Golden Age, November 13, 1929
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INTERNATIONAL BANK
TIRED OF HUMBUG
WAY TO BETTER HEALTH
EVENTS IN CANADA
AUSTRALIA AND LABOR
OPPOSITION TO KINGDOM
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Volume XI - No. 265
November 13, 192 9
Contents
Labok and Economics
International Typographical Union
Poverty in the Midst of Plenty
Rich Must Aid the Poor
Social and Educational
Chop Susy
Prison Reforms in Germany ..............
Divorces Tripled in Thirty Years
Cigarets Destroy Ninety Million Dollars Yearly...... .
Falsehood in War Time
900 Books in One Building
British King Tired or Humbug
Manufacturing and Mining
Canada Finds More Coal
Fin an ce— Com merge—Transport ati on
Ford Business Stimulates Cork
America Turns to the Air
A Financial Supergovernment or the World . .
Agriculture and Husbandry Fresh Berries the Year Around
The Largest Combine
Science and Invention
End of the Mosquito
New Values in Corn
Improvements in Sea Travel . .
Home and Health
No White Bread in Portugal
What Has Happened?
More About the Grape Cure
The Way to Better Health
Grape Juice a la Catafalque
Travel and Miscellany
Events in Canada
Australian Notes
Religion and Philosophy Opposition to God’s Kingdom
Bible Question and Answer..............
The Children’s Own Radio Story
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The Golden Age
Volume XI
Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, November 13, 1929
Number 265
Chop Suey
An Intelligent Cat
AT NIAGARA FALLS three boys were sleeping in a playhouse when their candle kicked over and set the house afire. A cat scratched the face of one of the boys, waking him up and thus saving the lives of all, including the cat.
Thirty-five Thousand Clairvoyants
IT IS said that the number of clairvoyants in the city of Paris can not run far short of thirty-five thousand. They pass under the various names of astrologists, fortune tellers, occultists, hypnotists and prophets.
The Largest Potato Cellar
THE largest potato cellar in the world is in Scott County, Kansas. It holds 225 carloads at one time. The farm from which these potatoes are harvested has rows a mile long and covers eight square miles of land.
Fatal Accidents in Homes
IT IS surprising to learn that twenty-five thousand persons are killed yearly in accidents which take place in their own homes. This amounts to one-fourth of all the annual accidents in the United States.
Ford Business Stimulates Cork
HPHE transfer of the Ford tractor business to Cork, Ireland, has had a vast influence all over the south of Ireland. Four thousand men working at good wages have been a real help to the city and community. Tractors are now being shipped from Cork to all parts of the world.
Canada Finds More Coal
CANADA has found more coal, a bed of lignite twenty feet thick, underlying an area a mile long and half a mile in width. The provincial government of Ontario has closed the, area, and immediate steps will be taken to develop the possibilities of the new fuel.
An Arab 153 Years of Age
EGYPTIAN officials have just paid a call of respect upon an Arab 153 years of age, living in Fayum, near Cairo. This man was born in 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence and when Napoleon was still only a young artillery officer.
Prison Reforms in Germany
GERMAN prisons now grant a two weeks’ vacation to long-term prisoners with unusually good records, and any prisoner, near the end of his term, may get employment outside, to learn a trade, provided he spends his nights in the cell.
The Splitting of Hydrogen
THE announcement has been made that hydrogen has been split into two gases, parahydrogen and ortho-hydrogen. This announcement, if correct, may be the first step in splitting the atom, and may necessitate the rewriting of all the chemistry textbooks.
World Is Eating Less
A HUNGARIAN economist declares that human beings are eating fifteen percent less than before the World War, eating less bread, flour and meat, but more milk, eggs and vegetables. He finds that this change in diet is producing agricultural difficulties the world over.
International Typographical Union
THE 76,000 men that go to make up the International Typographical Union have expended twenty million dollars to reduce hours of labor, ten million dollars in pensions to union printers, five million dollars in death benefits, four and one-third million dollars in the maintenance of a printer’s home, and three hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars for trade education, almost all of it in the last twenty years, and all out of their wages.
'William H. Taylor, Movie Actor
THE oldest movie actor in the United States is William H. Taylor, now over 101 years of age. Six weeks before he obtained his present f employment he started taking singing lessons j to improve his voice for the talking pictures. 1 He does not wear glasses, and can read the J finest print.
An Odd Circumstance
AN ODD circumstance, reminding one of Israel’s experience in leaving Egypt, is that : / when the Arabs were recently on the warpath 1 in Jerusalem the professed Christians sought 1 protection by marking the door posts of their . homes with crosses. This, however, may be only ' propaganda or a newspaper story.
Dog on Two Pay Rolls
A DOG is unofficially on the pay rolls of both f, the Virginian Railway and the Norfolk &
Western at Salem, Virginia. Every day he carries reports from one office to the other, and if the reports are not ready on time he knows it, •' ; and barks until the business is turned over to him.
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i No White Bread in Portugal
PORTUGUESE authorities, anxious to maintain the health of the citizenry of the coun-|y ' try, have promulgated edicts which now make it impossible to secure any white bread in the c । country. Only the healthful dark-brown loaf containing the whole wheat is to be found in the I' । markets.
End of the Mosquito
( THE United States Public Health Service foresees the end of the mosquito. A blower has now been invented by which one man in a ■ 1 rowboat can dust a path 525 feet wide with a ‘ ; mixture of paris green and hydrated lime, and good-bye mosquitoes. The cost is about fifteen 1 cents an acre.
। 1 Hens Do Double Shift
AS THE hours of daylight lessen many farm. j. ers have arrangements by which they turn ; i ।. on lights in their henhouses an hour or two be-i U fore sunrise and an hour or two after twilight. ; i p The hens keep awake, eat more, and lay more, i i It is found profitable financially, and not inju-। rious to the hens.
New Values in Corn
A PPLICATION of the Mendelian law of inheritance is working out wonderfully in the development of new varieties of sweet corn and the strengthening of old varieties. Boards are now made from cornstalks,.the entire operation taking only fifteen minutes from the dry stalks to the completed boards.
Cost of Overloading the Vestris
FOR overloading the steamer Vestris a mere
matter of seven inches the Royal Mail Company stocks have gone down twenty million dollars in six months. That is because the British people know the company will have to make good for all the losses of human life and property clue to the overloading.
