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Volume XI Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 30, 1930 Number 277

What Is E.R.A.? By Mae J. Work, D.O. (N.Y.)

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J DO not feel that it is proper for me to keep silent in this discussion of the Abrams system of diagnosing and treating disease. There are two principal reasons for this: first, my interest in truth in the abstract, and, second, my interest in that higher phase of truth we very properly refer to under the caption of “present truth”. I have been interested in the latter for many years; in fact, was born and brought up in sympathy ■with it, and without it life would be colorless indeed. .

Before describing what E.R.A. is, and my connection with it, I wish to quote a few words from the pen of Thomas Colson, D.O., B.S., LL.B., editor of the Physico-Clinical Magazine, San Francisco, California. Dr. Colson says in his magazine for November, 1929:

Since a time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, as might be said in legal parlance, alleged diagnoses have been made by clairvoyant, psychic, or other power by many. We find mention of it in our earliest histories and on down through the progress of civilization to our present time. We will not enter into a discussion of the merits or demerits of such alleged diagnoses. We just want to point out that such diagnoses are no part of the Electronic Reactions of Abrams. The latter depend for their occurrence upon certain well-defined scientific principles.

Doctor Colson, in the foregoing excerpt, has set forth a principle which Mr. Goodrich’s experiences show to be a fact; namely, that while the E.R.A. system is true and genuine, there are fakirs and frauds endeavoring to associate themselves with it and to take advantage of its good name and reputation.

It was late in the year of 1922 that a man in public life, an unusually broad-minded and intelligent man, a thinker, and a lover of his fellow men, one for wThom I have great respect, advised me that, in his opinion, there would be extended opportunities of doing good to my fellow men if I were to take a course of study with Doctor Abrams.

This gentleman knew Dr. Abrams personally, understood

his methods, and believed them to be thoroughly scientific, and as he is a keen observer and a sound reasoner and was willing to use his influence with Doctor Abrams to get me into his personal class, and did so use it, I took it to be the proper move that I should go to San Francisco for the purpose, and did so.

In December, 1922, I arrived in the far western city a living question mark. Not at that time fully convinced of the great value of E.R.A. in the treatment of disease, I was nevertheless willing to learn, and anxious to add to my practice of osteopathy all of the latest and best methods for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

On Sacramento St., opposite Lafayette Park, I found a modest two-story structure, without even a sign on the outside to indicate what was within. After passing through the big iron gates alongside the building I found an entrance with a door bell and on a small plate beside it merely the name “Dr. Albert Abrams”.

After explaining my mission I -was ushered into the clinic where Doctor Abrams was performing what then seemed like miracles, but what, with a better knowledge of his methods, I now see was merely the practical application of truths with which he was familiar but of which, at the time, I knew next to nothing.

I can help the reader a little at this point by explaining that the earth is a magnet. Navigation of earth and sea and sky is built upon this fact, and man is involved because he must live his life here on earth with lines of magnetic

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force streaming through him, from birth to death. The Abrams method takes advantage of this fact and uses it to help man in his weakness.

J It is stated that if a human corpse is left on a float in a tank it will inevitably turn with its head to the north. Even through the lifeless body the lines of magnetic force will go in the direction they prefer. It is for this reason that it is better to sleep with the head to the north, when that is possible.

' • When I entered the clinic room, which seats about sixty people, I found it filled with progressive physicians who had come from near by and from great distances to study at the feet of this man who has given the world the most wonderful method of curing human ailments that has thus far been devised. Although this man of genius has now gone into death, the legacy of knowledge which he left with mankind will long continue to bring health and happiness to the human family.

In this clinic, day after day, Doctor Abrams examined blood specimens, from his office and mailed to him from all over the world. He did not necessarily need to see the patients in order to be able to tell all about their physical condition. From a specimen of blood he was able to give a full diagnosis and outline a treatment. The following is the method pursued. The language may be somewhat technical, but will be sufficiently clear to most of your readers.

The blood specimen, which is usually taken from the lobe of the patient’s ear, is first squeezed into a piece of clean white blotting paper. In making the diagnosis this blotting paper is placed in an instrument called the dynamizer, a small rubber container with an aluminum electrode connected with the ground. •’ The cover of this container is lined with aluminum and wired to a series of three rheostats called reflexophones, which in turn are connected to a band around the head of a human reagent or subject. This reagent is also grounded and his abdomen is used by the diagnostician, who uses the method of percussion to detect diseased conditions of the blood.

The energy from the blood specimen in the dynamizer, as it passes through the rheostats and through the nervous system of the reagent, gives the clue to the condition of the blood. Reports on the abdomen may be detected by percussion (tapping with the finger tips) or by rubbing a charged rubber or glass rod over the skin of the abdomen. The diagnostician must also be in the circuit, which he does by placing’ his foot against the foot of the reagent.

The reagent or subject stands upon two pieces of grounded metal and faces the geographical west, in line with the rotation of the earth upon its axis. As the compass pulls to the north and south, which are the magnetic poles of the earth, in order to get greater energy from the blood specimen and from the reagent or subject, he faces in a direction opposite to the pull of the magnet. The reason why we advise sleeping with the head to the north is for the opposite reason, so that the patient may obtain greater relaxation, by having the earth’s lines of force travel through his body along the lines of least resistance.

■ In our examination of energy of the blood specimen we find that each disease has a vibratory rate of its own. It is commonly known that everything in nature vibrates, but it was for Doctor Abrams to detect, identify and measure these vibrations in the blood. When the electrons throughout the body are vibrating at their normal rates the body is in health or at ease, but if, for any reason, the electrons in any part or organ of the body suffer a disturbance which causes them to vibrate at other than their normal rates, this disturbed polarity causes a new formation, dis-ease.

