Golden Age, September 8, 1926
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Contents of the Golden Age
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Labor and Economics
Tidbits of World News .
Factory Chairs SIiot.LI Be Adjustable
Paid Vacations to Industrie,! V'o
Social and EdccathN l
Professional Bootlegging in New Jersey
Advising Abolition of Convict Leasing plan........
Boys Succeed with Bogs
No Poverty Jie-.tns No Crime .... . . . .
Slaves Freed in Bu:th;i ........ . .
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■ Tre -g Power .
' Lav ........
One >res . . .
i Humanity Fighting with Baek to the V.7:'; .....
! . Bus Lines in the Wi-sl ............. .
; Twentieth Atlantic Cable Laid ..........■. . . 775
I • Union of Church find Stage ............ .
i Political—Domi in:
[ Cardinal Hayes for Free Speech
J TI10 Pennsylvania Primaries
| A World Filled with Turmoil ......... 777
| The World Wearies of Parliaments
i Paris-Berlin Air Service ...... .
.Czechs Alarmed at Fascist Growth ...... .... 778
Democracy Dead in Italy .....
Present Migrations in the World
Agriculture and Hu.- dan :.:;y Persimmon Trees and Fruit
Home and Health The Power of oIkdical Superstition
i A Few Sensible IIemedies
Religion and Pit:’.of— . .
Sidelights on the London Convention
Bible Questions and Answers
Studies in the “Hat:? of God"
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Tidbits of World News
No Improvement in Tax Situation
WHILE the federal government reduced taxes 1,974 millions between 1919 and 1924, state and local governments were increasing them by 1,847 millions; so that, as far as the small taxpayer is concerned, lie has received scarcely any benefit. The reductions in federal taxes were largely of benefit to those who paid the largest taxes.
Tremendous Increase in Productive Power
TWENTY-FIVE years ago, in the United
States, the production of a ton of pig iron required fourteen hours labor of one man; today it requires but two hours. Twelve years ago the production of an automobile required 1,260 hours of work per car; now it requires but 230 hours. Each worker now produces an average of eleven cars per year.
Lawyers Head the Corporations
THE Chamber of Commerce of the United
States calls attention to the fact that the presidents of many of the most important corporations in the United States are lawyers. Among the corporations thus governed are the Steel Trust; Burlington, Union Pacific, Cotton Belt and Monon Railroads; Pullman Company; Prudential, Mutual and Metropolitan Insurance Companies; Linotype Corporation; National Biscuit Company; Packard Motor Car Company, and many others.
100. 000 Chain Stores
OF THE 100.000 chain stores in the United
States, 50,000 are in the hands of only seventy-five organizations; it is estimated that they do about 12 percent of all the grocery business in the country. Chain drug stores, it is estimated, carry 20 percent of the trade, while chain shoe stores now market 75 percent of all the shoes sold.
Against Trade with Russia
THE Chamber of Commerce of the United
States, while conceding vast potentialities of trade with Russia, and tacitly admitting that it would raise the living standards and the welfare of 150.000.000 Russians, lias formally declared against participating in such trade on account of previous seizures of American property, and because of Soviet practices and theories in general.
Humanity Fighting with Back to Wall
TN A.\ address before the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, O. II. Cheney, New York banker, said:
Installment selling is the recognition (unconscious very often) of the fact that high pressure selling competition has used up the consumer’s dollar, and that each industry must fight for the dollar of next week— and the dollar of next year.
Distribution of Wealth in U. S.
HPHE Federal Trade Commission reports that
1 percent of the population of the United States owns 59 percent of the wealth; 13 percent of the population owns 90 percent of the wealth; and 87 percent of the population owns but 10 percent of the wealth. The same figures show that agriculture employs 40 percent of the population and gets 14 percent of the national income, which is figured at $70,000,000,000 per year. One-third of the entire wealth of the country, estimated at $353,000,000,000, is owned by corporations.
Factory Chairs Should Be Adjustable
THE New York State Department of Labor J- has issued a bulletin pointing out that the short girl in a factory needs a seat that can be raised, the tall girl a scat that can be lowered, and that the scat should be saddle-shaped, sixteen inches wide and inclining one-half inch to the back; that they should be twelve and one-half inches from front to back; and that bench tops should be not over five inches thick, to comfortably admit the knees of workers.
Continued High Prices for Food
URING the World War everybody that had anything to' sell found how to charge for it, and it seems hard to forget the lesson. In March, 1923, the increase in retail food prices over March, 1913, was 43 percent; but in March, 1926, the increase over retail prices for Mar^h, 1913, was G5 percent. The short potato crop last year had a very unfavorable effect on food prices for 1926.
An Army of Gum-Chewers
rPlIERE is a great army of gum-chewers in the United States. Reports submitted by the United States Department of Commerce show that in America last year about fifteen packs of gum were consumed for every man, woman and child in the land; or about seventy-five cents worth. The total value of the gum consumed was $90,000,000. It takes 2,000 workers to make this quantity of chewing gum.
Chicago’s Improved Lake Front
AT AN expense of millions of dollars Chicago is gradually improving its lake front which seventy-five years ago was presented to the Illinois Central Railroad Company. No one could foresee in 1850 that the property which at that time no one wanted, because of the expense of maintaining breakwaters, would later become worth, hundreds of millions. Chicago is looking up. Its new Union Station, shared by the Pennsylvania, Burlington, Alton, and St. Paul systems, is one of the finest structures of the kind in existence.
The Great Time of Trouble
TAE director general of the Red Cross Societies calls attention to the fact that the
Vv orld War, the epidemics, the earthquakes and the o trier msasters which have overtaken the earth since 1914, have resulted in the death or serious injury of one-tenth of the population of the whole earth. How well this agrees with the Bible descriptions of the time of trouble Such as never was!
No Rush to the Cities
IT NOAV appears that there is no rush to the larger cities after all, but that what seems like a rush to the cities is mainly a freak of government bookkeeping. Every time a village grows to be over 2,500 population, the entire community is lifted up bodily and put'over into the city class, though the old town goes right along the same as it always did. The whole country is growing; that is all. Actually, there are as many people in the country districts now as there ever were; and, in fact, the proportional increase in urban population is only that of the population as a whole. These are the conclusions of those who have most recently studied the problem.
