Golden Age, April 20, 1927

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Contents of the Golden Age

Labor and Economics

The World and Its News

Two Months Vacation a Year .............. 453

The New Industrial Machine

Cheap Labor Does Not Pay ............... 453

The Glasgow Tailoring Guild .............. 45?

Social an#- Educational

Home a Dangerous Place ............... 451

Automobile Fatalities in Large Cities ........... 451

Third Degree in San Francisco ............. 453

Exciting Times at Irvington •. . ....... . . . • • 455

Prison Population by Nationalities ............ 457

Finance—Commerce—Transportation

The Need for Business Reform ............. 452

Increases in Railroad Efficiency ............. 452

Holdings of Employe Stockholders ............ 452

Illegal to Blacklist Seamen ............... 454

Great Lakes Radio Beacons .............. 456

Political—Domestic and Foreign

V. S. Employment Offices ............... 452

Pledges to Refuse War Service ............. 454

Increase of Capital Abroad ............... 456

British Miners Completely Beaten ............ 457

Bolshevist Bugaboo Gone to Sȣd ............ 458

How Things Au Going at the Vatican .......... 45-9

For Whom or What? ................. 460

Pope Looks to the United States ............. 464

Exploits os a British Spy ............... 464

Edinburgh Refuses Chbist As Rules ........... 470

Religion and Philosophy

Bible Questions and Answers' .............. 461

Recent Happenings in Korea .............. 463

Chbist in the Book of Exodus .............. 465

The Reign of the King of kings ............. 471

The Most Wonderful Little Boy That Emt Lived ...... 476

Little Studies fob Little People ............. 478

Studies in The Habp of God ............... 479

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<zhe Golden Age

Volume Vffl

Brooklyn. N. Y.» Wednesday, April 20, 1927

Numbar 198

The World and Its News

[Radiocast from Station WBBR on a wave length of 416.4 meters by the Editor.]

New Yor H's Theatre Excitement

EW YORK is stirred because the stage is now so bad that, according to reports, a new code which, holds nothing sacred is being taught the younger generation. The clergy are having much to say on the subject, as they do on every subject. Not having any regular employment except collecting money they have time and strength to give to other people’s business, which is beyond the power of most of us. There 'does not seem to be any law requiring the clergy to attend the theatres so that they can find out how bad they are, nor any law requiring them to tell what they think on the subject.

The Heaviest Stake

THE New York 'American reminds us that

Lord Acton wrote of legislation that “laws should be adapted to those who have the heaviest stake in the community”, and then defined the latter class as those “for whom misgovernment means not mortified pride and stinted luxury, but want and pain and degradation, and risk to their own lives and their children’s souls”.

Plenty of Room for All

HELE STUDENTS always contend that the earth can be made to support all the people that have ever been born in it, and that this will actually he done when the resurrection occurs. This is pretty well backed up by an editorial by Arthur Brisbane in which he says: “The state of Texas, intensively cultivated, would feed all the earth’s people, and clothe them. The earth is not half or one-tenth populated. And the potential food supply is a hundred times greater than any possible demand.” In another editorial, in similar vein, Mr. Brisbane recently Said of a mountain, of cement rock in Arizona, “From this car in Arizona you see enough rocH to supply houses for all the sixteen hundred million people on earth. And there is enough good land to feed them, with water added to it.’*

Home a Dangerous Place

A CCORDING to a report of the National Safety Council 6,000 persons met death during the past year from falls in their own homes. This is three-quarters as many persons as were killed in railroad accidents during the year. There are thousands of other deaths in the homes from burns and scalds; in many of these latter cases babies are the victims.

Automobile Fatalities in Large Cities

CITIES with over 100 automobile fatalities in

1926 were New York 988, Chicago 622, Detroit 325, Philadelphia 290, Cleveland 238, Los Angeles 206, San Francisco 190, St. Louis 167, Baltimore 159, Pittsburgh 149, Boston 137, Buffalo 132, and Cincinnati 115. There were less than 20 each in Cambridge, Des Moines, El Paso, Fall River, Lynn, New’ Bedford, Somerville, Tacoma, Utica, Waterbury and Yonkers.

How Do We Know They Would Not?

OMMENTING upon the practice of putting poison into the alcohol of commei’ee, to discourage the use of intoxicating beverages, the New York World says: “The rank and file of the churches, we may be certain, would never sanction such barbarism once the moral issue were clearly presented to them.” But how do we know they would not! They all know that war is wrong, yet it was the professed Christians of the world that made the World War possible, and it was the professed Christians that taught the savages of heathendom real barbarism.

Big Fellows Getting It All

THE big fellows are rapidly getting control of everything. There are now 524 fewer banks in the United States than there were six years ago. Consolidation is the order of the day. One New York bank represents the consolidation of thirty-eight financial institutions. Kirby Page estimates that 20,000 bankers and business men really control about every enterprise in the country, including its polities. Twelve men now represent in the United States corporations having assets of more than ten billion dollars.

Why Pick on the Insured?

FOR some strange reason the state governments seem to have it in for those who have taken out life insurance for the protection of their families. Last year the state governments collected from, policyholders $72,951,023, enough to pay the annual premium for 4,800,000 ordinary life insurance policies issued at age of 25 for $1,000 each. Of this sum only $1 in $27 was used for the maintenance of state insurance departments. The rest was used for state functions, for which the policyholders had already been taxed as citizens. "*

The Need for Business Reform

FIFTY-FIVE Chicago concerns have declared war against unjust returns of merchandise, failure to deliver at appointed time, misrepresentation of merchandise, unreasonable cancellations of orders, disregard of shipping instructions, the promising by salesmen of things which employers cannot fulfil, selling to competitors when the line is stated to be exclusive, overloading retailers with goods, failures to confirm orders, delivering merchandise not according to samples or specifications on the orders, accepting orders which cannot be delivered, delivering more than was ordered, taking discounts not earned, delivering imperfect or soiled goods, delivering invoice ahead of goods and making unreasonable demands for concessions.

