Golden Age, January 26, 1927

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Vol. VIII Bi Weekly No. 192

January 26, 1927

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La®» and Economics

Bkke ano Thesis Aboto the Woki® ......... . , 239

Long Hours Do Not Iscrease Production ......... W Low Wages a Cans® Of Death .............. 2(» Girls Benefited by Employer Lunches ..........

The Foreman's Tot Cossmandmeuts ........... 281

»' Social and Ehscatiohal

Little Shavers Become Little Savers ........... 281

A Brave and Busy Invalid .............. 2®

The Christmas Stout Tenn tnr a Gseman Motwlb .......... 274

Mahwxcwrbs and Mining

Aitidciai Anthracite Now to Be Had ........... 2W

The Wonders of Bituminous Coal ............ 2®

LonoLost Secbbts .................. 289

PlNANOK—COMMERfi&—TttANSmWABDN

Employe Stock Ownership .... .......... SS&

Water Power One-Poutth Developed ........... Ml Who Issues the Maney? ................ 261 Babson on Installment Buying ............. 261 Detroit America's Air Gaiter ..... ........ ®2

Tn» Bus Vxbsijs the Stwst Car ............. 265 Shwowstew m® Ships ................ STI

p0rmcAir-“DcM^T3c anb Foreign

A Business Man’s Ownion oe WA«ni\tm>N ......... 270 Dow Britain Tsains His Saswiis ............. 271 Dire Distress in Waus ................ 273

Hom® and Health

The Most Imtortast tw Hitman FIxwi. .......... 266

Hay Km® Cvxm> “A La Ggwbn Aos ’ ...... .... 272

Ekmgion and Philosophy

Who ack Goal's Twr. I’Rir^Tnoos? ..... 275

Bints Quwhons an» Aa ......... .... , 280

Gon's Wes» the Standard «>• Truth ........... r® torus Sti’mbs s><® Little Fwm.® ......... . , , , • ?As Sttoiss in “Tee Hasp of Gts»” . . ........... . 287

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Untied Workers? Cooperative Association

THE United Workers’ Cooperative Association, composed exclusively of union workers in good standing, has moved into its first cooperative home. That is to the Association is now sole owner, proprietor and tenant of an entire city block, consisting of 337 apartments, in five stories. The block is a model in every respect The Association, which is only nine years old, now owns seven city blocks on which similar buildings will be erected. The Association is not nin for profit.

Kmnlsye Stock Ownership

OUT of every 100 shares of common stock in the 400,000 corporations of the country 1.5 shares are held by employes, and out of every 100 shares of preferred stock 1.9 shares are held by employes. The average holdings of employes owning common stock are $1,400 and of preferred stock $2,800. The plan encourages thrift, friendliness between employers and employes, and makes the worker personally interested in the success of the business.

Income Not Fairly Distributed

FTIHE National Catholic Welfare Council A paints out that the national income is not fairly distributed. It says;

Oar prosperity now is not national, because the drmfiis wg not prosperous and because great numbers of city workers ain not prosperous. The best sign that >j®sj»rity is not widespread at home is the sending of « much money and goods abroad. Tire fact that the depeadenee on foreign markets is increasing shows again iaafc ew with the great productive capacity of the United States there is something wrong with the domestic market—®ft inability among large portions of ths japrihtkm to buy nr the goods produced—an inequi-table diatnbutmrs of the national mwme.

The Three Richest Ven in America

THE three richest men in America each haw incomes of more than $5,000,000 a year.

This is about $100,000 a week for each working week, $20,000 a day if they work five days a week, $2,500 an hour if they work eight hours a day, and $40 a minute for each minute of working time. But if* they miss a minute now and then, the pay goes on just the same. Probably one of these men is interested in oil, another in moat and a third in automobiles. 'We cannot be sure, but we can guess that their names ar® Rockefeller, Armour and Ford.

Ktiliny Three Slen an How

THE speeding up of labor is said to be largely responsible for the killing of three men every hour in the industries of this country. Besides this there are 700,OTO workers that are so seriously injured every year that they lose at least four weeks work. A contributing cause is the large number of new employes who are unfamiliar with the dangers incident to their tasks. There is no apprentice system in the United States, and myriads of young men and women go to work every year who have no knowledge whatever of the dangers that surround them, in the factories where they work.

Fifty Burned to Death Every Day

FFTY persons are burned to death every day in the United States. One-half of these are in the homes. Every three minutes there is & cry of Fire in somebody’s home. Th® losses ia. property run into the millions. Th© Fir® Uadm® writers are agreed that the surest protectioa against these fires is good housekeeping. Th® causes are too varied to be listed, but careless housekeeping is at toe bottom of nearly al therm

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IJ80 Acddesfy Every Second

IT SEEMS surprising to be told that there, are

1,380 accidents every second in the United States, but those are the figures of the Reconstruction Hospital, which has made a nationwide survey. The same report shows that one person in every nine in the United States meets with an accident every year and that one out of every ten deaths is traceable to an accident.

Long Hours Do Not Increase Production

IT IS an old fallacy that long hours mean increased production. They often mean less. It has been proven in some sections of the world that where men, women and children work fifteen or sixteen hours per day they soon wear out, become less valuable as workers, earn less and less and can buy less and less. Leisure time means added physical and nervous energy, and therefore more and better work.

/s Prosperity Slowing Up?

npiIERE are some indications that prosperity, after having had two excellent years, is now smiling up. Students of such matters point to the building industries as one of the straws which indicate how die wind is blowing in this regard, For several months past the building business has shown a steadily declining volume.

Low Wages a Cause of Death

Y OW wages are a di rec t cause of death, in the opinion of Ur. II. Alice Fsserson of the New York Tuborculoisis <m«l Health Association. The high trheiei.m&is death rate among girls from fifteen to tiwmty-forr ware of age i? las ge-ly chargeable to the Cart that their wag“s are so si<iall that they ca<n ot grt the clothing they feel that they and at the same time have enough to n-it* so 4hey cut down on the food.

Guls Eteieftted by Employer Lunches

QUL'STTOL’NAITE sort out by the As-4*x soeiat’on to P'miote Proper Bousing for Girls shows d at Gv vroup o.iertiou»fi paj s 26 cents for lurch when obtained at a lunch room conducted by the ejnp’uy^r, 43 emits ?t & cafeteria and .~3 cents at a restaurant. The same questionnaire shows that girls living at home are subsidized by parents to the extent of about |2 a week.