Romantic Rise of a Dishwasher
rDHE New York Times contains a story of the sudden rise of a dishwasher to fame. Happy at his task, his sweet baritone voice rang out in song from the window of a hotel kitchen. An opera manager, always on the lookout for talent, found him, and dragged him forth to the light of clay. Now his voice is being trained and he is being fitted for the stage, all because he sang while doing his work, whereas some folks would have been grumbling over the task. Girls, better think about this!
Baptists Angry at Their Betrayal
APTISTS, angry because the schools of their denomination have fallen almost wholly into the hands of the monkey worshipers, have issued a manifesto in which they say with much heat:
When it is remembered that far the greater portion of the money that made these schools possible was given by men who never had the slightest doubt as to the inspiration and authority of the Bible, and who never in their lives raised a question concerning the deity of Christ, it is nothing less than a sacrilegious outrage that Modernism shall play the cuckoo, capture the nests built by others, and lay the eggs of unbelief in the same. ’
Henrietta Eidelsheim, Heroine
rpiIE New York World has an interesting story of a girl in Hunter College, Henrietta Eidelsheim, who, although deprived of the use of both hands by an. attack of infantile paralysis, has nevertheless contrived to work her way through primary school and high school, doing all her work with a pencil held in her teeth. Henrietta aspires to be a journalist or a designer.
Cleaning Roads by Magnets
IN THE Yellowstone National Park the roads are kept free from nails, bolts, wire and scrap metals by the occasional passage over them of an automobile fitted with a powerful magnet. Now if somebody could devise a machine that would pick up bits of broken bottles, or that would automatically enforce the prohibition laws, automobilists would be happy. Broken glass is still with us.
Henry Not so Hard Up
SOMEBODY started the story a little while ago that the Ford Company is beginning to feel the pinch of competition, some other concerns having found out how to make low-priced cars in quantities, too. However, nobody need waste any sleep worrying over Henry’s finances. The net profits of his company in the past seven years were over $526,000,000, which is slightly better than $20,000 per day. If Henry economizes and eats plain food he ought to be able to get along very well for a time.
Paid Vacations to Industrial Workers
TpITIIER through acts of legislation or through collective agreements between employers and employes, practically all European countries except France and Belgium have accepted the principle of paid vacations to industrial employes. The development of this movement has been rapid during the past few years.
Cardinal Hayes for Free Speech
TT IS good news that Cardinal Hayes is for free speech. He has written extolling in high terms the greatness of Thomas Jefferson, and Jefferson stood first, last and all the time for free speech. The popes are on record as opposed to free speech. But Cardinal Hayes is for Jefferson; and of course the only reason he. could have for standing for Jefferson at this time is to show that he stands for what Jefferson stood for, namely, free speech.
Around the World in an Hour -
SEVERAL men now living have made tha trip around the world in an hour; for encircling the North Pole in an airplane or an airship may be considered as going around th© globe. Jules Verne had his hero go via Suez, Singapore, Yokohama and New York in eighty days. Later that very trip was made in seventy-two days by a woman and by a schoolboy. A little later the globe chasers began to go by Moscow and Vladivostock, and the time was cut to thirty-six days. Now, by further reducing the size of the circle, they have made it in less than an hour! But this, of course, is not a bona fide trip around the habitable world; it is merely a small-sized circle around the world’s end.
Professional Bootlegging in New Jersey
N. N HONEST officer in the federal prohibition enforcement service in New Jersey has had to give it up. He claims that when the bootleggers were due to bring in a good-sized haul of liquor at Atlantic City his boss would summons him to headquarters in Newark and keep him sitting around doing nothing until the liquor was safely landed. On one occasion he was sent to Camden to watch for trucks coming into the state with Pennsylvania beer; but he made the fatal mistake of going a little out of his way and nabbing some trucks loaded with New Jersey beer, which made his superior officer so angry that he would not speak to him for several hours.
Advise Abolition of Convict Leasing Plan
THE Jefferson County, Alabama, grand jury, after scoring the warden for cruelties culmi
nating in the murder of a prisoner, said:
Disclosures have been substantially verified and are conclusive to our minds that coal mines operated with convict labor by the state furnish too many opportunities to indulge in the most inhuman and brutal forms of punishment by officials toward convicts, and among the convicts themselves; and that its value as an instrument of reformation, which should be the main object of all legal punishments, is so small as to ba negligible.
Roots a Hundred Feet Long
TN AUSTRALIA the eucalyptus tree has been known to send roots over one hundred feet through a narrow crevice in limestone in search for water, whereby alone it may live. There ara hundreds of thousands of eucalyptus trees in California. Other trees besides the eucalyptus seem to have the ability to scent water at a distance. Roots of poplars often find their way into sewers and water pipes, through pin holes so small as to lead discoverers to wonder how the rootlets ever found them.
'Jews Succeed in Agriculture
TT IS increasingly apparent that the Jew’s, once supposed to be wholly given to trading, are returning to the land. The largest cattle raiser in Kentucky is a Jew, the largest grape grower in Ohio is a Jew, the largest raiser of ducks on Long Island is a Jew. A 30,000 acre wheat farm in Kansas is in the hands of a Jew. One of the largest hothouses near New York City is owned and managed by a Jew. About 7,500 Jews now till approximately 1,000,000 acres of land in the United States.
The Explosion of Suns
THE New York Times contains an interesting article cm astronomy, devoted to a discussion of the new stars, styled novas, which at times appear in the sky, only to disappear from view at a later date. These novas are really suns which explode, in some instances hurling their gases outward at. the rate of a thousand miles a second. In ten days a nova has been known to increase to 700,000 times its bulk.
Anger as a Cause of Death
IF YOU want to die suddenly, make a habit of flying into fits of anger; the wilder the fits the better. This will cause you to be sick. Your blood will become filled with poison. Your heart will beat so violently that you will feel the strain for days. In the midst of it all you may get a hemorrhage of the brain, apoplexy; and away you go, leaving the world better off.
