Golden Age, April 22, 1925

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Social and Educational What About Card Playing?

Co-operation the World Over

Radio Programs

Political—Domestic and Foreign Happenings in Every Clime

Spain’s Loss of Fifteen Men

Herriot Stands for Liberty

France Denies Debt Repudiation

International Airplanes

Czecho-Slovakia’s Fight for Liberty

The Foreign Loan Exposures .

Vatican About to Assume Great Authority . . . . -

Interesting Items From Canada

Lord Cecil on the Munition Makers .

Science and Invention The Lost Art of Hardening Eoppfk .

Home and Health

Automatic Electronic Diagnosis

Nature Does the Curing

Abrams a Great Discoverer

Diagnosis Is the Crux

The Electronic Radio Biola

Recipe to Preserve Children's Lives

Potassium—The Elixir of Youth

Travel and Miscellany

The Umatilla Irrigation Project

Interesting Miscellany ......... ,

Religion and Philosophy

Everything for the Best

The Anthem of the Flowers

Moving West

An Address on Zionism

How to Stabilize the World

Studies in “The Harp of God”

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Volume VI Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, April 22, 1925 Number 146

Automatic Electronic Diagnosis

By Dr. B. A. Gamble, Dean of the Norfolk Electronic Institute.

[The Golden Age has fullest confidence In any representations that may be made by Doctor Gamble. He is well known to many of our readers and we are sure they will read this important article with great interest.—Editor.]

I KNOW that the Golden Age has hitherto held aloof from saying anything, either one way or the other, about the famous Abrams’ Electronic system of detecting and treating diseased conditions; but I feel that the time has now come when it may safely and wisely do so. A new discovery in this field has such promise of being an inestimable boon to mankind that I feel it would be a pity to keep it under cover.

Perhaps I will be forgiven if I assure the readers of The Golden Age that I am an old-school physician, with twenty-eight years’ actual experience in the practice of regular medicine, the last ten of which have been devoted exclusively to chronic diseases; and that naturally I approach any new theory with the caution that years of experience and habits of close scrutiny are bound to bring.

Any capable physician will instantly concur with the proposition that the science of medicine, as at present practised, is built up on the diagnosis of diseases by their symptoms and the treatment of those symptoms. In the highly organized and progressive state of Massachusetts it is reliably estimated that nearly forty-five percent of the preliminary diagnoses are afterwards proven to be incorrect.

Symptoms are simply the sign posts, nature’s warnings of disease processes already established in the body. When symptoms become so pronounced that attention is repeatedly called to them by fever, pain, fatigue, nervousness, etc., tissue or body changes have taken place; the ‘‘balance” of the system has been upset (I will explain later what I mean by this term “balance”.) and we have a condition of disease, a disturbance of the proper equilibrium of the marvelous organism in which we think and see and hear and smell and taste and talk and live.

Treating the symptoms, while relieving the pain temporarily, does not relieve the cause of the unbalance;- and later there may be established a chronic condition, or its beginning, which seriously impairs the bodily functions so necessary to health, and curtails the activity and the happiness of the individual so affected and of those immediately about him.

Nature Does the Curing

ATHING fhat must always be borne in mind in the treatment of disease is, that it is nature that does the curing. Nature is constantly engaged in the struggle to prevent or subdue sickness in our bodies. What she reasonably asks of her tenant is that he will do the reasonable thing by bringing in materials suitable to the building up of the life cells, and by giving reasonable attention to the elimination of the disease toxins.

Elimination of the toxins and poisons of the body is accomplished in three ways; through +he bowels, the kidneys, and the skin. If any or all of these become impaired from any cause, disease is sure to result. Again, if disease is present in any form, we can be reasonably sure that either one or all of these avenues have become affected and need assistance.

The efforts of the physician are best directed when he seeks a path by which nature can have a proper chance to repair the damage that may have been caused by the disease, the amount ot repair being directly dependent upon the amount of local destruction in the particular organ, tissue and cells involved.

It was an epochal discovery in science and in medicine when the revelations came home to professional men that all substances are to a greater or less extent broadcasting stations, put-

ting signals on the air which vary as do the assembly and rate of the “electrons” of which they are composed. All of the sensory organs— nose, eyes, ears, mouth, and touch— are receiving sets. Every nerve tract in the body is a receiving set; and hence the medical profession can not possibly ignore radio, even if it would.

It was an appreciation of the immense significance of these facts that led me to give attention to the theory of electronic reactions when it was first put before the medical profession some five years ago. As a resume of some of the important findings in this field I quote a few paragraphs from John Mills’ recent book, “Within the Atom”:

“If vre accept the very latest dictum of the physicists, that all matter is composed of compressed units of electrical energy called ‘electrons’, and that, in the inevitable process of disintegration (the fate of all material things), this energy is set free as ‘radio activity’ or ‘radiant energy’ does it not logically follow, purely as a matter of course, that this kinetic energy could be recognized and measured, if apparatus or methods of sufficient delicacy can be devised?

“Just suppose that twenty years ago someone had told you that the very air you were breathing was full of music, crop and weather reports, and so on. You would have thought your informant a fit subject for examination by an alienist. But today you know that such things are facts, because you can place a little electrical apparatus on the table, press a button and hear music, sermons, speeches or reports snatched out of the air. This has been brought about by the improvement in sensitivity of receiving apparatus, which catch the energy being broadcast by the sending station, a thing entirely unthinkable a quarter of a century ago.

“When the attention of the scientific world becomes focused upon the possibilities of applying the same reasoning to the healing of afflicted people as is applied to a problem in physics, chemistry or astronomy, the realization of the altruist’s dream will be at hand. The recognition of the universality of Nature’s law and its application to all problems, great and small, is the first step in breaking the shackles of unscientific diagnosis and inefficient treatment.”

Abrams a Great Discoverer

WHEN the description of the X-Ray was first cabled from Europe, the experts on the leading magazine for electrical engineers, published in New York, rushed into print denouncing the whole thing as a fake and an impossibility, and reproved the public for being so foolish, so credulous, as to believe that any device could .ever be made that would enable human beings to see through wood or leather and to take photographs of what lay beneath. Hence none should be disturbed by the bitter denunciations which followed the announcement of the epoch-making discoveries of Dr. Albert Abrams, deceased.

