Golden Age, November 21, 1923

Download: PDF — Golden Age, November 21, 1923

Vol. V Bi-Weekly No. 109

November 21, 1923

THE TRUTH ABOUT TOBACCO

ANTEDILUVIAN GIANT STORY CONFIRMED

LITTLE FOLKS AND THE BIBLE

Kope andL courage

TRUTH

5s" a copy — $ 100 a Year Canada and Foreign Countries $ 1.50

NEV

VORLD BEGINNING

Contents of the Golden Age

Social and Educational

World Given to Spouts.................

Political—Domestic and Foreign

Political Items....................

Sinking of Two Battleships...............

Victor Berger and Political Prisoners...........

U ADULTERATED ROYAL GALL........ .

Science and Invention

Interrogations ....................

Is North North, or What?............. ■

Forest Fires Cause “Dark Days".............

Red-Blooded Men Always Needed.............

Bible Account of Antediluvian Giants Confirmed......

Home and Health

“The Truth about Tobacco*...............

How It Ruins the Blood ................

How It Ruins the Nerves................

How It Ruins the Brain................

How It Ruins the Boys...............

How It Ruins the Men.................

How It Ruins the Nation..... . . .

On Birth Control........ . . .

Religion and Philosophy

Methodism's Gropings and Antics.............

Spiritism Grows Apace .................

Little Folks and the Bible * ..............

Jesus* Love for Children................

The Superiority of the Bible..............

Is the Roman Chubch Weakening?............

The Dawn of the Morning (Poem)............

Pastor Russell’s First Book (Part II)........ .

Manner of Christ’s Second Coming........ .

How Will He Come Again?...............

Studies in “The Harp of God”

101 ' '

Published every ether Wednesday at 18 Coneord Street, Brooklyn, N. Y^ U. 8. A^ by WOODWORTH, HEDGINGS A MARTIN

Copartners and Proprietors Addrat: 18 Concord Street, Brooklyn, K. F., U.S.A* CLAYTON J. WOODWORTH . . . Editor ROBERT J. MARTIN . Business Manor* C. E. STEWART .... Assistant Editor W F. HEDGINGS . . See’y and Treao. Five Cents a Copt—*1.00 a Year Make Remittances to THE GOLDEN AGE Foreign Offices: British.....84 Craven Terrace, Lancaster Gate, London W. 2

• Canadian.....«... 88-40 Irwin Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

AwtralaHan.......425 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia

South AfrtoRM......fl Lelio Street. Cape Town, South Africa

JBntaztd as second-class matter at Brooklyn. N. under the Act of March 3. 1878

The Golden Age ▼•lame V Brooklyn N. Y-, Wednesday^ November 21, XtZS Nomber 1W

“The Truth about Tobacco”

UNDER the above title the Macfadden Publications, Inc., of New York city has published a book of 183 pages by the health expert Bemarr Macfadden, which is bristling with facts that all should know regarding the tobacco habit. Some of these facts are concealed from the public, because so many physicians use tobacco themselves, and because there are men whose constitutions are so strong that they can be subjected to almost any abuse. Additionally, there is a great difference between the mild injuries wrought by merely passing the smoke through the buccal and nasal cavities and the serious injuries caused by inhaling the smoke into the lungs. We select some items,

The "National Dispensatory” is a volume which is in constant use by physicians and druggists. It contains the sum of their knowledge as to the effects of various drugs upon the human system. In its fifth edition, page 1576, it has the following to say regarding tobacco and nicotine:

“The cases of serious illness produced by the emanations of tobacco, and by its application to the unbroken skin, are innumerable, and many instances of fatal poisoning by tobacco are recorded; some of them being due to its having been swallowed purposely or accidentally, some to its use medicinally in an enema, and some to its application to eruptions on the Nicotine stands next to prussic acid in the rapidity and energy of its poisonous action?*

The comparison of nicotine with prussic acid is good. One drop of prussic acid placed on the tongue of a human being kills like a stroke of lightning. One drop of nicotine on the unbroken skin of a rabbit has caused its death. If injected hypodermically, there is sufficient nicotine in a single cigarette to cause the death of a human being that has never used tobacco.

Nicotine is not the only evil thing in tobacco. When the tobacco is burned, seventy percent of the nicotine is turned into pyridin and collidin;

w

the remaining thirty percent of nicotine is inhaled. Pyridin is so poisonous that it is one of the agents used for denaturing alcohol; that is, it is used for making the deadly alcohol even less fit for drink than it ordinarily would be. life giving fluid to all parts of the body as it was wont to do. Because the system is filled with worn-out cells which it cannot remove, the heart automatically pumps harder in the effort to effect a cleansing until at length it weakens, skipping an occasional beat; and finally the-serious state known as smokers5 heart makes its appearance.

How it Ruin* the Blood

WHEN tobacco is burned another of the poisons which is produced is carbon monoxide. In discussing the effect of this poison upon the blood, Dr. D. H. Kress says that it is almost as deadly as nicotine, being the poison found in marsh and illuminating gas. He then proceeds to show that tobacco smokers arc committing slow suicide, whether they know it or not, when he says of carbon monoxide:

“Many of the suicides committed in America are due to this poison. It is quite common to read of the gas jet being turned on at night before retiring. Death in these cases is due to asphyxiation from carbon monoxide. The blood naturally takes up all poisons conveyed to it by inhalation. Most of the gases present in the air are fortunately given off by the blood about as readily as they are taken on. With carbon monoxide it is quite different. It enters into, or forma a staple or fixed compound with the hemoglobin or coloring matter of the red blood cells. The blood readily takes it up, but lacks the ability to give it off. It accumulates and ultimately destroys the red blood cells and the function of the blood in conveying oxygen to th^ tissues.”

This is not the only way in which the smoking of tobacco tends to ruin the blood. The place where the blood goes to be cleansed of its impurities is in the two thousand square feet of surface of the lungs. There the air is taken in; but if smoke is inhaled with the air, the cleansing process is impeded. Prof. Jay Seaver of Yale University reports a decidedly impaired lung capacity on the part of habitual smokers.

