Golden Age, July 30, 1924

Download: PDF — Golden Age, July 30, 1924

Contents of the Golden Age

Social and Educational

Illustrated Lectures...........

An Aid to the Blind...........

- Finance—Commerce—Transportation

, Big Business and High Wages..........

Panama Canal................

Russia, Palestine...............

Personal Responsibility as to 'Paxes ........

Political—Domestic and Foreign

Governmental Items.............

Political Notes, Canada............

Colombia, Argentina, Great Britain..... .

France and the German Children ........

Poland, Czecho-Slovakla, Austria........

Roumania, Albania.............

Abyssinia, India .............

Philippines, China, Japan............

Dutch New Guinea..............

Civilization in South Carolina in 1924 ...... The Distress op Europe............

675 676

680 681

6S5

Agriculture and Husbandry

Why the Farmer Does Not Come Back.....

Science and Invention

Little Common Sense in Radio Buying . . . .

Hawaii................

6S4

Home and Health

Facts and Figures on Medical Ignorance . .

Travel and Miscellany

The Purpose of the Animal Creation.....

Chimney Swallows............

Review of Book, “Angels and Women”.....

68£

'702

■ Religion and .Philosophy

A Lost Paradise.............

Studies in “The Harp of God”........

Published every other Wednesday at 18 Concord Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A., by WOODWORTH, HUDGINGS & MARTIN

Copartners and Proprietors Address: IS Concord Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., U.S.A. CLAYTON J. WOODWORTH . . . Editor ROBERT J. MARTIN . Business Manager WM. F. HUDGINGS . . Sec’y and Treas. .

Fivb Cents a Copy—$1.00 a Yeah Mam Remittances to THE GOLDEN AQH

Foreign Offices : British.....34 Craven Terrace, Lancaster Gate, London W. 2

Canadian.....«... 38-40 Irwin Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

Australasian 495 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia

South African......fl Lelie Street, Cape Town, South Africa

Bntered as second-class matter at Brooklyn, N.Y., under the Act of. March 3, 1879

Golden Age

Number 127

r Volume V Brooklyn, N.Y.t Wednesday, July 30, 1924

;• ■

Digest of World News

(Radio-cast from WATCHTOWER WBBR on

f*TT IS said that more than $1,750,000,000 aJC, A are stolen every year from the people of the United States,” declares District Attorney Banton, of New York. This huge sum is divided up as follows: $150,000,000 are lost through commercial frauds; $600,000,000 are lost through fraudulent claims against insurance companies; and $100,000,000 through worthless securities.

While most of this money is kept in circulation, the greater part is diverted from legitimate channels of industry, and is, therefore, injurious to the people in general.

The population of the United States on January 1st, 1924, is reported as being 112,826,000. This is a gain of 1,943,000 in one year, and a gain of over 7,000,000 since 1920. The net in' crease of the population of the United States is x greater now than at any time in the history of the country.

' While big business has fought high wages for the workers and advocated the open shop to dis-rapt and dissolve union organizations and otherwise manipulated industry in an effort to make labor eat out of its hand, a news item of interest says that a change of sentiment is gradually coming over big business, that big business has seen a great light. It now recognizes that high wages increase efficiency and production. One statement says:

"Intelligent and skillful labor, equipped with the '■. best machinery, can give lower production costs at high wages than inefficient labor at the wages prevailing in Asia. Wages rise in all countries as the labor becomes more skillful and productive, just as prices of all goods tend to be adjusted to economic values.”

This statement is credited to a monthly business review made by the National City Bank of New York. Whether it represents a true change of heart of big business or whether it is mere political propaganda to be made use of during the coming campaign, is not for us to determine

a wave length of 273 meters, by the Editor)’

at this time.

Governmental Items

EFFORTS continue to be made to stop the smuggling of liquor into this country from Canada. A convention(an agreement less important than a treaty) has been signed by representatives of the two governments which provides not only for the suppression of the smuggling operations, but also for the prosecution of persons who violate the narcotic laws of either country.

The Supreme Court has handed down a decision which gives tenants certain rights over landlords. Tenants have often been ousted to, pave the way for the landlord to demand higher rentals or to get more desirable tenants. It was supposed that the landlord had a right to dispossess any of his renters at any time by merely saying that he wanted the apartment for his own use. The court has decided that if any one is ousted the landlord must pay the cost of moving and also the differential in a higher rent cost for the first thirty days.

While the Bonus Law was passed by Congress over the President's veto there are agencies at work to cause it to be inoperative. The first effort in the courts to invalidate the law was begun recently in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, when Benjamin Catchings, a lawyer of New York filed a suit to prevent the expenditure of the money needed to pay the bonus. Mr. Catchings’ contention is that the law is unconstitutional; so we may expect a long legal fight before it is finally disposed of. There is also an Ex-service Men’s Anti-Bonus League that, aS*its name implies, is against the payment of the bonus. It is argued that the Adjusted Compensation Act is in fact a mere bonus or gift^ and not a provision for the payment of any debt or compensation owing in money by the United States; and because of this it is assumed

that the law should be declared unconstitutional.

Political Notes

AS WAS expected, President Coolidge was , • nominated for the presidency of the United

States on the Republican ticket. Gen. Charles G- Dawes of Illinois, author; of the Dawes Reparation Plan, was chosen for his running mate. The old tactics of stampeding a convention were indulged in when ex-Governor Lowden was chosen for second place on the ticket. But Mr. Lowden refused the nomination. He had dedared repeatedly that he would not accept the nomination for the vice-presidency. The Republican politicians wfere bent on drafting him and forcing the nomination upon him; but he remained firm to his pre-convention declaration.

The Cleveland Press, after watching the maneuverings of the bigRepublican convention, significantly asks: “Will 1924 see the last of the conventional conventions of the political parties This is not because it sees the fulfilment of prophecy, but because the tactics and demonstrations pulled off for "favorites” are decidedly out of date; for they fool nobody and are meaningless to thinking people. The Press concludes by saying, "The show is growing stale. Something new is needed to fool the multitude.”

The Republicans failed on four planes, according to W.J.Bryan. These four planes are as follows: The Religious plane; the Intellectual plane; the Financial plane; the Reform plane. Besides this terrible failure, according to Mr. Bryan, they fell down on making a platform; for it is not concrete and specific but deals with generalities and dodges the acute problems.

