Golden Age, October 17, 1928
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A JOURNAL OF FACT HOPE AND. COURAGE
in tliis issue
, THE HERALD OF PEACE reviewing the cause and the horrors of war
GOOD HEALTH
care of the human body and the actual cause of disease
COURTESIES OF MIDIANITES as expressed in their verbal attacks upon each other
PROVISION FOR
RECONCILIATION conflicting doctrines of churchianity contrasted with Jehovah God’s reasonable plan for man’s salvation, broadcast by Judge Rutherford
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Social and Educational
Caught in Passing .................. 40
Sopranos Unsuited to Radio ............. ..40
The Dying Newspapers ................ 41
Saved Sa Apiece in Half a Century ............ 41
In Ridley College, Melbourne .............. 41!
Contentment on a Small Income ............. 45
Sixty Servants tn Attendance .............. 62
Political—Domestic and Foreign
The Herald of Peace .................. 35
Cuba Insists on Education ............... 41
Russia Waives Duty on Tools ............. 41
Who Rules Philadelphia? ....... 42
Where the Nicaragua Trouble Started ........... 42
French and British Spoil Kellogg Treaty .......... 42
Pinchot’s Analysis of Imperialism ............ 41
It Happens in America (Poem) .............. 55
Agriculture and Husbandry
Tub Pasadena Ostrich Farms .............. 39
Where the Desert Blossoms .............. 51
Home and Health
Mastoiditis and the Knife ................ 41
Good Health ..................... 43
Debauching the Doctors ................ 47
Travel and Miscellany
Excavations at Kirjath-Sepher .............. 40
Just Folks ..................... 44
Ceilings ....................... 50
A Visit to Windsor Castle . .............. 52
Brooklyn’s Historic Pirate House ............ 62
Religion and Philosophy
Did Not Change His Vest ................ 45
The Courtesies of the Mhdanites (llliisuviied) ....... 48
Liberty ............... 54
Provision fob Reconciliation ............... 5!5
The Children’s Own Radio Story ............. 63
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The Golden Age
Velum® X Brooklyn, N. Y.s Wednesday, October 17, 192^ Number 237
The Herald of Peace
AN ISSUE of the Herald of Peace, Lemoore, California, is before us, and we have read it with interest and satisfaction. Its object is to abolish war. It has no set program, but it has ideas, lots of them, and information in great quantities. We copy some of it.
In his opening editorial the editor, E. L. Pratt, says of the causes of war:
Bismarck admitted that cupidity is the prime cause of war. But Bismarck was not honest enough to present the reverse side of the situation by calling attention to the fact that in the satisfaction of its hunger, the stronger nation took away from the weaker one all of these things: life and the materials with which, to support home and country, all that helped to make its own civilization worth while; and that in the end only a few of the very wealthy profited.
Civilization acknowledges life as sacred, and the common law declares that the killing of a human being is a capital crime. If the taking of a single life constitutes the greatest felony, by what words shall we designate the acts of any nation that deliberately destroys human, life masse, destroys it with no reason or excuse other than a desire to gain the possession of the vanquished nation in order to add to the surety and comfort of its own existence?
It is the same act, motivated in the same manner, and differing only in scale, that we find recorded in our daily newspaper’s account of individual sordid crime. The desire of one man for the money carried by another, this money evidencing potentially better conditions of living, comfortable housing, good clothing, palatable and nutritious foods, the lessening of strenuous effort for existence, leads him to attack the more fortunate man, and results in the despoiling and perhaps the death of the victim.
Multiply this incident by a thousand, by ten thousand, by a million, and we name it war, instead of robbery or murder.
But there is this difference between the two acts. There is no assured immunity from punishment for the individual criminal. He is aware that, however successful he may be in committing the crime, he faces the possibility of immediate and drastic retribution at the hands of an outraged community. But the nation, that instigates war, and brings that war to a successful conclusion in the furtherance of its own selfish aims, is not punished; is not even arraigned and judged at the bar of public opinion, as represented by other nations. The aggressor, if victorious, is permitted to retain and to enjoy his pirated plunder.
One of his contributors, Wade R. Parks, attorney at law, Plains, Montana, gives some further ideas along the same lines, saying in part:
That wars are promoted and supported for the same reasons that other enterprises are generally promoted, should by now be a common-place idea. All enterprises of wide-reaching consequences are promoted and conducted to produce profits. Did not President Wilson, in a noted address, declare that the building of the Bagdad railroad was the straw that broke the camel’s back in 1914 and caused the war? In other words, Germany’s enterprise to get her "wares on to the world’s market at some points theretofore a practical monopoly of some of her commercial competitors was very offensive, injurious, and objectionable to some of her commercial rivals, and the war that resulted put Germany out of the race for commercial supremacy.
And did not all who were pecuniarily interested in the war babies want war in 1917 ? Moreover, did not the Declaration of War in 1917 make business good for some time? Did not enterprising Americans in all lines of industry make unprecedented profits? And when the Hon. Eobert M. La Follette, in the United States Senate, proposed a financial measure which would tax into the United States Treasury all the profits made out of the enterprises that waxed fat on the war, did not the spokesman of the profiteers spread broadcast the poison-gas to the effect that La Follette was a pro-Ger-man, and otherwise assassinate his good name and character ? And did not The Associated Press broadcast a 100% lie concerning a statement of the late Senator La Follette regarding a speech he made in a mid-West metropolis during the war, all to glorify war and damnify the peace-makers?
A modest little news squib puts considerable into thirty-six words when it says:
The Nation calls appropriate attention to the fact that when a revolution broke out, recently, in Portugal, endangering American life and property, the administration sent no marines there to protect either. Evidently no oil in Portugal!
General Tasker II. Bliss, of the United States Army, is quoted as authority for the following:
If nations are armed to the limit against each other, and each knows that the armament of the other has no use against any other than himself, can we not all see that when one approaches its limit, and believes the other to be capable of further expansion, war, without warning, is inevitable?
Pax International is given credit for an item that should bring to an end an international disgrace:
On the handsome facade of the United States postoffice are carved these striking words:
'•'Carrier of News and Knowledge, Instrument of Trade and Industry, Promoter of Mutual Acquaintance, of Peace, and of Goodwill Among Men and Nations.”
