Golden Age, December 16, 1925
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Contents of the Golden Age
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Labor and Economics ~
The World and Its News ............... 163
Piano Wires Do the Work of Six Girls ...... . , .-. . 103
Strikers Bare their Breasts ..............167
Net Earnings of Soft Coal Miners ............ 180
The San Francisco Idea Sphkadino .
Social and BasccATioxAt
Radio Reports
Wisdom of Cooperative Burns®
Radio Pbogbams ..... .... 190
FlNANCB—COMMBROS—TRANSPORTATION
Long Distance Locomotive Itumitag ....... . . ■ 165
Great Transportation Changes Cowing . ........... 16$
Development of Vancouver . . . ... . . . . . . . . . .. . 107/
Freight Subways for London
Money in the Glove Business ..........
Tub UfetDES'-Rule ik she Clothiils Business . . . . . . . 183'
Oh ths Road, to Ruin . . - -
Political—Dombstio asd Fgbeisn '
United States Air Mail Service ...
Muscle Shoals in Operation ............. . 1(56
No More Conscientious Objectors ...... . .... 108
Miscellaneous Items Concerning Britain ....
Fbom Oub Canadian Coi^spondent .
The Prerogatives of the Wholb s.’aoptE .
Odd Statue of Liberty ........... ... 188
Oil and the Germs of Wab .......... .... is#
Travel and Mxscbix-ant
Types of Brazilian Abmadujjos « ....... ....
RbUGION AND PHn.030,?,SX
Spiritism in the Pulpit ........... . . .
Greek Church May Unite with Rome .
The Visions of Marx Martha Cmambon
Man's Duty /To The Gob ................ 188
Studies in “The Hasp of God” .............. .191
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Volume VII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, December 16, 1925 Number 163
' The World and Its News
[Radiocast, with othei items, from Watchtower WBBR on a wave length of 272.6 meters by the Editor.]
An Investigation of Hospital Demanded
FEDERAL grand jury has demanded an investigation of conditions at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, D. C., where four
thousand insane patients are confined. The jury declares that this is at least a thousand more than the hospital can properly accommodate and it raises seriously the question if there are not some among the number who are not and never were insane, but were put away by those who wanted to get rid of them.
Government Opens New Air Routes
THE Postal Department has awarded contracts for new air mail service between Boston and New York, via Hartford; between Chicago and St. Louis via Springfield; between Chicago and Fort Worth via Dallas; between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles; and between Elko, Nevada, and Pasco, Washington. The new routes will operate in conjunction with the main well-established New York to San Francisco service.
Decoration of Business Offices
EW YORK has a new profession, the decoration of business offices. The office deco
day and terminated a four-day celebration by dancing with one of her daughters part of a waltz played on a phonograph. She says she feels fine. Very likely she may be another of the millions now living who will never die.
Robbing Orchards is No Joke
OBBING orchards has ceased to be a joke in the state of Pennsylvania. That state now
has a law which makes the person guilty of stealing fruit from an orchard, or in fact taking any other kind of farm property, subject to a fine of $500, with possible confinement in prison for three years.
California Condors Not Extinct
OR some time it was supposed that the great California condor, the largest bird in North
rator plans the arrangement of partitions, the size of the rooms, the selection and arrangement of the furniture, the color scheme, the decorations complete, with a view to business efficiency and the conveyance of the right impression to the minds of customers.
Staten Island’s Spry Centenarian
HE New York Times tells us that Mrs.
Francoise Levapresto of Grant City, Staten
Island, is 105 years old. She lives alone in a cottage, does all her own housework, and during the summer raises enough food to keep her all winter. She has just celebrated her 105th birth-
America, had become extinct. But the census of California’s wild animals, undertaken by the California Fish and Game Commission, shows that there are still some pairs of these great birds making their homes in the highest of the California mountains. The condor lays but one egg a year and therefore increases very slowly in numbers.
United States Air Mail Service
THE United States lags behind in airplane passenger service. In 1924 French airplane lines carried 16,729 passengers. British airplane lines 18,000 passengers, and German airplane lines 20,869 passengers; and th number is steadily growing. But the United States has the banner airplane mail service. During the last three years, day and night, winter and summer, in fair weather and in foul, the fliers have covered the route between New York and San Francisco, usually making the trip in thirty-three hours and with almost no loss of mail or aviators.
Karolyi, Saklatvala and Liberty
AT THE first of the year Count Karolyi, first president of the Hungarian republic, was permitted to land in the United States OTily when he promised to keep quiet. Now the state department has ruled that a member of the British Parliament cannot come in, ostensibly because he believes in communism. Liberty disappeared from America while Wilson was king. If Mr. Saklatvala does not break any laws, why should the state department worry over what he believes? If all the people who believe foolish things were excluded from the United States, the country would be emptied of its inhabitants, beginning with the state department. If the British can stand it to let Mr. Saklatvala talk in parliament, why be fearful here?
lour lets Fleck to Minnesota
IT WILL surprise some to learn that only two states in the union, Florida and California, are rated as having a larger tourist traffic and tourist business than is enjoyed by the state of Minnesota. The tourist season in Minnesota is limited to June, July, August and September ; but the increased population during those four months is 200,000.
A Happy Reunion in Chicago
JUST before the Turkish army destroyed the
Armenian village of Arpowood, during the World War, an Armenian woman slipped behind the plaster a piece of paper whereon was written the Chicago address of her husband, then in America. After many years she found her way back to Arpowood. Her home; had been destroyed, but the walls remained standing. She found the piece of paper, and with her two fine children is now happy with her husband in their Chicago home.
The Lord is The Only Hope
SUPPOSE the World Court plan is accepted by all the nations, including the United States. The control of the world would then be in the hands of those dozen men who are the judges. Whoever could control the judges could control the world. Are there any financiers in the world who would be interested in controlling the judges? Probably yes. The only judge that could be fully trusted in such a position is the one whom God has appointed to the job. God "hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained,” Jesus Christ the righteous.—Acts 17:31.
New Ycrk s Fire Boats
ACCOUNTS of fires in New York harbor are usually punctuated with statements to the effect that such and such a fire boat soon had the fire under control. These fire boats are wonders in their efficiency. The ten boats, when working on a single fire, can throw into it 640,000 pounds of harbor water per minute; and they can do this at two blocks distance from the water’s edge. The fire boats often assist the land firemen in extinguishing fires on shore.
