Golden Age, July 14, 1926
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Contents of the Golden Age
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Labor and Economics
Tidbits of Home News
Where the Credit Belongs
The New Feudalism
The Industrial Judas
Social and Educational
Ten Million Receiving Sets
Women Are Killing Off Ostriches
Long Distance Radio Reception . . ,
Radio Programs
Finance—Commerce—Transportation
Moffat Tunnel Nearly Done
Wall Street Investment Bankers
International Telephony
Aib-Pockets .......
. Political—Domestic and Foreign
Progress of the American Indians ...... ..... 644
Freedom of Thought in the Next War
Not the Best of Lessons
Agriculture and Husbandry
Both Ends of Iowa’s Corn Crop . ......... .
Soy Beans ...............
Science and Invention
Only Four Elements Unknown ......
Will Attack the Greenly Ice-Fields
Language of the First Man
Travel and Miscellany
Air Chamber in the Whale’s Head
COLPORTEURING IN THE ADIRONDACK FOOTHILLS
Religion and Philosophy
The Fallacy or Evolution ............. .
The Day of Pentecost
The Ascension of Our Loud ........
Comfort fob the Jews ...
Babylon Has Fallen
Studies in “The Harp of God”
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Volume VII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, July 14, 1926 Number 171
Tidbits of Home News
"Where the Credit Belongs
THE following worth-while quotation from an unknown source has been sent us by a subscriber :
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no human effort without error and shortcoming; but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who best knows at the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
The New Feudalism
Dr. Ryan, of the Catholic University at Washington, in an address before the Cleveland Forum made the following remarkable statement :
After more than three centuries, there approaches a return to feudalism. The new feudalism is political and industrial. Not improbably, it will be more or less benevolent. The lords of industry will realize, at least for a considerable term of years, that their position and profits will be more secure if they refrain from the cruder and coarser forms of injustice, and permit the dependent classes, both urban and rural, to obtain a moderate share of the products of industry. The masses will probably enjoy a slightly higher degree of economic welfare than has ever been within their reach before. But they will enjoy it at the expense of genuine freedom.. The mind of the masses will have become a slave mind.
Private Old Age Pension Systems
THE United States Review and Industrial World calls attention to the fact that one hundred of the largest industrial institutions in the country have adopted a system of promises of old-age pensions to employes, but that only something like two percent of them have set aside any funds with which to meet these claims when they fall due, while practically none hav® established their funds on a scientific actuarial basis.
How Surplus Coal Was Disposed Of
rfHE large supply of high-priced bituminous coal which was on hand in the vicinity of New York was disposed of by the very sensible arrangement of all the big users, including the railroads, who agreed to mix it with their anthracite until it was all used up. It took only about two months to work the surplus off by this method.
Moffat Tunnel Nearly Done
npiIE Moffat tunnel, which will reduce the rail--*■ road mileage between Denver and Salt Lake City from 600 to 427 miles, is nearing completion. The bore, which is 9200 feet above sea level, is six miles long, and trains through it will be operated electrically. It will open Northwestern Colorado to development, a section which some geologists say has enough coal to last the United States 1500 years. There are also oil shale beds of stupendous proportions. In building the tunnel, the famous Crater Lake, which was supposed to be bottomless, was drained completely dry.
Wall Street Investment Bankers
rpiIAT able journal, Commerce and Finance, J- (N. Y.), in its issue of March 3rd, says: “The modern promoter, as personified in the Wall Street investment banker, not only raises the capital to float a corporation but retains for himself a controlling interest in its affairs by holding control of the voting stock, which is often only a small proportion of the total securities issued, and selling the non-voting stock to the public.” The same journal, after calling attention to the fact that by this means bankers have gained control of industries to an extent undreamed of a few years ago, adds, “Some provision should be made to prevent bankers from issuing stock to themselves at no cost whatever and then allocating to that stock the sole voting privilege/’ In other words, to put it bluntly, some arrangement should be made to prevent the bankers from stealing all the property in the country. Not a bad idea at that.
Ten Thousand Tractors to Russia
THE Ford Company has recently filled an order of ten thousand tractors to Russia., and is about to undertake the instruction of fifty carefully selected Russians in the building and running of these tractors. These men will come to Detroit for a course of training which is expected to make them experts in tractor work on their return to Russia. The ten thousand tractors were shipped to Russia unboxed, and comprised the entire cargo of oij£ of the Ford ships.
Progress of the Indians
HE Indians have been granted American citizenship, which is a joke, as they are the original inhabitants of the country. There are 350,000 of them in the United States, of whom about one-seventh still live in tents or tepees, while the remainder live like the whites; and practically all their children are in school. Pro rata they are wealthier than the whites.
Cutting Steel Under Water
AR beneath the ocean’s waves holes are now cut in the steel sides of sunken ships by a combination of currents of hydrogen gas, acetylene gas and compressed air. The diver takes his cutting apparatus to the ocean bed, cuts a hole in the vessel to be lifted, inserts the necessary tubes, and in a short time sufficient air is pumped into the submerged vessel to make it rise to the surface.
Ten Million Receiving Sets
EARLY everybody has a receiving set nowadays. There are ten million of them in the United States. The output of the companies manufacturing radio apparatus has increased from $2,000,000 in 1920 to about $650,000,000 last year. Television is now predicted as a thing of the near future, it having already been many times accomplished experimentally. In a short while radio apparatus may bring heat, light, vision, sound and power. There are 563 registered broadcasting stations in the United States. In New York alone there are more receiving sets than in France and Germany combined, with ten times the population.
Transmission of Power by Radio
ADIO engineers, testifying before the Senate Interstate Commerce committee, have
solemnly expressed their opinion that within a very short time power will be transmitted by radio throughout the length and breadth of the United States. The power, it was suggested, would perhaps be generated in Labrador or other remote sections and transmitted by radio to the point of consumption, many hundreds of miles distant. Quite likely this is all true.
