Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-03-28

France is almost polite in messages
to Germany. No more threats; no
more do as we say!"
You know what causes this. Hitler
lets 1t be known that he has been
preparing for a war in case anybody
wants one; that Germany has a well
drilled army of half million men and
an enormous fleet of commercial air.
planes that could drop explosive bombs
and poison gas most conveniently.
In other words, Germany is pre-
pared, willing, ready and able to fight
If anybody insists on it.
So nobody insists.
There may be lesson there for this
country, that, if attacked, could only
throw a few Jumps of gold at the
enemy and plead: please be nice"
Flying is like human life in this,
you do not see what it is that pulls you
along through the upper air.
You look at the three engines, stick
ing out into space ahead of you, and
see no sign of power, nothing to ex-
plain the speed and climbing power or
what 1t is that keeps you aloft.
The propellers move at a speed that
makes them invisible. You know that
you.
A clergyman might find text
for atheists in that. Your athe-
list, or gentleman from Senegam-
bia, would say: do not talk to me
of trinity of propellers that haul me
to my destination and my destiny. If
there were any such propellers 1
should see them"
In Austria, Nazis are supposed to
have murdered the Austrian chancel-
lor, Dollfuss. Now the government
that succeeds Dollfuss will hang II
Nazis as a start. There is nothing
novel in that. Where you have dicta-
torship you have wholesale killings.
They go together.
The interesting thing is the method
Of hanging in Austria. They have no
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break his neck by the jerk of his own
weight. A moose is put around the
criminals neck, and as he hangs "as-
sistant executioners" pull at his feet
until ne chokes to death. 1t must
be disagreeable spectacle, even for
the assistant executioners."
Learned professors tell you the say
ing beautiful but dumb is silly, un-
true. On the contrary, beauty and in
telligence go together. Also, there is
no intelligence that is not beautiful in
itself.
Follow Intelligence up through the
animal kingdom. Your female gorilla
is horribly ugly creature. The Chin
panzee, more intelligent, is less ugly.
The lowest female savage, horrible to
look at, is less atrociously ugly than
the female chimpanzee, and so on all
the way up.
Convicts at work in California
county road camp, in Elizabeth can
yon, rebelled because they had no
hashed-brown potatoes" for breakfast.
1t was substantial breakfast-prunes,
cereal. griddle cakes, but no hashed-
brown potatoes.
Men change. When Parmentier, for
whom the excellent potato soup, pot
age Parmentier, is named, brought the
first potatoes to France nobody would
eat them.
An intelligent king ordered the mobiles
at court to wear potato blossoms in
their buttonholes in the spring. Imme-
diately the common people said. "Pota-
toes must be good" and ate them.
The name suggested for a new state,
that would be number forty-nine, is
"Absaroka,' a name and state to be
created by putting together western
North Dakota, the northern third of
Wyoming and one row of counties
along the southern border of Montana.
That dreadful name chosen for this
forty-ninth state, "Absaroka," Is the
name of the Crow Indian nation.
AS long as 1t is to be one of the
United States, why not select United
States name, Lincoln, Edison, or some
other with a meaning?
Two Americans, Mr.. and Mrs. Switz
from East Orange, N. j., with twenty
alleged accomplices, accused of spying
for Russia. will be tried in Paris within
a few days. The Switzes and others
are accused of informing "a foreign
power of French secrets concerning
high explosives, planes built to fly
through the stratosphere and across
the Atlantic In six hours, and ''chemi-
cal warfare secrets" which means rec
ipes for more deadly gases.
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