Golden Age, November 18, 1925

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SIGNIFICANCE.

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LOST LANDS AND PEOPLES

WHO IS

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Vol VII Bi-Weekly No. 161

November 18, 1925

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Contents of the Golden Age

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Social and Educational

Indians in New York State

7500 Jewish Fanners

Iwo Pictures

Lost Lands and Peoples .

Drastic Economy, a Hindrance to Pbouress

Youth and the (Modern) State

Youth is the Symbol 'of Palestine ............ 112

Items from our Glasgow Correspondent .....

Where Do You Live? (Poem)

Th® Supreme Thing (Poem)

Radio Programs .....

Finance—Commerce— Transportation

Why Financiers Make Money .

Three Billions in Automobiles ....

Railroads Buying Truck and Bus Lines

, Morgan Banking House Lines

Siberia’s New Gold Fields . .

The Periodic Coal Strike ................ 116

Political—Domestic and Foreign

Deporting the Industrious

Palestine Twenty Years Hence ...

- Science and Invention

Bats as Mosquito Destroyers......... ....

Proof that the Dead are Dead

Adrenal Glands—Human Chemical Laboratory . , . .

Great Britain to America in Twelve Hours ........ 113

What is Evolution? ......

Travel and Miscellany

Great Estates of Spanish America .......... .

Vienna a City of Violence ....

Death Dances ........

Religion and Philosophy

Soins Questions fob the Evangelist .

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MASS ............... 118

The Mass an Unholy Institution ............ 120

Who Is Your .God?

Jews Rebuilding Palestine ............... 125

Studies in “The Harp of God” . . , . .. .... 12?

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Here and There Throughout the World

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World’s Largest Office Building

HE world’s largest office building is under construction adjoining the Grand Central railway station in New York City. The structure, seven stories underground, will cost four million dollars and will be principally used as a locomotive repair shop for the New York Central. Huge elevators wall take the locomotives up and down.

Jin Heroic Telegrapher

EELING the approach of an attack of acute indigestion, Kavanaugh Jacobs, night telegraph operator of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad at Monongahela, threw on the red signals to stop all trains, and a few minutes later was found dead with his hand on the key. He died a hero, his last thought that of the safety of others.

Ohio’s Roadside Crosses

IN A successful effort to make motorists mor® careful the state of Ohio has lined its automobile highways with wffiite crosses to show where motorists have met death. At one curve there are eight crosses; and on three pieces of turnpike totaling 100 miles of road there are seventy-nine crosses to remind drivers of the slim hold the automobilist has on life.

Jewelers and Furriers Become Desperate

HE furriers of New York have suffered so many losses from thieves that they have of themselves organized a special guard of men w7ho can shoot straight. The jewelers are following their lead, but first demand special protection before taking up arms themselves. Armored cars now carry pay-rolls through the streets. Anarchy is all about us.

Deporting the Industrious

ACCORDING to a ruling of the Labor Bureau at Washington any foreign student W’ho wrorks at any kind of useful employment during his vacation season thereby ceases to be a student. Under this ruling several young men from India who came here to obtain an education, to learn our w’ays and absorb our high ideals, have been deported as unfit to remain here until their courses of instruction were finished. '

College Girls in Summer Hotels

THE New’ York Times reports that three hundred and twenty college girls spent their vacations as waitresses in a hundred New England summer hotels. Their average wages and tips made their earnings amount to $11.50 per week, in addition to food and living quarters. The average duty was eight hours a day and eight persons served at each meal

Chance to Die with Your Boots On

K CCORDING to the Prudential Insurance -£-*■ Company statistics we each have about one chance in twrelve of dying with our boots on. Out of a total of 124,000 deaths among their policy-holders ten thousand w7ere untimely. The automobile, of course, was the greatest factor in these sudden deaths. Howrever, there were also many drownings. .

The Ten Safety Commandments

NEW YORK CITY has issued ten traffic commandments : (1) Cross at the crossings; (2) Do not cross directly behind street cars; (3) Do not cross till traffic stops; (4) Do not cross diagonally; (5) Look both ways when you cross. Motorists must (6) look out for children; (7) give the pedestrian a chance; (8) always drive carefully; (9) ahvays keep brakes in good order; and (10) study and obey the traffic regular tions. j •

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Indians in Utu York State

v* GOLDEN AGE

The First Airplane Stowaway

LESS than two hundred years ago Indians XT" EARS ago we heard of a man who caught roamed freely all over New York state. hold of the netting of a balloon as it was

Now their total lands in the state amount to less than an area two miles each way. On the Long Island reservation there are now but 177 Indians. On a reservation in the northern part of the state are 300 that do not speak the English language. The Indians make good citizens. Most of them work on the roads, and at odd times resort to their old trades of hunting and fishing.

Why Financiers Make Money

THE capital stock of all the banks of all kinds in the United States is two and one-third billions of dollars; their surplus is a like amount, the grand total being slightly less than five billions of dollars. But these same banks have outstanding loans amounting to more than twenty-five billions of dollars; and if the average interest on these loans is only six percent, the annual interest income is one and one-half billions, or over sixty percent on the capital invested.

City Freight Must Go Below

THE cities of London and New York are both discussing means to get the trucks off the streets by building freight subways, far below the levels of the passenger subways, which will connect all the principal freight termini with the largest freight-producing and freight-receiving points. It is stated that New York City receives annually 140,000 freight cars of food, which would be enough to make a solid train with the engine in Denver and the caboose in New York. All this food is now trucked through the city^s streets.

A Study of the Suicide Problem

THE New York Times contains an interesting study of the suicide problem. Four men commit suicide to one woman. The Pacific Coast states hold the highest record for suicides in the United States, and Massachusetts the smallest. Education frequently promotes suicide, but ill health is the principal cause of self-destruction. Germany has the highest suicide rate of any country; then come France, Denmark and the United States. Negroes are almost immune. Fear is a great deterrent. : rising and had a free ride into the air. Now we learn of a young tramp who hid in the wings of an airplane just as it was rising from Las Vegas, Nevada, and rode three hundred miles to Los Angeles. The wind whipped his shirt to ribbons, but he made the trip safely.

