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Golden Age

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in this issue ■

WHEN THE WORLD

WENT MAD

SAVING THE TONSILS

ANIMALS AND THE SOIL

IS ALUMINUM POISONOUS?

WILL MAN EAT MEAT?

THE CRISIS OF THE AGES radio lecture by Judge Eutherford

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LABOR AND ECONOMICS

Organized Labor ..... 518

Low Wages in East St. Louis . 519

Chain Stores and Low Wages . 520

Unemployed Filling the Hospitals 521

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

When the World Went Mad . 515

Star Dust....... . 519

Iceland’s Millennium . . . 519

What Italian Farmers Must Do 523

Why Russians Hate the Church 526

MANUFACTURING AND MINING

Five Billion Tons of Peat . . 521

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Across Australia in Two Days . 520

The Up-Swing of Aviation . , 522

Insull’s Touching Plea . . , 523

How About This, Henry? 5 s 528

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

At the Head of the Supreme Court 519

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

No Animal Ever Created Fertility 524

In Dooley County, Georgia ■. .

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Some New Inventions . . . 521

High Frequency Radio Dangers 521

Dirigibles for Pacific Trade ' . 522

How the New Planet Was Located 522

Electrocoagulation vs. Tonsil

lectomy . .......

Patients Are in Fault Too . .

Answer to “World’s Greatest

Food Authority’’ ....

Will Meat Be Eliminated from the Diet of the Future? . .

Unwilling to Poison Humanity

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

China’s Gift to Civilization , 526

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Making Christians in Hungary A Question and Answer The Crisis of the Ages . .

The Children’s Own Radio Story 542

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The Golden Age

Volume XI " Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, May 14, 1930 Number 278

When the World Went Mad

A Thrilling Story of the Late War, Told in the Language of the Trenches

Copyright, 1930, by Daniel E. Morgan

Chapter I

WAR ABROAD Planting the Seed

UGUST, 1914, marked the beginning of The seemingly innocent training of childhood

earth’s greatest conflict, kingdom against kingdom, nation against nation. President Wilson truthfully said, “It seems as though great, blind, material forces have been released. The world is on fire.”

Tales of heroism and of woe, outrages and murders, reached the ears of the youth of America. Violations of treaties, scraps of paper, the exchanging of notes, were the order of the day. A wave of barbarity was sweeping the world. The fires of hate were being kindled in the minds and hearts of the peoples of earth. Selfishness had gone to seed. Suspicion and superstition were rife on every hand. Demoralization, like the black plague, spread in every direction.

Feeding the Fire

The industrial giants of America were awakening, harsh, cruel and selfish in their make-up. Vast quantities of war material were being shipped to the struggling nations abroad: coal to keep the fires going in the ships at sea, and in the furnaces of hundreds of factories across the sea; steel of which to make arms and ammunition for the destruction of human flesh; rails for worn-out railways back of the fighting fronts; locomotives and rolling stock to take the place of those going to pieces. An abundance of materials of every description found its way to the battlefields of Europe. The great giant, Finance, chuckling with glee, sent to foreign soil millions of dollars in gold, smacking his lips at the thought of vast returns, as he idly watched the death struggle.

was about to bring forth its fruit. Great would ' be the consequences of the tin soldiers in their bright-colored uniforms, the toy pistols and the wooden swords, the tiny cannons mounted on little two-w’heeled carts, the tin popguns with corks for bullets, and, most of all, the school histories, the monuments and the public press.

Mobilization in miniature: the assembly of the kids; picking the captains; the bugle call, via the tin horn. Line up! Head and eyes to the front! Paper hats, broomsticks, hammer handles and the little tin drum. Forward march! A war in the making.

Bearing Fruit

With the tales of heroism ever fresh in our ears, the stories of Americans enlisting in foreign armies, and the ever-present desire for adventure along the lines of war, it is not to be wondered at that half a dozen of the boys at the mines agreed to enlist in the Marine Corps, myself included. A temporary examination reduced the number to half, and at the last moment the others backed out, and I went alone.

After severe, searching physical and mental examinations at Philadelphia, accompanied by finger-printing, minute scrutiny of every visible and invisible scar, as well as detailed measurements of all the most important parts of the body, I'was sent on to Norfolk, stripped for a final examination, kissed the Bible and took the oath of allegiance to president and country, promising implicit obedience, with or without food, on forced marches, etc., and was then a full-fledged member of the oldest and most effi-

cient fighting unit of the United States militaryservice.

At my first liberty I wanted to go to a dance, being a stranger in the town, and was interested and not at all happy to find that what is termed c'the efficient fighting, building and landing force of the navy”, when clad in their country’s uniform, and no matter how gentlemanly and well-behaved, are not admitted to public dances in the city of Norfolk. Those that denied admittance were the same ones that were waving flags and parading and shouting themselves hoarse over the achievements of the marines in Belleau Woods two and a half years later.

In Training at Norfolk

The training that the marines get at Norfolk is training; make no mistake about that. Inspections are too numerous to be mentioned. Every item must be in its place; if not, the sergeant throws everything into the mud, and the poor rookie must pick it all up, clean it, and try all over again. The military drill is perfection itself.

Careful instruction is given as to just how to approach the different officers, just how to address each kind of officer, and how to find access to his presence. The mentally quick are given certain liberties; the mentally slow find the training very severe.

Though I was selected as a squad leader of eight almost from the time I began to drill, yet that did not save me from severe rebukes. On one occasion, on acount of a little hole in my glove, I was a fraction of a second late in getting my gun into position. The eagle eye of the sergeant detected it, and, though I .am not related to Abraham according to the flesh, he walked over, and, standing in front of me, said in a loud voice:

“You bloody Jew' You never had a home until you came here. You lived in a box car all your life, and now, when you have come here, and Uncle Sam has given you a good suit of clothes, and a nice place to sleep, you do not even know how to appreciate it.”

This mightily amused the rest of the boys in training, and for some time thereafter, as occasion offered, “'Hello, you bloody Jew!” was a common method of salutation. But I was not alone. Every man got these stinging rebukes, and knew to expect them: it is part of the training.

