Golden Age, May 2, 1928

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Brooklyn, N. Y», Wednesday, May 2, 1928

Number 225

Marching Into the Kingdom

Fighting Malaria from Air

ITALY is said to be having some success in fighting malaria from the air. This is accomplished by scattering paris green over marsh-lands.

Russia Making Gas Masks

SOVIET Russia is making gas masks and is training school children in their use. That is a news item long enough to make anybody stop and think.

Only Forty Murders a Year in Berlin

IN THE great city of Berlin there were only forty murders last year. The perpetrators of thirty-eight of these have already been caught, and twenty-four of the number have suicided. The police force of the city is about 19,000 men.

Panama Canal Near Its Limit

IT IS estimated that in six years, at the present rate of increase, the Panama canal will be insufficient to handle the traffic that will then desire to pass through it. For the past three years its traffic has been considerably in excess of that passing through Suez.

Sight-Saving Classes

Approximately 4,000 children are enrolled in 292 sight-saving classes in the United States. These classes are for the little ones with weak or defective eyes. It is found that these little folks, taught by specially selected teachers, with the best lighting facilities and with special desks and methods of visual

instruction, make as rapid progress in their

studies as others who have the best of vision. New York city has sixty-eight of these special • class rooms in its public school system.

Value of a Ton of Straw

ONE ton of Straw now produces 640 pounds of carbon, 10 gallons of vegetable tar, 40 gallons of another fluid and 12,600 feet of gas. It is now bringing the farmer about $8.50, whereas a few years ago it was considered an almost total waste and was often burned to get rid of it.

Fewer Farmers Every Year

EVERY year, in the United States, there are 400,000 fewer farmers. At least that has been the average net loss for the last five years. Last year was an exception, the net loss having fallen to 193,000. Unemployment in the cities is keeping more boys on the farm.

Buying up the World

A MERICAN financiers are now rapidly brty-ing up the world. They have invested four and one-half billion dollars in Europe, four billion dollars in Canada, three billion dollars in Central America, two and one-half billion dollars in South America and one billion dollars in Asia.

Another Health Center in Palestine

Nathan Stkaus, who, during the past thirteen years, has contributed one million dollars to the cause of the Jews in Palestine, has given the money for the erection of a new health center at Tel-aviv, which will be open to all nations and creeds, the same as the one which he founded at Jerusalem.

Hundreds Balk at Vaccination

RATHER than have their blood stream polluted by vaccination, 735 pupils of Green Bay, Wisconsin, have accepted a fourteen-day suspension from school. This is an inconvenience for the children and their parents and a financial disappointment to those who had expected to dispose of the vaccine pus.

Hittite Kids Had to Study Too

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BAKED clay tablets discovered recently in the ancient capital of the Hittite empire reveals the sad fact that the Hittite kids had to study ancient languages, the same as the rising generation of the present day. Eight languages have been uncovered in these ruins, including Sumerian, the oldest known.

Emancipation of Sierra Leone Slaves

SLAVERY has been formally abolished in the British West African colony of Sierra Leone, resulting in the freeing of 250,000 slaves. The most remarkable thing about this is that they were not freed long ago. There are still some eighteen countries in the world practising slavery. It is estimated that there are two million slaves in Abyssinia; also many in Arabia.

Joshua Told the Truth

Professor John Garstang, of the Institute of

Archaeology, University of Liverpool, who has been conducting archaeological work in Palestine for some years, declares that the story of Joshua’s campaigns, as recorded in the Bible, is now proven to be so absolutely correct that the course followed by the victorious Israelites can be plainly traced from point to point.

Fifty Million Dollars in Palestine

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IN THE last ten years fifty million dollars has been sent to Palestine, to help put the country on its feet. American Jews this year are trying to raise seven and one-half million dollars for the same purpose. In the ten years more than four thousand war orphans have been cared for. World-wide unemployment conditions have affected Palestine also of late.

Too Much Crime in the Papers

J Alfred Spender, noted English author and

• former editor of the liberal magazine The Westminster Gazette, and the first American Fellow of the English-speaking Union, has recently visited the United States. He finds much in American journalism to admire but is depressed at the amount of space given in American papers to the disgusting details of crime. Let us hope that his opinions, worth much on this subject, may be given due weight by our editors.

Greed Diamond Find in South Africa

THE greatest diamond find in history has just been made in South Africa on lands belonging to the South African Republic. In a visit of one hour the Minister of Mines picked up stones worth $3,000, and in six weeks twenty men recovered diamonds valued at $800,000. The find is located at the mouth of the Orange River.

Esthonia Making Progress

ESTHONIA, one of the new Baltic states, created out of what was once Russian territory, is making progress. The little state is and has always been agricultural, and hence finds little space in the news of the day. The big estates of the nobility are being put into the hands of the people, forty thousand new farms having been created in 1927.

Fascism Is Made World-Wide

Mussolini has ordered that fascism He made world-wide. All Italians are expected to become fascists, to refrain from taking part in the internal politics of the country where they reside, and to obey without question the orders of the Italian consuls and fascist chiefs. The organization abroad includes the fascist Boy Scouts.

The Singapore Floating Dock

IN ELEVEN months a British firm has built and launched in seven sections the Singapore floating dry dock, a structure made of twenty thousand tons of steel and large enough to accommodate 60,000 people within its walls. A Dutch firm, believed the only one capable of doing so, will tow it to Singapore, using eight tugs in what will likely take four months. It will go in two parts.

Coroner’s Jury Indicts Colorado Police

A CORONER’S jury in Colorado rendered the following verdict: “Klemente Chevez came to death on the afternoon of January 12 from gunshot wounds fired by state police whose names are unknown to the jurors. Said shooting was unprovoked and said state police showed a total disregard for human life.” Colorado must have a nice kind of civilization and nice men upholding it. Or would the "lower regions” be better?

I One Hundred New Snow Crystals

A VERMONTER who makes a specialty of photographing snow crystals reports that I in a single storm recently he took photographs I of one hundred new varieties, and that during I the past winter one hundred eighty new forms of snow crystallization were discovered. Nothing in nature is more exquisite than the varied forms of snow crystals.