Three Billions in Automobiles

SOME idea of the size of the automobile industry may be gathered from the fact that the wholesale value of the cars produced in this country in 1924 was a little over three billions of dollars, or a little over a thousand dollars for the average car. There are now sixty thousand buses in operation here, of which twenty thousand are operated by schools.

The Banner Bug State

FOR purposes of experimentation on its pest farm at Vienna, Virginia, the Department of Agriculture recently offered to buy bedbugs at a cent and a half apiece. Every state responded generously, but the Department claims that North Carolina furnished the biggest and the hardest-biting bugs. Hurrah for North Carolina i

Plan for Saving Niagara

fTUIE remedy proposed for saving Niagara

Falls is to erect an obstruction in the river at some suitable point above the V-shaped notch through which so much of the water is flowing. This will spread the water out to the wings, where the rocks are harder and the erosion is negligible. The plan has been adopted successfully to preserve waterfalls elsewhere.

Two Causes of Mail Delays

ONE fruitful cause of mail delays is where mail is addressed to a person who lives at the corner of tWTo or more streets. Sometimes as many as four postal routes meet at a street intersection and it takes time to find the proper carrier. Another difficulty arises where mail is addressed to a large office or apartment building; and not infrequently there are two, three or more persons of the same name among the thousands of tenants.

Railroads Buying Truck and Bus Lines Important Discoveries in Plant Life 3

AT LEAST three railroads, the Pennsylvania, the Boston and Maine, and the Great Northern, have adopted the policy of buying bus and truck lines as feeders. The Pennsylvania is said to have at least a thousand miles of truck lines hauling local freight. In addition, at certain railroad termini, the package freight is now exchanged by trucks, the railroads having found it cheaper to do this than to move the cars.

Boy Rangers of America

THE Boy Rangers of America is a new organization, intended for boys from eight to twelve years of age. It is intended as an auxiliary for the Boy Scouts. It is said that there are already 10,000 Boy Rangers in the country, with lodges in forty-two states, and identified with some fifteen denominational groups. Boys from one to eight years of age and those still on the bottle have not yet been organized into any group of prospective fighters.

Report on the Oil Supply

THE American Petroleum Institute has issued a three-hundred-page report on the oil supply in which conclusions are reached that there is no imminent danger of the exhaustion of petroleum reserves in America, because of better methods of reaching the deeper deposits, increased supplies from countries to the south, better methods of refining and the ultimate use of almost unlimited oil shales, coal and lignites from which oil may be extracted.

Bats as Mosquito Destroyers .

THE mosquito is one of the worst enemies of man. The bat is the deadly foe of the mosquito. The Manufacturers' Record reports that Dr. Charles A. R. Campbell of San Antonio, Texas, has devised a scientific bat-roost which is automatically adopted by bats as a permanent home and is self-sustaining, as one roost filled with bats will create annually four hundred dollars worth of guano. The suggestion is made that the installation of these bat-roosts twenty or thirty miles apart in any mosquito-infested country means the end of the mosquitos. On account of wet weather mosquitos have been unusually pestiferous in New Jersey and about New York City this past season.

TV ONDERFULLY important discoveries are V » now being made in plant life. In Virginia it is so certain that cedar trees harbor and develop natural enemies of the apple that the law requires the destruction of all cedars within two miles of any apple orchard. On the same principle the barberry is an enemy in wheat lands, the black currant in white pine regions, and the common rosebush in potato belts.

New York’s Water Supply

NEW YORK’S water supply comes from the

Ashokan reservoir, located in the Catskill mountains, six hundred feet above sea level, on the opposite side of the Hudson river. The water comes to New York through circular tunnels fifteen feet in diameter, and is delivered into the mains from as far as 750 feet below the street surface in some sections of the city. The water is excellent, always clear and always cool. ■

Wild Life Reservation in Mississippi Valley

THE government is now taking steps to create in the upper part of the Mississippi valley, between Wisconsin and Minnesota, a reservation for wild birds and wild animals which will be about three hundred miles long and in some places five miles wide. The bluffs of the Mississippi throughout this district rise precipitously for hundreds of feet. The .district between these bluffs is often overflowed and, while useless for farming purposes, is ideal as a resort for game. Hunting and fishing will be allowed under regulations.

Proof that the Dead are Dead

PROOF that the dead are dead comes from

Los Angeles. The Evening Herald cites the case of William Bethurum, seventy-two years of age, 1411 East 52 street, that city. William had done something naughty and was in jail. After five days his relatives secured bail for him, and the shock killed him. The prison physicians pronounced him dead, and he was dead. A local physician, Doctor Blank, called in to sign the death certificate, administered adrenalin; and William came back to life. He said that dying is easy, but the coming back t-<j life made him feel very sick. He runs a restaa-* rant, and has gone back to his work'

To Guard Canadian Border Sweden’s Perpetual Lumber Company

A MIXED commission of Canadian and American officials is now studying the question of how to prevent smuggling along the three-thousand-mile border between the two countries. One suggestion calls for the cutting of all the trees in a strip three miles wide at the border.

Morgan Banking House Loans

DURING the last year Morgan and Company have loaned France one hundred million dollars, the Bank of England one hundred million, Australia seventy-five million, Italy fifty million, besides large loans to Germany and other countries. Gradually the whole world is coming more and more under the control of this great banking house.

Mexico City Six Hundred Years Old

IN NOVEMBER of this year Mexico City expects to entertain two hundred thousand visitors per day. At that time it will celebrate by an International Fair the six-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city. The present population is about 700,000. Mexico City is considered one of the most beautiful and up-to-date cities in the world.

75,000 Jewish Farmers

ONE striking phenomenon of our day is the return of the Jewish people to agriculture.

For centuries the Jews have been landless, confined to the ghettos, where they have been forced to become traders and garment makers. A few years ago there were almost no Jewish farmers in the United States; now there are 1,000,000 acres being worked by Jews, and a total Jewish farm population in America of over 75,000. : .

