Golden Age, June 15, 1927
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Contents of the Golden Age
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Labor and Economics
Pere ano These About the Would ............ 579
The Saving Wage ........ 579
Two Hundred Tncusand Superfluous Miners ........ 580
New York's 48 hour Law for Women ........... 580
Social and Edvcational
Begging as a Business ................ 581
No Charity Fund for Topeka ............. - 581
Halt the Parade ................... 581
Finance—Commerce—Transportation
Ford Has Forty-One Turnovers ............. 579
File Big Money Makers ............... 579
The Power of the Power Trust ............. 580
Forced into Making $150,000,000 ............ 583
Political—Domestic and Foreign
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Why the United States Entered Nicaragua ......... 583
Anh-Russian Poison and the Remedy .......... 587
An Armenian View of Turkey ............. 590
Who Bei.ikves in War? Who Wants Was? ......... 591
Governor Smith’s Differences with Rome ......... 594
Agriculture and Husbandry
Dess Waste in the Citrus Belt ............. 580
New Method of Ripening Fruit ............. 580
Southern Corn, Wheat, Oats and Apples .......... 581
Heating Soil by Electricity ............... 584
Travel and Miscellany
Discoveries in Ur of the Chaldees ............ 586
The Lion Farm ................... 593
Religion and Philosophy
Brisbane and the Missionaries ............ 586
The First Rest bisection ................ 595
Dors Jehovah Cari:? .................. 601
Two Little Boys and Teds Grandpa and Grandma ..... 606
Little Studies tok Little 1’eofls ............. 607
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Volume VIII Bracldysip N, Y.» Wedaeaday8 June 159 1927 h’nmbw 202
Here and There About the World
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The Great Mississippi Flood
UNTIE the Lord changes the weather condi-ditions it seems an impossible thing to control the waters of the Mississippi. Reforestation would do something. Tremendously expensive spillways at the mouth of the river would do something for New Orleans and vicinity. Levees along the entire length of the lowlands will do more. But when the waters of thirty-one states have added to them the flood waters caused by heavy rains on a heavy fall of snow, and all these waters must pass through one channel on their way to the sea, the Mississippi must always remain not only the Father of Waters but the Father of Sorrows for those who live along its banks from Cairo to the sea.
Henry Tells the Truth
IN A recent article in the Los Angeles Examiner Henry Ford made this truthful and startling statement:
The old world is dead, dead, dead. It is beyond recovery. God himself will not restore it, and Satan cannot. The old world is dead. The things you see going to pieces are its funeral, its decay.
Ford has Forty-One Turnovers
IN THE management of his fourteen Det oit stores Henry Ford turns his money over forty-one times a year. This enables him to pay h.s clerks $7.20 per day for a five day week; and in idently it so frightened the keepers of other Detroit stores that they tried to work up a general boycott of Henry’s products elsewhere. Mr. Ford has announced that he will hereafter sell commodities to his employes only and not to the general public. The usual retail store has brat twelve turnovers a year; chain stores two mad one-half times as many.
Incomes of a Million a Year
TN THE United States 207 persons have inA comes of a million dollars a year, while seven of the number have incomes of five million dollars a year each. The total number of millionaires in the United States is now set at 30,295. About 9,000 of these were added to the list during the last year. Control of the means of production is what does it.
Five Big Money Makers
TpIVE big money makers are the United States
Steel Corporation, General Electric Company, General Motors Corporation, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the Allied Chemical Company. Since 1922 their cash and marketable securities have increased by $256,300,714, or 55%. Their shareholders have shared in the prosperity.
82% Have Small Incomes
THE incomes of 82% of the people of the
United States are small enough so that they pay no income taxes, while the tax returns show that approximately one person out of every 400 pays 95% of the individual taxes. Of those who did pay taxes 10,000 persons paid as much as was paid in income taxes by all the rest of the country put together.
The Saving Wage
WRITING on the subject of “The Saving
Wage” in the Manchester Guardian, the Hon. James J. Davis, Secretary of the United States Department of Labor, says:
The saving wage tends to promote the necessary spirit of goodwill and cooperation between manager and man. The worker who is anxious over the future of himself and his family is a poor producer, even when regularly employed. If he is not able to provide for his wife and
fpmiiy what h® feels is their due he has a quarrel with ail soaety. In a thousand ways his interest in his werk is lessened. Hence the payment of a wage that permits of saving is first of all good business. The saving wage has brought about mental relief to the worker and profitable business to the employer, as well as practical material and social benefit to all.
Average Income of the Workers
OMEBODY has taken the trouble to figure it out that the average income of the American working person, from the highest paid actress down to the humblest of us, is 90^ an hour. The President of the United States gets $30 an hour; so do the presidents of most of the railroads, and the larger banks; while a prize actress may get as much as $400 an hour for her work.
209.$69 Superfluous Miners
MINING is not such an attractive occupation.
The American soft coal miner averages to get only 140 days of work a year, so that on a basic wage of $7.50 per day his annual-earnings are only $1,050, and that is not enough to live on. Moreover, 2,500 miners were killed outright in 1926. Yet we are told that there are 200,000 too many soft coal miners in the United States. Evidently here is a place for the government to step in. The government should make the mines safe fox* the men, regardless of cost; and it can be done. Mines that cannot be profitably worked should be closed. Those that are worked should be worked steadily. The government is or ought to be properly interested in the conservation of coal, and it is freely claimed that by present m^bods of mining fif% percent of all coal is left irrecoverably in the groend. The un-umon■ i" »d nines of the Smith are crowding both the op< rators and union names of the northern stoto6!, causing kcs of markets and a general unoetillng of the industry.
New York?* 48-Sour Law for Women
FTEB fourteen years of useless political wrangling over something that should never have been made a political matter, New York has passed a bill making the work week for women 48 hours. In industries where they are given a Saturday half holiday the hours of labor may be 49^ houis, and an allotment is made of 78 hours during the year in which, upon approval by the State’s Industrial Commission, extra work may be done.
Chain Stores Covering the Swth
IIAIN stores are rapidly covering the earth. The American chain stores are spreading out over England and the Continent. One of the American chain stores expects to have 290 branch stores operating in England before fall The individual storekeeper is up against a hard problem that will increase in difficulty from now on, daily.