Cost of World War to Uncle Sam

rpjIE Annual Report of Secretary Mellaai J- states that the total money eost of th© World War to the United States Government from April 6, 1917, to June 30, 1927, was $47,957,272,333. It certainly was an expensive piece of business to make the world safe for hypocrisy ; but that end seems to have been attained, so why complain I

Sunday Funeral Ban Spreads

Who Is to Be Believed?

| LEAKING their cue from one another, the Min- TXT’HO is to be believed, the president, who ; 1 isterial Alliances in various cities East, ’ ’ . says that in building a new billion-dollar

! West, North and South, are out with demands -that there be no Sunday funerals, because it j is cutting into their regular business. These ,■ ______ ___

i Sunday funerals will eventually all fall into the • hands of the Bible Students who are willing to ? serve them without money and without price.

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J TpIGHT years ago the Supreme Court ruled that stock dividends are not taxable as in-

J come. Since that time 10,245 corporations have ' distributed $6,253,818,026 in stock, all of which

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[ went to the shareholders. If the bulk of this I had gone to the workers it would have made it I easier for them to bear the present era of wide-| spread unemployment.

L Eastland’s Horned Toad

. fPlllRTY-ONE years ago a homed toad was ■ buried alive in a corner-stone of the East-5 land, Texas, courthouse. At the expiration of [that time the building was torn down, and the | toad, sealed into its living tomb without light, air or water, for a score and a half of years, F was found alive and is still living. It will be well cared for during the remainder of its life.

Blowing up a Burning Volcano

CLAD in an asbestos suit, Tex Thornton, famous oil man, recently extinguished a i burning oil well at Corpus Christi, Texas, which had burned for itself a hole 200 feet t in diameter and 125 feet deep. The flames were j put out by two hundred quarts ,of nitroglycerin ) shoved into the midst of the volcano by the | power of a stream of water. The nitroglycerin I was brought seven hundred miles in an auto-I mobile by Thornton’s wife, and in jig time; this t in itself is a most remarkable achievement.

navy there is no thought of competitive armaments, or his secretary of the navy, who admits that the purpose of the huge naval program was competition with Great Britain? George Washington Cherry Tree Hatchet! What are we coming to?

The Haled Espionage Act

THE Wilson espionage act under which, during the World War, two thousand citizens were sent to prison (some of them under sentence for as long as twenty years) for daring to exercise their constitutional rights, is still on the books, and will be kept there by Big Business, so that when they get ready to bring on th© next war none will dare open their mouths.

Homeless Women in London

AN INVESTIGATOR of the fives of the very poor in London found women hiding the fact that in midwinter the only belongings they had in the world were a skirt, jacket and boots, without any pretense of underwear, stockings or anything else. He found that these poor women will suffer any conceivable misery rather than reveal their destitution to anybody*

Moving Pictures Across the Atlantic

MOVING pictures have actually been sent across the Atlantic, from London to Hartsdale, New York. They were not very good pictures, but were plain enough to show that the problem has been solved. Telephone service across the Atlantic has been put in operation between the United States and Germany. We are getting so used to these wonders that we fail of even remote appreciation of their vast significance. The human family is fast becoming one in reality.

TJie GOLDEN AGE

Brooklyn, N. Y« ,

Films Not Suitable for Permanent Records

EXPERIENCE has shown that moving picture films last only about five years, when they begin to deteriorate. Thus the hopes or fears of some that the scenes of the World War would be preserved by this means are brought to an end. Perhaps it is just as well. The Scriptures, speaking of the present evil time, says that when the Millennium is in full swing “the former things shall not be remembered nor come into mind”.

Health Authorities Kill Eleven Children

HE health authorities of Bundaberg, near Sydney, Australia, have caused the death of

at least eleven children, probably more, as the result of diphtheria inoculation. As a result of the use of this serum there is a panic in the neighborhood, and an increasing protest against the pollution of the human blood stream by such means.

Tonsils May Have Some Value

THE suspicion that tonsils may have some value to somebody besides the surgeons who make a specialty of removing them, and who frequently take precious lives in doing so, is aroused by the bulletined information from the United States Public Health Service that rheumatism, heart disease, ear troubles, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, mumps and defective teeth are all more prevalent among those who have had their tonsils removed than among those that have continued to go along with all the parts that God gave them originally.

Fascisti Pour Guns into Hungary

SENDING them through on false waybills, declaring that they were agricultural machinery and that they were intended for Czechoslovakia and ultimately for Poland, the Fascisti have been caught in the act of shipping five carloads of machine guns from Verona, Italy, to a point in Hungary. Neither the Czechoslovakian nor the Polish government knows anything about this shipment, and the Hungarian government, the Horthy regime, refuses to make any explanation. The plan of the Fascisti to grab the world by force has received a temporary setback. In defiance of the League of Nations, Hungary sold the guns for $413 to a junkman, thus disposing of the evidence.

Western Civilization in Manchuria .J

MILLIONS of people in Manchuria live on beans, their staple food. Along comes the profit-mad banker. Last fall these bankers bought about all the beans in the country, some thirteen thousand carloads. Now the people must pay the bank price for the beans or starve. One wonders if any western Christians are mixed up in this plan for making millions off starving people.

Safety Device for Air Passengers

A N OGDEN, Utah, man has devised a safety device for airplane passengers which it is believed will solve the problem of caring for passengers and mail in case of sudden disability or distress of a plane. By the mere pulling of a lever the aviator dumps his entire load through a trap door, eliminating all necessity for thought or action on the part of the pas-senger^ A parachute is attached to each seat

Stupidity Turning the World Bolshevik

Carlo Sforza, former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, now lecturing in the United States, declares that another world war will mean the collapse of all European institutions and the triumph of Bolshevism everywhere. Meantime, all the nations of the world having emerged from the World War without having learned a single thing, are rapidly rushing toward the next war and the Bolshevism to follow.

