Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-06-06
| Might Be
Wrongful
-by P. G. StrOmberg

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a mighty short time. Through
the binding ties of days, months
\ and years we live on as one
great country with common
ideals and traditions, but in little
more than half a century prac-
tically the entire population is
changed. New methods, new
customs, new traditions, new
i IDEAS, new convictions face each
i succeeding g general ion, but
HISTORY remains the same and
each generation absorbs some
of the hates and animosities,
the ideals and convictions of the
elders. Some of the changes,
however, are so sudden that it
is impossible to accept and alb
sorb them without severe upsets
in adjustments.
ONE OF THE changes faced
by the present generation in
America is the sudden realiza-
ton that the United States is
no longer naturally isolated
from European affairs. Immu-
nization furnished by the
Atlantic Ocean has proven
effective for a century and half
but science has shown that we
can no longer enjoy such COM
plete natural protection. This lack
of inmunization has been evident
fsr years but we have allowed
our believing isOlationists to
hold the center of the stage
because all was well until last
month when it appeared that the
war contagion in Europe was
spreading so fast that it be-
heeved as to undergo thorough
check-up for preparedness.
THE RESULT OF this ex-
animation showed that we are in
imminent danger of contamina-
ton and that new and power
full serum is needed. This serum
is now in the making and, if
sufficient time remains, it will
probably serve as well and effec-
lively as has the Atlantic. But
at what cost!
GEORGE WASHINGTON
stands in history as the leading
American figure and one of the
worlds great. From the first
grade in school we are taught
to love, respect and revere him.
So it should be. But am of
the opinion that if George
Washington had been living in
1918 and 1919 he would have
been found aligned with Wood
row Wilson in the campaign for
the League of Nations and not
with the group of isolationists
whose sole claim on history is
the fact that they helped pro-
mote the present European
conflict.
YES, WE LOVE George
Washington, but we don't feel
that his statement in the
eighteenth century regarding
entangling alliances should hold
good in the twentieth century.
Washington's advice was given
when it took weeks to cross the
Atlantic. Rather should we
pattern our policies in accord
ance with our Constitution and
IN recognition Of modern life and
scientific developments.
1 RATHER LIKE to picture
Washington as a man who, If
he were living today, would be
an apostle of PEACE, that kind
Of peace which would insure the
future against wars. I picture
MIN as the great military leader
who would enlist this country's
public opinion in support Of
every kind and type of aid to
the Allies as the only means of
gaming lost ground in our
efforts to build a long and en-
curing world peace. I picture
MIN sitting at the peace confer
ence table vetoing every sugges-
'ion which might hold the pos
sioliity Of future wars and
insisting that there be set up a
world force for the enforcement
VI peace. Whether this force
were the League of Nations or
another plan, it would include
'ne kind Of enforcement which
would hinder any man or group
men from securing strangle-
-'iu on any nation in order to