Golden Age, November 2, 1927
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Contents of the Golden Age
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Social and Educational
Entertaining Our Friends » • 73
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Finance—Commerce—Transportation
Single Tax Theory Proven Correct . ♦ . .......«
Political—Domestic and Foreign
Senator Heflin on War with Mexico ........... 67
“Around this Earthly Ball” ............*
Disappearances of Newspapers
D’Annunzio Looking for-Trouble
Origin of the Balfour Declaration .......... .
Items of Interest from Great Britain . .
News from Our Canadian Correspondent ...
Central America Wants Free S'peech
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Agriculture and Husbandry
Good Bye, Sweet Corn!
-JThat Texas Scandal
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Science and Invention
New Zealand Afflicted with Goitre
Persecution in Free America
Mobe about Bayberry Bark .
■ Travel and Miscellany What is the Matter with This?.....
Wied Elephants Stop Fike .......,
Earthquakes in Palestine.........
- Religion and Philosophy
Astrology is the Bunk..........
Papal Passports Now Recognized ...... Why the Churches Lose ......... Kingdom Rule .............
Plenty for All.............
Deliverer is Divine ...........
The Nature of Jesus...........
A Good Woman’s Prayer Answered . . . . . Little Studies fob Little People ......
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Volume IX
Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, November 2, 1927
Number 212
Senator Heflin on War with Mexico
Senator Heflin of Alabama is worthy of „ special note at this time as a statesman who I dares to tell the truth on unpleasant subjects, and who, probably more than any other man, has exercised a preponderating influence in keeping the United States out of a war, a whol-L ly unjust Avar, against Mexico. From various of his speeches, extending over January, Feb-■ ruary and March, 1927, we present brief ex-• tracts. Some of the extracts are from other ; original sources, but Quoted by Senator Heflin. 5 Senator Heflin’s exposures may be said to be-i gin with what was intended to be a declaration [ of Avar, presented March 11, 1926. Of this he I
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I When it was thought that the time was ripe, on March 11, Representative Boylan, a loyal son of the y church, from Romish-Tammaliy-ruled New York City, |: introduced a resolution in Congress as follows: Resolved f by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, i That it is the sense of Congress that the President should forthwith withdraw diplomatic recognition of the Gov-' eminent of Mexico until such time as the policies and ' conduct of the said Government in relation to educational and religious institutions of all creeds and nationalities justify a resumption of relations.
It seems that the original plan was to get this
declaration of war through without any publicity, at least until it was too late. Contrary to all legislative precedent, not only were the hearings oh the resolution all monopolized by Roman Catholics in favor of war, but the proceedings were in secret and were kept from publication. Senator Heflin laid this wide open, and
referring to his exposures said to the Senate later that he had called their attention to <
» A secret, behind-closed-door proceeding hatching out I a war in a Republican committee room and none of !' the proceedings published, everything kept hidden; the | Knights of Columbus flooding the country with their F
pamphlets and just ready to sound the call to arms when we stopped them by our righteous protest in the open Senate! Senators, you know that is true.
As soon as he began to make his exposures, Senator Heflin noted that hardly a paper in the country had either the honesty or the courage to tell what he had revealed; but that for the most part they lied, and twisted and distorted everything he had said, concealing the important truths and feeding the public on Jesuit swill, as is their almost universal custom.
Handmaids of Hypocrisy
Senator Heflin paid his respects to the Baltimore Sun as follows:
The next paper to which I wish to pay my respects is the Baltimore Sun, which is controlled by this Roman Catholic hierarchy. Here is an article in the Sun about \ a column and a half in length: and I charge that this Roman Catholic-controlled sheet purposely refused to tell the truth contained in my speech of yesterday. The burden of my speech, the main point running through it, was that this resolution to sever diplomatic relations with Mexico was introduced in the House by a Roman Catholic Congressman from New York, and that at the hearings only Roman Catholics were heard, and that the telegrams and the letters and the resolutions offered in support of it were all from Roman Catholics, and that the thing they mention and complain about is Roman Catholic persecution in Mexico and attacks on the Roman Catholic church in Mexico: and not one of these lying sheets that have gone out from this capital, so far' as I have yet seen, has given that point to the American people. They have purposely kept it from them.
Noting the same yellow streak in the NeAV York Times that Bible Students have often.
noticed there, the senator gave them one in passing:
Why will not these papers tell the truth? What influence is it that will prevent a paper like the New York 67
Times from telling the truth? What will make that paper truckle, dodge, evade and become the tool of this insidious power? And yet its representatives are here. Mr. President, the people will have to arrange a different situation with regard to getting the truth to the country from the press gallery at the Capitol. This influence is too strong up there. There are some men up there who are honest and who are brave, but some of them can not write what they want to write. This insidious power is reaching its hands into every nook and corner of the country, and scores and scores of papers are not permitted to tell the truth about what takes place here. Senators, that is a very serious situation. Why did not the New York Times say that “Senator Heflin showed by the facts that this was a Boman Catholic movement” ? •
Concerning the press as a whole he put his hand on a great truth when he said:
The refusal of newspapers to print my speeches is another part of the Knights of Columbus program to pull off a war without letting the people know the truth about it.
He did not like the Jesuit way of peddling out state secrets by one Roman Catholic to another, the real betrayal of the country as a whole for the benefit of an aged anarchistic political association which has masqueraded for centuries as a church. A church indeed, but of the Devil. Senator Heflin's item and he said:
curiosity was aroused on an
I observed in the press this morning a statement that we have just sent a very important note to Mexico, an exceedingly important note; but nobody could find out what it was about. Nobody over there would give it out; nobody here would tell the contents of the note, which brings me to remark again that the Chicago correspondent, under the Romish influence, who made his report to a Chicago newspaper from Mexico on the 8th of August last year, giving in minute detail the information contained in notes which had gone from this government to Mexico and from Mexico to this government, shows that he was on the inside and got information which he had no business getting, information which belonged alone to this government and the government of Mexico.
