Golden Age, May 6, 1925
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Contents of the Golden Age
Social and Educational
Nuggets or News From All Over the World. ......... 483
Lotteries are Legal in Denmark.............
' Hamburg University Introduces Yiddish.
The Ape-Man Revealed. .
Fossils Defossilizing Fossilized Theories
The Hopes of Evolutionists
Finance—Commerce—Transportation
Porto Rico’s Profits go Elsewhere
' A_ $250,000 Crack in the Majestic
Parisian Cost of Living
Western Union’s Cable to Rome^
Prosperity Amidst Turmoil in China.
Political—Domestic and Foreign
Panama and the San Blas Indians. ...
Excitement in Chile and Peru
; Mexican National Church
' Militarism Not Dead in Germany
i Commercial Pogroms Assist Zionism
Counts Karolyi and Szechenyi
Bulgarian King Deals Gently
Rehabitation of Palestine
Science and Invention Radium the Invisible Metal.
Radio Bunk
Bringing Dead Rats into the House
Unrewarded Inventors................
Radio Programs........................
Travel and Miscellany
Warm Weather in Spitzbergen
Pisa’s Famous Tower Now Dangerous
' Religion and Philosophy
Devitalizing Effects of Demon Obsession. ...
What is the Subconscious Mind?
Am Sinners in Purgatory? -
Paying for Masses
Victory Over Death......................
Studies in “The Harp of God.”
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Golden Age
Volume VI
Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, May 6, 1925
Number 147
Nuggets of News from All over the World
[Radiocast, with other items, from Watchtower WBBR on a wave length of 272.6 meters, by the Editor]
Porto Rico’s Profits Go Elsewhere
Santiago Iglesias, senator in the Porto Bican legislature, says that two-thirds of the profits from agriculture, commerce and industry have been sent out of Porto Rico as rents, dividends, commissions, and interest on borrowed money. The wealth of the island is flowing into the coffers of a few in the United States, Canada, Spain, and France. Porto Rico is being drained of its resources, while its working population is slowly starving.
Mexican National Church
THE Mexican National Church, which started
out in February by announcing its separation from the Church of Rome, is having an exciting start. When one of the priests of this new movement undertook to conduct religious services in Spanish, in Soledad Church, Mexico, three blocks from the National Palace, there was a riot, started by women who oppose the split in the church. This disturbance caused the death of one woman and the injury of three others.
Panama anu the San Blas Indians
THE San Blas Indians have presented a petition to the United States Government, reciting that the Panama Government had permitted whites in the San Blas region to force Indian women to dance for them, fining them $10 if they refused; that the Indians were forced to buy intoxicants, and encouraged to buy firearms contrary to law; and they are appealing to the United States to take the district under its care as a protectorate.
Excitement in Chile and Peru
CHILE is excited over the return of President Alessandri, with a possibility of civil war if he carries out his proposed separation
of church, and state. She is also joyously stirred over the favorable outcome of the arbitration proceedings respecting the Peruvian border. On the other hand, Peru is profoundly depressed by President Coolidge’s award; and there have been serious demonstrations against Americans in that country.
St. Paul’s Crumbling to Ruins
Honeycombing the soil of London with subways, sewers, water and gas pipes, coupled with the roar and trembling of the traffic in the streets of the world’s greatest city, is believed to have spelled the doom of St. Paul’s Cathedral. At any moment the dome, -weighing 60,000 tons, is expected to crash into the street, spreading death all around. The supporting piers are crumbling, and the dome is already badly tilted. .
A $250,000 Crack in the Majes^c
TN ONE of her recent trips the Majestic, the largest steamer in the world, developed a large crack above the water line, necessitating repairs that will cost $250,000. This suggests to our minds the truth of the view widely current in England that the medium-sized boats are really safer, as well as more easy riding, than are the very large ones.
How the French Dead are Replaced
TT OW the French miners and farmers, slab
by hundreds of thousands during the World War, were to be replaced when the war was over was at first a puzzle to many. But the simple and natural result has been that something like 100,000 Poles are doing the mining in Northern France, while many more than that number of Italians are doing the farming work in Southern France. The Italians have bought many whole French villages outright.
Death Duties Wipe Out Estates
THE Scottish Duke of Montrose in an address in Glasgow calls attention to the fact that the hereditary estates of Britain and Scotland are being gradually wiped out by the death duties which, in some instances, run as high as sixty percent of the estate. This return of the heritage of the people to the people themselves is bound to continue.
Parisian Cost of Living
HR HE terrible strain of the World War upon the people of France is shown in the fact that the cost of living in Paris in January, 1925, was five and one-fourth times the cost of living in 1914. This cost of living could be greatly reduced if the French would give less attention to the arts of war and more to the arts of peace. Millions have been spent on airplane fleets, and millions more have been loaned to military allies. .
Lotteries are Legal in Denmark
IT COMES as a surprise to learn that lotteries are legal in Denmark. They have been illegal in the United States for a generation. Denmark puts about two million dollars into lottery schemes each year; and even the king is one of the backers. The knowledge of these Danish lotteries came to public attention in 'America when it was discovered that the United 'States mails were being illegally used by persons in Denmark to secure American participation in the frauds.
Warm Weather in Spitzbergen
THE change in the arctic climate is so great that for the first time in history a vessel was able to put into Spitzbergen in the month of February. Coal shipments began in April, three months earlier than usual. Within a few years the glaciers have retreated from ffur to five miles because of the mild air currents now blowing upon them.
Germany’s Winter Came in Spring
URHE first snowstorm in Germany came on February 23rd, just as Spring was getting nicely under way in America, the snows here having been frequent and heavy in the eastern part of the country up until that time. Throughout all the northern and central parts of Europe the snows this past season were uncommonly light. This has hurt the logging business.
Militarism Not Dead in Germany
"D remier Herriot points out that German students are being regularly trained for the army during vacations; that plants for the manufacture of poison gas have been increased; and that one factory alone was discovered in which were 100,000 new rifles, 17,000 machine guns, and 10,000 automatic pistols in process of manufacture. This looks bad; for Herriot is a man of peace.
