Golden Age, January 28, 1925
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Vol. VI Bi-Weekly No. 140
January 28, 1925
Contents of the Golden Age
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Social and Educational
Education and Knowledge versus Thtnkixg . .
Mr. Goodenough
Art, Music’, and Literatcre
Hemarkable Ability ' in Handwriting
'Vinter Days (Poem) .......
Political-Domestic and If'oREiclN
Beyond American Shores ......
Mexico, Brazil, Argentine ............... 259
England's Great Air Vessel
Miscellaneous British Items
Ireland, Spain, France
Germany, Italy, Tripoli . ... . . . . . . . . .... 261
Asia and Australia . ............ . . . . 261
Fresno's Newspaper Battle ... . . ....... .
. Home and Health
A Joint Declaration of Medical LHehty Hights . . . . ... 266
Proposed Constitutional .Amendment Guaranteeing Moffical Liberty. 269
Are White Men Sick? ...
Religion and Philosophy
Perhaps the Vicar Will Say a Few Worms (Cartoon) . ... . 271
The Day of Atonement . 2 2 . . ....... .
How May One Become a Chmstlax? . . ....... •
Man a Sinner .................. 277
Office of the Christian ........
A Belated Poem
Rome Reverses Even the Ten Comma?, daevi s
Seven Assertions .....
Rome Divides^ Worship ................ 283
Worship of Images .................. 284
Another Item About Hell .....
Studies in "The Harp 0]’ God"............_ . . 287
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Mexico—Brazil—Argentine
England’s Great Air Vessel
FROM time to time despatches have indicated that Japan is seeking in Mexico an outlet for -surplus population. ~ Japanese envoys have recently visited Mexico with that end in view, and there has been some apprehension that colonization south of the border might mean the gradual infiltration of the United States from the south. It now appears, however, that Mexican laws forbid foreign colonization near the sea coast .or within sixtimiles of the border; and that Nlexico, remembering the loss of Texas
after it had been well colonized by Artlericans, does not wish any Asiatic colonization at all.
For three hundred years one of the regiments of Brazil has had as nominal colonel one of the irnaginary saints, named Anthony. Brazil has been paying his salary right along to one of the religious associations; but an honest man. became Minister of VVar in Brazil and has just issued an order that St. Anthony, having served three centuries, is now gazetted and placed on the retired list, which means that this particular graft is over.
By. a vote of seven to six the Argentine Council of Ministers has decided to discontinue any appropriations for the maintenance of an embassy to the Vatican. This action follows similar action by the French government within the past few weeks. Only a brief tinie ago the Argentine government served notice on the Vatican that its representative was unwelcome in Argentina, owing to interference in domestic political affairs.
The world has had its first International Congress on Social Economy, the sessions of ,vhich have just been concluded at Buenos Aires. Its recomnlendations include a universal eighthour day, uniform social insurance laws, hygienic protection of workingmen, cooperative 'luarketing and decentralization of population. It is a forward step in a right direction.
TIIE. United States . having now safely received the ZH-3 Zeppelin, and being' already the possessor of the Shenandoah, England has gone -her one better by placing a contract- with- "Vickers & Company for a zeppelin that will have a capacity of - five million cubic feet. This is twice the capacity of the ZR-3 and then some.
England's super-zeppelin will be 720 feet long, 140 feet high, will have a speed of fifty rniles an hour, and will be operated by seven engines each of 600 horse-power. The fuel
will be crude oil. Twenty tons will be available for goods and passengers, spread out over two decks. Leaving London on Saturday noon, the ship 'will arrive in Cairo on Monday noon.
The statement of the Lord that unless the days of the hnpending troubles should be cut short there 'would no flesh be saved receives added weight £1'0111 the following statelnent by General E. D. S\vainton of the British Army. General Svyuinton said : "'^ehe great future weapon of war will be deadly germs. \Ve have, since the war, discovered and developed germs which, dropped upon cities and arniies, will slaughter a nation in a day." •
Aniericans are mere beginners in diplOlnacy a.s cOlnpared with the brilliant stateslnen of Britain. ,Ve always find out later just what it was they had in niind when they talked. ,¥ e never find it out at the time. ..A.t present we are wondering what Sir Auckland Geddes, former British lUnbassador at 'Yashington, had iu rnind when he said in a speech in London recently: "\Ve know that we have yielded the position of leadership to America in connection with the work designed for the higher serviee- of humanity." Is it possible that Sir Auckland and hi3 friends want America to be the head of the-League of Nations, instead of the tail, as was originally planned? 'Ve can only wonder and wait. - .......
In a seven-month perioa the United States Government paid out to two British lines $401,000 for mail assigned to those vessels to carry-abroad for the United States' postal administra-' tion; but in that same time twelve of Uncle Sam's best ships- headed in the other direction received a total of less than $5,000, four of them nothing at all. The Government is now making an inquiry into- this, with a view of seeing whether fair play cannot be had.
Thrteen villages and parishes have disappeared from the East Riding of Yorkshire within a few hundred years last past. In one place a forest lies dromred. In another place the records show that certain men were excommunicated for poaching where fishes now live. On the rocky Jersey shore there is a tower which was built in the time of Napoleon, bl1t which after less than 120 years is now nearly two miles out at sC'a.
Three women, spiritualists, took pictures of London's Cenotaph which, when developed, showed photographs of faces dirnly revealed about the top of the monument. Accused of fraud, the woman explained that these photographic results "come from some power which works through me, and over which I have no control." We accept this as correct. The pO'w-ers are demoniacal. '
After the death of a ten-year-old patient at Gloucester, Dr. IIadwen, the world's most fa-IUOUS anti-vivisectionist and anti-vaccinationist, ,vas arrested, charged with manslaughter, because he had failed to adnlinister antit.oxin. During the course of the trial, which lasted a week, Dr. Hadwen when asked why he did not follow the general view of his fello'w physicians retorted that at one time the whole medical profession were in favor of bleeding. When asked why he set up. his judgment as against that of all the other doctors, he answered by the one word Galileo. When the jury, after twenty minutes deliberation, brought in a verdict of Not Guilty, Dr. Hadwen received one of the greatest demonstrations ever witnessed in England. .