Among the marines the method of settling disputes is by the “bull ring”, a roped-off arena in which they fight it out. I had hoped to keep out of this, but it so happens that I am a slow eater, and a protest against the methods by which the fast eaters, and the piggish ones, took advantage of their fellows, pointedly addressed to one of their number, finally forced me into it. He demanded that we settle the matter in the bull ring, and, though I had given up boxing, my previous experience and training stood me well in hand, and we never had to argue the subject again.

In Training on the High Seas

After fourteen weeks’ training at Norfolk I was given opportunity to enlist for service on one of the ships, and unwittingly selected the battleship Wyoming, the most difficult post, because the closer one is .to the admiral the more stringent the discipline, and it so happened that the Wyoming was the flagship at that time.

On the flagship there was much more expected in the way of homage, on account of the admiral’s being on board. When the president, or other officials of the United Estates or foreign governments, visited the flagship, as they frequently did, the marines often had to stand by for hours and hours in full dress uniform, waiting to render the customary salute of “present arms”, rendered by the full guard.

We had many good times in the next twentyseven months, visiting nearly all the principal islands of the West Indies, and cruising up and down the Atlantic seaboard. There were movie entertainments, dancing, games, and, on holidays, festivals and boxing bouts, but the smell of war was in the air, and we had daily war drills, battle drills, and felt that something important in our lives was about to happen.

An Unexpected Happening

While the battleship Wyoming was undergoing repairs in the Brooklyn navy yard, visitors were permitted to board her at certain hours set aside for that purpose. Came a sunny afternoon, visiting hours, and myself on guard on the top side of this great dreadnaught. An officer and two young ladies came aboard. The party explored that portion of the ship permissible, and then stood for the longest time in front of my post.

The GOLDEN AGE

Though. I was five feet eleven in height I was still but a lad of nineteen years, and true to the forces within me of youth and romance. I saw standing before me a creature “divinely tall and most divinely fair”, one of the guests of this party of three.

I wanted to speak to her, to touch her, but she was an officer’s guest, and I—well, there is in military discipline a wide breach between officers and the enlisted personnel, and I was not to think of myself, or permitted to think of myself, as being in his class.

As it was, it was happiness just to look at her—I mean to glance at her out of the corner of my eye. At times it seemed as though she glanced at me. I thought, “Well! If I ever marry, that is my type of girl—my dream girl in blue.”

Visiting hours were over and the decks had to be cleared. My dream girl in blue vanished as in a mist. Little did I know that this beautiful creature, with her sparkling eyes, and extremely feminine and womanly characteristics, was. five years later to become my wife, nor could I then form any concept of what she would mean to me when the world went mad and when reason tottered on its throne in the swamps and forests of the Argonne.

Dan Cupid

I spoke with some of the boys concerning this lady in blue, and it happened that one of them knew whence she came. I wanted her address, but in vain. He would not give it to me. With the winter maneuvers and battle drills coining on, I was soon lost in my work of being a United States marine, but stored away in the vaults of memory’s castle were always thoughts of my dream girl in blue.

The winter was spent in training on the high seas and in the tropics. With the coming of spring the fleet would start north again, each vessel booked to its respective home port, for overhauling. Nearly a year passed, and as we steamed through the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, and I chanced to come on deck, two marines were talking about the girl in blue, and how anxious I was to meet her. We all laughed. “Who was she, anyway?” asked one. The man that knew then told who she was and whence she came. I said nothing, the matter was dis-, missed, and we talked of other things, but, later, I went below deck and jotted down her name and part of the address.

Giants Uneasy

The money from America flowed unceasingly to the war-wrecked nations of Europe. The constant feeding of the fires of war had them burning fiercely. The conflagration was spreading from nation to nation. The financial giants snarled as they saw the possible loss of all their gold. The Allies must be backed to the last dollar, no matter whose dollar. Every factor of America’s industrial life seemingly was involved. War possibilities loomed everywhere. But no! Our statesmen would not allow the peaceful citizens of this great republic to become involved in a world war. Business was good, work was plentiful, wages were high, and the nation was altogether peaceful and prosperous. ■

A Letter

The battleship Wyoming arrived at her port in Brooklyn. The assignments for leave were given. En route to Brooklyn. I penned a missive to the girl in blue and when we reached port I deposited it with Uncle Sam for safe delivery. Not many days later an answer came. Yes, she remembered seeing me as I stood on guard, and described me from head to foot, remembering a little mole on my left cheek. I was right: she had glanced at me.

Parties for the soldiers and sailors, with the marines thrown in, were in order. The young lady said, “Mother has asked me to invite you over for an evening.” The date was set. The time arrived, and with jubilant heart I stepped off the ear at Fort Lee, N. J., and neared the number desired.

As I came near the house a terrible fear took hold of me. What if she was not the girl in blue that I had seen? What if I was not the one she had described? I would turn back. No! The poet had said, “Faint heart never won fair lady.” I knocked on the door and presently heard steps approaching. The door swung open and there stood my girl in blue. I introduced myself, and in turn was introduced to the family.

Days Later

Thereafter I became a frequent visitor at her home. We strolled along the bluffs of the Palisades, watching the steamers going up and down the river, and as we did so a new world opened up to us. We were both still in our teens.

How good it was to live, and to be with each other. “The air is laden with sweet perfume, wafted by the soft south wind that sings through the trees. It is the mating time, and the little birds are vying with each other, singing their songs of felicitation.”

As we talked, hour after hour, we cautiously unfolded our likes and dislikes, and found in each other fascinating mysteries, a blending of unlike forces. We happily explored the future. War clouds were hanging low, but our presi

dent would do the wise thing. He had been reelected the fall before because “he kept us out of war”. '

With expectant and joyful hearts we looked forward to the clay when my enlistment would expire and I should return to civilian life. We loved each other and in due time we should marry. We thought of a little baby’s hands patting us each upon the cheeks, giving us thanksgiving and appreciation of the unspeakable wonders of God that should be entrusted to us. We named those imaginary baby fingers and tiny toes, “Isn’t he cute h”

Organized Labor By Frank Bortlik (New York)

IT MUST be admitted that organized labor is . not altogether unselfish, and that it has many enemies. This is largely because of the prejudice foisted on the minds of people outside the organization by Big Business, which generally erroneously believes that their gain comes by reducing the economic structure to pauperism.

