Golden Age, September 22, 1926
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Contents of the Golden Age
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Social and Educational
Wbm the Wobib is Doing ..........
New York's Bat Problem ............... 803
Nineteen Slave Markets Still Exist ............ 804
Houses of Straw
An Attempted Pogrom Fails
Famines in Silesia and Poland ........
Boys and Girls Uncover the Sphinx ........... 808
What the Would Cannot'Do .....
. Political—Domestic and Foreign
Government by Radio . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805
Fascism in Great Britain ............... 805
Syrians Have Lost Confidence in French ......... 806
ABD-EL-KRIM’S OPINION OF EuBOPE ........
India Will Stop Opium Exports .............. 813
Pope Desires Mexican Revolution
What Mexico is Doing
Science and Invention
Aurora Borealis Phenomena in Montana ......... 816
The Whole Earth Trembling .........
Home and Health
The Diet Maze .............
Travel and Miscellany
Out West
Abandoning A Sinking Ship in Mid-Ocean .......... 812
Religion and Philosophy
That Papal Splurge at Chicago
How Were the Great Limestone Structures Built? ..... 817
Not Such Asses After All . . ....... . ...... .
Bible Questions and Answers ........... .
Radio in Spain .........
The Dawn of a New Day ............... 821
The World’s Deliverer
Christ Not Welcome in London ............. 830
Studies in “The Harp of God" ............... ggi
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Golden Age
Volume VII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, September 22, 1926 Number 168
What the World is Doing
Some Homely Truths
IN THE July, 1926, New York Times Current History Magazine, Bishop James Cannon, Jr., for eight years in charge of the Methodist work in Mexico, says:
Whenever and wherever the Vatican has had the power it has permitted no freedom of worship. It did not permit it in Mexico, Cuba, or in South American countries as long as it could prevent it. It endeavors today to stifle all Protestant efforts in Spain, Poland, Italy, llumania and indeed everywhere else.
Universal Religious Peace Conference
THE 'Universal Religious Peace Conference announces that at its meeting, to be held at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1930, the Executive Committee will consist of ten Roman Catholics, ten Protestants, five Eastern Orthodox, four Jews, four Buddhists, four Moslems, four Hindus, two Zoroastrians, two Confucians, two Shin-toists, one Jain, one Sikh and one Taoist. There will be no Bible Students on the committee.
Nudity is Tame in New York
BRITAIN is mildly surprised because a judge in New York sees no occasion to condemn an actress for appearing on the stage dressed in a golden fig-leaf five inches big and a thin net brassiere. The same papers carried abroad the news of the seventeen-year-old dancer who, at a theatre party in New York, stepped into a bathtub of champagne, minus even the fig-leaf, and served champagne from the tub to men in the party. Britain may be shocked, but all this is tame in New’ York nowadays.
Fashions are to Change
THE New York American says that fashions are to change; for the French, who have a large trade in silks, velvets and feathers, have found that the women are wearing so little clothing that their trade in these items has been seriously curtailed. But our prophecy is that nothing will ever drive the women back into the long, unhealthy skirts of the past.
Everybody Buying on Installments
K LMOST everybody in America today is buying on installments, which is merely betting against the future. It is estimated that the volume of installment buying in America in 1925 was $6,500,000,000. Most of this was for automobiles. The people are getting the cars and are betting that they will some time be able to pay for them, and pay the interest charges, too.
New York’s Rat Problem
NEW YORK faces a rat problem of no small dimensions. It is a great task to keep rats out of the most crowded and at the same time the largest city on earth. It is next to impossible to keep from the rats all of the hundreds of cars of food brought into the city daily. As a consequence the rats live and multiply. Rat bites are now becoming increasingly common, so much so that in some districts the mothers cover their sleeping infants with wire netting.
America’s Deplorable Mental Health
TN THE year 1880 patients in American hospitals for the insane were 82 per 100,000 of the population; by 1910 the number had increased to 204; by 1923 it had reached the height of 242. At present there are 290,456 patients in such institutions. It is claimed that 50 percent of this insanity is unnecessary and preventable..
What the World War Cost
THE World War cost thirty million lives and four hundred billion dollars in property.
In other words, out of every ten families in tha whole earth one was slain by the war. Had there been no war, a fortune of twelve thousand five hundred dollars could have been, divided .among these ten families for the sum that the war cost—all of it wasted, and worse than wasted.
What Militarism Really Is '
WHAT militarism really means is shewn by dispatches in the Federated Press that several youths called up for military service in Finland committed suicide rather than suffer the tortures which are accorded to conscientious objectors in Finnish prisons.
Nineteen Slave Markets Still Exist
THE Slavery Commission of the League of
Nations- has performed service to humanity by disclosing that there are nineteen areas in Europe, Asia and Africa in which slave raiding, slave trading and slave markets still exist; also that slavery for debt, slavery by adoption, and forced labor are prevalent or alleged to be prevalent in Porto Rico and the Philippines. The United States is being urged to take part in a Slavery Conference.
360 Horses on One Job
IN ALBERTA neighbors turned out to help a widow cultivate and sow her 300 acres of land. The response was so complete that 360 horses were used on the job. The work was done in a day, 41 cultivators and 20 seed drills being employed to do the work.
Autogyro a Success
THE autogyro, of which we have made previous mention, has now been given a thorough test in Britain, and is said to be a complete success. This combination of airplane and windmill enables the flyer to descend vertically, which is the thing for which aviators and inventors have long been waiting and hoping. The windmill part of the device is not connected with the engine.
The Prize Iceberg
THE past season has been an unusual one for icebergs. In some instances ships have been completely surrounded with, drift ice and obliged to remain inactive all night. In other instances as many as three bergs have been passed in one day. The “Hamburg” reported an iceberg two thousand feet long, towering 100 feet above the sea. This means that its total height from its base beneath the sea to its peak must have been in the neighborhood of one-fifth of a mile.
Walking Across Red-Hot Coals
T ET the ordinary person, without first reeog-nizing demon worship in some form, undertake to Walk across red-hot coals; and it requires no argument to prove that horrible if not fatal burns would follow. Returned travelers, who have themselves done these feats after elaborate ceremonials by heathen priests, say that although their clothes were scorched, the bare feet were uninjured. This protection is plainly the work of demons.
