Golden Age, May 29, 1929
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crhe Golden Age
A JOURNAL OF FACT HOPE AND. COURAGE
in this issue
BLESSINGS IN THE BAHAMAS
FUTURE OF DAILY PRESS
POWER TRUST TACTICS .
THE GRAPE CURE
ALUMINUM AGAIN
GOVERNMENT PROMISED third of a series of radio lectures on good government, by Judge Rutherford.
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........ ~ Labor and Economics Facts of American Prosperity ................................................ ....557
Japan Abolishes Child Night Work
Follies of Our Civilization .....
Social and Educational
What Is the Future of the Daily Press?
Finance—Commerce—Transportation
Power Trust Still at It
Hartford-Windsor Electric Bills
Political—Domestic and Foreign .
Reserve Officers’ Training Coups
Sunday in Atlanta ___________________;..............:....... 557
The Fascist Election in Italy
Raiford Penitentiary .......... 559
Agriculture and. Husbandry Effect of Ultra-violet Rays on Beks ............
' Science and Invention Radio Ear in Operation
Locating Loudspeakers ________________________________________________________________________________.....557
Home and Health New York City’s Department of Health .....
The Grape Cure ............... .....56o
Sundry Experiences with Aluminum. ___________________________________________.■________
More About the Ehret System
Travel and Miscellany
Blessings in the Bahamas 547 1If,re's An Opportunity _______________________________________________________________________________
Notice ............ ...556
Balboa’s Unholy Mosquitoes ____________________________________________________________________
A Warning
Another Faker .........
Religion and Philosophy Got What They Went After ____________
Mrs. Eddy Dii> Not Copy Verbatim ___________________........______________________________
Government Promised 567 Abbott’s Vow of Poverty ................ ...574
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Volume X Brooklyn, N. Y.» Wednesday, May 29, 1929 Number 253
Blessings in the Bahamas
SUPPOSE yon were the editor of a magazine, always on the lookout for interesting matter for its columns, and you had enough copy on hand to make up several numbers. Then suppose that suddenly, in midwinter, the president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society should say to you, “How would you like to take a little trip through the southern states, including a visit to the Bahamas! One of our speakers, advertised for this route, is needed in other parts, and if you so desire you may go in his place.” What answer would you make?
The answer wmuld be some such answer as might come from a hungry boy or girl confronted with a dish of berries and cream, or a famished man suddenly asked to pass upon a porterhouse steak done to a turn. It would not take long to get things fixed up, would it?
And so it came about that February 1 found the editor in Louisville, taking up a route through the southern states and including conventions at New Orleans, Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa, with a canvassing trip to the Bahamas in prospect. And there was canvassing all the way along, too.
The classes of Bible Students visited were all in splendid condition, all rejoicing in the light of present truth and present truths, and all participating in the service work which every faithful worker in the ranks knows from experience is now so richly blessed of the Lord. They did not need to be preached at. The preaching business, except from door to door, has largely had its day.
The zeal of one of the classes visited, a Roman Catholic center, with a difficult style of architecture to contend with, was an inspiration. So, too, was the wit of one of its members of wealth and culture. When her children were unable to appreciate her work in canvassing for Judge Rutherford’s books among the lowly negroes and others, she informed them that that was her concern and not theirs.
And when they objected somewhat to certain of the poor in spirit who were also poor in purse being made welcome in her mansion, she comforted them by saying, “There are eleven rooms in this house; if you do not wish to mingle with my guests in the rooms where I entertain them, there are ten other rooms in which you may make yourselves at home.” The lady has auburn hair. Her husband smilingly refers to her as his tiger, and apparently thinks that everything she does is just right, as all good husbands should.
The trip as far as Miami held seventeen days, with some canvassing every day, 328 calls in all, and 242 bound books. It held the unique blessing of the revival of a Watch Tower and a Golden Age subscription, and a sale of Judge Rutherford’s books, to one who had halted for a time by the wayside but is now resolved afresh to light the good fight of faith to its happy end.
It held, too, the extraordinary experience, at Waynesboro, Miss., of conducting the funeral of a beautiful young woman who had been murdered only the day before. Her husband had come on suddenly from a distant state, and when she declined to return with him he said, “We may as well end it all,” and shot and killed his wife and himself before those about could intervene.
Only an hour before she was slain, Judge Heidelberg’s daughter, friendly to the cause for which we stand, had gone down town for the express purpose of giving a small sum of money to a poor old blind negro for whom she had sympathy. How happy she will yet be, and' the old negro and her husband too, we hope.
All Aboard for Nassau
At length Miami was reached; its convention was over and gone; and the next appointment on the list was the canvassing appointment in the Bahamas. A Miami Bible Student defrayed the expense of a longer visit and a more extended itinerary than had been originally contemplated, so two weeks were allotted to it, instead of three days as originally scheduled.
It was on the night of February 25 that the seventeen-hour sail from Miami to Nassau (180 miles) was negotiated. The North was in one of its greatest snowstorms of the season. The editor slept with not so much as a sheet over him; it was an ideal summer night. In Miami and in the Bahamas the thermometer rarely goes over 80 or under 70, and the nights are always tempered with strong, fresh breezes from the ocean.
The captain of the “Princess Montagu” proved to be an admirer of Judge Rutherford and was glad to get a set of his books, as was a fellow captain seated at the same table. Captain Song-dahl of the “Montagu” has a brother, a railroad man, who is “of this way”. The blessings of the Bahamas had begun, and after that there seemed no end to them.
A Glimpse at the Bahamas
The Bahama Islands consist of twenty-five inhabited islands, seven hundred islets called cays, and over two thousand rocks and coral reefs. The belt is 160 miles wide, stretching from a point forty miles off the east coast of Florida 800 miles in a southeasterly direction to Turks Island and Inagua off the northern coast of Hayti.
The axis of the Bahamas, running from northwest to southeast, includes the Berry, New Providence (Nassau), Long, and Crooked-Ack-lin groups. To the south of the axial line are the Bimini, Andros, Exuma, Ragged and Inagua groups. To the north of the axial line are the Grand Bahama, Abaco, Harbour, Eleuthera, Cat, Burn, San Salvador (Wailing), Mariguana and Turks Island groups, eighteen in all.
