere
venge" for more than forty years after
1870. Hitler will not wait, II he can help
It. Europe hopes "the big powers will
prevent conflict"
In the Berlin University, you must