Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-11-23

to Canada or some other country with
freedom still remaining.
Napoleon said:
"If allowed freedom of the press nv
government would not last six weeks"
and again, II fear three newspapers
more than a hundred thousand bay
onets."
Napoleon's power didn't last long,
anyhow.
Had he allowed freedom of the press,
some editor, speaking for French SOL
diers, might have prevented the stupid
expedition and failure in Russia; and
kept the Emperor from taking his final
beating at Waterloo. #
Wendell Phillips, worth several Ma
poleons, said:
"The penny papers Of New York do
more to govern this country than the
White House at Washington" and I'VE
live under a government of men and
morning newspapers"
This country lives under a govern
ment not of newspapers, but of tens Of
millions Of newspaper readers. who
base their opinions, as they must. on
the contents of newspapers.
In George Washington's day certain
Irish editor made himself offensive
by repeatedly warning Washington
against making himself King of the
United States. Some believe that, with
out that Irish editor, this country might
have had king. Not few, by the way,
believe 1t would have been better if we
had had one, in place of the ups and
downs of elections. They forget that
the accidents Of royal birth would be
more harmful than election accidents
because royal accidents last longer.
Mr.. Litvinoff from Russia, at Mount
| Vernon, stood before Washington's
Tomb, head uncovered, and showed In
his face that he knows what kind Of
man lies buried there. Washington,
also, got rid Of hereditary ruler. Lit
vinoff did not leave a wreath at the
door of the tomb, and that is a good
omen.
Gentlemen from abroad, contribut-
ing large wreaths to the tombs of
George Washington and the Unknown
Soldier, have usually borrowed money
from us, and always failed to pay it
back.
Lloyd George says that war excite
ment and danger of war in Europe are
subsiding, Germany would not and
could not wage war, cooling bliz-
card of pacific propaganda is sweeping
over Britain" and Britain would not
countenance any French attack on Rus
STA, and "the French peasant has had
enough of fighting for a generation"
Whatever Nature does, men can do
better. Automobiles are swifter than
deer, the rife overtakes any bird, sub
marines go down to observe the fish,
but no fish comes up to study us.
And the airplane flies three times as
fast as any bird. Nature merely sets
the example, then men show how It
should be done.
Nevertheless, man can still learn
from humble animal relations.
Flocks Of golden plovers have ar
rived at the Hawaiian Islands, two
thousand-mile fight from Bering Sea,
in "a hours.
Going 80 miles an hour, they rise
high above the earth to find upper air
currents that help them on their jour-
ney.
Soon long distance human fliers will
go up high enough to get above storms.
fog, hail and troublesome winds. Trav-
cling from the Pacific to the Atlantic,
they will go up six miles and sail along
with the light breeze caused by the
eastward movement of the earth, blow
ing as steadily as the famous trade
winds.
When men fly around the world, as
they will do, in "a hours, in the thin
upper atmospheric strata, flying will
really have begun.
Federal and State governments are
connecting rules and laws for distribu-
ton OF wines and liquors. Many of them
will prove as foolish and unavoidable,
although perhaps less vicious, than
Prohibition itself.
You read that nobody Selling for
consumption off the premises may sell
to any person more than three quarts
OF liquor at any time, or more than
three gallons of wine.
Any ordinary citizen, having alb
sorbed his three quarts of liquor and
three gallons Of wine, would probably
be content with that ruling.
The dangerous feature, cropping Out
already, is the scheming Of politicians
to arrange such rules a. will facilitate
blackmail and graft.