Efficiency Invades the Bedroom

HD HE efficiency expert has at last invaded the J* bedroom, and by means of carefully regulated tests has proven that as much energy w created by six hours rest in a soft and comfortable bed as in eight hours rest in one that is not so comfortable. This shows that it pays in dollars and cents to give employes sufficient wages so that they may enjoy the reasonable comforts of life. Fc«ed a man well, give him decent clothing and a good lied, and more can be gotten out of him than from a man who is barely allowed to subsist

Mm and the Machine

DUE to improved machinery the average soft coal production per man per shift in the United States is 80 hundred, weight, while in Britain it is 17% hundred weight. Due to improved machinery the average agriculture worker can now care for 34 acres, while previously one worker could care for only 13 acres in the United States and only 9.5 acres in Britain.

Artificial Anthracite Now to Be Had

FROM plants located at Fairmont, West Virginia, artificial anthracite, made of bituminous coal, is now being shipped to eastern points and sold at a rate about $2 less than is charged for natma) anthracite. The users are said to consider it a good quality anthracite coal. Experts at th? Pittsburgh fuel conference, com-mt ntiug on this and kindred matters connected with bitnnunoos coal, set our minds at rest by declaring ihat there is enough high grade motor fuel in American oitvmiiions coal to run all the world’s fuel motors for eight hundred years.

The VfoSers cf Coal

THE fox-pmost scientists and the largest cap-iWirts of the world are now endeavoring to bring ui’o accord the best of the rtvrtty-five processes » iw v-M for extracting from e’luminous u.u?l the tvs ures it contains. It is hoped to peiieet some of the processes now used for obtaining gasoline from, this source. One of the present meth'ds consists of making the coal into a paste and forcing hydrogen gas into it; another consists in converting the coal into a compound gas and liquifying the gases by means of a catalyst.

Wxr Power One-Fourth Developed

WHEN one considers the immense quantities of water -which fall upon this continent, it is interesting to learn that about one-fourth of the potential water power thereby created is actually utilized. The United States still have 50,000,000 acres of irrigable or otherwise reclaimable land, so there is still room for much further growth.

FAe Foremans Ten Commandments

THE American Machinist gives ten commandments necessary to make a successful foreman: (1) Be fair. (2) Make few promises, and keep them. (3) Do not waste anger—use it. (4) Always hear the other side. (5) Do not hold spite—forgive. (6) Never show discouragement.

(7) Notice good woi'k as well as bad. (8) Watch for special ability. (9) Take your full share of blame. (10) Prevent accidents. ,

The Holding Company Scheme

A FAVORITE scheme for covering up profits of public service corporations is the holding company. In southern Indiana a holding company received ten percent of the total cost of all extensions, additions and betterments, and two percent of the entire gross earnings from all departments of the company, as its compensation for general management and supervision. How these big financiers do hate to give the common people the benefit of better rates I

Little Shavers Hee&me Little Savers

THE savings bank balances of the school children in the United States are set at $32,000,000. This is almost $10 apiece for the little folks who have taken out savings accounts in the school banks, and is a very creditable showing indeed. There are 11,371 schools in the savings bank system, with. 3,403,746 pupils actually participating in the banking feature.

Wto fssoes the Money?

THE Dearborn Independent pointedly and truthfully says:

Th.® Constitution imposes the duty of issuing money and regulating the value thereof upon Congress as a legislative act and function. The bankers of this land have contended for this power from the beginning. SJndtt the Federal Bawra Bank system^ Cmgrem has delegated to the banks this legislative jpsww to IbmB the people’s money and to regulate its v&ta® ®nd hM made the Government a guarantor of the Asd serve Bank system paper notes.

The Federal Reserve Bank is a private cern.

Joseph Caplan, Immigrant

Toseph Caplan, a little lad born in Londom fa " 1884, came to this country as an immigrant at the tender age of six, and settled in Philadelphia. He has just bought the Widener Building of that city for $11,000,000. That looks as if Philadelphia is a pretty good place after all Probably some of the native Philadelphians are still wondering how Mr, Caplan managed to lay aside so much change in the thirty-six years ha has lived there. He is now forty-two.

Seventy-Two Billion Dalian

SEVENTY-TWO billion dollars is the astounding amount of life insurance now outstanding on the lives of Americans now living. This amount is estimated as one-half the eash value of all the possessions of the entire world one hundred years ago. It not orihows the enormous increase in the world - , - sessions^ but also outlines the giants now i.i the earth.

1G0,000 Chain St&ra

IN THE 100,000 chain stores m 1 he country it is said that 12% of the n '..ion’s grocery bill is contracted, 20% of the drvg busir -ss and 7.5% of the men’s shoe business. In i'ij past year three of the 5 and 10 cent sto. s did a combined business of $ KX),000,000. Ahogether about 9% of all the goods sold in the country are sold through chain stores.

Babson on Installment Buying

Rogbb W. Babson, statistician, commenting on the evils of installment buying, says:

While most things point to sevw.il years of prosperity, a distinct recession in busi™ - and possibly a panic within the next two or three y . i s would not ba surprising. When it comes it will be the result of tha over-extension of the installment business, which is eating into the vitals of business like a cancer. Trim who wish to render ® real seme® today can do so storing up cash pending the next pmis rather tiaa bjg buying seeuriiaa at the preMat ta,

Kwriesa Airplane Business Increasing

FTER lagging far behind some of the

European countries in air traffic, Uncle Sam has at last got going in pretty good shape in the air transport field. Three-fifths of the states are now traversed regularly by government planes, while private planes last year made a total of more than a quarter million flights.

Saivr « /toy in the Mails

rpiiEBE are three trains each way between

Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. The two fastest ones make the trip in twenty-four hours; the third one takes two nights and a day. The mail goes by airplane between the two cities hi five hows. and is so regular in its time that it can w counted on to arrive almost on the minute.' mind you, this includes every man, woman and child in the country, even to the babies in the cradle. A little more than half of this goes for cosmetics. There are now 7,000 kinds of beauty preparations on the market and the number is steadily increasing.

WArf the Hair Dressen Think

I THE annual convention of the American

Master Hair Dressers’ Association, recently held in Philadelphia, Mr. Charles Nessler, president of that association, declared that long and beautiful hair is essential for feminine beauty, that no short-haired girl or woman has ever won a national beauty contest, that women have discovered that they would rather be beautiful than masculine, and that the return to long ha’r is assured.

