Golden Age, May 1, 1929
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Volume X * No, 251
May 1, 1929
Contents
Labor and Economics A Coal Miner’s Wacks , . , .
Social and Educational
Straws in the Wind ................. n 483
Injustice—Bottenness—What?
Finance—Com merce—Transportation
Chain Stores Ruining Merchants . .
TIw Army Monoplane ;" Question Mark'’ ..........
Wluit the Railroads Cost .....
' Political—Domestic and Foreign
EXCEKTTS FROM THE INTRODUCTION Of “ I’Al.SEi 1001) IN WAK-TJM K ”
Twenty Years Ago in New York . .......... .
A 100% Concern
’ No SEGREGATION IN BRAZIL
A Warden With a Heart
Bell or Peace .....
No Unity in the Catholic Chckwi
। Power Trust Scares Policy Holders ....
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| Agriculture and Husbandry
i The I’akmkk Must Be Adequately Itar u ne it a it: i...........
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Science and Invention An Astronomical Reveihe , ....... ....
Home and Health
Raw Onions as a Cure fob Malaria
The Omnivorous Animal, MAX . .
; Obesity ........... . .
i Vaccination ... ................. 502
I Aluminum Exi’ERJES-cj’S and Oissbi:v.\ti<wh.......... 503
; Travel and Miscellany
I The Largest Pyramid of AU . .............. 486
| ■ Railroad Slogans, ktc. .......... 490
I Making China Over .................. 494
Religion and Philosopm
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The Modern Pharisee ......... Bible Questions and Axswkbs ...... Government .............
The Children’s Own Radio Story ....
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Golden Age
Volume X Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, May 1, 1929 Number 251
Straws in the. Wind
Oxman’s Letters to Rigall
WOULD you think it possible that they could continue to keep Mooney in prison in California when it is known that Frank C. Oxman, star witness for the prosecution, urged Bigall to take a free trip to California at the state’s expense and furnish framed testimony at the Mooney trial? '
A Definition of a Pacifist
fTTHE "Washington Post, on its editorial page, -*• says, “The true pacifist is a just and honorable man who abominates war because it is cruel, unfair, and hideous: because it is organized murder and crime, unwillingly done by men who had no share in causing it.” The same article also said, “War will continue while angry men can find suckers to do their fighting.”
Increase of Millionaires
IN THE year 1914 there were seven thousand millionaires in the United States. Now there are more than four times as many. That is the way the interest system works; but all are wondering what will happen when it gets to the place where the common people, who have no interest incomes, get to the place where they can no longer carry the load. It can be proven mathematically that the interest scheme will destroy any civilization built upon it.
English-speaking Weisbaden
S A result of the ten years’ occupancy of Weisbaden by British troops there have been about nine hundred marriages of British soldiers to German girls, and Weisbaden is today one of the principal English-speaking communities in Germany. The French army, in the adjacent city of Mainz, does not fraternize with the German populace. The French army, as an army, is always conspicuously in sight, and the British army, as an army, is not to be seen.
Jewish General Hospital in Jerusalem
HO HE Jewish General Hospital in Jerusalem -T would be a credit to any city. The building is wide and deep, two stories in height. It is of pleasing appearance, is surrounded with shrubbery reaching to the second-story windows, and is large enough to occupy an entire city block. .
Development of Fruit of the Date Palm
HP HE United States Department of Agriculture has discovered that pollen from certain male trees causes the production of small seeds and small fruits that ripen early, while pollen from other trees causes the production of large seeds and large fruits that ripen late. It is believed that the scientific importance of this discovery will be very great.
Communist Exhaustion in Russia
THE claim is made that the high pace at which the People’s Commissars work at Moscow, and the strain of their work, brings on a nervous disorder that is carrying many of these men into an early grave. Nearly all active workers of the central party are said to be suffering similarly. Symptoms are nervousness, insomnia, progressive general debility, hardening of the arteries, and finally death from bodily exhaustion.
One Cure per Thousand at Lourdes
ESPITE the fact that the official figures for 1924 showed that only one pilgrim to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes was healed out of every' one thousand who visited the shrine, business is as brisk as ever during the usual tourist season. The climate of southeastern France, the air and the water, are all so good that it is impossible for many persons to visit the neighborhood without receiving some benefits.
Deaths of Women Miners in India
IN THE mines of Bihar and Orissa, British
India, the underground workers include 32,000 women, of whom thirty were killed in mining accidents last year. The average daily wages of these poor women is seven annas, or about seventeen cents. They are begging not to be excluded from the mines, as their earnings are needed to help out the family income. --
Public Utility Dividends
THAT the public utility crowd is absolutely the biggest hold-up crowd in the United States is proven by the fact that the cash dividends paid to these people at the end of 1928 were $162,292,725 more than the sum total of dividends paid to all the railroads in the country. Does this show why the Power Trust could afford to spend millions to debauch the college professors and the newspapers?
Baumes Law Falling into Disfavor
THE Baumes law, under which fourth offenders are automatically given life sentences, has received a severe blow in Michigan, where the mother of ten children was given a lifesentence for selling liquor. New York State is now making a careful study of criminals, with the view of trying to find some better way to handle the distressing problem of the habitual criminal. It is found that 65.5 percent of the offenders come from, broken homes and hence know little or nothing of the joys of a happy home circle.
Disposition of the Royalty
WHEN Europe suddenly went republican, coincident with the World War, the former emperor of Germany became a burgher in Holland; Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary lives in a small village in Spain; King George of Greece lives in Rumania; Queen Amelia of Portugal lives in France, and the former shah of Persia lives in Paris. The pretenders to the thrones of Turkey, Russia and Montenegro are all living in exile, not daring to return to their homelands. When Kaiser Wilhelm went down he dragged down 300 royal and titled persons from all over Europe. His own children live in Germany, enjoying their property. Most of the Hapsburgs are still in Austria, without property and without titles.