Philadelphia to Be Remade

AT A cost of $42,000,000 to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and $16,000,000 to the city of Philadelphia, that city is to be practically remade. On the west bank of a beautified Schuylkill river will be located the main Philadelphia station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the present Broad Street and West Philadelphia stations being discontinued. The station will be, as every railway station in every city should be, of the through train construction type and arrangement. Every train that comes into (he station will discharge its passengers and keep on going. Trains to and from the west and the south will all be routed through the new station, with no necessity for turning seats, changing power and generally inconveniencing everybody. The area now covered by the tracks to Broad Street station will be sold for business purposes, and a new and elegant street added to the city. The new plans involve a complete and comprehensive rearrangement of methods of handling suburban passengers. These will be carried into the city underground, the modem way.

17. S. Employment Offices

HDHE U. S. Department of Labor maintains -®- 225 employment offices for adults, ranging all the way from seventeen offices in Illinois to one each in several of the less populous states. In addition there is a Junior Division, for the placement of juniors between legal working age and twenty-one years. There is also a Farm Labor Division which places experienced hands on farms in territory tributary to its field offices, all west of the Mississippi.

Increases in Railroad Efficiency

HHHE railroads of the country are now baud-ling forty-three percent more freight than in 1913, but with only two or three percent more employes. It is surprising in this country to see the relatively small number of railway employes about a great terminal station; while in Britain, in much smaller stations, the men are so thick that they are virtually in the way of everybody.

bosses of Deforestation

ONE of the big leaks in America is the neglect of lands from which the original forests have been removed. These lands are nominally worth $2.50 per acre. If replanted with trees they would in a few years be worth $75 to $100 per acre, and would yield something in taxes which would help with road improvements and other necessary works. America will have to come to reforestation sooner or later, and should begin now.

Future Forests Will Be Handy

THE forests of the future, if America ever gets down to business on the matter of reforestation, are likely to be right at the door of some of our greatest business centers. Even at this time, within a fifty-mile radius of Pittsburgh, thirty-tvTo percent of the land is forest land. Around Chattanooga it is sixty-three percent; around Albany, forty-eight percent; and around Springfield, Massachusetts, it is fifty-five percent.

Indifference to Religious Census

IN THE Oklahoma city of Okmulgee, which claims a population of 25,000 to 30,000, one of the newspapers ran a questionnaire for several days; and the managing editor of the paper told one of his brother editors that less than fifty of the people of the city had sent in answers to the questionnaire and that more than half of those were employes of his own paper, who evidently did it to please the boss.

The Only Proof of Evolution

THE only proof of evolution that we have is that the evolutionists persist in making such monkeys of themselves. A little while ago they filled the Sunday specials with their loud and profusely illustrated announcements of the discovery of the missing link, the Pithecanthropus Erectus, as they called it. It was good of them to give ns this fancy name for the original monkey which they claim as their ancestor. But once more the so-called scientists who are eager to vlorify themselves and io discredit Almiqhty God in the eyes of men have been shown up on the front pages for what they are. Archeologists of the Nation?] Museum at VTashington have announced positively that the skull of the Pidiecav'fhropus Erectus is merely the kneebore of an elephant. And that’s that!

Twa Months Vacation a Year

Dp.. Charles B. Piper, medical director of the Guardian Life Insurance Company, advocates two vacations a year, the vacations to be a monih long and five months apart. He claims that this would result in vigor, happiness and longevity. The doctor is right. With machinery able to do the bulk of human drudgery the old idea of human slavery must go.

Michigan’s Supreme Court

TMT ICHIGAN’S supreme court has ruled that 1VJL a fireman did not meet with an accident who was drenched twice with sudden gushes of water and subsequently died of pneumonia; also, that a worker in a dye factory does not meet with an accident who dies as the direct result of putting his hands into a dye, a part of his daily tasks. It holds that an accident must be something unusual, within the meaning of Michigan’s compensation act.

Holdings of Employe Stockholders

THE present and prospective employe stocE-holders in twenty of the largest corporations of the United States are one-fifth of the total number of stockholders, but they own only one twenty-fifth of the stock The American Telephone and Telegraph Company leads with 57,000 employes owning or paying for stock of an average value per employe of $1,500.

Cheap Labor Does Not Pay

THE Progressive Farmer explains truly that the vicious cycle that curses the South is that the children are kept out of school to make a surplus of cotton; then the cotton surplus makes the prices so low that the farmers cannot afford to send their children to school; thus more cotton makes more ignorance, and more ignorance makes more cotton, ad infinitum.

Third Degree in Sm Franetseo

rpwo carpenters, arrested in San Francisco •*- on riicrges of assaulting non-unionists, have ma to affidavits that they signed affidavits of gu It -’k~r having been knocked down and un-<,i°n v?ly beaten and fearing they would be bcrden to death unless they signed. Not a, law of the United States gives police anywhere any rig’-t so io treat prisoners. How is it possible to Luffiold low and order by ignoring and setting aside laws which were specially designed to protect the ordinary citizen from just such lawlessness?

The New Industrial Machine

THE Bureau of Labor Statistics reports, a® a result of examining nine important manufacturing industries, that for every hour a man works he is now producing from one-tenth to

twice as much as before the war and in most cases from a fourth to a half more. This increase is due in part to managerial expertness, in part to new inventions, in part to a speeding-up process and in part to more experienced and better-paid labor.

American Farmera Disadvantaged

AMERICAN farmers are disadvantaged by the fact that freight rates are still fiftyeight percent higher than before the war, wliile farm commodity prices are only thirty-four percent above the pre-war level. This fact is brought out in the report of the Secretary of +he Department of Agriculture of the United States government.

Illegal to Blacklist Seamen

THE United States Supreme Court has ruled that the maintenance of employment offices by shipping associations on the Pacific Coast which amounted, in effect, to the black-listing of some of the most efficient men in the service, , interferes with interstate commerce and violates the anti-trust act. The practices complained of must be discontinued.

