Golden Age, January 21, 1931

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SNOWFLAKES

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COMMON SENSE HEALTH ITEMS

FINANCIAL DISTRESS

SIGNS IN HEAVEN

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Vol. XII - No. 296

January 21, 1930

CONTENTS

LABOR AND ECONOMICS

Would Put Unemployed in Army 260

The Five-Day Week ..... 263

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

Leland. Stanford University . . 261

Military Conscription .... 262

Poland’s Mission of Pacification 264

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

Snowflakes ........ 259

Law-Abiding Negroes of the

South. ......... 259

What Racketeering Is ... . 261

Cost of the World War ... . . 262

Getting People Interested in War 262

Who Is Who in Churchianity . 264

Armistice Day in St. Clairsville . 262

Mr. Ballard Seeing Things . . 264

The After-Clap at .Montpelier . 265 1 ‘ Manna-IIatin—The Story

of New York”......266

Saving the Kiddies......280

Relief for the Needy .... 286

New York City’s Tax Bill . . 279

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

Russia to Raise Own Wool . . 262

Pearl Farms of Japan .... 264

Oklahoma Watermelons . . . 265

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

The Welded Skyscraper . . . 261

Floating Power House .... 262

Chromium-Nickel Steel .... 262

What Is Light? ...... 265

MANUFACTURING AND MINING

Immense Phosphate Deposits . 259

Opportunities in Beryllium . . 260

HOME AND HEALTH

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Financial Confidence Slipping . 260

Toronto’s New Chief of Police . 263

Springfield’s Low Electric Rate . 263

.A Deliberately Contrived Plot . 268

Financial Distress ..... 277

Chiropractic in Oklahoma . . 259

Sixteen Children Slain .... 260

Common Sense Health Items . . 269

Not a Living Thing for Ten Miles 287

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Stirring the Sleepers .... 280

Signs in Heaven . . . . . .281

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Snowflakes

New Air Line to Chicago

ANEW air line to Chicago makes the westward trip from Newark to Cleveland in 4 hours 26 minutes, and to Chicago in eight hours. The return trip from Chicago to Newark is made in 6y2 hours.

Oconee County Fined $2,000

OCONEE county, S. C., has been fined $2,000 for the lynching of a colored man. The money goes to the family of the poor man that lost his life at the hands of the mob. Abundant evidence exists that the mob lynched the wrong man. The lynchers went scot free, as is the custom in America w’hen w’hite men put innocent colored men to death.

Law-Abiding Negroes of the South

FRIENDS of the Negroes and lovers of justice point out that the prevailing crime wave has had little or no effect upon the Negroes of the South, and that in the exclusively Negro city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, the jail has been torn down to make room for an office building because it has not had a prisoner for two years.

Chiropractic in Oklahoma

More Voters in Japan

JAPAN is expecting to lower the age limit of men voters from twenty-five to twenty years of age. Meantime the agitation for woman suffrage continues, and the greater liberality toward the young men will no doubt profoundly affect the hopes and expectations of the women.

Conservatism in Norway

TN THE recent elections in Norway the radical labor groups suffered a reduction in the number of seats which they control in the national parliament. The non-Socialist parties made a gain of some 200,000 votes, but the gain of the conservatives was not sufficient to give them control of the country.

Britain's Vast Wealth

TA ESPITE all her economic and other troubles in recent years, one of her best known economists, Sir Josiah Stamp, has calculated that Great Britain’s wealth has increased about $19,000,000,000 since the outbreak of the World War. In other words, Britain’s present net 'wealth is set at about $90,225,000,000.

Gene Tunney’s Earnings

IN THE Oklahoma State Supreme Court a TN TWO years Gene Tunney’s earnings in the decision has been rendered that a chiro- A prize ring were $1,700,000. It looks as if the

praetor is qualified to testify as an expert on spinal injuries. This ruling seemingly puts a crimp in the medicos of Oklahoma who have ' been prosecuting the chiropractors, charging them wTith practicing medicine illegally. ■

A Deputy Sheriff in Milwaukee

ENTERING a poverty-stricken home in Milwaukee a deputy sheriff kept in his pocket the paper he had come to serve, went out, and : came back with baskets of groceries, found employment for the husband and father, and । persuaded the sheriff to pay the grocer’s bill i which had first brought him into the home. ;

learned professions were in the wrong business. If they wish to make any money in America the path is plain. They should give up trying to put anything into the heads of the people. What the people crave is action, not brains.

Immense Phosphate Deposits

IMMENSE phosphate deposits have been discovered in Idaho and Montana. It is estimated that five billion tons of the rock are in sight, and that it will average around 30 percent of phosphoric acid. A ten-million-dollar plant has been constructed at Trail, B. C., to crush and prepare the rock for farm use. .

Would Put Unemployed in Army

THE Wisconsin Council of the American

Legion has made the novel proposition that all the unemployed men in the 'United States should be enlisted in the army and receive regular army pay during the present depression. The rules of admission would be changed so that married men and middle-aged men could be enlisted the same as younger and single men.

Parents Giving Children Away

ONLY a few months ago we read with horror that parents in Chinn were, giving their children away, being no longer able to provide them with food. Now we get the information that small farmers of Albemarle, Greene and Rockingham counties, Virginia, in the heart of last summer’s drouth section, are doing the same thing. .