New York’s Infant Death Rate
IN FIFTY years New York has wrought a great transformation in the care of its babies.
Fifty years ago one-third of all the babies died, and there was no child welfare work worthy of the name. Now only one-sixteenth of the little ones die. This is bad enough, in all conscience; hut four out of five have been saved, and that is something, anyway.
Sunshine As an Aid to Health
TpXPOSING the naked body to the direct rays of the sun, without any intervening glass,, produces marked improvement of health, even when the exposure is only two minutes per day. In this statement naked means naked, without any bathing suit to interfere. Too long an exposure is dangerous; for the ultra-violet rays,, which are destructive to germ life, are also destructive to all life, if used excessively. At. Washington the Bureau of Standards has been working to devise a carbon arc lamp which will diffuse ultra-violet rays, for use in hospitals. These rays are helpful in tuberculosis, skin diseases, infected wounds and many other serious germ ailments.
Organizing the Fish Business
WHEN you see that this or that business has been organized, take a. lesson from the fish business. It was unorganized, and the price of smoked whitefish at the smokehouses was-16c to 18c a pound. Then it became organized into a beautiful trust, and the price was jumped to 40c a pound. The effect of this upon the people can be readily appreciated.
San Diego Leads in Suicides
MANY people who have visited San Diego, California, with its marvelous scenery and a climate which is as near perfection as it seems possible to have, consider it in some respects the very best place in the United States to live. San Diego, is never hot, never cold; and it is literally true that crops around there mature every month in the year. But, strange to say, San Diego has the largest suicide rate of any large city in the United States, being four times the Brooklyn rate. Men face the problems of life less courageously than women; the male suicides are three to one.
Making Cripples to Order
SOMEWHERE in the Bowery of New York City there is a place where a man who wants to enter the beggar business can have his arm taped and bandaged to his side so skillfully that he can pass very well for a cripple. One got into trouble with the police recently, and when they searched him they found an extra arm. The judge gave him six months in the workhouse, so that he could exercise it.
Boys Succeed with Bees
TWO small boys in the state of Washington have just made a profitable study of bee culture. They bought four colonies of bees from their father, and by using up-to-date methods and pure stock made $42 above expenses, while no other bees in the neighborhood made anything, and some even had to be fed to keep them alive. “The father of the boys is now taking lessons in bee culture himself.
Fiji Women Set the Pace
A FIJI island chieftain, visiting the United States, makes the claim that the customs of bobbed hair and short skirts were imported from the ladies of the Fiji Islands, where they have been the rule for many years. .Fiji ladies use charcoal instead of white face powder. Whether that, too, will be adopted here remains to be seen.
Bus Lines in the West
fpiIE West is covered with bus lines which go everywhere the railroads go, and to some places the railroad cannot reach. And they make about as good time as the railroads, too. This is giving the railroads a hard class of competition to meet. The busses are even competing for through travel between points seven hundred miles apart. There are two lines between Kansas City and Denver, and at least one between Portland and San Francisco. There is a number between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Twentieth Atlantic Cable Laid
ONE might imagine that the wonderful development of wireless would put the cables out of commission; but not so. There is room for all. Indeed, business is so plentiful that the Western Union has just laid a new cable, connecting New York and London direct. It is the twentieth Atlantic cable, and has eight times the capacity of any other cable now in use.
The Busiest of Waterways
THE busiest of waterways is New York harbor. Not only is New York one of the most beautiful harbors in the world, but it is the best lighted and the busiest. Day and night, Sundays and holidays, its waters are being crisscrossed with ocean liners, tramps, tugs, barges, naval and pleasure craft, police and fire boats, floating elevators and the ever-present ferryboat, com< monest of all. The waters of New York harbor carry 148,000,000 passengers a year.
Buying Water at High Prices
HpHE farther Health Commissioner Harris gets into the milk and butter scandal in New York City, the worse he finds things. His latest conclusions are that New Yorkers are buying daily about 75,000 pounds of water, which is very intelligently but not very honestly mixed with their butter for the purpose. Water at fifty or sixty cents a pound should pay a pretty good profit to somebody.
The Port of Galveston
FROM a small port, ruined by the great storm of twenty-seven years ago, Galveston has become one of the greatest of world ports. Eighty-eight vessels may load at her docks, and over 10,000 freight cars find room on her wharves. The port can store 5,000,000 bushels of grain and 1,325,000 bales of cotton. There are special facilities for handling coal, oil, sugar, sulphur and bananas, as well as cotton and grain.
Union of Church and Stage
TN THIS country we do not believe in the union of church and state, but now we do have a union of church and stage. The leading figures in this new piece of business are said to be Father Donahue, representing Cardinal Hayes; Rev. Dr. Cadman, head of the Federal Council of Churches in America; and two other reverends. The name of the new organization is the Church and Drama Association. It expects to make a hookup of the church and movie business.
Doctors Foresee End of Disease
AT THE 160th annual meeting of the New Jersey Medical Society, recently held in Atlantic City, several addresses indicated the hopes of doctors present that Bright's disease, dropsy, high blood pressure and heart ailments, hitherto regarded as incurable, might be cured or prevented. All are agreed that rational diet is the road to health and life. Dr. Durant, prominent New York scientist, believes everlasting human life quite possible.
Killing Mosquitoes by Airplane
rOHE Rockefeller Foundation reports great success in. attempts to destroy mosquitoes .in Italy and Sardinia by the cheap and speedy method of dusting th<> surfaces of lakes and pools with a mixture consisting of nine-tenths common road-dust and one-tenth Paris green. Mosquito Breeding was stooped and malaria almost annihilated in the districts treated.
Unusual Experience with a Snake
A WOMAN in York County, Pennsylvania, ■T-h- went to her chicken house, looking for eggs, when a huge blacksnake, over seven feet in length, leaped from the nest and wound itself around her neck and arm. She ran nearly a mile for help, with the snake coiled about her neck and arm, and was near collapse from pain and shock when the reptile was killed.
Will There be Any Summer Next Year?
TJkbbert Janvrin Browne, student of ocean currents, claims that America is even now practically surrounded with cold water and will be by next year; with the result that, cold and backward as has been the summer season of 1926, it will be much worse in 1927. He predicts that government measures will be necessary in order to save the people from starvation.