Foolish Funeral Costs

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THE average funeral cost in Newark, N. J., is given as $493. Funeral costs all over the United States have risen until they now absorb a major part of small estates. To say that this is foolish is putting it mildly. What possible benefit accrues to anybody for a poor widow to spend her all in an elaborate funeral for her dead husband? What aid can it be to her or to her children? To say that it costs around $400 to put a person into the ground is every bit as big a lie as the eternal torture lie, which has wrung billions from the people for the benefit of a lot of lazy loafers. In North Carolina it costs $194 on the average to bury a person. Even that is too high. In some places cemeteries are now charging $100 for a single grave, and on an entire acre.

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Interesting Ford Items

' Demonism in Europe

THE Ford Motor Company sold its first car in July, 1903, and its fifteen millionth car on May 26, 1927. The Ford company makes its own steel and its own glass and mines its own coal, but charges only one profit, namely, that on the completed product. The horsepower of all manufactured Ford cars combined is thirty-three times that of all the stationary engines in the United States.

A USTRIA and Bavaria are aflame with do-monism in its most repellent forms. Ib Austria a miner has his body mutilated without bleeding, blood flows from stomach and knees, a large cross of blood appears on his back. In Bavaria every Friday Theresa Neuman is made to reenact the sufferings and death of Christ under horrible conditions imposed by demons who control these manifestations. The object of these demoniacal manifestations is clear.

The Dog Had the More Sense

NEW YORK man, owner of a fine police dog, went to bed with a cigarette between his lips, fell asleep and would have burned to death had not the dog dragged the blazing covers from his bed and then dragged the man himself into another room. The dog set two rooms afire instead of one, but he saved his

taster. The dog himself has too much sense to smoke cigarettes.

Greater Combustion Efficiency

A N AUTHORITY estimates that the horsepower produced by coal has increased by fifty percent since 1916, but that the amount of coal burned per horsepower produced has declined at almost exactly the same rate, the result being that the net amount of coal consumed has remained virtually unchanged. The increased combustion efficiency is one of the many factors complicating the coal question.

The March of the Machine t'-i_

THE New York Times of February 26 contains a most interesting article by Evans Clark, entitled “March of the Machine Makes Idle Hands”. Charts and statistics are provided to prove what every sensible person ought to have known in the first place; namely, that labor-saving machinery really saves labor, and that although the owners of the machines are getting richer and richer the condition of the workers is steadily getting more precarious. The article says truly that “at a time when American prosperity has become an international sensation, when American efficiency has become the eighth wonder of the world, the lodging houses are crowded to capacity with men who want work but can not find it, and the employment agencies struggle with hordes of applicants for jobs that do not exist”.

Mussolini Claims Divine Right

IN THE following statement taken from the

London Times Mussolini claims for himself and fellow fascists the divine right to rule. The statement reads: “If those who hold the reigns of power have acquired their power in accordance with a just principle and govern in accordance with reason, implying a due regard to the general welfare, which, above all, presupposes the moral welfare of the people, no one has the right to call in question the right of that government to govern. This is the divine right of any government, whether of kings or of parliaments; divine because to act reasonably and in accordance with the moral law is to fulfil the will of God.”

Mussolini’s Definition of Fascism

Mussolini has approved the following definition of fascism which appeared in the London Times: “Fascism may be defined generally as a political and social movement having as its object the reestablishment of a political and social order based upon the main current of traditions that have formed our European civilization, traditions created by Rome, first by the Empire and subsequently by the Catholic Church.”

Five Tears for Scratching Match

IN VENICE, Italy, during the last week of November, 1927, a workman was tried for scratching a match on a wall poster which bore the picture of Mussolini. He claimed that he did not see the picture, did not know it was Mussolini’s, but merely wished to light his tobacco. For this offence he received a sentence of five years in the penitentiary. Stop and tT ‘nk! None but fascists may now vote in Itai... Do you wish fascism in America?

Radio Routs a Burglar

THE burglar business is having a hard time.

A burglar entered a home at Butler, Pa., one night recently, and was quietly working aw’ay at his trade when he had the tough luck to bump into a radio set and start the thing going. In the fight that followed the burglar got badly beaten up and arrested and will now have to lose considerable time from his usual avocation. No doubt he will be sore at radios from now henceforth for evermore.

The Prayer Book Crisis

HE real fight in England over the prayer book is as to whether or not the actual body and blood of Christ tike the place of the emblems commemorative of our Lord’s death, after they have been blessed by some priest. In other words, it is the fight of the Reformation all over again on the doctrine of transubstantia-tion. The bishops want the new prayer book so that they can bring about a reunion with Rome. The common people, more truthful and more honest, will not have it, and the result may be the disestablishment of the Church of England and the division of the church property between the warring factions.

Philip Gibbs* Opinion of America

hilip Gibbs, noted British newspaper correspondent, in an address at Oxford, En

gland, made the statement, “America is the most dangerous nation in the world today, because it is too highly organized and volatile, so that overnight a passion of pity or hate could sweep the country and rouse it to action which would be either beneficial or detrimental to the world.” Those who know America well can not deny the truth of these statements. Sir Philip added that “America represents progress”. And that statement is true, too.

A Novel New Skyscraper

EW YORK is used to skyscrapers, but the New York Central building about to be

erected just north of the Grand Central Terminal is something different. It is not so big, only thirty-five stories, but it is odd in that it will straddle two sets of railroad tracks, built one above another, and in addition will have two main roads for motor vehicles running right through its heart. It will be crowned by a huge lantern several stories high, illuminated at night.

Japanese Coronation Ceremonies

A T THE Japanese coronation ceremonies to be held next November the Emperor and Empress will ride in horse-drawn carriages of state, but the distinguished foreign visitors will ride in seventeen humbler vehicles, namely,

American automobiles which will cost Japan about five thousand dollars apiece. Only royalty can afford to ride behind a horse in

these days. Anybody else would be laughed at, and maybe they will be laughed at anyway.

