Golden Age, March 23, 1927
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Dance in England
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The Religious Police . . . . « • - • •
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?1 V < a- C.w 4~~ Rubber Problem Settling Itself _ A World-Wide 'Copper .Trust • . . Germany’s liailroaci Telephone Germany’®' W’- U •> ?<> “ ’ . •
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’(‘RATED and Misoeleant
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IteLiaiCN' akd Philosophy
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The World and Its News
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fifi F&tvre of SSeidus
T THE fh’-rd armvrJ radio world’s fair, TPd'O fW'nUn<*®r rm-phesied rhrt in fiftv years airplanes, si ip* f»*»d trains wifi be controlled by radio c>o pen rectly that erv 3 vdl! rd "h* necessary : every m”n w,n wry in h^ wd ft his owr s-^ndrog ond receiving set: the is -n”L! W no dearth o+ , mar labor wiU to a thing of the part; drewve roill be d-'arr rol a'etirf tely; and motion p •■’hires wdl bn Iran emitted so accurately that a Finger or srtor C3r fjp ^clp j5eCT aad heard a* well as it actually nrecent even ibongo L> be thousands uf nnlefc ?w3y. Mr. Ccekaday also exneeto amomH's to b° equipped with -td and signal b’ghts, automatically contioiled by a central system.
coming in, and nothing can stop it The s?le cl radios is new twice that of all kinds of sporting goods.
CftmJccd Volue of Jfct? Reduced
YT USED to be said that a »nan consists of one pound oi solid n,alter wet up in seven pails A wate^ and that the approximate value of the solid mattpi is about $1.34. Now comes Itortoy Allan Ciayg, assocurte director of the Cc“ere oi Surgeons, r,nd tolls the American C^dz^c of Smgcima d’at the tuiaJ value is only s/3 cents. So we are each worth six cents less ibar we thoue.fi >e v-re. By end by, if this ps ' \ ”e «? p'i get down to wh. re we feel like lLAj
1£72 More Efxrth'iaake*
Futii.e^ 7...1 a tore zta E-rtA
(^haptss Km-LOGm the man vrt'h the Urd hire
s voice, swig into a maopboiu at 3a© F<an eiH?o ano put om n scnaibve U-m- in a stredio twelve m»Jps away. The feat wa- muMed ano eeeoKjpli'hed just as the scientists in charge of the experiment foretold. It is bebevod tba' th’» presages & ume when forest hies, and perhaps other umil agro non s, may be undei radio control. C«.tu.to Ubt J to entertain *u£ Limdt by ginging - l ne’e note at a delicate gleet gobtot until’t burst into fragments.
fatdto T^rrs Beys tocS la Form
ADr0is bm-ging the boys back to the farm.
That is ilie opinion of educators and o£
the fanners themselves. Farm boys are finding that t^eie is Ing money in the installation and supervision of radio apparatus among farmers and that they can enjoy at home much greater blessings than are obtainable in the city. Badio fs changing the whole world. The old order has got to go, and it ought to go. The new order is
DURING the year 1925 there were 1472 more earthquakes than during 1924. Perhaps then xuaj staxt the readei te wondering ho v many there wera »c 1925 ultogeLaer. There were 5.297. lie® is a little Det ter, ox a IrtJe worse, wh<eh-ever v<y yen please to call it, than one every two hours. The earth is surely getting into a icstlesg comfit on. itoe total for IS?6 has not yci toon uaiiouiic^d.
,U' itflng Drt-’ e>j C'pnBid F&zk
TN SOMT unknown w«v a wild deer got into *• Centml Park, in the heart of New York City, and for fb.. best part of a day led police officials, park keepers end other worthy citizens an excited chase. Finally it ha i the misfortune to get trapped in the areaway of a Fifth Avenu® mansion, and v-as captured and carted to ih® zoo. It may have wandered into the city during Hio night, or it may have escaped from a erat® in which it was being shipped. There is a possibility also that somebody may have released th* animal in the park to see what would happen.
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San Francisco’s Baby Concert
SAN FRANCISCO has been favored with a concert by four violinists, all babies of six years old or under. The youngest player, Blanche Herold, 23 months of age, rendered Hohman’s Evening Song. The older of the children rendered works by Liszt, Verdi, Gounod and Fritz Kreisler. The teacher was Miss Amelia Scheidarnann.
Extraordinary Diving Adventure
A NORFOLK, Virginia, diver has performed the extraordinary feat of walking five consecutive miles under water, from Hampton Roads to Norfolk, without coming to the surface. A launch accompanied him, supplied him with air, and directed his movements by tele-uhone. The diver complained of no difficulties except running afoul of an old anchor and ehmbing up and down the steep sides of ship channels.
H&is to Save $49
0 ENROLL your deceased friend in the Propagation of me Faith” office, 735 N.
State St., Chicago, Illinois, will cost you $1 if you mske him an annual member, while if you wish to make him a perpetual member it will cost you $50. The idea is that in either case you are supposed to get J5,000 masses per year, none of which do a particle of good to aimbody except the man v ho gets the $1 or the $50. So by sending only $1 you isve 449. If you do not rend anything at all you save the whole $50, and yen and year friend get the same p'-aet’cal reI v‘t«s
Withdrawls from the f'srfelt: CcaacH
fF ’VITHDB Fora the Noffiolk Cow
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Norfolk Cx r 1 F fhuieras >•>-(■t doNnor a? toe Wml >1 Afi, u? :wi x '•?<’ ao>i .f-’-wfut al *-A g'rfo'P cf Cbr.'1 • *T>" cl s\ w j aj 'r”’ -utrd Jem8* Ch>--r mW • “W migdo’r , «<ct cs this worid: if mv ring’w w<h- < - - v >k‘ r''TTT’<r ny «»»«?• FIQHT.” (John 13-36) nhe f'-n^stcut teechffig of GoW Woid x» that a> 'V-iuos, have nothing to do wiffi r’ltwiog ffie >, or’<l% a/Wre The ’ole bubov^s of the ehv’ch of Je»vs Christ Is to “picsro. the nord”, to lift up Christ, to proclaim His gospel t@ earth’s remotest bounds—AND THAT IS ALT. ? jf the church had earnestly and faithfully kept to its bw mess ©f preaching Chnst instead of dabbling in the world’s mud-puddles: if the individual Christian had busied himself about his Master’s business, holding forth a consistent testimony to the saving and keeping power of the crucified, risen, living Chnst, we would not have the present terrible spectacle which now confronts us of a spiritually impotent church facing § world in the hour of its deepest need.
Strange Words from Babsm
oges W. Babsok, the famous statistician, ix?
an address in an Arlington Heights, Mass.$ ehurch. declared that the whole church service is honeycombed with hypocrisy, that the world’s banking system is adding to the world’s unhappiness, that the lawyers fasten for their existence on the misfortunes of other people, and that the educational institutions have gone materially mad, submerging the more W'orth-wliile courses m sheer commercialism. How strung® is truth!