The earnest struggle for better living conditions of any group of men or women should have our synipathy; for such efforts promote the well-being of the community. To organized labor can be given credit for the following:

It has opposed Big Business with its cold, commercial practices, which reduce man to the status of a commodity.

It has (at least this is true with the Typographical Union No. 6, which has been regarded by the state as a model union) insisted on sanitary conditions, and a living wage; has required rest periods after working overtime, sick and old age benefits, a home for the incapacitated, and a school for apprentices, with a standard of efficiency; has been disposed to introduce machinery (to its own apparent loss); and has been impartial to workers, as to color, creed, or rank.

The charge has been made that organized labor “bargains” for its jobs. After all, that is the tragedy in any sphere of life, done justly and unjustly. When we do shopping, read advertisements, listen to musicians, listen to speeches, etc., we consider, judge, those who “bargain” their wares, or the fruit of their jobs, whatever sort they may be. We favor those who assume fully the responsibility of giving us the best service, at the same time involving the benefit of others in the transaction.

Organized labor assumes this responsibility. Inefficient labor assumes none other than to get what it can for the meager amount it gives.

It is not logical that organized labor should, impoverish itself (particularly in these times of stress brought on by the selfish ruling factors) and thus lower its efficiency by displacing itself to give the “inefficient” a job. The question is more than the matter of giving people jobs; it is that of a healthy economic structure built by efficient labor. Then there will be jobs enough for all. The evil has not come through the introduction of machinery (for we all receive benefit therefrom), but from its misuse in hoarding wealth by selfish interests.

The responsibility of the inefficient is to make themselves efficient. If they are misfits, they should go into vocations where they will fit. Everyone owes this to society.

In spite of the economic mess brought on by the conniving commercial interests, the graftseeking politicians, and the hypocritical clergy, organized labor has produced a measure of economic order. Their efforts may fail, however, but the order established by their loving Creator (Jehovah) after the collapse of man’s efforts will not fail, but will provide life, liberty and happiness when the hindrances, above mentioned, shall have been removed.

Star Dust

Coal in 'Antarctica

THE discovery of coal in Antarctica by the

Byrd expedition was quite to be expected, and entirely in line with the Biblical account of creation. For a full discussion of this subject see Judge Rutherford’s book Creation, pages 40 to 43.

Iceland’s Millennium

THE thousandth anniversary of the founding of the oldest parliament in the world will be observed in Reykjavik in June of this year. The climate of Iceland is about that of Edinburgh and Glasgow. The island has 100,000 population, with 50,000 descendants in the western United States and Canada.

Unemployment a Cause of Insanity

b. Haven Emerson, of the Columbia University .Medical Schools faculty, commenting on the effects of fear caused by unemployment, recently said that we are creating conditions as unbearable for human beings in peace as the conditions which existed in the front line trenches during the World War.

Low Wages in East St. Louis

TIRED of the claims of prosperity the workers of East St. Louis have sent a protest to President Hoover complaining of the despicably low wages paid by The Aluminum Ore Company, American Steel Foundries, Sterling Steel Casting Company, Lewin Metal Corporation, Continental Can Company, National Carbon Company, American Car and Foundry Company, Sears-Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, Woolworth, Kresge and Piggly-Wiggly stores.

Pay Day in Union, S. C.

TN UNION, S. C., when the workers have had the necessary deductions made for their rent, water, lights, insurance, food and supplies, it is not uncommon for the pay checks of the workers to be represented in cents, the dollar mark being not needed. The St. Louis Star shows five pay checks on the Monarch Mills Ottaray Plant of that place, the total of which came to eighty-six cents. That is an average of about seventeen cents apiece. The Monarch Mills are hoping that their mills will not be unionized.

Disarmament of Scandinavia

THE Scandinavian countries and Holland are figuring on total disarmament in the next

ten years, and Germany is well satisfied to stay unarmed. The dangers to mankind are all wrapped up in the militarists of the armed countries.

Bullfighting Passing in Peru

K DISPATCH from Peru states that bullfighting there is losing its popularity, the interest being gradually transferred to football. One reason for this is the cost of bulls and the fact that it is difficult to obtain good specimens for the ring. It is time the brutal sport passed out.

Sixteen Thousand Baby Chicks Fly

IN MEXICO recently sixteen thousand baby chicks flew 472 miles, and this took place before they had any use of their wings. Moreover they soared more than a mile and a half in the air and all left and arrived at the same instant. They flew by airplane, to save time en route.

The Chance a Baby Has to Live

MONG the large cities of the United States the baby has the best chance to live if it is born in Seattle; a good chance if it is born in

St. Paul, Chicago, Cleveland, Providence or Los Angeles; an average chance if born in New York city; not quite so good if born in Philadelphia or Buffalo; and a relatively bad chance if born in Pittsburgh, Boston, Detroit or Baltimore. This statement is based on the infant death rate per 1,000 births as of 1928.

At the Mead of the Supreme Court

T THE head of the Supreme Court of the United States we shall now have the former counsel of the American Woolen Company, Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the American Jersey Pottery Company, the American Malleable Castings Iron Company, the Packing Trust and several great oil companies. Just why he should have been appointed chief justice over that truly great man Oliver Wendell Plolmes is apparent, but should not be as apparent as it is.

Raising Wheat by Machinery

THE wholesale use of machinery in the raising of wheat in Canada proceeds apace and nothing can stop it. There are now in use on Canadian prairie farms 66,200 tractors and 7,726 harvester combines. Nearly half of the latter were bought last year. Any one of them will do the work of a small army of men.

As to Safety Razor Blades

Julius Klein, assistant secretary of commerce, recently made the statement that, by the use of improved machinery, one man can now make 640 times as many razor blades in a given time as formerly. This would make it look as if, in the manufacture of razor blades, the man is almost eliminated from the problem.