Malolo, Princess of the Pacific ' ’

THE new princess of the Pacific Ocean will be the steamship Malolo, the new 582 foot, 22,000 ton greyhound, which is now being built at Cramp’s shipyard, at a cost at $6,500,000; and in the spring of 1927 it will be put to work between San Francisco and Honolulu. This boat is expected to travel at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour and to make the round trip in one week, which is about half the time required by the boats now,on; the route. , ;

SWEDEN has a lumber company that has been in business seven hundred years, and its forests today are in better shape than ever. The same land is cut over once in every seventy or eighty years. There is no waste land. It is continually productive.

Germany Drinking Much Less

rpiIE New York Times furnishes interesting -*• statistics showing that the Germans are drinking much less than formerly. In 1900 the annual consumption of beer was 124.6 quarts per capita; in 1924 it was only 63.4 quarts. At the earlier-date the consumption of brandy was 6.5. quarts per capita, while in 1924 it was only a little over half a quart. ..

Why the Marines are in Haiti ’

rpiJE commander of the United States marines J- in Haiti, Brigadier General Fuller, in an interview in the ■ New York Times made the statement that “the marines are not in Haiti on any general mission of sanitation or civilization. We are simply there to prevent the overthrow of the regularly constituted government.” A prominent bank in New York City has loaned money to said regularly constituted government.

Chileans Showing a Bad Spirit

CHILEANS are showing a bad spirit toward the Tacna-Arica Plebiscite Board, which is trying to decide whether the Tacna-Arica province shall be returned to Peru or retained by Chile. The Chileans are attacking Peruvian members of the boundary delegation, and subjecting them to inconveniences and annoyances by searches and seizures of papers from subordinates.

Great Increase of 'Washing Machines '

DURING the year 1914 there were only 50,-

000 washing machines in use in the United States. Today there are four million, and those in touch with the business claim that by 1929 the number will be double what it now is. Approximately one-half of the homes in the United States are now wired for electricity. There are washing machines in thirty percent of those thus wired, vacuum cleaners in forty-four percent, and electric irons in seventy-five percent.; .

AU Over Europe in Three Days

HP WO French aviators on a given Monday HP ESTIMONY, supposed to be kept secret, bul morning breakfasted in Paris, lunched in -®- published in a leading Hungarian paper,

Belgrade, and dined in Constantinople. The next day they spent the night at Moscow, and the following day lunched in Copenhagen, and dined in Paris. The third day's flying, which began at 3.30 a. m- and ended at 9:15 p. m., included one hours stop at Warsaw enroute to Copenhagen.

Great Estates of Spanish America

SEVEN percent of the population of Chile own all the agricultural lands; the holdings of 513 proprietors average 12,000 acres each. In the Argentine there are not less than 12,000 proprietors who have estates of 12,000 acres or more; at least one of them has 500,000 acres. In Mexico fifteen years ago 7,000 families owned all the tillable land. The estates averaged 64,000 acres. One of them, the Terrazas estate, -was larger than Holland and Belgium together, and there was one still larger in Yucatan.

End of the Stinnes Combine

etc. But the liquidation has come; Stinnes is • is so bound together that one injustice any

HAT goes up must come down, on your ’ » head or on the ground,” runs a child’s adage. It seems to be true of the Stinnes combine. Two or three years ago Hugo Stinnes was considered one of the wealthiest and most powerful of men. The inflation of the German mark made him the nominal owner of colossal enterprises, coal mines, iron foundries, factories, paper mills, newspapers, shipping lines, hotels, dead; his interests are in the hands of receivers, and little remains but debts.

New York University College Cruise

AT AN early date New York University will inaugurate its college cruise when the steamship Mount Clay sails out of New York to visit Cuba, Panama, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines, Borneo, Java, the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Burma, India, Ceylon, Arabia, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Africa, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Scandinavia and the British Isles. The vessel -will carry a full quota of instructors and executives and several hundred students who will study, recite and take examinations as they go around the world.

GOLDEN AGE

Murder Will Out, but Horthy Remains

discloses that it was Admiral Horthy himself who ordered the murder of the two editors of Hungary’s leading socialist paper at the time when he seized control of the country. The paper which published the testimony was confiscated, but the cat is out of the bag.

Britain’s Jails Closing

DURING the year 1914 there were 167,000 persons sentenced to imprisonment in the jails and penitentiaries of England and Wales; in the year 1924 the number thus sentenced was 58,216 or only about one-third of the number of ten years previous. As a consequence twenty of the sixty prisons have been closed. In that same time the jails and prisons in America have tremendously increased in prison population.

One Reason for Unemployment in Lancashire

ONE reason for unemployment in England’s textile centers is seen in a dispatch from Shanghai. It is not a long dispatch. It merely tells that a ten-year-old boy is in one of the hospitals there because he lost his balance from weakness and fell into the machinery at four a. m., after he had been working eleven and one-half hours without food. The British government will not allow such conditions in England; so the owners moved the plants to Shanghai. Common sense dictates fair treatment of employes in every corner of the globe. Humanity where leads to another injustice elsewhere.

Vienna a City of Violence

VIENNA is getting to have and to deserve the reputation of a city of violence from which it is good to stay away. For Vienna this is one of the worst possible advertisements, as she really needs the money that tourists and conventioners bring. But is it likely that the Zionists will wish to return to Vienna after the treatment they received there in August? Vienna is the city which only two years ago staged a riot against Judge Rutherford. The city seems to harbor thousands of young men who are worthless and reprobate, bent on mischief. A majority of the 273 rioters against the Zionists are said to have been state officials.

France*s War Scars Well Healed

THE large section of France ruined by the

German invasion is now virtually back to normal. Barbed wire entanglei tents have been removed, trenches have been filled, the ground has been leveled, and demolished buildings rebuilt. But the sears on the hearts of the widows and orphans will remain for many a year.