Things Have Changed a Little
HINGS have changed a little. In the Bal th more Conference of the Methodist Church, which met in 1808, a resolution to condemn the traveling preachers who were engaged in the selling of intoxicating liquor failed of passage. A hundred years later the Methodist Church was the backbone of the Anti-Saloon League. Some Methodists must have changed their minds in the meantime.
3'7 Sects Trj to Amalgamate
JN NEW YORK CITY, on the night of Novem-t Ur .39+b. 200 clergymen, re pre sen ring -ighty-wven sc. ts, took the mitiol s+eps to _au $2.0.-
for the expense of a conf creme to do held Lausanne, Svutzerhnd. whew they woe to
>r q about r. ccosclidanuu oi churches. George "W W'flw'W.are, former xXtrorn^y Oierrd of
'’o IN-ib. 4 ‘ res, n« I cd aS chairman. diaries F. Hughes, ‘ormer Soewta y of StvtWof the Umted Sta+fcs. is chair nan o® the American Committee of the eonienmcc. One of the speak* er 3 at the conference was tkA Kight Reverend Charles If. Brent, Episcopal bishop of western New York,
Judge Collins’ Religious Statistics
Judge ColmnSj of the Juvenile Court, New York City, addressing a meeting of Roman Catholics in St Charles Borromeo Church, is reported to have said that of 145,000 eases brought- up each year in the Children’s Court; SO percent of them are Catholie, 30 percent are Jewish, and the remaining 10 percent are of other faiths; and this in a rify whose popular fem is only 25 percent Catholic. Judge CoUim is also reported as having said:
On the other side of the continent, in San Frartefec®, I find a tabulation of the inmates oi the State prison: 75 percent of them are from Catholic schools, brought up in the Catholic faith, yet Catholics have less than 80 percent of the population of California.
iittewte to Discredit the Ress-rnetion
Occasionally we learr of attempts to discredit the resurrection of our Lord. A roan place? himself under a s^I-snflieted hypnotic grell, h put into a coffin i« burred; and after Iwo ho are the eotnn is dug on. and the cataleptic spell is iunnvfd. Meantime, the paneni bar been breaking slightly what aL there was w th? box at the tame he was buried. There ir nothing in this that remoleiy resemble* th» actual death and resurreetxon of our Lord.
Hosse Moving Extraordimry
A BOSTON capitalist moved his summer home from Marquette, Michigan, to somewhere down in Massachusetts; and that was quite a move. But an Indias Maharajah has made a bigger move still lie had a palace built ia England and then shipped complete to India, where it is now being reconstructed. The b*»th entirely of marble, cost $10,000 The furshare inclnaesa silver bedstead. All toe wealth A India goes to its ndeis, i ot to the common people, uho are ah. ays in dire orabl? conchaon.
American FTais Hindus
FfWZ Bengal Board of Censors claims that
America * bhas are malrii'g the Hredire ic* -less. Ii seems ihartbo Uinuiw uk uiehlwrs, red the Bxitish Board o’ Censors nuA the elaborate portrayal of Western luxury and extravagaivi, and the raermers and morals cP our men and women, are causing die Hindus to think that we are actually as had as we really are; anl ft 8©@g not just suit to have them know it Moreover^ they are said to be getting the idea that the Bast has been exploited by the West in order to indulge this extravagance; and that is the too.
Hollywood Film in Jav®
A N ENGLISH writer, Mr. Huxley, rererife A-L ing in The BookmM one of Hollywood’s most beastly productions, which he saw in Gambier Park, Java, says:
Standing in the midst of that silent crowd ef fare're ®se picture fans I was astonished, when the performgno® attained its culminating imbecility, that they did not all with one accord tarn @n us with hoots of derision, with mocking and murderous violence. I was astonished that they did not all rash m a body through the town erymg, “Why should we be ruled any longer by imbeciles?" and murdering every white wan. they met The- driveling nonsense than flickered there in the darkue®, under the gropicai clouds, was euoiy i to justify any wtburato
Jj? Odd Radio Receiving Apparatm
Dispatches report that in th© city of ToroiM, ir a fionst’s shop in which there is no radio apparatus, by sw «trarge freak the watu tap automatically acts «.s a redio rre ©river and the metai sink acts a* a loco, speaker. As a result, it is declared, speedres and hvqsm can be plainly heard. Should this heeome general it may lead to an—at prreei t unexpected rush of al members of the £?srily to take part in the dish-washing act.
American C&al Sent to Britain
’DEOPLE with hearts, who knew of the desperately poor wages paid to British minere, and the desperate fight die miners'made to prevent tie already ixopossibly low v ages From being made lower still, find little Eatifcfaition in the news that all last year the coal Larons of the great and wealthy Uni ed S<atci, sent millions of tons of bitxovinons evd re ’Ire British ’’sle% during the strike Hat beg" i 'n 3 jv. Uncer the eiicuwstanecs. Pip xr’revs ri 1 i'and little chance of winning; *, u <t he®rip cue io know 'slat tire wosKire of Aassia, Gfci.nny, .’rane-e, Irrlj, Sweden, Norway, Denmark. Bolland, Spain, Portugal. Poland, United Surin-, Australia, Canada and South Africa have all don® what they could to feed their British brothers
2 CLwpariwa of Past md ftwut
FTWIS past is revealed by the fact that it took a letter five months to go from a remote pan of British America to another. AH the andent modes of travel, which of necessity axe still wed in parts of that great country, were employed in making the delivery. But the present is revealed in the fact that the letter was . written to a broadcasting station in Vancouver, to tell that the program which they had been brosdeastaig had just been, received. That is abou it. In the past it took five months to da aojtliihg; in the present, with modem apparatus, it takes almost no time at all.
Ti 2 Answer of £he Allied Prime 3/linlsiers rprr complete answer to the lies abo» t tb*» up ted States government and people m fj\J; circulating througnout Europe is to ne found in tap cab'e dispatch seat on June 2n<t 1918, by *he prime cum^t'-r® Engh^cL Fre'ice and Italy to President Wilson, in which they gaid:
The prim® Hiafeta of France, Italy sad Vreat Bntdin, now westing at Vereaihes, desire to isend ths fallowing mesfeags to the Presfent of the United States: We desire to express oar warmess, thanks to President Wilson for the remarkable promptness wrt-h which Araw-lean aid. m excess of what at one tane seemed praetor Bable, has been rendered to the AEb.es during the past teonth. to meet a great emtogercy.
The same dispatch emteined a fre'fh appeal for more troops. They want, by the feto«ra3, expecting nofereg to rerera but feta. Tito they did not get own toe tham s.