Sixty-four Year’s in One Mill
NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts, has a woman, now seventy-one years of age, who has worked in the one mill for sixty-four years. She started work as a sweeper in the mill, in June, 1865, at which time she was seven years of age. She is still in good health and working every day. .
Trailing a Carrier Pigeon
A GERMAN business man received by post a carrier pigeon with a demand that he tie a five-thousand-mark note to the bird’s leg and release it, on pain of death. He did as told, but had an aviator trail the pigeon; and thirty minutes after the pigeon landed, the blackmailer was in jail.
Immigration Officials Visionless
BECAUSE ten out of sixty-one wealthy Hungarian merchants who came to study American business methods did not have fifty dollars cash on their persons, they were sent to Ellis Island, despite the fact that they had letters of credit showing them to be abundantly able to pay their way. Official stupidity de luxe.
America Turns to the Air
SINCE 1926 the number of civilian airplanes in operation in the United States has increased from 2,700 to 8,064, an increase of over two hundred percent. Seventy-eight airplane firms produced 4,886 planes during 1928, and the indications are that the production for 1929 will be much greater.
New York Aviator Roosts in Tree
NEW YORK aviator’s engine began to miss. He looked for a place to alight, failed to find it, and landed safe and sound in the top of a tree. A couple o'f hens under the tree died of fright, but these were ‘the only persons’ injured. They objected to the size of the bird landing in their tree.
Timber Famine in Eight Years
ajor George P. Ahern, forest authority, Washington, D.C., declares that in eight
years the South’s timber will be sufficient only for its own needs, and forty states will then look to the Pacific coast, the last great stand of timber in the country. Reforestation soon is absolutely necessary. '
Use Found for Eelgrass
USE has been found for eelgrass, which is found in great quantities off the coasts of the maritime provinces of Canada. This grass, which is a great inconvenience to fishermen, because it clogs their nets and propellers, is being worked up into mats. It is fireproof, soundproof and non-verminous.
Use for Detroit Garbage
ETROIT is now spending more than two million dollars a year in the collection and destruction of its garbage. Henry Ford has just made an offer to' collect and destroy this garbage without cost to the city. He expects to recover enough grease and other by-products to make the project profitable.
Pictorial Menus
EW YORK is going in for new-style menus.
Instead of merely a name and a price, the guest is shown a handsome picture of what his food will look like when it comes on the table. The method is popular and is gaining ground. It makes work for artists and dignifies the work of the chef.
Indo-China Has a New Religion
NEW religion, known as Caodism, has made its appearance in Indo-China in the past four years. It is said to be a hodgepodge of all religions, and includes worship of the Devil as one of its features. It is alleged to have gained two million adherents in the short time it has been in vogue.
Poverty in the Midst of Plenty
egretary of Labor Davis maintains that about 86 percent of the people of the United States are poor, and a door to door canvass of any community will show that there is a great deal of truth in his statement, despite the great number of automobiles in use. That this should be true in the richest country in the world is a great disgrace.
Divorces Tripled in Thirty Years
T N THIRTY years, in the state of Michigan, -!• the number of divorces to a given number of marriages has tripled. Thirty years ago less than ten percent of the marriages terminated in divorce, but in the year 1928 there were 10,615 divorces and only 37,300 marriages, showing that nearly one-third of the marriages now turn out to be failures.
Santa Claus in Mobile
anta Claus actually came to Mobile recently. He did not bring anything with him except an appetite and plenty of self-assurance. He climbed down the chimney, frightened a family half out of its wits, and parked himself on the kitchen stove, where he indulged-his appetite, eating a box of cakes. Santa turned out to be a bear, and was captured by the police.
Europeans Settle in Peru
ERU is throwing open the upper reaches of the Amazon River for settlement by Europeans. Several hundred Polish and Austrian families have already arrived, and it is anticipated that at least ten thousand Polish families will begin life in Peru within the next eight years. Much of the land is ready for colonization, while in other places it needs to be cleared.
Sly British Humor
IN LONDON there are two bakeries side by side. One of these advertised in his window, “We serve bread to his majesty, the king.” His competitor put a card in his own window, “God save the king.” This is more hopeful than two of the signs that Dennett of restaurant fame once had on his walls in New York. On one sign Dennett is alleged to have advertised, “Butter cakes, three for five.” These cakes were known to be tasty but indigestible. On another sign nearby was a Scripture text, “Prepare to meet thy God.”
Rich Must Aid the Poor
0 TIDE over the present situation in Stam-boul, Turkey, a new law has gone into effect that each family of wealth must take under its wing one very poor family and see that its necessities are somehow met. It may assist directly or by procuring employment; but it must assist, and must see that real suffering for lack of life’s necessities does not arise.
English Church and the Miners
HE Church of England draws more than a million dollars a year from mining royalties and is financially interested in keeping wages down and profits up. It is also the owner of hundreds of flats in a section of London which has a very bad name with the London police and is known as one of its worst crime spots.
Fairy Damask Tablecloths
OME of the new imitations of damask tablecloths start out wonderfully well. They have flannel backs, are hemstitched all around, and possess all the elegance of appearance of a genuine damask cloth. There is a slight odor when new, but this soon vanishes. The new tablecloth material requires no laundering except to wipe off stains with a damp cloth.
Fresh Berries the Year Around c
EXPERIMENTS show the likelihood of being able to have fresh straw’berries and raspberries on the table the year around. The method of freezing berries in barrels, kegs or cans, called the frozen-pack or cold-pack method, may be extended to smaller containers suitable to household use, and in that event fresh fruit of any kind can be had anywhere the year around.
Judges Are Human Beings
HE late Justice Brewer, of the Supreme Court, once said: “It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honored or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. The life and character of its justice should be the object of constant watchfulness, and its judgments subject to the freest criticism. The time is past in the history of the world when any living man or body of men can be set on a pedestal and decorated with a halo.”
The Largest Combine
HE largest combined mower and thresher is operating near Lethbridge, Alberta. It cuts a swath thirty-four feet wide and daily transforms one hundred acres of standingwheat into three thousand or more bushels of grain ready for the elevator. This combine is one of seven of the same size now in operation in the same district.
