Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-10-19
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
To Kill the Incurable.
An Honest Dollar Is WhatP
You, Also, Would Laugh.

lives cOul0 request IL, Out only acting
from motives that do not contravene
morals"
Consent of family doctor and two
official doctors would be necessary.
The Catholic and Lutheran churches
both oppose the suggestion. The Cath
Ollie newspaper, Germania, warns, 1.-THE
Catholic Faith binds the consciences of
its followers not to ..ccept this method
Of shortening the sufferings Of incur
ables who are tormented by pain"
Lutheran churches remind the Govern
ment that life is something that God
alone has the right to take.
Killing the incurable, which might
mean. in plain English. getting rid of
a nuisance" is no new idea. Our an
cestors Of long ago. as you may learn
from Westermarck. Reclus, or a dozen
others, killed as q matter of course the
old, no longer useful, and q hindrance
to swift migration.
Savage tribes would kill their ruler,
or compel him to kill himself when too
old to lead them. And in the far north
now, among primitiv. Eskimos, you
might see a worthless" old man,
placed in his little hut Of ice with
certain amount Of food, the entrance
closed up, after him, with blocks Of wet
ice, meaning death.
To permit killing the incurable would
open the way to murder. Besides the
''incurable" disease of today is often the
disease that can be cured tomorrow.
Leprosy, smallpox, diphtheria, ma.
laria. typhoid fever, Bright's disease,
that once killed tens Of millions every
year, are practically conquered, wher-
ever men care to take trouble.
Mr.. Green, head Of the American
Federation of Labor, says labor wants
IAN honest dollar" What is ian hon
est dollar? .
Is dollar that will buy anything in
the United States not honest?
Mr.. Green, like some others, insists
on gold dollar, although there isn't
enough gold to supply it. Would dia-
mond dollar or possibly radium dol
lar make the dollar doubly honest?
1t is easy to tell what somebody
wants" but "who is going to supply
the dollar, gold, diamond or radium? ?"
More than ten millions of men have
been idle in the United States for some
years, and great majority of them are
still idle. Wouldn't 1t be well to give
them some kind of dollar and some
kind of job, without insisting on gold.
or platinum? A paper dollar would
suit them nicely.
What this country needs is dollars.
1t hasn't enough of them. The dollar
has had 40 per cent of the value kicked
out of it by the shift from gold and
nothing has been substituted to make
up for that Somebody ought to do, or
at least say, something about 1t.
This International News supplies q
picture showing Clarence Dillon, the
banker; Mr.. Couzens, the Wall Street
Investigating Senator. and John G.
Townsend, Jr., side by side, laughing
heartily. You would have laughed.
Mr.. Dillon, head of Dillon, Read G.
Co., firm issuing many securities, had
/ just told how stocks bought for twenty
cents share had been sold for $72. The
public, Of course, paid the $72. Dis
tinguished bankers paid the twenty
cents.
Dillon also, with a smile that could
melt even Senator Couzens, told how,
with five million dollars, his associates
| got control of trusts capitalized ut
ninety million dollars.
Newspaper editors are often asked
BY readers: as 1t true that President
Roosevelt has said: 4 shall be the
greatest President of the United
States, or the last one'?" Silly yarns
spread quickly.
You may answer definitely: No, it 10
not true. The President doesn't pre-
tend to read the future. and would be
the last man to talk about being "the
greatest President Of the United
| States"
Anything might happen, for a little
while, il everything should suddenly
blow up" But nobody knows better
than President Roosevelt that this Re-
public will remain Republic, will find
men able to attend to its business, and
will make them continue to work in
obedience to the wishes of its citizens,
modified to some extent, perhaps, by
the plans Of well-organized capital.
Young" Stribling, well-known prize
fighter. is dead. An automobile coils
ion cut of his foot as he was riding Q
motorcycle. Stribling had fought three
hundred prize fights. He excelled at
various sports, was a good air pilot.
speedboat racer, golf and basketball
player, but "the real money is in prize
lighting" in our refined civilization, 90
he fought to get some of the real money.
Gene Tunney, who retired as heavy
weight champion of the world, was paid
one dollar a day by his grateful coun-
try when he fought as a Marine, risk
ing his life. He was paid more than q
million dollars for fighting in q prize
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