Golden Age, July 1, 1925
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Contents of the Golden Age
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Social and Educational '
Items or Would Niws ................. 611
Will Study Around the World .............. 612
The Cause of . Juvenile Delinquency ..... . . .. . . 612
Teaching Character in the Prisons ............ 617
Masonry and Mythology . ........ 619
Mixed Marriages in British Nyasaland .......... 620
The Modern Delilah . . . . . . . .. .... .... . . . 623
Nature’s Clock . . . . ......... . ... . . . ■ 629
Finance—Commerce—Transportation
Union Men Operate Non-Union Mine ............ 612
Ford Has Them Guessing ...... . . . . .
Florida Real Estate Booming . . . . . . . ... ...... . .
Foodless Farms of the Southwest . . . . . . . . . . . .
gOMESTBADING STILL AVAILABLE . . . . . . , ..... . .
Political—Domestic and Foreign
Changes Impending in Passport Arrangements .... . . . .
Governor .Walker’s. View of the .Klan ..........
. Bible Students Win Complete Victories . . . . . .....
More Light on Causes for Coubtmamtal . . . . . . . . . .
Home and Health
Ford Disbelieves in Medicine . . . . . . . .... .. . . .
When You Get a Cold ...........
What Abb Colds? . . . . . . . . . . ' . . . ..... .
, . . . . Science and Invention .
Inventions Continue to Multiply . . . . . . . .. . .. . . .
Seattle Will Have Largest Telescope J . . . . . . . . . .
Bromine from the Ocean . . . •. 616
Iceless Refrigerator Not Yet Perfected: . .... . . . 622
Every Human Being a Radio .............. 631
Religion and Philosophy
Corroborations of the Pyramid Article . . .... . . . . 626 “Christendom” is Snared . . . . . . . . ... .... . . 627
Origin of Eternal Torture Theory ............ 630
The Bishop’s Visit ........
The Jews Returning to Palestine ............ 632
Studies in “The Harp of God” .
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The Golden Age
Volume VI Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, July 1, 1925 Number 151
Items of World News
[Radiocast, with other items, from Watchtower WBBR on a wave length of 272.6 meters, by the Editor]
Child Slaves Should Read the Bible
THE New York Journal calls attention to the fact that on one and the same day, in the legislature of Florida, the constitutional amendment that would protect children from child labor was rejected, and a bill was passed compelling the daily public reading of the Bible in all public schools. Perhaps this is so that when the little folks get jobs in factories, where they may work from daylight to dark, and when they look out of the windows at the directors playing golf in the fields, they can repeat such texts as, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”
Hiawatha’s Champion Ditch Diggers
HIAWATHA, Kansas, claims the champion ditch diggers of the world. Two men, Calvin Knox and John Huddleston, with ordinary 22-inch ditching spades, have the reputation of digging 1500 feet of sewer ditch 9 feet deep in 30 days. Probably there is not a stone, not even a pebble, in the soil which they dug, but it was a great achievement anyway. These two men average $50 a week ditch-digging. Their employer claims that each is equal to three men.
Mitchell’s View of the Army
Coeonel Wieliam Mitcheee, retiring Assis-taut Chief of the Army Aviation Service, in a speech in Washington declared that when all the people were illuminating their homes with kerosene the Army continued to use candles; when the people used gas the army used kerosene, and when the people began using electricity the army still stuck to the old illumin-ants. He maintains that it was with the greatest difficulty that the American army adopted the telephone, the telegraph, the automobile or the radio; says that in the Indian campaigns the savages were better armed than America’s regular troops, and that the World War was won by the weapons of America’s associates. Well, what of it? We are still here, aren’t we?
Government Entertains 50,000 Vacationers
ONCE a year the War Department pays the cost of transporting 50,000 vacationers from their homes to the Summer war camps and back again. While they are in camp the boys are furnished without cost their food, bedding, laundry, uniforms, shelter and medical care. Attendance at church is compulsory. It need not be said that the Federal Council of Churches is strongly in favor of the program.
Uncle Sam’s Big Bombs
THE United States is now manufacturing bombs which weigh 4,300 pounds apiece, intended to be dropped from airplanes in flight. These bombs have a bursting effect sufficient to displace 1,000 cubic yards of hard sand. One of them, exploded in the business center of a modern city, would wipe out the whole section.
Changes Impending in Passport Arrangements
TWO changes are likely in passport regulations. The President has made the common sense proposal to abolish the $10 charge for issuing passports, provided all other countries will do the same. Quite likely they will agree. Another likely change is that married women, when applying for passports, will probably be allowed to use either their maiden names or their married names, as they may prefer.
Manufactured War Propaganda
IMPRESSED by the efficiency of the propaganda manufactured during the World War and sold to the American people to the tune of billions of dollars, the Teapot Dome statesmen and their lawyers now pretend that the reason they sold your oil to Sinclair and Doheny was that some unnamed mysterious nation was about ! to pounce upon us and eat us alive. Just how ' this swiping of the oil would prevent the attack W’as not explained, and details were refused even to the court itself. But Doheny was ordered by the court to give back the land.
Union Men Operate Non- Union Mine
AFTER investing three million dollars in coal mines in West Virginia the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers found they could not operate their mines at a profit and pay union wages; so they are operating them on a nonunion basis., This is on a par with the stenographers’ strike which took place some years ago at the headquarters of the Federation of Labor at Washington.
Percentages of Home Ownership
OVER 41 percent of the citizens of Los
Angeles own their homes. The cities next in order are Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Denver where, on the average, 36.3 percent own their own homes. Next are Kansas City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Washington and Chicago, where the average is 28.3 percent; then come Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans and Atlanta with 23.4 percent. Last on the list are Boston and New York City, which make the poor showing of only one house in seven owned by the person who lives in it.
Great Numbers of Accidental Injuries
MORE than eight times as many people are killed or injured each year as die from natural causes. For every death by accident there are 130 disabling injuries. The insurance companies tell us that 27,714 persons are injured every day in the year, which amounts to more than 10,000,000 altogether during the year. At present one person is killed in an automobile accident every 37 minutes.