The Whole World Being Educated
WE CAN 'hardly realize how rapidly the whole world is being . educated. Into every rook and corner of heathendom there are now going the motion-picture reels, the telephone, the telegraph and, most of ail, the radio. Reports have it that in the heart of Africa the natives enjoy chatting with one another over the telephone. They soon get used to it, and now they are taking to the radio quite as enthusiastically.
The Ma'olo’s Soda Fountain
UNIQUE in the history of navigation is the steamship Malolo, expected to be the queen of the Pacific, and intended to ply between San Francisco and Hawaii. In place of a bar the Malolo will have an elegant soda fountain. Plate glass an inch and a quarter thick will cover the twenty-eight-foot counter of teak, protecting its polished surface and at the same time bringing out the lustre of the wood.
One Million Ice-Cream Cows
THERE are one million cows in the Unite?
States that give nothing but ice-cream. Perhaps we should not put it just that way, but it certainly is interesting to know that one nidlicn cows are now required to produce the ice-cream consumed in this country. The New York Times tells us that the annual total consumed is 285,000,000 gallons, or enough for every individual in the country to have about two helpings per week the year around.
Long Distance Locomotive Running
HpHE New York Central has adopted a new policy of having one engine pull the Lake Shore Limited from New York to Chicago and return. The changes of locomotives which have heretofore been made at Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo and Elkhart will be done away with on the Limited; but the train crews will change at those points, the same as heretofore. The numbers of locomotives is being reduced on all lines.
Radio Cooks an Egg on Ice
A DISPATCH from New York states that at the radio world’s fair an egg was placed on a frying pan, which was then placed on a cake of ice. In a moment the pan became hot through the action of radio waves that penetrated the ice; and the egg was cooked. The trick was done by a wireless lamp, the inventor of which lit the bulb through a man’s head.
Dehydration of Vegetables
Dehydration of vegetables is almost entirely neglected in the United States, but in Germany there are 4340 dehydration plants, in France 750 and in England 430. Dehydration utilizes all the food grown on the soil, saves in cost of transportation, increases the keeping qualities, preserves uniformity of quality and is subject to no loss from crushing or spoiling. Plants are located where the food is grown, insuring dehydration while the material is in prime condition.
New York’s Expensive Rats
THE United States Health Service shows that from April 18, 1923, to February 28, 1925, the rat catchers of New York were paid by the taxpayers $ 340,000, for which amount they successfully captured 4,756 rats, of which 1,426 had fleas to the total number of 4,408. To catch a flea-bearing rat cost $ 238, and each ordinary rat $72. This is, to say the least, a high price for rats. But that is what the people want—high taxes, so that they can pay high rents.
Contents of a Ton of Straw '
OUT of every ton of straw, costing them
$ 8 to $ 10 per ton, the Manufacturers’ Chemical Company of St. Paul’s Park, Minn., gets 400 pounds of fireproof roofing material, 640 pounds of material for the making of elastic paint, 15 gallons of antiseptic oil, a quantity of acetic acid and 12,600 cubic feet of gas. Millions of tons of straw are burned annually, being regarded as -waste product.
Output of a Single Grain of Rye
ON THE Tile Company Stock Farm, New
Bethlehem, Pa., one grain of rye this year produced seventy-four stalks. The sheaf has been sent to the Pennsylvania State College at Bellefonte. It is said that another single grain on the same farm grew seventy-eight stalks. The average rye plant usually has four or five heads.
Piano Wires Do Work of Six Girls
THE work of canning peaches has been relieved of a tedious hand operation by a new California invention. Two fine piano wires enter the peach simultaneously. When they encounter the pit, they spread on each side, stripping the fruit of the meat, and allowing the stone to drop below. Every machine installed puts five girls out of work.
Getting Rid of Pocket Gophers
AS HIGH as forty percent of the track repair work in some sections of the West is caused by pocket gophers making their homes in railroad embankments. In the spring they migrate into the fields, where they live, and thrive, raise families and do great damage. The Department of Agriculture is now showing the railroad companies how to poison these critters and thus make it advantageous all around. A diet of poisoned clover does the trick.
Non-Stop Nonsensical Bible Races
EVERY once in a while we hear of another non-stop Bible race, in which some church organization undertakes to read the Bible through, reading day and night, with relays of readers, until the book is finished. This is nonsense, not Bible study. The Bible is ths greatest book in the world and needs to be stud* led critically, carefully, comparing one text with another, noting even the differences in translations and the readings of the oldest manuscripts. It needs to be studied prayerfully, humbly and with Bible helps such as are now available to all truth-seekers. At the last Bible Marathon, held in Boston, twenty-four persons finished the reading in fifty-four and one-half hours; but it is doubtful if any of the readers learned anything of value by such a method of racing headlong through the Book of Books.
America's Greatest Cities
NEW YORK CITY has approximately seven millions of inhabitants; Chicago three millions; Philadelphia two millions; Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Baltimore, Los Angeles and Boston have approximately a million each. The cities of the half-million class are Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Washington, Newark, Minneapolis, New Orleans.and Cincinnati.
Automobiles Destroy a City Per Year
A CITY of twenty thousand persons is no mean municipality. There are not a great many cities of larger population in any one state. All of them are important. Yet in the year 1924 there were slain by automobiles in the United States twenty thousand persons, fourteen thousand of them adults, six thousand under fifteen years of age. This means fifty-five automobile deaths per day, the year around.
Eight Months to Make a Pencil
A WRITER in the New York Sun explains why it*takes eight months to make a lead pencil. It takes four months to season the combination of clay and graphite so that it will be of the proper hardness, and four months more to glue together and finish the cedar cases in Which the ready-prepared writing substance finds its resting place. It is said that the supply of cedar wood for lead pencils is rapidly becoming exhausted. A billion are made each year.
Muscle Shoals in Operation
THE Muscle Shoals power plant about which there has been so much controversy in and out of Congress is now in partial operation. The eonstrnetion of this dam has raised the waters ©f the Tennessee river so that they are now navigable all the way to Knoxville, 6'0 miles from its month. The Muscle Shoals project has cost the government $51,000,000.