Expense of Food Distribution
THE Bureau of Research of Harvard University, after a careful study of the problem, has reached the conclusion that nearly half of the cost of food to the consumer is the expense of getting the food into his hands. Advertising, warehousing, sales and marketing take nearly fifty percent out of every dollar the purchaser pays for his food.
A Kind-hearted Woman. Sheriff
TN KANSAS a kind-hearted woman sheriff -®" allowed all the prisoners to go home and be with their families over the holidays. All of them returned to jail to finish their sentences. Why not turn out all the men sheriffs and put in women all over the country? It might help a lot. That Kansas woman lias made the law honored, respected and loved in her home county and has set a good example for the whole country. ■
Children Teaching Their Parents
NEW YORK now has fifty boy teachers thirteen years of age whose duty it is to teach their parents the English language and bring their work to school for examination. The boys complain that their parents are so interested, and take so much of their time with the studies, that they now get no chance to play. It is believed that this method can be used to turn New York from a polyglot city into a strictly American one where English will be universal.
Advancements in Astronomy
WITH the aid of a large telescope it is now possible to detect the heat from a candleflame at a distance of 100 miles. Changes of temperature of a millionth of a degree can be easily recorded and accurately measured. It is found that the temperatures on the moon daily range from 265 degrees Fahrenheit, which is far above the boiling-point, to 196 degrees below zero, which is cold enough to freeze alcohol. With the new 200-inch telescope it would be possible to see the light of a candle 41,000 miles away. Astronomers are said to be now convinced that the universe is a closed one, there being an actual limit to the area which has been opened up by creation. It is definitely known that the thirty billion stars thin out rapidly with increasing distance.
Measuring Moisture in Lumber
NEW device for measuring the moisture content of lumber works as readily as an apparatus for testing the strength of batteries or electric light bulbs. It is based on the fact that water-soaked wood is a better conductor of electricity than dry wood.
Preparations for Defense
IN A speech delivered at Manchester, England, Lloyd George said to his audience: “Gigantic preparations for defense that were made before 1914 made war, and they will make it again. We must reestablish terms of good will with the United States. Without that disarmament is impossible; with it disarmament would be irresistible.”
Vast Plains Between Brazil and Guiana
HUIE world is yet so new that Brazil, and
Guiana are only now exploring their boundaries. The discovery has been made that the plateau between the two countries, hitherto unknown, contains not less than fifteen thousand square miles of plains with rich pasturage for cattle.
Two Percent Have the Incomes
WHEN you read the glittering statistics about Uncle Sam’s wealth per capita, please remember that there are only 2,470,000 who pay income taxes and that the remaining 98 percent, or about 116,000,000, have incomes too small to figure in the returns. On the basis of five persons to the family, these figures show that only 10 percent of the families of the country have comfortable incomes.
College Graduates Feel the Pinch
THE Index, published by The New York Trust
Company, makes the observation that “The problem of what is to be done with the growing number of college graduates represents a particular aspect of the general employment question, for which no solution has been offered. It has been pointed out, however, that it is becoming increasingly difficult for the educated proletariat to find occupation suited to their training”. This means that jobs are scarce for the sons of poor men, even though these men are fully qualified to fill them.
Wet Towel over the Microphone
TT IS claimed that a wet towel placed over the microphone has the effect of emphasizing a singer’s voice and at the same time of subduing the sound of the accompanying orchestra. It is said to be the discovery of Harry Lauder and to give excellent results in the broadcasting of vocal music.
Chain Stores Ruining Merchants
TN THE year 1925 one-fourth of one percent of all the stores in America were making 45% of the total profits, and over 99 percent of the stores were making less money than two years previous. Two-fifths of the stores were being run at a loss, a picture of what the chain stores are doing to merchants.
Substitute for a Parachute
A GERMAN has invented a substitute for a parachute. When an airplane is in danger, the pilot or passenger presses a button and compressed air hurls him from the machine. Once clear, the air inflates a new type of flying suit which is filled with a non-explosive gas and in which the passenger floats quietly to terra firma.
A Brave Mississippi Woman
fa BRAVE Mississippi woman went alone and unarmed to the cabin where she knew a negro criminal wTas sheltered. She arrested the man and endeavored to place him in the hands of the law. She would have done so but for the mob of two thousand men who, by superior force, tore the criminal from her possession and lynched him, thus shaming the state which she honored.
The Army Monoplane “Question Mark”
THE army monoplane “Question Mark”, which remained aloft something over six days without coming down for fuel, seems to show the way by which long distance flights will be made. This plane, had it been flying in a straight line, would have gone very nearly half-way around the earth, before it descended. There is now talk of a non-stop flight around the world, with refueling as done for the “Question Maric”, and it is believed that this is entirely possible.
Conditions in Melanesia
IN THE two thousand islands of Melanesia more than forty languages are spoken; and it happens in some instances that natives on one side of an island have no communication whatever with natives on the other side. Infanticide is common and there are still hundreds of Melanesians who have an appetite for human flesh and know what it tastes like. These islands are under the joint control of France and Britain, with France rather edging Britain out,
What the Railroads Cost
IN AN investigation conducted a generation ago the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, one of the greatest railroad men of his day, made the statement on the witness stand that 95 percent of the stock of railroad corporations in America never cost a dollar. The roads were built with bonds, and besides, the Union Pacific received land grants worth $250,000,000 and the Atchison road the same. The same is substantially true of the St. Paul, Northwestern and Omaha roads. Ryan gave the facts to back up his statements.
Cacodyl Isocyanide and Plass
UNTIL recently most of us never heard of cacodyl isocyanide and plass, but the future of civilization may be in their hands. Cacodyl isocyanide is so poisonous that a whiff will kill a man outright, and so easy to make that thousands of tons could be made in a day, and at less cost than powder and cannon. Plass is the material from which the almost invisible airplane is made. A few plass airplanes loaded with cacodyl isocyanide would obliterate any army that could be gathered together.