A Strange Medley of Accidents
A PEDESTRIAN in the northern part of
New York city made a savage lunge at a man in an antomobile who, he supposed, had nearly run him down. He lunged at the wrong man; but so frightened the driver that the poor man lost control of his car, with the result that both men were killed when the car went over a bridge* The driver of the car, a widower, had insured his life for $15,000 only the day before the accident occurred, and leaves this tidy sum for the education of his orphaned child.
The Stuff Heroes are Made Of
A T LAUREL, Delaware, a little three-year-old tot escaped from his nurse, wandered to a railroad bridge, tried to cross, but fell off the bridge thirty-five feet into the water. The bridge tender, R. W. Dunn, saw the accident, stopped a fast freight that was coming, ran to the point where the child fell, took a header and brought up the child safe and sound. A good job, well Dunn.
The Men Have Been Found Out
TT IS all up. We have been found out. Miss
Charity Sumeral, of Greenville, South Carolina, who boasts that she is 109 years of age and that she has never been married, says now that she never will be married. The reason she gives for her decision is that the men are no good. Some men will say she should have explained that the reason for it is that men are not brought up right.
Champion Fish Story for 1925
IN THE Frazer River, near Vancouver, British
Columbia, during the month of April a. sturgeon was caught which weighed 1015 pounds and was twelve and one-half feet long. The fish was so large that it was dispatched by a sledge hammer. A sturgeon half the size is considered remarkably large. This great monster is estimated to have been 300 years old.
Two Hundred Boys on Strike
TWO hundred high school boys in Gladstone,
Michigan, were indignant because the girls came to school with their stockings rolled. Thereat the boys decided to come without collars and neckties. They were expelled because they refused to dress properly, while the girls were allowed to continue to “roll their own”.
Will Study Around the World
SA TUNG from New York, on September 25th’, four hundred and fifty university students will round out their education by a cruise around the world, which will take eight months. The trip will include visits to thirty-five of the seventy countries of the world, and will include stops at fifty ports. Classes will be held regularly enroute.
Pennsylvania Will Electrify
REPORTS have it that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will electrify its main line between Washington and New York, a distance of 225 miles. This will be the longest stretch of electrified railway in the East. The longest electrified section in the West, or in the world, is that of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, over the Rocky mountains, about 400 miles.
Teaching an Automobile to Jump
A WEEHAWKEN, N. J., man recently bought a new car and went out to learn how to drive it. On the first trip the car went through an iron fence and jumped 160 feet to the foot of the Palisades, landing on the West Shore Railroad tracks. The owner was thrown to a projecting ledge and escaped unhurt, but his car was reduced to scrap iron and splinters.
Street Car Systems Begin to Go
ABANDONED street car lines are now in evidence here and there throughout the country, the bus lines having forced them to the wall. In the sizable city of Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, the street car company has just given up the ghost and gone out of business. A bus company will operate over the same route.
A Negro Hero in Tennessee
WHEN the Government steamer Norman turned turtle in the Mississippi river, with a loss of twenty-two lives, a negro, Tom Lea, by careful and repeated trips with a motor boat saved the lives of thirty persons. There was no panic, no outcry, and almost no disorder connected with the disaster.
The Cause of Juvenile Delinquency
ENDEAVORING to fathom the reason for growing juvenile criminality, “The Literary Digest” decides that there can be no question that the responsibjlty for it rests with the home. But what has changed the home? The answer is that the professed ministers of the Gospel, who should have been teaching the Bible, good will and the love of the Creator, have been teaching evolution, class hatred and the love of self.
Criminal Folly of a Trapper
THE farmers, in a section of Massachusetts some seventy-five square miles in extent, discovered unusual losses in their domestic animals. Investigation disclosed that trappers had sown the district with capsules of tallow filled with a deadly poison, and planted here and there with a view to killing fur-bearing animals. The men were fined and left the state.
Seventy-Eight Years in One Home
SEVENTY-EIGHT years ago Mrs. Jane Anne
Williams of Avon, New York, then a bride of twenty-two years of age, came to live in the little house which she still occupies. Though she is now7 100 years of age Mrs. Williams is in good health, and we think has excellent prospects of being of the millions now living who will never die. Avon, in the beautiful Genesee valley, is a delightful place to live, and we think Mrs. Williams has been wise to remain where she is. Why go to green fields far away, when those at home are so desirable?
Pennsylvania Names Its Freights
HHHE Pennsylvania Railroad has given distinctive names to its most famous freight trains. These freights, heretofore known by number only, will now be called Meteor, Eagle, Spark Plug, Rocket, Bullet, Blue Streak, Hummer, Gas Wagon, Arrow, Mercury, Packer, Man O’War, Yankee, Eclipse, G reyhound, Uncle Sam, Comet, Blue Goose, Standard, Bison, Accelerator and Ironmaster.
Ford Has Them Guessing
WITH his net profits last year of more than $100,000,000 Henry Ford has the big financiers of New York guessing. They would like to have a finger in the pie, but all in vain. He laughs their whole interest scheme to scorn, and is opening a bank of his own in Wall Street. Now he is getting ready to flood America with 10-passenger all metal airplanes which will fly 300 miles per hour and change history. .
Thirty-Five Van Loads of Money
rp HIRTY-FIVE van loads of money and securities were recently moved a distance of three miles in New York city, all in one morning. The Equitable Life Assurance Society moved from the Equitable Building, at 120
Broadway, to,its new, home uptown, near the Pennsylvania station. The vans were armor-clad, bullet proof, and the procession was protected by abundant police with machine guns all ready for action. It took four hours for the entire transfer.
Pianos and. Commuters by Airplane
OPING to interest the Government or other responsible parties, six Russians flew from
New York to Washington in an airplane designed to carry freight. They had on board with them two grand pianos each weighing six hundred pounds. The progressive Berkley-Carteret hotel of Asbury Park, N. J., will this season provide facilities for its guests to commute to New York by hydroplane; the landing place in New York will be the Hudson River near sixtieth street.