Threats to Murder
ANY man in public life who dares to expose the deviltry of the Roman Catholic system is in imminent danger of being murdered, stabbed in the back. Senator Heflin received numerous anonymous letters threatening to kill him; and one priest wrote his church paper advising somebody to do the job, and they published the letter. So the senator passed out the following:
The intemperate and vicious attacks made upon me by the Roman Catholic press and Roman Catholic priests for exposing the miserable Mexican-war scheme of the Knights of Columbus have convinced me of two things: First, that they are the"most narrow-minded, intolerant, bigoted people in the United States; and second, that they pi ace their allegiance to the Roman Catholic hierarchy above their allegiance to the United States. . . . Their attitude in this matter shows that they are in no sense governed by the spirit of justice and fair play; that the welfare of this country is not the thing uppermost in their minds; that they would, if they had the power, deny to me or to any other American senator the right -to stand here and discuss and expose the efforts of certain Roman Catholics to involve the United States in war. They have misrepresented and slandered me in the Catholic press and in near-Catholic papers which they control; and here in the twentieth century, in free America, a Roman Catholic priest in the Senate gallery hissed me while I was speaking in the Senate of the United States. Couple that, if you please, with the star chamber proceeding in the House, committee, the hearings of which were never printed, with the threats to take my life that have emanated from Roman Catholics. . . .
It was a Roman Catholic that shot Roosevelt in the 1912 presidential campaign. Taft was a candidate. Taft had appointed to the Supreme Court bench, as Chief Justice, an able man from the South, a Roman Catholic. He had appointed him Chief Justice of the United States, and had greatly pleased the Roman Catholics. Taft was a candidate for reelection, and Roosevelt was a formidable candidate, and the bullet of a Boman Catholic gun brought him down, but it did not kill him. Roosevelt had offended the Roman Catholic hierarchy. He told Archie Butt, who was associated with him at the White House, that the Roman Catholic church was out of place in the United States; that it could not grow here; that it was not in harmony with American institutions; that it could grow only by immigration; and in the campaign against Taft he paid for his utterance by being shot by a Roman Catholic.
Hypocritical Cries of Persecution
THE senator has compassion in his heart for the poor peons of Mexico under the intolerable burden of a hoggish priestcraft and says, of them:
They have been oppressed so long and kept in ignorance and darkness so long that they will not plant their crops, they will not plow the ground, they will not hit a lick of farm work until the Roman Catholic priest comes to every fellow's farm and pronounces a blessing on the ground that is to be planted. Until that is done, they believe that it will not produce; and the Indians go out and toil in various ways to get money to pay the
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lie thinks those who are yelping for toleration for the Church of Rome are putting their ' breath to a bad use; for r ■ ■
-/ . The policy of Rome can be summed up in a single T Sentence. The Roman Catholic church demands tolerance jp every country where it cannot absolutely control the </government of that country, but it has practised intol-erance in every counry where it has ever had control... .
The cry that there is religious intolerance in Mexico Ms raised only by those who have always upheld-and |£l ractised religious intolerance throughout the world ^whenever able to enforce their will; and who are fighting the Mexican government today in order to regain control of the country; and who, should they secure control as before, would prohibit the recognition of any other religion except Romanism, just as is done in Austria and Poland today. . . .
I For over 350 years the Mexican people lived under the practically unrestrained domination of Roman Catholicism, supported by the Spanish court. The Romish church had it within its power to write the history of Mexico as it would, and in fact did write it. The church Jiad the opportunity to show what it could do with a ‘ good native stock in a country with unlimited natural resources. It could have taught the Indians to read and write, to build comfortable, clean, sanitary houses. It could have preached the gospel of truth, honesty, chastity, and set an example of high moral character.
What did it do? It did build great and beautiful cathedrals and lavished millions of dollars in the decoration of them and upon the shrines, images, altars and vestments therein. It did multiply costly churches throughout the country, in some sections building one on each great estate, the money for all this work being extorted in devious ways from the poor, superstitious people, who frequently spent their entire earnings for masses, baptisms, marriages and other charges made by the priesthood, these extortions leaving the people hope-J^ssly in debt.
^The church did develop over 1,000 parishes with over 20,000 ecclesiastics of various grades. It did receive or exact large gifts and bequests from those eager to receive absolution from their sins in order to escape purgatory, and from miserable, terrified, superstitious, dying wretches who hoped to purchase a chance for the eternal safety of their souls by making the church heir to their earthly treasures. X
It did accumulate such a vast?amount of property that in the official report of the government about 1859, it was conservatively estimated that the church owned either directly or controlled indirectly over one-third of the material assets of the country in lands, houses, mortgages, etc., so that in some cities it was held that the
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Yet with all this great wealth of the church the masses pf the people lived in poverty, miserably housed, half fed, and half clothed; and while there were some good schools for the favored few, not over one percent of the people could read and write in 1810, the year in which the native-born Mexican priest Hidalgo raised the standard of independence for Mexico, of freedom from Spanish Roman Catholic rule. ...
The church hierarchy was Spanish to the core until the independence of Mexico in 1820. The native priesthood with rare exceptions was given little ccfasideration by the ranking church authorities. There was a constant drain of money from the poor natives of Mexico to the Vatican treasury. 'Millions upon millions of pesos which should have been spent by the church upon the poor ■Mexicans were sent yearly out of the country. These influential, dominating foreign priests were, as President Calles has said, the traditional enemy of the republic.
At Length Came the Revolution
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Oenator Heflin does not forget that America is a country that gained its freedom by a revolution. He sees no wrong done by Mexico when it expropriated for the needs of the people what had been wrung from them by crooked ecclesiastical politicians:
It was truthfully declared that the property accumulated by the church had been accumulated improperly from the people; and that as the church claims to exist only for the good of the people to minister, to them in spiritual things and to carry on works of charity, and certainly not for the purpose of accumulating property, all buildings and lands not needed for church purposes should be restored to the government to be applied to the needs of the people.
