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DIVING

AS TO REMOVING TONSILS

IN DARKEST QUEBEC

WHY KILL WOOD FOLKS?

IS DICTATORSHIP HARMFUL?

PREPARING GOVERNMENT

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Labor and Economics

Value of Rest Intervals .........

Is World Financial Collapse Impending?

Schwab’s Rules fob Prosperity ....... .....591

Social and Educational

Gbains mit THE Thresheb ...

Fifteen the Critical Age ...............................................................—-------

Eskimos Harmed by Civilization ...

The New Einstein Theory

400,000 Future Martyrs ........................ 587

Finance—Commerce—Transportation

Panama Versus Suez .......................................................................................585

Political—Domestic and Foreign

Pittsburgh Coal Company Police

The K. oi’ C. as a Patriotic Organization ...... ..591.

Dictatorship Is Greatest IIabm to People

Government Fleets Given Away

Agriculture and Husbandky . ! . I

Why Kill the Woon Folks? ........... .594

Home and Health

'Could Taste the'Difference

A Glimpse at the Unknown ..................................................................-.

A Nation op Lettuce Eaters !

As to Removing the Tonsils

Travel and Miscellany

The Difficult and Dangerous Work of Diving ______________________________________...579

Horrors of Chinese Famine

Religion and Philosophy

Another Hold-up .................................... .580 ■

After the Wool .................................... .590

In Darkest Quebec .............

An Extract from “The Martyrdom of Man’’

Bible Questions and Answers —......................................................—-------

Preparation fob the Government .....

What the Congregationalists Stand For

The Children’s Own Radio Story ............ —----------------

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The Difficult and Dangerous Work of Diving

WITHOUT the use of some special form of diving apparatus, sixty feet is about the limit of the depth to which one may force his way toward the bottom of the sea. The best divers can remain under water only about one and one-third minutes. Rarely can this be extended to two minutes; yet there are a few not well authenticated instances where divers are alleged to have remained four, five and even six minutes under water.

The work of the native pearl divers of India and Ceylon is so difficult that the workers allow themselves but one meal a day, and it is eaten after sundown. These divers are short-lived. All branches of diving work are exceedingly difficult and dangerous.

Every diving job is different. Raising sunken ships is one of the specialties. The divers go down, carefully patch the ship, close it up so as to make it as nearly air-tight as possible, and then the ship is pumped out, its water content being replaced with air. If the patching job has been well done the ship rises to the surface.

It used to be thought that the hull ofr a sunken ship might never rest fully on the bottom, the theory being that at a certain depth the pressure would become great enough to sustain the heaviest object; but the argument is fallacious, because water presses equally in all directions.

When a ship goes down, the part which first fills with water disappears before the rest of the vessel. If the waters are shallow the ship may break in two, doubling up like a jackknife, as it strikes bottom. This happened to the steamer “Republic”, which went down off Nantucket twenty years ago.

The buoyancy of liquids is remarkable. The displacement with air of a cubic foot of water results in a lift of 62} pounds. Hence air is the all-important factor in diving operations. Air to the diver and to his work constitute the key to modern diving.

A diver with a modern equipment can descend to a depth of three hundred feet in about two minutes, feeling no discomfort except in the ear drums. This is caused by the air pressure bending the drums inward. It can be overcome by pushing the nose hard against the face-plate of the helmet and blowing so as to open the Eustachian tube, thus equalizing the pressure. The same results are accomplished by chewing gum and swallowing the saliva.

Italians the First Divers

Italians seem to have been the first t® use diving apparatus. Vegetius made a suit in 1511, consisting principally of a buckskin helmet with window-lights in the face. To the helmet was attached an air hose connected at the water’s surface with a bladder filled with air. When the air in the bladder was exhausted the diver had to come to the surface.

Lorini, years later, built a platform attached to a vertical shaft, by means of which he was able to work at a depth of thirty feet. Borelli, another Italian, first used compressed air in 1682. Diving without compressed air is now unthought of.

Modern diving apparatus contain electric lamps and telephones and an air supply so arranged that the diver may remain at his work under water five or six hours without coming to the surface. A recent invention makes the diver independent of any connection with persons above. A strong metallic air reservoir is carried on the diver’s back. When he wishes to leave the water he inflates his dress with air from the reservoir and immediately rises to the surface. However, divers always work in pairs, for the sake of safety. The working-depth of diving operations has been extended to 306 feet.

Needless to say, diving is one of the most dangerous occupations of men. Divers are always in danger. If the air line gets tangled, or if the diving suit becomes broken, it is all up with the

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’diver. Groping in the 'darkness between the decks of a vessel, he must contend with the force of the tides, and with the possibility of falling or of having something fall on him or on his life-line. All that is necessary to finish him is that a door should swing shut and pinch off his air supply at just the wrong time.

Divers dread the denizens of the deep. It is not nice to be bitten in half by a shark; nor is it nice to have a barracuda saw a hole through you. By the way, it is claimed that in a space of seven feet a barracuda can attain a speed of sixty miles an hour; and it is not pleasant to have anybody come at you with a speed like that, especially if he is equipped with teeth like a barracuda.

Then there is another dweller of the seas that enjoys coming up and wrapping his powerful tail around you and socking a horny fin into your interior with such force that you are short-circuited for life, the length of your life in that case being about two minutes.

But the pet aversion of divers is the friendly octopus. Like the Power Trust it feels for you with first one slimy tentacle and then another, intent on sucking your blood; and the worst of it is that when one arm is cut off the others are just as affectionate as ever. Instances are on record where diver and octopus have been hauled together to the surface, and even on the deck of the attendant vessel the octopus has continued to fight furiously.

The Search for Hid Treasure

Naturally, with billions of gold coins and bullion lying beneath the sea, the wrecks that strew the seven seas are of interest to divers. One of the follies of mankind is the ease with which persons will part with real money to take a doubtful chance of recovering great sums left cached by pirates or sunk beneath the waves of the sea.

