Golden Age, February 19, 1930
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PUBLIC HOUSl. .
UNIFORMED BOOTLEGGERS
IS ITALY NEAR RUIN?
WOLVES OF SOCIETY
WORLD PEACE
JOB RESTORED
radio lecture by Judge Rutherford
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Contents
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Labor and Economics
Loss in Railroad Employment .............. 326
The Wolves of Society ................. 335
Social and Educational
Public Houses—Past and Present ............ 323
Owmwo in an Auto
Swindlers in Europe Too .......
Getting an Education in Massachusetts ....
Political—Domestic and Foreign
Our Uniformed Bootleggers ....
Italy near Economic Ruin ..........
World Peace .....
Agriculture and Husbandry
Protecting Bruit Trees by Netting
A Pew More Facts About Milk .............. 339
Science and Invention
Robots in Modern Chemistry . •*
Do We Live in a Closed Universe? .
Home and Health
To Drug or Not to Drug
More About Tonsillectomy'
Peacock’s Sacrifice Unnecessary
Stainless Steel . .
Had Your Morning Brush?
Travel and Miscellany
Events in Canada
Religion and Philosophy
“A Nice, Aisy, Iligant Job”
Four More Kinds of Mennonites
Pope Blesses New York ...........
A Colporteur in New Orleans Harbor ...
Job Restored .................. .
Questions and Answers . .
The Carmelite Fathers . ............. .
First Lessons in Demonism . .
The Children’s Own Radio Story ............. 351
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Volume XI Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, February 19, 1930 Number 272
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IT CAN be set 'down as certain that the inn between Canaan and Egypt, where Joseph’s brethren found their money in their sacks on the return journey, was not much of a hotel as compared with the caravansary of today. It may have been the same inn wffiere Moses stopped on his return to Egypt after forty years in Midian.
We know that in Jeremiah’s day there were in the wilderness lodging places for wayfaring men, for Jeremiah himself wished to get away from his own people and find rest in such a hermit-like abode; and he would have found it dull enough, lodging place” is about all it could be called.
The caravansaries or khans of eastern countries today are about as they were in Bible times. They are merely stalls like meetinghouse sheds, arranged on four sides of a square. It was probably in such a stall or "manger” that earth’s Anointed King was born, at Bethlehem.
The Parable of the Good Samaritan shows that each inn or caravansary had a caretaker who, for a small sum, would render any necessary service. There was such a caretaker in charge of the inn in the upper room in which our Lord and His disciples partook of their last meal together.
The ancient Romans had in Italy what they designated as Osteria. These were without host, cook, waiters or beds. All they provided was shelter. Guests had to bring their own bedding and food and do their own cooking. The first public inn in America was licensed by the General Court of Massachusetts in 1634.
China has had hotels, and good ones, for so long that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. At a native inn in China a guest is shown to his room at once without any preliminaries in the office. The beds are hard, but after one night of discomfort the body becomes
Past and Present
adapted to them and one thinks nothing more of it.
Famous Old Hotels
The old George Tavern, London, famous in the days of Charles Dickens, is still in service. It is reached by turning up a narrow lane out of Borough High Street. The guest is still shown to his bedroom by the light of a tallow candle. The tavern contains many relics of Dickens, and pictures of London as it was in his day. All the bedrooms are furnished with old-fashioned four-poster bedsteads.
The House of Seven Gables, in Salem, once a famous hotel, and later a private home, is now entertaining the public once again, and accommodating overnight guests with board and rooms.
The Old Tavern at Arrow Rock, Missouri, provided entertainment for the pioneers who went to California seventy-five years ago over the old Santa Fe trail. Today it is caring for automobilists who run to and fro across the continent, covering as great a mileage in a day as their ancestors did in a month.
The Waldorf Astoria, once New York’s most sumptuous and elegant hotel, has been pulled down to make room for a huge office building. Old patrons paid high prices for souvenirs. One man came and asked the privilege of praying in the room where his mother had died.
The Hotel Biltmore, New York, has a chapel, supposed to be for Catholics, Protestants and Jews alike, but if representatives of those three faiths can get along in one room it is a surprise to us. In most places it is as much as they can do to get along together in the same city.
There is now a hotel in Death Valley, California, where so many caravans have been swallowed up in this arid spot, 274 feet below sea level. The hotel is W’ell named "Furnace Creek Inn”. It is now easily reached by automobile and is a popular resort.
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The most inaccessible hotel in the world is the Jungfraujoch, high up on the Jungfrau, in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland, 11,480 feet above the sea. It is built of stone and iron, securely fastened to the mountain. Ordinarily it is reached by the funicular railway from above Interlaken, but there are weeks in the winter when it is cut off from the rest of the world, except as the skilled employees go to and from it with skis. It is open the year around.
The Hotels of Today
We are not intimating that some of the hotels just named are not hotels of today. They are, very much so. But the large cities are building more and more hotels all the time, and it is not too much to say that some of these are not improvements on the old ones.
They have more bath rooms, and have telephone and elevator service, but they do not have the large and quiet rooms, and do not set as good a table as some of the hotels of fifty years ago. It is impossible to have a homelike air in a noisy place, and the modern hotel is a bedlam.
The concrete walls make good sounding boards for ringing bells, clattering feet, slamming doors and radio music. Telephone conversations, quarrels and business conferences, poker parties, gramophone shrieks, and the snores of guests that have finally weathered the storm and arrived in slumberland, are sometimes accentuated by noises from the theatre beneath. Street cars and automobiles finish the job.
The kitchen arrangements are about as nearly perfect as can be desired. A great volume of business is handled with ease. A hotel in Washington booked nine hundred reservations for one day and was able to care for them all. Large hotels are becoming much alike the world over. Some of the newest ones are making a strong appeal to women who have specialized in the arts of the home, and are using feminine talents for the positions of tea-room manager and cafeteria manager. They are recognized as being by nature better fitted for these positions than are men.
New York has an automobile hotel twenty-four stories high. The building is architecturally attractive, is absolutely fireproof, noiseless and clean. It has mechanical parkers, with elevator service to all floors. Cars can be locked at the elevator, as they are not operated on their own power from that moment.