Financial Confidence Gradually Slipping

IN SPITE of all the singing and whistling, it is apparent that the people are losing confidence in some of their financial institutions, and that some banks are losing confidence in themselves. In one day recently 51 banks in the South closed their doors, among them the largest bank in Louisville, Ky. Of the 51 banks, 43 were located in Arkansas, mostly in one chain.

Zamora Tells Alfonso What to Do

STANDING in a bull ring at Madrid, in front of 16,000 people, and also in front of a microphone, Senor Alcala Zamora, Spanish republican leader, took pains to tell King Alfonso that there will shortly be a republic in Spain and that the best thing he can do is to get out of the country while the getting is good. Since then Madrid has had a,general strike; but Alfonso was still there, at last reports.

Parliament Practically Useless

Winston Churchill, admittedly one of the brightest minds in Britain’s political world, recently made the statement that parliaments are practically useless to solve the economic problems now facing mankind. Before they get through with it all the statesmen of the world must come to the same conclusion. The only possible hope of the world is in the kingdom which is from above, God’s kingdom, Christ’s kingdom, forcibly intervening in human affairs.

A Remarkable Tomato Plant

A MAN in Oklahoma City found a tomato plant growing in his yard last spring. He did not know where it came from, or wdio planted it. It grew marvelously, covering eventually an area fourteen feet long by five feet wide, At maturity it yielded more than a bushel of tomatoes, all perfect.

Opportunities in Beryllium

ADHERE are opportunities for fame and for-®- tune in the smelting of beryllium. There are mountains of the ore in Austria and Africa, and quantities of it in the state of Maine, but no practical way to smelt it has yet been found. It is believed this way will yet be found, and that, it will make beryllium the ideal metal for airplane construction, because of its great strength and its lightness.

Lions Dangerous Even as Dummies

TN A parade in London students carried a dummy lion. As soon as it was observed by the live elephants in the parade the elephants took to their heels and -went crashing into a crowd of people, seven of whom were injured. The elephants were headed back into line by the mounted police, after sniffing at the broken fragments of the lion.

Sixteen Lovely Children Slain

SIXTEEN lovely children have been slain in a hospital at Medellin, Colombia. Thirty-three others -were expected to die at the time this item is penned. The young doctor who administered the toxin or antitoxin, or whatever it was, became insane when the results of his experimenting and pus-shooting became manifest, but that will not bring the dead little ones back to life.

Secret of the Big Bertha

rpHE secret of the Big Bertha that dropped shells into Paris while it was still 75 miles away has never been disclosed. None of the Allied engineers were ever able to figure out how a gun could have such a tremendous range, and each one of the Germans who knew’ refused to tell, even when threatened with death. A tablet has recently been, erected at the spot where the gun stood. Its location was finally figured out by mathematicians and astronomers, in itself a -wonderful achievement.

LELAND Stanford University has $7,000,000 HpjEIE railroads have had their big day. Twenty invested in public utilities. It is an invest- years ago they were hauling almost all the

Leland Stanford University ment to be looked after. The president of the University is absent on leave. He is in Washington, a member of the Federal Power Commission; surely a good place to look after a large public utilities investment. Probably that is why he was given the place.

Drusin Gave Back the Bread

AFTER trying for months to obtain a job to provide food for himself and four motherless children, Joseph Drusin stole a loaf of bread from a neighbor’s kitchen, out near Pittsburgh. When the neighbor wanted to know7 what he was doing in her kitchen he shamefacedly laid down the bread. When she had him arrested he went to his cellar and hanged himself. He could not figure it out.

Crust-Planting tn Chicago

A FAVORITE trick of beggars in Chicago is what is called ‘‘'crust-planting”. A beggar plants crusts of bread, and then, when a crowd arrives, he -will rush up, find the crusts, grab them and begin to greedily devour them. As he walks away someone in the crowd is likely to give him a dollar, and in a day he makes better ■wages at this kind of work than if engaged in an honest occupation.

What Racketeering Is

RACKETEERING is the organization, by a gang, of the wholesale distribution of some commodity. The gang gains control of the commodity, raises the price, and forces the retailer to accept the increase. If he refuses lie is bombed or beaten up, and after a short time is ready to pass the increase on to the consumer. The Power Trust is essentially a gang of racketeers.

Burglary Business Getting Unsafe

THE burglary business in Buffalo is getting unsafe. A woman telephoned to the police that she believed a burglary -was being committed. Headquarters sent out a radio alarm to a flying squad equipped with a receiving apparatus. The police drove up to the door and caught the man hard at work on a safe with an electric drill. Hereafter when he goes to work at his trade he will have to take a radio set along, and that is inconvenient.

Rail Truffle Growth Has Ceased freight and passengers in the country. Nov7 onefourth of the freight is carried in other ways, either by pipe lines, rivers, canals or motor trucks, and the motor buses are cutting deeply into the passenger business. Millions of people do all their traveling by automobile.

The Welded Skyscraper of Dallas

npiIERE is now approaching completion in Dallas, Texas, a nineteen-story skyscraper which was put up without the use of rivets. All the joints were electrically welded. The claim is made that this form of construction requires less material, and less expense in preparing the material, and increases speed of construction.

A Child Hero in Chile

TN THE city of Magallanes, at the southern-most tip of the South American continent, a Chilean lost his wife, and after three months lost his job. Being unable to find work he became insane and set fire to his home, expecting to burn himself and four children to death. His nine-year-old son took the situation in hand, kicked out a window, and dragged his three little sisters and himself to safety. The father alone perished.