Agricultural Notes

Fbajtk W. Mukphy, head of the Minnesota

Farm Bureau, in a talk at a luncheon of the Music Industries Convention at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York city, made the statement that th© farmers of the United States have been waging a great contest for equality under the protective system of the Government for nearly, four months; and he admitted that when Congress adjourned the farmers had lost the fight. He said; .

"The outlook of agriculture is as dismal as it has ever been in my lifetime, notwithstanding what those outside the industry say about it. The people hack in’the rural districts are a little bit inclined to be resentful—altogether an undesirable and undefensible situation to have under the flag of our common country."

Mr. Murphy called attention to some legislative acts which are against the farming inter- I ests, and named some of them, as follows: The eight-hour-day law; the Adamson law; the : transportation act; the tarrifE law, the Federal : Reserve act; and ho stated that these, together ? with the Labor Board and the Coal Board, are all interferences on the part of the Government that have riveted chains upon agricultural ~ America. No doubt the sentiment of the farmer will be reflected in the November election. ,

The farmer's plight is shown in a recent survey, which extends over a period of five years, ' j and takes in the price trend of ten crops and 3 five classes of livestock and livestock products. It shows that the cost of what the farmer has had to buy has increased one hundred percent; ■ what he has to sell has increased but thirty-one ■ percent; and the purchasing value of the dolldr as compared with 1914 is only seventy-One per- , cent.

The greatest cloudburst in the memory of the i inhabitants visited Johnson City, Tenessee, | last Saturday, in which seventeen persons are known to be dead and many others are missing. % The cloudburst came at the dose of h heavy downpour, swelling the streams into raging tof-rents. The Southern railway was washed out in places, and many concrete bridges were washed from their foundations. ' j

Alaska ~

Streams which recently flowed from the region

THE earth’s crust in the volcanic region at the base of the Alaskan peninsula is undergoing marked changes. The mysterious island of Bogolov, which once disappeared and which reappeared in 1906 about the time of the San Francisco earthquake, gives evidence of receding again. It is also noted that the Valley ofl Ten Thousand Smokes is cooling off rapidly, filled with steaming hot water are now icy cold.

’A grove of willow trees thick as a man's wrist, * suitable for use as fuel, has just beenxliscovered in Alaska in latitude 67° 45' and at an altitude of 2,200 feet. This discovery confirms the rumor that Alaska is warming up.

Canada 2

. ■ - ■ ■ ■■

MERCHANTS of British Columbia have petitioned the Canadian Government at Ottawa to put into effect the same rules against 1 Japanese immigrants as are enforced against1 » 1

w»"“ n. GOLDEN AGE "*

Chinese immigrants. Canada has a form of '‘Gentlemen’s Agreement" with Japan similar to that hitherto in effect between the United States ,and Japan.

Mexico

WHAT may prove to be a valuable discovery throwing much light upon the early history of humankind in America, has come to light near Mexico City. A Mongolian library has _ been uncovered, which has lain for centuries beneath a thick layer of volcanic ashes. About 200 of the signs and figures have been identified. These discoveries prove anew that the earliest settlers of the Western world were Mongolians.

Panama

AFTER ten years’ operation the Panama Canal is at last carrying more traffic than the Suez Canal. The traffic has gradually increased from 4,000,000 tons in 1915 to 25,000, 000 tons in 1923, the latter figure being nbout ten percent more than the traffic through the Suez Canal for the same period. The canal has led to a great increase in business between the ports of the eastern part of the United States and all the ports bordering upon the shores of the Pacific ocean. Students of the traffic which passes through the canal say that the temporary stimulation of Far Eastern trade caused by the Japanese earthquake is no longer in evidence.

Colombia <

AT PRESENT the Republic of Colombia depends for its transportation upon the Magdalena River, but in the dry season mails to and from the capital are delayed for weeks and freight is delayed for months. The Republic is now seeking the construction of standard gauge rail lines from the capital to the Atlantic coast. An American syndicate has proposed to build such a line if the Colombian Government will turn over to them an issue of government bonds at a discount of twelve and one-half percent, plus two percent commission, plus hundreds of square miles of agricultural, petroleum, coal and ore lands. In other words, the American financiers are willing to build the road if the Colombian people will virtually give their country away into the hands of strangers, and relinquish all hope that themselves and their children profit by the treasures which nature has placed in their land. Naturally the Colombian people are , not very enthusiastic about the American offer.

\ • • w. • •/

Argentina and Other Southern Countries *

Buenos Aires is to have a White Way patterned after the famous New York.section of Broadway which goes by that name. The dif- . ference is that in Buenos Aires the White Way will be a new street consisting of ten-story conCrete buildings with stores on the ground floor and offices and apartments above. This new White Way, which is to cost $50,000,000 for the first section, is already under construction.

Despatches indicate a growing desire on the part of the unfortunates of Europe to find a home in Central or South America. The Germans are being invited into Guatemala. The Russian refugees who, until recently have been overcrowding Greece, are being invited into Uraguay. It seems to us that these migrations of Europe into South America are a most excellent thing. They can hardly fail to have the effect of lifting the standards of education, enlightenment, religious liberty and progress ; along all desirable lines. ■

Great Britain ' \

James Brown, working miner, whose regular home is a tiny miner’s cottage in Ayrshire, having been appointed by the British Government as Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, entered Holyrood Palace on May 19 at Edinburgh, there to reside for ten days as the personal representative of the King. Reports are that he and his wife were faultlessly dressed, and conducted themselves in a manner that would have done credit to people who had spent their entire lives at court. Does not this show how hollow are the claims of royalty 1 Mr. Brown and his wife were met at the door of the palace by members of the British nobility and were subsequently presented with the keys of Edinburgh by the Lord?ro-vost of the city. While in Edinburgh, Ml Brown was given a royal salute of twenty-one guns. .

Despatches from London indicate the expeo-tation of the British postmaster general that during favorable atmospheric conditions, particularly during the winter months, two-way telephone conversations between Britain and America may soon be possible. Meantime^

Signor Marconi has succeeded in sending wireless messages from Britain to Australia by the use of his new electric beam, a device which enables him to throw the current of wireless waves in any desired direction instead of dispersing them in every direction widely, as is done by the radio-casting methods.