Hotel Losses and Gains
The hotel business is either "a big make or a big break”. If a hotel is rightly situated, rightly built, rightly managed, and is popular, it will succeed. If it is short in any of these particulars, it is liable to be a failure, sooner or later.
The guest is always right. Even if he steals towels and bedspreads, he is wanted back as a guest. Even if he claims damages for shirts that have been mended, remended, and even the remendings remended, his patronage is still desired. Even when caught stealing souvenirs, he is still in favor as a guest.
The expensive hotel has a trained inspector who checks the contents of each vacated room. His trained eye notes instantly if anything is missing; and if it is gone, it is charged to the bill of the person leaving, at triple its cost. The patron may flush, but he pays without protest.
One-fifth of the dishes and glassware of a hotel are broken annually, but every broken piece is saved and sold. Tomato cans, sardine tins, newspapers, grease, garbage, everything is disposed of in the way that wrill bring the hotel the greatest returns.
A new hotel is made popular by giving free room and board to celebrities who can be persuaded to live in it. The lights are turned on at night in every room. Employees are kept in motion. Pages shout the name of important personages in the lobby and dining rooms, even w’hen the persons thus called are known to be on the other side of the world.
Budapest had a hotel that offered a court banquet at what was evidently less than cost. It transpired that court etiquette compelled members of Emperor Francis Joseph’s retinue to practically go hungry, as they were not supposed to eat when he had finished. The food^.; practically untouched, was sold by palace employees to the innkeeper, who thus placed before his guests food that had once been served in the presence of the emperor. This is not the only hotelkeeper that has served food a second time. It is a risky business, but it is done.
The modern hotel has its own silver repair plant, its silver-plating department, laundry for handling thousands of pieces a day for itself and for the guests, mending and pressing departments, and kitchen machinery in profusion. There are machines for washing dishes, whipping cream, paring potatoes and vegetables, beating eggs, etc.
The Tipping System
A tip is a bribe, or it is blackmail, depending upon how the matter is viewed. Nothing good can be said of it. It presupposes that the employer does not pay a living wage, and this is often true. Indeed, the employer holds wages down because of the tips which he knows or suspects that his employees will receive. In justice, every guest is entitled to every courtesy, tip or no tip.
Tipping came to 'America from the snoboc-racy of Europe, the nobility. In European hotels where 10 percent has been added to the bill of the guest in lieu of tips, it is found that tips are still paid and still expected. London has a tipless hotel. The servants are well paid. The penalty for accepting a tip is dismissal. The hotel is always filled, and reservations must be made weeks in advance.
The proof that Americans loathe the tipping system is found in the rush to cafeterias and automats. Tip seekers have multiplied in New York until tips are expected for mailing letters, delivering telegrams, ice or groceries, carrying one up in the elevator, etc.
In New York city a prominent artist failed to indulge in as much tipping as those who served him thought proper, and three waiters entered his studio and ruined a $200,000 painting. Nice condition of affairs, isn’t it? The Alice Foote MacDougall Coffee Shops expect or did expect their waitresses to pay for their jobs, instead of receiving pay, coldly calculating that the public could be mulcted of a certain sum in tips, and that the concern should receive a part of them.
The London Daily Mail tells of a Londoner who, on returning from a fashionable resort in the north of England, discovered that neither he nor his wife had left the usual tips with the hotel staff. He thereupon sent funds to cover the tips. On the same day his wife received a letter on the hotel’s stationery, from the head waiter, reading as follows: “Your husband left without leaving gratuities for any of the staff, which is a most disgraceful thing for a man of his standing. I feel it my duty to forward your name to my club and association, so that every hotel in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales will know your name and also the ungenerous way you treated the above hotel staff.” Would it make you feel fine to get a letter like that? It wouldn’t.
Here is one on the other side of the tipping question. An old rancher, styled “Old Man Dexter”, went back and forth from western Nebraska to Chicago, selling his cattle, and always stopped in the depot restaurant at Council Bluffs, Iowa, for his meals. When he offered tips to Elizabeth Hill, waitress, she always refused them, saying that she was paid for her work and that all guests were entitled to courteous service without paying an additional fee.
The other day Old Man Dexter sent her a check for $10,000 and a deed for one thousand acres of the best grazing lands in Nebraska, and wrote her the following letter: “You are a real American and the only person who ever refused my tips. In the hills of Devonshire I have a wife and daughter buried. In memory of them and with my best wishes for the future, I beg you to accept these remembrances.” Well! It would make you feel fine to get a letter like that; now, wouldn’t it ?
To Drug or Not to Drug
IF YOU will kindly print in the next issue of The Golden Age the experience I am going to relate to you, it may be of some help to someone else.
My wife was in bed very sick with high fever, earache, sore throat and aching bones, all at the same time. I called two medical doctors every day for four days. The fourth day she got much worse. She was unable to lift her head off the pillow.
Then she called my attention to the article you had published in The Golden 'Age. It was
By I. A. Haddad
then that I called the chiropractor, W. G. Wright. The results she got from the treatment he gave her seemed a miracle. He cured her that very day, and the next day she was able to go to his office for more treatment to regain the strength which she had lost by taking the drugs which the medical doctors had given her.
It cost me about twenty dollars for the medical doctors, and she received no benefit; whereas it cost me only six dollars to cure her completely through chiropractic treatment.
Loss in Railroad Employment ’ _
IN THE nine years from 1920 to 1929 the number of employees on American railroads was reduced by 366,000, and the total payroll for all employees was reduced by $178,000,000. The smaller force of workers in 1929 handled 22,383,000,000 more gross ton-miles of freight.
Employment Bureaus in Paris ....... _
PARIS has twenty-five free employment bureaus, as against four in New York city. A thousand men a day are placed by the Paris bureaus. Moreover, the private employment bureaus, of which there are so many in New York, are few in Paris and closely regulated.
No Unemployment in France
THOUGH Great Britain, Germany, and the United States are all suffering because of unemployment, yet it is claimed that there is none at all in France. In Paris the number of persons who are believers in and teachers of the occult is said to be growing by leaps and bounds.