The Switchman About to Pass

THE next man about to pass out of existence is the railroad switchman. On a forty-mile stretch of track in California one man seated at a table now throws the switches for all the trains within that district. Moreover, he sees before him, traced with automatic pen, the progress of each train. The installation of this new device has done away with several way stations and telegraph offices.

The Hamilton Jail

THE Hamilton (Ontario) jail is a queer kind of jail, run by a queer kind of people. An old man, 72 years of age, came there, stating that he had no friends or relatives, was no longer able to provide for himself, and wanted to be sent to jail, where he would be sheltered and fed. The Hamilton police found he was entitled to an old-age pension, kept him until he got it, and then turned him loose, an independent and appreciative citizen.

New England’s Floating Power House

THE New England Public Service Company now has a vessel cruising up and down the

New England coast which is designed to furnish supplementary electric power at any point where it may be needed. In case of drought in a given locality the power steamer can come into port, hook up with the power lines on shore, and deliver as much power as is desired, at the spot where needed.

Military Conscription

THE savage and brutal practice of military conscription is still maintained in thirty-six countries: Albania, Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Siam, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, .Venezuela, and Yugoslavia.

Cost of the World War

IN THE two years that Uncle Sam was in the World War he either expended or loaned $32,000,000,000, which is one-sixth of the total cost of that era of madness. This sum was much more than the total cost of running the United States government from its inception up to the time this experiment in ‘making the world safe for democracy’ was inaugurated. It was considerably more than a million dollars an hour for more than two years, and accomplished nothing.

Getting People Interested in War

THE Power Trust crowd keep in the saddle by distributing Utility stocks to the public, enough so that the influential newspapers, bankers, college professors, politicians and others of influence line up on their side, against the people. Now another crowd has caught the idea and is lining up the same crowd in favor of war, by distributing the stocks of companies engaged in the manufacture of war materials. A more derilish scheme never was devised. Millions of people will readily follow self-interest, no matter what happens to others, and the manufacturers of war supplies know that very well.

Russia to Raise Own Wool

A X EDITORIAL in the Fiji (Australasia)

Times and Herald reveals the anxiety Australasians feel over the fact that Russian sheep now number 124,000,000, as against Australia’s 110,000,000, and that the merino sheep sent from Australia have quickly become acclimatized and have crossed well with the Russian sheep. Russia is sure to have large quantities of marketable wool in the near future.

Chromium-Nickel Steel

CHROMIUM-NICKEL steel, or ‘•Allegheny metal”, or “Nirosta metal”, as it is variously called, contains 74 parts steel, 18 parts chromium, and 8 parts nickel. -It is rustless, and can be used for every conceivable purpose in home and industry where a white metal is desired. Last year 25,000 tons of it were manufactured in America. Kitchenware made of the new alloy is now finding its way on the market, and is well suited to the purpose intended.

Who Says She Carnot Shoot?

WHO says a woman cannot shoot so as to hit the side of a barn? A New Hampshire woman, the other day, saw a large bird hovering over her chickens. She went in and got the old family shotgun, aimed it at the bird, shut her eyes, and fired. The bird, a golden eagle, with a wing spread of seven feet, fell dead at her feet, and now she is in trouble because it seems that nobody, not even a woman, has a right to shoot an eagle. It is against the law. It was the first time she ever tried to shoot.

'Armistice Day in St. ClairsvUle

EADERS of The Golden Age in foreign countries, and there are many thousand such, will be interested to know how Armistice Day was celebrated in St. Clairsville, Ohio. A storekeeper, feeling the stress of these hard times, kept his store open. A mob of the American Legion descended upon the store, robbed it of fruit and vegetables, and though there were women and children in the place, released tear gas bombs, causing them to flee in a panic. The manager of the store was in bed at last reports, recovering from the attack. The bombs were taken from the sheriff’s office. Nice sheriff, wasn’t he? The American Legion has literature showing that it does not believe in anarchy.

The Five-Day Week

FIGURES of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor show that thexe are 532,894 members of that organization employed on a five-day-week basis. Henry Ford has 200,000 more workers on that basis, making, all together, 732,894 working people on the short-iveek basis. Discussion of the five-day week and the five-hour day indicates a near approach of hours of labor ■which will not drain from the workers all their vitality, but will give them leisure time for other things that are worth while.

San Antonio’s Sale of Church Seals

SAN ANTONIO has had a sale of church seals.

At the start it was understood that the proceeds should go to the Orphans Home, and they did go there, more than half of them. The total amount of the Go-to-Church seals sold was $1,369.40, and half of that "would have been only $684.70; but the Ministerial Alliance opened its large heart and actually gave the orphans 2c more. The balance went to the workers, so that their rake-off from the orphans was only $684.68. The Alliance explained to an angry populace and press that it was impossible to get volunteers to do the -work on a volunteer basis.

Toronto’s New Chief of Police

TORONTO has a new7 chief of police who was jumped from a farm into his present office without taking any of the steps in between. He has just made a ruling that on January first every taxi driver who fails to produce a written certificate from a minister of the gospel as to his moral qualifications will be denied the right to drive cars in Toronto. The chief has asked a group of men w7ho are essentially honest to obtain recommendations from a class of men who are essentially dishonest, men who are paid to teach the Word of God and who admit publicly and privately that they do not believe it is such. The new chief, who seems not yet used to automobiles and other things of the twentieth century, should turn the matter around and forbid any man to preach the gospel in Toronto if the taxi men are unw’illing to certify him as not being a hypocrite. But ■why should a man who is more familiar with the ways of cows than of autos be made the chief of police of a big city?