This is a splendid sentiment—a fine standard for over the doorway of the main postoffice of this great country, but letters going out of these same doorways are not carrying out the spirit of this banner. The cancellation stamp, "Let’s Go—Citizens’ Military Training Camps,” bears no such ideals as “Peace and Goodwill Among Men and Nations”. It flaunts the junker spirit of the military party before all the high-minded, peace-loving citizens of the nation, and, what is more to be deplored, this very postoffice, with its high-sounding phrases, denies them a thousand times a day as United States letters go into foreign lands, advertising the new jingoism of America.
So much for the causes of war; and now something about some phases of
The World War Itself
THE first is an extract from “The War Myth in United States History”, by C. H. Hamlin, which tells us all about the Government’s official and duly accredited first-class A Number One liars and deceivers extraordinary, with a good idea of just what to expect when more liars are needed for the same kind of work. Mr. Hamlin said: :
After the United, States entered the war in April, 1917, we immediately created a government propaganda bureau, which was employed to arouse popular hatred; an official daily newspaper known as the “Committee on Public Information”, with George Creel as chairman. Since the war, Mr. Creel has given us an account of the propaganda activities in his book, How We Advertised America.
No effort was made to present the truth. Allied propaganda was accepted and to it we added ours. This “Committee on Public Information” issued. 75,099,023 pamphlets and books to encourage the public “morale”. They hired the services of 75,000 speakers who operated in 5,200 communities.
Altogether, about 755,190 speeches were made by these people known as the “Four Minute Men”. Exhibits were given at fairs, and war films were prepared for the cinema, from which the “Committee on Public Information” received a royalty. A. total of 1,438 drawings was issued which had a circulation of 100,000 copies.
A propaganda bureau was established by the United States in the capitals of every nation in the world except those of the central powers. The total expenditure by the United States for propaganda was $0,738,223. (See George Creel, How We Advertised America, chapter one.) This was the greatest fraud ever sold to the public in the name of patriotism and religion. The Espionage act was passed making it illegal to spread “false” reports that would hinder recruiting. Every report was false which, did not harmonize with the propaganda released by this “Committee on Public Information”. The best we can now say for Mr. Wilson and the American public is that they were the victims of allied propaganda, and contributed to the wrecking of European civilization through deception.
As to the sinking of the Lusitania Mr. Pratt himself lets us in for the following interesting item:
The sale of one automatic six-shooter may mean the death of one citizen; the sale of a quantity of munitions of war may mean the slaughter of thousands. It is said that the Lusitania undertook to carry to the theatre of war, eleven hundred cases of ammunition. If that is true, each case cost the sacrifice of one life, when the ship, with its precious cargo of human freight, was sent to the bottom of the sea.
As to what a battle-field looks like, he quotes from Winston Churchill’s pen a description of what Churchill himself saw:
The anatomy of the battles of Verdun and the Somme were the same. A battlefield had been selected. Around this battlefield walls were built—double, triple, quadruple—of enormous cannon. Behind these railways were constructed to feed them, and mountains of shells were built up. All this was the work of months.
Thus the battlefield was completely encircled by thousands of guns of all sizes, and a wide oval space prepared in their midst. Through this awful arena all the divisions of each army, battered ceaselessly by ths enveloping artillery, were made to pass in succession, as if they were the teeth of interlocking cog-wheels grinding each other.
For month after month the ceaseless cannonade continued at its utmost intensity, and month after month the gallant divisions of heroic human beings were torn to pieces in this terrible rotation. Then came the winter, pouring down rain from the sky to clog the feet of men, and drawing veils of mist before the hawk eyes of their artillery. The arena, as used to happen in the Coliseum in those miniature Boman days, was flooded with water. A vast sea of ensanguined mud, churned by thousands of vehicles, by hundreds of thousands of men and millions of shells, replaced the blasted dust.
Still the str uggle. continued. Still the remorseless wheels revolved. Still the auditorium of artillery roared. At last the legs of men could no longer move; they wallowed and floundered helplessly in the slime. Their food, their-ammunition lagged behind them along the smashed and choked roadways.
The Results of the War
S TO the results of the war nothing much need be added to what U. S. Senator George
W. Norris said of it, except that we were all told that this war would purify mankind, make the world safe for democracy and give our children a better place in which to live. Senator Norris tells what we actually got:
The real heritage of the war is to be found hero at home. It was here that the soul.of America was to have been purified. The millions of our youth who went into that orgy of murder were promised a new’ and better order of things. For the thousands of our young men killed, and maimed, for our billions spent, for the countless millions of heartaches, we have what? We have political corruption such as was never dreamed of before, we have a new crop of millionaires such as the world has never before witnessed, we have a crime wave that staggers the imagination of the world, we have gigantic, war-grown combinations of trade and money that are squeezing billions annually out of the people who "gave till it hurt”, and they are doing it under the fawning and paternalistic eye of the government. We have a national avarieiousness, and sense of grab, grab, grab, that can not be eradicated from the national consciousness for generations to come. This we have. Why? Because the war did what- a few of us believed it would do—it stupified and paralyzed the moral consciousness of the American people as nothing else could have done, and because it was a war of gigantic commercial interests from beginning to end.
War is a great civilizer! 0 yes I It is necessary for Christian nations to go to 'war with the heathen so as to teach them the principles of true Christianity! Is it? Well:
During the Maori War of 1860, rumor reached the native chiefs that the British commanders forces, waiting for the river steamships, were short of food. Under a flag of truce the chiefs sent down a fleet of boats laden with milch cows and other food, with a communication saying "there was no glory in fighting hungry men”.
But surely the people get something out of a great war, do they not? Yes, they do not I Here is what they get. We find this in Mr. Pratt’s new paper from the pen of one of our old contributors, II. E. Branch:
Our- public has been paying interest for sixty years on •$346,000,000 Civil War debt, and the interest paid by the public without valuable consideration—something for nothing- -now amounts to more than thirty times the face of the original debt. Our banking institutions owe their depositors and stockholders about $60,000,000,000. Our government debt, counting greenbacks, federal reserve notes, emergency currency, short time notes, $13,000,000,000 to Europe, treasury notes, silver certificates, gold certificates, national bank notes, subsidiary coinage, thrift stamps, baby bonds and Liberty Bonds, aggregate at least $50,000,000,000. The public paid their face value of bogus government debts in cash, met its demands with the real goods (money wrung from widows and orphans and farmers), the cash resources that- performed our part in the World War without debt, $50,000,000,000 in actual service, the only-means of ultimate payment.