A Dutch Farmer’s Fears
A DUTCH farmer by the name of Wilhelm Hohenzollern, living at Doorn, Holland, is said to be much alarmed at the evidence that Russia is backing the yellow races and that France is backing the black races, while the United States and Britain are backing the white races. Who is this man Hohenzollern, anyway? Somehow the name seems familiar. What is fame ?
Hamburg University Introduces Yiddish
A STRIKING instance of the pressing of the Hebrew people forward into prominence at this time is found in the fact that the University of Hamburg has introduced the study of Yiddish. But a very few years ago a thing of this kind would have been impossible in Germany, so great is the prejudice of the German people against the Hebrew race.
Commercial Pogroms Assist Zionism
COMMERCIAL pogroms against the Jews of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Rumania are forcing thousands of Jews out of every kind of employment. In Russia it is estimated that about seventy percent of the Jews are unemployed, and that unless they have relatives in America they are forced to beg in order to live. All this turns the heart of Israel toward Palestine.
More Cruel Evictions in Russia
IF THE New York Times is to be believed, the Soviet Government has now decreed that the last remnants of the ancient landlords must lose their lands, and everything on them, even though they have been working these with their own hands. Just how.it is that the Soviets justify such cruelties is not explained.
400,000 Child Sufferers in Russia
FOUR hundred thousand children have been separated from their parents in Russia, and are being cared for in the railway stations and other asylums. The Central Ukrainian Famine Combating Committee have reported to their premier that there are 1,360,000 famine-stricken children in Ukrainia alone. Ukrainia is a single district of Western Russia. About 100,000 tons of flour will be shipped into Russia from the United States, in aid.
Grafters Put to Death in Russia
THE Soviet Government has pronounced the sentence of death on seven Soviet officials for mismanagement and corruption in connection with the State’s leather monopoly. It seems that instead of working for the interests of the people, they worked for their own pockets, like some of our Teapot Dome statesmen of late renown. It would be a terrible day for some of _ our politicians if they ever started Soviet practices in Washington.
Western Union’s Cable to Rome
THE Western Union has just completed the laying of a new line between New York city and Italy, via the Azores. The eastern terminus of the line is Rome. This is the first direct cable line to be operated between the two countries. A branch will be built from the Azores to Germany, thus reopening cable communication with that country, broken by war.
■ Pisa’s Famous Tower Now Dangerous
THE famous leaning tower of Pisa is no longer safe, is the gist of a report of a special commission of engineers appointed by the Italian Government to investigate the matter. The increase in the leaning of the tower, although slight, is nevertheless noticeable. It is supposed to have been caused by the digging of a deep trench nearby.
Counts Karolyi and Szechenyi
Count Karolyi and Countess Karolyi, of
Hungary, desire a republican form of government in Hungary to take the place of the dictatorship regime of Admiral Horthy. They thought that the United States would be a good place to advocate a republican form of government. They were mistaken, however. Count and Countess Szechenyi, of Hungary, do not desire a republican form of government for Hungary; and it happens that Count Szechenyi is the Hungarian ambassador to the United States and that the Countess Szechenyi was a Vanderbilt. That is why you read in the papers that both Count and Countess Karolyi had trouble in getting into the United States. We remember that when Count Szechenyi married Gladys, he did not have any bathtub in his palace, but that she had the money; and money talks. He has bathtubs now.
Bulgarian King Deals Gently
THE Bulgarian king is reported as favoring gentle dealing with the communists now active in his country, and supposedly guilty of the assassination of the Minister Designate to the United States. He is said to be not in favor of the death penalty of these unhappy and unwise political offenders, nor even of the suppression of their literature. Perhaps he is pursuing the wisest course possible under the circumstances.
Civilization Spreading Rapidly in Africa
THE South African Government recently sent an expedition into the Kalahari desert with a view of trying to ascertain the breeding grounds of the locusts which do so much damage in South Africa. Proceeding two hundred miles beyond the confines of civilization, the expedition at length was received by a native chief and his wife, both of them dressed in European costumes and speaking English very well. The world is getting small.
Trying to Blot Out Slavery
FTHIE British Government is having a hard -®- time trying to blot out slavery and human sacrifice in all the territories in India over which it bears rule. Recent efforts of the Governor of Burma to induce the Nagas, a savage tribe dwelling between Burma and Assam, to give up these practices were not successful; and probably force will be used to make them do so.
Prosperity Amidst Turmoil in China
HE past year has been the most prosperous year in Chinese history, the exports and imports being nearly ten percent more than in any previous year, and this in spite of the fact that the past year has been the most troublous one in Chinese history. Neither brigandage, piracy, floods, nor political chao.s prevents the Chinese from buying and selling.
Antares—Mira—Betetyuese
HOHAT is the order of the three largest suns yet measured. ‘ Our own sun is less than one million miles in diameter. Antares is over four hundred million miles in diameter. If it were hollow and our sun were placed in the center, our earth would not be half-way to its outer edge. Mira is next, with a diameter of 250,000,000. Betelguese is a few million miles smaller.
Devitalizing Effects of Demon Obsession By Harold w. Kline
1HAVE heard some funny things about spirits; but this a new one to me, and probably to you: Their materializing elements have to rest! A little paper, a supplement to an Esperanto paper published semi-weekly, gave me this information; and I have translated for you a portion of it containing the sentence in question. Our proclamation appeared as a supplement quite some time ago with this paper. Notice also that the spiritists have an international federation now—since Sept. 28,1924. The translation follows:
J. Thiebault
Noncontinuance Reincarnations in Mantes.
The Author’s own Edition.
Press: T. &FI. Jung (Herald of Esperanto) Horrem B. Koln (Germany).—Front page.
Dedication: I dedicate these few pages of sincere observations to the International Spiritist Federation in Paris who, forgetting spiritualistic differences, by unanimous consent accepted into their circle, the 28th of September 1924, the delegates of all our brother spiritists, to whatever nation they belong.—The Author. Page 2.