German Efforts to Solve Unemployment
IN THE effort to solve unemployment in Germany and keep everybody profitably employed, for his own good and for the good of the country, 53 million marks were granted foi' completion of new railways halted by the Avar, 1.20 million marks for neve post office buildings, 13 millions for canal-making schemes, 200 millions for mortgage loans on dwellings, 30 millions for the construction of tenant houses on farm lands, 105 millions for export trade with Russia and 175 millions for export trade with other countries.
Elephants Must Carry Lights
FOR centuries elephants have been beasts of burden on the highways of Ceylon. With the advent of the automobile the situation has been complicated somewhat and agitation is now rife that elephants must keep off the highways at night or else carry front and rear lights. Come to think of it, it might be embarrassing to knock the legs out from under an elephant and have him sit down on the top of your ear.
The New Milk Container
THE new milk container, already in limited use in New York city, is made, sterilized, filled and sealed in a single operation. It is claimed that milk has kept sweet in these containers for as long as forty-seven days. The consumer cuts off the pinched top of the container with a pair of scissors, pours out what is needed and pinches the top back together. New York uses four million quarts of milk a day, fifty thousand of which are now served, in the new containers.
The Largest Pyramid of All
HPHE largest pyramid of all is at Cholula, state of Pueblo, Mexico. The great pyramid of Gizeh occupies thirteen acres. The one at Cholula occupies forty-five acres. It is built of brick and lies four-square to the compass, 1423 feet on each side.
On the smnniit of the Cholula pyramid, which is only 177 feet from the ground, there was originally erected a temple covering one acre, of ground, consecrated to the worship of the god Quetzalcoatl, <fthe god of the air/’ ffhe prince of the power of the air.’'
The traditions of the Aztecs were that the Cholula pyramid was built- by Quetzalcoatl himself; that he was the high priest of the temple and wore always a mitre waving with, plumes of fire; that he had palaces of gold and silver and precious stones; and that he had the most profound wisdom, which he displayed in the laws which he left.
Quetzalcoatl is said to have finally sailed away to the East on a craft, of snakes and to have left word that some day bearded white men would come again from the East and enter the country and rule it. All this happened when Cortez and his comrades overran the land,
Excerpts from the Introduction of “Falsehood in War-Time”
By Arthur Ponsonby, M. P.
THE object of this volume is not to cast fresh blame on authorities and individuals, nor is it to expose one nation more than another to accusations of deceit.
Falsehood is a recognized and extremely useful weapon in warfare, and every country uses it quite deliberately to deceive its own people, to attract neutrals, and to mislead the enemy. The ignorant and innocent masses in each country are unaware at the time that they are being misled, and when it is all over only here and there are the falsehoods discovered and exposed. As it is all past history and the desired effect has been produced by the stories and statements, no one troubles to investigate the facts and establish the truth. . . .
The use of the weapon of falsehood is more necessary in a country where military conscription is not the law of the land than in countries where the manhood of the nation is automatically drafted into the army, navy, or air service. The public can be worked up emotionally by sham ideals. A sort of collective hysteria spreads and rises until finally it gets the better of sober people and reputable newspapers.
With a warning before them, the common people may be more on their guard when the war cloud next appears on the horizon and less disposed to accept as truth the rumours, explanations, and pronouncements issued for their consumption. They should realize that a government which has decided on embarking on the hazardous and terrible enterprise of war must at the outset present a one-sided case in justification of its action, and cannot afford to admit in any particular whatever the smallest degree of right or reason on the part of the people it has made up its mind to fight. Facts must be distorted, relevant circumstances concealed, and a picture presented which by its crude colouring will persuade the ignorant people that their government is blameless, their cause is righteous, and that the indisputable wickedness of the enemy has been proved beyond question. A moment’s reflection would tell any reasonable person that such obvious bias cannot possibly represent the truth. But the moment’s reflection is not allowed; lies are circulated with great rapidity. The unthinking mass accept them and by their excitement sway the rest. The amount of rubbish and humbug that pass under the name of patriotism in war-time in all countries is sufficient to make decent people blush when they are subsequently disillusioned. . . .
In calm retrospect we can appreciate better the disastrous effect of the poison of falsehood, whether officially, semi-officially, or privately manufactured. It has been rightly said that the injection of the poison of hatred into men’s minds by means of falsehood is a greater evil in war-time than the actual loss of life. The defilement of the human mind is worse than the destruction of the human body. A fuller realization of this is essential. . . .
When the generation that has known war is still alive, it is well that they should be given chapter and verse with regard to some of the best-known cries, catchwords, and exhortations by which they were so greatly influenced. As a warning, therefore, this collection is made. -It constitutes only the exposure of a few samples. To cover the whole ground would be impossible. There must have been more deliberate lying in the world from 1914 to 1918 than in any other period of the world’s history. . . .
A good deal depends on the quality of the lie. You must have intellectual lies for intellectual people and crude lies for popular consumption, but if your popular lies are too blatant and your more intellectual sections are shocked and see through them, they may (and indeed they did) begin to be suspicious as to whether they were not being hoodwinked too. Nevertheless, the inmates of colleges are just as credulous as the inmates of the slum. . . .
Exposure, therefore, may be useful, even when the struggle is over, in order to show up the fraud, hypocrisy, and humbug on which all war rests, and the blatant and vulgar devices which have been used for so long to prevent the poor, ignorant people from realizing the true meaning of war.
It must be admitted that many people were conscious and willing dupes. But many more were unconscious and were sincere in their patriotic zeal. Finding now that elaborately and carefully staged deceptions were practised on them, they feel a resentment which has not only served to open their eyes but may induce them to make their children keep their eyes open when next the bugle sounds. . . .