Department of Justice on Trial
orman IIapgood, Chairman of the Wheeler Defense Committee, is making a pretty good showing in his claims that the new trial of Senator Wheeler in “Washington, on the same changes aS'those on which he was acquitted in Montana, is not prosecution but persecution, and that what it all really amounts to is that the Department of Justice itself is being placed on trial before the bar of public opinion. Let it come. If the Government is not sound and honest the people should know it.
Judge Orders a Dude Strapped ■
tjdge Raymond' MacNeille, of Philadelphia, heeded the appeals of a father that al5-year-oId boy, repeatedly arrested for theft, be not sent to the Reformatory at Huntingdon; but the Judge required the father to take the young man, designated by the court as “a dressed up dude with a yellow streak”, and beat him with a strap until the court could see the marks. This was done in the ccller of the court building, and to* the full satisfaction of the judge. Who shall say that this was not better for the young man than sending him away to a crime school?
Delaware Sticks to Whipping Post
ELAWARE continues to believe in the whipping post, as the proper penalty for certain classes of crimes. In Delaware, if a man beats his wife, he is tied to a post and gets a taste of his own medicine. Who shall say it is not a good, thing for the man, even though its influence on the bystanders be not so good? An effort to change the law has just failed.
Governor Walker’s View of the Klan
overnor Cliffqrd Walker, of Georgia, in. a recent address said: “During the past two years in Georgia, since Nathan Bedford Forrest . has been at the head of the Klan affairs, we have had less violence in Georgia than ever before in the history of the state.” The department of records of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, recently announced that the negro lynchings in 1924, sixteen in number, were the smallest in any year since records have been kept. * ’
The Dangerous Age
HpiIE dangerous age, as disclosed by prison statistics, lies between the years 21 arid 24.
Within this age, group arrests, convictions and commitments reach their maximum. About eighty percent of the prisoners in state institutions are first-termers. The real difficulties faced by the young in their efforts to establish themselves in-the world and their unwillingness to work hard for awhile at small wages, are responsible for this. Later in life they have funds of experience' which make the earning of an honest arid Satis-' factory living less'difficult.
Clever Capture of a Thief
TEXAS druggist brought about the cap-' ture of a thief by causing the thief to take;
a snapshot of himself. When the thief pulled open the cash drawer, a flashlight exploded and the shutter of a Camera opened. The thief supposed he had been fired upon, and fled, but he left his picture in the camera and was arrested at once. He was in the same predicament as the: thief who held up a noted artist. The thief took the artist’s money, but the artist went to ■ his room and sketched the man so perfectly that he was in jail before the next night.
New York’s Excellent Police Record
IN THE city of New York in 1924 there were 284 murders. Arrests were made in 161 cases, which is 56 percent. The names of the perpetrators of another 24 percent are known, and in due time their arrest is certain. Of the remain-ing 20 percent inany are of deaths of which there !
■ ' sL were no witnesses other than the slayers, but in some of these cases unsuspected clues, turns of fate or guilty consciences will at length bring about confessions. The Lord will square the whole account eventually.
Even the Finest Make Mistakes
NEW YORK claims to have the finest police force in the wo rid: but the New York Times reports that, by a series of blunders, the department sold at public auction on April 13, $3,000 worth of silk stockings which had been stolen from the store of Jacob R. Gold & Co., right at the time when one of the city detectives was trying to locate the stockings. It is alleged that the stockings were left on a truck near police headquarters shortly after the theft, and by some slip got into the hands of the property clerk without being identified.
New York City’s New Map
NEW YORK city has a new map of which it is justly proud. The map, which is thirty feet one way by twenty-seven feet the other, shows the city as it is. It was made up of two thousand photographs taken from airplanes flying over the city at a height of ten thousand feet. It required three thousand miles of flying to enable the planes to photograph the entire 625 square miles of the city’s area.
A New Method of Sentencing Criminals
Judge William E. Thorpe, of Greene County, New York, has inaugurated a method of sentencing criminals only after they have been given a psychiatric test by a physician. In ten cases just handled seven were placed on probation, one was sent to a hospital for the criminal insane, and two were sent to a home for the feeble-minded. Judge Thorpe believes this is the only proper method of disposing of criminals. Prisons are merely schools for criminals.
Kansas’ Debt to a Russian Emigrant
KANSAS now claims to grow the best wheat in the world. We had supposed that honor belonged to Minnesota and that the famous No. 1 hard wheat of the Red River Valley had no equal. But Kansas claims that her Turkey Red wheat is still better and that a barrel of flour made from it will make twenty more loaves than any other wheat known. The interesting part of the story is that this wheat was. brought into the United States by a Russian emigrant in the early seventies, wrapped in a handkerchief,
Florida Real Estate Booming
DURING last winter southern Florida had the greatest real estate boom ever known in any part of the United States at any time. It is estimated that during the height of the season more than 20,000 persons a day arrived in Florida, about one-third of whom became purchasers of land. At one time, it is estimated, more than 18,000 automobiles were in camp around Tampa Bay. Land once considered valueless is now raising three crops a year.
Foodless Farms of the Southwest
THE Farm Bureau Federation points out that there are in the southwestern part of the United States about a million farms that grow no hay for forage or stock, keep no chickens, have no gardens for table vegetables, make no butter, raise no pigs, grow no potatoes and have no cows. The Bureau might have pointed out that there is one other thing these farmers lack, and that is common sense. Every person that can do so ought to raise at least some of the food that he consumes.
Inventions Continue to Multiply
A LITTLE less than a hundred years ago one of the employes of the United States Patent Office resigned because he felt sure everything had already been invented and patented that could be devised. But during the year 1924 the number of patent applications received at Washington averaged about 300 a day, and the number of patents granted daily was about 200.
Religious Affiliations of the Cabinet
THE ten members of the President’s official family are pretty well distributed among the various Protestant denominations. The secretary of State is an Episcopalian, the secretaries of the Treasury and of the Interior are Presbyterians, the secretary of War is a Unitarian, the Attorney General is a Universal1st, the Postmaster General is a Christian Disciple, the secretaries of the Navy and of Agriculture are Congregationalists, the secretary of Labor is a Baptist and the secretary of Commerce is a Quaker. The Methodists are left out.