To Dr. Abrams is due, and will always be due, the credit for setting forth the fundamental truths concerning the Electronic theory in its application to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. His method, as taught and applied, has already created a revolution in the ranks of medicine which only the uninformed and the unprogressive will deny.

I was not at all surprised the other day when I noticed despatches from England that a great association of medical men which a year ago unsparingly condemned the Abrams methods had reversed itself and acknowledged that the whole subject should be reexamined. In my view, no other course is possible. They are bound to come to it, sooner or later. The many marvelous cures made by Dr. Abrams, and those who practise the Electronic Reactions of Abrams, or ERA, as it is called, have forced the attention of the whole world upon it.

That Dr. Abrams did make the cures claimed by him I know positively; for I went to San Francisco in 1922, studied with him, and assisted him on many occasions. I daily visited his treatment rooms, filled with people from every part of the world, talked with them, and watched the progress of their eases; and consequently I have first-hand knowledge of these matters.

Like Edison, who had to devise models for his electrical apparatus, Dr. Abrams had to contrive instruments for its application in the treatment of disease, chief and best of which was his oscilloclast. He was engaged for twenty years in experiments in the electronic field, and had made wonderful progress at the time of his death.

It is not at all to Dr. Abrams’ discredit that his teachers and students are working daily, and are producing better machines since his death. The idea is the big thing; and for that Dr. Abrams will never be forgotten, but will eventually get undying fame. The machine or treatment apparatus, however, is the heart of the whole thing, as far as the patient is concerned; and it is to his interest that the Abrams ideas should be carried to their apex.

Electronic Theory Correct

AS A hint of what is coming in this country, as well as in England, among the progressive men that go to make up the medical profession I quote the following despatch taken from the daily press:

“MAN A MACHINE, DOCTOR ASSERTS TO CONVENTION—Tells American Surgeons 28 Trillion Wet Batteries Form Body.

“Chicago, Oct. 23rd. (By Associated Press) Man is simply a mechanism run by electricity and chemical action, a machine made up of twenty-eight trillion electric cells, according to Dr. George W. Crile, Cleveland surgeon, here attending the convention of the American College of Surgeons. Each cell of the body, 28 trillion of them, is a tiny wet battery, with negative and positive poles, according to the surgeon. The brain cells are the most positive. The cells of the liver are the most negative.”

Dr. Crile is simply stating facts that have been long understood and demonstrated by Dr. Abrams and his co-workers, in the field of Electronics. If the electrical “balance” of the cells is correct, proper nerve supply, nutrition and elimination will follow normally; and good health will follow as a matter of course.

If we can take any body organ tissue that has an unbalance or disturbed equilibrium, and by sending an electronic current of the right potentiality into the diseased tissues, bring the equilibrium back to normal, then the nerve supply, nutrition and elimination can take effect. And if this can be accomplished gradually, nature will step in and finish the work.

At the recent Chicago convention of the American Electronic Research Association Professor Blackburn, of Texas, gave a two-hours’ talk which can be condensed into the following:

“That everything vibrates' or is a broadcasting station is corroborated by the eminent men of science who collaborated in the preparation of the material which composes that great work of reference, The Standard Dictionary. All of these vibrations or radio waves exist and travel indefinitely until they meet their own like or kind of waves, when both unite and cease to exist. Our objective is to collect those peculiar vibrations which are set up in the body by the many various diseases to which humanity is subject, and then to send into the body exact corresponding waves or vibrations. When these introduced waves meet the disease waves in the body, both cease to exist and nature restores the balance. Therefore, gentlemen, if we work out machines or apparatus that assure us of a perfect tuning in, we are masters of all disease.”

Disease is Wrong Vibration

BOM what has thus far been said, it will be apparent to all that any disease is simply an “out of tune” condition of some part of the organism. In other words, the affected part of the body “vibrates” higher or lower than normal. It has a different vibratory rate than the rest of the body. It is out of “balance”. It is dis-eased. Diseased tissues radiate more energy than healthy tissues, and this unbalance can be measured and corrected.

Science tells us that when two high radio frequency waves of the same rate meet, they become neutralized; and upon this fact is based the entire principle of treatment by all electronic treatment machines. In other words, when an electro-magnetic wave meets in its path a substance vibrating at the same rate of speed or resonance, that wave is stopped; and the energy is absorbed by the medium that stopped it.

This is illustrated by the fact that if you toss a stone into a pond, waves will spread from that spot into wider and wider circles. Then toss another stone at another point, and the effect will be the same. However, when these different waves meet, they neutralize or destroy each other.

So eminent a physician as Sir James Barr, formerly president of the British Medical Association, has given unqualified consent to the principle that by creating a radio vibration similar to that used by a disease in the human body it is possible to cancel or neutralize that disease. The solution of the disease problem lies in the development of scientific instruments that will respond to the delicate vibrations produced, and will adjust the electronic unbalance where it exists.

Diagnosis is the Crux

r. Fred Moore says: “Skilled diagnosis is the crux of ERA success.” This is true; and

Dr. Abrams frequently stated that perhaps not more than ten percent of the students who took the course under his personal supervision would become successful diagnosticians.

The ideal for which Dr. Abrams was striving, was some method of automatic diagnosis. That this is true is proven by a letter written a short time before his death to his student and very close friend, Dr. Strong of Los Angeles, in which he said:

“You are quite right, Doctor. In the final analysis it is always the man behind the gun who determines the degree of accuracy of the results. Nevertheless, I shall continue to try to eliminate the personal equation from electronic diagnosis in so far as possible.”

At the two great conventions held by Abrams practitioners during the year 1924, the one for the Middle States Society, held at Kansas City, Mo., and other of the A. E. R. A. in Chicago, attended by ERA men from all over the world, the burden of all the speeches and discussions was:

“If a better method can be discovered for making diagnoses, a method by which we can tune in automatically, we shall have found the elusive secret of Electronics, and the problem of its proper application in the treatment of diseases will have been solved.”

