Golden Age, December 2, 1925
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Contents of the Golden Age
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Labor and Economics
Machinery Takes Place of Labor ............. 131
Filming of Labor’s Progress 1JJ3
British Labor Growing Radical
Social and Educational
The World’s News at a Glance .
Wretchedness of Poorhouses
Life’s Span Nearly Trebled .............. 132
The Mission of The Golden Age
Recipe fob a Complete Nourishing Meal .......... 147
Additional Items Regarding Peru ............. 150
Radio Programs ...... ... .
Finance—Commerce—Transportation
Armour-Morris Merger is O. K. ............. 131
Where the Wealth Centers ............... 133
Wheat, Wheat Everywhere .............. 338
Fewer Railroad Stations ............. 333
Growing Bananas in Florida .............. 143
Political—Domestic and Foreign f Governor Pinchot and the State Police .......... 132
Labor and Capital Getting Ready ......... ... 131
Lord Grey and Colonel House ............. 13c
Jewish Immigration into Palestine ............ 139
Governmental Practices in Christian Countries ....... 151
j ■ Science and Invention
i Healing in the Rays
| Will Endeavor to Reclaim Kalahari Desert ...... 138
| No Synthetic Gold After AU .
I Religion and Philosophy
| Big Church Doings in 1927-1928
The Misleading Press
•‘Some Shephebd”
Back to the Bible . . . ■ . • . . . ..... . . . , 152
The Church as the Preserver of Leakiing
Neglect of the Bible Causes Chime ............ 153
Libebty fob the People ................. 154
Studies in “The Habp of God”
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Golden Age
Volume VII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, December 2, 1925
Number 161
‘ Tlie World’s News at a Glance
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Demons Expect Catastrophe Wages of Italian Farm Children
Sib AsiBOTt Conan Doyle, spiritist, is widely quoted as saying that the denizens of the spirit world have repeatedly announced lately tlia t a great catastrophe is impending. He states that messages of this nature have been coming to him for the past three years, and that when the troubles come they will last for that length of time. It is possible that the demons have some advance notice of what is to happen soon.
Armour-Morris Merger is O.K.
IN THE opinion which reads like a judicial decision by the Supreme Court, the Secretary of Agriculture has ruled that the merger of two of the three greatest packers is not illegal. Attention is called to the fact that the combined business of Armour & Company and Morris & Company is about 25 percent of the meat inspected by the U. S. government, and that this combination is doing less business than Swift & Company. Apparently more than half of the meat inspected by the government now passes through the hands of Armour and Swift.
Machinery Takes Place of Labor
IN A speech broadcast on Labor Day by the Solicitor of the Department of Labor, attention was called to the fact that the multiplication of inventions is making further immigration from Europe unnecessary. In the past year a single invention has increased the output of window-glass -workers from 55 square feet to 3,000 square feet per hour.
Policewomen in Three Hundred Cities
THE first policewoman was engaged at Portland, Oregon, twenty years ago. The duties are chiefly along the lines of crime prevention among the young. The work has proven so beneficial that three hundred other cities have adopted the system.
THE American Chud, a magazine devoted to the interests of child labor, contains an article by a young Italian girl narrating how, only a few years ago, she was accustomed to work in the bean fields during the entire season, from sunrise to dark, picking beans, and dragging the bean bag with her, at a daily wage of but thirty to forty cents.
Jacob’s Family Outnumbered
WE READ in Genesis that when Jacob came into Egypt at the age of 130 he had seventy descendants, which seems like a good-sized family. But Hannah Eldred of Baldwin, L. I., who has just celebrated her 103rd birthday, is reported to have more than 200 descendants, or about three times as many as Jacob when he was twenty-seven years older.
Explosions of Combustible Dust
TAURING the last year there w’as a sufficient number of explosions in starch-manufacturing plants, in wood-working establishments, leather-grinding mills, feed-mixing plants and grain elevators to cause forty-five deaths and destroy property valued at three million dollars. There are always possibilities of dust explosions in many other factories, such as those producing cocoa, spice, sugar, corks, aluminum ware, etc.
Wretchedness of Poorhouses
THE Bureau of Labor Statistics has been mak--L ing an investigation of poorhouses and declares that the supervision of these institutions; is chiefly in the hands of a class of politicians only-slightly superior to a majority of the inmates themselves. In these institutions, says the report, the worthy aged and infirm are herded with the feeble-minded and the prostitutes, in a state of indifference and neglect, practically all over the country. In Nevada it costs $865.10 per inmate to care for the poor, while the average inmate involves the expenditure of $334.64 for his maintenance, annually. More than one-third of all the almshouses in the country have ten or less inmates each, while more than half of the total have less than twenty-five each. The proposed remedy calls for larger and better managed institutions, centrally located.
Life Span Nearly Trebled
INSURANCE companies collect and study closely the evidence available regarding the length of human life. Their conclusions are that the average expectancy of life now is around fifty-eight years, whereas in the time of Columbus it was but twenty years. It is predicted by them that in twenty-five years the average American life span will be seventy years. As a, matter of fact our expectations are that it will be many times that, as we anticipate that very shortly now there will be a total cessation of what is commonly miscalled natural death. Actually, death is unnatural. Our first parents were not created to be put to death. Death came upon them only because of disobedience. Now the curse is lifting gradually; soon it will be removed altogether. Meantime, humanity has learned a great lesson.
Ball-Bearing Street-Cars
FFOM Lynn, Massachusetts, comes news of an improvement in street-cars which should accomplish good results. For the first time, ballbearings, which have done so much to make automobiles and other machinery noiseless and frictionless, have been used in street-car construction. The noise of the car is greatly reduced, and oil and power will be saved.
Autos Nearly Equal Rail lime
EARLY in September two officials of the American Automobile Association drove a stock sedan car from Washington, D. C., to Oakland, California, in four days, twenty-one and one-half hours. The ear was driven about twenty hours daily. It was fitted with a Pullman bed, and very probably presages the day of automobile Pullmans which will thread the country in every direction, when the highways are in a condition to permit it. Meantime the highways are getting better and better every year, but it is safer to go by rail than by auto.