Cotton Picker a Success
HE cotton picker is a success, as far as the replacing of human labor is concerned. It picks 300 to 400 pounds while the average handpicker in California picks 168 pounds. The cotton is picked cleaner, adding $10 a bale to the value of the harvested crop. A one-horse-power gasoline motor operates the pickerheads, which extend ten feet on each side of the machine.
California Youth Makes Good Beer
O GOOD was the beer made by a California youth that he and all his companions landed in jail. The beer landed there too, and blew up, bottle after bottle, to the disappointment of the officials, until it was all gone. The amateur brewer had to come into court and tell how he made it and then receive a sentence requiring him to attend church regularly for two years.
Virginia’s Neglected Mountain Folks
CHANCE visit of a young mountaineer to
President Hoover’s camp on the Rapidan
River showed that neither he nor his parents, and practically none of the inhabitants, young or old, in the mountain community, could either read or write. This was within an hour or two by automobile of the capital of the wealthiest country in the world.
Little America and Graf Zeppelin
NE of the most interesting items of the Graf
Zeppelin’s trip around the world was her direct connection by wireless with the Byrd Expedition in Little America, Antarctica. Messages were repeatedly exchanged. The Byrd Expedition watched the progress of the Zeppelin with keenest interest. At the time the messages were exchanged it was forty degrees below zero in Antarctica. The Graf Zeppelin’s record of 21 days 8 hours 26 minutes around the world is 2 days 6 hours 55 minutes better than any previous record.
The Shark Fishing Industry
OTHING about the shark is wasted. His skin makes a soft, tough leather. His liver becomes cod liver oil or margarine. His teeth are currency in the South Sea Islands. His fins go to China. Pigments are derived from his gall, and drugs from his pancreatic glands. The meat is rock salmon. Glue, dyestuffs, polishing materials, and food for animals are also obtained.
Wine Tonics in San Francisco
HE San Francisco Examiner sent a fifteenyear-old boy into four stores to purchase wine tonic, and in each case he came out with a bottle of drinkable liquid containing twenty percent or more of alcohol. These tonics are just wines that have been medicated with sufficient drugs to enable them to get by the prohibition act. This form of booze is sold in San Francisco by the thousands of bottles.
Man with an Idea
NTIL 1875, only fifty-four years ago, Britain had no supervision over her ships.
Then an honest man, a man with an idea, Samuel Plimsoll, got on his feet and demanded that the government give some attention to a scandalous situation which was sending hundreds of men to watery graves every winter. He had to apologize, but he won the fight, and Britis7' laws respecting sea travel are what they are today because of Plimsoll. .
Cigarets Destroy Ninety Million Dollars Yearly
OT only does the cigaret business most wretchedly and miserably underpay its help, and not only has it ruined the youth of the country, and is now ruining the girls as . well as the boys, undermining their health and destroying the prospects of another healthy generation, but cigarets destroy ninety million dollars’ worth of property every year. This money has to be paid by the industrious and frugal, many of whom despise the cigaret business and everything and everybody connected with it. In view of the fact that cigaret stubs are forty times greater fire hazards than cigar stubs, the last cigaret inch is now being chemically treated so that it will not burn readily. This will still further hasten the deaths of the smokers, and increase life insurance costs.
Sufferings of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy
BOY thirteen years old who wandered away from camp and was lost for over a year in the wilds of northern Quebec has been found and returned to civilization. An older brother who was lost with him died two months before the discovery took place. The boys had only two matches with them and kept a fire burning constantly during the entire time. They lived on roots, berries and fish bones.
Improvements in Sea Travel
T MPROVEMENTS in sea travel are an automatic helmsman which is intended to keep the ship on its course regardless of winds, currents or tides, an automatic SOS receiver which rings bells in all parts of the ship, an automatic lookout which rings a bell when any object crosses its path, a device which gives Warning of the presence of smoke or fire, a device for lowering lifeboats at any angle, and a gas for imparting immunity from seasickness.
Nothing Heroic About Gangsters
dwin Baird says truthfully that there is nothing heroic about gangsters, that they are as a rule cowardly,, illiterate, treacherous and without honor of any kind. Baird says that when Dion O’Banion was slated to die, three guerrillas were assigned to the job, and while one grasped his right hand in apparent friendship the other two riddled his body with bullets. The gangster’s favorite method of getting rid of a fellow bootlegger is to shoot him in the back of the head. In a real man-to-man fight he is simply not there.
German Report on American Jails
N HIS return to Germany after making a careful survey of American jails, a noted criminologist, Professor Liepmann, said: ‘‘There are no words to describe the almost medieval conditions in these jails. Usually no distinction is made between those who have been sentenced and those who are awaiting trial and perhaps are innocent of any offense. There is no provision for giving the prisoners adequate work or exercise in the open air. In the matters of light and air, sanitary and hygienic conditions, the cells can, without exaggeration, be compared with the stalls of animals, and, at that, to the neglected stalls that might be found in country districts at least half a century ago.”
What Has Happened?
WE HAVE just noticed the following item in one of the daily papers:
CLUB ALUMINUM UTENSIL. For year ended June 30 the Club Aluminum Utensil Company reports a consolidated net income of $3,184, after depreciation, inventory losses and federal taxes, equal to 1 cent a share on 271,240 shares, against $853,530, or $3.14 a share in preceding year.
One noticing this report, that earnings of one of the largest manufacturers of aluminum cooking utensils had had their earnings reduced in one year from $3.14 to a share, would naturally conclude that something has been -happening in the aluminum cooking utensil business. Perhaps so! Perhaps so! And if so, the result, in the end, will be for the benefit of the fathers and mothers and boys and girls that will live longer and be more robust and happy; so it is worth the price.
Galusha M. Cole, Centenarian
THE San Antonio (Texas) Light publishes a picture of G alusha M. Cole, California pioneer, now 103 years of age, former friend of Lincoln and Douglas. Mr. Cole enjoys travel, and visits all parts of California alone.
In the picture in Light Mr. Cole is represented as reading Judge Rutherford’s latest book, Life, and that too without the aid of glasses. Well, he selected a good book. It ought to keep him young and insure his being of the 'millions now living that will never die’.
In spite of his miserable comforters Job came out all right in the end; and just as he finally came to rest and peace, so the human family, in spii ) of all its miserable comforters, is coming fori .1 into the golden age of joy, peace, and divine blessing foretold by all the holy prophets. In Life the author tells all about it.
