Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-04-18

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Russia, according to Lloyd George,
Is the worlds real flying nation,
possesses, probably, the worlds
greatest fighting air feet. It is
certainly the country that takes fly
ing most seriously, with 100000
Russians trained in aeronautics, young
Russian girls learning to pilot planes
and dirigibles and make 20,OOO-foot
parachute jumps, as our young girls
learn new dance steps.
This makes important Russia's an
nouncement that she is manufacture
ing airplanes on a mass production
basis, using for air power ian ordi-
nary light automobile engine" The
planes, very cheap, using ordinary
gasoline, will be supplied to collec-
tive farms. Russia may be the first
nation to do with flying machines
what this country did with automo-
biles. American genius put this ma
ton on wheels. If Russian engi-
neering skill puts Russia on wings,
1t will make some other countries
thoughtful.
A young man is found strangely
murdered, or committing suicide in
an unusual way, hanging from a low
tree. His legs were fastened behind
his back with chains, chains were
around his hands, and neck, and
medal that he had won in an ath-
letic contest was fastened with a
safety pin to one Of his nostrils.
The man, thirty-one, who had been
employed In moving pictures as g
substitute for actors under danger
GUS conditions, is believed by police
to have killed himself In a strange
way, through vanity, to attract atten-
ton, climbing to the limb Of a tree,
adjusting the chain, dropping and
strangling.
Police quote a superstition Of GER
tain Malays who believe that evil
spirits carry off their souls If they
kill themselves. When they commit
suicide they exhaust their ingenuity
in efforts to die in such a fashion
as to make suicide seem impossible,
that the spirits after inspection may
decide that the dead man was MUIR
dered and leave his soul In peace.
During prohibition, the habit Of
drunkenness was acquired by many,
particularly young women. They
yield more easily than men to the
effects Of alcohol and drugs, and
once caught" they are caught for
life, usually.
American fathers and mothers that
give cocktail parties for their sons
and daughters, or permit them in
their houses, should be told plainly
that they are using their money to
make drunkards of the daughters
and sons, and are not fit to have, or
bring up, children.
In addition to moving 10000 more
soldiers to the German lines, France
is hurriedly connecting her steel and
concrete line of fortresses, with barbed
wire entanglements and trenches. Thir-
ty thousand soldiers are digging in as
you read.
The French apparently expect the
same old thing over again, but they
will not see 1t. Nations in the next
war will not squat in trenches, but will
fly against the enemy nations chief
cities and kill an impressive number of
citizens with poison explosives and gas.
Nothing will be more lonesome than
a front line trench in the next war.
Harlem, in upper New York city,
with some 100000 colored population,
is stamping ground for many that
preach ultra-radical doctrines includ-
Ing the theory that whoever has money
must have stolen 1t from those that
have no money.
This added to race antagonism, and
the influence of certain "exhorters,"
brings results reminding citizens Of
what may happen when dangerous doc
trines are preached recklessly.
The latest news indicates that Chan
cellor Hitler is not as anxious for "war
In a hurry" as was alleged.
Sir John Simon. for England, re-
ceived from Hitler a written proposal:
First, ten-year nonaggression
treaty with Germany's neighbors, no
body to attack anybody else.
Second, a pledge to withhold eco
nomic and financial assistance from
any nation starting a war.
Hitler wrote that, and, II he means
1t, Lloyd George is correct In his state
ment: "Not this time"
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