Governor Pinchot and the State Police
THE movements of the State Police of Pennsylvania are in the hands of Governor Pinchot. When the coal strike was declared Governor Pinchot instead of moving State Police into the anthracite mining district moved them out. The mine workers point out that during the last strike, when 158,000 miners were idle six months, there was not one case of violence; they promise similar conduct at this time.
The Compounding of Felonies
^THEORETICALLY the Chicago man who merely dismissed from his employ eight young men whom he detected as engaged in stealing from him, instead of turning them over to the police, was guilty of the crime of compounding a felony. It seems not to be generally known that it is as truly a crime in the eyes of the law to conceal the misdemeanor of another as to do the act itself.
Churches Doubtful of Prohibition
HDHE Research and Educational Department of the Federal Council of Churches has recently put out a questionnaire to some thousands of social workers in the effort to ascertain the results accomplished by national prohibition. The report of the investigation indicates that the value of national prohibition is in doubt, principally because of increased drinking by young people, as compared with pre-prohibi-tion days, and a worse general attitude toward law enforcement on the part of all classes. Otherwise the effects were said to be favorable, resulting in better furnishing of homes, better care of families, improved marital relations, and better sanitary and mental health conditions.
Hughes Sees Intolerance Developing
IN HIS opening address to the American Bar Association Charles E. Hughes, former secretary of state, made the statement that in his opinion the most ominous sign of the times is the growth of an intolerant spirit, which is all the more dangerous because it seems to be armed with sincere conviction. He expressed the belief that liberty is now in need of safeguards against organized efforts being made by certain organizations not named, and by those politicians whom Mr. Hughes terms bureaucrats.
Where the Wealth Centers
THE Income Tax receipts give some interesting data as to where the larger incomes are being obtained. Of the total tax New York State pays 28%, Pennsylvania 10%, Illinois 9%, Massachusetts 6%, Michigan 6%, California 5%, Ohio 5%. These seven states pay 69% of the tax, while the remaining forty-one states average less than 1% each.
End of Lighthouse Business
npiIE end of the lighthouse business is in sight During the past year automatic systems have been installed in seventy-four lighthouses, and it is claimed that they are less expensive and more reliable than the old style. Moreover, these automatic lighthouses can be placed in positions where it would be impossible to maintain keepers. .
Inconsistencies of Courts Martial
THE newspaper, Labor, is indignant because a court martial at Washington acquitted a drunken major who drove wildly through the city, injuring some and endangering others, while another military court sentenced a young marine who refused to take a bath to serve two years in Portsmouth naval prison. Labor wants to know', and rightly, why these barbarities of courts martial are permitted in this country in a time of peace.
Wheat, Wheat Everywhere
THE people of the world cannot say in the year 1925 that the Lord has not blessed their wheatnelds. The Department of Agriculture has announced that the increase of crops for 1925 over 1924 in the twenty-four principal wheat-producing countries of the North Temperate Zone shows 230,000,000 bushels, or about ten percent increase in the total. There is also a large crop in Argentina and Australia.
The Filming of Labor s Progress . ,
THE American Federation of Labor is having a motion picture film prepared which will show'the progress of labor. Starting with the slave on the auction block it will portray home life, before the advent of the trade union, the degradation of the sweatshop and the sanitary workshops of the present. There is ample material for a wonderful film.
A British View of America
THE secretary of the Rotarians of Great Britain, after a visit to six important Amer-< ican cities, is quoted by the Manchester Guar-i dian as saying:
Production is enormously increasing, and we saw very few signs of drunkenness or breaking of the Jaw except along the frontier where smuggling takes place. In the inland cities we were struck with the cleanliness, sobriety and energy of the people. There seemed to ba no serious industrial crisis. We were greatly struck, too, with the progress made by the Negroes. There are whole districts in Chicago where large houses in handsome thoroughfares are occupied by the rich Negroes, who are to be seen driving about in their own motor-cars.
No More Child Immigrants
CANADA will have no more child immigrants.
For many years there has been a considerable influx of child labor from Britain, due to the necessities laid upon the British people to find some way to live since the World War upset their markets. But from now on no child immigrants under fourteen years of age will be admitted to Canada unless accompanied by parents.
A Secret Kept Four Hundred Years
THE New York Times tells an interesting story of a secret kept for four hundred years. An old Indian on his death bed disclosed to his physician the whereabouts of the cave within which are the bars of gold and other treasures of the Aztec kings hidden when Cortez and his gang of murderers first invaded Mexico. Cortez tried in vain to locate this treasure.
New Style of Trousers
THE style mongers are always making fools of either the women or the men. This time it is the turn of the men. In London it is claimed that the men are now wearing trousers with legs forty-eight inches in circumference. The only possible advantage in this seems to be that in a large family of boys two of them could wear the one pair at the same time.
Keeping the Theaters Filled
THE Manchester Guardian reports that London theaters are now resorting to a Parisian plan of keeping the theaters filled. At the last minute, rather than play to empty seats, a dis-
tribution of free tickets is made to patrons of Americans to Entertain British
nearby restaurants and to persons standing in p EFORE the end of the year it is expected or near the lobby who either cannot or will not that the people of the British Isles will be pay the price of admission. regularly entertained'at the close of their eve-
Grouse Hunting in Scotland . ■ - ■
T ABOU calls attention to the fact that in the very week in which the British press was filled with, ominous forebodings of general bankruptcy because all classes, of industry are slack and unable to pay a living wage, the grouse hunting season opened in which, in the one month, it is estimated in the Tory press that twenty million dollars will be wasted. But probably the employes of powder works and gun factories do not consider this all waste. .
Labor and Capital Getting Ready
DISPATCHES from Britain seem to indicate that both labor and capital are getting ready for what may be a desperate conflict. Labor, bending more and more in the direction of communism, is through its left wing persistently drilling into the minds of the army and navy that in case of industrial troubles they must not shoot their brothers. Capital, nervous and apprehensive, leans harder and harder upon . the government for protection. It seems only a matter of months before the storm will burst. John Wheatley, ex-cabinet minister (under the labor government), has issued a call for the establishment of a workers’ defence corps composed of ten million men who, to use Mr. Wheatley’s language, “are prepared to suffer rather than see Britain made a land of coolies.” Moreover, Mr. Wheatley demands that these be recruited during the nine months which the coal subsidy has to run. Apparently he expects civil war at the end of that time, and desires to have his army ready.