Spain

HE New York Times contains an interesting story of a tribe of savages numbering about

4,000 discovered in the interior of Spain. These people, recently visited by King Alfonso, have no roads, no schools, no religion, and no clothes . worthy of the name. They live in dugouts, in which the only furniture consists of the hollowed trunks of trees. AU of these people go barefooted the year round, and never wash nor comb their hair; nor do the men shave. They have only the most primitive ideas of cooking; and bread is unknown. The women have no needles. They ate small and repugnant in appearance, but very athletic.

' France

MARSEILLES reports the receipt of forty head of camels from Africa, which will be slaughtered and sold as butcher’s meat.

It really looks as if Germany on the one side, and aU the Allied countries on the other, would come to a settlement of their differences on the basis of the Dawes Plan. Efforts have been made to defeat the new liberal government of France, before it was really started, by financiers in France who sold French francs outside , of France below the market, thus creating distrust in the government before it could function at aU.

The president of France occupies a different position from that of the president of the United States. After he is elected to office, he is supposed to keep entirely out of politics; and it- seems to us that this method has decided advantages. However, the late president of France, M. Millerand, violated the French custom in the last election by taking a stand in behalf of M. Poincare’s policies as Premier. M. Poincar^ having been defeated, the united Socialists, 128 strong, demanded that Millerand himself should resign, and eventually brought about his downfall.

Under the law by which it expels undesirables,

the French Government expelled from Franch ■ six or more American jazz bands that have been furnishing music in Paris restaurants and '

dance halls. If this expulsion had been based -

upon the armless, legless and headless form of music, no one could object seriously. But the ■ explanation offered is that the French musi- I cians were jealous, complaining that the AmWk j can bands were getting practically all the work, | and that they had been virtually put out of . : business. The order for the expulsion was-sub* y sequently withdrawn as a result of intervention 5 by a committee of Americans who claimed that if the bands were sent away they would have to < leave Paris, as none of the French musicians know how to play any of the atrocious produc- ? tions played by the American orchestras. ;

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has given $1,000,000 for the repair of the Rheims Cathedral and the J palace at Versailles. This seems a strange 'way ' for an American to spend a million dollars, but S

Mr. Rockefeller may do as he likes. 4 /

France has been having a contest between the ' scientific animal torturers and the anti-viviseo-* tionists. At one of the experimental stations/ g ten tons of dynamite were exploded near a eager \ containing dogs and guinea pigs to see what .. effect the explosion would have upon them. Ap-- . parently it had none; and the experimenters were figuring on putting the cages so close that1 J some of the animals would actually be-killed, ; when the protests of some of the anti-vivisee- -tionists caused the Government to intervene and ” prevent the further exhibition df the scientific U nonsense which the experimenters had in view.

France and the German Children •

RANCE has been stirred from end to end t by contributions of the poor people of

France toward the support bf orphan children j in Germany. Two professors of prominence ob- ’ i jected to these contributions by the French p£o-pie, whereupon remittances were received from ' ~ } all parts of the country on the children’s behalf. 4^ In numerous instances these remittances earner from wounded French soldiers or from parents -who had lost their sons in the World War. This £ nobility of spirit on the part of the French' < people ought to be made widely known, and • ought forever to hold back the German people-1 from taking part in another war for the subjugation of France. .

On the other side of the question, one is filled with deepest disgust at learning that when a trainload of German children was returning from Denmark, ‘where they had been royally entertained for three months without expense, as soon as they got inside the German border they were told by German junkers and railroad employes that they ought not to wear in their hats the Danish colors, which had been pinned there as an ornament by their Danish friends. Of course all the people of Germany cannot be blamed that a few narrow-minded pinheads still ' exhibit the same disposition that led to the slaughter of mil lion a during the World War.

Poland

RELATIONS between Poland and Russia are strained. The Russians have accujsed the Poles of not living up to the treaty guaranteeing religious freedom to Russian minorities Uv-ing in Poland. The Poles have replied that the shoe is on the other foot; but Russia insists that full rehgious Hberty is granted to all.

The situation as it exists in Poland itself was vent in Vienna, there has been discovered a expressed on May 2nd by eminent Frenchmen ‘ ‘

as follows: A wave of terror is passing over Poland; the press is throttled; young people’s clubs are dissolved; labor unions are deprived of their halls; apd there are three thousand political prisoners in the prisons. These prisoners are maltreated by the jailers—insulted, beaten, nearly starved and confined in ice-cold cells without soap, linen, reading matter, visitors or sanitation, and in the midst of vermin indescribable. Within two months, hundreds of prisoners in Poland have declared hunger strikes in order to rid themselves of vermin, and to obtain changes of linen, baths, suitable food, decent care when sick, exercise, and the right to have visitors, pencils and paper, as well as the privilege of reading.

Czechoslovakia

IN THE latter part of the month of July there will be held in the city of Prague the world’s first international conference on scientific management The subjects discussed will include personnel, industrial relations, budget control, production, sales, mining, transportation, city, state and federal government. The Republic of Czecho-Slovakia is one of the most progressive countries of the world.

Austria

DR. SEIPEL, the Austrian Chancellor, who i$ . believed to have done more than any other one man toward preserving Central Europe from chaos, has been shot by an assassin, but* is recovering. Dr. Seipel was trained for the Roman Catholic priesthood, but has now been engaged in political life for many years. He is ' admitted to have accomplished gteat results in the rehabilitation of Austria, and the attack; upon him is deplored everywhere.

In Vienna on June first, one thousand children were given what the newspapers call "a civil confirmation”; that is, they were enrolled as members of the Austrian Social-Democratic Party—in other words, as Socialists. On June 5th, 400,000 members of the Vienna Social-Democratic Party marched through the streets in the most perfect order. The object of the demonstration was to show foreigners how perfeet is the discipline of the Socialist Party.

Musicians, and lovers of music generally, will < be interested to know that in a Benedictine con-hitherto unknown Mozart symphony described as No. 221 in C major. This is a find in which the musical world will rejoice,

Roumania - - f

POGROMS against the Jews are taking place throughout Roumania. Synagogues are , demoEshed, merchants are attacked and beaten, stores are set afire, and Jews who organize for self-defense are arrested and tried by court ; martial. It is regarded as significant that just at the time when these pogroms were at their height, and when the Government was doing, Ettle or nothing to prevent them, the Government arsenal was blown up, causing the loss of forty lives and a material loss of over two and one-half million dollars. The cause of the explosions is not known, but it would not be strange ; if in some way they were related to the pogroms.

