Golden Age, September 4, 1929

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A GLIMPSE AT THE U.S.A.

MEDICAL “PROGRESS”

QUEEN-REARING

HINTS ON HEALTH

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

INFORMING THE PEOPLE

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A Glimpse at the U. S. A. ................ 771

Through the Windshield

Drawing the Color Line ............... 798

Manufacturing and Mining

Inferior Mortar Used in Great Pyramid .......... 778

Ireland Will Build Ford Tractors ............ 779

Finance—Commerce—Transportation On Making America Safe ........... 785

One Method of Chain Stokes ............. 790

Political—Domestic and Foreign

Italian Disagreement on Education ........... 779

The Dictatorships of Europe .............. 780

Capital Punishment ................. 789

Agriculture and Husbandry Queen-Peaking .....

Science and Invention

Home Talkies in Britain ............... 780

The Talking Movie LinoWpe ...

Poison Gas Research in Britain ............. 782

Home and Health

“Fab Worse than Whiskey”

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, Please Copy .......... 774

Principles and Practice of Medicine ........... 774

Notes on Medical Progress . .

Hints on Health

Eeligion and Philosophy

Bleeding Two Trainloads a Day .....

The Churches and Crime ....

Informing the People .....

Bible Question and Answer .............. 798

The Ohit.dben’s Own Radio Story ............ 799

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Volume X Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, September 4, 1929 Number 260

A Glimpse at the LL S* A.

EVERY honest man knows that no man or class of men, dressed in any kind of garb, droning out any kind of words, under any kind of steeple, has personal influence with Almighty God; for God is no respecter of persons. Ceremonies mean nothing to Him. Honesty in the inward parts, truth, sincerity, means everything.

If you were the God of justice, what would you think if you heard some well-fed, well-dressed man, living in the best house on his street, trying to insinuate to some poor hardworking, illiterate, superstitious mortal that on a down-payment of say $50, or so much down and so much a month, he could use his influence with you to get the man’s grandmother out of hell?

If a man really had power to get anybody out of hell, what kind of man would he be if he held out for a money consideration? Thus, if you saw a poor aged woman suffering in a burning building, wmuld you come to the door and offer to unlock it and let her out on a payment of a stated sum or a certain amount down and so much a month thereafter ? If you did, what kind of man would you be?

Again, if you had made a careful examination of all the places in the Bible where the words sheet, hades, gehenna and tartaroo appear, and you w’ere thoroughly convinced that no honest man could make such an examination without denouncing the doctrine of eternal torture as a fraud, what would you think of men who still continue to teach the doctrine, or to advocate it, though their attention has many times been drawn to proofs that it could not be true? So much for only a few of the religious transgressions.

Every honest man knows that the wealth of the United States is more and more being gathered into the great cities and wasted there in the most riotous extravagance, while the common people of the country, millions of them, are without employment and experience great hardships in getting along at all in the wealthiest country in the world.

What wmuld you do if you knew that one of the greatest banks in New York city was a direct party to the sugar steal a few years ago in wfliich a billion dollars were stolen from the housewives of America right in the heart of the canning season? They financed a plan for grabbing all the sugar in sight and stuffing it into warehouses, ^whence it was later doled out at prices running as high as thirty-two cents a pound. Nothing was ever done about this either, except that a very few arrests were made of small jobbers who had no knowledge whatever of how the big steal was engineered or what it was all about.

What would you do if you knew that another great bank in New York city was the direct cause of America’s entering the World War and losing one hundred thousand of the finest young men the world ever saw? Gabriel Hanotaux, French minister of foreign affairs, tells all about it in his memoirs. He tells who the men were, and the banking-house they represented.

These financiers, with the late American ambassador to France, came to him early in the war, at a time when France was whipped, and guaranteed that, if France would stay in the war, they would put America into the war on the side of the Allies; and they did.

It has all been told on the floor of Congress how, after Mr. Wilson had been reelected because he kept us out of the war, the great New York banking-house carried out its promise to Mr. Hanotaux; and yet nothing has ever been done about it.

According to the story as told in Congress, twelve men high up in the newspaper’ world gathered together and made a list of the one hundred and twenty-five newspapers that con-

trol American opinion. By a careful process of elimination this was reduced to twenty-five; and the editorial policy of those papers was bought as one might buy so much garbage, provided garbage was what one wished to buy.

When the big papers began to churn for war, the little, papers took it up, the preachers took it up, the politicians took it up, the common people took it up, Congress took it up; and in six months’ time after the American people had expressed their mature judgment at the polls, that judgment was reversed and the promises made to Mr. Ilanotaux were redeemed. It is not nice to hear about it, is it?

Then there is the Power Trust. In 1928 the public utilities expended $28,000,000 for advertising. Does anybody suppose that they first collected that vast sum from the people and actually had it in their pockets and then threw it away? Not at all. That money was expended to influence the same editorial columns that led America into the World War, only now the war is a war of the financiers against the people. But the same means of propaganda are used. The Power Trust wishes to control America.

The common people do not know that in some places in America current which costs less than 3/4c a kilowatt-hour to produce is sold to domestic users at twenty times its cost; nor do they know that in some cities the Big Business people get their power- for a tenth of that charged to private consumers. The bankers and the politicians are back of this and know all about it. These men are using the papers, not to fight for truth and honesty, but to fight the people and keep them in ignorance and subjection.

The reason the St. Paul road failed was because seven of its directors bought two of its power sites for $970,000, sold these to themselves under another name, for $5,000,000, and then sold the power back to the St. Paul road at such a high price that they could not ‘make a go of it’.

The public utility commissions, which ■were supposed to help the people, have turned out to be the people’s worst enemies. No matter how crooked the schemes hatched by unscrupulous custodians of the public’s funds, the public utility commissions are ever ready to give them the seal of their approval. Pennsylvania is a conspicuous sinner in this respect.