Many Jews Believe in Christ
Sir Leon Levison, president of the International .. Christian Hebrew Alliance, in. a speech in Toronto, declared that in Hungary there are at least forty thousand Jews who- believe in Christ, in Poland thirty-five thousand; in Austria fifteen thousand; while in Norway, Denmark and Sweden fully four-fifths of the entire Jewish population believe in Him.
Electrical Development Stirs Ireland
THE South of Ireland is awakening. The great system of electrical plants, power for which is to be generated by the waters "of the River Shannon, is in the actual making; and villages which have been asleep for ages are now awakening to find themselves in the center of an intense activity. Hundreds of spotlessly clean huts have been erected for the German and Irish workmen. The series of plants, when completed, will cost $22,000,000. The headquarters are at Limerick.
Electrical Prospecting in Sweden
SINCE the discovery of radio nothing is impossible. Hence it does not surprise us to learn that old methods of prospecting have given way and that two Swedish engineers have developed a method of prospecting for metals by some electrical device. The result is said to be the discovery of large gold deposits near the Arctic Circle, and borings .are said to have confirmed the reputed discoveries. The deposits will be worked at once.
Wood Versus Steel Homes
BRITAIN has been experimenting with steel houses, but the results do not justify the costs. Sheet steel Avails cost more than brick, and brick costs more than frame walls. Steel roofs cost thirty percent more than standard wood roofs. As to fires, most fires are of internal origin; and any type of building will be damaged by a hot internal fire. Costs of painting and heating steel structures are excessive. Wooden houses are being re-introduced into England.
Houses of Straw
THE New York American tells us that houses of straw are now being made in France. The material is .made in panels nine feet long, six feet wide and two inches thick, and is produced under heavy pressure which, so it is claimed, renders the material both sound-proof and fire-proof. It is predicted that the new material will have a wide use.
Internal Paper Hanging
WHEN a paper-hanger wants to make the paper stick, he makes a paste of flour and water; and that does the trick. That is because the flour is almost pure starch. The way the paste sticks to the wall is the way that white bread sticks to the linings of the intestines. When white bread is chewed and mixed with saliva it makes a fine paste. This form of internal decoration is largely responsible for the fact that humanity now takes 45,000 kinds of drugs in a vain endeavor to keep well.
Things Livening up on the Continent
THINGS seem to be livening- up on the continent of Europe. Paris has found a school for girl pickpockets, ages ten to twelve. Jena, Germany, is in a free-for-all fight on the bobbed hair question, launched by a schoolmaster who was down on bobbed heads. Berlin has a grand dame who celebrated her eighty-second birthday by spending two hours in an airplane, and most of the time drinking. what is all right in Germany but illegal in America. And, finally, Germany is now selling women a combination of twelve chemicals which enables the ladies to make their own perfumes, any combination desired. (P. S.—Some men use the perfumes, too.)
Government by Radio
THE radio demonstrated its value in the days of the general strike in England. The government was able to broadcast bulletins as often as it wished, and keep the public posted on the steps that were being taken to maintain order and distribute supplies. Many rumors were effectually killed by this means. Also the radio dealers had a big boom in business.
The End of the General Strike
WRITING of the scene at the end of Britain’s general strike, the Manchester Guardian says:
The interview between Hr. Baldwin and the trada union leaders was impressive. There was on the one sido no humiliating admission of defeat, and on the other nopetty claim of victory. It was recognized that in ending tha general strike before there was any sign of wavering in the ranks of the strikers the congress had, as Mr. Thomas claimed, done a big- thing for the sake of public welfare: and in the response of the head of the government there shone a spirit no less magnanimous.
Britain Develops a Dictator
IT IS characteristic of Britain that out of the strife of the general strike a dictator- has arisen by an apparently evolutionary process. Stanley Baldwin is admittedly today the most powerful man Britain has had in a century, all because he contrived to have the labor'leaders abandon their strike, promise never to employ such methods again, and admit that their action was illegal. The workers, however, gained some important concessions. The end is not yet.
The Gentile Times Ended in 1914
Mb. Stanley Baldwin,Prime Minister of Britain, said recently:
Many forces of good and of evil were- loosed in 1914, forces that were not bound at the time of the Armistice; and there is a strange leaven at work today among all the nations of the world.
Mr. Baldwin is beginning to see some of the signs of the new dispensation, Christ’s kingdom, now being ushered in.
Fascism in Great Britain
THE British Fascists, with headquarters at' 2 Hatton Garden, London, have for their motto, ‘'King and Country.” Their avowed purposes are hostility to socialism and communism, 'determination that the British Empire shall not 'be thrown to the international wolves, trade ! within the empire, maintenance of the Christian religion, exclusion' of foreign labor, and cooperation between employers and employes.
Sleeping Sickness Gaining in Britain
LOS ANGELES paper calls attention to the fact that there are 5,000 cases of sleeping sickness in Great Britain, with 1,500 deaths from the disease in the past year. Los Angeles itself is credited with having had a very serious smallpox epidemic this past winter; but it was carefully concealed from the public, as it was at its height during the midst of the tourist season, and its publication then would have worked great damage to transportation and other powe/rful financial interests.
The Palais De La Femme
PARIS has a hotel for unmarried working women, which is said to be the cheapest hotel in the world. There are 743 rooms, each with running water; and its rates range from eight to fifteen cents a day. It is equipped to serve 1,500 lunches daily, at. a price of ten cents 'each, or four francs at the current rate of exchange.
Berlin's Marriage Advice Bureau
IN THE interests of the future race, Berlin has opened a marriage advice bureau where candidates for marriage are examined and furnished medical histories of their parents and grandparents. Those rejected are given good advice, calling on them to abandon the idea of marriage in racial interests. But most of the candidates left the bureau laughing and flourishing certificates. If the bureau is a success others .will be established all over Germany.
Germany Building Super-Zeppelin
ERMANY is building a super-zeppelin which, within about a year, will undertake tq,,travel around the earth, via Spain and Panama, in twenty-two days, without a stop. At present the works at Lake Constance are in danger, owing to the fact that rains have raised the level fifteen feet.