Since the World War many millions of dollars have been recovered from ships sunk in the

Another Hold-up

A DISPATCH from Ottawa to the Fort William Daily Times Journal says:

Archbishop Forbes, in a pastoral letter read in all Roman Catholic churches of the Ottawa diocese yesterday, announced the refusal of the sacraments to all Roman Catholics who continue in future to pay school taxes in favor of public schools. The announce-shallow waters adjacent to British shores. Electrical devices were used successfully to locate bullion in some of these operations, but it was all slow, difficult and tedious work.

To recover the bullion sent to the bottom with the Laurentic took five years. In 1920 only eight bars of the bullion were recovered, in 1921 there was a recovery of 100 bars, in 1922 this was raised to 900, in 1923 the total recovered was 11,050 bars and finally, iml924, the last of the $1,250,000 which went down was brought to the surface.

Whenever* an expedition is fitted out to try to recover lost treasure there is always a great hullabaloo as to who shall have the proceeds, if there are any. Shippers of the gold, underwriters, the government, all take a hand; so it is not all roses being a diver, or even employing a diver. What you recover may be taken from you.

English laws require the delivery of treasure trove for the use of the crown, but in actual practice the finder is paid a sum nearly equal to the value of his find. American laws require the delivery of treasure to the person on whose land it is found.

Scores of expeditions have been fitted out to try to locate the riches supposed to have been buried by Captain Kidd, yet only one find of such treasure was ever made. That was made on his own place by a man named John Wilson, living on one of the islands in Casco Bay, off Portland, Me. The extent of his find was $12,000, in Spanish gold.

Many of the tales of hidden treasure are merely yarns which have no foundation in fact. Off the coast of the Gaspe peninsula, Quebec, is a rock 500 feet high, with a flat top and unscalable sides, called Duval's Hoard. The tradition that riches are buried on the top of the rock has led to so many deaths of climbers seeking for the imaginary treasure that the legislature of the province has passed an act forbidding any one to attempt to scale the rock without permission. ■

By R. D. Morin

ment affects 1346 Roman Catholies assessed as public school supporters.

Please notice that in effect this says that Archbishop Forbes will send 1,346 souls of his flock to hell-fire (according to his own belief) if they continue to pay the school taxes which by law they are obligated to pay.

Grains from the Thresher

Fewer Alcoholic Deaths in Prussia

THE Prussian death-rate from chronic alcoholism has dropped until now it is only fifty-seven percent of what it was prior to the .World War. . ■

Astonishing Motor-Bus Travel

TODAY in the United States there are 6,700 motor carrier companies, operating 35,000 buses over 234,000 miles of highway and carrying one billion passengers a year. The railroads have lost one-third of their passenger business

The Largest Nine Cities

npHE largest nine cities of the world are, in -L their order, London, New York, Berlin, Paris, Chicago, Buenos Ayres, Philadelphia, Moscow and Osaka. Osaka, Japan, is by far the largest oriental city in the world. .

Strath Mackay’s Three Voices

A LONDON tenor, Strath Mackay, a former window-cleaner, has the curious ability to sing either bass or tenor or both at once. He is now studying music and is believed to be on his way to a fortune. . '

Ear Phones at Every Seat

AN AUSTRIAN train has ear phones at every seat, enabling passengers to listen to radio concerts during their journeys. The apparatus is also used to announce the approach to important stations. '

Twelve-Hour Day in Nova Scotia

rpiIE twelve-hour day still prevails among the ■T steel-workers of Nova Scotia, and an effort is heing made to secure more humane hours. It is only a very few years since the twelve-hour day was in common usage among the steel industries of the United States.

Fifteen the Critical Age

NEW YORK police records indicate that fifteen is the critical age for both boys and girls. More children run away from home at that age than at any other. Usually the reason is unsatisfactory home conditions. Twice .as many boys run away as girls. Most of the runaways are found by the police, living lives of independence and not wishing to return home.

Sixty-eight Thousand Civil War Veterans

THERE are but sixty-eight thousand veterans of the Civil War remaining on the pension rolls and these are now passing away at the rate of about a thousand a month. Thirteen widows of soldiers of the War of 1812 are still on the pension rolls.

Traffic Jams in Poland

POLAND is now wrestling with the problem of how to move traffic in streets that are already loaded with more automobiles than they can handle. There are still a great many horses on Polish streets, and this, as all automobilists are aware, complicates the situation.

Getting Rid of Rats in Russia .

SOVIET officials have discovered that a hundred rats, starved until ravenous, can then be taught to eat smaller rats and finally to become rat cannibals. They are then turned loose in a city and clean it up in no time, after which they are themselves finished off with poison.

Improvements in Seismographs

SEISMOGRAPHS are now but half the size formerly necessary but are much more accurate. The recording pencil is now a point of light instead of a stylus, and the result is an accurate photograph of the earth movement noticed.

Never Out of Vegetables

FLORIDA and Carolina cabbages are in the market from January to June, and New England cabbage the rest of the year. Florida and California supply celery and tomatoes all winter. The United States is never out of fresh vegetables.

Slave Traffic Across Red Sea

IT IS claimed that Abyssinian slave traders still do a large business selling Sudanese slaves for work in Arabia. The prices paid by ... the Arabs range from $400 for a grown male to $200 for working women and $100 apiece for children. The slaves are carried across the Red Sea at night, and in shallow7 waters can not be followed by the boats of the British navy that are supposed to patrol this artery of commerce.

Likes to Travel

John T. Sullivan, retired business man of Waterbury, Conn., together with his wife, has made a trip around the world every year for the past four years. Four steamship lines are now running round-the-world cruises. Prices range from $1,750 for a single passenger up to as high as you wish to go.

Whirling Dervishes in Bulgaria

THE whirling dervishes expelled from Turkey by Kemal Pasha have found a home in

Bulgaria. It is claimed that these dervishes, after a certain amount of whirling and incantations to the demons, perforate their bodies with red-hot skewers and prongs without harmful results.

Java Cane Rescues Louisiana Sugar Business

DUE to mosaic disease in its sugar-cane, Louisiana was in a fair way to lose its sugar business entirely; but cane imported from Java has saved the day, and now more sugar is being grown than ever before. The new cane is a hybrid developed by the Netherlands government from Himalayan stock.