Jazz Jars a Refined Musician to Death
A BRITISH musical director, a one-time leading cornetist of the continent, who had on one occasion played for Queen Victoria, recently visited Coney Island, in company with his nephews. The so-called music of the jazz bands distressed him. He lifted his hands in an appealing way and, saying to his nephews, “That isn’t music,” dropped dead from the strain upon his heart. It would seem that some of the jazz performers could have been better spared.
The Armada of 1927
THE Americal Legion is planning a peaceful invasion of France in September, 1927. It
is planned that 30,0’90 veterans of the World War shall make the trip, in a fleet of twenty-four luxurious vessels. The Legion is so planning the trip that the entire cost per individual may be as low as $300. The object is to celebrate America’s entrance into the war.
The Pennsylvania Primaries /COMMENTING on the flood of corruption un-LC earthed in connection with the Pennsylvania State primaries, the New York Evening World says:
If we have reached the conclusion that it is perfectly proper for mon of immense wealth to buy offices and to buy legislation and to buv the government it is time for the American 'people to go into a court of moral bankruptcy and apply for a. receiver.
The World sees the need of the Lord’s kingdom, “the desire of all nations.”
No Poverty Means No Crime
THE close relation between poverty and crime
is revealed by conditions in the town of Garnavillo, Iowa, located in one of the richest farming communities of the state. The village has no poor, with the pleasing corollary that it has no jail. It has had no arrest for so long that the oldest inhabitant cannot remember when one occurred.
Straw Hals are a Delusion
ONCE every year a man is expected to buy a straw hat, and once every year the man resolves never to do it again. Straw hats are stiff, unwieldly and prone to become easily soiled and weatherbeaten. They are heavier and hotter than light-weight felt hats. The wind blows them off. They are no good in a rain storm, and no good anyway. Away with them!
Radium Emanations Cause Death
RESEARCHES of the Department of Labor have shown that radium emanations cause death to workers brought in constant contact therewith. Persons engaged in fine work, such as painting luminous watch dials, are especially susceptible. In one plant six deaths have occurred in two years, traceable directly to radium emanations. The blood changes; the workers get excessive fatigue, headaches, irritability, dizziness and anemia.
What Spiritists Expect in 1928
THE Manchester, England, Chronicle, contains an article by the editor of the Occult
Review, a spiritist organ, in which the gentleman says, in effect, that all the evidence which comes to his desk indicates that toward the end of 1f;28 the demons will be unchained, the most awful war of all time will sweep Europe from end to end, a war in which everybody will be involved, and from which none may escape. While not attaching much importance to any information received from such a source, we nevertheless quote two interesting sentences from the article:
The psychic messages received through independent mediums all over the world, and the prophecies of some of our foremost astrologers, all go to show that civilization will be saved from utter destruction only by the visitation of some devastating seismic catastrophe which shall shake the warring nations out of their madness and compel them to call a halt. The forces of evil, however, knowing their time is short, will endeavor to engulf as many as possible before, to use an allegorical expression, they are bound for a thousand years.
Spiritual Laundries and Sweat Skc-ps
A LONDON ,■journalist reports that sni ril iml istic seance lie was inforn
at
- spiritualistic seance he was informed by
Lord Northcliffe or somebody else that the spirits of the departed not only live in houses and have flowers, musical instruments and clocks, but that they have solid bodies and wear changes of clothes! So? Well, then, they must have spiritual laundries or washwomen; and obviously they would have sweat shops, too, in which to make the clothes. The demons love to make fools of any who will heed their prattle.
Demons Pay Poet a Visit
THE poet d’Armunzio declares that unseen hands have been playing upon the piano at the country house where he is staying. He alleges that the playing drowned the sound of near-by church bells. It was his idea that the shadow7 form which he saw and which did the playing was that of Liszt, the great composer. The demons are trying to deceive Mr. d’Annunzio. Their chief amusement is in trying to convince people that the dead are not really dead, as the Scriptures declare them to be.
Reverend Bourchier Fears Spiritism
Reverend Basil Bourchier, one of London’s most popular preachers, says very truly:
The unsettling effect of spiritism on all who take it up, can be viewed only with the greatest concern. Promising to open the door to the beyond, has in many cases only opened the door to the madhouse. Not one single ennobling word or message has ever come to the inquirer. ,
All that Mr. Bourchier says, and much more, is true. Spiritism is demonism, the work of evil spirits, and is in no sense the work of the spirits of those who are dead. Every alleged com-munieation with those who are dead is a lie, according to our only chart, the Bible.
A World Filled with Turmoil
TN HIS address to the Yale Graduating Class, J- President Angell of Yale University said in part:
It is into a world disturbed in all its deepest convictions that you are about to enter, a world a trifle wistful as its gaze turns backward to the golden past, a world wavering and uncertain of its spiritual destiny. Government and education, art, industry, ethics and religion—all are infected with the spirit of unrest. Extremes of fashion in attire which contravene previous canons of modesty, liberties of deportment between men and women which seriously transgress preceding ideas of propriety, looseness and vulgarity of speech which ..are offensive to even rudimentary good taste, these and dozens of similar circumstances, suggest a relaxation of social standards'which, while not intrinsically immoral, easily leads to misconduct. Although the issues are obviously different in detail, there is little ground to doubt that in substance the unrest in social and political life is all of a piece with the relaxation of standards in morals and the revolt against religion,.' and for the present purpose they may accordingly be grouped as one.
The World Wearies of Parliaments
A GAINST its own best interests the world has wearied of parliaments and is busily throwing its affairs into the hands of dictators. Baldwin could be a dictator in England any time he likes, France is ready for one, Spain has de Rivera, Italy has Mussolini, Greece has Pangalos, Poland has Pilsudski, Rumania has Averescu, Hungary has Count Bethlen, Turkey has Kemal Pasha and Persia has Reza Khan. If the Lord did not interfere, as He will, the cause of human liberty would be dead in another decade, or oven less.