Chain Stores and Low Wages

WITH the disappearance of the old-time independent grocer goes the wages he received and the wages he paid. The chain stores that are gobbling up the business make a specialty of low wages. In 6,000 such stores the wages of 70 percent of the women employees are less than $15 a week, and 40 percent of them are paid less than $12 a week.

Old Women at 25

A FAMOUS chain of restaurants has set the age of retirement for its waitresses at 25 years. This is nothing less than infamous, but nothing can be done about it. It is selfishness gone to seed, a willingness to sacrifice capable and industrious women merely for the sake of the greater profits that may accrue from the superior attractiveness of those more youthful.

Best to Avoid Crowds

JN THESE days it is best to avoid crowds.

A young business man started across City Hall Park in New York when the police were busily engaged in beating up a crowd of young communists. The young man accidentally lost his hat, whereupon the police, taking him for a communist, pursued him across Broadway, chased him into a restaurant, and pounded him with fists and nightsticks. Of course he has no redress. The majesty of the law must be upheld. Of course he was beaten illegally. Everybody knows, that. He was not arrested.

Rubber Tires from Georgia

TN A few years we may hear of rubber tires * made in Georgia from goldenrod grown in the same state. Henry Ford has purchased seven square miles of land in the goldenrod section of Georgia and it is believed he will . make extensive experiments in the manufacture of rubber from these plants.

The New German Spectacles

k NOTHER German scientist has developed glasses which are wwn within the lids and need not be removed when one sleeps. It seems hard to believe that anybody would ever want to have them inserted in their eyes, but some people are ready to try anything, so long as it is new and different.

Across Australia in Two Days

DY A system similar to the American one of crossing the continent in two nights by rail and two days by plane, Australia will henceforth be crossable in two days by plane and a night by rail. The railway journey will be from Port Augusta to Ooldea, the remainder of the trip from Sydney to Perth will be by air.

Control of Tire Industry

TT IS claimed that whereas in 1920 there were

300 tire companies there are now but 30 and these are now fill practically under the control of a few men. Cryus S. Eaton, of Cleveland, is said to have gained control of the Goodyears, and the Du Ponts the control of the United States Rubber Company. The next thing in order will be a giant trust and higher prices for tires.

Lining Up for Alarm Clocks

Douglas Brown, president of the Baptist

Union, of Great Britain, foresees speedy and increased activity on the part of makers of alarm clocks and overalls. He said recently that if the present spiritual slump continued unchecked, and if the deplorable drift continued for another ten years, organized religion for all practical purposes would be as dead as the dodo. They stood staggered and humbled before the figures of failure, and it was no consolation for them to know that other denominations were no better off.

New York’s Industrial War

IN NEW YORK'S peace time war there were last year 1,307 employees killed while at their work, and more than 12,000 received injuries which crippled or disfigured them for life. The total number killed and maimed in New York city every year is nearly 315,000. The state of Ohio has almost the same number of deaths and injuries annually as has New York city.

Unemployed Filling the Hospitals

SAD feature of the unemployment situation is that the hospitals are overcrowded by having to take care of the elderly men whose resistance has been crushed by lack of proper food. These have broken down in larger numbers than usual and, being unable to care for themselves, have had to be sent to the hospitals in larger numbers than usual.

Unemployment Bound to Persist

THE London Times, pondering the steady displacement of men by machinery and the terrific pace of American industry, which wears men out and discards them while they are still young in years, declares that the machine has run ahead of the mam and that unemployment in America henceforth is bound to be a permanent feature.

Reasons for Longevity

CENSUS of its centenarians shows that

Bulgaria has 158 persons more than 100 years of age. Hard work, sour milk, life in the highlands, inability to read, and a vegetable diet, or rather a diet of vegetables and fruits, seem indicated as the necessities of those who would live to pass the century mark. Further, it is noted that centenarians are of long-lived parents.

Edsel Ford’s $50ft09 Bowl

T^dseu Form’s $50,000 Rhagss bowl is busted.

This bowl, considered one of the world’s choicest art treasures, was placed on the family organ. A man came in to repair the organ. In fifteen minutes he had smashed the $50,000 bowl. Some of Mr. Ford’s employees had to stand a good many hours at his endless belt to earn enough to buy that bowl, and it seems too bad to have it broken. However, Mr. Ford still has change enough to buy another bowl.

An Art Problem Solved

OR long centuries artists have been worrying over how to fitly garb Satan in the pictures they make of him. This great art problem is now solved. Hereafter he will be dressed in the new styles of long skirts which, to their credit, the American women seem entirely too sensible to adopt. It would be impossible to conceive of anything that could look worse.

Some New Inventions

OME new inventions are a robot for accurately estimating the temperature of sheet steel, which it is stated will save millions of dollars annually, and an ultra-violet or black ray which will detect counterfeit bills, spurious jewelry and indicate just what chemicals or other ingredients have been placed in recovered liquor.

Five Billion Tons of Peat

Y A new and inexpensive process of pressing the water out of peat it is hoped to make use of peat beds in northern Germany, covering an area of vast extent, expected to produce five billion tons of dried and usable peat. The process has been in course of being worked out by German scientists for the past ten years and is pronounced a complete success.

High Frequency Radio Dangers

ECAUSE high frequency radio transmitters may prematurely fire the big guns on the ships, or ignite the gasoline supplies, or do other serious damage, their use hereafter will be severely restricted in the navy. It is found that the big guns become resonant with the antennae of the transmitters and become wavelengths themselves, sufficient to cause explosions.

Berlin’s New Diplomatic Dean

IN AMERICA and elsewhere it has hitherto been the custom for the ambassador longest at his post to become the dean of the diplomatic corps to the country where he is appointed. This is now changed in Germany. The papal nuncio, not yet named, is to be dean of the diplomatic corps of Germany. This action was brought about by the instructions sent to the American ambassador from Washington to cast his vote in favor of the Vatican representative.