When the revolution had actually occurred, and for now seventy years subsequently, it has been true that
The clergy systematically opposed the government, were hostile to religious toleration, to freedom of thought, and to a free expression of the press. They objected strenuously to equality before the law; they made war against civil marriages and registrations; they opposed foreign colonization and public or any other education unless it was wholly under ecclesiastical control. They demanded every aid and support from the laws and the government, and yet disallowed all subjection or responsibility to them.
.4s to the Oil Patriots
AS TO those Roman Catholic oil patriots, Doheny and others, Senator Heflin delivered himself of the following:
Why should our government permit itself to be driven or lured into a foreign war to protect the oil properties of Doheny, a corruptionist, branded by the United States Supreme Court as a criminal; and there he stands convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors at the judgment bar .of public opinion? On yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a unanimous decision in the oil-fraud cases, branded him as a fraud, corruptionist, and criminal. He owns a good large portion of the oil lands in Mexico.
Sinclair, who is under indictment in this city, who has defied the United States Senate and refused to answer its questions regarding the fraudulent oil leases, is another one of those who own oil property in Mexico; and he and Doheny are holding out and refusing to com-ply with the oil laws of the Republic of Mexico. They are hoping that the United States army will go, over to Mexico and protect their property.
Nobody asked Doheny and his pals to go into Mexico in the first place; and, according to Senator Heflin, and it seems reasonable, if they do not like the way they are treated they can come back home as honored citizens, even though their proper place is in prison, as the facts show:
Without even giving notice to the government that they were going off on this adventurous journey, they went into Mexico, knowing the situation was dangerous, in the midst of insurrection and revolution, and on their own risks made their investments in oil lands; and now they are crying to the American government to send its army to protect property thus acquired in a foreign country. I am not in favor of sacrificing the lives of American boys for such a purpose.
Nicaragua the Way into Mexico
Senator Heflin is convinced that the private war now being waged on behalf of Wall Street and the Roman Hierarchy against the people of Nicaragua, and in violation of the Constitution of the United States, is being undertaken as the opening wedge for a war with Mexico. As everybody knows, Mexico is backing the legal president of Nicaragua, Sacasa; and those who are carrying on the private war are backing the pope's favorite, Diaz. Hence the friction:
Already armed ships and soldiers have been sent to Nicaragua. Nicaragua is not the object in view. Mexico ! Mexico! That is the excuse to go down there and get into that. Those who are agitating for interference in Nicaragua know what it means, that it means war with Mexico ultimately. ...
.What really is at the bottom of it all? Nicaragua bonds bought by the gamblers of Wall Street. They boughtfor.a small sum; for less than forty-five
i $ in Nicaragua we are told; and when
thife government calls out its soldiers and goes in and takes charge they enhance in value to 100 cents on the dollar and Wall Street claps its hands for joy. ...
The man who, under the constitution of Nicaragua, is entitled to be president has been driven from his office by force. This man Diaz is a usurper; he is a tyrant; and yet, strange to say, this government has recognized him; and now comes Great Britain with a battleship to back up certain people in the United States, and saying that she, too, may recognize Diaz. Listen I I repeat, He is a Roman Catholic. There in Nicaragua is where the entering wedge is to be driven to start a war with Mexico.
The present British ambassador, Mr. Howard, is a. Roman Catholic. It is the first time that England, 'Protestant England, so far as I know, ever sent a Roman Catholic ambassador to represent her at the capital of the United States. Something strange, and something new under the sun. So Great Britain, broken and torn with dissentions of various kinds since the deflation policy which, with this country, she instituted in 1920 and 1921, has been driven to the extreme of having one high in the esteem of the pope as an ambassador to tha United States government at Washington at this particular time.
Buried in Unhallowed Ground 1DURIED in unhallowed ground the remains of two hundred men and women who were put to death during the inquisition have just been discovered in Mexico. These men and women were tortured, imprisoned and executed because they dared to use their brains; and there are people in the United States who would be glad to see that system established here in the land of the free and the home orf the brave if only they knew how to go about it.
Ambassadors and Ministers to Rome A J
COUNTRIES maintaining ambassadors to the Vatican are Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Peru, Poland and Spain. Countries maintaining ministers to the Vatican are Argentina, Austria, Bavaria, Bolivia, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Haiti, Hungary,
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Nicaragua, Portugal, Rumania, Jugoslavia, and Venezuela. The Vatican maintains nuncios in Central America, Holland, Latvia, Luxemburg, Paraguay, and Switzerland. Also, they think they have one at Washington; but no president has yet recognized him, although he has been there thirty years.
“Around This Earthly Ball”
[News items radiocast from Watchtower WBBR by the Editor.]
Liquor in Palestine
UNDER the British mandate every important railway station in Palestine sells wine, and sometimes other liquors. Of the 300 liquor licenses in Jerusalem 299 are held by so-called Christians, one by a Moslem, and none by the Jews. ‘
Astrology Is the Bunk
THE Astrologers’ Guild of New York, called on to make a specific forecast for the weather of the thirty-one days of August, did Wso and have proven to everybody, perhaps even to themselves, that there is nothing but bunk in astrology. Only six of the predictions .came out right, which shows that when it comes to guessing weather the Weather Bureau has it all
over the star-gazers.
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Rice Grass Protects British Shores
RICE grass, which first made its appearance in Britain sixty years ago, is being found of real value. Planted in the mud, it has the quality of attracting more mud, and thus of building up a coast which has been sinking. Considerable areas have already been reclaimed from the sea by this means, and Holland and Tasmania are now using the grass for the same purpose.
Tree Planting in Western Canada
DURING the past year Western Canada has planted eight million trees; ash, maple, Russian poplar and Russian willow. Reports on previous plantings show that only six and one-half percent of the trees do not live, while about three-fourths of them are in flourishing condition. The effect of tree planting on the mind ^of the settler is a good one. Trees give a sense *of permanence.
All Christians in Four Generations
r. Newell Dwight Hillis, who during the World War proposed the absolute annihila-
k tion of the German people, and said of them that they had no more relation to the civilization of 1918 than an orang-outang, a gorilla, a Judas or a hyena, now says that in four generations Christianity will be the religion of the entire world. One wonders which kind of Christianity, whether that of Doctor Hillis or of the German people or just the plain garden variety.
