Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-01-31
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Old Age Pensions
Does Lashing Do Good?
Those Cosmic Rays
1000. Year.Old Graves

J 6,OOO-Year-Old Graves y
Financial conservatism is agitated
because old-age pensions as planned,
moderately, by the President, would
cost one billion dollars year. Con-
servatism might better worry about
Doctor Townsend's plan to give two
hundred dollars a month to everybody
past sixty years of age, and cost at
least twenty-four thousand millions a
year.
Conservatism might also worry about
billions spent uselessly in state, ma
tional or local government costs, and
taxes that run above thirteen thou
sand million dollars year.
At Wilmington, DEL, three young
men, eighteen, twenty and twenty-three
years old, were dashed in public, a
crowd of one hundred looking on.
After the lashing, on the bare back,
the youths began ten-year prison SEN
fences fol burglary. The lash fright
ems criminals more than imprisonment,
as was proved In London, where an
epidemic of "garrotting" ended as soon
as the lash was used. But what will
be the mental state of those young men
when they leave prison after long as
ISOLATION with experienced criminals,
and constant brooding on the humili-
alton and pain of the lashing?
Can it be hoped that they will be re-
formed, or be anything except con-
flrmed criminals, and enemies of So
ciety?
A learned German says he has dis
covered the source of ''cosmic rays"
that lombard all space, constantly
passing through your body. although
you don't know it, driven by the ter
rife energy of billions Of volts. The
professor suggests that the lombard
ment may occasionally break down a
Few of the atoms In the human body,
thus slowly changing heredity.
That sounds like great deal Of trou-
BILE, to change heredity, which depends,
really, on the right girl choosing the
right kind Of father for her children.
Doctor Sukenik, professor Of archie
ology in the Hebrew University Of Jeru-
salem, has discovered graves six thou
sand years old, that go far back of
Moses and Job and others well known.
These graves were dug, and filed,
long before the Jewish nation had
made Jerusalem their principal city,
when other, earlier races inhabited the
site of "old Jerusalem"
Talking into telephone in the White
House, with amplifiers at the other end,
the President greeted six hundred
members Of the Holland society, at din
ner in New York. He felt pride in
contributions made to this country by
the men of Holland through three hun
dred years. The Roosevelts are of
Dutch origin, but unlike his distant
cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, the Pres
ident did not recite any childish Dutch
poems about cows in "the kopjes." To
know what the old Hollanders really
were, as fighters and "stayers," read
Motley.
Names that sound strange to West
ern ears figure In the case Of Tony
Fon Lew, Chinese doll bride" She
and her alleged father, Mr.. Gin Lem,
are accused Of arranging marriages,
taking money, and then not marrying.
Mr.. Rack Lew Gee, angry Chinese
merchant, says he paid $500 to mar
~ the toy bride, but got no bride.
Other interesting names figure In a
discussion that almost caused war be-
tween the Los Angeles Hop Sing Tong
and the Four Families Association.
Chinese names sound strange to our
ears, but Jones or Robinson would
sound ridiculous to the Chinese. Fon
Lew and her pretended father ran
away to China, but will be brought
back and Gin Lem will be tried for
violating the Mann act. An accusa-
ton that will always puzzle him.
The Saar plebiscite, as was certain
In advance, proves to be specifically
a victory for Hitler. In reality, it
proves the devotion of Germans to
Germany under any conditions.
With the population of the Saar
more than 95 per cent German, voters
were asked whether they wished once
more to resume German citizenship,
throw in their lot with France, or re-
main suspended in the air as wards
Of the League of Nations It was
certain that Germans would vote for
Germany.
Our national defense authorities are
delighted because great American
navy plane labeled XP2H-1 few non
stop to the Canal Zone from Norfolk,
1000 miles, in rs hours. Amelia
Earhart recently flew 2.400 miles In
10 hours, alone, without sleep.
And Russian plane has flown 1900
miles nonstop.
Uncle Sam, to equal Russia, need