Prologue
’ The following takes place in house No. 23 of the street Maurepas, in Mantes, (Seine-et-Oise). Every Saturday, for two consecutive months, at the 20^ (hour), in the one-story parlor of the house of Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre, there appears in person, with flesh and bones, of natural size, a certain young lady who has already been dead for more than five years, and who was their unique daughter Madeleine.- They see her, they touch her, they hear her. Afterward, the weekly appearances cease for the same duration of two months, necessary in order that the materializing elements might sufficiently rest. Afterward again the same phenomena are repeated with such characteristics of spontaneousness and independence that it would be indeed wholly unwise and shameful to. imagine them fantastically, if they have not been positive actualities.
Besides, the enigma does not concern only one personally scarcely- half seen, but phantoms, scientically named ectoplasms, which are made up of complete or partial organism, meeting in the same place, and other invisible beings who skilfully operate light screens. Is it not incomparably' magnificent, from a spiritistviewpoint, this spectacle of an ethereal collection from the beyond, who become materialized amidst the sympathetic audience, responding to the words of our earthly ones, and becoming dissolved, leaving no evidence, in the same mysterious air which brought it forth? For the reason that every presentation needs some one to present it, we must first look at the program of the spectacle.—Page 3. '
[To our present understanding all so-called materializations consist wholly' of the use of a portion of the life cells of the medium. This is why' a medium is necessary. As many as half of the life cells may7 be used at one time. This makes a terrible drain on the vitality'. The life cells are at all times connected to the medium, drawn out like rubber bands, by some process which the demons understand. It is these threads of living cells that are used to fashion the hands and faces and to perform the feats. But darkness is necessary', as well as the hiding of the medium in a cabinet, because the scene would be so repulsive that human beings would never come again. Materializations in the open, we believe to be wholly mental concepts, not actualities; and it is our belief that the demons will never be given the power actually to appear in human form.—Ed.]
THE United States Government reports give the following concise description of radium:
“Radium is a metal and is described as having a white, metallic luster. It has been isolated only once or twice, and few persons have seen it. It is ordinarily obtained from its ores in the form of hydrous sulphate, chloride or bromide; and it is in the form of these salts that it is usually sold and used. These are all white substances whose appearance is no more remarkable than that of common salt or baking powder. Radium, radium salts and radium minerals are not generally luminescent. Tubes containing radium salts glow because they include impurities which the radiations from the radium cause to light.
“Radium is found in nature in quantities so exceedingly small that it is never visible, even when the material is examined with a microscope. Radium ore ordinarily carries only a small fraction of a grain of radium to the ton; and radium will never be found in large masses, because it is formed by the decay of uranium—a process that is wonderfully slow — and radium decays and changes to other elements so rapidly that it does not accumulate naturally in visible masses.” ■—U. S. Geological purvey.
From, the preceding statement it may easily be seen that scientists do not yet fully understand the marvelous powers of this element of mystery. Indeed, it is hard to comprehend the fact that it is constantly discharging or emitting rays of energy, light and heat. These rays are called the Alpha, Beta and Gamma rays. The Alpha ray travels at the velocity of 20,000 miles per second, the Beta ray at the velocity of 100,000 miles per second, and the Gamma ray with the velocity of light. The action of the Gamma ray is similar to the X-ray, only more penetrating. Another almost unbelievable fact is that it loses only about one thirty-third of one percent of its potency annually; or stated in another way, it would take 1690 years to lose one-half of its strength.
The pure radium is estimated to be worth about 150,000 times as much as the same amount of gold, weight for weight. It is estimated that fully one-half of the radium in the world comes from the carnotite ore deposits of Utah and Colorado.
The formation in which this radium-bearing ore occurs is in a gray sandstone, geologically known as the La Plata sandstone.
One of the interesting facts which the scientists are at a loss to explain is the fossilized tree itself from which carnotite, the wonderful radioactive ore, is taken. Sometimes the entire tree is high-grade ore; other times only the outside, or that which was the bark of the tree, has turned to ore; again, only the center, or heart of the tree, has turned to ore. More often the miner will find that the tree will be just petrified wood, absolutely barren of ore. When a “tree” as the miner calls it, is worked out, the mine is gone; and he has to prospect for another. This makes the mining of this wonderful radioactive ore very uncertain and expensive. The color of this carnotite ore as it comes from the mine is usually a beautiful canary yellow; but after being crushed, it is somewhat changed in color.
The astonishingly curative powers of this radioactive ore were first noticed by the miners themselves. Men engaged in mining and handling these ores, by being in close contact with them for several hours a day, were astonished to find that their ailments, such as rheumatism, lame back, kidney, liver and stomach troubles, had left them entirely. Naturally people living in the vicinity, hearing of these things, began using this ore for their ailments, and have secured most astonishingly beneficial results. Strange as it may seem, there appears to be no limit to the ailments which are benefited by its use. The wonderful energizing rays given off by this high-grade ore seem to vitalize the parts to which it is applied, and to stimulate circulation, thereby assisting nature to function naturally; and beneficial results are usually noticed in a very short time.
Radium has achieved its greatest triumph in giving relief to suffering humanity. It is not proclaimed as a cure-all or panacea. But it is known to have wonderful curative properties that are effective in treating numerous kinds of chronic and malignant diseases.
When we pause to contemplate radium's remarkable manifestations in other ways, it is not at all surprising that it should be efficacious in treating human maladies. Fundamentally, only one claim is made for radium as a curative agency; namely, that it exerts a stimulating effect upon the circulation of the blood. This means that an organ clogged with poisons and impurities will begin to function properly, and that obstructions to health will be eliminated from the body. No one can deny the reasonableness of such a claim.
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There is not a shread of diseased tissue anywhere in the human body that cannot be easily and quickly reached by the penetrating rays of radium. Radium does not directly effect the cure, but it accelerates the blood circulation and fortifies nature for the task of restoring health. So it is all a matter of plain common sense. .
