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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-07-04
AS WE SEE 1T
By MoNTco

BARNEY WELSH is making
tennis history for Montgomery Coun-
ty and Rockville as he continues to
improve each day. He swept to the
championship of the District of
Columbia in both singles and doubles
and definitely set himself up as the
best net man in these parts. With a
little more experience and a little
more good coaching from some wide
Unknown tennis teacher, he should go
far. There are probably twenty OF
twenty-five better players in the
United States today. But he may well
get higher ranking if he goes easy
and learns quickly.
ARYLAND INDEPENDENT
GROCERS are making efforts to
have food manufacturers agree to the
terms of the "fair-trade" act passed
at the last session of the Maryland
Legislature. Such a move should elm
mate price-cutting and at the same
time better things for the consumer.
Right now the price of certain kinds
of meat is too high. The farmer is not
being overpaid. Who gets the gravy
MORE THAN A QUARTER of a
million of dollars has been spent
through the Federal Emergency Re-
lief Administration in this county.
The agency carried out not only an
intensive program that provided jobs
for a majority of the county's unem-
ployed, but many vitality needed road
street, park, school and sanitation i'm
provements of permanent nature
were accomplished.
Stephen C. Cromwell, local director
of the F. E. R. A., which is to be sup
planted shortly by the new Works
Progress Administration, disclosed il
his final report that the sum of $780,
1894 was expended during the 49,
month period over which the agency
operated.
This amount was virtually divided
between the Federal unit and loca
contributors, the former allocatine
S189, 235.78 and various municipal anC
county governmental units advancing
the remaining $1S0,963.66.
Seventy projects were carried on il
public schools, including remodeling
and clerical work, painting and beau
tification of grounds. Fifteen street
and sidewalk improvement projects
were developed in Rockville, Takoms
! Park, Poolesville, Linden and Wood
side. Four sewer and water mair
projects and IA miscellaneous projects
were carried out.
Twenty-one accidents occurred dur
ing the 13-month period, but none
were of serious nature, Cromwell
said.
The county units which contributed
to the work and the amounts they
advanced follow: REORGANIZATION
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion, $70,747.96; county commission
ers, $70,$57.9S; Board of Education
SIS, 269.03; town of Rockville, $751;
1880; Washington Suburba, SAM
tary Commission, $9,19S.38; County
Health Department, $466.91, and towr
of Poolesville, $95.
The Washington times., 1935-09-16

ter OF trouble "llDur j. Carr
in Ethiopia, and then shifted
to Sardonica, Greece, as consul
general En- route he killed him
self, and the State Department
blamed "ilI health"
Friends of Hanson, however,
said that he shot himself be.
cause he had been recalled.
Yet, the State Department is
persisting in removing it's vet
eran foreign officers to make
way for young requirements.
Assistant Secretary of State
wilbur J. Carr and Thomas M.
Wilson, chief of Foreign Service
personnel, are directing the re-
placements.
Wilson, a TenneSsean, was pro-
NOTED to his present job a few
years ago in one Of the few
promotions made in that di-
vision in recent years.
The present appropriation act
contains $146,OO0 for new per-
sonnel. Stricken from the bill
was 100000 for services of the
old guard. Consequently the re-
placements are being made.
While many men who are IA
miliar with the activity Of the
State Department are convinced
there is u Superabundance of
dead wood, they also are con-
vinced that many Of the vet
Grams are far more efficient
men and more necessary at the
present time than the raw re.
cruitS.
With the budget behind them.
however, Carr and Wilson are
directing the replacement Of
veterans like Hanson.
The Washington times., 1935-09-16

lSI1 -A111C1 4Cd14
War and in the Philippines, is
formally put on the pay roll of
the Twenty-eighth Infantry.
The last I heard of-having
seen no mule obits lately
Deacon" the tobacco-chewing
mule, also a Spanish-American
War veteran, and "Old Kate"
of Tuscaloosa, Ala, were going
strong, both we'll along in their
forties.
No such good news about the
horse. The French army be-
gins it's greatest military ma
neuvers since the World War,
and the horse, for the first
time, is out. In the war games,
they test their motorized cav
airy. Swift, ight-armored cars
replace the cavalry for mobil-
ity, and heavier cars and
tanks for attack.
MOTORIZATION
But Uncle Sam clings to
his centaurs-or quite a few
of them. General Douglas Mac
Arthur, while sanctioning a
great degree Of motorization,
says the cavalry still is needed.
But one gathers that he means
for behind-the-line operations,
for general utility in deploying
and shifting forces, and not in
the long drawn-out, close-in
trench warfare.
There has been in recent
years much controversy regard
ing the usefulness of the cav
airy, with authoritative opinion
on both sides. But neVerthe-
less our army has kept on
steadily scaling down the cav
airy. It's strength was 10000
in 1920, and 1874 in 1880.
with a still further drop in the
last five years.
Confederate generals were
master strategists with cavalry.
The dashing j. E. B. Stuart
and dash always has figured
heavily in the cavalry-made a
laundering drive into Pennsyl-
vania, covering 80 miles in SO
hours, and moving a lot Of
heavy guns and ammunition
along with him. But in recent
years, a motorized outfit cover
ed the same route in three
hours, and took along heavy
fighting gear which would have
made General Stuart's outfit
look like something in q hand
The Washington times., 1935-09-16
Noisy But Entertaining