A Sample of Wheatley’s Oratory
THE London Daily News quotes Mr. Wheat
ley in a speech at Shettleston as saying, “Why should it be assumed that the British courage and grit of 1914 should have disappeared?' Are: we to believe that the men who faced death in what they believed to be defence ’ of their homes have so deteriorated that now they will act like sheep?” The intent of this utterance is plain to all, though there is nothing in it upon which the government can act.
ning concerts, say 11 to 12 at night, by programs broadcast from America by the Radio Corporation’s new high-power station in Maine, and received by their new super-receiving'station in Kent, England. '
Signing Without Hands
HpHE treasurer of Arkansas has the misfor--*- tune to be without either hands or arms,, but has pluck enough to make up for it. Recently 650 bonds of'$1,000 each required his signature in two different places, and he signed them _ with his teeth. Try signing a paper with a pen held in your teeth, and you will see that State Treasurer Sloan has a hard job.
Lived on Water Thirty-five Days
A WEAVER of Union City, N. J., being troubled with catarrh, lived on water alone for thirty-five days, working fourteen hours per day during the entire five weeks. At the outset Mr. Wuensch weighed 148 pounds; at the close of his fast 104 pounds. But his strength at the conclusion of the fast had not been seriously affected; for he was then able to chin himself on a bar eight times in succession. Moses, Elijah and Jesus each fasted forty days and continued active all the time.
New York Lobsters Six Feet Long
AN INTERESTING item in the New York
Times recalls the fact that a hundred and fifty years ago lobsters six feet long were, found in New York harbor but deserted these regions as soon as the cannonading of the Revolutionary War began. A lobster thirty-seven inches long was recently taken at a haul in Nova Scotia. The smaller lobsters are better flavored.
Canadians to have Another Great Bridge " THE Canadians, who already have the world’s greatest bridge, near Quebec, are now about to build its duplicate at the western extremity of their far outstretched country. The new bridge is to be located at the entrance to Vancouver Harbor, suspension type, 1,700 feet long. It will be 185 feet above the water, so as to allow ■ -the ocean liners to clear.
Manchester's Flying Coach ~
IN THE year 1754 a group of Manchester, England, merchants, vexed by the slow moving coaches of the time, inaugurated a new service which they styled the Flying Coach, designed to travel at the astonishing speed of five miles an hour. The announcement said, “However incredible it may appear, this coach will actually (barring accidents) arrive in London in four days and a half after leaving Manchester.” The regular railway time between these two cities is now four hours. An airplane makes the journey in an hour.
Str Samuel Instone's Proposals
Sin Samuel Ixstoxe, leading British capitalist, has surprised both his friends and his enemies by proposing the nationalization of British railways as, in his judgment, the only way for Britain to sweep away her unemployment, set the wheels of industry going, bring down the high cost of living, recapture the world’s coal markets and revive shipbuilding.
British Labor Growing Radical
RADICALISM seems to be growing so rapidly among British workers as to have practically swept the entire movement. By a vote of 3,082,000 to 79,000 the Trades Union Congress at its last session adopted resolutions supporting the right of all peoples in the British Empire to choose complete separation from the Empire if they so desire.
Fifty Millions in the Air
THE most valuable cargo ever carried on an airplane arrived at Croydon, England, at noon, Tuesday, August 25th. The cargo consisted of two and one-half tons of bonds sent from Germany to the Bank of England, as the first instalment under the Dawes Reparation Scheme. The total value of the bonds was a little less than fifty million dollars. The bonds were sent by air because that is considered, in Europe, the safest way to send valuables.
Lfoyd George's Plan to Save England
REFERRING to Sir George Hunter’s declaration that Britain is on the road to ruin, Lloyd George has come out with a statement that in his judgment the landlord system must be abolished, and the state must, in return for efficient cultivation, guarantee the security of the land user and his family. He estimates that in this way only could all the million and a half of British unemployed find profitable work. Otherwise the coming crash is inevitable.
"Is England Done?"
UNDER this heading Sir Philip Gibbs has written an article for the London Tinies which has startled all England. Sir Philip was Britain’s most noted war correspondent during the World War. The occasion for his article lay in the persistently incurable unemployment situation and the growing drift of British labor toward communism.
Britain's New Radio Station
FROM Britain’s new radio station at Rugby, she expects to be able to talk direct to every part of the world. The towers, twelve in number, are 820 feet high. The aerial itself is a mile and a half long and a half a mile wide. The first trials of the station will be made in November.
Healing in the Rays
TTUMANITY is learning more and more about the various energy rays which affect it. At the top is the radium-ray, next downward in the scale is the X-ray, then the death-ray, then the ultra-violet-ray which is so beneficial, then the seven colors, then the vitalizing infrared rays, the heat rays, and then the wireless waves of broadcasting apparatus. All of these rays affect human beings brought in contact with them. England is now making much use of the infra-red, ultra-violet, and other rays, in the curing of rickets, lupus and various other diseases.
The Maharajah of Patiala
THE Maharajah of Patiala, who receives a salary of a little over three million dollars a year for the simple but useless job of drawing his breath, has been visiting London. He travels with, a retinue of seventy persons and owns a fleet of twenty Rolls-Royce cars, the largest in the world. AVTiile he was in London his five secretaries were busy sending telegrams all over Europe for special kinds of food of which his niblets is fond. Grouse were brought from Scot* land to his table by airplane.
I The White Terror in Bulgaria
I A WOMAN investigator sent to Sofia by the Manchester Guardian, gives a long list of names of persons against whom no crime was charged but who have been slain while in the care of the Bulgarian government. Her conclusions are that the government has deliberately availed itself of the horror caused by the cathedral outrage to exterminate political enemies.
Wolves Overrunning Russia
THE Nev/ York Tira&s reports that -wolves are overrunning Russia. In some provinces the wolves are killing twenty-five percent of the young cattle, villages are barricaded at night, children have been attacked on the way to school, and workers even have been compelled to flee from the fields. In one village fifteen casualties occurred in one day. .