The total area of the islands is 4,396 square miles, equivalent to a single tract sixty-six miles on each side. The largest four islands, 77 percent in point of area, Andros, Abaco, Inagua and Grand Bahama, contain but 26 percent of the population. The total population of the Bahamas is 53,031, one-fourth of European and three-fourths of African descent. The island of New Providence, upon which Nassau is located, contains 12,975 population and has an area of but 58 square miles.
High Lights of Bahama History
Eric the Red landed on American shores in the year 986; Leif Ericson, in 1000; Skolno (Polish), in-1450; and Joao Vaz Corta-Real and Alvaro Martins Homem (Portuguese), in 1464. October 12, 1492, the better known and more widely advertised Spanish Jew, Christopher Columbus, landed on the island of San Salvador, now called Watling-’s Island, in the Baha-man group.
When Columbus and his friends landed in the Bahamas they found them sparsely settled by a simple, peaceful class of fishermen who called themselves Lucayans. So at first the Bahamas were called the Lucayans. The name Bahama came from a town of that name in Cuba. Columbus and his comrades carried off the original settlers and worked them to death in the pearl fisheries of Panama. There is reason to believe that the Spanish and French Basque fishermen came to the banks of Newfoundland for cod centuries before any of these events occurred.
The next settlers of the Bahamas were a band of sixty Puritans, banished from Bermuda in 1647 by the Royalists. Their ship was wrecked on the island of their choice, Eleuthera, but they were left without supplies of any kind. Their leader, Captain Sayles, negotiated the long and difficult passage to Virginia, in an open boat, and brought much needed aid. Word traveled on to Massachusetts, and the brave but poor colonists of the far North sent aid to their destitute brethren. Among the names of the honored sixty are those of Bethell, Carey, Knowles, Pinder, Sands and Sawyer, and their names are common in the Bahamas to this day.
These settlers provided in their original agreement that all persons of justice and sobriety willing to live peaceably and quietly would be accepted “'as members of the republic”, and that, too, “notwithstanding any differences of judgment.”
These men taught their boys to fear God but not to fear hard work. Every boy was expected to be able to sail a boat in a gale, and to be generally dependable. The girls were equally competent. Every Bahaman can swim and can sail a boat.
More Recent History
In 1670 King Charles II seized the Bahamas and divided them among six court favorites, Albemarle, Ashly, Berkeley, Craven, Carteret and two others. Under their miserable misrule the islands got their bad name of being the rendezvous of pirates, and the pirates were there in plenty.
Nassau became the pirate center. Among those who caused others to “walk the plank” were Bellamy, Brown, Burgess, Conklyn, England, Fife, Hornigold, Jennings, Johnson, La Bouche, Martel, Penner, Sample, Teach, Vane, Williams and Winter. Jennings was considered the social leader of the group. There is vanity even among pirates.
Teach, excessively vain, vulgar and cruel, was not admitted to the society of the Jennings group. From his habit of braiding his coal black hair and whiskers, Teach (Blackbeard) became one of the most famous of pirates. He died in single combat, sword in hand, on the deck of his own vessel. His tower is still to be seen in Nassau.
The pirate era was not of long duration. In 1718 a regular administration was set up, the pirates surrendered, and a general amnesty was proclaimed. In 1787 the heirs of the seven court favorites above mentioned were each given two thousand pounds for their interests in the Bahamas. This reward was, to all intents and purposes, a theft from the British Treasury, and such thefts still go on. The Bahamas would be far better off today if they had never seen or heard of these gentlemen adventurers.
The Bahama Islands lend themselves peculiarly to such work as the piracies of 1700, the blockade running of the Civil War, and the present illicit rum traffic. They are so close to American shores, and their waters are so intricate and difficult to navigate that pursuit is risky. During the Civil War, Nassau was a recognized center for blockade runners.
Of What the Bahamas Boast
The Bahamas do not boast of their natural resources. They have something else. They boast the clearest, cleanest air in the world, and the whitest, brightest sunshine. And they also boast a winter climate that is perfection itself. It is just right, not cold, not hot, providing perfect comfort in the lightest of clothing. The lowest temperature ever recorded was 51.5 degrees on January 26, 1905.
But the special thing of which the Bahamas boast is that they have the most beautiful seas in all the world. The beaches of pink and white coral sand- are joys to behold. The waters teem with fish of all sizes and varieties. The shells are the most beautiful to be found.
The color of the bottom has been seen at 360 feet and is easily apparent at fifty feet. In the sunlight the water changes from palest jade to emerald green or deepest sapphire. Every cloud and every breeze brings new colors of green and blue, and sometimes pink and orange, merging into the old. Those who have seen the sunlight on Lake Louise, in the Canadian Rockies, can appreciate the picture. But travelers admit that there are no oceans elsewhere in the world so gorgeous as those of the Bahamas.
Though not the most widely advertised, the Bahamas also boast the finest submarine gardens in the world. Oddly enough, these gardens are almost in Nassau’s front yard, easily reached in a few moments by glass-bottomed motor boats. The plants waving around in the water, with all kinds of queer fishes swimming among them, make a picture never to be forgotten.
Many other places boast of their bathing beaches. The Bahamas have' many as fine as are to be found anywhere, and the temperature of the water is always just right for bathing. As there is always a breeze, blowing the salt air about, the appetite is kept sharp. It is hard to keep the salt crystals off one’s glasses: the salt can be tasted on one’s lips and can even be seen.
Yachtsmen claim that there is nowhere in the world where there is sportier sailing than in the Bahamas. For one thing, the waters, with their thousands of coral reefs interspersed, are probably the most dangerous; and to take the danger out of yachting is to take the fun out of it. Another thing is the sudden, freakish winds which come from nowhere and disappear as quickly as they arise.
The Bahamas do not boast of their hurricanes, but they have them. Indeed they seem to be a kind of hurricane nursery. About once in fifteen years there is a destructive storm that levels or tosses about everything that is not well built.
In the great hurricane of Sunday, July 25, 1926, scores of steamers, pleasure yachts and sponging schooners were hurled ashore or driven out to sea, with the loss of all on board. It is known that on that day more than 150 were drowned on the sponge grounds off Andros Island, and 400 were missing. These grounds are 150 miles of unsheltered sea from Nassau.