Albania -

ALBANIA is the new power that was created in the Balkans after the dose of the World War. It Ees opposite the heel of Italy, on the shore of the Adriatic between Greece and Jugoslavia. A civil war is now raging in this little country, the insurgents being dissatisfied because the Prime Minister has been too auto-

QOLDEN’AQE

cratic. Albania is considered one of the danger spots of the world. It has a commanding position upon the Adriatic Sea; a position naturally coveted fey the three nations that surround it

—Italy, Greece, and Jugoslavia.

Russia

RUSSIA is reported as reengaging in the egg business. Before the war, it exported sixty-four percent of the eggs disposed of by export. It is planning to export 400 carloads this year, with yearly increases of 200 carloads each.

In a recent speech in Moscow, M. Zinovieff, chairman of the executive committee of the Third International, made the statement in the matter of Russia's trade investment that the state and cooperative organizations control only thirty-six percent. He further stated that Russia has under consideration nearly 1,000 projects which are to be exploited by foreign firms. Fifty-five concessions, including six and one-half million acres of forest, have already been granted to Russian, German, Dutch, Norwegian, and British companies. The Soviet authorities claim that there are now 3,200 savings banks . in. Russia, and that the agricultural production has been restored to seventy-five percent of the prewar average.

The representatives of the Soviet Government and of the British Government cpntinue their discussions; but in the demand that the Soviet Government should return, to its British owners the private British property which was , seized by the Soviet Government at-the begin* ning of the revolution, both countries seem to have struck a snag. All of the largest industries in Russia—oil, coal, metallurgy, textiles—

belong to British- owners, and these industries constitute the backbone of the Soviet Government.

A British engineer at one of the Russian copper mines has been sentenced to death by the Soviet for giving information to the sup-pofiedly rightful owners of the property, residing in England.

It does not take some ecclesiastics long to see on which side their bread is buttered. A year ago the papers were filled with stories of the martyrdom of the patriarch Tikhon, who went to prison because he objected to the. seizure of z the golden treasure of the orthodox Russian

Bbookmw, n. x.

church by the Soviet Government in its campaign for the relief of famine sufferers. When he went to prison, he was hailed as a martyr. A short term in prison evidently gave him a

change of mind. He wrote a letter to the Soviet t

Government, stating that he was sorry he had antagonized them. They granted him his liberty; and now he has gone over with all of his following to the new Russian church, which is 4

in full harmony and more or less, directly con* nected with the Soviet Government. '

Palestine

THE oil industry and the silk industry are | making considerable headway in Palestine.

Several petroleum wells are yielding considerable oil. Coal fields have also been discovered* although as yet no coal has been mined. Tha cities of Jaffa and Talvania are now using electric light and power generated by the waters of the Jordan. Mosquitos have practically disap* peared, owing to the filling and drainage of swamps. Theaters have made their appearance* and are well patronized. Music is flourishing. Medicine, law and philosophy are being taught in the university. The tourist business is good.

It is estimated that in the Dead Sea there iar potash' in solution worth $40,000,000,000 at present prices. It is believed that a way trill be found to extract this rich deposit. Among other treasures, Palestine hast limestone, iron ore asphalt, phosphates, a generous supply of beau-; tiful pink marble, and a mountain of rock salt . containing ninety-nine percent pure salt

Transportation in Palestine is constantlyJm« proving. There is now a regular night service by rail between Cairo and Jerusalem, the trip requiring fifteen hours. J

Abyssinia

THE Prince Regent of Abyssinia is in Paris, studying the ways of Western civilization. «

He was an interested spectator of airplane feats, '* and will probably buy a fleet of airplanes for the protection of his country. It is possible that he d may come to America, where three of his sone ' are being educated at Muskingum College, New -Concord, Ohio. - ~

India

THE party that started out early in the spring ;

in the attempt to scale Mt. Everest, after * *

about two months is still no nearer gaining the. " i s summit than on previous occasions. It has sev-I . era! times had men in Camp No. 4, which is 23,-E ' 000 feet above sea level; but there are still 6,000 feet to climb before the summit is reached. The S' climbing is extremely difficult; and the weather F. bitterly cold. To reach Camp No. 4 seems to be S’ about the limit of human endurance. On one oc-[F casion four men remained in the camp overnight

To every appearance the climbing of Mount —^Everest will never be accomplished. Sometime fSjJabout June 1, the two brave athletic men, Mallory and Irvine, who had been selected for the > final attempt to reach the summit, were killed I- after having reached what is most certainly be-I; lieved to be the highest elevation ever attained r , in mountain climbing. Mr. Mallory, in 1922, reached the height of 26,800 feet, the highest t elevation ever obtained with oxygen; and only r 435 feet less than the oxygen record.

t The round-the-world fliers are now in India;

• and before we know it, at the present rate of t progress, they will be in eastern Europe.

k Ceylon

TN A small field only about two acres in exSr A tent, situated some fifty miles from Colombo, £ has been discovered the largest find of sapphires * ever made in Ceylon. The sapphires are yellow, ? gold, purple, and blue in color, and range in size | from twenty to seven hundred karats.

Philippine Islands

TXT BITING in the New York Times of his W experiences as a teacher in the Philippine Islands, Bobert J. MacLaughlin seems to f think that the Philippines are not yet a para: dise. In his letter he says that on one occasion

he traveled twenty miles to a railroad station, through soft mud which was almost two feet St?* deep; has lived in Luzon, when every cubic inch f^£of water in the Pasig Biver showed millions of J ^*germs of cholera; and has passed through a

smallpox epidemic in which the deaths in his own little town were as" high as twenty a day among the children alone. To these interesting bits of information, he adds the following:

“I was one of the teachers sent out to the islands in 1903 by the Knights of Columbus; and I was appointed without meeting a single Government official, although civil service on merit had been introduced into the islands in 1900.