Electromagnetic waves have no effect upon objects which are incapable of vibrating with them, but will produce a decided effect if the mechanism is sufficiently sensitive and accurately tuned. Hence there are many latent conditions of the blood that can be detected by the electronic reactions of Abrams and that would be unobservable by any other means now known. Inherited infections and vaccinations prepare the way for all kinds of diseases, especially tuberculosis and cancer.

; E.R.A. is identical with the principle in radio communication. The grounded dynamizer corresponds to the broadcasting station. The blood specimen ■ emits radiant energy through the sensitive cover of the dynamizer, just as radio waves are emitted by the sending aerial. The energy from the blood is measured by the coils of the rheostats, and with these we are able to tune out all wave lengths except the one with which we wish to deal, just as we do with any good radio receiving set. ;

The reaction or result of the E.R.A. test is the report on the reagent or subject of the energy wave sent out by the blood specimen through the coils, and is produced upon the reagent’s abdomen by means of nerve reflexes. A nerve reflex is an involuntary impulse reflected over a system of nerves from an excited nerve center, caused independent of the conscious mind or will, as, for example, sneezing (nasal reflex) or batting the eye (conjunctival reflex). This nerve’s function is called reflex action.

After concluding the diagnosis we take the same blood specimen and the same reagent, and leaving the rheostats set at the same vibratory rate we then connect the treatment machine or oscilloclast into the circuit and ascertain from it precisely what energy rate will best destroy the disease reaction. When we find on the treatment machine the proper number it quickly overcomes the disease reaction even when the electrode is held at a distance from the subject’s body.

The oscilloclast is a box 12 inches by 14 inches arranged in such a way as to give forth a radio wave of 7.56 meters. It receives its power from the ordinary electric light socket. It will thus be seen that the legitimate E. R. A. machine and hook-up is not at all like the hook-up which Mr. Goodrich mentioned.

I can understand the Abrams hook-up, with the human subject for the diagnosis of blood, but when I get away from the human subject I lose the fine qualities that are contained in the human reflexes for detecting fine emanations of blood energy. The college at San Francisco has offered a $10,000 reward for anyone who can produce a mechanical subject which can, with a reasonable degree of accuracy, identify, measure, and detect disease energy coming from a few drops of blood or transmitted direct from the human being (that is, the patient). No one, up to the present time, has succeeded in claiming this reward. Probably the Goodrich article is based on the idea of a mechanical subject. There is no button, to stick or not stick, in tire regular Abrams hook-up.

I conclude this article with an editorial from the March (1930) issue of The Journal of the ■American Electronic Research Association, supplemented by a paragraph from a similar editorial in the same journal for February, and a letter from the pen of Franklin M. Henry, of the College of Electronic Medicine, which are of interest and importance in this connection.

INSTRUMENTS: It has become a matter of settled knowledge that the Abrams Oscilloclast delivers at its terminals:

(a) A very minute high frequency electrical current, detectable and measurable by sufficiently delicate instruments.

(b) Energy that is in the range of radio-frequencies emitted in the form of successive, highly damped wave trains, the length of the wave being close to 7i/2 meters.* '

The first, scientific, experimental demonstration of these facts was made, we believe, in the Burnett-Timkin Laboratory, Alpine, N. J., and they were given publicity in papers by Dr. J. C. Burnett and Physicist J. H. Hallberg in 1923, at which time the experimental evidence was shown before the Eastern Electronic Research Association and many guests at Hotel McAlpin, New York City. Similar evidence was presented by these gentlemen to the National Convention in 1924 as reported in the Journal for October, 1924, page 290 et seq.

Later much of this work was repeated and other experiments added at the McManis Laboratory, Kirksville, Mo., the result of which was to greatly strengthen the foundations of Electronic Medicine and confirm the confidence of its sincere students in the correctness of its fundamental propositions.

It was at this time particularly heartening to E. R. A. workers to receive proof through the efforts of Drs. McManis and the scientific work of Dr. Thomas Colson and Mr. F. M. Henry that their* practice rests on facts which can be “timed, weighed and measured” and therefore cannot be overcome by high-handed condemnation and ridicule.

At the A. E. R. A. convention, 1925, (Journal, January, 1926, page 6) Dr. Thomas Colson, then of the McManis Laboratory, presented evidence of the actual tuning properties of the coils of the Abrams instruments. By string galvanometer curves thrown on a screen he gave a graphic illustration of the tuning effects of the different steps in the dial of the Oscilloclast.

Still more exacting experiments have now been carried out with reference to the Oscilloclast at the Abrams College in San Francisco by Dr, Colson and Mr. Henry as a result of which nearly all doubts and points of controversy have been cleared up. The tuning properties of the dial coils, based upon capacities and inductances, has been confirmed, as has also the

®NOTE: To the physicist (a) and (b) may refer to the same tiling; but the clinician, having in mind his high frequency modalities, differentiates between that branch of physiotherapy and “Electronic'’ or radio-frequency wave therapy.

wave length of the radio-frequency of the Abrams instrument. ■

Studies have been carried out in the College Laboratory with reference to the best method of application of the Oseilloelast treatment, and. from this source we have the definite information that treatment is modified by the length of the treatment cord which connects the patient to the machine. This cord should be of standard size—-six feet long and No. 18 stranded wire for the original Oseilloelast. For the ‘ ‘ Improved Oseilloelast” the size of wire and the number of strands in the treatment cord make little difference but the length of this cord is of some importance. As explained in the Journal for September, 1929, page 297, it should be 73 inches long for emphasis of the current effects or 53^ inches when it is desired to emphasize the voltage effect.

There have been from the first certain unknown quantities about the Abrams Oseilloelast and certain mystifying features of construction which appear ridiculous to the physicist. All such features are absent from the new Oseilloelast.