Dr. David Starr Jordan, ex-president of Stanford University, enlivens the paper by a paragraph which says:
Our country, which so many people pretend now is so very rich, is not so wealthy as it was before the war. Our farmers and various other classes are bled to death to make the wealth of the comparatively few that sold armament and other things to the allies to be paid for by the extra cost which the Liberty bonds and other devices forced upon the common people of America.
What We Learned from the
WHAT the peoples of tiro earth learned from the World War can he summed up in one sentence, with only one word in the sentence: Nothing.
Secretary Mellon, in his annual report for 1.925, admitted that seventy cents of every dollar raised by taxation goes to wars past and future. Other students of such matters put the percentage very much higher. Imagine the head of a .family wasting seventy percent of his income in. buying fire arms with which to kill the head of some other family!
Napoleon once said that a great soldier like himself cared nothing for the lives of a million men. He once said that he would not hesitate to tell a lie to gain a point. His last child was born to a servant to whom he was unmarried.
Napoleon was a murderer, a liar, a thief and an adulterer. Who wants to be like Napoleon? Napoleon was honest enough to say that if he gave liberty to the press his power could not last three days.
The coffins of the eleven million men killed in the AVorld 'War, placed side by side, and touching one another, would reach from Vladivostok to Paris. Placed endwise and five feet apart they would reach around the earth at the equator. But experience has taught us that we learn not one thing from experience except how to make bigger fools of ourselves the next time we get a chance.
Preparing for the Next War
S TO preparation for the last war Edward Berwick is quoted from the Peninsula Review as saying:
In 1918 our Congress appropriated $100,000,000 for the expenses of our chemical warfare (gas) service, and allotted 48,000 men thereto.
Sixty-three poison gases were used in the war, of which twenty-six were classed as lethal (deadly). Our Edgewood Arsenal was turning out weekly 815 tons of gas-producing compounds against 410 tons made in Britain, 285 tons in France and only 210 tons in Germany. Edgewood and auxiliaries were almost ready to produce 13,000 tons monthly. One of the Edgewood staff told me the stuff was so hurtful that for only six actual workers in the "mustard” gas section there were ninety in hospital, gas-disabled. At the time of the Armistice the G. W. service was engaged in sixty-five "major research problems”, including eight gases more deadly than any already in use.
One airplane can carry enough material to destroy all life in a strip of territory 100 feet wide and seven miles long. A few dozen such could wipe out. any metropolis, regardless of entrenchments, fortresses, or a million armed men. ’
An article by R. P. Benjamin outlines some of the features of the next war. It says:
A chemical conflict in which cradles will be no safer than the trenches; in which hundreds of planes will sweep through fire-devastated regions, dropping bombs filled with a gas that will completely annihilate every vestige of life which may be left, even down to the birds and the insects; a war involving entire noncombatant populations in its fury, destroying the infants and the aged in their beds in the same impersonal manner as the soldiers in the trenches—this is what another great .war will mean!
Gas in. the last war proved more effective in killing people than rifle bullets. It burns, suffocates and blinds —puts people out of action quickly. Furthermore, it is terrifying and likewise difficult to guard against since gas masks now require careful adjustment. An old person or a child would find themselves defenseless. Perhaps ability to put a mask on quickly wouldn’t make much difference anyway, because masks now are valuable only against the known gases. A new kind of gas would penetrate them as though they were non-existent I It is to be presumed that government chemists are working on such gases now.
What of our women and children, expectant mothers, infants and our old people, our sick and our poor helpless insane? Blinded, burned, maimed, killed! Our peaceful countryside destroyed by fire; crops—the great wheatfields—-ruined by poisonous chemicals dropped, in bombs from enemy planes. A hideous, horrible prospect?
Then we have some of the cold-blooded statements of those who believe in war and want it, with all its accessories. One of those, apparently, is Ernest McCullough. Writing in the New-York Times he says:
The chief object of fighting is not to kill. The creation of casualties is of far greater importance. Morals is hurt by the sight of suffering men waiting for ambulances, and ambulances choke the roads needed for advancing troops and munition trains. Each dead man is one man removed from the ranks of fighters, but a casualty means several men out of fighting. Warfare gas is the cheapest ammunition: it creates casualties by wholesale.
Then there is an official statement on lethal rays and germ warfare. This is a summary by Editor Pn?tt:
Major-General E. D. Swinton, a British expert, states that progress is being made in the development of rays for lethal purposes. "We have X-rays,” he says. “We have light rays. We have heat rays. We may not be so very far from the development of some kind of lethal ray which will shrivel, up or paralyze or poison human beings.”
General Swinton prophesies the coming of germ warfare. “I think it will come to that,” he says, “and so far as I can see there is no reason why it should not. We must envisage these new forms of warfare and as far as possible expend energy, time and money in encouraging our inventors and scientists to study the waging of war on a wholesale scale instead of . . . thinking so much about, methods which, will kill a few’ individuals only at a time.”
Trying to Prevent Another War
N. McCakteb, attorney and counselor at » law, Stanton, N. D., tells what he thinks of the chances of legally preventing another- war:
It would require legislation to prevent war, and that we could never get through the Congress of the United States. We might get it through the States., but not through the corrupt, rotten government as made and constituted today. If we could get legislation to the effect that no war could be declared until the matter had been taken up with, and voted on by the people, then there would be no more war. Or if we could compel those who stir it up, to do their part of the fighting, then, again, there would be no war.
If we could dethrone money—put it back to its primitive position as a medium of exchange only instead of being used as it now is as a means of oppression—and cease to loan it for interest, so that no one could afford to hoard it up, and hold it for hire, then, too, this would have its effect on the war problem; but, as it is today, the moneyed lords of this country can raise hell and cause a war at any time they want to. If they can force our boys to go to foreign countries, as they did in the last war, they can do anything else they want to do.