Indian Medicine men of the West used what they called “rain stones”, which have been found by scientists to be rock of high-grade carnotite ore.
Prudence Penny, a social worker of the S. F. Bay region, broadcast from KPO quite a remarkable lecture on the curative powers of radium. She calls radium the life preserver.
Mme. Curie, the discoverer of radium, holds very positive views on the curative value of the metal. During her recent visit to America she said: “Radium is a positive cure for cancer. It has already cured all kinds of cancer, even deep-rooted cases.”
Cancer is recognized by the medical profession to be the most malignant and stubborn of all diseases. But at last, a means of eradicating it has been discovered! If cancer can be cured by the application of radium, what a potent weapon we have to wield against all kinds of chronic maladies.
Some notion of the almost irresistible power of radium can be drawn from the fact that one atom of the pure metal holds enough energy^ to drive a fleet of ships around the world. This is the assertion of an eminent English scientist, Sir William Ramsey.
The ailments in which many have secured such beneficial results are rhematism and kindred ailments, kidney and liver troubles, lame back, indigestion and stomach troubles, goiter, poor blood circulation, high blood pressure, enlargement of prostate gland, general debility, men aging prematurely, etc.
Scientists who have lately experimented with radium in its effects on insect life have found that in all cases, normal life has been prolonged seven hundred times. .
What is the Subconscious Mind?
A READER who neglected to disclose his name inquires: “What about the subconscious mind?” -
Well! What about it? It is like the missing link. It is like the giraffe in the menagerie, of which the farmer, after he had looked at it long and earnestly, remarked: “Children, come away from here. There isn’t any such animal.” Only in the latter case the farmer was wrong.
The newspapers are full of a lot of wise tommyrot about the subconscious mind, as they are full of tommyrot on many other subjects. The truth is that man has a brain, more or less impaired, which he fills with materials for use. He has a will, more or less impaired, which may he brought into play. He forms habits, consciously and unconsciously. In the materials with which he fills his brain there is a large residuum which he does not clearly recall, but of 'which he is able at times to make some use. Some people who do not know any better refer to these disconnected and unassociated memories or impressions as the subconscious mind, “the real self.” There is nothing to the idea. “God is not in all their thoughts.”
In addition to the foregoing, there is in the atmosphere of the earth at this time a multitude of demons, who spend their time harrass-ing mankind. They have powers of intruding thoughts into the mind. Some who do not know of the activities of these evil beings have confused their intrusions and disservices as the operations of the so-called subconscious mind; and the papers are full of advertisements telling how these intrusions and disservices may be obtained, for the gaining of wealth, for the con-’ trol of others, and what not. .
The psychologists and psychoanalysts and physiognomists can all come to the Bible and to phrenology, and learn the truth about the matters which they have in hand; and they will do it, sooner or later. Of that there is not the least question. God is in no hurry, and the phrenologists are in no hurry. When a man has the truth on any subject, he never feels the need of worrying. The other follow worries.
Radio Bunk By Wm. /. Strong
BARNUM understood human nature. So do publishers of radio magazines. The novice in radio, as well as many quite experienced, read radio periodicals with eyes, ears, and mouth wide! open, believing all they read. The credulity of radio fans is marvelous.
Radio magazines cater to the advertiser; for they are the source of their income; in fact, many radio magazines are controlled by radio manufacturers. Therefore, new parts and new sets are pointed out as the panacea for all radio ills.
Since very few of the radio public are able to test the truth of statements regarding highly technical points, they can only read and believe. This credulity is aided by the fact that people view radio as almost supernatural, and are ready to expect and believe anything from it.
It is not the intention to brand all as false statements, but the warning is: Keep salt handy when reading, and use it freely. Nor is it the writer’s intention to pose as an authority on the matter. Nevertheless, after twelve years of experience in radio and wireless, as it was formerly called, some helpful observations can be made.
The universal custom of manufacturers of finished radio sets is to tell the very best the set will do. The following statements were taken from recent issues of current radio publications :
"Coast to coast radio------3,000 miles range.” (This
was a one-tube set)
“London, Hawaii, Porto Rico, on three •—>—■—■ tubes. Are you getting results like this? You can with -------- tubes.” (The Hawaii and Porto Rico
stations were doubtless high power telegraph stations.)
“With this efficient receiving set, you can bring in operas, sermons, lectures, dance music, etc., right into your home clear and distinct on loud speaker, no matter where broadcasted or where you live.” (This statement is very misleading.)
These advertisements are samples of misleading and far-fetched statements which misinform the unwary public. Perhaps, too, the radio public does not know that there are strange freaks performed by radio, which sometimes permit a one-tube set to do almost the impossible. Receiving signals over great distances are many times accomplished as a result of freak electrical conditions in the atmosphere. Transmission of signals is likewise subject to freaks which cause the transmitter to reach the receiver under unusual conditions.
As an example of this, we call to mind the case last spring of a youthful amateur in Montana, who with but ten watts of power carried on communication with the MacMillan ship “Bowdoin” WNP in the arctic regions. At the same time, the old-time, hard-boiled amateurs with 1,000 watts of power were unable to reach the ship. This is a freak that may never be repeated.
The power of the transmitting station has about as much to do with the range of the receiver as the set does itself. For instance, twelve years ago, the writer had a crystal set which received signals 1500 miles; but it was from the 300,000 watt station NAR at Key West. So it might be truthfully said that a crystal set will receive stations 1500 miles distant, but the statement would be very misleading. This seems to be the practice of some advertisers today. What they say is probably true—but misleading, and not what the average user will experience.
The selectivity of a receiver is often misrepresented. In the hands of an expert operator, some sets are much more selective than in the hands of the novice.
The latest radio bunk is the so-called “low loss condenser”. In laboratory tests, this condenser will show different characteristics from the condenser of usual construction; but when put into the set and slapped up against a panel, the actual results are so near alike that I challenge anyone to find the difference created by the condenser alone. This “low loss” business is a selling feature; and instead of being a “low loss” for the ultimate buyer, it becomes a high loss (in money).
