Golden Age, March 7, 1928
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Social and Educational
On the Radio . . . . ........ a. ..... . . 337
Kind Act of a Giri Violinist ............... 357
Germany Has Greatest of Radio Stations ’ ......... 357
A New and Wonderful Loud Speaker ........... 357
Rumanian Students Wild Beasts ............ 358
Bogging in the City of Elkins .............. 353
The Lavanburg Model Tenements ............ 358
Ebbatum ...................... « 381
Manufacturing and Mining
Shoes am Leathers .................. 355
Political—Domestic and Po'ieign
Chesterton Has the Blues ............... 3-57
Mussolini Does a Sensible Tiling ............. 358
Summary of Sacco-Vanzetti Case ............ 358
British Royalty Works ................ 381
What Russia Has Done in Ten Years ........... 331
.Home and Health
Is Aluminum a Poison? An Opinion ........... 359
Religion and Philosophy
How the Beacon Light Operates ............. 358
Preaching to the Chief of Police ..... ", ...... 363
The King' «m Witness in Latvia ............. 364
A Few Words to a Wise Man .............. 366
Tub Establishment of the World—Fart 2 ......... 337
What about ths Heathen?......Past 4.............372
Honoring Earth’s Greatest Hero 376
Bible Questions and Answers .............. 380
Jeremiah and His Message ................ 382
Little Studies for Little People ............. 3S3
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Volume IX Brooklyn, N. ¥•. W®dne««fey, March 7, 1928 Number 221
Shoes and Leathers
THE first clothing worn by human beings were the bur garments provided for .Adam and Eve. .All tailoring harks back to the shape of the hide and its cutting to the best advantage, Impervious to wind and rain, leather is an ideal material for many uses. The Indians painted their records in books made of fine white deer skin. In Bible times leather was used for clothes, sandals, bottles, harness and books.
The most ancient form of foot covering is the sandal. With the ancient Egyptians this was made of plaited grass or papyrus; and straw sandals are this very day worn by millions of people in Central Asia, India, China and Japan.
Shoes were first made of leather, and afterward of brass and iron. The Jews had them of linen, rush and wood. Millions of Europeans at the time of the World War were wearing wooden shoes or shoes with wooden soles. Before the World War a pair of clogs could be bought in Holland for 14c.
About the middle of the Fifteenth Century it was stylish to have shoes as long as possible. A knight had shoes eighteen inches long, a baron two feet, while a prince had shoes two and a half feet long. In England at that time the fashions became so extreme that the shoes cumbered the people in walking and to overcome the handicap they were forced to tie the •points of the shoes to their knees. In the reign of Edward IV this was prohibited by law.
It will surprise some to learn that the bestwearing shoes in the world are not made of leather but of esparto fibers, still worn in parts of Spain and Portugal. These fibers have the faculty of picking up and retaining in their ii|erstiees stony particles. As fast as the pebbles wear out they are automatically replaced by others. As a consequence of this self-soling process it is not uncommon in Spain and Portugal to find esparto shoes still in use every day after twenty-five years of wear.
Two of the best known artificial leathers are pantasote and fabricord. The method of manufacturing pantasote is a trade secret; but the fabric so closely resembles leather that only an expert can tell the difference. Cotton cloth is the basis of fabricord. This is coated with a tough material and finished to resemble leather,
Hides and Skins
^PANNERS use the term 'Tides” to describe the larger and heavier skins of full-grown oxen, horses and other large animals. The lighter skins, from calves, goats, sheep, etc., are known in the trade by the name “skins”. The most important hides are those of oxen, used exclusively in the making of sole and belting leather. Goat and kid skins come next in order.
Hides and skins come chiefly from North America, South America, the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand. Newark, New Jersey, is a tanning center, having among its interesting industries of this class one establishment devoted exclusively to curing the skins of the walrus, shark and porpoise.
The tanner recognizes every hide or skin as composed of three parts: the outer or epidermis, including the hair; the inner fleshy or fatty layer; and the layer between them, which is the one of which the leather is made. His problem is first to get rid of the hair and flesh and then to fill the central layer with curative preservative material.
There are many ways of removing the hair and fat. One way is to lay the hides in limewater from two to twenty days; then the hides are scraped both inside and out until nothing is left but the fibrous portion. The tanning is done by immersion in a vat containing a liquor
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strongly impregnated with tannin. The best tanning takes eight to ten months, after which the skins are shaved on the flesh side to uniform thickness and tumbled into-a mixture of oil, soap and tallow.
Hides of any kind can be turned into glue by boiling. In an unprepared or moist condition they are readily disintegrated; and if dried raw they become hard, horny and intractable. Tanning overcomes the tendency to putrefaction, secures suppleness, renders it impervious to water, increases its strength and its power to resist wear and tear.
Various Kinds of Leathers
OIL-TANNED leather is leather in which the tanning- bath is omitted. The skins are pounded, rolled and pressed in oil until every particle of animal matter capable of putrefaction has been driven out and replaced by the preservative oils of the whale or cod. Chamois is an oil-tanned leather.
Parchment is made from the skin of a sheep from which the flesh and hair have been removed in the usual manner. It is then stretched on. a frame, and the putrefying matter which it contains is absorbed by powdered chalk, after which the surface is smoothed with pumice and scraped. The skin is then dried and smoothed into shape. •
Patent leather is made by splitting a skin into thin layers and coating them with a varnish of linseed oil containing some coloring matter. Well tanned leather is flexible, soft, tough, and proof against bacteria. .But any leather which, is exposed to moisture and left in a dark place in that condition will mold.
The United States leads the world in leather production, using about 19.000,000 hides yearly, of which almost half are imported. There are now so many good leather substitutes, and there is so little walking done, and so little harness used, that the demand for leather is lessening.