The men who profit by war are the ones who stir it up, and they are so intimately associated with our U. S. senators and congressmen that all they have to do is to get the subsidized press to yowling about how we are being abused by some other nation of people, and in a very short time they will have most of the “soft boiled” straining at their leashes to get to cut some pacifist’s throat.
The moneyed gods have the money, arsenals, arms, men and the big press to back them up; and as long as they have, and as long as about eighty-five percent of the people are so gullible, about every fifty years (it requires about that long for fools to forget) we will have war. It reminds me of how near we came Just recently to trouble with Mexico, because some of our multi-millionaires were bound to ignore the laws of Mexico and do as they please in that country.
Leroy L. Reading says:
When the late President Harding, standing on the docks at Hoboken-, surrounded by 6,000 caskets containing the bodies of men who had given their lives in that great world struggle, declared “This must not be again”, his words found an echo in the heartfl of millions of his countrymen.
Editor Pratt thinks enough of a sentiment of President Coolidge to quote it twice in his paper:
If this generation fails to devise means for preventing war, it will deserve the disaster which surely will be visited upon it. Later generations will not be likely to act if we fail.
Justice Clark of the U. S. Supreme Court is quoted as saying:
Either civilization must destroy war, or war will destroy civilization.
The Herald of Peace has started on a good errand. When it sees that the clergy are the blessers and sanctifiers of war it will take another long stride ahead. In due time it may get to see Judge Rutherford’s true position that the only way to oust the Devil’s organization, his politicians, his press, his plutocrats and his preachers, is for the common people to withdraw their support, when they will surely go down. Something like this true solution of the problem is vaguely seen from one angle by one of the Herald’s contributors, Leroy L. Reading, when he says:
And America has another powerful weapon. Let the world know that America will not finance a war. Let it be understood that this rich nation has billions for promoting the progress of peace, but not one cent for war, and there would be sudden cooling of the passions of Europe. Make no mistake about this: the common people can readily force their beliefs upon the men of money. It is not individual money which goes to purchase foreign bonds: it is the money deposited in banks by the people. If the people resolutely set their faces against the lending of their money for warfare, the bankers will promptly bow to their wishes.
The Pasadena Ostrich Farms
AT SOUTH PASADENA, California, one of the show sights is the Cawston ostrich farm, where are to be found great numbers of the descendants of the original flock of fifty birds brought from Africa thirty-five years ago.
In size the ostrich reaches a height of eight feet or more, often weighing as much as three hundred pounds. The eggs are ivory in color, of huge proportions and frequently weigh as high as five pounds.
No pains are spared in the handling of these eggs. They are hatched by the incubator process or by the mates, which take turns on the nest, the males at night and the females during the day.
For four days after hatching- the baby ostrich goes without food. At the end of this time it begins to eat gravel, alfalfa, grain, oranges, vegetables, and from time to time, small rocks and other hard substances as an aid to digestion.
Plumage is first clipped approximately three months after the young ostrich has reached its maturity.
The ostrich is driven into a comer and a hood is drawn over -its head. This renders it docile and easily handled, and while one attendant holds it, another clips its plumes.
In no case are plumes plucked. They are clipped close to the skin by an absolutely harmless process. Only the wing and tail feathers from the male birds are taken.
Aluminum Poisoning in Texas
BEANS cooked in aluminum, and left to stand in the aluminum vessel until thoroughly poisoned, caused the death at Crowell, Texas, of the father of the family and a five-year-old daughter, and the serious illness of five others. The only one in the family not poisoned was a two-year-old baby that went to bed supperless. If you want to die, keep on eating food cooked in aluminum.
Reforestation in Jersey
NEW JERSEY is going after the reforestation problem in earnest and is now’ planting over a million new trees each year. This is not much, but it is something; and a generation from now everybody will be glad it was done.
An Opinion, on Revivals
COMMERCE AND FINANCE says: “A w-7revival is really a blight and murrain to its community. If there is a towm in the United States that can look back and honestly say that it has been bettered by the ministrations of a revival we should like to know7 of it.”
Reverences the Creator
Nobman Krase, one of the "world’s greatest chemists, is the discoverer of a method of making synthetic grain alcohol which it is believed will save American industry forty million dollars a year. Professor Krase, a great physicist as well as chemist, says: “There is as much reason to believe that the arrangement of atoms, the beautifully interrelated system in which they appear, is a matter of chance as to believe that the pouring of materials from a bag in the sky would produce a building.”
Chinese Textile Mills Affect British Trade
SO SERIOUS have been the effects of the opening of new’ textile mills in China and India that the British textile industries now export only four yards to every seven exported before the World War. Textile mills. in the United States are also feeling the pinch. Western textile workers could not possibly live at all on the wages paid Asiatic mill workers, and can not compete in the Asiatic market for textiles which Asiatic labor can produce. There is plenty of Western money back of these Eastern mills.
Sopranos Unsuited to Radio
THE official declaration is made that sopranos are unsuited to the radio. It is true that a few soprano voices are of such quality that the tones carry well by radio, but for the most part only altos and contraltos can be used for broadcasting. This seems unfortunate. Some remedy may ultimately be found.
'Anything to Fill the Church
ONE of the church bulletins, published'in Dallas, Texas, made the following interesting declaration: “'The ladies of this church have cast off clothing of all kinds. They may be seen in the basement of the church any afternoon this week.” No particulars 'were given as to the attendance.
Americans Eating Less
OWING- to the great increase in machinery the American people are eating much less than they did a few years ago. Studies show that meat consumption has fallen off more than ten percent and wheat flour consumption more than twenty percent, owing to the lighter work now required of human hands.
Must Accept Bible or Chaos
TAr. I). W. Swann, of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, in an address before the American Chemical Society Institute at Chicago said: “Either one accepts the view of creation handed down by the Bible, or else the scientist nods his head and says he can not answer. Science has been able to see the -workings of life, but as for getting any clear conception of the beginnings we are at a loss.”
Excavations at Kirjath-Sepher
KIRJATH-SEPHER, captured from the Canaanites by Othniel, who later became one of the judges of Israel, is now being excavated, after having lain desolate and uninhabited for 2500 years. The archaeologists say that it proves that in the time of Jewish occupation the houses of this city were all provided 'with at least two stories, were well built, "well plastered and contained much more wood in their construction than is now possible in modern Palestine, "where the ancient forests no longer exist.