. “I was told that the Philippines were healthy, and that excellent board with native families could be secured^

“I lived in a native bungalow thatched with mp* leaves, and made partly of bamboo. There were millions of ants, and the walls and ceiling were fairly crawling with small lizards. After an illness my companion returned to Manila; and I was taken down with bone-,, breaking fever, living for days with nothing to eat o® to drink but the syrup from canned peaches.” \ .

China i

AMERICAN round-the-world fliers are med^ ** ing good progress, having finished their . flight down the Chinese coast, being now about to enter India. Up to the time they arrivedat Hong Kong they are reported as having had only two'days of excellent flying weather sineeG they left America. .

Japan

aS INDICATING the deep-seated resentment xx of the Japanese people against the exclusion act, an unknown Japanese warrior commits ted suicide in front of the ruins of the Americair Embassy in Tokio. This has had the effect ot greatly inflaming the Japanese displeasure. Th# suicide left two letters: One* addressed to that American people, urging them to withdraw thflk Exclusion Act; and the other addressed to the < Japanese people, urging them to arise and avenge the deed. As many as fifty to seventy thousand persons daily pass the grave of the w K known warrior. Among those who sent wreaths to his grave was Viscount Kato, the newj -Premier. . ••

The center of the American colony in Japaw is the Imperial Hotel in Tokio where, every -Saturday evening, it is the custom of the Ameri* ; cans to gather for a dance. A week ago this dance was broken up by the Japanese, who invaded the dance floor, armed with swords* and who in the most vulgar and insulting language demanded the deportation of all Americans, the boycott of all American goods, and the abrogation of all Japanese-American treat-' ies. The police of Tokio did not interfere. Mo-t tion picture houses showing American moving. ' pictures have been temporarily closed in Japan.

Two days after the breaking up of the ball > in the Imperial Hotel, a Japanese visited the office of the American Consul at Yokohama, and*..' : stated his intention to kill the American Consul unless the latter would agree to intercede with the American Government regarding the exclusion bill. Guards have now been placed about the Embassy and the Consulate, and also about the Imperial Hotel, in the effort to prevent further outbreaks.

What may constitute the entering wedge that will lead the United States into war with Japan, is the claim upon the United States Government njade by Japan immediately after the Exclusion 'Act, that thereby the United States Government has violated the treaty of 1911, which gives "liberty of entry, travel and residence” to both peoples.* Secretary Hughes denies that the treaty of 1911 in any way limits the United States from dealing with the immigration question as it sees fit. Every war must have a pretext, and it seems quite possible that Japan is seeking a pretext.

Japanese Politics _

JAPAN has been engaged in an exciting poEtical campaign, as a result of which the "ins” will be ousted from power, and the "outs” will be put into power. While the election was * in progress, street fights were common; and : in one city the "ins” having learned that in a ‘ certain building the "outs” were having an | important meeting of election workers, called i out the fire company, who deluged the building I with water, only "discovering” after everybody J was soaked, that there had been no fire. All • this reads like something that might have hap-j pened in America instead of Japan.

j The leader of the new government, Viscount Kato, is perhaps the most hostile to the United ’ States of any of the great statesmen of Japan. ’ It is he who drew up the notorious twenty-one ; demands on China in 1915; and it is likely \ that his advent to power may result in war between Japan and the United States.

In Japan there has been until now some sort of restricted ballot; but the Japanese are now demanding immediate and universal suffrage for the men. They might as well grant it to the women, too; for it may be set down as certain that the women will be only a year or two behind in making the same demand.

The new cabinet is believed to be the strongest Japan has had in years; for it represents a ' coalition of three parties. '

At the present time Japan is engaged in electrifying the 6,000 miles of state-owned railways. Practically all of the electrical equipment fot, this work is being bought from the United States. Japan is now buying American elefttri-■ cal equipment at the rate of $10,000,000 a year; The hydro-electric power systems of Japan aiW-being developed rapidly, as is natural, due the fact that there is no coal on the island. ,

It is reported that practically all the JapsK nese Christian leaders are demanding the sever-? ance of their church relations with the parent' bodies in the United States. However, while this$ is put forward in the news despatches as some^ thing of recent occurrence, yet the Japanese-’ have never taken kindly to the idea of splitting Christ’s church up into the "57 varieties,” com- • mon in the United States. - -

Hawaii r

VOLCANOLOGISTS are quite sure that the great Kilauea Volcano, frequently referred to as the world’s safest volcano, is now about to become violently active. Earthquakes/ explosions, and landslides in the vicinity are . frequent; and roars like dashing waves arise from the pit. The steam which rises is blue in color, showing the presence of gas; cracks in the floor of the pit are widening; and sections -which until very recently have been considered,, safe for visitors to stand upon, have caved in and been swallowed up in the foaming lava* Two visitors narrowly escaped death when the section on which they had been standing caved' in only a few seconds after they had left it. \

Dutch New Guinea .

UBLIC discussion by the peoples of Holland* and Germany has killed the plan which had 1

been almost accepted by the Dutch Government for the establishment of a German dukedom in j Dutch New Guinea. A group of monarchists*? has proposed to the Dutch Government to take ' over a large district with a native population i of 200,000. All laws governing the district were to be set aside. New laws were to be made by the operating company, and the district was to be left in sole charge of the company for seventy-five years. The Dutch Government was , reported as friendly to this idea; but neither ,4 the Dutch nor the German people would have \ it; and it has been abandoned, \ H

Personal Responsibility as to Taxes

PEKCHANCE the inspector has a business which depends largely upon the good will of the public. So rather than to offend these patriotic (T) road workers and their friends, 'the bill1 is allowed. Thus an extra burden of additional and unnecessary taxes is laid upon - the tax-payer.

Here we have a clear illustration of how in-Gdividual righteousness might lessen the cost of ^frovernment. Let those who are clamoring for ®<ax reduction take notice. Tax reduction, like charity, should begin at home.

“We love your children better than you do,” was a slogan used by some childless promoters ?Lof a rural high school proposition in one com-1 munity. This was absolutely false. In the old days, under the management of teachers who * had to stand rigid examinations in the common branches and in school government, and who were willing to work for somewhere near the income their patrons were getting, we had better schools than we have now, under the super; vision of our high-priced, high-school graduate faddists; and we turned' out stronger students.

Nearly every little hamelet now has its $60, 000 to $225,000 school buildings; and the money these schools have brought into the towns, together with the other money the farmer has put into circulation, has combined to make the in- habitants more prosperous than they have ever been before. Naturally, they are strong for progress (?) and the present order of things.