The Truth in the Bahamas ‘ .
The Lord always has His witnesses, in every place where there are any of those who are His, and He has raised up some in the Bahamas; not many, to be sure, but in Nassau there are one white brother and his wife (formerly of the Toronto class of Bible Students), two colored brothers and three colored sisters.
These friends thought conditions in Nassau would be difficult for a white canvasser from the States. He would have to pay $5 a night for his bed, and the meals would be “worst”, i. e., proportionately more expensive. The tourist folders advertise luncheon in some of the hotels at $3.00, with dinner $3.50.
But the canvasser, on landing in the Bahamas, obtained a pleasant room in a nice house on the outskirts of town for an entire week for one pound, and his lunch the first day cost him a shilling and sixpence, 36c. When Christians travel they need to use their heads.
The next step was to obtain a large-sized map of the Bahamas and locate the eighty-five post offices and put down their names and populations upon it; also to mark upon it the routes of the mail steamers which visit these post offices once in two weeks, with the names of the vessels and the nearest dates of sailings.
After making full arrangements to provide for himself independently, the canvasser looked up all the Bible Students and enjoyed sweet fellowship with each. The white sister was so glad to see a Bible Student from the States that she wept, womanlike, while the canvasser smiled. A tasty dinner was had too.
The first boat out was the “Priscilla”, due to leave for the island of Abaco the next night, Wednesday, and to be back in Nassau six days later, allowing four days for service in Abaco itself. Passage was obtained to Green Turtle Cay, the end of the steamer’s run, and the thrill of a jump into the unknown was at hand. Seventy-two of Judge Rutherford’s books, Deliverance, Creation, Government and Reconciliation, were taken along. No Harps were available at the time.
Something About Abaco
Great Abaco Island is, next to Andros, the largest island in the Bahamas. A hundred miles long, it is not over ten miles wide at any point; and in one place, “Hole-in-the-wall,” the reef is so narrow that the seas have broken it through. The area, 776 square miles, provides homes for 3,993 people. There are but seven villages of sufficient importance to have post offices, and all told they account for but 2,299 inhabitants. The largest town, Hopetown, has but 511 people. . .
The products of Abaco are sponges, himber, shark skins, sour oranges, cocoanuts, sapodillas, sisal and fish. The lumber goes to Cuba. The shark skins go to Baltimore, where they become footwear for men who are willing to pay high prices for leather which, extremely soft and pliable, is also very tough. The sour oranges are as sour as lemons, but are eaten with a relish. The sapodilla is a delightful fruit, about the size and appearance of a russet apple, with a distinctive flavor of its own. The sisal goes to Britain, for the making of ropes.
The natives of Abaco are mostly whites, descendants of the Puritans that first came to the Bahamas as exiles from Bermuda, in 1647. They are the finest type of quiet, peaceable, sea-faring and God-fearing mon. Always face to face with death among the reefs and in the hurricanes, their general subject of conversation is God's Word and their hopes of a future life. It was an inspiration to be in their midst,
The Trip Northward .
The “Priscilla” was at one time the “Champion”, and as such was a successful contender in the international yacht races with one of the Shamrocks built by Sir Thomas Lipton. It is 100 feet long, 22 feet wide, and is built for speed, not for stability. It has the well-earned reputation of rolling very badly in a heavy sea. The centerboard lias been taken out, and a Diesel engine installed.
Half an hour out of Nassau, and in a very heavy sea, the discovery was made that the rudder box had split and a nice stream of water was leaking into the hold, which latter was laden with concrete. The pumps kept the water down, and so long as it did not get into the books in the stateroom, all well and good.
During the night the seas got rougher and rougher. The “Priscilla” tried all stunts known, standing first on one end and then on the other, riding around one wave lying on one side and then keeling clear over on the other until the canvasser could see the stars almost overhead without getting out of his berth. Some water came into the stateroom, but not much, and no damage was done. The night was so rough that the freight and passengers for Cherokee Sound had to be carried by, with the expectation of putting them off on the return trip. In the morning the captain said he slept only fifteen minutes during the night. One and one are two. That makes two of us.
In the lower berth was a minister’ of the Church of England, boasting that he w7as going to a certain place to strip the rectory of most of its furnishings, to use them in his new appointment. He thought it a good joke. So did the canvasser, for a different reason. It seemed likely that if the ship went down into Hades, the dominie, on account of having the lower berth, would get there first, and that seemed every way proper.
In the morning the ship had completed her run of eighty-five miles in the open ocean and ran over the bar into Great Abaco Sound for the remainder of the journey. However, there is a second bar inside the first one, and the “Priscilla” ran upon it and settled down for a rest. After three hours the tide lifted her off and away we went.
The next excitement came a few hours later. The quadrant of the steering mechanism developed a flaw and broke in two. Thereafter- it was necessary to steer with a makeshift arrangement of ropes and pulleys wonderful to behold; but it worked, and we finally came to anchor at Green Turtle Cay about 9: 30 p.m., Thursday.
Canvassing in Abaco
Finding that there was one point, Norman Castle, twelve miles farther on, the canvasser asked the captain how to get there and was told that the mail would leave at five o’clock the next morning. He asked to be called at 4:30, carefully wrapped twenty-four bound books in two packages, and in the morning set off for his first ride in a sailboat, some four or five miles across the sound to what is called “The Road”.
Conversation with the ferryman revealed that a nephew and an aunt are members of the class of Bible Students at Key West, and that when The Harp first came out he had taken a little woman, another “canvasser”, on the same trip and helped her ashore pickaback, the same as he does all his passengers. He had scores of questions. What a wonderful opportunity of service!
“The Road.” You have visions of a nice little village at the end of a concrete highway. But your visions are wrong. “The Road” is the end of a seven-mile footpath through the woods, just wide enough for a human being to walk in.
After three miles through the woods “The Road” merges into a narrow-gage railroad, a log road for the mills four miles farther on. A handcar is provided for the mail carrier. He and his son have brought seven great sacks of mail from the boat, while the canvasser carried his little cargo of twenty-four books! He has the reputation of being the strongest man in the Bahamas.