One of the early questions raised was, Are the benefits of Oseilloelast treatment obtained through the law of destructive resonance as taught by Abrams? Engineer Ellis, of Chicago, after months of study of the electro-physics of the Abrams instruments announced his belief that the value of the treatment lay in the introduction into the body of a minute dosage of electricity in a form that enabled the molecular or atomic components of cells or plasma to acquire whatever electrons were needed to re-establish electronic equilibrium. Ue constructed instruments which were acceptable, as far as mechanical construction is concerned, to those who possessed the scientific training necessary to judge of such matters.

• Certain others were thinking and working more or Jess along these same lines and the conception of electronic treatment held by many is that of “feeding electrons to the sick cells.” A number of machines based upon this idea were placed upon the market and these made a strong appeal on the claim that no tuning of the treatment is required and that diagnosis is entirely superfluous, so far as being related to the treatment is concerned, whereas in the Abrams method accurate diagnosis and exact tuning of the treatment to meet the individual requirements of the case are essential.

Dr. Abrams tried to lessen the labor of tuning by finding a “destructive rate” for each disease or infection. For example he found that the characteristic reaction he obtained from his specimens of tubercle bacilli in vitro were annulled by the Oscillo-clast when the dial was set on five. The same thing happened when the source of the reaction was a patient or a blood specimen. Therefore “rate 5” on the Oseilloelast became the “D. E.” for “T. B.” To this treatment many patients responded well and even unexpected cures were effected but it soon became evident that not all tubercular cases would be much benefited by this “D. R.” In many instances both symptoms and reactions would persist. Then finer tunings and individual tunings were introduced. In Abrams’ latest work this was accomplished by means of the supplementary coils and dials of the “Miero-Oscilloclast.”

During this period of development of specific tuning of the treatment it was found that by attaching the treatment cord which conveys the Oseilloelast energy to the patient to all three binding posts of the Oscillo-elast by means of branches, practically all the Micro rates, or any required tunings, were obtainable simply by tuning all three of the dial selector switches conjunctively but each to a different number. For example, the dial number 3, 4 and 5, when combined and carried through a standard treating cord to a patient have the same dissipating effect on the reactions as its micro equivalent—127.6.

This three dial method of tuning has stood every comparative test as well as the hard test of several years’ practice and is now in daily use by a number of physicians. No actual scientific explanation of the tuning properties of the three dials used conjunctively has yet been offered. Doubtless it would be difficult to determine the total capacity and inductance values of the three dial coils operating together, with their connections, the treating cord and electrode. These values may be presumed, however, as in other cases, to correspond to the resistance values of the three dial coils when these are joined together and have their selector switches placed on the corresponding numbers. These latter values have been found to agree quite closely with those of Oseilloelast—Micro tunings which are experimentally equivalent in dissipating effect upon the reactions.

In 1924 Dr. Walter E. Elfrink, (Journal, September, 1924, page 210) sought to increase the power of the Oseilloelast by changing it to a closed circuit therapeutic instrument. This was done by closing the test lamp circuit so the light would flash with the swing of the “tie tock,” Then the two sides of the lamp circuit were joined through small fixed condensers to two added binding posts which, when connected through the treatment cords and patient, formed a “shunt” of the high circuit. The treatment circuit, containing the right hand rheostat of the unit, was tuned in the original manner. It was claimed that this “Elfrink hook up” made the treatment less subject to variation by environmental influences and increased the volume of energy flowing through the patient. After more than five years it cannot at this time be stated with certainty that the closed circuit) plan either is or is not superior to the method of.

Abrams—another item which reveals a lack of collaboration in our research.

Notwithstanding the fact that accurate therapeutic tunings are believed by most physicians who practice E. R. A. to be essential, the Oscilloclast has also been successfully used, as are the so-called self-tuning, or as are the non-tuned instruments. In the method of Dr. II. E. Jones the numbered contact posts or buttons of the tuning dial are all joined together by a bright copper wire which is first anchored to the stop pin at zero then passed from button to button around the dial, making one snug turn around each button. Patients are connected to the binding post in the usual manner and it is claimed the treatment may be distributed to more than one patient since all receive the same energy and each appropriates all he can absorb as would be the case if several patients were treated, under one big lap.

On these “short-circuited” units patients may—• and should, it is claimed—-receive treatment many hours, even days, at a time. Ill effects are unknown. Treatment is administered as nearly continuously as circumstances warrant until disease reactions are negated.

We are able to state here as the result of personal observation and experiment that it is possible to render a patient negative of the common Abrams disease reactions, determined on the Abrams diagnostic circuit, by Oscilloclast treatment through the short-circuited unit. This is accomplished in a reasonable time with no attention whatever to tuning. Thus far we have not felt content to dismiss a case until we had abandoned the short-circuited unit and employed carefully tuned treatment for a time. It should be noted in this connection, however, that in Dr. Jones’ work the force of the treating energy is greatly augmented, it is claimed, by passing it through a certain arrangement of radio sets; also that synergistic measures, such as light, color and mechanical vibrations, are employed.

Capacity and inductance effects of the short-circuited unit have not been studied and we have no idea, in terms of physics, as to its tuning properties or how it works.

We are interested in this matter because we believe it to be for the public good and for the advancement of Electronic Medicine to have available a means whereby a large number of people may be benefited by having their major disease reactions taken care of at very little expense of money to them and of time and labor to our physicians. This being accomplished we will still have more than we can do in trying to save the difficult cases—to rescue those ready to perish.