The Itinerant Shoemaker
TN COLONIAL times the shoemaker was an -®- itinerant, going from house to house, living as one of the family until he had shod the whole family for a year ahead. Each person, had his own last. Up to the middle of the Nineteenth Century all shoes were made entirely by hand. The term of apprenticeship was seven years.
Today there are very fow of these export shoemakers to be found. It takes about two-days for one of them to make a pair of slices. Now most shoes are machine made, fiftytoi machines being used in the process, and each shoe passes through the hands of 108 operators.
The United States claims to lead the world in quantity and quality production of shoes.; Brooklyn, N. Y. has become the leading center for ladies’ high grade shoes. In a recent test fi in a modern American factory a pair of shoes ■ which required forty-two machines and fifty- . seven operators to finish was completely finished in thirteen minutes. The labor cost in a pair of $3.50 shoes is about 60c.
Shoe Styles and Prices .
NOVELTY shoes are expensive to make, because of the new patterns, dies and lasts, and when the style passes away the shoes, originally priced as high as $10 at retail, are apt, to be found on the bargain counter in six months at $1.98.
Shoes with high. heels lose their attractive appearance and their serviceability much more quickly than those with common sense heels. Heels placed in the middle of the foot cause ex-eessive strains on seams and uneven, wear on. soles and uppers. High-heeled shoes have been the cause of innumerable accidents and untimely deaths.
Force your feet into shoes that are too short or too narrow and you will have earned and will receive in due time corns, bunions, over-riding or hammer toes, fallen arches, callouses and aches and pains to suit, and in time the bones of your foot will become deformed. The woman who wears well-fitted shoes with broad low heels and roomy toes is well paid for her good judgment, and it may be added that women are wearing larger shoes today than ever before and are more sensible today than ever before.
No one expects that liigh-toppeei shoes for women will ever cgme back into style; and it is-even predicted that high-topped shoes for men will also pass away, the use of woolen stockings making them unnecessary.
Leather wears better if it is smooth-finished than if it is embossed. Grain leather wears better than split leather. In grain leather the many fine hair holes of the skin are apparent critical examination. The darker shades
dyed russet leather give the best service. Light colored leather hay have been bleached by chemicals to its detriment.
The Care of Leather Goods
ASTOR oil or vaseline may he used for traveling bags, suit cases and upholstered leather; but glazed, enameled and coated leathers thus treated are ruined. Special dressings may be purchased for such leathers. Castor oil rubbed lightly into the shoes with flue palm of the hand greatly increases the endurance of the leather. Any oil will darken light-colored or russet leather.
Soiled leather may be cleaned with soap and sponge. Oxalic acid injures the leather, (treat care is necessary in drying wet shoes as wet leather will burn when it gets hotter than the hand can bear and then it is ruined. To dry wet shoes wash them in tepid water, correct the shape, put shoe trees in them,, or stuff them with' dry paper crumpled and set them in a moderately warm (but never in a hot) place until thoroughly dry.
Leather articles kept in very warm places soon crack and become harsh, and easily scuffed. Kept in damp places they mildew. It is economy to have two pairs of shoes and wear them on alternate days so that they can get thoroughly dry between wearings. Wet shoes wear out in a short time. Soles and heels wear away rapidly and stitches cut through easily.
Shoes in need of repair should be repaired at once and not after the welt has been worn through and the shoe ruined. A handy man with the aid of a mail order repair kit can put in new heels, rubber heels, half soles, etc., without much difficulty. Waxed linen or flax thread should always be used for sewing, as it is so much, more durable than cotton. The wax makes the thread more water-resistant and the stitch holes more impervious to water.
On the Radio
Kind Act of a Girl Violinist
NOBLE girl, a good violinist, touched by the misery of a poor blind fiddler, took his violin from his hands on the streets of Camden, played a number of beautiful pieces, drew a crowd, filled the man’s cup with money, poured it into his pocket and went her way. Some fine people still alive. Eh?
Germany Has Greatest of Radio Stations
ERAI ANY is now the owner of the most powerful radio station in the world. Operating on a wave length of 1,250 meters, the Zeeseir station, with masts nearly 700 feet high and power of 1,200,000 watts, it is believed can be heard in every corner of the world. A feature of the station is a gigantic fine-woven copper mesh buried forty feet under the surface.
A New and Wonderful Loud Speaker
BERLIN firm has invented a new type of loud speaker by means of which the human
voice and musical tones in all their sweetness may be broadcast so as to be heard dearly within a radius of about two miles. Placed in the midst of a city three and one-half miles in diameter every person in the city might be able to hear distinctly. .
New Fruits in Florida
HE Miami section of Florida is now producing two luscious tropical fruits, papayas and paradise melons, which it was believed until recently could not be produced in any part of continental America. The papayas are large, yellow, succulent and attractive to the palate whether raw, boiled, preserved or pickled; and the melons are a cross between ordinary cante-loupes and Castilian melons.
Chesterton Has the Blues
iLBEivr K. Cb'.estebton is reported by the
Manchester Guardian as having said : “The
English habit of life, the look of an .English town, the whole tone of existence in this country, is being altered entirely by the economic and commercial pressure of America. I don’t know what more the Kaiser could have done if he had occupied London with his Prussian army. He could not have more completely denationalized our national city.” Mr. Chesterton also expressed the wish that all Americans should go to some place or state or condition represented by the ancient words sheol, hades, gehenna and tartaroo, words variously translated and almost invariably misunderstood.
Cultivation of Bamboo
THE timber bamboo is being cultivated in some parts of the South and will probably be an. important factor in timber production in time. This timber attains a height of sixty to seventy feet, the poles being four to five inches in diameter at the base. The entire growth takes place in two months.
