Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-10-29

Trip seems less
Arthur Brisban. romantic tha n
. the Nelly Bly
seventy-odd day trip that beat Jules
Verne's "Around the World in
Eighty Days" Nelly Bly,, clever
newspaper woman, knew how to
make it interesting, going out of
her way to travel by elephant,
camel, jinrickshas, etc. Flying
around the world costs about 5000.
Some day some woman, let us
hope, will balance her fashion
budget, decide just what she wants
to wear, and then wear it, as men
have done, but the day is far away.
These are some of the hats from
which your wife, daughter, sister
will choose this season:
Hats shaped like East Indian war
shields; hats heavy in gold en-
broidery; flat pillbox turbans, gold
braided; Russian style hats off the
face, with tall tiara fronts; hats of
Persian lamb and embroidered felt;
small toques, dipped down front and
back, covered with soft feathers,
"the military touch predominant
ing"
Why, do you suppose, do women
take so much trouble to spoil faces
and heads naturally beautiful? It
cannot all be the fault of hat
makers.
Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired
fighting major general of the United
States marines, asks the Women's
Christian Temperance union to
start a campaign against drunken
automobile drivers, and also help
peace by working for a constitu-
tional amendment forbidding the
President or congress to send troops
out of the country.
You cannot change men by leg
islation, as was discovered in our
prohibition mistake; you must
change the men from the inside.
For the first time in history, New
Jersey, selecting a jury all women,
has surprised some, annoyed others.
Why? For ages women have been
judged and sentenced by individual
men or groups of men. They have
been ducked, branded with hot
irons, put in the stocks, beheaded,
hanged, burned alive.
Is there injustice in turning the
thing around for change; at least
no twelve women would burn or
duck anybody.
Lloyd's, British insurance con-
Germ, will insure you against any,
thing happening, if it "guesses"
that it will not happen; it usually
guesses correctly. 1t refuses to in
sure against war striking England,
although until lately the charge for
that insurance was only one-fifth of
one per cent; 200 pounds for 100000
pounds insurance.
Somebody in Lloyd's possesses in
telligence. That big organization
does not like to think of war with
airplanes added.
News from the East interests Amer
leans: they might have to pay the
bill. Japan and Russia, supposed
recently to be on the verge of war,
are said to have an understanding
about things in the east that would
involve depriving the British of prof
liable locations and rights. This does
not please Britain, but that is the
business of Japan, Russia and Eng
land.
Interesting flying item: Russia or
ders in Baltimore passenger clip
per" plane, to cost $1,000, 900 and
carry forty-four passengers, besides
a crew of six.
The plane, very fast, can 60 1000
miles without taking on fuel, a
range that would bring it across the
Atlantic nicely, if it ever wanted
to come back with q load of
explosives instead of passengers.
The Irish Catholic hierarchy, sit
ting at Maynooth College, Cardinal
Macrory presiding, denounces COM
munism and persecution of the
Catholic church in Spain, mindful
of Spain's kindness to our ances-
tors" On October rs all Catholic
churches in Ireland will take up
collections "for the relief of Spanish
Catholics" Mexico, once as "Catho-
lie" as Ireland or any nation, sends,
from its Chamber of Deputies, a
message of sympathy to the Spanish
government at Madrid.
England and France no longer
guarantee any protection for Bel
Sium in case of war, so the new
King, Leopold, says all alliances are
off. with France, England and
everybody else.
o King Features syndicate Inc
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