Detroit America's Air Center

ETBOIT has already become America’s air center. Regular service is maintained between Detroit and Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo, and Detroit and Grand Rapids. At this writing no passengers are carried on the Cleveland and Buffalo flights; but the Ford Company operate the cars daily and on schedule time, carrying Ford parts. The Grand Rapids line will be extended to St. Paul in the spring. The machines weigh two and a half tons and are equipped with three motors. Two planes a week will be turned out hereafter, and it can be set down as certain that America, will have a real air service by next summer.

The Weaker Sex

OW that by swmiming in record time across the English Channel, and from Albany to

New York, women have demonstrated that the men are really the weaker sex, the suggestion is being made that the rr.eu may conclude to relapse into their old barbaric habits and expect the women to do all the work of the family while they spend their time sitting around smoking and telling stories. Girls better take note that it does not pay to get the name of being too athletic.

Mtat W Pay to L®®k Pretty rpHB statistieiaM have it all figured out They “*• know now that here in America we average over $2 per month just to look pr.-tiy. And,

Movie Stars for Sale

CHICAGO advertising agency offers, for the sums of $150 to $2,500, to have any one of a considerable number of famous and near-famous movie stars pose for goods, wares and merchandise which it is proposed to popularize, ’ and the aforesaid famous and near-famous stars ( will also sign indorsements which may be of the -advertiser’s own composition. Just for once an advertising concern has presumed to tell the great unthinking American public in advance how stupid it is.

A Brave and Busy Invalid

HE Pathfinder tells of a carpenter in Campbellsport, Wis., who fell from a barn and broke his hack. Unable to move, and compelled to spend the rest of his life on the flat of his back in bed, this man has become a successful contractor and has continued for seventeen years to support a family of four, without calling on. others for assistance.

.4 Boy Hero al Atlantic Citg

T ATLANTIC CITY last summer two little girls fell off a wharf. A lad of twelve, clad in overalls, dove in after them, caught one child by the hair, and caught the dress of the other in his teeth, and managed to keep afloat until all were rescued. Then he sauntered off down the beach, with his dog tagging along behind hmn without even stopping to leave his name. At last accr.uum the Atlantic City police were trying to find him, so that he might be suitably rewarded for his heroism. It heartens one to know that there are such people still alive.

Muskogee Checkoff for Charity

CHARITY workers in Muskogee, Oklahoma, are said to have succeeded in putting through a charity checkoff system, by which every employe of most of the concerns in town is required to contribute two or three days’ pay to charity. If he does not wish to line up with the rest he is fired. This is a new' one. AVhy not add chaiRy to the taxes and get them in a legal way, instead of by the holdup method 1

Broadwoy's New Signs

DESCRIBING Broadways new signs the

New York Times says:

The f'v'j’G’M. ber^alm of Broaaway, a great outdoor entertainment to many who marvel at the mvnad lights fia-J-ing back and forth in so many ingenious co.iibiiidtAju,, is bcvomuig a wtablo picture gallciy Kerr spectacular displays are being created that unfold, in moving panorama, effects of drifting clouds, runnrng water, surging dames, and the foam and spray of ocean waves a= background for figures symbolically representing themes of motion pictures. Other new scenes u .th. animated letters praise the quality of innumerable com-memal products.

Price of Slaves in 1850

SEVENTY-SIX years ago, in Maryland, the value of a slave girl three years old was $50, a woman of 28 years was worth $159, a boy of 15 was valued at $300, end a man of 37 years of age was counted as worth $550 to his owner. Now a good tractor can be bought for the price ©f the wan, can do infinitely more work, never needs a rest, smd needs no care when it is old. It can just be sold for scrap and a new one bought to take its place.

What G&ldsboro Feared

A T GOLDSBORO, N. C., a mob oi able-bodied men flogged Isaac Best, a Negro seventy years of age, on the ground that he was a eon-Jure doctor and was liable to poison the wells in the neighborhood. Seven persons in the mob have been arrested. Six of them were Negroes; one was white. Evidently Goldsboro is in need of more education of the right kind. .A. thing like this is enough to set Goldsboro back ten years.

Improved Homes of Southern Negroes

SOUTHERN Negroes are improving their homes, whitewashing the cabins inside and out, putting in glass windows and doorsteps, digging new wells, planting trees, making rugs, putting in sanitary toilets, and learning to keep the premises clean and attractive. The old style southern Negro cabin, which was a disgrace to humanity, is passing away.

Negroes Eager to Learn

fpiIE attendance at night schools in the largest — Negro city in the world, namely in the Harlem district, of New York, proves that ths Negroes are one of the most studious and ambitious classes of people in this metropolitan area. The enrollment at one of the Harlem nightschools Lwt year was 1,788, the largest in any of fhe gVfl PcrougLs..

Teachers Mu, t Not Thtrte

IT IS quite a shock to the teachers of Now Yo”k City to learn that while they are supposed to teach others to think, they are not alloved Io do so tlicnw-lves. They have eome out with a manifesto in which it is pointed out that three of their number, Miss J. W. Hughan, 'Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz and Miss Ruth Gillette Hardy, have been discriminated against, not because of any lack of professional ability, but solely because they are known to be interested in human progress and are identified with some of the more progressive political movements.

Barit Take the Colleges To© Seriously fJiHE Chicago Evening American- said recently;

There are few lines cf real effort in the modern life of the United States in which five years in college really prepare a joung man. for more important and successful wvxk later. Benjamin Franklin. Abraham Lincoln, Thomas A. Edwa, Henry Ford and many others sufficiently successfol never went to college. Do you think any college could have made them more sueassful? Do yen think any one of them could have afforded to take out of bis independent thinking and struggling young manhood five years for college life?

Berea College & Busy Place

BEREA College, in the southeastern part of Kentucky, is a busy place. Most of the 2,700 students there work their way through. The college provides tuition free; but in order t® keep going if maintains a broom industry, a refrigerator works, a dairy business, a large bakery, a great market garden and several other fireside industries. The students average to pay sixty-seven percent of their school expenses by the work which they render. Some labor half a day and study the other half. The students pay eleven cents apiece for their meals which are said to be good.

Free Education in Silk Making

HP HE New York Board of Education provides J- a free education in silk making and in the silk business generally, for high school graduates. Every boy completing the course is placed with a representative silk firm. The boys are given afternoon employment in the interim.