Germans Continue to Think

TN SPITE of all efforts to prevent it the Ger-J- mans continue to think and to evolve ideas that would surely never come to anybody else. Ln Munich, in a danger spot, is a curb post, made of solid rubber. The cars hit it and neither car nor post is injured. At Leipsig-Loessnig is a group of twenty-four apartment houses laid out in three rings of buildings, with streets radiating outward from its center like spokes in a wheel. It is so planned as to provide the greatest amount of light, air and recreation space to the greatest number of people.

Britain’s Alternatives in India

"BRITAIN is now quite well awake on what must be done in India. The Manchester

Giiardian expresses the situation very well when it says: “Any system of government, however excellent it may be, must result in chaos unless it is supported by a large number of Indians. You can coerce people into accepting a dictatorship, but you cannot coerce them into accepting a constitution. And if it is to be a question of coercion in India it would be better to abandon all talk of a constitution and to rule simply. Happily this nation has no stomach for so mad a policy.”

Springfield’s Low Electric Rate

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, claims that its residential rate of %c a kilowatt hour is ^c low7er than any other residential rate in the United States. The plant is, of course, a municipal plant. Were it privately owned the rate would be many times as high. Like Springfield, Scranton, Pa., is a coal-mining town, a place where electric current can be made very cheaply, but in Scranton the rates until now have been 9c a kilowatt hour, or some thirty times the cost. These rates are shortly to be changed in favor of the wealthy. Poor people will have to pay more, but the rich people will be able to get it for less. This system of robbery is worked out by making service charges for the use of a small amount of current, the theory being that those who can afford to use but a small amount of current should be penalized. The excess collected from the poor is distributed among the rich, who are given reduced rates because they can afford to purchase current lavishly, even

at the excessive prices that are charged and will ness leaders of Philadelphia reduced the wages be charged. ■ of many of their employees.

Sixty Buried Alive at Lyons

WEAKENED by heavy rains, a retaining wall in the city of Lyons, France, gave way early on the morning of November 13, burying sixty persons alive and injuring forty others. A second landslide, an hour after the first, slew nineteen firemen, four policemen and one officer. Some would refer to this as an “act of God”. It cannot be properly referred to as such. If any denizen of the spirit realm had anything to do with that disaster it was Satan, the Devil, to whom, according to the Scriptures, is committed the power of death. Timed so as to slay as many as possible, it was but one of the millions of calamities which Satan has used to bring reproach upon the Creator’s name.

Who Is Who in Churchianity

ishop Thomas Nicholson, president of the Anti-Saloon League, is on the executive committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America; Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, director of the department of education, publicity and research of the AntiSaloon League, is vice-president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America; Rev. F. Scott McBride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, is a member of the executive committee of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; Bishop James Cannon, Jr., of the national executive committee of the Anti-Saloon League, is a member of the executive committee of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America.

Mr. Ballard Seeing Things

Me. Ballard, counsel to the Philadelphia Rapid Transit, is seeing things. When the Committee of One Hundred met in the Bellevue-Stratford to formulate plans for the relief of widespread distress due to unemployment, Mr. Ballard said to them: “We must remember what happened after a certain French queen told her people to eat cake if they had no bread. Anything is better than the whirlwind of revolution. Give and give liberally today rather than face that climax. It is time to do all we can to relieve the situation. If not for charitable reasons, then for the purely selfish reason of preservation of ourselves and of society.” In the same week in which this committee met, several of the husi-

The Breeding Grounds of Hampshire

IN THE breeding grounds of Hampshire, England, on the grounds of the Hampshire Research Area, is a plot of ten acres set aside for experiments with poison gas. Here two thousand old horses have been turned over to the research people. These are enclosed in a sort of cave, while different kinds of poison gas are pumped into the building to see how the poor creatures react to it. Experiments with death germ’s are also being carried out here. All the principal nations have signed the Kellogg Peace Pact that war is unlawful, and so of course these experiments on these poor old horses are merely intended as a sort of postgraduate course for the benefit of the horses themselves.

Pearl Farms of Japan

APAN has nine pearl farms, where a thousand men and women care constantly for 7,000,000 pearl oysters. It takes about seven years to make a pearl. All of these pearl oysters have to be handled several times, and each one of them has a major operation performed on it, and five or ten percent of the operations result eventually in well-rounded, well-colored commercial pearls. The. usual crop is worth some $2,000,000 annually. A single string of perfect pearls has sold in Japan for $15,000. It is believed that the waters of Florida, and possibly other Southern waters, can be used for pearl farming; and the United States Department of Commerce and the Bureau of Fisheries are investigating the subject with that end in view.

Poland’s Mission of Pacification

EFERRING to Poland’s methods of putting dowm disorders in Galicia, the Berlin correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune says: “In the Ukrainian villages of the district, priests and peasants are being flogged -with the knout (a lash consisting of a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire, and hardened so as to mangle the body) and women shamefully mishandled, the thatched cottages of the peasants unroofed, schools closed, cooperative stores looted, libraries demolished, and ruinous requisitions for foodstuffs levied on the villages by the Polish cavalry and police.” Many innocent people have been flogged to death. In some places tables, chairs, books, earthenware, stoves, erockery and pianos were smashed, floor boards were torn up, clothes and bedding were slashed with knives, and in every way the people • were made to realize what a great blessing has come to them through the reestablishment of Poland as one of earth’s governments. When complaints regarding conditions like this come to the attention of the League of Nations they are thrown into the wastebasket, as the quickest and easiest way to get rid of them.