The Holy City of Benares

HE Holy City of Benares, India, with a population of 200,000 permanent residents, with hundreds of thousands more coming every year to bathe in the Ganges, has no electric lights, and no sanitary conveniences or latrines for the tens of thousands that line the banks of the holy river. The crowd is thickest where the sewage of the city seeps into the river. The priests have taught the people that bathing in these dirty waters and drinking them will wash away their sins.

Languages in the Philippines

OME of the languages spoken in the Philippines are Tagalog, Visayan (Cebu, Panay,

Samar-Leyte, Aklan), Ilocano, Bikol, Pampango, Pangasinan, Ibanag, Sambali, Itavi, Gaddang, Kalamian, Kuyonen, Agutaya, Ivatan, Isinai, Banton, Isamal, Dumagat, Magindanao, Sulu, Lanao (Maranao and Ilanum), Samal, Yakan, Badjao, Sanggil, Palawanos, Ifugao, Igorot, Bontok, Kalingga, Bukidnon, Banuauon, Bano-bo, Subanum, Bilaan, Tinggian, Itneg, Tag-banua, Mandaya, Bagobo, Giangga, Mangyan, Apayao, Tirurai, Tagakaolo, Ata, Tagabili, Hongot, Ibalao, Kulaman and Mangguangan. Thirteen of these languages represent groups of over 100,000 inhabitants each, while some of the remaining forty odd languages are each spoken by groups ranging from 2,000 up to 90,000. ,

"All Aboard for Armageddon”

UNDER the interesting title of “All Aboard for Armageddon” the St. Louis Post Dispatch writes of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur’s proposals that the United States build a billion dollar navy within eight years and deny the president the power to interfere. Admiral

I Hughes has stated that this is only a beginning and Admiral Plunkett has declared that war is inevitable and near, presumably war with Britain. Senator Borah says the whole program is ’ one of madness; and so it is, a madness affecting all the nations of earth.

Justice Saw What Happened

A T COVERDALE, Pa., coal and iron police AA of Pennsylvania wantonly attacked a man on his own property while he was innocently engaged in constructing for his own use a little shop. The man was beaten unconscious with riot sticks, and after five days in bed was unable to rise. Ordinarily a little thing like this could be done by the Pennsylvania cossacks and no-

body could say a word, but this time it happened that a justice of the peace witnessed the whole outrage, issued an order for the arrest of the 1 offenders and they are now fugitives from justice.

Admits the League Is Hypocritical

Senor Don Salvador de Macdariaga, former chief of the disarmament section of the League of Nations Secretariat, at a luncheon at the Hotel Astor, New York, admitted that the League of Nations is a league of hypocrites, but was hopeful that after a while the hypocrites would get to be like the people they are pretend-i ing to be. It was supposed to be a witty remark, and received great applause; nevertheless it reveals the nature of our civilization and why it is headed for the rocks. Honesty, sincerity, kindness, is what the world must have to survive.

Syria and Nicaragua

ALMOST every liberty-loving American was indignant when the news came that the French airplanes were bombing Syrian villages, killing men, women and children, because of the rebellion of the Druses; but so rapidly do we become callous as offenses are repeated that we never think that the airplanes of the American army have done the same thing in Nicaragua. Further, it is declared that one Nicaraguan was slain by an American lieutenant when he was approaching to surrender, with cries of “Amigo” “Amigo” on his lips. The protection ef this Brown Brothers Seligman loan is a nasty business.

In Uncivilized Rumania

TT NOW transpires that the December po-A groms in Rumania were organized by gov* ernment officials, supported by the government, aided by the army and police, and defended by the courts. In one city, Oradea Mare, the pogrom was led by the chief of police, and the mayor and his guests looked on approvingly from the balcony of his residence across the street when a synagogue was wrecked and a man killed. The owner of a hotel who defended himself and wounded two of his attackers was beaten senseless by the police and placed under arrest. His attackers went scot free.

What the Shanghai Massacre Cost Britain

WHAT the Shanghai massacre of students in the early summer of 1925 cost Great Britain is revealed by the fact that before the end of that year the British merchants of Hongkong reported to their home government that in three months they had lost fifteen million pounds sterling. This loss is traced directly to the effect on the Chinese people of the senseless and useless murder of these students by a British army officer who seemed to have nothing above his neck but hair and bone. The day for that kind of thing is about done, and all sensible men rejoice in the prospect.

Queens Taxpayers Lose Eight Millions

QUEENS (New York city) taxpayers have lost eight million dollars in excessive costs for sewers above what the charges should properly have been. As a sample of how the stealing was done it is of immediate present interest that all the contractors were required to buy a certain kind of pipe and from a certain man. He paid $4.25 a foot for the pipe and sold it to them at $35.00 to $45.00 a foot. As usual, the evidence has been destroyed. The public generally have ceased to hope that any of these millionaire thieves will ever be punished. The only people in danger are those who expose them.

Improvement in Life-Saving Apparatus

A GREAT improvement in saving lives at sea is a plan by which amphibian airplanes carry lines from shore to vessels wrecked off shore. By this means life-lines can be carried several times as far as was possible under the system hitherto in use, namely, by firing a line from a cannon.

Events in Canada By Our Canadian Correspondent

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WINKING at the world from, the myriad scintillant eyes of her snow-wreathed lands, Canada is making a good showing in some important ways. The approaching termination of her fiscal year finds her Government wearing smiles of satisfaction in the contemplation of its financial achievements.

Her revenue for the current year will be approximately $419,000,000. Hence with an expenditure of $365,000,000, she has $54,000,000 snugly tucked away in her pocketbook to meet such exigencies as shall arise. Says the Minister of Finance: “Seldom have annual state

ments from leaders of finance and industry throughout Canada so generously reflected such progress as that of the year 1927. Our revenues have been able to meet the fixed charges, take care of increasing needs of the growing country, and provide also for a reduction of debt.” So much ior that.

Employment in Canada has been at a higher level this past year than any year since 1920. While her statistics show a 57 percent increase in the cost of living over pre-war figures, her wages show an advance of 68 to 99 percent over wages before the war.