Hudson Bridge a Certainty

THE Hudson River bridge, which is to connect

New York and New Jersey at a cost of $60,-000,000, may now be said to be a certainty. Bonds for the building of the bridge have already been marketed to the extent of $20,000,-000, the remainder to be raised as needed. Work will be begun at once. This will be one of the world’s greatest engineering undertakings.

Registration of Aliens

CONGRESS now has before it several bills for registration of aliens, some of which would take away practically all the liberty of the class of people that have made America what it is. America is a land of aliens. No one here can trace his ancestry in this country more than three hundred years; most of them trace back less than a hundred years, and some of the best people in the land come direct from other lands. The only effect of a law requiring registration rf aliens would be to give jobs to a lot of worthfess politicians, and to make the government in-tteaaingly unpopular*

Senator Bruce Goes After Methodism

UNITED STATES Senator William C.

Bruce, himself a lifelong Presbyterian, in an address at Washington denounced the Methodist church as fine of the greatest menaces of constitutional government, dedaring that from the Methodist headquarters, only a few pices from the front steps of the national capitol, there is complete domination of the p>olitics of the country, so that our boasted separation of church and state is practically a dead letter.

What We Owe the Preachers

A NEW YORK newspaper, commenting on the results which it secured in its part of the so-called religious census, taken under the auspices of the Federation of Churches, calls attention to the fact that while six out of seven who replied had been brought up in religious homes, less than half believed that the Bible is inspired, only a few more believed that prayer is of any avail, and over a third doubted the existence of a God. As these people were brought up in a religious atmosphere it is evident that somebody is to blame; and the ones to blame are manifestly the religious teachers who, instead of teaching the Word of God, have been reaching evolution and the equally foolish theories of themselves and others.

Ministers to Stand for Christ

ONE hundred and sixteen Congregational ministers have signed a pledge in England that in the next war they will stand on the side of Christ and have nothing to do with the war. This will be a new position for the clergy, a-® hitherto they have been the blessers of every war ever fought. It will be interesting to see how the 116 stick to their pledge.

Pledges to Refuse War Service

Sib. Arthur Ponsonby, prominent British publicist, has secured over 100,000 signed pledges refusing to support or render war service to any government that resorts to arms Although several thousand persons attended the Ponsonby meetings in the Royal Albert Hall, the London newspapers all ignored the meeting and the premier refused to see the many-signed pledge.

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NARCOS AN, the discovery of a chemist, has THE district attorney and the assistant dis-been used successfully in the treatment of A trfct attorney of San Diego have been found

JVarcosan May Cure Drug Addiction 350 drug addicts, under the general direction of the Commissioner of Corrections of New York

City. The suffering of the unfortunates is said to be so great that many of them begged for death, but the final results seem to be good. A proposition is under way to inflict life imprisonment on drug peddlers. The United States government has appealed to all the powers that Were parties to the Hague convention of 1912 to live up to the agreements then made for control of illicit international traffic in narcotic drugs.

Why the Drug Conference Failed

Representative Porter, who represented the

United States at the Drug Conferences held in Geneva in 1924 and 1925, reports that the real reason why the opium conference was a failure, and the reason why the American delegation withdrew from it, was because the colonies of Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and Portugal derive from twenty-five percent to forty-seven percent of their revenue from these drugs; and they could not be persuaded to agree to any proposal to completely suppress the traffic, even when the time of suppression was fixed at eighteen years.

Interesting Items About the Aged

Mrs. Hwj?, of Kentucky, 108 years of age, married a veteran of the war of 1812 long after that conflict, and is the only living widow of a veteran of that war. Sallie Anne Jenkins, of Kentucky, has just died at the age of 112 years. J. A. Stewart, of New York City, Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War, has gust died at the age of 104.

The Chanty Mill

Miss Jane Barclay, Toronto social worker, speaking of the charity mill, says:

The charitably inclined public merely tread the mill and keep the wheels going with cash; while the w-riine, de&fing out charity, investigates, catalogues, devises, surveys without end, plans boxes at Christmas and fresh air camps for the summer, holds its head high above tha stench of crowded rooms and damp cellars, and saves its soul twice a year, only to let misery run for csv® wherever it may please the rest of the time.

QOLD.EN AQE

Selling Justice in Sm Diego

guilty of asking for and receiving a bribe to misconduct a murder trial. The bribe was $40,000 and resulted in the release of the two men charged with murder. No doubt this crime is connected with such of Chicago’s liquor supply as comes in from Mexico via San Diego.

Exciting Times at Irvington

AT IRVINGTON, N. J., some clergymen, who make their living by what they do on Sunday, invoked an old law and had a theatre closed which makes money on the same day. The theatre people thereupon swore out a hundred warrants and arrested bus drivers, motormen, gasoline merchants, grocers, druggists, bakers, cigar-store salesmen, violinists, newsboys, telephone operators, and last, but not least, ten reporters and photographers who had been enjoying the fun, but who forgot until then that they were working on Sunday, too.

Van As Seen by the Chemist

CHEMISTS, studying man solely from the chemical point of view, have discovered that the men of West Virginia, Kentucky and Central New York are tall and powerful because those soils are rich in lime, while regions which are destitute of phosphate of lime and manganese rarely produce those that are strong in either mind or body. However, exchange of fruits and other products is gradually changing the local effects produced by foods grown on soils that are deficient in certain elements. Variety in food means health and life.

The Farmer^ Loss &f Vitrngen

THE American fanners annually lose about 3,500,000 tons of nitrogen that is not returned to the farm in any manner. Statesmen who are considering the matter know that, sooner or later, the American farmer must come to replenishing his soil with nitrogen taken from the air, the same as is now done ©n such a large scale in Germany and other European countries. It is figured out that by present methods of faming the farmers are abandoning 118,000,000 acres of land annually, because the land gets so poor that it does not pay to crop it

Government Cast® for 1928

A GLANCE at President Coolidge’s budget message shows that total costs for 1928 will be about the same as for 1927. There will be less interest to pay on the public debt, and smaller appropriations for the shipping board, the state, navy and treasury departments; but there are considerably increased expenditures provided for in the department of the interior, post office department, veterans’ bureau, war department, and departments of agriculture and commerce.

