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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-12-26
SEASONAL APOLOGY

We had to drop THE SENTINEL to
eight pages this week and because
Of lack OF space it was impossible
to include all correspondents. In
order to give our entire force their
Christmas holiday it was necessary
to curtail the amount Of work. The
omitted letters viii be printed next
week.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-12-26

wood for Christmas, and were Joined
for Christmas dinner by Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles E. Bond and Miss Rena Hub
bell of Glen Echo.
Mrs. Laurence Stabler has closed
her home Homework and has gone
to spend the winter with her cousin
Mrs. Frank Mccormick in Berryville,
Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis A. Thomas
entertained for their celebration of
Christmas, Mr.. Thomas mother, Mrs,
Wilbert Melville and husband of Los
Angeles, Cal. who are spending some
weeks at Wardman Park, Washing
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mahlon Kirk Nv.
spent Christmas with Mr.. and Mrs.
Addison G. Foster in their Washing
ton home, the Fosters having also as
guest their cousin, Miss Sue Grigsby
of New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elgar Stabler with
their three children, have arrived at
Sunnyside, home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Newton Stabler, and remained over.
Christmas; Miss Caroline StabIer
came from N. Y. for a short
stay with her family for Christmas.
Miss Anne Miller and Miss Mary
Moore Miller Joined their mother
Mrs. Robert H. Miller at The High
lands for Christmas, Miss Anne Mill
er coming from Montclair, N. j.
Mr.. Richard w. Janney and Mrs.
Francis Kirk entertained jointly with
an attractive little tea on last Fri
day afternoon at four o'clock at
Sweet Brier, being one of the pre-
nuptial events given in honor of Miss
Anna Young Miller, whose marriage
on Monday to Mr.. Richard Martin
Boeckel, Jr. was solmenized at the
Miller Home.
assisting them in serving their guests
Mrs. Janney and Mrs. Kirk had
Miss Claire Hutton, Miss Sue Thomas,
Mrs. John Thomas III. and Miss
Sylvia Stabler, with Mrs. A. Doug
las Farquar presiding at the tea
table.
Mrs. Joseph E. Janney has with her
for the holidays her daughter, Miss
Virginia Janney who is studying at
Western College.
Mrs. Janney is making her home
with her sister-in-law, Mrs. John H.
Janney, at Brooke Meadow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Shoemaker of
Kenneth Square, Pa. spent Christmas
with their parents Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Janney Shoemaker and sister Miss
Clarice Shoemaker.
Miss Mary Summers of Philadel-
phia, Joined her relatives Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanton Smith and Miss AMY
P. Miller to spend Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Kirk had over
Christmas, Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Har-
vey being formerly Miss Kitty
vey being formerly Miss Miss Kitty
Cooke, who were Joined for Christmas
dinner by Miss Sarah and Miss Ellie
Cooke, Miss Mary E. Cooke, and Mr..
Danvers Osborn, the Misses Cooke
being daughters of DIR. and Mrs.
George Cooke, who are living in Flor
ida.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-12-26
In Memorianl

In memory of our mother, Rebecca
J. Demuth and our brother, Harry C.
DeMuth.
There is no death, the stars go down
To rise upon some other shore.
And bright in heavens jewelled
crown
They shine forevermore.
"There is no death! the forest leaves
Convert to life the viewless air;
The rocks disorganize to feed
The hungry moss they bear.
"There is no death! the dust we tread
Shall change beneath the summer
showers,
To golden grain, or mellow fruit,
Or rainbow tinted flowers.
"There is no death! the leaves may
fall.
The flowers may fade and pass
away
"They only wait, through wintry
hours,
The warm, sweet breath of May.
"There is no death! the choicest gifts
That heaven hath kindly lent to
earth
Are ever first to seek again
The country of their birth.
Sand all things that for growth of
joy
Are mostly of our love or care,
Whose loss has left us desolate,
Are safely garnered there.
Though life becomes dreary waste,
We know it's fairest, sweetest
flowers,
into paradise,
Adorn immortal bowers.
'The voice of bird-like melody
That we have missed and mourned
so long
Now mingles with the angel choir
In the everlasting song.
'There is no death! although we
grieve
When beautiful, familiar forms
That we have learned to love are torn
From our embracing arms.
although with bowed and breaking
hearts,
With sable cash and silent tread,
We bear their senseless dust to rest,
And say that they are dead"
''They are not dead! they have but
passed
Beyond the mists that blind US here
Into the new and larger life
Of that serener sphere.
''They have but dropped thir robe of
clay
To put their shining raiment on;
They have not wandered far away
They are not "lost" or "gone."
Though disenthralled and glorified,
They still are here and love us yet;
The dear ones they have left behind
They never can forget.
''And sometimes when our hearts
grow faint
Amid temptations fierce and deep,
Or when the wildly raging waves
Of grief and passion sweep.
eve feel upon our fevered Brow
Their gentle touch, their breath of
balm;
Their arms enfold us and our hearts
Grow comforted and calm.
'And ever near US, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits tread;
For all the boundless universe
Is life-there are no dead"
(McCreery)
Florence DeMuth and Clara DeMuth
Poss and Jay G. DeMuth.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-12-26