Let us turn now to a brief discussion of the most delightful phase of the recent developments in E. R. A.—the standardization work that has been going on at the College during the last two years and which had its initiation previously at the McManis Laboratories at Kirksville. This work is delightful because the full, clear light of science illumines it, dispelling murky uncertainties. It is satisfying to substitute knowledge for supposition, fact for theory—to be able to give a reason.

The new diagnostic set is a scientific instrument. Every detail is based upon painstaking, scientific determinations of cause and effect made by capable men who had the will to do it and ample facilities at their command. In construction and tuning properties this set is standardized. Each set is an exact duplicate of every other set. It is an encouragement and a joy to progressive workers who have had to do much of their work with crude instruments, the tuning properties of which were unknown or unreliable.

The new Oscilloclast is likewise a scientific instrument of high standard and is well adapted to the best type of professional work in the Electronic field. The discriminating physician who has high aims in his work is bound to welcome this instrument and to derive much satisfaction from the use of a treatment machine which he can discuss with definiteness, pride and confidence with patients or visitors.

As is now generally known the “Improved Oscilloclast” is a two-meter wave machine, compared with the 71/2-meter wave of the old Oscilloclast. Experience thus far with the new machine is very encouraging as to clinical results obtained. It is too early at this writing to state with finality whether, as a general therapeutic proposition, the new machine is altogether superior to the old or not. It may be that the 71/2-meter wave at the force that represents the sending power of the old Oscilloclast will accomplish some things which the two-meter wave at the higher power of the “Improved Oscilloclast” cannot accomplish. On the other hand it is highly probable that the latter may be effective in certain instances in which the former would be useless, or nearly so.

Some of these points can be decided only as clinical experience accumulates. It is possible now, however, to state that the probabilities are that there, will be definite or specific uses for both the old and the new Oscilloclast waves and that in practice each will be complementary, or supplementary, to the other.

The chief points of excellence of the “Improved Oscilloclast” may be enumerated as follows:

(a) Easy portability and attachment to A. C. lighting system.

(b) Noiseless operation.

(d) Known wave of two meters.

(e) Superior power.

(f) Easy and sharp tuning.

,(g) Rates expressed in megacycles—a definite scientific term and concept.

(h) Carries also one tuning unit of Abrams rates from one to ten.

(i)-. Calibration by actual tuning effects so that values are standard regardless of possible variations in resistances.

(j) Identical results may be expected from all machines for all are calibrated to a fixed and permanent standard so that each unit made is an exact duplicate of its predecessors.

(k) Energy from this instrument may be easily demonstrated by a radio frequency galvanom-ctor.

January 11, 1930 Dr. Mae J. Work 34 Orange Street

Brooklyn, N. Y.

My dear Doctor:

It is not clear whether you refer to broadcasting treatment over a broadcasting station as Dr. Jones has done at various times, or whether you refer to broadcasting directly from the treatment apparatus, Assuming that you mean broadcasting treatment over a broadcasting station, your questions will be answered with this use in mind.

The Oscilloclast delivers a radio frequency wave of approximately 7^2 meters. A radio broadcasting station operates on a wave length between 200 and 600 meters. Any radio engineer can tell you that it is impossible to modulate a given wave length by a shorter wave length. Modulation can only be accomplished by a much longer wave length. The circuits of all broadcasting stations are designed in such a way that only wave lengths longer than 30,000 meters (sound waves) will effect modulation. It is quite evident from the foregoing that none of the radio frequency output of the Oscilloclast can be broadcast through any broadcasting station. It is true that if ;<n Oscilloclast should be coupled to the input or microphone circuit of a broadcasting station, the station will be modulated at a frequency governed by the audio characteristics of the instruments. If a radio set were tuned in to a broadcasting station which was connected to an Oscilloclast in this manner, you would hear the sound of the tick-tock mechanism in the loud speaker, but this would not mean that any of the radio frequency current was being broadcast. These sound waves generated by the Oscilloclast are, of course, not of importance therapeutically, for the following reasons: A, Setting up different rates does not change the sound a particle. B. The sounds are not constant, but their charaetertistics are governed by the input voltage which is constantly fluctuating. O. In many installations the patient cannot hear, or at best can hear but faintly, the sound of the Oscilloclast. Yet in these cases the patients get well just as fast as if they could hear the sound wave. To my knowledge no one claims that the sound wave delivered by the Oscilloclast has therapeutic value, but it is the only part of the Oscilloclast output that can possibly be broadcast from a broadcasting station.

If you refer to broadcasting’ treatment using the Oscilloclast itself (not in conjunction with a broadcasting station) you might be interested to know that it is true that the Oscilloclast does produce some effect for a short distance. This effect is not particularly important therapeutically because it drops off very rapidly, varying with the square of the distance. It is not efficient therapeutically except when connected to a patient with a wire but will dissipate reactions over a distance of from five to twenty feet. A few observers have reported this dissipation effect for a slightly greater distance, but their work has not been confirmed.

It is impossible at the present time for any attachment whatsoever to amplify or increase the output of the Oscilloclast, as the wave length is too short to be amplified by any existing methods. The only way to secure increased output is by building a more powerful Oscilloclast, but at best this could only increase its broadcasting effect a short distance. None of the devices, which have been offered from time to time as means of increasing the output of the Oscilloclast energy, have any effect whatsoever towards producing such an increase.

It is hoped that the above discussion will answer your questions satisfactorily.

Yours very truly,

College of Electronic Medicine

FMH:HMR By Franklin M. Henry

From the February issue, the following:

The Abrams treatment is not a cure-all. In fact it is the custom of those electronic practitioners who make up the membership of this association to say that it docs not, itself, cure anything. It does, however, have very definite and demonstrable effects upon the body.... There is abundant clinical evidence and a considerable amount of experimental scientific evidence that the following arc among the known effects of E.R.A. treatment:

(a) A gentle cell stimulation with increase of metabolic activity.