By the way, Judge Rutherford’s books are getting around everywhere. The other day we saw a full-page advertisement of Listerine in Capper’s Farmer, and in the forefront of the picture at the head of the advertisement was a cut of Deliverance, with the title plainly visible in the cut.
“Falsehood in War Time”
FpHIS book shows that Serbia knew in advance -®- of the murder of the archduke of Austria, and that England went into the war not because of the violation of Belgian neutrality, which she had expected, but because she had previously agreed with France to do so. The book shows that no hand was ever cut off a Belgian child, no nun ever violated, no woman’s breasts cut off, no baby bayoneted, and no soldier or civilian ever crucified by the Germans. And it was the French, and not the Germans, that first used poison gas, and the British were the first to bomb towns from the air. The war to end militarism has been followed by the greatest expenditures for militarism ever made in the history of the world. The world was to be made safe for democracy, but it has now more dictators than at any other one time in the history of man.
More About the Grape Cure By Dr. Rollin 'Jones
IT IS with much interest that I have been reading The Golden Age, even from its first issues: I appreciate the spirit that has been manifest throughout, and am pleased to note that truth is its standard.
I have carefully noted in the August 7 issue an article entitled "No Magic in Grapes”, by Dr. Herbert M. Shelton. After having given the article a few thoughtful readings I sought to refresh my mind as to the general spirit of the articles coming from his pen, to see if they are constructive. I re-read the "Death by the Serum Route” in your issue of April 17, and "More About the Ehret System” in your issue of May 29.
The doctor does not owe me a cent for using my name in the first article referred to above, for it is a good rule not to take or give offence in anything; it is also a good plan to 'do nothing through strife or vainglory’.
What has been published in The Golden Age. under my name was submitted that some sufferers might be helped thereby, and not offered from the pen of an enthusiastic novice as an experimental proposition, nor as propaganda to raise the hopes of sufferers "to the seventh heaven ... to have them dashed down to the very depths of despair”.
As stated in my article appearing in the December 26 issue of The Golden Age, "we have had several come to our Florida office suffering from the loathsome disease, cancer, who have been reclaimed that they might continue their citizenship here for a few more years.”
Since the issue is forced I take pleasure in enclosing herewith the names and addresses of a sufficient number of those who have been successfully treated by our method to make it worth while to give space to the article on the Grape Cure, that at least a few others might be helped thereby.
These names and addresses are given that you might know the facts, but not for publication, of course. I shall be glad if you advise Dr. Shelton of the results of your investigation, if you desire. [Seven names and addresses enclosed, two of them physicians.—Editor.]
The writer asserts that natural hygienists, naturopaths and others have never claimed that the “grape diet will cure cancer”. No one should claim to work miracles, but we are pleased to advise that two of those whose names and addresses I have submitted, who successfully underwent our treatment, are graduate naturopathic physicians, licensed and practising within the laws of the state, having passed a satisfactory examination before the State Board of Naturopathic Examiners, which we also have done.
All that has been said of the grape that could be construed “magical” appeared in my article in the December 26 issue of The Golden Age; viz., “We recognize the grape (in its natural state) the greatest normalizer of human tissue on earth.” We cheerfully agree that there are other foods which can be combined in making both a cleansing and constructive diet, and some of these were mentioned in both of the articles from my pen referred to above; and any worthwhile naturopathic physician knows of them and their value in the various cases.
The kindest construction that I can place upon the position taken by Dr. Shelton in his criticisms of my article is to conclude that his information was only hearsay. What other decision could logically be reached when I note that I am, by him, charged with making the statement that the “grape diet will dissolve gallstones in about six weeks”, whereas I specifically state (in my article under his criticism) that in treating for gall-stones one should “confine himself to a raw vegetarian diet, chiefly of figs, onions and lettuce (using two fair-sized red onions daily)”? Frankly, dear editor, I never before heard of such fruit and vegetables growing on a grape vine; but I have successfully treated those who had been diagnosed, X-rayed and found to be gall-stone patients. I do not have any disposition to question the doctor’s position, that to him “there is no known method of dissolving gall-stones”.
All the good that any of us can do is small indeed when compared with the needs of the groaning creation. The all-wise God did not give any of us great things to do, because He knew we are all so small. When His government is in full sway it will bring life. 'No one will say, I am sick.’
900 Books in One Building
"EWER try canvassing for Judge Rutherford’s books in a big office building? The best wTay is to leave the building superintendent till the last. Then you can both appreciate your visit better! Instead of stopping to bow and scrape at each information desk, the best way to do is to quickly pick out some likely-looking man and bolt right on in and say to him, “May I speak to you a minute?” Whichever way he answers, “Yes,” “No,” or “What is it you wish to see me about?” start right in with your canvass and make it good and snappy.
In the Standard Oil Building, 26 Broadway, New York, H. W. Stackhouse placed 220 books *nd booklets. Very good! The Binghamton Press Building yielded 92 bound books and 138 booklets in two days. Not so worse!
But now along comes Carl Ewell, of Cleveland, ■with a photograph of the Union Trust Building and something written on it that makes the above records look like that of little children playing at a picnic. It just says: “Five hundred bound volumes and four hundred booklets in seven weeks, from the twentieth floor to the basement, from the former district attorney to the chief engineer.” The building has 2,800 windows in it; so it is no wonder it took seven weeks to canvass it. More power to you, Ewell! If anybody has a better record, send it on.
The Way to Better Health By H. W. Newcomb
MOST of us humans after passing the age of 35 or 40 years begin to realize that youth and vigor are beginning to slip away from us. Aches and pains appear more frequently, and then we begin to give more serious consideration as to how we may preserve our health.
We find that wild animals live to seven times their bone maturity, and if man did so he would live to be 200 years old. But he does not; so we must conclude that there is something radically wrong with our mode of living.
Some then resort to physical torture, pardon me, culture, only to find that the vitality is getting less and less, so that it becomes more difficult to keep up the exercises that prevent the excess weight from developing.
Others resort to excessive fasting, drugs and fads to accomplish this end, only to find that they pay dearly for their trouble. Then they begin to wonder if it is worth while trying to hold off the “Grim Reaper’-’. Why not let us eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die ?