A" GriOdF ex B a h timbers, &em«g fa fe to fsfero JA s of A Lraoro re to.ro-’ to. ’.s v i,«o ’ ■? tomtomra a«i' to l>i. era a outrou. 4 v t.' evo u-gi „ oe r> ive fe o \-tion o’ mimm. >o. -Ofe 4 rife tioo ii»Vw fe ‘j- ^Lho; A h~tnai ” toudily uni toe ee^-cvcuw t a' ‘’herty. ”rd th?? fey ifc cfeottoamiiu rtoiaogfe *< undo’-gaines verpest s oi the rmLrv i t to torra Uto afe Ait ttttwm kt®. It euggesxfe ffet vnra gov-©rmnetos have to depend for rap pot*, ®in the wluatasy wnmt of their peoples, they mwf Www&rily exerds® mutton in their foreign grifete*,
Unique fefei Dawe to England
TpXPEBIMENTING* with, specially ineonspic* was receiving sets, fastened to the head? twenty couples staged a dance at a hotel in Berk-hamstead, England. The appearance of the dancers, keeping perfect- time with each other’s steps without any audible music-, is said to have been, most extraordinary. To the onlookers, they seemed to be out of their minds. This is a good example of how the true Christians appear to those who have no ear to hear, or who, having ears, are not yet. timed in.
ifonfef Psrf&rma.mre Started Too Soon
FTAV e g-otto deal of hard work a London emertaroer trained thirteen monkeys to r. oy jaw. Ko drato they plaved it as well as most ordrestias can play anything that is not mnac, bat- they were not to begin public pets-Sorwanes until Christmas. A month ahead of time rb'ws broke into what they thought way a henhouse, when out earn® the monkeys and scattered themselves all over London. At last accounts the bandmaster and thro® others were still at large.
Mew T&rk Lemming fmm L&ndm
LONDON is replacing its slums by rapidly housmg ad the residents of certain quarters in temporary buildings while it tears down the old rtrueturos. replaces them with modems honsss, ?nd -bra the ©Id tenants pre brccigM lack m and allowed to -pay as rent not a fixed Bum of so 'feb ret room but a certain propor* ti’toi of *.io'? ran * of the family. Adgnst Ilefe 'a/, wo' di >10w,JQ0s000 in hu» ci » fe want! o rrr <iu pL ” out iu fe-w fta k. C»*y wwi relieve tvecy i estige of the great F-»s' S de, w to g d ov- ’ j do a nybafefe feroro’ Yors <?rr^«* rx' i ?w '-or/
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■' o 'k Llfeoufe fere rtife'a fc fl-ummfefe to fend* i few ju few Tc~k, fe 11 q. f •3e*» ifecy fefeu fe British metioyri’S a m A vofe to fev, feyfc -fey aVi.rag^. tore 2LA The difere ,c.» la largely due, rre> doab*, to ths Lord.,a toga Perhaps M.e of the difference is traceable to the fart that there are mor® >w drivers in London than in New York.
Bwetev Ssdter Sla&ee ny Psrifeweaf
A MEMBER of ths British Parliament, Doo ' tm rid -ji M Bemondtey. in a pal-lie speech io a k ri’: / Aw' Temfateti t-M ‘I that drunkenness in the House of Parliament was ct-mmo-j rte wbtei-. cc oil parties coming ua noisy, excited, and Snshod with too much drink. In a*'l.nin s : : 'ii IT < re brf.i gh* • ’ j to book for th?- speech. He could have been expelled and .cot • , >-> Vb hevc, in his seat and
2«jvEcd ?■' .A*- o-u'k o word, o th" ground that every person pi esent. in the then parked House faevri w > 'el y'fic rvuti. fite. Trium lute's." -r' -I,, whlly v utte-d th truth of the ae-.it? . ,rid riwte tlte 'h’t talk about te T-■ TT tee wl'mcfy vo'’ *. tite <■- i
’ ’ ’ . ’ -■ < > ■> k S” te i x ' te £ ’I . that was ail they did. Tins is the nrst tmw in the history of the British Paxlianiem that when a -J „s _o£
privilege lie has ever had. the courage to stand
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he was right. How can . c ' be
expected unless the legislators have the courage to tell the truth though the heavens fall I
A British Spendthrift
A BRITISH spendthrift, left $5,000,OGO by his father, has been twice forced into bank* ruptey. The .court made him an allowance of 1100,000 a year upon which to live. He recently eame into court claiming that he could not live on that .amount.. One. wonders how he would, like to trade'places with the British miners who •:ean never expect to receive as much-as one per-eent of- that amount. How can such a man have -■Ray sympathy for eenimoii men! Of what pos-rible use -is he in the world t
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"FT »,L B. ish ■<: t” e r>»'T T”dum has t J .ialready started are conf ranted now with the •ihefattai fa England fast .suianier even native-faw a pij U5XA tete of trim, appeared in. public criupi ?w vests m. To b- sure they wore doubfa-t-reasted scats, bu> toned tigfaly, so that nobody would see their suspenders; but who can doubt that, the millennium is here when a male Britisher dares pass through a stifling hot day without being closely girdled with a vest !
Bfaae® Drop Off Airship
AT FULHAM, England, in October, a giank X3-- rizship wen alri t tefate two ahfarics, eteh tewj.r;m< r w ' aw ■ v'n^mg Hong h tee ,. !r. / /"fa _e-t. the a.w planes ten. rfi " a’ <w U m ► otwi, and it " 1! ! > 1 -v -te ’ r wl t< H®
gv q - -6 y i . ' a . hc rip ' n=s have ever been released., from Zeppelinfa! The im» mediate uses of- this combination in ease of war are readily apparent,
Britefari New Bombing Planes
"DBTTAIK is bad .ng fifiy r.-w fcoinfang •*«* planes hi4 V ri/e ? tete- m one hundred mifaj s-- h 'i ,_U Ie fak to bomb a
city from four niiles above the earth, wliieh -is? practically out of sight. It is said, of comse, that these are for defense. That is what is said of ail military apparatus, but the statement is illogical on the face of it. The planes are for oftense. There would be no occasion to drop British bombs on any British city.
ri Beal Good Fish Story
BEAL good fish story comes to us from the London. Daffy News. A fish, spherical in shape, sen J>‘- ;te a sunfish, came crashing over the rail of the United States steamer “Bepublic” while the latter was in mid-ocean.. The fish, thrown on the deck of the boat by a great storm, weighed eight hundred pounds. The News carries a. picture of the fish, evidently . taken while the storm was still on. The four heavy iron bars or tubes which, r m t; ute the ^Republic’s” ship rail were ah, borne to the deck .Where the fish came through.
Ti^pwt^ System Killing itself
TN -EUBOPE the. tipping system is idliirg ft-A self. Tn Germany it is now the custom for the house' to add the waiter’s usual 10% tip to the bill'itself. The custom has spread .to Holland; -and the waiters'are in favor of it, .because, for a long time, Waiters there, have not been per- ■ miffed to keep their tips but. are required, to-,, surrender them to the house. The tipping sys« ' tern is ugly, vicious ond moan; it ought to bej aholwhed altogriner and the waiters paid a respectable wage. ” I , ......'........