Great Transportation Changes Coming ■ TN VIRGINIA two electric engines outpulled •*- three of the largest steam locomotives made. In Canada a new Diesel combination oil and electric engine and passenger car made sixty-five miles an hour between Montreal and Ottawa with'ease. In New York a transportation engineer says'that the day dawns when privately built motor roads will be used to transport allfreight.
Liberia Mag be Developed
TNDICATIONS are that Liberia, the little
.country on the West African Coast which, was founded by American Negroes, is in for ft big development. Unless plans miscarry,"the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, expects to invest $100,000,000 in Liberia. They plan to have a million acres in rubber trees and ultimately to employ a third of a million natives in tending the trees. At present the rubber production of the world is in the hands of the British and the Dutch.
The Duck Farms of Long Island '
LONG ISLAND has become one of the duck raising centers of the world. One of these duck ranches has 100 houses, each 300 feet long, in which the ducks, even at night, are bathed in the steady glow’ of electric lights. The ducks hatch in four weeks and are ready for market eleven w’eeks later, after they have reached five pounds weight. During the season 700 barrels of ducks are marketed daily. Last year 1500. barrels went to England.
New Radium Deposits in the Congo
AT PRESENT the radium supply of the world
is about eight ounces, valued at about two million dollars an ounce; and, frankly, there is not enough to go around. It is of great use in the treatment of certain forms of cancer, is used for illuminated signs, and has transformed the world of science. It is good news that a new source of the metal is the Congo region, where considerable deposits of radioactive ore have been brought to light.
85,000 Murders in Ten Years
THE Reverend Harry E. Woolever, D.D., editor of the National Methodist Press, of Washington D. C., in an address before the Central New York Conference of the Methodist Epicopal Church at Auburn, New York, called attention to the fact that in the last ten years there have been eighty-five thousand murders committed in the United States. He wonders why this is so. One reason is that some men probably conclude that if it is a brave and praiseworthy thing for a thousand men to kill another thousand men in war, it is equally brave and praiseworthy for one man to kill one man when he has reasons for wishing to do so.
Canada’s Far Northern Radio Station
WITH commendable enterprise Canada has installed a broadcasting station at the mouth of the Mackenzie river, 125 miles beyond the arctic circle. It is believed that this station will play an important part in the development of mineral and oil deposits now known to exist in those far northern climes. It will be of benefit in radio experiments and in other ways also.
Strikers Bare their Breasts ,
THEBE is a dispatch from the Panama Republic which has an ominous tone to it. It seems that several thousand persons went on strike for lower rents. The dispatch states that when the officers charged the mobs with fixed bayonets, some of the crowd stood firm, bared their chests and urged the officers to shoot. Situations like this usually terminate in bloodshed and sometimes in war. If rents are too high they should come down. If not, the facts should be presented to the people.
Toronto’s Street Car Lines
FOR four years Toronto has owned and operated her own street-car system, comprising 222 miles of track and serving an area of thirty-five square miles. On an average fare of 6.15 cents the three citizens who have managed the lines have succeeded in entirely rebuilding the lines and putting in a complete equipment of the finest, most up to date cars on the continent. The plan of the city is to provide service at cost, and to give the best of Service.
The Development of Vancouver
VANCOUVER, the outlet for British Columbia and the wheat-growing provinces of Canada, is developing rapidly into a port of great importance. It now has forty-two regular steamship lines, engaged in carrying grain, lumber and other forest products to all parts of the world. Most of this goes via Panama. The port of Vancouver is always ice free.
Pictures of the Infant Jesus
STORIES are in circulation in New York of a church in this vicinity "where on Sundays the streets are crowded with poor Italians waiting in queues for blocks, for the privilege of paying fifty cents a head to see a supposedly miraculous picture of the glorified infant Jesus on one of the interior walls of a church. When Jesus was crucified he was a man thirty-three years old, not a baby; and he is not a baby now. Whoever fixed up the picture made a mistake.
Nature’s Sipns of a Hard Winter
IN THE Canadian Rockies, as early as the middle of August, the man-hating cinnamon bear, the elk and the antelope came down out of the mountain heights, begging for food in the towns and villages. At that early date also the gophers and ground squirrels were burying their winter rations, all of which, the trappers say, insure an exceptionally severe winter.
Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us
IN AN address Dr. Alfredo L. Palacios, dean of the faculty of juridical and social sciences of th University of La Plata, Argentina, sounds the following warning to South America regarding American big business:
The United States is carrying on a task of absorption ; it has a rudimentary spiritual life allied to an enoiTnev:. physical might that is disconcerting; it cannot he for us a model of democracy. The United States will not come toward us with cruisers nor armies; it will come with its financial politics, which limits 'national sovereignty or compromises independence.
Oil Fields in Northern Alaska
THE United States Geological Survey, which has been exploring the Arctic slope of Alaska, reports that there is oil in large quantities in that far northern clime. Every such discovery that the North was once the home of great forests furnishes additional proof that the Bible story of the Flood is true. Those forests grew and fell while the earth was yet enveloped in a hothouse mist of fairly even temperature in all parts of the world, and before there was yet in the earth such a thing as rain.
Poor Outlook for the King Business
THE present outlook for the king business is poor. The king’s of Britain, Italy and Spain are such in name only. The real power is in the hands of others. There are still kings in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Serbia, Rumania and Bulgaria, and a queen in the Netherlands; but the great bulk of Europe is from now henceforth free from this ancient fraud.
jVb More Conscientious Objectors .
THE International Peace Congress, at its -1 1925 meeting in Paris, decided by a vote of 194 to 144 against the recognition by governments of conscientious objectors in time of war. All signs indicate that in the next war there will be no recognition of conscientious objectors, and that before its close every true Christian in the earth will be slain.
Europe’s Forty Conferences
SINCE the war, beginning with Versailles, there have been altogether about forty conferences by the men who dragged the peoples of earth into the World War, to see what could be done about getting them out. These conferences, to mention a few places, have taken place in Paris, London, Chequers. Geneva, San Remo, Hythe, Boulogne, Brussels, Spa, Aix les Baines, Wiesbaden, Cannes, Genoa, Rapallo, Washington and Lausanne, with more to follow.