Twenty million dead rats are the results of a week's campaign recently waged in Great Britain. It was calculated that about seventy percent of the baits fixed found victims. A form of poison was used called red squill, which has the peculiar property of killing rats but being harmless to domestic animals.
Possibly influenced more or less by the Ku Klux Klan movement, - England has under way a fiery cross crusade. A cross made up of burning lamps is - being taken around from one church building to another. Squads of men watch the lamps to - see that they do not go out. It makes quite an exciting time for the small boys, who wonder, as do those of more mature years, what it is all about and what good it can possibly do. The clergy are reported as saying that they are deteITllined by this means to get a fresh outpouring of the holy spirit. We do not remember that the early"" church ever engaged in such a crusade, -but they had the holy spirit.
lreland-Spain-Prance
A ‘ CATHOLIC lady, Agnes Casement Nmvd man man, writing in the New York Times de;-clares that "at the present time Southern Ireland (outside .the six counties of Ulster) is groaning under a cruel and shameful, taxation; yet almost every week Free State Ministers are being banqueted at great expense, while their own countrywen are at their doors in a state of appalling starvation! Old men, women and children are the greatest sufferers. Thieving is rampant in Dublin streets. Railway rates have been raised 100 percent since 1922. Clothing and food are nlore expensive in many parts than in the United States."
Declaring that King Alfonso, during the World War, repeatedly conveyed to Berlin in.. formation which he thought might help the German cause, the novelist Ibanez says of Spain's present condition:
"Reading a Spanish newspaper is simply reading literature by Primo de Rivera, a fantastic author and 11 tragic clown. Throughout the nineteenth century no Western European country was in a situation like that of Spain today. Only Russia under the Czars in the most troubled times could offer such a spectacle of cruel, illiterate, grotesque generals enslaving the entire country and killing its thought. The country of Don Quixote has become the country of Sancho Panza— gluttonous, cowardly, servile, incapable of conceiving an idea which goes beyond the feed-bag."
Enough to make angels weep was the terrible parade, in Paris on Armistice Day, of 25,000 ex-soldiers of the 'Vorld War. In wheeled chairs, on stretchers, or carried by relatives, or led. by their children, came the armless, the legless, the blind, and those whose faces had been destroyed by shrapnel. No such spectacle was ever seen on earth before, and God forbid it nlay ever be again. The parade was an appeal for pension enough to sustain life. By a new rule Americans: born in France are liable to serve in the French army. General Pershing's Commission has decided that the 30,447 graves of American soldiers in France shall be marked with marble crosses instead of headstones, as in America.
In the eighteen years which have elapsed since the French government closed the monasteries and chased their • tenants out of France, thousands of -the monks have returned and, according to Camille Chautemps, French Secretary of the Interior, are now agitating throughout the country, asking the people to oppose the government and to refuse to pay taxes. According to 1'lr. Chautenlps fifteen hundred young men in one district have formed a legion, and have taken an oath to obey the priest before the laws; and in other parts of the republic bishops and priests are inciting the people to bloodshed, in resistance of the government.
The French government has passed a law forbidding religious processions, similar to the 1[exican law on the same subject. The' Bishop of 110ntauban tried a test case. Dressed up in all the paraphernalia that goes with the Bishop business, he headed a funeral procession for the cemetery. But the police, 'meant business; and when he neared the entrance . they forcibly removed his black skirt. Then a fist fight followed, during which three were arrested.
Germany—Ifaly—Tripoli
THE Infanta Eulalie's fanlous glass dress, which created so much interest in America at the time of the World's Fair, in 1893, has finally found a resting place in the Gennan mu-seunl at :Munich. This dress, nlade of 2,500,000 threads of soft spun glass, is not transparent. It weighs only one pound, and makes no more noise when moved than does ordinary silk.
At a children's nursing horne at Baden; near Vienna, six babies have died as a consequence of vaccination against diphtheria, and many others are seriously ill. The civic authorities of Leicester, England, take note of this and regard it as another justification of their stand against vaccination. Leicester keeps well, and ref uses to vaccinate.
The grandson of Garibaldi the Great has been stirring .things in 'Italy. ' He is, opposed to the reign of Mussolini and the F'ascisti. On Armistice Day he headed in. Rome a parade of ex-soldiers, which was attacked by the Fascisti. Thereupon he challenged ]'\'1 ussolini to a duel, but the challenge was not accepted. Meantimt*-!Iussolini defends himself with the statement that Fascism does -not tolerate illegal acts, that the government has demonstrated this by convicting and imprisoning 845 Fascists, and tlui t he (Mussolini) has ordered the arrest of an who wear black shirts with abuses.
Azizia is the hottest place yet. It is an Italian town in Tripoli, on the edge of the Sahara. Sonle time last fall they had a warnl day j n Azizia. It was warm at 85, more warm at 9g, still warmer at 105, hot at 115, hotter at 12;), and hottest at 136.4 degrees, which is as hot as anybody can reasonably want it in this life. Some good people hope for a hotter place later, but they will .- never find it, nor will anybody else. There isn't any such place.
Asia and Australia
THE reason 'why ‘ve hear so little any more about the Far Eastern Republic is that it has ceased to exist. It started out with a constitution patterned after the Constitution of the United States, but after a few months gave up the ship and decided to cast in its lot with Soviet Russia. Today Soviet Russia covers all the territory once covered by the Russian Empire, except the fringe of states along the Baltic Sea.
Although China has been a republic for several years, she has nevertheless allowed the exemperor a salary of $4,000,000, with a considerable allowance for the 2,000 hangers-on that go with a court. As an act of war the enlperor's salary has been cut to $250,000, his title has been taken away, and the 2,000 hangers-on have been paid off and dismissed.