The Price Germany Paid
ERMANY has 679,410 persons so badly manned or diseased by the World War that their earning capacity is less than twenty-five percent of normal, and they are wholly dependent on the government.
Syrians Have- Lost Confidence in French '
THE Manchester Guardian says that "in
Syria people seem to have forgotten that there is such a thing as public security and law and order. Public confidence in the government has almost completely evaporated, considering that the government, after six months, is still unable to police the short line of road and railway connecting Beyrout and Damascus/'’ ; The-article states that the Druses have divided into bands of twenty-five men each and are carrying on a guerilla warfare over the whole territory and even in Damascus itself. All this is a natural consequence of French cruelty and blundering in Syria.
An Attempted Pogrom Fails
A PLOT to instigate a ritual murder accusation against the Jewish community at Radom, Poland, was discovered when two Christian Poles, caught attempting to leave the body of a dead Christian boy in a Jewish matzoth bakery, rvere arrested by the police. The Jewish population of the city considers it a miracle that the plot was discovered.
Famines in Silesia and Poland
DISPATCHES and correspondence from Poland show that there are about 230,000 Jews in Lodz and vicinity who are without employment and without food. In Lower Silesia, Germany, the mining district on the edge of Poland, over twenty percent of the school-children are without suitable clothing and are underfed.
Pilsudski Apparently a Great Man
EWS dispatches of the overthrow of the Polish government by Marshal Pifeudsld seem to indicate that he is a truly greaz man, anxious to free his country of the grafters, religious and political, vdio have been 'wrecking that country. Two weeks before he seized the government General Pilsudski warned the grafts ers to clean up or he would do just what he did. It takes a vast amount of courage for any man to bare his motives in this manner. Pilsudski is determined that Poland shall be neither a communist state, a monarchy nor a hotbed for scheming priests.
Soviet After Alexander’s Gold
TT WAS not known by historians that Alexander hid any of the fabulous treasures which he obtained in his raids. It was supposed that he sent them all back to Greece. But Soviet scholars have just now discovered a translation of a letter supposed to have been written by Alexander, which describes in full a great store of treasure and where it is hid. The Soviet will search for it.
Teaching Russia American Farming Methods
RUSSIA is being taught American methods, and in the most practical way. In one district in Southeastern Russia is a model American farm of 15,000 acres where the most approved methods of deep plowing, crop rotation, fertilization, conservation of moisture, etc., are practised. The work is done by tractors. The project has the indorsement of some of the leading educators of the United States, including the presidents of Harvard and Leland Stanford Universities.
Russia Might Be Worse
EFORE the war Russia had 500 tractors, in 1925 it had 12,500, and this number is
expected to be more than doubled during 1926. Russia now has 18,000 public reading rooms equipped with radio receiving apparatus, where concerts and lectures of all sorts are features. Less than 20 percent of its army is now illiterate, as against 90 percent before the war. The circulation of the daily papers has trebled in the past few years. Diplomatic relations have been established with twenty-three governments. The cooperative societies had 22,000,000 members in the spring of 1925. Industrial production is now estimated at 82 percent of what it was before the war. Any citizen may start an enterprise employing not more than twenty persons, but must secure government consent for larger enterprises. .
Growth of Cooperation in Russia
IN 1913 the membership of the cooperative distributive movement organizations of Russia was 1,800,000; in 1924 this had grown to 8,000,000; in 1925 the total had become over 10,000,000. The Russian cooperative movement is entirely voluntary.
Rich Oil Field in Siberia
THE New’ York Times contains some details of a great oil find near the mouth of the' Yenisei River in Siberia, almost within the Arctic Circle, which is declared to be of excellent quality and which extends over an area of upward of 200,000 acres. In the same region has been discovered a graphite deposit, estimated at 200,000,000 million tons and said to be eighty-five percent pure.
Turning the Jews Back to the Soil
IN THE unfair legislation against the Jews in Russia w’e see the hand of God turning them back to the soil. No longer able to carry on their old methods of trading, partly because of lack of capital and partly because of restrictive laws, the Jews are being forced back to the soil. About 50,000 are already settled upon farms in Russia, and are doing Well. Immense numbers have gone to Palestine to engage in farm work there.
Playground in Jerusalem
IT IS said that the public playgrounds in Jerusalem, w’hich are operated on a non-sectarian basis, are accomplishing much good because ' they are bringing together the children of Jews, Christians and Arabs, W’ho thus come to learn better how to deal with one another. The children find the playgrounds a great blessing, as hitherto they were confined to the narrow unventilated streets of the old city.
Low Grade Platinum Ores in South Africa
A LARGE deposit of low grade platinum ores has been discovered in South Africa. The ore body is known to be at least seven hundred feet deep, with an average yield of one ounce of platinum to eight tons of earth. At the present time the'market price for platinum is about $113 an ounce,.
Zaro has a New Job
THE famous Turk, Zaro Agha, believed to be -®- the oldest man in the world, has been given a new job. After spending by far the greater part of his one hundred and fifty years in the strenuous life of a porter, the city of Constantinople has now given him a job as doorkeeper for the municipal council.
Cobham’s Flight to Capetown
Alan J. Cobham, one of England’s best known airmen, has returned from his flight to Capetown. The going journey consumed almost three months, although only ninety hours were spent in actual flying. The return trip from the Cape to Cairo was made in nine and one-half days. The contract for air service in South Africa has been let to a German concern.
Boys and Girls Uncover Sphinx
HE boys and girls of Egypt, 800 of them, working in relays, have for months been busily engaged in uncovering the sphinx, which had become partly buried in the drifting sands of centuries. The base of the sphinx is now uncovered, revealing an image 240 feet long from paws to haunches and sixty-five feet high. The little workers had a singer for each gang, whose only job was to keep up a lively Arabian tune as the boys and girls streamed up and down the high sand banks with their loads.