British Fears of a Revolution
THERE is a great deal of fear in Britain that a real revolution is impending; and that it may not be, and probably will not be, a bloodless one. The mine owners were to have cut the wages of the miners, so that British coal might regain its lost markets in Italy and South America. The railwaymen gave orders that on a given Friday they would cease moving coal. To avoid the immediate dangers the Prime Minister arranged for the payment oj $ 50,000,000 in subventions to the miners, to keep the mines going to the first of next May. In the meantime the whole mining situation is being studied. Extremists on both sides predict war next May; and the outcome in that event will hinge upon the question whether the British army, made up of the common people, can be depended upon to fire upon their fellow men. Exactly this very situation was foreseen thirty years ago by Pastor Russell and is discussed in “The Battle of Armageddon”, which is the Fourth Volume of the Studies in the Scriptubes. Whether they like it or whether they do not, society will be bound in time to acknowledge that Charles T. Russell wag a man of God, and was guided by God in Ms studies of the Divine Word.
Lloyd George’s PUt.n of Relief
TL/Tr. Lloyd Gkorsr’s plan for a werkkes En-IVX gland is to put more workers back on the land. He claims that proportionately, compared with Denmark, Britain should have 750.000 more land workers; compared with Germany it shonld have 1.000.000 more; compared with Holland 1.750..000 more and compared with Belgium 2.000,000 more. In 1840 the British Isles grew food for 24,000,000 people as against a present /food production for only 15.000,000 people.
Britain’s Taxes on Liquors
TJRITAIN'S need of money has brought about the largest taxation of the liquor business ever known. Last year the largest English brewing company made net profits of .541.000,000. and paid $30,000,000 of that amount into the state treasury in taxes. The tax of whisky ires been raised from $2.75 to $18 a gallon, hi the last sixteen years the consumption of whisky in the British Isles has fallen from 32,000,000 to 13,« 000,000 gallons per year.
Baldwin lells the Communists Something
Premier Baldwin, in a speech before the
British Parliament, has reminded the Communists that no minority in a free country has ever yet coerced the whole community, that the community will always protect itself, and that if the time comes when the community has to protect itself with the full force of the government behind it, the community will do so, and the response of the community will astonish the forces of anarchy throughout the world.
Britishers Fear a World Race War
WO prominent Britishers at a church conference in England, one an ex-governor of
Bombay and Madras, India, and the other a missionary secretary, a keen student of Asiatic affairs, are reported by the New York World as prophesying a world-wide race war unless the whites abandon their assumed superiority over the black, brown and yellow races, and treat them «11 on terms of equality. These gentlemen assert that the World War has impressed the colored races with the inferiority of the white mates aJviilsaiion.
The Gs^r&ifSK's View of Wilson's Of8*?
. *■ ’ n:/’ > o Lord Grey’s revelation of
WiIsonY offer to put the United States into the w r&rly in 191G, in the event that Ger> ’ . in offers of peace which
be wanted Britain and France to make, the Mantes ester Qaardi^i sasys that “if war were not wb.et it Upm might well think that all the . . . ,. u who let President Wil
sons attempt me to nothing ought to be .guiUotiaed. Such an episode seems an outrage on reason, a slur on human decency. But it is simply a. characteristic incident of war.”
£b Something and Be Something
flj. BRITISH ex-service man was out of work, xx. [je COuld not get work, but he could sing; so instead of having his hand out for a dole he sang on the streets of London for his daily ■bread. He had a fine tenor voice and sang well. The director of a great opera chanced to hear ■him and is now training the street singer for a place on the stage. Do with your might 'what your hands find to do, is the reasonable and efficient advice of the Scriptures.
Lady Cynthia Mosley on Socialism
Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of Lord
Curzon, one of the most prominent and powerful of British statesmen, in announcing her candidacy for Parliament on the Labor ticket is alleged by the New York Times to have made the statement that she realized long ago that capitalism is doomed and for that reason she has been learning to earn her own living, and has been doing it loo, by office work and also such honest-to-goodness farm work as milking cows, planting turnips, and making butter and cheese.
Spiritism in the Pulp*. „
HE London Daily News tells of the Rev,
C. L. Tweedale, of Weston, England, who, when he preaches, often has the apparition of a Roman Catholic priest in full canonical robes standing by him. Rev. Tweedale is always seeing visions of the dead, including dead dogs and eats which growl or snarl, balls of fire, flying objects and other manifestations of life in an unseen world. Our explanation is that all these manifestations are the work of demons.
Freight Subways for London
EEARTH’S great cities must all come to putting
* their freight distribution underground. It is inconceivable that death-dealing trucks could continue to roar through the streets in ever increasing power and volume. London is now seriously considering the problem of building a freight subway, far below the passenger tubes, which will cost $160,000,000. The proposed line will have twenty stations at first and be in full operation in five years.
Motor Craze Hits Britain
THE motor craze which has so effectively filled the streets of American cities with carbon monoxide fumes and klaxon squawks has now hit Britain in good shape. Britain already has six hundred thousand cars and it is estimated will take on another hundred thousand in the coming year. The speeds of British cars ar© high and their colors bright.
Turkey Waking Rapidly
ALL dispatches from Turkey indicate determination to adopt western civilization as quickly as possible. Police must shave off their beards, cut their long hair and wear police uniforms, and will receive regular wages. Doctors are to be sent out into the country districts to teach sanitation and remove superstitions. Ail the dervish monasteries have been closed, and the twenty thousand monks turned out to work like the rest of us. Th® dervishes were spirit mediums.
The Autogyro Spanish Airplane
FpHE first tests of a Spanish invention, the •*- autogyro, are very encouraging. This machine, at a test near London, rose almost vertically for a thousand feet; and its British pilot brought it down as lightly as a feather, at a forward speed, when it touched the ground, of only twenty miles an hour. With the the engine dead the machine falls as slowly as a parachute.
The Petroleum Industry in Peru
T)ERU has one oil company which in one genera! location has sunk more than eighteen hundred wells. This oil company has four thousand men on its payroll and produces over four million barrels of oil annually. Talara, the center of the industry, has a population of 15,000 souls, and is in every sense of the word a modern up-to-date city.