There is one other feature of the Abrams system that has hindered its wider use in the relief of suffering humanity. The cost of a blood diagnosis, together with the necessary one, two, or possibly three months’ treatment is far beyond the means of the individual or family in average circumstances; and it has been almost impossible for poor people to have the benefit of the Abrams treatment because of the cost factor.

Up to this time, only doctors could have the apparatus for treatment and diagnosis. In, trying to find a way to lessen this cost, and to insure 100 percent correct diagnosis, I have been fortunate enough to discover a new application of the electronic radio principle, which eliminates both the cost of diagnosis and the possible errors of incompetent ERA practitioners, and brings this whole matter of the treatment of disease by electronic methods within the reach of every family.

The Electronic Radio Biola

I HAVE named this new discovery, which I believe will be epochal in the history of the treatment of disease, and which I am exclusively announcing in The Golden Age prior to its general publication elsewhere, The Electronic Radio Biola, which means life renewed by radio waves or electrons. The Biola automatically diagnoses and treats diseases by the use of the electronic vibrations. The diagnosis is 100 percent correct, rendering better service in this respect than the most experienced diagnostician, and without any attending cost.

This little instrument automatically measures the body energy, its power of resistance to disease and, if disease exists or if the energy of the body is below par, corrects it. This is done by radio vibration, which makes the human body its own dynamizer, or anti-toxin manufacturer. It restores underbalance in diseased tissues, accomplishing the work gradually. The “balance” in the life cells is completely restored.

The operation of the Biola is such that it discovers and locates disease processes in their very beginning, before great damage has been done, rearranges the electrons and the body equilibrium, and enables nature to restore the organs or parts to normal.

The Biola Wave Trap

THE principle of operation of the Biola is the collection, in suitable media (the result of twenty-eight years’ actual experience in the practice of regular medicine) of the disease vibrations, if any, which have become set up in one’s body. The fluid containing the same waves or vibrations enters the body, meets the disease waves and destroys them. The Biola is constructive, the wave trap containing the essential elements needed by the body to recreate and reconstruct the broken-down tissues or cells. This is a great step forward, marking the Biola, as the most valuable treatment apparatus obtainable today, and well worthy of notice in the columns of a magazine like The Golden Age, which looks forward to perfect days ahead.

In the operation of the Biola the patient’s body is the motive power; and the vibrations coming from the earth, harnessed to the body, tunes in to every disease, no matter how small or how great, automatically carries them into the Biola, or radio wave trap, where they are registered, measured and held, and can be returned to the patient at will and used to destroy the very disease that produced them.

A proof that the Biola must be 1.00 percent correct in its diagnoses is seen in the fact that an ordinary radio receiving set (comparable to one’s body) is governed by the antenna, which collects from the vibrations coming through the air or through the ground. The antenna, when connected to radio set, and properly tuned, will reproduce a single instrument or an entire or-

chestra, thus corresponding to a single disease or several diseases from which one may be suffering. '

In operation, the Biola is attached to a ground wire, a radiator, from the heating system, or the like, which is in turn attached to the patient’s body. The radio vibrations, carried by the electro magnetic earth currents, automatically vibrate in unison with each and every disease vibration in the body, be they few or many, carrying them into the Biola and storing .them up for use at will.

The Biola radio wave trap uses water as a medium for catching these disease vibrations; but water being a pool’ conductor, its conductivity is increased by the addition of the elements heretofore referred to, which not only increase the conductivity, but in addition absorb and hold the vibrations, and also impart to the tissues and organs the medicines or elements nature requires to reconstruct the parts broken down by the disease. Thus the Biola not only provides the Electronic vibrations to -destroy the disease, but at one and the same time furnishes the body with the proper material with which to rebuild itself.

Biola an Automatic Antitoxin

ONE of the greatest achievements of modern medicines is the discovery and production of antitoxin for Diphtheria. Formerly ninety percent of the children attacked by the dreadful disease died; but since antitoxin has been used, this has been reversed and now ninety percent who have diphtheria recover. *

Antitoxin is produced by inoculating a healthy horse with a small amount of diphtheria disease germs. This produces a light attack of diphtheria in the animal. After he recovers, he is again given a stronger dose of germs; and this is continued until he finally becomes immune to diphtheria, and can have sufficient germs of the disease injected into him to cause the death of an entire regiment of soldiers. Then a vein in his neck is tapped; and a gallon or more of his blood is drawn off, sterilized, properly handled; and a small quantity is injected into the child when it has diphtheria, with the result that a cure is effected promptly.

This is identically the method of the electronic radio Biola, with the exception that instead of introducing the dead disease germs into the system, the Biola takes from the body the disease waves (antitoxin) and returns them into the system, where they meet and destroy the conditions fhat produced them.

In conclusion, the Biola is unquestionably a wonderful addition to the science of medicine, some of its greatest advantages being:

1. It can be used by the individual himself;

2. It can be used singly or in connection with any or all other methods of healing;

3. It is constructive from the beginning of the treatment;

4. It is so simple in its operation that every one can use it; .

5. And, lastly, its price brings it within the reach of every family, even those in the poorest circumstances.

These things in themselves furnish undoubted evidence that we are entering the Golden Age, so longed for by all of earth’s inhabitants, where each will have his heart’s desire for life, liberty and happiness under perfect conditions.

Recipe to Preserve Children’s Lives

THE following recipe appeared in a recent

Health Bulletin and was written by a Miss Williamson:

Take one large grassy field, one-half dozen children, two or three small dogs, a pinch of brook and some pebbles. Mix the children and ’dogs well together and put them into the field, stirring constantly. Pour the brook over the pebbles; sprinkle the field with flowers; spread over all a deep blue sky, and bake in the hot sun. When brown, remove and set to cool in a bathtub.

Deaths on Stairways

URING the year 1924 more than 14,800 people in the United States lost their lives through falls on stairways. About eighty-five percent of these accidents occurred because of ice, snow water or poor lighting, all of which were therefore preventable.

