Montgomery County sentinel., 1935-12-05

ready to move In,
"ne and Japan will
hardly have the heart to stay out un-
der such circumstances. Later Japan
will not have the heart to stay out Of
the Philippines. Japanese confidence
In the sun goddess seems justified.
The drift is Japan's way, with west
erners busy planning to kill each other.
There are, California tells you, sew
eral kinds Of gold: yellow gold that
took crowds to California in 1849; an
other yellow gold that grows on orange,
lemon and grapefruit trees; the white
gold water power rolling from the
mountains, to produce black gold, pow
er and fertility. and the oil in the
ground.
Mussolini's determination to keep oil
flowing Into Italy, even at risk Of Eu-
ropean war, shows that oil Is more
important in war now than yellow
gold. 1t moves great tanks. keeps the
planes In the air; 1t means motion, and
successful motion means victory.
Mighty is the airplane in northern
Brazil, where the "elbow" sticks out
into the Atlantic. Soldiers said by the
Associated Press to be guided by Com
munists decided to run the govern
ment and make 1t better. They locked
up their officers and were Just starting
the new "better" government when Off
cial airplanes came along with bombs.
"Bang" went one or two bombs,
aerial machine guns said "rat-tat-tat" q
few times.
The revolutionary soldiers said.
'That will do" and scattered in the
Interior. It is hard to "rise and throw
or your chains while capitalism is
dropping bombs.
In Jacksonville, Fla, gentlemen 1T
dng out an expedition to hunt for
pirate treasure think they know where
the gold is. They may find it; prob
ably will not.
Other gentlemen are figuring out
similar treasure expeditions In Wall
street, regardless of what happened
when they did that in 1929.
Men hunting pirate treasure and
Wall street treasure will have plenty
Of excitement; and that probably is
well worth the effort. "a dull life is
no life"
The great Jonker diamond, biggest
uncut stone on earth, is to be cut into
smaller pieces, since no one rich
enough to buy It now would wear so
big a diamond.
sian czar, Turkish sultan or Ethiopian
emperor for use in a crown. ito In
crease majesty" But czars and sui
tans have vanished, Ethiopia's ruler is
short Of cash.
The big diamond will be cut into
small pieces and sell for about $780,
600. The largest "piece" will weigh 100
carats, the rest from 10 to so carats.
Interesting opportunity for deserving
Hollywood stars.
John s. Ciemiengo, sixteen, SEN
fenced to die next January in the elec-
trio chair, helped George Fl. Hide
brand, twenty-six, to rob and murder
an old poultry farmer.
Sixteen seems rather young for an
electric chair candidate, but the judge
and jury felt that by disposing of the
young murderer now they would avoid
robberies and murders in the future.
Recent history of youthful criminals
makes that probable.
"Foreign observers" In Ethiopia be-
Iieve that Ethiopia is fighting lost
cause; also thatS as the number OF
wounded increases and the case looks
more and more hopeless, there might
be general massacre Of whites. II
this should happen the 80 to l" gen.
tlemen of the League of Nations would
have themselves to blame.
The sanctions" and boycott win not
prevent Italy. defeating Ethiopia, but
they do make the Ethiopian ruler over
confident, persuadlng him to sacrifice
lives unnecessarily.
The order for steel made in Ger
many. to be used In New York's Tri-
borough bridge, which would use tax
payers money to make jobs abroad,
has been Cancelled definitely.
So all is well that ends well. there.
The response to that piece of fool
ishness in the way OF publicity was
emphatic.
Bishops of Englands Anglican
church, the archbishop Of Canterbury
leading, denounce Chancellor Hltler's
persecution Of German Jews, as they
well may, and they hope that Chris
tians in Great Britain and elsewhere
viii "exert their influence"
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