Limit the Speed of Autos

A. Bohnet, in the Ypsilanti Press, urges

• that, with the single exception of police cars, the possible speed of automobiles be limited to fifty miles an hour in their design and at the factory where they are built. Seems like a sensible suggestion. Who else should have the right to drive on a public highway at any greater speed?

Dirigibles for Pacific Trade

IRIGIBLES are now being builded at Akron, Ohio, for use of the Pacific Transport

Zeppelin Corporation. It is expected that these dirigibles will be completed next year and that regular transpacific service will be inaugurated in 1932. These ships will be supported by helium gas, which is non-inflammable. There will be 12,000 feet of deck space on each ship.

The Up-Swing of Aviation

IN 1929 the mileage flown by American aircraft more than trebled; in six months more than 10,000 student permits have been issued; the number of passengers carried has increased to more than five times, to the respectable total of 3,160,793; there are 62 established airways and 1,552 airports. America is becoming air-minded, •with a vengeance.

Prescribing Dress for Women

BRANCH of the Rumanian government has ordered that all female employees must

dress in black, with sleeves reaching to the wrists, and dresses to the ankles, and they must not use cosmetics in any form. Now w’hen the government goes a step further and removes drooping eyelashes, dimples, smiles, shapely forms, lovely tresses and the innocence and sweetness of youth it will really get somewhere.

How the New Planet Was Located

HE new planet beyond Neptune was located by machinery. Photographs of certain sec

A Four-Year-Old Fireman

DENVER lad of four years of age noticed that screams were coming from the home of a playmate and smoke was coming out through the keyhole. He ran top speed to the fire station, shouted "Fire! Smoke!” and was given a fast ride on the fire engine to the scene of what might have been a disaster except for his mastery of the situation.

Germany's Lone Skyscraper

IT SEEMS comical to a denizen of New York

to learn that Germany has but one skyscraper and that is only thirteen stories highw A New Yorker would hardly consider that a skyscraper at all. In the United States there are 384 buildings that exceed twenty stories in height, and about a dozen in New York city are in excess of fifty stories.

The Terrors of the Lash .

J‘URGES in British Columbia have gone back to the practices of a hundred years or more,-, ago. In ten minutes, recently, one judge in that part of the world handed down sentences totaling sixty-five years and 105 lashes. This is torture pure and simple, a last desperate effort to uphold what is by accommodation called a civilization.

Making Christians in Hungary

THE mass baptism of Jews in Hungary is -L spreading. Many of these Jews have confessed with tears in their eyes that they are becoming nominal Christians as the only possible way by which they can keep alive. This revival of ancient methods of making Christians is interesting, but not inspiring. It shows plainly what a diabolical government Admiral Horthy is heading.

The Marriage at Curityba

T CURITYBA, Brazil, recently, a young man of 122 married a girl of 119. Their

tions of the heaven, taken at different times, are connected up and run as motion pictures. As long as the lights all remain fixed in one position nothing is being seen but the fixed stars, hut when some point of light oscillates then it is known that a new comet or a new planet has been located. Thereafter, many photographs are studied minutely and calculations finally determine the nature of the find.

good health is supposed to be attributable to the. use of yerba mate, or Paraguay tea. It is hoped for the young people that they have carefully considered the importance of the step they are taking, as we would all feel sorry if in later life it should transpire that they had made a mfc take. Probably the young man has learned kind of useful occupation and his wife has by now learned how to cook.

Power Trust Profits

OUT of every« dollar paid to the Montana Power Company 63 cents goes for interest and profit. Another company, formed as a holding company in April, 1926, with $3,500,000 common stock, today shows the same stock on its books to be valued at $50,000,000. The people are expected to pay dividends on all this. Look at Chicago’s bankruptcy. Look at the crowds of unemployed. How much of these huge profits can the unemployed afford to pay?

What Italian Farmers Must Do

ITALIAN farmers must increase their families and increase their yield of wheat immediately or lose their farms. The population of the country must be increased by 20,000,000 within six years. To meet the situation the wheat area must be increased 70,000 acres a year and the yield per acre pushed up from 16 bushels to 25 bushels. The farmer may not go to town to work without permission, and even then must make good in 120 days or go hack to the farm. If he does any thinking he must keep his thoughts to himself.

Japan’s Untillable Land

HE overcrowded condition of Japan is directly due to the fact that only fifteen percent of the land is tillable. Japan is proceeding wisely with her surplus population when she sends them to Brazil, where there is plenty of room for all. The time will come, however, when all of Japan will be made tillable. It will take time and money and lots of work, but when men have really disarmed there will be almost no limit to what they can do in making the earth productive. Rock crushers will reduce inhospitable areas to fine soil. Loam can be transported profitably. Improved methods of fertilization and plant culture will change the surface of all the earth.

Lists of Free Masons

SPHERE is a publication in the Irish Free -*• State which has for some time been publishing columns of names, addresses, and occupations of Irish Masons in the Free State, the avowed object being that these men shall be boycotted, deprived of an opportunity to make a living, and be forced to leave the Free State. There is but one institution in the world small enough and mean enough to perform or cause to be performed an act so unspeakable.

Brown Sugar and Brown Rice

TN AN article in The Nature Cure Magazine -®- Charles W. Garret shows something of the processes to which sugar and rice are commonly subjected in their preparation for the market and makes the statement that “In truth and in fact neither brown sugar nor brown rice, as now known on the market, approaches much more, if any more, than half way to what is possible and practicable in the conservation of the natural food elements actually to be found in these two articles of human diet in their natural state.”