Washington was pretty dull place last Labor Day.
Downtown almost deserted and it appeared that
Just everyone had either left town for the holiday
sitting quietly at home.
The in strange contrast to the conditions which
have prevailed Labor Days of the past when the National
Freens Association to the National Capital with its
loud and spectacular parade.
In those oden days thousands of people crowded the down
town section and LIFE WAS INTERESTING even if one
couldn't hear himself think
For two years the city has not entertained the visiting
fremen and to say that they have been missed to put
mildly.
Fortunately find that serg j. Bargagn president Of
the association who has been the moving spirit behind the
sirens and bells for many years. already preparing
for next Labor Day
He wants bring Washington again the noisy protectors
who formerly entertained while being entertained in the
past
The difficulty Dhch the anable sergeant encounter
ing is purely financial.
The femen want to here just much most of
people them to.
We hope Sergeant Bargagn successful in overcoming his
financial obstacle
The Washington times., 1935-09-16
Listen, World
Bu Elsie Robinson

such a risk when she knew she
couldn't win-and didn't. Yet
I doubt if there's anything in
all Amelia Earhart's spectacular
record which can touch that
one, simple act for bravery, tall
beauty or deep meaning. For
there's something that goes to
the very roots of human life.
The greatest records-the en-
during achievements - aren't
made by the winners with the
de luxe equipment. They're
made by the forgotten men and
women who know they haven't
much of a chance to win" but
"go for the ride, anyway"
The patient plodders who play
the game through. not for the
sake of the reward, but for the
love of the game itself, and for
their own self respect.
Storm Scared "old crate
blotting fog. snarling cloud
"a laughing girl, taking OFF!
And, against that picture.
you're seeing the worn, white
face, the brave. gentle eyes OF
some little woman who never
made the front page or wore a
congressional medal, yet whose
unnoted service made life TOR
you and scores more possible!
THE REWARD
And I'm seeing a bent, shabby
man with broken lungs trudg'
ing nightly to an attic room to
teach q lot Of aliens how to
speak the language Of the land
he loved. My father-giving MS
dying breath that America
might go on!
There wasn't much OF
chance Of their winning-there
wasn't any chance! And they
knew it. Always the race would
20 to the swifter. the stronger
the smarter and more priv
legged. Only one life to NVe'
perhaps, and theirs would al,
ways be shabby, always tLleo
with worry and WEAKNESS.
YET THE GAME ITSELF
WAS ENOUGH REWARD.
THEY WENT FOR THE RIDE
ANYWAY!
They went because there was
something in them, shining and
dauntless, which would not be
bound by poverty or i'll health
or social injustice.
Something in them so gallant
ly proud that it leaped to the
challenge which discouraged
flabbier souls.
Life not worth the struggle?
That depends on WHO'S doing
the struggling.
Any stuffed shirt can win
medal if you give him all the
breaks. BUT TT TAKES AN
EAGLE TO RIDE THE STORM
ON A BROKEN WING.
Copyright. 1888, by King Features
Syndicate. 1no.)
The Washington times., 1935-09-16