The Locarno Security Pact
IT IS confidently claimed that the Locarno security pact insures European peace for all time. All the principal European powers have pledged themselves not to make war on each other, to bring all their disputes before the Hague tribunal and for final decision before the League of Nations. In forty previous conferences Europe has said, Peace, peace. Now they say, Peace and safety. And the Bible says that when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction eometh upon them. When it will come and how we do not know, but we have confidence that the Bible prediction will be fulfilled.—1 Thessalonians 5:3.
Got the Minister of Education Guessing
FRENCH teacher propounded a problem to his class in school which is distressing the Minister of Education of that country. The problem was, in effect, “A company in the infantry consists of 225 men. If the food and maintenance of each man costs ten francs a day, what is the sum wasted by war in a month of thirty days, and how many children could be clothed for this sum if a suit of clothes for a child costs forty-five francs?” The Minister is worrying for fear the teacher will set the children to thinking. It is considered all right to teach people, provided the teaching is done in such a way that they cannot or dare not think.
Raising Cotton in Africa
T N THE six years from 1918 to 1924 Britain increased its cotton production in Africa from 14,016,000 pounds to 79,200,000 pounds. British Africa and India together now produce about one-third of the world’s cotton supply.
A Million Dollars Worth of Dogs
AT THE London dog show of the Kennel
Club, held in Alexandria Palace, during the week beginning September 30th, there were exhibited three thousand dogs, said to be worth a round million dollars. Some of these dogs are accustomed to satin pillows, phonograph music, beefsteak, silver-backed hair brushes, sterilized water and police guards, so the New York (Times tells us. The largest dog at the show is a St. Bernard weighing 198 pounds.
The Dennistoun Rector’s Complicated Job
BESIDES the preaching of the gospel and those things generally associated with it, the rector of the Dennistoun, Scotland, church, is supposed to supervise the following activities: Brigade Bible Class, Young Woman’s Guild, Savings Bank, Junior Choir, Boy Reserves, Brownies, Girl Guides, Women’s Guild, Band of Hope, Signalling Class, Senior Choir, Boys’ Brigade, Lads’ Social Club, Football Club, Golf Club and Rambling Club. Under the circumstances nobody should be surprised that the preaching is pretty poor.
Money in the Glove Business
SOMEBODY should make some money in the glove business in Rome if trade keeps up. Reports have it that hereafter the pope will wear gloves when his hands are kissed, and that 100,000 kissed his hands in July and August. To keep the microbes from multiplying too fast this should mean a glove trade of about five hundred pairs a month. Wonder who gets it?
Latvia Will Pay in Full
ATVIA has offered to pay in full her debt of something over five million dollars, with accrued interest at four and one-half percent. The conditions in Latvia are said to be very good. The ports are convenient for entry of goods into Russia. The country has made considerable progress in reconstruction work.
Elephants Multiplying in Africa
A DISPATCH from Johannesburg states that elephants have so multiplied in Central Africa as to become a pest and a menace. They have been tearing up and destroying gardens and have trampled several people to death. Even armed men have had to flee before them. Thirty-four troops of elephants were seen in a trip of only three hundred miles.
Russia Baek t& Vadka
A FTER eleven years of prohibition the Rus-
-A sian government has gone back to the open sale of vodka and whisky. The reason for this is said to lie in its need of revenue and its inability to keep liquors from coming over the various borders. Private individuals may now make and sell the stuff, as well as the government, which has hitherto had a monopoly,
Hard Times in Ireland
J" ARD times persist in the Irish Free State. A--5- It is estimated that seventy percent 01 the patients of the Mullingar Mental Hospital are there because of undernourishment. Bread without butter is about all the food available in some districts'and at times even that cannot be had.
Stockholm System of Liquor Control
THE Stockholm system of liquor control gives to a private monopoly the entire liquor trade. Any profit above five percent goes to the government. Liquors when, consumed privately can be obtained only on presentation of a card showing that the holder of the card is above the age limit, lias paid his taxes and has never been in trouble with the authorities. The opera-ation of the law has caused a decrease of .forty-two percent in the amount of liquor consumed.
Ai Lighter and Cheaper Steel
THE New York Herald Tribune has a dispatch from Germany announcing a new form of steel which is forty percent lighter and thirty percent cheaper than that now in general use for construction purposes. Important inventions are following one another rapidly in Germany nowadays. Necessity is the driving force behind these inventions. The German birth-rate is only about three-fourths what it was before the war. '
Mussolini Destroys One More Liberty
Mussolini has now made arrangements to abolish all local elections in towns of 5,000 inhabitants or less and will govern them by officers appointed by himself. The reason for this move is that the remaining liberty lovers in Italy were mostly in these smaller communities, and Mussolini is making sure that there shall be none to stay'his hand. At recent riots in Florence, where the Faseisti were guilty of murder, arson and burglary, the chief of police gave orders that they were not to be molested in their work. Mussolini has since removed this chief from office.
A German Invents a Plane that Sails
A GERMAN has invented a new plane that has a telescoping mast and sail. It is all metal, and proved its value in its first flight.of six hundred miles across the North Sea from Copenhagen to Felixstowe, England. It is described as a giant seaplane with a single wing, and equipped with twin engines.
Putting the Kremlin to Work
rpiIE Kremlin, of Moscow, center and symbol J- of all Russia under the czar, the palace where the czars were crowned, and where they had their golden throne, is now used as the seat of parliament by the Soviet government. Instead of gilt braid and brass buttons and education of a certain sort there are now farmers and others with long whiskers, wearing homespun blouses and: high boots, and women senators clad in common house dresses, with red bandanas on their heads. Give them time and the new rulers will do as well as the old. It takes more than braid and buttons to make statesmen. By all accounts the czars old regime was about the limit for injustice, incompetency and dishonesty. ■ o . ? g :
Greek Church May Untie with Home
IN A dispatch to the New York Times, Walter Duranty, for many years the special Russian correspondent of the Tinies, says that "at the present moment the confusion in the Russian church is such that for the first time in a thousand years there is a reasonable possibility of the reunion of the Eastern [Greek] and Western [Roman Catholic] branches of the Christian Church”.