Will Endeavor to Reclaim Kalahari Desert
THE New York Evening Post reports that airplanes are now flying back and forth across the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, having in ‘ view the mapping of the region and the possible diversion into it of rivers which may restore the Kalahari lakes and bring about a much to be desired change of climate, as well as bring vast areas under cultivation.
Anglo-Turkish War Impending
THE British government has formally complained to the League of Nations that Turkish troops have crossed the provisional boundary between Turkey and Mesopotamia and have carried off some eight thousand Christians from Mesopotamia into Turkish territory. This looks as if the oil war between the Standard Oil Company (backing France) and the British oil interests (really, the British government in disguise) had broken out afresh.
Turkey Adopts Western Customs
TURKEY is rapidly throwing the Koran into the discard and adopting Western customs. Kemal Pasha has invited the whole nation to adopt European dress and all Turkish women to unveil. The monasteries have been summoned to dissolve. Polygamy is to be abolished by law. The Turks have adopted Kemal’s suggestions with a rush. The turban and fez have been discarded, and hat merchants are reaping a harvest.
Judge Recommends Pioneer Spirit
Judge Mulqueen of New York City is reported as recommending a return to the pioneer spirit, when men protected their own property. If the Judge’s recommendations are carried out the Sullivan law will have to be greatly modified. At present the ordinary citizen is largely at the mercy of thugs and gunmen who seem to be able to get all the weapons they want.
A Study of Deep Ocean Currents
A GERMAN scientific deep-sea expedition, which spent six months in going from Hamburg to Cape Town, meantime crossing the Atlantic fourteen times, reports that at a considerable depth it traced a current from the North Atlantic to a distance of two thousand miles south of the Equator, where it rose to the surface. A similar current from the southern polar regions passes northward.
No Synthetic Gold After All
HPHE announcement made some months ago that at great expense mercury could be and had been changed into gold is now proven to be erroneous. The only gold recovered was that which was in the mercury at the time the experiments were made. A dozen scientists, including the original discoverer, have been unable to obtain gold from chemically pure mercury.
Super-Power in Switzerland
SWITZERLAND is making more and more use of the water powers which nature has stored within her borders. A single plant recently completed at a cost of upwards of twelve million dollars furnishes power sufficient to operate all trains in the entire country. Austria is making similar use of its share of these Alpine treasures.
Big Church Doings in 1927-1928
DISPATCHES have it that all the Protestant churches are to get together for a church council at Lausanne, Switzerland, in August, 1927, and the Roman Catholic Church is to have an ecumenical council in 1928 which is expected to be the largest in history. The last Roman Catholic council, held in 1870, was broken up by the Franco-German war and the seizure of Rome in that year. The Protestants have just finished a general church council at Stockholm, Sweden.
War-Time Coal Regulations
on war-time to make sure
Massachusetts is back coal regulations. In order that the anthracite coal available shall go as far as possible, a State Emergency Fuel Administration has been established, which prohibits the delivery of more than three tons at a time to householders and also forbids the delivery of domestic sizes of coal to consumers with large heating apparatus, where help is needed to tend the furnace.
Speculation in Human Suffering '
THE coal strike presented an opportunity to speculators in New York and vicinity to take advantage of the people’s necessities. It is said that at one time about twenty million tons of coal wmre held within twenty miles of the city at prices which were prohibitive. Keeping this coal out of market at such a time is really a speculation in human suffering.
Profits of Anthracite Operators
TN THE two years, 1921-22, the Lehigh Coal Company paid in dividends more than double the amount invested, and in the same period the Hilldale Coal Company returned to its stockholders four times the amount invested. Since 1912 the Pennsylvania Coal Company has paid to its stockholders six times its total capitalization. But watch these companies boost the prices if they have to pay a few cents more per ton to the miners.
North Carolina Jails the Children
North Carolina believes in putting the children into jail, where they can learn from those older all the deviltry that is to be learned in such places. There are now 138 children under sixteen years of age in North Carolina jails. Forty-nine are white boys, sixty are Negro boys, eighteen are white girls, and eleven are Negro girls. Why not jail the whole family ?
Pension Age of Printers Raised
THE printers, noticing that their lives are lengthening, have planned to raise the pension age from sixty to sixty-five. This will be done in 1930. No change will be made in the rule until then, so as not to work hardship to those who under existing rules would become entitled to pensions in the interval.
The World’s Greatest Crosstown Street
THE world’s greatest crosstown street is 42nd street, New York City; and as Broadway is the world’s most important thoroughfare, it follows that the crossing of these two streets is in some respects the most important street crossing anywhere on earth. One hundred years ago 42nd street, for nearly its entire length, was bought for the sum of ten dollars. In two of its office buildings 18,000 persons are now employed.
Would Fingerprint Everybody
"Douce Commissioner Enright would have everybody in the United States over the age of twelve fingerprinted; and he gives some good reasons for it, too. Not only would the police be assisted in locating criminals, but missing persons could be more easily traced, and persons suffering from aphasia or amnesia could be identified without difficulty. At age of twelve the lines in the finger tips come permanently fixed.
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Lord Grey and Colonel House
T ord Grey has published his memoirs.
In
T-J them he states that Colonel House came to him as President Wilson’s representative on February 22, 1916; and that at that time Colonel House proposed a settlement of the war which involved the cession of Alsace-Lorraine to the French, the rebuilding of Belgium, the granting of an ice-free port to Russia and colonial concessions to Germany. If Germany would not agree to these terms Colonel House gave assurances that the United States would enter the war on the side of the Allies. This was nine months before President Wilson was reelected because he kept us out of the war.
The Duties of Panama Airmen
THE force of seven hundred United States airmen which is charged with the protection of the Canal Zone does not spend its time waiting for an enemy that may never come. It has some sixteen landing places in the Zone and in the adjoining lands of the~ Panama Republic and, besides becoming familiar with all this territory, does emergency hospital sendee for the citizens, sometimes carrying mail and in other ways making itself useful.