Dr. Paul !10nroe, of Colunlbia University, just returned from China, explains that he was caught in a typical Chinese naval battle. When the battle began, there were five fighting ships on each side. They drew near one another, and at the proper time began to shower one another with a volley of Chinese words. In due tinle the best talkers persuaded four of their five op> ponents to come over to their side of the line; and at last the fifth vessel came over, too. Chinese warriors fight in this fashion for 20a per day.
The* Japanese government has brought about i:J1c registration of . all opium smokers in the island of Formosa, which has been ■ for many years under Japanese rule. By this method ' the number of. smokers is gradually reduced, . as the drug is -sold only to -those who are already incurables. The State monopoly system is recommended by the Opium Conference at Geneva as the best method of keeping the opium traffic in check.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
A subscriber in New Zealand sends us a leaf from "The Parish Magazine" in which a . new vicar says to - his flock: "The- call came to me very imperatively to come -to you, .and I had no. hesitation in discerping - it to- be. a clear call froiu God." Then the subscriber goes on to explain that the guarantors had originally . offered him £400 per year, but- that the dominie- had held out until, they had made it £500. After that, it seems, the -call was imperative, but not sooner.
Education and Knowledge 'Versus Thinking By A. 'J. Eshleman
A PRIVATE library was once considered an expensive and inexcusable luxury, . only to be had by the ultra-rich - and fastidious. But it is now recognized to be a valuable - treasure in any good home; and every householder owes it to his offspring and his home influence to equip them with a collection of books whose true worth as an educational force has been well demonstrated. -.- The selection, or course, would depend somewhat upon the standards set up in the home by worthy parents as well - as upon the predilections of their children. The parent who can leave his child a rich legacy of well-trained character has more to Te thankful for than have those who can bequeath wealth, luxury, and ease.
The value - of a . library can hardly be determined by the number of books one might have. Many people have a vast number of ponderous eneumbrances - because of a peculiar pride in book-owning; books which they have never read, perhaps never will, but whieh they accumulate simply to grace their homes. To confine the selection to those numbers which really feed the mind and induce men to- think ,vonld probably reduce one's shelf capacity very materially. Porto derive any possible benefit trom books one must feel a sweet delight in their precious contents which can be, had only by a consciousness of their true value.
"While it is .commendable to - Tead" . yet reading merely furnishes the mind with the raw materials of - knowledge and wisdom. It ' is thenking that counts, and that ' makes what ' we . read an integral part of ourselves. An ounce of mind-power enabling- one to think- is worth infinitely more than a ton of knowledge . pent up in books.
The Power of Right Thinking
"EDUCATION is defined as the training of one's mental, moral and physieal qualities with the view of bringing, these into spheres of usefulness contributing to the good of the commonwealth as well as one's - o’Vl welfare. Thinking is defined as the employing of the intellectual faculties without the necessary aid of . perception, or sense. 11uch detail might be given here, but the main -point to be stressed is that education and knowledge are to thinking what sight is to seeing. One might have splendid ocular powers, and still not use 'them to their fullest capacity. Similarly one might be well informed without possessing the ability to think. .
Thought is the greatest force in the world. The last war was a conflict between two great armies of thought. If the pen is mightier than the sword, then the drop of ink that - makes men think is more powerful than all the material weapons used 'by our combined forces, laud and sea. Out of the tiny threads of thought a re woven social conditions; or, thought is the industrious worm that produces the thread. E nt as -the worm must be cultivated lest the cloth be ‘defective, so should thought be stimulated lest the fabric of society deteriorate. The importance of right thinking cannot be over-('s< timated; for the man who thinks right is unconquerable.
It has- been said that as the twig is bent so the tree will grow. The wise man said: . "Train up ■ .a 'child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22: 6) But - where . shall the child - be - trained j Many ' good people think that men who are - truly wise are always- the product of much college training. 'Vith all due courtesy to this prevail-iug opinion, a little reflection over the history of the past few centuries diseloses that real genius in society, statesnlanship, and conlil erce, is not always made there.
.A.ll elaborate and expensive college course Goes not of itself qualify a person; nor does the lack of it disqualify hilll. Very recent chapters in American history show that a certain expresident is acknowledged to be one of the most finely educated gentlemen our systenl can produce; and yet 111any people novv calmly, dispassionately regard his administration as a failure, if not a. disaster. The father of our country was not a college graduate; Andrew Jackson had almost no education; and Abra -ham Lincoln acquired most of his education after he had left school. Interest in this is inten-sHIed when we recall that Mr. Lincoln, who was not a soldier, won the war against Gen. Lee, one of the ablest men in the annals of American generalship.
Proper Education Best Safeguard
THE groundwork of an intelligent and wisely ordered society begins in the home. The child that is there taught to regard constituted authority, and that by the aid of normally well-educated parents. receives a ,veIl-balanced start in life, is more than half prepared to regard the "velfare of the people in general in later years. If there could be a sincere and mutual cooperation between worthy parents, the teachers. in our schools, and the leaders of state, with a keen desire to teach our children to think, then the ties that bind the interests of the people ''lould be kind instead of cruel.
The proper kind of education is a better s afe-guard of liberty than a standing army. To distribute equally and impartially intellectual powers is of far greater importance than is the dividing of things material, and less dangerous to society; but this our great leaders have steadfastly refused to concede. But any system of education that does not so teach and interpret the brotherhood of man is hopelessly susceptible to sentiments and prejudices, and in the end will result inevitably in oligarchy.
,,ye are headed in many directions educationally, but led^ somewhat into confusion a nd uncertainty. College life •has become superficial if not perfunctory. Our colicges in rnallY instances might explain why we should send our children to them at all to be tutored. \Ve IwHI' much loud , talk about Americanism, loyalty, citizenship, etc.; but it does not seem to mean much when compared with the principles u[ioii which the Constitution is built. It would be humorous were it . not for the fact that it is a juinble with the welfare of our youths.