Twenty-Million-Dollar Wage Increase '
Y RAISING the minimum wages of his workers from $6.00 to $7.00 a day Henry Ford has added twenty million dollars to the annual wages paid in his American and Canadian plants. Workers receiving $7.00 or more a day at the time of the raise get increases of five-percent on their previous rates of pay.
General Electric Profits
GENERAL ELECTRIC profits for the year 1929 were sixty-eight million dollars. Pittsburgh Plate Glass profits were only twelve million dollars, still that is not so bad when you come to think of the Wall Street crash as no doubt having interfered somewhat. The talking movies made a profit of $17,000,000.
rA and P Chain Stores
HpHE A&P chain stores, first and largest J- of the chains, were founded seventy years ago by George H. Hartford. The food sales of the system now total a billion dollars a year. A&P claims to take only 2jc profit on $1 sales.
Eats His Weight in Meat
HpHE average man weighs about 154 pounds, and, oddly enough, eats just about that many pounds of meat each year. Of this amount 74 pounds is pork, 51 pounds is beef, 7 pounds veal, 6 pounds lamb and mutton, and 15 pounds lard.
Insurrection Against Fascism .
HUHE insurrection against the tyrannies of
Fascism which broke out in Sulmona, Piezza, and other towns in southern Italy, has been smothered in blood, and a fresh crop of unfortunates will now be headed for Italy’s horrible penal islands. A new Fascist law enables Italy to try and even sentence to death an Italian living in another country.
Emigration from Russia
MIGRATION from Russia persists on the part of all who can get away, and disposes pretty well of the idea that Sovietism is the cure-all of human woes. The Soviet campaigns against religious liberty have led to a large body of Mennonites’ leaving the country recently-
Airplane Travel in Persia
ERSIANS who can afford it are doing their travel by air. The rates are no more than for automobile travel, there are no incidental expenses en route, the time is next to nothing, and there are no dangers from bandits along the road. The last is the controlling factor of the situation.
Clergy Back on the Job
Oil Sands near Edmonton
THE Mexican clergy are back on the job, and J- once more we are treated to the spectacle of men and women crawling for miles on their hands and knees to the church of “Our Lady of Guadalupe”. Peter told the man who was down on his hands and knees to get up. Who is this that tells him to get down?
CANADA has found valuable oil sands near
Edmonton. By ordinary cream separator methods each ton of sand yields a barrel of hydrocarbons containing 13 gallons of gasoline, 6 gallons of lubricating oil, and 130 pounds of asphalt. It costs fifty cents a barrel to extract the hydrocarbons.
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Business 'Whistling Cheerfully
HE president’s conferences with business leaders seem to be bearing fruit. Posters
The Electric Knife
UEGERY by the use of high frequency electric waves now bids fair to replace the older
are in profusion telling that business is good and must be kept good, and that nothing can put America down and keep it down. And when one comes to think of it there is little use getting down in the mouth. Jonah came out all right.
League Run by Flapdoodlers
loyd Geobge, in a recent speech in parliament, is reported as having said: “Without disarmament, Avar in my judgment is inevitable. The League of Nations has been going on for ten years. There are meetings: there are eloquent speeches delivered in favor of peace, disarmament and arbitration. But the League of Nations is in danger of failure by being run by flapdoodlers.”
Better Conditions in Marion
RIENDS of the poor workers in southern cotton mills are rejoiced to know that out of all the troubles at Marion, North Carolina, the mills have been forced or shamed into bettering conditions somewhat. Hours of ■work have been cut to 55 a week, a five-percent increase in wages has been granted, and plumbing and sewerage will be installed. The six men who were slain did not die in vain.
Lottery Riot in Spain '
IN LINARES, Spain, demons informed a wo. man that the grand prize in a certain lottery was a certain number held by a certain shopkeeper. She disclosed the news, and the man’s place of business was stormed. The man thereupon held another lottery to auction off his lucky ticket and. made a large profit. It transpired that the information given by the demons was correct.
A Collision in Mid-Air
ONE of the dangers of flying airplanes in South America is suggested by what happened on a recent flight between Argentina and Chile. While in a pass in the Andes, seventeen thousand feet above sea level, a giant condor attacked the plane, which swerved in time to merely give it a glancing blow. The wing which hit the bird was badly dented by the blow. The bird fell.
forms. The increase of the spark frequency to 50,000 allows incisions to be made as easily as with a knife. The new surgery is bloodless. Major operations in the new surgery have been performed in Vienna.
At the Age of Sixty-Ewe
T THE age of sixty-five, fifty-four out of every one hundred American men who started their careers at the age of twenty-live in good physical condition, are then dependent upon relatives or charity, thirty-six are dead, five are still in the harness, four are well to do, and one is rich, well-fed and happy, and derives great contentment from telling the rest of mankind what a splendid civilization we have.
Robots in Modern Chemistry
THE photo-electric cell has made possible the J- use of robots in chemistry. The electric eye of these mechanical chemists is said to be 165 times as sensitive to differences in colors as any human eye, and it is explained by the inventors that the use of these robots will save much of a chemist’s time. Incidentally, the chemical robot will not be on the pay roll and will not have any wife or children to look after.
Fireproofing German Forests
THE College of Forestry, at Tharandt, Germany, has inaugurated a system of fireproofing growing trees. Holes are bored in the trunk of the tree near its base, and into these is poured a compound of silicon, fluorine and other chemicals, which is carried by the sap into all parts of the tree. The tree thereafter, and the lumber subsequently made from it, is in a measure fireproof.
The Development of Marquis Wheat
THE development of Marquis wheat, patiently evolved by a series of studies and experiments stretching over a quarter of a century, has given Canada twenty million acres of new wheat-land and added two billion dollars a year to the wealth of the world. The Marquis ripens early, clings tenaciously to the stem, grows to an adequate height, and produces good bread of standard consistency.
Skip to Shore Telephone Service
SHIP to shore telephone service at $7 a minute for conversations has been inaugurated and works perfectly. On the first day the service was installed to the Leviathan, then some 900 miles out at sea, there were thirteen calls to and from New York city, Boston, Rochester, Atlantic City, Cincinnati and Indianapolis. The connections are said to have been made in about a minute each, a most remarkable thing.
