Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-12-07

taken from the peoples earnings.
In France, where they raise leeches,
blood suckers sold in drugstores and
used by doctors, old horses are driven
into swamps, to feed the leeches, and
soon die.
The United States with all it's politi-
cal leeches can sympathize with those
horses.
New York State alone has thirteen
thousand different local units of gov
eminent. Digest that, If you please, one
single State with thirteen Thousand diff
ferent kinds Of separate government
machines that the people pay for.
Michigan, population less than FIVE
millions, has forty-three thousand local
public officials, while England. with
more than thirty-seven million popula-
ton, has only two thousand public Of
ficials.
If England were run on the Michigan
American plan, she would be paying
salaries and some graft to more than
three hundred thousand public officials
instead of two thousand.
Georgia's people are taxed to support
one hundred and fifty-nine county gov
ernments that are no longer needed and
SHOULD have been consolidated or abol-
ished long ago."
The people ought to do something
about that system, which President
Roosevelt says was "built up in the
days of the OK cart" and hasn't been
changed in these days of the automo-
bile.
Yes, the people ought to do some
thing, but they don't know how to go
about it. They vote for public officials
selected for them, and that ends their
little part in government.
Senator Borah rejects Governor
Smiths criticism of what Mr.. Smith
calls President Roosevelt's "baloney
dollars" The Idaho Senator says the
Presidents gold buying is sound. He
lives in the West among farmers, where
money is scarce. Alfred E. Smith lives
in New York, where they have about
all the money there is.
Senator Borah says, "The gold dollar
is the most dishonest dollar ever Gre
ated, except absolutely irredeemable
paper money"
A practical answer to criticism Of
President Roosevelt comes from the
Department of Commerce, showing that
the outside world is using our cheaper
dollars to buy goods, thus giving en-
ployment to American workmen.
Our exports in October were at their
highest point since 1881.
In Queen Victorias day beautiful
young girl lived in England, named
Mary Lloyd. Great artists painted her
pictures. They appear in the great mu-
seums. Now Mary Lloyd, 60 years old,
makes poor living, sewing, scrubbing,
working at mental odd jobs.
When Mary Lloyd was born in Eng
land, sixty years ago, Marie Dressler
was born in this country. Marie Dress
Ter was very good-looking girl but no
raving beauty like Mary Lloyd For
that reason Marie Dressler worked
hard, thought hard, and studied. Now,
at sixty, she earns $4,000 a week, or
more in moving pictures and enjoys
herself.
Moral: Cultivate the inside of your
head as we'll as the outside of your
| face.
Newspaper publishers are interested
| in this: L. S. Roam sends from Atlanta
! copy of the Atlanta Georgian printed
on first-class newsprint paper made not
of spruce, but of Georgia pine pulp. This
means something to publishers, especi-
ally in the South, and Mr.. Roam predicts
growth of Gigantic new industry in
the South producing good newsprint for
nineteen dollars and six cents ton,
against the Canadian price Of twenty
seven dollars and ninety cents"
Also, according to Mr.. Roam, paper
can be made of pine trees ten years old,
whereas spruce trees must be about
fifty years old.
The unexpected is hard to deal with.
Kenneth Meeker, of Montana, whose
business is catching rattlesnakes,
shipped one hundred big ones this Sum-
mer to the Chicago Exposition. His
friends, hearing him yell for help in a
distant field, said, Some RATHER has
got him at last" When they reached
him they found mouse had run up his
leg.
The Government has ordered 104
powerful anti-aircraft searchlights, ex-
pected to send their sweeping beams
100 miles in every direction. These
searchlights, costing more than two
million dollars, producing SOO,OO0,O 900
candle power, will be useful in locating
enemy planes, flying over.
But you cannot destroy plane with
light beams. The country also needs
fast pursuit planes to send after enemy
planes, and plenty of them. We are be-
hind other great nations now in the
air, and II we wait until somebody from
Asia or Europe actually sends planes
against US, 1t will be too late.
We don't do things very well, In q