>■ When all this money began to roll in, a big “merry - go - round” was started, upon which >■ every one but the farmer can ride. Because he ■ is the only person who cannot fix the price on / what he has to sell he can not get on.

;, The riders are having the time of their lives, ^their only fear being that the farmer will quit ^fis very useful occupation and hop upon the wheel. The extra weight might break the ma; chinery; and all would then be forced to climb off and get down to real work and plain living.

* To the thinking person, it is no mystery why : freight rates are so high. The railroad companies have their proportion of these high taxes ___ to pay; and, in addition, they have thousands of employes who must have wages sufficient to enable them to maintain the “American high standard of living.”

Of course, it would never do for these companies to feel the weight of the increased expenses ; so the bill is passed on to the shipper. The farmer has virtually voted high transportation charges upon himself.

It is not more credit that the farmer needs. It would have been a blessing if he never could have borrowed a dollar. He would then, at least, have been his own “boss” with no one to say to him, "Sign this,” or, “Vote thus and so.” If the farmer would get his business on a cash basis as quickly as possible, and keep it there, instituting a “pay as you go” system to govern all his affairs, both public and private, we sincerely believe that he would soon force all other businesses into their proper sphere and thus accomplish much towards establishing the just balance so necessary to the satisfactory adjustment of this world’s affairs. ;

Drastic Remedy Suggested

MANY farmers should take advantage of’ the bankruptcy law, and start life afresh.

There is absolutely no use in their floundering * about in the quicksands of debt when every struggle puts them in deeper.

Then, instead, of sending their children to high school to be polished and entertained, let them put them, as well as themselves and their wives/' to work, thus giving them a practical education" , and a taste of the joy of useful accomplishment. The higher education is a luxury, not a necessity. ■

Young people everywhere should be encbur-aged to obtain knowledge; but all institutions of higher learning should be self-supporting.

For their own good, able-bodied children who have finished the grades should not continue -to be objects of charity.

Children must be taught early to feel some responsibility for their own maintenance, if we are to reduce the present output of egotists and youthful criminals. Work under proper conditions and fox reasonable hours will not injure any normal child. In times past, we have overdone child labor; but now, in many sections of the country, we are going to the other extreme of no work at all, much to the moral detriment of the on-coming generation. After these bankrupt families, by their united efforts, have at- ' tained comfortable, not luxurious homes, let ; them do the honest thing, and lay aside, funds ’ with which to requite to past creditors what was lacking in the amount due them.

We are well aware that we are advocating a stern remedy. But we believe that the farmer's case is serious; that his troubles have their source in the usury (interest) system, which was forbidden by Jehovah in the early days of the Jewish nation, and which later became established in this world's affairs; and that the sooner he realizes his condition, quits taking the nostrums and optimistic soothing syrups

administered to him from the newspapers, the ' pulpit, the platform, and the entertainment 2 halls, and faces the situation squarely, the better-for himself and all concerned. rg

Cooperations and federations are only at- / tempts to shirk individual responsibility. God. J has spoken the doom of such in Isaiah 8:9,10.

The lesson may be bitter; but it is needed to ? teach men to use their God-given powei$ to think, not suffering themselves to be driven hither and thither like ships without rudders^J^

Little Common Sense in Radio Buying By Frederic Timmerman

THE prospective purchaser of a radio receiving set today has small chance of making an intelligent selection, for the reason that he is confined almost exclusively to advertisements or "inspired” reading notices for his information. Occasionally he can listen in on a neighbor’s set to help make a choice; but even then he is Hable to make a mistake, as so many conditions affect the operation of a receiver. The only real test, obviously, is direct comparison; i. e.t with the various receivers attached to the same aerial and ground and using the same tubes, batteries and headsets. By changing from ’ one instrument to another periodically during an evening one could notice the difference in quality, volume and range as well as selectivity. Of course, this is impractical usually; so one is confined to buying on faith, and unfortunately often is disappointed. The reason is not hard to find. The persistent and ’ almost exclusive but unwarranted use of superlatives to describe radio products, and nonchalant announcements of transcontinental and transoceanic reception lead the uninitiated to expect more from a moderate-priced receiver in the home than is possible today in the well-equipped laboratory.

From time to time accounts are read of extraordinary performance, and one is led to infer that it is commonplace. Adding to this the tendency of the average owner of a radio receiver to exaggerate and herald to his neighbors a record performance as an everyday occurrence, it is easy to see why buyers are frequently disappointed when they have bought a really good product worth all they pay for it.

The virtues of receiving apparatus most stressed in advertising are selectivity, sensitivity, clarity and volume; and each and every instrument from $10 to $500 claims exactly the same results. No other term but "maximum*' will do; maximum range, maximum volume, maximum selectivity; etc. Obviously this cannot be true. Whom are we to believe 7 The answer usually is the "Big Name"; but unfortunately the buyer frequently goes wrong in this. Sometimes "Big Advertising” creates "Big Name”; and as usual the consumer pays the bilL

Points to Bear in Mind

HERE is an unbiased statement of what may be expected of a good radio broadcast receiver: .

Sensitivity (range): Consistent reception, the ability to duplicate at will on any normal night in winter is limited to approximately 1,000 miles, assuming a 500-watt transmitting station. When conditions are unfavorable, this distance is greatly lessened; while under extraordinarily favorable conditions it is not uncommon to reach out 2,500 miles.

Selectivity : The limiting factor is simplicity^® of control. A highly sensitive receiver with not too highly complicated control can select stations within a range of three miles.

Volume and Clarity: For really great volume without distortion we are still looking. Volume too great for headsets up to 500 miles is common.

Stability: Little is said about one of the most important points of any radio receiver— stability. One should, after properly tuning in a station, be able to enjoy it indefinitely without

fl ■ - ■ - ' t

■ further adjustment. But this is rather uncommon. The craze today is for what are known as "trick” circuits—make one do the work of two, etc., which really means something for nothing. These generally carry names made up of syllables from names of some of the "world beaters” designed to push sales. Most of these circuits < * give Wonderful results when they function prop-7 erly, which is seldom.