Papal Passports Now Recognized
^DIPLOMATICALLY speaking, the Vatican U got a fresh start during the World War. One of the things then obtained was the right to issue passports/ which are now recognized as valid in every country in the world, even in the United States and in Italy, which latter country has been theoretically at war with the Vatican for now some fiftv-seven years.
What Are the Greater Enterprises?
THE Italian fleet recently rode into the harbor of Ostia and cast anchor. The Bishop of Ostia, who is also a Cardinal, rode past the fleet and solemnly blessed each individual warship. He then boarded the flagship, where, after greeting the officers, he explained that hereafter their ships will all have the divine blessing, especially in connection with “yet greater enterprises in this sea of Rome”. What these greater enterprises are he did not say, and we can only surmise.
Methodist Sinners Come High
IN THE year 1926 the Methodist church, at a cost of $100,000,000 took a net bag of 23,000 converts. According to this it cost about $4,350 to get each soul far enough along so that he became a Methodist. But then there are some people who claim that when a man gets to be a church member he is farther from being saved than he was when he started; for often then he is nothing but a hypocrite, and there is nothing so displeasing as a hypocrite in the sight of both God and man. Looks as if the $4,350 was a bad investment, and they had better give it up.
Why the Churches Lose
VOICING his opinion as to why the churches are losing 500,000 members a year, the editor of the Akron Beacon Journal, reputed to be a millionaire, unburdens himself in the following picturesque language:
We may be a heathen; but there has never been a religion so sweet and lofty as that of the Gentle Naza-rene; and it is with profound sorrow that one watches the parson politician and the professional uplifter by force reduce the church to a trade, or a nuisance which if continued will wreck it. The powerful appeal that the church once had even for most of us sinners has taken unto itself the wings of the morning and has flown to the innermost parts of hell.
Forty-Six Miles from New York
T|Y)RTY-SIX miles from New York is the town of Seabright, N. J., to which, recently, a law-abiding, peaceable Negro came from a southern community where lynchings were too frequent. But the southern lynchers wrote on, to fellow lynchers in Seabright; the latter threatened the poor Negro until they drove him violently insane; and now he is locked up, deprived of his liberty and his happiness for life. All this within forty-six miles of New York!
Eastern Capital at Kilby Prison
EASTERN capital at Kilby Prison, Alabama, operates the shirt factory. The men in the shirt factory work eleven hours daily, six a. m. to six p. m., with an hour’s intermission from twelve to one. If they do not produce the required number of shirts, the lash is used after supper. It would be nice to know what churches are attended by the gentlemen who are chiefly interested in the output of the Kilby prison shirt shop. They must be nice churches.
Disappearances of Newspapers
FORTY-NINE newspapers disappeared in the * first six months of 1927, which rate of decrease, if it continued at the same pace, would remove all dailies from the field in twenty years. The newspapers are getting more and more under the absolute control of the few moneyed men that are directing everything in the United States. Does it seem like a healthful thing to have the people know only such things and in such ways as the moneybags see fit?
Ontario’s Hydru Surplus
OF THE 249 municipalities supplied with power by the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission, only 25, in 1926, were charged with a total theoretical loss of $19,676, while the remaining 224 piled up a surplus of $1,196,864.45.
To see how happy the Canadian newspapers and Canadian people are over the splendid financial condition of their hydro utilities is enough to make glad the heart of any honest person.
And when the same person reflects that in the United States the policy is to get everything into the hands of those few men whose past history shows that they cannot be trusted, it is enough to make him sick.
Ship to Home Phoning Near -
IN AN address before the Kiwanis Club at
Oakland, California, G. Harold Porter, western manager of the Radio Corporation of Amer- ' ica, said that in the near future it will be as easy to telephone from a ship to your own home as it ; is to telephone from your office to your house. Moreover, he also said that transmission of facsimile messages, which has been in use in France for three years, will soon be a common thing in America.
D’Annunzio Looking for Trouble
THE Italian poet D’Annunzio, who against all ~ rules and laws of the League of Nations and even his own land seized and held Fiume for Italy, has now arisen in his might and declared war on Turkey. His declaration of war makes interesting reading. He wants the noble sons of noble Romans to drive out the bloody Turks who have been living for five hundred years in what was once a Roman province. Better watch this fire-eating poet! He may mean business.
Germany's New Steel
A N ITEM in the German papers records the invention of a new steel eight times as hard as anything heretofore produced. The new steel, which has been developed at the Krupp plant in Essen, is so hard, that if cannot be cut by the hardest file. It would seem as if this steel is destined to have a great future, and may revolutionize the steel industry. Germany is looking to American capitalists for sufficient money to finance many important inventions, of which this is one.
The Mayor of Bury St. Edmunds
THE mayor of Bury St. Edmunds recently J-died in England. His will contained the following; “I am profoundly convinced that the present-day religious beliefs and teaching and preaching are not only erroneous and in fact . pernicious, but a blasphemy upon the name of the Great Architect of the Universe, void of trust and calculated to lead children especially astray; and hence the abominable practice of making them undertake solemn confirmation vows, the nature of which not only they, but the" dastardly priests who promulgate them, are in * absolute ignorance of, and never live up to, I cannot countenance.” ’
Nett Zealand Afflicted with Goitre
MEDICAL men say that broadly speaking, except for Taranaki and the Auckland province north of Mercer, all New Zealand is goitre-bearing in varying degrees. At the Girls’ High School at Canterbury, after seven years of preventive treatment, the percentage of girls with goitre had been reduced only three percent and is even now eighty-nine percent. Conditions in Switzerland are even worse. Minute quantities of iodine in the table salt used constitute the necessary preventive. Goitre in females leads to imbecility in children.