Happenings in Every Clime

[Radiocast, with other Items, from Watchtower WBBR on a wave length of 272.6 meters, by the Editor]

Porto Ricans Kept in Poverty

TN A memorial to Congress Senator Iglesias of Porto Rico declares that American corporations have driven the people to pauperism by avoiding the payment of a just share of the taxes, and taxing sixty percent of the wealth away in a steady stream. He declares that there is an enormous oversupply of labor which is slowly but surely starving.

To Study the Sargasso Sea

THE steamship Arcturus is now engaged in a thirteen-thousand-mile cruise in which it will undertake to explore the Sargasso Sea, wherein are said to be octopuses a hundred feet in diameter, capable of carrying down a small ship, as well as many marvelous fishes, some of them equipped with headlights of red or green or yellow, almost as, brilliant as the searchlights oh the Albany night-boats, if that isn’t putting it too strong. Elaborate apparatus is being taken along wherewith to study the electrical apparatus of these wonderful illuminated and illuminating fishes.

to live before they can really enjoy life or be useful to their fellows.

Britain’s Submarine Warship

REAT Britain has completed the largest submarine in the world, measuring 350 feet in length. This, vessel is so large that it is practically a cruiser. It has an armament of five five-inch guns. A similar vessel, slightly smaller, has recently returned to Britain after a 20,000 mile cruise.

The Father of Railways

rpiIE real father of railways was Richard Trevethick, of England, who lost control of his steam carriage in 1802, while traveling along the public highways at the frightful speed of ten miles per hour. British laws compelled his successors to place their steam carriages on rails, so that no more palings would be ripped from the fences. That is how we came to have locomotives traveling on rails instead of without them. Now we have both kinds.

Herriot Stands for Liberty

Spain’s Loss of Fifteen Men

THE Chicago Tribune contains a despatch from its correspondent in Morocco in which the corespondent declares that with his own eyes he counted on one small portion of the battlefield the bodies of 234 young men in the engagement in which the Spanish Government officially announced the loss of but fifteen men, During the day he saw enough more bodies to convince him that the total losses were not less than 3500 men and may have been 4000. The sky was black with vultures; the stench intolerable. He reiterates over and over again Spain’s claim that the total loss was fifteen men. In the face of this, how can anybody with any sense believe anything that emanates from any Spanish official source?

The Peak of Civilization .

T THE peak of civilization,. i. e., Great Britain before the World War, out of every

nine men three were physically fit, two were in poor health, three were physical wrecks, and one was a chronic invalid. It is evident that men have much to learn about what to eat and how

TN A ringing speech in the French Chamber of

Deputies Premier Herriot, after condemning the Papacy for its frequently manifested proGerman and anti-Freneh attitude, and in his argument on behalf of withdrawal of the French representative at the Vatican, said: “We have nothing to lose; it could-be no worse. We are religious liberals; there is one policy, the policy of liberty and independence from the Vatican! Every nation is free, and we do not have to receive orders from the Pope.” The Premier’s stand was approved, including his consent that the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine might be allowed a representative at Rome.

Will France Repudiate Her Debts?

IN A great speech at Washington, Senator

Borah stated bluntly that it looks as if France is planning to repudiate her debt to the American people. In settling with Britain the United States voluntarily surrendered the stupendous sum of $3,800,935,000. France would be treated as well; but apparently, after having her life as a nation saved and after receiving accessions of 402,392 square miles inhabited by

4,000,000 people, she is unable to see any reason for repaying or trying to repay her benefactors. But she seems to have all the money she wants for military purposes.

France Denies Debt Repudiation

STUNG by the Borah statement that France was on the verge of repudiating her debt to the United States, and facing the immediate need of another $100,000,000 loan, the French Government has officially stated that no debt repudiation is intended, but that delay is hoped for until such time as the franc may have risen in value, thus reducing the net payment.

Spends a Lifetime in Vain

A FRENCH lover of art, M. Joussaume, spent a lifetime collecting paintings by Corot, Diaz, Delacroix and Daubigny, leaving instructions in his will that his precious works of art should be preserved under glass. It now appears that every one of these is a forgery of the most shameless sort; and that the poor man, who knew no better, was deceived into parting with his fortune all to no purpose.

Signs of Sanity in Paris

A DESPATCH from Paris reports that the ladies there, upon whom the good women •if other lands depend for their styles, have decided to drop cigarette smoking, the use of slang, hard hats, and barbaric jewelry, and to leave off at least some of the paint which now makes some women look like a revolving barbers’ pole. Here is hoping that these fashions may spread to the ends of the earth.

Strangest Winter in a Century

NORWAY and Sweden have had a phenomenally mild Winter, one in which there has been almost no snow. In America the snowfall was the largest in many years and remained for weeks without a break, suddenly turning into Spring a month earlier than usual. Countries such as Arabia and Mesopotamia, which usually have mild winters, have had a hard one.

The Second Highest Structure

AT THE moment, the second highest structure in the world is the main mast of the radio station in Berlin from which news despatches are sent out to newspapers all over Germany. The mast is 836 feet high, with two side masts each 690 feet high. The Eiffel Tower is the only structure of greater height yet constructed.

International Airlines

THE United States has one airline in operation ; namely, the transcontinental air mail.

Belgium has one line; Russia has one line. Australia has two lines, Holland has three lines, Great Britain has five lines, France has ten lines, and Germany has fifteen lines. Virtually all the important German cities are interconnected by air.

Opium Conference a Fiasco

THE American delegation to the Geneva opium conference came away victors. They left in disgust and with indignation because it was plainly apparent that the governments involved had no intention whatever of restricting the growth of the poppy to the opium needed for medicinal purposes. The net outcome of the conference is that Britain, France, Japan, Holland, India, Portugal, and Siam will now go into the opium business direct.

Another Armament Conference Needed

THE London Daily Express declares that virtually all that was accomplished at the Washington armament conference has been nullified, by reason of the fact that France is about to build a new type of battle cruiser, really a light battleship, that would render obsolete the 10,000 ton cruisers allowed by the Washington treaty. The Express predicts a world scramble to build the new type. An agreement among hyenas does not change the fact that they are hyenas.

