Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-11-30
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
The President, & Criticism.
We Plan a Seadrome.
Arrowheads of Gold.
Crime Does Not Pay.


nervous spasms over anything remote
ly indicating criticism of the Admins
tration, any suggestion that some idea
advanced by the Administration might
possibly not work out as hoped.
1t should comfort the spasm special
lists to learn that, far from Directing to
criticism or suggestions, President
Roosevelt, man of brains and charac-
ter, desires both.
In his weekly To-day" Professor
Raymond Moley, intimate associate of
the President, quotes Marlen E. Pew,
editor of Editor & Publisher, as fol-
! lows:
Il heard the President say he was
dumbfounded by the almost unanimous
support given to his program by the
American Press. He graciously &C.
knowledged this as of infinite value
to the Administration and the country,
but he made significant statement
HE said: But there is a fly in the
ointment, gentlemen. Where is your
criticism? You know the Government
can make mistakes and this program
is too vast an undertaking for any one
man or set of men to be sure Of We
are certain to make blunders. can rely
on you newspaper men to check us.
IF you see us going wrong, for good
ness sake sing out about it. There is
no kindness in fattering wrong cause.
want your criticism as well as your
support. 1t is the best kind of backing,
and the only request l make is that
you be prompt about it,"
That is how the President feels. He
wants no chorus of unending praise, as
/ in Revelation, where everything is per-
feet. The President wants his actions
and suggestions studied by his fellow
citizens and wants their criticism.
| Further information is given on the
"seadromes," or landing places for air.
planes, to be built at intervals across
the Atlantic Ocean.
A million and half dollars will be
spent for experiment ito determine
feasibility" If experiments work out,
S30,000,000 will build five seadromes, a
few hundred miles apart. What a sur
prise for old Neptune, who has never
really been invaded, except for a few
submarines crawling around his in
sides
Improvement in airplanes will soon
make landing in places on the Atlantic
as useless as they would be on the
English Channel, or Lake Michigan.
The Germans locate a floating supply
ship in the southern Atlantic. Planes,
landing beside it, are taken aboard,
overhauled, refueled, and the plane
catapulted on its way from the ships
deck. That seems to be the practical
idea, although less dramatic than sea-
dromes.
However, what do thirty millions
amount to when you are on a paper
money basis? To see government en-
couraging new idea is always pleas
ing, and seadromes will put men to
work.
While prosperity was sitting down,
Gust Around the Corner" everybody
said hard times were matter of "psy-
chology." Now Edward Romfh recently
declared the value of the dollar and
the Importance of our big gold reserve
are also matters of psychology" Mr..
Romfh is an able banker, his First Ma
tional went through all the crash and
crisis, the big Wind" and everything
else, undisturbed, while banks were
topping from the Canadian to the Mex
lean border and from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
Value" says Mr.. Romfh, depends
on what you can do with thing" and
tells this story. Spaniards roamed all
over Florida, establishing cities, includ-
ing st. Augustine, the oldest, because
they found here Indians using pure
gold to make heads for their arrows.
They thought Florida must have won
derful gold mines when they found In
dams glad to exchange pound of gold
for pound of copper because the cop
per made harder arrowheads.
After while the Spaniards discov-
cred that Florida Indians used gold be-
cause Spanish treasure ships on their
way home from South American gold
mines had been wrecked on Florida
coral reefs. The Indians got their gold
from those ships.
Crime does not pay. Two young men
In California kidnapped youth, twenty
two years old, and confess that they
murdered him. After the murder seek
ing to extort $4,000, they telephoned
the parents: 1.-THE easiest thing would
be to kill your son, with little danger
to u.s." They did kill him, but not with
little danger" Both are in jail, soon
to learn from California Justice how
dangerous their kidnapping was.
Thanks to the Department of Justice
and Secret Service, which cannot be
too highly praised, kidnapping has be-
come dangerous industry.
Two young men obtained six thou
sand dollars from a bank burglary in
Pennsylvania. and concluded that a life
OF crime is an easy life. They spent
most OF their stolen dollars travelling,
tipping literally, living high" as one
OF them puts It. They made a mistake