Other opinions:
“It is undoubtly true that the losses in tuning inductances such as are available for receiving set builders are so high in proportion to the losses in condensers that much of the efficiency of a so-called low loss condenser is nullified, and to spend an excessive amount of money on a super-efficient tuning condenser where it is impossible to get a correspondingly high efficiency in the inductance is obviously a matter of false judgment.
“More important in the selection of condensers for tuning units may be the mechanical design which will afford long life and freedom from operating difficulties, together with a sensible consideration for electrical efficiency. Merely because metal end-plates are used does not guarantee that the lowest losses are secured. A good insulation end-plate type may be better.”— American Radio Journal.
“Condensers with solid end-plates of an insulating material can bo made with low losses if the insulating material is something that is good at radio frequencies, the end-plates are large, so the distance between opposite electrodes is great, and the material is not too thick.”—Q. S. T.
The readers attention is called to the fact that very few manufacturers of finished sets use the co-called “low loss condenser”. A well known, highly sensitive receiver, designed and built by a company of world renown, does not use this type of condenser.
Low loss tuners and inductances have merit. They increase selectivity and sensitiveness. If the price is not too high, they are worth the money.
There is considerable “bunk” told about the superheterodyne.
Oh, how zealous radio fans dream of the day when they might have a wonderful, awe-inspiring superheterodyne! They stand in entranced wonder and admiration before the commercial “super”. They then ask the price—and swallow hard. Or perhaps, they are favored with plenty of this world's goods and proceed to buy the wonder set. Truly it is a sensitive set. But before very long the set doesn’t work so well. They ask why, only to find that the tubes are losing their sensitiveness, because the coating on the filaments of the small tubes is burning off • and new' tubes must be bought.
But suppose our ambitious victim, with less money to spend, not to be thwarted by the high price, decides to build one of his own.. If he is a mechanic and has had experience in1 building radios, the set will sometimes functii n nicely. He now has a supersensitive receiver that will work, coast to coast on a loop.
And the loop—it is a beautiful fixture, which is swung about, knocking down lamps, pictures, etc., and kindly jabbing the operator in the face. The loop, it is claimed, makes a set more selective by rotating; when in reality the loud stations which cause the trouble can be heard oyer 350 of the 360 degrees total revolution. And then he buys “B” batteries, buys them by the dozen until he finally installs a bank of storage “B” batteries in the basement with a charger to charge them. All of this is done for distance; and absolutely all extreme distance is good for, is to brag about. -
Let us all be wary of fancy tales of wonderful radio sets. We do well to remember that the good is all Ave hear. At very best, there is much to mar good broadcast reception. People from “Missouri” now have to hear as well as see to be able to determine how good a receiver is.
We are all looking forward to the time when static will be overcome, when the neighbor’s set will not radiate and consequently make ours whistle, when broadcast stations will not interfere with each other, and finally to the time when radio manufacturers become thoroughly truthful. Then, indeed, will be the Golden Age.
Demons See Something Coming in 1925
- A Prophecy by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle From Tribune de Geneve, Dec. 23, 1924.
THE English writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle prophesies terrible disasters. The mo-bilzed spirits are announcing the end of the world. There would be, he asserts, a terrible calamity accompanied by an extraordinary manifestation of elemental forces for the punishment of man and for the opening of the way to the Millennium.
Be Not Afraid of Them
“He began to say unto his disciples first of all. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the eat in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them.”—Luke 12:1-4.
Rehabilitation of Palestine By Dr. Chaim Weizmann
[Radiocast from station WBBR on a wave length of 272.(5 meters.]
P ALESTINIAN reconstruction has a great interest for the non-Jew as well as the Jew.
The romance which is associated with the modern-day regeneration of the land by the descendants of the people who first gave it a significance in Biblical lore is one of the most beautiful in all history. For me there is no romance to equal .it. It is the later day fulfilment of Biblical prophecy. A people long fettered and long harrassed, a people that has wandered over the face of the earth since the Babylonian captivity, has been returned to its ancient Homeland.
The Jew has been challenged by the world. Fifty-one nations have given their approval to the Balfour Declaration. The British Mandate is comparable to no other edict which has been issued by the various nations of the world to the Jews. All edicts about the Jews down through the ages have told the Jews what they can not do. Here is a document formulated in the twentieth century, sanctioned by the whole of the civilized world, which says what the Jews shall do. It is an affirmative command.
The question has been repeatedly asked, “Are there men in Israel who are capable of doing the work which is necessary for the upbuilding of the country?’" I have seen these men. I have known them before they came to Palestine. It is no. exaggeration to say that these are pioneers who would be the pride of any nation. I do not think they fall behind any great pioneering group which has set out to build a new country. They come with idealism, with enthusiasm. They are a force. They do not ask how difficult the task is or how long it will last. They only ask that we enable them to go on.
It is no overstatement to say that there is not a square kilometer of land anywhere in the world on which there is concentrated so much energy, so much idealism, so much endeavor as on a square kilometer where our pioneers are working, dreaming and enduring hardships. I have heard men speak who have come direct from Palestine—non-Jews—and they say that they do not understand this type of man. Perhaps it is the stored-up idealism of ages, come down to them from their grandfathers, and finding today an outlet and an application in Palestine. This store of idealism, this driving force, is making navvies out of university students and university students out of navvies. ■
In the course of the past three and a half years these same pioneers, with funds supplied by the Palestine Foundation Fund, the chief financial instrument for the reconstruction of Palestine which is largely supported by the Jews of America, have built more than 2,000 houses, mile after mile of new roads; they have planted 2,500,000 trees; they have converted numberless rocky hillsides into terraces and planted them with olive and orange groves. They have taken over and ploughed the country which has been a reproach and a source of disease for so many hundreds of years. These are only a few of the material accomplishments of these pioneers. They strive zealously, giving themselves up entirely that the Biblical prophecy might be realized in full.
Let us for a moment forget our immediate practical preoccupations and rehearse again some of those truths which have carried us so far and which, with God’s help will carry us to triumph.