Permit Light In One DirooaSoa
Tourmaline crystals will permit tho
passage Of light in only one dIrectiOn.
Evening star., 1935-07-01

matters little what might have been
the hopelessness of their past in the
deserted lumber camps or rundown
farms of Michigan or Minnesota. 1t
is the future which interests them now.
The Government has guaranteed the
future and the Government must make
good.
AS for the Governments responsibility,
the usual mix-ups and delays due to
bureaucratic inexperience and red tape,
resulting In failure to send what is
needed or the hurried dispatch Of mate
rial that could as we'll be delayed six
months-these troubles are temporary
and will quickly pass. The more
serious responsibility is represented in
the undertaking to transplant bodily
communities OF failures-regardleSs of
the cause Of the failures-to new loca-
ton, to new problems, to new rigors Of
climate, safeguarding them from new
physical and economic hazards. 1t may
work out in the end. Frontiers have
been pushed forward before by pioneers,
and they may be pushed forward again.
But the Governments direct RESPONSE
bility in this experiment is heavy one,
and the success of the experiment is
far from certain.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
The Common InfOrmer.

New Jersey has some strange old laws
on its statute books and now and then
they bob up to cause confusion of the
equities. One of these has just emerged
from the limbo of alf-forgotten legal
antiquities. In 1877 an act was passed
relating to gambling. It provided that
any person giving information leading
to the disclosure and punishment of
gambling games should be rewarded
with half the fines imposed upon the
offender. 1t has not been generally
enforced and has been virtually rele-
gated to the legal attic. Some time ago,
however, an Atlantic City lawyer, in the
role of common informer." won a judg-
ment for $4,000 against a kennel club
on the ground that statute permitting
dog racing was unconstitutional and
invalid. The States highest court has
affirmed the judgment and thereby
opened the way for other enterprises in
Evening star., 1935-07-01
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

admirers OF the Kingfish think that IN
launching the National Youth Admin
istration, with its provisions for educa-
tional help, President Roosevelt may
have extracted leaf from the Long
notebook, just as they claim the admin
istration tax program has done in the
field of redistribution of wealth.
~
Although few members of Congress
have worked up any enthusiasm over
the prospect of midsummer hot
weather session. most Representatives
and Senators will confide that they'd
rather get the tax business out Of the
way now than let it ride into the next
session. They prefer to make their
records" on the subject at this time,
q full year In advance Of the 1886 elec-
ton, rather than be compelled to COM
init" themselves when the campaign is
Just around the corner. Parties and
candidates as a rule dislike going to the
electorate on the heels of legislation
that means higher taxes. These are
traditionally regarded as sour campaign
material.
veltis establishment of the National
Youth Administration. a group of promi-
nent citizens, of which John Hays
Hammond is at the head, is raising a
fund of 10000 for the purpose of fight
ing crime through foundation OF boys
clubs in the worst delinquency areas
of the leading cities. The idea is that
these clubs will attract boy gangs" from
the street into surroundings where they
will find a gymnasium, shower baths,
game rooms, vocational classes and mu-
sical, dramatic and athletic organiza-
tionS, all under trained leadership with
character building foremost in every
activity. Experience has satisfied Mr..
Hammond and his associates that boys
clubs are practical agency for crime
prevention and the making of good
citizens out Of the raw material Of the
streets.
ED" F. McGrsdy, Assistant secre-
tary of Labor, who is to be loaned to
assistance in administration of New
York City's $3.50 ,000, 900 work-rehef fund,
has long been one of Johnsons IA
Blue Eagle days. when he was an assist
ant N. r. A. administrator, McGrady
was frequently praised publicly by the
former recovery boss. Mr.. McGrady.
JerSeyman by birth, is newspaper
pressman by trade. He was once
member of the Boston Common Council
and of the Massachusetts, House of Rep
resentatives, and for many years was the
potent legislative representative of the
American Federation of Labor at Wash
ington. President Roosevelt refused to
relinquish McGrady from his Labor De-
partment job. Gen. johnson may only
borrow him from time to time.
Labor day, September 2. is now the
most generally fixed deadline for pros
pective adjournment Of Congress, based
on Speaker Byrns' estimate that the tax
program will keep House and Senate on
the job for the better part Of two
months.
toopyrisht. 1880
Evening star., 1935-07-01