For as much as we may dislike to own it, we are still surrounded with an educational nt-illosphere producing mostly intellectual dependents who dare not think nor act ill their own initiative. And much of this negation in life's possibilities and achievements is duly traceable to our indefensible, overworked s'ys-tcm of endowed colleges supported 1}7" private’ or class interests. "
Unreliability of College Education
RECENTLY Dr. Ifeiklejohn, late of Amherst, made some startling remarks. in proof of the foregoing. As. quoted by the. “Literary Digest" and the "Century Magazine", he is reported to have said:
"But in many external ways the American college, has confused its graduates. Not only has it asked for help; it has sought for favor. Often, and in mallY ways quite unworthy of itself, it has appealed to selfish and silly loyalties, to provincial and stupid prejudices; and for this we have had to pay. 'Ve who are in charge of learning have often craved the favor of men who do not care for learning, and the result is that at times the strain of lab or under the hostile scrutiny of 'thousands of angry, uncomprehending eyes becomes almost unbearable."
About this salne tinle the Boston .fhnerican published an editorIal as follows:
"It is time that we turned our attention once rnwre to puLlic instruction and recognized that we need higher education as well as primary education, and that, we cannot get it satisfactorily in the endolyed colleges. :Iit is time that we awoke to the necessity of public universities just as we have public elementary schools . -I jet Wall Street then have its private colleges if it wan! them, but let us establish in Massachusetts and all o ' n’T the country ‘great universities such as they have in the 'Vest. 1'hen we shall not be interesteel in sueh sC(ll\(li.lls as now shame Amherst."
A few days later this. same editor said:
"Professors know that they embarrass their presidents aud they embarrass the financial condition of their college wnen they give themselves over to free-thinking, especially when such free-thinking and free-speaking happen to be contrary to the class which makes the big contributions.... And the fact is that Harvard, like, other endowed colleges, depends largely for financial support upon the voluntary contributions of rich men, who are 'perfectly satisfied with the present conditions and who have made their money largely out of conditions which ■ most forward-looking people think ought to be corrected."
Not long since, Harvard announced that it would teach men to think, which, says Mr. ■ Brisbane, "recalls the saying, You can lead a horse to water, but"—. Our college boards must know that untrammeled education and helpful, constructive thinking have contributed more to the welfare of society than has passive and gullible acquiescence for the sake of mere policy or filthy lucre. A smafl fire that warms is hetter by far than a large one that burns.
The fathers of our country were all once considered irrational; and respectable English-gen-tlenlen brooked no denial -of their sore displeasure at being outwitted. Similarly in our time there is vehemence breathed out agaI. nst any one who would give the people the power to think, and while statesmen realize that we -
must have education, still they wink at a system that dexterously arranges that nothing inimical to "big interests" shall be taught to, our rising generation.
But despite this deliberate handicap, the people are awakening to the situation; and the leaders must soon acknowledge the sovereign will of the people as superior to classi interests. Only they must learn that pent-up steam, now released, may not run the machine so smoothly as if it had been used gradually. Iconoclasm and thinking play their parts alternatively.
Three Points for Consideration
RECENTLY a very prominent business man gave . as his key to success three points to keep in mind. They were: To remember, to observe, and to compare. Those who wish to check up on their Americanism might go at it in a similar manner: First, memorize the underlying principles of the Constitution; then dare to live in harmony with them; and re-n1ember that this wonderful document was framed in about eighty-five working days by men who, for the most part, were considered by the English as back-woodsmen and novices—-a piece of work so quickly and well done that it elicited the praise of England's grand old man, Mr. Gladstone.
Now contrast this masterpiece and its meaning -with the present-day interlocking machinery composed of boards, auxiliaries; committees, etc., with modern facilities for rapid work who spend months in trying to interpret (?) our Constitution and put a few patches on state and national statutes. It is as though one could hope .to beautify a silken garment by sewing on many cotton frills. One might honestly inquire why our government personnel in executive, judiyial, and legislative capacity are for the most part the product of much college education; and why, when one arises to official prorl1-inence from the common ranks, he is regarded as a huge joke! It is well known that many of those who withhold their votes at the various elections, local to national, are the ones who think. ' They love the principles of < righteousness and justice, but find little or no opportunity to express their desires at the polls.
Another point of interest here is that real genius is not always the offspring of ancestral brilliancy. 1iany a man who has boasted of hIS family tree in the field of education later hanged himself on that tree. While genius is born more often than created, still it usually arises out of conditions and environs that are consi.;, dered common and ordinary. But one great error in our system is to disregard the things of conllllonplace, whereas the truly learned and cultured would consider equally things of high estate and low. Only the mediocre mind would condemn a thing because it is numble.
St. Paul said (Romans 12: 16)-: "Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits." The truly great mind scorns nothing, pe it ever so humble^ for he realizes that few men of unusual intelligence have left the imprint of their ability upon their children, especially to any noticeable degree. Thus further is attested that one cannot always endow another with talent even when that one is of one's own blood.
Even the commendable feat of memorizing is not of itself essential to thinking. The so-called memory tests, although good, are not always a criterion. One might memorize at great length a certain line of argument and recite it by the yard; but who wishes to be a parrot ? The famous French writer, Montesquieu, once said: "I write not that you may read, but that you may think." This same author again said: "One who talks without thinking resembles a hunter who shoots without aiming." Socrates showed where true thinking begins when he said that he was called the wisest of Greeks because he knew that he knew nothing,
Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common, man, and swells the little man. Instead of blushing with a sense of unwarranted shame and fear when confronted with the proverbial interrogation, "What do you know?" the young mind should be taught the dignity and import of the question, “What do you think f' The so-called smart set should know that real ability to think begins vlhere boasting of knowledge ends. ,\Ve are never 111 ore deceived than, when we nlistake bigness for greatness, orthodoxy and tradition for truth, and pomposity for erudition.
The proper use of education is not so much ' to teach one how to absorb the ideas of another, as to train him how to apply his own mind. This, and not the over-stuffed intellect, is the object of education. And while few men of our time possess the ability to teach, still we can induce men to think for themselves, independently, so that instead of being enslaved to the opinions of our idolized authors and leaders, we should all be philosophers, capable of seeing as clearly as they the rationale of things.