The idea of the handcar is that you put your burdens upon it, shove it up to the top of a hill, then hop on and ride down, then get off and shove some more and ride some more, and so on ad infinitum, One mile of this was enough for the canvasser and he strode off down the track through the rain, leaving the handcar to follow as best it might. •
Arrived at the post office, the postmaster and the constable each decided to take a set of Judge Rutherford’s books, the lady next door took a set, and one more canvass on the front porch of the post office disposed of the three remaining sets, so that the twenty-four bound books lasted all told just seven minutes! This was the hand of the Lord.
Further Privileges in Abaco
The canvasser sent back to the boat for his remaining forty-eight bound books, and they arrived at five o’clock. Meantime the commissioner of the district had invited him to spend tire night and to address the people of the town, assuring him that they would all be out to hear. The population of the tow-n is set down at 370, and it is estimated that more than half were out to hear a discussion of the question, “Is Everlasting Life on Earth Possible?”
That night, in the home of the manager of the plant (a lumber plant), after a conference lasting till late, the commissioner and the manager, and their wives, and the canvasser, all agreed that this is the truth; and so it is, and therefore the most precious thing in all the world. The truth has been reaching them over the radio, and they were not unfamiliar with Judge Rutherford's message, and not unprepared for it.
The manager said, "Tonight you are staying with my friend the commissioner; tomorrow night you are going to stay with me. In the morning I will have my son go around writh you and call at homes -where they should have these books. If anybody would like to have them and does not have the money, I will pay for them myself.” With this kind of a start, two hours in the morning sufficed to dispose of all the remaining books, and here vras the canvasser 120 miles away from Nassau without a book left! Does not this show the interest of our Lord and Head in the placing of this message in the hands of the people ?
There was another meeting Saturday night, subject, “This Gospel of the Kingdom,” and then an early start Sunday morning back to the boat. Five young men went along. Ordinarily, on arrival at “’The Road” it is necessary to build a fire of rotten wood so that the smoke may summon the ferryman from his home five miles across the sound. But one of the young men goes to see his sweetheart every Sunday, so the ferryman was there to meet us.
Wish you could see what fine young men these are. When the canvasser said a few kind words about the effects of tobacco upon the heart, lungs and blood, causing premature baldness, wrinkles, lassitude and loss of memory, three of them who were smoking cigarettes dropped their unfinished “coffin nails” into the water without a word of resentment or protest. Try that at home and see what you get.
A quiet day on the boat, reading and writing, was broken at twilight by the steward’s coming on board and saying, “We heard of your talks at Norman. Castle. We have no time to get a church, but if you are willing to speak in the open square we can guarantee you a good audience.” The canvasser said, “Let's go.” It is a novel experience to stand out in the square of a strange town, open with a hymn, and then start preaching. But an audience of 75 paid close attention to the end.
The Return to Nassau
The return to Nassau was as interesting as the one outbound. The improvised steering apparatus worked all right, but there was another grounding on a sandbar. This time we got off in twenty minutes, despite the gloomy statement of one of the passengers, “Now -we are on for life,” because it chanced to be at high tide.
Arrived at Hopetown, the last port before running out of the sound into the open ocean, the barometer fell so suddenly that the captain said, “If this were in the hurricane season I should be alarmed.” As it was, the “Priscilla” swung at her anchor two full days, not daring to venture out.
The dominie had gone ashore to visit another man in the same business. He boasted that he had been successful in his errand. He had taken the best of the furniture out of the rectory, and besides that had cajoled his suffering parishioners into giving him over five pounds. It had been a profitable trip, speaking financially; and that is the way theologians speak.
The captain thought that while he was gone, and the storm was raging, it would be a good time to hear about the gospel of the Kingdom; so all hands, the crew of ten, and the passenger list of fifteen, assembled in the cabin. The interest was well sustained, and a concluding meeting was held on the boat after it reached Nassau, resulting in the sale of sixty-six books. Several complete sets were sold, and every member of the crew took some of the books. At Nassau the boat went into drydock for repairs.
Blessings at Nassau Itself
Those of “this way” were all down at the wharf when the boat came in, two days overdue. Two of them, the white brother and sister, were bubbling over with pleasure. When the canvasser left they had no room wherein to entertain him. Now they had been put in charge of a guest-house, where he could have a room and private bath and would be as one,of the family, and they made him so! How good the Lord, if we but trust Him and go ahead!
In a few hours on Friday and Saturday the canvasser sold the rest of the 170 bound books and 100 booklets that he had brought with him from Miami. These were sold in one and one-half blocks of territory, and the map shows 74-£ yet to do, though many of these blocks have already been worked locally.
On Sunday there was a class drive. In the forenoon Fox Hill, a suburb, was -worked. In the afternoon it wras a drive in the remotest part of the island. The three white workers occupied one seat and the three colored workers the other seat of the one car. The houses were very scattered. When we came to the home of a white family, one of the whites got out and worked it. When we came to a colored family, one of the colored workers made the canvass. Some system, eh, what! And it worked fine. Altogether we sold about fifty books and booklets.
On Sunday night there was another meeting in the public square, an excellent audience of about 250, mostly whites. The next day, although the canvasser no longer had any books to show, this resulted in the sale of ten bound volumes and twelve booklets. Monday night there was a meeting in a colored Baptist Church, Tuesday night in a colored motion picture theatre, with attendances of 30 and 40, respectively. Altogether the trip to the Bahamas was the happiest event of the canvasser's life.
The Bahamas a Playground ■
Nature has made the Bahamas to be a playground, a place different from the rest of the world, a place where seas and skies and climate conspire to make a winter paradise. Those who think of them only in terms of the liquor that flows through Nassau miss all the best of it.
And there is plenty of liquor to be seen in Nassau, enough to make one disgusted. Every other store is a liquor store. Of the total imports for the year 1927, amounting to 1,844,932 pounds, 1,094,223 pounds, or 59.3% of the whole were of wines and liquors, Etactically all of this goes to America. Most of it is smuggled, but much of it goes back inside of tourists whose god is beneath their vests.
A favorite trick of Nassau taxi drivers is to get some rich American drunk, cart him off to his hotel and put him to bed, and in the morning charge him $25 or $30 for driving him all night, a charge which he pays without protest.