From Our Canadian Correspondent
A CCORDING to the Bishop of Chelmsford, the world is clattering back to barbarism.”
So says the Vancouver Saturday Tribune, and continues its editorial comment:
; True, the world has experienced a terrible jolt that
, threw civilization off the rails. All the deviltries of the world were let loose ten years ago, and it is not easy
; to chain them up again. The world is outwardly ir-: religious because it has lived through a furnace of I savageries which was the negation of religion. It saw ' the churches in all lands silenced when the real test of ' whether they stood for spiritual things or temporal things came. They capitulated to the God of War just like any other human institution, and they are shattered today by that surrender.
‘ If the churches have lost the people, it is not because Christianity has failed, but because the churches failed in a great emergency to embody the teachings of Christianity. It is because they have attached to Christianity doctrines which the minds of men refuse to accept, and have neglected to rest upon that plain human gospel which Christ delivered and the world still needs.
Let the bishop take courage. All is not lost. And the truth about today is not all told in the newspapers.
. But, one naturally rises to ask, if the cure is as simple as that, why is it not being applied! Possibly because the “plain human gospel which Christ delivered” has been completely lost sight of, and in any case it does not fit in with present business arrangements.
Making War Ladylike
THE Toronto Daily Star is pessimistic about peace talk, also somewhat cynical. Under the heading “Making War Ladylike” it editorially says:
An extraordinary number of persons who would pass an ordinary test of intelligence scoff at the idea of outlawing war, but clamor for the outlawing of the use of poisonous gases and other methods of warfare which they regard as unladylike.
Surely, it is clear that in a life-and-death struggle nations will stop at nothing. War cannot be made safe or decent or humane. The business of a nation at war is to destroy the man-power of the enemy. And modern science has provided ingenious weapons which show no mercy for women or children, but which, in their very nature, carry carnage to all classes and ages of both sexes.
World society is again placing the ban on the use of poisonous gases and of bacteria as weapons of offense. But the gun that fires blindly to a distance of seventy miles may still destroy non-combatants. Unseen aircraft may still drop tons of explosives on sleeping cities. Warships may still cut off the food supplies of a nation. High explosive shells weighing a ton may still blow orphans’ homes to pieces. Mines dug below unsuspecting troops may still hurl hundreds into eternity. Machine guns firing hundreds of bullets per minute may still shoot humans down like vermin. War glorifies the work of extermination. And the side getting the worst of it will pay no attention to the rules previously drawn up.
War is too costly in life, property and happiness to be retained when international disputes can be adjudicated .just as fairly as those between individuals. The banishment of war as between civilized nations has entered the stage of practical politics. The impractical persona are those who would retain war in the hope that they may make it decent.
With, the recent practical and appallingly plain arguments against war (and four years of unbridled savagery surely is such an argument), it seems incredible that there should be any disinterested people who will applaud war in any form.
Cities as War Targets
idney Potter, a former aviator, writes in The New Leader (London, England), as reported through the London (Ontario) Echo, on “Cities as War Targets in Future”. He quotes from a speech of Air Chief Marshal Trenchard, of the British Air Force:
Although it is necessary to have some defense in order to maintain the morale of our people, it is far more necessary to lower the morale of the enemy’s people, for nothing else can end war.
The process of “lowering the enemy’s morale” is accurately dealt with:
We can now drop a greater weight of bombs in one day than was dropped during the whole of the recent war. Five hundred machines could drop more than three thousand tons of dichloroethyl sulphide on London, in a week, one drop of which will disable and a few drops burn to death. This substance is a liquid, which not only burns but evaporates into a gas which poisons on being inhaled. An area contaminated with it remains untenable for weeks.
Lewisite, an arsenic preparation, penetrates gas masks and causes excruciating pain, mental distress, madness and attempts at suicide.
Phosphorus bombs, unquenchable with water, will be dropped on large sections of a city . . . and throughout the night the long orgy of horror will continue until the first faint streaks of dawn break upon a city, great tracts of which will be smouldering poisoned ruins while the streets are choked with the dying and the dead.
This should have thoroughly subdued and demoralized any ordinary population; the ends (whatever they are) of war will have been served, and the world made safer (?) for demc^racy!
Canada’s Liquor Question
LIQUOR and the liquor question continue to hold a share of the spotlight in Canada. Ontario has endeavored to please a section of its population with 4.4 alcoholic strength beer, much to the disgust of all prohibitionists and connoisseurs of good beer. As is usual with a compromise, no one is pleased. Quebec continues with its government dispensary system and continues to show healthy balance sheets as far as cash is concerned, and unhealthy ones on the moral situation in the province.
British Columbia has a government dispensary system and a license system “grafted” on to it with a result, as reported in the Northern Messenger, that “bootlegging was never so prevalent as it has been lately”.
On January 2nd, 1925, the Vancouver Province tells of one of the periodic Vancouver drives:
Armed with ninety warrants, squads of the Provincial Liquor Board Police cooperating with the City Dry Squad, cost the city $27,271, but Attorney-General Manson, claiming that the law was not being adequately enforced, had the provincial police also working in the city and in December deducted $22,219 from Vancouver’s share of the liquor .profits.
In Prince George and Cranbrook the so-called profits were completely wiped out and in many other places materially reduced. Besides the amounts charged the municipalities the reports of the Liquor Control Board show that the cost of enforcing the Act is steadily increasing.
However, the Vancouver Province unctuously reviews the situation and indulges in some platitudes:
The force that will finish liquor is the. force that finished the dodo, the mastodon and the dinosaurus. These things flourished in a crude, half-made world. When the world improved, they could not keep up. They disappeared because they had lost their usefulness.
Men use alcohol today as an expedient. It creates for •them a world of illusion wherein all imperfections become perfections and all failures become glorious successes.
As man’s power for success increases, as his personal liberty becomes greater, and as he gradually grows into a more efficient being, his need for liquor wiU die away. The illusions of happiness and prosperity that alcohol brings him will become realities. His craving to fool himself will lessen.
Liquor drinking has been on the decline for cen« furies. For every dyed-in-the-wool drunk there is to day, there were fifty from six to ten generations aga It is no longer necessary for a gentleman to fall under the table every night. Sobriety has become the rule rather than the exception.