An earnest, prayerful session of study with the "Studies in the Scriptures", setting forth the d1vine plan regar:ding the welfare of the ppoples and nations, is worth more than ten years in some of our colleges. "It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God."-John 6: 45.
Mr. Goodenough By Willard Price
HE IS more dangerous to society than any anarchist, sare-blower, or gunnlan.
Conlpared with him, a professional assassin is a person of the most modest criluinal accmn-plishnients.
And yet this knave of WhOlU I speak considers hinlself an eminently respectable and desirahle citizen.
1\;1r. Goodenough is satisfied with himself as well as with everything about him.
Mr. Goodenough stands pat. VVhat was good enough for his ancestors is good enough for him. He squats corpulently in the path of civilization. Those who would move on must climb over his gouty fonu.
From the crown of his hat to the sole of his shoe he is saturated with that dubious virtue, Content. His whole person breathes a mighty self-satisfaction. Of him it is written: "When a man gets perfectly c- ontented, he and a clam are first cousins."
It was that sage humorist, Josh Billings, who said: "What we want is folks who won't be contented, who can't be contented, who get' up in the morning not simply to have their bed made, but for the sake of getting tired."
Wl r. Goodenough. speaks reverently or the "good old days".
In pohtics, he says: "Don't fool with those new-fangled machinations of the devil—referen-durn, initiative, recall, direct prilnaries, commission govennnent. Fads, unconstitutional ■ fads! The .government that suited Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln is good enough for me!
"Ah, iny friend," wags on Mr. Goodenough,. "let us not tamper with the Divine plan I Brown-ing'was not mistaken when he wrote,
'God's in His Heaven, All's right with the vvorld!' '!
Thus, with specious argulnent, ,];11'. Goodenough makes the eager ones feel guilty and ashamed of their eagerness.
The influence of the radical is less to be feared than that of the man who is satisfied. The radical is a spur in the flank. The satisfied man is a chloroform-soaked rag over the racer's, nose.
Humanity would not go fast or far if ,\ye ,\vere all to adopt the motto:
"Let well enough alone."
A Joint Declaration of Medical Liberty Rights
By Doctors II. ll. Shelton and B. Stanford Claunch
1:\ PETITIOXI:\G the Federal Governient, and the gOYcrnments of the several states, speedily to enact and thereafter faithfully to enforce the proposed alllendment to the Constitu-lion of these United States, which proposed tunendnient is hereunto appended, we feel that the causes which have made such an amendment necessary, should be declared.
"\Ve hold these truths to . be self-evident: That all nien and all 'women are created with equal and i nali en able Rights of Life, Liberty, Health, and the control of and over thflir own bodies. That to secure! and protect these saered rights, governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government, or any branch thereof, becomes oppressive and destructive to the free enjoyment of the interests and rights of the individual, or of the conl-rnunity, it is not only the privilege of the people, hut their duty, to alter or abolish the same, and to establish a new fonn of government, - or branch thereof, laying its foundation on such . l)rinciples, and orgall.izil1g its powers in such form, as to. them shall seem most likely to preserve and protect the interests and rights of the individual and the community.
Prudence, indeed, dictates that governnlents, long established, should not be changed for trivial and transient reasons;. and, accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to attempt to right their woes . and 'wrongs by abolishing the - forms to which they are accustomed. But 'when a long train of abuses and nsurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to render the governed subservient to absolute autocracy," it is their right, yea, their duty, to abolish such forms, and to provide new guards for the protection of their future security. Such has been tho patient! suffering or the people of these United : States, and f;uch is now the necessity which constrains th81n to act by petitioning their Govern-rnent to alter a. part of its present system, to the end that more and fuller protection may be secured againsta growing and threateninglnenace.
The history of the present medical regula- । tions in this Nation is a history of repeated misuses, abuses, usurpations, and injuries, all ; of them having in . direct object the establish- :
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rnent of an absolute oligarchy over the 'people, under which the most tyrannical abuses may be pursued and perpetrated. To substantiate this, . the following statements of facts are respectfully submitted to our Government:
Laws have been passed permitting the^ graduates of certain schools of medicine only to practice their profession; graduates of all other schools by the same laws being outlawed and denied the right to practice their profession.
Physicians thus outlawed have been made responsible for the death of all patients dying under their care, while those physicians legally recognized are in nowise responsible for deaths occurring under their care, often occurring as the result of gross errors and negligence.
Physicians thus outlawed are subject to arrest, fine, and imprisonment, . on charges of illegally practicing medicine, even though their patient recover; and this, in frequent eases, after said patients have tried for years to get relief through the treatnlent of those physicians legally recognized.
Parents, as well as physicians, are held responsible for the death of a child that dies UIl-der the care of the outlawed physician; whereas, if a parent has several children to die under the care of a legally recognized physician, nei the r the parents nor the physician is responsible.
The effect of such la:\Ys is to establish, pTO-Inote, and protect eertain schools of healing, to the exc.lusion and destruction of all others; while, and what, is more important, at the same thne effectually and actually denying to the individual the exercise of the right of choice in healing systmlls and practitioners. In a word, it is purely the establishinent of conlpulsory state medicine. Such laws, in effect, say to the sick, If you cannot recover under the ministrations of those physicians legally recognized, you shall not turn elsewhere for relief; for it is better that you die under orthodox treatment, than that you get well under the treatment of an unorthodox physician.
Such pernicious laws give to the legalized school the right and privilege of saying to the patient, You must accept the treatment we give, or you shall have none aL a 1l. .
These la,vs discriminate against certain schools of healing, while favoring- and upholding others, denying the right of the individual
to serve the sick or well, who desire his services, toward. the recovery or maintenance of health and are, therefore, -class legislation. They also discriminate against the sick person -or the parent of the sick child, in favor of one privi-' leged school. -
State and - municipal Health Boards have been instituted throughout the land and their members are supplied almost exclusively from the . ranks of one particular school of medicine. . The public is taxed for the support of medical schools, medical boards and bureaus, and medical officials of many kinds. The regulations ' of these Health Boards are enforced by means of - the police' . powers - of the state, and often to the detriment of the health- of both the individual and the coni-. niunity, in restraint of legitimate commerce, and in defiance of the rights of the people of such community.
