Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-12-21

In time, within the few hundred mil.
lion years that men still have to 60
on this earth, their planet may become
happened, the oceans would cover the
earth miles deep everywhere, and men
could take their choice of living afioat,
eating sea food, or digging canals big
enough to hold the oceans and lakes.
Some scientists believe that the in
habitants of Mars, planet 500 million
years older than the earth, have al
ready done that. They think they see
Marian canals dis straight lines in the
telescope.
There is happiness somewhere on
earth, praise Heaven. H. e. Dugan
writes from. Glendale, California:
IT have just returned from trip
ton of California and gold sections Of
Nevada and Arizona. And does it look
like old times in these places? I'll say
so. The large properties are daily add
ing miners and many have given each
miner a Christmas bonus in advance
and extra dividends to stockholders.
The hills, rivers, old workings are
crowded with Young America all
hoping to get rich. Many are making
good wages. Not speck of depression
in the many mining towns"
Oficials interested in efficient, hon.
est management Of cities might learn
of something to their advantage by
communicating with William Sydow,
Director of Public Service in the City
of Miami. Unlike some highly civil
lied" Northern cities that dump sewage
and garbage into the ocean that their
citizens may battle in it, Miami has
long got rid of garbage by burning.
At first, burning cost money for fuel
and labor. Then, Mr. Sydow, who is
competent engineer and a public spir-
tied man, attached to the burning gar
bage steam boilers for production of
power.
With the steam thus supplied, Miami
pumps it's water supply. saves the cost
of power for that purpose, saves also
all that it formerly cost to burn the
garbage.
True, there is nothing in it" for
politicians, but there is something in
/ it for taxpayers, and they may be in
terested.
Mrs. Dolly Gam, sister Of former
Vice-President Curtis, says If you want
to write book lust jot down notes,
whenever you think Of anything inter-
esting, then make the notes into book"
That is one way, and simple. There are
other ways.
An able Frenchman who wrote "The
Three Musketeers" could dictate two
novels at once to different secretaries,
shifting from one secretary to the other,
picking up the different characters.
Goethe spread the preparation and
writing of Faust" over a generation.
He was past 20 when he wrote the sec
ond part.
MontesQuieu spen. 80 years writing
his Spirit Of Laws" and devoted only
a few weeks probably to his Persian
Letters" Perhaps one hundred read
the Persian Letters" for one that
reads THE Spirit Of Laws"
1t is said that Shakespeare, who paid
little attention to his own writings af-
ter he left London and returned to
Stratford, never bothered to put them
in book form or seemed to think much
of them, would scribble on stray piece
of paper additional lines and hand them
to an actor on the stage. And nobody
that ever lived could write such lines.
That's what you might call "impromptu
talent"
Colonel Lindbergh, with his wife,
riding on the tail Of tropical storm"
landed his red flying ship at Port-of-
Spain, Trinidad, having flown LOO
miles in hours and SO minutes from
Brazil
Who will build the ship to fly the
continent comfortably nonstop, carry
ing passengers, mail and express, real
airship?
With Edison gone, Marconi other
wise busy, is anybody working at the
problem OF transmitting wireless
power? The air pilot now picks up
news on wireless. Some day he will
pick up power in the same way, taking
it from different waterfalls and power
plants as he crosses the continent, and
from the west and east sides Of the
Atlantic Oceans as he crosses to Eu.
rope. The thing has been done in
small way ezperimentally, just as Mar
coni's wireless began by sending a sin.
gle letter across the ocean. Some day
wireless power will be a reality and
fiiers will not have to carry tremendous
burdens Of gasoline.
@ 1888. Kiss Fssfsvss Syndicate. Iss.