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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-11-18
Montgomery Council
knights Of Columbus
Annual Memorial Mass

The annual Memorial Mass for
the deceased members of Mont
gomery Council 1928, Knights of
Columbus, will be held in st. Mar
tins Church, Gaithersburg, on
THANKSGIVING Day, November 25
at 10 AM.
The committee in charge asks
each member of the council to
make special effort to be present
and also extends to all relatives
of deceased members a most cor
dial invitation to be present.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-11-18
Now Is The Time

All those good offers to lend
a hand with the erection of the
Christmas lights are now ac-
ceptable.
Everyone who can help
should be present on Monday
evening, November 22nd, at
1880 P. M. in front of the Rock
vile Paint and Hardware Co.,
1927 E. Montgomery Avenue. Ed
Hit will be in charge and will
tell the men what to do. A lot
of workers will make a bit Of
work for everyone.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-11-18
Early Press Date
Next Week

Because of the Thanksgiving
Holiday the Sentinel will go to
press early next week. All cor
respondents must have copy in
by Monday morning. AID copy
must be in by noon Tuesday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-11-18
Bazaar AT GlenmOnt

A prc-Christmas Bazaar will be
held at Glenmont School Saturday
November 20 from to p. M.
under sponsorship Of the P-TA.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-11-18
i Might Be
Wrong But
P. G. STROMBERG

PdOAA( O(AAOOh oAbdobAOAl
the State of Maryland today is
probably the biggest problem
facing the public. 1t will be
among the major issues in the
next session of the Legislature.
No county, large or small, es-
capes the burden which comes
as a result of several reasons.
The principal reason is due to
adoption by the State in 1915 of
a twelve year public school
course, setting up the first six
grades as the elementary school,
the next three as junior high
and the last three as senior
high. This naturally holds over
for one year a class which would
have normally been graduated.
And in order to accommodate the
new senior class additional rooms
and additional teachers are
necessary.
Another reason is the normal
influx of people into the State
and the large increase in the
birth rate. A third reason for
the overcrowded conditions i'm
our schools is caused by the linn
itation of the number of students
per teacher. A combination of
these, and perhaps lesser causes,
places every county in the State
in the position of having an in
adequate school plant. It seems
that while the smaller counties
find the demand a strain on their
ability to borrow the larger
counties are in an even worse
plight. Baltimore County, for the
first time it is claimed, faces a
difficult position financially.
Montgomery, Prince Georges
and Anne Arundel counties, all
three find the school demands too
burdensome.' This is particularly
true of Montgomery and Prince
Georges where the credit of
these counties have been pledged
in bonds issued either through
the Washington Suburban SAM
tary Commission or through the
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
Some of the counties which
have not heretofore been heavily
bonded find that they must issue
bonds. Carroll county is an ex-
ample of this group. Carroll
county people voted favorably on
a bond issue November End for
100000, half of which was
dedicated to building public
schools and the other half to
construction of roads. The two
we're hooked together in the hope
that roads would help the schools
and schools would help the
roads.
1t is certain that the State
will be expected to help the coun-
ties meet the pressing needs.
This is particularly true in view
of the fact that the county prob
lens result from the States
adoption of laws which throws
the existing physical facilities
out of order. Just what part the
State will take is a problem for
the Governor, the Board Of Pub
lie Works and the State Board
of Education.
There exists today aid for the
counties in the School Building
Incentive Fund adopted by the
1947 Legislature. This provides
that each political subdivision
be guaranteed $500 per student
in the schools for each / cent
levied for school building pur-
poses up to s cents. Simply state
ed, this means a guarantee of
$1,000 per student, the State con-
tributing the difference between
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-11-18
Farm Bureau Meeting

The annual meeting of the Mont
gomery County Farm Bureau will
be held on Thursday, December 2
at the Gaithersburg High School
Gymnasium.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-11-18
County Commissioners Order Suit
Which May Delay Churter Election

In a fiveminute closed the County Commissioners
Tuesday ordered suit which may block the Charter
Council election scheduled for January g. Earlier in the day
the board had accepted for study the countrywide fire code
and heard DR.. " L. Elcott health officer explain 5year
plan for tuberculosis eradication
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-11-18

1t is the greatest pleasure of the
Athenians to wander through the
streets asking, what is the news
Demosthenes.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-11-18