Mussolini Does a Sensible Thing
Mussolini did a sensible thing when he issued peremptory orders to all Italians that they must not send him any Christmas or New Year’s greetings. It has been impossible for him to examine these cards and telegrams for now several years, and he can not see, and neither can we, what earthly sense there is in sending cards and messages which can not be read.
Humanism Students Wild Beasts
RUMANIAN students have demonstrated
that they are wild beasts. While they were engaged in the destruction of libraries and Jewish synagogues, seventeen of the latter being reduced to ruins, an American, Captain Gottfried Keller, endeavored to ealm them. They assaulted him, beat him unconscious, stabbed him seriously and when he regained consciousness and endeavored to telegraph the American consul Ids telegram was refused by Rumanian officials.
Begging in the City of Elkins
HE City of Elkins, West Virginia, in its charter and ordinances, No. 129, makes a distinction between its beggars. No hungry or homeless man may beg in the city of Elkins without a permit from the Mayor; but a provision is inserted that “'this chapter shall not relate to churches soliciting salaries and expenses or anything else for the good of the churches within said city”. Wonder how that discrimination between hungry beggars and religious beggars looks at the bar of Almighty God. Is it likely that the religious beggars are His favorites and the hungry ones are taboo? If so, there is not a thing in the Bible to indicate it. Where did the Lord of heaven and earth ever ask anybody to go into the begging business on His account, anyway?
The Lavanburg Model Tenements
OTHILE Gentile orators and near statesmen ’ ’ continue to argue about what can be .done to alleviate the conditions of New York tenement life it remained for Fred L. Lavanburg, a Jew, to provide a superb example of what can be done. The rooms of the Lavanburg tenements just completed are light, airy, commodious and sanitary and rent at only $7.50 to $10.50 per room, and at no loss to the family. The construction of this building was the great ambition of Mr. Lavanburg's life. He died some time ago. The rents for the rooms will be col- ■ lected weekly instead of monthly.
Summary of Sacco-Vanzetti Case.
UNDER the title “There is Justice”, the Sacco-Vanzetti National League, Room 411, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City, lias published & summary of the Sacco-Vanzetti case which shows, beyond question, that Sacco and Vanzetti were judicially executed for a crime which they did not commit. The seven editors of the little book are men of national repute and the work is dispassionately done. No true American can read it without hanging his head for shame that such, a miscarriage of justice could take place.in this country. The men were executed because they were anarchists, but when officials disregard justice to bring about murder they are the worst kind of anarchists themselves.
How the Beacon Light Operates rpiIE New York Tinies tells us that two New -*■ Haven Protestant clergymen have made public addresses recently in which they said "that it was time that men and women of their faith realized that the Catholic Church was not a .menace, but a beacon light of civilization and religion” and that, in effect, they hope that the next President will be a Catholic.
There are two ways of operating a beacon light. One is to make a bonfire of those who disagree with you; and if this is the sense in which these two “protestants” see the Catholic Church as operating a beacon light, then we do not see how anybody can disagree with them. But that is not what they meant. They are probably expecting that Al Smith is going to be the. next President and are doing what they can to-stand in.
Is Aluminum a Poison? An Opinion
THIS question has been so positively answered in the affirmative by so many scientific men that we may as well record permanently iu our minds the word “ YES” and then proceed to find out what this means to the public. If aluminum is a poison it can be harmful to people only if it is ingested, and no one would be tempted to swallow even a single dose of the salts of aluminum if aware of its poisonous nature. But millions of people daily ingest quantities of this sort of substance not knowing of its presence in their foods or how it got there. And so it seems advisable to bring to the attention of my readers the ways in which the compounds of aluminum may enter the foods upon which, they live and thus become poisoned, slowly or suddenly, consciously or unconsciously.
No information has so startled the whole public in recent years as the reports of investigators that aluminum cooking utensils have been suspected of causing people who have eaten foods prepared therein to be poisoned. I believe no more important question confronts the public than this: “Are you poisoning yourselves by the use of aluminum cooking ware and of baking powders containing alum (aluminum) F If so, why don’t you quit it?
Comparatively few people are intelligent on the subject of what their foods are doing to their health. However, there is a growing interest in this question and the search for truth or dependable knowledge becomes more and more diligent. Many lights and sidelights have been thrown upon the screen; but they have had more to do with specific types or kinds of food and their general preparation than with their exact composition or the utensils in which they are cooked. Credit should be given to the many honest, competent teachers in the field of nutrition and health for the useful facts they have given to humanity, often in spite of the ridicule and discrediting by orthodox professionals who really ought to have been the leaders of thought in. the direction of exact facts as to foods and their effects upon human life.
But it seems to have been left for this writer to bring to general public attention the question of aluminum poisoning and to explain wherein it seems to him that the chief danger lies and how to escape it. To this task he has devoteed many years of study and experimentation, com-
By Dr. Charles T. Betts, Toledo, Ohio
mencing with a suspicion that the use of aluminum ware in his own home was, to some extent at least, the cause of his own broken health and finding that his abandonment of the use thereof seemed to contribute to his recovery and later abiding good health. Much opposition has arisen to his theory, as might, be expected; for huge commercial interests are affected by the opinion of the public in such a matter as this, and persons of high position have undertaken without submitting any convincing proof, to induce the public to take none too seriously any such condemnation of utensils so generally used as those made of uZiwninum.