The public utility companies, in a fever to extract out of the common people every cent that they can get hold of, are inaugurating service charges or ready-to-serve charges or room charges, as a pretext to enable them to. shift burdens from the shoulders of the rich to those who have it hard to get along. Among the very worst sinners in this respect is the Scranton Gas and Water Company, which, after making fabulous millions out of the poor miners of the Lackawanna-Wyoming valley, is now raising its rates on both gas and water, all with the consent of the Pennsylvania public utility commission, and, of course, with the tacit approval of the simian press.

Then there is the matter of poisoning oneself by eating food cooked in aluminum. The Perfection Aluminum Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, has closed its doors to the manufacture of kitchen aluminumware. Doctor Murphy, of the Rockefeller Institute, New York, a cancer research organization, has announced to the world that cancer is caused by chemical ferments. In the medical profession, aluminum compounds are known as chemical ferments. The positive proof that the use of aluminum kitchen utensils is harmful may be had for the asking.

Of course, if you will write to the aluminum trust, as the Scientific American did, and if you will close your eyes and ears to all other evidence, you can get the same answer they got, and can go on using the thing that is undermining your health. People who wish to get onesided, opinions can always get them. The truth is harder to get and harder to proclaim. ■

During the years in which the American people have been using aluminum cooking utensils the rate of deaths from cancer has doubled. A dog in New Jersey whose mistress always fed it from an aluminum dish finally died of cancer of the rectum. It was "all right” till it died; and that may be the ease with you, Scientific American or Literary Digest to the contrary notwithstanding. Anyway, try some other form of utensil for six weeks, and see if you don’t feel much better.

President Hoover has just stated, in a noteworthy speech in New York, that m many large American cities murder can, apparently, be committed with impunity, and that even in such premeditated crimes as embezzlement and forgery the American record of shame makes us a disgrace in the eyes of the whole world. He said in part: “No part of the country, rural or urban, is immune. Life and property are relatively more unsafe than in any other civilized country in the world.”

The president’s speech was addressed to the Associated Press, and that was the right place to say it. What the people need is unpalatable truth. If the newspapers of America and the preachers of America and the politicians of America would tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, for just one week, America would be a better place in which to live.

The men who first uncovered the Teapot Dome scandals were not honored because they did so, but a determined effort was made to ruin them. Why was this? Why were there no presidential broadsides against the rascalities of Fall, Sinclair, Doheny, Stewart, Daugherty, Hays, and all the rest of them? Is it because the rascalities were not known? Every youth in the country knows about them and knows what these men did.

It is useless to talk about cleansing the country of crime when the great ecclesiastics, the great financiers and the great politicians go on in their old crooked ways. The rank and file know all about the devious ways by which these great men line their pockets and maintain their standing in society, and they try to follow in the way in which they have been led. Their methods are cruder, though it would be hard to think of anything cruder than McLean’s hundred-thousand-dollar check or Doheny’s black satchel.

Probably some may wonder why a Christian should take a cross-section of American civilization and thus expose it. It is but a very small cross-section. It could be multiplied a thousandfold. The answer is that he desires to see a better country and a better world.

Will these exposures make it better? Not at all. Will anything that man can do make it better? Not appreciably. Then why not keep still and do like everybody else does, cover it all up, vaccination, white bread, drugs, service charges, hell, purgatory, public service commissions, Pennsylvania state cossacks, aluminum cooking utensils, government oil deposits, torture cells at Alcatraz Island, and all the rest of it, and get a chaplain to bless it and call it Christ’s kingdom? Because it would not be truthful.

A Christian does not expect to gain anything by calling attention to these things. He might even get martyrdom for doing it; but it is doubtful if he will, for too many know the truth about them, and martyrdoms once started might not end as expected. Did the scribes and Pharisees who slew Jesus of Nazareth gain anything ?

The Christian must bear witness to “the day of vengeance” because it is his duty, merely as an act of obedience. He does it because his commission makes it obligatory that he do it.

He sees that the only real solution of present problems in the earth is the substitution of Christ’s kingdom for the Devil’s kingdom, which latter has been in part very briefly described foregoing. How this substitution is to take place is no special concern of the Christian. He merely bears witness that God has declared over and over again His determination to rise up at the appointed time and take full charge of earth’s affairs, bring order out of chaos, life out of death, peace out of war, and happiness out of a condition of inequality and injustice that is enough to move any honest heart to sympathy to the breaking-point for the millions that are now the constant subjects of injustice, untruth and oppression from almost every angle that can be named.

“Far Worse than Whiskey”

By George Starr White, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S. A. {London)

I KNOW you will be interested to know that many of my worst cases of arthritis, colitis and “stomach-itis” are readily cured by having their aluminum dishes smashed up a'nd put in the dump.

I am daily getting results that I had never gotten before until I discovered that aluminum was one of the worst plagues that has ever struck this country—to my mind, far worse than whiskey and almost as bad as cigarettes.

Scientific American, Please Copy By Mrs. J. H. Williams

I AM enclosing a leaf from The Literary Digest containing an article justifying the use of aluminum cooking utensils, handed me in the very home where it had already worked its 'deadly havoc. Not that it was given with a feeling of resentment, but simply because of the writer’s warning to avoid its use.

About two years ago the husband of this household was taken sick with what the doctors diagnosed as an intestinal trouble. From his explanation of the way he felt, I immediately thought of aluminum poisoning. Upon inquiry as to whether they used aluminum cooking utensils, his wife told me that about a year before her husband was taken sick she purchased $15.00 worth of this heavy aluminumware in which food could be cooked without the addition of water.

I told her what I had read in The Golden Age and gave her some magazines with testimonials bearing on the same. She said she had asked her physician if he had heard anything on the subject, and his reply was that he had not. At that time she w’as cooking her husband’s breakfast of rolled oats in an aluminum doubleboiler.