International Telephony
THE International Chamber of Commerce will undertake to place Europe upon somewhat the same degree of efficiency as respects telephony that is enjoyed in the United States in this respect. In the United States telephone conversations between New York and San Francisco are matters of daily occurrence. Equal service in the eastern hemisphere would enable London to talk with Bagdad. Political problems retard development.
Freedom of Thought in the Next War
echariah Chaffee, Jb., Professor of law at Harvard University, after exposing the way
by which propaganda starts and fosters the war spirit and silences all opposition, says:
After the next war, critical thinking in this country will be practically impossible. The tradition of free speech in war time has been shattered. The Supreme Court has shown that it will give no protection to it. The officials will find ample precedents at hand for censorships and prosecutions. Once the war begins, any attempts to have its aims defined in public opinion, except as the government wishes, any attempt to argue that the time has arrived for it to cease, will be perilous indeed. .
Concerning propaganda in the last war Mr. Chaffe continues: . ..
An important German spy, landed- on our coasts by a submarine to disperse large funds and caught spying in our camps, turned out to be a plumber from Baltimore.
Spies caught on beaches signalling to submarines were subsequently released as honest men. One of them had been changing an incandescent light bulb in his hotel room.
A man was arrested and a long story was published about his undoubted intention to blow up . the Canadian Pacific bridges simply because he had in his notebook the address of a personal friend by the name of C. P. Bridges.
Navies of the World
THE Manchester Guardian publishes a list which contains the surprising information that the United States navy is the largest in the world. Counting the vessels in building as part of the fleet; the United States has 579 vessels, Britain 479, France 346, Italy 302, Japan 284, Russia 208, Germany 88.
Grain Production in Alaska
THE United States Department of Agriculture states that the Yukon, Tenana and Matanuska valleys have already demonstrated their adaptability to grain growing and it is leys will do likewise. New hybrids are being probable that the Susitna and Kuskokwim val-produced which are expected to yield better than the Siberian parent wheat used in that area and almost as early. Alaska annually imports $5,000,000 of agricultural products from the States.
Only Four Elements Unknown
OF THE ninety-two elements which go to complete the “Chemical Table” and make up every known combination of earth’s materials, only four now remain unknown; and search for these is progressing earnestly in several parts of the world. After twenty years of research another of the missing elements has recently been segregated at the University of Illinois. It is of metallic nature and has been named H- linium. Its value for any purpose is not yet known. Only a half ounce of the new metal was recovered from 400 pounds of rare earth used in the experiments. Two other substances, claimed to be elements, have also been discovered recently in Europe.
Development of the Oceanoplane
THE New York World has an interesting story of the development in France of an oceanoplane which is called the Sea Flea, because it has the flea’s ability to skip on the .surface of the water. It draws three inches of water at thirty-five miles an hour; at fifty miles it becomes a hydroplane and at sixty it rises from the water in skips as long as sixty-five feet. It behaves well in smooth seas, but whether it can be adapted to rough water remains to be seen.
Will Attack the Greenland Ice Fields
IT IS interesting to know that a company ol scientists will visit Greenland this summer with the avowed intention of trying to blow up the icebergs before they start south. Quite likely some such plan as this will succeed at no late day because the time for it is come.
Women are Killing off Ostriches
"D Y THE simple act of bobbing their hair the J-' women of the world have put the ostriches to death. With bobbed hair there is no occasion for large hats. On the small hats there is no place for ostrich feathers. No feathers, no birds. The ostrich goes the way of the skirt, the high-topped shoe and other things of the long ago.
Set of False Teeth for Sale
Mrs. Anita Lois Carey, of Spokane, Washington, is now offering at a bargain a perfectly good lower plate of false teeth which she has used for only thirty-five years and for which she has no further use. Mrs. Carey confesses to seventy-four summers, and now has six new teeth, recently cut, with four more coming through the gums.
Ten Doctors Let Baby Die
DAYTON, Ohio, is stirred by the fact that the parents of a little child tried to get ten doctors of that city to make an emergency call upon their child, who was ill with measles; but that each of the ten refused to come after learn-■ ing by inquiry that the people were poor and could not pay. The child died and was buried at the expense of local charities.
Radio Heard Without Receivers
THE St. Johns (Newfoundland) Daily News reports that on an evening in the last of March while a man and a woman were on their way home near a galena deposit at Bryant’s Cove, Newfoundland, they distinctly heard through the air, without the aid of any receiving apparatus! music, the 23rd Psalm, and som® discussion on the texts quoted. The sound seemed to them to come from the east. It was probably from some broadcasting station at St. Johns, or possibly it may have come across the Atlantic. Galena, or lead sulfid, is a detector of radio waves.
Air Chamber in the Whale’s Head
THOSE who know claim that the air chamber in a whale’s head is fourteen feet long, seven feet wide and seven feet high. In it is carried the huge supply of oxygen which the whale needs when swimming long distances beneath the waters. A dog, lost overboard for six days, was recently discovered alive and well in one of these air chambers. There is no doubt whatever that the story of Jonah and the whale is an accurate account of literal fact.
Mauna Loa’s Great Outburst
suddenly resumed activity last spring, throwing- driven absolutely crazy by appeals for money”; while another said, “I am becoming more and
MAUNA LOA, the world’s highest active volcano, has poured forth more lava during the past half century than any other volcano on the globe. After five years of quiescence it fountains of glowing lava four hundred feet into the air and descending into the ocean in such volume that the ocean boiled furiously at a distance of hundreds of feet from the shore. A cluster of fifteen Hawaiian homes was destroyed by the outburst, but no lives were lost.
Not the Best of Lessons
Senator Borah, replying to Bishop Manning and other bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church who opposed ratification of the treaty of Lausanne with Turkey, is reported to have said to them:
The great Christian nations ever since the lesson of the World War still seem to rely wholly upon force and are still expending millions and millions to find some more deadly weapon with which to slay other Christian people. The World War was not the best of lessons to the un-Christian world.
Chicago Preachers Take to the Streets
REALIZING that Chicago has become the crime center of the world, and with the desire to do something to reawaken in the minds of the people the idea that the churches can save the situation, sixty Chicago preachers have promised each other that during this summer season they will inaugurate preaching in the streets. We suggest a text for their opening discourses, namely Isaiah 42:2, “He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.”