The blood is ruined in a third way by the smoking of tobacco. The heart becomes so impaired that it cannot feed a fresh supply of the

How it Ruins the Nerves -

NICOTINE at first slows the heart and increases the blood pressure; subsequently the blood pressure is lowered and the heart action beomes rapid. The effect on the brain is essentially narcotic, or depressing. Now if happens that the brain is the center of the nervous system; and when it is adversely affected, all the nervous system is deranged.

There are many who say that they smoke to quiet their nerves. Tobacco does quiet the nerves at first; but like any other narcotic, it becomes necessary to use more and more to produce the quieting effect until at length the victim becomes a slave.

Moreover, although tobacco quiets the nerves up to a certain point, yet when that point is passed and the smoker takes one cigar too many, or one cigarette too many, the nerves go in the opposite direction, and the smoker is almost sure to seek relief in strong drink; Smoking is an ideal path to lead to liquor indulgence. The two habits naturally go together. One who uses both liquor and tobacco can hardly stop drinking unless he first gives up smoking.

Another of the poisons which is manufactured when one smokes tobacco is furfuroL It is the furfurol in cigarette smoke which causes the characteristic twitching and tremor that dis* tinguishes the cigarette addict, and betrays even to unprofessional eyes the unstable condition of his nervous system. The smoke of one cigarette may contain as much furfurol as two ounces of bad whisky, and it is the furfurol which constitutes the source of danger in improperly aged whisky. Whisky and cigarettes are cousins.

During the World War thousands of young men who never even knew the taste of tobacco were shamed into the use of the weed. Many of these boys have become confirmed addicts of one of the most deplorable nerve-corrupting habits which it is possible for a human being to acquire, and one of the most difficult to overcome—unless sufficient remains of the moral stamina to aid in a fight that is all too often a losing venture. (This must make hard reading to the Y. M. C. A., champion cigarette salesmen of the war per’od.)

How it Ruins the Brain ■

TOBACCO dulls the memory, and interferes with association of ideas. In fifty years no inveterate user of tobacco has ever carried off the first prize at Harvard. Dr. George L. May-Ian, of Columbia University, found that the ratio of failures of smokers as compared with nonsmokers was ten to four.

But how about the brilliant men who claim that-their thoughts flow more readily under the use of tobacco? The answer is at hand. They are simply in the same case with any other dru^ habitue, whose thoughts cannot flow readily except under the accustomed indulgence. These brilliant men would be as brilliant all the time, if they did not smoke, as they are now only when they do smoke. •

Cigarettes destroy the precision of the brain and its accuracy for both thought and work, as well as desire for thought and work. Many judges have pointed out that almost without exception the gunmen, gangsters, criminals and professional prostitutes are addicted to the excessive use of cigarettes.

The volume presents the testimony of five physicians that tobacco causes insanity. One of these, Doctor Bancroft, of the New Hampshire Asylum at Concord, declares that he has known several cases of insanity that were unquestionably produced by the use of tobacco without any .other complicating causes. Dr. Woodward, of the Massachusetts Insane Asylum, quite agrees.

Dr. Forbes Winslow, a leading English psychiatrist, declares that the true causes for insanity are the vices, not the worries, of civilization. Of the three leading causes he puts drink first, cigarette smoking second, and heredity third.

The New York World has made a study of this matter; and its statistics go to show that in nine cases out of eleven, where insanity has resulted from excessive drinking, the primary cause of the condition was smoking. Dr. Win* slow agrees with this, making the interesting observation that much of the degeneracy formerly attributed to alcohol is due to alcohol, plus tobacco.

JJbw it Ruins the Boys

CEISNE, a French physician, examined thirty-eight boy cigarette smokers between nine and fifteen years of age. Twenty-two had marked circulatory disturbances and heart palpitation ; thirteen had intermittent pulse; eight had decided anemia; four had ulcerated mouths; one had consumption; several suffered from nosebleed, insomnia and nightmare—all ps a result of tobacco addiction. Tobacco stunts the growth of boys mentally and physically.

A small piece of tobacco placed on the tongue of a boy who has never used tobacco will cause nausea, vomiting, and serious disturbance of the heart and circulatory system. Man is the only fool among the animals that will make friends a second time with any such plant.

Thomas A. Edison refuses to employ any one addicted to the habit of smoking cigarettes, asserting that the acrolein, which is still another poison generated in smoking, “has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneracy of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable/'

Judge Gemmill, of the Court of Domestic Relations of Chicago, asserts that without exception, every boy appearing before him who had lost the faculty of blushing was a cigarette fiend. The judges in general have a poor opinion of the boys who use cigarettes. They say of them that their ideas of property rights, of the value of telling the truth, and often of common decency, are distorted; that they are prone to lie, steal, and become addicted to liquor; that they become gangsters, and that almost every youthful criminal who goes to the electric chair goes there smoking a cigarette. (Y. M. C.A., please take note.)

On April 1, 1900, the Japanese Government forbade the sale of cigarettes and tobacco in any form to young men under twenty years of age on the ground that tobacco, like opium, contains narcotic poisons which benumb the nervous system and weaken the mental power of children addicted to smoking, and thus give a death-blow to the vitality of the nation.

Bow it Ruins the Men

DRS. George Fisher and Elmer Berry, both prominently connected with the Y. M. C.

A., subjected to experiments a number of ball players between twenty-one and twenty-five years of age. First each man had ten throws at a target, and the results were registered. After a half hour’s rest he had ten more throws; and there was an increase in accuracy of nine percent. Then he smoked one cigar and rested another half hour; and there was a decrease from the original accuracy amounting to twelve percent. Then he smoked two cigars and rested one hour; and there was a decrease from the original accuracy amounting to fourteen and one-half percent See what the cigars did. >

Dr. Frederick J. Pack, another physician interested in athletics, kept a record of the results obtained by two hundred and ten men who contested for athletic honors, and found that the non-smokers surpassed the smokers with a difference of thirty-two percent In other words, the average man that amokes is only two-thirds the man he would be if he did not smoke.

The smoking of tobacco hardens the arteries. The lower animals, when subjected to the fumes, develop hardening of the arteries quickly. Man is a tougher animal. Designed by the Creator to live everlastingly he must needs put forth more effort to destroy himself; but he succeeds in time.