The fact that aluminum ware is used in a great majority of American homes does not at all prove that the public has a favorable opinion, now that the question is raised; for the number of people who have abandoned their whole sets of such ware indicates that they were victims of a lack of knowledge of the effects of the use thereof, rather than that they had any fixed conviction that there are no possible harmful effects. But the presumption is that only a few users of aluminum ware have really given any serious thought to the matter and that they are innocently employing such ware without having any reason to suspect that it may be unwise to do so. This writer's purpose is mainly to raise the question so that all thoughtful people may get the fa.cts and become qualified to decide safely and wisely with reference to their health security. '
For bventy years or more aluminum kitchenware has come into more and more extensive use. Why should it be otherwise? Is it not ideal in many respects? Or would it not be ideal, if this question of aluminum poisoning had not arisen? If the use of such ware involves no health danger, then indeed w’ould it not properly be considered ideal for its purpose? But if it contaminates foods or becomes ingested in foods cooked in it with poisonous effects, a serious problem confronts the user. If any injurious effects upon the foods thus cooked occur; or if food values are reduced or the vidamines damaged or destroyed; or if no harm to the human body results from eating foods thus prepared; or if the color of food is not changed to indicate adverse chemical changes in it; or if there is not in reality any ingestion (ff aluminum metal by reason of cooking in alu-
minum ware; then tins question about possible aluminum poisoning should never have been raised at all. ’ ■
And so, whatever may have been the impression of the average user of aluminum ware; whatever his attitude to the question that is now raised it will never be downed until all of the facts are known by all of the people. Whatever resentment any one may feel because of the suggestion that he ought to look well into this matter lest he may have made a serious mistake of judgment with reference to the employment of aluminum 'ware and alum bakingpowders in his home, the facts ought to be frankly ascertained and action consistent therewith taken. This writer’s purpose is not to condemn aluminum, but to safeguard human health; and the only way anybody’s health can be protected is by avoiding mistakes which cause harm to the body. If the reader will think without prejudice and then act wisely in this as in all matters affecting health, he will contribute just that much to personal comfort, success and. longlife and will do much to induce others to do the same.
Aluminum dissolves readily from cooking dishes. To prove this, boil ordinary drinking water in an aluminum dish for half an hour and immediately pour this boiled water into a clear glass container. The aluminum compounds will be clearly visible to the naked eye. Examination of the aluminum dish after the experiment will not disclose any perceptible loss of metal therefrom; but it should be understood that the activity of the metal is such that you will see in the glass container about a thousand times as great volume of aluminum hydroxide as of the metal lost from the dish in which the water was boiled.
It is in this form that the metal enters the body with food and is digested and taken directly into the blood circulation by absorption. In this form also the metal could be taken into the circulation by injection if such form of medication were resorted to before major operations. In this form the metal is a catalyst. It acts upon all living tissue with wTiieli it comes in contact, itself remaining unchanged. The body strives to rid itself of such an element and to throw it into the intestines for elimination. A normally healthy body can thus dispose of much of such poison, but when one is subnormal and resorts to medication for bowel action, the aluminum poisons are apt to be reabsorbed into the blood and follow the circulation again. This may become a persistent or habitual operation, causing continual poisoning.
Cancers and ulcers occur in some and not in other members of the same family, although they claim to eat very much' the same foods. Persistent aluminum poisoning may seem to produce these symptoms in certain people of various localities and not in others.. Perhaps some resort to cathartics and others do not. It will be found, I believe, that those most susceptible to aluminum poisoning and who ingest foods containing aluminum will usually be found to be regular dependents upon cathartics; and I believe such, are particularly subject to physical breakdown of the parts attacked by aluminum. This process or theory is graphically described by Dr. Victor Vaughn. Dr. Vaughn was Dean of the Medical Department of the University of Michigan for thirty years and held the presidency of the Medical Association for six years. lie is recognized as one of the nation’s riiost prominent medical authorities.
In 1900, even before Dr. Mallett’s work, 1 said that aluminum must be absorbed: and testifying before a Senate Coramitrce I testified that it would be difficult for all of the alum to escape absorption. .My conclusion is that the salts of aluminum are harmful in the human body. . . .
I say, most of these poisons by absorption are carried by the blood and the lymphs to every part of the body. It does not have to go to every part of the body, and they have opportunity to be brought in. contact with all the features of the body; and as I have stated here in this definition, they have their selective action; they will combine with certain tissues, other tissues they will not combine with. They may add something foreign; and they may take something away; they may merely rearrange the structure of ike living tissue. By either one of these means, they may harm the tissue. Then the body strives to get rid of these things by eliminating them and pouring them back into the intestines, and they may then be reabsorbed again, and may go around.
Q. Now, Doctor, in. the testimony to which you have referred as having been given by you in the, year 1900, before the Senate Committee of manufacturers, at a hearing in Washington, did you come to the conclusion as a result of your studies and experiments up to that time that the salts of aluminum are harmful in human food?
A. Thai was my conclusion, Yes.
Q. And did you ernne to Hie further conclusion that tUllin baking powders were not healthful, and not whole-OB^fwhen used in the preparation of human food?
' A. Z did-
.The opinion above quoted is a description of a caneer-forming substance. The Doctor perfectly describes but does not define it as such. ■The 'reader can judge for himself.
?ui-ch investigation has been made by various scientists regarding the action of aluminum compounds upon the digestive tract and it is of great benefit to mankind, in my judgment, that Dr. Harry Gideon Wells, Pathologist of the University of Chicago, explains why some people are sufferers from aluminum compounds while others are not apparently affected by them. .
Action of Aluminum Compounds on Cells Lining the Digestive Tract.
Aluminum, compounds, being protoplasmic poisons, wi; poison the endothelial cells of the digestive tract. (These are the cells which line the digestive tract and come in immediate contact with food and drink.) They not. only have the function of lining the tract, but a very important function in protecting the rest of the body. Poisons of great potency might enter the digestive tract in large quantities and be prevented from causing any harm to remote tissues as long as these endothelial cells are uninjured, but if injured, this defense is lost.
It is "tny belief that one’s vitality is either raised or lowered, according to the health condition of the endothelial cells.
Doctor Wells has reached a further conclusion that aluminum compounds have a serious action upon the reproductive organs.
Action Upon Reproductive Organs. Sterility.