Spiritualist Upsets a Church
TN A Baptist church at Saugus, Massachusetts, ■T in the month of April, a play was being given in which The Big Medicine Man made an appeal to the Thunder God; when all at once, from the rear of the church, from a Salem woman, a spiritualist, who had gone into a trance, there came a response in what is alleged to have been identified as the Indian language. Our explanation of this phenomenon is that it was the work of demons, devils, and that there is no other explanation possible.
Too Many Calls for Money
ATA meeting of the Philadelphia Method-ist Conference, held, strangely enough, in a Presbyterian church in that city, one of the ministers made the statement, “We are being more convinced that the Methodist minister is becoming nothing but a financial agent.” In fifty years of world-wide religious work the International Bible Students Association have never taken up a collection nor asked anybody for a cent.
Who Was This Minister?
THE New York Times contains a very interesting letter from a subscriber in which the latter says:
There was once a minister of the gospel who never built a church, who never preached in one, who never proposed a church fair to pay the debts with which the church was burdened, who never founded a new sect, who never belonged to any sect, who was known to have drunk wine with sinners, who never received a salary, who never asked for one, who never wore a black suit or a white necktie, who never used a prayer book or a hymn book or wrote a sermon, who never hired great musicians or singers to draw-people to hear the Word, who never went through a course of theological study, who never was ordained, who never was converted, whose abiding places were always among the poor, who made no distinction between sinful men and sinful women. Do you know who this stranger preaches was?
The Fallacy of Evolution By C. J. W. Jr.
LIFE, the living principle of assimilation, ejection, and subdivision,'is inherently the same in animal and vegetable organisms. The structure and composition of an animal and a vegetable cell are identical. The difference lies in the functions each performs. These functions have been predetermined and regulated, so that neither of the two classes of cells has the power of impressing any of its characteristics upon the other.
If the “parent cell” theory be true, then we might entertain reasonable hopes of grafting puppies and pears, alligators and apricots, or similar astonishing and novel combinations. But this can never be done; for the laws governing cells are fixed, and so comprehensive as to include even the germs, which are minute animal organisms, and differentiate them from bacteria, which are microscopic plants.
The seeming exceptions to this rule (certain plants with characteristics and odors of decaying flesh, and certain marine organisms possessing plant-like attributes) can be satisfactorily disposed of if one is interested enough to examine the habits of existence of these phenomena and ascertain the causes for the apparent paradoxes.
In the case of the plant, the Carrion Flower (Smilax herbacea), the odor of flesh attracts the flies which it employs as its carrier of pollen. The sea anemones, with their petal-like extremities, use the same in catching and devouring small denizens of the deep.
Kinship between the plant and animal kingdoms is certainly close, and chronologically the plants are much the elder; but that does not go to prove that the animal world was evolved from plantlike organisms.
In their respective responses to outside influences, plants and animals often manifest confusing similarity, unless due consideration is given to the underlying reasons for it. For example, the eyelid of a frog, when touched, closes. So also does the leaf of the Venus Flytrap. Etherize the frog and the leaf, and neither the eyelid nor the flytrap’s leaf will close. When the ether is removed both recover their sensibility.
The above experiment is supposed to prove the close connection or, as some put it, the actual relation of plants and animals. Nothing could be farther from the fact. All plants are sensitive to touch, in a greater or less degree. The plant mentioned in the experiment is supersensitive because its livelihood is derived front! the bodies of insects which are caught and held in its tightly-rolled leaves the instant they alight upon the delicate hairs that line the leaves. The frog, having a good deal of brain and consequent nerve area for an animal of its size, would quite naturally be affected in its most sensitive part, the eyelid.
The effect of the ether on both plant and animal does not prove anything extraordinary beyond the fact that the Venus Flytrap is so very sensitive that the ether fumes entering the leaf pores numb the delicate life-cells therein.
In either case the action is mechanical and does not prove or even indicate any physiological connection between the frog and the plant. They are both alive and, being alive, affected similarly by that which affects life itself; but beyond that the kinship of plants and animals does not extend.
Play a trombone in front of a caged lion or tiger, and the animal will indicate reception and interest in the sounds. Be so courageous as to stand before a massive oak on the Square and play “Sweet Adeline” and you will receive nothing for your pains but the jocose remarks and suggestive looks of passersby.
The cabbage as we know it to-day is a development from a single-leafed vegetable of a form not unlike spinach. But it was not, as claimed, an evolution from, this vegetable. It was bred up to its present form in much the same manner as cattle breeders have bred fancy strains of beef and exceptional milch-cows. But the cabbage has not changed its structure: and in a large field of those plants one may see here and there one specimen of a sprawling tendency or, as the grower puts it, that did not “head up”.
This is merely an indication of the incontrovertible law of Reversion to Species which all the evolutionists in Bedlam can never alter. The fact is there, patently, that the original leafy plant, upon which the compact, close-growing head has been artificially developed, has not been changed, and wants but the cessation of cross-fertilization to revert to its original form.
I do not mean to convey the impression that
to perpetuate cabbages as we know them it is necessary to re-breed them each season; that would surely be too expensive and impractical for such a commonplace vegetable.
The fact is that the plant, through generations, has been so accustomed to the admixture of other strains that it has developed its properties of transmitting these strains with practically undiminished fertility, to the near exclusion of its individual characteristics.
However, in certain seeds not receiving the full proportion of the hereditary admixture, the original strain will predominate; and the resultant plant will be a cabbage that will not “head up”. The process is perfectly logical and according to all approved principles of biology.
Hybridism Not Evolution
MORE wonderful intermixtures are possible with plant cells than with animals. The reason is probably the greater proportionate fertility and greater ease of grafting unrelated species. But note this: There has not yet been developed a hybrid, sport, or any graft upon any wood, that has proven to be perennially self-perpetuating! Some may be able to reproduce for a few seasons, but reversion to species or wild stock is the inevitable rule. As a rule, hybridizations of flowers are practically seedless.