The Power of the Power Trust
osiah T. Newcomb, general counsel for the Electric Bond and Share Company, is reported to have declared, prior to the defeat of the Boulder Dam legislation:
I represent an investment of $9,000,000,000, and we do not propose to let the government enter the power business at Boulder Dam. The bill has no chance to pass. It will not pass as it is. If changed, it can go through at tius session.
Now is a fine chance to get this new emperor to write out a new constitution and tell these 120,000,000 free Americans just what he will allow and what he will not allow. It would make interesting reading.
Less Waste in Citrus Belts
NY who have visited the citrus belts in the season when these delectable fruits are ripa can hardly fail to have been impressed by the waste which seemed manifest. This is because about 30% of the orange, lemon and grapefruit crops have been classed as culls. A way has now been found to turn these culls into money. Plants Lave been started in the citrus belts whmh manufacture citric acid, orange juice, orange oil, marmalade ami pectin; and even the waste p ' > is now sold as dairy food. This is as it ought to be.
New Method of Ripening Fruit
T THE annual convention of the American
Chemical Society, held at Richmond, Va,,
Dr. Harvey’s method of ripening green fruit by exposure to ethylene g*as was the subject of much favorable comment. It is declared that fruit- picked while green and placed in a chamber of this gas is ripened at once and made more palatable than if allowed to remain on the trees. Celery and other products are also improved bv this method. The gas is produced cheaply.
Southern Com, Wheat, Oats and Apples
IN THE year 1926 the southern states raised
190,000,000 bushels of corn in excess of that raised in 1925; they raised 83,000,000 more bushels of wheat, which was almost double the yield of the year before; they raised 90,000,000 more bushels of oats, and 33,000,000 more bushels of apples.
Begging as a Business
A STREET begger picked up in Los Angeles had on his person five bank books, showing that he had over four thousand dollars on deposit in Chicago, Salt Lake City, Miami, San ■'Francisco and Los Angeles. He also admitted that he had accounts in five other banks. Getting a living by professional beggary ought to be easy for some well-known evangelists. Here is an honest way for many preachers to make a living, too. Most of them have had extended experience, and would only need to alter their canvas a little in order to get results; and it would be far more honorable than to try to frighten money out of the people by telling them of the possibility of having to go to a place of torment—which exists only in the mind and for revenue only.
Na Charity Fund Drives in Topeka
TOPEKA, Kansas, has taken a step forward.
By an act of the state legislature Topeka people now have their public charities on the public payroll, and there will be no more charity drives in that city. In view of the fact that the public must take care of the unfortunate anyway it seems as if this law would work out well for everybody. At any rate it seems worth try-
Hard Outlook far Burglars
ANEW invention of the Westinghouse people makes an exceedingly hard outlook for the burglar business. It will turn on a light and ring a bell if a hand approaches within several 'inches of a door knob or window fastening or ether object. Additionally, it automatically turns on. lights at night and shuts them off at 'daybreak, warns of thunderstorms, guards gas and oil stoves by turning off the fuel supply in ease of emergency and will count people, automobiles or anything else passing a given point. It is the most sensitive electrical device known.
The Causes &f Crime
Wabden Lawes, of Sing Sing, after a studious attempt to find the causes for crime, gave up the fight, saying that he had found as many as fifty factors entering into a single theft Some of the factors are alcohol, drugs, cards, dice, ignorance, unemployment, godlessness, poverty, stupidity, loneliness, family troubles, illness and juvenile delinquency.
Halt the Parade
August Hecksheb, pleading for a halt in the parade from the slums to the hospitals, jails and insane asylums, and declaring that only decent, sanitary homes would halt that parade, in a remarkable speech on the housing problem of New York’s poor recently said in part:
I seek no redistribution of wealth. Let every man and woman, so long as they are honest and play the game, accumulate the wealth that seems so much to them. But let them be held, through taxation, to contribute the modest share that will be needed for our plan of providing for the poorer classes, unable to protect themselves, the comfort and health to which they are entitled. The erection of tall apartments with ample open spaces and with elevators must be undertaken. Private enterprise will not do it. It is the duty of the municipality to respond. Brushing aside, until we can get all the facts and act understandingly, the quest .on of costs and revenue, I respectfully insist era the cardinal principle that cost means less than the successiuI outcome. The question of land values, of cost of buddings, of taxation, of revenue, are all secondary to the question of this dire need of the poorer classes, v.liose appeal for so many years we have disregarded, wli-ne misery and misfortune accumulate as our population increases and our unparalleled wealth reaches mom i i:a high.
Oregon Dentists Out af Luck
OREGON dentists are out of luck. The «?Ll people of the state have contracted the habit of sprouting new sets of teeth, and that mo uh an end of the store kind. Something will ii a to be done about this. Jn one issue oi* the Portland Journal it tells of two old folks in that state who have become discontented with the false teeth which have served them faithfully for twenty-five years, and now they have started growing their own. Here is a chance now for the serum squitters to get out a new serum that will prevent anything of this kind.
Oregon’s Whistling Well
/ Y - EGON lias a well, on a farm near Maupin, which whistles gently for 12 to 24 hours before the approach of a storm, the whistle rising to a roar while the storm is at its height. After the storm is over the whistle is reversed. The explanation is believed to be that the bottom of the well is connected with large air pockets of uniform temperature, which exhale or inhale through a small vent as the temperature of the outer air rises or falls.
Tbirbj Feet a Day
TN THE building of the new tunnel on the Great Northern Bailway which is to bore the Cascade Mountains, a speed of thirty feet a day is made. The tunnel will be eight miles long, sixteen feet wide and twenty-one feet high, and vhmi completed will be the longest tunnel in the United States. The work goes forward night aigl day, in three shifts of eight hours each.
Importance of Adequate Lights
THE importance of adequate lights as a preventive of motor accidents was illustrated in Cleveland, where for several years the annual motor casualties were fifteen, on two of the prominent streets. The system of lighting these streets was changed and improved, with the result that the motor deaths were reduced to two. In other words, seven-eights of the previous deaths were chargeable to poor lighting of the streets.