In my opinion, the effect of aluminum compounds, the passing into the human system by absorption would make, themselves felt in ike reproductive organs. The cells of these organs are particularly sensitive to the ••action of any poisonous substance, and often show ina-l-rd changes when changes in other parts of the body are undiscoverable even by careful micrpscopic studies.
. Dr. Wells’ Conclusion.
Iffy opinion is that aluminum compounds are poisonous to all forms of life, including the higher animals.
The above opinion regarding aluminum ft in ■harmony with that of many prominent medical and scientific authorities, such as Cowper-th'Ai’Jtc, Burt, Spofforth, Dr. Wm. Gies, Hattie .Heft. Maxwell Karshan, Dr. Philip B. Hawk, Dr. Clarence A. Smith and many others.
.And this is an important question: Are food values destroyed and are foods made injurious by aluminum compounds? It is my opinion that no one should eat foods cooked in aluminum. But this is not alone my opinion; for many prominent medical authorities hold similarly. Among these is no less an authority than Dr. Wm. F. Koch, of Detroit, Michigan, founder of the Koch Cancer Foundation. He is quoted in the Los Angeles Times of May 22, 1927^writing in an interview or article on “Koch Diet”, as follows:
Another possible source of chronic poisoning is aluminum. Cooking utensils made of this metal are in almost, universal use and. quantities of baking powder containing salts of aluminum are exposed for sale in our shops. A few months ago we thought that quite a discovery had been made when it was- found that all foods cooked in aluminum receptacles greatly increased the cancer reactions, and even water boiled in an aluminum dish behaved similarly. All baking powder containing alum compounds had the same effect; they were inimical to the cancer patient.
Perhaps this particular action with respect to cancer has not before been published, but recently I have found a small work, An Opinion Upon Aluminum, by Dr. Charles T. Betts of Toledo, Ohio, that conclusively shows aluminum to be one of the great sources of chronic poisoning. Dr. Betts computes that the average person whose food is cooked in aluminum ware, and whose bread is baked with an alum baking powder, consumes four to five grains of aluminum salts at each meal, or twelve to fifteen grams per day, and this every day in the year. If this is one of the sources of chronic poisoning which is cancer-producing, can we wonder that tins disease is increasing by leaps and bounds? Can we expect our treatment to be highly effective while these causes are active? I think not. The conclusion is obvious.
Dr. W. A. Dewey, Secretary of the Koch Cancer Foundation, is quoted in the October, 1926, Koch Cancer Foundation Bulletin, as follows :
The interfering features most commonly met with that obstruct the development of immunity have been, discussed previously as X-ray, radium, metals such as colloidal gold, mercury, arsenic, etc. An important interfering metallic agency not hereto discussed and. associated with the diet, is aluminum. ... ■' - ■
Aluminum is dissolved very readily by distilled water or ordinary water from aluminum cooking utensils and in such quantities as cause interference with recovery. Foods likewise, when cooked in aluminum ware dissolve out large quantities of aluminum and for this reason it is. necessary to avoid, aluminum dishes and utensils in the preparation of the food for a cancer patient.
If food cooked in aluminum ware is made either valueless or capable of causing injury if ingested in the case of a cancer patient, how can such food be beneficial to or safe for consumption by a person who does not have cancer? If a cancer patient can not get well if he continues to eat foods cooked in aluminum ware, or foods which otherwise contain aluminum compounds, hoiv can a healthy person hope to keep well if he persists in consuming such food?
Scientific records give in detail statements regarding the effects of aluminum compounds on vitamines. The following is the opinion of Dr. Albert P. Matthews, Professor at the College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati.
Actiox on Vitamines.
Probably a more serious result will be that it [aluminum] will unite with various essential constituents of 1 he food present in small quantities, substances called food accessory substances, or vitamines, and these substances will be thereby so changed as no longer to exert their usual action on the body.
In animals, and on a restricted diet having barely sufficient of these substances to support the life of ite tissues, a very serious condition will be produced in the alimentary canal, owing to the lack of these essential substances.
Action on Intestine.
This condition will be very similar to the conditions described by Chittenden and Underhill as a pelagrous condition. There will be hemorrhagic condition of the intestine with ulceration of the duodenum and at times of the stomach also.
Action after Absorption.
The aluminum from such residues after absorption into the blood and lymph will exert the usual action of aluminum salts on the tissues and organs of the body, this action being more or less severe depending on the quantity of aluminum absorbed.
Regardless of absorption, aluminum can exert an irritating action on the mucosa of the gastro-intestinal tract without absorption; and in the manner already stated it may exert the deleterious action on the food, so changing its quality as no longer to exert the nourishing effect it would have exerted in the absence of aluminum.
The scientific side of any question is apt to be given too little attention by the laity. But there is a practical side that is clearly within the capacity of every person to comprehend. Health is a personal or individual matter and depends wholly upon what one does for or to himself in all matters of body management! One can elect to continue to use aluminum ware and to consume alum baking powders. This is his privilege. One can elect to discontinue their use, too. This may be his duty. It surely is, if this writers opinions are even approximately correct.
But object lessons are often needed. Often in newspapers are reported cases of group poisonings, people made desperately sick at banquets, dinner parties, etc. Such reports have come from various parts of the country. Hundreds ot persons made violently ill from eating foods most carefully selected and prepared by their own people for some public gathering, turning joy into shock and grief and anxiety and death. So often have these events included the preparation in aluminum ware of the food served that suspicion naturally attaches to this incidental fact. Sometimes the food is merely stored for a long period in aluminum. Sometimes it is also cooked in aluminum. Occasionally, as in the case reported in the following story printed in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, it may be' that only part of the food is contaminated by aluminum poison and poisons the rest by being mixed with it. Giving account of a very serious and extensive poisoning which occurred at the First Baptist Church at Punxsutawney, Pa., on December 3,1927, the following appeared:
200 Church Diners Poisoned
Punxsutawney, Pa., Dec. 3.-—Two hundred people, who attended a chicken supper at the First Baptist Church, today are recovering from ptomaine poisoning. A dozen or more are seriously ill, but so far there have been no deaths.