Telephone Trust’s Wonderful Bookkeepers

NO SUCH wonderful bookkeepers elsewhere as those of the four-and-a-quarter-billion-dollar telephone trust, the biggest corporation on earth. In fifteen years the book investment for each telephone in use has risen from $148.67 to $239.69. Then on a depreciation of $11,000,000 in the New York territory they have charged a depreciation of $19,000,000. Of course it is no wonder that with bookkeepers like that the telephone trust has to give its rates an upward shove every once in a while. As justification the trust points to its half million employees and half million stockholders and to the excellent service rendered; and, having the courts back of it, it has nothing to fear.

lasuIFs Touching Plea

THE Power Trust, of which Samuel Insull is a leading and shining light, firmly believes that the public should be soundly educated to believe that all property worth while should be in the hands of a very few men like himself and that no limit should be placed upon the prices which it charges for electric current produced by it at less than %c a kilowatt hour. It is peculiarly touching, therefore, to read Mr. Insull’s plea to his fellow’ men to come to the relief of the Chicago -which has been so badly misused by the Power Trust. He is reported to have said: “For the salvation of this city and county, it [the taxpayers’ trustee plan] should be whole-heartedly put into operation now. For the insurance of health, for the protection of property, for the functioning of the schools, cold-blooded self-interest demands that the taxpayers of Chicago and Cook county shall make up the fund required to meet the necessities of the city and county.” It seems good to have a man like Samuel Insull admit,that he has some interest in his fellow men even if it be but a selfish interest. One can almost see the crocodile tears of sympathy flowing down the Power Trust’s cheeks as their spokesman thus unburdens himself. But this will not result in aiiy reduction of electric rates.

No Animal Ever Created Fertility By W. H. Barton (County Agent)

DEUTERONOMY 23:12-14 is a sanitary measure, and not a soil building or soil conservation measure required by the Lord. Our friend is mistaken when he imagines that such a measure would prevent soil deterioration ; for approximately one-fourth to one-third of the fertility in all foods consumed is “tolled” by the human or animal mill that “grinds” it; and as most of the foods of human beings consist of %on-legumes, instead of legumes, of course, if such foods were produced and consumed on the same area, it would only be a matter of time until such land area would become depleted in nitrogen, the most important element of fertility. However, should the legumes largely predominate in such food, nitrogen would gradually increase in the soil, because two-thirds of the nitrogen in legumes comes from the air. The rate of increase would be approximately two-thirds of the nitrogen content minus the one-fourth to one-third utilized by the consumer for the manufacture of protein in the carcass. No animal, including man, ever created any fertility. Fertility voided was what was left of the food content after the animal was supplied with its needs. This is written in the interests of Truth. It is a common error taught even by livestock experts, that livestock will enrich the soil; whereas livestock are but conservers of fertility when fed on non-legumes alone. Doubtless you have heard the definition: “An expert is a very ordinary individual a long distance from home.”

Editorial Note:

Something wrong here, Mr. Barton. Many years ago the editor saw the Dietrich farm of 15 acres, near Philadelphia, where three horses and twenty-nine head of cattle were maintained by food grown on the farm., and in addition the

farm produced hay and grain to sell. This fertilization was accomplished without the expenditure of a dollar for fertilizer. Three crops ......

were produced each year, the vegetation being so heavy and luxuriant that weeds were completely choked out. All this was done on an ordinary clay soil in twenty years, and the year the writer was at the farm its owner cleared over $2,100 from the fifteen acres, besides maintaining himself and family. His cattle never left the barn, but every day all the manure, solid and liquid, was taken out and placed on a fresh spot somewhere on the farm. Now you are a farm expert, and a good one too, by all accounts, and everybody knows that an editor knows nothing about farming, but now you loll us all about wdiy Dietrich made $2,100 a year on fifteen acres of land, while his neighbors on all sides around him were buying fertilizers ami hardly able to live on 150 acres of land, because their crops were so poor; and then we shall aii have learned something.

Reply by Mr. Barton:

That’s easy. That soil had a wonderful store of natural fertility. Dietrich made his supply available and more effective by applying humus and bacteria in the form of stable manure. I'm neighbors had as much fertility as he, on similar land, but failed to cooperate with (lod’s ■ laws of nature to get its benefits. Apply banking principles and conclude that an overdraft is due on this farm “in due time”, which may be one hundred years, or even one thousand. If no food was purchased and no legumes were produced and fed, the foregoing explains his sue- . cess. If he bought food or produced legumes and fed or left them on the land, it, of course, grew more fertile each year, for the reason that there was an increase of plant food on the soil. -

Electrocoagulation vs. Tonsillectomy By W. G. Wright, D. 0. (Michigan)

THERE is a great deal of truth expressed in

Harold L. Dawson’s article in Golden Age No. 267, “Let Us Be Fair to the M. D.’s”. I have a little criticism for the method he recommends for chronic tonsil trouble, tonsillectomy (not tonsillotomy). In the past few years many prominent medical men have been leaning more to the view that regards tonsils as more important than they were formerly considered. Now a very much more scientific method is being employed in treating the tonsils, namely, electrocoagulation by means of the high frequency current. This method will yield all the beneficial results of the older snare and guillotine, without the attendant dangers. I will give several quotations herewith, taken from the writings of prominent men in first class medical literature.

qDr. J. T. Scott, in Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Monthly (November, 1928), gives quotations from standard works to show that the tonsils are glands of importance with an internal and external secretion. They are headquarters for the production of lymphocytes and assist materially in deglutition. He says the proper method for dealing with diseased tonsils is to cure the disease and enable them to fulfil their functions. They should be removed only if they cannot be cured and are a menace to health. Dr. Scott uses the high frequency current with uniformly good success.

Dr. J. B. H. Waring (Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Monthly, Nov., 1928) declares that over seventy percent of so-called tonsillectomies are really tonsillotomies, that is, part of the tonsil remains after the operation. When tonsillectomy is undertaken it should be complete or not at all, because tonsillar tissue, being lymphoid tissue, will proliferate if just a few cells are left in the throat, and within a short time the patient has another large pair of infected tonsils.- ■

.....The following quotation from Clinical Medicine and Surgery, by Dr. Clarence H. Burton, very well covers the salient points of this tonsil problem: ’

The question of removing the tonsils, as a source of focal infection, has interested the medical profession for many years. . . . The ideal method is yet to be discovered (!) but I believe the nearest approach is electrocoagulation.