The smoking of tobacco causes the tissues to lose their elasticity; it causes Bright’s disease and apoplexy, degeneration of the heart, weakness of vision and in some cases total blindness. Lip cancer and cancer of the tongue and throat have been traced to the irritation of the pipe stem, the hot smoke and the ammonia “bite.”

Among the concerns that either refuse to hire new men that use tobacco or that put restrictions of some kind regarding its use are the following: The H. J. Heinz Company, Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, National Cash Register Company, Cadillac Company, Fifth Avenue Bank, Larkin Company, Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Marshall Field’s, John Wanamaker, Morgan & Wright Tire Company, and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. This is doubtless a very incomplete list.

Bow it Ruins the Nation

MOST nations that we know anything about are composed of people; and the use of tobacco tends to keep them from coming on the scene at alL Statistics prove that women who are addicted to the habit of smoking have a smaller number of children, prorata, than do non-smoking women; and that the health of these children is- far more unstable than that of children of non-smoking women. Breast-fed babies imbibe nicotine directly from their mothers.

Dr. D. H. Kress, previously quoted as showing how tobacco ruins the blood, asserts:

“The cigarette causes glandular degeneracy, and naturally the sexual glands degenerate with the other glands of the body. The products of tobacco smoke, which destroy insects exposed to it, are also highly injurious to the delicate cell from which the child is developed. Ta countries where cigarette using has became common unong wonfen, the decline in birth rate is most rapid.”

The annual fire loss in the United States caused by smoking, and properly chargeable to this cause, is $50,000,000. Besides this, the smokers annually murder hundreds of innocent, people by burning them to death. Moreover, the odor that arises from a confirmed smoker is exceedingly distasteful to many, especially to those of refined taste and cleanly habits.

The number of cigarettes sold in America has increased from 2,000,000,000 in 1900 to 40.000,000,000 in 1920. This number end to end would girdle the globe fifty times. Fifty percent of the boys over twelve years of age smoke cigarettes. Tobacco workers have the highest death rate from tuberculosis, excepting only the stone and marble cutters.

The amount spent on tobacco in the United States is more than the value of all the metals, iron, copper, gold, silver, etc., mined in the country in the same period; it is more than the total cost of education from the kindergarten to the university inclusive; it is almost double the value of all the anthracite and bituminous coat mined; it puts to the basest use 1,446,600 acres of the very finest lands.

The smoking of tobacco had its origin among the savages of North America in a religious ceremony allied to devil worship. The savages burned the tobacco in the belief that the fumes would have a tendency to pacify their angry and avenging deities. The medicine men, in direct touch with the demons, and under their influence, were the first users. The habit traces directly back to the deviL It is part of his empire. It will have to go. In Messiah's kingdom there will be no use for tobacco except, perhaps, to kill vermin. It is said to be very good for that purpose.

Methodism’s Gropings and Antics

THE Trinity Methodist Church, Twelfth and

Flower Streets, Los Angeles, California, is out with the warning that under certain circumstances you can “be very well assured that you will spend eternity in the unquenchable fires of an indescribably awful torment,” and then discourses on how "God so loved you” that He provided other things for you under certain other circumstances. Who would have supposed, with all the light now shining on the hell question, that in such an enlightened city as Los Angeles there could be such terrible misinformation! If you want to know what the Bible teaches about hell, write to us.

The Methodist church as a whole is in a quandary. In 1872 it passed the Amusement Act, paragraph 280, forbidding, among other things, dancing and theatre-going. Now it is sorry that it passed the legislation, because it does not like to be known as a “Thou shalt not” institution, thus losing a certain amount of “religious” business that goes to other concerns.

Also, according to the statement of one of its bishops, Edwin Holt Hughes, in a half century he has never known or heard of a single: case where the law has been applied and any- > body has been expelled. The Bishop wants the paragraph repealed, so that the Methodist church can be like the rest of the churches;1 that is, like the rest of the world. His argument will be found at length in The Methodist Review for September.

The Methodist church of Three Rivers, Michigan, is having a revival All the boys and girls in town are urged to sign a pledge to attend three meetings a week, directly after school and if they do sign the pledge the rewards which shall be theirs are listed in a handbill as*

"—Big Eats, Big Parade, Great Entertainment/ Snappy Yells, Songs, Stunts with Plenty of Pep, Life and Ginger; also Wonderful Tricks; $500.00 Worth of Magical, Chemical and Mechanical Apparatus; besides lots of Fancy Paper Hats, Buttons, Pins, Tags to wear; Prizes, Big Balloons to blow, and many other things.* j

World Given To Sports

THERE is nothing more honorable than work, good honest work, keeping the wheels of industry well oiled. Honest work is honorable because it may be done to the glory of God. It has been said that the idle brain is the devil's workshop. Idleness therefore breeds disaster. To be busily engaged in some constructive enterprise adding to the productivity of the world produces happiness, contentment and satisfaction, and is conducive to health and long life. Work should be done with a song in the heart As some very menial and dirty work must needs be done by some one, it should be done under conditions which would make it enjoyable.

We would make a distinction between work and labor or toil. Work should not be laborious or toilsome. Winning the bread by the sweat of face became necessary because of sin coming into the world. If man were not under the penalty of death he would be engaged in the pleasurable exercise of his muscles in some healthful enterprise adding to the wealth of the world, keeping himself in the pink of condition; and he then could not possibly be a drone or a leech on the body politic.

But because sin came into the world, man became a convict laborer, a toiler. God said: 'Tn the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” (Genesis 3:19) As we are nearing the time when the curse is to be lifted, man will gradually cease dying; and then the necessity for sweat of face shall be taken away. That is the reason why so many labor-saving devices and implements are being made in our day. It is not that man is brainier than formerly, but that God is lifting the veil of ignorance (Daniel 12:4) and bringing about conditions making invention necessary. It is the day of God’s preparation.

Because of the false standards in a world which has forsaken God, because royalty has rolled in riches, and because the bay-windowed man has issued orders in a coarse voice from his swivel chair, labor and the toiling masses have come into disrepute. With a few exceptions the front pages of the big dailies tell of the badness in the world instead of the goodness. Perhaps the papers are not wholly to blame; they have endeavored to satisfy the lust of the groping populace; but there is no question that there is a studied effort to magnify and make popular some things, and to minimize belittle and disparage other things. That the public press is controlled by wealth is evidenced by the amount of space that is devoted to labor and wages and the working people.