Finding the Way Back to Paradise
MANKIND is slowly finding the way back to
Paradise. In the garden of Eden man lived by eating fruit. After the Flood, and until recently, his diet has been largcdy meat: and his life has been cut short. Now he is eating more fruit, and his life is lengthening. In Britain it is estimated that every citizen eats either an orange or an apple three times a week. He would be still better off if he ate three times as much fruit, as is the ease here.
Mexico Seeks to Recover Citizens
VALUING her citizens as her greatest asset, Mexico seeks to secure the return to Mexico of some 200.000 Mexicans who are now living in the United States, Mexico believes that the return of these Americanized Mexicans would be of great benefit to the country as the returned wanderers would almost certainly bring with them ideas and practices which would improve the farming and other methods of the country. Mexico not only is seeking to recover her old citizens, but is aiming to save the new ones; and to that end pure milk is given, free of charge, to any mother in Mexico City who applies for it at the distributing stations erected for the purpose.
Paris-Berlin Air Service
ON MAY 26th of this year air sendee was opened between Paris and Berlin; planes passing in both directions and landing their mail, passengers and freight on schedule time. Stops are made at Cologne and Essen enroute, and the time required for the trip is eight hours. There were no initial ceremonies, but both services were well patronized,
Czechs Alarmed at Fascist Growth
Czechoslovakia, alarmed at the growth of fascism within its borders, is taking steps to combat this peculiar form of anarchy now spreading over the earth. An organization composed of ex-soldiers of the World War, teachers and others, has been formed; and it is stated that the government will be approached at once to see what it proposes to,do to prevent the same thing happening in Czechoslovakia that has happened in Italy and elsewhere.
Democracy Dead in Italy
Mussolini boasts that democracy is dead in Italy. No doubt he tells the truth, for he is the man who killed it, Mussolini and his crowd have now abolished all unions and organizations having views differing from their own, and have organized the whole country into thirteen associations, all under government control, Employers are put in one union, laborers in another, and so on with artists, artisans, lawyers, doctors, journalists, teachers, etc., all under the control of the government. A more effectual plan for killing liberty deader than a door nail could not possibly be devised. Now watch it spread to the ends of Christendom.
Wickersham’s Opinion of Mussolini
Mn George AV. Wickersham, referring to Benito Mussolini as the greatest menace in the world today, is quoted as also saying:
There exists in Italy today a condition of absolute tyranny Under the government there has come about a suppression of free speech, a destruction of the freedom of the press, and a total absence of individual liberty. How long if v ill be before the situation arrives at the exploding point, none can tell. There is, however, a disposition to fear that when Mussolini begins to feel that his control of power is slipping, he. will seek to save his prestige, by holding out before the eyes of his subjects a program of territorial expansion.
Fascists Try to Prevent Free Speech
TpASClSTS have undertaken to try to prevent tree speech in Switzerland. Some Swiss Socialists were having a meeting at which they denounced Air. Mussolini as a murderer. Fascist i came in and tried to break up the meeting. Alter a fight they were arrested. Now Mr. Mussolini’s government has served notice on Switzerland that if any more anti-Fascist meet-tings are permitted in Geneva it will withdraw from participation in the League of Nations.
All Institutions Must Show Crucifix
ONE more step has been taken by Mussolini to show that he is working hand in hand with the pope. He has issued orders that hereafter every institution in Italy must exhibit the crucifix, including all universities and colleges, and even the Academy of Beaux Arts. The AMtican organ has expressed itself as well pleased, AVhy not ? It was all planned long ago.
No More Hand Organs and Monkeys
THE Italian foreign office has issued orders to refuse passports hereafter to all persons intending living abroad and making their living by the use of barrel organs, monkeys, bears or other animals. The foreign office believes that Italian dignity has been lowered by these musicians.
Present Migrations in the World
ITALIANS are migrating by the millions into . France, Argentina and Northern Australia.
The East Indians are migrating into Central East Africa. The Central Africans are migrating southward into British possessions. The Chinese are roving northward and southward. The British are coming to Canada and Australia. The southern Negro is moving north.
Amazing Progress of Armenia
THE New York Times contains interesting details of the amazing progress of Armenia, one of the eight federated Soviet republics. The new country (it is only five years old) has perfeet freedom in language, education, police ad- ■ ministration, postal system and a national university at Erivan, its principal city, with a library of 200,000 volumes and four separate faculties in medicine, agriculture, political science and pure science. Erivan also has a conservatory of music, a textile factory’ with 3,000 employes and many other surprising evidences cf progress among a people almost blotted out by the Turks during the World War.
Afghanistan Improving, even if Slowly
Afghanistan, population 6,000,000 and one of the most backward countries in the world, is slowly improving, despite the great difficulties placed .in the way by the fanatical old Afghans who wish nothing new. Irrigation works are being constructed in three places; European physicians are treating the sick in the capital, Kabul; Italians have begun silkworm breeding; Germans have begun cotton aud sugar culture; and mining engineers and elm exploring the country with a view to a ing its metallurgical possibilities
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Africa’s Wild Animals Face Extinction
APPARENTLY the world is to be largely if not completely denuded of its wild animals.
So many hunters of large game have visited Africa in recent years that the large game is being all killed off. A noted large-game hunter recently visited what was once a district famous for its lions, but saw not one on his whole trip. The African elephant is well nigh extinct. Perhaps enough specimens will be saved to provide a few more generations with samples, to be seen through iron bars; but the wild beasts have evidently had their day. Appeals are now being made to stop hunting Africa’s wild animals.
The Iron Hand of Kemal Pasha
TN FIVE years Kemal Pasha has dethroned
the Sultan, abolished state religion, overthrown the Moslem caliphate, abolished polygamy, abolished Oriental headgear, removed the veils, from the women, closed the Moslem schools, put the people into western clothing, made Turkey a republic, built a new capital, and opened the mosques to women.
Cause of the Syrian War
fTTHE leader of the Druse rebellion in Syria, in a message to the Associated Press, said:
The allegation that we are waging war against the Christians in our .beloved Syria is false, and every fair-minded man in the Occident should be told so Our revolt is the result cf atrocities committed by French colonizing agents, who have violated the sacred rights of our country.
The message denies again and again any past or projected attack on Christians who mind their own affairs and keep out of the conflict.