In the case of animals we might observe the frog as a very good example of the groundlessness of all the “Origin of Species” theories. The tadpole, hatched from the egg of the full-grown frog, not evolved from any lower source, has within its makeup the cells which produce legs, and also those with the ability to assimilate the tail, much as a camel assimilates its hump.
There is no reason to believe that the tadpole and frog are different animals, nor the caterpiller and butterfly. It was necessary for the caterpiller to pass through the chrysalis stage while its various organs were re-arranging—a most marvelous feat of nature; but upon emerging from its cocoon, it finds itself equipped with wings, but a caterpiller still. The cells from which the wings would grow at the due time of maturity were present in the egg from which the caterpiller was hatched.
The caterpiller did not have an idea, from watching other flying things, that it wanted to fly, and consequently developed in some unexplained manner a pair of v,rings. Quite the contrary. In the scheme of things allotted to the caterpiller it developed its wings at the proper time, from roots already existent, making no change in the species of the creature.
A new-born human infant has no teeth; but the fact that it develops teeth at the proper age for absorbing solid food, does not indicate that said infant made those teeth appear of its own volition. In fact, from the arduous experiences some of us had in cutting our first teeth, it is more than probable that, if a voluntary act, we should have abandoned the design rather than go through so much suffering to obtain them. It is a significant fact that all the primates, from which mankind is supposed to have developed, are provided with a full set of teeth at birth.
Another handle for the evolutionists is the discovery, which is made from time to time, of small skeletons of horse-like animals. These creatures possess very similar structures to that of our present-day horse; but the hoofs are divided into two, and sometimes three, parts. The whole animal is very little larger than a good-sized St. Bernard.
“This,” say our wise savants, “is the ancestor of the horse, and he lived (figure 1 and as many noughts as will complete the line) years ago. Gradually as conditions changed he grew in size and then, realizing the need of a solid hoof to meet changed pasturage conditions and additional hardships imposed by primitive man, he developed the unsplit hoof. All this of course took several million years.”
The horse has been knovm and used by man ever since his appearance on this planet, and no indications have been manifested as yet of the reversion of any of our breeds of horses to anything but wild stock. AVhen they come to that barrier, they stick; and small wonder.
The wild horse, a large and beautiful animal, is the only ancestor of the many kinds of horses in the world to7day. The wild horse, or mustang, has nearly disappeared; but that is through the encroachment by man on its feeding grounds, and not because it has been reincarnated into Shetland ponies or anything else.
The 'mustang, although strong and very active, is slightly smaller than our ordinary draft horses. It is stocky and well-formed, but lacks the grace of a highly-bred race-horse. The small horse-like creatures with cloven hoofs were undoubtedly animals similar to the Andean burro, which did not survive in the struggle for existence when millions of buffalo roamed our western plains.
If man is a development of the higher ape, what caused a cessation of that development, and made possible the continued reproduction of both the ape and the man independent of each other?
Why do we not find, in some remote corner of the globe, a race that is just emerging from its apelike characteristics, but still has a prehensile tail or thumbs on its feet or some other little indication of its ancestry? Ask yourself these questions and try to match the answers with good, four-square logic.
On such an important issue as the origin of man, we cannot afford to hazard mere suppositions. Let us prove everything! We do not know, and never will know, what the “missing link” is, Avas, or is supposed to be or to look like. We do not know why it is that Ave cannot keep apes in the zoo and watch them breed up to human children in time.
We do not know why amoebas are no longer becoming fish, fish are no longer becoming birds, birds are no longer losing their wings and becoming reptiles, reptiles are no longer dropping their scales and growing hair, or why these erstwhile amoeba-fish-bird-reptiles are no longer becoming monkeys and in due course, men!
Furthermore, if the theory of our development be true, then it is equally certain that after the peak of development is attained, degeneration will ensue, Avith consequent rexmrsion to species. If this be true, then of AA7hat use will be the radio, telephone, automobile, painless surgery, hydroelectric poAver, or any other adjunct of civilization be to mere apes ?
Are we not, then, Wasting our energies on producing marvelous inventions and making useful discoveries, to be destroyed in a feAv gen-: erations by our screeching, chattering, apish descendants? WTiy not stop in our tracks and sit quietly by, pondering Within ourselves as to the advisibility of ultimately becoming an ape, or possibly, on second thought, a chimpanzee ?
The educational branches of the public school system could all be set aside except calisthenics and gymnasium exercises; and these could be deAreloped to the utmost, thereby saving time and slipping one over on nature by developing better, more acrobatic monkeys than those from ■which vTe sprang.
But A\7e do knoAV that in daily comparison AA'ith discoveries and events, and in careful Aveighing against logical proof, the cleverly propounded theories of the -wise evolutionists do not stand the test. Their reasoning goes smooth-, ly along, in each branch—botanical and zoological—until a “missing link” is encountered, but for Avhi.ch a complete train of events would lead from the kmest protozoa to a banyan tree or a college professor.
Unfortunately, no reasonable guess aauII explain aAvay this obtrusive missing unit; so the break is smeared over Avith rhetoric and millions of years, making a bridge upon Avhich many are AAulling to trust themselves.
Origin of the Evolution Theory
IT1HE logical reason for the presence of the seem-ing proofs of the evolution theory which exist, is to my mind this: That to separate those -willing to acknowledge a Supreme Being as their creator and the fountainhead of all things, from that class of men too puffed with false ego and pride to acknowledge any but their oaati AAmrks, the Creator has constructed these mental sieves, through AA’hich the keen, inquiring minds of His faithful children Avill readily pass, Avhile the ponderous chunks of self-sufficient mentality will be held by apparent evidence.
“The earth is mine,” saith the Lord; not merely a ball of gas, Avhirled into shape by accident. And furthermore, “Let us make man in our image.” It is safe to suppose that a spirit being has no need of a prehensile tail.
With the many positive evidences of a personal Creator becoming more and more convincing each day, let us hope that soon the egoes of those brilliant men Avho have made such masterly defences of a groundless cause, aauII be humbled, that they may see the Lord of Zion in the true light and appreciate the glory of His works.