The Pygmies of the Kalahari
THE pygmies of the Kalahari desert are said to be only from four to four and one-half feet- tall. They live without houses or huts, and are a vanishing race because their babies do not generally survive the cold weather. The adults themselves are objects of attack on sight by the more powerful representatives of other tribes. It is claimed, however, that the men of this miniature race are probably the fastest runners in the world. Their custom is to capture gazelles by outrunning them. No white man could think of doing this.
Many Deaths Among Egyptologists
Dr. J. C. Mabdrus of Paris, commenting upon the deaths of six prominent Egyptologists closely connected with the discovery of the tomb cf Tut-Ankh-amen in the Valley of the Kings, is reported to have said that he was net surprised at these deaths, that the Egyptians were accustomed to practise magic rites; and added, “T. am absolutely convinced that they knew how to concentrate upon and around a mummy certain dynamic powers of which we possess very incomplete notions.” Our explanation of this is that these occult powers for evil are exercised by demons, devils, who infest the atmosphere of the earth.
Rural Life in India
fpHE Manchester Guardian, writing of rufa life in India, says:
One Indian village is uncommonly like another. It is usually a cluster of small mud huts rising cut of the fields, with no amenities of any sort, often containing not even a single bunnia’s shop. Streets, lighting, sanitation, public buildings, and the like are non-existent. The fields extend to the horizon in an unbroken stretch, with no enclosing hedges or diversity cf tilth and pasture. The holdings of individuals, small as they are, are not even consolidated. Morcellement, or fragmentation, has proceeded to an almost incredible extent in India, and the owner or cultivator of a couple of acres may have to work them in half a dozen or more patches in widely separated parts of the village lands. Some fragments are quite literally only a few square yards in area, and are consequently not worth the trouble of cultivating.
India a Bad Place to Live
HE New York Times tells of the killing of a leopard in India which had roamed 35-0 square miles for the past seven years, and in that time had killed at least 125 human beings. The animal was seven feet ten inches in length, and was shot by an army captain who had been watching for it patiently every night for ten ■ weeks.
Tense Situation in Shanghai
THE Chinese, who comprise about 98 percent of the population of the Foreign Settlement of Shanghai, and pay ninety-five percent cf the taxes, are getting more'and more determined to be ■ treated on an equality with the other powers. * Just now they are demanding a majority representation on the Municipal Council, which at present time is wholly in the - hands of foreigners. The United States government is a part of the government of the Foreign Settlement of Shanghai.
Abd-el-Krim’s Opinion of Europe
THERE are not a few people in the world who will endorse much of what the Riffian commander, Abd-el-Krim, put'forth as his opinion of Europe just prior to the opening of peace discussions with the French and Spanish commanders. Krim and his people would like to be let alone; but alas! they are in a world “where nobody can’t let nobody be”, especially if they have something that is worth stealing. A writer in the New York Times quotes the Riffian leader as follows:
Before 1914 we believed in European civilization almost as in a divinity. We saw the European countries as lands of .law and order, enjoying a liberty and justice, & comfort, a science, which we could only admire. And we, poor little tribes, incapable of keeping peace even among ourselves, felt very puny and feeble beside your great peoples.
Then came the World War; and we saw the nations of Europe plunged in madness, and the wisest and strongest of them employing all their intelligence, all their science, all their industrial capacity to creating greater weapons to destroy more men. We have not known, here in our little Moroccan war, a tenth of the horrors you have experienced in Europe. Think of the atrocities committed in Europe, the rage for destruction, the incessant production of arms ever more powerful and more murderous. Think of the poison gases, the bombardment of undefended towns, the liquid fire. We can no longer respect your civilization as we once did.
It is the possession of a civilization such as that which can entitle one nation to say that, because a neighboring people has not evolved quite as far as it has, it can inter* vene in its internal affairs and dominate it by force.
We have not invited you into the Riff, neither you French nor the Spaniards. We have been living, badly commanded perhaps, badly directed, badly governed, . but we had the satisfaction of being free. You have drawn up between yourselves treaties dividing up our country, based on the fiction that we were subjects of the Sultan and had only to submit. You thus disposed of us as if we did not exist.
Your treaties remained dead letters for a long time, and then you decided to put them into force—or rather Spain decided to enforce your common decision. In the French zone of Morocco you had been able to impose your will in a general manner without too much resistance, as in harmony with the will of the Sultan. That doesn’t concern us. But when Spain, fortified by your example, sought to impose her laws on us we rebelled and set ourselves against her. We have defended our soil. We have resisted in the name of liberty. Isn’t that our right, even our duty? What did you do in 1914 when your soil was invaded? •
We didn’t seek the war; we didn’t attack. But what difference does the question of responsibility make now that the fire is blazing? Do you not find it strange that the peoples of Europe which are at war with a little people in Morocco could be persuaded that they have been the victims of aggression and that their rights have been invaded? Isn’t this a singular aberration of the sense of right and wrong? We had no choice. We bad to make war to defend our country.
The Diet Maze
IT IS very unsafe for a mere man to publish anything on diet or on the care of the human body. Every time it is done somebody gets very angry; for there is always another way—that which appeals to the one who gets angry. Yet, in spite of it all, we continue to publish occasional articles on these subjects, in the hope that somebody may be benefited by some of the ideas presented. '
But in order to give some idea of the maze into which one gets himself when he begins to dip into this question of diet, we append a clipping from a little publication issued at Papeete, Tahiti, in which a fellow editor unburdens himself as follows:
To these who think that they have already exhausted all the necessary experiments, I recommend a perusal of the following list of diets, each of which I have seen tried, or heard of, at some time or other:
Besides which there are the corrective diets: Salisbury (raw beef), Milk-Dry-diet, Kumiss, the Grape-cure, and I would add what might be called a Natural Diet: eating foods directly from the tree, bush or place where they grow.