Prague’s Monument to Huss ":v

THE city of Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, has honored the memory of John Huss, the reformer, by erecting an imposing monument to him in the principal square of the city. Huss went to the stake for declaring that the worship of Mary is idolatry, that no one can prove that sinners will suffer everlasting fire, and that Jesus Christ and not the pope is the Head of the church. The erection of the monument so angered the papal delegate to Czecho-Slovakia that he pulled out and beat it back to Rome.

Prosperity in New Zealand

THERE is prosperity in New Zealand. The finances of the country are in splendid condition, the surplus for the past year being over a million pounds. Interesting items in the budget are old-age pensions, pensions for the blind, allowances for widows and children, exemption of death duties* on life insurance policies for one thousand pounds or less, and loans for settlers. Nevertheless, there is some unemployment in New Zealand.

Is South Africa Safe for Whites?

A NEWSPAPER correspondent in South

Africa with the Prince of Wales reports that old tribal jealousies among the Negroes are disappearing and that the Negroes are coming to feel that the -whites' are'their foes. They now have a saying that.“when the white man first came to South Africa we had the land and he had the Bible; now he has the land and we have the Bible”. The natives outnumber the whites five to one, but by the arm of force are held firmly in the position of hewers of wood and drawers of water, owning only eight percent of the land. There are natives in West Africa, some of them educated in America, so the writer claims, who brag that it will be their function to supply leadership when the time for struggle comes.

Important New Railway in the Balkans

A N IMPORTANT new railway line has just been completed in the Balkans. It connects the Adriatic port of Spalato with the railway town of Zagreb, thus giving the Serbians a new and valuable outlet for their products, as well as another important through line from Prague, Belgrade and Vienna to the Adriatic Sea.

Conditions Improving in Russia

THE New York Times reports conditions in Russia much improved over 1924. There are comfortable sleeping and dining cars on the through express trains, which now make the trip from Moscow to the Crimea in thirty-six hours. There is a rush of Jews back to the land. The Soviet government is encouraging the use of tractors and provides seed, gasoline and lumber for agricultural homes at reduced rates.

Pagan Ferocity in Egypt '

A WRITER in the London Daily Herald, referring to the punishment meted out to the assassins who slew the late Sirdar, Sir Lee Stack, said:

That such a crime merits exemplary punishment goes without saying; but I cannot help feeling that the mass execution of eight men, some of them very young, for the killing of one, in addition to the exaction of five hundred thousand pounds from the Egyptian tax-payers, has about it tire air of pagan ferocity and seriously injures the prospects of any real settlement of the Eastern question.

Europe’s Tremendous Migrations

EUROPE is undergoing the greatest series of migrations ever known in history. Practically every country is expelling those not of the same blood and speaking the same tongue. The result is much like what would happen in the United States if all persons now in New York state who were not born there were told to get out, and the same rule were to he followed in every state in the Union. But in Europe it is worse; for hundreds of thousands of Greeks were expelled from Asiatic territory in which their ancestors lived 1000 B. C. Similar movements have taken place in a dozen countries, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Serbia, Esr thonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Hungary, Rumania, Albania, Czechoslovakia. These migrations are causing great bitterness and a thirst for revenge all around.

Siberia’s New Gold Fields

TF YOU are in search of adventure and will-■*- ing to pay the price for it, you can probably get all you want by going to Siberia’s new gold fields, some three hundred miles from the nearest railway station, away off to the northeast of Irkutsk. In the winter time the district is the coldest on earth. Food is brought in by airplanes, canoes and sledges. The Soviet takes a goodly share of the gold found, but thousands are rushing in and some of them are coming away wealthy.

Women Coal Miners in India

obert Smillie, Member of Parliament, in a recent address at Keswick, England, said:

In India coal is being developed with British money, a large amount of which is invested by British coal owners; and there women and children are working under the same conditions that existed in Britain eighty, ninety or a hundred years ago. The little children are carried into the Indian mines; and they and their mothers work for twopence and threepence a day and for ten hours a day, underground.

“All Men in Expectation”

TRAVELERS returning from Jerusalem are reported by the Cumberland Evening Times as saying:

There is the expectation that something will happen. Such a city of optimists could not be found elsewhere, it. seems to me, save in a new oil town in America. Everybody is looking forward to something. Nobody seems to know exactly what it is, but they are certain that it is to be very wonderful when it comes. Will the wonder come, and what will it be? Is it the same old .Messianic hope? And will the dream be fulfilled? A world that venerates Jerusalem may well wonder.

Palestine Twenty Years Hence -

IN AN address to the Zionist congress at

Vienna, the head of the Labor and Immigration Department of the Zionist executive made the prediction that within twenty years from now Palestine will have a Jewish population of two million. There is no unemployment in the country, and the situation is improving by leaps and bounds. All this is the hand of God. These are the very conditions declared by the Lord to be one of the proofs of His presence in the earth, preparatory to the establishment of His kingdom world-wide and with all power.

Locusts Killed by Airplane

THE locust has met his Waterloo. The air* plane is too much for him. The Soviet government has found that sprinkling the ground with poison from an airplane puts the finish on the locust for good and all. The hand of God is plainly visible in all this. But for the World War it is doubtful whether this means of ridding the earth of pests would ever have been discovered.

Palestine’s Jewish Population Doubled

IN FOUR years the Jewish population of Palestine has doubled, and it now stands at 115,151. At the end of the World War it was only 57,000. The soil is limestone, therefore very hot and permanently fertile. When properly developed it will support many millions of people. Palestine now has the best roads in the Near East, and its finances are in a better condition than at any time since the days of Christ. Malaria has been subdued. Schools of forestry and agriculture have been established. Where there were only barren sand dunes five years ago there is now a flourishing city of 30,000 inhabitants, Tel Aviv.

“Read of All Men” By H, M. Warman

A CUSTOMER of mine told me that the police recently made a raid for booze at the place where he rooms. While they were at it they searched his room also, and found some of Pastor Russell’s works. Afterwards he saw one of the police officer who had taken a part in the raid and this officer told the roomer that as soon as they came across those books they concluded that it would be useless to go any further with their search for liquor. Suffice to say that the police did not tarry long at the house after the Bible Students literature was discovered.