we weren't going in for any
cinema stuff" he said. "The
first thing we did, when we
weren't on the move, was to
get some privacy in some nice
tidy little hole. You'd be sur.
priSed how one enjoys a bit Of
privacy in a big war.
"Well, maybe three Of us
would be lying low in a snug
little dugout when along would
come one Of those chubby cav
alrymen on his horse.
"'How are things, JOck?' he
would sing out.
"We'd try to squirm into the
ground, shaking our fists at
him.
"'Get out Of here, you dirty
so-and-so,' we'd scream at him.
We knew that cavalry had just
about the highest visibility of
anything in the world, and
that, a mile r two away, a
German with high-pOwered field
glasses had spotted the cavalry
man and had made another dot
on his chart, piecing out his
map Of our line.
SPEED IN ATTACK
'I got chummy with one Of
the HeinieS after the war, and
he told me that nothing de-
lighted them so much as to see
cavalrymen moving around and
supplying notes for their range
finders. He didn't need to tell
us. We always used to hunt a
new hole when the cavalry
passed.
Low visibility, Suddenness
and SwiftneSs of attack will be
the main requirements in the
next war. That's just what the
cavalry doesn't supply. As to
SwiftneSS and power Of attack.
I am comparing it, Of course,
with motorized equipment. In
the British army, our first en-
gagements with the tanks were
pretty clumsy. At Cambria, We
rehearSed a big flock Of tanks
behind the lines for weeks be-
fore bringing them into action.
Ge man airplane observers
spotted every movement.
"When the Cambria offensive
started, the tanks rolled
through what seemed to me a
fake defense and then, sud-
denly, there they were at the
fanwise conveyance Of half
dozen roads. The Germans had
lured them there. And roaring
along these roads, bearing down
on the tanks, came big calibre
guns. We would have been all
right, Of course, if we had kept
the tanks hidden and sprung
them suddenly"
Thus speed in the prelimi'
narieS of a battle is Of the
utmost Importance. and motor
lied equipment which can be
rushed up at ~ or SO miles
an hour just makes cavalry un'
thinkable-to my way of think
ing.
1 hate to admit this. When
I was o boy, nothing thrilled
me more than a picture Of a
cavalry officer, tearing around
on a black horse, waving a shin
ing sword. For recruiting pur-
poses, they'll never get anything
to compare with cavalry. But
that lust about lets it out.
The Washington times., 1935-09-16
Paw the Pennies!

For years before the Raw Deal summarily closed the
Nations banks regardless of their condition. the banking
fraternity had been encouraging the teaching of the
American practice of thrift in the public schools.
Youngsters were urged to bring their pennies and
nckes to school and deposit them in the school banks
which subsequently placed them in the big banks
Here in Washington the children responded to the
teaching Of Thrift and he% m d the bank holiday wG. de-
Which had been accumulated wth great difficulty and
at no little Self-sacrifice.
These children thought and had been taught to think
that their pennies just safe the school build
ings to which they brought them
It was good thing for the country for the children
to be taught to save.
It was good thing for the bankers who did the
teaching.
It meant that when these children had hundreds of
dollars instead of hundreds of pennies they would put
them in the banks.
But when the banks were summariy closed and the
kids deposits went the way of all deposits those teach
ngs and lessons destroyed far any permanent
effect could be expected.
Washington children according to latest figures stand
to lose about $4,000 because they practced thrift
To our mind this condition presents problem to the
financers of the community.
They can let the children suffer this loss
They are under no legal compulsion to pay back the
pennies and it is doubtful if the children could legally
be given any official preference other depostors
But the desire of financers to keep Americans thrifty;
preserve the respect of growing children for the bank
ing institutions of the country places upon them deep
moral responsibility for repayment.
In their self:nterest, if for other reason the
banking fraternity should to it that these children
PAID IN FULL.
IF THE BANKERS FAIL TO AVAIL THEMSELVES
OF THIS OPPORTUNITY THE WAY IS LEFT OPEN
FOR SOME GROUP OR INDIVIDUAL THAT FEELS
SYMPATHY FOR CHILDREN TO EARN THE
GRATITUDE OF THOUSANDS BY MAKING GOOD
WHAT NOW SEEMS TO BE A LOSS OF MORE THAN
MONEY.
The Washington times., 1935-09-16