Prohibition is one of the things that evolution is ate tending to. And in spite of laws and armed policemen, alcohol will disappear, but not one moment before man becomes good enough and sensible enough and efficient enough to do without it.
Like many more newspaper comments ©n events, you pay your money and take your choice.
Taxes in Canada and U.S.A. '
THE Edmonton Journal reprints from the
Financial Post a statement covering United States and Canadian taxes, with everything in favor of the U. S. A. We read:
A man with $160,000.00 income pays in Canada taxes amounting to $32,000.00 whilst in the United States he pays about $22,000.00. This is a $10,000.00 argument against staying in Canada, or at least against investing here. Florida today is making a bid for Canadian dollars by eliminatory death duties, and gets them.
The man who earns $10,000.00 a year in Canada pays over $000.00 income tax; whereas in the United States he pays, under the new rate forecast by President Coolidge, less than $200.00.
Already the difference in the scale of taxation in Canada and the United States is so great as to be a definite factor in influencing unfavorably the flow of capital.
Looking Around for Saints
THE Toronto -Mail and Empire comments on the proposed saints for the Church of England :
While the Church of Some is scanning the record of a number of Englishmen and Englishwomen to determine whether they are proper subjects for canonization, the Church of England is also discussing a proposal to create a few saints. The matter is now in the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the list approved by him will have to be approved also by the House of Commons before it can become the law of the church and the law of the land.
Some of those who have been suggested as proper saints are Charles I, Henry VI, Archbishops Laud, Parker and Cranmer, and Florence Nightingale.
Henry VI did apply funds for Eton and King’s College, Cambridge, but he also involved his realm in a civil war. Perhaps one of his claims lies in the fact that lie was murdered.
Charles was also interested in education, but to admit him now- as a saint would be to admit that the English rebellion was a mistake, and we doubt if the masses of churchmen would commit themselves thus far.
Florence Nightingale was a Christian if ever there was one. She was also an Episcopalian; but if she is a subject for sainthood, then Lytton Strachey has written in vain. Anybody he writes about becomes disqualified, with the exception of Cardinal Newman.
Mr. P. W. Wilson, of the New York Times Magazine suggests that in view of the close ties between the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States and the Church of England it might be a gracious act to include an American saint or two, and nominates George Washington, who was a staunch Anglican.
Some of the great ones of history are disqualified because they were not Anglicans. John Bunyan, who has g window in Westminister Abbey, was a Baptist. Wesley and Wycliff are among the great figures in the history of English religion, but they did not conform to the Anglican system of worship, though it has been argued that they were not dissenters.
No doubt, after the choir of saints is established, an amendment to the Prayer Book will be made so that they can be supplicated, adored and asked intercession of. The cleavage between Rome and the Anglican communion is rapidly being healed.
The Farther North the Better
ERE is a little free advertising. We insert this “want ad” free of all charges, hoping that the clergyman gets his heart’s desire and, by going far enough north, possibly the frost will stiffen his creed, which he admits is unstable, along the lines of truth.
Clergyman, undenominational, would like to hear of community who would be glad of his services. No rigid creed. Jesus and plain gospel. Preferable far north as possible. Box 1329, Star-Phcemix, (Saskatoon, Sask.)
Spiritism—Demonology
THE Rev. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, a well known minister celebrated in both England and Canada, has this to say about spiritism, as reported in the Toronto Daily Star:
“Don’t let anyone say to you there is nothing in spiritism. There is. It is demonology.” So declared Rev. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, speaking last night in West Presbyterian church on the responsibility of the church in respect to the Bible.
Taking as his text St. Paul’s words in his letter to Timothy in which he spoke of the church as “the pillar and ground of truth”, the preacher pointed out that Timothy was at that time at Ephesus, a city rolling ia wealth and the chief centre of necromancy, spiritism, or spiritualism as it is now called. Spiritualism and necromancy always accompany a materialistic age. It was so at the time of St. Paul and it is so today.
Wanted—Medical Common Sense
nr\HE Vancouver Saturday Tribune brings to light some further facts in the war against vaccination being waged in that city. The following report is worth consideration:
Medical science has run riot over vaccines and inoculations in the last few years. Simple laws of sanitation are being neglected. During the recent fake smallpox epidemic in Vancouver—an epidemic which was cured almost instantly by a ban on the American tourist trade—one doctor who favored pus injections told his audiences that sanitation had nothing to do with the preventing of smallpox. He could see nothing good but pus.
Such teaching is quite contrary to many high authorities, but the result of it is seen in an illustration at Langley Prairie, where three alleged cases of smallpox were recently reported, and a demand made that all the scholars be subjected to an injection of the pus of bovine syphilis.
One of the parents organized a committee of inspection, the committee including a trained sanitarian. This is what they found:
“In the boys’ lavatory the urinal was in a filthy condition, with the Hushing apparatus apparently out of order.
“Moisture surrounding three toilets, which showed signs of having had no swabbing for some time.
“On flushing toilets there was a very offensive smell of sewer gas from each, which would indicate that the septic tank is not in order.
“Returning some time afterwards it was found that there was no water in the tanks to flush toilets.
“With four windows for ventilation, all were closed except one.
“In the girls’ lavatory a quantity of rubbish in the doorway; a hole cut in brass plug in clean out trap allowing gas to escape, considerable moisture surrounding all toilets, showing signs of no recent swabbing.
“On flushing four toilets, two overflowed their contents over the floor. Two emitted sewer gas on being flushed.
“On returning later no water in tanks to flush toilets.
“Four windows for ventilation—ALL CLOSED.”
We do not like to poke fun. at medical science, especially in view of the decision in a lawsuit this week which exonerates a hospital and the medical staff in a case where a patient’s operation wound became maggot-infested and his death ensued. But surely medical science has outrun coromonsense when medical health officers permit all the windows of a school to be dosed, to have toilets plugged up, septic tank out of order, and emanations of sewer gas, and then think that these invitations to disease can be corrected by merely inoculating all the children with cowpox.
Perhaps if there were not such huge profits in vaccines and serums the public would not have them forced so upon them.