Distribution of Millionaires

OF THE 11,000 millionaires in the country 2,800 are in New York. North Dakota is the only state with none, but South Dakota has only one. There is only one billionaire in the country. Seventy-four persons pay $1,000,000 or more each year in income taxes. Minnesota has 110 millionaires, of whom thirty-five live in Minneapolis.

Increme &f Capital Abroad

FASTER than Uncle Sam can cancel the debts owed to him by European nations, the great American corporations are increasing their holdings abroad. Twenty-five years ago there was only about a half billion of American money invested abroad. Now the total is twenty times that and in ten years more, at present rate of growth, will be fifty times that. About one-half of all the capital invested in foreign countries goes to Latin America, one-fourth to Canada, a less amount to all of Europe, and relatively small amounts elsewhere.

Great Lakes Radio Beacons

DURING the past season radio beacons have been installed in seven important locations along the Great Lakes, to serve as guides to vessels. Experience has proven that they work satisfactorily, and it seems clear that this form, of ship guidance will now be developed rapidly in every part of the earth.

New Amplifier Supplants Radio Tubes

THE new radio amplifier and rectifier, for which the inventor, Dr. Palmer H. Craig, the thirty-year-old head of the physics department of Mercer University, is said to have received $750,000 plus an eighth, interest in the Brooklyn corporation which is to manufacture it, will work revolutionary changes in the radio industry if it does all that the inventor claims for it. He declares that it accomplishes rectification at radio frequencies, and with sufficient local power will enable substitution for vacuum tubes, as well as lighting batteries. The device does not supply power, and must be augmented with local B batteries for loud-speaker operation. The unit is only about six inches square, being essentially a series of bismuth plates insulated from each other, and moulded in a sulphur composition.

To See Across Ocean in Ten Years

De. E. F. W. Alexandebson, consulting engineer of the Radio Corporation of America, and of the General Electric Company, is convinced that within ten years it will be possible for persons across the ocean and persons on this side the great waters not only to talk with one another but to see one another. The doctor considers that all the fundamental difficulties in the way have been removed and that television is sure to come into general use in due time. How short-sighted is the wisdom that can know of such stupendous miracles and doubt the existence of the God who planned it all and who, we can all now see, is cognizant of all that takes place on the surface of the earth, or anywhere else!

ZZadfo Twenty-Five Years Hence

William Le Qveux, famous British writer and radio engineer, has written an interesting sketch of what he believes the next twenty-five years will produce in the way of radio development. We quote two paragraphs:

So rapidly are we progressing in our knowledge of bhort radio waves that it is sate to predict that in a very few years there will be established on the table in every home and office a neat little low-power transmission set attached to a telephone instrument, and near it a frame aerial six inches or so square which will be so directional that we shall b® able to turn it upon the compass-card below and call any particular friend or office who ifl tuned to us. This little instrument will be portable^ its power being generated by turning a geared handle, and usable on a steamer, in a train, in a car or out in tha country.

Contracts, when time presses, will be made and witnessed aH over the world, signatures identified, douu- ’ meats exhibited and general commercial business conducted between far distant cities as though the parties were together in the same office, for both will be able not only to see each other, but to hear each other’s voices in their discussion. ... It is quite within th© bounds of possibility that a radio beam of an X-ray type may be turned upon a building and everything within revealed as though walls, doors and shutters did not exist. <

Proclaimed from the Housetops

ONE of the Lord’s promises to His followers was, “That which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.” This prophecy is being literally fulfilled by the Bible Students today, every time they use the radio. Their message is spoken into the ear of the microphone: it is done in a closet or studio fitted up for the purpose; the aerials are fitted, upon the housetops. It is all just as the Master said.

Prison Population by Nationalities

ACCORDING to the evidence gleaned from a study of our prison population, nine times as many Italians are criminals as are the Britishers, and nine times as many of the Balkan nationalities are criminals as are the Irish. Our best citizens, i. e., those who have the smallest proportion of their citizens in prison here, are the British, Irish, Germans and Scandinavians. The most troublesome are the Italians and people from the Balkans.

post Dispatch Stirs the Country

BY ITS news from Washington that Robert E. Olds, Assistant Secretary of State of the United States, had induced the Associated Press to make an anonymous and unwarranted attack on Mexico in order to produce a national atmosphere unfavorable to Mexico, the St. Louis Post Dispatch has stirred deeply the thoughtful who would like to see America remain American.

Mexico’s Land Law

THE Mexican land law, about which there has been so much debate, provides in brief that aliens must not acquire land in Mexico which is within sixty-two miles of the border or within thirty-one miles of the coast; aliens now holding lands within these restricted zones may keep their property until death, but their heirs must sell out to Mexicans within five years; in the unrestricted zones aliens must file statements with the government that they consider themselves as Mexicans and under the exclusive protection and jurisdiction of Mexican courts. These statements must be filed within one year from date.

Laymen Change the Rules

HERETOFORE it has been the custom for the thousands of Mexicans who visit annually the Catholic shrine at Guadalupe to crawl on their hands and knees for long distances as they approached the building. The laymen, who are now in charge of Catholic affairs in Mexico, have changed this custom; and this year the pilgrims are coming forward in an upright manner as human beings ought to do. The Scriptures say that “God hath made man upright”; and there is nothing in the Bible to show that he was designed to crawl in the presence of anybody or anything. There is no record that Christ or the apostles ever crawled toward, the temple.

Brian’s Labor Dilemma

AMERICAN labor is trained to the thought and practice of using more and better machinery, so as to obtain a larger production of goods, with more to divide all around. British labor views the whole subject of production askance, fearful that if too much is produced today there will be no job tomorrow and therefore nothing to divide. While in America the production is steadily and rapidly increasing, the claim is made that in Britain the production per worker is from twelve percent to tweury percent less than it was twelve years ago. The logical outcome of these opposite policies is that Britain is lagging in her race for the world markets.