The Hell of War

Ida M. Tarbell, writing on behalf of the Near East Relief, aptly says that nothing in the tragic and terrible decade that we have just passed through is so terrible, pitiful, and unjust, as that which it has done to the children of so many different countries. That these helpless millions should know nothing of life but hunger and cold and misery, that there should be nothing to show them that there are such things in the world as justice and gentleness and love. It turns one’s heart cold to think of such conditions!

Czecho-Slovakia’s Fight for Liberty

RESIDENT Masaryk of Czecho-Slovakia, in a speech on New Year’s Day advocated complete separation of church and state, asserting that this would be good for both the church and the state, compelling the clergy to give more attention to spiritual matters and less to interfering with mundane affairs.

Great Distress in Vienna

URING the month of January 149 persons committed suicide in Vienna, which is more than three times the previous large monthly average of about forty. The distress prevailing throughout the city is the cause. Similar conditions have been prevalent in Berlin, where 100 suicides per month has been the average for a long time.

The Foreign Loan Exposures

IN A series of articles the New York American has presented the evidence that after the' World War was over, President Wilson was responsible for the loan of hundreds of millions of dollars to the former allies of the United States, without any authority to do so ever having been granted. Italy alone received $455,500,000 of these illegal funds. Mr. Wilson had the least regard for law of any man who ever sat in the presidential chair.

Italy May Have New Style Railroad

ITALY is considering the building of a new style of ultra-rapid triangle railroad connecting Milan, Turin and Genoa. The road, if built, will have no grade crossings, and will be constructed with the design and intent of operating trains at the rate of 120 miles per hour. A government commission is now studying the problems involved.

About to Assume Great Authority

MR. Robert Sencourt, in an article in the December issue of the “Atlantic Monthly”, says of the Vatican that “it is now about to assume political office of greater weight and authority than anything the world has ever more than dreamed”. Without doubt the next year is expected by friends of the Papacy to be one of greatest triumph. Perhaps! Perhaps!

Fifty Thousand Jewish Immigrants

INCE the World War, and the establishment of Great Britain’s mandate over Palestine, over fifty thousand Jewish immigrants have entered the country and have been absorbed into its industries. One of the principal industries thus far engaged in is the raising of tobacco. Malaria, once Palestine’s chief scourge, has been wiped out by a wise expenditure of $575,000.

Tower of David Brought to Light

XCAVATIONS in Jerusalem have brought to light the ancient and beautiful Tower of

David, of which the Scriptures have much to say. The tower has a clean surface of white limestone, and is said to be now visible from every part of the city. The Palestine government has declared the Tower a national monument and is having it restored.

India Hits Back at America

TNDIA hits back at America, Australia and * New Zealand by declaring in a bill adopted by the Legislative Assembly, by a vote of 49 to 41, that any country which excludes natives of India as an inferior race is itself an inferior race and is not wanted in India. Antipathy to the whites is gradually growing among all the dark-skinned races.

Stairway to Solomon’s Temple

IN MAKING repairs to the Mosque of Omar a stairway has been discovered which archa1-ologists believe may be the remains of the stairway which once led up into Solomon’s Temple. It is quite possible that this may be true. Solomon’s Temple was built in the year 1028 B. C. Its exact site has long been in doubt.

Bobbed Hair Causes Unemployment

IN TWO years’ time the fashion of having the hair bobbed has caused the destruction of the hair-net business, with the result that in one district in China sixteen thousand women who were formerly busily occupied in that industry are now out of work. Chinese high standards of honesty are reported as gradually coming down to the standards of the West.

Everything for the Best By Z. Irene Davis

A STORY is told of one of the Sages of the Talmud, Nahum, the man of Gamzu, so named, it is said, because that no matter what misfortune came to his lot, he invariably proclaimed Gam zu le-tovalf. “This also is for the best.”

Once, the story goes, that Rabbi Akiba was driven out of his land and made a wanderer and a fugitive in foreign parts, because of persecution. All he had left wTas a lamp which he used to light at night in order to study the Law, a cock which served to announce to him the rising dawn, and a beast of burden on which he rode.

The sun was slowly sinking in the west, the darkness was beginning to fall, and the poor wayfarer knew not any place of shelter or rest, although he was nearly exhausted. Therefore when he at last saw the lights of a village shining in the distance, he felt glad, and hastened in order to procure for himself a night’s lodging. He was thankful to find it inhabited, when at last he came to the outskirts, and thought of the humanity and compassion that awaited him. But to his disappointment he discovered that he was mistaken. He was refused even a night’s lodging. They compelled him to seek for shelter and rest in a near-by forest.

“It is hard, very hard,” said he, “not to find a hospitable roof to protect me against the inclemency of the weather. But God is just, and whatever He does is for the best.” He sat down under a tree, lighted his lamp and began to study the Law. He had hardly read a chapter when a violent storm put out his light. “What!” he exclaimed, “must I not be permitted even to pursue my favorite study? But God is just, and whatever He does is for the best.”

Straightening himself at full length on the ground, he sought, if it were possible, to obtain a few hours’ sleep. Hardly had he closed his eyes when a hungry wolf prowled up, leaped upon his cock, and killed the fowl.

“What new misfortune is this?” cried the surprised Akiba. “My vigilant companion is gone. Who will henceforth awaken me to the study of the Law? But God is just. He knew best what is good for us poor mortals.”

Hardly had he finished the sentence, when a roaring lion sprang toward his beast and devoured the poor animal. “What is to be done now?” the lonely wanderer asked himself. “My beast and my cock are gone; all is gone. But praised be the Lord, whatever He does is for the best.”

That night he did not sleep; and at an early morning hour he started to the village, to see whether he could get some beast of burden to help him on in his journey. But what was his surprise not to find a single individual alive! It seems that a band of thieves had entered the village during the night, murdered its inhabitants, and pillaged their houses.