Vast Park Projects Under Way
IN TWO years, if present plans do not miscarry, Chicago will have at Lincoln Park the greatest recreational center in the world. This playground of 400 acres is almost entirely on made land. New York is following with a great new park which will extend from Riverside , Drive to the Hudson River itself. In the new park the New York Central freight tracks will J)e covered and made into a new highway for pleasure vehicles. All interfering garbage dumps, coal pockets, piers and other unsightly structures will be removed, and a promenade for pedestrians will be built at the water’s edge.
Earthquakes in Palestine
IN THE days of Uzziah an earthquake occurred which was so severe that a mountain to the west of Jerusalem was split in half, and one of the parts was thrown half a mile from its original position. An earthquake in Judea, 31 B. C., caused the death of 30,000 persons; and in 1837 an earthquake occurred in Judea, in which 4,000 lost their lives. So the recent earthquake ^ in Palestine is not a phenomenon peculiar to our times. But an interesting thing in connection with the recent quake is that the Jews seem to have been peculiarly spared in it. At Ramlah a Jewish and an Arab family occupied each one-half of a double house. The Arab house was " totally destroyed; the Jewish half remained uninjured. A Jewish baby left in a cradle was found uninjured with heavy stones lying all about it. A Jewish scholar got out of his chair to look at a work of reference in his bookcase; and while he was gone, his chair was crushed by t file stones that fell. The Arabs have been much impressed by numerous similar occurrences.
Origin of the Balfour Declaration
THE origin of the Balfour declaration that the Jews shall have Palestine is said to be that during the World War Dr. Chaim Weizmann i made a chemical discovery which was of great f benefit to the British government. Asked to set a price, he refused all monetary considerations, but repeated effectively his many times expressed earnest desire that the Jews be given their own land. This shows how easy it is for the Lord to raise up whom He will as He will to accomplish what He will. Dr. Weizmann has been a Zionist since the age of ten years.
Insult’s Interest in Smith
IT SEEMS that when Frank L. Smith of Illinois wanted to run for the position of United States senator from that state Samuel Insull, multimillionaire public utilities operator of Chicago, head of the Commonwealth Edison Company, gave him a check for $190,000 to help along the cause. » _
Now the question is, Suppose Smith, as a statesman, should conceive it to be to the interest "of the people of Illinois as a whole to let them have something that the Commonweath Edison Company wanted and had determined to have, hook or crook, how vigorously will Smith fight for the plain people; and how vigorously will he fight against the Edison company?
Persecution in Free America
ANYBODY that has ever had treatments for spinal adjustments, and there are now millions of such people in the United States, will be interested to know that the great state of New York has put its O. K. on the arrest and imprisonment for three months of Clement A. Clarke, of 540 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, a chiropractor. The American Medical Association ought to be heartily ashamed of any responsibility they may have for such a stupid and vicious state of affairs, and they are generally believed to be at the bottom of the persecution. We do not call it prosecution. It is persecution, arid in the same general line as witch-burning. When doctors themselves admit that there is no such thing as medical science and that humanity would be better off if all their drugs were sunk in the bottom of the ocean, they are in mighty small and mighty mean business jailing men better than themselves who are successfully using means to help suffering humanity.
Single Tax Theory Proven Correct
WITHOUT ever doing a thing to justify their existence the Trinity Corporation, the Astors and others have become fabulously wealthy by the natural increase in values of their New York City property. The industry of all New York and of all America has gone to help swell their already immensely swollen fortunes.
The bank-owned press thinks that this is a perfect scheme of things. It keeps the bulk of the people poor, and centers the money in the hands of a few. Well! It would be a perfect thing for a colony of idiots, but for people that think it is about the worst arrangement there is.
The people of Australia are not going to have this duplicated at their new capital, Canberra. In that city no one can own any land. It all belongs to the people. Individuals can rent lots on favorable terms, and that is quite right. But the increase in values goes to the people as a whole, and that is also right.
Henry George wal^.thre champion in America of the single tax theory. He saw the wealth in the cities and in the country falling into the hands of a powerful few. He conceived the correct idea, that the people as a whole should possess the land and let those rent it who can and will use it,-and let them pay a fair rental therefor.
For thirty-three years the single tax theory has been operative at Fairhope, Alabama. A handful of brave men bought a tract of seventy acres of timberland there at that time. Today the Fairhope community holds 4,000 acres of land. It has its own wharf, its own paved streets, water system, public library, auditoriumtelephone system, and $7,613 cash in the bank,' and is a thriving young city of beautiful homes.
The man who holds land idle or poorly improved in Fairhope pays the same rent to the colony as the man holding an adjoining lot who makes a fine improvement on his land. Rents are for ninety-nine years. }The community pays all federal, state and other ta^es which usually fall on the individual.
Good Bye, Sweet Corn!
IN THE Farm Journal for May Arthur J.
Mason presents evidence which convinces us that America must stop growing corn. Just now the government is spending $10,000,000 to prevent the corn-borer from spreading over the Western states, and is doing what Mr. Mason shows us is just the thing*that ought to be done. And it looks as if wheat would have to go, too.
The pith of the matter is soil erosion. Fifty crops have taken four inches of the best soil from the Mississippi Valley and deposited it in the Gulf of Mexico. Terraces in the Philippines and China show the desperate efforts of the people to save some of the soil before it is all washed away. Persia is a country from which almost all of the soil has been removed. _
About 30,000 farmers in the United States have already abandoned 16,597 square miles of farm land in this country, which is an area equal to the entire cultivated area of England. In another century, at the present rate of the washing away of the soil, even Illinois will become an unproductive waste.
Mr. Mason calls attention to the fact that the choice parent stock of domestic animals always comes from countries where corn is unknown. He says: “Herefords, Shorthorns, Jerseys, Holstein ; sheep; horses, both light and heavy: poultry, excluding the turkey, all come from comless places.” It certainly looks as if the advent of the corn-borer is a boon from heaven.
His remedy, and it will do much to save the Mississippi Valley from such horrible floods as devastated it in the spring of 1927, is to abandon corn and turn to alfalfa and other sod-making crops. This seems to us like the soundest of sound advice. Corn and probably wheat, too, must go.