Oklahoma Watermelons

THERE is a place for everything. Well, the place for watermelons seems to be in

Choctaw7 county, Oklahoma. This year the largest melon they raised there weighed 164% pounds, and was auctioned at $196. Last year the largest melon weighed 1521-2 pounds. A melon that weighs less than 75 pounds is not considered up to form in Choctaw county.

During the melon season, ■which lasts from late June into November, the natives live largely on this food, which, if not combined with other viands, is excellent for the system. A melon meal should not have other food mixed with it.

What 18 Light?

b. W. B. Whitney, past president of the American Chemical Society, and now in the research laboratory of the General Electric Company, is reported to have made the folio-wing interesting statement: “A beam of light comes speeding from a star, traveling hundreds of years, and finally it reaches your optic nerve and you see the star. How does it do that? We have our corpuscular theory of light, our wave theory, and now our quantum theory, but they are all just educated guesses. About as good an explanation as any is to say that light travels by the will of God.”

The After-Clap at Montpelier, Indiana

IT IS literally true m this day that ‘one shall chase a thousand, and two shall put ten thousand to flight’, and this is about what happened at Montpelier, Indiana, where the local board of salaried theologians used their influence with the Herald to persuade the people not to buy or to read Judge Rutherford’s books.

From a report of the Indianapolis Bible Student who had this village in hand we quote some interesting paragraphs, of the happenings when the village was recently covered with copies of The Golden Age, containing the Montpelier article, one copy in every house in town. The lady says: ■ ■

Upon entering this little town of about 2,500 people, we went to work immediately. I had called upon but two homes when, to my surprise, the Mr. Law, the minister who attacked me two months ago, came out of the third one. After going a few doors in the next block I again saw this minister coming up a side street. He seemed very nervous and hurried and looked at me scrutinizingly.

Again, when working the business section, all three of the clergymen appeared, this time driving slowly and gazing fixedly at me. A little later, as this part of the town was finished, I looked up, to see Mr. Law going up a side street, and looking back as if in great fear.

As the work progressed the people received me gladly. They criticized the clergy and politicians in general, and said that Montpelier contained the most rotten bunch on the face of the globe.

If you will recall, our work of canvassing Montpelier was finished on the evening when the attack upon us came out. On that occasion only one order was canceled. This man treated me very unkindly, although when I originally canvassed him he had not been in alignment with either the clergy or the politicians. When I called at his door and handed him The Golden Age he said, “Lady, I am sorry I treated you the way I did; I have many faults; I wish I had taken those books and not been influenced. You have told the truth in this whole matter and you can send me the books C.O.D. I am going to read them. ”

My last Golden Age was reserved for the editor of the Montpelier Herald. He had already received his copy from Jacob Mayer, of Altoona, Pa. He was terribly excited as he mentioned Mr. Mayer’s name. He admitted that he was not a Christian, but a man of the world, and agreed that the churches are more commercial than Christian. He also stated that Mr. Chastain did not want his name added to the list of clergymen, but when they called he was not at home, and they added his name anyway, for which he was very sorry.

This last item is rich, for it shows that when a board of hypocrisy gets in motion it will stop at nothing. A little thing like forgery or misrepresentation is nothing at all. The people of Montpelier seem to have sized up the situation about right. The editor of the Herald has been betting on the wrong horse. He should flop to the side of the people and the truth.

“Manna'Hatin—The Story of New York”

IT WILL’ not be often that The Golden Age will take the time to notice a piece of advertising, but the 269-page book called Manna-Hatin—The Story of Neiv York, put out by The Manhattan Company and distributed by The Bank of Manhattan Trust Company is well worth mention.

The forty-two chapters into which the book is divided give the high lights of history of the great city which lies at the edge of the Sea of Verrazano. (Just wdiere that Sea of Verrazano is located nobody has yet been able to ascertain from the map which Girolamo da Verrazano made after the initial exploration of New York harbor by Girolamo’s brother Giovanni in the year 1524.) The book contains thirty-nine illustrations.

At the conclusion of the book are fifty pages of chronology; not the kind Bible Students ■were wont to be interested in, but the kind in wdiich historians of New York city love to revel. The end of this chronology is, appropriately, the breaking of ground in 1929 for the construction at 40 Wall Street of “the tallest office building in the world”, to occupy most of the block bounded by Wall, William, Nassau and Pine Streets.

This is all The Manhattan Company will get in the way of free advertising, but we roam through their book and pick out a few items that may interest our readers. We do not know how’ many of our readers could get a free copy of this book by writing to The Manhattan Company, New York. As many such as can thus obtain the book will find it well worth reading.

The rushing waters which travelers between New York and New England know as Hell Gate were originally known on a Dutch chart of New York harbor by a name which suggests Ilorl-Gat, or channel of the whirlpool. In 1885 the last nine acres of jagged rock which went to make up this deadly reef Avere blown to atoms and crumbled into the mine beneath which had been patiently hollowed out to receive them. Hell Gate still appears on the map, but it is now an innocent place, compared Avith what it was w’hen Captain Adrian Block first pushed his little vessel past its dangers on his way to discover the island off the coast of Connecticut which bears his name.