Looks Like the Millennium
TWO prominent society women of Palm Beach bought out at the full price 180 persons who had invested money in a defunct Florida land boom. Surely this looks like the millennium. Next ihiug we know Teapot Dome statesmen, meat trusts, oil millionaires and a thousand other kinds of crooks will be rushing to refund what they have taken, and money paid for nms.-cs xx ill be returned. That will be the mil-Imrnium sure enough.
A Fine Tribute to Justice Holmes
THE Union Record, of Seattle, Washington, has paid a tribute to Justice Holmes that is worthy of wide circulation. The Record says:
Chief Justice Holmes, the youngest member of the Supreme court, celebrated his 86tli birthday the other day. Congratulations, judge. May you live a thousand years. For there are few as brave and wise as you. But for you and Brandeis, the supreme court would be but a barricade of antique furniture erected against budding life. Union labor will never forget that you were the first in our generation to declare from the seat of justice that strikers have a right to picket the place of their former employment, proriding they do it peacefully and without threats. But not only union labor but every lover of liberty, every believer in progress and devotee of even-handed justice, is indebted to you. With an honorable pa-t and famous ancestry, your face is always turned toward the rising >>1111 of a higher, finer and hah-pior humanity, and never iovard the dead past of outworn things and institutions.
The Modern Gladiator "
TN ANCIENT times the gladiators went from town to town, testing their strength and skill against local talent. The fight promoter, Tex Rickard, prophesies that this will come soon in the United States, the modern gladiator being the prize fighter. Mr. Rickard points out also that at the Dempsey-Tunney fight in Philadelphia there were 15,000 women in the crowd, and that larger and ever larger numbers of women attend the fights.
Kitten Causes a Panic
IN NEWARK, N. J., the other day a harmless little kitten caused a panic, in which one woman was killed and several others were badly injured. Twice he arched his back and hissed as three elephants were being led toward him, on the way to the back entrance of a theatre. The second time was too much for the elephants. They ran wild and went trumpeting with fear out into the mam street, whore the crowd was unable to get out of their way in tune.
Humanitii Has a Good Heart
THE good heart of humanity never showed to better advantage than the other day in Philadelphia. rk little lad needed blood transfusion to save his life. An appeal was broadcast, and within a few minutes fifteen hundred people had responded, urging that they be given an opportunity to give some of their blood to keep the little fellow alive. What a striking answer this is to those who still hold to the wornout theory that God, in whose image man was created, has a great plan for torturing to eternity almost everybody. In the face of this exhibition of human goodness anybody ought to be able to see that the eternal torture theory is false from beginning to end.
President Coolidge on the Bible
CONCERNING the Bible President Coolidge is quoted as making the following statement:
Although it has been the subject of most careful and painstaking study for hundreds of years, its most thorough students find in it a constant revelation of new thought and new ideals which minister to the spiritual nature of the race. It would be difficult to conceive of any kind of religious instruction which omitted to place its main emphasis on the precepts of this great Book. It has been the source of inspiration and comfort to those who have had the privilege of coming in contact with it, and wherever it goes it raises the whole standard of human relationship.
April 8th a Great Day
APRIL 8th was a great day in human history.
At that time television was opened up between New York and Washington. Listeners in New York both saw and heard Herbert Hoover at Washington; this was by means of wires. On the same day television was accomplished by radio, from Whippany, N. J. to New York. The practical value of the invention is yet unknown.
Borah Beards the Lion
FROM New Haven as the center, has gone forth the accusation by the Knights of
Columbus that Mexico is in imminent danger of going Bolshevik; hence it took some courage for Senator Borah to go to New Haven and in an audience of 5,000 persons say to the citizens of New Haven concerning Mexico:
God has mads us neighbors, let justice make a? friends. The first step toward justice is to step making false and unfair statements about Mexico.
Why the United States Entered Nicaragua
TJ obacb C. Knowles, former Minister to Nicaragua, says:
If there is anything the plain people of those countries kacv it is that the financial interests and Washington are always on the lookout for an excuse to intervene, and the first and greatest care of any revolutionary party is to see that the lives and property of foreigners are in no wy molested. Such lives and property, as a matter of are safer there than in New York.
A TMrat far Travel
MOST of as have & thirst for travel which we
are unable to gratify; but Boston has a millionaire who has the thirst, and apparently he gets what he wants. Dr. Philip G. Peabody has been to Africa thirteen times, to Asia twelve times, to Russia ten times; and when it comes to merely crossing the Atlantic Ocean, he has just completed his 106th trip.
No Horses on Mexico City Streets
ORDERS have been issued excluding horsedrawn vehicles from the paved streets of Mexico City, on the double grounds that they are an impediment to automobile traffic and that the horseshoes and heavy wheels tear up the asphalt pavement.
Forced into Making $150,000,000
Simon A. Patino twenty-five years ago was a collector in Bolivia. Given a debt of $250 to collect he took in payment a parcel of land. The firm for which he worked refused to accept the land and discharged him from its employ. He paid them the $250, retained the land for himself, and in the last ten years has taken tin of the value of $60,000,000 out of the tract. This mine is now producing 10% of the world’s tin output
Phom Service Between London and Havana rjlHE New York Times contains an interesting J- account of the telephone service now maintained between London and Havana, Cuba, by way of Rocky Point, L. L, New York and Key West. The route is by cable from Havana to Key West, by land wires to Rocky Point and thence by radio. At Rocky Point the voice is boosted to eleven million times its strength at the time received. This is not the only boosting it receives. At various places along the route it is boosted from 3 to 3,500 times.
End of Fog Menace in Sight
SINCE the first man went to sea, fog has been one of the terrors of the deep, and in some respects the worst one; but its end draws on apace. A ray which will penetrate any fog or smoke screen has been invented by a Briton, J. L. Baird, and the apparatus is now being installed on British vessels engaged in service along the British, ©oast For want of a better name, now being sought, the new ray is at present called black light; a curious name indeed. Noctovision has also been suggested as a suitable name. The new ray makes a sound when it encounters a solid object, or even a ray of light.
