Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-06-28
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
In the Age of Billions
Old Bill Did Not Know
More Land? What For?
If Suddenly Rich, What?

congress NUMBER SeVeuLy-Lnree SocS
home after appropriating for variegat-
ed spending between six thousand
eight hundred and seven thousand mill
lion dollars.
No congress ever appropriated so
much in peace times.
In addition to spending about seven
thousand million dollars, this congress
guaranteed approximately seven thou
sand millions more in home mortgages
and farm bonds and set up two thou
sand million "stabilization fund.-"
We are living in the era of billions"
With congress gone home, President
Roosevelt is lord of all he surveys,
which is no great change. He was
pretty much that before the adjourn
ment. We have no dictator in the
United States, and shall not have one
unless something strange and unusual
happens, but the President has as
much Of dictator's power as he
chooses to use.
OOuSICSS, Will CASCp-
lions, obeyed orders while in session,
and the country will look to the Presi-
dent now to initiate and put through
whatever he chooses. That situation
probably does not suit him. 1t in
wolves great responsibility.
sold Bill" dead in London, was a
carrier pigeon. He carried messages
during the first year of the big war
from British army and air forces in
France and Belgium back to London,
and lost leg. Brought back to Eng
land by an invalid soldier, he enjoyed
life for many years, and now has laud-
atory obituary notices" in English pa
pers.
"Old Bill" flew back and forth in
the big war and lost a leg without
ever knowing why he was flying or
why he had to lose that leg.
But "Old Bill" was no more ignorant
than majority of the soldiers over
whose heads he flew on errands that
he did not understand.
A member of the British house Of
commons suggests that, failing cash
payment, we might accept something
in the way Of territory. The British
will not give up any territory If they
can hold on to it, which they can easily
do in this case
And apart from that, what good
would 1t do us to acquire more ter
ritory and have some foolish congress
man insist on giving it away? We
could not possibly get from the British
anything as valuable as the Philip
pines, and we are doing our best to get
rid Of them at this moment.
What would you do If you suddenly
found yourself quite rich, with pros
pect of "easy riches" to come? Mr..
Max Baer, new holder of the heavy
weight prize-fghting championship, &C
cording to the New York Evening
journal, bought himself thirty-five new
suits Of clothes, 'in tan, gray and pas
tel shades" There was great crowd
waiting outside the tailor shop to
cheer him, and he wrote his autograph
on one-dollar bill for a young girl.
Fame is wonderful thing.
The young "Count of Paris" who
might be king of France If the French
people suddenly lost their wits, be-
heves that he, SO far as he knows a
direct descendant of Hugh Capet, will
soon be called to the French throne.
He says.
"You would be astonished if you
could know how weary France is Of
the present regime"
The young pretender to the throne
might be surprised if he could know
how weary France was of her kings
before she got rid of them, and how
fortunate he is that the common sense
of the French will keep him talking,
not reigning.
President Roosevelt, in a letter sent
to West Virginia, expresses satisfac-
ton with the achievements of MIRA.
1--WE have spread employment, we
have raised pay, and we are not
through yet.
1T is notable record of recovery.
1t has led the way for other nations.
and has produced widespread and, I
believe, permanent results. Certainly
we have right to celebrate this an
niversary."
Washington Singer, whose father in
vented sewing machine, left a for
tune Of 1854, 800 in England, where
he raced his horses. The British gov
eminent takes an estate duty" of
about two million dollars from the
heirs. At that rate, 1t does not take
long for vast accumulations to melt
away, especially as "the bigger the
estate, the higher the percentage
taken" Our government has borrowed
the idea, made necessary by strange
faculty for spending developed by poll.
ticians.
1t used to be "three generations
from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves /"
1t will be shorter than that now
among our prosperous ones, If deaths
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