Means of conveyance in Nassau are about evenly split between the modern Jehu with his gas cart and the old style darkie with his old style surrey. The latter give Nassau its atmosphere of being fifty years behind the times. These chariots are as rickety as the “one-hoss shay” on the day of its collapse, and the fiery steeds which draw them are about the size of small colts, and able to make four or five miles an hour. They are grown on some of the out islands.
The “Out” Islands
Nassauans make a great mistake in trying to keep tourists on New Providence, telling them there is nothing to be seen on the "Out” Islands. Abaco is a paradise, one of many, and its people the finest in the world. Moreover, there are possibilities of development, certainties, in fact.
One after another the Bahamans have tried the cultivation of cotton, pineapples, citrus fruits, sisal, cocoanuts, sponges, tomatoes and various other products. They no more than get well started before a new kind of bug eats up their fruit, or a big hurricane blows it all off, or a new tariff regulation puts an end to the market, but they do get started.
Before the Civil War the Bahamas used to ship a hundred thousand oranges at a time to Charleston and Savannah. In 1927 a half-million dollars’ worth of tomatoes were exported. These are sent to Florida, recrated, and sold in northern markets as Florida fruit, so say Bahamans.
There is no soil in the Bahamas where a plow can be used. It is too thin and light, almost a pure limestone. At present all cultivation is with the humble hoe. What is needed is a steamshovel to turn over the soil to a depth of two or three feet, and a pulverizer to grind it to powder. Then plant it to red clover or cow-peas and turn the crop in, and after that anything could be grown on it that could be grown anywhere.
The Bahamas have many interesting fruits and flowers not seen elsewhere. Have you ever eaten sapodillas, sour-sops, sugar-apples or seagrapes? Some of these you have to learn to like. You should see the ceiba, or silk-cotton tree. It grows to colossal size, with roots as tall as a man in those parts of them which grow above ground. The upper surfaces of its limbs are thickly strewn with thorny cones up to an inch in height, as sharp at the point as the sharpest lead pencil.
Andros, Isle of Mystery
Andros, Bahama’s largest island, is its isle of mystery. Though only one hundred miles long by forty miles wide, it has never been explored; and when you have seen a mangrove swamp you know why. There are wild rumors in Nassau that it has inhabitants that are cannibals and that still hunt with bow and arrow. The negroes fear its interior.
A young woman who visited Andros reported seeing and buying fish from a man whose face was so covered with hair that the color of his skin was not discernible. Very likely there are still on Andros some descendants of the Norsemen who first visited America, or possibly some of the descendants of later explorers. This would account for the men of mystery. Exploration of Andros by airplane is contemplated. There is no harbor on its coast except for small craft. It is the only one of the Bahamas that can boast a running stream.
Like Andros, Cat Island has no permanent white population. The natives of these islands, and of all the Bahamas, are well educated, largely by teachers from Jamaica. Inagua has herds of wild cattle, droves of pigs and donkeys and many wild horses. San Salvador has horses, also.
Customs of the People
On the island of Abaco there are no undertakers. Every adult pays two shillings a year to belong to a burial society. No fee is charged for minors. When a death occurs two members of the burial society take charge of the remains, make all the arrangements for the funeral, and conduct it without one cent of expense to the bereaved family. Who shall say that this is not better than the absurd custom of loading the bereaved with a great expense when they are least able to bear it?
Boys and girls take to the water like ducks. A young married woman pointed to a reef so far out in the ocean that it was hardly visible and said, “Do you see that reef? Many a time I have swum out to that, and long before I got there my mother was no longer able to see me at all. She used to get worried sometimes, but 1 always came back safe and sound.”
In the Bahamas there is no tax on incomes and no tax on vacant lands. Indeed the government has a surplus of five hundred thousand pounds, which it has invested. There is a maximum inheritance tax of 2%. The police of Nassau are all fine-looking colored men, and dressed to kill. Like some of their white confreres they seem to get a vast amount of satisfaction out of their nifty uniforms.
Once a year, from nine o’clock Christmas eve until noon next day, law and order is set aside in Nassau and those who do not wish to get hurt are advised to get off the street and to stay off. This so-called John Canoe night is looked upon with terror by the whites. It is a night when scores are settled and blood flows freely.
The passion of the negro for music, and his capacity for it, are very noticeable in the Bahamas. Whenever two or three of them get together their voices are soon heard in song which is really, melodious, whether the words have any sense to them or not. This is a phenomenon which many tourists to Nassau have noticed with great interest and admiration.
Nassau and New Providence
Nassau is on New Providence Island, and that is why the initials N. P. always appear after the name Nassau. Nassau has a good water supply. Eleven lines of wells are connected with each other. Each furnishes a little water; altogether they furnish enough for the uses of the city.
The city has also a good sewer system, designed in England and built by Canadian contractors under the supervision of the Bible Student several times referred to in this article. The system is novel in that it is in sections, the sewage being automatically pumped from one elevation to another and finally pumped under the harbor to an outlet at a distance and in the ocean itself.
In the suburbs, not yet reached with the sewage system, the same firm has been building community latrines, very scientifically constructed. Yeast produces fermentation in the sewage, the fermentation draws flies, the flies breed maggots, the maggots eat the sewage and wind up by eating one another. It is claimed that the results are perfectly pure water, so pure that it may be used as a table water' and has been so used at banquets where the success of the system was being advertised!
The colored part of Nassau has scores of stores where the usual purchase is a penny's worth of bread or butter or sugar or whatever is for sale. Community kitchens (Dutch ovens) are the rule. All housework is done out of doors. Many of the houses are as small as 7x9. A colored man’s house 10x12 would be a castle and. often occupied by two families. No matter how small the house, it has a partition dividing it into two parts.
Nassau has an interesting home for waifs (the little colored boys with no home who used to dive for coins). It has the Queen’s Staircase, a flight of steps seventy feet high, cut in the solid rock; and it has the Gregory Arch, where one street cuts under another one at a lower grade. It has one of the largest sponge exchanges in the world.
New Providence has interesting caves, some of them large enough for a good-sized meeting. The Mermaid’s Pool, so called, is a wicked-looking hole 62 feet 8 inches in diameter, probably the crater of an extinct volcano. It is now filled with water to within about ten feet of the brim. The lava lying all about within a mile or so of the pool suggests its original place in the New Providence scheme of things.