Railroad Speed a Hundred Years Ago
IN THE British Quarterly Review, published in 1825, the wise old editor said: ‘cWe trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which, we entirely agree with Mr. Sylvester, is as great as can be ventured on with safety.” Please do not laugh at this item if you still believe in the eternal torture theory; for if you believe in it you are in the same mental condition that he was.
The Outlook for Peace
ON THE day the Kellogg Peace Pact was signed there were three million men under arms in Europe. As to the United States, seventy-two cents out of every dollar expended by the national government goes for wars that are past or wars that we hope to get into in the future. Congressman Patman, of Arkansas, seeks a constitutional amendment that would take the profit out of future wars by enabling the drafting of capital the same as man power in event of war. Every capitalist in the United States would fight such a proposition to the bitter end.
Margaret Webb and Martha Graber
Margaret Webb, a Canadian-born Quaker, resident twelve years at Richmond, Indiana, was unable to gain citizenship in the U. S. A., because unwilling, even in defense of life or family, to take human life. Her lawyer abandoned her case in court when she said that, since the Kellogg Pact, it would not now be necessary for it to defend itself by force of arms. Martha Graber is a nurse. She said she would be willing to lay down her life for her new country, but would not be willing to go out and kill enemies with a gun. The court denied her admission as a citizen, in Ohio. If Jesus of Nazareth were at Ellis Island, He would have to stay out.
What American Machinery Does
A MERICAN machinery enables each American workman to turn out twice as much wrnrk as is possible in Belgium, two and one-half times as much as in Germany, three times as much as in France, four times as much as in Holland, five times as much as in Poland, eight times as much as in Japan, eleven times as much as in Italy, twelve times as much as in Russia, twenty-four times as much as in British India, and thirty times as much as in China.
The Gastonia Ministers
AT GASTONIA, North Carolina, it was found impossible to get a minister to preach a burial sermon for murdered strikers. Every minister was afraid of his job. Perhaps, however, it was just as well. The people at the funeral were spared the listening to a lot of bunk that was exploded by the Bible Students long ago. It is only a little while now till these ministers will all be buying overalls and dinner cans and winding new alarm clocks.
Great Earthquakes Under Oceans
GREAT earthquakes have recently been reported as having taken place both under the Atlantic and under the Pacific ocean. Off the shores of Alaska seven volcanoes are in eruption; and off the shores of Nantucket the bottom of the Atlantic seems to have caved in, as soundings in several places failed to reach bottom. Ten of the twenty-one transatlantic cables were broken by the earthquake shocks, and in some instances cables between Europe and America were sent around the world on account of the congestion thus caused.
Getting Rid of Husbands
PIETY women in two little villages in Hungary conceived the brilliant idea that a good way to get rich quickly would be to poison their husbands and take over their property. The plan worked very well, as far as getting rid of the hubbies was concerned, but now the whole fifty are trying to explain to the court why they did it and are having a hard time doing it. One of the women who confessed to bumping off hubby by the arsenic route objected to being charged with murder, on the ground that her hubby had died without suffering. However, she was greatly mistaken. Arsenical poisoning is one of the most terrible of deaths.
Chrysler and Manhattan Buildings
HE Chrysler Building, 68 stories, with the top of its flagpole 1,030 feet above the pavement, is the world’s tallest building, by thirty feet. Its next tallest building in New York is the Bank of Manhattan, 71 stories, with its flagpole 925 feet above the street. The Chrysler flagpole, 185 feet high, was built within an elevator shaft by a force of workmen sworn to strict secrecy and was hoisted to its high position after construction.
Toronto’s Gambling Losses
WRITER in the Toronto Daily Star claims that between thirty and forty thousand
December’s Terrible Storm
HE terrible storm of December will be long remembered, for a storm. It seemed to cover the entire northern hemisphere. Extremely cold weather prevailed as far south as Cuba and Italy, while in more northern climes there were great numbers frozen to death, and the coast of western Europe was strewn with the wreckage of sixty-nine large ships. It is said that never before were so many ships in distress at one time.
Bad Faith in Palestine .
HE three authors of the Palestine mandate are now demanding a complete and thor
residents of that city were seriously affected by their gambling losses on the New York stock exchange when the recent crash came. Another claims that one-third of the city were caught and are demanding that something be done to curb this most gigantic system of international gambling. A Detroit advertising agency estimates that about seven million Americans were involved in the 'Wall Street losses.
Conditions at Muscle Shoals
FTER ten years of oratory at Washington, the Alabama Power Company is still buy
ough examination of Britain’s conduct of that mandate, claiming that the wmrk to which Britain set her hand is not proceeding satisfactorily; and an Austrian citizen is suing Britain in the International Bligh Court of The Hague for the loss of $300,000 invested in the silk business in Palestine, on the ground that the mandate has been so mishandled that success of the enterprise is impossible.
Texas Peonage Law Unconstitutional
SENSIBLE Texas judge has declared unconstitutional the peonage law of that
ing current from the government-owned plant at Muscle Shoals at one-fifth of one cent a kilowatt hour and is selling it in nearby cities for ten cents a kilowatt hour, which is just fifty times its cost. Only one-fourth of the actual and one-eighth of the potential power of the dam is being used. The Power Trust is as happy as the kitten that swallowed the canary, and meantime the Pacific branch of it still keeps Mooney in jail.
Holy Grail Redivwus
GERMAN author and playwright, perceiving how easily the people are fooled by
anything that smacks of religion, bought an Austrian castle, fitted it up elaborately with electric arrangements, announced himself as an incarnation of the spirit of Adruschin, Knight of the Holy Grail, and had persuaded 120 educated and intelligent sauerkraut eaters to part with $100,000, before the police invaded the premises and carried the ambitious spirit of Adruschin off to court to make due amends to his dupes and to the public.
state which made it unlawful for any person between sunset and sunrise to move laborers or tenants of property without the consent of the owner of the premises. Judge Lattimore held, sensibly, that the governor of the state, the members of the legislature, and the court itself, are laborers, earning their bread by the sweat of their brows, and that he did not see. justice in a law which would forbid him to go where he pleased at any time he pleased.