A writer for Colliers Weekly recently took the pains to measure space given to labor news in the big dailies, compared to other current events. The average in inches of space given to various news by four typical daily newspapers was found to figure thus: >

Sports and comic pictures. -

Fashions and cooking____________________

Government, Federal, rtatr and city..............._

Business .......

Foreign affairs............

Crime...............

Music and drama —

Prohibition

Society.......

Labor and wages

Thus less than a column a day was given to labor matters, while one hundred times as much was given to other news items.

These figures are quite a revelation. Ont writer says:

"Columns upon columns are devoted to politic*, society, fashions, financial affairs, crime, scandal, divorce and trivial matters. But very few inches of space are devoted to the man who does the world’s work and makes everything else possible.”

We are wondering what would happen to our dailies of they would supply news just the reverse of the above—leaving the figures where they are, and reversing the list of contents, giving Labor and wages 321 inches and Sports and comic pictures 10 inches, etc. We are not saying, have more or less of either, but, having the same amount of labor and the same amount of sports, popularize, laud and boost labor and practically ignore sports, etc. Can we imagine that a time will ever come when there will be some such reversal of public opinion! It will be hard on the lime-light stars; but it will be glorious for paddies, coolies, and round-heads.

The time is coming when virtue, genius, and righteousness will shine with ever-increasing splendor; when the gems of music, art and literature will captivate humanity; when every

GOLDEN AGE

Bbookltm, N. T.

knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father. And that will be a time when politics, fashions, crime, scandal, and divorce will rapidly diminish and cease to be. And while we think that there will always be harmless sports, such as

baseball and other innocent games where the outcome is based upon skill instead of “luck,” j yet it will not be in enclosed grounds for gate j receipts, but for enjoyable, healthful, recreative •

exercise, and the world will not be given over to *

sports as it is today. _ j

Spiritism Grows Apace

SIR CONAN DOYLE rejoices that one hundred incredulous men of science at Munich, twenty-six of whom were professors in universities, and thirty-four similar men at Paris have been compelled to admit “movements of objects without touch at a distance from, the medium, and taps received when out of reach of the medium.”

He seemingly does not know that demons actually pull the living cells out of the medium’s body, as a rubber band is stretched; and that it is these long waving arms of human tissue, with demon intelligence back of them, that produce the phenomena which has baffled these gentlemen. Yet that is one way, and perhaps the only way, it is done.

He unconsciously pays a tribute to what little of common sense is left in man when he says:

“One is forced to the conclusion that the human instinct really shrinks from the idea that we do most certainly continue our existence.”

Sir Conan’s three children, eldest fourteen, are all immersed in spiritism and therefore, in our judgment, all sure to go insane sooner or later.

Asked by a really clever reporter: “What is God!” Sir Conan could only say: “I wish I knew” Sir Conan thinks that he has discovered eternal life without God; but Jesus said: “This is eternal life, that they might know thee.”

Where is there any place for Jesus in all this spiritism nonsense! None at all Hia death on Calvary is as incomprehensible to a spiritist as the motion of the earth on its axis is to Wilbur Glenn Voliva. Many orthodox theologians do not know why Jesus died, either. If you want to know why, write to us.

Political Items

THE Virginia and New Jersey, two of Uncle Sam’s crack battleships, were sunk off the. coast of North Carolina early in September, in harmony with the limitation of armaments convention. Japan, due to her earthquake calamity, has postponed the destruction of her excess war vessels.

The sinking of the American ships was done by airplanes, some loaded with one 2,000-pound bomb; others loaded with two 1,100-pound bombs each. It does us good to see the governments getting ready to turn their swords into plowshares and their battleships into mincemeat.

All we shall have to do will be to wait a little while, and the last of them will go to Davy Jones’ locker. That will be the best place for them, under Christ’s beneficent rule. The battleships have had their day, and it was a bad day.

By an odd freak, the same day that brought news of the destruction of the battleships brought out the following expression in a speech by Theodore Roosevelt, -Assistant Secretary of the Navy. It sounds so like a man we knew a generation ago, Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, later President of the United States, that we reproduce it:

"If we were unable to defend ourselves, if we had no army nor navy, other countries would say to us to cut out the tariff and let in that eheap labor and the goods made by that cheap labor. If we had no defense, we would have to do it Then our laboring people would have to lower the standard of living; for our workmen would either have to come down to foreign standards or starve.”

VICTOR BERGER, the only prospective Socialist in the next Congress, has had an interview with President Coolidge regarding the release of political prisoners. He thinks that the President has an open mind. Nothing could do bo much to quiet the voices of agitators in this country as such an act. It is folly of the worst kind to keep them locked up, such folly as might emanate from a stupid lot of financiers whose reasoning faculties never extend beyond the milled edge of their god. For such financiers the motto should be changed on our coins from, "In God we trust” to "In gold we trust”; and it would be nearer the truth.

Unadulterated Royal Gall

FOR sheer, unadulterated royal gall commend us to that scion of British aristocracy, Lord Broderick Hartwell. This gentleman is in the illicit whisky business, and makes his headquarters in London. He is shipping 5,000 cases of liquor on his own account, and invites those who have confidence in him, and who wish to make twenty percent on their money, to finance the sending of another 5,000 cases for distribution in America. We copy a few paragraphs of his announcement; and we might add that it reflects as little credit upon the British Government and upon the American Government as it does upon him.

What honest American questions that if the departments of this Government were honestly manned a stop could soon be put to the speed boats which, according to the New York World, are bringing in 5,000 cases of whisky daily from a point twelve miles off Ambrose Lightship, outside New York harbor 1 The World goes on to say that there are fifty speed boats in this booze fleet, and that the Government knows all about it

Only the other day we saw a two-inch item in the papers telling how some two million dollars worth of whisky were "stolen” from the warehouses in St. Louis, where it was being watched by Uncle Sam’s famous secret service force. The despatch did not say that this same force helped to load the whisky and to drive the trucks that carted it away, but it would not surprise us in the least to learn that such was the case. How does it come that we hear so continually about the great victories of the secret service in putting down imaginary reds and arresting Bible Students and that these colossal liquor frauds remain protected T

But to return to the shameless advertisement of his Lordship. He says:

“During last year over one million eight hundred thousand oases of good and bad Scotch whisky found their way into America, where they were sold by American dealers at enormous profit These goods were exported by private British syndicates, financed by men whose names are prominently associated with Joint Stock Banks, Manufacturing Industries, and Public Companies. These syndicates made a profit of over £3,000,000. Probably five times that sum was realized by the American interests which bought the goods on the high seas and distributed them on land.