British Miners Completely Beaten

AFTER the most stubbornly fought miners® strike in history the miners have at last had to give in and accept district settlements, longer hours, reduced wages, varying period agreements, and the elimination of the Miners’ Federation from wage negotiations. Every district in Britain is working on a longer day. For the miners the strike has been a tragedy,

The Right to Get Drunk

A TORONTO judge has ruled that in Ontario any man has a right to get drunk as often as he likes, even if it is every day in the week. This should make Ontario a popular place for some Americans at this time, but right now it looks as if it would complicate the traffic regulations somewhat.

Wild Ride of Oxford Students

RETURNING by special train from Cambridge to Oxford, several hundred drunken students virtually destroyed a British railway train. Every window and several doors were broken. Luggage racks were tom out and their contents thrown out of the windows. The students tore coats from one another’s backs and threw them out of the windows. Twenty women who were on the train were not molested, but everything else was wrecked.

The Glasgow Tailoring Guild

GLASGOW tailors, confronted with insufficient employment, and with a proposed cut of thirty-three percent in their wages, suddenly went into the clothing business on their own account and met with instant success. There are now seventy-two tailors on the staff, with a wage bill for a forty-eight-hour week amounting to about $1250. The enterprise is only five years old.

Gigantic Landslide in Switzerland

SWITZERLAND is accustomed to avalanches, if it be possible for anybody to ever get accustomed to such a terrifying and dangerous thing; but the citizens of Bellinzona have real reason to be alarmed in the sliding toward them of Mount Arhino. This mountain, seven and a half miles wide and five thousand feet high, is gradually sliding toward the city. There is another sliding mountain in Colorado and one in Great Britain.

Bolshevist Bugaboo Gone to Seed

THE United News carries a dispatch from Rome to the effect that His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, is concerned over the situation in the Holy Land on the ground, as stated in the dispatch, that “the Bolshevist menace in Jerusalem, brought about by the Zionist immigration there, is the first concern of the Vatican”. This is the limit It is time now to take this gray-haired and fossilized old Bolshevism bugaboo down and rock it to an everlasting sleep. The next thing you know burglars will be testifying in court that they shot their victims because these were Bolshevists; automobilists will loudly proclaim that they ran over boys and girls because these were Bolshevists; the Teapot Dome statesmen will insist that they robbed the government of oil reserves and did all kinds of other ■unmentionable things because everybody but themselves had gone Bolshevik.

Want a Better ^mania

MOW that Marie got her millions and Ru-mania has ordered her two battleships for patrolling the Black Sea, the friends of the Jews in New York have risen up and demanded that Rumania cease persecuting the Jews in that country and give them a decent chance to live. At the Hotel Astor 3,500 enthusiastic men and women met in convention and adopted resolutions urging the American State Department to do something toward seeing that all minority groups in Rumania;, whether Jewish or Christian, be given humane treatment. Similar meetings were held on the same date in six other large American cities. As an indication of how Jews in Rumania are treated, the following incident is told, of a recent occurrence: A trainload of Rumanian students seized and bound th© Jewish engineer of their train, dashed through the town of Calarsi, laying hands on all Jews and Jewesses found, and flogging them mercilessly. Returning to their train they released the engineer; and when he had safely'taken them to their destination at Jassy several of th© students rewarded him by spitting in his face. The Rumanian authorities allow occurrences like these to pass unchallenged. Jewish passengers have been thrown from moving trains in Rumania, and nothing done about it

Free Meals De Luxe

WHEN Queen Marie was here, we understand, one of the New York hotels reserved an entire floor for her, and fitted the floor up for her occupancy at a cost said to have been $400,000; but the queen declined the gift ■until it was made to include free meals for herself and her entire retinue. Well! The queen has gone with her 168 trunks, and America still survives and is still ready to play the fool

fcffand Has Fools, Too.

A WOMAN in Stone, England, who had arrived at the age of eighty-three, concluded that she could learn to smoke if other girls could. She tried it, lit a cigarette, smoked some of it, let ibe hot ashes drop on her dress and burned herself to death. The old lady made a foolish error. The only consolation is that she 'will not wntin^e to burn forever, as most of our ancestor^ believed and as a few so-called modern evangelists who do not understand their Bibles still teach. ,

American Joarmrfisf Forgot Bimsdf

WHILE the people of Rumania were engaged in a lively discussion as to who should ran

Rumania in the event of the king’s death, whether it should be Queen Marie, the dissolute Prince Carol, or Premier Avarescu, an Aaeriaa journalist so far forgot himself as to surest that it might be a good idea to let the Hwmiaa people take a hand at running Bwiama on their own account The journalist was escorted to the frontier and hade to depart

A Polgglat Telephone Service

PRESS dispatches state that in Jerusalem there are eleven languages in quite general use; English, Arabic, Hebrew, French, German, Spanish, Greek, Italian, Russian, Armenian and Rumanian. But the telephone girls get along pretty well Most of them speak several languages fluently, and have picked up enough of Sie others so that they make the required connections with little difficulty.

itea ®we Cmwaererf Arabs

fPHE Jews in Palestine have conquered the J- Arata, and the kind of victory they have gained is sure to be a lasting one. They have conquered them by love, kindness and generosity. The Arabs had no hospital® worthy of ths am The Jews have opened splendid ones, and haw md® the hospitals free of access to Arabs and Christians, with excellent results.

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ALL Male Students are interested in the new

■ currency in preeere of «teHighment in JMwtine. The- ancient Hebrew shekel has been robed, its .value ia modern currency being about fifty cents. There will be a half shekel, a quarter shekel, and the smallest unit, a pvsta, will be the fiftieth part of a shekel and worth one cent. Ten shekels make a British pound sterling.