The Terrors of the Radio

THE message of God's kingdom going out over the radio is making it hot for the hellfire theologians everywhere. Thus the Reverend Doctor Collins, in the Ecclesiastical Review, gives four rules for faithful Catholics as to what is sinful and forbidden in the matter of listening in over the radio. How ridiculous!

Speculation in Wall Street

THE rise and fall of the market in the New

York Stock Exchange is regarded as the barometer of American business and of American honesty, yet a Secretary of the United States Treasury once said of its operations that they are just as much gambling as running a roulette wheel, that there is not a thing constructive about it, that it does not produce a thing that contributes to either the happiness or the prosperity of legitimate business, that the business consist's of selling things not possessed and buying things never expected to be received, and that it ought to be stopped. Maybe Armageddon will stop it.

Portugal Goes In for Protection

TPOLLOWING the example of some of the oth-■L er prosperous nations of the world, Portugal has gone in for protective tariffs to encourage home industries. The result is that since the war Portugal is rapidly becoming a manufacturing nation, producing many of the articles heretofore purchased abroad. •

Flocking Away from the Church

T N THE last eight years 140,043 persons have -®- abandoned their churches in Austria, 119,870 of them being Catholics. The statement is frankly made by the National Catholic Welfare Council that never since the Reformation has there been “& religious movement in Vienna embracing such large sections of the population as the ■ separation movement of the past few years”.

Air Mail Pilots Give Fire Alarms . '

rpWICE recently air mail pilots have given alarms of fires which they discerned, and in one instance, by flying around and around, jazzing his motor, the pilot was instrumental in saving the lives of two children caught in a burning building. As soon as he saw the people running to the burning house he went on his way rejoicing,

Air Mail Receipts Growing Rapidly ■ . '

AIR MAIL receipts more than doubled during the second half of 1928. They are now in excess of a million dollars a month and the air mail contractors are making money. During 1928 the United States air mails flew the equivalent of 330 times around the earth. Passengers to the number of 52,934 were carried last year. .

Changes in American Diet ■

A GENERATION ago Americans lived on meat, white bread and white potatoes.

Then they found that they were being killed by their diet,, and they changed to fruits and vegetables ; and that has made it all very hard for the raisers of livestock, and for the packers, and for the millers and the potato growers. Moreover, the American woman of today wants to keep thin, and that has a bearing too. Lettuce and fruit will keep her so, but not meat, bread and pota+oes; and the food statistics show she is going the way she wishes to go.

Horrors of Chinese Famine

THROUGHOUT large areas in the famine-stricken portion of China it has been impossible to bury the dead, and dogs and wolves are devouring the corpses. Roving bands kill and quickly pick the bones of any living animal encountered, and cannibalism has broken out. The famine involves twelve million people in nine provinces.

Six and One-Half Billions Loaned

T N THE year 1928 the bankers of the United J- States loaned $6,448,000,000 of the savings of the American people to borrowers in thirtyeight countries. Meantime the people of Florida complain that they can not get funds to properly develop their state. Florida banks send all their money to New York to get the larger earnings of foreign loans and speculation.

Jugoslavia Adopts Latin Alphabet

UGOSLAVIA has taken a step forward by adopting the Latin alphabet, in place of the

ancient characters hitherto used. It is calculated that the change will cost several million dollars but will be in every way advantageous. Nobody can live in the past. A defunct alphabet is no asset to any country. The Latin alphabet bids fair to become universal.

Eskimos Harmed by Civilization

HE Canadian mounted police report that education and civilization are having their usual unfavorable effect upon dwellers in the

Arctic regions. Eskimo children are found to be less frank and honorable than their uneducated and uncivilized parents, and half-breed children lack the resow^fulness of the full-blooded Eskimos.

Hamburg Now Next to New York

T N TEN years after the World War the net registered tonnage of incoming foreign traffic has so increased in Hamburg as to raise it to the position of the world’s most important port, next to New York. In the past year it has shot ahead of Antwerp, Rotterdam and London, all of about equal importance. The population of the city is increasing rapidly, many new piers . are being built and further prodigious growth is anticipated, to take place shortly.

Hidden Treasures Brought to Light

A S THE years pass the Russian people are ■U*- finding more and more of the treasures of the old regime. Recently, in an abandoned monastery in the Volga region, a group of children playing in a cellar found a secret passage leading them to a treasure chamber in which were found gold coins, ingots and jewels of the value of several million rubles.

Modern Apartments in Moscow

THE Longacre Engineering and Construction Company of New York will build $25,000,000 worth of modern apartments in Moscow in the next five years. The city of Moscow will supply the labor and materials, and the construction company will be paid for their work of supervision.

Deaths from Vaccination

IN England and Wales in the past twenty-one years there have been 202 deaths from vaccination of children under five years of age. In the same time, in the same countries, the deaths from smallpox of children of the same ages have been but sixty, less than one-third the number. Vaccination has been temporarily suspended in the Netherlands. .

To Preserve Hadrian’s Wall

HE British government has taken steps to preserve for posterity those portions of Hadrian’s wall which still remain standing, by forbidding four hundred landowners to make any further demolitions of it. The wall stretches 100 miles across Britain, from Carlisle to New-castle-on-Tyne, and was built to keep the wild Scots of the North out of Romanized England.

Diamond Smugglers in Net

ONE would imagine that it would be extremely difficult to entrap diamond smugglers, especially when those smugglers are stewards on the ships running regularly into these ports. Nevertheless, Uncle Sam’s revenue officers have now detected ten of the members of a gemsmuggling ring, with more arrests in prospect. Several of these men were stewards on the great liners and received but meager compensation for the great risks which they ran.

Sun’s Ultra-violet Rays Increasing

CAREFUL measurements through gold and silver screens, taken at Mount Wilson observatory, disclose that in the last four years the power of the sun's ultra-violet rays has gradually increased until, in some months, they

are now twice as powerful as when first sured four years ago. These ultra-violet are the ones so helpful to mankind.