Several months passed and I had not heard from them, when a telephone call informed me that he had been very sick and was going to the hospital to be under observation. The doctors admitted that they did not understand his case, but, to do something, doctored him for anemia, and fed him on liver until his stomach refused to take any more, and then injected it into his system. About a month ago she buried him. -

A recent visit to his bereaved wife revealed the information that she now has stomach trouble with a swelling of the tongue. I questioned if she was still using aluminumware, and her reply was that she was, but did not allow food to remain standing in an aluminum dish any length of time. This latter warning was abvays an admonition from the salesman when we purchased our aluminumware, that we must not allow food to stand in it. Why this remark, if there was not some good reason for it?

I think that if Mr. Hopkins would investigate some of the testimonials given by the victims of aluminum he would be doing more for humanity than by confining his investigation to scientific experts who think only of the prosperity of the industry.

Principles and Practice of Medicine By Dr. W. E. Reynolds

I AM not a believer in drugs. Therefore, when I recently had a few moments in which to consult Dr. Osler’s book on the above subject, 8th edition, it interested me and I determined to open the book a few times at random and read. This is what I found:

Pages 362-3. Subject, “Dengue.” Defined as “an acute infectious disease”, followed by two pages of history, etiology, symptoms, complications, diagnosis, and then treatment. “This is entirely symptomatic. Quinine is stated to be a prophylactic, but on insufficient grounds. Hydrotherapy may be employed to reduce the fever. (This means, do as the Nature Cure folks do, use water to control fever.) The salicylates or antipyrin may be employed for the pains, which usually, however, recpiire opium.” (Medical men will all admit that opium deadens and damages but will not cure.)

Page 364. “Acute Polio-Myelitus. ” Two pages of tho usual history, etiology, symptoms, etc., and then the treatment: “Unfortunately we possess at present no drug that is capable of acting directly upon the poison in the central nervous system. ’ ’

Page 369. “Hydrophobia.” After the usual history, symptoms, etc., we come to treatment: “When once established the disease is hopelessly incurable.”— Page 370. .

The next, on page 371, is “Rheumatic Fever”. The usual history, symptoms, etc., take up all space up to “treatment” on page 378, which is REST! Milk diet advocated. Alkaline mineral waters also. Local treatment: Wrapping the affected part in cotton, splints, application of heat, etc., and then, “the drug treatment is'still far from satisfactory.”

Then I jumped to page 551, not because I ran out of material but just to open the book at random. The subject was “Mucous Colitis”. Skipping the history, symptoms, etc., the first words following “Treatment” are, “Drugs are of little value.” The next subject (page 552) is “Dilation of the Colon”: “The outlook is uncertain. Medical treatment is of little avail.”

I could go on and fill pages with similar quotations.

It is a great game. Try it out for yourself sometime. The more you read medical textbooks, especially if they are written by intellectually honest men, such as Dr. Osler, the more you too will be convinced that medicine is a fruitless round of palliatives and symptom-tinkering. The more you read and study, the more you will know; and eventually, if not now, you will arrive at the conclusion that if you would be well you will have to seek and find and obey the laws of Nature in regard to health. Nature cures.

Notes on Medical Progress By Dr. G. B. Clements

IN THE reigns of Claudius and Nero a class of medical writers became famous by their pharmaceutical preparations. The most notorious among them were Scribonius Largus, who made a book of nostrums and indiscriminate formula, and Andromachus, who compounded a medicamentum of sixty-one ingredients. It was called the Theriaca, and its most essential constituent, from which its name was derived, was the dried flesh of vipers! This preparation has since been recommended, by regular physicians, for almost every known “disease”, and was even retained in the pharmacopoeias of the schools until the beginning of the present century.

It is the unusual and the sensational that always enjoys an especial esteem with humanity. Consequently, these increditable remedies naturally found everywhere a host of idolatrous believers. And as the most nonsensical theory is always the most tenacious of life, provided it has been presented in apparent combination with the miraculous, the medical armamentarium of the time rapidly acquired a very peculiar aspect.

There existed a firm belief that the powder obtained by scraping tombstones on the graves of the saints would cure “disease”. The powder thus obtained was put into water or wine, and thus a “medicine” was made which was supposed to possess astonishing curative powers. It was believed to be efficacious even in the severest ailments. Gregory of Tours says of this potion:

Oh, indescribable mixture, incomparable elixir, antidote beyond all praise I Celestial purgative (if I may be permitted to use that expression), which throws into the shade every medical prescription, which surpasses in fragrance every earthly aroma, and is more powerful than all essence; which purges the body as the juice of scammony, clears the lungs as hyssop, and the head like sneezewort; which not only cures the ailing limbs, but also, and this is much more valuable, washes off the stains from the conscience!

Another very efficacious remedy was the charred wick of the wax candles which had burned in the church. This wick was pulverized, and in that way a very powerful curative powT-der wms obtained which, when taken, acted in a manner similar to that of the watery or vinous tombstone infusion.

Water in which had been boiled the covering in which some great and highly-treasured object had been wrapped, also yielded a wonderfully efficacious remedy. Thus, for instance, Gregory of Tours caused a silk cover in which had been wrapped a piece of the cross of Christ, to he thoroughly boiled, and he then administered tins decoction to patients.

Dr. Julius AV. Stunner, dean of Science in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, recently said:

The use of animals and plants for medicine originated among the ancients in the belief that everything, even minerals, had some use. If a thing was not good for food, it was a drug. At any rate they tried it. It is only within the last 150 years that doctors have understood what they are doing. It was all guesswork, then, of course.

So Dr. Sturmer says that it is only within the last 150 years that physicians have known what they were doing, and that previously it was merely guesswork. Are they so positive and certain now? Let us notice. The following is taken from an advertisement of a new, standard medical text-book, published in April, 1915, in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The article reads:

The author has virtually re-written the book in order to include the multitude of changes which have occurred during the last FEW years in our conceptions of almost every disease as to etiology (cause), pathology (nature), symptomatology (symptoms), and most important, as to treatment.

Commenting upon this sweeping change that has occurred within a FEW years in medical practice, Dr. Chester Levere, in his book “Startling Facts About Disease”, observes:

This is an authoritative confession by the publishers of a great standard medical work, “Hare’s Practice of Medicine,” and inferentially endorsed by the official organ of the medical profession, that a FEW years previous that profession was mistaken as to the cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment of almost every disease.