Bombardment cf Damascus Continues
SINCE October, 1925, the French have not ceased to bombard the Druse sections of Damascus with batteries of artillery and airplanes which drop large quantities of high explosives. Damascus is being gradually reduced to ruins. One-third of the city is reported as already destroyed, with the other two-thirds practically lifeless. France is administering the affairs of Syria under a mandate from the League of Nations. It is engaged in showing the world how the Syrians should be governed.
Slaves Freed in Burma
THE New York Times reports the success of a British expedition for stamping cut slavery and human sacrifices in parts of Burma where hitherto it has been unsafe for white men to come. The liberty of 3445 human beings was obtained at a monetary cost of 19,000 rupees. The natives have been in the habit of keeping their human sacrifices in stockpens for two months before slaying them. They were disappointed at not having one final human sacrifice before discontinuing the custom.
Sidelights tm ill e London Convention ByF. W. Franz
«rpiIAT international convention at London" . —the bare mention of it makes the face of every Bible Student who attended it light up with a happy smile, reminiscent of that which was worn during the sessions of that gathering of consecrated Christian people. It is a great inward refreshment just to live that convention all over again in one’s happy memories,
God has a people in the earth today who are strictly devoted to Him and to the service of His cause. For the sake of this people it is written in God’s Word: (iI will guide thee with mine eye [wisdom]’’; “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass." The God of earth and sky made good these promises to His consecrated ones who assembled in the old world’s greatest city from May 24 to May 31 of this year.
The international convention of the International Bible Students Association was doubtless timed by the Lord for London, England, this year; and that it was well-timed mark the report hereinafter given. In his closing address at the convention the Association’s president remarked that endeavors had been made to hold an international convention in the United States of America this year, but all efforts were estopped. Thereupon the decision was cast in favor of making London the site of the international gathering for 1926,
But rumblings, portending a coming labor disturbance in the British Isles, were heard. When the convention dates had been definitely fixed and announced through The Watch Tower, the official organ of the I. B. S, A,, and when now all duo preparations were well under way, the threatened striking of British miners went into effect. Then followed the general strike and tie-up of transportation and industry throughout Britain.
The leaders of both parties set their jaws and proposed to make it a fight to the finish. The situation took on an ugly form. Throughout the days of the first week it dragged on, and then into the second week, Meanwhile the Cunard S. S, “Tuscania” was preparing to-sail from New York harbor the end of the second week with a contingent of twenty-eight American ’delegates to the International Bible Students convention aboard,
The Lord’s Smile of Favor
ANCELLATIONS of ship passage to England were being reported in the papers; and the burning question was: If the “Tuscania" does sail, will the American delegation sail with it? Then the king intervened (Was it the king of England or a greater King than any earthly monarch?)—anyway, King George declared that there should be no fight to the finish; and on Wednesday, May 12th, just two days before the “Tuscania” was scheduled to sail, the New York radio service announced over the ether that the general strike had been called off.
The cry now ivas: On with the convention; across the Atlantic with the American delegation! Little did the convention party realize that the time had come for something to be done by the Lord’s organization upon “the seat of the beast’’ (Revelation 16:10), that the position of London in the Devil’s organization was due to be exposed in 1926, and that consequently all obstacles had to be cleared from the path of the convention.
Friday, May 14th, just ten minutes before midnight, the “Tuscania” cast off from its New York pier with a joyful party of Bible Students aboard. For them the convention really began aboard that ship, but time and space do not permit telling about their daily meetings and witnessing out on the briny deep.
Talk about nasty weather! They had it in London—before the convention. The London Bible Students told about it, and the prospects of good convention weather looked as gloomy as that which marked the close of the International Eucharistic Congress of the Roman Catholics which met last June at Mundelein, Ill., forty miles west of Chicago. Approximately 800,000 to 1,000,000 Catholic worshipers, so the papers claim, gathered there under the open sky to participate in the processional which wras to climax and conclude that loudly heralded Eucharistic congress. As the pope’s legate to the congress was carrying the “ostensorium”, containing the “host” (a piece of bread), in advance of the processions, and as devout Catholics Avere genuflecting- and parading one hundred thousand at a time after the “host”, then, according to the New York Times:
A rainstorm came up with a. sudden summer bluster.
Rain fell in torrents, followed by hail. Thunder came in sharp, crackling reports as lightning flashed across the sky. The storm lasted but twenty minutes. . . . There 'were drops unusually large. In a minute the drops increased to a cloudburst, the rain mixed with large particles of hail; and there was net a soul but was soaked to the skin.
But not so in London; nature took an abrupt change and favored the city with, fair weather. The I. B. S. A. convention opened under a beaming sun and closed with sunshine in the sky and in the heart. While thousands of eager Londoners were standing in the epen for hours waiting to get into London’s largest auditorium to hear the public lectures of the convention, and while Bible Students were abroad in the lanes and byways and suburbs of London, joyfully advertising King Jesus and His kingdom, the rain stayed until the work was over.
An Ideal Convention Site
IN MANY respects the Alexandra Palace was an ideal location for trie convention. Like a city that is set on a hill and that cannot be hid, this famous structure is located on a commanding position on Muswell Hill, on the outskirts of London, and affords a grand panoramic view of the northern section of London spreading out below. ,
Like the 144,000 saints with the Lamb of God, described in Revelation 14, who stand on the peak of Mount Zion and above the world of mankind whom, they are to bless, so were the thousands of Bible Students who assembled in the Palace. For the time it became a house of God. The Palace is still an imposing structure, but must have been very attractive in the day of its prime. It has been standing since the days of Queen Victoria’s reign, and during the World War many German prisoners were interned there.
In the center of the Palace is the Great Hall, running north and south; and with its great organ and choir at the north end, and its stately colonnades, it resembles a cathedral interior. West of the Great Hall is a square court, containing the Italian Gardens. On the east side toward the sunrising, is the Concert Hall, running east and west. In it the convention was held. This hall receives its illumination from the heavens through the skylighting overhead, and during the entire period of the convention heaven’s
light sufficed. Not a single artificial light was turned on during any service, morning, afternoon, or early evening. _
Toward the -west end of the hall was the speakers’ platform, fronted by a semicircle of beautiful flowering plants, massed up high and yielding sweet perfume. Suspended above the platform was a cluster of .four loudspeaker horns, to broadcast the utterances of the speakers to the conventioners. There were also two such horns on the stage in the adjacent theater to the north.