Very evidently the human family is due for some surprising lessons on the subject of the preservation of soils, the prevention of floods, and especially on the selection of human foods, as well as the quantity necessary. We are convinced that the perfect man will not eat a tenth as much as the average man now packs away. Now and then we hear of a six-footer who does very well on one meal a day, and that a very small one. How little we know!
Items of Interest from Great Britain
■ELECTRIC current is sold by the municipality of the City of London for one-half the x price charged by private makers of electricity in the same neighborhood.
- In the year 1925-26 the British press got its telegrams carried for £84,000; but if it had had to pay the same prices as the rest of the British pul)lic have to pay, the cost would have been over £500,000.
Bananas from Jamaica for which the growers receive 2 shillings per stem are sold in London ipr 12 shillings. Apples for which the British Columbia grower receives but1 J penny per pound are sold in London for 8 pence.
The British Government has already expend-$3. about £400,000,000 on the Government of Irak. This may not improperly be described as an oil investment: but the oil, when it is ob-talned, will belong not to the Government that paid the bill, but to the Oil Kings.
Of every £75 spent by the National Exchequer £61 go in payment for wars, past and future. In four years £1,000,000,000 were spent on armaments.
The state-owned railways of India yielded a net profit for 1925-26 of £6,500,000 of which £4,000,000 went to the relief of taxation in India.
For cancelling stamps the British Postmaster General has bought some machines made in America which stamp the letters with the words, “Buy British goods.” This amuses British Socialists.
The British Government has bought vacant ground in Glasgow which was rated by its owners as worth £1 per annum, but which, when sold to the Government, brought the owners £3,125. At Shettleston land which the owners valued for taxation purposes at only £133 was sold to the Government for £10,425.
Entertaining Our Friends (Contributed)
ONE of the most beautiful graces is hospitality. To be genuinely hospitable and a good entertainer requires skill of a high order.
The good host and hostess put their guests at ease and make them feel at home, not like “company”, and the good entertainer directs conversation in ways that are pleasant and helpful.
Many who are truly hospitable, who love to receive guests and make them welcome, do not prove to be good entertainers.
Many times have we seen guests, or had guests, who insisted on entertaining the company by relating shortcomings of others. An Distance in mind is that of a man and his wife, poth socially inclined, who often gave “dinners” Io their friends. The host was a liberal prouder, and the hostess a lady who knew how to prepare a very excellent meal and serve it well; but she would almost invariably spoil the dinner by spending the time of its serving in relating circumstances in which her husband was made to appear ridiculous or inconsistent. She would tell them laughingly; and all, including her husband, would laugh with her; but the laugh was often strained and embarrassing.
Long years ago she and her husband separated themselves by many miles. So far as known to the writer, neither has ever remarried; but the lady says he was as good to her as a man could be, but she did not have a bit of sense, and drove him from her. “Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from troubles.”—Proverbs 21:23.
There are otherwise very sweet, beautiful and lovable women with whom one can almost never spend a social evening without hearing, sometimes quite at length, of husband’s failings. He seems to entirely forget the nice little politenesses, Thank you, Please, etc. He is so thoughtless (Can she be thoughtless in her choice of conversation?), never seems to think how annoying it is to -wife to keep a meal waiting. He is dreamy and absent-minded, and gets himself and his wife into so many embarrassing situations.
This habit of semi-public faultfinding, sad to say, is sometimes indulged in among ardent lovers of the Bible, and in regard to work for the Lord, husband being a public speaker or teacher. * He uses awkward expressions or gestures. He talks too long or the talk is dry. There is this fault or that. If looking for faults, of course we can always find them.
I am not pleading for the husband, but for the wife, who is cultivating in herself a very unpleasant spirit of faultfinding, and for the children; for the conversation is often in the presence of the children, and is a bad example to set before them.
Kindly criticism is good and helpful and, given privately, I am sure would generally be thankfully received. Yet the work is to the Lord and not to our friends, and the same criticism should not be too often given even in private as if she were trying to make him serve in her way. If the Lord had wanted the work done in her way He could easily arrange that she do it. “If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.”—James 1:26.
Of course there are faults; but has the complaining one none? Would you like all your little faults or lack of polish aired before your friends? Some husbands seem as anxious as some wives to show their friends what a poor bargain they made in matrimony. Did -you think you were marrying perfection ? If so, did it occur to you that the union might be quite unequal? You took each other as you-were, did you not? Well, if you must make each other-over, can you not do it in the privacy of your own room and not spread your unpleasant task before your friends ?
Truly the “tongue can no man tame”. It fakes the grace of God used in abundance.
News from Our Canadian Correspondent
J’ULY first was the Diamond Jubilee of the Confederation of the Dominion of Canada; and the people of this land, filled with enthusiasm and hope based upon the progress of the country during the past sixty years and upon its enormous resources, celebrated the occasion with great rejoicing. _
In surveying the history of Canada during that time the Montreal Star has the following to say:
Sixty years bridges the span of average life of the individual. Sixty years in the life of a nation is but a yardstick in the path of time.
An infant-in years, a giant in size and resources, in tradition and in achievement, Canada Friday celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of her birth as a nation. '
With pride and thanksgiving Canadians will look back over sixty years in which courage, energy, enterprise and ability have hewn a mighty nation—the wealthiest per capita in resources in the world—ouf of a vast wilderness.
They will thrill with the knowledge that not alone in material things has the Dominion accomplished a record without parallel in the history of nations of the earth. In the higher plane where defence of principle meant life itself, Canada has inscribed her name in iridescent letters; has won the admiration of the world and the gratitude of democracy. '
In education, in science, in commerce, in industry, in art, in government and in humanities, Canada stepped from her cradle sixty years ago, and in the intervening years has walked with unfaltering tread abreast the leaders of the world in all that was worth while. And, though retrospection gives rise to pride, the nation’s future does-not lie in the past. By every canon of a faith founded upon unlimited resources and upon good citizenship, Canadians stand on the threshold of a greatness which we, of this generation, are no more capable of visualizing than were the fathers of Confederation -of foreseeing the Canada of 1937.