This is no plea that lies should not be used in war-time, but a demonstration of how lies must be used in war-time. If the truth ivere told from the outset, there ivould be no reason and no will for war.
Any one declaring the truth: “Whether you are right or wrong, whether you win or lose, in no circumstances can war help you or your country,” would find himself in gaol very quickly. In war-time, failure to lie is negligence, the doubting of a lie a misdemeanour, the declaration of the truth a crime. . . .
When the people of one country understand how the people in another country are duped, like themselves, in war-time, they will be more disposed to sympathize with them as victims than condemn them as criminals, because they will understand that their crime only consisted in obedience to the dictates of authority and acceptance of what their government and press represented to them as the truth.
The period covered is roughly the four years of the war. The intensity of the lying was mitigated after 1918, although fresh crops came up in connection with other of our international relations. The mischief done by the false cry “Make Germany pay” continued after 1918 and led, more especially in France, to high expectations and consequent indignation when it was found that the people who raised this slogan knew all the time it was a fantastic impossibility. Many of the old war lies survived for several years, and some survive even to this day.
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There is nothing sensational in the way of revelations contained in these pages. All the cases mentioned are well known to those who were in authority, less well known to those primarily affected, and unknown, unfortunately, to the millions who fell. Although only a small part of the vast field of falsehood is covered, it may suffice to show how the unsuspecting- innocence of the masses in all countries was ruthlessly and systematically exploited.
There are some who object to war because of its immorality; there are some who shrink from the arbitrament of arms because of its increased cruelty and barbarity; there are a growing number who protest against this method, at the outset known to be unsuccessful, of attempting to settle international disputes because of its imbecility and futility. But there is not a living soul in any country who does not deeply resent having his passions roused, his indignation inflamed, his patriotism exploited, and his highest ideals desecrated by concealment, subterfuge, fraud, falsehood, trickery, and deliberate lying on the part of those in whom he is taught to repose confidence and to whom he is enjoined to nay respect.
None of the heroes prepared for suffering and sacrifice, none of the common herd ready for service and obedience, will be inclined to listen to the call of their country once they discover the polluted sources from whence that call proceeds and recognize the monstrous finger of falsehood which beckons them to the battlefield.
Twenty Years Ago in New York
TWENTY years ago in New York, according to Upton Sinclair’s book Metropolis, there were 'women in New York society who employed expert nurses for their dogs, besides a footman, and a special cuisine. These dogs had a regular dentist, and a physician, and gold plate to eat from.
Some of these dogs went out driving, with a coachman and a footman. There were dog nurseries and 1’esting rooms in which they might be left temporarily, and manicure parlors for cats, with a physician in charge.
There were umbrellas for dogs, to be fastened over their backs in wet weather, manicure and toilet sets for them, silver medicine chests for them, and jewel-studded whips. There were sets of engraved visiting cards for dogs, and wheel-chairs in which invalid cats and dogs might be taken for an airing.
There was a woman who came all the way from the Pacific Coast to have a specialist perform an operation upon the throat of her Yorkshire terrier! There was another who built for her dog a Queen Anne cottage, with rooms papered and carpeted and hung with lace curtains!
There was a cat with a life-pension from a $40,000 estate. It had a two-floor apartment and several attendants, sat at a table and ate shrimps and Italian chestnuts, and had a velvet couch for naps and a fur-lined basket in which to sleep at night.
New York Avas very modest and sensible in its tastes and expenditures twenty years ago,
compared with what it is now. The interest system is a great thing. There are tens of thousands of human beings in New York who are only one jump away from starvation all the time. New York needs Christ’s kingdom, and is going to get it whether it Avants it or not. That • is the best part of it. -
A 100% Cosicera
A GENTLEMAN Avho works for a success
ful concern in the Middle West writes us regarding the methods that are employed in making his company a 100-percenter in the community and Red Cross drives. Despite the specter of death and disease stalking through his home, he dares not give his name for fear of losing his job. He says:
“The wages paid are very inadequate to maintain the average worker’s family, which results in much suffering. Yet, as you will'note by enclosed clipping, they are able to. pay quite a healthy dividend.
“The general wage scale varies from forty-five cents an hour to fifty-five cents an hour. Machine operators receive from fifty-live to sixty cents an hour; a very select few receive fair Avagos (such as seventy-five to eighty-five cents). These consist of tool makers, foremen, straw bosses, and a few favored individuals.
“'They employ approximately 700 men, women and girls. The girls are paid from thirteen to fifteen dollars a week. Nine hours a day prevails throughout the factory; five days, and one-half day on Saturday, weekly. '
“The factory is nicely located, well lighted and ventilated and heated. The workers can either stand or sit at their work.
“'The officials are constantly seeking ways and means to increase production, among Avhich are the suggestion boxes, conveniently located throughout the factory, in Avhich the workers place their suggestions and, if accepted by the committee, are paid from three to five dollars for same. *
“'To this end also are cards posted in conspicuous places at intervals, bearing such sayings as follows: ‘Failure of the Avorker to think. It becomes necessary to employ others to think for you and to receive part of your pay.’ This is the gist of thought in the last card posted.
“'Each year the management sends the foremen and bosses to the ‘slaves’ (for that is Avhat the Workers are) to broAvbeat, intimidate and threaten them to give a day’s pay to the community chest, and to sign a card authorizing the company to deduct one day’s pay every year Avhile employed by the company. Also, every one avIio obtains employment noAv must sign said card. This system began in the spring of 1928. '
“They will not take ‘No’ for an answer, but must ‘go over’ 100-percent. Not even if you plead poverty, as I did, and tell them that you have enough community chest at home. I had no less than four conferences with the officials, Avho even pried into my personal matters and wanted to know whom I OAve'd, and criticized me because I owned a radio, and said I shouldn’t have bought it.