Here’s an Opportunity
[On the editor’s return he wrote Judge Rutherford a note, suggesting a good way to work the Bahamas with the literature of the Kingdom. The judge thought it would be a good idea to publish the letter in The Golden Aye, as it might inspire somebody to apply for the territory and make the trip; so here it is. But do not apply for the territory unless you intend to work it fully.]
I VENTURE to offer the results of my expe-. rienee and observation in the peculiar problem of working the Bahamas.
There are eighty-five post offices, scattered over twenty-five islands, 800 miles apart. They are reached by eleven mail steamers, running fortnightly. These usually remain three or four days at their last port of call before returning. Suppose eight post offices on each route, a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h. An energetic man could take a mail boat to g, work it, and get somebody to sail him over to h in time to finish that before the mail boat returned. Then he could take the mail boat back to a, work that, and get somebody to sail him over to b and c; and so, by what traveling men call “doubling”, he could get double service out of the mail steamer and probably clean up each mail route in about a month. A good man ought, to get pretty well over the Bahamas in one year by this means, but probably some points would inevitably be neglected.
A much better plan, and one which I talked over with Richard Johnson, with a view to submitting it to you, would be for a small party to hire a gasoline launch, take their lives in their hands, trust their all to the Lord to take care of them, and work the eighty-five post offices one after the other in the following order. I give below the population of the post-office towns, and of the islands, in the order which would, I believe, be least expensive. Certain prominent points which have radio telegraph stations are indicated by an asterisk (*).
More’s Island
Cherokee Sound
Hopetown*
Marsh Harbor
Man-of-war Cay
Gt. Guana Cay
Green Turtle Cay
Cooperstown
to ELEUTHERA I.
(7,547)
Harbour Island*
Spanish Wells*
The Bluff
Current Island
Gregorytown
Hatchet Bay
James Cistern
Governor’s Harbor
* 637
Palmetto Point
Savannah Sound
Tarpum Bay
Rock Sound
Greencastle
Freetown
Wemyss Bight
Millers
Bannermantown
to CAT ISLAND
(3.859)
Orange Creek
Arthurstown*
Bluff
19!)
Zanicle
Cove
Knowles
The Bight
Old Bight
Devil’s Point
Port Howe
to SAN SALVADOR
(6SG)
Cockburn town*
Victoria Hill*
to RUM KEY
(275)
Port Nelson*
Port Boyd
to CROOKED-ACKLIN
(3,458)
Colonel Hill
Portland Harbor
Alver Town
Snug Corner
Spring Point
Pompev Bay
to MARIGUANA
(?)
Post offices
?
to CAICOS IS.
(?)
Post offices
?
to TURK ISLANDS
•>
Post offices
?
to GREAT INAGUA
(937)
Matliewtown*
to RAGGED CAYS
(488)
Duncantown
to LONG ISLAND
(4,659)
Clarence Harbor*
Deadman’s Cay
Bight of L. I.
McKinnons
Doctors Creek
O’Neills
Simms
Burnt Ground
to GREAT EXUMA
I.
(3.730)
"Williamstown
Forbes Hill
Rolletown
Georgetown
Mosstown
Jit. Thompson
Forest
Steventon
Rolieviile*
Barraterre Island
Farmer’s Cay
Black Point
to ANDROS I.
(6,976)
Deep Creek
Kemps Bay
Long Ba?r Cays Mangrove Cay
1,150
Fresh Creek
Calabash Bay
Staniard Creek
Mastic Point
Nicolstown*
Red Bay (by sail) 106 to NEW PROVIDENCE
(12.9751
Nassau*
12,500
to BERRY ISLANDS (328)’
Little Harbor Cay
Bullocks Harbor
loCs
to BIMINI ISLANDS (610)'
North Bimini* to Miami.
Maps of the islands (some purchased in Miami, some in Nassau, and some in Washing-
Miami to BAHAMA IS-
Water Cay
LAND
(1.695)
High Rock
West End*
Sweeting’s Cav
11’2
Brandie’s Pt.
to ABACO ISLAND
(3.993)
Pinder’s Point
Norman Castle*
Hunter’s
Bluff Point
ton) are in the hands of Mr. Richard Johnson, specting this gospel of the Kingdom, and again
I hope that this may lead to the people of I express my appreciation of your kindness in the Bahamas’ getting a first-class witness re- letting me make this investigation.
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps By Hon. Boss A. Collins [From The Congressional Record}
IOAN not give the Congress the number of girls who are given this particular training because their number was not furnished to the committee; but usually pretty girls are chosen as officers and sponsors, and uniforms are provided for them from some source. These girl officers are frequently installed with, much pomp and ceremony and public display; they lead parades and participate in reviews and preside on social occasions, conduct personal inspection of boy cadets in some places, and act as general billboards, advertising the glory of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and the military machinery.
The young ladies are not the only agencies used in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps for the purpose of popularizing military training. Horses also play a large part. There are certain schools that would probably not have a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps unit were it not for the riding horses that are provided for the amusement of these young men. Riding is becoming very popular socially, and most youngmen in schools like to ride, and as long as they are able to ride a good horse, furnished, fed, and equipped in a fine, splendid way by the United States Government, they join the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps—for the purpose of improving their horsemanship. The horse is kept in the Army because of its amusement and social value rather than its probable military usefulness.
The big parade for boy cadets where girl officers turn out to ‘strut their stuff’ is becoming a community event in many places and, of course, the Regular Army is glad to pull off these events, since it gives them opportunities to make speeches on the glories of preparedness and the general stupidity of our country in the past. You should see some of these gala parades and reviews held by our civilian training units—for the edification of those in the ranks and those in the grand stands. . . . These parades and reviews are made so thrilling and attractive by every means possible that the little tots of the community will look forward to the time when they get big enough to participate in yet bigger and showier parades.
We are carrying on a very elaborate program in training our men and women for military duty, and we are spending a great deal of money in popularizing the military idea. . . . Of course, it must be admitted that many of these citizens’ military trainees are encouraged to be in these units by Regular Army management for propaganda purposes only. They are given sugar-coated training because they will become boosters of the war-game idea.