Phoenix Street-Cars

By W. E. Brokaw, Editor The Eqwitist

THE statement in the The Golden Age, issue of July 1, page 613, about street-cars in Phoenix, Ariz., having been adandoned for bus lines is not quite accurate. At the City Manager’s office I was told that the street-car company is to cease operating the 15th of October, but that it is not yet known just what will be done after that. A variety of schemes have been suggested and are being discussed.

Two Pictures (Contributed^

THE first picture is of a poor woman scrub-bing the hallway of a great modern office building. For this service, which is a great task for her, she is paid one dollar and fifty cents |jer evening. She has three children whom she is trying to keep in school long enough to be of some help. Her husband is a hopeless invalid and cannot even feed himself. Let us look at her. She has large beautiful eyes, but they are encircled with dark rings; her complexion is sallow and she looks weary beyond description. She is stooped and her small hands but infirmly hold the mop as she swings it back and forth.

The ‘‘boss” of the building appears; he has a perpetual leer. He stops and tells the woman that she had better do a little better job or else her job will be given to another. He adds that there are plenty more who want work and there will be no trouble to get them. Now she enters one of the offices where there is a great amount of work to do. Everything is helter-skelter and she must rid up. This job has but recently been added to her regular round of duties in addition to her work in the hall, with no increase in pay.

With a deep sigh, now that her “boss” has gone, she enters in upon the task. Just a little care on the part of the occupant of the office would have greatly lessened the woman’s work. But he has been sitting there, feet higher than his head, all day long, making money by his wits and tossing things right and left as he smoked the best cigars. The woman’s lips are set firm; they do not move; but in her heart is the question : “O Lord, how long?”

The second picture is at the home of the wife of the man who lolls so comfortably in his office, tossing things right and left as he so comfortably counts up his easily made money. She is giving an afternoon tea during which will be a rendition of musical selections and readings. This lady is a specialist in giving cute child recitations, although she weighs nearly two* hundred pounds and is unbecomingly fat.

The guests now begin to arrive and a colored maid takes charge of the wraps. They are of the best there is, many of them costing thousands of dollars. The program begins. Silly little songs are sung by women with mediocre voices, and soon they become the recipients of many false compliments.

Now the hostess rises. She is going to “do” one of those child recitations. She gently' swings her two-hundred-pound frame into the middle of the floor amid tremendous applause and a wild flutter of excitement. Someone says, “Oh, she does those little things so dear.” Now she begins and she smirks and sways from side to side shyly and says, “I know where the violets grow,” etc., in a lisping, childish voice. The roof almost comes down with applause after she finishes. You know her favor is worth having; for she is a great lady, financially speaking, and that is all that counts now-a-days.

I know that some who read this •wall say: “Just some wretched. bolshevik, who always wants to change everything, has written this.” Someone else will say that it is a mean picture of conditions that do not exist and was only written to stir up bitterness. But is it a false picture ? I do not think so. These same befurred women will go to church and sing: “He rules the world with truth and grace,” according to a certain hymn much in use. I wonder whether they ever compare conditions that now exist in the world with such a statement about God, and if so whether they do not come to doubt the accuracy of that statement. Thy kingdom come |

Lost Lands and Peoples ’ By J. L. Bolling

GREAT strides are being made by archeologists in their efforts to unearth the past and to dispel the mists of antiquity; and with each new discovery in this interesting field comes further confirmation of the Bible narrative.

The Washington Post, in a recent editorial concerning Dr. Thomas Gann, the eminent archeologist who discovered the famous Lost City of Maya, m British Honduras, made the following interesting comments:

He is one of many explorers who are penetrating the still untrodden places of the earth in search of the secrets of cities and civilizations which will throw new light on the history of the earth.

The discovery last year by Oapt. Angus Buchanan, the leader of the Lord Bothschild expedition, of a city built of salt in the heart of the Sahara has, for instance, given a new impulse to the investigation of the vast uncharted areas of western and central Asia, of Arabia, Tibet, China and Indo-China, of New Guinea and of Africa.

There are still in the Antarctic five million square miles of untraversed land; the Kola peninsula, in Arctic Lapland, awaits the pioneer, and there are two million square miles of South America which may yield priceless discoveries.

In the heart of China there has been found a race of blonde 'women with yellow curly hair, descendants of a people whose very name lias been lost; while in the Becker-Nihon islands of the Hawaiian group, among the ruins of an unknown city built in stately terraces, there has been found a colony whose men are Apollos and whose women are of extraordinary beauty.

In the Isthmus of Panama, beyond the Darien mountains, Mr. Mitchell-Hedges found a mysterious race of Indians with pure Mongolian features, living among ■prehistoric animals. In the same region was found a race of white Indians settled among the ruins of a great citv which flourished 5,000 years ago.

■ A race of white savages has been found in the Vnyam-. wezi country, in tha heart of Africa, while in the hills to the north of the Mekliong valley, in Indo-China, is a silent tribe, which has no deity, worships no idols and has a language which consists only of five simple sounds.

In the Panama jungle travelers have found the perfectly preserved mummy of a girl whose hands and feet bore claws like those of some weird bird. These and ether relics point to the existence in that region in past ages of a race of human tree-dwellers.

This record embraces only a few of tha discoveries of recent years, but while such rewards await the traveler, who can wonder that in these prosaic days the hire of exploration still maintains its hold ?

No Overcrowding of Earth

HE above confirms the prophecy concerning the new age we are entering, that all the secret things would be brought to light. “There is nothing hid which shall not be made manifest,” are the words of Jesus on this point. And in the light of such discoveries as the above, we see that this applies just as truly to the buried cities of the past as to the moral conduct of men and nations. Those who think the earth is in danger of becoming overcrowded now or in the Millennium can soon allay their fears by considering the fourth paragraph of this editorial, which declares that there are “five million square miles of untraversed land” in the Antarctic, and two million in South America as yet unexplored, besides the Kola peninsula, which still await the ax, pick' and shovel of the pioneer. And. if all the people who ever lived on the planet could find plenty of “standing room” in the Lone Star State, even on the basis of a very liberal estimate, allowing more generations to a century than the known average, most’ assuredly the contention of such is proven groundless.

