Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-09-28
This Week
by ARTHUR BRIsBANR
We Lend to Russia.
Gladstone's Question.
Great Arab Funeral.
$1O,OOO,OOO Target.

$1O,OOO,OOO Target.
Arranging to borrow fifty to seventy
FIVE millions, the money to stay and be
spent here, Russia will pay. u like some
other foreign nations, whose bonds
Americans foolishly bought.
We have for sale unlimited quanti-
ties Of copper, cotton and aluminium
Russia needs. The Aluminium Co. Of
America has two hundred million
pounds of the metal stored up.
In the aluminium business you must
possess gigantic water power, and you
can't afford to stop using it. because
water that goes by does not come back.
So the big aluminium company goes on
making aluminium, even If 1t can't be
sold Immediately, rather than waste
the precious water power.
Utility companies are agitated. The
Government distributing from Muscle
Shoals electric power that the people
paid for and own, will sell current at
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half cents to domestic consumers, as
against four and half cents charged by
private companies.
In New York, utility men weep be.
cause the city will tax them, to help
pay expenses, including politicians ex-
| penses.
Gigantic today is the value OF mystic
rious electricity. yet it was "only yes
terday" that William e. Gladstone,
England's grand old man and prime
minister, watched the great Faraday
winding coils of wire, showing that
men could make, direct and harness
electricity on tiny scale. Shortly be-
fore, Faraday had written:
Il am busy just now again on electro
magnetism, and think have got hold
Of good thing, but can't say. 1t may
be a whelk instead of q fish that, after
all my labor, may at last pull up"
Gladstone looking on indifferently,
as Faraday demonstrated a discovery
that was to mean billions of dollars
earned. millions of men employed, and
light the whole world, asked Faraday
"of what use it might be-"
Faraday made the right reply for
practical Britisher.
"Why, sir, you will soon be able to
tax it."
New York makes that come true.
Young men may read about that in
Floyd L. Darrow's "The New World
of Physical Discovery" pu 'lished by
Bobbs-Merrill. The book costs three
dollars and half, and young man
that could not get at least ten thousand
dollars worth of knowledge out of 1t
would not amount to much.
When Feisal, King OF Iraq, first lead.
or that widely scattered Arab tribes
have recognized in centuries, was put
in his grave, one hundred thousand
tribesmen walled bitterly, beating their
breasts, while black-robed women
walled, moaned, tore their hair, threw
their wells aside and looked mournfully
toward heaven.
! To touch Feisars coffin mean. Ito &C.
quire merit" and 1t was necessary to
cut the bridge across the Tigris after
the funeral procession had passed to
keep back the dangerously big crowd.
Human beings crave leaders and
rarely get them. You can count the
really great ones, from Jenghis Khan
to 1888, on your fingers and toes.
Mohammedans mourn wildly for
their dead. Yet their prophet had COM
mon sense. You may -ead in his Koran
funeral service, as Lord Beaverbrook
reminds you, that all the mourning was
ordered, mot that it does any good to
the dead, but that 1t comforts the liv-
ing"
The old battleship "New Mexico"
having been rebuilt and Improved" at
a cost of $10,O00,OOO. is sent on what
the Navy calls "a shakedown cruise"
The taxpayers of this country were
also sent on "shakedown cruise"
when those ten millions were thrown
away on a floating target for air bombs
In case war should come.
Consider your intelligen; country
that scraps new and half-inished bat
tleships Of modern design to oblige
some smooth-tongued foreigners at
naval conference and then squanders
ten million dollars on an obsolete type
of ship.
That is not the worst of it. Sixty
million more dollars will be spent re-
building other antiquated targets for
airplanes.
France worries about the gold basis.
She still has eighty-two billion francs
worth Of gold in her vaults. She fears
1t may be impossible for her to remain
gold nation" with the Yankee dollar
and British pound slipping downward.
This country also worries a little
about gold, wondering why the dollar
was kicked off the gold basis, and re-
duced to sixty odd cents, and dollars
less plentiful than they were before
gold was abandoned.
It Is a solemn truth that nobody I'M
derstands money"