III news hath wings and with
the wind doth go.-Michael Dray-
ton. rah
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24
-ANYTHING NEW-
Bioomin' Sage

That sagebrush is mighty pretty
when it blooms purple. and the song
writer's can't be blamed for max
ing something out Of it.
But out West they hate that sage.
1t swathes nearly 96 million west
ern acres in a tough, resistant
blanket, and ranchers and federal
range managers alike consider it
an almost complete nuisance.
THEY WANT TO REPLACE the
whole 96 million acres with nutri-
tious grasses for cattle and sheep.
Some of the sage would have to be
retained to prevent erosion, but
most of it could 60.
They were talking about the prob
lem Of eliminating sagebrush at the
annual meeting at Fort Collins,
Colo, of the American Society Of
Agronomists and the Soil Science
society.
Despite efforts to control or eradi-
cate it, the sage continues to spread
and probably covers a greater area
now than before the pioneer settlers
went West.
MOST HOPEFUL development is
the new brush-land plow, 10 of which
are being built for further trial.
Also, congress will be asked next
year to provide more money for
range reseeding and improvement.
About five million acres of west
ern range already have been re-
seeded These pastures almost in
variably carry more nutritious and
abundant food for cattle than the
original prairie, according to U. S.
forest service officials. Animals
make better gains on it.
IN THE LONG RUN that could
mean more and cheaper meat.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24
BERLIN:
More Trouble

There was, it appeared, no end
to the Russian-sponsored trouble in
Berlin, and it was having it's grimly
detrimental effect on the fiber of
the peace.
Latest incident piled atop many
other instances of petty Soviet en-
croachments, needed little more
than small flame to turn into a
funeral pyre for what is left of
world harmony.
1T WAS A FLAGRANT invasion
of American Offices in the Berlin
city hall by armed Russian-con-
trolled police who kidnapped 10
western sector policemen who had
sought sanctuary in the building.
What the purpose of the raid was
never became quite clear. On the
surface it looked like pure terror
lzation carried out as part of the
overall Soviet plan eventually to get
control of the entire German CAPT.
tai. t
AN AMERICAN protest by Col.
Frank Howley. American comman.
dant in Berlin, was rejected blunt
ly by the Soviet commander, Maj.
Gen. Alexander Kotikov, who fatty
warned the U. S. officials mot to in
terfere in matters which don't con,
cern them"
Kotikov's letter followed rejection
of French protests that demanded
the release of another 19 anti-Com-
munist western sector policemen
who were kidnapped by Soviet police
while travelling in French convoy
under a Russian guarantee of safe
conduct.
In the face of these intolerable
developments. how could East-West
negotiations for Berlin agreement
continue? Apparently they couldn't,
except under almost impossible
strain.
SECRETARY OF STATE George
Marshall charged that the Berlin
city hall kidnapings were aimed,
at least in part, at disrupting the
talks by the four military cover.
nors who we're, ostensibly, seeking
the road to settlement of the Ber.
lin problem and the issue of uni
form currency.
Thus, it was easy to understand
why U. S. diplomatic authorities
were concerned with the possibil-
ity of an early collapse of the for
NAL negotiations. 1t was likely that
the Kremlin would be the first to
fash the red light
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24
ICABINET:
ISL VOus PLait

They couldn't find a government
in France, AS a political situation
that appeared slightly ludicrous
from across the Atlantic, but
Frenchmen were becoming sorely
worried for fear that they had lost
the ability or power to govern them
selves.
AFTER PREMIER Andre Marie'S
cabinet fell, President Vincent Auri-
oil appointed Robert Schufnan as
premier and gave him the usual
instructions to form a cabinet.
Schuman duly gathered together
an administrative body and then,
64 hours later, watched it fall apart
when he was defeated on techni-
cal proposal to postpone questioning
of the new cabinet by the national
assembly. In short, he failed to get
the necessary vote of confidence.
Desperate by this time, President
Auriol then named Henri Queuille.
veteran Radical Socialist to sue
! ceed Schuman.
WHAT QUEUILLE could do to
produce some kind of order out Of
political confusion and economic
travail no one knew. He is 64 years
old. a little known political figure
in France and was a wartime as
sistant of Gen. Charles DeGaulle.
The situation pointed up the
alarmed belief, becoming more pre-
dominant in France, that no indi-
vidual or group can command the
working Emajority that will enable
him to govern the nation success
fully.
It is a paradox that the parties in
the moderate center of the political
scale in France can speak for less
than Is per cent of the people. Gen.
eral DeGaulle, on the right, COM
mands As per cent Of the vote, and
Communist groups hold another 30
per cent.
Although the past few weeks have
not been conducive to q coherent
examination of the political situa-
ton in France, the principal trend
seems to be toward return Of Cen
eral DeGaulle and his right-wing
beliefs to power.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24
What Is This Thing
'Retrograde Notion?

