Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-12-19

The law forbids
publishing income
tax names, but the government tells
you there is one and only one.
That ''last rose" Of depression's sum-
mer must look around him, sad-eyed,
mourning over his old companions,
withered and strewn.
What Is important today may be
nothing tomorrow; what was nothing
yesterday may become all important
now. Once man was helpless without
his horse, camel, OK, yak, ass mule,
reindeer, dog sled or tame elephant.
Now, in civilization, they mean little,
while Lloyd George tells you, ION 10
the decisive factor In the Abyssinian
campaign. OF all the great powers
whose attitude Is being canvassed, that
Of King Gasoline is most important.
Without oil, Mussollni cannot win his
war: with oil, victory is certain.
japan at the naval conference win
consider nothing less than a battle
feet as big as any the United States
may build; no $50 ratio.
No American should object to that,
II Japan can afford it. It Is not the
size Of the feet that counts Unfor-
tunate Spanish grandees in charge Of
the great Armada could testify to that,
after they met Elizabeth's small feet
and big sea captains.
Also, there Is the fact that If real
war started, above the clouds and
under water, every fighting nation
would hide its battleship targets out
of airplane sight, in safe harbors;
many battleships or few would make
no difference.
Senator Borah tells over the micro
phone what the country needs:
Support of the Constitution; fight
against those who would undermine 1t.
The destruction Of monopoly without
necessarily enacting new legislation.
An end to crop restriction.
Senator Borah says restriction has
always failed in depression ever since
the days Of Roman emperors.
Mr.. Lamont du Pont receives the
chemical and metallurglcal engineer
ing award for the greatest chemical
achievement Of the year-the large
scale production of synthetic rubber.
If war and blockade came, this coun-
try would be at the mercy of foreign
ers for its rubber supply. an absolute
necessity Of modern civilization and
war.
The scientific news, gruesome but
important, tells you that the eyes Of
the dead can supply transparent It's
sue from the cornea useful in curing
blindness In the living. Tissue from
dead eyes has been successfully trans
planted to living eyes, and there Ia
hope of thus curing certain types Of
blindness.
England has always acted like one
walking on eggs" in dealing with ia
pan, but she does say that Japan's
proposed seizure of Chinese territory
"harms the prestige of Japan and ham,
pers the development of friendly future
relations between Japan and her
friends"
Walter G. Teagle, head of Standard
OIL Of New Jersey, did not make a
deal to supply Mussolini with all his
oil for thirty years, casually arranging
to finance the Italian oil market up to
S300000,000. Mr.. Teagle says so, and
1t Is so. But when the wise John D.
Rockefeller once said, II want to see
my managers, their desks cleared and
their feet on the desks, studying how
to make money for Standard OIL" he
had men like Walter Teagle In mind.
In Georgetown, British Guiana, q
kindly clergyman sprinkled tiny negro
baby just born, naming him "Roose-
welt Selassie Caleb" The boys parents,
descendants of slaves, say the name
was chosen to honor "the greatest man
In the world, President Roosevelt"
The little baby may wonder later
why his parents dragged in Halle
Selassie, in whose empire slavery still
exists as a major industry.
An official representative Of Russia
said to this writer not long since: 1--WE
have nothing to fear from Japan. They
waited three years too long," While
Japan was waiting, Russia established
a great submarine and air base al
vladlvostok. within short striking dis
lance Of everything Japanese.
Since then Japan and Russia havV
got along peacefully. This country
may suddeply wake up to find prob
lens more important than any theory
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