Use the same reason in buying and operating a radio receiver as you would a motor car. In motor cars maximum speed means a high-

powered racer, while maximum comfort and pleasure require the moderate-powered family car. You cannot get both in one type of Vehicle; neither can you get the maximum of all the good points of a radio receiver in a single type of instrument. By the same token do not condemn your set when atmospheric conditions ate unfavorable, any more than you would condemn your motor when the elements force you to leave the car in the garage.

Civilization in South Carolina in 1924

(From the Greenville Netos of April 30, 1924)

at

BECAUSE they took exception to his views that the common conception of hell as a place of torture is in error, A. L. Paschall, who lectured at the Casino theater in Greenville Sunday afternoon in the interest of the movement that teaches that "millions now living will never die,” was overtaken by a mob of about twenty men soon after he departed from Easley last Saturday afternoon and beaten, he declared yesterday. Mr. Paschall is a native of North Carolina, but is more recently from California. t . Mr. Paschall, who has been making Green. ville his headquarters for some time, mentioned (the Easley incident in a report on his Sunday lecture and work made to the Greenville News.

Some people in Easley, Mr. Paschall said, wanted a lecture there; so it was arranged for the local theater for Sunday forenoon. The ministers of the various denominations of the community petitioned the theater owner not to permit use of his property for the lecture, he said, and the posters which had advertised it were torn down and the lecture plans abandoned. Mr. Paschall said that he had distributed Bible literature in the town.

As he was leaving Easley, Mr. Paschall said, he was overtaken by about twenty men arid beaten-; and the men also threatened to burn the Bible literature which he had in his automobile. ~

"Some of the mob,” said the worker, "sQpmed to have become enraged over some statements in a booklet which I was distributing. This booklet is entitled rWhat the Bible Says About in which it is stated that hell (shed, hadesrth&t is, the grave) is a place of darkness (Job 10:21^ —not a place of torture but of silence.—Psaltn 115:17.

"They seem to want to believe,” the colporteur said, "what many preachers have scared many people into insanity with—that most people go to an eternal existence of torture when they die, thus denying the resurrection of the dead arid the Lord that bought us.”—2 Peter 2:1. ■ ;

Mr. Paschall said that he had made no report of the matter to officers of the law and intended: to make none, inasmuch as he did not care 1b see the men involved punished and inasmuch as . he hoped that most if not all of them regretted the step they had taken.

fc

(From the Carolina Times, of Easley, S. C.)'

' E. L. Barbour, a man representing himself as a minister of the gospel, was in town the first of the week distributing a book entitled "Millions Now Living Will Never Die.” Barbour’s teachings are said by other ministers to be of very luestionable character; and after he had made complete canvass of the town he was invited by he police to discontinue work in Seneca and leave town. Adding their weight to the warri- . ing given by city officials, the Seneca Ku Klux Klan also notified Barbour to leave town. A\; Klan official says that this is one warning they, do not deny giving, and if the "preacher” had . not complied with the request to leave towri, more direct and effective means would have been employed.

Facts and Figures on Medical Ignorance

WE HAVE the following classes of therapies: (1) Allotherapy; (2) biochemico-therapy; (3) botaniotherapy; (4) chiropracto-therapy; (5) dietotherapy; (6) electrotherapy; (7) electriono therapy; (8) hemeotherapy; (9) homeotherapy; (10) hydrotherapy; (11) limotherapy; (12) massagetherapy; (13) organotherapy; (14) opsonotherapy; (15) osteother-apy; (1$) pistiotherapy; (17) psychotherapy; (18) radiotherapy;. (19) theotherapy; (20) thermo therapy; (21) viaviotherapy. All these therapies have cured patients or they never would have existed. '

I have cured patients allop athically, biochemically, chiropractically, dietotherapically, homeopathically, hydropathicaliy, limotherapically, osteopathically, pisteotherapically, psychother-apically and theotherapically, even when our health board crowd failed to cure. Therefore I am opposed to one school of healers being empowered by our government to boss and rule out all other schools of healers, as the allopathic school of which the Board of Health now consists, is being allowed to do; for all other schools heal often when its healers fail. Moreover, I am most heartily opposed to the allopathic or any other school of healers having unlimited and unregulated control of the health and people of our government, for the reason that each school is too ignorant at its best. Therefore, since the allopathic school is now already empowered unduly, and1 also is seeking absolute control of every one and everything, I shall dearly show that its ignorance is too great to be allowed even what it has already Mecured of power and control.

The cells of the human body are now supposed to be the basis, or units, of its life; and hence any upsetment of their natural workings causes an irregularity in their normal life that may end in a permanent disease, or diseases, or death, or both. The full chemical structure and balance of the cells and their vibratory value, and also their true differentiation and individual power to receive and to resist, are all unknown; even that mysterious something that makes it possible to see what is within the range of vision through the best microscopes. No one therefore can know what a drug, vaccine, or serum may do towards unbalancing, disorganiz-

By Isaac L. Peebles, M. D.

ing and destroying normal cells. Dr. Broadhurst, a professor in biology in the Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, declared : ,fWe are still very far from an adequate comprehension of the activities of bacteria."— “How We Resist Diseases,” page 19, for 1923.

All will admit that nothing will excel or even equal normal cells; and therefore, what a tremendous risk to impose upon them drugs, vaccines or serums to better what is already normal and perfect! Cells are not alike in size, power to receive, to resist, endure, or to do; and therefore what some may be equal to, others may not be equal to the same.' This is why drugs, vaccines, serums, etc., disease people and kill them. This is why people die so immediately with croup, diphtheria, heart failure, pneumonia, influenza, paralysis, etc., when drugs, vaccines, serums, etc., are administered. The first time I witnessed the administration of a serum for croup, it killed the child in about fifteen minutes after given. The child was not suffocating from the false membrane forming, neither did it die from suffocation.

This is why some die quickly when pneumonia serum, diphtheria and other serums are given. That is why Karnsner, professor in pathology, and Ecker, professor of immunology, of the Reserve University, of Cleveland, Ohio, declared in their book, “Principles of Immunology,” pages 282, 283, that a serum that may immunize a dog will not succeed in human beings; and, too, declared that it has been estimated that only six to ten percent of untreated persons bitten by rabid animals, die. In Europe seven of 169 bitten by rabid animals were treated with the serum, and three died; tad of 162 untreated, not one died. In Baltimore, Md., eight persons were treated; and the three that were not bitten through their clothes died, while the five bitten through their clothes did not die.