There is a certain ''retrograde
motion" from east to west of the
equinoxial points, which I won't go
into in detail for several reasons,
one being that l haven't the slight
est idea what the phrase means.
Nevertheless, will mention that
retrograde motion was discovered
by a gentleman by the name of
Hipparchus in the year (about) 120
before Christ. Experts say this mo-
ton accounts for the changes in the
position of the Pole star, the North
Star as it is usually called.
Some people think the Pole star
doesn't change. A number of inn
portant people since Hipparchus
have thought so. Take one, William
Shakespeare. Remember in Act III
of Julius Caeser when a petition
for repeal of the Observation-Disclosures
of Publius Climber is presented?
Cassius drops to his knees to beg
for the repeal but Caeser says:
81 could be well moved, If 1
were as you;
If could pray to move, pray
ers would move me:
But / am constant as the north
ern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting
quality
There is no fellow in the firma-
ment.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24

STASSEN SPARED no words in
taking President Truman to task,
referring to him as complain
ing" failure who had resorted to
''demagogic appeals" in seeking re-
election.
Specifically, he charged that Mr..
Truman had "dishonored labor
with an extreme demagogic appeal
to set class against class"
In thus resorting to the tirne-hon-
ored political device of attacking
and reproaching the opponent from
personal standpoint, Stassen had
gone Mr.. Truman one better. In
his Detroit addresses the President
did not even mention Thomas
Dewey.
THE DEFEATED COP aspirant
for the party's nomination declared
that Mr.. Truman had come not to
laud labor for it's record, but "as a
complaining candidate for election
Seeking labor's vote"
His scolding, threatening, com
planning speeches" indicated that
he lacks the leadership lin affairs
at home and abroad so vitally need
ed in these next crucial years." said
StaSSen.
He failed when he had Demo.
cratic congress to work with.
He failed when he had Repub-
lican congress to work with"
TURNING TO THE political foot.
ball which the election year has
made of the issue of Communist
activities in the U. S., Stassen as.
serted that the Republican party
is driving the red herring out OF
the official waters of the Potomac
by means of congressional inquiries
into the Communist problem.
TOO many red herrings have
been in Washington for too long a
time" he blasted. ''The President
should help man the red herring
nets instead of complaining against
the fishermen"
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24
Blackjack Pershing's
Life and Times

Speaking of books, Col. Frederick
Palmer sent me his latest book en-
titled General John j. Pershing."
It was written some time ago, re-
Gently brought up to date after Pal
mer's last interview with Pershing,
but in accordance with the authors S
stipulation, was not published until
after Pershing's death.
"It was not to be submitted
to him or to appear in the light
of an official biography or one
authorized by his heirs"
This is stated in the foreword and
Palmer elaborated on his attitude
to me during a luncheon shortly
before the book appeared
Colonel Palmer is the elder
statesman of the war. correspond
ents. But years are of small ac-
count to him. He is pert active and
his memory is phenomenal. l knew
of him in connection with the Russo
Japanese war although at the time
of that conflict my military expert
ence was limited to playing with a
painted fleet of warships.
The warships were a Christ
mas present received while I
was still building with blocks
and shooting Indians with bows
made OfAumbrella ribs and drill
ing in an infant cadet corps.
Later came to know a colleague
of Palmer's in that war which gave
Japan the toe-hold in the Far East
that made her the power she was in
World War II. His colleague was
Photographer Jimmy Hare, the
, dean of his clan for many decades.
The Pershing book I have not
read at this writing but as soon as
do I'll tell you about it.
What a wonderful three point
landing, said the little kangaroo to
it's mother.
Although the special session of
congress was mad at the President
for calling them back, they gave
the reading of his proclamation
assembling them tribute rare in
history. They stood up while it
was READ. They got up because
they thought the invocation was
about to be made and they didn't
like to sit down and reveal their
error.
There may be a new King OF
Spain. Nice work if you can get
away with it.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24