Pedesiirte a Model of Order

WHILE Syria has an army of 40,000 men to keep the peace, and Egypt is bristling with military men, Palestine gets along with a total military and police force of 275 men because tha people wish to work and because they love .peas® rather than war.

Tar&ey Still Keeps taml •

TIB Turkish government continues its onward progress. Oriental music is now banned, and only European mnriowitt hereafter be taught at the Turkish National Conservatory. The theory is that the western music wiH open the oriental mind to other things of vatae. The women of Turkey will be educated* and the education will be compulsory, even, including thousands of nomads in the eastern provinces.

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K ECENT dispatches indicate that another strike is likely at the Vatican. The previous on© was settled by giving the workers a raise of pay; but those whose duty it was to divide the money forgot and took most of it for them-reives, with the result that those who are left in the cold are a little sore. If is claimed that the gardeners, cleaners and sweepers did not get nearly so large a rake-off as the ushers and doormen; and now they want to know why.

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FSOFESSOR Castano Salvemini, Italian historian and former member of the Italian

Chamber of Deputies, pays the following tribute to the Fascisti. He says; “In the political and morel field they have destroyed in Italy all faith in justice, all respect for right, all mutual tolerance ; they are destroying the Italian nation by splitting it up into a minority of masters to whom, everything, even assassinations, is permitted, and a ma jority of slaves, deprived of aU right and protected by no morel law/*

MarcA of Events in Italy

FIVE hundred and twenty-two anti-Fascists have been rounded up in Italy and banished to remote provinces, where they will be under perpetual surveillance. Mussolini is raising a $2,000,000,000 loan. This loan is to be taken out by the workers. Employers are commanded to advance the money to their employes.

Radio Certainly Helps the Crops

THE German Telefunken radio station has demonstrated positively that radio fertilization of the soil is practical and profitable. It is claimed that the radio waves accomplish the deposit of nitrogen from the air, and that this is the secret of the fertilization. Rich and fertile plants were grown in soil which had been notoriously unproductive.

London Prepares Neto York Phone Book

WHILE we all knew that telephone conversation between London and New York had been accomplished over a year ago, yet somehow it comes as a shock to be suddenly told, in the most matter-of-fact way, in a London dispatch only about two inches long, that London has prepared its New York and Brooklyn telephone books and that conversations between subscribers in the two metropolitan areas will soon be a matter of everyday occurrence.

The Men in Gray Blouses

Walter Duranty, Moscow correspondent of the New York Times, reports seeing the men in gray blouses standing before a table on which are gems or the late Czars of the valuc' of a third of a billion dollars. There are the usual crown jewels; but in Russia these were of unlimited size, number and value. There was a train of five gold cars with a platinum locomotive; a stickpin watch a third of an inch in diameter and as thin as a finger nail; a mother-of-pearl orange tree, with, emerald leaves, ruby fruit and diamond flowers; a gold stage coach; a diamond snow-field with emerald leaves coming up through it; a mirror made of a diamond slab, etc., etc. There are plenty of big financiers who would be glad to have the Cs&rs come back with all their foolish extravagance, cruelty and oppression, if only some way could be found to keep the men in gray blouses away foam rik® table. But the men in gray blouses are there, and threats do not seem to frighten them.

One Thief Helps Find Another

rnwO enterprising young men successfully robbed the French government of gems valued at $2,700,000. They had disposed of most of their loot, except the most valuable gem, a diamond of international repute. This’ they buried in an apple. In their absence the chambermaid opened the suitcase in which the apple was kept, stole the apple, bit into it and found the diamond. This led to the detection of the men who had stolen it.

The Tuscarora Deep

A BOUT forty miles southeast of Tokio, Japan, is the world’s deepest swimming hole. To be exact, the Japanese surveying ship "Manchu” tried to strike bottom there in 1924, and after dropping six and one-fourth miles of line they had to give it up. Other deep places are the Aldrich Deep and the Mindanao Deep, in the Pacific, and the Nares Deep and the Tizard Deep, in the Atlantic. None of these is less than five miles in depth.

Spain’s Coldest Winter

SPAIN has just been having its coldest winter. Trains coming through the mountains from '-he north have had to have two or three engines to enable them to get through the drifts. Heavy frosts have seriously damaged the orange trees as far south as Madrid, Seville, Malaga and Granada. Wolves have invaded the low lands in large numbers, driven out by the cold. The same cold spell brought zero weather in France and snow in Portugal, which is rare.

For Whom Or

A JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, labor paper publishes a profile photograph of a living hero of the World War. The nose and upper jaw are completely shot away to within an inch of the ear. The paper wants to know for whom or what this man made the more than supreme sacrifice. WeUl Woodrow Wilson was an authori ty on the World War; and in a speech at St Louis he said, and said truly, that the Sforid War was essentially a commercial war®

Bible Qnestiom and Answers

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QUESTION: Do good people go Straight to heaven when they die ? or must the Christian remain dead until the time of resurrection?

Answer: Christians, the same as all others, remain absolutely dead, in every sense, from the time of their death until their awakening in the resurrection. The Scriptures are positive on this point. In 1 Corinthians 15:13,18 we read, "If there be no resurrection of the dead . . . then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.”

The apostle’s argument is that unless there I is a resurrection from the dead even the Christians who have died in Christ have perished, and would be extinct. Jesus Himself said that He would raise His faithful followers at the j last day, when He would return. We read His i words in John 6:40: "Every one which seeth the > Son, and believeth on him, may have everlast-I ing life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” j But some will say, It is the fleshly body that r is raised at the last day and not the spiritual body. This is not true-—the Christian comes j forth in the resurrection a spirit being, for the J first time. Let us turn to the positive scripture j on this point. In 1 Corinthians 15:40-44 we

( read: "There are celestial bodies [meaning

j spiritual bodies] and bodies terrestrial;... so ■ also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown j in corruption: it is raised in incorruption: it is ! sown in dishonor: it is raised in glory: it is sown ! in weakness; it is raised in power: it is sown a natural body,* it is raised a spiritual body.”