} eminent ana those alterations
having for their sinister purpose
the alienizing Of that system.
THE basis Of our political
systems" says Washington in
the same valediCt tory, 'fs the
right of the pee Die to make and
to alter their constitutions of
government. But the constitu.
tion which at any time exists,
till changed by an explicit and
authentic act of the whole peo-
pie, is sacredly obligatory upon
all. The very idea of the power
and the right Of the people to
establish government presup-
poses the duty Of every individ.
ual to obey the established gov
ernment."
The sorry spectacle of a Con.
gress, tolerating, much less sur.
rendering, to a demand from
any source that it legislate with.
out regard to whether the legis-
lation was constitutional or not,
Washington apparently refused
to look upon even with the eye
of the mind.
AS for the Radicals, who now,
as they have tried to do more
than once in the past, are at
tempting to alienize our Ameri.
can system, Washington antici-
pated the cunning form their at.
tack would take. And the words
of the Farewell Address in this
regard might be read with equal
appropriateness at the celebra-
ton of each of the three ami.
versaries which give to Septem-
ber high place in the national
calendar of American patriot
ism.
These are WaShington's words
OF warning against the Radicals
the political Reds, PinkS and
Yellows who are attempting not
merely to amend the Constitu-
ton of the United States, but
to cut its heart out:
FORETELLS STRATEGY
Towards the preservation of
your government, and the per.
manency of your present happy
state, 1t is requisite, not only
that you steadily discountenance
irregular opposition to its &C.
knowIedged authority, but also
that you resist with care the
spirit of innovation upon its
principles, however speciOus the
pretext.
zone method of assault may
be to effect, in the forms of the
Constitution, alterations which
will impair the energy of the
system, and thus to under
mine what cannot be directly
OverthrOwn."
This is the precise strategy of
the Radicals today-those in
sidious "foes of our own house
hold" who are attempting to in
cite American youth to join a
sapping expedition against the
Constitution of the United
States, the Supreme Court and
the Common Defense, and
thereby undermine what can
not be directly overthown."
(copyright. 1885, The Washington Timesp
The Washington times., 1935-09-16

along, living on a Shoestring,
afraid to even hope. Might as
well be a number in a chain
gang. What's the use Of even
trying when you're on a spot
like that?
Yes, I know. I've wondered
that, too. Looked at my own
busted shoes, blistered hands,
and asked myself those same
questions. And yet
They tell this story about
Amelia Earhart. It was at the
Bendix Derby, that flying race
from Los Angeles to Cleveland.
Shed entered, with the "old
crate" she'd used in her trans
pacific flight and her nonstop
from New York to Mexico City.
Interesting old heap with plenty
of record. but not so much be-
side Roscoe Turner and Ben
jamin Howard, in their crack
new planes built for incredible
speed-one hundred miles per
hour faster than Amelia'S plane,
at its best.
FOR THE RIDE"
She looked the gorgeous scoot-
ers over, shook her towsled
head, grinned and said: I
don't think I have much of a
chance of winning in this ship,
but I'm going for the ride any
way" >,
And off she went. Black mid.
night above. A muck Of fog all
around. A busting big thunder
storm ahead. The crack fliers
hung back-waiting for a bet
ter break. But, win-or-lose-or'
draw, the Big Girl took the air!
Nothing very sensational about
that? No. Perhaps even fool
ish, some folks will say, taking
The Washington times., 1935-09-16
Noah the Skeptic

As the President said in his famous Breathing spe let
ter when Noah built the ark there skepcs who thought
it wouldn't rain.
But, Mr. Roosevelt DIDN'T say Noah something Of
skepc himself He doubted the local brain rusters who
promised him eternal fair weather.
doubted that he could take time off for
breathing spell He the deuge coming He must have
been just odfOgy Democrat or possibly of those sin
ister reaconary Republicans who take all the joy of life
with dire forebodings.
The Washington times., 1935-09-16
WashingtOn's Warming
By James T. Williams, Jr.

Three anniversaries fall in
the month of September which
the Radicals who are attempt
ing to undermine the American
system of government would
like the American people to
forget.
On September "a, 1755, John
Marshall, the Great Chief JUS
tcie of the United States who
breathed the breath of endur-
ing life into the Constitution Of
the United States, was born at
Germantown (now Midland),
in what four years later became
Fauquier county, Va. To him
fell the task "of eXpounding
the Constitution" during the
most critical period of its his
tory.
On September II, 1887, the
Constitution of the United
States was adopted at Philadel-
phia.
On September IT, 1876, George
Washington wrote 1.-The Fare
we'll Address," which was is
sued two days later to his
Friends and Fellow-CitizenS"
throughout the United States.
NEW INSPIRATION
In this immortal valedictory
the Father of His Country
dwells at length and with that
deep sincerity which so dis
tinguishes these counSelS OF
an old and affectionate friend"
upon the duty of the people to
support the government OF the
Constitution.
These admonitions the Radi-
Gals, of course, sneer at as obso-
lete. but American youth will
find in them new inspiration as
Septembers come and go, long
after the Radicals of today have
been forgotten.
Regarding the Constitution,
which was then only nine years
old, and had not yet been illumi-
mated by the great decisions OF
the court over which Marshall
was soon to preside, Washing
ton wrote in the Farewell Ad-
dress:
"This Government, (the Gov
ernment of tn e COnstitution),
the offspring of our own choice,
uninfluenced and unaWed,
adopted upon full investigation
and mature deliberatiOn, COM
pIetely free in its principles, in
the distribution of its powers
uniting security with energy,
and containing within itself a
provision for its own m e n d.
ment, has 2 just claim to your
confidence and your support.
Respect for its authority, COM
pliance with its laws, acquies-
cense in its measures are duties
enjoined by the fundamental
maxims of true liberty"
Washington differentiated be-
tween those proposed changes in
the Constitution designed to per-
feet the American system of gov
The Washington times., 1935-09-16
The Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