We are living in a wonderful time: a time in which, Daniel tells us, “knowledge shall be increased”; and as we get a clearer insight into the times in which we are living, we find that there are some things that can be done that will cooperate with nature in resisting disease and slowing down our loss of vitality.
Our bodies are wonderful organisms. David said: “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Every bone, every joint, every muscle and every nerve has its proper position and function.
If some of these get out of place and do not function properly it is soon manifested in our general health and vitality. Just one joint of the vertebra stiffening up and bringing pressure upon the nerve centers will bring about a draining of the suprarenal glands with the result that our vitality will be used up faster than we can manufacture it, and the first thing we know we begin to get shaky and slow down, so that it is hard work to drag ourselves through the day.
Can this be overcome? Surely so. Just place yourself in the hands of a first-class osteopath or chiropractor, and, frequently, within an hour, or so after the first adjustment you will begin to feel your vitality coming back.
Is this all we shall have to do to keep well ? No. The very best organism or machine that we can possess, if not properly taken care of, will soon find its way to the scrap heap.
As we go about in our daily lives we use up the tissues of our body. Divine providence has so arranged that, we being mortal beings (not immortal, as the “god of this world” has gotten the majority of mankind to believe), it is necessary for us to depend upon outside substances to sustain life.
The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, all play their part in sustaining life.
It does not require much intelligence to provide fresh air and plenty of water for this machine of ours; but when it comes to food, then we get into difficulty. Most of us allow our sight and taste to guide us in this all-important item. We cook our foods to gratify our taste and appetite, instead of choosing them to meet our bodily requirements. We do not seem to realize that it is not merely the food we eat, but the food we digest, that is of benefit to us. An ounce of cabbage or spinach properly digested is more beneficial than a pound of undigested and unassimilated starch, sugar or protein clogging up the system and using up vital energy in expelling it from the body. What an expensive experience has been ours as a result of this unwise course! Sickness abounds, decay is ever present, and the M.D.’s and dentists have waxed rich at the expense of suffering humanity.
Then, too, how the conscienceless profiteers have done their best to maintain this devilish condition of things by a systematic propaganda advertising devitalized food in fancy packages to appeal to our degenerated appetites and weaknesses.
Some are beginning to wake up and are seeking to find out what is helpful to nourish our bodies and what is injurious to them, and so we find that ‘knowledge has increased’ in this respect.
We read articles about calories, vitamines, carbohydrates, starches, proteins and what not, and, while it ‘listens good’, the average layman scratches his head and wonders whether these things grow on trees, or whether they have to be cooked, or what it is all about anyway; with the result that we continue in the same old rut because we have gotten the habit.
The Golden Age and some of the osteopathic publications have published some interesting
articles on Dietetics that I will endeavor to simplify and bring to your attention in such a way that it will be easy to get out of the rut and supply this machine of ours with proper fuel to keep it reasonably free from breakdowns.
One of the best helps to good health and good digestion is to develop a sunny disposition. Do not worry over your diet, but do the best you can to follow the suggestions given.
Avoid the use of stimulants, intoxicants, drugs and patent medicines.
Avoid the loss of organs of the body by surgical operations. Each organ has its function; and if you destroy it, you handicap your machine just so much. If the organs are diseased, heal them by correcting your diet.
Avoid the use of aluminum cooking utensils and alum baking powders, as these are injurious to your health, poisoning the blood stream and causing a large percentage of the stomach trouble that we are afflicted with today.
Sleep on the right side or flat on the back, with the head toward the north so as to get the benefit of earth’s magnetic currents.
Avoid serum inoculations and vaccinations, as they pollute the blood stream with their filthy pus.
Do not eat when ill, overtired, angry, worried or despondent.
Do not drink anything excessively hot or cold or while food is in the mouth.
Stop chewing gum, as you need the saliva for your food.
With these few helps to start with, let us next see what has been found so far in Dietetics that is essential to maintain life.
Animal life lives upon organic matter. Inorganic matter can not become an integral part of man’s cellular structure; and for this reason medicines are of little value, as they are for the greater part inorganic. Then, again, cooking produces chemical and structural changes in food, changing it from organic into inorganic matter.
It is also found that after digestion and absorption food finds its way into the blood stream, so that the condition of the blood is determined by what one eats.
The old method of dividing food into carbohydrates, fats and proteins, and then determining the number of calories one needs, while scientifically correct, is of little or no value, as it offers no suggestion as to what or how a person may eat for health.
It is far more practical to classify food in accordance with their acid- or alkaline-forming qualities, as the blood must be alkaline to maintain health.
Then, again, an alkaline reserve is necessary to neutralize the acids that result from bodily activity. Exercise, including the ordinary process of body metabolism, gives rise to an acid end-product which must be quickly neutralized, otherwise serious results will follow.
That “tired feeling” is due also to errors in diet which give rise to acid toxemia. As an illustration : Starches taken into the body are changed into a form of sugar, and, when fortified by other sugars, such as syrups, jellies, jams, pies, cake and pastries, it requires the expenditure of a great amount of vital energy to get this excess chemically changed into some form of pus so that it may be expelled from the system. Do you wonder that you have that “tired feeling”, colds, catarrh, etc.?
One of the difficulties along this line is that most of us overeat. It is easy to overeat of cooked foods, but, on the other hand, it is almost impossible to overeat of raw foods as Nature grows them. Gradually cut down on cooked food, sugar, starch and protein food, and substitute a sufficient quantity of fruits, non-starchy and raw leaf vegetables to satisfy the cravings of appetite.
Another error we encounter is that of indulging in a mixed diet at each meal. This brings on all kinds of trouble, indigestion, catarrh, gout, rheumatism, high blood pressure, etc.
It is true that we need a mixed diet; but the mixing should be done during the day at differ-■ ent meals, and not at the same meal. The more varied the food in combination at each meal, the longer it takes to digest the meal. Delayed digestion means fermentation and putrefaction. A monodiet is best. Three to five articles of food at a meal is variety enough; and the fewer the articles, the more easily the meal is digested.
Natural food is that which is uncooked, unmixed, and unseasoned. Learn to eat and like it, as it will get you well and keep you so.
Our food is divided into three general classes: proteins,.carbohydrates or sugars, and fats.