British Bald Auto Speed Beeord
A BRITISHER, Major Segrave, in a ear of British construction, broke all records for automobile speed in America when be traveled a h'ile over 203 miles per hour on the beach
Daytona, Tia. The Biitish are up and doing these davs. They now have beam radio communication between London and Australia, sending the beam either east or west around the glebe as best suits them.
Strorye D'kcte in the House of Commons
HpTLiT was a strange debate in the House of
Common,■> wLon Sir Arthur Ponsonby moved ■Rat the British air force be done away with and Bntain become m fact as well as in name a C’hiuthm nation. In the course of the day’s d< bam vlimh followed, one member of the house read the Sermon on the Mount and called attention to the fact that during the recent troubles in Clara the safest foreigners in the whole coun-tiy uijo tie Gormans because they were un-an itd.
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’ alber AleCiami got all this data we w: u," say, except that lie dnl not get it from Un Bt’ le. He should take something for this, and get it out of his system. U'e advise that he communicate with Mussolini. A better way would be to send to the International Bible Students and get their book on Hell. It can be had for only ten cents and would clear the whole subject Up in McCrann’s mind.
The Urwflieud War in Nicaragua
THE unofficial war of the United States Gov» erment against Nicaragua is not ended. According to the larv the United States cannot go to war wiihout the consent of Congress, but the consent of Congress could never be obtained for a v ar which has as its objective the placing of all pov. er in the hands of the Roman Catholic Diaz, and the taking away of power from Sacasa, whose aim is separation of church and state, freedom of worship and free schools. Recent reports are Hat 15 cruisers and 5,000 American troops are still on the job, and that eight of the most important Nicaraguan cities are still occupied by America contrary to the wishes of a majority of the Nicaraguan people.
New French Conscription Bill
fTHIE new Eiench Conscription Bill con*'Ciipts the whole nation for war, including even the babies at their mothers’ breasts. When a new Fiench mobilization order is issued it is claimed by the politicians that it will leave no single individual free to express any opinion whatsoever on the issue, which has reduced him to the meanest condition of slavery ever known. This form of conscription will no doubt extend to all other lands.
Healing Soil by Electricity
HIRE IJ. S. Department of Rmm.eice xeports extensive experiments m Sweden in the raising of garden crops out of season, by heating the soil with electric wires buried forty yards apart. The object of heating the soil is to bring it up +o the temperature of the air as nearly as possible. Near Stockholm lettuce uas ready for the n avket in March, in a heated in Urs manner.
EHnm w.'t’.en of C< rxo Schoofs
jTJLmiTN, fa nous ’•< ^or-
respondent, is o* the opinion Hat the Papacy v.ill siiccem in As present efforts to establish a concordat villi Germany, and .jj means o£ the concordat to dominate the Gei man schools. The reason vmy ibis is possible is because the Lutherans, as a tvhole, are more interested in present day taxes and customs duties than they are in the future of the country. Mr. Harden suggests what anyone ought to be able to see, that the domination of the youth of today means the domination of the men of tomorrow.
Germanes New Anesthetie
GERMANY has a new anesthetic, called E-107, administered rectally, which is said to have no ill effects on heart or kidneys, and 'does not cause vomiting or a feeling of sickness afterwards. In a few instances it has caused intestinal irritation, and in a few cases defective circulation; but the general results in most instances seem to indicate that it will likely reprice ether and choloroform as anesthetics.
Auioeracy Gone Mad
William Gleen, President of the American
Federation of Labor, justly characterizes Mussolini’s latest move, the so-called labor charter, as a proclamation of the enslavement of the Italian people, and says of it that the world has never witnessed a greater exliibition of autocracy gone mad. The state is to absolutely control all labor disputes.
Turning the Screw Once More
THE Mussolini government has given the screw of tyranny one more twist. With the advice and cooperation of the Papacy a measure has now been enacted which provides imprisonment for three years for the publication, sale, distribution, purchase or possession of ‘books, pictures, works of art, photographs, moving picture films, phonographic records, advert ring copy or theatrical manuscripts con-snrired offensive to Fascism or to the Papacy.
SfussoVnfs Horrible Penal Islands
T1 ECENTLY 942 of the roost intelligent men All of |ialy have been consigned by the Fas-c:«ti to the horrible islands of Estiva, Favigna-jin. Piwrieleria arid Lampedusa, off the coast uf S’cdy, where soap m unknown. Women, cl I 'rtu and pigs Vve in the saum room. Water emi olten net be had for days at a time. Lico e i vei> 'aIicjp, Dysentery is almost universal.
The feed is cornbread and soup of disgusting QwWty. Tbourtirds o£ otaer men have disappear »d altogether.
Gigisy Canrtihals in Europe
rpWENTY-SJLX. gypsies are in prison in Moldavia, eastern Slovakia, charged with mur-
'der and cannibalism. Twelve murders have been traced to them. The victims were Hungarian smugglers. The bodies of ths murderea were eaten, and the cannibals seem. not tarbed by the charges laid against them.
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Michael Has the Hight Idea
Michael Szapkowski, 145 years of age, oj the village of Laty, Russia, says that a sense of humor is the best guaranty for longevity. Good for Michael. He has the right idea, A sense of humor helps one that is down to get up. It helps him to view his own follies and the follies of other men with kindly eyes. It helps him to laugh where others cry; and honest, kindly laughter at the follies of one’s self is good for the soul.
Beating Swords into Plowshares
AN ITEM in the New York Times states that the first oil well drills ever manufactured in.
Russia were made of metal obtained by dismantling one of the old Czarist warships, the “Potemkin’’. Who can deny that the second use of the metal was better than the first?
Palestine Gradually Improving
T AST year Palestine’s exports amounted to over $40,000,000, mostly in oranges. Among the imports were $500,000 worth of American automobiles. A dispatch states that American Jews are developing Miizpah, and that the Palestinian administration has taken over a large site there for the immediate erection of the central government bnildings and the mansion for the high commissioner.