Make Your Own Ink
More Proof of the Flood
IF YOU operate a typewriter you have a chance to make your own ink. When a ribbon is worn out put it into two quarts of clean water, rain water preferred. Boil the ink out of the ribbon, strain the fluid and place it in bottles. It is. claimed that this makes a non-fading ink which will neither cake nor corrode the pen.
Putting the Telephone Out of Commission
THE bear puts the telephone out of commission by climbing the pole, looking for honey.
He cuffs off a few insulators and there is a short circuit. The eagle flaps his wings and brings live wires into contact. The spider’s web becomes wet and does the same thing. The radio is exempt from these annoyances, but frequently suffers from "static” just the same.
Seattle Will Have Largest Telescope
THE largest telescope in the world is now at Mt. Wilson, California. The lens is eight feet four inches across. The next largest is at Little Saanich, British Columbia, six feet one inch across. But Seattle is now having built for its own observatory a lens which is exactly ten feet across. The dome which will contain this telescope is 100 feet in diameter.
Bromine from the Ocean
BROMINE, which is useful in motion picture photography, ethyl gasoline and medicine, exists in the ocean in the rate of one pound of bromine for every 1700 gallons of water. A ship fitted up for the purpose is now engaged in the experiment of seeing whether this bromine can be profitably extracted. We predict for it an ultimate great success.
Weather Forecasts Will be Improved
rp HE weather forecast, already very good, will be improved by the daily flight of a navy airplane into the heavens, above Washington. An expert navy aerologist will go along, carrying with him thermometers and barographs, which will record conditions with accuracy. On the return of the plane the Weather Bureau will. make use of the data. Weather conditions are much affected by the state of the upper atmosphere of which hitherto no daily reliable information has been available.
"Ip VERY day’s news brings fresh proof that the evolutionists have been libeling the apes in claiming the latter as their grandfathers, and that the Bible story of creation and the Flood is correct. Butterflies have been found in glacial ice at Cordova, Alaska. These butterflies while enjoying the tropic clime of the northern latitudes in Antediluvian times, were suddenly caught in the great storm of Noah’s day. At the poles this took the form of snow and overwhelmed all living things in a casket of ice.
New York’s Educated .Cockroaches
'KTEW YORK is blessed with cockroaches, not the ordinary kind such as are to be found elsewhere, but a superior variety. Possibly the New York housekeepers may be too neat. We cannot say. But the discovery is that the New York cockroaches are fond of books. They attack the backs of books to get at the starch and flour put in to give the fabric stiffness.
Blindness in New Hampshire
TpOR some unknown reason the percentage of blind persons in New Hampshire, which is at the rate of 1532 blind persons per million of the population, is higher than in any other state in the Union. In the state of Wyoming there are but 154 blind persons per million. The percentage of blind persons in the United States has fallen considerably in ten years.
Ford Disbelieves in Medicine
Henry Ford is alleged to have recently said: “Medicine is not a bit of good for anything.
I am working now to have the doctors in my hospital do away with its use altogether.” More and more people are coming to be of Henry’s way of thinking. Some doctors have said that if all the drugs in the world were sunk in the sea humanity would be better off.
A Most Interesting Operation
AT A Chicago hospital a little girl, crippled for three years with paralysis, and unable to walk, has regained the use of her limbs, and is able to walk without cane or crutch. Her physician, Dr. Philip H. Kreuscher, braided thread into the helpless muscles of the leg and joined these to vigorous muscles in the side, with successful results-
Moving Mountains in Colorado ■
IT IS not that in Colorado they have more faith than elsewhere, bnt all the same Colorado has at least two moving mountains, and one of these, in the western part of the state, is reported to be moving to the extent of several feet per month. In each case a soft clay base has become water-soaked through seepage and can no longer hold up the mountain. The one at Meeker, Colorado, has moved a total of about one-fourth mile.
Not so Many After All
A CANADIAN instructor in physics, Prof.
A. S. Eve, in an article in the February ““Atlantic Monthly” points out that if the entire population of the world were dropped into Lake Ontario there would be room for each of them to enjoy a good swim, as they would have sixty square feet apiece. He concludes by saying that the entire crowd would raise the waters of the lake less than half an inch. The prophet Isaiah says that the nations are but as a drop in a bucket. -
The Old Family Toothbrush
THOSE wretches who make parodies are wont to sing of “The old family toothbrush, the moss covered toothbrush, the dirty old toothbrush that hung in the sink”. But now comes the president of the American Brush Manufacturers Association and solemnly tells us that in his business he often hears authentic accounts of tooth brushes three to fifteen years old. Theoretically the United States should use 330,000,000 toothbrushes per year. Actually it uses about one eighth of that number.
Bible Students Win Complete Victories
rpiIE Bible Students have won complete legal -*■ victories at Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, Westmount, Montreal and Calgary, Canada, where strenuous but ineffective efforts have been made to interfere with their putting forth the truth in their own way. The courts have decided, wisely and justly, that no law can be invoked to prevent them from going ahead with their work. The days of the inquisition and the rack seem to be in the past. Efforts to revive the methods of fraud, force and chicanery once practiced no longer avail. Moreover, the ancient bluff has also lost its force. Squawking is all that opposers can now do.
Teaching Character in the Prisons
THE Pathfinders of Amercia, engaged in teaching character (not stated in terms of so-called “religion”) in schools and prisons in Michigan and elsewhere throughout the country, have called a convention of humanitarians to meet at Monte Ne, Arkansas, for one week beginning July 4th, 1925. The organization is not for profit.
Homesteading Still Available
THOSE who desire to pioneer in the “wild and woolly” West need not be apprehensive lest there be no land available; for there is plenty for some time to come. Of course, much of this land is mountainous, some is desert waste, and some is covered with snow. But eventually the “deserts will blossom as the rose”; for already that has had a beginning; and when the ocean currents make further change which will send the warmer streams further north, there will be a greater receding of the glacial zone and the snows will melt, bringing pasturage and fruit-bearing conditions to lands which now extend far north. What we have to say now has to do with the United States; but there are millions of acres in other parts of the earth belonging to other countries which shall also be available for habitation sooner or later.