Ultra-Violet Rays on the Farm
ULTRA-violet rays are now being used in Britain, and perhaps in the United States, to improve the condition of race-horses and improve the quantity and quality of dairy products. It is claimed that ultra-violet rays in poultry houses will increase the egg supply fifty percent.
Cuba Insists on Education
CUBA plans compulsory military service for all illiterates more than twenty-one years of age. The period of service required will be that necessary to enable the individual to master the rudiments of reading, writing and arithmetic. Several, hours will be devoted to study each day.
Political Prisoners in Russia
THE heartlessness of the Russian dictatorship is disclosed in the fact that ten years after the Russian Revolution there are still more than a hundred men and women in prison or in exile who actually helped to bring that revolution about but, for one reason or another, have differed with the administration at Moscow7.
Russia Waives Duty on Tools
HPHE Soviet, government lias entered into a contract to receive American tools and machinery free of duty for the next five years. The object of the contract is to assist, 1,000,000 declassed Jews, former small tradesmen, who have been deprived of making a livelihood at their former occupations and are now endeavoring to make a living from the soil.
Mastoiditis and the Knife
LITTLE girl named Ruth had acute mastoiditis with a noxious exudate from, the ear. For eight weeks she had screamed with the pain. At length the specialists said she .must have an operation at once or death would result. In desperation the parents sent for a chiropractor. The first adjustment stopped the pain and stopped the exudate from the ear. In a week the child was as well as ever. What the chiropractor did was illegal. If the child had been operated on she would probably have died. But it would have been legal.
Thirty-one Years Ago
HpHIRTY-ONE years ago a newspaper said: -®- “The automobile can not possibly succeed because of two inherent defects: First, its engine will always be so unreliable that the average citizen will not tolerate the delay and inconvenience sure to arise; second, there will never be sufficient funds to build level roads permitting travel at high speed.”
A New Railroad for Peru
PERU is to have a new railroad, expected to cost $300,000,000. It will be a sevenhundred-mile trunk line from the Pacific Ocean on the west to the headwaters of navigation of the Amazon River on the east and will tap one of the richest mineral regions of the world. It will be constructed by New York and Pittsburgh financiers.
The Canadian Wheat Pool
IN FIVE years, largely as the result of the efforts of one man, 1.40,000 Canadian farmers have come to own outright or are now buying or building 936 grain elevators, and are now selling 175,000,000 bushels of grain a year. When they organized they were paid $1 a bushel; the pool has averaged to pay them more than $1.40.
The Dying Newspapers
HR HE daily newspapers of the country are dying off rapidly. There are now only four cities in the United States that have more than two morning newspapers, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Twenty-nine Sunday newspapers have given up the ghost in the last eighteen months, along with twenty-four morning newspapers and forty-five evening newspapers.
Saved $5 Apiece in Half a Century
IT IS interesting to know that in the United States, where everybody is supposed to be on an equal footing, the twelve million Negroes have succeeded in saving and putting into their 70,000 businesses the sum of sixty million dollars. That is a saving of $5 apiece for these faithful workers in the sixty-five years in which they have had their liberty, and tells more plainly than anything else could that they have not been given a square deal.
The Expectations for Haifa
Hope of Overcoming Chinese Illiteracy
IT IS expected that the population of Haifa, Palestine, will soon increase from 35,000, its present number, to 200,000. The reason for this is that Haifa will become the principal seaport of Palestine and the terminus of the route to Bagdad. Work on the harbor will commence in September. The piers will be able to accommodate the largest ships in the world, with the Bole exception of the Leviathan.
The Air Mail To Mexico
rpiIE new air mail service to Mexico takes only a little over twenty-four hours to carry the mail from Boston to Mexico City. Leaving Boston at 6:15 p. m. the mail is due at Laredo, Texas, at 2:30 p. m. the next day, and at Mexico City about 9:30 p. m. The route is via Washington, Atlanta and New Orleans. By rail it takes five days to make this trip.
Who Rules Philadelphia?
WHEN five hundred men attempted to hold a meeting in a private hall in Philadelphia the police refused to grant a permit; and when the men, standing on their rights as American citizens, went ahead with the meeting, six were arrested and. fined $10 each, and the meeting was suppressed. It would be interesting to know’ who gave or had the right to give authority to these servants of the people to prevent the people themselves from exercising their constitutional privileges. The fines have been appealed to the Superior Court.
Where the Nicaragua Trouble Started
AT THE Williamstown Institute of Politics
Mercer G. Johnston, Secretary of the National Citizens Committee on Relations with Latin America, made the statement that the first threat of intervention in the affairs of Nicaragua was made at a meeting of the board of directors of the Wall Street concern controlling the Nicaraguan National Railway and National Bank, when the attempt was made to return their control to Nicaraguans. He said further that this threat was executed by Jeremiah Jenks, who used the private code of the secretary of state to send a threatening telegram to the president of Nicaragua.
CHINESE scholars now have great hope of overcoming Chinese illiteracy. The 40,000 characters of Chinese ^writing have been carefully studied and an absolutely fundamental list of 1,300 characters has been selected. These have been divided into ninety-six groups, each representing one hour of work. As a result five million students have been enrolled in all parts of China and millions of the illiterate are now being taught to read.
Mother Superior Desires Execution
Sister Concepcion Acevedo de la Lata, the bobbed-hair mother superior of the convent in which Leon Toral received his inspiration to slay General Obregon, told reporters at police headquarters in Mexico City on July 31 that she hopes soon to be executed and wants to be punished. Ilmvever, this present desire on her part will not bring Obregon back to life, and as women can get but twenty years in prison for any crime she is not likely to have her desire for execution fulfilled.
French and British Spoil Kellogg Treaty
A T THE American Institute of Politics Professor E. M. Borchard, of Yale, declared that the French and British reservations of wars of self-defense, ’wars under the League Covenant, under the Locarno treaty and under the French treaty of alliance, have ruined the Kellogg treaty for outlawing war. He said: “Far from constituting an outlawry of war, they [the French and British exceptions] constitute the most solemn sanction of specific wars that has ever been given to the world.”