Tipping a Degrading Practice
T) ECOGNIZING that tipping is a degrading practice, unfair in principle and unsatisfactory in its outworkings both on the giver and on the recipient, a body of British railwaymen has passed a resolution condemning the whole practice and urging the passage of a bill by Parliament making the giving and receiving of tips illegal.
The Heligwm Police
George Bernard Shaw, in the preface to “Major Barbara”, said:
The religious bodies, as almoners of the rich, become a sort of auxiliary police, fating off the insurrectionary edge of poverty with coals and blankets, bread and treacle, and soothing and cheenng the victims with hopes of nrmen^e and mexpensne happiness in another world, when the process of working them to premature death in the service of the rich is complete in this.
Most &f Them Kept Their Jobs
THIRTY-SIX years alter Henyy VIII founded the Episcopal Church, Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth and all who adhered to the Church of England: but out of 9,400 Boman priests who had served under papal authority during those thirty-six years, or part of that period, only 192 refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Church of England when the test really came. Ninety-eight percent of them thought it better to keep their jobs than to fall out with the powers that be.
TForlcfs Forests About Exhausted
THE British Imperial Forestry Conference has submitted a report showing rhrt the forests of the world are nearing exhaustion. Only tv enty-seven peroert of the virgin forests of Ga lada now mucin standing. Tn the United State* there is row left but twenty-fito years sup p] j, and that is ir rat€ 1 mostly <n three states. C-werete corstrc'’ io j did not, come any too wro. Co*-adoration row being paid to the "id tort on U j livt’’ Lmiorns ,-f Michigan river-; th.-r* an- new wohrolroerou ry five million feet of good timber which Las lain tnere for c generation. It i‘2 believed Jiat du. n? » evrly be covered; but it belongs, theorcticaUv, to many owners. Rone of the co nparies which cut thfs timber in the first place, awl put their mark tjon it, have long since ceased, to exist.
Rubber Problem Settling Itself
TOE rubber problem is gradually settling if.
self. In two years the British share of th© world’s total production of plantation rabbei dropped from 72% to 53%; American automobile users reduced their consumption of tires 25% and the amount of reclaimed rubber has almost doubled. America is also getting some robber plantations of her own under way.
Firestone Rubber Plantation
THE Liberian government having grantee!
VW,000 acres to The Firestm-ip Gmipany, that Akron, Ohio, concern will at once begin the development of the land. It is estimated that this development will require the services of about 350.000 native laborers and will produce 200,000 tuns of rubber annually. The company has also leased another plot of 200,000 acrou which is now in full rubber production.
Growth of Spirthm in London
SOME idea of the growth of spiritism in Cen
don may be formed from the fact that a year ago a hall which seats two thousand persons was sufficient for their annual convention. Tn No-vemher of 1926 they had eight thousand persons out at a meeting in Royal Albert Hall, three thousand of vhom arose to testify that they had been m touch with their dead. Poor things! Little do they realize that they have lice^ trapped by demons who have wickedly impersonated their loved ones, only to deceive them ami keep them away from the troth.
Bishops Fiftp y®@rs Late
MANY of err subscribers are seadmg as
"L'ppings calling attention to the Jtc’ara-f,<m of emc-rir b'sloos of the Gharri of Fn-g’auU tf-at ael1. a> a place oi ron-us, be acolisbcd Bu' cor an&wcz is that div 'rsaops are net to congratulated. Pniy roam is a
tine io :c< a sane, bones. pf»?
wro fn ily fixed tn tno mtou. The b ri ut. coa’d aave had this tdm fifty yearo ego if tiioy bad teeii robing to Tck up just fc’ir words in the conccro’mros every educated '’aim tier has in his ^’brory. It must be that the bishops are Ake tb<» vest ei humanity. They do not like to study, *hey de not like to work, ard they do uof like to think. Thinking takes effort. Woodrow Wilson said one time that the thing that impressed him most in the effort to instruct young men was the effort the young men themselves would make to prevent the reception of knowledge. The bishops are in the same class. They are coming along, but coming very slowly, fifty years behind the times. Hell was abolished long ago.
Speeding the Growth of Oiefcs
IN NEWPORT, England, ultra-violet rays art used in speeding up the growth of chickens.
Young chicks treated to these rays at intervals during the day and night become twice as heavy as their comrades not so treated. It has long been known in this country that it pays to illuminate chicken houses by electricity, turning ©n the current long before the sun comes up. The .increased light and the diffusion of the electricity both tend to increase egg production.
Censorships in Europe
Tv THE United States we feel free to print the truth on all subjects, if we have the courage to do it. In Russia, Italy, Spain and Portugal there is an absolute censorship. In Turkey, Rumania, Greece, Hungary, Poland, France and Belgium you must be careful what you write or you are liable to be thrown into jail or expelled irom the country. The only places in Europe where there is any semblance of freedom of the press are England, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The Mysterious Manifesto
THE mysterious manifesto, signed by most of the leading bankers of tLt world, including American bankers, calling for the removal of tariff and other artificial hprUers to trade threnghord. Europe, reems r© be without say legitimate p-rentage. It w. vf-aed to the Louden press through on adve" ’rij g agency. Ber-l4n dinpohehe- 'iisnri it i as rere,'‘V'ri in London >y the bead of ’he hn.k of Fngt’un; hut lung before it was pvbhcbjd it ha I hren examined and approved by the Americai- 'decretory of the Treasury, the President of fee United States, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President of the German Reichbank, etc.
Lending Money to Fay DeBfe
IT IS well known that Germany is meeting her reparation payments, and also that America is lending Germany the money with which to pay them. It is generally agreed among financiers that in. 1928-1929, when the annual payment under the Dawes plan materially increases, Germany will be forced to default; and some maintain that the crash must come next spring. In the meantime most of the material things in Germany that are worth while are passing into the hands of American financiers.
Bad Outlook in France and Germany
COMMERCE AND FINANCE contains an article by James E. Boyle, professor of Rural Economy, at Cornell, in which Mr. Boyl® says that Berlin has over half a million persons either wholly or partly idle, and that in France the rank and file of state employes earn only fifty cents a day, which is not enough for them to Jive on. -
A World-Wide Copper Trust
THE copper business of the world is now under the absolute control of a combine which maintains offices in New York and Brussels and cannot be reached by any national laws. This world-wide copper trust will fix the world prices for copper, produce what copper it sees fit, and eliminate all forms of competition. It is a super-government in copper.
The Twa Giants of Steel
THE new European steel eonibine has fixed its annual output at 27,528,000 tors. Thto is about three-fourths of the output of American makers. In the next few’ years these two giants are expected to put up a Beautiful batti© to see which will control the steel trade of South America.
A Washable Wxll /toys’
fniJE 0er>W8 uave invented e robbewecl -** waseaMe wto ct Ito papm is stud io «ook Eke wa(l paper, rot like Eaueozn or oil* cloth. This seems uke a derivable invention. Wall auiiae'-'S scon gri . rngy nowadays,* with so much oil Find dust in *he au, and if a really good washable wall paper has been invented it ought to have a large sale.