Imem’tance of Correspondence Schools

SO IMPORTANT are correspondence schools in the educational life of the people of the United States that the foes which are annually paid into them are one and one-half times the tuition fees of all the so-called regular colleges and universities in the country. There are about two million active students in these institutions at all times, and there is hardly a subject that can be named that is not taught by the correspondence method. Carefully prepared texts, numerous illustrations and close examination of ansv’Ors to quo?‘ions are characteristic of the best of the^e institutions.

What uie Scare Headlines Accomplish

HAT the scare headlines accomplish is well 'jluffi rated by the riots vhich took biNev, York, uffiie ffity thovsand >vomen and girls for"’,: for a chance to & e the corpse of Kn Wffi Va>°T’ii’>o ffi ijovte ■n',‘‘(muted police diffiev « the eoruls v ffimn'y. One hundred U’pv’cri Turn1}-' "M wor'en’s shoes v’ere lomsd on +L-i pavement after em- retreat of the mob. T.uC‘ e riots can no L>id in the door of the score headlines hi ‘he papers.

Tks Gmtu-A of Los ^ttg^cs

PROM 27 399 a-r.? ri NT? tbv wffi 'ri Los

Angeles grow to 250/15 J ncies in or an increase of 815 neieeut. If this of increase eondnued Los Angeles would be larger than the state of California withm ten yearn The expansion of the seven American cities ol < Los Angeles, Richmond, Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore, Kansas City and Seattle was so great ■ from 1903 to 1923 that if continued at the same ' rate for forty years, they7 would cover 8,077,285 / square miles, which are 5,050,566 square miles more than there are in the whole United States.

Want Bull Fights Abolished

EVERAL thousand Mexican school children have sent a petition to the Minister of Education requesting that he use his influence with other officials to put an end to bull fights in Mexico. Here is a suggestion to the youth of our own land. They could send petitions to the President to see if something could be done to put an end to prize fights in the United States.

Mexico Seeks Colonists

IN AN advertisement which waxes eloquent, the Mexican government invites colonists, in the following terms:

With temperate tropical and sub-tropical lands, potentially and actually capable of producing every conceivable product; w.th more than five thou-and in’les of coast lines on the Atlantic and Pacific; with neaily twenty thousand miles of rails crossing the conntiy from one end to the other; with, a soil that yields three crops a jear without the aid of machinery or {utilizer; with a government of the people, by the people, for the people and with +be most a Ji arced legifiatiou Tn protect life awl freedom, and insure social justice, ffiu.es i«t j'i-tlv entitled to be called Homeseehers’ Paradise, Mexico is the place.

Creations in Braz’

TN BENZIL every employer must give each T ewjJoye once a year fifteen days vacation w.lh pay, oi submit +o a fine winch may be as »m.h YV). H.e vucution Ie given at any time of the year that best sims the employ eft com eniem e, but the emplove uu his own part m also required by law to use the fifteen days for recreation and reel, and not for other work.

FrospeABj ih Smith America

Qterffill AMERICA is beginning to come into M its own. Owing to the development of the oil induury in Venezuela the export business of the United States with that country quadrupled in the Iasi four years, rising from $7,600,000 to $31,400,000. In the same time shipments of automobiles to Argentina multiplied sevenfold, to Colombia elevenfold, to Brazil thirteenfold and to Chile fourteenfold.

Civilization's Debt to the Oil Refiners

FROM one point of view it is the oil refiners who have made America what it is today. Gasoline today is selling in the United States around 20 cents a gallon, with the result that most people can afford to buy all they want, and with the result also that business has been speeded up to a tremendous pace. In Mexico City gasoline is 38 cents a gallon, because there are no refineries. In Athens gasoline is 62 cents a gallon; in Colombia it is 73 cents: in South Africa 98 cents. These high prices hold back development in all those places.

Bmy Days at Little River

FpWO reporters for the Toronto Daily Star J- visited a point on the American side of the Detroit river, some eight miles above Detroit, where automobiles were being loaded in broad daylight with eases of beer and whiskey brought over from Canada. A week later they visited the town of Little River, Ontario, where on one day they saw fifty boats of all kinds taking on case^ of beer and whiskey without anybody interfering with their operations or requiring papers of any kind. The warehouses where these boats got this beer and -whiskey were being supplied constantly by automobiles, driving up and unloading their contents, openly.

The World's Fastest Cable

THE world’s greatest cable, with a capaoUx of eight times that of any other cable, has just been laid between England and New York* without attracting any attention worth speaking of. The reason for this is that wireless has caught the imagination of the public and ths cable has become commonplace. Nevertheless, cables will probably always carry the bulk of ths world’s business.

London Building f&r the Future

LONDON is building not merely for the present but for the future. The city recently opened the longest tube in the world, running north and south for a distance of 16% miles. At the soifihem terminus is a great garage* where a minimum charge for parking makes if possible for automobilists to leave their machines in safety while they go in to transact their daily business. A double end is accomplished ; keeping the automobiles out of the already congested streets, and providing additional traffic for the new subway.

Daily Mail Editor Loses His Job

HOHE editor of the London Dally Mail, who was largely responsible for the recent outbreak of attacks on Uncle Sam by the press of his city, has been forced to resign his position. Lord Rothermere, the man who owned the Daily Mail, came out in another publication whmli ha controls and said that the editor’s attack on America represented only the editor’s view and not his own.

The Bws Versos the Street Car

IT SEEMS established now that the dus will not drive out. ths srreet cay as seemed likely to be the case a few years ago. (n no city of 50,000 or more population has The bres been able to successfully render the service supplied by the street cars. Serious attempts have been made to do this in Akron, Iksi Homes, Bridgeport and Saginaw; but in every instance It has 'Xeen necessary to restore the street ears. In several instances the bus companies have gone bankrupt.

Some of the reasons that hold the street car in service are their superior carrying power, as it takes five busses to do the work of three street cars, less space in the street, bccar«e a bus even going in a generally straight direction must be given a wider berth clearance than a street car on its fixed directional tracks; and finally, the street car has an ability to handle tush hour traffic and to make its way through slippery pavements and snowstorms much better than the bu« has proven its ability to do.

Official records show that in the past ten years the number cf cries of street railway track construction slightly exceeds the number of miles abandoned; and that, in the matter ©£ closed ears, there are actually 2,658 more in use now than there were in 1919.