Mute Regains His Voice •
DEFENDING the name of Almighty God against the charges of two atheists, a mute in the employ of a Long Branch (N. J.) hotel suddenly regained his speech and was able to continue orally a defense which he had begun in writing. What a grand reward, and who can say that it 'was not heaven sent?
God’s prophet Isaiah tells of the time coming ■when divine power will bring a similar blessing to afflicted ones throughout the earth. “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, . . . and the tongue of the dumb sing.”—Isa. 35:5,6.
World Catching Up on Rubber
THE world is catching up on its use of rubber. So rapidly have the Dutch East Indies increased their rubber plantings that it is estimated the crop for 1928 will be nearly equal to the production of the British possessions, approximating 400,000 tons a year.
The Ford Venture in Brazil
THE Ford venture in Brazil means much for that country and for the world. Henry Ford proposes to develop five million acres of land in the heart of the most .productive region in the world. Ultimately it is expected that this territory will yield enough rubber every year to make one billion Ford tires. The mere surveying and planting of this vast area will be one of the greatest enterprises of all time.
Blail Catapulted from Steamer
THE first combined steamer and airplane mail from Europe arrived in New7 York
Monday, August 13. It came on the lie de France to a point three hundred miles east of Nantucket. At that point an airplane loaded with mail and with three men aboard was catapulted into the air. The mail reached New York fifteen hours ahead of the steamer and was delivered in San Francisco a few hours after the vessel reached port.
The Boeing Transport Planes
THE Boeing- Air Transport is putting into operation between Chicago and San Francisco commodious triple-engined biplanes that will carry two pilots, twelve passengers with their supplies and baggage, and make 128 miles an hour. The planes contain a small buffet for serving coffee and light lunches and a large and well-appointed toilet room. The Boeing Company has ordered twenty-five new planes to take care of the deluge of business which came with, the cutting in half of the air mail postal rate.
Goodbye to the Hoe
T^INETY percent of the planters of Hawaii are now securing weedless crops and quicker development of plants through papering their gardens. The mulch paper keeps the moisture in, and keeps the heat in. The "weeds can not come up through it. The papering of gardens has been tried in the United States' and works so successfully that the fate of the hoe is now foreseen. By this means sweet potatoes were grown in .Vermont, something never before possible. Particulars are to be had from the Department of Agriculture, at Washington.
Television in Colors Now Possible
THE perfection by the Eastman Company of apparatus for taking and reproducing amateur motion pictures in colors now suggests to radio engineers the possibility of television in colors, accompanied by all the sounds that accompany the spectacles photographed. In other words it would seem that feeble man, with the instruments placed in his hands by the Creator, is being made to see that every word of the Bible is true, and that when the statement is made that all things are naked and open before Him with whom we have to do, it means just that. God’s television arrangements are perfect. Nothing more need be said. In due time every crooked and evil thing that has ever transpired in the world will be shown in its true colors 'before the eyes of all men. Goodness will be rewarded and evil will get its just recompense, and all will approve.
In Ridley College, Melbourne
A T BIDLEY' College, Melbourne, several -f* hundred young men are in training for the Anglican ministry. Their ages are not known to us, but they seem to be about on a level with the small boy in knee pants, except that they are not so well-behaved. Just why the seniors in such a school should seize the freshmen at 2.00 a.m., take them out of their beds, and forcibly feed them with mustard until they screamed with pain^ we do not know. It seems that it is an annual custom. It was carried on in the immediate neighborhood of a hospital in which a man lay dying, until the hospital authorities invoked the aid of the police, and they put a stop to it. These young men are mentally some hundreds of years behind the times. They live back in the dark ages and will make a fine lot of preachers of the doctrines that belong to that ungodly and beastly epoch.
Just Folks By B. E. Plnnocli
IT IS a real education to come in contact with hundreds of new people every week and to note their response to the message of The Golden Age as to the outcome of the present transition in human affairs.
An ordinary salesman is more interested in the financial standing of his prospect than in his qualities of heart and intellect; but, with one presenting the good news of the kingdom, his immediate interest is in the man, in his religious sympathies, and in his heart attitude to the world-wide distress, whether it has touched him lightly or roughly.
The tremendous upheavals that have rocked the structure of society have affected every member in it, have jolted humanity out of the pre-war rut; and now one can speak to the inhabitants of inland towns and find a keen interest in the prospects of the solution of the world’s problems, social, economic, political, financial and religious. A’ message that boldly declares God’s certain remedy, independent of human enterprise, is received with a mixed feeling of hope and fear. (Some seem to feel that the affairs of the nations are not in a condition to bear the scrutiny of a righteous God.) Those who have a goodly share of the world’s wealth often oppose the suggestion of a radical change in the present order, notwithstanding the assurance that the true values of life, liberty, health, happiness, peace and prosperity everlasting for all of good-will shall obtain in the incoming kingdom. This, of course, is done thoughtlessly, and a little patient endeavor to bring it home to the individual demonstrates the universal appeal of the message of the kingdom.
I spent a strenuous ten minutes at one comfortable large home, vainly trying to impress one mother with the importance of understanding the outcome of present events. My eyes wandered around the sumptuous living rooms; the well-kept garden outside dispatched a fragrance through the open door. On every hand, evidence of culture and taste. Could I blame her that her vision did not reach out over the world? These things I spoke of had not penetrated through the protection of her comfort and security. I turned to go, to press on with the witness, to find those with “ears”.
Two chubby boys came tumbling in from play and the mother’s eyes lit up with pride. Turning quickly I asked, Have you any assurance that your two babies will not be dragged off to the trenches in a few years? Have the nations learnt anything from the last war? Instantly the apathy left her and a fear that had evidently been kept buried sprang into her eyes and drove the color from her checks. Quietly I restated the message of the Bible to the present generation; of the dawn of universal peace after the destruction of the systems of militarism and oppression in impending Armageddon. I had touched the spot; eagerly she took the literature that showed the hope that her babes would grow up into a happier world, freed from the scourge of militarism.