Genyantfsi Railroad Telephones
AT PBESENT it is possible to telephone from a German dining car to any point in the German republic fot less than a dollar. The ears are totted with telephone booth, from which ©alls are made in the usual way. The service is said to be perfect It would seem that *f this is possible in Germany it ought to be possible In the United States.
Germany’s New Auto Speedway
IN CIRCULAR form about s ®)Wxm top, to the county of Adenau. Germany, there la? recently been constructed the most rtmeckalie automobile speedway in exsMen.cc?. There are four rings or circuits about the moiint-uin., at <different elevations, and varying in length from one and one-fourth to epluecr. mho.- long. A grand-stand, favorably situated, provides loom for 10.000 spectators. The competing ears fan be observed readily throughout much of their routes.
Working Over Old Slug
THE French are elated because they. Lave discovered thousands of tons of old B-oman glag, worthless in its day, but now found to be 60% iron and a very valuable deposit A generation ago the slag from our own furnaces was considered valueless. Now it is of great value in the manufacture of cement. No doubi, as time goes on, it will be found that much less ha& actually' been wasted in the world than we have supposed. It would seem that sin to all ite fonnM is the greatest of all wastes, but if Tw. les'rmx which it teaches are well learned this particular form of slag will constitute a mint’ that will last mankind to all eternity, as an everlasting lesson to obedience.
Men Clamor for Freedom
THE worm, is turning. Gradually those afflicted members of the human family, the men, are beginning to realise that their mode of dress is a worse than stupid and heathenish abomination. In Paris there is now a dub which has set for itself the worthy ideal of doing away with two of the most beastly articles of the male attire, namely collars and ties. In his timid, shrinking, fearful heart of hearts every man on garth will wish them well—and then go and buy, another box of chokers.
The First Sound
NO DOUBT the lighthouse will always be valuable, but the hist of what will come to be very common the world over to the way of sound houses has been estabLslud st the entrance to the haibor of Calais, Ftan.ee. Th® sound house revolves three times a mtoaxe9 throwing out wireless signals and ulixa-sound rays. All that the navigator has to do is to count, the seconds after the wireless signal until the sound-ray is he%rd, and it is then possible for him to dctermtoi bis position within a few yards. This will en&ole ve«3-»lc tc enter ci leave the port of Calais in the thickest fogs.
Unemployment in Austria
A T PBESENT there are about 200,990 nn-•*■ * employed in what is now the small comn *7 of Austria, A glimpse at bow this affects the populace is had in. the fact that when the government recent1? added 3.290 to its raaa1! fai'? of soldiers lOfoff yourng men sought the jobs, and many of them remained in line all right watting tbei? opportunity to bo early on the scene wnen the xecrmcing ofaet& shoula open.
GM Watchers M Go
T’T IP the fates that old watchm must go For * centuries a lonely watchman ca a 1T;~-rmg tower ha* signaled by lantern or otiv»mvi*e to thoto below whenever a lire broke ont nea- him. Now at last be nau iost his job. because G baa bean found that the work, can be n»o,e effiritotiy dmto by ncodem <*Jectne^ Hgnsltog sppwr'ir*, Noah’s if ovex, the prophets of ofo hi vs. eeased to give their warnings, ths vc-ieo of the apostles is stilled, Gja messengers to foa different ages of the church had their day and are done; and soon ae wo shall cease. But th** da? is drawing on; >®d soon no watchers for ifo dawning will >>e needed, for it will be here in al* its grandeur and. glory B
Conditions in Russia
BEFORE the World Wmety percent of the Russian population was illiterate; cow all the younger generation can read and write. It is said that there are now 100,000 contributors or correspondents to the newspapers and othet gerio dicals published in Russia.
Fhssian: Royalty in the Discard
/-tpHE'Soviet government shows 'Scant respect
-*• for tyrants that made the name of Russia
|*tefiifit|ii |||ip||ia.n&'&e < ©reah'Bas-;hs|i| ll*||liii*Bi|iikiMealer * whA:wffl < ® ® It < $ dr *-lhiiliing-; the ancient*■ prisonf '--pf* - Saints is nsed-:*as a pfflsewn to**relnipd
Russians of the fate that was once reserved in Russia for those who dared to think except as they ware reqxnred. ■ o*** ■
'American Venus Russian Wheat Gnmn
ALTHOUGH the average American farmer . is 1,000 to 1,500 miles back from the ocean, and an ocean 3,000 miles wide separates him from his European market for wheat, yet he ra rjT<-_s <••; gji kl.35 per bushel for his wheat while the Russian farmer, under a 'government, ’nceomtly, gees bat 90 cents per basket ■-■ More......pveEyMe American farmer averages twelve tons
<1 vheat per worker, while the Russian fanner averages but one and one-half tons. All these differences are accounted for by the wider use of machinery in America than in. other countries.
Cooperation AcMe&ed in Finland
IN FINLAND it may almost be saidtthat* eo» -operation has-won-& final battle. The-eoop": . eratives now pra-hp.te 915% of all the butter, produced in the country, and dominate both, the home and export markets for milk and milk-
’odwris. Coopr cotton has made the fanners rao. eirv'; and m-w^'~deid. Today about 92%
: of the arable land: of Finland is held in farms of J.ess than 250' acres.
2 *» • ri „ «<, in Spain
■*|pBOM time immemorial the country of Spain A. has keen under the control of the Roman v ' ir, n ’* ide ~t~, ’ i L
even at the present .'time only one-tenth of the c » t. > x' । ed by law to
■: attendysehool:t«an: be aeeommodated, because jwe uu v'era '”4 Ji . ?-r j, Trad.
The..people* have suddenly awakened to the fact ~ „> -ignorance, and an
mwix dewavd s ntbtmg c . kuu ' -hoofe. Even the universities are unable to accommodate half th.® students who now wish to attend.
Latest Moves of ike Hestless One
Mussolini has decreed a tax on all bachelors between Twenty-five and sixty-five years age, the ftrndsTo- go-for the protection of mates?-* hity and infancy. He has guaranteed the inde--pendenee* of - Albania, stationed troops on the border be tween France and Italy, and is declared by the Chicago Tribune to have notified the British and French foreign offices that unless -France surrenders the Syrian mandate before March Italy-will withdraw from the .League of Nations. The time is up and we wait to see.
IwfeA Opinion of Fascism - ,
JUSTICE, ..a magazine published by the- Gar-• meat Workers Union, says of Faseism;
In Italy labor-organizationg axe outlawed. They art supplanted by Fascist trade unions, led by 'Fascist mmionettes who dance as the strings are pulled by castor-oil heroes. The eight-hour day has been destroyed, woman suffrage has practically met the same fate; and Jxeedom of the press, speech and assembly are relegated to the past. ,
Fascisti at Work Here
WHB Fascist! ar® -at work here-<in, America.