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FJeteherism (thorough tasting) Un spiced
Gladstone (long chewing)
No-breakfast
Eat-only-when-hungry
No-lunch
1 food a meal
No-supper
3 foods a meal
Raw-food
1 food at a time
Mixed
Restricted (Cornaro)
Fresh foods
Rotation (French)
Baked food
Eat-wha t-y ou-like
Starchless
Eat-when-you-like
Seasonal
Non-stimulating
Monodiet
1-meal a day
Coconut
2 meals a day
Banana
3, 4, 5 and 6 meals a day
Peanut
Vegetarianism
Apple
Lacto-vegetarianism
Grass
Nut-and-fruit,
Wheat
Above-ground foods
Oatmeal (flaked)
Low-proteid
Temperamental
Regular meals
Localized
Waterless meals
Acid-free
That Papal Splurge at Chicago
THE papal system poured out money like water in the effort to make a tremendous impression upon the American people by the splurge which it made at Chicago last June. There was not a shred of real Christianity connected with any of the idolatrous proceedings in the Windy City, nor on the way there.
The government of the United States for one hundred and fifty years has admitted the soundness of the principle of the separation of church and state. It does not recognize the existence of any papal state, nor the pope at Rome. There is no representative of this government at the Vatican; and there is no provision for receiving the representative of the Vatican here. .
Yet when Cardinal Bonzano, the papal legate, visited New York City, the City Hall and the great Aldermanic Chamber of the City of New York were temporarily converted into a Catholic cathedral; and the chair officially designated for the President of the Board of Aldermen was converted into a temporary papal throne—a disgrace to the city of New Y'ork. '
Cardinal Bonzano could not go to Chicago like any other visitor- to the United States, but went in a.specially built train which is described as the very masterpiece of Pullman work. Painted scarlet without, the train made the run to Chicago with the right of way over every other train on the great New York Central System—a disgrace to the New York Central Railroad.
Not only was the papal train of seven cars specially designed, but the cars were named after popes and cardinals. So elaborate were the preparations for the big splurge that even the dining-car linen and silver bore the papal legate’s coat of arms—a disgrace to the Pullman Company.
At the New York Central station the entrance to what has been described as "the most splendid train that ever left New York” was covered with the American and papal flags, two flags which, in theory at least, stand for exact opposites, liberty and tyranny—a disgrace to the American flag.
At Chicago the usual mummery and idolatry were gone through, a perversion of the true doctrine of salvation through the precious blood of Jesus Christ, the glorification of a piece of bread before which some supposedly great; Americans prostrated themselves, according to the Roman Catholic controlled press; and that is most of it today—a disgrace to them and to the press.
Jezebel has certainly been making most strenuous efforts to doll herself up, and put on the cosmetics with a liberal smear from ear to ear. This is a good sign. It convinces us that the end is not far away; and the nearer it is the better. Papacy is a disgrace to humanity. It has been and is a curse wherever it has a footing.
From the Fellowship Forum we quote som^ evj deuce to the point:
“Mexico is emerging from a nightmare from which all Latin American countries have suffered,” declared Senor Don Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican ambassador to the United States, in discussing the Romanist situation in his country and the hectic attempts of Rome’s American hierarchy to besmirch that nation.
“All Latin nations have suffered under the burden of the Roman Catholic church for centuries,” said Senor Tellez. “It has dominated every clement of life, spiritual, economic and political. It has stifled freedom; it has spawned superstition and, in turn, has thrived on the conditions it created.
“All Latin america must go through the same process. Mexico, fortunately, is a pioneer in the emancipation process. She has thrown off the yoke of bondaga and seeks courageously to develop a national life along liberal lines. She has made, during the few years of her new regime, progress which would make the world marvel, were her quiet progress actively advertised.
“The Roman Catholic church has had its chance. It had a full opportunity to be a leader in the progressive movements of the nation. It had full control of education for centuries. Dense ignorance, with an appalling degree of illiteracy was the result. It had the chance to develop a higher standard of living for the starved peon. It was callous to his needs. Whatever has happened to the Roman Catholic church in Mexico has been its own fault. It lives in the loth century, forgetting that the rest of the world is 500 years past that time. The Roman Catholic church might have been respected and tolerated. in Mexico. It chose to maintain a medieval attitude, and has fallen into disgrace.”*
Judgment of God Against Idolatry
ardinal Bonzano, the Pope’s legate, has come and gone, and America still survives, is negligible because of the hand of God exhibited at Mundelein. .
The whole show at Chicago last June is said to have cost the Papacy something like $100,000,000. Its effect upon the Roman Catholic causa sto
As has already been mentioned, Cardinal Bonzano entered New York City like a king, occupying the New York City Aldermanic Chamber as a throne room, and marching up Fifth Avenue clothed in scarlet, accompanied by all kinds of Bishops, archbishops, priests, etc., clothed in purple, red, brown and white habiliments, with pages in sky blue, red, yellow and pink, and with many thousands bowing their knees before him as he approached, and kissing his ring.
’ Then Mr. Bonzano went to Chicago in that specially built papal train, the most expensive train ever built in the world, even to specially designed linen and silverware, bearing the cardinal’s coat-of-arms. This train was bright scarlet in color, and the boast is made that it had not only the right of way over every other train on the road, but that never in the history of American railroads has any train received such care from the officials.
Well! At last the cardinal arrived in Chicago, the crime center of America, where they commit an average of two murders a day; and the reports went out that for the time Chicago had become the “Holy City”. Just what we would expect.
The concluding day of the Catholic Congress was to be at Mundelein, forty miles out. They claimed that 225,000 went out by an electric line, consuming nine hours in getting there; 130,000 went by busses and autos; and 73,000 by rail; total attendance, 428,000.
' At two o’clock they began the three mile march around the lake, the crowning feature of which was supposed to be Cardinal Bonzano, carrying a piece of bread which by the repetition of five Latin words he would convert into the actual body of our Lord Jesus Christ. In all honesty it was to be an act of idolatry; no student of the Bible could call it anything else.
The procession started and had gone about a quarter of a mile, with Bonzano walking along under an awning or canopy of white and gold, carrying his little piece of bread, when suddenly there came up one of the fiercest rain and hail storms that ever visited Illinois. The lightning flashed, the rain descended in torrents, and hail fell in such quantities that the trees bent beneath the fury of the gale. The cardinals, archbishops, bishops and priests could not leave their idol; so on they marched, through slush and slimy mud, with the tails of their pretty scarlet frocks over their heads. It is estimated that at least $200,000 worth of priestly vestments were ruined by the storm.