“This was last spring. I was finally compelled to sign the card in order to keep Avorking, as they threatened loss of employment, and I could not take any such chances Avitlr a family of five to support and a sick girl avIio is no doubt on tier death-bed with t. b.
“One thing I did do. In signing the card I erased the clause which made it perpetual, and made it good only for 1928. So I am wondering Avhat they will do this spring (1929).
“Oh, yes, they are 100-percent for the Red Cross, but they are not even one percent for the cross of Christ. Of course you couldn’t expect anything else. Just a ferv weeks ago they came Avith the Red Cross and said, ‘Well, -----, avc
Avant $1.00 out of you for the Red Cross. We are going to put her over 100-percent/
“I said emphatically, ‘No, not one cent from, me!’ They said,‘You can afford it easily. Only tAventy-five cents a Week until the dollar is paid/ I said positively, ‘No!’ and asked them Iioav the management would like it if I would introduce some such program for the poor and demand 100 percent and would not take ‘No’ for an answer. I said they would promptly introduce me to the toe of their shoe. I insisted on my stand, and they did not like it.
“This is how they retaliate. Before the holidays I came down with the flu and lost a week’s work as a result, and loss of the week’s pay made it necessary to ask for an advance on my second week’s pay, which was already earned.
“So I approached my foreman on the question. He began about my failure to sign for the Red Cross and that because of this it went down on the book's against me and I am considered no good.
“The foreman said he would not have this against his name, not for a ten-dollar bill. And he said he didn’t know whether he could do anything for me or not, notwithstanding that I have a nineteen-year-old girl on what will doubtless prove her death-bed, as the doctor says there is no hope for her.
“It is funny that there has not been a representative here of either the Community Chest or the Red Cross; neither do I expect any. However, they finally granted me ten dollars advance as requested.”
Railroad Slogans, etc. By Harold W. Kline
THE “World’s Greatest Highway” identifies the Canadian Pacific System, which bridges two oceans and links four continents. It also operates its own hotels, some at sea-level, probably the highest being at Lake Louise, Alta., 5,670 feet. .
“The Largest Railway System in America” brings to mind the Canadian National Railways. It maintains eleven radio stations to supply news and music to its de luxe train passengers while en route.
The “Standard Railroad of the World” refers to the Pennsylvania Railroad, which “carries more passengers, hauls more freight, than any other railroad in America”. They changed the name of their “St. Louisan” to “Spirit of St. Louis”, to commemorate Colonel Lindbergh’s transatlantic airplane flight, Mrs. Lindbergh appropriately being on the first trip from New York to St. Louis.
“The Standard Railroad of the South” refers to the Atlantic Coast Line, while the Seaboard Air Line uses “Through the heart of the South”, and the Southern Railway takes for its slogan “Serves the South”. The “Water Level Route” makes you think of the New York Central; the “Road of Anthracite”, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; “A mill to the mile,” the Piedmont and Northern Railway; while the Chicago & Alton uses “The Only Way”. They further advertise on their time-tables “perfect passenger service”. What can be better?
The “Crookedest Railroad in the World” is the Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway, of California. This slogan has no reference except to the track, which has 281 "curves and climbs about 2,600 feet to the summit, from which spreads a panorama of the Muir Woods (with its giant Sequoia trees), San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
If you travel over the “Land of Evangeline Route”, which is the Dominion Atlantic Railway, you must, of course, go to Nova Scotia.
Some other slogans are the following: “The Noiseless Route,” Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway; “Oil Belt Route,” used jointly by the Wichita Falls, Ranger & Fort Worth R. R. Co. and Cisco & Northeastern Railway Co.; “Cotton Belt Route,” St. Louis Southwestern Railway Lines; “Mineral Route,” Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad; “Fruit Belt Route,” the Grand River Valley Railroad; “North Star Route,” Minneapolis & Rainy River Ry.; “Safety and Service,” Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway; “The Road of Personal Service,” Tennessee Central Railway; “The Road of Service,” Gulf, Mobile & Northern R. R.; “Courtesy, Efficient Service, Always,” Illinois Central System; “A Service Institution,” Missouri Pacific R. R.; “A Dependable Railway,” Great Northern Ry.; “Use the Short Route,” Toledo, Peoria & Western R. R.; “The Niagara Falls Route,” Michigan Central R. R.; “Royal Gorge Route Scenic Line,” Denver & Rio Grande Western R. R.; “The Overland Route,” Union Pacific System; “The Soo Line,” Minneapolis,
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St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie By.; “Line of the Minute Man,” Boston & Maine R. R.; “Yellowstone Park Line,” Northern Pacific Ry.; “Great Gorge Route,” The Niagara Gorge R. R.; “The Redwood Route,” California Western R. R. & Navigation Co.; “Valley of the Geysers,” San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga Ry.; “The Merced Canyon Route,” Yosemite Valley R. R.
“The National Park Line” refers to the Burlington Route, the locomotives of which have speed recorders, to promote regulated, uniform speed, and whistles that are musical. This railroad serves the Black Hills, and explains that they are really green with forests of pine, blue with spruce, and gray with some of the most remarkable and interesting granite formations to be found anywhere; also that nature gave them foundations of gold and silver, copper, tin, lead and mica. At Lead, S. Dak., is found the great Homestake mine, the richest gold mine in the world.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey has the largest and longest four-track drawbridge in the world.
The Baltimore & Ohio was the first railroad built in America for public transportation of passengers and freight. The first American-built locomotive was the B. & 0. “Tom Thumb.”
The Wabash Ry. Co. advertises that it has the “train of trains”. Its slogan is, "Follow the Flag.” .
The Reading Railroad offers a famous specialty, “Individual Chicken Pie”; while the Bangor and Aroostook R. R. Co. specializes on its baked potatoes as the “best in the world”, and the Chicago & North Western makes us hungry by setting forth the charms of its “individual lemon pie”.