Proteins are digested by the hydrochloric acid of the stomach. They are the most injurious of the three, as only a small proportion ingested contributes towards the health and builds tissue and strength. Where the average person needs about 2500 calories daily, only four percent, or about one ounce of protein, is sufficient to meet all requirements. Outdoor workers thrive on even less than this amount.
Now keep this one thing In mind, that three-fourths of our diet should be alkaline-forming foods if we would keep well.
The following chart will give you a general idea of the relative value of some foods:
Percent to 100 Grams
Food
Protein
Fat
Carbohydrates
Acid
Alkaline
Meats ,
Eggs, whole
Sea Foods
Fish
Wheat Flour
Chicken
5 •
Crackers
Asparagus
2|
Beets
Cabbage
1.8
Celery
Parsnips
11 .
Tomatoes
' .9
Carrots
Oranges
.8
.2
Lemons
.7
Apples
.4
Grapes
1.3
Plums
You will notice flesh food contains the largest quantity of proteins. '
Fats are common in nearly all food, though fruits and vegetables contain less than the meats. Fats have to reach the small intestines before they may be acted upon by the bile and the intestinal juice which emulsifies them and makes them digestible.
Carbohydrates are formed in large quantities in the fruits and vegetables.
Note well that meats and proteins form an acid residue in the blood, while fruits and vegetables form an alkaline residue and therefore should make up three-fourths of one’s diet. Milk, cream, butter, cheese, yolk of eggs and green leafy vegetables are excellent in alkaline-forming qualities.
Children need calcium to build bone and teeth. Grown-ups should eat sparingly of them unless they want to put on weight. Foods containing calcium and potassium help the body to assimilate carbon foods. Heavy calcium foods are whole grain products, cow’s milk, cheese and halibut.
Goat’s milk is a chlorine food containing calcium, is easily digested and preferable to cow’s milk.
Chlorine foods aid digestion, help keep the body sweet, and keep down the formation of intestinal gas. Heavy chlorine diet is necessary to reduce weight, or in dropsical or rheumatic conditions.
Chlorophyl is one of the best sources of organic chlorine and is found in green leafy vegetables and red meats. Leaf lettuce contains more chlorophyl than head lettuce, which is higher in iron content.
Magnesium foods act as antacid, a cleanser, blood purifier and beautifier. Oranges and the entire citrus family are the best magnesium foods. Oranges are as necessary for children as milk.
Manganese foods are needed for brain, nerve and muscle coordination. Eat six or eight blanched almonds, or their equivalent in bulk in English walnuts, when you feel the need of them.
Potassium foods are needed for muscle tone, and assist peristaltic bowel action, which prevents constipation. Some of them are hops, spinach, prunes, sun-dried olives, dandelion, endive, watercress and figs.
Bread, when yeast-raised, should be from twenty-four to forty-eight hours old. Fresh baked bread is full of gases that are not healthful and some live yeast germs that start a new fermentation in the stomach and small intestines.
Cocoanut-oil oleomargarine is more easily digested than butter. It contains neurol, a lubricant for the brain, nerves, lining of the lungs and bone marrow. Eat cocoanut meat quite often.
Corn is fattening. Cornmeal products may be used in winter by all who wish to add weight, but should be avoided in the hot months.
Eggs. Give children the whole egg; babies and grown-ups, the yolk only. The y Ik contains most of the elements needed by the body. When it is cooked it loses its fluorine, so should be taken raw.
Oats are the only alkaline cereal we have, so that oatmeal and oatmeal bread is advised. Oats contain silicon, which, with fluorine, makes enamel on the bones and teeth. Oatmeal is an excellent raw food, as it is non-fattening and a better roughage than bran. Do not use the three-minute kind. Serve with a little brown sugar, raisins, and whole milk.
Tropical fruit butter may be made from any combination of dried fruits desired except dried peaches with the skin on. Figs, raisins, and prunes or dates with pits removed make a good combination. Run through meat chopper and pack in deep bowl. Use as a spread for bread.
Salad dressing may be omitted entirely, or it may be only salt, or salt and lemon juice, or a french dressing of olive oil, lemon juice and salt. Mayonnaise is permissible for healthy individuals, but should be avoided by invalids and those desiring to keep their weight down.
Whole wheat or whole grain bread contains most of the mineral elements to be found in the body; but remember, it is a starchy food, and govern your consumption accordingly.
Milk is a food, not a beverage. If you use it, eat it.
We should avoid the use of vinegar, as it is used as a preservative. Pickles are never digested. If you want something sour use lemon juice.
Avoid strong tea and coffee, which are stimulants. Also avoid condiments, such as ketchups, chili sauce, mustard, pepper, etc., with the exception of a limited amount of table salt.
Keep away from packinghouse by-products, such as chili, bologna, wieners, head cheese, etc.; also immature meats, such as veal, squabs, young broilers, etc.; and kidneys, heart, liver, sweetbreads, brains, suet and cracklins.
Eat sparingly, if at all, of any canned meat or food, and avoid canned fish, sardines, and especially canned salmon.
Candied orange, lemon and citron peel should be avoided.
Constipation should be corrected by proper diet. Eat enough roughage and bulk foods to insure the proper peristaltic bowel action, and drink plenty of water, up to six glasses a day. Get the habit of going regularly to stool, the first thing in the morning and before retiring at night.
Food Decomposition. Following digestion, nutriment obtained from meat, eggs or other animal food is prone to early and rapid decomposition after passing from the intestinal absorbent into the general circulation via the infra vena cava vein.
Should the cells in any event be unable to use at once the nutriment which has reached the blood, the nutriment decomposes or dries in the blood stream and becomes toxins, high in carbon and extremely poisonous.
The cells need replenishing with both the nerve substance and the ‘driving power, otherwise it is impossible for them to free themselves of their carbon waste which remains with the cells, interfering with their normal action and allowing the rapidly decomposing nutriment to remain in the blood, where it becomes dead waste matter.
When a condition like this exists it can be remedied by the use of a grape diet for a week or two. Before starting the diet, fast for three days, drinking plenty of water only during this time. Next eat from two to four pounds of grapes a day, skin and all, except the seeds. These should be taken at two-hour intervals. At night an enema should be taken to remove the toxins from the colon. Concord grapes are the best for this diet, but if not obtainable any other kind will do. No other food should be taken while on the diet; and after it is over with it would be best to change first to green vegetables, and then gradually add what other food you desire. ,
The following chart will assist you in selecting your foods when you wish to mix them at a single meal.