Treasures ef the Dead Sea
THE Government of Palestine has officially estimated that in the Iris J Sea there are 980,000,000 tons of Magnesium Brat'ride which, at the present rate of consumption, is seftririm to last the world 35,000 years. AdiLtionally the Dead Sea contains 6,000,000,000 tons of Cede mm Chloride, 2,000,000,000 tons of Potassvmi Chloride, 11.500,000 tons of Sodium Chlorid'1 and 22,00,00,00 tons of Magnesium Ohio .’ide.
Discoveries in Ur of the Chaldees
NOT only were the people of Abraham’s home town well educated in mathematics and astronomy, but the recent excavations show that the average man had a two-story dwelling to himself. The family lived upstairs, while ths lower floor was reserved for receptions and other events in which persons not of the family were interested. The business of the family was conducted on the ground floor. The ladies were as fond of ornaments and various toilet preparations as they are now. Discoveries in Ur of the Chaldees indicate that the arch is older than has been hitherto supposed. Bricks bearing 'Abraham’s name have been found in the ancient city. The ruins show what the Scriptures teach, namely, that the people of the city served other gods than the great Almighty God, whose follower and friend Abraham became.
Religious Population of Palestine
ON SEPTEMBER 1,1926, there were in Palestine 158,000 Jews; 641,000 Moslems; 78, 000 Christians; and 10,000 persons of other religious faiths. The Soviet Government of Russia has granted three hundred Jews who had been exiled to Siberia permission to leave that land for Palestine.
Sydney’s Great Bridge
SYDNEY, Australia, now has in process of construction what is claimed to be the largest arch bridge in the world. The span is 1675 feet The bridge win carry a fifty-seven-foot roadway, two ten-foot sidewalks and four railway tracks, and be 170 feet above high water, so that vessels may pass beneath.
America Flooding China with Rice
mHE Chinese Agricultural Association has -L made a protest in San Francisco against Chinese in California using American methods and receiving American wages of $6 to $8 per ’day, to flood China with cheaper rice than can be produced in China by coolies receiving only 10$ to 15$ per day.
Length of Life in New Zealand
THE direct relation between progressive legislation and length of life is nowhere more dearly seen than in a consideration of New Zealand. That country is admitted to have made greater strides in beneficial and protective legislation. than any other country in the world; and it is interesting to know that its citizens have an average length of life of 62 years, which is also the greatest of any country in the world.
The Schools of New Zealand
A DISTINGUISHED New Zealand educator visiting this country notes that American schools have better buildings, smaller classes, poorer spellers, poorer penmen, better musical instruction, a greater spirit of rivalry, more juvenile crime and a higher regard for Latin, and Greek than are shown in the schools of New
Zealand. He states that in New Zealand only boys who study Greek are those that preparing for the ministry.
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REFERRING to the withdrawal of all missionaries from China, Arthur Brisbane says:
The world at large will wonder with the missionaries, What used to happen to the Chinese before the missionaries went in? la it conceivable thatthey all went to hell? Four hundred million, going below every few years would make soon a terrific population in the city of Buffering. Billions of Chinese must be there now, even scores of billions, to say nothing o£ other heathen. It is a solemn problem that may well worry the missionaries. It is safe, fortunately, to assume that Providence has some solution that does not involve burning so many ignorant people forever.
The Bible answer to the solemn problem is that at death everybody goes to hell, with absolutely no exceptions. Even Christ went there. The Bible hell is the grave, where all await the resurrection. The heathen are no worse off there than are the Popes and other Doctors of Divinity. All are in the same place; and in the resurrection many of the poor heathen will fare far better than the theologians who have harassed their living and dying moments and clung desperately to them and to their relatives while there remained the shadow of a hope that they could scare a few shekels out of their clothing, and so make it temporarily easier for themselves before they land there, too. As money makers the hell and purgatory grafts have every other money making device backed off the boards. The worst of it is that they have had so much influence that the truth as to what hell really is seldom finds any place in the public press, and never finds any place in the pulpit. But gradually the truth is coming out anyway. It can be hid no longer.
Anti-Russian Prison and the Remedy By C. A. Dann
THE history of human society from early days has been interspersed all along the line -with accounts of individuals who more or less successfully indulged a penchant for doing away with, to them, objectionable fellow mortals by the subtle and cowardly method of poisoning. In this they have betrayed a family likeness to Satan, the great and invisible enemy of man-id nd.
Despicable however as the conduct of the class of debased liumaiu here referred to has been, another class far greater in numbers and having apparently a "much closer relationship to the father of lies have also been in existence. This class have likewise occupied themselves with the destruction or injury not only of individuals but of families, communities, and even nations; and by the same method, poisoning. The former class, however, have concerned themselves only with the destruction of the physical beings of other mortals; while the latter class, to accomplish their designs, have poisoned the minds of their victims, thereby jeopardizing human souls.
The arch-poisoner of all ages has been Satan, the erstwhile princely light-bearer. Beginning with his first successful attempt in Eden, Satan has progressed in the science of poisoning, until now under his supervision a steady stream, of artfully disguised poison is very acceptably administered seven days a week to millions of human beings, ostensibly as food for the .mind and heart, but in reality concocted for the purpose of deadening the perception in some connections and inflaming the passions in others.
The Three Chief Poisoners
THE three principal agencies for the administration of soul poisons are the church systems, institutions of learning, and public press. Of these three, the one that seems to be most popular, the one that serves the greatest number and administers the most easily, agreeably and constantly, is the public press.
As one who has been a subscriber to The Goww Ag® sine® it was first inaugurated, I know that the principles actuating those who publish it are such as to guard its columns against the intrusion of propaganda designed to ’nullify those forces which make for the destruction of Satan’s empire, characterized as it is by the insanely selfish domination of th© great mas® cf humanity by a comparatively small number of financial and industrial magnates.
Among several items of interest submitted by your Canadian correspondent, and published in No. 166 of The Golden Age, is an editorial reproduced from the Prince Albert (Sask.)’ Herald entitled "Leave These Lunatics to Themselves.” Now, while those who are even only half awake to the trend of events in Europe must and will concur in the general sentiment of the article, in justice to a group of peoples to whom the ruling powers of the rest of the habitable are and must be in the nature of things opposed, exception should be taken to the classification of the Soviet Union with the lunatics of Europe.