Forty Million Starving Chinese
A CHINESE army raids a community, strips it of every material possession, leaves its women and children to die, and takes the menfolk along as soldiers. A month after he leaves home the poor coolie thus drafted is hopelessly lost. He does not know where he came from or how to get back, so he becomes a permanent bandit and soldier, which, in China, are one and the same thing. There are forty million starving Chinese due to this wretched condition of things. The crops are ample, or would have been if the farmers could have been let alone.
Events in Canada By Our Canadian Correspondent
THE rapidity with which the Peace River country is opening up, and the large influx of settlers, is causing much interest in Canada as a whole. Recently Premier Brownlee of Alberta, accompanied by President Wallace of the University of Alberta and others, completed a 3,000-mile tour of the Peace and Slave River countries and still farther northward to the shores of Great Slave Lake.
The. premier and the university president saw a great country and are convinced that, within their own lifetimes, it will have a population of a million and an agricultural production exceeding that of all western Canada today.
This is a spacious forecast. John Imrie, editor of the Edmonton Journal, has an article in the Financial News about the Peace River country as seen and reported upon by the Alberta premier’s party. He describes the agricultural region as having a length equal to that from Windsor to Quebec city and containing 47,000,000 acres of good land, and he points out that Ontario, using less than 25,000,000 acres for all purposes, has an annual agricultural production of $500,000,000.
The Peace River itself is described as the loveliest of northern waters, varying in width from a quarter of a mile at Hudson’s Hope to more than a mile at Vermilion Chutes and at many points beyond. It has tree-covered islands and for most of its course its banks are 800 feet in height, and from these the panoramic view is comparable with that at Quebec city. One is bound to be impressed by the fact that all who tour the Peace River country return filled with the same unbounded enthusiasm as to the immediate future awaiting it.
First Wheat via Hudson Bay
One ton of Manitoba wheat, grading No. 1 Northern, has left Churchill on the Hudson’s Bay steamer “Ungava” for European ports. This is the first shipment of prairie grain sent by the Hudson Bay route overseas. It remains only for the “Ungava” to land its cargo safely, and the start of a new chapter in Canadian commerce will have been written. The shipment is insignificant from a commercial point of view, but it is a landmark in the history of the Canadian west. For a generation the prairie provinces have fought against eastern opposition, for a railway line to their nearest seacoast.
Nearly thirty years of agitation were required to get the first sod turned, and nearly twenty more to get the railway finished. Today it is all but ready for business, and the first grain......_
exported by Churchill is on its way to Great Britain. An event awaited for half a century — has at last happened. It is an occasion for selfcongratulation in these western provinces.
The wheat on the “Ungava” will get to Liverpool twm or three days quicker, and with 1,200 .......
miles less traveling, than any of the billions of bushels of grain sent from the West to Britain.....
since agriculture began here. That ton is the first ..........
instalment of a movement of wheat which will, . in time, exceed in volume the movement through either Montreal or Vancouver. It stands to reason that every possible boatload will be .......
shipped by the route which saves the farmer _ _ ten cents a bushel in freight charges.
It is • significant that the shipper of the first ton is the Hudson’s Bay Company. That company has been doing business by the Bay route . .., since 1670, and it knows all there is to know about the route from Churchill to Europe, and ... with that background is preparing to take a .. hand in carrying an enormous volume of grain from the new seaport. Those who are familiar with the Hudson Bay route from experience ....
have no doubt of its usefulness. It is by those
who know nothing about it that the country has ■ been entertained for twenty years with stories of bottomless muskegs, Arctic temperatures._______
wolves, seals, polar bears and tempests.
Carried Unanimously
The Thunderer, of Toronto, contains this in-
teresting item:
Pope Pius XI—“Billy” King! (premier) Now ' listen, “Billy.” These Bible Students must be chased / from the air. Their message must be stifled, for if J it reaches the public they will lose their superstitious awe of us. ” , ... .....
Priests, Parsons, Press—“A splendid idea! A splendid idea! ”
Big Business—“Exactly! That’s the real‘dope’,” “Billy” King—“I heartily agree.”
His Sooty Highness, The Devil—“So do I.”
CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY!
Financial Bulwarks of Civilization
Hush says it is a lie, and we agree:
The Canadian dollar reached the lowest point in J several years in New York city last week. The daily
press broke out in a rash trying to explain that this
discount on our money was caused by the wheat situation and that the farmers and the wheat pool in the West were to blame.
This is another Chartered Bank falsehood.
The wheat situation had nothing to do with it. During the last sixty days the Canadian banks poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the call money market in New York. This is the cause.
Our Uniformed Bootleggers By William J. McNulty (Reprinted from TNT, Muscatine, Iowa)
T F THE wholesale corruption of the police higher-ups and the lower-downs continues, it will be a problem to locate an honest limb of the law. The limbs will all be rotten.
Prohibition, with its wide-open opportunity for selling protection to the poison peddlers, has been responsible for scores of thousands of policemen of the ranks and officers deliberately violating the solemn oath to enforce the laws. Lowly patrolmen and lofty superiors are tarred with the same stick. They fraternize with the purveyors of poison and wax wealthy on the blood money.
In the average city, large and small, there is a comprehensive system of weekly collection. The raid on the man who kicks in, is merely a formality. He is notified in advance by telephone or messenger to be on his guard. A bottle or two will be taken as evidence if it is the leg-ger’s turn to take a fine. For there is a regular license plan in some centers.
The legger who refuses or is delinquent in kicking in, is jumped on suddenly. If lie has all his hooch in a safe “hide,” he is framed. A policeman brings in a bottle of the liquid dynamite and pretends he finds it in the dive.
Very often, he of the crusading propensities turns out to be so crooked he could sleep on his corkscrew if it were enlarged, without being out of alignment. The crusading is to frighten the poison peddlers into kicking in, and to throw a smoke screen over the crusader’s corruption.
By way of apt illustration, let us cite the case of Caleb J. Brinton, once described as “the most honest policeman in Philadelphia.” And who fastened that label on Brinton, the assistant superintendent of Philadelphia’s police department? None other than Major General Smedley D. Butler of the Marines, when Butler was director of public safety for Philadelphia.