"I have arranged with an American syndicate to take from me and pay for st least 10,000 cases of high-elass Scotch whisky per month; and as a guarantee of good faith, they have lodged the equivalent of over £10,000 in Government securities, also £3,000 in cash, to pay for shipping to an agreed point on the high seas.

"Please understand this is not a smuggling expedition, neither does it in any way conflict with the laws of England or any other country. I sell my goods at sea to those buyers who come alongside to purchase. Some buyers, as can be seen by reference to the enclosed dipping, cover the distance from the sea vessels to New York, in ‘less than two hours.’

"Now let this sink into your mind. The mouth of the Hudson River, up which these motor vessels travel laden with whisky is no wider in places than the Thames, and one revenue vessel stationed midway in the river could stop all spirits from altering New York city; yet 1,800,000 cases of whisky are said to have entered New York last year.

“Dozens of bars in New York city are wide open, selling beer and spirits. Many high-class restaurants serve wine and spirits on the the tables just the same as before the Prohibition Act became 'effective?

“It will be evident to anyone giving the matter a moment’s thought, that if the large quantities of whisky mentioned (in the enclosed cutting) can be brought in from the sea, landed at a dock, transported through the streets, warehoused, and finally distributed to the private consumer, that a huge business organization with a large American capital must be employed; and that this capital is surely fully protected, opening a sound opportunity for British capital to gain handsome profits.1*

Interrogations By Jasper Jones

XT’OUR hypothesis concerning a uniform teiu-perature throughout the earth during the Golden Age, as advanced in No. 93, page 529, issue of The Golden Age, under caption, “An Average Temperature,” seems open to criticism. It is written (Genesis 8:22) that as long as the earth remaineth seasonal changes and differences in temperature will continue.

As long as there are land and water, day and night, high mountains and low plains, there will be differences in temperature; and as long as there are such, there will be winds. As long also as the earth rotates, there will be winds and ocean currents; and ocean currents are a factor in climatic differences.

WE DO not know all the steps that the Lord will take in making the place of His feet glorious, hut we do know that He will do so. Occasionally we try to forecast some of the means that will be employed; and when we try we generally find that some of our readers see difficulties, sometimes seemingly insurmountable difficulties, to the use of the means we have suggested. Perhaps this is just as well It keeps us from being swelled up with ideas of our own importance; it helps us to see that the forthcoming victory over animate and inanimate forces of evil will be gained by the Lord without human assistance. Not long ago we published some suggestions regarding possible climatic changes. We have received some interrogations regarding those suggestions. The criticisms contain food for thought. We reproduce them, interspersed with editorial comment—Ed.

But the chief factor in maintaining climate and seasonal changes is the ecliptic. If the earth’s axis is to become perpendicular to the plane of its orbit, evidently there will be no seasonal changes, and we shall lose that agreeable and interesting procession of the seasons which Moses imagined was to last forever.

[Probably the earth’s axis will remain as it is.—Ed.] .

You prevision a world without tropics, jrind, insects, etc. Then we must dispense with those plants which insects pollinate; with those birds, frogs and fishes which feed on insects; with the bee and its honey, the silkworm, the butterfly, the singing of frogs in the marshes, the drowsy hum of bees, the cheerful drone of the cricket. A sad prospect for the entomologist, the ornithologist, and the nature-lover in general!

[We doubt that a temperature more nearly uniform than our present one would do away altogether with all these varied forms of life, although it might reduce them somewhat. But we do not live in the tropics; and we see plenty of birds, frogs, fishes, butterflies and bees, and can hear the crickets. To the best of our knowledge most of the silkworms grow in temperate climates, also. In the tropics at present, we think that insect life predominates to an unpleasant extent. A friend just returned from Australia reports that in some districts ants are so thick that new-laid eggs can hardly be gathered before they are devoured. Entomologists and ornithologists are probably witnessing forms of life now which will not be in existence a thousand years from now, even as we no longer gaze upon the Mastodon, the Ichthyosaurus, the Gigantosaurus, the Stegosaurus, the Dinosaur, the Mammoth and the Diplodocus.—Ed J

Would like to ask you how without decay you will have fertilizers to replenish the depleted soil! Without the tropics, where shall we get our rubber, sisal, bananas, pineapples, spice's, dates, cocoanuts, _ sugar cane, coffee, tapioca, vanilla, chocolate, etc.!

[Decay is a process of combustion; and we doubt not that combustion in some form will always be with us; probably decay also, but less rapid than at present. As to rubber, a friend employed in one of the great rubber-tire factories here in the North tells us that in the plant where he works the rubber is all synthetic rubber, all made on the ground. Serious questions have been raised regarding the food value of bananas, cane sugar and coffee, also some of the spices. Some people avoid tapioca, also. But we have no criticism to make of the other tropical products named, and would be sorry to see them go. Perhaps they can be adapted to a more temperate climate and retained.—Ed.] The great nations of antiquity arose in warm-temperate climates, the sub-tropics and the tropics. Cold temperate climates are fit for only cold temperate races to live in. The Nordic type deteriorates in the tropics; the brunette does not flourish in the north. Your argument would seem to favor the view that the brunette type will become extinct in the Golden Age.

[We doubt the accuracy of this inference. The Swedes and the Germans were once all fah-baii etl and light-complexioned; but their descendants in America, after a few generations of “home cooking7’ by steam, hot water, and hot air plants, become considerably darker and develop into brunettes, even though living in the north temperate zone.—Ed.]

106 ’

Climatic differences are the^greatest factor in promoting that “infinite variety” of species, form, and type which make the spice of life. A monotonous uniformity of climate according to any known precedent in nature would result in monotonous uniformity of type and character in the long run; for effects are the result of causes.