In returning to Palestine, the Jews are attempting to bridge over a gulf between themselves and their past, to reestablish their continuity. To stride this gulf is a tremendous strain and requires the endurance of a giant. It is only possible to people who have an inspiration. But we have the inspiration, and we will conquer.
Let me here rehearse an experience of mine which I know is latent in all the Jews of the world. During the last days of the World War I was in Palestine, and I had arranged to meet the Emir Feisul in Transjordania. Under normal circumstances the journey from the point where I was stationed to Transjordania does not take more than five hours. At that time the Turkish front still bit into Palestinian territory, and in order to make my way to the spot where the Emir was stationed, I had to make a long detour, and go southward toward Egypt, then cross the Bed Sea and come up again to Transjordania.
I made the journey. Twelve days I traveled on my mission—five days through burning desert past Sinai, and then across the waters of the Red Sea. I came north again through the land of Moab, and word was sent to the Emir that I was approaching. And there was sent out to greet me a number of his servants, with gifts of camels and sheep, and with bread and salt. And on the last day of my journey there came over me a marvelous sense of the wonder of my- journey. Like Abraham of old I was approaching the land which God had promised to His chosen people. And like him I was coming through the lands of Moab, as it were, to take possession. And there came to greet me a procession of servants of the Emir, and they ^offered me the bread and salt of welcome, and they spread a tent to shelter me and they killed a lamb that I might eat, and they told me that their lord was waiting for me, eager to meet me.
And there and then there rolled away two thousand, three thousand, four thousand years. I felt, I knew, that it was only yesterday we had possessed the land; it was only yesterday that our forefather Abraham had trodden this spot, had gone forth on the errand of his people under the guidance of God and with His blessing. And I felt then that not all the years of our exile, not all the lands we had dwelt in, not all the sufferings we had borne, mattered any more. The gulf had been bridged. This was home; this was the promise and the fulfilment; this was the certainty.
The rebuilding of the Jewish Homeland is going forward. It is an effort which gives hope to a race broken up in fragments, dispersed in many lands, misunderstood, but which is at present centering its efforts on sending out men and women to Palestine, to a country for which it has a great historic and religious attachment. These people are going there moved by sentiments which find expression in agelong prayers and hopes and aspirations. They come from a race which has proved for many thousands of years to be indestructible and which has made important contributions to humanity. When it is established and rooted again in its own soil, recreated by its own efforts, it may once more make a contribution and send out from these hills, which have been consecrated by age-long martyrdom, a message of hope and comfort and peace to a world which stands very much in need of such a message.
Bringing Dead Rats into the House By a Bible student
TN THE Golden Age No. 140, the article on J- “Medical Liberty Rights”, by Drs. H. M. Shelton and B. Stanford Claunch, is very good, especially the paragraphs on vaccination and inoculation of serum.
The inoculation of pus, or dead germs, into one’s system is like putting dead rats into a house to drive away the live ones. The dead rats will scare away the live ones, to be sure; but is that house any better off with the dead ones left in it? '
At first how relieved one feels to be free of the live ones! But wait awhile, and you will not feel so well. First the nose is affected by the odor; then the stomach is affected. Finally it is impossible to live in that house on account of the dead rats; for as they are not able to remove themselves the house is in a very bad condition. The remedy would be to keep the house in good condition so that no live rats can get in, by keeping all places of their entrance stopped up.
Just so with the inoculation of dead germs and pus into one’s body. It may drive out the live germs; but dead germs cannot remove themselves, thus resulting in fever, inflammation, and often diseases that eventually cause the death of the patient.
Let us learn to live better by eating proper food and getting plenty of fresh air and exercise.
All hail the day when the Lord’s kingdom shall be fully established, and the Great Physician begins the healing of the nations! Then no one will need say: “I am sick.” Then there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things will have passed away.—Revelation 21:4.
The Ape-Man Revealed
THE above title is taken from the beginning of an item in the “Literary Digest” for Sept. 22, 1923, which continues by saying:
“The Java ape-man, the world’s most famous prehistoric creature, has come out of retirement. After thirty years’ denial to his fellow scientists from all nations, Dr. Eugene Dubois, discoverer of this ‘missinglink’ in human evolution known as Pithecanthropus Erectus, has just accorded to the American School of Prehistoric Studies in Europe, under the direction of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution, the courtesy of the first opportunity to make a thorough examination of the original fossils of this half-millionyear-old being. On their return to Amsterdam, after an inspection of the bones at Dr. Dubois’s home at Haarlam, the American scientists seemed convinced that this ape-man was more nearly human than formerly believed, we are told by Science Service’s Daily Science News Bulletin (Washington). We read:
“‘The examination was in many respects a revelation,’ declares Dr. Hrdlicka. ‘When Dr. Dubois publishes his detailed study, which he tells me he expects to do before the end of the year, Pithecanthropus Erectus will assume an even weightier place in science than it has held up to now. None of the published illustrations or the casts now in various institutions are accurate. Especially is this true of the teeth and thigh-bone. The new brain-cast is very close to human. The femur is without question human.’ The remains, he explained, consist of the skullcap, now thoroughly cleansed for the first time; the femur; three teeth, two molars and one premolar. Besides these, there is a piece of a strange primitive lower jaw, from a later, but nevertheless still primitive, type of man found in lime deposits in a different part of the island from that of the other bones. Dr. Hrdlicka declared that the original relics are ‘even more important than held hitherto’. He predicted that ‘though all controversial points may not be settled, the specimens will assume even a weightier place in science than they have had to the present.’ Dr Dubois found these apeman remains near Trinil in the island of Java in 1891, but since then he has steadfastly refused to allow other scientists to examine the originals thoroughly, so that they have had to content themselves with the casts and illustrations which Dr. Hrdlicka now declares to be inaccurate. Dt. Dubois demonstrated personally and without reserve the precious specimens which have been withheld from other scientists for over a quarter of a century. The cordial invitation for the Americans to see the originals was transmitted through Dr. Arthur Smith-Woodward of the British Museum of Natural History and handed to Dr. Hrdlicka when he arrived in Europe last month.” , .