Women of the church prepared the supper at their homes and served it in the church auditorium, and every person who partook of the supper became ill.
Physicians stated that the entire supply of gravy had been poisoned, as the, result of one of the women, leaving the gravy in an aluminum container too long before taking it to the church. All the gravy was collected into one container to heat and in that way the entire supply was contaminated.
The Rev. E. L. Safford is pastor of the congregation.
Another typical case of group poisoning was reported in the daily papers in February, 1927. A parent-teachers banquet was served in Kansas City, at which more than 150 persons Weg|| poisoned. The foods had been cooked and stored in aluminum ware and physicians 'diagnosed the poisoning as due to mineral acid.
In Baltimore, Md., on November 28, 1927, at the “Wedding of Miss Eva Sandel to Mr. Louis Kabuchnick, more than 100 guests required medical attention by reason of food poisoning, of a sudden and mysterious nature.
In St. Louis, at the Home of the Blind, April 8, 1927, seventeen persons were poisoned in a mysterious way from the food, one victim failing to recover.
At Gold, Pa., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baker died, after eating food cooked and left standing in aluminum ware.
The Toledo Blade, December 12,1927, reports the death of one person and the critical condition of three others—another mysterious poisoning case.
We may not look for hearty support for antialuminum opinions through the press, for aluminum cooking ware and alum baking powders are extensively used, advertised and are carried by many stores. Evidence has been plentiful that such observations and experiments as this writer has made and the opinion he has reached on this subject are not welcome in the daily press column. Pro-aluminum propaganda may be more fortunate in its reception for publication. As an instance of the attitude of one 86-page newspaper, the managing editor was removed from his position a few hours after he allowed to be reported and printed in that newspaper an article on this subject prepared by this writer; and I am informed that he was told frankly that his discharge was for that reason. The writer considered that the dismissal of such a prominent newspaper editor for such a purpose was equal to the death of another prominent editor—Don Mallett of Canton, Ohio—by an assassin’s bullet, when he dared to print what he considered worthy of public knowledge. Such acts are, in my opinion, direct attempts to strike at the very foundation of basic principles upon which our Government is founded.
It is estimated that aluminum cooking utensils to the value of two and a half billions of dollars have been purchased in the United States alone and $62,000,000 worth of aluminum baking powders, which contain about 60,000 tons of metal aluminum, is purchased per annum for baking purposes. If aluminum cooking utensils and aluminum baking powders are the cause of such damage and misery and suffering and death among our people, it seems to this writer that it is high time the public should find it out and adjust their habits and ideas to the facts, at whatever seeming sacrifice or cost.
A whole volume of statements’ about aluminum poisoning could here be quoted, from scientists, physicians, chemists and college professors. The writer has herein quoted Dr. Victor Vaughn, Dr. Albert P. Matthews and Dr. Harry Gideon Wells, whose statements were given under oath to the Federal Trade Commission, Docket Case No. 540, Washington, D. C., and which are now a matter of public record.
8g Preaching to the Chief of Police By R. II. Barber
THINKING that this might be of assistance to some who are chased by a policeman while canvassing on Sunday, I am submitting the following experience, which occurred in the city of Gloversville, N. Y.
I was canvassing a well-to-do residential section, and at the first house approached, a fine-looking lady met me at the door, and as I began my canvass she began to back up, leaving the door open, and then turned and ran to the rear of the hall, leaving me standing there alone. Nothing remained for me to do but to try the next house.
At the fourth house a gentleman, with a pious face and more pious manner, was telling me that he resented my attempting to sell him anything on Sunday, and I was pointing out to him that he was reading a newspaper which he had purchased on Sunday, and that the clergy delivered their sermons on Sunday, and collected their pay on.Sunday, when he remarked: “There is some one motioning to you.” Looking around I observed a gentleman, in a fine limousine, motioning to me to come to the car.
I stepped down the stairs and up to the car. He threw open the door and said: “What are you selling?” I answered: “Are you the chief of police?” “Yes,” he replied, “some one called up and said a party was selling books on Sunday.” “Well,” I answered, “that person was mistaken; I am not selling booksI am preaching the gospel. You know Sunday is a day set apart for preaching the gospel, and there are different ways of preaching the gospel.
“The Salvation Army get some drums and other tom-toms, and make a lot of noise, and gather a crowd around them on the street corners and harangue them there and take up collections ; and that is their way of preaching the gospel.
“Others build large church buildings costing several hundreds of thousands of dollars, adorn them with fancy windows, tapestries, pipe-organs, and cushioned pews, and then invite you to leave the comforts of your home and come down to the church to hear the preacher give a so-called sermon, after which they pass the collection box and collect their pay, and then solicit subscriptions for their church papers— all on Sunday, too. More than that they do it for profit and, dying, leave an estate to their family. This is their method of preaching the gospel.
“'Our method is to print the truth about the plan of God and to explain the meaning of the texts of the Bible in books and booklets [here I spread out on the seat beside him all the books and booklets I had] and then go from house to house on the day set apart for preaching the gospel—on Sunday—and sell these bocks, which contain several sermons each, at cost of production of the books. We are not making money on them, a nd we are not leaving an estate to our children either. Now, I would like to sell you a set of these books.”
Although I gave him a complete canvass, while he listened in silence, I could not make the sale. I urged him to accept the combination as a gift from me, telling him that he would find some zealous Sunday school teacher or preacher would probably call him up again and complain, and that he ought to know just what the books contain. I stated further, that there were probably 10,000 Bible Students selling these books all over the world today, and have been selling them on Sunday for months, and would continue to sell them, as there was no law against preaching the gospel on Sunday, and that is the very purpose of setting apart that day.