Long banners bearing appropriate Bible texts in large letters hung on the walls, while above and some distance in advance of the speakers’ platform there was suspended the largest banner, with the Bible Students’ year-text: “BLESSED BE THE LORD OUT OF ZION.” Wondrously was this text fulfilled at the conven-vention. The late Pastor Charles T. Russell lectured in the Alexandra Palace about fifteen years ago, using the topic: “Where are the Dead?”
In the large vestibule or section which led to the convention hall there stood a booth of Japanese design. It served as the location of the Enquiry Bureau and of the Service Department headquarters. On banners hung about tins booth were to he noted the mysterious letters: “G. O. S. 0. S. 0.” They seemed to say “Go-soso” ; and it was anticipated that they meant something like that. At any rate we were prepared for any eventualities.
A Truly International Meeting
THE convention was truly an international one. Delegates were there from various
European countries, as well as from various cities and towns of the British Isles. Some came from the Dominion of Canada. The Americans from the States numbered forty-two. I remember meeting a delegate from Australia, also a colporteur from South Africa, besides the manager of the South African branch. Even Ethiopia was represented; there were four colored delegates all the way from New York City.
Thousands more were in attendance in prayers and good wishes; telegrams, cablegrams and messages were received and read from Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, and other British, points; from Winnipeg, Canada; Oslo, Norway; Bergen, Norway; Stockholm, Sweden; Helsingfors, Finland; Copenhagen, Denmark; Berlin, Germany; Athens, Greece; Singapore, of the Malay States; from the I. B. S. A. headquarters staff at the Bethel in Brooklyn, N. Y.; from Monrovia, Calif., Philadelphia, Penna., and other points in the United States.
The colored congregation of Bible Students in New York sent this message, which evoked applause: “May London realize that God is visiting her,” to which may be adjoined the thought that if London did not identify it as of the Imid she surely felt that something had struck her sorely, especially all day Saturday and Sunday night, as hereinafter related.
The actual attendance at the convention reached about 4,000, which is very good considering the conditions, especially the withdrawing of convention rates by the railroads and the hardships that the late general strike had produced. Although the coal strike was and is still on, yet numbers of Bible Students who are coal miners and members of their families came.
I remember there were seventeen from the little Clydach class, in the mining region of southern Wales. But they came, these friends, so great was their zeal for the Lord's house, even though it was necessary to prepare homemade marmalade and sell it, as one sister did to provide expenses for her husband and herself. With many it was a question not of pence but of pounds, so some said.
J. Hemery, the manager of the London branch of the Watch To web Bible and Tract Society, served as convention chairman. He was assisted by R. II. Barber from the New York headquarters, and W. Dey—his is a Scottish name but he is managing the Society’s branch at Copenhagen. These also gave addresses at the convention. The other speakers on the program were Messrs. Senior, Gillatt, Walder, the manager of the South African branch, Bowland, Young, the manager of the Spanish branch at Madrid, Batchelor, Franz, R. A. Johnson, Swain, Martin, the business manager of the New York headquarters, Lloyd, Pinnock, Scott, Guiver, Burton, Richards, Harbeck, the manager of the Berne (Switzerland) office, Robinson, and Judge J. F. Rutherford, the Society's President, and well known to readers of The Golden Age.
Giving Sanctimoniousness the Ha-ha
THE discourses by these speakers were up-to-date in their content and were well received.
They emphasized the fact that the truth of divine revelation has come to stay and..is marching on to victory; that the Lord God, whose name is Jehovah, is Himself taking a hand in human affairs during this crucial period and purposes to make Himself a name, not in earth only hut in all the universe; and that His great Vice-gerent, Jesus Christ, has gone into action against the arch-enemy’s monstrous organization; that deliverance is at hand both foi Christ’s true-followers as well as for oppressed humanity; that now the Lord's people are on top and the nominal preachers and clergy are beneath; that now is no time for inaction on the part of Christians nor for idle dreaming of dreams, as is described in Joel 2 : 28, 29, but that God’s faithful remnant must be as youths, youngmen of vision, who clearly see the Lord’s purposes for our day and detect His movements and works and joyfully align themselves therewith.
Standing as they are in a most dangerous position, because the great dragon-like organization of Satan is thirsting for the destruction of those who keep the commandments of God, they keep themselves in a safe position by renderingholiness unto the Lord; and holiness means not a sanctimonious, goody-goody, ne’er-do-amiss in thought, word, or deed attitude, but utter devotion to Jehovah God ; for it is only those who are active in God’s service as His witnesses that Jie promises to cover in the shadow of His hand. Hypocrisy and the holier-than-thou attitude which hide their despicable head under a sober, pious, long-frock-coated, solemn-voiced, devout-appearing- exterior were roundly trounced, especially by the Society’s president, much to the amused enjoyment and genuine approval of the convention. They gleefully hailed the, dawning for them of release from foolish Babylonish trammels, which retard activity, and of greater exercise of themselves in the liberty wherewith Christ makes His own free.
As one conventioner testified in the London Tabernacle the Wednesday night after the convention : “I want to thank the Lord for the deliverance we have had from ecclesiasticism at this convention. I may be letting our American brethren in on some of our secrets over here,” ],c frankly stated; and then he told how on one occasion, when opportunity was afforded him to deliver a discourse, he was declared barred from the speakers’ platform because, forsooth, he was not dressed in ecclesiastical style but was clad in a profane gray business suit rather than in a sanctified long black frock coat.
Alack and aias for poor, holy-faced'sanctimony! Evidently he is in the throes of death over there among the Biilish Evils Students. Let us hone that they have buried him and that they are clone wnui imiiiicKing Satan s religious marionettes forever. '
Meaning of the Mystic Banners
IT WAS a service convention to the core. The first feature on the program Thursday morning was a Service Meeting, addressed by. four speakers. About. 150 British colporteurs were privileged to attend the convention, and there was one among them who had been a gypsy. The first speaker congratulated them on their privilege of being colporteurs and on their brave activity, and offered them words of encouragement and instruction.