(b) Beneficial changes in the blood stream.

(d) Antiphlogistic effects.

(e) Sedative and analgesic effects.

(f) A gentle influence in the direction of normalizing function and of correcting the imbalances of the sick body.

(g) A mild supporting influence upon lagging life processes.

(h) An inhibitory influence upon micro-organisms which are inimical to the body’s welfare.

Atoms and Molecules

Thirty-five Dollars a Mass

A PROVIDENCE priest brought suit for $175 for five masses which were to have been offered in his church, and the case was awarded to him. Wonder why he wanted the money.

"Golden Age” Must Be Popular

HpHE Golden Age must be popular with one -*• of the New York health magazines. In a single issue recently they had sixteen articles all cribbed from our columns, with not a word, however, to indicate where they got them, and yet one of the articles was over a page long.

The Dodge Hotel

THE Dodge Hotel, Washington, D. C., a city hotel in a garden setting, advertises that it pays its employees proper wages and that its established policy is that of “no tipping”. It is worthy of this free advertisement, because of that fact. It has accommodations for 400 guests.

A Machine for Measuring Colors

TWO young men at the University of Pennsylvania have invented a machine for measuring colors. The- measurement is traced in a curve. The color may be on any material. The basis of the machine is the spectroscope and the photo-electric cell.

The Causes of Racketeering

THE Manchester Guardian lays the racketeering situation in Chicago and other cities to three causes: the World War, which taught a general use of firearms; prohibition, which has decreased respect for law; and the failure of Italian immigrants to properly bring up their children. The Guardian points out that nearly all racketeers are Italians, with a small sprinkling of Poles and Jews.

He Who Laughs Best

EJ. Kempf, M.D., in an article in the Medi-

» cal Journal and Record, shows that the one who laughs best is not the one who laughs last, hut the one who laughs sincerely. The sincere, hearty laugh has hygienic value, but the hitter and jeering laugh produces a tension in the one who laughs, due to the certain knowledge that there will be a rebound due to the anger of the one against whom the sneer is directed.

On the Wings of the Wind

THE fastest train between Albany and New

York takes over three hours. By the time a passenger on that train could get to Newark the best part of four hours would have elapsed. An airplane recently made the trip, flying with the wind, in just fifty-five minutes.

How Efficiency Works

HpHE .advent of the efficiency expert always •*- means fewer workers. It is unavoidable. Thus it is now proposed to place the rural free delivery mail on an automobile basis instead of a horse and buggy basis. The inevitable result wvill be that eight thousand rural mail carriers must lose their jobs.

Holland Now Pumping Out Zuider Zee

HOLLAND is now pumping out one part of the Zuider Zee, and next year, when the 17|-mile dam is completed, the reclamation of the whole area of 863 square miles will be placed under the pumps. The area now being drained, covering 50,000 acres, will be ready for settlement in the fall.

Fruit Fly Possibly Eradicated

THE Secretary of Agriculture states that as

a result of the four million dollars expended in Florida in the past ten months, there has not been seen one adult fruit fly since last August, and not a case of infection since November. This looks like a complete victory over the fruit fly; and let us hope it is.

Seventy-nine Carloads

ANEW YORK dispatch in the Dallas Herald declares that one famous bootlegger bought seventy-nine carloads of so-called corn sugar in three months, which he worked up into alcohol and whisky. Now if the man had made seventy-nine bottles he might have got caught. But seventy-nine carloads? Not on your life!

Terrible Conditions in Indo-China,

AWEITEB in the New York Times says that in Yunnan chaos is almost complete, and i the soldier-brigands composing the available troops switch their allegiance from one day to ■ another to the leader who offers them the ! best food. The population, impoverished and ■ drained to the point of extreme necessity, knows not which way to turn.

'Automobile Wrecks in Ohio

OHIO is famous for its automobile fatalities.

The roads in various parts of the state are lined with crosses where drivers have been slain. One reason for this now appears. It seems that outside of the city of Cleveland there is a place where automobiles are “blessed” every Sunday in the name of St. Christopher. That is enough. 'Watch out when going through Ohio.

The Angels of Mons

IT NOW transpires that the angels of Mons which were repeatedly seen during the World War were motion pictures thrown upon screens of foggy white cloudbanks. The machines were mounted in German airplanes flying over the British lines. The object was to frighten the superstitious. It succeeded very well when tried on the Russian front, but did not work with the British.

War Burdens $5,000 a Minute

THE war burden of Great Britain, paying for past Avars and preparing for future ones, calls for the expenditure of $5,000 a minute. The war burden of the United States exceeds this amount by $200. Think what could be done with the money thus thrown away by the two most powerful governments of the world! If that does not show they are under the Devil’s domination, what could?

Japanese Emigration to Brazil

JAPANESE emigration to Brazil is now under full swing. The Buenos Aires Maru, ■which has accommodations for one thousand steerage passengers, is booked for several trips ahead. There are two steamship lines exclusively devoted to trade between Brazil and Japan, and a great population in the South ‘American country is certain within the next generation.

In the Canadian Legislature

IN THE Canadian legislature recently a member arose and said of the prohibition officers of the United States: “They do not even know where the international boundary is, and they do not care. We have been turned back from visiting places in our own country. Prohibition officers have ambushed themselves on a Canadian island and even shot a Canadian in the back.”

Religion in El Dorado

HPHE religious business in El Dorado, Arkan-■*" sas, is in a bad way. "When officers of the law raided a still they found that three of the four sported the title of “Reverend”. The vats contained approximately 1,000 gallons of mash. Well, it is better to make moonshine than to lie about God.