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Clouds of Ice Crystals

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. npivo army fliers, at a record height of seven miles above Dayton, Ohio, encoun-

tered and flew through clouds of ice crystals, the existence of which has been long suspected. It was evidently these clouds of ice crystals . that were witnessed by a subscriber for The

Golden Age, C. Elmont Bell, Oregon, and reported recently in its columns.

Strawberries Grown by Electricity

IX A cellar in France two scientists have grown and ripened strawberries by electricity. The berries were said to be of exceptional flavor and aroma. It took forty days to bring them to maturity, and they cost $5 apiece to produce. Two-1200-watt lamps were used, continuously revolved about the plants at a height oi' feet above them.

The Charges Against De Haan

HDHE same De Haan who wanted his radio

audiences to try to break the legs of Bible Students if they tried to place Christian literature in their hands has been charged by his denomination with conduct unbecoming a minister of the gospel, also with libel, deceit, malice and fraud. De Haan refused to answer the charges and has flown the coop.

Kish Expedition Confirms Flood Story mHE archeological expedition which is work uncovering Kish, and which is

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nanced and operated by the Field Museum, Chicago, and Oxford University, England, cables that it has found convincing evidence that the Bible story of the flood is correct. Our Lord and Savior confirmed that long ago, but it is nevertheless interesting to find that some of the scientists are coming around now and admitting that the Bible is true after all.

Traffic Regulations in the East

FOUR of the principal cities of the East,

Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York may be traversed by automobile in a single day, with the surprising result that the motorist will find a different set of traffic laws in each of the four cities, with four separate kinds of regulations as to how a left-hand turn may be made. '

Standard Fire-fighting Equipment

NOW that many sizable cities are only a short distance from one another by automobile, the discovery has been made that in case of a large fire the fire companies from out of town can seldom render much service because of the great variety of threads and sizes of hose couplings and connections. Steps are being taken to standardize fire-fighting apparatus.

To Battle London’s Fog and Smoke

LONDON is putting up a game fight to get

the best of her fog and smoke evils. A new fog-penetrating light has been invented which will provide clear visibility for any object three hundred feet away which is directly in the path of the rays, and a smokeless fuel is now offered for sale at about $12 a ton, approximately the price charged for good coal.

Sugar at Five Dollars an Ounce

THE manager of a Sayville (Long Island) chain store conceived the brilliant idea of giving fifteen ounces to each pound of sugar. It worked very well for a time, until the county sealer of weights and measures came along, haled him into court and produced a five-pound package of sugar that was five ounces short. Thereupon the judge fined the man $25, $5 an ounce.

Suicides in New York

THE year 1928 was the greatest year for suicides in the history of New York. In that ■ year 1,193 persons ended their lives. Suicide and unemployment follow the same curve, showing that there is a direct relation between the two. Every piece of labor-saving machinery put in operation is liable to cause a death by suicide. Human beings are slow to adapt themselves to changed conditions of employment.

Panama Versus Suez '

IN THE year 1927 the transits through the

Suez Canal were 5,544, while the transits through the Panama Canal were 6,085. Both canals are money-makers, Suez much more so than Panama because it has no locks and because the rates charged are much higher. The charge is about $7,500 to pass a ship through Suez, and about $4,300 for passage through Panama, both on a tonnage basis.

Shipment of Rats to Paris

OME enemy of tilings French, from some point east of Suez, recently shipped a cargo of rats to Paris. Shortly before reaching their destination the rads gnawed their way out of the boxes in which they were shipped and it was necessary to shunt the ear to a siding and let them fight one another to death. Efforts are being made to find the miscreant who is responsible.

Thirteen Lucky Dogs

A MAN in Rochester had some coal put into his cellar and the coal heaver left the window open when he got done putting in the coal. The day was cold. A friendly dog thought it might be warmer inside than outside. His friends thought the same, and when the man came home at night he found thirteen happy canines enjoying the blessings of his hospitabb home. He claims that the whole thirteen rose and wagged their tails when he came home.

Sufferings of Migratory Workers

THE Children’s Bureau of the Department of

Labor thus describes the shanties for migratory Avorkers in the fruit and vegetable districts around Baltimore: “As a rule there is but one room on each floor, with stairs on the outside, leading to the upper room. On each side of a narrow aisle down the center the floor is divided into sections or pens by boards ten or twelve inches high, each section being about six feet long, and from four to six feet wide, and covered with straw for a mattress. Each family is allotted one of these pens. At night, men, women and children, partly clad, one family separated from the next by the plank, sleep side by side.” It may he added that this is in the wealthiest country in the world!

Spanish Students in Revolt

PANISH students are tired of the De Rivera dictatorship and in Madrid have gone on strike. Madrid University will be closed for a year and a half. Several students have been killed; more than a thousand have been arrested. Police in search of them rode among the chairs and benches of cafes, causing the people to rush screaming in every direction. A girl student received a. severe sword cut on her head.

Steeple Business Tottering .

HPHE steeple business is on its last legs. The J- secretary of the Philadelphia Federation of Churches reports that the Protestant churches of his city are pretty nearly licked. A drive is now on,, the country over, to persuade incompe-.tents in the pulpit to stop preaching their own sermons and to merely read canned sermons sent to them by those engaged in the sermoncanning business.

Road Campaign in Britain

THE Liberal party of England is out with a definite plan to end unemployment by the construction of a trunk-line system of modern highways, embracing all the principal centers of population on the island. If the program is carried through, it will embrace ring roads around the larger cities, and loops past the smaller cities and towns, with no crossings at grade, and will thus be the most nearly perfect highway system in the world. Its estimated cost is only $725,000,000.

South Carolina Church Members

THE governor of South Carolina recently made the unfortunate boast that his state has the largest proportion of professing Christians of any state in the Union. Thereupon, Robert Quillen, an investigator and writer, brought forward the additional information that it also has in proportion to its population more cold-blooded murders, more casual killings, more corn-liquor stills and consumers, more venereal disease and more bogus-check flashers. Also, that the numerically inferior white men are charged with more felonies than the blacks. The natural result of any hell-fire religion is to manufacture hypocrites, and South Carolina is strong for hell-fire.