Russ fans Cause Suicides in Flanders
HOW closely the world is intertwined! One ■ would hardly think that the way the Russians see fit to govern themselves would control the:. death rate in Flanders villages, but such is the case. In one Flemish village of scarce 1,200 persons twenty-one suicides are directly traceable to the Russians debacle. The people had their savings invested in Russian promises to pay.
Her Highness Nellie, Irish Setter
TIER Highness Nellie is an Irish setter.
If all the Highnesses in the world had been as high it would be a better world. James Morrison slipped off a big sewer pipe into the quicksand alongside. Nellie grabbed him by the collar; and as he sank little by little she braced herself and growled, with an occasional bark. Nellie herself was beginning to slip, and the Morrison lad was up to his neck, when rescuers came. This was in New York City.
Police Officers May Not Kill
IN THE State of Hlinois a police officer named Klein fired at an automobile which had failed to stop at his command, and killed the occupant of the car. The Supreme Court confirmed Klein’s sentence of fourteen years in prison, and laid down the rule that self-defense constitutes the only circumstance in which a police officer may take Efe.
The Most Valuable Buildings
THE most valuable office building in New York City is the Equitable, the assessed value of which for 1925 is $31,000,000. The most valuable hotel is the Waldorf, which has an assessed valuation of $12,600,000. The most valuable department store is Altman’s, which has an assessed valuation of $15,600,000.
Australia’s Battle in the Air
THE federal government of Australia is imperialist, but the Queensland state government is labor. The Queensland government has a wireless broadcasting station and, having obtained the facts regarding the slaughters in Shanghai and Canton, sent out news aU ov#r Australia denouncing the British government at London for its policy of coercion in China. This has created considerable excitement in AustraUa.
Going a Thousand Times as Fast
CPHE United States is going a thousand times as fast as Russia. In the United States there is an automobile registered for every 6)4 persons, while in Russia there is only one automobile for every 6,226 people. Russia has but 15,000 automobiles altogether.
Western People Most Talkative
OF THE great cities in the United States, Omaha, if we may judge from the telephone statistics, has the greatest number of telephones per 100 of the population. San Francisco comes next, followed by Minneapolis, Stockholm (Sweden), Washington (D. C.), Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Toronto, New York and Cincinnati, in the order named. About sixty-three percent of the world’s telephones are in America, twenty-six percent in Europe, and eleven percent elsewhere.
Automatic Control of Trains
AT A cost of $ 800,000 the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company has equipped its main line for 150 miles this side of Council Bluffs with automatic train control which we have heretofore mentioned. Other divisions will be similarly equipped soon. Trains slow down to twenty miles an hour when in the adjoining block, and stop automatically when this distance is lessened. The device is operated by an electric current flowing down one rail and up another.
Aircraft Board Catches a Tartar
WHEN the aircraft board summoned before it Colonel Mitchell, deposed assistant chief of the army air service, for denouncing the Shenandoah’s inland trip, the Hawaiian flight and the Arctic failures, it seems to have caught a tartar. The Colonel declared that the loss of the Shenandoah was treasonable, that the Hawaiian flight was managed by bungling amateurs and that the Arctic experiment was done in a haphazard manner. Ho also complained that the general staff attempts the coercion and intimidation of witnesses. The New York Times says that when the Colonel had finished his testimony he was applauded by many of the spectators, and that he answered questions readily and with a lack of hesitation which showed that he knew his subject
England’s Vivisection Laboratories tered the country and it is expected that the
T?NGLAND has 1,042 licensed vivisection la- totalYor the year will berat least forty thousand, boratories. In these institutions in the year about the total numoer that entered dunng 1924 there were 177,815 experiments carried out Jhe six preceding years. Many Arabs of Pales-on living animals; 168,653 of these being without tine have stoppedpoking and started a Smoke
Bank, the object of these savings being to create a fund to prevent further purchase of land in
anesthetics. A woman performed 21,424 of the experiments in connection with the standardization of drugs.
Palestine by the Jews.
Demons Protect a Medium
AN EGYPTIAN medium in Paris has been giving some illustrations of the remarkable powers of the demons over those who submit themselves wholly to them. This man permitted himself while in a trance to be stabbed repeatedly by physicians. As fast as the knives were withdrawn the wounds healed and the medium announced that he suffered no pain. In India the mediums walk on red-hot stones, and the demons prevent them from being burned or injured.
St. Paul’s Wants an Organ
ST. Paul’s Church, Burton-on-Trent, wants an organ. The vicar is advertising that in order to get the price of the organ the church this year will have associated with it a fair at which may be obtained turkeys, geese, beef, plum puddings, mince pies, nuts, crackers, decorations, candies, chocolates, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and other desiderata including side-shows, plays, concerts and sketches. Persons may make deposits on account now.
Jewish Immigration into Palestine
HOHE immigration reports at the Zionist Con-gress held in Vienna shows that between
January and July of this year 21,000 Jews en-
Chinese Children Work Fourteen Hours
IN AN address at Norwich, England, Rev.
Frank Harmon, Baptist missionary, made the statement that in one rug factory in China two thousand children between nine and fifteen years of age work from four in the morning to six in the evening for a daily wage of three pence, or about six cents of our money.
Chinese Demand National Freedom.
THROUGH the Chinese minister to the United
States, and the president of the Chinese Southeastern University, China is formally demanding the right to determine her own tariff policies and judicial tribunals. Both gentlemen declare that the demand will grow stronger and stronger with delay, and will be backed by the famous Chinese boycott and possibly, in the end, by two and a half million Chinese now well instructed in the use of arms.
Fewer Railroad Stations
THE influence of the motor bus is seen in the closing of unprofitable railway stations. Present practices and indications point to railroad stations about ten miles apart, with the intervening territory covered by buses. This will reduce the railroads’ cost of maintenance, and enable the trains to make better time.
The Mission of the Golden Age
THE Golden Age has entered its seventh year.
It seems appropriate to reprint a portion of the Salutatory, as it appeared in Volume I, No. 1, issue of October 1, 1919, that our readers may judge of the value of its promises:
Wisdom of the right order is essential to the welfare and happiness of mankind. During the few years recently past the world, through fiery experiences, has acquired a vast amount of knowledge; but how to apply that knowledge properly is now the important question. There is a perfect standard of application; and when that standard is known and followed, the result is certain to be satisfying. It is the privilege and duty of ■ every one who can do so to render aid to his fellow in the wise application of acquired knowledge and to a'd him to increase knowledge and wisdom. Such aid, to accomplish a good result, should be rendered unselfishly. “The wise man will hear and increase in learning.”