The Most’Important of Human Foods

TT MAY quite possibly be true that in its per-feet state the human family will subsist on a tithe of the food they now consume, and that their diet will be chiefly or altogether that of fruits and vegetables; but at present the most important article of human food is milk, and increasingly so.

Although milk is 87.4 percent water, yet the energy value of a quart of milk is fixed as equal to eight eggs, two pounds of chicken, three-fifths of a pound of ham, three pints of oysters, three pounds of fresh codfish, three-quarters of a pound of steak, or a third of a pound of full cream cheese. And it is by far the cheapest of all animal foods.

For every ore hundred pounds of food consumed, the daily cow returns m ruJk the equiv"knt in food values of 18 pounds of solid .food, as against 5.1 pounds for poultry in the form of pegs; or 4.2 pounds in the form of dressed poultry; or 15.6 pounds for swine in the form of pork; or 2.8 pounds for cattle in the form of dressed beef; or 2.6 pounds for sheep in the form of xnulton.

Even family of five has its own cow, whether it knows this or not. That is to say, it requires one cow to keep each five persons supplied with milk, butter, elmose, condensed mill?, powdered milk, ice ex earn and veal. A well nourished cow uses 43% of her feed to maintain her body, 30% for the work of digestion, and 27 % actually goes to make niflk. The average eomposuion of normal radk is 87.4% water, 3.7% fat, 3.2% casein and albumin, 5% milk sugar and 7% ash.

The total annual production of milk in the United States is estimated at 87,905,000,000 pounds, or erurgh to heavily load 1,000,000 freight c«r& and make a freight ti rnn ten thousand mile* long; and 44%% of this is consumed as milk, 3C% goes into butter, 4%% into cheese, 4%% irto eordtmwd milk. 4% into ice cream, 4% U used for feeding purpose"; and it is estimated ■'hat 2%/t is we^ieu. Orhcr estimates vary Hmw figm.es riigb'ly. It m admitted that no child CevAoj s properly x ithovt a liberal supply of rcx-k in his diet. It is essential to growth.

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IP IS j?z in enough for snobody to steal a bet de o’ milk from a doorstep, and that sometimes happens; but that is as nothing compared to the colossal frauds against farmers and their customers that have been perpetrated in New York and many other large cities by organized thievery working on a huge scale, and, in New York, through the city’s Health Department.

During the summer of 1925 it was discovered that about 40% of all the milk sold in the city was being deliberately adulterated by the addition of water and skimmed milk, and that the adulteration was <*arri"d c-i with the connivance of officials in the Healdi Department of the city. The persons affected were chiefly the hospitals and the poor, who buy their milk in bulk or “loose’’, i. e.. not in Lotties. One would suppose that even Sarnn hii .self would be ashamed to piofit by thus robtong the sick and the babies of the -poor.

Figures made at the time indicated that the consumers among the poor and in the hospitals were paying out $90,000 a day for cocoa nut oil and water, mixed skilfully with their butter; to say nothing of the ao alteration in the nulK. Tae dealers paid regularly for “protection” of their industry.

Im 1921 an honest milk producing concern that refused to have any dealings wi1h these crooks was “framed up” by them. Into a can of honest milk the plotters deliberately put a quantity of eoeoanut oil and then crooked officials arretted the honest producers and fined them $400 so that they could the more safely go along with their own bedevilment unchecked. Could they not point with pride to the results they wer® getting in fining lawbreakers? The concern in question was so sure of its honesty that it never even employed a lav-yor until proven guilty of an off°nse of vliieh it was, so it claims, totally innocent.

In Vienna one of the biggest dairymen withdrew the cream from his milk, and sold it as such. Then he melted beef suet and ran it through a “humogeneizer” into the skimmed milk in such a way as to make it appear creamy, and the fraud escaped detection of his customers for a long tiric. Another resourceful Vienna milkman explained to an excited customer that the reason why she found a tadpole in her milk was because the cows frequently swallow tadpoles while drinking*

The facility with which some dairymen us® the pxmphandl© so impressed a farmer at Waynesboro, Pa., that he adopted the rmusual expedient of demonstrating his honesty by marching his cow from door to door and doing the milking at the curb in front of the home of the customer.

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A Few Items in History

ONE of the first dairy farms in the United States was that of Joachim Pietersen Kuyter, who grazed his cattle in a district now covered by apartment houses in the Harlem district of New York City. He brought to this country the first Holstein-Friesian cattle seen here. This was while the city was still in possession of the Dutch, long before the Duke of York seized it arid named it New York.

In 1845 the canton of Glarus, Switzerland, became so overpopulated that at a cantonal meeting it was decided to purchase lands in the United States upon which some of the population might find homes. The result was the founding of New Gjhrn«, Wisconsin, and the making of Wisconsin into the leading dairy state of the union.

The leading dairy countries of the world are Holland, Denmark, Switzerland, Canada and New Zealand. Argentina is coming to the front. Britain is holding her own. Russia and Sweden ?ro large producers. France, Italy, Syria and the Balkans are active in the cheese industries. Most of these countries are far in advance of the United States in daily methods, their cows averaging to give nearly twice as much milk as those of America. Cfiinia. Japan and Siam are taking their first lessons in modern dairying.

Dairying is increasing in the United States. New districts are being opened to it constantly. Once people thought it was not adapted to the South, but it is now knowm that that is not true. Dairying is a form of agricuHurp which leaves the soil better every year instead of wearing it out.

Her Majesty the Cow

THE cow population of the earth is set at, United States 23,467,000, Gennany 7,683,000, France 6,650.000, Canada 3,547,000, England 2,203,000, Sweden 1,635,000, Ireland 1,480,000, Holland 1,340,000, Denmark 1,050,000, Japan 1,000,000, Switzerland 730,000.

Queen of them all, as far as we know, is Tilly 'Aleartra, Holstein-Friesian, which produced in six consecutive years 156,776 pounds of milt containing butter-fat equal to 6,141 pounds of butter. The Holstein breed have registered 204 cows that have each produced over 1,000 pounds of butter per year.

This article lays no claim to expert information on the dairy business, but information at hand shows that there are four universally recognized special-purpose dairy breeds of cattle: Holstein-Friesian, Ayrshire, Jersey and Guernsey, with a dozen or fifteen other breeds well known. A prize bull has been known to sell as high as $75,000.