Of course, we can befuddle our intellects with false reasoning and by juggling statistics, and still be unable to comprehend the truth with reference to this subject; but sanity and plain, ordinary “horse sense” will impel us to accept gladly such an easily demonstrable fact. Many who cannot see the mountain peaks of truth, towering before them in all their simple grandeur, have no difficulty in seeing (?) with great clearness of vision the mole-hills of superstition, creedal ignorance, and “science, falsely so-called”.

The feel can readily understand and will quickly acknowledge that the crudest mechanical contrivance possible of production had a maker, that it was designed by somebody capable of thought and possessed of intelligence, but the poor thing is silenced -when the marvelous mechanism of the Universe, with literally billions of complicated and delicately balanced and adjusted parts, looms up before him in all its appalling magnificence I And in reply to the query, Has it a Maker, a Designer? he shakes las head, or says: “I do not know”I

Refutation of Darwinism

HE “blonde women of China”, the “stately terraces” of the “unknown city”, and the “Apollo-like men and women ... of extraordinary beauty” found among its ruins, referred to in the fifth paragraph, all belie the Darwinian hypothesis of an evolutionary origin of mankind. “The mysterious race of Indians with pure Mongolian features, living among prehistoric animals,” and the “race of white Indians” found in the Isthmus of Panama, living among the ruins of an ancient city, and the “white savages” of the Unyamwezi, all bear testimony to the falsity of Darwinism. The mummified freak' with claws “like those of some weird bird” confirms the Bible utterances concerning the fall of man and his tendency to become more brutelike and to gravitate to the level of the lower animals.

‘ Possibly Satan has to do with the production of freakish deviations from the normal human form and appearance, for the purpose of deluding humanity into believing and accepting his “Gospel of Dirt”, as Carlyle termed the evolution theory. King Nebuchadnezzar’s degradation to the level of a beast of the field, also confirms the foregoing, and shows us that humanity’s tendency is downward, and not upward.

We may be sure that when the kingdom of truth and righteousness is established in the world under Christ (Matthew 6:10; Daniel 7: 27), and Satan is bound for a thousand years, then the trend of the human race will be upward.—Acts 3:19-21; Isaiah 35:8-10.

Drastic Economy, A Hindrance to Progress By h. r. Hewitt

AT PRESENT a well-organized plea for systematic economy seems to be prevalent in all countries, especially in the'United States. At first glance and without due consideration, it would appear that this policy is the only door of relief or hope remaining to mankind for the settlement of the distressing problems of the civilized nations.

A fact worthy of our notice before we proceed further is that the most ardent advocators of economy in our fair land do not offer to reduce their salaries in the least. From the Chief Executive, Congress and the House of Representatives down to those who draw up the economy charts for the already struggling masses, all remain quite content to pocket what seems to the man of the street salaries far in excess of the service rendered. No doubt these advisers would plead the cost of maintaining appearances ; but why should millions toil for a mere pittance in constant dread of penury to uphold a system of veneered barbarism and exploitation and its great outward show?

Nor do we find the financiers and business men who so strenuously uphold and defend the economy theory relinquishing any of their so-called “God-ordained rights” as an example. Ah. no! As usual, budgets will be prepared showing the already trodden-down laborer how/ to save twenty cents a day out of the $2.00 he receives; and, as ever, the advisers will give great and costly banquets, send their wives and daughters to seaside resorts in palatial steam yachts, and squander millions on the wheels of fortune in foreign lands or on the ever shifting and deceptive stocks and bonds of Wall Streets all over the land.' And following the regular, firmly entrenched custom, millions will be expended to hold huge naval maneuvers in far-off isles, while the sons of the soil ask for relief and get only a few begrudged crumbs of favor.

Cannot every thinking man see that a policy of economy will halt development, commerce, invention, education, and human progress? And can they not discern that economy also means inefficient service, accidents, and underpaid, uneducated human labor?

What we need is not to cut the wages of the plumber, the carpenter, the bricklayer, and the railway man and to begrudge them the few comforts they get out of life, but to bring even the most underpaid trades up to and above that level without placing a skyrocket under the prices of the needs and necessities of life. And, by the way, let us not forget that though these trades average $5.00 to $12.00 a day they average only seven @r eight months’ work per year and hence, cannot amass the huge fortunes which many would have us believe they can.

The Possibilities Within Reach

ONLY a false standard of government would economize on development, human necessity, as well as human progress. Let us consider a few things which, if they were developed, would feed, warm, and supply comforts to the now longing masses often stinted of life’s necessities by a system of frugality where consideration of man’s need and comfort are concerned.

First of all there is the great Colorado river, from which could be developed power, heat, and light to ease the burdens of and give comforts to many. And not only these, but also millions of acres of dry, fertile, desert sands could receive the life-giving waters and as a result provide luxuriant abundance of grains, fruits, vegetables, etc., as well as a place where thousands of the dwellers in our overcrowded, reeking slums could establish comfortable, delightful homes in the midst of plenty.

Second, let ns cast our glance to those great undeveloped areas of natural resources adjacent to our highways of travel and the still greater areas where only a few brave explorers and pioneers have gone.

A little farther off we perceive Alaska, lying 'dormant with its millions and millions in undeveloped mineral, coal, and petroleum wealth, and with its broad, extensive tundras on which huge herds of reindeer and musk-ox could be raised by the millions for meat, hides and even dairy products.

Then skip to the undeveloped, unexplored, fertile tropical isles of the Pacific on which so little human care and effort is now expended, yet which, if efficiently subdued and cultivated, could produce shiploads of delicacies for many hungering palates.

Next consider what great good would result to commerce if a few of the millions so freely spent on war were diverted to the purpose of cutting through the St. Lawrence river-bed so as to permit Atlantic ocean-liners to come up to Detroit, Chicago, and Duluth.