The death of Senator Huey P.
Long may change the schedule
of the Senate restaurant.
Whether his successor will in
sist on pot likker," the dish
that the Senator demanded be
included on the menu, is not
known by restaurant attaches,
but they are awaiting the word
concerning the delicacy.
Housewives, too, may miss the
recipes of the ''Kingfish."
His suggestions for his favor
ite dishes crowded the Con-
gressional Record and furnished
choice material for epicureanS.
There is growing resentment
throughout the Capital and the
country against the uninter-
rupted flow of verbiage from
Senator James P. Pope, Demo
crat of Idaho.
Starting out with the appar.
ent intent of out-pointing SEN
ator William E. BOrah, the Re-
publican senior member Of the
Senate from that State, Pope
has been the cause Of grave
concern to officials here who
have been anxious to keep the
United States out of any en-
tangIement in the Italian and
Ethiopian quarrel.
Although Pope has been in
the Senate only a little more
than two years and has no
The Washington times., 1935-09-16
The Human Side of the News By Edwin c. Hill

on the subject, I am studiously
neutral. But it just happened
that the other day I had a
long talk with a British soldier
who went through the Cambria
offensive, and I found his OBJ
servations not only on cavalry,
but on current war tactics in
general, highly interesting. He
was a private in a Scotch regi'
ment.
I'VE found the cavalry just
q nuisance" said my friend.
"Along at that stage of the war
The Washington times., 1935-09-16

was actual or
i m m i n e Mt.
Great Britain
buys t h e m
for her bor-
der polio e
a r m lie S in
India.
The mule
population of
A m e r ica is
increasing. At
N / a G a r a
F a IL old
wv h i S KY"
W h o fought
in the Span
snh Annninnn
The Washington times., 1935-09-16

basket. Military tacticians mark
ed that exploit.
In the World War, the cavalry
was supposed to have come into
it's own in the Cambria offensive
and in the retreats from Mons,
the Marne and Aisne. 1 re-
member that army defenders of
the cavalry, such as Gen. Wal
ter c. Short, of Fort Bliss, cite
the above performances in its
defense.
With my complete lack Of
exact or technical knowledge
The Washington times., 1935-09-16

devils what
chance have
they? What
chance have
you, if you're
one Of them?
Cards stacked
against them
from the day
t h e y W e r e
born. No edu-
c a t i on, n o
family pull,
no prospects,.
Not even de-
cent health.
most of 'em.
Inst. crawling
The Washington times., 1935-09-16

not in position to censure Mr..
Pope. he is playing with dyna.
mite" and may involve the
United States in serious contro'
versy by his continued loquacity.
Officials here are hopeful
that SOmeOne-even Mr.. R0OSe-
vclt-wiII quietly tip Senator
Pope off to talk less and come
homo where all may Tor may
nOt) be forgiven.
Copyright, 1885. The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1935-09-16

Although friends of George c.
Hanson, former diplomatic "trou-
ble-shooter" in the Far East for
the United States, attributed his
recent suicide to the fact that
The Washington times., 1935-09-16

o fl cial ca
pacity in Eu-
rope, his ut
t e r a n C e S
there are ap-
parently con-
strued by Of
fici ais and
people Of for
eign ou n.
Cr1eS as nav"
ing S o m e
W Ell ght, &C.
cordinr to re-
ports.
Ac cording
to off icialS
here who are
The Washington times., 1935-09-16
The Cavalry Passes

In st. Louis, Italy is buying
Missouri mules. Alberta has
been shipping them to the
Grand Chaco and other South
American countries where war
The Washington times., 1935-09-16

he h a d re-
ceived official
cenSure, h e
State Depart
ment is con-
t i n u i n g to
weed out its
veteran for.
eign officers.
HI a n S o n,
W e III KNOWN
for his activi.
ties in the
Far East, had
been ordered
to Adds Aba
ba, the CEN
49, - k@~,-ANA
The Washington times., 1935-09-16
"Not Much of a Chance at
Winning" But-They
Went Anyway!

Wonder sometimes # Ite'S
worth the struggle, don't you?
Thinking of all those drab
masses of forgotten men and
women you pass daily, something
in YOU goes sick and sour. Poor