Everybody in Brooklyn knows where the Brooklyn Navy Yard is located. It is plainly visible from all the adjacent Brooklyn bridges, two of which are on one side of it and two on the other. Its location was once called Wallabout Bay. It bears that name because, when thirty families of persecuted Belgian Calvinists, called “Walloons”, came to join the Dutch colonists, the Dutch located them where the buildings of the navy yard now stand and called the place “T-Wale-Bocht”, or “Bay of the Foreigners”, because, forsooth, Belgians are foreigners to Hollanders.

Would you like to know how Americans came to know the taste of that delicious conspirator against digestion known as the cruller ? It is all very simple. The marriage clerk of the little Dutch community was also the village’s official comforter of the sick; his name, Sebastian Krol. His wife knew how to make these delicious little cakes, and so, when he went to call on the sick, he took 'with him, to comfort them, a supply of his wife’s delicious “Krolyers”.

How many millions of railroad tickets have led to or through Yonkers on the New’ York Central route from New York to Chicago and points west Ave will not even attempt to guess. It seems that the land where the Hudson River city now stands was once granted to Adrian Van der Donck, a young Dutch lord. On account of his youth his estate came to be knowm as the “Young Lord’s Land” and, in Dutch, that is “Yonkheer’s Landt”.

We do not know’ wdiat has become of the pond on the edges of which Adam Roelantsen, New7 York’s first school teacher, had his bleaching ground, where, for a small sum, the Dutch maidens dried the family linens in the sun. The bleaching ground has gone too. In its place are skyscrapers. But the lane by Avhieh the girls went down to the bleachery is still intact, and is called Maiden Lane to this day. Once it was the jevcelry center of the Western world, but, like everything else in New York, the wholesale jew’elry business has moved uptowm and is now in 47th and 48th Streets.

Of course you have heard of the Bowery. Well, every Dutch farm is or w’as a Bouwerie. One such Avas Nut Island, purchased from the Indians for the use of Wouter Van TAviller. As Mr. Van Twiller happened to be the governor of the little Dutch colony, AATe now call his old farm by the name Governor’s Island. And you have heard of that too.

The Indians used to find plenty of rabbits on an island off the lowTer edge of Long Island.

They called these handsome little creatures conynges, and the island came to be called Co-nynge Island. The “iron” steamboats run there regularly now, as well as'the elevated and subway trains, trolleys, and automobiles by the million. The rabbits have long since disappeared, but occasionally some Indians still visit Coney Island, now sometimes playfully called “Cohens’ Island”. In fact it is also quite a favorite resort for the Tammany chieftains and their tribesmen whose wigwams cover the face of Manna-Hatin Island.

English families came and settled in and around New York harbor. For instance, there was the Pell family, and one can hardly get from New York to any New England point without going through their old farm. Of course you recognize their nrine when you pass through the aristocratic suburb of Pelham.

When a band of Dutch farmers moved over to Long Island and broke ground for a new lot of farms they called the locality by the Dutch name which means “'broken ground”. That Dutch name of “Breuckelen” we still have with us, and our printing presses today are running in what was once one of the old farms.

As the Dutch spread to the north there came a time w’hen one of them, more courageous and energetic than the others, crossed over a river well known to all New Yorkers and settled in what is now7 Bronx borough. Jonas Bronck has handed his name down to one of the most populous districts of New York city.

It wras not so nice to have the cows wandering all over the growing village, so, on the northern edge of the town the Dutch residents of New Amsterdam built a fence to keep them out. Later, when the Indians threatened the town, this fence was made into a stout blockade or wall. You have heard about the street that was built along beside it, no doubt. Today it is called Wall Street.

WTien the time came to place a village on the upper shores of Manhattan Island, twenty-five families -were sent at one time, and their little settlement was named after a town in Holland, Haarlem. If you have ever lived in New York you know something about Harlem. Today it is the greatest Negro city in the world, but all a part of Greater New York. '

New York has always been a cosmopolitan city. It is said that by the year 1660 eighteen languages were spoken on the streets of New Amsterdam. Wonder just how many languages and dialects are spoken there now. It must be away up into the hundreds.

Quite a good way out on Long Island, years ago, was a little Indian beaver pond, or what the Indians called a “Jameco”. We do not know wdiat has become of the pond. Quite probably7 it is covered from end to end with the apartment houses or other homes that now go to make up the important district we New Yorkers know as Jamaica.

You have wondered how it is that Staten Island, lying snugly7 up against the shores of New Jersey7, happens to be in New York state. It would not have been so placed had not Captain Charles Billop taken advantage of the agreement made -between the authorities of the two states that New York was to have all the islands in the harbor that could be circumnavigated in twenty-four hours. Nobody supposed that Billop could do in his sloop, the “Bentley”, what he managed to do. Today a fast motor boat w7ould go around it in an hour (but it would have to be a fast one).

New7 York’s curb market. Oh, y7es. That used to meet each Friday morning at the bridge over the Heere Gracht, or Gentleman’s Canal, which then flowed dowm w’hat is now7 Broad Street. The canal is long since gone from the memory of all except historians, but the curb market still meets at Broad Street, in the same location.

Ilog Island. You probably never heard of it by that name. 'When you heard of it it was called Blackwell’s Island, named after Robert Blackwell, but it still had a bad name. You knew7 of it as the location of New7 York’s gloomy prisons. Today the authorities call it Welfare Island. It is a better name for what seems always to have been an. island of unhappiness.

The little book gives us a good story of the piracies of Captain Kidd. It seems that this w7orthy gentleman sailed the seas under the king’s seal, and that King William had a share of the profits when other pirates were captured and the booty7 seized. Captain Kidd got along all right until his crew mutinied, and w7hen that happened, and the black flag was raised, it cost him his head. King William w?as glad to see him go, because he knew altogether too much of how7 some of the funds found their w7ay into the royal treasury.