Last November hands of armed men invaded the printing plra'-s of the Italian newspapers 11 Nuovo Mwido and. drove
ithe employes into the* street ati-the 'point of tlia-* gun, and then with sledgehammers- and' wrenches;' wrecked both -plants.-'' Probably* Won we shall* have the blessings :of Fascists, rale all about "us.-Those who like it will probably get all they wsmf of it before they are through with it. *
The Crime of Anti-Fascism
TO BACK up its career of official anarchy ths h . " > ‘ o . .<i i i
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a man to banishment- tori lojjelysisle* if . ha s®** much as manifests any * epyesifwfi*-*% file* gov«*i or.’- " ’ - ... ....
rales in Italy. The plain intent is to fasten this y-ra' -s-raratti'c, _ nt 'ra„rai
tl-c ’M’ra >< p'*' tl' 1 nr -ray % S’'-ope w-‘l open. Orders have beeniseutd for '«he kc. of all anti-Fascist societies and newpaperg.* Mussolini has issued orders attempting to date- women’s dress, both as to style and eosfc
Our New Home
EFOEE this bras of Th® Goisew Age is. in the hands of Its subiserifiers we expect to be folly settled in our new home at 117 Adams Street,
|iig|Neeai coMtrueted by >the
Tract Society. This is an
97 Yz ft-? contains -more than '^O®Ws--8sB0i^^^ space, and has an abundance of light on fell Sidm.
Brooklyn. Below is a picture of the building, which has
The building is constructed ef reinforced concrete '1 > A • < v y fireproof. Experts declare it
Ito be one of the most ideal plants in the eountry, and it •Is especially adapted to #ie use fox which it is intended. "i *' : i J occupied by the Watch Tower Bible and :h ' c s "r., and by Te« Golbkn Age, « printing s®pd bookbinding eetablishaisat, and is on.® of ’tow New Xorfc factories that, ig eynippod to generate fe «w* rieotrie paws..
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THE earth, experiences 16,000,000 thunderstorms a year, or about 44,000 daily, so that there are about 1,800 in progress at all times. Java gets the most thunder-storms of any place on earth. The Arctic regions rarely have any. In the United States, Florida and the Mississippi Valley have the most thunder-storms, averaging thirty-five to forty a year. In California and Arizona they have but one or two in a year.
Every thunder-storm and rain-storm starts with dust in the air. If there were no dust there would be no storm. On some tiny particle of dust there is a precipitation of moisture. Millions of these droplets often unite to form one of our common rain-drops, but every rain-drop has at least one dust particle as its nucleus. These dust specks may be microscopic in size, and usually are, although rain-water sometimes actually appears muddy.
There is always an immense quantity of water overhead. When the sky is blue the water is invisible, but the moisture-laden atmosphere is there just the same. If all the water that is suspended over our heads at this minute were to fall to the earth at one time not a living creature on the surface of the earth would survive.
One inch of rainfall brings down 113 tons of water on an acre of ground. At the time of the Dayton flood twelve inches of rain fell in one night. In some places in India the annual rainfall is over four hundred inches. London has twenty-five inches of rain a year, Minneapolis has twenty-nine. Rain is caused by a warm body of air getting dulled and unable to carry its load. Then it cornier ses around the ever-present du°t partieKs which permeate our atmosphere and forms drops.
Tliunder-stnnns O'wur vhea a layer of hot ait nex it the "mill suddenly bursts through a of 'rid sir riwe h and starts tc n&e far a mm the erixL. The top gets suddenly "old.
mhi *aPs the big drops ■ •any 'loutirc ekeme*? to the earth. T'-'s won results m < p -rrfi and a negative s .y, urmlaria-m ri bg’ h mg equalizes mauers.
The power of a Vgfetoing flem may bt judged from the fact that it trims 1.5,003 vohs pressure to piodueo a spark an inch long, Lm flashes of lightning have been know tc leap from cloud to cloud a distance of twenty miles. The utmost length, of flash, produced by human beings is said to be about twenty feet, in the General Electric Company’s high voltage laboratory at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Lightning and Hail
HEET lightning, so-called, is merely the reflection of lightning flashes which are otherwise concealed. The usual form of lightning is what is called chain lightning, sometimes known as bolt lightning. The zigzagging is caused by sudden condensation of the air in the path of the bolt. A third form of lightning consists of fiery balls or globes, possibly of air or moisture, lighted by electricity. These sometimes attach themselves to mastheads or roll along the surface of the earth and explode without effect. The thunder-clap is caused by the tom surfaces of the atmosphere rushing together after the lightning has severed them. The roll of thunder is the echo from cloud to cloud.
For some reason unknown the oak is fiftyseven times as liable to be struck by lightning as the beech. Trees struck by lightning are almost always isolated in the middle of fields, or are on the edges of woods. In a great thunderstorm the middle of a forest is a safe place.
Lightning rods have been generally discredited. Insurance companies, with, unusual opportunities to make studies of this kind, assert that most lightning rods really invite lightning. The statement is made that an ideal protection would be a heavy wire netting, or broad strips of metal, as hghtning never passes through & metal covering or leaves a conductor for s build irg if the conductor has surface enough to carry the cm rent.
l~h k'ones a-e caused by rain drops getting par* ay io earth, becoming frozen «uid then bemg lO’-cec aloft again and agan , Suiu--r mes until die) are lt;g< enough to break nator-melous wide open da Ju otbei tmiou’s dame go lrad‘loriuc }«rv Ker kRO’wi io Linm aovn a r-'’ . mrive me *s at r. time This 1 opened xn » ..e t'lKaiiont mg.ou c.f Xorih Carolina cm one cw-iwii.
West m Kaneto is occdrion flly visited by ►.••.pineal stoinj whitri coms when the air is m~ tem jS-L dxy, ad itLout any thunder o* hrbi-juvg. Bribed ftiie te-ices become so heavily charged with electricity that at night every barb becomes an incandescent light. A wire thw charged, if it gets loos®, kills all the vegetation within the are in which it swings.
Farwws Kinds &f Whirlwinds
IF WE understand the matter correctly, a thunder-storm travels along over the earth much as a lawn-mower does. The wind always blows ahead of it and straight sway from it. In the case of a tornado the storm moves ahead like a spinning top; its path is narrow', and it may and often does jump or bound or skip.
A cyclone may be a hundred or more miles in diameter; its general direction is spiral; as it passes over a district the winds shift so that they seem to come from every point of the compass. The center of it is a place of calm, -without wind or storm. The damage is done when the outer rim of the great wheel sweeps through, both ahead of and behind the center itself. Cyclones in the Atlantic are called hurricanes; in the Pacific they are called typhoons. The so-called western cyclone is properly not a eyeion® but a tornado.