You seem to endorse Hartshorn’s theories, especially that purporting to locate Eden at the north pole. [Not our thought.—Ed.] But the Bible states that Eden was “toward the east”; and the north pole is not east of anything. Moreover, the Indus and Euphrates rivers could hardly flow out of the north pole.

[The Bible mentions the rivers Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel, and Euphrates as flowing forth from Eden. Our thought is that these four rivers represent the bride of Christ, the great company, the ancient worthies, and the world of mankind as having their start in father Adam: and that perhaps no literal rivers are meant. If literal rivers of any existing country are meant, we would think they are certain streams in Armenia, as claimed by Armenians.—Ed.]

Zb North North, or What ?

YOU declare that north symbolizes the divine direction. If this be true what do you mean by "north”—the planetary north pole, or the star Polaris? If the latter, what would be the divine direction in the heavens, when our axis, as you predict, becomes perpendicular to the plane of our orbit? Then Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, etc., must each have a different divine direction? What was earth’s divine direction when Thuban was the north star? and what will it be 12,000 years hence when Vega is the north star?

[We hold that the Bible is a revelation for our earth, not for Jupiter, Saturn or Mars, and that the revelation is due to be understood at a certain era, which is about now. Hence we hold that Polaris, which is now earth’s north star, ahout which the Pleiades seemingly revolve, is north in the sense in which the Scriptures use that term as a divine symbolism.—Ed.]

I would inquire on what authority, either Scriptural or astronomical, it is assumed that the Pleiades is the “center of the universe” and the ‘‘seat of Jehovah’s power.” Can that which is illimitable have a center? Or if the universe has limits, what lies beyond those limits? The Pleiades is referred to as “toward the north” and therefore in a "divine direction.” In fact, is it not nearer to the celestial equator, whereas Draco, referred to as symbolizing Satan, surrounds the celestial pole? If the divine direction is that at right angles to the equator, I should think that in the southern hemisphere the south pole could be referred to with propriety as the divine direction.

[From Job 38:31, “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades ?” it has been inferred that forth from the neighborhood of the Pleiadic group there goes a sweet influence which pervades the universe. It has been assumed that this sweet influence is the holy spirit of God. We have seen it stated that when seen under a high-powered telescope the Pleiadic group is the most beautiful of all the star groups. This seems borne out by an observation in the Standard Dictionary that the principal stars of the group are surrounded with nebulous matter. From the same authority we note that Alcyone is the brightest of the 400 stars observed in this group; and under Alcyone is the remark, “Maedler reaches the conclusion that Alcyone is at present the sun about which the stars composing our astral system are all revolving. O. M. Mitchell, ‘Planetary and Stellar Worlds,’ lecture X, page 319, 0. M. & Co., 1870.” Now as to the direction, we find that north when used in the Bible, or when omitted, has the sense of divinity associated with it We* read in Psalm 75:6,7: “Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south: but God [in the north] is the judge; he putteth down one, and setteth up [promoteth] another.” This use of the word north as standing for things divine runs all through the Bible. See Isaiah 14:13,14, where Satan makes his boast of his intention to be Hke the Most High, in the sides of the north. Thus we have a strong chain of evidence; the sweet influence, the remarkable beauty, the hub of the astral system and the general location in the heavens at this time, all pointing to the Pleiadic group as being

at or near the place where Jehovah has His throne. We think that Jehovah is a person, and that He inhabits a locality. This does not dispute His ability to extend His power infinitely in every direction.—Ed.]

In the "Studies,” the adventist theory concerning the meteoric display of November 12, 1833, is accepted as a literal fulfilment of a prophecy indicating the signs of the end, serving to confirm the chronological reckoning on which the "parallels” are based. The facts are: In 1864 Prof. Newton predicted the return of this phenomenon on November 13,1866. It was seen on that date, though with diminished brilliancy, in Europe, and one year later in America. The astronomer Albers computed the periodicity of this swarm (called the Leonids, or November Meteors) at 34 years; Schiapparelli at 33% years; but Newton, carrying his investigations through the records of a thousand years, established the interval as 33 years. Does it seem reasonable in our day of scientific research to argue that any one particular recurrence of a regular phenonmenon of nature should constitute a sign?

[We understand that the plagues in Egypt, the turning of water into blood by the inconceivably rapid growth of minute forms of life, the frog pest, the fleas, the beetles, the cattle fever, the locusts, the sand storms, were all recurring phenomena with the Egyptians. But in Moses' day these were promised and sent and received as signs, and so recognized by both the Israelites and the Egyptians. We understand that the crossing of the Red Sea was by a path created by a wind storm, and that the crossing of the Jordan was made possible by a landslide up the river. We accept these things as miracles, none the less; and we accept the star shower of 1833 as the promised outward sign to illustrate what we now see going on about us; namely, the pulpit stars making a great flourish as they come down from discussing heavenly things to preaching on baseball, umpiring at prize fights, and selling dolls and pink ice-cream at "church” festivals. The star shower of 1833 was the greatest ever known; and we are convinced that the One who made those meteors and knew where they were knew that the earth would get a greater shower of them in 1833 than at any other time before or since.—Ed.j

Forest Fires Cause “Dark” Days

IKEWISE, the celebrated "dark day” of early New England annals was but one of several similar dark days witnessed in that pioneer period of American history, when so much of the continent was covered with vast primeval forests. Another was observed at Detroit. All bore symptoms of affinity with forest fires, as you may ascertain if you will carefully examine the records. In Europe, where no such vast forests remained, and where forest conservation was practised, no such dark days were witnessed. If this darkest of several dark days were intended as such an important mile-post in planetary affairs, the witness would have been extended to Rome, Canterbury, Geneva, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, etc., and not so much of the dark area would have been visible merely over the ocean and the wilderness.

[Our answer to this is similar. We have long thought that the dark day was caused by a forest fire; and we think it a good way for the Almighty to bring it about, without any great inconvenience to Himself. It nicely illustrates the darkening of the gospel at this time by the drawing of a veil of theological smoke, the smoke of evolution and higher criticism, between the people and the Bible.—Ed.] . In Volume VI of the "Studies,” the author saw no reason for not conceding the testimony of evolution, as far as the same related to the lower animals, and up to the creation of man, when the species became fixed. On the other hand, you have made the statement that the sufferings of the animal world were brought on by Adam’s fall, whereby they came under the curse. If this be so, do you hold that the regular sequence of birth, decay and death on this planet did not go on prior to Adam’s fall! Or was it suspended merely during Edenf If so, what did carnivorae, birds, fishes, molluscs, etc., live on in Eden f If decay and death had existed for ages, was not the air already, contrary to Hartshorn’s theory, filling up with carbondioxide !