With a net production of new wealth reaching upwards of $3,000,000,000 a year, Canada is but scratching at the surface 'of possibilities. Less than one-fifth of the productive agricultural lands of the Dominion are under cultivation, and the frontiers are being pushed back so precipitately by science that many millions of acres will be added annually to the classification of agricultural lands. The second largest forest reserves possessed by any country, 246,826,000,000 cubic feet of timber, await exploitation. r
Eighteen thousand miles of coast-line and hundreds of thousands of square miles of water harbor contain countless millions of dollars worth of the world’s finest fish.
One-sixth of the known coal reserves of the world, 1,234,269,000 tons, are in Canada. Extensive oil fields are under development. Ninety-five percent of the world’s store of nickel, eighty-five percent of the world’s asbestos, fifty-five percent of the world’s cobalt, nine percent of the world’s gold, nine percent of the world’s lead, eight and four-tenths percent of the world’s silver, six and four-tenths percent of the world’s zinc and fpur percent of the world’s copper are even now being pro-
^■-^uC'ed by Canada; and the possibilities of production are their infancy.
Such are a few of the factors which suggest the future.
■ -The ^development of these resources with concomitant _ development of commerce and industry from coast to $jast suggests that the spectacular growth of our great :■ iaeighbor in the last sixty years may be repeated in Can-: - ftda, and in a shorter time. Wise guidance and the will ’ -io do are all that are needed to build in the next half '^g^fttury a nation, the magnitude of which no Father of U vonfederation ever dreamt.
The general population increase in Canada in the ■evening decade of the present century was thirty-four percent, the fastest rate of any country in the world. In the second decade we grew twenty-two percent, again the fastest rate with the one exception of Australia, whose growth was faster than ours by only a fraction of one percent. A century earlier the United State* grew thirty-five percent decade by decade until 1860, but with this exception there has been no other example of more rapid national progress than that of Canada according to her last two censuses. Since Confederation, Canada’s population has nearly trebled, growing very nearly four times as fast as the world as a whole.
The amazing material progress of Canada is also shown in the following official statistics:
of Dominion, sq. miles —-_____
..1867
350,188
Value of dairy products ....
............1871
$15,023,966
3,797,123
$241,069,320
Population --------------------------------
..1871
3,689,300
Manufacturing products......
...........1871
$221,617,773
*9,389,300
$2,948,545,315
j\ Mumber of Provinces ......................
..1867
Electric power, capital in .....
...........1901
$11,891,025
$726,721,087
Total foreign Trade_____________________
..1867
$120,000,000
Mineral production...............
............1901
$65,797,911
$2,298,465,647
$241,245,898
; Gustoms revenue...........................
..1868
$8,578,380
Fisheries ..............................
............1871
$7,573,199
$158,966,356
$47,942,131
Deposits in chartered banks_________
..1871
$56,287,391
Lumber products, value.......
...........1871
$31,148,242
1926 $2,277,192,043
$134,413,845
' Chartered banks, assets------------....
..1871
$125,273,631
Pulp and paper products.....
............1871
$1,071,651
$2,864,019,213
—
x 1925
$193,092,937
Met debt of Dominion---------------
..1871
$77,706,518
Railways, steam, miles in operation 1867
2,278
$2,389,731,099
40,353
~ Total ordinary revenue of Dominion 1871
$19,335,561
Railways, steam, capital .....
............1876
$257,035,188
$380,745,506
$3,471,080,909
, Life insurance at risk________________
..1871
$45,825,935
Railways, steam, earnings.....
___________1875
$19,850,925
$4,609,902,248
$455,297,288
Immigration-----------------.C...............
..1871
27,773
96,064
Railways, eleetr'c, earnings .
&
............1901
$5,768,283
$49,626,231
Area of occupied farms, acres......
..1871
36,046,401
Shipping, seagoing, tons .....
...........1871
5,116,033
45,654,996
140,887,903
Shipping, coastwise, tons.....
............1901
34,444,796
Value of field crops .......................
..1901
$194,953,420
82,887,655
$1,121,447,100
Telephones ..................._........
............1901
63,192
?■ Value of live stock..........................
..1901
$268,651,026
1,144,095
$724,655,000
Motor vehicles .......................
..........1907
2,130
“Wheat crop, bushels-----------------------
..1871
16,723,873
836,794
409,811,000
*Estimated.
The Dawn of the New Day By Thos. Taylor
Ye who have faith to look with fearless eye* Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife, And see that out of death and night
Shall rise the dawn of ampler life;
Rejoice, whatever anguish pierce the heart, That God has given you a priceless dower,
To live in these great times and have a part Ip freedom’s crowning hour;
That ye may tell your sons, who see the light
High in the heavens, their heritage to take: “I saw the power* of darkness put to flight;
I saw the Morning break.”
Kingdom Rule By W. E. Pampling {England)
ON PAGE 302 of Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 1, we read: “Many erroneously suppose that, when Christ’s Millennial kingdom is inaugurated every one will be pleased with its ruling. But not so. Its regulations will be far more exacting than those of any previous government ; and the liberties of the people will be restricted to a degree that will be galling indeed to many now clamoring for an increase of liberty. Liberty to deceive, to misrepresent, to overreach and defraud others, will be entirely cut off. Liberty to abuse themselves or others in food or in drink, or in any way to corrupt good manners, will be totally denied to all. Liberty or license to do wrong of any sort will not be granted to any. The only liberty that will be granted to any will be the true and glorious liberty of the sons of God, liberty to do good to themselves and others in any and in every way ; but nothing will be allowed to injure or destroy in all that holy kingdom. (Isaiah 11: 9; Romans 8:21) That rule will consequently be felt by many to be a severe one, breaking up all their former habits and false ideas of liberty. Because of its firmness and vigor it is symbolically called an iron rule: ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron.’ (Compare Revelation 2:26, 27; Psalms 2: 8-12 and 49:14) Thus will be fulfilled the statement: ‘Judgment will I lay to the line and righteousness to the plummet. And the hail [righteous judgment] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters [truth] shall overflow the hiding place,’ and eveYy hidden thing shall be revealed.—Isaiah 28:17; Matthew 10:26.”