Sheriff Fees in Florida

LIKE many other states Florida still has the old system of fees for pay of government officials. It is claimed that under this system the sheriff of the county in which Tampa is located collects and keeps for his own use $97,000 a year, and this at a time when the city government is desperately and ineffectively trying to find some way to collect the back taxes owed by its citizens.

Doctor McKenzie Gets In Dutch

Doctor Wm. McKenzie, Leesburg, Fla., retired physician, announced astonishing results in the cure of the flu through the use of grapefruit and an abundance of water and soda, and has brought the wrath of the Medical Trust down upon him for having widely circulated such a sensible, inexpensive, home -remedy without going through the usual red tape of submitting it to his state health board, etc., etc.

Jew-Baiters in Germany

THE Jew-baiters in Germany were forced out into the open when one of their members nearly killed the Brazilian consul at Bremen, only to admit, when questioned, that he had nothing against the man but was under the mistaken apprehension that he is a Jew. It now transpires that Jews have been attacked savagely in various parts of Germany, and for no reason whatever. The Reichstag has taken the matter in hand and will see that some of its members responsible for these outrages are punished.

Berlin Libel Plant Discovered

THROUGH the efforts of an 'American newspaper man Berlin police have at last located the libel plant at which were prepared the Borah and Norris libels and also the famous Zinovieff letter, which caused the downfall of the Labor government in England. The miscreant turned out to be a Russian exile named Orloff, an exceptionally able man, who has made a fortune out of his hatred of the Soviet government and his willingness to use any means whatever to bring about the downfall of governments or individuals that he suspected of having any sympathies or friendliness toward the present mode of Russian government.

No One Cured by Insulin

"ILf arcel Labbe, M.D., of Paris, in an article in the Medical Journal and Record declares that not a single cure for diabetes, through the use of insulin, has been found. The doctor, who has made a specialty of diabetes cases, goes on to say that of his first twenty-four cases thus treated twelve died within three years and not a single authentic cure has been recorded. This is the end of insulin.

Garbage Destructors in Europe

TTHE best that can be said of New York City’s methods of disposing of sewage and garbage are that they are primitive; yet New York is the world’s richest city. An oil painting decorates the entrance to the principal garbage destructor plant at Frankfort-on-Main; at Fuerth it is surrounded by a beautiful garden; at Rotterdam the excess power is used to run the entire trolley system of the city.

The New Einstein Theory

THE new Einstein theory, showing a relation between magnetism and gravitation, looks forward to a time when man may be able to insulate himself against gravitation, when airplanes may float without engines and men may step out of a window into the air without fear of falling. The new theory conceives of gravity as manifesting itself only in the immediate surroundings of the object, and acting upon space in such a manner as to shape or reshape it. The new theory is believed to teach that matter is of electro-magnetic origin. Interplanetary journeys are now conceived of as possible.

Pot Calls Kettle Black

A Roman Catholic writer in the Boston •Ax. Transcript, after glorifying the vestments of the priesthood, stated that he visited a meeting of the Bible Students and that “the prevailing color was black. All the men had black ties and most had black suits”. We should think that of all the people above ground the last people to say anything against the use of black would be those people who admire priests and nuns. To the full extent of their ability they have made the whole world look like a morgue, and all its activities like a funeral procession. Their garbs of black are everywhere.

400,000 Future Martyrs

IN Germany 220,000 people have pledged themselves never to participate in another war. In England 131,000 have signed the Ponsonby Peace Letter refusing to support any government that resorts to the law of the jungle, and there are about 50,000 more candidates for martyrdom in the United States, France, Holland and Belgium. Peace that costs anything is unpopular.

Wigan Watching the Schools

WIGAN, England, seeking to promote peace

. throughout the world, has forbidden the teaching of school children anything in the nature of glorification of army, navy or air force. In the past, millions of dollars have been expended in all countries in persuading school children that the art of killing your fellow men is the surest path to earthly glory, and the adults have been taught the same thing by the erection of statues in honor of the great butchers of the world rather than of its great heroes of peace times. .

Hebrew Free Loan Society

BOSTON has a Hebrew Free Loan Society which in the past sixteen years has loaned over $2,500,000 to 19,062 persons, without interest, and with a loss of less than one-half of one percent. The money is loaned to persons of any faith, on the indorsement of notes by responsible persons. All students of the Bible know that the Jewish people were forbidden to charge interest on loans to their needy brethren.

Bridging or Tunneling the English Channel

BRITAIN could tunnel under the English

Channel for $150,000,000. The bore would be through an easily worked chalk. It would put London on the continent of Europe and make it still more a center of trade and travel than it now is, but Britain fears invasion and will not allow the tunnel to be built—a foolish fear in these days of airplanes. Now a French engineer wishes to construct two islands on sand bars in the channel and connect them by bridges. He claims the whole scheme can be completed for only three times the estimated cost of the tunnel.

Value of Rest Intervals

CAREFUL experiments with men and women employed in various lines of work, from the simplest and easiest up to the most difficult and strenuous, show that the best results are accomplished when about one-fifth or one-sixth of the total time is spent in rest,, i. e., one-fifth or one-sixth of the eight hours of labor. Brief intervals of rest are said to increase, output. .

The Black Jews of Abyssinia

JN THE highlands of Abyssinia, dwell the

Falashas, or Black Jews, the only race of Jewish mountain-dwellers in the world. The features and traditions are Jewish, but the color is black. In a mahogany casket the. Falashas guard what they claim is a copy of the Pentateuch presented to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon. There are a few of these Black Jews in the greatest Negro city in the world, the Harlem district of upper New York City.

Truth Serum Does Not Work

A LITTLE while ago we were told that suspected criminals might be inoculated with a certain serum and that while under the influence of the narcotic they would automatically tell the truth. Recently a banker’s son in Honolulu was kidnapped and murdered. Suspicion indicated a former Japanese servant. He was arrested, serumed, and confessed. When he regained consciousness he stoutly denied his guilt. In a few days the actual murderer was found and the Japanese servant was given his liberty. This is the end of the truth serum.