Bowling Green, for long maintained as a public bowling ground, w7as rented for one peppercorn per year to Jolin Chambers, Peter Bayard and Peter Jay. Before that time it was the open space before the walls of the fort of New Amsterdam. The United States Custom House stands upon it now.

Columbia University was founded, so says the charter, “to prevent the growth of republican principles which already too much prevail in the colonies.” Well! Not every university tells as plainly in its charter what was the real motive animating its founders.

It does not make you love our British ancestors as much as you might when you read about the terrible prison-ship “Jersey”, -which lay in Wallabout Bay during Revolutionary times. The story of this ship says:

The unfortunates committed to its dreary hold learned to expect no mercy. By day they were permitted to crawl about the decks, if disease and starvation had left them sufficient strength, but by night they were herded into the filth and darkness below, and sentries who guarded the single narrow grating that admitted air to the hold often amused themselves by thrusting their bayonets between the bars at the struggling, gasping victims. Provost Cunningham’s proud boast that he had caused the death of more Yankees than had any battle was probably no idle one, for no less than eleven thousand bodies are said to have been carried away in the death-carts that rumbled daily through the streets of New York, and the guard’s morning call at the grating was “Rebels, turn out your dead! ’ ’ The bodies were often dumped in shallow ditches along the Brooklyn shore, where each tide uncovered human bones. Only in recent years were these tenderly gathered up from the simple tomb originally erected by the Tammany Society near the shore, to find a suitable resting place in the Martyr’s Tomb at Fort Greene Park.

Morrisania, so we are told, was named after Gouverneur Morris. Brooklyn Heights, i. e., Columbia Heights, was at one time considered as a possible site for the federal capital. It Avas reserved for a much greater honor, having to do with, the government of the whole earth, the earthly headquarters of the Lord’s kingdom now functioning in our midst.

Tammany, with a reputation none too good, was named after Tammenand, a Delaware brave, and was organized with the avowed intention of offsetting the aristocratic tendencies of the officers of the Revolutionary army, formed into the Society of the Cincinnati. Its efforts as an anti-patriotic organization seem to have been almost unbroken since that time.

The first Stock Exchange met in 1790 under a spreading button-wood tree that then stood at about what is now No. 68 Wall Street. In two years its membership had grown to twenty-four and definite agreements about trading had been drawn up between them.

American newspaper enterprise, including The Associated Press, is traced directly to James Gordon Bennett, one of the most progressive men that ever lived. Bennett scoured the world for news, and got it too, and readers as well. The New York Herald, in his day, was the greatest real newspaper in the world.

The great American Railway Express' business traces back to the year 1839, when William Harnden in one great carpet bag began carrying packages back and forth between New York and Boston. It seems difficult to believe that so great a business could have had so small a beginning such a short time ago.

It makes the heart beat loudly to read once again about the sweetest of all sweet singers, the Swedish nightingale, Jenny Lind. When she sang the Negro melodies before the Civil War, she sang to not a dry eye in the house. No auditoriums were large enough to hold her audiences. At her opening concert in Castle Garden, Phineas T. Barnum packed the house at $225 a seat. She was a tremendous factor against human slavery.

All together, ‘’Manna-Hatin’ is a very interesting book.

A Deliberately

Chairman McFadden, of the House Banking

Committee, believes that in the next few years standards of living in the United States will be lowered; and he gives the reason why. lie says part of the change is due to natural change in basic economic laws, but:

A large part is due to mismanagement of our

Contrived Plot

national affairs, and a still larger part is due to a deliberately contrived and executed program which has as its object the impoverishment of the people of the United States.

McFadden, being on the inside, ought to know the facts, and we believe he knows what the game is. '

Common Sense Health Items By Dr. P. L. Clark (Illinois) [Broadcast from radio station WEDC, Chicago]

AT THE rate we have been going in the last few years we are soon going to have two government employees for every one who works and produces in the United States, and about iy2 of them are going to be medical men. Medical men and medical societies have ceased to be unbiased, open-minded, investigating bodies, and have now developed into thoroughly aggressive, political organizations, proposing always stricter medical laws for their own exclusive benefit, no matter what harm is done to the people at large, and unless you people wake up, you are going to see the time when you will be waked up in the morning, with a medical man at your door, telling you this is the time to take your shot of something or other, some sort of dirty soup, or be vaccinated with some kind of new pus they have gotten out to ward off or prevent something or other, they know not what; and they don’t know themselves what they are using on you half the time, but they have a vague, indefinite theory, and they are going to try it out on you wholesale first.

A professor of the medical staff of Leland Stanford University is going to have a fine time for the next two or three years studying such glandular conditions as he may find among prisoners in various states. Some pretty soft, easy job these medical boys fall into. I vmnt to tell you that ninety-nine out of every hundred people, and I think that is putting it below7 what it really is, do not have properly functioning glands. Do you think you could have a properly functioning automobile if you put kerosene in the crank case instead of lubricating oil? Are you foolish enough to think you can put' lubricating oil in the gas tank and have your automobile operate satisfactorily? Could you put gasoline in the radiator and get very many miles with your automobile without trouble?