Mapping Rhodesia from the Air

rpiIE mapping- of Rhodesia from the air proceeds apace. One airplane, specially equipped, is mapping 63,000 square miles, flying- at an elevation of eighteen thousand feet, in parallel lines thirty miles apart. The survey is completed by flying at right angles to the first flights. The 'whole 'work will be completed in two years.

Saving of Ten Million Dollars in Beet Sugar

A PROFESSOR of botany has made a discovery that it is estimated will save beet sugar growers in the United States ten million dollars a year. The new discovery is that the sugar of the beet extends far up into its stalks and all that is necessary to make the saving is to trim the leaves an inch and a half higher up than is usually done.

Weakened Nerves Bring Gray Hair

THAT it is weakened nerves that brings gray hair seems suggested by the strange fact that the hair of a black cat turned white as a result of being subjected to a great fright. The cat boarded a tramp steamship in Britain. The ship was abandoned after a severe buffeting in terrific gales and the cat was rescued subsequently.

The Government of Liberia

A CITIZEN of Liberia has written to the

League of Nations that natives are forced to work on the roads nine months of the year, must furnish their own tools and food for themselves and their overseers, and receive no compensation for this work -whatever; that fines are levied on slightest provocation, and men are compelled to pawn wives and children to pay the fines or else to sell the food which they have brought long distances; and that men are often whipped so severely that they die of their injuries. Makes you feel that there are worse places than, the United States, does it not?

The Wandsworth Hell Hole

TJOSSIBLY one reason why Britain’s prison population is lessening is because no sane man would risk going to such a hell hole as .Wandsworth prison, London, which is admittedly one of the most terrible places on earth. British judges still sentence men to this place and to the cat-o’-nine-tails punishment there which is worse than death. A man recently suicided to avoid it.

Prisons in Britain and America

W^^^HAT is wrong with America, most prosperous country of the world, which can not build .prisons fast enough to hold the crowds being jammed into them, while in Britain, which has had an unemployment problem ever since the World War, prisons are being demolished every day? Britain now has only half as many prisons as a century ago, and has closed twenty-seven since 1911.

New York Has Learned Something

THE special committee of the governor of the state of New York has learned that, while there is no sense in turning loose upon society those that simply can not or will not adjust themselves to the requirements of society, there is nevertheless no necessary conflict between the exercise of discipline and authority and humane and constructive treatment. So far so good.

How They Elect Bishops in England

T T SEEMS that in England, when they want a bishop, the government picks out some respectable and decent person who can be used and then tells the dean and chapter that they must elect him or get in bad, and so they always elect him. It thus happens that being a bishop in England is simply a matter of being a good politician; and that is about all it is anywhere.

The International Bank

THE Bank for International Settlements will open for business in Basle on April first.

The Manchester Guardian understands that the president and vice-president will both be men that have worked with and for the firm of 'J. P. Morgan and that Morgan will thus, to use its own language, “have two fingers in the very center of the pie.” It will surprise us if it is otherwise.

The Racial Menace in South Africa

UNDER this heading The Literary Digest says that General Jan Christian Smuts thinks the imposing of white civilization upon the South African black man can result only in bolshevizing him and making him a menace to the rest of the world. The same article quotes a missionary as saying that the blacks feel that the missionaries have betrayed them and stood silently by while their lands were grabbed and they were reduced to a vile economic slavery.

Walter Duranty on Russia

J-alter Dubanty, representative of the New’ f f York Times, has cabled that the widespread attacks against the soviet throughout Europe are really based on fear of Russia, fear that success in her socialization scheme will make her an irresistible trade and industrial rival. Mr. Duranty is said to be by no means, sure that Russia’s socialization plan will fail. He has been in Russia for years and is a trained and close observer.

Egypt Being Ruined by Heroin

EGYPT is being ruined by heroin, so says the Cairo chief of police. He estimates that the country now’ contains half a million drug addicts, one person in every twenty-eight of the population. The drug traffic with Egypt is mostly in the hands of the Swiss. One firm at Mulhouse in the year 1928 made and exported 10,872 pounds of heroin, which is more than twice the estimated requirements of the entire world for medicinal and scientific purposes.

Sixty Thousand Vanished Merchants

THE fifteen thousand Atlantic and Pacific stores have taken the place of sixty thousand merchants. Until recently this great chain of stores had pushed west only as far as Omaha,, but they have now opened up on the Pacific coast and the Pacific part of the name will become a reality. The annual volume of A & P sales is over a billion dollars. It is all cash. The surviving old style grocers are permitted to have the credit business, but when the purchasers have any cash they commonly use it to buy of the A & P, sometimes forgetting all about their credit accounts until they run out of money again, when the old style grocer receives some more of the kind of business he does not want.

All Up with the Burglar ,

IT IS all up with the burglar-y business as soon as the new ultra-violet ray system is generally installed. This new system makes the burglar ring his own alarm, day or night. The rays are invisible to him. They may be used to asphyxiate him or to set off tear gas, as well as to sound silent alarms. Most progressive burglars have long since gone into the public utilities where the profits are greater and the risks are practically nil.

The Race Against Illiteracy

SHAMED by their showing of ton years ago, several of the states, notably Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Alabama, have been burning the midnight oil throughout the ■winter months of 1929-1930 ‘teaching the darkies how to read and write’ and thus cut down their percentage of illiterates. The census taker will be around in a few days now. It seems to us that this sudden interest ought to be exchanged for a permanent one.

Getting Business in Chicago

AN ALLY of the Power Trust found it profitable to pay out a million dollars in bribes to get business. The tokens varied from silver services worth $1,700 apiece to indoor golf sets worth $1,000, or almost anything else desired, and could be exchanged for cash on demand. The Sanitary District officials and their wives seem to have been the favored recipients of these costly presents and to have had lots of business to give to the donors at the expense of the taxpayers.