Direct your mind now to.the Avoeful lack of good roads in this enlightened land, which could easily be remedied by the unselfish use for the good of our neighbors of the abundant natural resources, efficient labor-saving machinery, and the man-power now lying idle in our cities.

Then a great reforestation program is necessary to restore that which greedy corporations and individuals have like vandals stripped with little thought for the men of tomorrow.

As with our forests, so with the fish and the game have the civilized vandals wreaked their destruction wholesale. It is true that our government has put forth some noble efforts to check the ruthless waste and restore that which those of the past so wantonly destroyed, yet how much greater should be the effort expended I

The inventors and the greatest benefactors to our race must starve and shiver their uphill way to a pauper’s grave, in many cases, while others reap the millions resulting from the child of their brain. Must we economize at one end of the scale alone while checking creative invention and effort as a result of a policy of thrift ?

Advantages of Aircraft Expansion

THEN there is that great field of commercial aircraft to expand. How easy it would be in time of flood, famine, pestilence, or other distress to rush airplanes to the scenes with the needed food, medicines, and relief! But, no I Christians (?) are too much occupied in making the world safe for democracy with poison gas, disease and blight bombs, liquid fire, etc., to do anything so useful and Christlike I

Education: How broad are the opportunities not to scrimp and save, but to expend more on constructive, technical education to fit our younger generation to meet skilfully and efficiently the demands of life! Shame on the nation that would take liberty and enlightenment as its motto, and then report through its census millions of illiterate or semi-educated citizens! Let us utilize our now deadly ships of war to take our youth to other lands on educational tours and thus bring men into a closer union and, as a result, deal narrow, cramped patriotism a death blow.

It is folly to curse our bountiful Creator when a famine occurs, while there are millions of acres in the Amazon Valley, the jungle, and on the Nile that could be conquered and made to produce abundance for all if efficiently distributed. The plague-infested swamps from which rise hordes of disease-carrying pests—why not let science eliminate both the swamps and the insects, as was proved to be practicable in Panama and many other places?

Space will not permit more than a brief review of a few of the countless tasks which humanity could profitably make into useful agents for man’s common welfare. There are huge irrigation projects, such as that of the Sahara desert by artesian wells; the cutting of many canals to connect useful waterways; radio programs from powerful stations in an international language; the gathering of power from the winds, the tides, the rivers, and even from the subterranean heat of volcanoes; the planting and efficient cultivation of millions of acres of now idle lands; the education of the peons, slaves, both the literal and the wage variety, and the masses of foreign lands as well as the uneducated of our own domain; and lastly a most-needed reform, the replacing of the disease breeding slum tenements with pretty stucco cottages.

Just Distribution Would Bring Prosperity

THESE are not Utopian dreams, but the practicabilities of today, although we fully realize that until the full establishment of Christ’s kingdom the selfishness in all classes of men will prevent much of this being done, if not all.

Let no one hastily cry: “But if these things were developed ihere would be overabundance!” Ah, no! there might be under the present selfish, brutal law of “supply and demand”, but under a just system of distribution humanity’s needs would use up many times what is now produced.

Rather we would not see men and women with pinched, starved, longing faces gazing wistfully at the things which, behind plate-glass windows, their undernourished stomachs so pitifully crave; nor would men long for the juicy steaks so temptingly displayed while knowing that their portion is a soup-bone. And then, there are the neat though not extravagant clothes which so many would like to have in place of patched, ragged overalls, etc. Nor would many shiver under thin rags while tons of coal and millions of unharnessed water-power go to waste, or lie dormant. Nor would men and women in the sweat-shops of our slums and cities long for a chance to till the . vacant fields and valleys, held by grabbing land-barons, while now even the sunlight rarely se ds its purifying rays upon their filthy conditions and surroundings.

Ah! what vistas of comfort (and remember, comfort is far from the “fullness of bread” and vice of Sodom) we can vision; and these would not come as a result of thrift or economy but from free, open-handed, intelligent development of nature’s abundant resources, which when produced would not be wastefully left to rot on the fields as at present, but efficiently distributed where most needed.

We hear of the “overabundance” in California. What a mockery, when one sees hundreds and hundreds in its large cities standing in line for a sandwich only! And then think of the multitudes that are too proud to ask for relief but grub along on the very verge of starvation.

How far away relief seems to the despairing masses led from one false hope to another by their unfaithful leaders who are in the pay of the oppressor! But lift up your heads and rejoice, ye sorrowing of earth; for the time of deliverance is at hand, and just beyond the storm now hovering overhead, lie far greater glories than we can now conceive or imagine, under the righteous rule of Him who has promised to “break in pieces the oppressor” and to bring back to the misled masses their long usurped rights. Rejoice; for the time is at hand!

. Death Dances By

I SEE by the papers that certain natives of

Africa were not pleased because they were not allowed to dance till they died, to give pleasure to the Prince of Wales.

They have similar customs among the Mexican Indians. I witnessed such a dance in 1906, in Zacatecas. I went with Mexican friends, a three days’ journey, in a coach of six horses, through great cactus forests and through the Rio Grande, out to a fine sheep ranch, or “hacienda”, in the wildest place . imaginable. Here we saw a large snake basking in the sunshine, and went out of the Avay to avoid it.

We then went to a small Indian village to see the natives celebrate the feast of the Holy Cross. The procession was ready to start when we arrived. Four Indians carried a large cross on their shoulders. Behind them four women carried a smaller one. Both crosses were decorated with large white flowers made from the interior white leaves of the maguey or century plant. As the procession started, the dance be-

Mrs. Elisabeth D. Whyte

fore the cross began. The dancers were young, some very good-looking. They jumped up and down, whirled around, then for a time the step was 1, 2, 3, 4, 6. .

An old man with a mask and long white beard, whom they called “El Perro” (the dog), carried a whip with which he kept the dancers in line. In the rear several wealthy Mexican “haciendados” (ranchers) danced. They were on horseback. Such beautiful animals! The costumes of the men and the trappings of the horses were heavily decorated with silver. They danced a sort of quadrille, slowly moving gracefully in and out, yet keeping pace with the procession, along the banks of the river. They halted a moment to pass the crosses on to others, and then the same performance continued until Ave returned to the Plaza, where many sought the privilege of carrying the heavy cross up the church steps, on their knees.