The show was a total failure as a spectacle. The crowd broke for the railroad terminals, and then followed a scene which beggars description ; the trolley system had broken down, and for forty minutes not a car moved. Then the crowd became unmanageable. It surged en masse against the gates, so hard that carpenters had to smash the gates to relieve those crushed against them. Several women had their limbs broken; one had her ribs smashed; hundreds of men as well as women fainted; and women by scores attacked the attendants at the gates. To quiet the crowd some Knights of Columbus sang “Three O’Clock in the Morning”, and other popular songs. During the remainder of the day 1,500 persons were treated at hospitals on th© grounds, and 100 were brought to Chicago on a special hospital train.
A reporter of the New York Evening World telegraphed his paper:
There were at least two hundred thousand persons packed like sardines. The clouds had gone and the sun. was flooding the exasperated with a flood of sizzling heat. All this time no trains had arrived. The terminal tracks were empty. None of the employes outside the gates knew what was the matter, or they preferred ignorance. Conditions were actually terrifying.
To us this fizzle of the great show that was expected to win America to Roman Catholicism was the hand of God against an idolatrous system and an idolatrous, sacrilegious practice, that of worshiping a piece of bread under the make-believe that it is the actual body of Christ, and that the priest has the power to crucify Christ afresh by breaking this bread.
The same day that this piece of sacrilegious idolatry was being enacted in Mundelein, Ill., three new cardinals, Messrs. Cerretti, Capotosti and Perosi, kissed the foot of the pope in Rome and received the red hat, which means that they are ready to resist to the point of blood in behalf of the papal system.
Explaining the idolatry at Mundelein, the Cardinal after whom the place is named said:
When a powerful king of old came into his dominions, the heads of all the states and the chiefs of the tribes that owed him allegiance would gather to greet b.ims would come with many retainers and precious gifts to give testimony of their loyalty and allegiance. Today . Christ the King of the world, clothed in the white garb of the Eucharistic species, pays his first ceremonial visit, makes his first triumphant entry into a city of the United States. Until now He has been imprisoned in ' our tabernacles, kept on our altars, closed in our i churches; but now wo bring Him forth, do Him royal honors, bear Him in triumph midst the multitudes, proclaim publicly our loyalty, profess our faith, pour forth our adoration, present our petitions, offer our love.
When the Aquitania brought over the papal legate there were no less than nine altars set up on the big ship, and mass was celebrated from early morn until noon. This was real press agent stuff of which Barnum would, have been proud. What church boasts of nine altars?
Abandoning a Sinking Ship m Mid-Ocean By J. B. Sima
1 [This astounding- narrative, written by an
I exclusively and for the first time. The fact
■ niiniiiiizes its importance.—Ed.]
rpo BE an eye-witness to the sinking of a ves-J- sei in mid-ocean, with several doomed lives aboard, is a rare, and sad experience, particularly in these post-war days. I have just witnessed such a sight within the past twenty-eight hours, and am penning these lines aboard ship, while the tragedy is gruesomely fresh in my mind.
, The writer is a passenger on the S. S. “Bremen" of the North German Lloyd Line, which sailed from New York on Thursday, January 21,1926, Europe bound. Early yesterday (Tuesday) morning, January 26th, we were awakened by an alarm, signaling the presence of a sinking vessel, which we soon learned had thirty-one men on board.
For thirty-six hours, we were told, the machinery of the doomed vessel had been out of order; the control of the ship had been lost; and it was drifting along through the furiously rough waves in a mid-winter snowstorm. The rear part of the vessel (apparently a British freighter) was already partly under water, and was slowly sinking.
One can imagine the joy of the thirty-one men on the doomed ship when they saw our large passenger liner approaching, presumably in the nick of time to save them. But their hopes were in vain, and their joy short-lived; for most of them were allowed ultimately to descend to a cold and watery grave. However, a life-boat was quickly sent out by our ship upon its arrival, and seven men from the doomed vessel attempted to board it. Six were successful and were brought safely aboard the “Bremen”; but the seventh man was drowned in the transfer. 5Vhy other lifeboats were not sent out to rescue
to the tragedy, is here published report is belated by no means
all the others is a mystery to all the passengers who witnessed this tragic scene.
As soon, apparently, as the officers of ths “Bremen” saw that the sinking ship was not a German vessel, and learned all about its cargo and crew from the six men who were rescued, they forthwith virtually abandoned the doomed ship with the rest of its crew, although there was plenty of time and opportunity to have saved them all. But word was passed around that the officers of our ship had decided that it was impossible to save the others, and therefore that no attempt would be made.
The apparent lack of concern for imperiled human life by the officers of the “Bremen” was amazing. Yesterday, right while our steamer was still hovering around the sinking ship, and with its doomed crew pathetically begging to be rescued, several of the “Bremen” officers light-heartedly resumed their card-playing in the smoking room, and enjoyed themselves as though nothing unusual were happening, utterly oblivious to the twenty-four human lives that were at stake.
It was heartrending to hear and see the doomed men frantically crying for help as their ship continued to sink slowly during the agonizing hours as we silently stood by. It is of course true that the sea was rough, that there was a snowstorm under way, and that the waves were running high; but something could have been done for these men, or at least some attempt made in their behalf, as was done at the beginning, when the six men were safely transferred to our vessel.
The Avar has evidently hardened these German officers. They may pretend to forgive sines
the signing of the treaty, but such instances as : these prove that they did not forget. To them, ; .apparently, the war is still under way; and inay-. hap they justified their inaction on “patriotic” : grounds. But to the onlooking passengers their neglect to rescue these doomed men was a criminal, murderous act, perpetrated in a time of peace in a most inhuman and atrocious manner. .
So the poor, doomed sailors of yesterday went down to oblivion with their vessel, while the great North German Lloyd S. S. “Bremen” hovered around them, looking on, for twentyeight long hours, without doing one single thing except to emphasize the tragedy and tantalize the ill-fated crew with its august presence.
But not all German men are thus hardened. Six young, stalwart German sailors from our steamer, let it be said to their everlasting credit, gladly volunteered and actually prepared themselves with life-belts, and requested the privilege of going out with a life-boat and rescue these imperiled men. But no officer would go with them; and the order was that without a commanding officer they must not leave our ship.