As soon as Akiba had recovered from the amazement into which this remarkable occurrence had thrown him, he lifted his voice and exclaimed: “Thou great God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, now I know by experience that poor mortal men are short-sighted and blind, often considering as evils what is intended for their preservation. But Thou alone are just and kind and merciful. Had not the hard-hearted people driven me by their inhospitality from the village, I should assuredly have shared their fate! Had not the wind extinguished my lamp, the robbers would have been drawn to the spot, and have murdered me! I perceive, also, that it was Thy mercy which deprived me of my two companions, that they might not by their noise give notice to the robbers of my whereabouts. Praised then be Thy name for ever and ever.”

The Anthem of the Flowers By Rebecca Fair Doney

Almighty Jehovah, we adore Thee! Thou who studdest the earth with our beautiful faces. Decked in all the colors of the glorious rainbow, we glow with tender radiance in the soft moonlight, or unfold in a thousand brilliant hues ’neath the sun. We carpet the hillsides; we riot in the meadows. We fill with fragrance and beauty the dim aisles of the forest. The waters lovingly reflect our sweet faces; and the snow proudly wears us as gems on her bosom.

We rejoice in our loveliness. We rejoice in

our mission to delight the eyes of men, and to lift their hearts up to Thee in worship and adoration.

0 Jehovah, our Creator, if all the glory and beauty of our tiny faces is but an infinitesimal reflection of Thee, what must Thou Thyself be, in all the glory and beauty of Thy person! And what must be the rapture, not only of those who behold Thee, but of those also who shall yet have the glorious privilege not only to look upon Thee, but to become like Thee! As they fall before Thee in praise and worship, we, too, lift our thousand faces up to Thee in silent adoration. Jehovah, we adore Thee!

Interesting Items from Canada By Our Canadian Correspondent.

A CRAZE for thick woolen shirts is spreading like wildfire among college and high school lads the country over. Colors are gaudy, such as red and black checker-boards. The idea seems to be to imitate the mackinaw coats of lumberjacks.”

So says the Vancouver Sun, and calls attention to this interesting item as a hopeful sign that the jazz era of “sheiks” and “lounge-lizards” may be passing, to give place to a virile and manly age.

The Toronto Daily Star publishes a letter from an excited correspondent complaining that the local Young Men’s Christian Association is handled by grey-haired ancients, and that the majority of the men who frequent the building are aged ones, also. This he characterizes as a menace.

No doubt the “sheiks” are not much interested in the activities of the Y. M. C. A., which by its wholesale participation in worldly matters and forms of amusement has forfeited its right to the title “Christian”; and they find their amusement in the corner pool-room and dance hall. Many a habitue of these places can testify that he learned to shoot pool in the church basement, and was graduated through the Y. M. C. A. to the pool-hall of doubtful reputation. We sincerely hope that the Sun is right; and that our young manhood is awakening to the need of a cleaner and saner viewpoint, though it is doubtful if checker-board shirts are a good sign.

A striking address was recently delivered in Toronto by Miss Agnes McPhail, a member of the Dominion Parliament, who for a long time could not obtain a hall in which to speak, owing to the veto of the “city fathers”, and subsequent fear of the owners of available halls. Her subject, “The School and Peace,” was a striking arraignment of war and war-makers, as well as the war teachers, those whose only idea of patriotism is death and bloody battlefields.

As reported by the Toronto Daily Star her speech was filled with pungent criticism:

“Miss McPhail was grieved to find that the three, great institutions, the school, the church, and the. state, were arrayed against progress and light in this matter. She was in agreement with the English cynic who said that he had only once heard of a bishop who had opposed a war, and that was a war to end slave traffic.

“We call ourselves brave, but the only brave thing we do is because of our stupidity. We are stupid because we can’t distinguish between the youth who died and the thing that killed them. Because we honor our dead we honor war, .and so perpetuate the lie.’ She read from a Canadian school history which said: 'The part played by Canada was full of glory.’ 'Glory!’ cried Miss McPhail scornfully. ‘Glory"! Full of bravery, yes. Full of misery, yes. Full of glory, no!’ ”

Miss McPhail was a staunch opposer of the vote of $450,000 last session, for cadet training. “I am in favor of large sums for physical development, but not one cent for training that glorifies bloodshed,” she said.

Recently the city of Edmonton expended $5,000 for 600 cadet uniforms, money provided by the Department of Militia and Defense for that purpose. A considerable amount of opposition was aroused among the trustees who deprecated the military training now being given in the schools. The director of the cadet work, however, Major Kennedy, explained that no real military training was given to the boys, hence the need of uniforms. The argument is somewhat obscure, but is evidently quite lucid to the editor of the Edmonton Journal, which reports the occurrence.

The press reports a recent discovery of great interest to dentists and their legion of victims. Research work carried on in the laboratories of the University of Toronto has resulted in the discovery of a copper amalgam filling for the root canals of teeth, which has a permanent germicidal effect. You can now keep your teeth until the righteous law, “Nothing shall hurt nor destroy,’" is permanently in effect.

The Lord’s Day Alliance, a self-appointed body of clerics,, et ah, dedicated to the work of making life miserable for everybody on Sunday, has just lost its appeal to the Privy Council against the running of Sunday trains in Manitoba to the lake shore, and for the benefit of “week ending” holiday seekers. The Alliance is fearful, according to a Canadian Press cable report of the General Secretary’s statement, that Manitoba is now outside the jurisdiction of the Lord’s Day Act. In other words, the clerk and mechanic can now go and take a swim on Sunday, much to the disgust of those who tacitly sanction the playing of golf and joy-riding by the wealthier sections of the population.

The Vancouver Daily Province scathingly comments on the action of the British Columbia Premier who “wept as he cast his vote for beer by the glass”. This further issue in the stormy and liquorish life of that Province has arisen over the avowed intention of the brewery interests to bring back a more general sale of strong beer. They have succeeded, and are consequently jubilant. The Government in the meantime weeps because it can not stem the beer flood; and “the Premier admits that he can not face the lobby pressure that a year’s delay would involve”. British Columbia now candidly admits that the last vestige of popular government has faded away, and the “liquor ring” controls the destiny of the Province.