The tonsil is today in much the same position as the ovary was twenty years ago. At that time almost every surgeon was removing ovaries daily if the least pathologic tissue was apparent upon examination. It was only five years ago that the medical profession was urging the wholesale extraction of teeth, but fortunately the wisdom of the dentist overweighed the medical advice, and thousands of teeth were saved.

THE REMOVAL OF TONSILS IS A SERIOUS OPERATION, FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS. Severe lung abscesses and hemorrhage follow more often than most physicians imagine. ... In 1923 sixty-two deaths were reported from hemorrhage following the removal of tonsils, and in 1925, 125 deaths occurred from this so-called harmless operation. I was never able to make up my mind which was worse for the patient; a complete removal of the tonsillar tissue or a partial removal leaving the stump. We have all seen cases, after the complete removal, where the pillars collapse and come so close together that they leave a pocket which continually fills up with food and debris, requiring daily removal in^order to keep the pillars in a normal condition. In many of these eases I have made an instrument by bending a wire at an angle of 45°. I then instruct the patient to wrap it with sterile cotton and clean the pocket daily. They very much dislike to do this the rest of their lives, but what else can be done?

When we leave the stump which contains the inferior tonsillar branch of the lingual artery, it very often re-grows and a second operation is necessary. It also is a seat of continual infection, which may be seen by the inflamed condition of the anterior pillar.

What then is to be done if both methods are faulty in some cases? My answer is that, no matter how much of the tonsillar tissue remains, it can be rendered sterile in one treatment by electrocoagulation. A single treatment will often suffice to destroy the seat of infection, and that is all that is necessary to obtain the desired results.

SUMMARY

The advantages of coagulation are:

1. All types of tonsils in the adults are suitable for this technic.

2. Freedom from hemorrhage and lung abscess.

3. Lack of shock.

4. No pain.

5. No detention from occupation.

6. Ability to eat and drink during and immediately after the treatment.

7. End results are exactly what the surgeon makes them, as he can go on treating and destroying the tonsillar tissue until every vestige of it is gone, or stop at any time he sees fit.

This method that is now so rapidly replacing the older and dangerous method of tonsil operation is being taught in many of the chiropractic and osteopathic colleges, as well as in many allopathic schools. Its simplicity and absolute freedom from danger recommend its eaiieful t-t— consideration to those contemplating any attention to the tonsils.

Why Russians Hate the Church

THE Manchester Guardian tells why Russians hate the church. It is because during the days of czardom the parish priests served “as recruiting agents, whose business it was to keep the authorities informed as to the young men of the village who were liable to military service, acted also as an important auxiliary of the secret police, violating even the secrets of the confessional when these touched on matters concerning loyalty to the czar, and reporting as ‘unreliable’ those who did not come to church. Many a man in pre-revolutionary Russia owed his ‘wolf’s passport’, which subjected him to special police attention and greatly increased his difficulties in earning a livelihood, to a report from his parish priest.”

China’s Gift to Civilization

JN" A copyrighted article Herbert Kaufman reminds us that the Chinese have given us silk, paper, printing, gunpowder, porcelains, the mariner’s compass, and that they advocated and practiced tolerance and religious freedom while Europeans were still burning one another at the stake.

The Chinese have tried socialism, the single tax, and the income tax, have manufactured asbestos products, distributed free seeds to devastated areas, raised pedigreed live stock, burned kerosene in lamps, and dispensed dried milk in groceries, long before we Westerners did any of these things.

They have had paved streets, drainage, canals, and stoves in homes and coal in the stoves so long that they can not remember when they began to have them. Servants have been taught to cover nose and mouth so as not to breathe on food. In many other-things China has been away ahead of the Western World, in point of time, and may yet be a leader among the nations.

Patients Are in Fault Too

I READ The Golden Age and approve of ninety-five percent of its ideas. I would like to make a little defense of the M. D.’s.

A large percentage of people of this world are very foolish when it comes to health affairs. This applies to the intellectuals as well as the ignorant. A physician who gives them good advice without giving them medicine or surgery does not know his business, according to their ideas.

I am a dentist, and was a druggist for several years, and have made the above observations.

A prominent and able physician near me had a patient visit me who was really ill. He looked at her teeth, which every diagnostician should do, and noted they were in terrible condition, many badly decayed, pus exuding around the gums from pyorrhea and sore gums. He gave her no medicine, but sent her to me for treatment, telling her to follow my advice, and after my treatment to report again to him if needed.

By Dr. W. P. Tether {Oregon)

She came and I told her what was needed, and the cost. She held up her hands in horror. She said she could not afford it; yet the cost was not as much as new tires for her auto would cost. She did not need the auto, either. She said she should have some medicine to relieve her and would get the dental work later. I did nothing. How could I"? She died in a few weeks.

I am honest enough to admit that the medical profession has its faults; but who is to blame ? If the average M.D. would recommend a chiropractor, dentist, or other healer, he would not get very far.

I knew of many physicians, when I was a druggist, who would write prescriptions that were harmless, because they had to; but gave the patients good hygienic advice, depending upon it for the cure. If the patients recovered, they gave the medicine the credit and would send their friends for the same prescriptions. Who is to blame? Please tell me.

Answer to “World’s Greatest Food Authority”——Dr. McCann By Chas. T. Betts (Ohio)

JN THE Daily Mirror, December 25, 1929, appeared an article under the caption of “McCann Explains Aluminum Utensils Are Free of Poisons”. Dr. Alfred W. McCann is quoted in this article No. 377 as being “the world’s greatest food authority”. This great tribute to Dr. McCann caused the writer to peruse this article with considerable interest, because it is apparent that some one was much interested in his mother’s health and looked to Dr. McCann to answer whether or not the mother, who has an ulcer of the stomach and chronic infection of the gall bladder, could possibly have contracted this disease from the use of aluminum kitchen utensils, and asks the question, “Is aluminum ware used for cooking purposes poisonous ?”