Late last night the nose of the sinking vessel and the captain’s, cabin were still out of water, and some of the crew were still alive. But by early this morning (Wednesday) we could see only a few boards floating here and there upon the waves, all the men evidently having perished in the night.
We have continued to hover around the wreck since early yesterday morning, so that it cannot be charged that the S. S. “Bremen” has “abandoned” a sinking vessel. The newspapers will probably report that we “did all that could be done for the perishing”; but as far as activity is concerned we have done nothing. We might have saved this delay of twenty-eight hours by going on our way; but that would have constitute very damaging evidence against the officers of this steamer. As it is, we have “loyally” stood by, and have made certain that the fate of the sunken freighter has been fully sealed before we sailed on.
I talked today with two of the men saved from the sunken vessel, and was told that the cargo consisted principally of. coal, being shipped from Newcastle, England, to New York, for speculative purposes, and was fully insured. They also explained that the captain of this freighter had been drunk for five days; and that although the vessel deteriorated last Saturday night during a heavy storm, the drunken captain refused to send any S. 0. S. call for help until forced to do so by the crew on Sunday night. But this does not minimize the responsibility of the “Bremen” for slacking its duty toward imperiled human lives.
If we could but see the calloused hearts of some to whom we entrust our lives when we travel, as I have just witnessed here in midocean, we might take more pleasure in walking on dry land. This has been my first opportunity. to see, at very close range and on such an important scale, Satan reigning in the hearts of those in responsible positions. How hardly will such men conform to the perfect standard of righteousness during Messiah’s reign! They will be raised to shame and lasting contempt.
As for the twenty-five men who perished yesterday, our hope for them is in the Lord’s resurrection power. How glorious to have such a happy hope, especially in the hour of peril! You can particularly appreciate it in mid-ocean,. as you see the merciless waves snarling and grappling at their victims. Such a hope gives comfort and joy, though all the creeds and, theories of men fail to do so.
India Will Stop Opium Exports
YIELDING to the pressure of public opinion apiong many civilized countries, but principally as exhibited in the United States, India has finally decided to put a stop to the export of opium, at the rate of ten percent a year, so that in ten years opium production in India will be only for the people of that unhappy land. It is now claimed that four-fifths of all the opium produced comes from China, where it is illegal to produce that drug, but where the production is carried on anyway. China has made many desperate attempts to rid herself of the opium curse which one generation of British statesmen after another has so securely fastened upon her.
Out West By J- A- Bohnet
CONDITIONS throughout what might be called the Colorado longitude of the far western states have materially changed in the past decade. The vast stretches of erstwhile untilled prairie lands have largely given way to tillage. The open expanse of unfenced pasturage, for cattle and sheep, of the past has become well-fenced fields. The large cattle ranches are more or less broken up into farms of from 160 acres to 5000 acres of pasturage and crop growing.
No longer is there seen the dashing cowboy in woolly chaps, high-heeled boots, broad-brimmed hat, seated on a $50 saddle astride of a $20 horse or cayuse, although broad-brimmed hats are still in evidence on the brows of farm and ranch hands who are more ready to do plowing and cultivating than to roam the plains on horseback with a forty-four at ready hand.
The country is dotted with cottages—one cannot designate them houses—of two to four rooms gene rally. Instead of barns there are several low sheds for sheltering of stock and poultry. The fodder consists chiefly of diminutive cornstalks of two to four feet length, the small end of the ears of which usually touches the ground when the stalk stands in the field, the same length cane or sorghum stalks and other roughage that eastern-bred cattle would turn up their nose at and bawl for something to eat.
The corn yield per acre is f rom about fifteen to thirty-five bushels as a rule; in rare instances fifty bushels, and is pulled off the low-growing stalk, husk and all, and so fed to the swine.
Threshed wheat is largely dumped in a pile on the bare ground instead of being housed in a bin or a granary; and the hens and turkeys have free access thereto and scratch the pile about all over the ground at will. There, too, the rabbits go to feed when the dog is asleep.
Every land owner or renter has of course an automobile or its “has been”; and often its garage is anywhere beneath the blue sky where all the farm tools are kept. And it is just as well; for there is little or no rust of ironware in this dry climate, where dead bodies do not decompose for many months.
The roads are in good condition for auto 'driving. The air is unexcelled and permeated with invigorating ozone. One feels all the while in first-class fighting trim.
Delightful weather and fine air are the proud
assets in this clime. 'Anyone who has lived and breathed in this pure air can never be wholly satisfied to dwell anywhere else. The satisfied feeling one experiences in this region is indescribable. One feels like shouting and singing all the while, especially when the sun is shining, which is very common.
Miles over the vast expanse of slightly undulating country one can see here and there a happy little home, and from one to three miles apart in the ten to twenty mile view, but seemingly not more than one-third the distance.
Objects in this atmosphere are clearly discernable as far as the unaided eye can reach One can see chickens walking about a pines three miles distant. An Easterner would declare that the distance is less than one mile. A horse or a cow can plainly be seen at a five-mile distance without a glass. Most of the time the sky is cloudless.
In some parts the crops are grown by irrigation, and in other places dry-farming is practised. This country's charm is the delightful climate. Nowhere in the United States can the climate of Colorado and vicinity be equaled during eight months in the year. The writer has been in every state in the Union and should know.
But for snow and occasional rain one could sleep steadily in the open and suffer no ill-effect ; and there are no bothersome pests, and no sticky mud. Nowhere is there better drinking water, although in places the wells are from 200 to 400 feet deep.
Much of the land still remains original prairie, and there the jack rabbits, coyotes and magpie thrive abundantly; and in the lower lands the China pheasant has a pleasant home. But one must not overlook the tumble-weed that inhabits the fields of cultivation.
Tumbleweed-bedecked barb-wire fences encircle large fields. There are large herds of cattle grazing on the original prairie land all the year round. Snow does not long remain on the ground.
This article is speaking chiefly, of the portion lying between Nebraska and beyond Cheyenne along the Burlington and Union Pacific routes. The land interior is probably more sparcely settled, and the homes may be less pretentious. Here and there are buffalo wallows, small ponds and irrigating ditches.