Reasons for Age Limits

HHHE National Association of Manufacturers finds that seventy percent of concerns make no discriminations of age in the hiring of men. Of those that do make discriminations, 40 percent feel that men over 45 or 50 can not keep the pace required of the younger men; other arguments advanced are that older men are more liable to get injured or to injure others. None openly advised the hangman’s noose for such as are beginning to feel the weight of the burdens of life, but there are birds that do hang those that are unable to keep up with the flight of the younger ones.

QOLDEN AGE

On Devil’s Isle

IN THAT worst place on all the earth, the French penal colony of Devil’s Island, only six degrees from the equator, the convicts are allowed neither hats nor shoes and frequently drop from the effects of the sun; but should any attempt to help the prostrate ones they are immediately belabored with whips. The keepers do not dare let the men swim in shark-infested waters, for the reason that so many deliberately sought suicide, preferring the man-killers in the water to the man-killers on shore.

French Depopulating Central Africa

THE negroes of Central Africa have found the French such hard masters that there has been an exodus of something like two million blacks from French territory into Nigeria and the British Gold Coast colonies. In vast regions the French authorities and concessionaires have literally worked the natives to death. In one place the blacks have captured a number of white men and notified the French that if they advance further into their territory they will put them all to death.

Is World Financial Collapse Impending?

IRST, the economist J. Maynard Keynes shows that France controls the world’s gold supply, which is admittedly insufficient for its needs. Next, Sir George Paish, another great economist, tells us that a world financial collapse is only around the corner; and then we hear that all the greatest financiers in the world are getting together to see what can be done about it. Maybe Armageddon, when it comes, will be accompanied by a first-class financial panic.

Corn-Stalks Being Studied

OW that it has been proven that paper, cellulose, viscose, furfurol, guncotton, papier-mache, pulp-board, pyroxalin, diabetic food and oxalic acid can be made from corn-stalks, they are being studied by men who have millions of dollars at their command to see whether these things can be produced from corn-stalks more cheaply than from other sources of supply and whether a supply of the corn-stalks can always be had. The day of the corn-stalk seems to have come.

Suffering Among Canadian Indians

TN FEBRUARY, in the district of Patricia, in the northern part of Manitoba, two airmen found fifteen Indians, men, women, and children, three of them dead, packed together in a shack eight by ten feet in size- There was no door to the shack. None of the Indians had attempted to move those who died, because none had sufficient strength to get up off the floor. It would be hard to find anything, even in the history of the Indian Bureau of the United States, that would be worse than this.

Increasing Use of Robots

REAT corporations are making increased uses of mechanical men, or robots, to do

things that men can not do as well or can not do at all. The Northern Pacific Railway has a robot costing $105,000 which, riding in a train, automatically detects defects in locomotive operation. The Westinghouse Company has a robot which counts the guests as they pass a door, or sorts materials according to color or imperfections. It also matches fabrics, paints and tiles with great accuracy.

Concordia Fish Pond

A TWELVE-ACRE fish pond at Concordia, Louisiana, raises food for the inhabitants of the pond along the shore line and in the shallow water, and obtained a yield of 10,000 pounds in nine months. Besides growing food on the shore, they have erected electric lights over the pond to attract insects. The results are so gratifying that it is believed a ton of fish to the acre may be raised in many of the large Louisiana ponds. The kind of food grown on the shore was not stated in the dispatches.

“Give Us Back Our Bell”

IVE us back our hell,” so preaches Reverend D. E. Perry, pastor of Providence Congregational Church, at Georgetown, British

Guiana. Page some kind-hearted man who will give this man back his hell. It is not the Bible hell, the grave, that this man wants given back to him. It is his own hell, the theological hell, the money-raising hell and the hair-raising hell that he wants returned, and which the Bible Students have shown never existed except in his imagination and in the collection basket.

JVNE 12’ 1929 The qOLDEN AGE

Average Life of a Grocery

IF YOU start in the grocery business, according to a calculation recently made, the chances are, under present conditions of chainstore growth, that your business life will be seven short and troubled years. That is not very long in which to make a fortune, is it? And if you want to make the fortune you had probably better select some business where you will have a few more years in which to show what you can do. .

Pittsburgh Coal Company Police

WHEN the corporations finally take over the last there is of the government we can form a good idea of the results to the common people from what has happened in Pennsylvania in those districts where the state has turned over its police authority to the coal and iron companies. Thus, at the barracks of the coal and iron police at Imperial, Pennsylvania, Lieutenant W. J. Lyster, of the Pittsburgh Coal Company’s private police, said, “I feel like a good workout,” stripped to his waist, picked up a poker, walked over to a prisoner, John Barko-ski, and beat him over the head until the poker was bent almost double: he paused, straightened the poker and went at it again. After beating the man into insensibility he jumped on the man’s body, broke his ribs and punctured his lungs. The man never regained consciousness. At the morgue it was said that his body was in the worst condition of any they had ever seen. His hands were swollen to twice their normal size from trying to deflect the blows. Friends of Lyster fear that,he may be reprimanded for going so far, but it is not at all likely that the Pittsburgh Coal Company’s police will lose any of their powers. When the corporations get it all it will be a fine government, won’t it? The murdered man never drank, had an excellent record for over thirty years in the mines, and is described as “always smiling, never hurting anyone”.

One reason Avhy the company is not likely to do much for the Avidotv of Miner Barkoski is that she made the statement, “The coal cops are always on the watch for a man with a dollar, a pretty wife or young daughter, some as young as 12 or 13 years.” Mellon ought to take a little time off from his duties at Washington until he gets this Pittsburgh Company less odoriferous.

Peace Armies of the World

OVER ten years after the world war which was to end all Avar the United States has an army of 137,698; Japan has 210,000; Poland has 242,373 ; Roumania, 266,500; Spain, 272,787; Italy, 380,448; Great Britain, 403,915; Russia, 658,000; China, 715,000; while France, the most warlike and militaristic country in the world, and the world’s greatest menace, has 727,413. Total of the ten countries named, over four million men. Must we have another Avar to end war ?