1. The food in any one GROUP may be combined with anything else in the same GROUP.
2. Use any or all desired articles in Group 2 for your noon and evening meals, combining with anything in either Group 1 or Group 3.
3. Do not combine anything in Group 1 with foods in Group 3 at any one meal.
4. All foods, whether fruits or vegetables, are to be used raw whenever possible.
5. A. .mlcs marked (A) should, compose the bulk of your meal.
6. Articles marked (B) are especially suitable for raw salads.
7. Articles marked (C) will combine for fruit salads.
CHART OF FOOD COMBINATIONS
Group 1
Starches
Arrowroot
Potatoes, Irish
Artichokes
Potatoes, Sweet
Bananas, yellow
Rice, natural
Barley
brown
Cereals
Rye Bread
Cornbread
. Sago
Cornmeal
Spaghetti
Farina
Tapioca
Hominy
Whole Wheat
Macaroni
Bread
Noodles
. Yams
Oatmeal (A)
Use only whole grain cereals, flour and meal.
It is best to eat only one kind of starch at a meal, and in limited quantities.
Starches must be held in the mouth until they are thoroughly mixed with the ptyalin of the saliva to digest. If they are fried this is prevented, making them indigestible, causing fermentation and the formation of gases.
Sweet Fruits
Dates Prunes, sweet '
Figs Raisins _
May be eaten with any food.
Use them as a substitute for candy.
Sugar
Bananas, ripe brown
Brown Sugar
Corn Syrup
Honey
Maple Syrup
Molasses, Cane
Molasses, Sorghum
Causes fermentation w’hen added to Acid Fruits and Acid Vegetables.
Avoid the use of granulated sugar or the habitual use of candy, commercial syrups, jams, jellies, ice cream, conserves, cakes and pastries. .
Legumes
Beans, all kinds dried
Lentils
Peas, dried Peanuts, raw only
Semi-Starchy Vegetables
Beets
Carrots
Corn, green
Kohlrabi
Onions, matured
Oyster-plant
Parsnips
Radishes (B)’
Rutabagas
Squash
Turnips
Best not to eat with Acid Fruits.
Group 2
Non-Starchy Green Vegetables (Con.)
Turnip Tops Spinach
Peppers (B) Swiss Chard
Rutabaga Tops Watercress
Always eat bountifully of salad vegetables (B)
Non-Starchy Green Vegetables (A)’
Asparagus Beans, Butter Beet Tops Cauliflower Chive (B) Dock, Sour Endive (B)’ Leeks (B) Beans, green Beans, Lima
Brussels Sprouts Celery Dandelion (B), Eggplant * Kale
Lettuce (B)’
Parsley (B)’ Raw Cabbage
Salsify ‘ Sorrel
twice a day.
Soups
Barley
Rice
Celery
.Vegetable
Corn
Mutton
Fats '
Pea
Butter (A)
Thick
Cocoanut-oil
Bean
Margarine
Chicken
Cream (A)
Cream
Olive Oil
Noodle
Vegetable Oils
Children need abundantly of proteins, grown-ups only a limited amount.
Eat nuts with meals only.
Never fry proteins, as frying makes them very indigestible.
Group 3
Acid Fruits (A) Apples (C) Apricots (C) Berries Cherries Cranberries (Not A) Currants Grapefruit (C) Grapes (C) Guavas Lemons Limes Melons
Mulberries Muskmelon Nectarines Oranges (C)' Peaches, peeled (C)’ Persimmons Pineapples (C) Pears (C) Plums Strawberries Tangerines
Use raw if possible, never with sugar.
Eat Melons only as a meal or between meals.
Meats and Proteins
Cheese (A) Chicken Egg-yolk (A) Fish
Bacon
Beef
Beef, Chipped
Beef, Corned Ham Lamb Milk (A) Mutton Nuts Tongue
Most of us overeat of proteins. The body can not use more than -J pound of meat, 2 eggs or | pound of cheese in a day.
Raw protein is most easily digested, boiled or broiled is next best, and roasted is more difficult.
Best to use only one kind at a meal.
The BEST regimen for adults for the day is as follows:
Breakfast. Make this a fruit meal, eating plenty of ripe fruits, with a glass of milk or buttermilk or cottage cheese or an egg.
Luncheon. Make this the starch meal, eating plenty of one kind of starch with plenty of vegetables, both raw and cooked. Do not eat an acid fruit, tomato, rhubarb or an acid-containing dressing on salad at this meal. (Vinegar is an acid.) Best to omit proteins at this meal.
Dinner. Make this the protein meal, eating one kind of protein only, with a large serving of salad vegetables and one or two cooked vegetables and a fruit dessert. Use lemon-juice-containing salad dressing at this meal.
For children, for breakfast give a whole grain cereal, or whole wheat bread or muffins, with cream or butter. Very little sugar, and that should be the raw sugar, not granulated. Honey is the best sugar. Give them fruit between meals.
Gradually change from your old habits, giving your system a chance to adapt itself to the new regimen.
British King Tired of Humbug
A LONDON dispatch in the China Press says in part:
The king’s illness, it is stated on all sides, has completely changed his outlook on life. The long months of isolation in the sickroom, first in London and afterwards at Bognor, have made King George “hungry for human companionship and anxious to meet as many people as he can in the-future. ”
“When I am better,” King George remarked to a circle of friends who visited him in his convalescence, “I am going to abolish many of the artificialities that have hitherto separated me from other human beings. I have come to realize during my illness more than ever before that a king is a very ordinary human being, but that the things that distinguish him from others and keep him out of contact with the world of reality are nothing but a set of extraordinary and antiquated rules and regulations which in many instances have very little sense to them. And I mean certainly to bring a change in the situation, once I am fully myself again.”
The queen is fully converted to the king’s new point of view. And King George, in turn, is now able to sympathize with and understand the dislike of the Prince of Wales for ceremony and the endless drudgery of court life with its thousand and one formalities. The entire royal family, in fact, is unanimous in the opinion that 75 percent of it is all silly and senseless and belongs to another age.