Millions in Graft
In the recent investigation of the Philadelphia police, sponsored by District Attorney Monahan, it was revealed that Brinton was unable to explain satisfactorily just where he received $31,400, which he had banked. The grand jury held Brinton to be unfit to hold any position under the municipal government. He had deposited more money in banks than he received in his annual salary, as deputy head of the Philadelphia police. The sum in question was recognized as a comparatively small percentage of what was actually involved, but, at that, the jury decided it was “'either all or substantially all dishonestly acquired.”
Within four years, John J. Carlin, deposed inspector of the Philadelphia police, banked $193,533. William J. McFadden, another inspector, deposited $102,828 in the same period. John Stuckert, a third inspector, had a total of $45,000 deposited in four years. It was disclosed that 18 captains had placed to their credits in the local and nearby banks, each year for four years, more than the full amounts of their yearly salaries. In all, the debauched police executives numbering 21 out of a total of 50, had deposited approximately $900,000 in banks within four years. The grand jury were convinced there were others, but it was difficult to unearth some of the accounts. Assumed names had been used in many instances.
What Law Protection Means
Charles W. Schoenlber, a former captain of the Philadelphia police, was fined $10,000 and sent to prison for four years. Another dismissed captain, William O. Knoell, was fined the same sum and sentenced to three years. Three detectives were handed prison sentences and fines, ranging from $750 to $3,000. Matthew Patterson, politician, a partner of the police executives, wTas fined $5,000 and sentenced to five years.
Justice Edwin O. Lewis, in discussing the revelations, said, - “The amazingly sordid recital should make it clear to citizens of Philadelphia why bootleggers, gangsters and gunmen had been able to operate with impunity.” The grand jury recommended the dismissal of 21 police heads, because of “unexplained personal wealth which we believe was either all or substantially all dishonestly acquired.” And the dismissals by the civil service trial board have followed. Practically all pleaded not guilty but refused to testify.
An investigation of the police of Chicago revealed that conditions could not be much worse. Bootleggers had corrupted the police department from top to bottom. It is estimated that protection money to the extent of a million dollars a year has been paid out in recent years by hooch handlers to crooked policemen, with the state’s attorney detectives as well as the city police involved in the corruption.
Police chiefs, one after the other, have given up, in disgust, their attempts to lead the Chicago police out of the maze of bribery and banditry. Feuds have developed between police factions due to double crossing tactics of the various alliances between the police and the peddlers of poison.
Violence and Murder r
Don R. Mellett, editor and publisher of a Canton (Ohio) daily, was murdered without being given a chance for his life, because he disclosed the tie-up in Canton between the police and bootleggers.
Mellett found corruption rampant in the Canton police department. From top to bottom, the department was rotten. So exasperated were the heads of the police because of the disclosures made by Mellett, they decided to “get” the fearless editor.
The police usually have their friends in the underworld take their enemies for rides. In this instance, they allowed their hatred to subordinate caution. One of the police detectives, Floyd Streitenberger, was directly concerned "with the slaying of this young man of whom the Canton police made a martyr. The Canton police tried diligently to do nothing in solving the problem or even making an attempt to pave the way for the solution. The detective and the chief of police, one H. A. Lengel, were involved, and convicted.
The bootlegging dives of Canton had been wide open. All that was necessary to assure their continued operation was to pay the protection money regularly and promptly.
Use Licensing System
In Chelsea, Massachusetts, the relations between police and poison peddlers have been notorious for many years. When an investigation was made by the federal authorities in response ~
to an avalanche of complaints from citizens of......
Chelsea, it was revealed that what was practically a license system was in vogue. The makers, ‘
sellers and distributors of the imitation liquor---------------
were within the pale when they continued to .....
pay for protection. Once they neglected a pay- ’ ment, there was a raid that would-prove discs- ’ trous for the delinquent. - -
The chief inspector and a captain of the Chelsea police were charged with conspiracy to violate the eighteenth amendment. They were convicted and sentenced to prison terms.
Another member of the force found it pays .....—
to share with affairs in the department. He had ..........
been retaining all he collected, with the result that a raid was made on one of the policeman’s........
payors, and the bootlegger protested he was paid up to date for protection. The policeman was dismissed. The alliance between the poison purveyors of Chelsea and the local police has . _ demoralized law enforcement to such an extent that criminals run amuck. The bootleggers have widened their scope to include a new racket. This with the cooperation of the local police and crooked lawyers. Fake accidents are staged to defraud the insurance companies. The result is that, due to the volume of these bogus accidents, the insurance commissioner of Massachusetts ordered an increase of almost 100 per cent in the rate for compulsory liability insurance for the metropolitan Boston area which includes Chelsea. The Chelsea police have been inactive while the insurance firms have been mulcted of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the car owners have been elected to pay the — ultimate costs to the insurance companies, with ......
the rate on small cars $47 and on large cars $60, yearly, for the single item of compulsory in-^ surance for physical damages in insurance against injuries to others.
In the neighboring city of Revere, Massachusetts, where the bootleggers have also been racketing in fake accidents, with Revere a close second in volume of fraudulent claims on the insurance concerns, the mayor found it necessary to reorganize the police department and fire the chief. Conditions reached such a vicious state that the bootleggers were openly boasting of being privileged to do as they pleased. With the chief to the discard went several of his chief assistants.
-- An investigation, introduced by District Attorney Gardner of Pittsburgh, has revealed illicit relations between the bootlegging fraterni-L ty and the Pittsburgh police. The inquiry resulted in 261 indictments being returned by the grand jury, there being repeated evidence of - collusion between the police and poison ped-=T dlers. Police executives were shown as initiating a system of regular collection, with threats of raids and prosecution as swords continually held over the heads of the loggers.
’ Higher-ups Involved
Giving the notorious Berger bootlegging gang of Chicago a poison peddling monopoly in ' Herrin, Illinois, resulted in John Stamm, chief A of police, being indicted for conspiracy. It was . revealed that reprisals had followed extension of monopoly privileges to the Berger bandits. Thousands of dollars were collected monthly from the leggers who used Herrin as manufac-. taring base for supplying Chicago with the wood alcohol beverages. Leggers who were not affiliated with the Bergers were also denied the ... . right to market their products in Herrin. A number of the murders, for which the Herrin section has been notorious for some years, have been directly traceable to the local police. Cicero is another of the sub-Chicago munici-~ palities notorious for the extent to which the police departments have been debauched in the quest for protection by bootleggers. At Herrin, together with the chief of police, the state’s attorney, Arlie 0. Boswell, was also indicted, and the local mayor was also given due recognition by the bar.