Tn Holland, the headquarters for Holstein cattle, fanners dress their cattle in sacking in the early spring to keep them from catching cold. The red and white Ayrshire cattle come from Scotland. Jersey and Guernsey eat de come from the Channel Islands. Durhams and Devons are two well-known English breeds.

Pmteurizttiim md Sterilization

THE process of pasteurization consists in heating milk to a given temperature for a certain time and then cooling it to a temperature sufficient for the purpose. The object is to kill disease organisms and to check germ growth. The cooling is as essential as the heating.

Sterilization goes farther than pasteurization, in that it aims to kill all germ life in and about the material—an act of doubtful value, because it is known that some germs are of positive benefit to humans. Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin No. 748 describes a form of sterilizer which can be provided at a cost of $10 to $15.

Most dairymen make the mistake of permitting their cans to stand in the sun all day with the covers on, giving neither the sun nor the air a chance to perform their natural cleansing and purifying work. The milk is often placed in transit before it has been properly cooled. These things make dissatisfied customers.

New food for cows are sunflowers, which, in Saskatchewan, produce twice as much fodder per acre as any other fodder crop, and in connection with silos have solved the problem of winter feeding in that country. In New York and Pennsylvania buckwheat middlings and buckwheat feed have been found to be rich in proteins, and economical

The Babeoek Milk Test

R. Stephek M. Babcock, of the University of AViseonsm, gave free to the world, in 1890, a device which reveals the amount of butter fat in milk. It provides a simple method by which the valuable cows in a herd may be unfailingly discovered, and the “boarders” can be shown up for what they are.

The Babcock tester is in use today in every part of the world, and has done more for the development of the dairy industry than all other inventions combined. If Dr. Babcock had been wiliing to make money instead of being a benefactor to his fellow men he could easily have been many times a millionaire.

Although foreign countries have taken the Babcock tester seriously and have doubled their milk and butter output per cow, yet in the United States, out of 23,467,000 cows there are only about 307,000 being regularly tested; because the average American farmer prefers to work with his hands instead of with his head.

It is said that one minute per day spent in weighing out the feed consumed and milk produced per cow would be all the time required to determine what is of vital importance to the farmer to know, namely, which of his cows are working for him and which are working against him.

Dairymen Fuse Bard Conditions

klRYMEN face hard conditions. The work is hard and there is never any let-up to it.

The m'lk trust, in the vicinity of New York, holds the producer down to the lowest possible price, and then takes his milk, recaps it awl relabels it, and charges sky-high for it.

Moreover, the milk trust holds the producer to a limited output, and will never let him go ahead and increase his herd so that he ran make any money out of his plant. 'Their constant aim is a limited production, and the highest of prices to consumers—the babies and the sick.

As a sample of the fortunes made by the trust’s peculiar methods of doing business, it may be noted that the concern was incorporated in New York in 1870 for $40,000, and that in fifty years its capitalization had become $35,-000,000. Who shall say that the farmers ought not to have had a share of this!

Another evil with which the farmers have to contend is to have their cattle sshed wAtar flu BM® called tuberculosis test. It is claimed that many cows are ruined by the test. Furthermore, there is no proof that human beings ever get tuberculosis from drinking milk from infected cows. Anyway, the same human beings get the flesh of the infected animals at the butcher shop later; and the flesh is worse than the milk.

Another foe of the dairy farmer is the oleomargarine maker. The profits in oleomargarine are very high and the amounts paid to stockholders and set aside for surplus by two of these companies represent a serious handicap to the legitimate butter maker.

But there are crooked fanners, too. The editor of the Rural New Yorker declares that he visited an auction sale of fine Jersey cattle, held by a well-known breeder, and that at dinner he and the other guests were provided with oleomargarine wherewith to spread their bread. He «aw the coloring matter being mixed into the white oleomargarine.

Powdered milk is now on the market. It is obtained by spraying the milk in hot air, thus drying it. Milk in this form will keep for months. Condensed milk is preserved by adding sugar to the milk before evaporation. The term Evaporated Milk is applied to the product when made by evaporating part of the ■water and preserving the residue by heating, when it is in the final container.

Butter and Butter-Making

MOST people in the world have never seen any cow butter. The first butter was made long ago from the milk of the goat, reindeer, camel and yak. The Armenian dairymaid still hangs her goatskin churn by cords from a tripod and swings it to and fro as she did thousands of years ago.

But the West is on the move. It has found that the cow is the champion butter producer, and in the recent past has found that the cream separator leaves the old method of obtaining butter fat immeasurably in the rear. A good cream separator will lose less than two ounces of butter in 100 lbs.

A still more recent improvement comes from Holland, where the cream is now churned into butter in an atmosphere of pur® carbon dioxide. This fills the pores of the butter and prevents the rapid deterioration of the butter whieh is m of the plagues of the dairy business.

The best butter has a waxy body, a bright appearance, and when a slab is broken shows a grain like broken steel. Overworked butter is sticky, salvy, dull and greasy in appearance, and has a gummy grain. Its keeping qualities are inferior to those of properly worked butter. Mottled butter is caused by an uneven distribution of salt.

Tn France, butter is protected from deterioration by glazing the surface with a coat of melted sugar, laid on with a soft brush. The process has also been introduced on a large scale in England.

The American custom of imprinting an ornamental emblem or design on each roll or print of butter is passing away, properly so, and will soon become obsolete. That was all right when people had such a thing as leisure; but now that we are surrounded on all sides with labor-saving machinery, nobody has any time for such useless niceties.

Butter made in Sweden is served in the resort hotels of Arizona, rix thousand miles away. An absolute guarantee goes with this imported butter. Scandinavia is credited with introducing butter into the rest of Europe. At one time a man’s wealth, in Scandinavia was measured by the amount of bulrir he owned.

Cheese and Cheese-Making

rjpriEHE are mid to bo eighioeu main families of cheeses, with 400 species, t'rarce claims the hmor o? rru'ung P c fiivst cheeses in the world, ’•hough Sv zward mid otwr c< >unc nes would contest ’he honor. But France has

Roquefort, Camembert, Bruy ere and NeufchateL

There are cheeses ripened in freshly cut hay? and. cheeses packed with hops, saffron, clover, potatoes, sage, pimiento peppers, rose leaves and marigold pleats. There are cheeses of delectable flavor but with a breath like a prohibition officer, that can be handled only after dark, and when the neighbors on both sides are out of town. Limburger! 0 boy, how bad, and yet how good I

The Fiench village of Vinioutier has Just paid homage to the memory of Louise Harel, the farmer’s wife who invented the Camembert cheese. There were a brass band, a procession, a decoration of her tomb, and the affixing of a bronze tablet to the house where she made the discovery. Well! Why not? Why raise monuments to the Napoleons and other murderers and ignore those who have helped to make the world a more enjoyable place to live?