the courts Of the same nature. Based
upon this action, . citizen Of the State
has adopted the "informer" role and
filed q claim for $500 900 against the
Western Union Telegraph Company on
the ground that it recently sent out
1900 kilograms Of the chain letter"
variety. These kilograms were in the
general form OF the now familiar letters,
asking the transmission by wire of 81
to the first person" named in q sub
mitted list. II the judgment already
affirmed is a guide the common in
former" in this later case stands to
make big winning.
This case has its roots in veritably
ancient law, going back to the times
when the processes of crime detection
and pursuit were crude and ineficient.
Justice relied. to great extent, upon
the contribution Of the public to the
fund OF judicial information. Under
old Scottish law the "informer" was one
who, in criminal proceedings, set the
lord advocate in motion by the disclosure
of facts relative to breaches Of the peace.
Under the British laws an action by q
common informer is brought in lieu Of
the state. 1t must be brought within
year Of the offense, unless the statute
prescribes a specific period. 1t applies
only when the penalty is in terms OF
fine. Thus the New Jersey statute OF
1877 was based upon British practice.
1t is now upheld and the field is wide
open. in that State, for the fine hunters,
who may thus be regarded as supple
mentaries of the law itself.
A question arises Of course, whether
the chain-telegram is violation of the
laws against gambling. 1t Is the same
game as that which has lately been
played to a remarkable extent through
the mails. Thus far no prohibition has
been made against the letters, Tor the
carriage of which the Government is
responsible, although the mails are
barred to lottery and other gambling
enterprises. If Uncle Sam is willing to
carry these solicitations through the
mails, is not a common carrier, such as
a telegraph company, justified IN trans
mitting messages of the same character?
The New Jersey court. perhaps the
Federal Court will have to answer that
question before the ''informer" can
collect, If then.
Evening star., 1935-07-01