[We have always had the thought that the carnivorous animals in the garden of Eden killed and ate one another as they do to this day. It is only the domestic animals that have suffered by contact with man. In recent years man has found it to his advantage to take good care of these animals, but there was a time when cruelty to animals was common. As we understand the matter, animals enjoy the excitement of the chase, even though it ends in their death. See the analogous item regarding man himself in the concluding paragraph of your criticism.—Ed.]

If the geologic witness of the ages is to be accounted for by the Valian hypothesis of successive cataclysms, do you hold that all life was extinguished by each and again newly created! If not, did each cataclysm have its Noah! The Bible does not state that such cataclysms occurred at 10,000-year intervals; and a host of conscientious, painstaking geologists are a unit in agreeing that it must have required immensely longer periods of time to lay down the strata. Their findings are accepted as authoritative by the scientific world, as authoritative apparently as the evidence concerning the circulation of the blood, the revolution of the planets, the atomic weight of elements, light velocity, the germ nature of disease, etc. Scientific evidence is carefully examined, weighed and compared by many experts before accepted as authoritative. It does not rest on any one man’s opinion.

[The teachings of the Bible are that the seven creative days of Genesis are each 7,000 years long. We know this because we know the length of the last of these days. There is not so much difference between 7,000 and 10,000. As respects the further differences we can set them down as due to the difference in knowledge between an all-wise Creator who had the matter in hand and knew all about it, and some scientists who each lived but a span and mostly knew what they knew simply because somebody in whom they trusted had made a guess at it. But some geologists who have made a careful study of the earth’s crust accept the story of Genesis 1 as a very comprehensive, accurate account of what happened.—Ed.]

Pastor Russell taught that the Edenic condition was a hothouse existence under an opaque cloud-canopy; Hartshorn, that the poles were flooded with sunlight. Which do you hold is valid!

[We see no conflict between the two. We believe that Eden was probably in Armenia.—Ed.]

Red-Blooded Men Always Needed

TO THOUSANDS of men hazard is the very breath of their nostrils. This is the typt of men that makes navigators, explorers, pioneers, cattle men, lumberers, seamen, railroad men, telephone men, bridge workers, and to a certain extent all men who perform the great engineering, constructive, reclamation work. Even red-blooded office men love to get out into the wilds to hunt and fish. You would elimi late all hardships, and replace, physical effort with machinery. Without physical effort yon will have physical atrophy. A tame suburban existence for anaemic urbanite office workers; a congested, crowded world of little garden patches, without vast, wind-swept plains, shimmering deserts, great silent forests, towering peaks and heaving billows! You will have everyone enjoying perfect vitality, and no channel wherein to expend their surplus energy ! Everyone will hunger for physical exertion, and machinery will render the same superfluous. You will perpetuate a machine-driven age, with a pioneer-patriarchal type to live in it; an incongruity of round holes and square pegs!

[Four-fifths of the earth is water; there will always be need for navigators and seamen. There will always be bridges to be built and replaced. Probably there will always be telephone lines to be maintained. There will always be highways, and what highways they will be! We revel in the thought The Canadian Rockies will always be there, and no atuptth^ office men will ever plant any garden patches on their pyramidal sides or on their snow-white peaks. There will always be plenty of places in Arizona, Montana and elsewhere where one gyn gaze on plains that seem infinite in extent, no matter how well they may be cultivated. Perhaps there will be as much land in forestry as there is now, possibly mqre; and it is almost certain to be in the rockiest, hilliest soiL It will take red-blooded men to get that timber out then, as it does now. And a little garden patch, if it is not too small, and if it has stones enough in it, is an interesting place even to a man that loves the big things. We cannot all deal with big things all the time. But we can do it once in a while, and enjoy it all the more because of the diversion. It is not merely climatic differences but occupational rhangew "which make the spice of life, and that contrast which is the charm of life.” We use your own language because it fits. Cheer up. —Ed.]

Bible Account of Antediluvian Giants Confirmed By Samuel Hubbard

Curator of Archaeology of the Oakland PtjbHc Museum, Oakland, California

"VTOL R most interesting letter of the 7th iust.

has been duly received, together with the book by Judge Rutherford. I have read the passages referred to with much interest, and presume that the "demons” mentioned in the Bible are the same as, or similar to, the “ele-mentals” who were recently referred to as guarding the tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt. I notice Sir A. Conan Doyle’s name mentioned in Judge Rutherford's book. It chanced that Conan Doyle was here in San Francisco a short time ago, and I called on him and showed him a photograph of the Dinosaur wall picture found by me in the Canyon. He was intensely interested, and immediately recognized it as belonging to a species the bones of which were dug up near his home in England.

I note what you say -

about the mysterious statues found on Easter Island, and I share your belief in this matter. Listen to this quotation taken from Bancroft’s “Native Races of the Pacific States,” VoL V:

“They affirm, says Garcillasso de la Vega, in all Peru that certain giants came by sea to the Cape now called St Helens, in large barks made of rushes. These giants were so enormously tall .that ordinary men reached no higher than their knees; their long, disheveled hair oovered their shoulders; their eyes were as big as saucers, and the other parts of their bodies were of correspondingly colossal proportions. They were beardless; some of them were naked; others were clothed in the skins of wild beasts. There were no women with them. Having landed at the Cape they established themselves at a spot in the desert, and dug deep wells in the rock, which at this day continue to afford excellent water. They lived by rapine, and soon desolated the whole country. Their appetite and gluttony were such that it is said that one of them would eat as much as fifty ordinary persons. They massacred the men of the neighboring parte without mercy, and killed the women bv

SOME months ago we observed a news despatch that Mr. Hubbard had discovered in Arizona the petrified body of a human being eleven feet in height. At once we identified this giant as one of those mentioned in Genesis 6:4, understood by many of our readers to be the children of human mothers and debased angelic fathers.