American cheese makers are now’ imitating most of the European cheeses. They even attempt to make out of cow's milk Roquefort cheeses, which have never been made successfully except from show's mdk and th-i. only in the dank natural caverns in the south of France.

The IT. S. Department of Agi icuhurc wi’l now tell any who inquire, how to make Neufchatei cheese, named after the town of that name in Nortln.cstem ri rance; or P memo cream chfoe. vi Swi»s chee®?, famous dor ns h its. Some of dw wealthy Sw. •> frmnes c c"ws riore than a wntuw Wd. Some Ar’o^s luriA cheeses aw buried m.t’l thev gr we.

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or r-wlwulw inttreri, not only on accoum of its p-wwed ies but Veuwe A represents the rediscover of a secret b'Tongmg to the g’ cients, whmh has baffled res c«rch and experiment for thousands of y-mrs. Countless attempts have bc*nj made to reproduce the unbreakable glad's used by the Romans, during the reign of Emperor Tiberius (42 B. C.-37 A. D.) for the ■mamil’acture of drinking caps which, although possessing all the opaque properties of

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’I’Leic Wc mu " wrf long lost w; ri of the arm and craft- practiced by the one en+ parries which sod doiy <’v probing lbw" scl.-uce; aid although the extensive excuv'rioos being made m the differed parts of th» cord continue to reveal new wonders of bygone civilizations, yet the methods vhirfi made these wonders possible cannot bo rediscovered.

Richly-dyed fabrics in every ccmoeivable hue

have been brought forth from the temple and tomb, fresh and unfaded after the lapse of long centuries, their colors brighter and more enduring than any dyes produced in modern times. Beautiful painting and decorating work have been unearthed, with their vivid colorings still undimmed by the touch of time; and much exquisite gilding and ornamentation has lost nothing of its pi*?stine brilliancy during thousands of years. But the secrets of the dyes and pigments used in these artistic achievements have not come down to us through the ages, and the most diligent research to discover bow the ancient i, rt-bts mixed their colots has failed to sol...... t;.“ myt-'y.

jj'-e met of tempering euppr;—a lest rat of the ancient Egyptians and the Aztecs of Mexico —which metallurgists of all ages have vainly sought, was thought to have been discovered about two years ago by a young American. He experimented with considerable success, and the results so impressed the directors of the United States Steel Corporation that they offered $1,000,000, plus one cent royalty per 15 of all copper tempered, for the process. It was later reported, however, that the new process did not justify the hiah hopes entertained for it.

Another long-lost sc -rer which has been en-geg.nr the atTeinion of scientists is the process of wekitg steel without destroying its temper. All these arts, ami more, will be repealed shortly in the New Age now dawning.

A fchirime&s utarPs Opinion ch T) wiiqicn By Hon. tfiitm L. Davey

(Ry railed from bengrro-, oral Rccoid, Reb \3, 1926)

IN SPITE of the President’s earnest and repeated 'o'oas for economy, there was an actual iaei<m-e- of more than 2'l.OCO civilian employees of the Government since a few months after he as.-uumd office. According to the report of the Civil Service Commission there were 544, 671 civilian employees on the pay roll December 31, 1923. On June 30, 1925, there were 564018 civilian employees I am not blaming the Piesidoit. but merely pointing out the fact that there has been an increase, ram er than a deci ease.

Outside ol fewer carriers and cUrks and those direct!} cancer; “J with the of p>c mails,

the civild:-’ cmplowws of the United State'* Gov.uTjiept rtv’de the lai perl number of lorf'r«, tii= c kilkw, rd hmf ;rsso”s *hat 7 have ever seen brought lea; ucr rnoer one banner.

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Also, J want to eev that <1 ere are many tnou-sands of good, cfileis nt, nr.8 h-yt i Govormrimd em; loyees, and many of them ace underpaid. ’Among those who are obviously underpaid I would include many of the scientists, cconoui-ists. and other technical men, and the examiners in the Patent Office, as well as many other individuals and perhaps some groups. A large amber in these classes in the employ of the Covesoident ate holding their pos'ticns at a reel personal sacrifice and in a spirit, ot lojalty and prt nolle service. Mtwv ol them could secure niurii larger salaries from private concerns.

There is rank favoritism in this Government, both inside of the departments and as a result of prinieol pressure. Many unworthy ones get on the pay roll and stay there who render little or no service in return for their salaries. Many of the division end section chiefs are inefficient and selfish and partiri. Many of the minor assistant cbiers are wholly worthless. Bureaucracy has fastened itself on this Government in a most abhorrent sense. There are thousands upon thews, nds of unnecessary employees who are made to loaf by the spirit of the service or in order to keep some potty chief in his job.

The lot c-i a brsre class of Government workers is almost tragi6- Their case is hopeless. There are many that would be good workers under right conditions; but they have no incentive. no hope. They are the victiD‘'<’ of a, virions system. 1 would be the friend, the practical and hriplul friend, of ail the good and necessary and efficient employees of this Government. I would eliminate all the vast army of loafers and lime killers and buck passers, create fair and sensible conditions for those who remain, and pay them what they are justly entitled to for the services they render.

How Britain Trains Her Sailors By Ca.pt. J. C. Johnson (England)

HpHE apprentice seaman of one hundred years ago was a child of about eight or nine years of age, uneducated and usually from a humble or poor home. He was sent to sea because some poor mother, a widow, had a hard struggle to find a crust of bread, for several small, hungry mouths. The sea offered a home and food; but no wages, unless a few odd coppers were given by the captain to get clothes.

This small boy’s duties were numerous, the principal one being (in small vessels) to cook the food, or (in larger ocean-going vessels) to help the cook, clean the floors, and answer any call day or night from any member of the crew from captain to ordinary seaman.

The period of apprenticeship was from four to seven years. After that period had been served the boy was then considered a full-fledged seaman and could command an able-bodied seaman’s wages, then about £2 a month or less.

