Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-01-17
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Nice Lump Sum
The President at Work
Free Tombstone
Button-Pushing DAYS

anu lmLdLlOu JODS, picking up lSdNcS
and pieces of paper" to real jobs and
useful work.
In his new White House Offices,
President Roosevelt is at work on a
social security program" which will
include unemployment insurance and
old age pensions. The idea is to let
pay rolls contribute to the cost of in
surance and pensions. This might
work well with normal pay rolls.
You hope that the President, in his
wisdom, will include in any security"
program security for the nation, in adj
dition to security for individuals, old
or out Of job.
Unemployment insurance and old age
pensions would do little good If few
thousand planes came flying from Eu-
rope or Asia to bomb our cities and
spray them with poison gas. If they
came now, they could do exactly as
they pleased. We have no way of In
terfering with them.
Bruno Hauptmann's musings on
fate's vagaries were interrupted the
other day by strange offer from Mr..
Standish Hartman, who owns the old
Pennington stone works, manufacture
ing tombstones, just opposite the
Hauptmann JAIL
Hauptmann was told, "If you are
sent to the electric chair will let you
pick out your own tombstone, free,
and help you write the epitaph. will
make it work of art that people will
go long way to see, one that any man
would be proud to have"
1t should take genius to devise a
tombstone that "any man would be
proud to have" if he got it after being
executed for murder.
A day Is coming when no man will
do any work harder than pressing a
button, and science, incidentally, will
make crime obsolete.
For instance, the Joliet (Il.) jailer
sent fat ''trusty" outdoors for a
cigar, and the automatic electric eye"
at the gate saw him, flashed light
and the innocent fat "trusty" was
searched. A small metal shoehorn was
found in his big loose shoe.
The electric eye flashes when any.
body passing the gate has any sort of
metal in his possession. No prisoners
friend hereafter can take in a pistol.
file or steel saw.
If you buy alcoholic drinks, buy from
dealers in whom you have confidence.
The federal government has seized one
million one hundred thousand empty
whisky, wine and liquor bottles to pre-
vent bootleggers refilling them with
bootleg supplies.
An empty whisky bottle, bought for
two cents, filed with eight cents worth
of bootleg whisky, may mean profit for
the bootlegger and mean poison for the
consumer. Buy from retailer whom
you trust, who buys from those who
manufacture legally. and buy brands
that you know.
To comfort those appropriating and
spending large sums Of public money
fighting the depression it can be said.
quite reasonably, that there would be
no danger in spending 100000, 100000
more, considering that the normal in
come Of the United States, in really
good times, is close to 100000, 900 900.
II man spent one or even two years.
income to settle all his troubles you'd
think the price reasonable.
1t would be a silly mistake. of
course, to issue the 100000, 100000
In bonds and pay out another $780,.
OOO,OOO'OO0 for interest, unnecessarily.
That needs to be said and will be said
quite often.
To read that Harry MacCracken.
seventy fve-year-old retired cattle
puncher, jumped up when a bandit
told him to sit still, and drilled" the
bandit through the shoulder, is mildly
interesting. 1t is more interesting to
read that it happened In a "subur-
ban liquor store" of Colorado, where
MacCracken spends his time sitting by
the stove, whiting" To sit whit
Ting by a liquor store stove seems n
strange occupation for one seventy
five years old, who knows that time Is
whiting away his few remaining
days.
The AAA asks congress for com.
plete authority over all crops. all farm
activities, and for $40,OO0,OOO to $780,
100000 to move farmers from Door
farms to better farms.
1t is all benevolently planned, but
many farmer would prefer to stamp
his foot and clap his hands In the old
independent way.
The end Of prohibition has not Weld
ed all that was promised, and hoped
for. In reform and In cash. Two
thirds Of all the whisky sold is still
bootleg whisky. That cheats Uncle
Sam, and poisons many with bad
whisky.
In big New York city. many went to