By Herbert M. Shelton, D.P., N.D.
Perhaps, now that this old hoax is about to be given more prominence than heretofore, it will not be amiss to tell a little more of its history:
“In September, 1891, Dubois, a Dutch physician, discovered a tooth on the island of Java, about forty-five feet below the surface of the earth. One month later he found the roof of a skull about three feet from where-he had found the tooth; and in August, 1892, he found a thigh bone forty-five feet farther away and, later on, another tooth. A year or two later the world’s famous zoologists met at Leyden, and. among other things examined these remains. Ten of these leading scientists concluded that they were nothing but the bones of an ape; seven held that they were those of a man; and seven concluded that they were really the missing link connecting man and the ape.”
The so-called scientific world was looking for a missing link; so without stopping to settle the differences of opinion it was simply decided to accept the opinion of the last-named seven, and let the other seventeen be quietly ignored and forgotten. A missing link they wanted, and a missing link it was!
Since the time when these men examined the bones, Prof. D. G. Cunningham, of Dublin, who is described as one of the highest authorities on comparative anatomy in Great Britain, gave his opinion that these different bones do not belong to the same animal. He thought that a part of them may have been those of a monkey or a baboon, and part of them human. Virchow considered it a pathological specimen. He reasoned that since the bones were not found together, we could not regard them as having belonged to the same animal; and that it was even less possible to make of such a compound two creatures either an ape or a man. He was certain that the thigh-bone was that of a man, while the fragment of skull belonged to a gibbon or a chimpanzee.
Even Prof. Osborn of the Museum of Natural History (N. Y.), who is the most dogmatic champion of the dogma of evolution in America today, admits that the thigh-bone is human and that the skullcap is simian. He says of the two teeth: “They do not resemble those of man closely enough to positively confirm the prehuman theory” Again he says: “There are, however, reasons for excluding Pithecanthrspus from the direct ancestral line of the higher races of men.”
Sir. John Lubbock examined these remains before they were hidden away, and said of them: “It is greatly to be regretted that they are not more complete, but they certainly belong either to a very large gibbon or to a very small man.” Gibbons are the smallest of the “great apes”, seldom attaining a stature of over three feet. Thus he thought that these” bones belonged either to a giant gibbon or to a dwarf man.
Accurate Information about Things Unknown
MUCH misinformation lias been published by those who speculate on the “Trinil Ape-man”. These two-by-four intellectuals, who confess that they have more gray matter than the rest of us poor “monkeys”, are able by the “scientific use of the imagination” to acquire “accurate” information about things of which they know nothing. A lot of nonsense born of their overheated imaginations still passes for science in the ranks of these super-intellectuals. They presume to tell us all about prehistoric man, of whom they know nothing. How much can they learn by a few bones, arrow-heads, and pieces of broken pottery? Not much. There exists today a very wide-spread belief that a paleontologist can restore an animal from a single bone. The evolutionist who has fostered this view is pleased indeed that it persists; for it enables him to tell his poor dupes all about an animal which he never saw, and which never even existed, except in his own imagination.
In reading the detailed descriptions of the unicorn given by some of the older zoologists, one is led irresistibly to the conclusion that they were written by men who had actually seen the animal. Yet, as a matter of fact, not one of these men ever saw a unicorn, nor has he ever seen anyone who had seen one. They supplied all the details from that inexhaustible fountain of “scientific” data—the human imagination.
These older zoologists were the ancestors of our modern evolutionists, who from a tooth, a thigh-bone, and a piece of skull-cap, which they never saw, reconstruct an ape-man which, they say, is half a million years old. They use bones, too, that they have never seen. Says Dr. W. H. Ballow, in speaking of the Trinil Ape-man:
“It stood erect, had a well-shaped human head, and was tailed. Science deduced from the skeleton our evolution into the smooth-skinned, tailless creatures that we are today.”
Of course, this fellow “Science” is a nonentity. He never existed to do any deducing. And just as he is a nonentity, so are that skeleton and that tail. Nobody has ever seen that skeleton; for none has even been found. Nor has any piece of tail ever been found belonging to Pithecanthropus Erectus. The tail is all a figment of the imagination. Dr. Ballow does not know any more about that tail than do the dead bones themselves. I care not what Science told him. Science is not a witness. He was not there.
In the “Smithsonian Publication 2300”, page 10, Dr. Hrdlicka wrote:
“It would surely seem proper and desirable that specimens of such value to science [he is speaking of the bones of the Trinil Ape-man] should be freely accessible to well-qualified investigators, and that accurate casts be made available to scientific institutions, particularly after twenty [now thirty] years have elapsed since the discovery of the original.
“Regrettably, however, all that has thus far been furnished to the scientific world is a cast of a skullcap, the commercial replicas of which yield measurements different from those reported taken from the original, and several not thoroughly satisfactory illustrations. No reproductions can be had of the femur and the teeth; and not only the study, but even a view, of the originals is denied to scientific men.”
Educating Themselves in Unknowables
IT MAY seem strange, nevertheless it is true, not only that those “scientists” who have for years been flooding the world with the accounts and detailed descriptions of Pithecanthropus Erectus never saw those few bones, but that the casts and pictures which they had seen were “different from those reported taken from the original” and are not “thoroughly satisfactory”. This is science in the twenty-fifth year of the twentieth century! Some of Dr. Hrdlicka’s chin-music quoted at the beginning of this article is of the same type. He declares that Dr. Dubois demonstrated personally and without reserve “the precious specimens which have been withheld from other scientists for over a quarter of a century”. The evolutionists’ worship of these “precious specimens” reminds us that, they are the ones who scoff most at our Catholic friends for their worship of the shin-bones of SL Anne and of other “relics” of the “saints” which they guard so zealously.
“The new brain-east is very close to human.” Perhaps so. But is it more close to “accurate” than are the older ones? Why not make the cast just what the theory demands that it should be? But what would be better, give us the true measurements of the original. Why rely on the new casts?