At Salisbury, Massachusetts, where is located one of the leading beaches along the Atlantic seaboard, Chief of Police Harold S. Congdon, was convicted of conspiracy, and with two selectmen went to prison for two years. Congdon had been promising immunity for bootleggers who kicked in. A feud that followed the refusal of several to continue paying the ever increasing fees exacted as tribute, resulted in the charges against Congdon and his associates in crime. Large quantities of hooch had been smuggled ashore at Salisbury from booze vessels, for distribution all over America.
Rich and Privileged Class
District Attorney Foley, of Boston, investigated the Boston police department. He found the head of the liquor squad owning a palatial home, employing two servants, possessing an expensive car, and living like a man of wealth. Incidentally, the policeman was the owner of a fast running horse, which had been the property for a year of one of the most notorious bootleggers of Boston. The bootlegger said the policeman bought the horse from him.
There was found to be a regularly organized system of the higher-ups in the police for levying tribute on the poison peddlers, particularly in certain districts. The police heads refused to cooperate with the district attorney in the inquiry. As a gesture to the spirit of the investigation, the police commissioner ordered an intensive shake-up in his department, the most general ever known. One captain who had headed a district for 28 years was shifted to a far removed district. In another district, the incoming captain sponsored a number of prosecutions and bona fide raids, whereas, the outgoing captain had been passive, with the district a stamping ground for manufacturers and peddlers of the poisonous fluids.
Heads of the state police of Massachusetts were revealed as making nocturnal visits to the liquor storehouse of the department, and departing with the confiscated liquor.
Wholesale Corruption
George Remus, whose escapades have been responsible for thousands of paragraphs in the newspapers in recent years, let it be known he bought his way everywhere he operated on the flaming trail. When he went into the booze racket from lawyering in Cincinnati, he solicited the alliance of police heads. His plotting had ramifications all over America. He paid protection money in many cities and towns, and claims he was yet to meet a policeman that was not open to bribery. He lost control when he refused to heed the demands of the police for higher fees. They destroyed his bootlegging prestige and influence by genuine raids on his shipments and hooch havens.
The police of the office of the district attorney of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, were used for many years in collecting protection money from the bootleggers. William J. Corcoran, exdistrict attorney, was convicted of corruption.
He was in league with the bootleggers. He is to pay police tribute, and there is nothing crude
now serving a term in the Massachusetts state prison at Boston. When an investigation of the prison department was recently made, a still was found in CorcoraMs cell. He had corrupted the guards, and was distributing the liquor among me prisoners and guards. Had it not been for the murder* of a guard by a notorious convict, Corcoran would still have his still.
Nathan A. Tufts, Corcoran’s successor as district attorney, was revealed as an accomplice of bootleg dive operators. He was fired out of office, and several of his police heads were indicted for bribery. The next Middlesex district attorney to fall into public odium was Arthur K. Reading, who graduated from district attorney to attorney general of Massachusetts. He had posed as a purist to cloak his illegitimate operations, and, after being exposed as a bribetaker, tried to brazen out the charges. He was forced to resign and was impeached by the legislature.
Exposed as in collusion with Tufts and Corcoran in shaking down the bootleggers, was the district attorney of the adjoining county of Suffolk (Boston), Joseph C. Pelletier, who was ousted from office in consequence of the revelations. The disgrace resulted in his death. The police of the Suffolk district attorney’s office had been corrupted.
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Widespread Collusion
Arnold Rothstein, the notorious king of New York’s underworld, was the head of a big booze and narcotic syndicate. It is estimated that he paid thousands of dollars weekly as protection money to members of the New York police. If one of his henchmen was arrested, all he had to do was to call up one of his police pals, and the prisoner would quickly be free. There is not a poison peddler in New York who is not forced about the bagging system there.
An investigation was made of why Groton, Massachusetts, was a favorite base for never-----------
ending cases of bribery and crime. It was whiskey. As a result, the chief of police was eon-victed of conspiracy and given a jail term. He had been collecting regularly from the local purveyors of the spurious liquor, and made a clean breast of it all.
Same Everywhere ■
The same conditions produce the same effects’ everywhere. In Nova Scotia, Canada,, they have a prohibition enforcement system like ours, with exactly the same results.
For 33 years, David A. Morrison was police........
chief of Pictou, Nova Scotia. Recently he was in court for hi-jacking 1,690 bottles of counterfeit whiskey, which was being transportcdrraftF“= Pictou in a motor vehicle.
Col. C. E. Bent, chief of the highway police of Nova Scotia, “resigned” recently
es had been introduced against his dfipiWfienW ■ of graft and inefficiency. What resulted v/as a general exposure involving a half dozen police-.....
men in drunken brawls. And this force had been in existence only two years.
That conditions were rotten in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, was recently admitted by the mayor of the town. Bribery has been rampant and the police have been thoroughly demoralized. The mayor confessed: “The situation has gotten entirely out of my hands.” In the neighboring city of Sidney, Nova Scotia, conditions were so bad it was necessary to get rid of the chief of police.
After an investigation was made of the police department of North Sidney, Nova Scotia, Chief Clark was dismissed. Evidence was produced that he had been collecting protection money of the bootleggers.
Protecting Fruit
ALONG BEACH (Calif.) man reports excellent results accruing from covering fruit trees with mosquito netting, fitted over the trees bag-shaped, with a puckering string and a bandage covered with castor oil and resin at the bottom. The cost of netting and bandages was only ninety cents a tree, and he thinks this
Trees by Netting
plan of fighting the fruit fly could be made a success in Florida. However, an eastern man made the same experiment with a cherry tree, with the result that he got only ninety cherries on the entire tree. He found that unless the bees could get at the blossoms and pollenize them the results were almost nothing.