Laws are passed prohibiting the - entrance of children -into the public schools' until they have had their blood and tissues contaminated by the introduction therein of vile pus taken .from suppurating sores on sick animals, on pretense of protecting such children ' from disease.
The introduction of such pus into- the bodies of children not only does not prevent the disease for'which it is administered, as is amply .demonstrated by official statistics from every country that has enforced the practice, but does often cause and spread the disease; while, according to- authoritative statements contained in the textbook of those who are advocates of this practice, and attested by many thousands of well authenticated cases, it does produce arid result in pain, fever,- infiammation, suppuration, skin eruptions, sickness and often septiceniia, cellulitis, sloughing, erysipelas, syphilis, tuberculosis and other diseases, and, neither last nor least, it often results in the loss of a limb, or even of life itself, or it 'is often followed by tumors and cancers.
In many of our cities laws exist whereby the local - Health Boards. declare an epidemic to exist, when only a few cases of some disease are -reported, and then enforce this blood contamination upon everyone, often threatening • to close- business houses, factories, mines - and work shops, unless ' the .vicious practice is- submitted • to. ' This is true not only as to -vaccination for-smallpox, but in diphtheria; and this practice is coming to be more and more -resorted -to 1 n other- diseases.
Since -under the present theories almost- every disease is thought to be caused by a, germ, and is thought to be - communicable C though these theories have been, and can be, proven absolutely without foundation in fact) , and a serum or vaccine' is sought with which to. prevent and cure each disease, the tendency is to seek more power'to' enforce - the vaccination and inocnla-. Hon of all persons, of all ages and conditions, for' each and every disease. The ultimate result of such wholesale blood pollution cannot be but annihilation.
. The - Army and . - Navy is completely under the control of ..one 'school of healing, members of all other schools, though licensed to practice, -being - denied places on the - medical'.staffs. The superstitions of vaccination and inoculation are forced upon all men aiid women in the service of - the Army and Navy, even in violation of their conscientious and religious -convictions. lien in the Army and Navy are forced, ' against their wills, to. undergo' dangerous operations at the behest of the doctor. Enlisted men in any branch of the service are sentenced to long prison 'terms, even as high as ten -years, fot refusing to be vaccinated or inoculated, or- for refusing to undergo an operation. • The trial of; ' him who - refuses an operation often 'taking place after his - recovery, has demonstrated that the operation, possibly a dangerous one, was unnecessary. - '
Law abiding citizens, in good health and engaged in the peaceful pursuit of their vocations, are caught up, - examined and declared to be "disease carriers”. They are then forcibly taken - froni their families, business, and occupations and isolated where they are forced to undergo -treatment. Their right to the physician of their choice, at such times, is. also denied them.
Medical examinations of school children are carried out, often withoutthe knowledge or consent of the parents, and parents are intimidated into having their children -treated- .or operated on by the orders sent home by the child.
In -many of the cities-'in’-the - United States, i£ a case- of small-pox, _ or. other -..so-called- contagious disease, is reported, the Board of Health, with the aid -of the Police Department,- sets - an arbitrary boundary around the -locality - in which the case exists, stretches ropes around this 1o-
cality, stations guards at frequent intervals, and vaccinates or inoculates everyone in the T circumscribed area ",dIo has not been recently j vaccinated or inoculated, regardless of their I? condition, their objections to such violations of t their persons, or whether they have been near t the case of disease or not. Often in such un-j just raids, hundreds and even thousands are vaccinated or inoculated.
I In factories, mines and workshops, in many departments of the Civil Service, and in many . branches of public service employees and of:.-i ficials are required to have their blood and tis-• sues contaminated with vile pus collected from : the' festering sores of a sick cow, before they are permitted to assume their duties.
In many cities regulations are enforced requiring all milk sold in the city to be first suh-Initted to a high degree of heat, on the pretext of preventing disease. The niilk is thereby . vitiated, its chemistry changed, it is denatured and no longer fit for food.
Valuable animals have been ruthlessly and neednessly slaughtered, thereby causing great loss to stock owners ;and both human beings, food stuff, and even automobiles, have been put under quarantine because of some disease confined to cattle.
In nlany cities, inorganic iodine, a well known poison, has been used to pollute the public water supply, by order of the Board of I-Iealth, on the absurd pretext of preventing goitre. Not only is the pollution of the public water supply a dir(jct violation of all the cardinal laws of hygiene and sanitation, and a crime against the public ,velfare, but the practice, if allowed to continue unchecked, will be extended to other drugs and other diseases, to the inevitable detriment of the puhlic health. It is a rank injustice to the individual and to the community, the well and the sick alike, to compel them to undergo indiscriminate drugging in this manner, and this all ,vithout a proper inquiry into their condition-with no proper exaniination of the patient and no diagnosis of his case.
Such laws, regulations and institutions are aesigned not only to fasten upon the people certain medical theories and practices, which a great majority of an enlightened public have outgrown and repudiated, but to deny to this enlightened public the right to employ such methods and practices as^ its reason and corn-mon sense deem best.
Such laws assume that a nlan can do no hanu if he holds a medical diploma and a state license; while, if he does not possess these documents and privileges, he just naturally must be wrong, ignorant and dangerous, no matter what his education, training, lllethods or results may be. It enthrones one school of medicine, representing a very small percentage of the citizenry of this nation, above all other citizens as a supreme authority over all matters of life, health, disease, cure or death of the common people; and, by throttling all other schools, stands • as an effectual bar to progress and increase of knowledge.
Such la,vs deprive a man and his children of their right of self-ownership, and forcibly subject them, as • mere slaves, to treatment and medication that they do not desire, and often do not need; while just as forcibly withholding from them the treatment and assistance they do desire and need. The subversion ‘of the rights of self-ownership of a man's body in matters of health, treatment, and medication, by any profession, association, public officer, or private citizen; any and all appropriations of public money to force and fasten the theories and practices of any school of healing upon the individual, community or state; the medi-calization of our public schools ; the foreing of people to go to hospitals against their wills, where dangerous experiments are performed that often cause death, or make them invalids for life ; the quarantine of healthy persons on medical suspicion; compulsory vaccination and inoculation; operations and medical inspections, whether performed on private citizens, soldiers, sailors, or pubijc officers, are unjust and tyrannical, contrary to our form of government, and a menace to our country and all mankind.
