Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-06-14
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Yes, We Get No Money
Einstein Says Naughty
Two Pigeons, Matching
Silver T,imps Back


S4713, 100000. has decided that the
best plan for this springs installment
is to pay nothing at all. They would
have gladly handed in token" some
thing for Uncle Sam to play WIN.
perhaps a few silver dollars, but Pres
ident Roosevelt had said: PAY the
amount due this spring, or consider
yourselves in default"
The British do not like to be in de-
fault. Refusing to pay what they
owe this nation would justify other
nations in refusing to pay them. On
the other hand, the British feel that,
if they buy our dollars to pay us, they
might increase the value of the dollar
and diminish that of the pound.
The upshot is that our British
friends decide to pay nothing, explain
ing with words well chosen that we
ought to be grateful that Britain did
not allow Germany to destroy the
United States in the big war. And,
anyhow, it is all our fault.
The super-learned Doctor Einstein
of relatively fame, warns the United
States that America is not innocent
Of Europe's misery" and in demand
ing payment of her debt becomes ian
accomplice in the ruin of political
morality and the cultivation Of re-
venge spirit encouraged by despair"
So says an Associated Press dispatch
from Paris.
1t should not annoy Professor Elm
stein to be told that the people of the
United States, delighted to receive and
provide him with congenial employ
ment when Germany put him out, feel
able to form their own opinions con-
corning the debts. Opinions of one,
however wise in mathematics, who
will take no part in paying the debt
and bought none of the Liberty
bonds" when the debts were contract
ed, do not interest the American tax
payer.
If the highly esteemed Doctor Elm
stein will read the foolish book that
his greater predecessor, Newton,
wrote, calculating the Apocalypse, he
will learn that it is possible for a
scientist to make mistakes when he
wanders away from science. There is
no demand for a fourth dimension in
international honesty.
At Morrison, ILL.,. two pigeons take
turns trying to hatch a duck egg left
in an open lane. The pigeons find it
hard to cover the entire egg, but do
their best, and the egg may be Matched.
Farmers watch and wonder what the
pigeons will do with their child after
they have Matched the duckling, and
what they will think when it takes to
the water.
At Washington there is mamma gov
eminent that may be even more sur
prised than those pigeons as it watches
the unfolding careers of social and
economic "ducklings" that it is now
Matching.
We are going on a partial, limping
semi-silver basis, which means having
back Of our money $25 worth of silver,
at the nominal imaginary rate of $1.29
per ounce, for every 500 worth Of
gold.
The government must purchase
some thirteen or fourteen hundred
million ounces of silver. that will cost,
with silver prices probably rising, be-
tween seven hundred and one thou
sand million dollars.
Interesting question: How will the
government pay for this new silver?
Will it pay with more interest-bearing
bonds, on the assumption that the sill
yer is really worth nothing? Or will
the government issue nice new green
money, saying, "There is good silver
back of this? How long is the most
dangerous kind of Imitation" through
interest-bearing bonds, to continue?
The British government orders
Lloyd's to cease writing insurance on
the life Of President Roosevelt A
special list Of rates had been prepared
for those wishing to insure the Presi-
dents life, per cent for insurance
against assassination or accident TX
per cent against death from ordinary
causes. 1873 per cent against the Pres.
ident's being incapacitated.
By special request. and wisely. this
system of gambling on the Presidents
life has been discontinued.
The most expensive thing in the
world Is carelessness. In New York
state alone last year accidents IN
workers cost one hundred million dol
lars. Twenty-Five million dollars was
paid in compensation. The entire loss
Of $1O0,0O0,O00 in the long run is paid
by the public.
The Important thing is the loss 70
workers and their physical suffering
There Is no remedy, except greater
care on the part of workers. who ho
come careless; men that handle dv.
Mantle, for instance, often THROWING
the sticks about as they would throw
sticks of wood. Also, there should be