The medical hierarchy, so long as it can do its work and force its will on the people without adverse publicity, has a fair chance of success, ■Daylight, and complete reports of the other side of the question, will do much to force the vaccinationists into the open. It has yet to' be successfully demonstrated that a circulatory system filled vzitb cowpox pus is as. good a road to health as an alimentary system emptied of improper ■food®, '
. What D& Y&ur Children Read?
HE Times-Herald Newspapers, of Moose Jaw, Sask., has an editorial aimed at salacious and unmoral literature; “Profitable Filth,” it is termed. ‘ It reprints in part a Winnipeg Tribwiie editorial which takes a well-merited wallop, at the.feature of American publications ©f a type which, no wholesome-minded American will support
In 1912 the total raise of magazines coming into Canada was $81,000. In 1922 the value had increased to '$3,123,000. What represents this increase? Chiefly periodicals filled with stories of sexual perversity and erime, which ere attaining a most astonishing circulation in Canada. The Dominion is contributing-.very substantially to building tip a large industry,: and not in our own country but-in- the .United States.
The publication in the United States of a particularly offensive and particularly dangerous type of literature is becoming, as a matter of fact, an industry of tremendous proportions; growing by such leaps and bounds that it now rivals the moving picture business. One publisher alone, starting with a single magazine a few years ago, now publishes in the neighborhood of thirty, each one a little more unwholesome than the last, and all of them filled with cheap nastiness, the most offensive feature being a simulated morality eloaking their real satare.
Just because the United States permits and supports this profitable beastliness is no reason why Canada should. It is contrary to both the spirit and the letter of Canadian law that these publications should be permitted to come into the country and be sold here. Nevertheless they come, in the number of at least a million S month, and are read chiefly by the young of both sexes. “The most consistent reader of so-called ‘confessional’ magazines is the girl of high school age,” said a social service report issued in Toronto recently.
It would be difficult, indeed, for a mature mind, saturated in this form of literary garbage for a month, to retain a sane and wholesome outlook on life. Their effect on adolescent minds can he judged in that light. There can be no possible blame attached to a young girl who regularly devours these magazines if her mind, her every thought, is tinged with sex. The blame rests with the parents who permit such things to find a place in her life, and with the public and the public officials who permit them to be offered for sale in almost every newsstand. It is in this, as in so many other things of our times, a careless public—permitting unscrupulous men to pander for profit to the natural curiosity of youth.
But the public is not backward in criticizing the tendencies of youth. Over and over again the comment may be heard that the young people of today seem to have no moral standards. It might very well be said that they are not permitted to have, that on every hand they are besieged by influences that tend to undermine character; and these are the product, not of youth, but of an older generation seeking profits from the exploitation of youth.
The obscene magazine mill, pouring its filth into this country at tremendous profit, is only one example of these influences. It is outstanding, however, for tha reason that it illustrates the careless public attitude. Machinery exists that could bar every one of these magazines out of the country, and would, if an outraged public demanded it.
Many readers of The Golden Age magazine would do well to overhaul their own children’s literature supply and determine just why the light in the bedroom of the ’teen-age girl burns till all hours of the night, and what type of “movie” and “artist” literature she devours when not in the immediate spotlight of the family. The same censorship of the growing boy’s mind* food might do no harm. Good healthy tiredness acquired on the baseball lot or tennis court, is more desirable than enervated minds and relaxed morals, as a result of pernicious reading matter.
The Visions of Mary Martha Chambon
WE HAVE before us a 64-page book published. by the Academy of the Visitation.
It contains imprimatures of the Archibishop of Chambery, Cardinals Gasparri and Maffi, and the Archbishop of St. Louis. Cardinal Gasparri’s letter states that the pope was delighted with the book, and wished the story published as widely as possible. -
Francoise Chambon, as she was at first called, had visions when she was nine years of age. They were accompanied by the clairaudient ear. After two years in a convent she spent a term of eight months lying on the floor of her cell, wearing rough haircloth, night and day. A crown of thorns was added, not permitting the head to rest without severe pain. The eighth month expired in May, 1867. During this experience the book says:
In the “Silence of the night our Lord revealed Himself to His servant in the most wonderful manner. Doubtless. He sometimes left her to struggle painfully during long hours against fatigue and sleep, but more frequently He took possession of her immediately and she lapsed into an ecstatic condition. He confided to her His loving secrets, overwhelmed her with caresses and plunged her heart into His own.
The mother superior of the convent was made the custodian of the messages which came thereafter to Mlle. Chambon. They fill many pages, having for their object the cultivation of reverence for—not the death of Jesus, which pays man’s ransom, but—His wounds. One of the messages was:
“When My holy Wounds were made, vain men believed that these Wounds were at an end; but they will be eternal and they will be seen eternally by all My creatures.”
; The book indicates that Mlle. Chambon not ; only had visions of and conversations with : Jesus, but with God Himself, and with the Vir-i gin Mary. We quote from pages 39 and 40:
: One Sunday in Lent the sister’s suffering state not
: permitting her to assist at the sermon, her Beloved came to her and said: “I am going to give you an occupa-
• tion: offer your sufferings in union with My divine sufferings, for the souls in purgatory.”
The sister began to make this offering, and at each repetition she saw a soul ascend to heaven. She was at the twentieth, when the Eternal Father said to her: *fI give you My Son’s power, provided you offer your heart united to His.” She endeavored to do so and at each act of offering and union—according to her expression—she saw a flight of souls ascend to heaven “like a flight of birds.”
Souls delivered by her sometimes came to express their gratitude, saying: “May the feast that saved us—the feast of holy Wounds—never pass. Before coming to the enjoyment of God, we did not know the efficacy of this devotion. In offering the holy Wounds of our Lord to His Father a second Redemption is procured.”
Among these souls some are particularly near the heart of a religieuse—the souls of her own sisters. Sister Mary Martha prayed and suffered for them very specially, the Blessed Virgin expressed her satisfaction: “The souls of your sisters in purgatory are my daughters, I take great pleasure in hearing you pray for their deliverance. ... I suffer much to see them in this fire. . . . Nearly all of them go there. ... I am Queen and I wish those souls to reign with me. In spite of all our power, my Son and I cannot deliver them; they must expiate. But you can so easily relieve them and open heaven to them in offering the holy Wounds for their souls to God the Father.”
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