The physician is only a citizen. He has no other constitutional rights than those of other citizens. Neither is he appointed or anointed of God to rule over his fellowmen in matters of health and disease; and since humanity has always made its greatest progress under differences of opinion and constructive commerciai, educational, and scientific competition; and, since physicians of no school are infallible, and no system of medicine is perfect; and, since no school has' a monopoly ■ on truth, knowledge,. . moral integrity, and sincerity of purpose; and . since some of the most damnable impositions and damaging practices and some of the basest deceits ever perpetrated upon the people or the public, have ■ emanated from medical sources, under the protection of legalized medicine, the existing' medical institutions, daws, and regulations represent some ' of the craftiest pieces of pure class legislation that ever . existed; creating a medical trust, with a monopoly of, and exercising an autocratic control over the life and health of the people; and forcing, by unjust laws, the judgment of a small minority . upon the great majority.
Under the cloak of public service, public safety, and public health, such' laws and institutions fix absolutely and irrevocably the ' channels through which all money expended to secure relief from disease and 'protect the public health, must' be paid out; forcing the public to contribute millions of dollars for worthless and dangerous preparations; thereby filling the coffers of the drug and serum ■ interests; while making a criminal of the man who seeks, 'with reason and common sense, to stem the tide of this destructive stream of poison pus, and diseased animal seruuis.
Patients are not permitted, if taken to public hospitals, to continue to be served by the physician of their choice, even though such physician is licensed to' practice in that state, unless he be a member of the present privileged school of medicine; but they must submit to the ministrations of a physician whose service, under existing laws and conditions, is forced upon thein. VVhy in this land of' freedom should certain reputable practitioners of the healing art be denied the right of admission to all public hospitals, and other public institutions, upon equal terms and accorded the same rights and privileges as are nGw granted and permitted to a favored class 1 On what grounds are certain ones entitled to these special rights and privileges 1 .
Therefore, we, as peaceful and law-abiding citizens of these United ' States, do rightfully'- and justly hold that ours is the right to accept or reject ^ny physician or method. as fully and as freely as we now accept or reject the priest or preacher; .that our right to medical liberty, and to the care and control of our own bodies, is no less valuable ana. sacrea. than our • right to religious liberty, and the ' right to ' care for and control our own souls; and "\ve do hereby and hereon petition our Congress, and the several States of this Union, to recognize and affirm— these rights by the proper and immediate enactment of the appended proposed amendment to our Federal Constitution.
Proposed Amendment Guarantees Liberty
SEC. 'I The. sovereign right of the people to be secure in their persons, health, houses, 'and effects, against the enforcement of unreasonable medical regulations and restrictions; the inalienable right of every individual subject to the jurisdiction of the United- -'States of America to choose his own physician, or to rely on self-help without the aid of a physician, shall not ' be violated; and neither enforced submission to any form of medical 'treatment, nor involuntary isolation and deprivation of any person, upon any pretext whatsoever, except in cases of dangerous insanity and contagious diseases, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to this jurisdiction.
Sec. II. No enforcement of quarantine or isolation in cases of ' contagious disease, and ^ no. resh’i cti on of the liberty of the insane shall be carried into effect, except by due proc@ss 0:6 law, and only in cases presenting diagnostic evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the person against whom enforcement is tv De iuaue, and the cause or condition making the enforcement necessary. No person isolated or quarantined under the provision of this section shall be deprived of his right to the physi.. cian and Inethods of his choice, or of his right to rely upon self-help.
Sec. III. Neither Congress nor any of these states and territories shall make any law restricting the establishment of any school of medicine, or granting to any' school a monopoly of the healing art; or make any law discriminating against any school, or prohibiting the free exercise of the rights of any person to choose his physician from any school he' desires; or abridging -'the right of the individual to control his own bodv and care form own hea lih and life; or to e;force upon . eithe; the weii or the sick any prophylactic or therapeutic measures to which he is -opposed.
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Sec. IV. The' Congress s1m.11 have power to en-forcethis article by appropriate* legislation.
Shall tlte People Surrender Their Liberties
"A/TOST emphatically NO t is the a.nswer il,ado to this question by the Ron. John W. Davis formerly Solicitor General of the TJ. S., and later the Democratic Candidate for President, according to the Chicago Tribune of Sept. 14, 1924, which reported his speech at Grand Island, Nebr., from which speech the following quotations are tal{en:
"'.And what are those liberties ?" he., said. "Freedom of speech; freedom of the press; freedom of assembly; trial by jury; , the right of religions worship according to the dictates of our own. conscience; freedom from search and seizure; freedom from conviction by bill of attainder at the hands of any Legislature; and all that long calendar of things that makes every man a freeborn and independent citizen. •
"Shall we surrender them? Never! Shah we surrender TheIn at the will of a rnajoritv of the people? Kat so long as one individual remains to 'claim them! Shall we surrender them at the demand of any Legislature, or a majority or the Legislature ? Never! ShaH we surrender them at the demand of a majority of Congress ? Never!
"And if we are disposed not to surrender them, what is our guaranty and our protection for their preservation ?
"It is that when any Congress, any Legislature, or any executive, passes a law or undertakes to enforce a law that would deprive us of them, we will ignore the law and declare that it has no value or substance.
"■'And then if we are arrested for this disobedience, what happens? VVc stand before the court and say, 'This law under which anest has been made is no law. at- all, and we call upon you so to declare; to declare that our liberties have been invaded, and release us from this unlawful custody.' '
"That is the American theory, my friends. And so long as that. power remains in an impartial court, so long our liberties are safe."