Canada a Heavy Borrower

THE phenomenal development going on in Canada along all lines is attracting the attention of the world, and while her own people have by far the greatest amount of money invested in her enterprises, which is equally true of all other countries, Canada, like the United States a few years ago, is a heavy borrower.

A short time ago her greatest creditor was the United Kingdom; but since the war a change has taken place, for she has found it to her advantage to borrow more heavily from the United States. Of the total of $5,400,000,000 foreign funds employed in the Dominion, $3,-100,000,000 is from the United States, while a little more than $2,000,000,000 is from the United Kingdom.

When the British but a short time ago had

their billions invested in the States it was quite common to hear some irresponsible Englishman

speak of Britain’s economic absorption of America, which statement Americans quite naturally resented. Unfortunately similar statemade in reference to A m eri aa’r investment la Canada. Little do such realize that two years’ returns from Canada’s field crop alone would be sufficient to wipe off her debt to the States.

Mr. Marcosson, an able contributor to the Saturday Evening Post, speaking of the relationship between Canada and the States, put the matter as follows:

An Intensive Development

< < TN PER capita trade Canada is second, and .

A in actual trade volume she ranks fifth, among the nations. Exports last year were worth nearly $1,500,000,000. The coal reserves comprise one-sixth of the world total and the

installed horsepower is second to that of the United States. Only 10 percent of her potential 32,000,000 horsepower has been harnessed. Within Canadian confines a whole universe of

energy waits to be geared to the need of man. From fish to timber, Nature has been prodigal in her gifts.

“The mineral belt is 3,000 miles in length and ; produces nearly every known useful metaL Sixty percent of available farm land awaits the ; plow and harrow. Nowhere has an equal number of people (the population is still under the 10,000,000 mark) such enormous undeveloped resources at their disposal.

“The American billions in Canada comprise no idle wealth. On no other alien soil has the

Yankee branch factory and its output become so intimately a part of the national productive life. The similarity of speech and habit is so strong that it is sometimes difficult to know where the American phase ends and the Canadian begins. Water power (that ‘white thunder harnessed to the mill’, as a Canadian poet put it) and ample raw material are the lodestones that attract. In the next article you will see in detail the concrete evidence of our activity, from newsprint and pulp to automobiles.

“There remains the diagnosis of the Canadi

an feeling for us. After running the gantlet of intermittent hostility to the United States all

the way from Europe to Latin America these last years, it was refreshing to turn to the one domain where we are less unpopular than anywhere else.

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“A feeling of friendly neighborlinese per-

vadea the Dominion as far as we are concerned. It would be a mistake to describe the state of mind in more enthusiastic terms. Canada has admiration for our industrial development and

Canada’s forest resources are enormous. The great woodlands are capable of producing several times the amount of lumber now being used.

for the resourcefulness of our people. Like some Continental countries, she thinks more highly of us as individuals than as a nation. She likewise appreciates the regard and esteem in which we hold her citizens. . . .

‘'There is a vast amount of loose, loud and unnecessary talk by some Americans about their ‘capitalistic conquest of Canada’. It riles our neighbors on the north in the same way that talk about our prosperity irritated the French • during the hours of their fiscal chaos in 1926. ; The intelligent American regards the employment of his cash across the line merely as part of a growing investment scheme projected in the larger interest of every one involved. He finds the Dominion a safe repository for cap-i ital.” p - ■

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St. Lawrence Deep Waterways r

THE St. Lawrence Deep Waterways Scheme has been described as one of the biggest j problems that Canada has faced in years. On ■ the Welland Canal section of the Waterway the i country is committed to spend $114,000,000. i The United States will derive great benefit i from this. The work of deepening and canalizing the St. Lawrence river from Kingston to Montreal is indeed a gigantic undertaking.

It is claimed that the accomplishment of this scheme will double the volume of business at

Sport and Religion

HE pronounced success of the Winter Carnival at Banff makes it very clear that Canada can be made a Mecca for tourists in winter as well as in summer. Those who by actual experience know nothing of the “treasures of the snow”, toboggans, hillsides crispy with frost, and iridescent ice castles, as well as exhilarating snowshoe tramps, have missed a revelation in what it means to enjoy life. Canadian winter sports, no less than the summer “song my paddle sings”, send the glow of health to the cheek and in a sense bring back the days of youth.

Then the people of Canada are not averse to inside sports as well. Among these they count the movies. On this form of pleasure no less than $30,000,000 was spent last year. This means 5,000 miles of celluloid in moving pictures. And here’s something to think over. The Dominion Parliament has refused to annul its .law against blasphemous libel, under which a certain person was convicted about a year ago. The one who moved the resolution to have the law repealed and his only supporter were formerly clergymen, says the Toronto Globe.

The article says that one of these gentlemen “defends the Sterry article on the ground that what was said therein is being taught every day in the theological colleges of Canada. He says: T could go to almost any theological college of Canada and find professors of Old Testament

the port of Montreal, that some 40,000,000 persons will be served by the improved transportation facilities thus opened up and that the utilization of the 4,000,000 horsepower between Prescott and Montreal will give employment to a new population of 1,540,000 workmen, support additional population of 7,000,000 and draw the enormous sum of $2,324,400,000 per annum.

The rubber industry in Canada has assumed colossal dimensions. As a matter of fact this land is the fourth rubber manufacturing country in the world. The raw material is purchased abroad and the annual Canadian production therefrom amounts in value to $100,000,000. While some make wry faces at this sort of thing, we merely state the facts as they are.

history who would give from the lecture chair an account of the creation story not one bit more respectful than this article does.’ ”

Then the Globe says this good thing: “If it is true that the theological chairs of our universities are filled with men who are destroying the foundations of Christianity, it is high time that the laity of every church awoke to the fact and demanded a housecleaning of the institutions their money goes to support. The layman should be cognizant of the fact before it is too late. The time for the hush-hush policy is gone.”