The hairs of our heads are numbered; our hands, so perfectly made for grasping everything; our feet, balancing A\uth ease our symmetrical, AA-ell-proportioncd bodies — all these the direct creation of an intelligent Being, not the uncertain, hit-or-miss deAmlopment of unreasonable animal instinct.
And most of all, the human brain! Who can
ponder on the immense difference between the brain of man and those of all other animals, and not see a direct model of some infinitely higher and greater Mind? •
The facts, then, are: From a perfect human creature at creation, man by wilful disobedience of his Creator’s laws fell from his high estate of mental and physical perfection, and became subject to outside influences tending to his destruction.
Hence, mankind, at the present time, has descended from perfection, not ascended from primitive beastliness; and shortly, by the grace of our Redeemer, who gave His life for all mankind, we shall again enjoy our former estate, of mental, moral, and physical perfection—forever.
The Industrial Judas (Contributed)
SOME time ago I read in your magazine an article stating that the manufacturers of America are planning to reduce the American workman to a state of slavery. At the time this seemed ridiculous. Something happened to me last week however that throws a little light on your statement. An advertisement appeared in a Pittsburgh daily, and also in our local paper, reading:
Experienced, sheet mill men. wanted. New Mill. Ideal living conditions.
Many men in the mill where I work, including myself, answered the ad. As far as I know I am the only one here who even received a reply. I did receive a letter, telling me that my expenses would be paid if I would come to Pittsburgh for a personal interview. This I complied with promptly.
Applying at the address given I found the words “Manufacturer’s Service Corp.” on the door. I was met by a short, stocky man, evidently a Jew, 'who knew me by name even before I had a chance to introduce myself.
He told me in a very cautious, kid-glove manner what was wanted. They wanted men to do “investigating” (spying), in the mills, factories and shops of all descriptions, throughout the Pittsburgh district. They wanted men who would watch every move the employes make, find out their opinions, meet with them anywhere they congregate, spy upon them (he called it “investigating”), and make report every day to the Pittsburgh office. My name was never to be used in correspondence, I would be known merely by a number; and I was to receive a very handsome salary; an amount that would stagger an ordinary workman like me.
After a little preliminary work I was to be gent to school and further trained in the art of
“investigating”. After that I would be shifted from place to place as necessity called, always working in some shop and at a job such as the “Manufacturer’s Service Corp.” provided as a blind, but with the real purpose of watching my fellow workmen, and reporting everything to the central office. '
I asked this gentleman what concern he represented in particular, and he gave only a general reply, stating that they did business for all manufacturing concerns in the tri-state district.
It is evident that the “Manufacturers’ Service Corporation” is an auxiliary organization, backed by big business to establish an espionage system covering all manufacturing and mining in the United States. I know that they are working among the miners of western Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The capitalists are afraid of their own shadow. The revolution in Russia, the growing Communistic feeling in Europe, and even our own I. W. W. here, have them scared. The growing restlessness of the workers is apparent to them, and they are afraid of a terrible day ahead.
I refused to have anything to do with this espionage scheme. Spying is not in my line. Furthermore, I would seriously jeopardize my chances of being of those who are ushered into the kingdom of our Lord, should I enlist in such an enterprise. A financial reward is not to be compared with what the Lord has in store for those who love Him. “Seek righteousness, seek meekness, it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.” “Blessed are the poor.” Surely any man who toils in these steel mills is poor. The work is hard and the pay none too good.
Air-Pockets
DID anybody ever hear anything about “air pockets” before aviation came into vogue? Since the advent of the heavier-than-air craft we hear of aviators having fallen into what they term “holes in the air”, or air-pockets, as they are now generally designated.
Whoever heard of getting into a hole in the air, while upon a mountain or high building, and having no air to breathe? What is an airpocket? Aviators tell us that their plane dropped into a vacuum or hole in the air which gave them a jolt when it struck the bottom.
These aviators are apparently honest in their conviction that the air above us has holes or hollow places into which airplanes can drop. But did anyone ever hear of void places in the ocean, places where there is no water, places where a vacuum exists, and into which fish might drop and get bumped on hitting the bottom? Are there air holes in the lakes? Is it not just as reasonable to suppose there are void cavities in the ocean depths and lakes as to suppose them to be in the atmospheric ocean above us?
Stand if you please and gaze for a long while at the dense volumes of smoke issuing from the chimney of a factory or mill. Notice how the smoke curls up and down and all around. Now if a paper plate were sailed into, that smudge, and it chanced to enter the space where there is a decidedly downward current of air, it would be forced downward with that descending air until it came in contact with an upward or cross current. That plate might then feel as if it had hit an air pocket or hole in the air, which gave it a bump or jolt at the bottom.
My impression is that “a hole in the air” is a myth. The air pressure upon and all about the earth is so great that no air-pocket could possibly exist. Break an incandescent light globe and note how loud is the sound of air rushing in to fill up the vacuum. Empty a gun barrel of its charge and note the loud noise of the air rushing back into that vacuumized barrel. The noise of a gun shot is not the result of its discharge, but the noise of air rushing back into
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that emptied gun barrel. For this reason some airguns discharge silently, because some of the discharge air lingers in the barrel. Create a vacuum in the air by explosion and hear the rebound of air rushing back to fill the void.
Have we ever heard a real scientist holding to the theory that the air has vacuum spaces into which airplanes can fall? I for one would like to see what he looks like. I could imagine him as having elongated ears, if not some faint remembrancer of the tail that Darwin longed so much to see on humankind.
Air-holes? Well, as the Scotchman would say, “I hae me doots.” Perhaps someone has some definite information on the subject and will present it to the readers of The Boldest Age.
Aviators generally agree that the ascent in an airplane gives them the sensation of the earth falling away and flowing backwards, instead of an ascension of themselves heavenward.
When high in the air mile sections seem small as city squares. Novices have been known to ask, Why don’t we go ?” when in fact the flight was over eighty miles per hour. The plane sometimes seems to be standing still if there is a strong air current from the front.