A.s Sarah Gamp might observe, “Humanity, high and low, is just folks.” No matter what the difference be in quality of dress, surroundings, interests and diversions, humans are humans and they want just what the first man failed to give them when the drama of ages began with tragedy—life, liberty, health, love, security and assurance of perpetual enjoyment of these.
The more one really understands just how much like himself the other twenty thousand million humans who have lived are, the deeper is his appreciation of Jehovah, His plan and the satisfactory consummation.
Piacliot’s Analysis of Imperialism (Reprint&d from th© Forum magazine)
TT IS all perfectly right and proper for me to * take my dollar to Mexico or any other place and get all I can. out of it by every decent means (or leave it there and come home as most investors do). But for me, after subjecting my dollar to the larger and fully anticipated risk for the sake of the larger and fully anticipated return, to come running to the American taxpayer the moment the risk materializes and the return does not, demanding that he, the taxpayer, who has never invested a cent in Mexico and probably never will, shall send his son and his money southward to get my adventurous and deliberately hazarded dollar out of trouble, is obviously a performance that requires diplomatic description, lest the public should see it in its true light and call it by its correct and by no means agreeable name.
Contentment on a Small Income (Contributed)
I AM an ardent Bible Student and read The
Golden Age and believe it to be one of the best little papers published. In the issue of July 111 read a piece entitled, “The Short and Simple Annals of the Poor.” Believing that you desire to hear and print all sides of each subject at issue, I should like to see this contribution in your valuable paper, as I believe it would be helpful to many who are in perplexity of mind regarding present conditions in the industrial world today.
I wish to state that I have been married for six years. My husband is employed as a common laborer in one of our leading industries, working nine hours a day at forty-two cents an hour, which is $3.78 a day. Sometimes they are slack and he is laid off; and then again when busy they work considerable overtime, which makes it about steady work the year around at $3.78, not over $4.00 a day.
We have two lovely children and I want to say that we are a happy family. When we married we did not have a cent. We went in debt for three rooms of medium-priced furniture, which we have paid for. Later we bought a second-hand player piano for $350, and have it all paid for but $40.00. Two months ago we bought a second-hand Essex coach in fine condition, and expect to get it paid for, too. We borrowed the money from my brother to buy the car and will pay him back as we can spare, it, and as my husband understands a great deal about repairing machines it will not prove so expensive to run.
Many of my friends wonder how we do manage, so I 'will try to tell you in my crude wmy, as I am not a writer. We rent three nice large rooms for $15.00 a month, and our gas, water and electric bills seldom run over meter rent, as we use these things very carefully. I am handy with the needle, so do all my owm sewing and make my own hats. Our children are always dressed nice and kept clean, but as they do not have many clothes I must wash some out each day. I do not allow my children to wear their Sunday clothes or shoes for everyday wear. I buy our foodstuffs from the cash-and-carry stores, and it is remarkable how much you can save this wmy. We do not use expensive canned goods or tea or coffee, but have three wholesome meals a day, with some fruit but no knickknacks. Each Saturday night the children look forward to their sack of candy and bag of peanuts, which we purchase from the five-and-ten-cent store.
People also complain about the high cost of babies. I made all my babies’ clothes and I did not go to a high-priced hospital either. They cost exactly $25.00 apiece, which was the doctor’s fee, and my mother took care of me and did the household chores.
Of course I do not have money for such foolishness as permanent waves, which, after all, are not so permanent. I curl my own hair. Neither do we spend money on trashy movingpicture shows, with their sensual love scenes, which are not fit for children to see. We have found out that the best things in life are free, such as our beautiful parks and open-air band concerts; and I enjoy the Bible lectures above all else.
Of course there are a great many things which I should like to have (I think it is so with every normal human being), but I do not make myself unhappy because I can not possess them. Indeed we have learned that “godliness with contentment is great gain”.
Now in closing let me say that I think the workers should have more money, and the wealthy class are very selfish, and I know they could afford to pay more money if they would. But, dear friends, let us try to do the best we can and pray all the harder for the Lord to soon establish His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
Did Not Change His Vest
WE HAVE a New Zealand paper containing a dispatch of 181 words reassuring us that Dean Barnett, of Hamilton, did not change his vest. It says by way of explanation: “The chasuble is not a pulpit vestment, and can be worn in the pulpit only when the pulpit is situated, within the sanctuary rails.” We laugh over this flapdoodle until we cry and ■wonder how anybody else can avoid doing the same thing. We expect this to be followed by a 200-word dispatch that the bishop has not had his trousers off for a week and that the archbishop has had on the same pair of socks since last spring.
Good Health By H. W. Newcomb
GOOD health is worth all it costs. No technical or scientific knowledge is necessary to understand it. Common sense -will tell yon that it is Truth. Truth is sometimes so simple that we ignore it. For instance, salt water is one of the best washes for the nose and throat, but because it lacks mystery people do not often use it, even when a doctor recommends it.
The importance of diet to health is being better understood every day and can be readily seen in what follows. The way to correct errors in diet is plain. Food will take on new’ meaning and importance.
Your Home
YOUR body is your home—the only home you will have in this life. It pays to take care of this dwelling the best you know how until you must move out for ever.
You are the manager and you can blame no one else if your home is not as you want it. Even if you inherited weakness, you can increase or decrease it, and if your weakness is greater and greater, you are responsible.
Your home needs four things—heat, energy, repair, and elimination. Millions of little workers (cells) help keep your home running right and they are always willing to do their part if they are furnished the proper materials to work with. Sixteen of the primary chemical elements are needed—carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, sodium, iron, calcium, potassium, magnesium, manganese, silicon, chlorine, fluorine and iodine. The food we eat contains these elements in many different combinations, but if any are left out disease results.
Heat
THE body must be kept at 1)8.6 degrees Fahrenheit—--no more, no less. Clothing and housing have little to do with this temperature; the food we eat does. Many books and articles have been written on heat and energy units (calories) in food. The funny thing about it is that any one who eats food at all generally gets enough or too much of the heat-producing foods. They are the most common foods and form the largest part of our diet. You need not worry about getting enough heat units, but you should see that you are not getting too many.
SOURCES OE HEAT
Food
Classes
Chemical
Elements
Foods
Starches Carbon and Oxygen
Dextrines Hydrogen
Inner white part of cereals
Starchy vegetables (potatoes, roots, etc.)