“If others want to build costly buildings with costly equipment, and beg the money to do it, and if still others want to parade and drum up a crowd to hear their message, we do not object; this, however, is our method, and there is no objection to it, is there?” He only answered: “I don’t know what they called me up for,” and drove away.
The Kingdom Witness in Latvia By Rees Taylor
THE kingdom message, our Lord told us, must be given in all the world for a witness. In 1926 we opened up for the beginning of this witness in Latvia. Up until the year 1918 Latvia was a part of Russia in common with Es-thonia and Lithuania, the other two Baltic States. This naturally made it nearly impossible for a witness to be given there earlier.
Since the Declaration of Independence, it has been a good deal easier to get about things in the country. But even now nearly all the government officials seem to be permeated with the spirit of old Russia, and very specially the police. As in old Russia, the police are extremely powerful and the people still have quite a dread of them.
Like most of the new nations that arose out of the Avar, Latvia has no money, with the result that things are very bad in the country.
Trade is in a very bad condition, and the unemployment problem is a serious one. In Riga it is quite an exception to see a factory chimney showing any signs of activity. And in the other towns the impression that one gets is that they are absolutely dead.
Once, at Liban, the former arsenal of Russia and a town that has quite a large port, I saw only one ship in the harbor. I was told just recently that at times there has been no ship at all in the harbor.
Wages are very low, and consequently the standard of living is also low’.
In September we held the first three publie meeting’s, in the three largest towns, Riga, Li-bau, Mitau. We have to obtain permission from the police to hold every meeting. Up till now this has not been at all difficult to get, but the procedure is really very amusing.
At one series of seven -meetings of which we will speak Is ter, the procedure in each town was absolutely different from the last. .Ip fact, I have cnme to the conclusion that they know very little about- their own law.
J n one town the police chief had been a military attache in London, and he told me that it was not really necessary to get permission at all, but that we just had to notify them that a meet-'ing was going to be held.
When I first arrived in Riga, I tried to buy a book containing the law of the land. At the very best book shop in Riga they told me that I could not get anything in Lettish, but that virtually we were still living under the old Russian law.' I have noticed as well that all the works of reference in the police stations are in the Russian language. .
These first three meetings were held in the German language, as up to the present time we have no books in the Lettish language. The people speak three languages, Lettish, German and Russian.
The Devil tried ven- hard to stop these meetings, but he was not successful. In all, 975 attended these three meetings and as a result just 600 books were sold. The people were deeply interested indeed and demanded that we should have further meetings and studies.
One of the leading lights among the clergy of Rigs was so alarmed at the appearance of the Bible Students, that he threatened to excommunicate anybody that came to 'our meeting. During the meeting I told the people of this and they seemed to be much amused at the idea of being exconnnun icated.
At Libau, the second town, the clergy also got busy and issued some pamphlets telling the people not to buy our book's, and telling them that we did not believe in Jesus Christ. They do not seem to mind to what lying they go, as long as -they can stop a few people from coming to the meetings.
After these meetings they attacked us very strongly in the leading church newspaper. But it was remarkable to notice that not on any'one occasion did they attack the truth doctrines, but always some side issues.
---Then- in. October we had a series of seven meetings and the experiences at these meetings were really inspiring. Although all the meettugs were? German meetings, and that fact was dearly stated on all our advertising matter, about 1.700 Letts who could, not speak a word of German were so interested in our message that they turned up at these meetings and had to go home again. In all eases they were very insistent that we should come back and have meetings in Lettish. We are hoping soon to receive some Lettish books from; 'the factory of the Watch Tower Bible fc Tra-eti Society, and then we shall be able to take the witness to these people.
It was remarkable to see the disappointment on their faces as the poor people had to go home without hearing the message. Many of them hung about the doors in the faint hope that they would be able to understand something of what was said.
After we had held the first two meetings of this series the weather changed and the day of the third meeting it- snowed nearly all day. But the attendances did not seem to suffer very much. And then for the remainder of the meetings we had to distribute our advertising matter in the snow. But when it is a case of the kingdom witness going out, the weather does not make very much difference.
In every town we found, the German people much interested in what we had to' say, s and in each town they wanted us to stop and tell them, more about, these things. And they told us of other towns that we must visit, as they said that the people were waiting to hear a message like ours.
At the last meeting of the series we had. an illustration of the great interest of the people.. 'When we arrived at the hall about an hour before the meeting we found that they had completely forgotten that they had let the-hall to us, and that they had the decorators in. We hurriedly procured a very large room where we had the meeting. And for about one hour and a half the people stood absolutely still—there were no seats to be had—and the interest on their faces was something worth while watching.
Once or twice somebody made a small noise and they were immediately silenced by the people, w’ho apparently did not want to miss a single word of what we said. At this meeting only about a. hundred could get into the meeting, but we sold 105 books.
At one town we had an amusing little incident. A lady eame to the book table and. taking hold of Volume 1 of Studies in the Scriptures asked who the author was. I told her that the author was Pastor Russell, and immediately she said that she would not take one of his books. This is the first lecture that has been hold in this town, but she had already heard of the truth. So I showed her The Harp of God and said that it was written by Judge Rutherford, and. she took it quite willingly.
About two weeks after the meetings I made application for permission to stop in the country for a further period of time, and when I went to get my passport the next day I was .told that my permission was refused. The next day 1 went to speak with the Minister of the Interior, and he said that they did not want me in the country and. that I could stop there only until January 10 of this year. They would allow’ me to stop if I would cease rny activities for- the I. B. S. A. or I could stop if the Lutheran churches particularly asked that I could stop (Of course they would be very likely to do that!). But the gentleman seemed to overlook the fact that I had a visa from London, that gives me permission to visit the country for as many times as I like in one year, no one journey to exceed two months. So that means that I can visit Latvia six times each year, and on each occasion for two months, that is just twelve months in the year. All it means is that every two months I shall have to make a journey over the frontier and then come back again and make another visit.