This magazine enters the field, therefore, with a mission which is peculiar and unique. It has no rivals because it has no competitors. Every one joining in a similar effort to do good will be welcomed by us.
Its policy is and shall be not to array the rich against the poor, nor the poor against the rich, the classes against the masses, nor the masses against the classes; but it will seek to do good unto all mankind.
It is not published in the interest of any religious denomination, nor is it the advocate of any political party or organization. It is no respecter of persons because of race, color or condition of servitude.
Nor is this magazine published for pecuniary profit or gain to anyone. All the money realized from its publication above the operating expenses will be used for the further dissemination of such knowledge amongst the people as will be beneficial to them. It is backed by some of the best and ablest men in the world, and shall be maintained as an educational medium for the purpose of teaching the true relationship between science, agriculture, labor and pure religion. Its publication is for the benefit of the people, advising them of perils and pointing them to a better and nobler life.
Its purpose is to explain in the light of divine wisdom the time meaning of the great phenomena of the present day and to prove to thinking minds by evidence incontrovertible and convincing that the time of a greater blessing of mankind is now at hand. Like a voice in the wilderness of confusion, its mission is to announce the incoming of the golden age.
The nations are in distress politically, financially and socially. Daily problems are arising, the solving of which seems beyond the power of human ingenuity. Seeing all these things coming to pass before our very eyes, who can lightly pass over the words of the Great Master foretelling these times when there would be “upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring, men’s hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things coming upon the earth” I
These distressing times have come at the very climax of the development of inventive genius—at the very time of the greatest increase of knowledge. And why? There is a reason, and that reason we must ascertain and govern ourselves accordingly. There is a wide diversity of knowledge which, if properly applied, would result in great and beneficial wisdom to the people. What, then, is the real meaning of the present conditions, and is' there a supreme remedy that will bring order out of chaos and establish a lasting peace, prosperity and happiness to the people? The Golden- Age enters the field for the very purpose of answering these questions, and confidently expects to answer them to the satisfaction of all thinking minds.
The Golden Age will carry into the homes of the people the desired message which will tend to restore calmness to the disturbed minds and comfort to the saddened hearts. We do not expect to accomplish this by human wisdom; because that has been tried and failed, and such wisdom is foolishness in the sight of Jehovah. But we will point the people to the clear and indisputable evidence in the light of present-day events, disclosing the divinely expressed remedy for the reconstruction of human affairs that will bring the desire of all nations, assuring to the people life, liberty and happiness. We invite all order-loving, law-abiding, God-fearing persons to aid in passing this message of comfort on to those who desire to be comforted.
To the foregoing Salutatory we now wish to add a few words.
In a few issues we have run advertisements of something besides the books of the International Bible Students’ Association. In a few issues also we have referred to inventions, books or other items that we judged might be of value to some of our readers. In most instances, we think, our judgment of the value of these things was good; but where the information we received at first was based upon insufficient data or experience of the party furnishing it, then it occasionally turned out that the announcement was inadvisable or premature. We make no claim to infallibility, but do try to be honest, fearless, sincere and helpful. If we make mistakes forgive us. We repent “seventy times seven”.
Some six months ago we published an article on Automatic Electronic Diagnosis by Dr. Gamble, explaining the principles of the Biola, a device for aiding the sick along lines somewhat similar to the operation of the radio in carrying the human voice. The explanation as Dr. Gamble made it seemed so reasonable that we could hardly forbear publication.
Dr. Gamble has now sent us some concrete evidence that his device has proven what he hoped it would; and as a vindication of our judgment in publishing the original article from him, and possible as a benefit to our readers, we publish the gist of these, omitting postoffices. We want to benefit the people; but lest by some publication we unwittingly mislead, our future policy will be:
Hereafter we shall publish no advertisements or articles other than the books of the International Bible Students Association, nor any writeups of articles which, however valuable they may be, might seem to be hints to purchase. The Golden Age is not an advertising medium, except for books giving religious instruction which we endorse because we believe them to be the true explanations of God’s Word.
I have been using the Biola over two months. I had an intestinal trouble, centered in my colon. My side pained me constantly. Now I rarely feel it and I think my general health is better, especially a catarrhal trouble.
Mississippi, Sept. 19, 1925. Mbs. Eva Hosmer.
The Biola, treatment has proven the most satisfactory and lasting of all remedies I have ever tried. I have used it only one month. I improved from the very first start. I had time to use it only at night after a hard day’s work.
No words of praise can do it justice; it is one of the greatest inventions of the age.
Kansas, Sept. 18, 1925. 0. J. Berger.
Replying to your letter requesting our experience with the Biola, will say we have net had any acute cases to try the machine on.
Two of our family have taken quite a number of treatments, both of these had previously been helped a great deal by the Abrams Method. However they were both in a condition that seemed to need regular treatments in order to keep them from becoming run down. The Biola seemed to fill this need in a most satisfactory manner. We bought the machine mainly upon the favorable mention made of it in The Golden Age publication, and we are glad to say that we feel that our confidence was not misplaced.
We had confidence in the machine to start with and now we have more. We heartily recommend the machine on every proper occasion and you are at liberty to use anything said in this letter in any way you see fit.
South Carolina, Sept. 17, 1925. W. C. Bolen.
After having used the Biola for five weeks, will say that it has helped me wonderfully. When I began taking treatments I could hardly bear to lie on my back to take a treatment. Now my back bothers me but very little.
My children are using the Biola also, and it has helped them, too. My oldest daughter was very much under weight and had no appetite. Now she has such an appetite that she can hardly get enough to eat and she says the Biola is responsible for it. She says that she is much better.
We are pleased with the Biola.
New Mexico, Sept. 13, 1925. Mrs. John W. Buckner.