On one occasion an aviator was driving me about the city streets in an automobile. He was manifestly very nervous because of the dense traffic, whereas in an airplane he feels perfectly at ease and is never nervous. He explained that up there nothing bothers ; he can go up or down, to right or left, with nothing in his way; he has the field to himself.
I have been told by some people that when going up in the air for the first time they feel a drawing influence, a desire to jump out of the plane and catch the earth before it gets away from them. How most people do love this old earth, and want to cling to it forever 1 Only the saints aspire to something infinitely better and strive for for it. Some day each class shall receive the desire of its heart.
MY GUESTS
Gallant and gay, in their doublets of gray All at a flash—like the dartings of flame, Chattering Arabic, African, Indian—
Certain of springtime, my swallows came 1
Doublets of gray silk, and surcoats of purple, And ruffs of russet round each white throat. Garmented brave they had crossed the waters, ‘Mariners sailing with never a boat 1
By Edivin Arnold
Sailing a sea than the bluest deep bluer, Vaster to traverse than any which rolls ’Neath kelson of warship, or bilge of trader, Betwixt the brinks of the frozen Poles ;
Cleaving the clouds with their moon-edged pinion® High over city and vineyard and mart;
April to pilot them—May tripping after ;
And each bird’s compass his small stout heart.
Both Ends of Iowa’s Corn Crop By J. C. Neff
THERE appeared in The Golden Age, No.
166, an item on “Iowa’s Huge Com Crop,” which on first thought seemed astounding. But let anyone take a pencil and do some figuring, and he will find that a crib eight feet wide, and twelve feet high has in round numbers thirtyeight bushels per running foot. Multiplying thirty-eight bushels by 5280 feet gives a total of 200,640 bushels per mile of crib. Therefore 8500 miles of crib would contain 702,220,000 bushels.
The state of Iowa contains 56,025 square miles; and by doing some figuring you will find that if one-third the acreage is planted in corn it must produce about fifty-nine bushels per acre to fill the crib. At fifty cents per bushel, the farmers of Iowa last year received $351,110,000 dollars, with which they paid their taxes and shifted along to plant another crop. They are not smiling much about it.
To bring in some ready cash, corn begins to flow into the market at husking time. This money is needed to meet half the farmers’ yearly tax. Sometimes there is danger of the market being glutted, and of course it would not do to close the markets. It would be too rash an act, and would cause controversy; hence the only thing to do is the scientific publicity stunt of somewhere “discovering”, from time to time, the dreaded pest known as the com borer. This gives an excellent excuse for placing an embargo on corn from this or that state or county, to curtail temporarily the inflow of corn.
As a matter of fact the com borer is a pest that has been with us from time immemorial, and is nearly always found in immature corn. But the newspapers and financiers must have something to discover occasionally. It would not surprise me if some of our modem wise men should suddenly announce the discovery of America.
When the embargo is on, many a farmer has to go to the bank and borrow money at seven or eight percent with which to pay his taxes, or meet the penalty of perjury, and be sold out by the sheriff. That is the farmer’s side of the corn subject, and you do not hear him boast about his “banner com state” and prosperity. Then why should the so-called government experts be so hilarious ? Just wait until we look at the other side of the com harvest and we shall see.
The commercial octopus is always agile when’ he sees his prey. The readers of The Golden Age are acquainted with the fact that this giant octopus, is big business, big politics and big clergy, which has various feelers with which he catches his prey, draws it to himself, then sucks the blood. Let us here note one of the many feelers of this octopus which reaches out and gets all farm products for himself.
The giant succeeds in adroitly using as its feeler an important arm of the government, “the Department of Agriculture,” which reaches everywhere, through every state and every country. Then it uses as an appendix the Federal Farm Bureau, whose business is to know exactly how many bushels of everything is being produced. Now that this is accomplished, the octopus easily lays its plans and the sucking of the farmer’s life-blood begins.
Let us see what becomes of the corn which is bought at fifty cents a bushel from the farmer who has labored hard to produce it. I will mention only one form in which it is sold to consumers, besides the three gallons of legal whiskey that are manufactured from a bushel and sold under the Volstead act for medical purposes, and dispensed by official bootleggers at from seven to twenty dollars per gallon.
Politicians, of course, do not drink this; they drink the one million quarts of champagne that each year are imported from France under the eighteenth amendment.
But leaving this phase of the com game, let us consider com flakes. Corn sold in this form costs the consumer one cent per ounce, net weight, or $9.00 per bushel—the same bushel for which the farmer received a meagre fifty cents.
Now 702,220,000 bushels of com at $9 per, amounts to $6,319,980,000. Deducting 351,110,-000 dollars, which the farmers received for this corn, Would leave the nice little sum of five billion, nine hundred and sixty-eight million, eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars for the financiers. The local elevator, of course, receives a small margin of a few cents per bushel, and the residue is mostly pure profit.
“But,” says someone, “much of the corn crop is fed to hogs, cattle and chickens on the farms.” But the octopus gets it after all; for it controls the market on pork, beef, butter and eggs. Da
not forget the big packing house scandal that was aired in The Golden Age not long ago.
If corn is actually worth what the octopus collects for it from the consumer, whether it be in the form of cornflakes, meat, eggs, butter or corn whiskey, then for them to pay the producer of that corn only fifty cents simply means that the corn is being stolen from the farmer. The poor farmer is left in rags to buy the necessities of life, while the octopus grows fat. Meanwhile its mouth belches forth “cooperation” and other well-sounding phrases. On first thought cooperation sounds good; but wherever cooperative societies have been organized, they have resulted in a clean steal for Big Business.
What is true of com is true of every kind of product, and what is true in Iowa is true every-•where else. And if you say anything about it you are immediately branded as a “'radical” or worse. The more one considers the present situation the less he feels like singing,
“My country ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty,” and the greater the desire to sing, “Jerusalem the Golden, Jerusalem the New'”
The writer is a radical, according to St. James (4:4), and I see no reason for tramping on the soft pedal. A radical is one who goes to the root of things. It is good to be able to announce to the oppressed farmer and laborer that “the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” The Lord will deliver us from the oppresser. Let us take comfort, then, as we note the fifth chapter of James, verses one to five :
“Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you [mental agony]. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered [rotten], and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days [of Satan’s empire]. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth! And the cries of their which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth [armies].”