The Church in Old Russia

Dr. George S. Counts, of Columbia University, recently returned from a seven months’ tour of Russia, very truthfully says of the Orthodox church in Russia: “The Church was an instrument for keeping the Russian peasant in a condition of ignorance and poverty. It was one of the most effective means by which the ruling classes maintained themselves in power. The revolution consequently tended to sweep away both the Church and the State because they were inseparable. To the revolutionist the two institutions could not be distinguished.” Doctor Counts thinks it very unwise that the Russians were not invited to the London peace conference.

Executions in Russia

OFFICIAL figures for executions in Russia in the months of October and November, 1929, were 246. Of this number all but 99 were kulaks, that is, peasants, who had saved a little property and ■were trying to retain possession of it. Of the remainder, 32 were executed for religious activity, 3 were spies, 39 were enemies of the soviet government, and 25 were listed as specialists and saboteurs, that is, they were supposed to have aimed at ineffectiveness of soviet management of factories, etc.

Russia and the Vatican

T N VIEW of the fact that for several years -®- subsequent to 1922 the Vatican was negotiating with Russia to try to get possession of the Greek Catholic church, and in view of the fact that in 1929 the Catholic church, under the pope’s leadership in Poland, did actually and forcibly confiscate 500 Orthodox Russian churches to Catholic uses, the Metropolitan Sergius, present chief patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church, wonders why the pope and his friends in various parts of the world are now so excited because of religious persecutions in Russia which took place prior to 1918. He thinks the pope has had plenty of previous opportunity to get excited and wonders why he waited until now, when the negotiations for what he sought have fallen through,

Cheap Labor of Japan and Italy

THE startling result of the cheap labor of

Japan and Italy is that both of these countries are now sending cotton goods into Manchester, England, for less than they can be made in the greatest textile center of the world. A Japanese shirting was sold, in Manchester at 4-ld. a yard, the loom costs of which for the same material, apart from any other expenses, is 5£d. a yard. One Italian firm has 1700 looms running 24 hours a day, the whole production of which is shipped right into Manchester, where the working hours are 8 a day. Mr. Shaw Desmond, a British writer, says that Lancashire must immediately scrap her prehistoric machines, prehistoric productive methods and prehistoric captains of industry or she is going to be wiped off the map. He points out that Italy has the very best and newest machinery and has virtually gained the upper hand of the artificial silk industry of the world.

Working Up Another Holy War

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Policies of the Soviet

HpHE London Daily Herald declares that the TTTilliam Z. Foster, Communist labor leader, present world-wide outcry against religious' » V is quoted in the New York Herald Tribune persecution in Russia, which persecutions took as saying: “The Soviet Union is frankly out to place mainly prior to 1918, as far as its British obliterate all classes save the workers—obliterpromoters are concerned, seems to be another' ate them economically—and it is succeeding’.

Tory political plot, and that there is intense concern among Labor members of Parliament over this appeal to religious prejudice. Inasmuch, however, as'this outcry is world-wide, it is probably more than a Tory plot, and no doubt traces its ancestry back to Vatican City. Appears that another Crusade is in prospect. Another “Holy War” would look good to the Vatican just now.

Each Family Took a Tree

DURING the Civil War a certain general told his soldiers they might take the top rail from a fence to build a fire wherewith to keep warm during one of the cold nights. They took the top rail all right, and the top kept retreating until there were no rails left. Something like this recently happened in Zude, Hungary. Each family took a tree out of the municipal forest. By the time they finished the job there was not a tree left, and the government sent to prison every one of the sixty-eight heads of families in the community. This is probably the first time a complete forest was stolen.

Business Is Good

BUSINESS is good. The posters say so, and it must be so. But in New York city, in midwinter, men were starving. America is the richest country in the world. That’s fine. But the secretary of the Bowery Y.M.C.A. said: “We’ve had to turn hundreds away this month, and they don’t know where to go. They have never been hoboes. In bread lines tonight you’ll see fellows you’d never expect, clean, decent young men. They come to us so desperate they’re willing to try any work, but even the roughest, humblest jobs this winter simply can’t be found, for the men who hold them won’t leave. So these others come to us, young office clerks and salesmen, who don’t know how to sell themselves. They’ve never been up against it before and their suffering is so much the more intense when they find themselves on the street.”

hirst they destroyed the nobles, then the industrialists, then the nepmen or small tradesmen; after them the clergymen, and now they are wiping out the kulaks, or rich farmers, and the specialists—the men of the professional classes.”

Edison Is Right

lUp- Edison said that in five years more, at IVA the rafe things are going, it will not be necessary for the human family to work any more. No doubt he is right. But the interesting’ thing about it is that they will still have to eat, - and if they can’t get any work, who is going to feed them? It is all very nice to have machinery do all your work, if you own the machinery, and can sell its products to somebody else, but what if somebody else owns the machinery and leaves you high and dry with no work and nothing to eat?

Few Murderers Pay Death Penalty

IN AN address to a body of students Warden

Lewis E. Lawes, of Sing Sing, made the statement that although there are in the United States eleven thousand murders a year, fewer than one hundred persons pay the death penalty, and if well provided financially it is almost safe to say that they never pay it. There are now 125,000 men in prison in the United States, a number equal to the country’s standing army, yet the real schemers and plotters are rarely if ever within prison walls. Fifteen million persons have been arrested and one-third of these have served some time in prison.

Witnessing in Newfoundland

A FRIEND in Michigan sends us letters of

one of the Bible Students engaged in the ■witness work in Newfoundland, the land of fishermen, and fish. It seems from his letters that the soil is fertilized with fish which is left upon the surface to decay, and, as a consequence, in the summer time, the whole land is redolent with fish perfume.