It is recognized by practically all our scientists today that aluminum utensils dissolve during their use and contaminate all foods cooked therein, and that this substance, when in combination with the various salts contained in the foods or when seasoned with ordinary table salt (sodium chloride) during the cooking process, produces a chemical known as aluminum chloride. It is the writer’s belief that Dr. McCann is familiar with this fact. Such a poison, when taken internally, produces lesions, sores of the stomach, chronic infection of the gall bladder, etc., according to our best known toxicologists in almost every land. Yet Dr. McCann states, “There has been a great deal of foolish talk about the so-called poisonous properties of aluminum cooking wares. Many articles have been sent to me on this subject. I can see nothing in any of them. Since my earliest boyhood I can remember our aluminum cooking utensils at home. We use them constantly to this day.”

Dr. McCann has no doubt been very careful with his diet and given attention to his bowel tract. He has exercised and kept his body quite normal. Such persons, as explained by Dr. Harry Gideon Wells, pathologist of the University of Chicago, can throw off aluminum poisoning; but when persons are subnormal they will not eliminate the poison, and then the body reabsorbs it, which forms a continuous process of poisoning that results in the various evil effects mentioned by him, under oath to our federal authorities, and in his later work published in the “Archives of Pathology”, August, 1929.

Dr. McCann states that “ulcers of the stomach and chronic infection of the gall bladder should not be handled in the dark. Only the physician in charge can treat them, and unless helped by Mother Nature he is going to have his hands full”. From the extensive reports and observations made by the writer, ulcers of the stomach are not being cured today to any large extent by physicians. Their therapy usually consists of a major operation, trimming or cutting out the ulcerated parts of the stomach or duodenum, leaving the patient in a much worse condition after the operation, in not removing the cause but treating only the effects.

Dr. McCann further states that he remembers using aluminum kitchen utensils in his earliest boyhood days, and has used them until this day. There must be some discrepancy here, because it was in 1886 that aluminum was first produced by the electrolytic process, making it possible to secure the metal in sufficient quantities to make aluminum cooking utensils. It was not until several years after this occurred that experiments were made along this line, and there were a few utensils made in 1895. These were very expensive, as aluminum cost about $16 a pound. They were not made for public distribution until later years. Dr. McCann never saw aluminum cooking utensils in his boyhood days. It was about twenty years after his birth that they began making them. They were being generally sold throughout the United States from about 1901.

The following letter was forwarded to Dr. McCann in answer to Ids article:

December 29, 1929 Dr. Alfred IV. McCann

The New York Daily Mirror New York, New York Mv dear Doctor:

I have read your article which appeared in the "Daily Mirror”, Wednesday, December 25th, pertaining to aluminum cooking utensils. I do not know what your age is, but your memory seems to be exceptionally good if you can remember aluminum cooking utensils in your earliest boyhood days.

I have been reading of you and your articles for about thirty years, and unless you began writing articles before you were born I can only judge that you saw aluminum cooking utensils on some other planet than here because such utensils were not in z existence at the time you were a boy. If you have looked into the matter carefully you will find that the first experiments along this line were made in 1886 and the first aluminum cooking utensils sold to the public about 1895. That was long after my boyhood days and I have every reason to believe that you are older than I.

It is apparent from the question quoted that someone was intensely interested in his mother having ulcers of the stomach, who has had two physicians already, and you advise this same person to leave this matter up to the physician. It is hard for me to understand why you would give advice of this character when the woman is being treated by the physicians and is not securing relief, or advise that person to continue treatment with such men.

You made a statement in this article that was very good and that is, “unless helped by Mother Nature the doctor is going to have his hands full.” The medics at this time, as you well know, have their hands full of these cases and all the treatments they give, so far as my observation is concerned, are of little or no value. Many of our surgeons have taken to removing ulcers by the knife. This recently occurred with Valentino of your city, with. similar results—death. It seems a shame that men like you continue to advise people that there is nothing to a potent poison like aluminum chloride and that ulcers of the stomach, gall stones, etc., are not caused by these poisons, when you could have that information at your finger tips for the asking.

I do not claim any particular knowledge along this line, but I have assembled many scientific investigators’ statements or findings, which have been given by many of our foremost scientists throughout the world, pertaining to the poisoning by aluminum compounds and aluminum cooking utensils’ forming aluminum compounds when used for cooking purposes.

A simple test can be made to prove “Old MotherNature”. Leave milk stand in an aluminum dish for twelve hours, and the same amount in an enamel dish for twelve hours. Place a three-day-old puppy in the room with these two dishes and he will single out the one in the enamel dish every time for his food. Some ......“

three-day-old puppies seem to know more than many of our so-called “health writers” because they are nearer to Nature. It usually takes about nine days for kittens to have their eyes opened. Persons are sometimes like that, the only difference is that some . health writers never get their eyes open and can’t see anything much of value along health lines. I hope this is not your case, although you state in this article, “Many articles on the subject have been sent — to me. I can see nothing in any of them.”

“None are so blind or deaf as those who have eyes and see not or have ears and hear- not.”

How About This, Henry?

THE Morgan Motor Car Company, 999 Broad St., Newark, N. J., is out with a little paper in which, as the one-time largest Ford dealer in New Jersey, there is considerable information as to the peculiar experiences these dealers have been called upon to endure at the hands of the wealthiest man in the world.

It seems that Mr. Ford always demanded cash from his dealers, and in a magazine interview said that his dealers would be fools if they did not get cash from their customers, but that a few weeks later, without consulting the dealers, the Ford Motor Company came out with advertising on the bottom of which was an offer of credit on the part of the dealer, “Terms if desired.” This is like one man offering to lend a second man the money of a third man, without even asking the third man what he thought about it.

On another occasion, so goes the story, the dealers were well loaded up with cars and then received telegrams that effective on a certain day the dealers’ discount would be reduced to 17^%. It seems that young Mr. Ford told the Associated Press that the dealers had agreed to accept a reduction in discount in order to put a car price reduction into effect, and yet “not one Ford dealer in the United States was consulted about the discount”.

The Morgan Motor Car Company seems to remember that when the Ford Motor Company was in financial difficulties it called on its .....

dealers all over the United States for assistance, with the result that the dealers accepted and paid cash for several trainloads of cars, putting the company back on its feet so it could ___

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