The octopus now corners the farmers’ produce all the more easily when the farmers join “pools” and “farm bureaus” which gather and turn the produce over to the octopus en masse. But we may be sure that when the financial bubble bursts (as it certainly will ere long), this prophecy of St. James will be fulfilled. Then the rich will have to eat their paper. Stocks and bonds will be worthless, and the rich too will have to begin raising corn. Then
“They shall not plant, and another eat. They shall not build and another inhabit. Every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree.” Everyone will then be self-supporting. None will need to support a class of worthless politicians, preachers and profiteers. None will then need be afraid of being sold out by the sheriff or to be called an undesirable radical.
Soy Beans By J. Loganbill
ALL do not know that leguminous vegetables ■ and cereals are rich in albumen and carbohydrates. The soy bean not only has these substances, but possesses another most valuable food element in which it far exceeds other leguminous vegetables, namely, fats.
The nutritive value of the soy bean, and its completeness of composition, surpasses the most valuable animal foods. Bread and biscuits can be made much superior with soy beans flour. It is good for diabetes, because of the low carbohydrate content.
These beans have an agreeable taste, like the chestnut. A kind of milk can be made from them by soaking them for several hours and then pressing. Cheese made from this milk is very nourishing. This “To-fu” cheese is most nutritious. And a “soy sauce” may be made that looks exactly like meat extract, and also tastes much like it. This makes a pleasant addition to other viands, without the injurious effects of meat extracts and oil tambien.
When allowed to sprout under glass, soy beans do good service as-green vegetables, but the whole bean eaten is poorly assimilated.
Long Distance Radio Reception
STATION WORD, of Batavia, III, with studio in Chicago, is owned and operated by the International Bible Students Association, and is one of the best stations for long range broadcasting in the United States, if not in the world. The following letters, such as are being regularly received by that station, show how its programs are being received in the remote parts of the earth. Radio is being effectively used by the International Bible Students to spread a knowledge of the Bible to a groping world. This Association now operates seven big broadcasting stations in the United States and Canada:
Radio Station WORD
Chicago, Ill.
Gentlemen :
I take pleasure in advising that I get you on the loudspeaker just as beautifully as could be desired. I was listening in on WORD last night at about 11 p. m.
Will you please favor me with the descriptive booklet which you offer to mail those who write you of having listened in on that station?
Thanking you for this kindness, I remain Yours very truly, W. P. Aguero.—Cuba.
WORD Broadcasting Station, Batavia, Illinois.
Gentlemen :
Last evening we listened to the sermon broadcast from your station, and it came in so loud and clear that the roomful of people could understand every word.
I want to congratulate the speaker for the quiet, clear sermon he preached from the Bible. It was not a lecture such as so many ministers give nowadays. The sermon contained these words, which I quote as a verification of the reception: “Christ, driven into the wilderness, wandered for forty days without food or Irink, when the tempter came, saying, ‘If thou be the Bon of God, make these stones into bread.’ ”
We are one hundred and fifty miles north of San Francisco. Our radio is a five tube neutrodyne, built ly my son.
We have had St. Louis, Chicago, San Antonio, Oklahoma, Mexico City and many other stations.
Yours sincerely, Mrs. Edna M. Snertman.—Calif.
Radio Broadcasting Station WORD
Batavia, Ill.
Dear Sirs:
Last night I got station WORD very plainly and clearer on the loud speaker. I heard the Morlock sisters sing “Thy Will be Done” and Mr. Reese play a violin solo. Also heard the last part of the Bible address, but did not learn who was speaking. This seems to me to be pretty good for distance, as it is over 2000 miles. I am using a five tube Fada neutrodyne set.
I would like very much to have a schedule of the dates and time when you will be broadcasting, as I am interested in your work and will be listening to you in the future.
Yours truly,
T. W. Mallory.—Oregon.
Radio Watchtower Station WORD, .
Chicago, Ill.
Gentlemen: .
Although living on a farm in the state of Washington forty miles south east of Spokane, we heard your program Sunday evening, which came in loudly and distinctly.
We hope to hear from you again in the near future.. We have an Atwater Kent De Luxe.
Thanking you, I am
~ Sincerely yours,
Mrs. J. D. Hagan.—Washington.
Radio WORD
Batavia, Ill. ;
Gentlemen :
Your program came in here very clearly last night about 6: 35 our time or 9:35 C. S. T., and continued for some time. We are one hour west of Pacific Standard time, and a thousand miles north of Seattle, Washington.
Your program of this date was especially enjoyed, being quite a contrast to our usual run of programs received here. However we enjoy all of them, but do prefer some to others. I jotted down a few items on your program, hoping to get an Ekko stamp from you.
Our nearest station now broadcasting is about a thousand miles. The one in Juneau, Alaska, has not started the season as yet. We have about twenty hours daylight during the summer, so at that time it would be a useless expense. But in winter we have only about four hours of daylight.
Yours respectfully, .
S. Sheldon.—Alaska.
Broadcasting Station, WORD
Batavia. Ill.
Dear Announcer:
All praise for your splendid program from WORD last Sunday night. '
The night was bad, lightning flashes all about the horizon, but your musical selections came in with such volume on my loud speaker it could be heard all over the house; and as soon as I heard you announce your call letters I left the parlor where I have my receiver and went to a small alcove three rooms distant to look
for my book with, list of the broadcasting stations in the United States. From where I was I could still hear you plainly, what you said, and the music soon after.
My book shows that you are on the air with 2000 watts; and taking into consideration the immense distance from your city to this port, it is miraculous how we got your selections so nicely, even when this high power was used.