The letters are filled with experiences of two courageous young men engaged in navigating foggy and rock-bound waters. In one instance the little motor boat came within a few feet of an iceberg, a crash with which would probably have meant death to all on board. The worst of it was that the berg did not show up until the little boat was almost upon it.

In another place the propeller shaft pulled out of the coupling and the boat went ashore at high tide, but by dint of working all night it was gotten off early the next morning without fresh mishap. In an instance where the engineer had failed to open the gasoline valve it was found that a floating log was just about to enter the propeller.

On coming to a strange port, there were two entrances to the harbor and the King’s messengers knew not which was the right one. An error might mean the loss of the little craft, as Newfoundland’s shores are rocky. At the right time another boat came along to guide the way.

In one community the Devil’s cry of “False prophets!” nearly resulted in an attack on the inoffensive bearers of the best of good tidings, but the endangered one walked bravely through the midst of the gathering opposers, smiling and speaking kindly to them as he passed, unharmed.

Such are some of the experiences in six months of earnest endeavor in Newfoundland, in which a good portion of the northeastern shore of this large island was planted with the seeds of truth. Books to the number of 2,134 were placed on the trip. No doubt all who are faithful will some day see good results from this trip.

Alfalfa—Father of All Foods

ALFALFA is not something new. It was cultivated in Greece as early as 400 B. C. and has always been much appreciated by the Arabs. They called it alfafa, which means “father of all foods”. It has been grown in America for seventy-five years and is considered par excellence food for cattle.

Alfalfa roots have been known to penetrate the soil to a depth of 125 feet. It is a legume, like peas or beans, and its stems have been known to reach a length of fifty feet. The deep rootage brings to the plant ten times as much of the valuable minerals as is found in the grains.

An analysis of the mineral ash of alfalfa shows the following:

Peroxide of iron ..............................

.........................1.30%

Silica ...................................................

.........................1.50

Soda .....................................................

........................3.00

Sulphates ..........................................

.........................3.70

Phosphates .......................................

........................7.35

Chloride of sodium .....................

......................11.00

Chloride of potassium. ...............

.....................12.00

Magnesia .............................................

.....................12.25

Potash ...................................................

......................12.90

Calcium (lime) .................................

.....................34.90

Dietitians claim that potassium is the elixir of life, and the claims made for alfalfa tea seem

to suggest that they are not far away in their calculations. Tea made from alfalfa leaves has a bitter taste, but causes increased secretion of the kidneys, increased peristaltic action of the bowels, increased appetite, increased assimilation of foods, and increased weight. A large drink produces a sensation of warmth in the stomach, and a good night’s rest.

For years it has been known that cattle and horses grow better if given some alfalfa every day along with their hay and grain. An experiment was made in Kansas with fourteen little pigs. Seven of them, fed on corn alone, averaged 75 pounds apiece in 180 days. The other seven, fed on corn and alfalfa hay, averaged 185 pounds apiece in the same time. In the alfalfa-fed hogs the bones were twice as large and three times as strong, and the muscles were firmer and less fat.

The famous dietitian Dr. Frank McCoy says: “For several years I have been advising my patients to eat alfalfa, if they could get it fresh, as it makes a very delicious salad or addition to a combination salad.” A noted dentist said: “Alfalfa is especially rich in vitamins and minerals which are important in keeping the teeth firm and strong.”

Government Bulletin No. 247 says: “The results show that 90% of the potassium, 85% of the magnesium, 75% of the phosphorus, 50%

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of the nitrogen and 40% of the calcium (lime) contained in the dried alfalfa plant are soluble in water.”

Those who have used alfalfa claim wonderful results in cases of lumbago, rheumatism, hardening of the arteries, tuberculosis, dropsy, bladder trouble, prostatitis, blood disorders, and all those other troubles whose name is legion, which start in the intestines, where all diseases start.

Luther Burbank once said: "Alfalfa is a vastly different thing from ordinary hay as people usually think of it. It contains some of the most important nutritive substances known and in greater abundance, the salts, so especially important in the nourishment of human beings, especially children, such as potassium, sodium, magnesium and the phosphates and sulphates.”

A boarding-house keeper tried alfalfa tea on her boarders. They drank it without comment, noticing no difference in the taste of the new tea, but in a few days their appetite had in-, creased prodigiously. The tea was good for the boarders, but hard on the landlady’s larder. As a milk producer and general tonic in maternity cases, alfalfa tea, according to the statement of a prominent physician, F. L. Wilson, is practically infallible.

The Eyes of Benito Paz

UNDER the heading, "Has Boy X-Ray Eyes?

Science Puzzles over Child with X-Ray Eyes,” the Medical Searchlight publishes an article which we reproduce below. The correct explanation of this is that this lad is demonized and the powers which he is using are clairvoyant or demoniacal powers. The Scriptures alone provide the explanation. Of course the scientists are puzzled. In the main they absolutely close their eyes and ears to what the Lord would tell them on these and kindred subjects. These eyes are not the eyes of Benito Paz at all. The demons see the articles and convey the information to the mind of the child. He indeed thinks that he sees them, but he does not see them at all. They are seen by cleverer eyes than his.

A miracle of Nature, which has called for the great-' est attention and surprise in professional and lay circles all over Europe, has been brought before the public by Dr. Pedro Niel; an oculist in Madrid, Spain.

Dr. Niel has been treating and observing the child in question for the last two years, and recently held a lecture in Paris before a great number of doctors who were greatly astonished by his communications.

The child is called Benito Paz. The father did not notice anything extraordinary about his child up to the fifth year. When he began to teach the A B C to the little chap he noted the ability of the child, who had just acquired the knowledge of letters and spelling, to see through the closed book and spell out the words on the different pages.

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