Is there any sufficient ground for confidence that it has been successfully revolutionized since then? Would any prudent man feel assurance that the same leaders, who now so coolly confess to have been wrong up to “THE LAST FEW YEARS” on “ALMOST EVERY DISEASE”, have now guessed correctly? And would he not, in view of this, hesitate to trust his life and health to the ordinary physicians, the great body of which learned their profession at a time when, according to this evidence, medical practice was wrong as to the cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment of almost every disease?

Hints on Health

IT FILLED me with joy when I found among your usual highly interesting items an article in No. 248, page 399, of The Golden Age, which gives credit to my friend Arnold Ehret for explaining to some extent the cause and cure of disease.

Ehret never studied in a medical college, but ho was an ambitious researcher who lived for the welfare of his fellow man. In his book on “Mucusless-Diet System of Healing” he committed some errors, though, which I would have corrected for him if he had submitted the manuscript to me before printing.

1. Mucus is not the only and not the main cause of diseases. Several other impurities in the blood are ahead of it, creating mucus; and Ehret himself admits that the worst is medicine poisoning, the favorite treatment of the allopathic doctors. These poisons weaken the activity of the body to such an extent that proper elimination can not take place any more, and consequently the mucus and other injurious waste matters remain in the blood; and this is the beginning of the end.

2. Ehret claims that a mucusless diet will cure such a condition. This also is a mistake. If the eliminative power of any organ is restrained, the mucus and other impurities get hardened after the system unloads them at some weak spot of the body; and this makes tumors, cancers, tuberculosis, rheumatism, liver congestion, gravel, hardening of the arteries, female diseases, kidney troubles, and dozens of other.destructive diseases.

If mucus alone would have to be eliminated and the eliminative power would not have been *82 years young.

By Dr. S. B. Hilf

killed by allopathic medicines, a fast or a onesided diet would not be necessary. The great science of physiotherapy has given us many not only harmless but positively beneficial herb remedies for dissolution of mucus. Some of them just coming to my mind, I can name right now: Polypody, juniper, couch-grass root, barley, arum maculatum, onions, scilla, Iris root, figs, nettle, soapwort, almonds, licorice, polygala, lime-tree blossoms, althea, St. John’s wort, violets, angelica, levisticum, penccdanum, imperatoria, pulmenaria, betonica, horehound, organy, calamintha, mullein, eroniea, dwarf-elder, slant, camomile, dandelion, etc.

The common names of the above-mentioned plants I could not readily recall, therefore I used the botanical names. Anybody interested can easily find such common names in a dictionary or a botany.

Physiotherapists have found in plants the best remedies for any human ailment. Now comes the question why poisonous medicines are not prohibited by law. Why are the poison doctors the only privileged bootleggers in the U. S.? But the majority of the people are not intelligent enough to see into such an outrage, and the political law-makers are not in the business for your and my health.

3. Ehret also publishes in his book a table of wholesome foods. Among the first-class foodstuff he mentions are soybeans, rock candy, sugar-cane, acorns, leek and oysters. Among less valuables he puts down bananas, prunes, plums, dates, grape juice, green peas, apricots, currants, sour cherries, pineapple, pears, horseradish, cauliflower, red cabbage, milk, strawberries, apples.

These two tables ought to be reversed. He recommends as first-class such filthy stuff as oysters. What clean person would think of eating a dead animal with its guts? And apple, grape juice, apricots, pears, and red cabbage he calls less valuable, while in fact they are the best.

He took his information from-Ragnar Berg, merely an employee of the great food expert, Dr. Lahman. Everybody can make a mistake, except tire “infallible” pope.

4. The opinion of Prof. Ehret is that the whole white race is encumbered with mucus; the white skin he takes as a proof. This also is incorrect. The Bible tells us that Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. From these three came all nations of the world. Somewhere else I found that the white people of Europe originate from Japheth, the brown from Shem and the black from Ham. During my travels I noticed that the white-skinned are mostly in the northern parts of Europe, and the farther south you go the more dark the skins. It seems, therefore, that the color of the skin depends merely upon the climate.

Perfectly right is Ehret in his opinon that poisonous medicine makes the user incurable. During my sixty years of therapeutic practice I found this to be true. The worst allopathic “remedies” come from the destructive inorganic metals, as arsenic, barite, lead, lime, iron, zinc, silver, copper, mercury, phosphor, sulphur, antimony, bismuth, block-tin, and their derivatives. For instance, I found calomel, a derivative of mercury, so often used, is the direct cause of appendicitis, etc.

Besides these the allopaths use for medicine any poison plant in creation. A very heinous one is ergot, which is given, to women shortly before childbirth to hasten delivery so that the honorable doctor would not need to waste too much of his precious time until the child is born in a natural way. Mother and child are poisoned at the same time. They might not be killed right away, but in course of time it destroys their life. No wonder that in the United States half a million children die before they get ten years of age. Vaccination and serumization for profit do what the metallic “remedies” failed to do.

I once talked to an allopath about such pernicious practice, and he uttered with a sneer: “Well, our motto is, 'The more disease, the more our fees.’ ”

I surely approve of living in harmony with nature, the supreme law of God, but not of fasts as Ehret recommends. Occasionally a twenty-four-hour fast can hurt nobody. About thirty years ago I fasted five days in succession just for the sake of finding out. The second day was the hardest, every further day was easier; after the fifth day I felt like keeping on five more days; but we must never overdo; therefore I started eating and do not need any fast, because I live normally. For the last forty years I have never tasted anything that comes from a dead animal, and I do not use eggs, white sugar, sterilized milk, ripe peas, beans, old cheese, peanuts, mushroom, chocolate, cocoa, asparagus, nor anything made of white flour, which is, anyway, nothing but paste, good enough for paper-hangers, but not for my stomach. For sweetening, I use light brown sugar or, still better, pure honey. I eat lettuce once a day, and stick to fruit, berries, roots and greens in the market, also potatoes. My whole-wheat bread has to be sliced and put into the oven to let the baker’s water evaporate. Young folks of seventy might not feel inclined to observe all that; but I am eighty-two now and feel so sound, youthful and. jolly that I want to stay eighteen years longer in this world. Therefore I would not offend nature.