. Are White IVIen Sick? By 'I'. A. II. Clark
I N YOUR issue No. 134 I notice, on page 71, the statement:
"'The discovery of 'Vhite Indians in Panama has led some scientists to suggest , that perhaps the natural color of man is swarthy, and that all the white people of the earth are white because they are suffering from some mild, hereditary disease. This identical thought appeared in the writings of Pastoi' C. T. Russell in 1902."
In line 'with this hypothesis, permit ine to give to you, ■ as foilows, ' some excerpts taken li'oni the writings of the late Professor Arnold Ehret, who 'was one of the foremost authorities on the Nature Cure and Natural Diet.
His assertion was that disease is always accompanied by a clogging-up of the smallest blood vessels or capillaries by mucus, and that this is brought about by the exoessive consumption of mucus-forming (starchy, protein) foods, llardened accumulations and "pathologic beds" being thus formed, . which 'were the common fundamental cause of all disease. He states :
"If potatoes, grain meal, rice, or the respective meat materials are boiled long enough, -^fre get a jelly-like slime or mucus, similar to the paste used by bookbinders. u"'his mucus substance SOOD. becomes sonTI iermentsl and
forms a bed for fungi, moulds, and bacilli. In digestion—which is nothing hut a boiling or combustion— this slime or paste is secreted in the same manner; for the blood can use only the ex-digested sugar transformed from starch. This sccreteu matter, the sUFn-fluous product (i. e., this paste or slime) is a foreign matter to the body, and at first is completely excreted. It is, therefol'e, easy to understand that in the course of life, the intestines and stomach gradually become pasted up and sEmed to such an extent that this pastc of . floral and thes slime of faunal origin turn into fermentation, clog up the blood vessels, and finally decompose the stagnating blood....
"Fatigue is, in the first place, a reducing of strength by too much digestion ,york; secondly, a clogging-up of the heated, and consequently narrowed-down, blood vessels ; and, thirdly, a sell-poisoning, and a I'e-poison-ing, through the excretion of mucus during exercise ...•
"If, according to Paraclisaic, primary 1a\v8, the lungs and skin were given nothing but pure air and sun electricity, and the stomach and bowels nothing but sun foods (i. e., fruits) there seems to be no reason wliy the tube system of the human body should become defective, weaken, age, and finally break down entirely. Instead of the living 'energy-cells' of the fruit, one eatA 'killed' foods, ‘which, biologically) are ■ meant for beasts of prey, i. e., food chemically changed by air oxidation (decay)" dead-boiled; and robbed of its energy. Mucus accumulates especially in the- heating channel (stomach and bowels) of this tube machine, ' and slowly clogs up the channel and filters (glands). The sum totaY of this defilement causes chronic effects, makes one grow old,_ and is the main factor in the nature of aal dise&ses. Growing old, therefore, is a ' latent disease; i. e., a slow, but constantly increasing - disturbance in the operation of the motor - of life. . . .
"The ‘white corpse-like coIot of the 'lightless and sunless man of culture can not be called beautiful, and emanates mainly from the - corpse-like color of the dead-boiled, wrong food. What wonderful color a, man gets who feeds on 'bleeding' grapes, cherries and oranges,-and who takes systematically air and sun baths, can not be imagined by the modern artist of 'plenair' painting. Mucus, and at the same time, lack ' of mineral matter, means as much as ' lack of color.... Mucusless food —fruit and vegetables— occupy the first 'place as regards their content of necessary mineral matter, especially lime.... .
"Perhaps ' this corpse-like mucus is even the cause of the paleness ' of the white race; and perhaps in an - entirely healthy condition, the so-called mucus membrane should not be white and slimy, but clean and red, as in animals.
"On the basis of my detection that this mucus, coming from cultured food, is the fundamental cause and main factor in the nature of all diseases, symptoms of age, obesity, falling out of the hair, etc., there is a justified hope for the creation of a new- phase of development of .progressive healing methods and biological medicine....
"If nourishment by mucus and over-eating is the the fundamental cause of all disease- without exception ' (which I can prove to anyone on his own body), then there can exist but Qne natural remedy; i. e., fasting and fruit diet. ' That every animal fasts in case ' of- the slightest uneasiness - is a well-known fact. In spite of their having lost, to an extent, thanks to unnatural feeding by men, their sharp instinct for the right kind of food and natural hours of feeding, and therewith their proper state of health and acuteness of sense, they will, nevertheless, when sick, accept only the most necessary food, or will fast themselves. back into - health, Poor, sick man, however, must in no circumstances live. on short rations for more than one or two days, for fear that he may 'lose strength'.".
It would appear to me personally to be a - perfectly logical hypothesis that the whiteness of complexion of the modern man of culture is due: First, to the eating of - denatured, demineralized, degerminated, "refined," "bleached" and chemically treated' "unnatural" foods, including- "white"’ bread, - "boiled",vegetables, . "pearled" rice and barley, 'and so on "ad'nauseam"; second, to the consumption or excessive quantities of protein and starchy foods _and the consequent accumulation, on account of imperfect eErnination, of -mucus or slime (waste and poisonous -substances) ; third, to the gradual clogging and pasting-up of the capillaries; and fourth; to our present niode of indoor life in heated, ill-ventilated- houses and offices where we breathe and re-breathe our own exhalations . and those- of others, instead of the life of. the inore - naturalman in the glorious sunlight and fresh air.
[It is - a significant fact that the primary word for man, Adam, means ruddy, and is derived from the verb adain, - signifying - ""to show blood (in the face), i. e., to flush or- turn rosy." The' thought thus suggests itself that. the normal condition of the - healthy is what ' we so often see in children, a , reddish cast to the skin, instead of the sickly white so often seen in adults.-Ed.]
"The Vicar Will Say a Few Words"
Art, Music and Literature . (Contributed)
I AM woiidering how many of your readers have been giving thought to the question as to \vhere art, music, and literature will find ; thmnsclves when the Messianic kingdom has fully arrived. Especially should it concern those of your readers who are particularly interested in ■ one or more of these subjects; and no doubt the' majority of them are, if not all.
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