The Biola has now been used thirty days and the results are most satisfactory. My mother was suffering from neuritis; but after treatments the pain decreased, and in three weeks she looked well. She is continuing tire treatments to prevent a recurrence of the pain. As she is sixty-six years of age and at first was very ill, we think that this is most wonderful
I also took the treatment, being in a very run-down state. One week made a great improvement; and in three weeks people said: “How well you look!” instead of the reverse. It is a wonderful invention, befitting this wonderful age.
British Columbia, July 17, 1925. M. L. Mitchell.
In regard to our treatment, I can only add to my last letter that we have not had any sickness in our family since we began treatment, several months agb. I can only give the Biola credit, because some of us were feeling bad all of the time. My wife has gained at least twenty-five pounds. She really needed to gain somewhat. I weighed 259 and was gaining every day; but I have not gained any more, and I can get around a good deal better with more pep. We have seven in family, children look well and also feel well.
North Carolina, Sept. 15, 1925. J. O. Newton.
I have now tried the Biola one month and have had very good results. My sickness is of long standing and will take some time yet to cure. I am fifty-four years of age; yet when I was nineteen, doctors said that I would die soon. My trouble is bronchial, and my lungs are affected. I really believe I am going to get better.
Ohio, June 30, 1925 Elis Gouts.
I have now used your Biola two months and I am very much improved in health. I can say the Biola does all that you claim.
Ohio, July 30, 1925 Elis Gouts.
I want to tell you how much my mother has improved from taking the Biola treatments. She had not been able to sleep well at night for about twenty years. After two months treatment she sleeps fine and feels better in every way.
Virginia, August 1, 1925. Mrs. M. L. Jobson.
The Biola which I purcha^d some time ago has, I believe, completely cured me of indigestion with which I was troubled a number of years.
Minnesota, Sept. 17, 1925. A. A. Buckingham.
I feel that I have been very much benefitted by using the Biola. When I began using it, my kidney seemed very weak (I have only one) and acted poorly. After using the Biola two weeks I felt a great deal, of improvement. I can sleep better, my kidney acts freely, and my food digests well. I have used the Biola six weeks and am going to continue because my trouble is of long standing. I certainly believe that it is good to put vitality into the body.
Before using the Biola I had terrible dreams and would scream in my sleep. Since using I have not had them, and also am relieved of bad headaches.
Virginia, Sept. 20, 1925. Mbs. F. E, Whitb.
Growing Bananas in Florida By w. e. Bolles
THERE is much food for thought in your recent article on “The Weather and Its Freaks”. May I bear further witness that world conditions are changing? Bananas were once considered a strictly tropical fruit; the plants were supposed to thrive only near the equator. But in semi-tropical or sub-tropical Florida, entirely outside the equatorial zone, we are setting out banana plantations by the hundreds of acres, and are making handsome profits from the big crops.
At the last convention of the Florida Banana Growers’ Association, of which I am secretary, there were more than 400 people talking nothing but bananas all day. My friend, Mr. T. J. Harris, who has had years of banana experience in the tropics, says the Cavendish variety of banana does better in Florida and bears larger bunches of fruit than he ever saw it produce anywhere in the tropical zone.
On my own plantation at Oldsmar, fifteen miles west of Tampa—which is about midway on the west coast, or Gulf of Mexico side, of Florida—I have twelve varieties of bananas, including the Cavendish, the red banana, the true tropical Martinique or Gros Michel {Musa sapientum) and others; and they are all doing so well that I am about to plant 200 acres more. I am not a member of the I. B. S. A., but I find in The Golden Age the kind of reading that gets me somewhere.
Commercial Banana Growing
THE growing of bananas is a commercial success in Florida. They are the easiest fruit to grow; for the beautiful plants can yield heavy, money-making crops in the first year or in the early part of the second year, giving results up to $400 to $1,000 or more per acre per year when properly handled as described in these pages. The plants are practically free from insects and diseases.
Many kinds of soil are suited to bananas. The best are truck soils, dark sandy loams, muck, low hammock, flatwoods, drained swamps and drained prairie lands, high hammock, etc. They must have enough drainage to protect them from being drowned by heavy rains or overflows. One woman wrote me that her plants came through after being flooded for about five weeks, but we do not recommend such treatment. They will stand more moisture than most fruit trees and do their best when they have plenty of it. Good locations for plantations are on the sides of lakes, ponds, swamps and creeks, setting the plants far enough back that they will not have to stand in soaking wet, soggy land. Unproductive land along a ditch and land too low for other crops can often be used to grow good crops of bananas.
The Best Varieties
rpiIE best varieties are Cavendish, Hart, Ladyfinger, Orinoco and Martinique, which bear large bunches of superior fruit. They are suited to the semi-tropical climate, are the hardiest of the good-fruiting varieties and well endure cool weather. Bananas have stood the tests of more than thirty years in Florida, Louisiana and Texas. The experimental stage was passed long ago. _
Banana growing is today a practical, profitable business proposition, and they are being planted commercially by money-making men and women. The acreage is increasing every year. Every family in Florida can have bananas in their yards and grow their own. A plant will bear in six to eighteen months from the time of setting, depending on the size of the plant and the method of handling it. The cities and towns in Florida consume much more than we have produced commercially. After we supply this home demand we will ship into other states where there is an enormous market waiting for us, because about 45,000,000 bunches of bananas are imported into the United States every year.
Florida-grown bananas sell by the bunch at wholesale at the same prices as the imported article, seven to eight cents a pound. Usually the retail price in Florida is 10 to 15 cents a pound. Bunches weigh up to 50 or 100 pounds or more. Fifty pounds at seven cents per pound means $3.50 per bunch. By setting 400 plants to the acre, which is customary (that means 400 bunches or more per acre when properly handled) and at $3.50 per bunch, it makes a total of $1,400 per acre per year, when the plants are well started.
The Cavendish banana plant is sometimes called the Canary Island and the Chinese, but the correct name is Cavendish. It bears large bunches, sometimes weighing up to 125 pounds, having 200 to 250 bananas. The plants grow six to ten feet high in different kinds of soil, and
therefore resist the winds better than the tallest varieties. It is one of the hardiest of the big fruiters and endures cool weather. The fruit is about the same size as the imported banana. The Improved Cavendish grows somewhat taller and bears big bunches. .