Erratum

The Golden Age No. 222, page 387, first column, third paragraph, Ezra 2:69 should read 1 Chronicles 29: 7.

Aspirin, the Enemy By C.J.

THE enlightenment of readers of The Golden Age upon the subject of aluminum, and the various phases of physical health and care • which have been presented from time to time in these pages suggest to the writer that the Lord is blessing this medium of wholesome instruction for the improvement of not only the minds, but also the bodies, of all who will consider and heed the information contained in its pages.

In line with the thoughts just expressed, the here mentioned, are in the inorganic form, which the body can not assimilate fully, if at alt The process of trituration to which some ef these salts are subjected helps slightly, but not much.

Some drugs in the materia medica are even more foreign to the nature of the body than are the inorganic salts. We find among the substances used in modem therapy, compounds of arsenic, mercury, bismuth, strychnia, and other sons, which are not found in the human organism, and have a deleterious effect when they are introduced therein.

time seems ripe for a friendly warning to all* substances entirely foreign and inimical to liv

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intelligent persons, who are not health “cranks” or religious “cranks” or any other type of fanatic, but simple and straightforward Bible students who desire to please their Lord by word and deed and to properly care for the bodies His wisdom has created for them.

The writer’s purpose in presenting this matter is to give serious warning against the use, in any form, of the drug aspirin. No person who truly loves the Lord and who diligently tries to keep His commandments, and especially no Bible student, would knowingly take morphine, heroin, cocaine, eucain, hasheesh, tobacco, or any other lethal drug. But many of the Lord’s dear ones who read this will be astounded to learn that in taking aspirin to assuage pain, they are becoming slaves to an insidious poison; a drug with deadly properties; a habit-forming, will-destroying, demoralizing narcotic.

There are two forms of chemical compounds, organic and inorganic, or mineral. Organic compounds are those found in nature: in plants, sea-water, air, and in the blood, bones, fluids, and tissues of animals. Inorganic compounds comprise all the metals, stones, minerals, and other substances that are not found in living organisms. Some elements exist in both forms, and a few of those familiar ones which may be either organic or inorganic are iron, phosphorus, sulphur, calcium, silicon, magnesium, and their salts.

These elements and their salts, consisting of the various phosphates, sulphates, oxides, and silicates, are present in the human body, in both simple and highly complex forms, but they are all in the organic state. Fruits, vegetables, and meats contain the above listed substances in organic form, which is readily assimilated by a normal body. In therapeutics the salts administered, though having the same names as those

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ing tissue and never found in the human body in its normal healthy condition.

Some of the things not present in the body are gold, silver, diamonds, lead, tin, zinc, and copper. “Why,” you exclaim, “every one knows that!” Yes, but does every one know that coal tar is not found, even in blue blood? And yet in cheap candy, highly-colored icings, syrups, flavorings, and aspirin, we find the very same substances, rearranged over and over again by expert chemists, but all derived from the evil source, coal tar.

No one can doubt the immense value of coal tar by-products in all other fields of human activity, such as dye stuffs and explosives; but no one knowing the facts can venture to assert that coal tar products, no matter how nearly they taste, smell, or feel like nature’s products, are fit for human consumption. Still less can any reasonable person fail to doubt the advisability of administering a coal tar by-product into the human body for medicinal purposes.

Aspirin is the trade name for mono-acetie-acidester of salicylic acid. This simply means that it is a derivative, through the agency of acetyl, of salicylic acid. Acetyl is a hypothetical monatomic form of acetic acid, the fundamental ingredient of fermented vinegar. Acetyl may be made synthetically from coal tax. Salicylic acid is a form of salicin, a poisonous compound contained in the bark of willow trees. It may also be made synthetically from coal tar. Aspirin is the result of the treatment of one of these synthetic compounds with another.

The statement may be heard in defense of aspirin that each of its constituents is found ia nature, in organic form, and hence the product ought to be of use to the body. Such a hypothesis is entirely wrong, because even among organic compounds, which occur in trees, roota^ or other vegetable life, there are virulent poi-

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ade directly from its organic constituents, it would still be unfit to enter the body; but being, as it is, a doubly synthetic, or artificial compound, the product of two or more substances in themselves artificial-

• ly produced from matter entirely foreign to organic life, it is evident that any temporary relief from distress which may come from the use of this drug is far outbalanced by the lasting and irreparable injury done to the body of its

user.

Common sense will warn most people against believing the claims of those whose business it is to advertise quack doctors and their nostrums. There is but one inference to be de

ducted from the statements made in such advertisements : Any medicine purporting to relieve or cure widely different ailments, such as lum

bago and dyspepsia, or headache and rheumatism, or acute indigestion and a cold in the head, or any or all of these things put together, must be a dope and can not possibly be anything

An honest physician (and there are many such) will advise against the use of aspirin. The stuff has had tremendous sale because thousands of unscrupulous practitioners have endorsed its use and prescribed it for their patients. Any doctor who can do nothing but relieve pain is an unintelligent doctor. The physician who has made a careful study of food and its relation to health, and who gives his patients few medicines and plenty of good wholesome advice, is the man to trust.

The treatment of disease through alleviation of the symptoms is illogical, irrational, and archaic. What sane person would attempt to put out a fire by blowing the smoke away? Symptoms are nature’s warnings of trouble in the human machinery?

The proper course to follow is to obtain from the very best sources available a correct diagnosis of the ailment and then start immediately upon corrective measures, whether dietary or surgical, osteopathic, chiropractic, naturopathic, allopathic or homeopathic. When the symptoms lessen and disappear during treatment one may be certain the particular ailment in question has been cured.

The deadening effect of narcotics upon pain has never arrested, and never will arrest, the progress of any disease, serious or otherwise. The cause of the pain is there, and is gaining its hold upon the body while the unfortunate victim of delusion thinks he or she has been “cured” by Dr. Blanks’ Elixir or Ambrosia or “Special Prescription” or other hoax. (See any advertising page of cheap rural periodicals or daily newspapers.)