When a person writes about elimination as Ehret did, people think first of the bowels and think them to be the most important organs because doctors use laxatives as the first thing on their patients. But ahead of the bowels come the lungs, which eliminate 625 gallons of air mixed with the toxic carbonic acid of the body every day. Next comes the skin, forcing out forty-two ounces of impurities; then come the kidneys with thirty-two ounces, and after all come the bowels with eight ounces.

For prevention of disease I urgently recommend frequent exercise of the brains, else hard-boiled ignorance might take a hold of them, which is the root of almost all evils.

A Steady Increase in Cancer

HE statistics kept by the Prudential Insurance Company of America show that in twelve years in the United States, as aluminum cooking utensils have been more and more widely used, there has been a steady increase in the number of cancer cases, the rate in fifty American cities having risen from 72 for each 100,000 in 1906 to 117 in 1928, a 60-percent increase.

Bleeding Two Trainloads a Day

THE horrible idea that Jesus is still bleeding, and bleeding profusely, is contained in some advertising matter that has come to us. The Scriptures assure us that Christ “dieth no more”, and that He is through for ever with the flesh which He gave for the life of the world.

Nevertheless, here is the Hospice Taehe, St. Boniface, Manitoba, which advises the faithful that they ought to get a string of beads. On the large beads they are to say, “Eternal Father, I offer the wounds of our Lord Jesus Christ, to heal the wounds of our souls”; and every time they say it they are to get three hundred days’ indulgence!

Then on the small beads they are to say, “My Jesus, pardon and mercy, through the merit of Thy sacred wounds”; and they get another three hundred days’ indulgence each time they say that. There is a little financial item with this, running all the way from ten cents for one candle up to twenty dollars for- “all the spiritual advantages of our works of charity”.

The advertising matter shows that at Hospice Tache there are annually 10,000 of the above invocations, called collectively “the chaplet of mercy”, in which a benefactor may share. Six persons repeating the chaplet of mercy five times a day (as required) for 365 days would make 10,950 annual repetitions at Hospice Tache.

Jesus is supposed to have confidentially told Mary Martha Chambon, at Chambery, France, March 21, 1906, “At each word that you pronounce of the chaplet of mercy I allow a drop of my blood to fall upon the soul of a sinner.” The advertising has the approval of Pope Pius XI, January 16, 1924.

We now do a little figuring. There are 31 ■words in the chaplet of mercy; and 31 times 10,000 are 310,000 drops of blood that Jesus sheds upon the souls of sinners in order to live up to the advertising. This He does every year, multiplied thousands of times for other believers in other hospices and religious institutions.

There are 60 drops in a fluid drachm, 8 drachms in an ounce, and 16 ounces in a pint. Hence there are 60x8x16, or 7,680 drops in one pint. For the six faithful in this one hospice Jesus is shedding every year 40 pints, or five gallons, according to their own figures.

Now if there are only 12,486 in the world that are as faithful as the six at Hospice Tache, we can at once see that Jesus must be annually shedding drops of blood to the number of 31 (drops a chaplet) times 5 (chaplets a person a day) times 365 (days a year) times 12,486 (persons), or an annual loss of 706,395,450 drops.

Now if you check up the matter of 60 (drops of blood a drachm) times 8 (drachms to the ounce) times 16 (ounces to the pint) times 8 (pints to the gallon) times'31^ (gallons to the barrel) times 365 (days a year), you will see that this grand total of 706,406,400 drops is less than the 12,486 faithful would have shed for them. Therefore, to carry out the advertising matter Jesus must be shedding over a barrel of blood a day.

But there are many more faithful than 12,486. The World Almanac says that there are 331,500,000. This is 26,550 times 12,486. So if all are faithful (and as they are all members of “the one true church” they are, of course, all “faithful”), Jesus must be shedding about 26,550 barrels of blood a day. This would be (at 8,000 gallons a tank car) about 104 carloads, or more than two trainloads, 50 cars to the train. This is enough to make anybody anemic.

Inferior Mortar Used in Great Pyramid

A DISPATCH from Chicago says: .

A small piece of mortar from the pyramid of Khufu, estimated to be 6000 years old and built by the Egyptian king, Cheops, was recently brought here for testing by the laboratories of the Portland Cement Association.

The composition of the piece was found to be a weak, easily decomposed mortar made up largely of impure alabaster.

In the dry, hot climate of North Africa, where this pyramid has stood for thousands of years, this type of composition withstood the ravages of time. However, the association reports that if erected in a climate similar to that of the United States, it would have decomposed in a short time.

All kinds of mortars and cements have been tested in these laboratories. Just recently they analyzed concrete from the Arch of Titus in Rome.

Through the Windshield

Ireland Will Build Ford Tractors

LL Ford tractors will hereafter be built in Cork, Ireland. The plant will produce about 125,000 tractors a year, one-fifth of which will

be needed in Europe. The balance will be shipped to the United States, where they will enter duty free.

Germany’s New Flying Boat

HE new flying boat which Germany will install this summer in flights to South Amer

ica is so huge that one hundred men could and did stand on it’s outstretched wings at one time. More than 40,000 passengers cleared through Berlin’s principal airport in the year 1928.

May Have Flying Fire Engines

EW YORK may have flying fire engines next. Experiments are being made with

The Labor Displacement Era

IPHE American Federation of Labor says very truthfully and very forcefully that we have passed out of the era of labor-saving machinery and that inventors and scientists are now interested in labor-displacing machinery. Every such machine destroys the purchasing power of many potential buyers.

Ford’s Contract with Russia ,

enry Ford contracts to deliver to Russia, in the next four years, thirty million dol

helicopter types of planes which, if successful, vdll enable chemical fire engines to hover about skyscrapers and combat fires which originate in the upper stories.