. This place is 892 miles south of New Orleans, right tn. the swamps and jungles, heart of the tropics, where it rains every day in the year; but it sure is a great consolation to -hear you every Sunday night. The only religious service we have is what we get from our radio.
Will you kindly send program, showing what nights you are on the air? I would thank you very much.
Yours very truly,
W. E. Godman,
,, Terminal Superintendent,
International Railways of Central America, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.
Station WORD •
Batavia, Ill.
Dear Sirs:
Last night I had the pleasure to hear your station very clearly on my Radiola Super-Heterodyne, with loop antenna. Yout station is the most distant I have in my record.
Hoping to hear you again, and thanking you very much for your program, I remain,
Respectfully yours,
Dr. A. Ramirez Marini.—Porto Rico.
Watchtower Station WORD
Batavia, Illinois.
Last night we listened to a sermon from your station by a Dr. Read of Chicago. It came in on the loud speaker and could be heard anywhere in the house. The singing and pipe organ music were fine.
We heard you several times last winter on the five tube neutrodyne, and I wrote you at one time; but this was the first we have heard you this year, and I want you to know how we enjoyed it. For the last few days we have been getting many of the far east and far south stations, and are hoping that weather conditions continue so we can get such stations as yours. We have added Honolulu, Japan, China and Mexico to our list of distances. All of those come in frequently with splendid volume. East Pittsburgh and Buffalo work the loud speaker here, but so far we have not picked up your big station in New York.
Again thanking you for helping us pass long lonesome hours in this isolated place at the “top of the world”, I am
Yours very truly,
Mrs. Inez E. Moore,
.Govt. Teacher.—Alaska.
WORD,
Batavia, Illinois.
Gentlemen :
Oh happy days! made me feel my real old days when I was studying in your country; and such a heavenly voice came so good and .so loud that many of us down here enjoyed it well.
Those news items and sermons from Chicago are very important, and really radio ought to expand sama • around the world. I was gratified because, as stated, it reminded me of my old time there.
Too bad I am not a stenographer to copy all you say from my Baldwin loud speaker, and through the Browning Drake receiver I have built.
Will thank you for your acknowledgment letter. The only way to push up radio down here so distant away from you.
Yours truly, Amando Cespedes Marin.—Costa Rica.
Radio Station WORD,
Batavia, Illinois.
Gentlemen :
If this reaches you in time I should like to receive one of those printed programs that you have offered to send to those who heard you this evening.
Your programs are very much enjoyed by us, both at home and in the office, where we hear you frequently. You have many listeners-in from this city and part of the country, besides ourselves.
Thanking you for the pleasure of your programs over the radio, I am
Yours very truly,
0. Milton Litndlie.—Prince Albert, Sask.
Station WORD
Batavia, HI.
Gentlemen : .
Received a nice program this evening from WORD at 6: 30 Yukon Time, which is one hour earlier than Vancouver. I understood, however, the Station was in Chicago.
Reception was good on head phones and at times on the loud speaker.
Many thanks to all.
Sincerely,
T. O. Johnson.—Yukon.
Station WORD,
Batavia, HI.
Dear Sirs:
Last night at about 10: 30 p. m., Intercolonial time, I tuned into your station and heard the program. I am sure you will be glad to know just how far-reaching your program is, as we are at least two thousand miles from Chicago as the crow flies. The solo, “In the Palace of the King,” also your Bible talk, came in clearly, each word being distinct. It was indeed very en-i
joyable and interesting. I am very anxious to have an EKKO stamp from your station.
Respectfully,
Mes. Ruth R. Eaton.—Virgin Islands.
Station WORD,
Batavia, Ill., U. S. A.
Dear Sies:
Just a few lines to congratulate yourself and staff on your long range transmission.
I heard you announce WORD. This was at about 11:10 p. m. E. S. T. Hearing your station in British Guiana, South America, constitutes a record for you, and for me also; your station being the most distant station I have yet heard.
My receiver is a home-made modified Crosely Armstrong, regenerative, three tubes. I have managed to listen in to a great number of U. S. broadcasting stations, but none so far distant as you. I hope to have the pleasure of tuning you in every night now, and listening to and enjoying your programs.
You have a good announcer, as I could understand practically every word that he uttered; and this is more
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than I can say of some of the other U. S. broadcasting station announcers.
I am collecting Ekko stamps, so I would greatly appreciate one from you. Thanking you and hoping to tune you in tonight again,
Yours sincerely, Joseph T. Tasker.—British Guiana, 8. A. ;
Radio Station WORD, Batavia, Ill.
Dear Sir :
On January 19th whilst in the Pacific, on passage to Australia, I listened in to a very nice program broadcast by your station, and wish to express my appreciation of same.
We were in latitude 17° south, longitude 128° west, distance from your station 4500 miles. It is the first time I have ever heard you, and at this distance it was coming in loud and clear. You were broadcasting The Watchtower Radio program.
I thought you may be interested in knowing that you were clearly heard at this distance. With best wishes. Yours faithfully,
Capt. Harding Cartwright.—8. 8. “Karonga,”
The Day of Pentecost
THE Jews entered Canaan thirty-five hundred years ago this spring, in the year 1575 B.
C., at passover time, corresponding to about April first. From the time they entered the land they have been observing certain feasts and ceremonies, the significance of which is not known to them and to but few Christians.
Among the things required of them was that on the fiftieth day after the passover they should wave before the Lord two loaves of bread, made with leaven. These were to be a kind of first-fruits unto the Lord; although fifty days previously an offering of first-fruits, that is, the first grain of the season, had been made.
The Christian, instructed in the real meaning of his Father’s Word, sees in the first offering of first-fruits, which took place on the 16th of Nisan, immediately after the passover, a picture of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was indeed the "first fruits of them that Slept”; and the time of his awakening from the Sleep of death was on the 16th of Nisan, very fearly in the morning. There was no leaven in Him, no hypocrisy, no sin.
And the Christian is also deeply interested in the event which followed fifty days later, when the two leavened loaves were waved before the Lord. He recognizes that this represents what happened in antitype when the holy spirit was poured out upon the little company in that upper room in Jerusalem.
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