A short time after this I applied for the hall that we have already twice used in Riga. As soon as the man heard that we were the Bible Students he said that the church people had made difficulties, as we were always pulling them to pieces. So we hired a hall immediately opposite to it. Then we also fixed out two.halls for follow-up meetings, and just two hours before the first one, although we had paid for the hall, they said that we could not have it. ’Then when the time came round for the second i'ol-low-up meeting we went to the hall but the caretaker refused to let us in. This is a shining example as to how the Devil’s organization keeps its word, and endeavors to obstruct the message of truth from going forward. We learned afterward that a certain D. D. had a lot to do with the last hall, so that would explain why we did not get it.
Then a few days after the meeting the loading German paper came out with the wonderful discovery that the Bible Students were in reality Bolsheviks! There seems no limit to the lies mid misrepresentation to which the .Devil and his servants will go when they are trying to stop the message of truth from going forward.
In a month or two we hope to have the Lettish books and then we can make a bigger assault than ever upon the organization of the Devil in this part of the world.
The people have been kept in bondage and oppression for many hundreds of years, but the time has come for them to know the truth of God. The people are anxious to hear the truth; and although their leaders can try to do what, they will, this battle is the Lord’s.
The laborers in the field here are extremely small in number, and we pray the great Lord of harvest that he will send forth more laborers to help us in this wonderful work of witnessing to the incoming kingdom.
A Few Words to a Wise Man
THANKS for your favor of recent date with its kind suggestions. We are glad that you are pleased with recent issues of The Golden A ge. We are doing the best we can to keep it clean and honest. Having no personal knowledge that the lady mentioned in your letter is drawing from her machine the names of certain persons to whom she should confide certain things, the dates before which she should keep certain things secret, the prices at which discoveries are to be sold, etc., we do not. feel called upon to mention her by name nor to describe her apparatus, although we have to say to you frankly that any machine which is relied upon by its operator to determine the truth or error of an explanation of a Scripture text is, in our judgment, on a par with the ouija.board and should not be used nor defended.
The Establishment of the World
- (Part 2)
[Broadcast from Station WBBR, New York, by Judge Rutherford. 1
T AST Sunday we had under eonsideratioa -i-J the establishment of the world. Today we eonttaue the same, subject matter. In the former lecture ws saw that, the new heaven will consist of Christ Jesus and His glorified body mem-fersi Christis the kingdom or ruling power and WiH: always- be invisible to man. Then we considered some proof that Christ will have on earth faithful men to represent Him and. that these will include Abraham and others of like precious- faith. Now let us consider some further Scriptural proof to this end.
Corroborative Proof
LET each one settle it in his mind for all time that God is true. When He makes a promise it is absolutely certain that that promise will be fulfilled. He has never failed in one of His promises, and all of them are good. The psalmist says concerning Jehovah: “Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.” (Psalm 1-19:160) “The testimony of the Lord is sure.” (Psalm 19:7) “For all the promises of God in him are yea [sure], and in him Amen [trustworthy, sure, verity], unto the glory of God by us.” (2 Corinthians 1:20) Jesus says concerning the Word of God: “Thy word is truth.” (John 17:17) And again He said: “He that sent me is true.” (John 7: 28) It is “'impossible for God to lie”. (Hebrews 6:18) God changes not. (Malachi 3:6) “I. have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.” (Isaiah 46:11) “'So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it. shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”—Isa. 55:11.
Faith means to know God’s promises and then to rely upon them. He who has faith in God must know that God will fulfil every one of His promises. Having this settled then, note some of the promises of God to these faithful men #f old, above mentioned.
To Abraham God promised that He would make of him a great nation. “And in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” (Genesis 12:2, 3) Again, God promised Abraham to give him all the land that he saw. “And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift tip now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.”— Genesis 13:14-17.
In another form He made this same promise: “And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”—Gen. 17:8.
When Abraham was one-hundred seventy-five years old he died, without having possessed any of the land which God promised to give him. Long thereafter Stephen testified concerning Abraham, as it is recorded in the Scrip ures: “'Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charraii: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into tins land, wherein ye now dwell. And he [God] veve him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.”—Acts 7:4, 5.
Long ago were these promises made. They have not yet been fulfilled. They must be fulfilled in God’s due time; and the Apostle Paul under inspiration writes that God’s due time is after Christ has taken unto Himself His power and begun His reign.
Afterward when Jacob had left his father Isaac’s home to journey into another’ land, lie slept on a hill in Palestine. “'And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.” (Genesis 28:12) There must be some significance in this vision of the angels ascending and descending on a ladder between heaven and earth, which the Lord permitted him to see. It must represent communication between heaven and-earth. It is reasonable therefore to conclude that the Lord intended here to suggest that sometime He would establish communication be-
tween the invisible and the visible parts of His kingdom.
At the same time He made this promise to Jacob: “And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” (Genesis 28:13, 14) Afterward Jacob journeyed into Egypt and lived and died there. He had not yet possessed this land.
Their Resur red ion
THESE promises made to Abraham and to
Jacob, and to their seed after them who died, could not be fulfilled unless God has made provision for their resurrection. The Scriptures show that God did hold out to them the hope of a resurrection, and that Abraham, Jacob and the prophets of ,pld believed in the resurrection. Testifying concerning the hope and the resurrection Job said: “For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though, after my skin, worms destoy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see G-od.” (Job 19: 25, 26) Again in Job, looking to the time of the restoration of man, faith in the resurrection is expressed. We read: “If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness; then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth.”—Job 33: 23-25.
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