The first practical effect of this revolutionary change in royal psychology has been a personal order from King George that gives the servant staffs at Buckingham Castle, Windsor Castle and Sandringham the full benefit of an absent court, which used to mean a period of “disciplined idleness.” Disciplinary regulations at all royal castles are henceforth relaxed.
A Financial Supergovernment of the World
(Reprinted from the National Tritune')
FT1HE reparation experts assembled at Paris have announced a plan for the formation of an international bank of settlement. This was no sudden inspiration. It has been in the making since the ending of the World War.
Business in the United States has become more and more under the domination of our great banking institutions. Our political administrators are hypnotized by the almighty dollar. During the last presidential campaign both candidates sought the protecting wing of our large financial institutions. The American mind is now concerned with profits and increasing luxuries.
The first duty of the Government should be to consider the independence, welfare, and happiness of its citizens. There is an ever-increasing divergence between the financial and industrial interests of our country and our humanitarian interests.
Bankers look upon individuals as machines for production of profits. When worn out these individuals are unfeelingly consigned to the human scrap heap.
We are now facing a super-bank more powerful than any political organization in the world. It is well to stop and read the signs of the times.
The United States Government entered into debt settlements with the countries of Europe based upon an alleged ability to pay. Our people were told that foreign countries were settled with to the full extent of their ability to pay their indebtedness. On top of it our private banking institutions have loaned fourteen billions of dollars in Europe. How is this money to be repaid if they already owed to the United States Government a sum equal to their ability to repay?
Our ambassadors to other countries should concern themselves primarily with the interests of American business or with political considerations. Witness the recent appointment of the ambassador to Mexico, a member of our own super-bank, J. P. Morgan & Co., whose interest is to develop Mexico as a field for future investments rather than to conserve the rights and privileges of individuals and companies engaged in business there.
When representatives of the governments concerned were called together in the reparations conference at Paris we did not find our own Secretary of State nor Baldwin, of England; Poincare, of France; or Mueller, of
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Germany. Those gentlemen would have been concerned with the political problems of the nations they represent. We find, however, Moreau, governor of the Bank of France; Dr. Schacht, head of the Reichsbank; Sir Joshua Stamp, director of the Bank of England, and Mr. Morgan, of our own J. P. Morgan & Co., and Owen D. Young, head of the General Electric Company. It is true there were present repre-sentatives of our Federal Reserve System, but this was a matter of so much importance to the international bankers of the world that we
sent as our official representatives the chiefs of our greatest private bank.
The recent $100,000,000 Rumanian loan was not left to competition among the national units of capital. On the contrary, it was divided into 12 blocks and apportioned to investors in Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Rumania, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States, conclusive evidence of the power and control exercised by international bankers upon the financial institutions of the world.
The three Cabinet portfolios of this Government which are of particular concern to our
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great financial institutions are Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of Commerce.
Our President appointed as his Secretary of State a man he had never seen, but who had been a partner of Elihu Root (the man now unofficially in Europe endeavoring to devise a scheme by which this country can enter the World Court), one of the great bankers of America for Secretary of the Treasury, and a great industrialist for Secretary of Commerce, a man, according to newspaper reports, the President never met but once.
It is a curious but significant fact that the covenant of the League of Nations refers to questions of arms, colonies, communications, health, labor, opium, and white-slave traffic but never once refers to international finance.
The proposed international bank of settlement is to be a sort of federal reserve system for the financial world—a super-bank. It will be controlled by no law. It is beyond laws. Its development will be secret but tremendously powerful and beyond the reach of Congresses or Parliaments.
Bankers have become internationally minded. Their interests compel that. Is it any wonder they sent their chief legal adviser to Europe to devise a scheme whereby we might enter the World Court? It is their desire to have that court strengthened by our adherence thereto to control the political affairs of the nations of the world. At the same time they will have free hand without check as to their operations. Their power and influence are beyond the imagination of the ordinary citizen who prides himself that the people control the Government of the United States. The international bankers dream of a capitalistic world empire. It is desirable to them that our Government adhere to the World Court and that all the governments of the world be submissive to its decrees while they remain aloof, beyond the control of any government.
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This financial super-bank will not emerge fully formed from the present conference, for that might alarm the world. Gradually, insidiously, but nevertheless progressively, it will grow until the dream of international bankers has become a reality.
Events in Canada By Our Canadian Correspondent
SURELY 'the god of this world’, as Paul declares, 'has blinded the minds of them that believe not the truth’; and no better evidence thereof could be found than the ease with which the clergy can play upon the silly superstitions of the people even in the city of Toronto, which is generally recognized as one of the best-educated cities in the world. The great number of automobile accidents that are occurring everywhere is putting fear into many peopld, and the Catholic clergy, like the Protestant clergy, ever alive to take advantage thereof for their personal gain, have conceived the idea of blessing (?) the cars to prevent such accidents. The Toronto Daily Star, under the caption, “Blesses 3,000 Cars to Prevent Accidents—Vast Crowd Witnesses Ceremony at Mt. Carmel Church— All Sects Present—Baby Carriages, Bicycles and Horse-Drawn Vehicles Included in Benediction,” has the following to say:
Blessing upon the citizenry of Toronto, more particularly with respect to the prevention of auto accidents, was invoked by Rev. Stephen Awad, following the celebration of high mass Sunday morning in the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
The occasion was the solemnization of the feast of St. Christopher, patron of travellers.
After the mass Father Awad, accompanied by acolytes, proceeded to the front of the church where for two hours, with the relic of St. Christopher, he blessed over three thousand automobiles, trucks, baby carriages and bicycles, having previously blessed lake vessels, including interlake steamers and pleasure yachts at various Toronto wharfages.
Cars from every province in Canada and almost every state in U.S.A, were lined up for the blessing, and the assistance of a squad of police was necessary to keep the traffic moving.
Under the heading, “Pagan Rites at Home,” one of the local papers, Hush, comments on the blessing farce, saying:
In Africa and in the remote parts of the uncivilized world the “Voodoo Man” or the “Medicine Man” is idolized by the Pagan tribes. They bring to him the choicest fruits and foods and pile at the door of his hut commodities for his every need. In return he gives them charms to tie around their necks, wear in their ears, or hang from their nose, with the assurance that these blessed charms will drive away the evil spirit of the jungle, make them immune to fever and save them from the tiger’s claw.
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