Hussies Gi@antie (?) Armff
THE following statement contained in the aforementioned newspaper article is a subtle piece of hurtful propaganda:
Russia is maintaining a gigantic army, partly for the purpose of giving state jobs to an otherwise pauper population but also with an idea that some day she might go about the task of imposing her communistic will upon her neighbors.
In the first place, while it is true that in 1920 the Bed Army numbered 5,300,000, the army of the Soviet Union now numbers only about 562,000. In terms of population, the Soviet Union now has 41 soldiers for every 10,000 inhabitants, while Roumania and Poland have about 100; and France, exclusive of her colonies, 200. In other words, the western European "democratic” states have from three to five times more men under arms than does the Soviet Union. In relation to territory, for every 1000 square kilometers there are 27 soldiers in the Soviet Union, while there are 560 soldiers for the same area in Roumania, and 700 in Poland. So much then for the "gigantic” army of Soviet Russia.
But, says the editorial, this "gigantic” army is maintained "partly for the purpose of giving state jobs to an otherwise pauper population”. According to the figures above given, the number of soldiers for every 10,000 inhabitants of the Soviet Union is 41. Assuming that each one of these soldiers represents an average family of five persons, even then only 205 of every 10,000 persons are ‘preserved from poverty’ by the
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"state jobs” of these 41. This leaves 9,795 of every 10,000 to be classed not “otherwise” but as actual “pauper population*. And since these calculations are based upon an approximated population of about 130 million souls, the Soviet Union today must be burdened with the appal-. Img number of over 127.000,000 paupers. Blah!
JFftat Are the Facts?
WHAT are the facts in this connection! Actually the possessors of an estate comprising one-sixth of the earth’s surface, abound-ing in natural resources and corresponding opportunities for development and cultivation, with all the expedition that is possible commensurate with the tremendous task that has been undertaken, the Soviet peoples are being ... educated, trained and encouraged by their leaders to cooperate in the realization of the benefits that may accrue to them collectively and individually, but not selfishly, from the vast resources which are theirs.
It must be remembered that up until 1917, under autocratic czarism and a profoundly corrupt religious system, the great bulk of the Russian people were kept in a state of semi-barbarism, and were probably on a considerably lower level in the matter of literacy, culture and economic intelligence, than were the Negroes of the southern states in slavery days. Wonderful changes have taken place in these respects in the Soviet Union since the revolution of November, 1917, but much yet remains to be done. The point that I desire to make here is that the immense amount of human raw material in Bussia requires time in order to be worked into suitable shape, by education and proper training, before the resources of that enormous estate itself can be made adequately available.
N@t As Unemployed
SOVIET Bussia has done magnificently for her unemployed. In August, 1925, the actual number of aD. unemployed (both registered and wregistered),ao5ordingto the estimates of th.® Institute for Planned Economies, was only 1,~ or 1 in each. 110 of the population. And Axes® figures have been further and steadily yedueed since that time. True it is, this was a large number. But let it be noted that this number is comprised partly of the surplus agricultural population and partly of those previously employed in occupations which have become superfluous since the revolution, with only th© smaller part consisting of industrial workers (unskilled) and officials. Hence in other countries a large number of those whom Russia classed as unemployed would not be included at all in the statistics of unemployment.
Then let it be remembered that in September of the same year the official figures of unemployment for Great Britain totalled 1,418,000, out of a population of but approximately 43,000,000 people, which is 1 in every 30 of the population.
The Soviet Union, however, in contrast with the capitalist states, has not the slightest interest in the existence of an industrial reserve which forces wages down; and therefore it is resolutely attacking the problem of unemployment with the expectation that it will almost if not entirely disappear within two years. As an. instance of the practical way in which the situation is being handled, unemployed agricultural laborers are being trained to manage tractors. On® consignment alone contained 12,000 Ford tractors which were shipped to Bussia via Seattle, Wash., early last year.
As to whether the Russian army is maintained “also with an idea that some day she might go about the task of imposing her communistic will upon her neighbors”, I will leave the readers of this article to judge from what follows.
Would Even Abolish War industries
A CELEBRATION was held in Chicago last year, on the occasion of the purchase by the Soviet Union of the American Rambouillet sheep, to be used for breeding purposes. Boris E. Skvirsky, head of the Russian Information Bureau, Washington, D. C., was one of the guests on this occasion; and in the course of a speech which he made he stated the following concerning the Soviet Union:
Tba appropriation for the army and navy was less than half of pre-war; and the Soviet Union, which has reduced its army from five millions to half a million^ would be willing to support tlw most sweeping wrrasal disarmament proposal.
Speaking in Paris, France, in December, 1925, Georges Tehieherin, Foreign Minister of the U. S. S. R., concisely set forth the attitude of
the Soviet Union with regard to matters xnil-itary, in the following statement:
After the termination of the war we were. I believe, the first nation to advocate disarmament, and we officially expressed out approval of this policy in our reply to the draft of the treaty of mutual assistance. We not only vehemently criticized that treaty for giving enormous international power to a few states, but we rejected it as delaying the practical settlement of the disarmament question. Incidentally, I have just received the report of the speech made in Moscow by M. Rykoff, chairman, of die council of eoinmistaries, m which he makes the downright offer to abolish not only the army, but also Russian uar industries, provided complete disarmament becomes general. He goes on to say that he is readj’ to give his fullest support to any attempt at even part disarmament. This readiness of ours to disarm is not a mere rhetorical gesture, it is implied in our fundamental attitude to the world. We renounce not only the policy, but even, the very idea of conquest And we need an army and navy only for defense.
Jf the Bolsheviks Get You
THE esprit de corps, the animating spirit of the Red Army, is well conveyed in the following extract from a speech delivered in London by George Bernard Shaw, in January, 1920:
Supposing the Bolahewk Red ikrmy cap lures you; what is it that happens to you? You are told betore-hand, if you are a European, that vou are writing Bol.-hcviks because you know that they are monsters and commiti-ng atrocities. You are told that if the Bolshmiks capture ton they will put you slowly to death over a period of twenty-one nays, by cutting off the tips <jJt vour fingeis, your nose and wur ears, and by hor-vble sciertific toil cues will th v to kill you: tlrwefo’c you fight pw..lv haul—if wu belunc it.