Ontario voters received a rude shock also, when the Premier, in spite of the large majority vote polled for the retention of the Ontario Temperance Act, brought in, in the recently delivered speech from the throne, amendments to the existing legislation to permit of beer of almost double the present alcoholic content to be sold. Traitor and renegade are among the most polite expressions of a large section of the public, but readers of The Golden Age will remember that your correspondent prophesied a return of booze before last Christmas. He hardly expected, however, to see this prophecy fulfilled in spite of the mandate of the people. Law makers in Canada are rapidly taking the course of law breakers to gain their own ends.

The world wheat shortage is rapidly bringing a crisis in Canadian wheat circles. Operators are surprised at the smallness of the wheat shipments in view of the high prices recently prevailing and the amount of business turned over, on paper. It is beginning to look as though there was an actual shortage of supplies to fill the large orders being placed.

Russia, once considered the greatest rival of the Canadian wheat farmers in the European market, is now one of our best customers. In the past few months orders have been placed totaling almost two million barrels of flour, which will utilize about nine million bushels of wheat, and which involve a price of around sixteen million dollars. It means busy flour mills in Canada, but will no doubt also mean higher bread prices.

The Canadian farmer is somewhat cheered at the thought of high prices continuing for a longer period than usual; but, as usual, the speculator and grain operator will garner the cream of the price harvest. Most farmers are so heavily indebted to the various financial corporations that they are not allowed to hold their grain for top price, but must sell on a flooded market at low prices so that the banks and financial corporations can gain their unearned increment.

The Vancouver Sun headlines a news item, “Hell Fire in Discard Now”:

“ 'Dogmas introduced into Christianity during medieval times must be discarded and the Christian creed restated in terms comprehensible by moderns/ stated Rev. Dr. C. H. Shortt, warden of the Anglican Theological College. 'Few people today believe in an everlasting hell fire for mankind.’ 'Consciousness of son-ship in God through Jesus Christ/ was his definition of Christianity. 'As men increased in their capacity for understanding, it was possible to make a fuller and perhaps a full revelation of God in Christ.’ ”

A few more candid utterances of this kind by responsible representatives of the denominational churches; and the first thing we know they will be preaching the true gospel of the kingdom and the times of restitution.

Pursuant to the policy of keeping the people of Canada advised of her financial standing as stated through the most authoritative channels, we publish a review of the Government financial statement as issued by the Monetary Times of January 16th, 1925:

“FURTHER INCREASE IN CANADA’S NET DEBT.—December Reports Show Six Million Advance In Net Debt.—Also Higher Than Last Year.—Gross Debt and Active Assets Decline.

“Another advance in the net debt of the Dominion of Canada was recorded during the month of December; the net debt at the end. of the month being six million higher than the previous month, and two million in advance of December, 1923. This compares with an increase of $896,676 in the net debt during December, 1923. On the other hand, there was a decline of' fifty-one million in the gross debt during December, and active assets were also lower by fifty-six million in comparison with November. ■

“December revenue, which totaled $23,709,196, was two million lower than the November results, and five million below the December, 1923, total. For the nine moiiths ending December 31, total revenue fell off by forty-four million in comparison with the corresponding period of the previous year.

“There was a considerable decrease in the December expenditures in comparison with November. December expenditures, which totaled $28,539,470, are fifty percent lower than the November expenditures. For the nine months’ period the expenditures are down by two million.”

In the January 30th issue of the same journal is a special article calling attention to the Taxation problem of the Dominion Government. Under the heading, “Tax Reduction Arguments Deceived Government,” the following statements are made:

“In so far as taxation is concerned, it may be taken for granted that there will be few experiments as long as business conditions remain depressed. . . . Last year the Government reduced taxation in the sales tax by $24,000,000 hoping that increased business would make up for the decrease, but our expectations will not be realized. . . . The indications are that on the whole fiscal year revenue will be down between $55,000,000 and $60,000,000.”

In its issue of January 16th, reporting the meeting of shareholders of the Union Bank of Canada in Winnipeg, it quotes from the address of Mr. W. R. Allan, President:

“Taxation in Canada requires anxious thought. Federal and municipal taxes with, in some cases, provincial additions, have become so onerous as to stifle business and discourage effort. The total taxes paid by this bank in the past year amounted to $441,497.77.”

The Saskatoon Phoenix joins in the chorus with an editorial comment:

“In round numbers the expenditures of the Dominion of Canada for the current fiscal year ending March 31, 1925, will be $400,000,000. Of this sum about $134,000,000 is needed to pay interest on the public debt. Approximately $58,000,000 is included under the head ‘railways and canals chargeable' to income’, most of the money going to the Canadian National Railway in the form of loans. Soldiers’ pensions for the year, $33,000,000, while Soldiers’ Settlement and Re-establishment will consume about $16,000,000 more. >

“To pay debt charges, to maintain the Canadian National Railways, and to look after returned soldiers takes sixty percent of the revenue collected from Canadian tax payers. . . . Canadians can not hope for spectacular tax reductions in the near future.”

“McLean’s Magazine” gives some striking comparative figures of Canadian, and American

Income Tax rates. The figures are for a married man with no dependents:

Income

Can. Tax

U. 8.Tax

$ 3,000.00

$ 40.00

$ 7.50

4,000.00

80.00

22.50

5,000.00

126.00

37.50

6,000.00

178.50

57.50

10,000.00

619.50

207.50

20,000.00

2,089.50

1,017.50

50,000.00

9,649.50

6,137.50

100,000.00

32,749.50

22,617.50

1,000,000.00

696,349.50

429,617.50

“In Great Britain

since 1921-22

(the peak year)

income tax rate has been cut 25% with only a 15% decrease in receipts resulting. Canada has experienced a 31% decrease in Federal income tax receipts in the same period—with no decrease in rate.”

The answer seems to be quite obvious. Canada is not prosperous.

The Family lieraid & Weekly Star publishes the Dominion Bureau of Statistics report on employment, showing that in January 5,813 employers decreased their payrolls by 57,227 persons :

“'The trend of employment in all industries except coal mining was generally unfavorable. Manufacturing, construction and transportation showed important contractions.”

