Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-09-17

4 B - est men ne could
k "a ---2----- find for his
,.,... guard, probably
Arthur kept them away
+ from the firing line. In battle they
would have been killed first, hit by
the bullets that 60 over the heads of
shorter men.
The wholesale killers of the old
days prepared their killings by
marching men up and down, drill
ing them, encouraging them with
titles, brass bands to lead them,
fancy uniforms. All that means
little now.
About 100 miles from Berlin there
is a station called Leuna. There
most useful work is done, in theory
and through study of the manufac-
ture of synthetic petroleum; and
there most important, learned men
with big heads, spectacles and an
amount of education that would
make you dizzy if you could mag
inc it, concentrate their brains on
the preparation of better, more eff
fcient poison gases and high ex-
plosives.
Every country has its similar
death laboratory; men perhaps as
efficient as those of Germany,
though Germany is the kingdom of
chemistry, the teacher of other ma
tons.
Henry Irving, on the stage of his
theater in London, prepared an i'm
pressive presentation of the witches
in Macbeth" old, toothless hays,
preparing their hell-broth, with
power to summon spirits from the
dead and make them foreten the
future.
Far more efficient are those SOL
emn German chemists, physicists
and other professors, preparing the
real hell-broth of poison gas, upon
which the future of civilization and
the domination of the earth may
depend for many centuries.
We had our periods of universal
barbarism and cannibaism, our
ages of flint, bronze and iron, our
many interesting forms of ruler
Ship, planned to give one or a few
control over all the others. We had
the age of military feudalism, and
many think that we are now seeing
the end of industrial feudalism."
There may be in the centuries
ahead OF us period of airplane-
poison gas rule, which will make
the peoples of the world as COM
pletely subject to a single dictator
ship as were the ancient galley
Saves, swinging their oars under
the lash.
There are a good many things
We haven't seen and many to which
we devote too little thought, includ-
ing perhaps the fact that it is dan
eerous to be too rich if you are not
prepared to defend yourself against
burglars.
Those thousands of millions in
gold that we are hiding away in a
mole in the ground, as ingenuously
as any squirrel hiding his hickory
nuts, may bring us trouble some
day.
The thought of those ten thou
SAND millions worth of gold bars
ana dollars, hidden not very far be-
low the surface, might cause some
ingenious Asiatic or European to
say to himself:
FOR one or two billions l could
prepare the necessary machinery,
uylng ships and poison gas includ-
Gu to conquer the necessary areas
VI the United States and brighten
ne others into submission. Having
:aid down my layer of gas, would
ueScend and take the ten thousand
millions and go home with a clean
pfOht OF eight billions in gold"
Mussolini races his big Italian
ouilt automobile, the engine burn
ulg alcohol, made of Italian farm
proaucts-no gasoline. Some law
makers makers in America suggest COM
eening the use of 10 per cent alco-
nol IN all fuel for American auto
mobiles. Fuel alcohol can be made
mon corn, ano the law, it is said,
%o oao give work to 1000, 900 men on
0O'OOO,OOO acres of farm land.
~ seems impossible to believe the
mucous accounts of the maltreat-
m.eil' and cruel deaths inflicted upon
" 0t,len IN the civil war now raging
A. mat men should fight and muir
s; each other is to be expected,
baIS e they are at best "half tiger,
boz, n monkey" and often the mon
ny. gives way to the tiger. But
, t.a' they should infict shameful ill
iea1inent and hideous death on de-
brseiess women seems utterly I'M
S'TLne.Vaole, even when you know
mat men are, in a mob.
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