The government agents have been doling out public land for a hundred years; yet the United States has some 185,000,000 acres which are available to settlers for almost nothing. Statistics show that during 1924 there were 13,886 homestead entries made with Uncle Sam’s public land offices.
Besides the 185,000,000 acres within the United States proper, the Government has 350,000,000 acres in Alaska awaiting the ingenuity of man to clear out forests, build bridges, make hard roads, build homes, and give the landscape a touch of civilization. It is only a question of time until this shall be done, but under entirely different conditions from those which prevail today.
Great strides have been made in homesteading during the past century; but it is said that there is public land in every state west of the Mississippi, except Iowa. Some of this land is comparatively good; and the automobile is making outlying districts easily accessible to habitation. Driving the. railroads through the forests is no longer necessary.
In Oregon there is probably the best land to be had, and that for only $2.50 an acre. It is timberland, and clearing it of the trees is the great drawback, for the value of the lumber is offset by the hardships of housing in the wilds. Perhaps the prosperity of the East and the comparative ease with which one may there acquire a livelihood is another drawback, for pioneering is not especially inviting.
There are great areas of semi-arid land, suitable for grazing, to be had in many states. But those who desire to possess this land must have the means to stock these ranches; they must have sticking qualities and demonstrate that they are willing to stick it out.
It is not required that those who come into possession of desert districts should live on the land. Some people with-money have acquired such land, dug wells and introduced a system or irrigation. Farming in this businesslike manner has proved a paying venture in many cases.
But have we any conception of the area which 185,000,000 and 350,000,000 acres comprise? The unclaimed public land in the United States proper is equal to the area of the states of Texas, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and Delaware combined. In Alaska it equals the total area of the states of Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa. And all this public land, which the government will sell for little or nothing, equals in area the whole region of the United States east of the Mississippi Biver, excluding West Virginia.
And yet some people try to make themselves believe that if all the dead, from Adam’s time to ours, were raised from the death condition, there would not be standing room for them upon the earth. A very liberal estimate of all the dead is placed at 24,000,000,000 of people. The state of Texas alone, as a vast cemetery, allowing ten square feet to each grave, would bury 731,523,640,320. So if the dead are coming back, let us hail their return with joy! There will be land for everybody.
When You Get a Cold From The Farm Journal
ALTHOUGH not dangerous of themselves, colds should not be neglected, for the weakened condition of the body and the inflamed condition of the mucous membrane leaves an open door for the more serious infections of pneumonia, mastoiditis, tuberculosis and other ills.
Isolation of the person who has the cold, as far as possible, care in the use of the handkerchief, the use of a separate towel and drinking cup, and refraining from kissing or breathing or coughing in the face of another, will do much to prevent the spread of colds.
As some one said, “Sneeze into your handkerchief, not into the community: you get just as good a sneeze, and the community may avoid an epidemic.” Special care should be taken that the family dishes are washed in hot soapy water and rinsed in scalding water, particularly when any one in the family has a. cold. The dishtowels should be boiled at least once daily.
A soft, light diet with little or no meat, plenty of fruits and vegetables and an abundance of drinking water will help the body throw off the effects of a cold. There is nothing better for the patient or the neighborhood at large than for the person with a cold to remain quietly in bed for a day or two. The cold then soon disappears and leaves no bad effects and, what is more important, an epidemic of colds may have been prevented.
[Note: Colds generally result from a clogged condition of the system, caused by eating overmuch of mucus-forming foods, such as bread, potatoes, macaroni, rice, oatmeal, in fact all starchy foods. A cold is the red flag of distress which our bodies hoist; therefore the “flag” should not be hauled down too soon. Follow the above instructions and the cause of the cold will be removed, and the cold will soon disappear for the’want of a cause.—Ed.]
Masonry -and Mythology
SOME years ago w published in The Golden Age, in two instalments, an article from the pen of Mr. Morton Edgar, setting forth the Scriptural evidence that the ’ heathen mythologies have a common origin in demonism. In particular he pointed out that Osiris, prominent in mythology, is identical with the sun god, or Baal, or Molech; or, the devil. .
We now present some startling information from tM pen of Reverend Charles H. Vail, D. D., 32nd degree Mason, published in the “Masonic Digest”. He says in part :
■ “It is quite evident that the legend of Hiram Ab iff and that of Osiris is one and the same. In fact, as stated by Pierson,- ‘we recognize in Hiram Abiff the Osiris of the Egyptians, the Mithras of the Persians, the Bacchus of the Greeks, the Dionysius of the. fraternity of the. Artificers, and the Atys of the Phrygians, whose passion, death and resurrection were cele-. brated by these .people respectively.’ (Traditions of Freemasonry, p, 240) . These terms represent the sun on the one hand and the Initiate on the other, and are.derived from the Sun Myth and the Rites of Initiation; The passage of the sun through’ the twelve signs of-the Zodiac' was made to' symbolize the activity of the Solar Deity in the universe arid the spiritual growth ; of the soul. ' - i ■
“The Egyptian Ritual or Book of the Dead gives us a clue to these Initiations. The similarity of the ancient and modern forms is quite apparent. ‘The Legend of Hiram Abiff,’ as stated by Dr. Mackey, ‘was evidently borrowed from the pagan mysteries, where Bacchus, Adonis, Proserpine, and a host of ‘other apotheosized beings play the same role that Hiram' does in the Masonic Mysteries.’ (The Symbolism of Freemasonry, p, 20) The legends are not only the same, but they symbolize the same great truth—not: merely the immortality of the soul after death but the possibility , of attaining a knowledge of that immortality : here and now, by developing the higher powers latent . in man. This is the real teaching, of the Master Mason . Degree. . .
“It is no mere coincidence that Modern Masonry imitates the Ancient Mysteries. General Pike, the eminent Masonic authority, well says: ‘The men of intelligence formed the degrees for the purpose of communicating their doctrines, veiled by their symbols except to those fitted to receive them, and to give to all others trite moral explanations of them which they eould receive.’ ” ' ' '
The .“Montana Mason,” in its issue for January, ' 1925, confirms the findings of Reverend Vail, as'to the identity of Masonry with ancient
mythology and therefore with demonisni. We quote two paragraphs: ■ .