Two-Thirds of the Cellars Wet

N EPISCOPAL clergyman in Detroit hag made the complaint that he can not preach

lars’ worth of Ford products, and will also help the Russians to erect at Nizhni-Novgorod an automobile factory with an output of 100,000 cars a year and will instruct the Soviet technical staffs in Ford production methods.

Death Rays Deadly at 200 Miles

HE San Francisco Chronicle reports that two inventors of that city have proceeded

on prohibition as he -wishes because he happens to know that six of the nine vestrymen of his church have wet cellars and he is afraid he will lose his job. He should, at any rate, tell how he found out that the cellars are wet.

France May Cut Out Midday Meal

RANCE is considering the cutting out of the midday meal for all workers. At present

the French custom is to have two hours off at noon and work until six o’clock in the evening. Under the new proposals the day will end at four o’clock. A national saving of $500,000,000 is thus foreseen.

Practical Socialism in Berlin

N ARTICLE in the New York Times shows that Berlin has purchased and is now oper

so far with the development of death-ray apparatus that they now feel confident these rays can be sent 200 miles with sufficient force to kill all living things within their path. Does the ■world need Christ’s kingdom soon?

Brethren Eschew the Cud

^TJEREAFTER clergymen of the United ^1.1. Brethren in Christ may not chew the cud. vThat is to say, the use of the cud is eschewed, ' and if it has been chewed in the past it may now be cherved no more. Moreover, if rules are obeyed, there must be no more smoking or snuff-taking either.

' Italian Disagreement on Education

ussolini goes to the trouble to tell all Italy and all the world that education is

ating more than 125,000 acres of land devoted to truck- and fruit-gardening, dairying, stockbreeding and timber-growing. The article admits that the venture is a complete success. What a rebuke to the mob that in this country wishes to grab everything away from the people, all for itself.

the sole province of the state and that the Fascists will retain their grip on this phase of life; and then the pope takes particular pains to announce that Mussolini is all wrong, and that education is the prerogative of the church; and this is only three months after they made up. The Fascist papers have countered the pope’s claims by asserting that his -words are the words of Mr. Ratti, the family name of the pope, and not of The head of Christianity1. Mussolini tried to smooth out matters by explaining that instruction and education are two different things, that the church may instruct but that he will see to the education.

The Talking Movie Linotype

WITHIN the next few weeks it is predicted that machines will be on the market which will enable reporters to spell out their stories, orally, with the astonishing result that all the rest of the work of setting the story in type will be done by machinery. If this device will do what is claimed, it marks the beginning of the end of typesetting as a business.

Home Talkies in Britain

FOLLOWING closely upon the widely-heralded talking movies, Britain now has these for use in the home. It is said that the invention, which sells for $25, can be attached to any home phonograph and motion-picture projector and synchronizes them so perfectly that they would not be a second apart in twelve months. The new invention is British throughout.

America Becoming Economically Stratified

IN A thoughtful address, at Portland, Governor Ralph 0. Brewster, of Maine, called attention to the fact that the rich corporations and rich individuals are now rapidly growing much richer, but that one-half the business corporations of the United States are operating at a loss, and prosperous and thriving America employs a million less than it did five years ago.

Chain Stores Not Strong for Charity

THOSE concerns which have to do with the operation of community chests are noticing that the chain stores are not strong for charity. The old-time merchant gave something to every cause that came along. Today he has a fight on his hands to keep from going under. The chain store is getting the lion’s share of the trade and is distinctly cool toward community chests.

Sucking the World Dry

John Foster Dulles, of New York, in an address before the United States Chamber of Commerce, showed that the tremendous stock speculation now going on in New York really involves the whole world. He said: “Since money inevitably flows to the point where it will command the highest yield commensurate with safety, there has been a sucking in of money to the stock market, not merely from all parts of our own country, but also from abroad.” We merely add that “coming events cast their shadows before”, and await the outcome.

Clerks Displaced by Machinery

'V'ESTERDAY it was the manual worker -L that feared he would be displaced by machinery. Today, in one bank in New York city, one machine, with eight persons operating it, does all the accounting and auditing formerly done by sixty-seven persons. Moreover, this “business brain”, as it is called, makes no mistakes. •

Air Mails to South America

h IR mails to South America, going and coming by the Canal Zone, are now a regular feature of air mail service in the Western world and, incidentally, at the immediate moment, constitute the longest air mail services in the world. Air travel is now spreading throughout the Western Hemisphere with astonishing rapidity.

The Dictatorships of Europe

HHHE present dictatorships of Europe are Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Albania, Jugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Bulgaria and Turkey. There is no real liberty in any of these countries. In America the question is not finally settled as to which crowd shall be dictator, but at this writing it looks as if the Power Trust had the best chance.

Herald Explains Its Paper Wedding

HPHE Boston Herald has explained its paper wedding, if we may thus refer to its matrimonial alliance with the International Paper and Power Company. It explains that in its newly-found bliss it will do nothing to encourage government ownership of anything, and intimates that it can be depended upon to do nothing to upset the Power Trust; all of which is to be believed.

15,000 Suicides a Year

TYb. Frederick L. Hoeeman, consulting statistician of the Prudential Insurance Company, referring to America’s annual destruction of 15,000 lives by suicide, with 35,000 more attempted suicides, says very truthfully: “It is easy to draw false conclusions from the prevailing prosperity, which, after all, may be much more apparent than real in countless individual cases in which the struggle for existence falls with crushing "weight upon persons unable to cope with circumstances beyond their control.”

Loan Sharks in Ohio

{N A Cincinnati court the other day it was dis

closed that a workman of the city borrowed $15 in 1924. In the five years which have since elapsed he has paid $150 for the loan and still owes $47.50. The morals of the loan shark are as low as those of a member of the New York stock exchange. ‘Get all you can and keep all you get, no matter who is ruined/ is their common motto.