They call the attention of the entire
car to 1t. Gentlewomen who by no
means would see the slightest bit of
humor In such personal remarks always
join in the general grin that arises from
the witty fellows proddings.
The most excrutiatingly funny thing,
however, is an old pipe.
Any one who gets aboard smoking
pipe Is delivered hands tied into the
clutches of the elevator humorist.
what cha smoking?" he wants to
know, with the slyest OF grimaces.
The simple remark contains a world
Of humor, it appears, judging from the
typical reaction.
The man in the corner grins broadly.
The sweet lady on the other side
lifts the corners OF her mouth as II to
say. Nov I know this is going to be
funny"
Comical references to the pipes con-
tents follow.
Broad laughs arise at the mere men
ton Of the pipes contents.
There is sure to be some inference
that hay Is the product Of the fields
used.
1t seems as II everybody present had
been waiting for some one to say the
word
Hay" is just too funny.
Everybody laughs.
The wag, having now gotten the laugh
on his victim, begins to plume himself
q bit.
He looks at the ladies, one after the
other, to receive the appreciation of
their smile.
Perhaps the ladies do not wish to
smile. but the clutch of the elevator
and its cheap humor is on them.
They cannot help themselves.
They reward the fellow with a grand
benediction.
This sets him up for renewal of the
attack.
Now the modest mans floor has been
reached, but this does not entirely save
him.
Put alfalfa in it next time," wise
cracks the wag.
The car roarS.
r
1t must be stressed that there Is
nothing funny in such remarks.
Only the curious atmosphere of the
clcNdIOI, D. 1llSIlIy IIllIlB III lCSciI, dC-
counts for the fact that any one ever
can find anything to laugh about in
such alleged witticisms.
Perhaps it Is the proximity.
Human beings, except in certain well
known situations, were never made to be
so close together.
There is something indefensible, from
the standpoint of the human soul, in
the gross overcrowding Of all types
which accompanies city life.
No doubt there is no getting out Of It,
but it is too close, too packed, too
crowded in every way for the best
interests Of the soul.
Strangers, or semi-stranger, standing
elbow to elbow, breathing into each
others ears, are not conducive to the
best in them.
They feel Ill at ease, nervous, desirous
of saying something TO break the ten
sion. If only they could stand three
feet apart. as large shrubs do in borders,
they would watt up the floors without
any "wisecracking" from anybody.
In that event the wag might lose his
best opportunities to boost his self
esteem, but the remainder of the trav-
cling population would be much
better off,
Evening star., 1935-07-01
Hitlerism Today.

Today marks the completion of full
year since the blood purge" OF 1884
cleansed Nazi ranks of all vestige of
internal opposition to Hitler's rule and
established the Fuehrer In indiSputable
control of Germanys destinies. With
the ensuing obliteration of the presi-
dency through the death of Won Hin
denburg, Hitlerism found itself en-
throned with powers uneQualed since
the reign of the Caesars.
The Fuehrers personality has SO
dominated the perspective that ade-
quate attention has not been bestowed
upon the cardinal feature of German
developments since the blood purge"
That feature is the indubitable ascend
ancy of the army. All competent OBJ
servers are agreed that while Hitler,
Goering, Goebbels and others in the
Nazi high command nominally direct
and govern, actual authority today Is
welded by the army, and that the
Reichswehr general, Won Blomberg, now
minister of war, is the power behind
the throne. Under his leadership Ger
many has reverted to its ancient status
as an essentially military state. The
once privileged position of the brown
Shirted Storm Troops has vanished.
That other Nazi military adjunct, the
Schutzstaffel, has been relegated to a
decorative or minor police function. The
army is supreme. In addition to its
preponderant domestic position, the
army's influence in the realm of Ger
many's foreign policy is believed to be
no less potent. The conclusion is
obvious that, by and large, Hitler re-
mains Fuehrer mainly by grace of the
soldiers. Deprived of their loyalty and
support, his status would be precarious.
There is no present sign that he is In
danger of losing army favor.
Uncertain and even perilous as the
Germans economic position continues
to be, their triumphs in other directions
during the past year can only be de-
scribed as phenomenal. Their crowning
ambition, to destroy the Versailles
treaty, has virtually been realized
ReparationS were done away with be-
fore the Nazi dawn This year has seen
notification of the military and naval
clauses-the proclamation of conscrip-
ton, plans for an army of $780, 900 men,
creation Of an air force, construction of
power through formal agreement with
the British. That the remaining objec-
tives of Nazi Observation-Disclosures
of the Rhineland, recovery, in part at
least, of German colonies, and resembling
Of the Versailles war guilt" indictment
will now be restlessly pursued cannot
be doubted.
All in all, the world faces the fact
that under Hitlerism Germany has re-
turned with giant strides to the rank
of first-class power. She has not been
deferred by moves to surround her with
a repressive ring of steel" Her ambi-
tionS for union with Austria and for
expansion in the direction of the Baltic
cannot be regarded as abandoned. With
acquisition of mighty army and air
force and a formidable navy, Europe,
despite Hitler's proclaimed devotion to
peace, must reckon with a Germany
daily becoming more capable of de-
manding her place in the sun, in accord
ance with the Nazis' long-vaunted
aspirations.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
Alaskan Pioneers.