Despite the boast of stamping out yellow fever, no one knows its cause. All that is kjiown as to its cause is simply its transmission by the mosquito called Stegomyia, which has to bite a yellow fever patient before it can give yellow fever to a person. Hence the medical world is still ignorant as to how the first patient must get it so that mosquitos can carry it to others. Its origin is still in ignorance; and there is no great

science displayed in isolating yellow fever patients and the killing of mosquitos. There was no forced diseasing and murdering of the people to stop yellow fever.

In vaccination for smallpox, Jenner, the accredited beginner of vaccination, vaccinated his own son at eighteen months with hogpox in November, 1789, and declared it to be a preven. tative of smallpox. Afterwards he declared that the virus of grease, a disease of the heels of horses, whether taken directly from the heels of . horses or from a cow infected with the same disease/ would protect the rest of our lives. , Hence he was believed, and his vaccination con-tinned until 1898, when spontaneous cowpox * virus was used. Now both spontaneous cowpox virus and smallpox virus are used; and besides we now have as many as fourteen vaccines. Where vaccination has been made compulsory the death rate from smallpox has gone from 10,14 and 18 percent to 65 and 85 percent.

The most rigidly vaccinated countries without regard to sanitation, have the most small-• pox; but those countries that have given proper attention to sanitation and less attention to vaccination have had fewer deaths from smallpox. . Hence Dr. C. K. Millard, health officer of Leicester, England, could wisely declare that smallpox - lessened or declined in proportion to the neglect of vaccination, and in proportion to proper attention given to isolation and sanitation. (See Journal of American Med. Assn., Sept., 1923, page 1125.) In his book, "The Vaccination Question,” page 150, he admits comparative "immunity” to smallpox of unvaccinated infants.

On page 105 of his book on "Drug Action,” ' Dr. Sallmann, in the University of Cleveland, Ohio, declares that Ehrlich’s Side Chain Theory had not been proven to be true. He also said that vaccines or toxins might destroy cells. Dr. Millard, a vaccinationist, in his book, "The Vaccination Question,” page 52, published in 1914, said of Japan : 'Tn spite of vaccination, revaccination and extraordinary vaccination, in spite of this great vaccination, 80,000 took smallpox and 23,000 died from 1896 to 1910.” After vaccination and revaccination in the Philippines from 1898 to 1919, smallpox seized 107,981, and 59,741 died just in 1918 and 1919.

"The Hygeia,” a health journal of the American Medical Association, in its November, 1923, issue, declared of Japan, a well vaccinated and / revaccinated country: "There have been epidemies since vaccination began.” But it failed ' to publish that from 1889 to 1908 Japan had 28,280 deaths, and from 1917 to 1920 it had 3,397 deaths, despite its rigid vaccination and even its sanitation. If rigid isolation and sanitation had been practised, and vaccination let -alone, it could have said what Meridian, Misst, has been able to say for seventeen or more years, that since it has stopped compulsory vaccination and given attention to sanitation, ijt has not had a smallpox epidemic during that ; time; and also ns Leicester, England, with its 250,000 people, without compulsory vaccination for more than thirty years, having given attention to sanitation.

Last November in Gloucester, England, within fifteen miles of where Jenner was born, reared, and began his vaccination curse, officers were elected who did not believe in compulsory; vaccination nor in vaccination.

Let the diseasing, murderous practice end forever, and especially compulsory vaccination.

Of antitoxin, Dr. Karnsner and Dr. Ecker in their book, "Principles of Immunology,” page 42, declare: "The exact nature of antitoxin is unknown”; and Dr. Leathers, in a letter to me on September 28, 1923, said: "It is well to emphasize that ten percent of the children who take three required inoculations, at least one week apart, of toxin-antitoxin, are not immunized. Antitoxin once was declared to immune, . but now it is declared that it is effective only after diphtheria develops.”

The best institutional doctors make more than seventy-two percent of errors in diagnosis o£ diseases, and in general practice more than seventy-seven percent. (See Journal of the American Medical Association, October 8,1921, page 1209.)

Doctors do not know the origin of eight different skin diseases, much less the character of smallpox, vaccines, scarlet fever, cancer, etc. Therefore can one not see how unwise it is to put our children, ourselves and all others into the hands of boards of health to carry out their ignorant experiments with diseases and deadly -vaccines on us, with state authority? Surely we. shall not be so lacking in wisdom. Surely we ‘ shall stop such casualty and injustice!

The Purpose of the Animal Creation By l. c. Parrott

0 DOUBT all people of questioning minds, ’ especially those who have reached years of maturity, have often wondered what useful purpose has been served by such an infinite variety of living creatures as we see on the earth. In the case of many of these it is hard to see what benefit they have been to the earth or to man.

Reasoning from the Scriptural statement that the earth was not created in vain, but formed to be inhabited (Isaiah 45:18) and intended to remain forever (Psa. 104:5; Eccl. 1:4), and that man was created to have dominion over it and everything upon it, and was given the command to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth (Gen. 1:26-28), we get the thought that man is designed to be its permanent inhabitant. Other living creatures have served a temporary purpose, to fill in a gap, as it were, until the time when the earth as a whole will be in a suitable condition to be a permanent home for man.

Evil Beasts to Become Extinct

WE UNDERSTAND also that all these various living creatures have each had a part in helping to bring the earth into a suitable cpndition to be man’s everlasting’ home; and when they have served their purpose they will pass away except such of them as shall be found not to interfere with man but to minister to his use and pleasure. As a proof of the last statesmen! note the prophetic words of the Almighty in Ezekiel 34:25, that He “will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they [men] shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.”

In order to get a full grasp of the situation it seems necessary to carry our minds back to the Azoic age, to the time (approximately 48,000 years ago) when the first work began with this earth to prepare it as a habitation for man. Without going into all the evidence we will merely say here that we think it a reasonable presumption that the earth was at that time in a partly molten and partly gaseous condition. At that time all the various metals—gold, silver, copper, iron, etc.—were in a gaseous condition, along With all the elements that now compose our oceans, seas and lakes, in dense masses of cloudy vapor, surrounding the central molten nucleus, aiid possibly extending out from the center as far as the moon is now.

…