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Taking aspirin for a cold is worse folly than employing it to deaden a headache. A cold always indicates a state of congestion, and then, if ever, the body needs to be thoroughly awakened and roused to a state of throw off the toxins producing the cold. This may be surely done by a two-day fast on orange juice and lots of water. The writer has proved the truth of this in his own person.

If any apparent benefit is ever experienced from the use of aspirin for a cold, the reason for it is obviously and undoubtedly this: By the introduction of aspirin the body is forced to make an effort to rid itself of the poisonous drug and in doing so automatically ejects with it most of the cold-producing toxins.

But let all intelligent readers mark this: The drug is not so easily got rid of. It (or most of it) stays in the body, lurking in glands or in the blood stream, producing almost continual enervation, uneasiness, and a vague longing for “something” which is appeased only when an additional dose of the drug is administered.

Little by little, grain by grain, the victim accumulates within his or her blood stream a sufficient quantity of this pretty, white, granular, coal tar derivative, and then the heart can stand the oppression no longer, and lies down to rest until the day when all who sleep are awakened and given a chance to use their brains in taking care of themselves.

Let us give thanks unto the Lord, that the way of everlasting life, health and happiness is becoming brighter day by day, and that those who love Him are being permitted to learn of the proper way to care for their bodies through the means of the wonderful foods He has provided for them. Let us endeavor so to employ nature’s means of keeping well that we shall always be in fit condition to carry abroad the message of the King and kingdom, to the everlasting praise and glory of Jehovah.

On Medical Control

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over in better shape than the Almighty original- I ly made him. I know that the fashions in opera- 1 tions change as do the fashions in dress. I know I that one day the fashion is to operate for ap- 1 pendicitis. I know that the doctors are con- I demning today what they did a few years ago, and I am pretty sure they will be condemning a few years from now what they are doing today. They will be compelled to or they will have no patients.

I know that the doctors dose the people with ’ medicines which they do not believe in themselves. I know that doctors’ families use very few drugs. I know that you can scarcely find an intelligent physician today that will not admit this to his friends.

I know that they have specifics to prevent one from taking almost any disease, yet not one of them can tell you how the prevention is brought : about. I know they would vaccinate people for smallpox and that there is not a doctor that can explain how it prevents smallpox nor can he , prove that it does prevent it. They are not content to vaccinate people who come to them but they ask the state to pass laws to compel every- i body to be vaccinated. I might as well ask the | state to pass a law to compel the people to hire me to try their cases!

Sometime, if they keep on—and they will keep on if the people give them a chance—they will be able to vaccinate you for everything and you will be obliged to be vaccinated. I know you can pick out about five or six diseases which cause the deaths of probably nineteen-twentieths of all the people who live and die, and I have no doubt that the doctors will be able sooner or later to find a serum that will prevent you from getting any of them—but you will probably die in the operation I If we could pick out the various things that could be injected into the human system for twenty different diseases, I would like to see how a man would look and how long he would last if he took them all.

Nobody who believes in it need have any fear of smallpox; so why compel people to take it who do not want it? I have watched this medical profession for a long time—and it bears watching—and I know there is not a single thing affecting human life that they will not lay their hands on if we give them a chance.

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I HAVE been interested for a good many years in the question of leaving man free to do as he pleases so long as he does not directly interfere with some one else. I am not a chiropractor—I know very little about it—and it is not as a disciple of Dr. Palmer that I say a few words, but as a man who believes in liberty— or did when we had it!

I was born into this world without being consulted and I presume there was a doctor present. I did not hire him. As I had no chance to say anything about the way I was born and who was present, I think I should have the right to die without the assistance of a doctor, if I wish. I can not avoid the undertaker but I ought to be able to avoid the doctor.

Now, I would have no quarrel with the medical profession if they would leave me alone. I am willing that they should advertise their wares and their business, but I do object to being forced to patronize them.

I know that the doctors, like every one else, take themselves very seriously. I know that the A -

efforts of the medical profession in the United States to control the treatment of human ailments is not due to its love of human life: it is due to its love of its job, which job it proposes to monopolize for itself.

I know that the doctors have been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the United States against new methods and schools because they want the business and they insist that nobody shall have the right to live or die without their services. Whether they cure more or fewer people than the new schools who do not use medicine, or whether they cure anybody, is, of course, a debatable question, which I will not undertake to discuss.

I stand for the right of everybody to regulate his own life for himself, and if he wants to live and die without the aid of the medical profession, he should have the right to do it, and if one should not have that right it is pretty hard to tell what right he should have.

I know that much of the progress of the medical profession, if we can call it that, has been made against the advice of doctors.

I know that the medical profession is full of humbug and pretense; I know that a considerable percentage of physicians believe that by the aid of a saw and a knife they can make man

them, and that is to go to jail if necessary and

। defy them. The only part of the community f that has nothing to say about the laws that ; these special interests pass is, the people. All they have to do is pay for it—and they pay aplenty. I do not know how long the people will stand for it.

We will have and now have people telling us what we may eat and what we may drink, especially what we may not drink, and we will have the Billy Bryans and the Billy Sundays sending us to jail to save us from going to Hell.

Let me say this: that if the people are willing will be on the books for ever.

As a matter of fact, no law of any importance was ever taken off the books so long as the great mass of the people obeyed it. Most of the old witchcraft laws of New England are on the statute books today, but they have stopped condemning old women for witchcraft.

No law is ever repealed until the people stop obeying it.

Sometime if men are active enough and brave enough, they will be able to repeal many of the laws that hamper human rights.

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supreme law of this land. No matter what high position any person may occupy in the government, if he does not respect and abide by the Constitution he is an enemy of law, and in all important essentials an anarchist.