In the far distance are snow-crested mountain ranges, saw-toothed against the blue sky. There is no haziness on the horizon. The azure sky contrasts sharply with the emerald green and the semi-arid terrestrial. The autumn days are • perfection. In summer there may be electric storms and hail. Winter wheat is sown as late as the last week in November.
What impresses one the most, perhaps, are the clear atmosphere and the friendliness of the people. Snobbery has no place here. The people as a whole are kind and obliging. There is no passing you by with an automobile when you are wanting assistance or a ride.
Woe betide the fellow that would rob or harm you! He would not get far away; and were he to resent vigorously there might be crepe on the door of his near relative a day later. Wrongful foolishness is not long tolerated here. Perfect honesty is the better policy and gets one the farthest. A bum has usually a hard row to hoe and is not long in finding it out. '
One cannot but admire the spirit of these western people. They live together as brethren and true neighbors. Cooperation is everywhere manifest. ’
You can borrow anything, from a match to a cook-stove, from a clothespin to a sawmill— if they had one. And the people are well up to date on telephones and all other modern conveniences.
Windmills and gas-engine pumps for stock watering are everywhere. Prices are moderate, and the times are generally good. General satisfaction obtains throughout.-
The country school districts are consolidated, and the pupils are hauled to and fro in school auto-bus arrangement. The school houses are large and of brick construction. The children are not restricted in the taking of playthings to the schoolyard.
In many of the eastern districts the children are prohibited from even playing tag upon the schoolhouse playing ground. Then what is the play ground for? These western people have some sense, and their children grow up the hardier for it. •
These children are not “mamma’s frail, delicate houseplant”. They are the children that’ make real men and women, the brawn and bulwark of our nation; and in the making they are not “too good to play with the children og THE NEIGHBORS”. .
Pope Desires Mexican Revolution
“TT IS HOLINESS” has let it be known that
-L-L he would not be averse to seeing the saints in Mexico begin their one-time occupation of shooting each other up. It came about in this wise: The pope’s representative, Bishop Caruana, was chased out of the country for saying when he applied for admission to Mexico that he came there purely as a visitor, whereas the pope himself states that Caruana was there as his representative; and for saying that he spoke only English, wherein he seemed to forget for the moment that he was an Italian by birth and had lived for a generation in a Spanishspeaking country; and, finally, for saying that he was'- a Protestant, which is not seemly for a good pious archbishop of the Roman.Catholic Church to say.
WTell! The pope seemed to feel that he was out of luck when the Mexicans gave Caruana the gate, and so he has invited us all to pray for Mexico. Incidentally, he gives us a hint that' Mexico will need our prayers; for if he can bring it around in a nice pious saintly apostolic way he intends to have another revolution there. According to the Chicago Daily Neivs this is what he said on the subject on July 6th, to the Latin-American College at Rome:
There is no need to lose hope, because the history of the church teaches that when things reach an extremity then revolutions are possible, according to the wish of God. '
We are not sure whether the “god” here referred to is the pope or the Devil, or whether both are meant. The latter suggestion seems like a good one, because it is certain that the Almighty is not involved in any way, and both the pope and the Devil are gods, mighty ones, within the Scriptural meaning of those terms.
What Mexico is Doing By Aituro M. Elias, Mexican Consul General
A GREAT irrigation project involving $30,000,000 of expenditure has begun. This is vital to the agriculture development of Mexico. One-half of the work has been taken ' over by one of the largest engineering firms in the United States and the other half by the largest engineering firm in Germany. Road building on a large scale has been begun in ' order to increase the transportation facilities between country and cities. A National Bank of Issue -with an authorized capital of $50,000,000, of which $30,000,000 have already been paid in, has been in operation nearly a year, is in a flourishing condition, and has proved of great service in the work begun of building up the material condition of the Mexican people.
The new Agriculture Bank with an authorized capital of $20,000,000 and $9,000,000 paid in has already begun to be of service to the Mexican farmers. Loans are made on growing crops and for the purchase of modern agricultural machinery of which the farmers are much in need. Only this winter as Financial Agent of the Mexican Government I purchased and shipped the first installment of plows. These 10,000 plows bought in the United States together with harness were sold to the farmers for $28, to be paid for in three years without interest. When it is remembered that formerly this outfit cost the farmer $112 and that he had to pay cash, which in most cases he did not have, resulting in his being compelled to pursue the most primitive methods with corresponding small production, the importance of this move, which will be extended throughout the country, will be understood.
In conclusion the great importance to the people of the United States of a peaceful constructive Mexico engaged in constantly improving the conditions of its people can be proved by the increase of business with this great nation as shown by the great increase of the amount of merchandise which went into Mexico during the first five months of 1926 compared with what went in during the corresponding five months of 1924, when Mexico was in the throes of the De la Huerta Rebellion.
Mexico, with the greatest amount of potential wealth of any country of similar size in the world, has just begun to really develop. What Mexico wants above everything else is peace. It wants nothing of any other country but amity. It turns its eyes toward the whole world with no envy nor greed in them for the possessions of other. And it asks all the other nations of the world to look upon Mexico in the same manner. With this world attitude existing toward us, our people will work out their own salvation; and a great nation of prosperous and therefore happy people will take the place of one which has for centuries borne the cruel burdens put upon them by greedy exploiters, both native and foreign.
Aurora Borealis Phenomena in Montana
DISPLAYS of Aurora Borealis are always magnificent in northern latitudes. They have been especially brilliant in Montana this past season, and have been of a nature never before recorded in that region. We give a few newspaper notices of how the phenomena appeared in various cities.
As seer m Butte:
The long streamer presented an undulating line of white against the blue-black sky—as if some giant gray charger of the heavens had been deprived of his flowing tail, a tail that now floated aimlessly across the sky.
Shortly after 9 o’clock the long white streak, which had become attenuated and elongated, took on the appearance of a serpent, and then it broke in two and the divided parts drifted out of alignment; but the eastern end, much the denser of the two, floated in the sky like the white plumes that decorate a hearse. The peculiar wavering band across the sky aroused intense curiosity.
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