The Moose Jaw Evening Times, featuring an article from the pen of Hon. David Lloyd George, former British Prime Minister, brings to light that statesman’s viewpoint on world conditions:

“Afterwar Crusade to Improve World Conditions Has Now Collapsed.”

“The deepest impression left on my mind by 1924 is of a world once more reconciled to black. The iridescent colors of a new hope flung on the sky by the Great War after becoming year by year fainter and more mildewed with the unfavorable weather that followed peace, seem finally to have faded away altogether during this year, and a dull grey hangsi over the earth.

"Strikes multiplied beyond all previous records. During the years that followed peace the number of days lost in industrial strife was double and treble what it was before the war. . . . For the time being, disillusionment is the prevalent feeling amongst the idealists of all classes and in all lands. There is a temporary collapse everywhere of the desire to struggle upward. . . . This mood will not last long.”

We hope not; for this is largely the state of mind of Canada, in common with Europe. The weight of circumstances is crushing the life and hope out of the people. Political appeals to “remember our great heritage”, and so forth, arouse no interest among the mass of a people thoroughly convinced that any “heritage” there may be is not the people’s, but the exploiting capitalist’s. However, the closer to the extremity of our patience we get, the closer also to the bountiful mercy of a God who cares.

What About Card Playing?

WHAT attitude should we, who have turned our faces toward the New Day, take toward the pastime of card-playing? Of course we ourselves want no such pastime; for time does not hang heavily on our minds. The unlimited storehouse of knowledge opened before us, and the wonderful privilege of assisting others into this storehouse fills our time.

But what about our children? Should we encourage or discourage card-playing among them ?

I had the not uncommon experience of having one parent of each kind—one mindful of spiritual interests, the other dead to these. My mother, who aimed to get away from the control of the “prince of this world”, advised against card-playing and would not permit it in our home. She said that it had some connection with the devil, but could not explain just how. Father laughed at this, and said that her idea was narrow.

Some of the children accepted Mother’s view, and some chose Father’s as they grew up. I took Mother’s view, and was never found in company with card-players. Neither do I want my children to develop an interest in cards. Of course I am considered “narrow”. Card-playing is foremost on the list of entertainments in this section. Church people and even religious people sit around the card table.

One day I went to the library to look up the history of cards, and found that they are of ancient, eastern, pagan origin. There is no mention of them in connection with the Jews, while in God’s favor.

Cards appeared in Europe at the end of the 14th century for the amusement of the kings at first. The French clergy took to them greatly till forbidden by a synod in 1404.

By Mrs. Theo. Hoben

The pictures on the cards have been changed often, from kings and queens to popish plots and, after the French Revolution, to republican reminders as Washington, Adams, Franklin, La Fayette, and Indian chiefs, and back to kings and queens again.

Great sums of money are spent each year to make the cards, and much more money is spent to buy they, in spite of hard times.

Many a fortune has been ruined by means of cards and many a heart broken. We have heard of card enthusiasm that amounts to lunacy. From the Nordic countries come stories of such prolonged card-playing as brought forth the scarlet-clothed, horn-headed, long-tailed Old Scratch himself from beneath the chairs of the players.

Many times the law has tried with its strong hand to put down this pastime, but then it would be indulged in secretly. Today this amusement is so enchanting that mothers forget their home duties, and fathers their debts, to spend time, energy, and money at the fashionable card-party.

And the result?

Is it a greater intelligence, a thirst for true knowledge and increased sense of duty, a greater desire for right, more love for your fellow man? Is there one good point in favor of this amusement ?

With these facts—and many others—before us, it seems that the vari-colored card is akin to occultism and should be shunned even as the ouija board and the seance.

Erratum

Golden Age No. 139, page 232, first column, 11th line, should read fifty years ago, instead of fifteen years ago.

Co-operation the World Over

In Central Europe

IKE Italy, Germany was making tremendous progress toward cooperation, but the necessities of the case have compelled the government to levy such heavy taxes on all available sources of revenue that the movement has been greatly handicapped.

Before the war the cooperatives had millions of dollars in reserves, but through inflation of the currency and by means of taxation these have been much reduced or have vanished. And yet, with all these obstacles in the way, Germany reported an increase of 2,406 cooperative societies during the one year of 1922. It is estimated that one-fourth of the homes of Germany are attached to the cooperative movement.

What people can do in the way of cooperation when they are forced to it, was illustrated in Austria, during the last two or three years, where thousands of comfortable homes were built at an average cost of $1,200 for a fiveroom house.

The way in which this was done was as follows : The Cooperative Society advanced funds or labor to the amount of 30 percent of the project. The home-builder contributed a certain amount each month in money and a total of 2,000 hours of work in spare time, Saturday afternoons and holidays. In addition, the municipality advanced loans at five percent to aid in the purchase of materials.

Cooperation is spreading in Jugoslavia, and in Hungary it is estimated that almost half the people are served cooperatively. In the latter country tliQ state takes an active interest in the movement.

In Eastern Europe

TN WARSAW, Poland, a congress of Polish cooperatives was recently held at which delegates from 519 associations were present.

In Latvia there are 2,000 cooperative societies, 663 of them formed within the last year.

In Russia there are 16,667 agricultural cooperative societies, representing two and one-half million farms. In Russia, cooperation is only twenty-five years old, but it may well be considered the backbone of the entire business structure. It is the one thing that came out of the war stronger than it "went in.

In Moscow the Central Cooperative operates bakeries, restaurants, and stores of all kinds, libraries, schools, and homes for the children of its employes. Outside the city it has seventy-three big farms, which supply its members with all the necessities and comforts which can be produced by up-to-date agriculture.

Palestine, next to Denmark and Switzerland, is setting a world pace in cooperation. The basic idea of the Jewish commonwealth is cooperation. Even the roads are built cooperatively.

In India during the past year thirty-one cooperative anti-malarial societies were organized,with an immediate favorable effect upon the health of the district.

The cooperative movement is spreading in China.

In the Southern Hemisphere

EW ZEALAND has had a cooperative system of public works for thirty-two years.

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