“There is a piece of a strange primitive lower jaw, from a later, but nevertheless still primitive, type of man found in lime deposits in a different part of the island from that of the other bones.”
This “strange primitive lower jaw” belonged to the grandson of Pithecanthropus. Dr. Hrdlicka does not know this but “science” deduces from the facts that it “was from a later, but nevertheless still primitive type of man” and was found on the same island, that he was the grandson. However, the most significant part about this lower jaw is that it is “strange” and “primitive” or “still primitive”. Of course, having identified it as the honored grandson of Lord Pithecanthropus himself, it is no longer strange. This grandson had “already” lost a few inches of the family tail at the time he was buried in his grandfather’s old lime quarry. I might also add that he had grown a long beard and a mustache. It was the first that his fellow ape-men had ever seen. For this reason he was for years with one of the side-shows that traveled with the “world’s greatest combined shows”.
“The Present State of the Problem of Evolution,” by M. Caullery (Smithsonian Report for 1916, pages 321-335, Publication 2462), contains the following very significant words:
“But if we return to the study of evolution, the data of Mendelism embarrass us also very considerably. All that it shows us, in fact, is the conservation of existing properties. [Italics mine] - Many variations which might have seemed to be new properties are simply traced to previous unobserved combinations of factors already existing. This has indeed seriously impaired the mutation theory of DeVries, the fundamental example of the (Enothera Lamarkiana seeming to be not a special type of variation, but an example of complex hybridization. The authors who have especially studied Mendelian heredity find themselves obliged to attribute all the fact to combinations of already existing factors, or to loss of factors, a conception which seems to me a natural consequence of the symbolism adopted, but which hardly satisfies the intelligence. In any case, we do not see in the facts emerging from the study of Mendelism, how evolution, in the sense that morphology suggests [sic], can have come about. And it comes to pass that some of the biologists of greatest authority in the study of Mendelian heredity are led, with regard to evolution, either to more or less complete agnosticism or to the expression of ideas quite opposed to those of the preceding generation; ideas which would, almost take us back to Creationism.
“Lamarckism and Darwinism are equally affected by these views. The inheritance of acquired characters is condemned and natural selection declared unable to produce a lasting and progressive change in organisms. The facts of adaptation are explained by a previous realization of structures which are found secondarily in harmony with varied surroundings. That is the idea which different biologists have reached and which M. Cuenot in particular has developed systematically.”
He mentions as “two- recent and particularly significant examples”, Win. Bateson and J. P. Lotzy. Bateson had declared in his “'Problems of Genetics” that we must recognize our almost entire ignorance of the process of evolution. He then mentions Bateson’s presidential address at the meeting of the British Association in 1914. We shall here quote a few paragraphs from that address as published in “Science”, August 28, 1914. Dr. Bateson is acknowledged by all scientists to be the highest living authority on genetics. He says:
“Not only does embryology give no direct aid but the failure of cytology [the study of cell organism] is equally complete. The Chromosomes of nearly related creatures may be utterly different in number, size and form. If we cannot see how- a fowl by its egg and its sperm gives rise to a chicken, or how a sweet pea from its ovule or its pollen grain produces another sweet pea, we at least can watch the system by which the difference between the various kinds of fowl or between the various kinds of sweet pea are distributed among the offspring. . . . Until Mendel began his analysis nothing but the vaguest answers to such a question had been attempted. The existence of any orderly system of descent was never even suspected.”
Again he says:
“Darwin speaks no more with philosophical authority. We read his scheme of evolution as we would those of Lucretius or of Lamark. Naturalists may still be found expounding teleological systems which would have delighted Dr. Pangloss himself, but at the present time few are misled. ...
. “Almost the last shred of that teleological fustian with which Victorian philosophers loved to clothe the theory of evolution is destroyed. . . . As a chief characteristic of modern evolutionary thought we must confess to deep but irksome humility in the presence of great vital problems. Every theory of evolution must be such as to accord with the facts of physics and Chemistry, a primary necessity to which our predecessors paid small heed. Of the physics and chemistry of life I we know next to nothing. Living things are found by a simple experiment to have powers undreamed of, and who knows what may be behind?”
Once more, lie says:
“Knowledge of heredity has so reacted on our conceptions of variations that very competent men are even denying that variation in the old sense is a genuine occurrence at all. [A thing every farmer could have told them a thousand years ago.] Do we, as a matter of fact, find in the world about us variations occurring of such a kind as to warrant faith in a contemporary progressive evolution ?”
Every evolutionist in the entire world, or that has ever been in the world, would fain answer that question in the affirmative. In fact, many of the more dogmatic and less cautious ones have so answered it. However, in answering his own question, Bateson said:
“Till lately most of us would have said ‘yes’ without misgiving. The appearance of contemporary variation proves to be an illusion. We have done with the notion that Darwin came to favor, that large difference can arise by accumulation of small differences.”
He also refers to Lotzy, and mentions the latter’s contempt for the ideas then and still in vogue in the “sciences” of zoology and botany. He continues by saying:
“After the blind complacency of conventional evolutionists it is refreshing to meet so frank an acknowledgement of the hardness of the problem. Lotzy’s utterance will at least do something to expose the artificiality of systematic zoology and botany. . . . The problem still stands outside the realm of scientific investigation; and when we hear that the spontaneous formation of formaldehyde is a possible first step in the origin of life, we think of Harry Lauder in the character of a Glasgow school-boy pulling out his treasures from his pocket: ‘That’s a wassher for mak-kin’ motor cars T ”
Fossils Defossilizing Fossilized Theories
TV/Tb. Lauder must have been studying about Pithecanthropus Erectus or his remains, out of which evolutionists propose to make man. And this proposal continues among “conventional evolutionists” in spite of the verdict of genetics. A half dozen bones of doubtful origin and age (all attempts to give them an age is only guess work) which seem certain to have belonged to different animals, are still proclaimed as the ancestor of “modern” man in the face of all the mass of evidence that evolution did not take place. Such is the dogmatism of the anti-dogmatist.
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