Electric refrigeration in dining cars .was first used by the Milwaukee Road, which serves between Chicago and Seattle, offering 660 miles of electric locomotion with no cinders, smoke, jolting or jarring, crossing four majestic mountain ranges.
The above can be multiplied by consulting an Official Guide. For two dollars a month one may have an up-to-date list of the train schedules of all the railways in the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Central America, with officials’ names and titles, etc.
The Great Northern Ry. has the record of carrying 58,702,922 passengers, on an average of 92 miles, for nine years, without a fatal accident. It has the longest tunnel in America, which penetrates the Cascade mountains in western United States.
The first passenger train in the world was run between Stockton and Darlington, England (now part of the London and North Eastern Ry. of England and Scotland, forming the East Coast Route), on September 27, 1825.
The Modern Pharisee
By Anne Higginson Spicer
(Reprinted from The Christian Century)
SO HE droned on, of parish work and claims;
Of weddings, funerals, the constant call Upon his time and strength; and through it all Came mention of rich men with powerful names, Who were his friends. He spoke of sports and games
To lure the young from the low dancing-hall, And while he talked I watched the lift and fall Of well-kept hands, gesturing of his aims.
I did not follow all the things lie said.
Those smooth hands vanished from my sight.
Instead,
A picture built itself before my sight
Of a rough work-bench, where with saw and blade
A young Lad labored at his father’s trade.
I cannot think that Jesus’ hands were white!
No Segregation in Brazil
ONE of the things of great interest to every visitor to Brazil is the racial experiment that is going on there. The country draws no color line socially, politically or otherwise. Men of any color may be and are in the highest walks of life and are received into every form of public and private gathering. The admiral of the Brazilian navy is a full-blooded Negro.
A Coal Miner’s Wages By F. Ronald Miller (South Africa)
THE capitalistic papers of England (it is hard to find a daily paper that is not run by capitalistic power) howl down the coal miner when he strikes for his rights. They give the public the impression that the miner is an unreasonable, bull-brained individual who is never content; and the sheep-like man in the street, taking all that is printed in the newspaper as gospel truth, proceeds to judge the miner harshly without making the slightest endeavor to prove matters for himself or to see the other side of the question.
Coal mining is hard work; no man can say that it is not.
I have on my desk, right now, particulars from a lad of nineteen years of age who is employed in a mine in England. This youth has to walk six miles to the pit-head, and after he is let down in the cage he has a further three to four miles to walk underground to his task on the seam face. His wages during September of this year, after various stoppages were made for insurance, etc., came to £3:1:4. I have taken these figures from the boy’s official pay chits. For this meager wage he has had to work. Only those who know the mining life know how that lad has had to work, and from these few dollars he must clothe and feed himself, besides giving a little to his mother.
It is easy for the easy-chair critic to look upon these honest toilers as bull-brained brutes who don’t know when they are well off; but we all look forward eagerly to the coming of an allloving government headed by the Premier of all premiers, the Son of God.
The Farmer Must Be Adequately Remunerated By I. B. Alford
THE public recognizes today the fundamental right of an individual to organize and operate in his own way, without interference, any legitimate business enterprises in which he may choose to engage. The perpetuation of former centuries-old family traditions which prevailed in the old country, and which yet prevail there to some extent, requiring incoming generations to maintain the caste system by pursuing only those occupations of their fathers, is no longer in vogue.
Early in the history of America these traditions were held in contempt, and were smashed upon the rock of opportunity. As a result many former rag-tags of newsboys, peddling papers on the street, are now publishers and owners of plants the values of which are reckoned in the millions.
The sons of blacksmiths are reversing the fortunes of their fathers by aspiring to and attaining to positions as directors or presidents of railroad companies whose lines belt the continent from ocean to ocean. The errand boy in yesterday’s village store may today be a merchant prince with his chain of stores in a dozen or more cities. The captains of today’s industries are the result of yesterday’s opportunity to organize and operate a private or public business project.
~ Under this plan of operation, the results have, without exception, been attained under mass production, with the uninterrupted privilege of profitable sale of such production. This is true in all matters of sale, from toothpicks to steam shovels, or from wheelbarrows to limousines and locomotives.
And, by common consent, the public concedes and insists upon this plan as being indispensable in the successful maintenance of any business enterprise. This plan of mass production, and the conceded right of profitable sale of such production, is the only known route to possible success in any undertaking.
It is true that at times it has been necessary for the government to exercise its police functions to prevent excessive profits, under the Sherman Antitrust Law; but even here the right of profitable sale has never been infringed by such police function. It was only the excessive profit that was designed to be held in check. .
This right of profitable sale, under economical cost of production, is an inalienable right,^t being the only possible guarantee of the continued successful operation of such enterprise. Denial of this right is the first step to failure of such enterprise.
Farming is a business, just the same as railroading, merchandising, banking, mining or manufacturing. Just as in all other business, the success of farming is determined by mass production and profitable sale of such production. And this is the “farm problem” about which so much is being written today. So long as farmers and ranchmen are compelled to take a course running counter to that of all other business men, that is, are denied the right of profitable sale of their output, this will continue to be the farm problem.
Indeed it is becoming the national problem. This nation will perpetuate itself in both existence and prosperity only in proportion to the prosperity of all its essential industries. And farming takes first rank in importance.
This problem can not be disposed of by resolutions of Congress, nor by speeches of high-salaried wind-jammers who appear to be afflicted with the habit of qualifying as experts on marketing. Neither can the solution be very much longer postponed by them.
The general public must concede the farmer a legitimate profit, and must think and plan and legislate to that end. The nation can not perpetuate itself half bond and half free. This is essentially an agricultural nation, and farming must be made to pay or the nation will perish.