Italy Near Economic Ruin
Francesco Nitti, former premier of Italy, declares that Italy is near economic ruin and that the end can not be far off. Since Fascism came into control there have been sixty thousand business failures, and not only does Italy now have more bankruptcies than any other country in the world, but the proportion is from five to twenty times those of other countries of Europe and America.
The falling off in trade by sea has caused the ...... stock of the largest navigation company to fall from 1000 lire, payable in gold, to 500 lire, payable in paper, and the company next in importance has seen its stock go down from 250 gold lire to less than 100 in paper.
The deficit of the trade balance was $187,000,...... 000 in 1926: it was $250,000,000 in 1927, and $410,000,000 in 1928. The tourist trade has fallen off. Visitors do not dare to stay. They are in constant fear in a land which has in time of peace 150.000 spies.
. Professor Filippo Bottazzi, one of the shining lights of Fascism, recently stated in a lecture at Genoa that the great majority of the Italian people do not eat enough to satisfy their hunger and that in consequence they suffer from chronic depression. Laborers are able to get but two or three days of work in a week, and at very low wages.
In previous years Italy has depended to a great degree upon the remittances sent back home by emigrants who have migrated elsewhere. Now the emigrants are mostly antiFascist and the amounts which they send back home are growing less and less every year.
The money which has been borrowed from the United States has been expended with lavish hand. According to Mr. Nitti, the poor Italian colonies have been the scene of the wildest extravagance. The Wall Street Journal states that all quotations of Italian securities are artificial, and the inference is that soon Italy will be forced to resort to inflation of her currency, with the usual inevitable result.
The Wolves of Society
IWAS never more forcibly impressed with the logical-reasoning incompetency of people in general than in a promotion scheme successfully put over on the people of McMinnville and vicinity three or four years ago. One of the large shoe manufacturing firms evidently decided to water their stock, so sent a representative here with the offer to put up a factory if the town would come across with a two-hundred-thousand-dollar stock purchase in the company.
Now it happens that McMinnville is a small town of less than four thousand population, set in the midst of a more or less poverty-stricken community, and the raising of that amount of money meant the straining of every resource. But enthusiasm in the project was raised to the very highest pitch, and people in any kind of business or profession -were practically compelled to buy stock in the concern whether able or not, or else suffer ostracism in their business, so great was the pressure brought to bear upon them.
To make the matter more deceiving, the company placed themselves under a heavy bond ■with a guarantee to run the factory regularly to a certain reasonable limit for ten years. And,
By H. Sillaway
of course, no one stopped to think that it was easily possible for the company to maneuver an apparent business failure in a way to render this bond null and void. So completely were the people fooled that I failed to find a single individual who was not taken up by the scheme, and even my oldest son, who is more than ordinarily level-headed on most questions, put up the argument to me that the project could not be otherwise than bona fide.
Well, the result was, the required stock subscription was raised, and the factory was built, which under contract was to cost thirty-five thousand dollars, but which it is very doubtful really cost more than twenty thousand. The factory was filled with leased machinery and for a few weeks ran fairly well; then it gradually slacked down until in a few months it quit altogether, and the machinery was removed and the town left with the empty building as a souvenir of their child wisdom in a business investment. The merchants doing credit business were also hurt by the abnormal dislocation of labor conditions brought about by the conditions resulting from the swindle. This same company also put up a factory in Cookeville, another small town.
Overheard in an Auto (An 'Actual Occurrence)
Starts and—•
IT HAPPENED that in the midst of a prolonged cold snap in January I was obliged to go downtown one afternoon; and as I live a considerable distance from the shopping district, I decided to take the street car, and that is about five blocks from the house. When I arrived at the place of 'embarkation’ it happened the street car was not in sight. Being very cold, I decided to walk,
I had gone but a block, when an auto passing me honked its horn and I was picked up. A lady and gentleman were the occupants of the car, so I sat in the rear seat. We went on our way rejoicing. After proceeding another block, the horn was honked again; this time an aged, bewhiskered, and bent Scotsman was admitted. He was about eighty, I should say. He took his seat beside me; he was evidently well acquainted with the owner of the auto, for when he was seated the following conversation ensued.
Driver of auto: "Are you going to the Burns banquet tonight?” Old Scot: "Ye bet I am! but I’ll hae tae get a young gal tae go wi’ me.” Driver : “A young blood like you would soon pick up a girl; but isn’t Mary [his wife] going with
you?” Scot: "Nay, be gorra, she’d fair raither gae doon to the prayer meetin’ th’n gae doon where there’s a Avee drop o’ whisky.” Driver: "It might be better for the community if you went to the prayer meeting instead.” Scot: .
“Nay, be gorra, I’ll hae lots o’ time yet tae attend prayer meetin’s. Besides ye dinna need tae ~ gae tae prayer meetin’s to get tae heaven; ye ;, have just as much chance tae get tae heaven by ; -stayin’ hame, for all the guid ye get there; ain’t that right, lassie?” I assured him I believed his thought was correct. Continuing, he said: "I’ll tell ye, Jack, they’re nothin’ but a bunch o’ hypocrits, the whole durn bunch. If ye want tae pray, gae hame an’ pray; the guid Lord will hear ye jest the same.
"Say, Jack, the ither day I was in the grain exchange, an’ a feller came up tae me an’ handed me a little book, and said: 'Put it in yer pocket, an’ when ye get hame, read it.’ I went hame an’ I sat doon an’ read it, an’ I read it right through; an’ believe me, Jack, I got me stomach full. An’ say, Jack', I
MY- TAiS Roar roogA- SOME th in MUST BE .DONE
Sib'
sure found out
what we’re needin’ these days. What we need badly, Jack, is a durn new government; aye that’s the name o’ yon book, Government. An’ see here, Jack, I’m going tae gi’e ye that book an’ let ye read it for yersel’, an’, be gorra, when ye read that book ye’ll nae want tae be in politics anymair. What we want is a righteous government.” •
Driver: “Well, Mac, we’ve just joined the church choir.” Scot: "Ye’ll nae get me tae anymair prayer meetin’s; I got mair guid out o’ readin’ that book th’n I would going tae a’ the prayer meetin’s put taegither; they’re naething but a bunch o’ hypocrits, the whole durn bunch.”
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