Traditions no older than many Ameri-
cans still living have made this country
familiar with the hardships of pioneers.
Hardship and privation, as matter of
fact, are more closely associated with
pioneering than anything else. And for
that reason, some of the difficulties re-
ported from complaining pioneers in the
Government colonization experiment in
Alaska are far from convincing. No
horses for wagons, or no wagons for
horses? No carpenters to erect the
homesteads? Measles and mumps
among the children? Lack of farming
implements? Delays in the dispatch
OF material over a single track railroad?
Shortage of reading matter? Why,
these are mere inconvenience compared
with the grim battles of the real
pioneers, who carried with them every
thing they had and started from scratch
making the wilderness into homes.
But there is one difference between
the pioneers of old and the colonists in
Alaska. The early pioneers went into
the wilderness on their own. The latter
day colonists in Alaska have been taken
under the wing of the Government.
And if they lack water or firewood, milk
cows or magazines, hardwood floors or
radios, plows or silos or incubators, 1t
will be the Governments fault, and
there will be chronic complainers quick
to place the blame and yell to high
heaven for an investigation. For 1t
Evening star., 1935-07-01
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.
Elevator humor Is q queer thing.
It hourishes best in buildings where
there is q good general half -acquaint-

Elevator humor Is q queer thing.
It hourishes best in buildings where
there is good general half-acquatnt-
ance.
1t manifests itself mostly in spoken
personalities about neckties and other
wearing apparel, pipes, suits, hair.
1t crops up every time q car goes up
or down. and just one passenger will do.
He Jokes the elevator operator In thai
event.
Men-we don't know about women
who run elevators in modern ONCE build
ings have to put up with a great deal
Of such CUFF.
They ought to be given q bonus for
it, the amount of alleged humor at
their expense, they must submit to in
q year, often must pretend they like,
actively participate in, in self-defense.
Maybe they do like, maybe they don't
mind in the least, the semi-quarreling
which goes by the name Of good, clean
fun" in these United States.
Certain types of stage humor have
been based on pretended squabbles for
many years. Over the radio one of the
most popular features hinges almost
entirely on the give-and-take of mock
verbal battles.
Perhaps one reason many people de-
light in this sort of thing is because
quarreling is so prevalent, in all Sc
robustness, that it is a real pleasure to
them to indulge in 1t without serious
consequences.
The saving grace of humor, therefore,
throws its benign shadow over what,
under other circumstances, would re-
suit in red faces, heated brows, angry
words, hurt minds and hearts.
Nothing shows the prevalence Of
verbal conflict so well as this well nigh
universal habit Of building up false
Quarrels as q means Of pleasantly.
The joke of the matter is that such
episodes in the daily life are anything
but pleasant to a great many persons.
Even many who take part in them
had rather not.
They simply do not know how to get
out of them. The fact is that there is
no real way, when one Is confronted
by one of the numerous geniuses at it.
He beams all over as he selects his
victim.
Usually he knows just who likes and
who does not like his ways.
So he is on the lookout for him.
The kindly, well hammered person Is
his peculiar butt.
No one suits him quite so well as
the gentle soul who would rather not.
He leaps to the fray the moment he
catches sight of the shrinking man.
"Where did you get that tie?" asks
our wag.
The whole elevator begins to grin.
Now just what there is so humorous
in such a remark about a perfectly
sedate piece of neckwear, is unknown.
Not a person who smiles there could
tell you, for his or her life, but never
theless the etiquette of this humor de-
mands that each and every one begin
to grin when the dullest wight says
anything in reference to another's s
appearance or wearing apparel.
Especially hair.
Mouths widen completely when the
wag takes a crack at hair.
What used to be called 'pompadour'
is the chosen object of all elevator wits.
Next to a necktie, nothing pleases
them so much as the brushed back
hair of a modest fellow.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Worthless Pay.

Worthless Pay.
Election was due and election came
through.
His heart with elation would throb.
triumphant success" he explained,
shines anew,
I've got political job!"
The heathen may rage as in strife they
engage.
Henceforth let the lobbyists lob.
My salary's written on history's page,
I've got a political job.
He then came to grief, and he went on
relief;
Il-luck with his prospects played hob.
This pay without work." he explained to
the chief,
"Is just like political job"