Henry Heide’s Affidavit

exry Heide, whose back was injured in a fall from a scaffold, has petitioned the governor of New York state for the right to wake legal use of chiropractic, which is legal in other states, but illegal in New York state, ‘•thanks” to the Medical Trust. A petition to breathe without getting a permit from some trust of some kind will shortly be a necessity, if this thing keeps on.

Automobile Hazards in Manchester

kpHOSE who have watched what happens after such events are nervous about what will occur to the automobiles of Manchester, N. IT. It seems that five hundred of these have been sprinkled with holy water and been prayed over in the name of Saint Christopher. The “saint” should have kept out of this. It only means more wrecks, with probably more fatalities all around.

Transporting Troops by Plane

RITAIN has under construction twin-engined Vickers-Napier planes specially designed for the transport of troops. Racks for rifles, tanks for drinking water, and portable wireless receiving and transmitting apparatus are some of the features of the new craft. It is anticipated that the use of these craft wiil quench trouble before it gets well started and will make land marches of troops unnecessary.

Vestris Went Down Overloaded

ONTHS ago the Vestris went down with the loss of over a hundred lives. There, was much debate at the time as to why it happened. At the hearings in London it was brought out than the vessel was submerged seven and one-half inches below its maximum safety line when it left New York harbor and that its captain and all the port authorities knew of this illegal loading.

Frederick E. Woltman, Martyr

bederick E. Woltman, assistant in Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, believed that the work of the notorious coal and iron police ofi Pennsylvania would be a disgrace to the bushmen of Australia or the aborigines of Patagonia, and wanted it abolished. He has just been discharged from his position on the faculty. The reason for his discharge is unknown, but suspected.

Objected to Being Embalmed

SANTA CLARA (Cuba) man, Jose Martinez Mejia, became unconscious, and after ten hours the doctors pronounced him dead. They took him to an undertaking establishment. The ride seemed to do him good, because on arrival at the morgue he sat up in his coffin and objected seriously to the embalming work which was under way. After a little argument the embalmers let him have his way and he went home.

Child Wives and Widows of India

HE current Statistical Abstract for India, issued by the secretary of state for India, shows that in that dark land there are 6,330,207 wives between ten and fifteen years of age, 2,016,687 wives between five and ten years of age, and 218,463 wives not yet five years of age; while of widows there were 279,124 between ten and fifteen years old, 102,293 between five and ten years old, and 15,139 not yet five years old. Does India need Christ’s kingdom?

Old Age Pensions in Ten States

EN states of the United States now have old age pension laws. Alaska was the pioneer.

Then came Montana, Wisconsin, Nevada, Colorado and Kentucky. The past year there have been added to the list California, Minnesota, Wyoming and Utah. It is interesting to note that only two of these progressive states are east of the Mississippi and that in each of those states the Mississippi constitutes its western border. It is estimated that there are two million people in the United States who are old and helpless and need such aid as is provided by this legislation. In Pennsylvania old age pensions have been declared unconstitutional. Twenty-eight states considered old age pension bills in sessions just closed. Old age pensions mean an end of poorhouses, and graft-ridden states like Pennsylvania resent the losses this law will bring to politicians.

“Perfect, Immutable and Perpetual”

THOSE are three pretty strong words, “perfect, immutable and perpetual,” but these are the words given out at the Vatican as describing its new government. We quote two sentences of the claims: “Instituted for the common salvation of the faithful, and lasts for the entire duration of the world. The papal monarchy is not only complete and absolute, but in its scope extends to the entire universe.” Can you beat it?

The Reply of Sanchez Guerra

WHEN Sanchez Guerra, Conservative politician, returned from exile, he was brought before the Spanish authorities to know why he has presumed to return to his native land. His reply would have done credit to Patrick Henry. He said: “I came with the intention of leading a revolutionary movement to overthrow a dictatorship I hate.” The dictatorship has just granted an increase of pay to the clergy of Spain.

Economies in Production

MAKERS of one of the highest-priced cars in America recently announced that economics in production had enabled them to cut the price $300. It now transpires that this economy in production was gouged out of the wages of the employees by reducing them from 60 to 48 cents an hour, and shaving their bonuses down from a point where it used to be fifteen or twenty percent of the wages to a point where it rarely appeared at all. Seems too bad to get price reductions by such a method.

“Good Will to Men”

A CERTAIN ecclesiastical organization, famous for putting traditions and opinions above the Word of God, is making much use recently of what is supposed to be a quotation from the Scriptures, saying, in its advertising, “Peace on earth to men of good will.” This covert threat is not a Scripture quotation at all. What the angels really said at the birth of our Savior was, “Peace on earth, good will to men,” and that means to all men, not merely to certain men that have certain religious dogmas to which they subscribe and which they have sworn to uphold. Such misquotation of the Scriptures brings the Bible into reproach most unjustly.

The Ford Plant near London

THE new Ford plant, ten miles out of London, will employ 15,000 persons and is expected to produce 150,000 cars per annum. It will include blast furnaces and coke ovens, as well as all the usual manufacturing operations connected with the production of Ford cars. The plant expects to pay substantially the same wages as are paid at Detroit, and will produce all the various types of Ford cars necessary to supply the European and Eastern markets.

Reaching for a Cigarette

REACHING for a cigarette the young mother reaches for death for her baby, because statistics show that sixty percent of all babies born of cigarette-smoking mothers die before they reach the age of two years. Postmortems show degeneration of the liver, heart and other organs; and yet the indecent advertising which, is corrupting the women of the country goes on without let or hindrance, because there is money in it.

Poison Gas Research in Britain

BRITAIN has steadfastly refused to consent to the banning of poison gas and bacteria.

in warfare. In her poison gas research she has even made 372 experiments with specially paid young soldiers. No details are forthcoming as to results, except that it is known that sixty varieties of persistent, blistering gases have been developed, besides the usual lethal, tear, and sneezing varieties. Among the gases discovered is the dreaded Lewisite, originally discovered in America.