“Now, Masonry is: the. modern successor of the ancient mysteries, not merely as they were elaborately organized in Egypt, India, Persia and, Greece, but as in more inarticulate forms they find expression in the earlier, ages, even back to the times when man had scarcely become human and there was as yet no organized society.”
“It is the modern successor of the ancient mysteries, summing up in the twentieth century that elemental and age-long instinct of the human heart for the mysterious and wonderful. That instinct is ineradicable and is conformable to modern as well as ancient and primitive conditions of society. ■ Humanity loves mysteries, wonders, secrets.- The ceremonial initiation in some guise or other strikes a vibrant chord in human nature. ‘The mystic tie’ is an elixir of intoxication which humanity will never outgrow, and should not,' if this earth is more than a mere matter of fact materialism, and rather what it is intended to be, the ■ true home of poetry, music, art, religion and civilization. It:, is this element in Masonry which links it with religion.” -.
PREPARING FOR THE FINAL FEAST (From Commercial Appeal, Memphis)
Mixed Marriages in British Nyasaland
A S YOU know, there are many subscribers xx to The Golden Age among the natives in this part of Central Africa, and it is with the hope that I may be able to help some of these that I write the following appeal:
I can see that we native women are spoiling our tribe by so-called marriages with white men, wherein we think that we are married while we really are not. The reason why I speak about this is because there are many native women in Nyasaland who think that marriage to a native is unprofitable, and therefore prefer to sell their bodies to the whites for the price of bread. In this way they think they can find quick profit and large returns, more than by working with their hands. They do not realize that they are ruining their bodies and defiling their new-born babies as well as their own names and lives.
There is many a young native girl who thinks that she should not be married to a blackman: she would rather be married to a white man than to her black brother because the white man is rich and has plenty of money. She does not know how much the white man really despises her, though he will pretend to become married to her.
I know some white men who, when they “marry” a native woman, build her a hut about 100 yards or more from the main dwelling house; and the “wife” is kept in the hut during the day, and is only called at night; that is, if there is no other woman (stranger) at his house, then she is called. She has no right to go to his house unless she is called; then she must go. The man, of course, has the right to take any woman he may think fit for him, anytime, and the said “wife” is not allowed to complain against her husband; she has no right to even speak with him. He is to be regarded as sort of a god, not in love and sincerity but in cruel mastery over her? These things he does because the woman is of another color, and he knows she can never stand against him.
Another thing is this: Everywhere else it is the custom that a married woman should drop her family name and take her husband’s name; but this is not done when the white men “marry” native women here. They are not really marrying them; the women are being corrupted and enslaved by the white men. And once a black woman becomes “married” to a white man she By Mrs. rA. B. Lawrence (a native) will never later be married by any of her black brothers; once she is taken by a white man she is thereafter considered a lewd woman.
These white men say they do not come here to spoil our tribe; they come here with what is known as the Bible. But now, since the white men have come, our women are abandoning their former right thinking and living, and instead of becoming civilized they are copying the lives of the mean white men, who are not civilized themselves.
There are some white men who think they are too good to even talk to a black man or to a native woman. Then there are many other white men who break the homes of the native married people, and get the women from their native husbands. They will claim that the native man has no money wherewith to feed his wife, so the white man just goes and steals the woman from the helpless native. The white man first came to Nyasaland to give us the Christian gospel, and now the natives are being kicked, and robbed of their wives by the Christian whites so that now half of our women can hardly bear children because of abuse by their white “husbands” ; and many other evil signs are seen.
Who ever saw a black man here in Nyasaland marrying a white woman, or even going with one! If so he is at once murdered or hanged for his sin against both God and man. And these same white people who were but ten years ago saying, “We came to die for you,” are now leading our silly native women astray. The white man or missionary who does such things has no real love in him. If he loves the black man and wants him to be saved then he would never lead our women into sin.
And now, I appeal to our women: Try to cultivate yourselves and take hold on eternal life. Especially be eager to educate yourselves and your children. Some of you say that it is of no use to be educated; that only the men are to be educated, and not the women. This is a wrong idea. Our men can have nothing more important than having their women well trained. If we women are eager to learn, then we will see that in a few years we shall be counted as a well-civilized people. But remember that we are to leave the white men alone! Let us work hard with our hands, and soon we shall see that we are better and happier than before.
What are Colds? By Dr. w. m. Lee
WHAT are colds? What are their causes?
How do we get them? A great deal is said about colds; but little is known, although there are various theories. According to the old-fashioned view, colds are the result of exposure to cold air or draughts or perhaps a chilling of the extremities as in the case of wet feet. Physical culturists and drugless healers are of the opinion that colds are the effects of a clogged up or poisoned condition of the body. It seems more reasonable that the latter theory is nearer the real truth than the former.
It would appear inconsistent with reason and facts that low temperatures necessarily cause colds, for the reason that arctic explorers are practically never afflicted with a cold. But on the contrary, those who house themselves away from the pure cold air are the ones who suffer the most from colds. The medical doctor’s opinion is that if the equilibrium of the circulation can be maintained under all conditions, one would not have a cold. There must be a condition of the body favorable for the development of cold; and this condition is the real cause.
What we observe of a cold consists of a series of symptoms which indicate the condition or cause which has produced them. We see the effect, but not the cause. The real cold is the cause, not the symptoms. To cure the cold the cause must be removed. The symptoms of a cold indicate that the body is endeavoring to rid the system of a mass of accumulated impurities or effete matter which has been retained within it, but which should have been eliminated in a natural manner long before; and the symptoms are the process of a cure.
Symptoms are Nature’s warning that conditions within are not right. They also show that the body is curing itself, ridding itself of wrong conditions present. These symptoms are manifestations of the cure in progress. When the symptoms appear, we are in reality getting better. Before their manifestations we were in reality seriously sick; for then the system was choked up with poisonous matter, which had not as yet begun to be eliminated. If we have enough reserve strength or energy to withstand this process of cure until nature succeeds in throwing it off we get well, if not, we die.