In harmony with the sentiments here ex--pressed, I read with interest the following item of news published in the London Daily Express on August &, 1927:
PARALYSIS SAVES A MURDER. A would-be murderer was petrified by a stroke when about to kill a man with an axe in a country district near Arad, Transylvania. Paul Kiss, a peasant who went to America in 1912, wrote to his wife, who lived at Kurtos, that he was returning home, bringing with him hundreds of pounds. His wife was seriously ill on the day of his arrival, and asked a relative, a smith named Andreas Gergely, to go to the station to meet him. Gergely met the returned wanderer with his cart, and after hearty greetings the five miles drive home began. Gergely knew that Kiss had a large sum of money with him; and suddenly pulling up, he pushed Kiss out of the cart, 78 and producing an axe, declared that he was about to ' kill him. Kiss fled, but was overtaken by Gergely, who T. threw him to the ground, and kneeling on him, man- L aged to bind his hands. Gergely then stood up and raised the axe for the fatal blow. Kiss, almost dead with fright, waited in suspense until, surprised that the blow did not fall, he opened his eyes and gazed up at his g assailant. The sight made him shriek. Gergely stood stock still, w ith his hand clutching the axe raised above [ his head, his feet placed firmly apart, and his body . bent back ready for delivering the blow; but his eyes were fixed and glazed. Kiss struggled free from his bonds and rushed to the nearest village, where he tol^~ ~. ’ his story. A search party found Gergely standing in thc„-^'.“ same position of menace. His clutch on the axe was so tight that it was only removed with the greatest dif-ficulty. Gergely has lain for more than three months 1 motionless and dumb in hospital at Arad, with his arm still raised above his head. The medical explanation is ‘ that Gergely suffered from arterial disease, and that ' , the excitement of the moment brought on a stroke.
We are living in the days when the Lord Jesus has taken to Himself His great power to reign; and very, very soon His kingdom will assume universal control, bringing to the people, dead as well as dying, the blessings of life, health, happiness and eternal bliss as perfect human beings on a restored earth. It is not for anyone to limit the effective operation of the power of that kingdom, which power will be divine. True, a medical explanation is given for the above incident, but that does not destroy the thought that in the very near future, under the kingdom rule, all would-be evil doers will have a “stroke” ere their evil intentions go into effect to the hurt of another.
In support of this we have a recorded instance in the Scriptures of a man who, ere he could strike a man of God, was himself “struck”; his hand withered; and it was necessary for him to ask his would-be victim to pray to God in order that his strength might be restored. I refer to 1 Kings 13:4-6, which reads as follows: “And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of' the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put -a forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold ' ‘ on him. And his hapd, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull _ it in again to hjm. The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according-to the sign which the man of God' had given by the word of the Lord. And the king answered
and said unto the man of God, Entreat now the man of God besought the Lord, and the king’s face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that hand was restored him again, and became as it my hand may be restored me again. And the was before."
Plenty of Room for All
AT THE international congress of agriculture, held in Holland, one of the professors expressed the fear that the world would never be able to support more than eight billion people, or about five times its present population.
* The chances are that the professor is wrong.
In the first place, climatic changes will no doubt give us millions of square miles of arable land which are now uninhabitable. It is not unlikely that the granaries of the future may be' Alaska, Greenland, Siberia and the Antarctic Continent. That ■would be easy for the Creator to arrange.
In the second place, there are millions of square miles of desert lands that only need water to make them useful to mankind, and there is water on the earth and to spare. All that is needed is some method of sprinkling it around , where it is most needed. That, too, would be easy for the Creator; and so the deserts of _ Sahara, Obi, Arabia, India, Kalahari, Arizona and Australia may be looked upon as sure to vanish away.
’ In the third place, four-fifths of the earth’s surface are covered with water; and it would be easy for the Creator to so arrange matters that the land surface would be four-fifths if He saw that would be best. He would know just how to do it.
In the fourth place, we all eat four or five times as much as we need, and some of us much more than that. We once knew a man over six feet tall, weighing over 225 pounds, who was active and energetic, the superintendent of a railway. Six or eight small mouthfuls of food sufficed him for a meal. We knew another man, also large and healthy, a professor of Greek and Latin, whose appetite was fully satisfied at any time in three minutes at the table; and he ate like a gentleman, too, and not like a Poland or a Berkshire.
In the fifth place, the chemists are beginning to talk about manufacturing food .direct from the sun’s rays without the trouble of passing it through plant or animal tissues; and if they get to doing that the food problem will, be a thing of the past. Why worry? An all-wise Creator holds the key to the future securely grasped in His almighty hand.
More About Bayberry Bark By Mrs. H. E. Wright
BEING a constant reader of The Golden Age, I saw an article written by Mr. I. Sneeze in which he said he had tried numerous remedies for the cure of hay fever and catarrh, but that they had all failed, including even bayberry bark. I will tell you my own experience.
I had a gathering in my right ear, and soon after my left ear also became very painful and my hearing seemed to be leaving me. A terrible dropping commenced from my head to the throat night and day, and life seemed almost a burden.
Across the street opposite our apartment is a doctor’s office, but as I have little faith in 'drugs I thought I would first try the remedy from The Golden Age. A dime’s worth of bayberry bark, with a good portion of fortitude added, resulted in a few days of sneezing and then the return of my hearing.
The noises in my head have now stopped; and I am entirely cured of catarrh and able to listen in to my radio and hear the good news from WBBR. To all the sufferers with catarrh I would say that in applying the bayberry bark remedy do not forget to add the fortitude.
I am in my eighty-second year and am thankful to be living in the day of God’s preparation, and can see by faith the signs of the presence of the Son of man.
What Is the Matter with This?
A FELLOW editor, James Larkin Pearson, submits the following under the above title question:
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