The skies are painted with un-
Numbered sparks,
They are all fire and every one
doth shine,
But there's but one in all doth
hold his place ;"
Perhaps Shakespeare had never
read Hipparchus. (Some say he
couldn't read but if so, where did
he get his plots?) Anyhow, Hippar-
chuS said, land nobody has dis
proved his theory that the position
of the Pole star does change (from
our viewpoinD. One authority ex-
plains it this way:
The pole of the earth is swing
ing slowly as if it were the axis of
a top, or as if the earth, rotating,
were kind of gyroscope" The
study of what is called the pre-
cession of the equinoxes" ttheir
moving backward in relation to the
constellations) is fascinating. But I
have no intention of reading a lec-
ture on astronomy here-for sew
eral reasons, including the one
mentioned before.
But l do want to mention some
things which George Stimson with
whom I have just been talking)
brought up You reme ember
George? He comes from Anamosa.
Iowa, where he has just been spend
ing a wonderful vacation with his
mother who, at n, does her own
cooking because she likes it bet
ter (and, according to George, for
good reasons) than anyone's else.
George, to whom most Wash
ingtOnians turn when they want
the right answer, says that rec
Ords for a period Of so years
show that there were actually
fewer storms during the period
between September 20 and Is
(which Overlaps the equinOx)
than there were Immediately
preceding September rs. The
same, he says, is true of the
vernal equinox.
1.-The notion about equinoxial
storms in one form or another, :"
says George, "dates back to at
least 1748 and probably originated
among seafaring people.
All this information is in his
Book About Thousand Things"
and if I had thought to look it up
first l wouldn't have interrupted
him in his work on his book about
a thousand Cor more) things regard
ing American history which will be
his next opus and which I'm willing
to say in advance of publication is
going to be good.
So much for the equinoxes, with
whom, since we meet them twice a
year, we ought to get better ac-
Quainted.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24

is an una chieved goal but one more
nearly rea ched here than anywhere
else in the world-fellow travellers
to the contrary, notwithstanding.
Strangely enough. the one idea
chiefly associated with equality Of
day and night-the equinox-has
been proved utterly uhfounded. For
long time it was generally ac-
cepted (and is still believed by
many that violent storms which
were given the name, "equinoxial
gales" are prevalent at this season.
Suppose you were to approach
the 10 men-Or twenty or thirty
who have spent the most time
studying this particular subject.
gathering all the facts, check
ing all the records available, as
long as authentic records have
existed. If you asked them if it
is true that there are especially
bad storms at this time of year,
they would answer lin carefully
wOrded and virtually under
standable sentences) "That is
the bunk!"
At the equinox the sun is in the
process of crossing the celestial
equator. That is the circle parallel
to our equator which, if expanded
would touch the sun. The sun does
this in the spring (vernal equinox
and in the fall (autumnal equinoO.
At this season, if you live in my
neighborhood Cor within several
hundred miles thereof you will
heed this piece of advice in the
HagerStown (Md) Almanack which
says:
1.-The ravages of the tent cat
erpillars go unnOticed by many
persons until the leaves are
eaten from a tree. Naturally it
makes extra work for the tree
to produce another set of new
leaves, which weakenS the tree,
duu dIGCT~ lew years Va IAAAS
extra work, the tree is in dan
ger of dying.
1.-THE greatest natural enemy
of the tent caterpillar is the
common house wren. These are
valuable birds to have in your
gardens during the growing sea-
son.
And now after that piece of ad-
vice, which is not seasonal for my
friends "down UNDER where the
autumnal equinox heralds the COM
ing of summer and not fall and win
ter, let us return to our meteoro-
logical mutton.
l will not become technical but /
think it is just as well to get better
acquainted with the phenomena,
natural and otherwise, which sur
round us. There is no reason why,
if one rises late in the night to let
the cat in Cor out) he need crack a
shin on a chair, once he understands
why and in what position his wife
has moved it since he last noticed
it's location-and the stars are just
celestial furniture
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24
POLIO:
Mice Cured

Columbus university has an
nounced the development of a new
sulfa-type drug, called Darvisul,
that cures one kind of infantile
paralysis in mice and is also a sue.
cessful preventive to the disease
in mice.
Despite extensive tests during the
past summer. it is still not known
whether the new drug will prove
effective against polio in human be-
ings.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24
Stassen
Employment Record