In the middle of the Plaza there was a high pole holding up a large globe, from which streamed many bright colored ribbons. The dancers each took hold of one and at a given signal they all started together like living shuttles, and they wove a beautiful design all over the globe; then, reversing the movement, they undid it, releasing a flight of snow-white pigeons that fluttered over our heads and settled on the roof of the- church. While the dancers were weaving the globe they kept perfect time to the music and the dance steins.

It was wonderful; yet those poor natives were' half savages, in spite of the church in their; midst, and were willing to dance till they' dropped. If they were willing to suffer for their eternal torment god, how much more so they will be when they know that God is not a monster, but a God cf wisdom, justice, love and power! The feast was over for us, but the fanatical natives kept on dancing until they were exhausted, and many died.

Adrenal Glands—Humaii Chemical Laboratory By Joseph Greig

WHY does the hair on a cat’s back, and the hair on a human head, go straight up, and 'the-flesh turn “goosey5in the presence of fear? Scientists tell us that two little glands the size of a walnut, and located just above the kidneys, are responsible for this.

These glands, known as the adrenal glands, ■shoot forth a chemical into the blood stream which prepares the system for instant combat with outside foes. Adrenalin is the name of the chemical which these glands discharge, and which immediately changes the size of the blood vessels. These glands also affect the liver, whoso function is to store up sugar for instant use in an emergency and at the moment of the chemical discharge the liver pours out at once sufficient of its store to meet the necessity.

Another precaution which the human organism involuntarily takes during times of stress is the instant diminishing of the size of the arteries leading to the stomach, while ‘those leading to the lungs, heart, brain and nerve centers become temporarily larger.

In view of the above facts and certain other blood tests, present-day super (?) education is seeking to identify reasoning man with the lower orders of animals, which are governed by instinct. While the organic principle in man and in lower animals may be similar in many respects, who would dare to assert that reason by a process of logic and deduction is to be found in any other animal than man? Moreover, those of the protoplasmic evolutionary theory, are bare of all hope as respects a future life, whereas the Bible inspires the mind with a resurrection prospect for man, built on a basis of absolute justice through the legal transaction of the cross of Christ.

Further, while these sticklers for godliness in creation swallow their monkey and camel, Holy Writ clears our vision completely by saying that man was made a little lower than the angels, and crowned with glory and honor, and given dominion over the works of God’s hands. Thus the human king fell as per the Genesis record and blurred the image of his Maker to the extent that man does not now wish to retain Jehovah in his knowledge. The average of life has greatly shortened since the Flood also, and at present, is about thirty-five years.

It is apparent that this adrenalin chemical secretion in nature was simply arranged by an All-wise Creator to increase the blood flow in times of distress and has no special bearing upon the matter of instinct. In fact anger and all the human impulses have not only a direct connection with the character status of the person but materially affect the health and physical structure of the organism, even beyond whrl is discernible by the senses.

Youth and the (Modern)

WE CULL the following remarkable declaration from The Life of Youth, which is a monthly magazine published in Zurich, Switzerland. It shows how even amidst the ranks of Christian youth opposition to the old order is developing, which, together with many other

State By F. Leon Scheerer

factors, is working towards its certain dissolution, and breaking ground for a new and better order of things. The article purports to set forth the attitude of the rising Swiss generation in these words:

We reject the modem state in its threefold aspect, • We disown its claim of being Judicatory. While at one time perhaps the sponsor of uplift and progress, it has, like its legal code, become hardened and the most bitter opponent of every innovation born in its time that tends towards a possible change of established forms.

We deny to the state a rightful claim to public morality. We claim it to be the resultant of the public’s expression of morality and not an expression of the existing state itself.

J We reject it as an organizer of communal life. As protector of the class struggle it stigmatizes its egoistic interests.

This worldly partisan spirit finds expression in the sanctified competitive system.

We renounce state feudalism and base our hope in the community rooted in the Gospels.

L; And we finally reject it as a state of coercion.

P We are compelled to reject the state, because its very Constructive principle is that of force. To might or force of any kind, we deny the claims of morality and : moral worth. To the spirit of our youth the thought 5 of force and of every institution based upon it, is irreConcilable.

The history of the past ten years has robbed us of our last shred of confidence in the modern state. We have seen modern political economy before our very eyes, develop into class rule internally and into nationalism externally.

We direct all our energy against both; for they will culminate in a joint use of the military against the

foe within and for war against the national enemy without. .

The modern state pursues the ideal of material support and spiritual development of its citizenry. But since it actually fails even in this respect, it is our prerogative to challenge it.

The point at issue is not the continuity and maintenance of the state so much as the welfare of the people t and opportunities for an unhampered expansion and ’ intellectual development of their character. But whatever obstructs such moral development must be removed.

We are made to feel that the state as now organized is blocking the path of God’s incoming kingdom.

For this reason we challenge the modern state. We challenge it, even though knowing, yea because of this very knowledge, that youth is recognized by the modem state. This has a double significance. \

We love our country. But we are not misled in our love by the patriotic huzzas of Swiss carnivalists of the type, “From a distance far, we greet thee,” nor by the distress of our people, daily crying their needs more loudly to heaven, nor yet by the preparedness frenzy of our militarists and their followers.

Our love for our country and people is deeply rooted in our hearts, but above our native country and people towers God’s coming kingdom. Strong peoples are needed for its support.

“Brave men who work while others sleep, Who dare while others fly—

They build a nation’s pillars deep And rear them to the sky.”

Youth is the Symbol of Palestine

UNDER the above title the Jewish National Fund Bureau for America, 114 Fifth Ave., New York, publishes a little pamphlet which Contains much that is heart-cheering for a Bible student. The little booklet opens with a suggestive poem by Rudyard Kipling, which we republish herewith, together with the first page of the booklet: •.

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