We wrote to Mr. Hubbard of our great interest in his discovery and asked for full particulars. At the same time we sent him Judge Rutherford’s book, “Can the Living Talk with the Dead?” wherein the Bible story of the deflection of these angels and their present condition in the atmosphere of our earth is set forth.

Mr. Hubbard has very kindly given us as full a scientific article on the subject as is possible at this time. From his article it will be observed that he wishes to organize an expedition to go into the matter exhaustively. If any of our readers have funds which they wish to use in an expedition of this kind they can communicate with* Mr. Hubbard direct at bis residence, 244 Montecito Avenue, Oakland, California.—Ed.

their brutal violations. At last, after having tyrannized over the country for a long time, and having committed all manner of enormities, they were suddenly destroyed by fire from heaven.”

This seems like a detailed and pretty definite statement and should not be brushed aside as of no importance. Were these people a “forlorn remnant” who, escaped from or deserted Easter Island, or did they come from Tierra del Fuego, where Magellan described a race of gigantic men, and no one has ever believed him!

I am enclosing herewith for your further information copy of a letter received from a correspondent in Hollywood, and also a brief statement describing my discoveries.

I am also enclosing a small photo, showing pictograph of Ibex. These are so similar to those found on the walls of a cave near Alpera in Spain that the resemblance is startling. The people as depicted in this Spanish cave were typical American Indians, with feather head-dress, aquiline features and alL Does not this raise the question of a land-bridge connecting America with Europe! Was the sinking of that Atlantean Continent the real flood as described in the Book of Genesis, a catastrophe so terrible that it has imprinted itself into the history of every race on earth! Regarding your question about a map, I would be glad to do as you wish; but I have never seen a good map of that region. The Geological survey maps of the Grand Canyon triangle show only a small corner of the Supai Canyon. They are most unsatisfactory. There are bench-marks in the Supai which indicate that a survey has been made; but I doubt if the map has been issued.

'us

are aware that from an historical point of view, there is also some reason to suppose that there have been remains of giants found and examined. Philostratus speaks of two skeletons, one twenty-two cubits in length, the other twelve. (Cubit 18 to 20 inches.) Pliny, Plutarch, and Pausanias have all left in their writings records of such discoveries. Abbe Pegues, in “Les Volcans de la Grece,” affirms that in the neighborhood of the isle of Thera giants with enormous skulls were found laid out under colossal stones.

Probably you have at your disposal many sources from which you have drawn your inspiration to search along this particular line. It is, therefore, with some hesitation that I submit the two following reports, . which out of a number have come to me concerning our own country. If they have already come to your atten-K tion, I trust you will forgive my presumption and charge r it to my eagerness in trying to push scientific inquiry £ into these comparatively unexplored channels. | k Almost fifty years ago, it appears that a certain Judge £e. P. West' discovered a number of conical-shaped ^ mounds in the forests of Western Missouri, similar in t construction to those found in Ohio and Kentucky. Let , me quote portions of the report appearing in the Kansas < City Times: |

“Judge West discovered a skeleton about two weeks’ * ago, and made report to other members of the society. I They accompanied him to the mound, and not far from ? the surface excavated and took out the remains of two skeletons. The bones are very large. . . . The head bones, such as have not rotted away, are monstrous in size. The thigh bone, when compared with that of an ordinary modern skeleton, looks like that of a horse.

’ . . .» The gentlemen who have -these curious bones in ‘ charge, have deposited them with. Dr. Foe, on Moin

Street. They will make a report of their labors at the next meeting of the Academy of Science, by which time they will be able to make definite report as to their opinion. It is pretty definitely settled, however, that the skeletons are those of a race of men not now in existence.”

Another, taken from the “American Anthropologist,” n. s. 8-229, which tells of a stone ax found in Birchwood, Wisconsin—exhibited in the collection of the Missouri Historical Society—28 inches long, 14 inches wide, 11 inches thick, weight 300 pounds.

I was also interested in the report of the picture of a dinosaur found in the vicinity of the fossils. The Chinese have also ancient records which depict these Mesozoio reptiles. Considering that modern science generally considers that it alone is responsible for bringing to light that such creatures once roamed the earth, it has been extremely difficult for me to understand the genesis of these pictures. Three conclusions seem to present themselves : The pictures were either drawn from the imaginations of the artists, or there were scientists in those days who were able to reconstruct fossil remains which

Would you or your associates consider a proposition to finance me for another expedition to the Supai Canyon 1 Up to now I have made three trips at my own expense; so I feel that others should now share part of the harden. As Mr. TenBroeck truly says, I am running a severe gauntlet of ‘'scientific scoffing and ignorant ridicule.” Before I started on my third trip in May, I invited three different professors of the University of California to accompany me; but they were all "too busy.”

For my next trip I would want to take a scientist with a national reputation; also Mr. Fischer of the Los Angeles Museum, the man who mounted the skeletons from the La Brea deposit. He could make casts of the wall writings and the bodies. Then I would want a moving-picture operator with a camera, and two miners or rock men to uncover the buried figure. These latter men with Indians as helpers could be hired at the El Tovar Hotel. The Fred Harvey people at the El Tovar Hotel would furnish saddle and pack mules, supplies, etc., at reasonable prices. A fund of five thousand dollars should be available with as much more if warranted by developments. The Indians have told me of several other places where there are tracks and writings which I have not seen. I believe them to be important, and they should be investigated.

Begarding my responsibility: I am b nephew of the late Gardiner Greene Hubbard, founder of the National Geographic Society; My uncle, Charles Eustis Hubbard, is a Director of the Am. Telephone & Tel Co. residence, Boston. I am director of the Pacific Telephone & Tel. Co. a $100,000,000.00 corporation.

Copy of Letter Received from Mr. Wm, D. TenBroeck, of 1640 Gardner Street, Hollywood, Calif.

Dear Mr. Hubbard :

I wish to thank you for your letter of August 6th., and the clipping enclosed therein. The account as given in your paper was much more complete and interesting than any appearing in Los Angeles. The possibility that at one time there lived a race of giants upon the earth hijs for some years interested me. In such a hypothesis I find a solution for many of the problems which at present confront the scientific world. Consequently I have collected bits here and bits there of scientific data, legend and myth, which have seemed to have connection either for or against such a supposition. Doubtless you

…