If the boy had ability and resourcefulness he might be selected to take charge of a watch, and thus develop into a ship's officer; and thence some day might see him in command. Board of Trade examinations were not then demanded, as now.

With the advent of larger ships and Board of Trade examinations the system of apprenticeship, although little improved, demanded boys of at least fifteen or sixteen, more strength being required to handle the sails.

More than one or two boys were required, and as they cost the shipowner only food it was a cheap source of labor; hence in many of the large sailing vessels fifteen to twenty apprentices were carried.

This brought into being a class of hoys whose ambition w..s to serve their apprenticeship period and toen pass the Board of Tome f mii-ination and ’hits qualify through various guides, usually for t-econd mate, then first mate, and finally niaC er.

Educated boys, from homes where parents were in comfortable eirciuusk^iees, were now entered to supply the new need for the manning of the ships, all ambitious to become officers; and the ship owners now found it expedient to no longer carry on under the old "slave” system. Hence they began offering special inducements for well-to-do boys to serve apprenticeship in their vessels. Special quarters were set apart for

these boys, to keep them away from the evil influences of the common sailor (Acts 10:28); and thus the boys were developed as “gentlemen sailors”. And for such privileges their parents were asked to pay a premium, varying in amount from £10 to £150, according to th© standing of the company. .

This premium was a clever scheme to ensure the full service of the boys as- well as the fulfilling of the indentures. It was forfeited if not fulfilled. It vas a blind, io get seivloe fox nothing. Tako as an example one case known to the writer. Thirty guim-as v as the premium paid to the company; then in four veais of hard work the sum of onlv tv> enty-eigM pounds was given, the Loy as warn s. Thus this educated boy, fi om a comfortable, v.eU-°anipped home, had the privilege of four ycais hard la^or and very scanty, poor quality food, and was also out of pocket three pounds and ten slrllings.

Now in return he had an endorsed indenture, qualifying him to act as able-bodied seaman, at wages of £2-5 or £2-10-0 a month, and that only during the period of employment, because upon arrival home the crews are paid off and often spend months looking about for another vessel.

The apprenticeship period now is four years, special privileges being given to count three years sen service to boys who have spent. £200 or £300 for a nautical education in one of the several school ships, such as the-“Worcester” or “Conway”.

The “Conway” lies in the river Mersey, and for a boy to enter here if coW- a ’’GC.th smn; and this goodly sum is im-roa-od aftor the boy haves tlm “Conv-my to qualify as an abl -bodied ssamat. T!,e T'orvav’’ toy before «■-> has iw'hcd B p fie'gl’t of h’s inTikto'ton, ho - cost Is to ts rnrfiiir;, Com tl zee to five

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'•’cei-' ■- al.-o awftor ship in the Mersey, the “iudetotigabie”. This ship is not foi toymBe-mor.'a” sons—it is a school ship for poor hoys.

The nocr Loy pays nothing for his schooling. After completing hh course on the ship to usually goes to sea as boy, getting a small wage; then his wages increase and he becomes an ordinary seaman. As he grows more into a young man, and becomes able to do the usual duties of an able seaman, he then signs on a# such, and thereafter gets an able-bodied sea* man’s scale of wages, which is meagre enough. But the poor boy only neeus to qualify at sea about three years and three mcisths actual sea service, and he then is a qualified A. B. on the ®ame footing as the boy who has cost his paxv ©nts so mucn for “privileges'5.

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We are glad the poor boys have such an advantage. But is there not something wrong with a system that costs so much in one ease and so little in the other, with the same object in view, i. e., to qualify as an able-bodied seaman 1 Of course -we are not disregarding the greater pos-sibilities due to education. But both boys ar® now on an equal footing; both can sit for Board of Trade examination and, if successful, both are equal in every respect and may get into positions equal to each other. Often it happens that the poor boy gets the better vessel.

Hay Fever Cured MA La Golden Age” By L Sneeze

EVER since The Golden Age began to be published I have been a tons taut and interested reader. I have marveled at the wonderful 'discoveries and progress made in the treatment of disease, as recorded in some of the articles contained therein. Surely after reading these articles one must conclude that the Golden Age is here and that man is actually returning to the days of his youth.

One article appeared before my astonished gaze, “A Cure for Catarrh and Hay Fever.” Here was the dream of ages fulfilled—a mire for hay fever. Countless thousands have searched for relief from this dread disease only to be disappointed in their search. Millions have been made through advertising cures for this affliction, only to have its victims spend their money in vain. - As “liope springs eternal in the human bieast”, so the poor victims after getting stung on one thing aie just as eager to try the next thing that comes along.

I too have been a victim for fifteen years or more and luxe tried everything I have ever heard of, and they have been Iwrion. I have been connected with the medicine men of the country and am learned in their art of witchcraft, but had concluded after years of experience that the less one has to do with their charms and powders the better off one is. Yes, I have tried Iheir pills, their ointments and lotions, their serums and their cigarettes, but only t© find that the more I used the worse I got. Then I turned to the Golden Age innovations, such as chiropractic and electronic treatments, only to meet with the same result.

But now I find in Th® Gowen Age a CURE, and it must be so because a contributor to The Golden Age says so. Surely it must cost a lot of money; but no, on investigating I find thal all it costs is an invesnnent of one thin dime.

Shall I try it? “Hope springs eternal,” so here goes. I buy an ounce of powdered bayberry bark, which The Gowen Age tells me to get and sniff up my nose several times a day to get rid of my hay fever.

How many hundred pounds of the stuff have I used to help manufacture a concoction for others to use, and all I thought that it was good for was to get their money! Yet I take tins precious recipe home to try, meditating on the joy I would get out of life when the hay fever season comes on. Surely this is no idle dream, because I saw it in The Golden Age!

As soon as I arrive I quickly take a generous pinch of the bayberry for my first plunge into the unknown, and eagerly I place it up my nostrils and give a vigorous sniff. Ouch! Helpll Murder!'! What has happened? Did a mule kick me on the beezer or was I merely electro-cured? Anyway, all the constellations of 1119 heavens quickly pass before my raptured gaze. My hair seems to have jumped off my scalp. I catch my breath; and then I discover that X have simply had a whole season of hay fever crowded into a few brief minutes. Torrents of ' water pour from my nose and eyes. I am blinded. Shall I over recover? After a while I begin to realize that I as still alive. Then I begin to return to normalcy once mor®.

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