। Even the Apostle Paul did not expect to be I raised immediately at death, nor did he expect

■ Ids reward, the crown of life, before the Lord’s

| return. In 2 Timothy 4: 8 we read: “Henceforth ) there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” Life beyond the grave, in any sense, depends upon the awakening from the tomb by Christ Jesus in the resurrection.

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Question: Is it true that salvation is found < only in the Catholic church 1

j Answer: No. At no place in the Bible does it say so. Salvation is the path to life, and this belongs to God. In Psalm 37:39 we read: "But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble.” The Lord will show salvation only to them who do His will The win of Jehovah God is expressed in the Scriptures; and unless the individual reads, studies, and applies the Scriptures to himself he cannot have salvation. In 2 Tim. 3:15 we read: “The holy scriptures ... are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” Again, in Romans 1:16 we read: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God. unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” It will be well for all who wish salvation, including Catholics and Protestants, to study the Bible.

Question : Please explain Matthew 18:3: "Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

Answer : Jesus did not mean that heaven is filled with little children, infants one and two years of age; but He did mean that in order to enter into the kingdom of heaven one must have a meek and teachable disposition, much as a child has toward his parents. Showing that this is the correct thought, Jesus said concerning His disciples, while praying to the heavenly Father, in Matthew 11:25: "I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes.” The fact is that no infants will ever get into the kingdom of heaven; infants will come forth in the resurrection, upon this planet earth. To enter into the kingdom of heaven one must do the will of the heavenly Father; and to do this, knowledge and resolution are necessary.

Question: Jesus said, as is recorded in Mark 12:30,31, “Thou slialt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with, all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” The question is, If I try and endeavor the very best I can to follow these commandments, relying upon the Lord’s help, can I hope for life hereafter and salvation?

Answer: Yes. Absolutely. The secret in being a successful Christian is in doing the will of the heavenly Father, Jehovah God. Jesus said,

as is recorded in Matthew 7:21, “Not every one who sayeth unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." In other words, Jesus said that there would be many who would call themselves Christian; but that this would not entitle them to entrance into the heavenly kingdom. It is necessary to do the will of the heavenly Father. Now if the individual loves th© Lord with aU his heart, he will be anxious to do the will of Jehovah God. In order to know the will of God he must obtain such knowledge from the Bible or such literature which is in harmony with the Bible. He will not be satisfied with what he merely hears or reads except that it agrees with the Bible teaching. Topical studies for Bible students are published by the International Bible Students Association, which have helped thousands to an understanding of the Bible. One who loves his neighbor as himself will seek to do good to others ; and the best good that you can do for others at this time is to tell them about the truth, tell them about the kingdom of Jehovah. God that is shortly to bless mankind, tell them of God’s promise to return their dead ones by th© awakening of the resurrection. This message should cheer their hearts, should inspire a real hope in. their minds and hearts.

Question : Are individuals who are born into the world today the sons of God in the same sense in which Jesus was the Son of God?

Answer : No. Absolutely not. The difference is this: The individuals born into the world today are the descendants of Adam, who in a dying condition could not give to his children perfect life. On the other hand, while Mary the mother of Jesus was of the race of Adam, the Father of Jesus was Jehovah God. Being plain in this matter to obtain the truth, it was the power of Jehovah God that started the new life in Mary at the time of conception. The father is the life-giver, the mother is the one who nourishes that life. The perfect life organism begun in Mary had the power to eliminate all imperfect refuse and to absorb the substance to mature as a perfect babe. Thus Jesus was born into the world perfect. Thus we read in Hebrews 7:26 that Jesus was “holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners".

Question : Is it wise to study the Bible with & view to seek its oneness with all other religions ?

Answer: No, absolutely not the Bib® is separate and distinct from all other religions and knows no compromise. This has been the dhief difficulty with even the clergy, both Catholic and Protestant. They have tried to find harmony between the Bible and their creeds. The result is confusion. The creeds are opposed to the Bible and are saturated with erroy. The Christian accepts the Bible only, as being .the infallible Word of Truth. The Christian accepts as truth only such other literature as conforms to the teachings of the Bible. If the writing of any individual, priest or minister, does not conform to the teaching of the Bible, the Christian throws it out as error. It is indeed pleasing to the Lord to have His Word used as the standard of truth. In Isaiah 8:20 we read, “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no truth in them."

Question: Do the Bible Students celebrate Memorial Day! And if not, why not?

Answer : The Bible Students do not celebrate a day in commemoration of the dead soldiers, because the Bible does not authorize them to do so. But if a holiday is granted, it is generally used in doing others good by telling them the message of the kingdom. For instance, the Bible Students may use this day to comfort others by telling them that the dead soldier boys will come back in the resurrection, that they will come back when the nations will lay down their arms in the kingdom, when the will of the heavenly Father will be done on earth. Th® preaching of this good news to the people inspires hope in their hearts and comforts them. This does infinitely more good than sermons on war, cannons and blood-dripping sabres. The world should be sick of the memories of war.

Question: How is immortality gained?

Answer : Immortality is the gift of God, and may be obtained through obedience in doing God’s holy will. In Bomans 2:7 the Apostle Paul told the Christians to seek immortality. Of course they would not seek it if they already possessed it. Even the Apostle Paul while here on earth did not possess immortality. No man that ever lived on earth possessed immortality. If he did he would never die. The Apostle Paul looked forward to the resurrection and said, as is recorded in 1 Corinthians 15:53, “This mortal must put on immortality."

Recent Happenings in Korea By P. ff. Kang (a Native)

KOREA is a small peninsula between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan. Ko means high, and rea beautiful, so that the name Korea means ‘highly beautiful”. The little country has a history running back four thousand years. It has always been under the subjection of stronger nations.

During the last fifty years many whites have invadbd Korea, with promises for its betterment,-conditioned upon permission to work the gold mines in its mountains. The Japanese fought two wars for the independence of the country, but at the conclusion of the second one they took possession of the land themselves.