The Arbitrator gives the following summary of acts at Washington by those who have sworn to uphold the Constitution, but who, in fact, have violated botlwts spirit and its letter, and in betrayal of ourselves and our forefathers and of the rights of humanity:

Conscripting citizens to fight abroad; drafting Mexicans, Italians and Russians residing here to fight in our armies in Europe; passing the Espionage Act; seizing Dutch and Norwegian ships without authority; confiscating German private property as security for damages claimed from the German Government contrary to international custom and a special treaty; sentencing to ten years’ imprisonment a candidate for president of the United States for a speech opposing war; publishing false statements as propaganda; illegally raiding the homes of the people; sending troops to fight in foreign lands without authority of Congress; interfering with the politics of independent nations; imprisoning Americans on false charges at the suggestion of foreign ministers; depriving citizens of freedom of speech not only during the war but ten years thereafter; imprisoning men for supporting strikers under the plea of “unlawful assembly”; depriving of seats in legislative assemblies candidates duly elected; executing innocent men on framed-up charges as a means of suppressing agitation for better working conditions; using judicial injunctions to govern instead of laws; maintaining one practice in criminal procedure for the rich and another for the poor; declaring unconstitutional legislation favoring the laboring classes; legislating for the benefit of the rich; subj ecting suspects to physical violence under the “third degree” to obtain confessions; whitewashing public officials who have been proved corrupt; suppressing literature unreasonably.

Benefits of a Change of Diet By Nils 8. Hansen

HAVE noticed another article in The Golden Age about the use of aluminum for cooking food in. We have used it for many years, until <■

I saw an article in The Golden Age about four months ago. Then I stopped using it. Before then I had what they called bilious attacks.

I would almost go blind. A kind of ice-like film would form before my eyes. It would last for half an hour or more and after that I would get an awful pain in my head. It got so bad that I got those attacks three or four times a day. Seven days after I got new cooking pots the blindness gradually disappeared, and in a month it was gone altogether, and I have not felt it since.

This may be a warning to those that may be in the same condition as I was in, and be helped by it and be saved from the grave for a while, anyhow.

Something About Railroads By a Railroad Man

HE spirit of devilish selfishness permeates the very foundation principles of the railroad business. Many high railroad officials agree with this thought and are also of the opinion that this spirit of selfishness has outlived its usefulness in this modern day when the spirit of justice fills the very atmosphere. I personally know high railroad officials who

are idealists and who desire to do good to all men.

As to statistics, the railroads make public nothing that would be useful to their competitors, and the bookkeeping is a farce and a fraud. Let me illustrate the matter by a figure of speech which all should be able to understand.

Suppose the average man could keep books like the railroads and then have recourse to the government if bankrupt! It would be the millennium sure enough. At present the majority of wage-earners are receiving less than the government’s own figures of the amount necessary to support a family. Kight off they could claim that they are bankrupt and in line for government aid.

But suppose a man received in wages twice the government’s standard amount His first

act in bookkeeping would be to deduct the sum necessary for existence, using the government’s figures. Then if an auto were purchased and expected to run five years, he would figure to lay aside each year twenty percent of the cost of the machine so that a new machine could be purchased when the old one wore out.

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He would then charge oft a nice amount for possible losses, such as expenses of illness; charge off some more for other unexpected loses; charge off some more for interest; for, if he were like a corporation he would be always in debt, even though well able to get out at any time; and then he would charge some

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■ Would all this exceed his receipts? I am i sure it would, and, through this system of ' bookkeeping, he would be bankrupt, notwithstanding the fact that he was enjoying Ml the necessities of life, some luxuries, taking care

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Of all expenses and planning for the future.

And then, being bankrupt, he could tell his : sad tale of poverty to the government and they would loan him so much money that he would have to pinch himself to see if he were awake.

Railroad men of note generally recognize that the situation is in need of betterment in

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the direction-pf the common honesty expected of men in humbler walks of life, but find themselves handicapped by limitations of their personal abilities, laws, and, most of all, by the absence of a standard which only the ancient worthies can provide and efficiently cause to function. .

Meanwhile the Lord is so unostentatiously changing conditions that some might think ‘as it was, so it will always be’; but the Lord has allowed the truck and bus proposition to come in so quietly that it has caught many of the railroad companies napping in their selfsufficiency and they are now giving some real attention to betterment of service and fare concessions.

Would you believe that dividends, extra dividends, have been declared in view of the fact that the company was losing money on account

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of competition? It has been done: and that stock was regularly paying about 25% dividends when increase of rates was asked, and granted. And then, when business dropped down to the 'awful low figure’ of allowing only 20% dividends, an extra dividend of $10 per share was declared in view of the possible loss later on by the stockholders of tl^at company, which time has not come in the last five years

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Bible Questions and Answers

VESTION: Did Jesus ever say that He was God?

Answer: No. There is no scripture in the Bible to that effect. There is only one Supreme Being in the universe who is God, and that is Jehovah. Jesus is not God, but the Son of God. In Colossians 1: 3 we read, “We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” In 1 Corinthians 8:6 we read, “To us there is but one God, the Father, . . . and one Lord Jesus Christ.” In Isaiah 42:8 we read, “I am the Lord [Yah-weh]; that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another.” Those who claim that Jesus is God had better study their Bibles and wake up.

Question: What is consecration? I understand that I must make a consecration before I can become a Christian.

Answer: Consecration is an unconditional de

termination in one’s mind and heart to do God’s

will as expressed in the Bible. Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” (Matthew 7: 21) In order to do the will of the heavenly Father the individual must have a knowledge of what that will is, and this is expressed in the Bible, which alone is the infallible Word of Truth. We see therefore that in

order to be a Christian one must study the Bible

and apply in his conduct the principles therein ^ stated. This process of conforming to the truth ifs the process of sanctification. As one walks in ord with the truth, he is fitted for service in GolPsorganization. In praying to the heavenly Fafhudgfor His disciples, Jesus said, “Sanctify

them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” (John 17:17) A person continues to be the disciple and follower of Christ by keeping the Word of Truth; and the Lord promises to such freedom from error, and grace to do His will.

To them that believed on Him, Jesus said: “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” — John 8:31, 32.

Question: I am about to make a consecration to do God’s will; but I find myself to be unworthy, and I do not believe that I myself could make my calling and election sure. I recognize that you Bible Students have the truth. What would you do in my case?

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