Many of these are having a most delightful experience and are most happy to be part of this great army. They will attract others to desire the same experience. We may expect down through the years to see the demands made upon this Congress grow until our Military Establishment reaches further and further into the life of our people.
Their political influence and power, too, will grow with their ever-increasing numbers and their wishes will co more and more respected by public officials generally and especially those of us in Congress.
Notice
THE Society has a limited number of phonograph records of Pastor Russell’s discourses, some of which are on seven-inch, some on ten-inch, and some on twelve-inch records. Thinking that some of the friends throughout the country would like to have them as souvenirs, the Society will dispose of them at the nominal sum of ten cents each to cover the transportation.
Here and There About the World
No Jail in Mound Bayou
IN THE sizable city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, there is not and never has been even one white resident. In this city, inhabited only by negroes, there has not been a prisoner in the city jail for two years, and it has just been razed to make room for an office building, as it is concluded that the jail is not needed.
Nine Cents a Day for Food
FOR a long time nine cents a day has been the allowance for food for Indian children at the Rice school on San Carlos reservation, and this in the richest country in the world. Indian girls eleven and twelve years old have been beaten with sticks and have been chained to their beds.
Wealth Increased Sevenfold
T N THE Wt fifty years the wealth of the
United States has increased sevenfold. In the last ten years the people of the United States have bought over eight million vacuum •cleaners, five million electric washing machines, a million and a half electric refrigerators, and thirteen million wireless sets.
Pdassachusetts Savings Bank Life Insurance
IN THE state of Massachusetts there are
71,000 policies of life insurance in force that were sold over the counter in savings banks, with no agents’ premiums to pay and no demands for dividends. These policies are 26 percent cheaper than ordinary life policies sold by private companies.
Facts of American Prosperity
ACCORDING to Senator Nye, 30 percent of American families keep boarders or lodgers, 75 percent of the homes are mortgaged, and in one of our largest cities one person out of every twelve is buried in a pauper’s grave or turned over to medical fraternities for dissection; yet to look at the reports of the New York Stock Market one would suppose that all Americans are on a fair way to become millionaires. Most people never stop to think that all the money that is “made” in the stock market is actually “earned” somewhere else. The man who earns it is not the man who makes it.
Locating Loudspeakers *
THE claim is made that the acoustic properties of the room in which a loudspeaker is located may have much to do with radio reception. Try moving the loudspeaker about until you have found the best place. In many instances it is found advantageous to place the loudspeaker in a corner.
Radio Ear in Operation
rPHE radio ear, tested out in a school for the deaf at Canton, Ohio, enabled twenty children to hear their own voices and other voices for the first time in their lives. Within half an hour several of the children were able to speak simple wmrds, the first intelligible sounds they had ever uttered. '
Curious Effect of Bongo Drum
THE beating of the bongo drum, a rough-hewn hollow log, with its ends covered with specially treated skins, produces such weird effects, causing natives to lose their balance, that the Cuban government has prohibited its use. The bongo is used in Africa for sending messages by wireless.
Fugitives Attacked by Dogs
WHEN the spring floods in the Danube forced two thousand families out of their homes in the worst flood in over fifty years, the sufferings of the fugitives were increased by attacks from scores of outcast dogs that invaded the villages and in some instances even attacked the fugitives themselves.
Sunday in Atlanta
IN OBEDIENCE to the cries of a class of people who have nothing useful to do for their fellow men on any day in the week, and who misunderstand the spirit of a command that was made to the Jews only, and never made to any Gentile, the city of Atlanta now says to all its working people, most of whom must, necessarily work all day six days in the week, that hereafter they must not use on Sunday any of the municipal golf courses, tennis courts, swimming pools or other of the recreational facilities of the city for the purposes for which they; were created.
Employes Get Millinery Business
AVING arrived at the age of fifty, and having made a comfortable fortune in the millinery business, Herman Freed, of Brooklyn, N. Y., distinguished himself by turning over his entire business, with all its stocks and furnishings to his staff of employes, and giving them a start for the future by paying their rent a month in advance.
Japan Abolishes Child Night Work
ON AND after July 1, 1929, night work for women and children will be prohibited by imperial edict. This leaves the United States, China and India, the only countries in the world where all-night labor of women and children in textile mills is tolerated. The United States is the richest country in the world; China and India, the poorest two.
New York’s Food Supply
NEW York eats four million dollars’ worth of food daily. In a week it eats a trainload, with the train ninety miles long and containing ten thousand cars. The daily milk consumption is three million quarts, and six million eggs are consumed daily. The city eats sixty million pounds of cheese every year. Forty thousand sheep and lambs are eaten every week.
Mixing Ashes and Garbage
N AUTHORITY on the subject declares that the latest approved sanitary method is to mix ashes and garbage, because the moisture in the garbage absorbs the lye and potash in the ashes, rendering the garbage dustless and odorless. Thus we learn to do something and then afterward have to learn it all over another way.
Hartford-Windsor Electric Bills
IN THE year 1926 electric current users in the city of Windsor, Ontario, paid fourteen cents for the same amount of current for which Hartford users paid one dollar. Since then the Hartford rates have been reduced so that Hartford rates are only three times as high as in Windsor. Moreover, something has so affected the consciences of the Hartford Electric Light Company that in a recent burst of generosity they returned to each customer sixty percent of the bill for a single month’s current.
Elections in Philadelphia
THE Senate investigating committee, which has recently reported that Wm. S. Vare is not entitled to a seat in the United States senate, declared that conditions in Philadelphia are so corrupt that the average chances of a Philadelphia voter to have his vote for United States senator counted was less than one in eight.
Murmurs of the Oppressed
HPHE Philadelphia Daily News says: “Today there are murmurs to be heard in every barber shop, on the street cars, in restaurants, on street corners. Wherever men gather together there is a voice of protest, and such voices are multiplying rapidly. Unless the motto is to be: After us the deluge, our pastors and masters will do well to pause.”
Disregard of Law in Virginia
A PETERSBURG- (Virginia) paper makes the surprising declaration that in that state last year one Virginian in every sixty of the population went to jail or prison, the total for the state being 40,290. This was nearly double the number imprisoned in the same state ten years before. Increase in liquor violations was responsible for 14,580 of the jail sentences.