Today most of the useful lands of Korea are in. the hands of the Japanese, and although the Koreans still do the work of cultivating the soil more than half of its products go to the Japanese. Hence instead of the Koreans being able to eat rice, as hitherto, many of them have to live on Manchurian millet.

Indeed, thousands of Koreans are going to Manchuria every year; but the Chinese treat them cruelly, and force them to go farther on to the colder lands of Siberia and Mongolia. The Koreans have been looking in vain for help from any earthly source.

KT OW let us see what religion has done for Korea. For many centuries Buddhism had been the prevailing religion. About sixeenturies ago a Korean king encouraged Confnriamwn, with some resulting benefit to the people, for a time; though after his death matters went on much toe same as before.

At length along earns the white missionaries of toe Christian religion The Catholic missionaries made servants of their followers, and now wherever there are Catholic missions in'Korea there you will find the native sons acting as carriers of their sedan chairs and doing all toe drudgery.

The Presbyterians and Methodists came with hospitals and schools; but now toe Koreans have better hospitals and schools than those provided by the Christian missionaries, and even the Korean Christians themselves toil* it is wy foolish to educate their eMtdren in the mission schools. The missionaries are trying to tickle toe ears of toe Korean children with evolution theories, but since the children can get that also in the common schools the power of the sects is gone.

The Seventh Day Adventists came along and circulated thousands of copies of their monthly papers and books saying, in effect, that only those who keep Saturday sacred will be saved, and that all others will perish.

Some missionaries forget that the Koreans are ancestor-worshipers, and that if the true Korean believed that his fathers were in the fire because of some supposed evil god of fire, he would gladly choose to jump into the fire with them than to go to heaven and enjoy the music alone.

But some of the missionaries are not content to wait until the natives die before beginning their torture. Last year a Seventh Day Adventist got hold of & small Korean boy who had stolen a few of his apples, and wrote on his face with poison the Korean word for thief. In vain toe Korean doctors have tried to remove the sear. The boy must carry it for life. The white “Christian” who did this has been imprisoned, and toe incident has furnished another occasion for many Koreans to attack Christianity.

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fpHE latest to appear as the saviors of Korea «*• are the Salvation Army. These came at a time of Korean unrest; and many Koreans, misunderstanding the terms Salvation and Army, eondnded that the time had come for their deliverance or salvation from oppressors, and proceeded to join the Amy in considerable numbers. There were- many hasty withdrawals when they learned that toe Army is merely an association for carrying on evangelistic work. Some, however, retained their membership, expecting great things.

As time went on the unrest became more pronounced, until at length came the arrival of Commander Booth from England, via Japan. His coming had been widely heralded, and some Koreans foolishly expected him to do great things for toe country, although many Korean “converts” had seen enough to begin to be disappointed in the Army. On the day of his arrival Booth reviewed toe white contingent of his

Army in a hall, and no Korean member was ah

lowed to "be present. This action was resented by the Koreans.

The Korean soldiers of the Army prepared a petition, containing twenty grievances, for submission to General Booth; but could get no opportunity to present it. Af length, in one of the subsequent Salvation Army meetings, a native Korean Christian tried to offer prayer in English, and made some reference to the unfair play of the Army, when his prayer was forthwith stopped by the beating of drums, after Which the offender also was beaten.

Unable to get any redress, the native Korean Salvationists then went on a hunger strike. While this was in progress General Booth left quietly on a south-bound train, after -word had been given out by his white representatives of “truth and righteousness” that he was to leave by a north-bound one. The foreign (white) staff all knew accurately when he was going, and were on hand to see him off ; but the poor Korean members were conspicuous by their absence. When they learned that they had been thus treated the Korean Salvationists gathered in protest. They were then told to go to their homes and wait, with the “Christian” assurance that their living expenses would be paid for a time—they had forsaken ail to work for the Army, and were dependent thereon— but nothing was sent to them except a letter saying that the promised funds could not be paid. This additional broken pledge was too much. Rebellion broke out. And now for several weeks the Salvation Army in Korea has been unable to have any meetings, except under police protection.

By telegram Mr. Booth finally ordered the head of the Salvation Army School in Korea to kick out all offending native students, but forgot to instruct him to give back to them the guarantee money which they had deposited with the Army when they enrolled. Tins has created a very bad impression in the minds of the Korean public who, by the way, are not savages, as many whites suppose, but gentle, God-fearing people. And this is but one instance of how the missionary brand of Christianity is killing itself in the various “heathen” lands which they would “convert”. The natives abominate hypocrisy.

Pope Looks to United States

THE Cincinnati Times Star tells us that the pope looks to the United States for funds, because he realizes that this Protestant country has today the greatest prosperity on earth. This seems like a good idea, to look for the money where the money is; but sometimes it does not pay to think of the money alone, either. Now there was the case of the Chicago Historical Society, heirs of the tl'anther estate, which had up for gale twelve more cases of the bones of the twelve apostles. Of course the bones are genuine; for Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago says they are, and he ought to know. But the Cardinal has decided that such holy relies ought not to be exposed for sale in such an ungodly city as Chicago; so he made a generous contribution to the Historical Society, wliich did not want the bones; and they presented them to the Cardinal. The newspapers seem to think that Cardinal Mundelein will send these Chicago bones of the apostles direct to the pope as a present. But our guess is that the bones w ill be sent to the fertilizer works, as they should be; and that the money for them, some of it, may finally get to the pope if the ushers and doormen do not got it first.

Exploits of a British Spy

ONE of the most capable of British spies during the World War was a French woman of education, Louise de Bettignies. Her work consisted of accurate, frequent, written reports done on pellicles or films so perfectly that the films were often pasted on the face of passport photographs and stamped by German inspectors without any knowledge that these contained full reports of all their principal activities. The writing was invisible, and so fine that 3,000 words were placed on the area of a stamp. Frequently the pellicles were pasted on eye-glasses, at other times concealed in umbrella handles or bag handles.

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