What then should one do to get rid of a cold? The best and quickest way is to drive out this poisonous matter; and the most effective and speediest remedy is elimination. The great need is to purify the blood; and the one most available and valuable method is through the pores of the skin. The skin may be stimulated by special treatment, unusual activity.
Perspiration is one of Nature’s most valuable purifying agents. A good sweat is an effective method of breaking up a cold or fever, simply getting rid of the poisons through the pores of the skin. Any treatment inducing profuse perspiration will be effective in treating a cold. A . Turkish bath is an excellent means for this purpose. Any other good sweat will do just as well. It cleans one out; and that is the secret of good health, including a clean mind. If one is able to take a long run or a rapid walk, very warmly dressed, this will answer the purpose well. •
If we could only tell the story of prenatal diet so that everybody could take in the idea, we could regenerate this country in a few years. Think what we are producing as the physical aspect of the American nation! Ninety-seven percent of our school children have decayed teeth and malocclusion, forty percent have abnormal breathing tracts and posture defects, twenty percent have infection of the skin, and smaller percentages have defective hearing, defective vision and flat feet. Think of the record of contagious diseases among school children: colds, whooping cough, mumps, measles, scarlet fever, chicken pox, and several others. No other animal existing compares with the physical degeneracy of human beings in civilized countries.
What is wrong with civilized man as an animal? Has he not both the medical and the dental profession working for him to prevent these diseases and defects? Yes; but we have all strayed so far from the fundamental of natural living that the combined knowledge of all the scientists does not keep us well and does not prevent diseases.
I am reminded of one thought of Benjamin Franklin’s, who said that he saw only one man die from starvation but hundreds die from overeating. The human body is made up of sixteen elements; and animal and vegetable life contain the same sixteen elements. Even the soil is similarly composed. So only by the most perverse and unnatural methods of preparing food can the hrjnan animal escape being perfectly nourished. It is man’s perversion of his natural food supply, which is the cause of ninety percent of our physical defects.
Can you think of any natural food, any fruit, vegetable, grain, milk, or eggs, that will not spoil? It is impossible to name one; for bacteria molest any food that nature produces. Yet we eat hundreds of tons of degerminated and refined products that even bacteria scorn: White sugar, white flour, degerminated cornmeal, corn starch, polished rice, pearled barley, and patented breakfast foods from which practically all the twelve mineral elements have been removed; and the lack of even one of these elements eventually means sickness and death.
Perhaps the most effective form of treatment for the ordinary case is the hot bath in connection with some good purgative. It is important not to become chilled after taking a sweat; so a cold sponge bath or quick shower will be advisable to prevent feeling chilly, as the sweat opens the pores of the skin and the cold water closes them, thus causing a reaction. Do not take a whisky sling or any other alcoholic beverage under the impression that it will benefit you. Alcoholic beverages do not help to break up a cold, but weaken and lower one’s resistance.
People who suffer with colds should eat but very little; this will be helpful in eliminating a cold. In some cases there is a craving for acid fruits; and in such instances apples, grapes, grapefruits, oranges, and lemonade with as little sugar as palatable, may be used as freely as desired. The free drinking of water, both hot and cold, is especially commendable. Hot water is preferable. So far as the throat may be affected, it cleanses and sterilizes that part.
Other health requirements should be strictly observed when treating a cold, such as fresh air and sleep. It is very beneficial to take a skin bath by rubbing the body vigorously with a coarse towel or flesh-brush.
A vast army of people go through life with poor or indifferent health who might enjoy robust health but for their ignorance in all matters of health building. If they would take care of the skin alone, they would have more, vital power; and they would look much younger, and fresher, and live longer. This would relieve the kidneys; for it is possible for the skin to relieve the kidneys wonderfully by eliminating many of the poisons from the body.
Much extra work is thrown upon the kidneys when the skin is neglected. We get some idea of this when we remember that kidney disease forms a very considerable percentage of the maladies that prove fatal. If people realized the importance of the skin in the human economy, and treated it in a perfectly hygenic manner, it wrould reward them a thousandfold. In our ignorance and indifference to the laws of health we do not give nature ajchance.
Nature tries in all sorts of ways to compensate for our ignorance and neglect and vicious customs, supplying us with organs to protect us from self-destruction; offsetting as best she can the effect of foolish fashions, drugs, tobacco, and many other devitalizing habits and excesses too numerous to mention; but she cannot keep this up always without our cooperation. If we were as wise as the Chinese, we would hire our physician to keep us well and, if we became sick, discharge him.
Iceless Refrigerator Not Yet Perfected By w. o. Olsen
SOME time ago the writer submitted to The Golden Age the statements of an inventor an'd manufacturer of an Iceless Refrigerator, after having communicated with many who had seen the box in refrigeration for about five years. At the time of writing the article the writer had also tested the box out for many weeks, finding it to do as was claimed for it.
The hotter weather of the past few weeks, however, has proven that the box, in its present stage of development, is not able to maintain the temperature necessary for refrigeration, and I therefore wish to take .this opportunity to state my findings after a prolonged hot weather test. The inventor, Mr. Anton Johnson, of Hunter, N. D., still claims to be able to correct the condition of the refrigerators thus far sold that are not proving satisfactory; but that the readers of this journal may know my position and conclusions after continuing my personal tests into the Summer months, I have chosen to state the facts as I have found them.
More Light on Causes for Courtmartial By Murray
iXTITH reference to Golden. Age No.,140, V V article beginning on page 266, particularly the second paragraph, second column, page 267: My twenty-two years’ experience being to the contrary of statements therein made, .! wrote to an official in the office of the Judge Advocate General of the army, requesting information. That office has records of all trials by court martial in the army. The officer answers, in part, as . follows:
“All of the matters presented in your quoted paragraph
,. .... have .interested me very much; and I have had a search made of the files of this office to ascertain the facts from the records.” .