Messrs. Johnson and Martin followed, and outlined the program of work for Service Day. A shipment of 117.000 copies of Judge Rutherford’s new booklet, Standard for the People, which had been turned out at Brooklyn headquarters by a force working night and day, had come across the Atlantic Ocean on the same ship that had carried the American delegation. It was announced that the plan was to sell these and other books on the streets of London “at a price”, said Mr. Martin, “that will make the preachers get scared and run.” And when he closed his remarks by naming the price, a “tuppence” (twopence), the convention went wild with enthusiasm.
It took Mr. Swain, the Service Director of the London class, to decipher the mysterious “Go-so-so” signs. lie chose it as the basis of his remarks and explained it to mean: “Go Out; Speak Out; Sell Out.” The convention set its hopes on carrying out this slogan, and when Service Day arrived they had equipped themselves for the fray by buying, cash-down, 110,000 conies of the Standard booklet.
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The Raid on London
HERE never was such a raid made on London/’ reminiscently remarked an old pilot at Glasgow a couple of weeks later, “They’re still talking about it/5 another Scotsman ejaculated; and I imagine that “li’l old Lunnon town” did rub its eyes and wonder in amazement. Hundreds upon hundreds of Bible Students appeared simultaneously and without notice on the busy corners, at the marts, and around the subway entrances and exits, crying Standard booklets and, like newsboys, shouting “tuppence, tuppence” I
The London newspapers, catering to the influence of ecclesiasticism, had given the convention the cold shoulder as far as advertising the great public lectures of Judge Rutherford was concerned. Hence the Bible Students undertook the advertising of these meetings themselves, by distributing announcement slips to the passersby.
Piccadilly Circus (or, American, Circle) did not escape getting- the witness, nor even did Aidgate, the very heart of London, that mile-fcquare zone which is strictly designated as the city of London. Here a helmeted Bobby, whose tall stature towered above my “wee” five-foot four inches, soberly informed me: “No one can Bell or distribute anything on the streets in this Beetion without a very special permission from the Lond.on authorities. I have power to arrest you right now/’ he commented, but added considerately, “I don’t want to cause you any unpleasantness, and so I thought I’d just explain. You’ve brought your people too close.”
I moved down the street toward the one mile limit which he pointed out, but the other workers In this section were getting by with their selling, and consequently stayed at their posts. Hence tJie bus load of workers there in Aidgate quickly disposed of 576 books, notwithstanding that they were in a Jewish business district; and many erthodox Hebrews would not buy anyway because of Sabbatarian scruples.
The work done, the workers all returned to the bus by five o’clock. Toward that hour the tky darkened, and about five minutes before five S. light rain began to patter down. But the loaded bus had not gone far on its return run to Alexandra Palace when the rain ceased.
No Saul of Tarsus Here
ONDON, big as it is, did not seem to have enough busy spots to accommodate those who had complied with the slogan “Go Out, Speak Out and Sell Out”. In many places they were stationed at no great distance from one another, and the passing throngs had to run a regular gauntlet. Some police officiously ordered them to move on. Some people became indignant.
One woman called a policeman and ordered the arrest of another with the books. But the policeman answered: “She is doing nothing wrong.” Then the woman called a man to her assistance; and though they both insisted on her arrest the policeman remained firm that “she is doing nothing wrong”. After the offended couple had passed on, the policeman turned to the colporteur with a smile, pulled back his coat and proudly displayed an I. B. S. A. cross-and-crown pin.
Two clergymen were sauntering’ along; and when a lady braved to offer the book to them, one of them burst out: “I’ve been insulted several times this afternoon by your people selling these books and talking to me publicly on the streets about God and Christ’s kingdom!” The lady replied that Bible Students love to talk about the Lord and Ills kingdom anytime and anywhere. Another clergyman, when informed that the literature was by Judge Rutherford, exclaimed: “What, that man again! That fellow had added years to my life.”
One man, evidently prejudiced by ecclesiastical influence, shouted, “To h—1 with Judge Rutherford!” Then a Jew, learning that the book was by Judge Rutherford, seized the hand of the colporteur and kissed it. A Danish delegate, unable to express himself in English, had himself placarded with English signs to make known what he was selling, and thus went forth with the message to the “maddening crowd”.
A delegate, unable to' canvass from house-to-house, took a position on the street and sold fifty booklets in an hour. Another sold twenty-one booklets to passengers in a “double-decker” bus; while of course, the conductor was busy upstairs or down as the case might be. The workers went at it energetically, with the thought ever in mind: “Speak Out and Sell Out I” and I heard of some who worked till nine thirty and even ten p. in., and placed from one hundred to two hundred copies.
The Joys of Service
THERE was no meeting at the Palace in the evening of Service Day, but the workers went to their abiding places with the happiness and joy which activity in the service of their God brings. London had been taken by surprise, but such strategy was not without Scriptural precedent. Gideon, the famous warrior of ancient Israel, did not ask permission to assail the Midianites in the dead of the night. He simply took them by surprise, and the hostile host fled when Gideon’s gallant three hundred broke their pitchers and raised aloft their torchlights and blew their trumpets.
I am reminded of these words from Abraham Lincoln’s classic address at the Gettysburg battlefield: “The world may little remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” Likewise it may soon have been forgotten what was said at length at the London Convention, but what was done there—and that Resolution—shall long be remembered and serve as a stimulus to ardent zeal in God’s cause.
The introduction of the resolution, entitled “A Testimony Addressed to the Rulers of the AVorkl”, came as a glad surprise about 4:28 o’clock Friday evening. The president of the I. B. S. A. was on the platform, explaining the significance of Isaiah 49. The opening verse he showed is addressed to that class of fearful, cover-seeking Christians pictured in Revelation 7 as the “great multitude”. Those Christians, however, who are fearlessly and faithfully publishing the kingdom tidings abroad, are to participate in a work toward this great multitude of “prisoners . . . that are in darkness” under ec-clesiasticism.
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