Injustice—Stotteaness—-What? By J. A. Bohnet
QUITE recently a college professor and a school superintendent were occupying two tnrned-apart seats in a passenger coach crowded to capacity; in other words, they were hogging four seats on two one-seat tickets and were discussing school matters, mostly the athletic features. They were being overheard by the writ. er, who occupied an adjoining seat.
The conversation shifted to a singing contest. The college professor explained that one of the girls of the contest was the daughter of one of the college trustees, and another of the girls was the daughter of one of the citizens of the town, and that the decision rested between these two girls. He explained, “We gave the decision to the daughter of the trustee.” “Of course!” agreed the superintendent, with smug assurance of policy.
The college professor went on to say, “The mother of the other girl came to me, vigorously protesting against the decision. She declared that her daughter was by far the better singer, and that everybody was so saying, and that she should have gotten the award. I told that mother that her daughter was of course the better singer of the two; but policy decreed otherwise, and that although her girl failed of getting the award, that does not impair her singing quality in the least. She is just as good a singer as she was before the contest.” And the superintendent nodded assent. -
The writer has known the time when he would gladly have paid a dollar for the privilege of giving that college professor a - smash on the nose. Disgustedly he changed his seat so as to hear no more.
Raw Onions as a Cure for Malaria By Raphael Sims
SOMETHING- is said in your journal occasionally about malaria in different parts of the -world. We all know that quinine is an old remedy for this; and perhaps we have all known or heard of some who attribute at least a partial deafness to the use of quinine. ■
Are raw onions more effective and less objectionable than quinine for this malady? Some years ago I was thus troubled, having a chill every other day; and a friend told me a complete cure would be effected by the use of raw onions. He directed that the onions should be peeled and sliced, and that a saucer well filled with these should be eaten all at once, the one dose to effect a complete cure. I took his advice, ate, cried and finished the job. and never again in my experience had a chill
A Warden With a Heart
Lewis E. Lawes, for eight years warden of Sing Sing prison, New York, believes that the men in prison are no different from the men outside. As a consequence he has been a great success as a warden. In a'book narrating his experiences he says:
Crime is rarely a one-sided proposition; guilt rarely entirely personal. Responsibility must, in most instances, be shared by society, which takes credit for a man’s virtues and should by the same token acknowledge at least some of the blame for his vices. The newspapers and movies must, in many instances, share a good deal of the responsibility of crime, but so too must the schools, the churches and many thoughtless fathers, indulgent mothers, vain wives, underpaying employers, dishonest politicians, usurious bankers, grasping money-lenders, etc. In several cases of men who have been sent to Sing Sing in connection with big business failures, the failures were due to payments of high interest rates to grasping money-lenders, who were themselves complainants, although they had actually received in interest more than they had loaned, and were therefore only nominal losers in the failures.
Sing Sing does not have the discipline characterized by the lock-step, striped suit, silence, and shaved heads, but has good businesslike order and excellent morale. The prisoners in the shops are not handled as prisoners, but as workmen. There are no guards with guns standing on a raised dais and shouting curses. One sees in the shops a group of laborers busy at their tasks, with here and there a civilian instructor or foreman.
Those who think of the criminal as he is usually portrayed in fiction may find it difficult to think of him as having any of the characteristics of a hero. As a matter of fact, I know of a number of former prisoners who distinguished themselves for bravery in the late war, and there are now in Sing Sing several men who have received high decorations for fearlessness and heroism. More than 20 per cent of our present population have seen service in defense of our nation’s flag. If I should ever need a man upon whose courage I would rely in the face of the gravest danger, I know hundreds of men—prisoners and exprisoners—upon whom I would stake my life.
Prisoners are, as a rule, generous—-many of them to a fault. On the outside, they have been generous to their friends and good to their mothers. Within the walls, they will share their last bite or last Lucky or Camel with any fellow-prisoner. If any man is unable to do his work, fellow-prisoners will give him a lift. I ’ ave even known men to assume the blame and take punishment for something they had not done, in order to protect a prisoner friend.
That the mere imprisonment itself is real punishment is brought out by the warden as follow’s:
If any one doubts this fact, let him imagine himself in the finest hotel in the world, but absolutely limited to its confines without privilege of leaving, even for an hour, over a period of a year, five years, or ten years. No luxury it might afford, no comfort, no pleasures—with the unlimited privilege of receiving all visitors who might call or the freedom to communicate at will with friends by mail and telephone—would offset the loss of freedom. This would be real punishment to any man.
Now substitute for the room in the finest hotel a narrow, dark, cold cell in a building that has been condemned as unsanitary for more than sixty years; and for the luxuries of the hotel fare, meals which cost only twenty-one cents per day. Add labor on the coal pile, or in poorly lighted shops, with out-of-date machinery, for a daily wage of one and a half cents. Then limit the visits received to one a week, and place a limit and a censorship on both outgoing and incoming mail.
Making China Over
'(By M. E. Tracy, in the Cleveland Press')
ONE hundred years ago the Chinese were giving the outside world little trouble, and probably would have continued to do so had the outside nations left them alone. The market for commercial and religious wares, however, proved too tempting. Some folks couldn’t bear the idea of China going to hell in ignorance of the gospel, while others couldn’t bear the idea of her going to heaven without modern equipment.
Missionaries and treaties were forced upon her, the control of many of her ports was taken over by foreign governments and if she dared to so much as murmur a protest Christian guns were turned against her to prove how fiery the new gospel really was.
The western world has had a rather enjoyable time lording it over China. Her cheap labor made it possible to buy many raw materials at a low price, while her helpless condition made it possible to force faith, opium and other things down her throat.
Napoleon seems to have been about the only statesman of his time who realized what the end of the game might be. He said that China was a sleeping giant and those should beware who waked her.
An Astronomical Reverie By Prof. Dr. Andersson
(Translated from the German)
OUR present-day telescopes magnify merely with the help of optical means. Thereby considerable limitations, which have already been nearly reached by our technical arts, are placed against their perfection. That does not mean, however, that we shall always be dependent upon these optical means only.