The Hart is another excellent variety to plant in the United States. It bears large bunches, is taller and more tropical-looking than the Cavendish, has a shell-pink color on the trunk and leafstems, and is very ornamental. It is healthy and stands cool weather. The fruits have an exceedingly fine flavor. Its scientific name is Champa, and this variety is highly esteemed in the tropics. It is sometimes called Ladyfinger. There is a special strain of Hart bananas in Florida which grow as large as imported bananas and have a much better flavor.
The Orinoco, sometimes called the horse banana, is an old favorite, grows tall and majestic, stands cool weather, has the largest fruits of any banana grown in Florida, with flavor equal to the imported; and the bunches are of good size. It is grown for fruit as far north as Southern Georgia and South Carolina, and for ornamental purposes in North Carolina.
The Martinique (sometimes called the Yellow Jamaica, the Honduras, the South American and the Gros Michel), is the variety of banana grown in such enormous quantities in the West Indies and in Central and South America, for export into the United States. It is the kind ordinarily seen in fruit shops and grocery stores. It is thicker-skinned than the other varieties, and is beyond doubt the best for shipping. It is grown in Florida successfully, and stands today as the world’s leading commercial variety. The plants grow tall and the bunches are large.
The Red Jamaica is sometimes seen on the fruit stands. It is a very ornamental variety, having trunks and mid-ribs of a rich red wine color. The bunches are medium, the fruits are of good size, and have a delightful flavor. They generally sell at five cents per fruit at retail. A few of these are grown in Florida.
The Giant Abyssinian banana (Mitsa ensete) is said to be the largest variety of banana. It does not bear good fruit, but grows to an astonishing size and height when well cared for, and is a magnificent tropical ornament which will attract favorable notice anywhere in competition with the finest and best palm trees. It is a rapid and healthy grower, as hardy as any fruiting variety of banana. It is well worth having specimens of this stately ornamental banana in your collection.
For commercial purposes, and also for the home garden, we recommend the following fruiting varieties: Cavendish, Hart, Ladyfinger, Martinique, Orinoco and Red Jamaica.
When well-grown and properly cared for, bananas grow large bunches which are called standard, or full bunches, when they have nine “hands” or clusters of bananas on one stem, and twelve to twenty-four “fingers” on each hand. Often they will have more or less than nine hands, but as they are usually sold by the pound, both at wholesale and retail, the bunches of other than nine hands are O. K. The better you feed and care for your bananas, the more likely you are to grow large, commercial-size bunches; and the more bunches you will harvest per acre.
Planting and Fertilization -
TN SETTING banana plants, if you will dig the holes large, the plants will start better, grow faster and bear fruit considerably sooner. The holes should be dug two feet six inches every way—width, length and depth. Keep the top soil separate from the sub-soil when throwing it out. Mix half manure and half top-soil in the bottom of the hole, filling it that way up to -within ten inches of the top. Set the bulb or plant upright, fill in with the bottom soil mixed -with more manure, then pour on slowly one or two pails of water, if the ground is dry and no rain in sight. Treat them right, and they’ll treat you right. You can plant bananas any month in the year.
After the ground has been prepared, the cost of plants, fertilizer and labor to plant one acre will run from around $250 to $600, according to the variety selected, some plants costing more than others; and also depending on how good a job is made of it. Many people start off with 100 of two varieties, to see which is better adapted to .their soil and district.
The distance apart always starts an argument, the same as when discussing the best way to plant other fruit trees. Experience favors just as many plants as possible per acre for intensive banana farming. The Cavendish can be set 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 feet apart in the rows, with the rows 8 or 10 feet apart, to give room to get down between the rows with plow, harrow, fertilizer and to take out the fruit. Harts can be planted 10 x 10, which is 435 per acre. By planting closely, your land yields more fruit per acre; the bananas will shade the ground, kill or retard the grass and weeds by their shade, and help keep the soil cool and moist. It takes no more fertilizer to feed plants close together than when far apart, and it is less work. Some growers plant Harts 8x8, which is 680 to the acre, or 8 x 10, which is 544 to the acre.
The best fertilizers include both fresh and rotted manures—stable, dairy, poultry, goat and sheep. Put on all you can get, the more the better for money-making results. Castor pomace, one ton to the acre per year, is fine to make them grow. Acid phosphate, one ton per acre, helps them to bear big bunches earlier. Hardwood ashes, one ton per acre per year, help to harden the trunks and the skins of the banana fruits and makes them ship better. It is the potash in the ashes which accomplishes this. Or use 5—7—5 mixed commercial vegetable fertilizer, made largely from organic sources, one ton per acre per year.
Experience proves that it pays well to spend about $100 per acre annually for fertilizers when you are growing a crop that will run up to $1,000 per acre or better under favorable conditions. If your land is muck-or low hammock or good flatwoods, you do not need so much ammonia or nitrogen; so you could cut down the castor pomace and the ammonia in the mixed fertilizers by about half. It is a good plan to divide the one ton mentioned into three applications, using one-third of a ton in February or March, another third in May or June, just before the rainy season opens, and the last third after the rainy season closes in September or October. You will not need all the above fertilizers. Study your land and buy what it requires.
Mulching and Pruning -
PUT on all the dry mulch you can get—dead grass, dead weeds, old sugar cane pomace, dry velvet bean and cow pea vines, etc., anything which -will decay and make more vegetable matter or humus in the soil, because humus is real plant food and saves fertilizer bills. Mulch also keeps the roots shady and cool in summer, and warmer in winter, promotes nitrification in the
soil, and helps keep the ground in a favorable mellow condition for healty growth and fruitage.
One stalk or trunk bears only one bunch; and after that bunch has been harvested, let the trunk stand a couple of weeks to permit the sap to be absorbed by the roots, then cut that stalk off about three inches above the surface of the ground, cut the stalk into small pieces and spread it around the plant as mulch. The roots throw up suckers, ’which grow and become fullsized plants, and each will bear one bunch of fruit in its turn. The original plant bulb goes on putting up bearing stalks indefinitely. So there is no need to replant them. The varieties do not “mix” when planted near- each other.
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