Tornadoes usually travel from the southwest to the northeast. Their path is never wide, but the funnel when formed never travels less than forty miles an hour, and often sixty; so it is hopeless to try to outrun it. When caught in the path of one, the safest thing to do is to get into the southwest corner of the cellar of a frame building, crouching close to the wall. Or one may inn. to the northwest and sidestep the worst of the storm. If caiighl directly in the path and there is no escape, throw yourself flat cm the ground, preferably in a ditch.
The reason why tornadoes move from the southwest to the northeast is because that is the line of conflict between the southward moving cold winds of the Rocky Mountain region and the? northward moving hot winds of the Gulf Region. The tornado line is the line of greatest friction between the two air currents. The state of Arkansas is the greatest tornado state. March, April and May are the banner tornado months.
Some Freaks of Tornadoes
ORNADOES have been known to drive a fence-board through the heart of a tree a foot in diameter, and to drive straws through fence-boards. They have been known to bite great chunks out of a building and no one could ever find a trace of the missing material. It is no wonder the ancients used to think a severe windstorm was some kind of great monster.
A large oak tree was twisted from its roots as if it had been a weed. A half-down glass jars of fruit were "carried three hundred feet and laid down without the least damage. A earload of budding stone was tossed around like a toy balloon. A boy was blown out of a house and a few seconds later was blown back into it
A letter was picked up from a mail box and delivered by air a hundred miles away, but not at the correct destination. A garage was blown to smithereens, but the automobile within^it was undamaged. Houses were iolded up I’ke cardboard boxes; others were picked up in the air and their contents shaken out like salt oru of a shaker. Birds were thrown to the earth with such vjobmee that it killed them.
Things happen so fast in a tornado that sufferers lose all sense of time. In the town of Wilmette, Illinois, a tornado winch some citizens claimed lasted one hour was proven to Lev*, lasted hut one minute. A rescue worker. noticing a baby’s shoe protruding from the debris of a miner’s home, after a tornado had passed through the village, grasped it and. found under the wreckage a little girl, who was ui-bnrt.
Buildings in the paths of tornadoes frequently explode. The reason for this is tbal ths ordinary pressure of air is almost a ton to the square foot; but when this pressure of sir is suddenly removed by the suction effect of s tornado moving along the outside of the hudjatg, the pressure from the inside blows the budding apart.
Other Storms
OT al J bi g wind-storms are tornadoes. Sheer wind alone takes a heavy toll oi life and property. Such winds are not wiconimon in the North and East, which also have their share of blizzards. In August, 1926, a heavy wind-storm in the vicinity of New York demolished thirty-five houses at Glen Cove and Sea Cliff. In a storm in Wales five railway coaches were blow® over an embankment, but fortunately no one was in them at the time.
A waterspout is merely a tornado at sm> These storms are usually much less violent than
similar storms on land, but are dangerous enough. Waterspouts have been known to chase a ship for half an hour, seemingly drawn along by the rapid movement of the ship itself. The upper part of a waterspout is From the land, the ■fewr -'part from the deeah.;'The Sahara Desert shg> tornadoes wfeieh < tatar, the form of sandspouts instead of waterspouts. y •
John Baskin the following interesting dejmption of a sterm at sen:
The water from its prolonged agitation is beaten not cr-anlay fc ,'d, id > '■>" ‘H of accumulated yc.‘t. -di'*1’ t"ug a” i<ycc wd a1 > Ow vavs to wavy, and where one evils over to break, form a festoon .life.« dopery tom itwMge; these are taken up by the -jj-l. n't in d..-krill 3 , i. Mr, il w nhife,
hanging, coiling masses, which make the air white and ■thick asewith snow, only the flakes are & toot or two ,l®ng esali; th.e .surges theniselses are ..full of foam, in their very bodies, underneath, making them white all । through,,, as the;water Is under a. great cataract; and ,'r>-jw t»a>”e9, being thus half water and half air, are torn to pieces by the wind whenever they rise, sad sfpa carried sway in roaring smoke, which chokes and bCi a ogles b’ke an.'3i wai-er. : ■
Add to this, that when the air has been exhausted of
v v’. -."I-’ , n • < spray of the sea is caught 'by it astoseri’to■ abovepand covers its surface not merely with the smoke of finely divided water, but with hoilinj n *-n lines, ne c’ac r'le l;v clouds brought down to b:e vry kwe • f the sea, as I have often seen them: whirling and flying in rags and fragments from wav^ ’ : 'me. m»fly > 3-Mame ‘h- surges themselves
in tl ir utmc=T y led of n ■•<■.; , i. t- a j_'"ss aM[ Baadness, lifting themselves in precipices and peaks, Lr \-i ut, *■ i ’ ’ H"
rilaosj Mid wnt'wili understand that there is indeed no n., to’m "'a the sea and air: that no object, a®,horizon, nor any IsiidiB&rk or uaioral evidence of )'o'"ic1 j. 1 Tr i’c ' th' ' •, i" 1 J*c
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There are well mthentieated esses, hundreds ©f them, of storm® which. have deluged «m-
munities with live fishes, frogs, .snakes, snails,, worms, lizards, tadpoles and even small turtles. That these presents have come through fho air is proved by their being discovered in roof gnt-teiri, and people Lave been hit by frogs which came down upon rl em irom the nppui air. In all ©f these instances we see where some playful tornado h;w been ranking sport of himianiiy. Great hailstones which fell at Essen, 'Germany, in 1896, had nuclei of ®mll fishes of the ?*arp variety. • -fi i to c
^FHEBEVER there tore great rains titem v $ are great floods; and that means in. .al" most every:part of the earth, from time to tim@c Occasionally there are cloud-bursts even in .Arizona, New Mexico and Death Valley, where, as a rule there is ses- =•. re a rib. too
greatest flood rivers of the world are the Yellow: river-of China, and the Mississippi. The Yellow or Hoang-Ho has shifted its outlet nin® times, always with the loss of millions of lives. Thwbankstore leveed; but the beds silt up,:and evexilually break through. ?
For two hundred years the settlers',.along the banks of fiw 'to-ri ' hm o hw’- f Miring to prevent just such calamities as have so repeatedly overtaken China. The feyees of.....the Mis
sissippi *>.ri .-Iriri J 90J. In hood un -> .-rx are patroled nigM and day. tri Mayersvid- sad cto ie~^ tors etoip to toy ri-s sMfi Tt-ady in
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\ Afur m - 1 ’ !'V*sr V Tito were ton H the Mv^rri wtoey whieh is expected will prevent future floods in that district They ar® capable of impounding 468,-S0O acres of water a foot deep. One ©f these dams is so built that it provides a constant sup-> ply of building material in the gravel which, it stops on its course down stream.
Oppressing the Poor in Mississippi By Boy Goodrich
OPPRESSION and graft seem to be the rule in the "Delta” section of Mississippi. The term 'Delta” is applied to that broad, level floodplain toward the mouth of the Mississippi River, which is protected from overflow by the levee, made and maintained by the government. The population of this section is perhaps 95% colored, and there is said to be but one white preacher, and no bank, in the whole of Isaquena County.