Bananas
Sugars
Carbon
Oxygen Hydrogen
Sweet vegetables (melons, beets, etc.) Sweet fruits
(dates, figs, etc.) Natural sugars
Fats and Oils
Carbon Oxygen Hydrogen
Olives
Cream, butter, cheese Nuts
Cooking oils
Animal fats
It is true that the fats and oils can be stored in the body, but too many starches and sugars often cause disease.
Energy
ENERGY must be supplied for the work of the body. The body must be moved, the muscles flexed; the heart, lungs, brain, etc., 'are constantly at work. This comes from the starches, dextrines, fats, and oils which also furnish heat, and also from what are called proteids (eggs, lean meat, peas, beans, lentils, etc.)
The problem here is not to get enough but not to get too much, especially of the proteids which also contain much waste matter which must be thrown off.
Repair
THE little colls of the body are constantly breaking down and must be replaced. If the cells are not rebuilt, our home will finally collapse. If they are rebuilt better, you will be stronger and happier. Here lies danger and also opportunity.
Many people do not eat enough food containing repair materials. Would you expect a carpenter to build without lumber and nails? What would masons do without bricks and mortar! Would you horsewhip the plasterers
if they could not make the repairs without plaster! Then why expect more of the workers in your body whose duty it is to rebuild your physical home? Isn’t it true that many people want to take stimulating medicines to whip the helpless cells into activity? Remember the workers are willing but haven’t the tools.
RED AIR MATERIALS
FOR CELLS AND TISSUES
Food Class
Chemical
Elements
Foods
Carbbn Oxygen
Proteids Hydrogen Nitrogen Phosphorus Sulphur
Outer parts of cereals
Vegetables—peas, beans, lentils
Nuts
Milk and cheese
Lean parts of animals, fish and. fowls
You will notice that hulled cereals (wheat, corn, rye, oats, etc.) have been robbed of repair materials.
Elimination
LIFE depends upon our ability to throw off waste materials of foods, dead cells, etc. If this 'waste remains in the body it attracts the germs of disease. It overworks the body and is the primary caifce of most diseases. Smallpox and other contagious diseases can be resisted by the healthy body. The rundown body invites the bacteria in.
The workers of the body whose duty it is to “clean house” need materials to work with and they can not work without them. Would you expect the housekeeper to do anything without brooms, mops, dusters, vacuum cleaners, water, soap, etc.? That is just what happens when you do not supply' certain elements in your diet; and you have to pay by shorter life, full of pain and unhappiness.
Another mistake we often make is to clean our physical home by powerful physics, kidney stimulants, etc., and then expect the home to stay clean. Filth wdll collect again just as fast as ever until you furnish the ‘^brooms, mops, soap, etc.” to the workers. These little workers have the necessary wisdom to do their work better than man can plan it for them. Don’t worry about the methods they use—just give them the tools. Notice this table carefully:
ELIMINATORS, BLOOD, BONE AND NERVE BUILDERS, “nature’s medicines”
Food Class
Cfiemical Elements
Foods
Mineral Sodium Hulls and outer layers of
Elements Iron ce reals
Calcium Leafy, green and above-
Potassium ground vegetables
Magnesium Root vegetables not
Manganese starchy
. Silicon Fruits and berries
Chlorine Milk
Fluorine Cocoanuts
Iodine
You will readily see that people eat the least of the most necessary elements. The old pioneers who built up our country in spite of many hardships and who gave us wonderful vitality had more life-giving food than we have with, snowy white bread, cakes, polished rice, candies, and other devitalized foods.
When we have been eating incorrectly for years and years, we can not expect to eat one or two correctly balanced meals and expect to step out mental and physical giants. The filth is literally caked in our systems. Our joints are stiff, our arteries are clogged so that blood travels slowly, the kidneys are filled with deposits so that they can not work. The workers have been “laid off” or overworked so long that they must be given time to “pep up” again.
Debawehing the Doctors
ONE of the great tobacco companies has undertaken the debauching of the doctors, so as to persuade them to recommend cigarette smoking to the men and women under their care. An elaborate booklet is prepared. It is given a high-sounding name, as if it were some important finding of a board of reputable experts; and then, bound in a nice cover, it has printed on the cover “Prepared for and submitted to Dr. So-and-So”, giving his name.
The Courtesies of the Midianites
AMONG- themselves there is but one item on which Catholics and Protestants are in full agreement, and that is in their hatred of the truths of God’s Word as set forth by the In-
Hindrances—
ternational Bible Students Association. As to their opinions of each other it is illuminating to read the following digest which has been compiled by The. Inquiry:
Catholics’say of Protestants that they discriminate against Catholies in a political way. They attempt to proselytize; among poor Catholics, particularly Italians and Mexicans. They support all manner of outrageous publications against Catholics, such as the old Menace. They form bitterly unfair anti-Catholie organizations, such as the Know-Nothings, A. P. A., Guardians of Liberty, Ku Klux Klan. They are puritanical and attempt to regulate other people’s business by law, for instance, prohibition and Sunday observance. They profess the American principle of separation of Church and State, yet sneak of this country as Protestant. They look upon the public schools, supported by the taxes of Catholics as well as their own taxes, as belonging exclusively to themselves. They attempt to make the public schools Protestant by having a distinctly Protestant translation of the Bible read in class. They discriminate against Catholics in business. They have attempted to keep Catholics out of the United States through legislation directed at the European Catholic countries. They bring political and economic pressure to bear upon Catholics to contribute to distinctly Protestant undertakings, such as the Y. M. C. A. They seem to imply that Catholics are not Christians. They are intolerant of Protestants who become Catholics. They control the press of the country and do not give a reasonable amount of space to Catholics and Catholic activities. They look upon Catholics as socially inferior. They do not accept the whole Bible. They undermine the real authority of the Scripture. They deliberately use terms offensive to Catholics, such as Romanist and Papist. They have no fixed body of religious or moral belief. By ‘letting conscience be their guide’ they can reason conscience into making anything seem right. While remaining political constitutionalists they are religious anarchists; supposedly for freedom, but notoriously intolerant; by supporting divorce with right to remarry are really believers in legalized free love.
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