As a result he sends me the outlines of thirteen cases tried by General Court Martial, these being all of the kind under discussion that have arisen during:the fiscal years 1920, 1921,. 1922, 1923, and 1924. An analysis of these cases is . as follows: ; . - - -'
- Seven of these trials were for refusal to take / intra-urethral medication or passage of sounds for treatment of venereal'disease—not a dangerous operation, nor one requiring an anesthetic.'- The maximum confinement given in any of these cases was four months. In all these cases,-discharge from the: service was included;-but that part of the sentence was suspended in six of them, in the seventh case other offenses were . -involved. - : ' ■ „ ' ; ' -■■
One refusal for varicocele operation—certain-ly’not dangerous,'often done under local anesthesia. Discharged; six months’ confinement. Discharge suspended.
One refusal, varicose vein operation—not at al! dangerous; often done under local anesthesia. Discharged; two months’ confinement. Discharge suspended. -
One refusal herniotomy. Other offenses were - - involved, so that it is impossible to state how
much .this, offense alone influenced. the court. Discharged; 3 months’ confinement. Discharge suspended. '. ..... . .
One refusal hydrocele operation. No punishment. ' .. ..
One refusal herniotomy. .'Nd punishment.
One refusal abdominal herniotomy. Discharge adjudged; no confinement. Operation was done, and sentence was not carried out.
The officer reminds me that the maximum legal punishment in any such case is dishonorable discharge and six months’ confinement.
Discharge under sentence of a military court is dishonorable in character. Practically always with it is adjudged, forfeiture of pay and allowances accruing from the date of the offense. Military' offenses are promptly tried. As for “suspension” of discharge., military law is as follows: -
.“The Secretary of . War or the Commanding Officer holding General Court. Martial jurisdiction over any. such offender may, at. any time thereafter, while the sentence is being served, suspend the execution, in whole or in .part, of the balance of such sentence and restore the person under sentence to duty during such suspension.” : : - . .. ' ... ' ' - '■ j
You will ask at once whether in five' years only thirteen men refused1 operation.' My reply-is, Probably not. When a soldier has a disability and declines operative measures therefor, if those measures involve'any appreciable-danger to life or limb he is given a straight discharge from the service. Tri analyzing the cases, for instance, it will be noted that herniotomy and hydrocele cases were not punished except in one case where other offenses (I do not know their nature) were involved. In nine out of ten cases sentence of discharge was suspended. In the other case other offenses were involved. You will note no trials for refusal of vaccination or inoculation.. .
The Modern Delilah
INA middle-western state there is a concern How to Attract, the Man’s Attention; Stratagems that which makes a business of teaching girls how. Win the Notice of Men; Five Ways to Undermine a to induce men to propose to them and marry Man’s Reserve; The Method That Arouses a Man’s them. These people have a regular course of Feelings; Discovering a Man’s Health; Three.Ways to instruction in which women are taught to-do the Secure, Action; How to. Create Romantic Situations;,., courting, without the men ..realizing it. Some Letting Nature Assert Herself; How Little Men Know; of the subjects set forth in the course follow.: Making Use .of. an Escort; Inspiring the Man’s Confi-
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donee; Secrets That Are Shared; Where Nature Steps In; How to be Attractively Naughty; How to Banish the Man’s Tear of Inability to Support a Wife; How to Banish the Man’s Doubt; When a Man’s Dependents Stand in the Way; When Money Blocks the Path; What to do When His Family Objects; How to Encourage Sentimental Emotions; When to be “Blue”, and How; What to do When an Immediate Marriage Seems Impractical; Making it Hard for Him Not to Act; A Method That Stirs a Man to Action; How 2kny Girl Can Win; How to Make Use of a Bival.
It would seem to us that any thoughtful mature mind reading the above should be able to see here another method being used by the demons to undermine society. Does anyone suppose that a man thus hooked will not sometime find it out? And if he does find it out, what then? He can never have the least respect for the woman who used such methods. And what is any home except a hell for the couple and for their children as well, if the husband does not respect the wife!
Commercial Supremacy By a. ii. Kent
[Whether or not the following article is the truo interpretation of the chapter in question, none can deny that the explanation offered for the last verso is reasonable and lends color to the whole exposition.—Ed.]
IN' THE twenty-third chapter of Isaiah the Lord seems to foretell the commercialism 'from Tyre’s supremacy down to the time when the Lord will perfect the whole commercial system.
Verse 1: “Howl, ye ships of Tarshish [now Spain]; for it [Tyre] is laid waste, so that there is no more house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim [Cypress, subsequently Britain] it is revealed to them.” In Ezekiel 26: 3 we read: “I [the Lord] am against thee, 0 Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.” This has been fulfilled. One nation followed another against Tyre, as the waves of a sea, until her commerce was destroyed, and she became merely a fishing port. See Ezekiel 26:4, 5.
Verses 2 and 3: “Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle [Cypress]; thou whom the merchants of Zidon . . . have replenished. And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river is her revenue [increase]; and she is a mart of nations.” These two verses seem to show that after the fall of Tyre, the merchants of Zidon as they passed over the sea, east and west, and the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river from the lowlands of Egypt as it came in from the south, replenished Cyprus and made Zidon a mart of nations. But that the inhabitants of Cyprus were to become still, inactive; probably at the time of Zidon’s fall.
■ The fourth verse is an indictment against Zidon’s commercial system, which seems to have followed down to the present time. “Be thou ashamed, 0 Zidon: for the sea [people, Isaiah 17:12] hath spoken, even the strength of the sea [labor organizations], saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.” In other words: I labor not for myself, nor have the fruits of my labor; neither do I nourish up the aspirations of youth, nor bring up the virgin ideals of social democracy.
Verse 6: “Pass ye [commercial supremacy] over to Tarshish [Spain]; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.” Severe hardship is the lot of a people or nation that has had great business activity, and has lost it.
Verse 7: “Is this your joyous city [commercial system], whose antiquity is of ancient days [dating back to the Pharoah of Joseph’s time] ? Her own feet [workings] shall carry her afar off to sojourn.”
Verse 8: “Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crovuiing city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honored of the earth?”
Verse 9: “The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all [self] glory, and to bring into contempt all the [self] honorable Of the earth.” Tyre had said of herself: “I am of perfect beauty.” (Ezekiel 27:3) She had made light when Jerusalem was broken down, and had expected to be replenished thereby: for that reason the Lord uttered His prophecy of Ezekiel 26 against her.
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