We’re All Sunk Now

WE’RE all sunk iioav, for it seems that just before the pope finished his deal Avith Mussolini to take over the temporal power and a good-sized chunk of the money which America recently loaned Italy, in a moment of thoughtlessness he blessed the whole world. And, mind you, this is after all those airplanes blessed by the pope and his bishops have landed at the bottom of the sea. Incidentally, on the day and hour of the blessing, February 10,1929, at 10.30 a.rn., rain fell in torrents from leaden skies. The account says, “The pope, robed in white and wearing a gold tiara, was seated within the gestato-rial chair, borne by eight bearers.” Can somebody tell us wha' the word “gestatorial” means when used in this connection? The next day after his riding around in this palanquin the papers with Mussolini were signed. The Netv Orleans Item-Tribune says that this means “the definite emergence of the Catholic Church from a more or less negative, or passive, condition, which set in after the Reformation, into a world-wide condition of positive action producing important results in all the fields of human affairs”. This may be so, but we are from Missouri and wait to see. The great kingdom over Avhich the pope Avill henceforth rule now' comprises one-sixth of a square mile. Professor Salvemini, former member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, declares that Mussolini entered into this agreement for the same reason that a drowning man clutches at a straw. The pope’s subjects in liis newr state are estimated at about 200. The pope himself descrL the treaty as “'one of the most important steps taken by the Holy See, which may prove the turning point in its history”. Mussolini was once ungracious enough to refer to the pope as “'the bloody old Avolf of the Vatican”.

Could Taste the Difference

By Mrs. Mary Howitt (England)

I DISCARDED my aluminum stewpans for ordinary culinary purposes, but thought 1 would economize and utilize them by lining them with paper and baking my cakes in them. Well, I put part of the mixture in block tin and part of it in the aluminum pans. Now the cakes baked in the aluminum pans had a distinctly peculiar taste, especially on the outside of the cake, but the ones cooked in block tin were perfectly wholesome. I couldn’t have believed there would be such a difference. Scrap-heap for them, and should be for all aluminum culinary ware. Life is more to us than the most expensive of such.

After the Wool

FROM the Christian Life Missionary, under the title “Who Owns the Wool”, we select a few choice items from the pen of J. B. Campbell, D.D., LL.D.

The mightiest controversy of the age is over “rights in wool”. It is, or ought to be a controversy both in the pulpit and among Christians in the pews of every church in Christendom till God’s right is admitted and acted on. To flinch on this fundamental doctrine is to trifle with the greatest practical question the world confronts. Let God’s right to the wool of His own sheep, to say nothing of the hair of the goats—I say let God’s right be settled, and we are at the opening of a new era in the world’s history.

Shear the sheep? Yes, frequently and close. The pastors are the shepherds; and it is their business to feed the sheep, care for them, and shear them. A shepherd who neglects to shear the sheep, ought to be turned off. He is an unfaithful servant of the Great Owner. Pastors need to face this question.

So important is this matter in the churches and in the lives of the people, that it demands special and extremely earnest treatment. Some of the sheep must be cornered and crowded before they will submit to the process clearly taught in God’s Word; but they must be sheared.

Next to redemption the greatest question in the Christian world today is the question of rights in wool. If God’s sheep were properly sheared, they would abound in health, and countless missionaries could be sent, as torch bearers, to every benighted region of the globe. The tears of widows and orphans could be dried, the sick cared for, pastors supported, homes illuminated by the Word of God, and the world belted with the light of Truth.

A Glimpse at the Unknown

By Mrs. M. E. Swenson

T SENT the following communication to the A Minneapolis Star, but for reasons best known to themselves they failed to give it publicity. I feel sure many readers of The Golden 'Age will be interested:

Dr. W. A. Evans writes an article in the Minneapolis Journal about a disease they call “Sprue”. “The definite ear-marked disorder is characterized by sore tongue, anemia and diarrhea. Sometimes the disease may go no further than indulging in a sore tongue, for much of the time. The cause is unknown. ’ ’

After suffering for about four months last year witli just those symptoms, my attention was called to a written article entitled “Is Aluminum Kitchenware Poisonous?” It claims that the aluminum compounds produced by cooking food in aluminum dishes are poisonous to the human system. I immediately discarded all aluminum utensils in my kitchen, and within three weeks my tongue was back to normal and the other symptoms soon disappeared.

A Nation of Lettuce Eaters!

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0 THIS have the descendants of the frontier ■ fallen; from bear meat to lettuce; from venison dried in the sun to a plant little higher in the scale of eternal values than the grass of the fields. These reflections are caused by the despairing cries from the packers, who claim that salads have nearly driven roast beef off the American dinner table, and who estimate that the annual consumption of meat is 45 per cent less than it was ten years ago, while that of salad has increased 110 per cent. Advices from housewives indicate that the packers are at least partly to blame, for it cannot be denied that the price of beef at present is enough to make any shopper hesitate before she brings home the joint. And the passion of the American woman —in common with the French, English, German, etc., woman—for a slender figure undoubtedly is also a contributing factor. Thus at the same time that the consumption of lettuce has increased, that of pastry, white bread, and potatoes is said to have fallen off 25, 20, and 15 per cent, respectively. Nevertheless, examination of the changes in our national diet sho-ws an advance in the direction of sensible eating. We eat more fruit and fresh vegetables, more wholewheat bread, more cereals, more poultry and eggs, we drink more milk.

As to Removing the Tonsils

Dr. B. IL Jones of Pittsburgh gets out an instructional mailing card regarding the removal of tonsils that is an interesting piece of work from a typographical standpoint. We set up the card just as it appears. The words in large type are to be read three times, once for each of the two lines which they span, and once more in the slogan which reads diagonally down the card. We do not know Dr. Jones, but he seems to write interestingly, courageously and forcefully on subjects of preservation of the health. He is a hard-hitting opponent of the germ theory of disease. We do not guarantee the accuracy of his views, but they interest us,

n N ’ T have the APPENDIX REMOVED, JUST NOW, and 1 be led into “SCIENTIFIC” FOLLY by FISHBEIN’S boast that “There is no fancy cure for tonsilitis and adenoids.”

Don’t (^1 IT <VT IT the essential first defenders of the body.

When CUI w U I you pay cash, and later in many illnesses.