Supposing wu me idei, pwoi in y< m;
h(r..’C > 'ugek. li you au an Engi’Tnnjii jm. itoiix iy do stiag^ie; if not to tbc death, .-till very <k e to it. But supposing yea aie ovcwdiad by wiinbm, -ev one Enghriii.v'i 1>? CGO BvKiwjU. AL.it ha_ i.i-m to you? You are brought •me a military depot, auo rii first thing tl at happens to v>u is that trey ghe you a good meal, and when you av ip a ttowablj "ood I mnor a men comes in with a lot of literature; lie, ws “Arc you an Englishman?” You say. “I am an Englishman” -—proudly. He inmiedictrfy produces a bundle of Bol-i shevik literature in English, and you are set to reading that literature
You are not given anything el®" to do. Of course, if they would let you do anything •' , being an Englishman you would do it rather than read—play football, lor instance. But the Bolsheviks throw you back on your own mental and intellectual resources to such extent that you begin to want to read their literature. Then you find out the truth about what they are actually doing. They send you about three times a week to the theatre* and let you go about pretty freely so that you can see what is going on.
But now, in view of Hie foregoing, some one may well inquire, “Wherein lies the secret of the wonderful fighting morale of the Red Armv?” And to this question I shall reply by asking 'J inquirer to pay an imaginary v Lit with me to the Tretyakov Art Gallery in Moscow.
Attitude of Red Soldiery
SINCE the subject under consTmak'm is the mental and moral attitude of the itod soldiery towards war, our interest focuses particularly upon those works of art dcpicdng the field of battle. Here then a:'e huge canvasses executed by the greatest of all modern Russian painters, Verestehagim They convey the one message—the utter dreadiuhww of war. Battlefields are depicted in all tlitor ghrsthness and shame. Battles are painted with every horror that accompanies limn. The de:-<>‘al< iim-s and misery of military bnorws eel camping grounds are faithfuhy reproduced. "The Spoils of War’’ is a work or art. but H pertvays but a huge pyramid of Lutwp noil - >.•>(«•» Lieh a number of eairmn cum, & fie pm'iL’d. picking whatever morse’- of decayed J,'‘di rum m.
Wo stand in the gv.tit g.i ■' uy <Lvot< d to the artistic creations of Veie^eLagin, com id -red by some to ho the grimn .-t emit nJlitori t genius of the last century if not ol »1! >\\ Jr is divided
irlo tbrc< eh."pL( rs ?>• • hi. • f y i mom at par-t’tiors. A brm.ze 'm .• .v '.nr: ^.ainter oc-cupj -s a podcG J n< c i t1 e v> un u.T. Opposite the large bung Yi. > tows can
vasses, his proto tn.g \vi <k;- < f mt, '.here the I’ 'nt may g>vc tbmn ew-iy a..v\ nta to.
But it is nut '.lose leiri/v u.,li.tw f.rfi-war masioyp:oces Jone tl ..t impro.- m de pl yon this the oeea-uo । of our firn: vfi ’> to ;to gallery. In front o" them in each of the tincc chambers stands a group of soldiers, mon of the- Rod Army of Soviet Russia. They are without officers; and number perhaps about fifty, all told. They stare with lively ami intelligent interest at '’lie antiwar paintings in all their horror, while an art instructor (there are two men and one woman instructors) delivers to them a graphic lecture ‘■npon the message the picture is intended to convey, together with details concerning its achievement
Each instructor is an enthusiast; enthusiasm Is written on the brow, and the voice vibrates with it He points with delicate finger to the wealth of detail, or lack of it; he explains atmosphere, movement, suggestion, perspective, and every fine point of consummate artistry. Then he takes the ensemble; and his gestures, facial and bodily, change; his voice alters, his eyes flash, and pink leaps to his cheek; he becomes twice as animated and twice as vehement ; and his audience of Red Soldiers is moved to the quick, as the orator points out to it the savagery and futility of war.
The War-Loving Imperialist
AND now I will conclude this article by reproducing the comment of a prominent British writer on the scene just described. He says:
That is the difference between the Russian Communist “militarism” and the class-made, war-glorifying, hatred-organizing, truth-distorting, murder-sanctifying brigandage of Imperialist militarism. The latter seeks to teach with calculating cunning that war is a “hohla calling” and “brings out the best in human nature^ In Russia they teach, abhorrence of war, that it is crud, bloody and futile, and brings out the worst in human nature.
Imperialism deliberately propagates its false doctrines and elevates the ignoble trade of murder into the “noble profession” of warfare, because its whole existence is based upon mean and sordid theft, graft, spoliation and slavery. Its propagandists dare not tell the truth; they must lie and equivocate or their rule could not last a week. Communism does not lie to its people, to its soldiers. Communism teaches its soldiers how to use the weapons of Imperialist militarism, teaches them militarist tactics and discipline, in order that they may the more successfully resist their would-be enslavers and preserve their freedom intact.
And because the soldier of Communism knows the truth about the causes of war he fights the better. His determination is that feo servile army of Imperialist “hired assassins” shall ever succeed in imposing their system of banditry upon him and his fellows, if fighting will prevent it; and his strength, to use Tennyson’s expression, “is as the strength of ten, because his heart is pure.”
An Armenian View of Turkey By David Davidian
THE article on the Turks which appeared recently in The Golden Age was good. Of course if one has lived in Turkey for a while, as I have, there would be added information. The Turks are products of environment, and their reiigion has not hindered them from killing Christians and such as call themselves Christians. But now that the old religion of the Turks is falling to pieces, there is great hope for improvement.
One tiling in the article amused me, and that was the impression which some Americans have that ' e Turks are almost sanctified and “cannot tell a lie”—like the George Washington cherry tree and hatchet myth. If that were really true of the Turks I would be glad—glad to know that they are better than the Armenians, to which race I belong. But my honest opinion, based upon experience and observation, is that when God confounded the language of the people at the tower of Babel, and they spread out in different nationalities, there were excellent liars among all of them.