Pacifists Must Stay Out

THE Savior and Redeemer of men, Jesus of J- Nazareth, was a pronounced pacifist, and, as such, was and is unacceptable to the government of the United States, which, however, by a decision of the Supreme Court, is a Christian country. Additionally, it may be urged, Jesus would not be an acceptable guest in an insane asylum. The mere fact of his sanity would bar him. Let’s see. First we have the declaration that this is a Christian country. Then the Kellogg Pact proves it some more. Then the cruiser bill backs it up; and finally we cap the climax by barring a refined and intelligent woman from citizenship in the country of her choice because she is a pacifist.

Results of Ashion Process

AT ITS Girard (Ohio) plant the A. M. Byers Company, with 400 men, produce 4,000 tons of wrought iron a month. They now have a new plant at Warren, Ohio, where 150 men, by a new process, the Ashton method, produce 4,500 tons of wrought iron a month. Question: How long will it be before the extra 250 men at Warren are out on the streets looking for work? And another question: Where will they look for it, and who will want them, when the Ashton process becomes more and more widely adopted ?

Police Only a Century Old

IT IS a surprise to learn that the use of police to direct traffic and maintain order in cities is only a hundred years old. London was the first city to make use of police and has just been celebrating the centenary of the administration. Prior to the inauguration of the force London was a lawless community. Brigandage, picking of pockets and general lawbreaking were common, and, oddly enough, the people preferred to have it that way rather than have police conspicuously before their eyes. Now the London bobbies are considered one of the attractions of the city.

Blessing the Guagua Plant •

OMEBODY has sent us a clipping showing how one of the General Electric plants in the Philippines was blessed by a priest and two attendants, an altar for the purpose having been erected between the two engines. Two young women christened the engines with bottles of wine. The man who sent the clipping wonders if a general blessing of all the plants of all branches of the Power Trust in the United States would bring the rates down to a point where they would not be say more than twice or three times the rates commonly charged in Canada for the same service. Or would such blessing of electric plants have the same general effect it seems to have had on airplanes and navies?

World Glutted with Food ■

IT IS claimed that double the amount of wheat was carried over in the spring of this year as compared with last year, and that with another big crop in the making there is more food in sight than at any other time since 1915. An idea of what this means to the farmer is afforded by a news item from North Dakota that a farmer there who carried his fall potatoes over to this spring, thinking he would get a better price, received $2.35 for a car containing 1,100 bushels of the finest potatoes ever raised. This is at the rate of five bushels for one cent, coin of the realm.

Forced Labor in Liberia

EFEREING to the various pretexts used in various parts of the world to obtain forced labor, the report of the International Labor Conference of the League of Nations mentions Liberia and says: “Early in 1926 a government labor bureau under a special commissioner was created and undertook to furnish an annual quota of 10,000 workers for the Firestone Company. The bureau requisitions a fixed number from each local administrator, who in his turn calls upon each chief to furnish a certain number. The company pays one cent to the labor bureau and one cent to the chief for each day worked by each man recruited. It is thus clearly in the interest of chiefs to send in recruits, and fears have been expressed in many quarters that this system is, in practice, one of forced labor.” This makes a great advertisement for the United States and for one of its gigantic corporations.

The Opium Farce at Geneva

TN NOTHING does the League of Hypocrites -®- show itself worse than in the opium farce. For twelve years solemn meetings have been held at which pious resolutions and expressions of regret have been passed, but not a thing has been done to restrict what all delegates admit is an unmitigated curse. More and more countries are opening opium factories in addition to those already running full blast in England, France, Holland, Germany and Switzerland. It is now claimed that opiates are being manufactured in excess of medical needs in the ratio of 100 to 1. Meantime, as the Christian nations of the world hypocritically fail to do anything, China is pleading to be permitted to run her own country as she will, so that she can put a stop to at least some of the evil. But the Christian nations prefer to keep everything wide open, so that they can make larger profits. However, they are willing to pray for the Chinese. This is as far as they care to go.

Tlie Inefficient

ONE of the obstacles in the path of organized labor Is the scab. The tramp is another, bnt not so inconvenient.

Time was when every man found work under the feudal system. Labor, however, fought for, and obtained, freedom from that system: not freedom (as they erroneously thought) to work for whom they pleased (that is always the prerogative of the employer), but freedom to apply for work where they pleased and to starve as they pleased if they could not get it.

Then ten men worked at a table. Machinery was introduced; then there were five. The other five have been a thorn in the side of organized labor ever since. They w’ere rejected because machinery took their place at less expense, and because their five brothers were “more efficient”, that is, gave more ability in the same time.

The five efficient were efficient because born of more virile parentage, enjoyed better food, clothing and shelter than their five inefficient or less efficient brothers—not actually inefficient, but the least efficient of the ten, due probably as much to lack of seniority in employment, or to under-age, as to inferior physique or mentality- . . .

The less work the five inefficient enjoyed, the less food, clothing and shelter they received, and the more inefficient they became.

Then the strike? To obtain higher pay, a larger share of the profit in the product they produced or more pay for the time during which their ability was used, the five efficient banded together and refused to work. The amount of work done during a specified time was not at issue.

Their five inefficient brothers, unemployed and more or less starving, individually bargained with the employers to do the same work during a longer period of time but for lower wages an hour; not actually lower wages for the work done, but lower wages an hour, because it would take them longer to do it. Efficient gives 75 percent ability an hour; Inefficient 50 percent an hour. Inefficient offers to work 1| hours for wages that Efficient would receive in one hour.

If Efficient, through better nutrition, environment and growth, or seniority of employment, bases his services on ability, why should his less fortunate brother, Inefficient, not base his

By Charles Morrell

services on the ‘time required to perform the work’?

Who says ability should govern, and not the actual work accomplished?

But Efficient is called “organized labor”. Inefficient is called the scab. Efficient’s responsibility, when machinery was introduced, was either to effect reduction in the hours of labor or to share with Inefficient his hours of work and his pay, not to see Inefficient lose his right to “work to live”. Efficient adopted the law of “the survival of the fittest” instead of the one suggested at the end of this article.

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