The u S. rounded the turn from
summer to autumn with it's civilian
employment at the highest level in
the history of the nation.
Approximately 61.5 million work
ers are employed, while the unem-
ployed number only 2.227. 900 as
compared to more than IL million
during the gloomy depression years
of the early l930s Pers )nal pros
perity now depends, he 0ever, on
the impact of imitation
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24

thing that had no
easure of weight
until the philoso-
pliers proclaimed
it and until it was
preached to the
western world by a
lowly carpenters
son of Nazareth.
We worked near
ly 1000 years be-
fore a political
goal emb odyin g
this ophy
was written into
the Constitution
of a nation - the
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24

Thus the Creator esta Dlished
equality of such nice perfection that
neither the strongest telescope nor
the most accurate micrometer can
question it. Equality was some
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24

First frOthy by-prOduct of the
fermentation of the 1913 presi-
Dental campaign is the Dewey
duster." false, Deweyesque
mustache to tickle the fancy of
stiff-upper-lip Republicans. Soon
to appear on store counters across
the nation, the gadget consists
of bit of black chenille clipped
to the upper lip in true-blue COP
style.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24
Mas S1!i{:{2:lsy l1:2$5y
Autumn Offers Many Joys
For the Faithful BehoIder
By BAUKHAGE
Ne1Us analyst and Commentator.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-You reading these lines,
trust long after the autumna equinox which hope
YOU celebrated with the proper ceremonies.
equal
All over the equality
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24
Truman

L4AAoAA III O~A' ot "AAA'
AT GRAND RARIDS, Lansing,
Detroit, Pontiac and Flint he ex-
horted all the little people" of the
u. S. to register and vote in the
November 2 election.
If a heavy vote turns out, he in
sisted, not only will he be reelected,
but the Republican majority in con-
gress will be replaced by Demo
cratic one.
'IF YOU STAY home next No.
vember and keep these reaction
aries in power, you will deserve
every blow you get and you can
expect barrage of body blows, I"
said Mr.. Truman. This was repeti-
ton of an idea-that you'll get
what you deserve" he had
expressed earlier in the year and
which, at the time, was received
with some animosity by the people
to whom he addressed it.
''You can elect a reactionary ad-
1111111oL1 QL1OA4 c11Q 6O A1LO Oil C4 q O4
fear, or you can elect a congress
and an administration that stand
ready to play fair with every elem
ent of American life and enter an
era of new hope. We're in hard,
tough fight against shrewd, rich op-
ponents. They don't count on your
vote; they just don't want you to
vote"
Judging from his Labor Day
speeches. President Truman is
planning to shape his campaign
around these contentious:
1. THAT THE MAIN issue boils
down to Republican special privi-
leges as against Democratic con-
cern for the little man.
2. THAT THE ''DO-NOTHING
80th congress. under COP control,
has done nothing to justify its re-
election.
3. THAT ANYTHING EXCEPT
an all-out vote by labor on election
day would be betrayal by la
Dor of its own interests"
4. THAT IF THE MASS of the
nations voters go to the polls. on
election day a Democratic victory
is assured.
StaSSen
Just step and a half behind Mr..
Truman came Harold E. Stassen,
striving valiantly to scatter the
Goals of the bonfire the President
had kindled in Detroit.
Apparently blessed by Thomas E.
Dewey. COP presidential candidate,
Stassens speech in the motor city
was billed as the official kickoff OF
the Republican campaign
Arizona sun., 1948-09-24
CAMPAIGN:
TrumDets Sounded

Politicians cleared their throats
as with the sound of trumpets, and
the 1948 presidential election cam
paign swept into motion.
The first skirmish between Demo-
Gratis, and Republicans featured
President Truman and Harold E..
Stassen, who carried the sword OF
their respective parties into the
great industrial area around De-
troit.
THAT INDICATED that, for the
time being at least. the pivotal fac
tor directing the policies OF both
COP and Democratic campaigns
would be the labor vote.
To win the election this Novem-
ber Mr.. Truman probably will need
the same proportionate Aamount OF
the labor vote that turned out in
favor of Roosevelt in the 1882, 1885
and 1910 campaigns. Whether he
will get it is very much open to
question at this stage.