Your tonsils are part of the system’s lymphoid fortification.

The pharyngeal T/AMCII Q are tlle adenoids that cause mouth breathing. These 1 x-'lNOlL.D enlarge to better combat the effect of the same kind of systemic poisoning produced by vaccination, insect bile, or rotten meat. 'Tljr’VZ are the supreme lymphoids in that particular locality, and I 11 IL I cnn cleansed, saved, and kept sound without machine or medication. Just so in all cases of tonsilitis. Dangers in tonsilar operations ADU surgical shock and many an associated hazard. Many others /AiXlL frequently fatal hemorrhages, thrombosis (blood clot) the whole train of infections and lung abscess. Anesthetic and hemorrhage are h/iry'DE’ fatal than generally supposed. Inquiry in 70 cities or IVlVVlvlL do not record such deaths due to removing tonsils. Tonsils never become diseased only as other tissues are first involved. A most ■s/at T TART 17 function removed, with no organ to perform this V rA.L.LJ2-\.Dl_jtL service in their stead. A man only confesses his ignorance or reveals commercialism and fraud, when he says he knows of nothing Tn do but remove them. Same man tells the world, “There’s nothing 1 CJ’ do, but cutting, for appendicitis.” Either of these can be easily and quickly restored to sound vigor to continue needed protection to health 01fA\Y7\ipoC Surgeon’s value, tonsils $60, don’t compare with need ofVW INJ-JaO.

Schwab’s Rules for Prosperity

Charles Schwab, who has one man on his payrolls to whom he pays a salary of a million dollars a year, has the following to say as to how, in his judgment, prosperity may be made permanent. He addresses employers only:

Pay "bor the highest possible wages. Prosperity is intimately related to a liberal wage scale.

Treat labor as a business partner. Successful industry depends more on human relations than upon the organization of money and machines.

Conduct business in the full light of day. Public confidence and public suspicion niay be separated only by a door. .

Remember that the law of supply and demand is inexorable. It would also be well to remember that there is no necessity for producing an excess.

Live and help live. Even prosperous industries can not afford to have the backward industries too far behind the procession; prosperity to be permanent must be equably distributed.

hVelcome new ideas. To establish permanent institutions we must always be prepared for change.

Never be satisfied that what has been achieved is sufficient. Smugness and complacency do not promote progress. .

Operate business on the most economical basis. Price-cutting, over-expansion, uneconomical methods of distribution arc just as harmful to business and to the public as price-fixing, monopolies and rebates.

Look ahead and think ahead. It is easier to avoid depressions than it is to cure them.

Smile, be cheerful, and work upon the basis that the fundamental purpose of business is to promote the happiness of human beings.

The K. of C. as a Patriotic Organization

AT THE trial in Los Angeles of Bob Schuler for circulating a book which contained the alleged fourth degree oath of the K. of C., which the Knights of Columbus deny taking, their general secretary is alleged to have sworn under oath that the K. of C. has no political interest or activity and is only a fraternal and patriotic organization, and to have subsequently admitted that it was the general headquarters, and himself as general secretary, that initiated the propaganda over America looking to intervention of America in the affairs of Mexico, which intervention, if the propaganda had been successful, would have resulted in a war between the two countries. This enables us to define a patriotic organization as one which is always willing to plunge its country into war and its fellow citizens into suffering and death.

In Darkest Quebec By Gerald Barry

T N THE province of Quebec, and under the

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British flag, the Roman Catholic church enjoys privileges that it does not enjoy in any other part of the world. It has the right to tax its people for the support of the priests, the building and maintenance of its churches, and the houses of its clergy.

As a consequence, it is a common sight in the small towns to see a great big church, and a fine brick or stone house for the priest close to it, and the rest of the people living in small frame houses which look quite poor and meager in comparison.

The upkeep of the Church of Rome is a great burden upon the backs of the people throughout the province; and they are tied and held to the burden by the laws of the province. The Church of Rome surely does not manifest the spirit of the great Master whom it professes to follow; for he gave His life for the people, whereas they are having a good time at the expense of the people.

However, now that the great jubilee of earth has begun, the time of deliverance for the people has arrived; and it will indeed be a glad day for the people of the province of Quebec when

the yoke of the Church of Rome is lifted from their shoulders by earth’s new King, who will be their great Deliverer. .

During the past three years a little band of Bible Students have been laboring in the province of Quebec, earnestly endeavoring to carry to the people the message of Christ’s kingdom. Naturally they have received much persecution; but the protecting hand of God has been over them, and they have come safely through it all.

Ste. Anne de Beaupre was the scene of the first decisive defeat of the Catholic church in its endeavor to stop the advancing tide of truth in the province. On August 11, 1924, two colporteurs of the International Bible Students Association canvassed the town of Ste. Anne de Beaupre, selling The Harp of God and other publications of the Association in the French language.

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Towards evening they were arrested by the chief of police and taken to the priest’s residence, with whom they had a length y conversation. Upon their refusal to lower the standard of truth, they were taken by automobile to Quebec city, and placed in the gaol for the night. The next morning they were released on bail; and after two -weeks’ delay in the Quebec City Police Court, Judge Choquette dismissed the case against them, with costs against the plaintiffs, the town of Ste. Anne de Beaupre.

In February, 1925, nine colporteurs of the International Bible Students Association were arrested in the city of Westmount; but when the case came up for trial, the City of Westmount dropped the case, owing to a technical error in the wording of their by-law under which the Bible Students were arrested.

In April, 1925, Rene Marcotte was arrested for selling the same books in Rosemount, Montreal; but the case against him was dismissed by Recorder Semple.

During 1924 and 1925 the Bible Students circulated a large quantity of free literature in the province of Quebec, mainly in the French language. The first tract circulated was entitled “L’-Immortalite”, showing what is the condition of the dead, and who will get immortality. It was a hard blow to the doctrines of the Catholic

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church. It was followed by the Warning circulated by the Bible Students world-wide during 1924, on the parable of the Sheep and Goats; and then during 1925 the Indictment against the clergy was circulated to the extent of 115,000 pieces in thirty-five of the largest cities and towns in the province of Quebec.

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