Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-01-11

tion concentrated at Moscow in the
hands of Stain and a few men, and
spreading authority further out among
the territorial units that make up the
aggregation of Soviet republics.
During our 1929 boom days, when
the Milky Way was the limit, Ameri-
can best minds" spent their leisure
sneering at Russias effort to wipe out
the deadening ignorance and poverty
of the Czarist regime.
But to give the devil his due, also
Lenin and Stain, the Russians have
taught all their children and many of
their adults to read, and have sue
ceeded amazingly in making Russia
partly industrial instead of a purely
agricultural nation. And they have
had every man and woman constantly
at work, while we have had twelve mil
lions idle
China, adopting Western civilized
ways, is bombing rebels against the
present Chinese government and po
litely requests Americans and other
foreigners to get out of the way of the
airplanes. 1--WE do not wish to bomb
you if we can possibly help it," say
the Chinese.
The American minister, Mr. John
son, orders Americans to leave Fukien
Province, where the bombing proceeds.
The British and French ministers will
follow suit
Japan, taking different attitude,
tells China: Twenty thousand Japa-
nese and Formosan subjects of the
Mikado, now live in Fukien, will not
move, and Japan will protect them in
their homes, exactly where they are"
This may mean another chapter of Chi
nese-Japanese difficulties.
Chinese pilots, managing a score Of
Chinese bombing planes, have been
trained by American fliers.
Young Henry Pu-Yi, once heir to the
imperial throne of China, descendant
of the Manchus that came down from
Manchuria and made themselves rulers
of China long ago, finds himself now
suddenly Emperor Of the old Man
churian homeland, rechristened Man
chukuo.
The Chinese Republic took away the
youthful Pu-Yis imperial prospects in
China, but treated him kindly, sup
plying plenty of money for his elab-
crate household. Japan, Selling Man
churia, and wishing to do it tactfully,
made the young Prince, whose ancestors
once were rulers of Manchuria, the
nominal head of the new Japanese pos
session.
The ambitions of Japan are not
small, and perhaps selecting Pu-Yi as
Emperor in Manchuria is part of far
seeing plan.
Pu-Yi is now restored to the throne
of his ancestors in Manchuria.
Later it might be desirable to re-
store him, as dummy Of Japan, to the
other throne of his later ancestors as
ruler VI oil CHlud.
Ancient Monaghan rulers, like Jhen-
ghis Khan, found it easy enough to
control such vast territory. but their
rule did not last. Japan might easily
take possession of China, temporarily.
But it is difficult for mouse to digest
an elephant. History might relate how
Japan planned to swallow China and
instead was swallowed by China
Meanwhile the business of the United
States is to watch events, wishing
everybody all possible good fortune and
confident that in the long run justice,
another word for intelligence, will rule.
President Roosevelt. talking for this
country to South America and the
whole world on the Monroe Doctrine,
states once more principles underlying
that doctrine, and working for peace.
The idea is not to establish any con-
troll or coercion of even the smallest
South American republic by the United
States. The desire is to establish for
all the nations on these two American
continents protection from foreign
control and invasion.
If South American statesmen would
read small pamphlet on the Monroe
Doctrine, written by Sir Frederick
Pollock, British authority on interna-
tional law, they would get rid OF their
"anti-Yankee" prejudices as regards
| that doctrine.
Constantly, new, useful work is
found for airplanes. The Humane So
ciety of Missouri sets a good example,
scattering from the sky wheat, kaffir
corn and ground corn in st. Louis
County to feed hungry birds.
Airplanes are used to reforest burnt
over ground, scattering seeds of trees.
Vast acres are mapped accurately, cas-
lily in inaccessible mountainous terri
tory. Aviators provide reliable esti-
mates on timber values, detect in the
air, which cannot be done from the
ground "domes" that may yield oil,
and also spy out forest fires.
Before long it is to be hoped that
scientists will find a way of fighting
fires from the air by laying down,
through the air, smothering blanket
of some fire extinguishing substance.
| 1t can be imagined. therefore IL can be