The darkness resting upon the Armenians is largely due to the influence of the Armenian Catholic Church, which of course gets her supply of “wine” from the chief distributor mentioned in Revelation 17. There is a long history behind the Armenian revolution; and once the revolution began, the massacres were started by the Turks. During the World War Armenians in turn massacred the Turks and devastated towns and cities; and, all being under their father the Devil, we could not expect anything else.
Another point is, the Turks have found out that the European civilized diplomats axe great liars; and for that reason they have no respect for them. Furthermore, for years “Christian” missionaries have hypocritically patted the Turks on the back to save their own necks dur-ingthe massacres. All that any Armenian had to do was to turn Turk, or solemnly pretend to do so. Thousands refused. Many were tortured in indescribable ways. When the Turks would massacre a town during the war they would tell the people to get ready and they would be sent to America, Then the Armenians would he taken out a distance, the Turks would pick out the beautiful girls for themselves, and massacre the rest right before the eyes of the people.
I believe that Europe is responsible for these massacres. 1 certainly believe that the Turks have* bfeen overrun and mistreated by European powers. I lived in Smyrna. There the Europeans came in and established English, German and French post-offices, and generally helped themselves. Now Wilson’s “self-determination” idea is working there, and no one can blame the Turks for finally awakening to their rights aS a people. In due time they will be just as honorable as the English, and the Armenian must shake hands with the Turk. When the Armenian clergy have passed away, then the people will see the light.
Who Believes in War? Who Wants War? By Lydia G. Wentworth
WIIF.ilE is the woman who believes in war?
Where is the man who will say that he uv n ts war ?
'Where is the woman who will declare that she approves Avar as good or righteous? Wdiere is the man who will venture outspoken approval?
Probably some one will say that war is a necessary evil. That thoughtless, ignorant remark has been made countless times.
Are evils necessary? Is any kind of evil necessary? If so, what kind? Is Avar to be an exception as the one and only evil that must be endured?
If so, Avhat is the reason for this exception? Why are Ave forced to submit to that particular fwil? And A\hy must Ave continue to submit to an eATil so dreaded?
“War is the blackest, least excusable, most damnable crime against mankind and God Almighty,” says the American Leyton Magazine.
Shall Ave, the people, remain passive and submit meekly to the most far-reaching and stupendous evil in the Avorld, the blackest crime that can be instituted?
War is an established custom. It AAras begun and practised ages ago when mankind Avas in a savage state. Is that a reason for nations .who claim civilization to practise it?
War has descended to us from savagery. Shall we, who claim civilization, continue to pattern our customs and practices by savage eustoms and practices? Can’t we improve on ignorance and savagery ?
Let us see. We have already abolished certain established eustoms which Ave recognized as evils. One was piracy. Another was dueling. ’Another slavery. We need only to arouse people ir' +kr> incalculable evil of war, to make up our minds that Ave Avant no more of it, and then it can be abolished vitlioM difficulty.
"War is the greatest of all evils-—therefore all the more reason that it should be abolished.
AVar is futile. It never settled anything that could not have been settled better by reasonable means in a manner consistent with eiA’ilization.
W’ar is senseless. Even the victorious side pays penalties in many Avays as great as the vanquished.
T challenge any person to state any reason or cause which will serve as sufficient or adequate ground for declaration of war by one nation to another in these days.
Causes of Avar are disputes and should be settled by arbitration or legal procedure. W hat are some of the causes of Avar as represented to the public?
First: Circumstances or events that involve national honor.
WTierein does killing by wholesale—the massacre of millions of the enemy and perhaps as many of your oavh people—the bombing of villages, towns and cities—retrieve or avenge or maintain the honor of any nation? Does it not drag honor in the mire? Is honor more likely to be maintained by persons “seeing red” or by the calm and deliberative procedure of arbitration by the best minds among a nation’s people ?
Second: Circumstances or conditions involving vital interests.
Wherein are vital interests furthered or maintained by collective homicide, the sacrifice of millions of persons innocent of wrong doing or thought toward each other? Does it not seem reasonable to assume that the vital interests of any nation would be far better sustained by peaceable procedures ensuring the preservation of property rather than by’destructive methods?
Third; The preservation of rights in a foreign country.
Again I ask: Wherein does the extermination of legions of lives—the greatest possible number of opponents that can be killed—maintain with justice the rights of any foreigners in a land other than their own ? If the laws or practices of any land do not suit, let foreigners keep away. We claim the right to make laws to suit ourselres. We must grant that same right to every other country. Why should any country dare to claim the right to interfere with or dictate the laws of another?
There are causes of war which are not publicly announced but 'which are falsely represented as national honor, vital interests, et cetera. To misrepresent these to the people of any country by false propaganda is the most gigantic betrayal, the most colossal wrong, that can be perpetrated upon a people.
That is -what was done in every country before the World War; for, as Lord Robert Cecil has said: "If the situation had been known to the world no nation could have forced its people to fight."
It is for the people to see to it that they are not deceived and betrayed again. It is for the people to refuse to believe war propaganda— however specious it may be—and to demand the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Then the war-mongers will have no chance to ply their trade. War persists solely because people have been brought up to believe in its necessity; and this atrocious, antiquated and absurd falsity keeps the world in darkness on this point, obscuring the light of truth. War is a left-over product of savagery.
Wl;o will try to think up a reason or cause that is sufficient in these days for entering upon an orgy of slaughter of millions of military forces, accompanied by the destruction of noncombatants in villages, towns and cities by bombs and poison gases?
Wlio, wishing to maintain and preserve his country’s honor and dignity on the high plane which such qualities deserve, will state an adequate cause for warfare in these enlightened days ?
The Lion Farm
READERS of The Golden Age will doubtless be interested to know that there is a lion farm—the only one in all the world—located two miles east of El Monte, which is about twenty miles east of Los Angeles, that southern California metropolis of a million and a half popuLition.
'Tins lion farm is reached from the big city via the \ alley Boulevard Drive, and is easily found at its right hand by a massive crouching lion image at its entrance. The admission fee is idly cents per person; and the number of lions, ranging from a few days to seventeen years of age, totals 92—- all of the large black mane African variety.
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