If we wish to discover something very small and we succeed in transforming one step in the procedure of search into an electrical function, we can thus obtain magnifications which, could never be obtained by any other means. Picking up and making audible the little radio waves is a significant example of this.
Therefore, if one of these days we should succeed in transforming part of the process of seeing through the telescope into an electrical function, there could be obtained in this manner magnifications of which we would hardly dream today. ’
That would mean, first of all, that we would see much more accurately the celestial bodies already visible hitherto, and besides would discover innumerable ones hitherto unknown. Even this -would be of incalculable importance.
But there would supervene an unexpected, even more far-reaching result. Light requires one second to travel 186,400 miles. Therefore, from the sun to the earth it requires eight minutes. Thus, whoever looks at the earth from the sun would see there what had transpired on the earth eight minutes before.
If, on some celestial body not too far from the earth, we could find a reflecting surface, such as a crystal ledge or a piece of molten metal, and could examine with the help of our imaginary supertelescope the reflection therefrom cast back upon the earth, we would see therein that which was transpiring upon the earth at a time as long preceding as is required for light to travel from the earth to said celestial body and from there back again to earth. '
Suppose we choose for an example the fixed star Polaris, which is so far from the earth that light from the earth requires seventy-five years to reach this star. A natural mirror upon it would show us events which had taken place upon earth 150 [=2X75] years ago.
Since there are stars at all possible distances from the earth, we would be enabled by means of our supertelescope to study the entire world’s history backwards. We could, for instance, see from our observatory how Columbus discovers America and how Caesar crosses the Rubicon. We would settle with ease thousandyear-old historical disputes, correct deep-rooted errors, and the most ancient beginnings of Egyptian and Babylonian history would hold no more secrets from us.
A mirror in the Magellanic Clouds (Nubecu-lae) would carry us back to the earliest stone age. Since, according to latest discoveries, there are several planets which are a million lightyears away from us, these would reflect the condition in which our earth was two million years ago.
We would not seem too unreasonable just now, but fantastic as it may appear at first thought, namely, that we should ever again look upon the “lost world” of the long ago, yet this lies positively within the range of the most reasonable possibility.
Even as one generation ago one would not have imagined it possible to hear as music from a microphone the tiny wTaves produced miles away, so it might be that even the next generation may in the same matter-of-course manner reel oft motion pictures of the past.
At least, our meditation will disclose to the reader what distances we have to take into consideration in the universe, and that nothing that happens is totally lost, even if -we should be unable to make it visible for ourselves again.
Bible Questions and Answers
/“XUESTION: Is there not great danger in 'V elaborate ceremony and appearance in religious services, rather than a good heart toward the Lord? '
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Ansiver: ¥es. The Lord is always much better pleased with the good heart condition of faith and trust in Him. When the Lord told Samuel to anoint one of the sons of Jesse as king over Israel, He did not tell the prophet to select the-best-looking son or the son who had the best clothing. No. God told Samuel, as stated in 1 Samuel 16:7, “The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.” The scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’ day loved to dress very conspicuously and to appear very pious, to be seen of men. Jesus said that they were an abomination in the Lord’s sight. In Mark 12:38-40 we read, “Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the market-places, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts; which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.” The difficulty with the scribes was that they, through appearance and ceremony, sought the praises of men rather than to be pleasing to God. It is true that “the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart”. Jesus warned the Jews against the scribes and Pharisees, who oppressed the poor and widows with the collection of money, and -who sought praise for themselves rather than the honor of God. Jesus said, in Matthew 23:2-9, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: ... do not ye after their works:. for they say, and do not.
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For they bind heavy burdens, be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.” The same principle that held in the days of the Prophet Samuel, and later in the days of Jesus, is still good: “The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but
the Lord looketh on the heart.”—1 Sam. 16: 7.
Question: Did God create Adam and Eve in the exact form of man and woman in a reasonably short time, or did man evolve to the present state through a long period of time?
Answer: God created Adam and Eve in the exact form of man and woman in a reasonably short time. In Genesis 2:7 we read, "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Scientific analysis of the human body has proved that all the elements found in the body are present in the soil of the earth. In Psalm 100:3 we read, "Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves.” Another statement is found in Isaiah 64: 8. “But now, 0
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Lord, thou art our father: we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we are all the work of thy hand.” The theory of evolution is not supported by the true scientific facts of nature; for each species of animal, including man, tends to hold to his own unchangeable kind; and in a few generations crosses between two kinds rev e r t to the original strains. The evolution theory is neither Scriptural nor scientific.
Question: My boy often asks me, “Where is Jesus ?” Shall I tell him ‘in his heart’ or ‘in heaveri?
Ansiver: The boy may be told that according to the Scriptures Jesus as a powerful spirit being is even now present in the earth. Fulfilled prophecy and Bible chronology clearly show that Christ has returned and that during this
time of trouble, which began in 1914, He is breaking up the Devil’s organization, both visible and invisible, and at the same time is setting up His kingdom which is soon to bless all the peoples of earth. The disciples of Jesus were curious to know the evidences or signs of His second presence, and asked Him the question stated in Matthew 24:3, "What shall be the sign of thy coming [parousia, presence], and of the end of the world?” In giving answer to this question Jesus said that ‘nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom; famines, epidemics (such as the influenza) ; revolutions in different parts of the earth; the Jews returning to Palestine; and the gospel of the kingdom being preached by His followers’—these would be proofs of His second presence.
Now mark you, all of these events have been in the course of fulfilment since 1914, for the first time in earth’s history. In Daniel 12:1, 4 we read, “And at that time shall Michael [Christ Jesus, who is God’s representative] stand up [begin to reign], the great prince which stand-eth for the children of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there, was a nation even to that same time. . . . But thou, 0 Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
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