The land is exceedingly fertile, and is owned in vast "plantations”. The owner usually lives fa Vicksburg, or Greenville, or Nev? Yoi'k. The white man who lives in the large and sometimes imposing-locking residence on the plantation fa known as the "agent”, ^cmelimes he poses as being religious, sometimes he is just a plain, cursing sinner. Sometimes, however, the own®? himself lives in a fine mansion on the plantation.
A. system of peonage is wll-nlgh in full swing. Nominally the white and colored, workers ar® full-fledged citizens, possessing freedom. This, however, is a sham. The agent contracts with his “bands” to give them, a certain share of ih@ ©rop—usually three-fourths of the cotton produced. He also promises all kinds of things in the way of cash or credit at a eoumissary, for the feeding and clothing of the worker and his family.
When the man and his family are located on the plantation and the work of producing the crop is began, the promises usually begin to fail. Many tell us that they da not get anything bat the bares* necessities io the v &y of tool, vid practically no cloth or eluthing ax alt They may buy flour and meal on a eredu. 01 in ease they get money they get hard} enough fo Uiew bare nece."ritles, at the high e^mmwary prices charged. These it*n’s are c’re-gca sgtias* man’s share of the crop, a* d pLciiy intercft added.
When the crop is gathered, the tenant has absolutely nothing to say respecting the marketing ar handling of the same. He turas it over to the agent, and lives on in miserable expectancy and hope. I am told that hundreds of these farmers have as yet received no settlement on last year’s crop.
One very reliable and courteous Negro, known as Sam, eagerly ordered a set of Bible study books from us, to be delivered on Sunday morning; relying on the agent’s promise to every tenant farmer on the plantation to give him on Saturday the monthly “limit”—as the ©ash, grocery allowance is called. But the promise was disregarded, no money was issued.
When we eame to Sam’s shack he was sitting on the little chopping block in front of his cabin, gorrcwtiully. Waally & colored person who has given an order, and who ha^ no money, when you come to deliver will make you hunt him up; but not sn with Sam, and several others on this Sunday morning. They w«»re not sullen or re-sen+fol, but sad and disappointed, and really sorry that they could not get their books.
Sam cam® up, hat in hand, to greet us and to explain. W@ showed ourselves to b® the friends of the oppressed, so as to get Sam to talk. A colored man in this section does not dare to say anything which might reflect upon a white man, unless he is convinced that he is really talking to some one who is lus friend, and who will not make him trouble.
Sam then roM us that according to his wifefa figures (she was educated and could write and figure quite well) he was in debt *o the pfanta-t’on only <‘S3—end these figures ware verified by a white ■-f his—bur the agent insisted
that his indebtedness xre& over $(?C3, and thore-Scrs had refused extend bun ano Cunhoc cash 'kuf.
Then Sam sit-wd us fa's old Acos, t<$ld ns rew kng be Mu «o re •one ano ttid w had oecr purehaseo long fa P re he even c*’ me to that plartetior—’wul they locked it. He showed us his treueere and shiri vavti fain brother had given to him because .be could not get the monej to buy flies® necessities.
Sam’s cotton was not yet all picked, and in addition to his being cheated out of the khni*” money due him on Saturday, he had also gotten a number of other Negroes to help him pick the cotton, and the wages of these were to have been paid in cash by the agent; but the agent had turned all these claims down also. When Sam had asked him how he could get the cotton picked if the pickers were not to be paid, he was told to go and plow his cotton under.
This had seemed almost beyond the limit of endurance to Sam, and he therefore had organized on the plantation on Saturday a letter shower for the owner, every one agreeing to write on that Sundaji morning to the owner, appealing for help. But I fear that poor Sam’s feebte efforts to relieve the oppressions on his plantation will prove unavailing. The rale in the Delta is for the managemem to take everything. charging the tenant for his supph.es enough to take up all his share or more.
Il is not only the colored people who are t rented ’ n this way; we fmd that v hi te tenants are dealt v,ith in the same manner. Thus by yeara ri Laid experience the tenants have there ambl-t on crashed, and then the; assume ax’ attitude of g»ttmg ail they can in the way of allowance foi L.vmg expenses, and doing just as little work as they ©an io ger by.
I could write a book of pitiful stories such as that of Sam’s to which I have just listened. A white woman on one plantation, who was far more intelligent than the common run of plantation white folks, very greatly desired a set of Scriftubjc Studies, but could not risk borrowing another dobar at the store to get them as she was scraping and saving simply to get through the season without getting further into debt, lest she should have everything swiped by the management, who would pretend that the debt consumed all.
I remonstrated, “But you have a white skin. I should think you could talk up to these oppressors, when settlement time comes aiound.” “Ah, yes,” came the 'cply, “but all the lawyers and bankers in the co.intiy are leagued together with the owners, and it is imposnble for a tenant to do anything in the way of getting justice; ve are entirely at them mercy.”
Another white man, with his wife sick in bed, had moved to tots plai taciou under certain good promises of money advances, with -which to get along. But after he came, this money allowance was suddenly ent 50%, ana he was in dire need. He wanted oar books and also a family Bible, he, had now ocen vithout & Bible for three years: but hs had only 20 rente to his name. The Delta country needs the Lord’s kingdom.
AoloEiography of an Office Eraser By Arthur E. Jcnimett (London)
MY CAREER has been a chequered one since
I first existed as the sap of my parent tree Mi the Isle of Java, Butch East Indies; and be-eaus° I smgulsrly relish wy presen* position as an eraser upon the staff (E a wcD-krown Insurance Company I am unireg my oitobi-ograpfcy in the hope that s ite parficulare hue in pro hied may serve to j 'toes aco insv I do ihis as a sJigl t token oi m" apor?c<atxon at boMig saved the hoi rid fate o’’ rolbn^, A tec rernE &s f tire on the whrek of st-: denon’** car at umpteen mi1'''* re’ t a on-tinuous frenzied effort to t e... rere du f'kjr in fronl
Rubber trees demand a warm, moist chinate; and an annual average rainfall of eighty inches IS essential to their proper growth. The steadily high temperature m Java, averaging 77s, is peculiarly suitable to their cultivation; the so-called warm months oi Max and October registering sea ’eely eno tenth oi a degree more than the coldest months < I January and Febxuary, The variations bo‘ oee.i night and Jay are eon-s dcrablc, .h.ovoxe’", amount og to nin« or even ten kgrees.
The causes rcepon? - e for sacl a stcadi’y tegh tampfirtmi are a .libntaWe no* alone to ree pcipcrdua’s’ ia' . of the sun w that pare ©* the oorid, tote ?1 « ‘g the warmth cf the soil *re-~ »’ v 4<"up J o' Jie atmosphere caused by the hlg i teiipereto'c of the seas ,A2° to 84*) rv ” v jicli the w..rds from Australia pa«s.
Th.o great fertility o£ the soil, which, con-hAutes so much to the successful growth of
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