Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-03-26

You hear Of Rus
a sia's "red army"
b. 1,300,0O0 men, thor
* oughly armed, and
100000 reserves.
" You see photo
graphs Of Russia's amphibian tanks,
mounted with machine guns, rolling
over the land and swimming rivers;
you read about intensive training Of
tens Of thousands Of Russian air pilots,
parachute jumpers. etc, and see even
the broad-shouldered young Russian
women drilling with rifles. Western
Europe may have q problem closer at
hand than Japan.
Our British cousins in the Revolu-
ton cheerfully let loose bowling, scalp
ing Indians on their cousins in the
American colonies, and bolshevism
might cheerfully turn AsiatIc killing ef-
hciency against western Capitalism"
You remember how cheerfully the
great historian Gibbon predicted that,
in the American war, with firmness
all may go well" because "Scotch High
landers, Irish, Hanoverians, Canadians,
Indians, etc., will all in various shapes
be employed"
There is no reason why Russia of
1885 should be more squeamish now
than England at. the end of the Eight
eenth century.
Lloyd George, who ought to know
about Europe and war since he and
old Clemenceau won the big war, tells
Universal Service this present war is
''off," France having learned that seven
her most ardent friends in Europe
shrink from war"
Lloyd George declares that peace
without derogating from the dignity
Of any of the powers" will be pre-
served, If France does not make 1t
impossible.
Lloyd George says not per cent
of Englishmen would vote for war, and
not 10 per cent for employing sanctions
against Germany.
II enough rich Americans go to Eng
land to escape kidnapers" the kid
napers may move over after them, as
professional gamblers follow on big
ships. London police arrested Alfred
Molyneux, thirty-one, trying to extort
$1,000 from the Countess Barbara
Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, offering
to reveal a plot to kidnap her baby.
Police knew by the moderate price it
could not be an American "snatcher"
or confederate. Easily caught, the
young man confessed he had invented
the plot.
With visibility cut to Zero" street
lights burning by day, not visible
across the street, dust storms are blow
ing over parts of Oklahoma, Kansas.
Colorado and New Mexico.
BY such displays of natures power,
for which mans foolishness is respon-
sible, fertile areas of the world have
been changed to deserts.
A bill that would have limited work
to five working days Of six hours each,
or thirty hours week, Is dead in con-
gress for the time being. 1t would have
given workers twenty-four hours off on
Saturday and Sunday, eighteen hours
of on every other daylight hours for
sleep, "ten hours for what we will"
All that will come some day, but not
by discouraging improved machinery.
An intelligent young man who fought
well In the big war speaks of "the
2-to-1" advantage which modern meth
DDS give the defense over the attack.
To let the other man or nation come
at you, If you are prepared, has been
wise in the past.
1t might be different In future wars,
II the attacker, with couple of thou
sand airplanes, dropping explosive
bombs and poison gas, should surprise
the enemy. defense" would have no
2-to-1 advantage over that sort Of at
tack.
Lloyds, the great English insurance
concern, at first refused to insure
against war at any price. Now Lloyds
win insure, otherwise "bet," nine and
q half to one against war within six
months. Wall Street wanted that news
and Of course cheered up.
A mother Of Fort Worth, Texas, of.
fered her body to Chicago's Cook Coun-
ty hospital for dissection after natural
death, If the hospital would provide a
free operation for her son. The hos
pital declined the body, performed the
free operation. Now twenty, all women
but one, offer to sell their bodies, de
livered after DEATH"
The governor Of Campeche in Mex.
fCo affar keaninC all churches in his