Alphonso’s Mother Tired of Dictator
ROM the Manchester Guardian we learn that the mother of the king of Spain wrote to the insurgent leader Sanchez Guerra, then resident in Paris, “Come immediately to save us and the country. My son and myself and all Spain are gagged and bound.” The king’s mother has since passed away, but the dictatorship still remains.
The Value of Older Men
THE American Federation of Labor says very A- truthfully that “in many respects the semiskilled or the skilled worker is more valuable at middle age than at any other period of his life. What may be lost in muscular resiliency is more than made up by knowledge and skill. Scientifically trained minds who have done so much to eliminate waste in industry can not escape their responsibility if they fail to call attention to the greatest waste of all—elimination of middle-aged workers”.
Police Graft in Philadelphia
ECAUSE they could not explain satisfactorily how they managed to make so many thousands of dollars in so short a time, Philadelphia suspended in one week eighty-five patrolmen, one captain and one former captain. Most of the men suspended were also guilty of perjury, and perjury does not look well in an officer of the Jaw. It is bad enough when the perjurer is a millionaire.
The Fascist Election in Italy
HE Fascist election in Italy, following the accord between Mussolini and the Vatican, was a complete triumph for Mussolini and the pope. It was noted that great numbers of priests exercised their right to vote, including the cardinals, bishops and archbishops. Under the neiy arrangement all education in Italy is put in the hands of the pope, it is a crime to criticize him, and no marriage is legal unless performed by a priest.
Getting Results in Buchau
S EVERYBODY knows, the pope and his friends are putting up a losing battle
against short skirts. At Buchau, Czechoslovakia, the priest tried to carry out the program by saying that a spirit had appeared to him and explained that an untimely cold wave was caused by the wearing of so many short skirts in the congregation. Thereupon, of course, some of the men of the congregation attacked four girls as they came out. because their skirts were too short, and thus you see how easily the great cause of religion is upheld and established.
Rockefeller Gets Rid of Stewart
OR lying too much, and for being too conspicuously crooked, the Rockefellers have succeeded in shoving Colonel Robert W. Stewart o ff the end of the plank and he is no longer connected with Standard Oil. The Fresno (Calif.) Bee says: “What will strike the average citizen as most significant in this case is that the punishment of Stewart comes, not through the courts of the country nor its prosecutors, nor any of its officials, but through the Standard Oil Company. What a commentary on our judicial system I A private corporation, itself in the past in no very good odor, accomplishes what the Government of the United States found impossible.”
An Invalid’s Remarkable Enterprise
OR fifteen years a Brooklyn invalid, Jesse Tyler Dingee (now dead at the age of 63), was confined to his home,but during all that time he continued to manage three businesses, keeping in close touch with their every affair over the telephone. By a special arrangement of telephones and mirrors he was able to listen in and take part in directors’ meetings as if present.
Hackberries Fifteen Million Years Old
^piIE Pittsburgh Post Gazette tells us that a professor of Carnegie Institute has determined that a certain species of hackberries is fifteen million years old. If it be asked how this age could be so accurately determined, the answer of course must be that the date is stamped in indelible ink on each seed. On the other side of each seed are stamped the words, “What fools these mortals be!” The one side is intended to offset the other, with the professor in between.
Raiford Penitentiary
T T IS claimed that in the Raiford (Fla.) penitentiary a convict who has tuberculosis and is paralyzed on one side has been held in solitary confinement for two years in a concrete cell four by eight built especially for him, and has not been privileged to have a bath in two years. The attention of lovers of the purgatory and eternal torment doctrines is respectfully called to this. The man is slowly going insane. It is claimed that he is in solitary confinement because he knows too much about Florida’s leading politicians.
Follies of Our Civilization
UR civilization wrecked the world in a war to end war, and then gets ready for another one on a still grander scale: it rewards gamblers, dope peddlers and racketeers with millions, and useful men with a meager living; it builds skyscrapers in cities that are already so congested that traffic is almost impossible; it lets statesmen give away hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of public properties, and honors millionaire oil thieves with the highest gifts at its command; and it teaches in one breath that God is love and yet that he has the most diabolical disposition of which the mind of man could conceive.
What Is the Future of the Daily Press ? By F. B.onald Miller
OUR source of information on affairs generally or particularly, our news channel today is, and for many years past has been, the daily press.
Men glean information of the world in general and of business matters in particular from the daily news sheets; while women find that joy peculiar to their sex in delving into the agony columns and the ladies’ fashion plates, to say nothing of the advertisements which are so often the cause of the husband’s empty purse.
We scurry from our offices, at the close of business hours, out into the street, and we bombard the news vendor with pennies for which we receive a bundle of news; whether reliable or not, is a question which we often leave in abeyance. We scan the morning columns over the breakfast cup. We always seek to be enlightened on one subject or another.
What would we do without the daily press ?
From it we get our sporting notes, market fluctuations, Parliament doings, news from the Arctic explorers, from the Atlantic flyers, and often a good blood-stirring yarn from the pen of some imaginative journalist who has penetrated the barrier surrounding some murder or divorce case. We get, too, the latest efforts of the would-be short story writer.
We never know what to expect from the pens of these journalistic ferrets, the vast army of which seem to have their outposts scattered from pole to pole, in every land and in every area.
No doubt the press is wonderful. But, will it last ? That seems a ridiculous question to put to oneself. But is it so ridiculous? Let us imagine ourselves as we may be in the year 1978.
We see ourselves then in a world far advanced on the lines upon which we are started now. We notice that Wireless’ has advanced to the stage where the best equipment is within the means of every purse, and so simple is the instrument in its construction that even a child can manipulate it, and all defects of reception have been overcome. It is as easy to hear and see a man ten thousand miles away as it is to hear and see him in the room.
“Big Business” has no longer the power to license too heavily, and broadcasting stations are numerous, owing to public demand. News flies over the ether hourly. The household and office loudspeaker is almost continually bawling news items at us; first-hand news at that, unchecked by the monarch of the blue pencil—• The Editor—whose hand is often guided by political influence which prevents him from giving to the man in the street the exact facts unpolished.
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