'Well, don’t you think you ought to use the same common sense in running your human machine as you wrould in running an automobile? Do you think you can keep your body in good health by putting into your human gas tank a foodless food like white flour, baked up in various forms of cake and cookies and pastries with white sugar? Both of these so-called foods, being acid-forming, cause a fer-. mentation and will drain from your body all the mineral salts needed for proper nourishment. How can you expect to keep your body in good physical condition -when you eat devitalized foods in the first place, and then when you mix them in combinations, which are in violation of the Creator’s laws of physiology, and when such mixtures create fermentation and putrefaction so that you are constantly absorbing acid-toxic Siaterial into your blood, and having it deposited all through your flesh until you break down your bodies ?

How can you expect the various endocrine glands of your body to function properly when the blood with which those glands should be nourished and made efficient is lacking in the twelve mineral salts, without which you can have no health? How can you expect the glands of your body to work to their fullest capacity and furnish to the blood the endocrine secretions that maintain the endocrine balance through the body when that blood is poisoned 'with acid-toxic poison, just as I might poison, you by shooting some strychnine and morphine into your arm with a hypodermic needle? If I did that, you would know or should know that it would put your brain, your nervous system and every gland in your body more or less out of commission, depending upon the size of the dose I gave you. So it is by the bad habits of living generally indulged in these days that people are poisoning themselves all the time, until they become less efficient mentally and physically, and the endocrine balance of the body is broken down and disturbed by one and another of the glands breaking dorni through lack of nourishment and poisoning from poisoned, acid-toxic blood. Then wdiat would seem to be the first thing to do, the common sense thing to do ?

Wouldn’t it seem a most reasonable proposition to get the poison out of the body and then to begin to nourish that body with such food as would carry into it the mineral salts, the vita-mines and the nourishment necessary to supply every need of the body?

Always, Nature has restored and will restore to proper functioning every gland and every cell in your body when it is properly nourished with clean blood. The problem you have before you is to learn how to nourish your body. You will have to learn how to take care of your human machine, and most of you pay less attention to your priceless human body than you do to any old automobile.

Vaccination

In the city of Leicester, vaccination and revaccination was carried on, and finally they had the worst kind of epidemic of smallpox, and the people were so angry to think they had been hoodwinked into all of this vaccination business, and in spite of it, having such an outbreak of smallpox, that the town eh masse refused after that to be vaccinated, and they have not had any smallpox in Leicester since, except what wms brought in from the outside, and that being immediately isolated, all spread of the disease was prevented, until Leicester is one great English town where they do not have smallpox, and they are not vaccinated, except a very small percentage of them, anti yet the people have the privilege of being vaccinated there if they want to.

Kansas City had an epidemic of smallpox in November and December, 1921, at least it was so alleged by the medical trust doctors of Kansas City. The Advertisers’ Protective Bureau said they didn’t have an epidemic.

I want you to know that the Advertisers’ Protective Bureau of Kansas City, affiliated with the National Vigilance Committee and the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, investigated this so-called epidemic at Kansas City, and I want you to hear some of their conclusions. This advertising organization investigated the number of smallpox cases in other towns in Missouri at the time the epidemic was declared, and found many of them with a very much higher percentage of smallpox cases than there were in Kansas City, yet no epidemic was declared in those towns.

The report says: “In continuing our investigation, we asked several health and medical authorities whether an epidemic condition was justified and could be so advertised when onesixteenth of one percent of the population were afflicted, or one to every 1,600 of population. Unanimously the answer was, ‘No.’ It was then shown that this was the percentage during the height of the affliction here.” In the light of the above comparison, was there justification for the general reign of terror which existed in this city and throughout our trade territory when it was reported on all sides that a smallpox epidemic existed here? ’

Was there justification for the stupendous loss of trade and business during the holiday season due to the unfavorable publicity in the trade territory which inspired fear in the minds of the shoppers throughout the country districts and kept them at home? Was there justification for the falling off in transportation and interurban business, for the enormous loss to the city from cancellations of conventions and business meetings of all kinds ?

Was there justification for eastern traveling men in wiring to correspondents here that they ■would not make the territory for fear of the epidemic? Was there justification for keeping thousands of regular visitors from their annual home-comings with relatives and friends here during the holiday season? Was there justification for the rumors throughout the territory that people were being forcibly taken off trains and vaccinated and that people were -dying in the streets?

It is the policy of this bureau to deal only in facts. This policy underlies the bureau’s work as a quasi-public institution in its mission of suppressing for the benefit of the public, fraudulent and misleading advertising or publicity. Its established policy of gathering facts and reliable information has guided the bureau in endeavoring to ferret out the causes underlying the declaration of the existence of a smallpox epidemic last fall.

The facts seem to be that health conditions just before the “epidemic” were favorable, from the less than 50 percent hospital attendance, the small list of contagious cases on record at the health office (see list), and the fact that Dr. E. H. Bullock, health officer, felt the time opportune to take his annual vacation. We learned also that medical practitioners had fewer cases, and were not overrun with calls. The extremely mild fall and ■winter weather, with little moisture, brought wTith it less of the prevailing colds and la grippe attacks incident to this time of the year. We learned, in short, that the city’s health was so good that not much effori wms needed to make it better, and a sort of dullness pervaded the medical field.

The sudden calling of the epidemic and the attendant publicity changed all this. Every medical practitioner in the city found his hands full with vaccinating patients, both at the office and in the homes. Unofficial estimates place the number of paid vaccinations (as distinguished from free vaccinations of school children and at health centers), at 200,000, for which it is alleged fees ranging from 25 cents up to $5.00 each were charged. An estimated average fee of $2.50 would yield an aggregate of half a million dollars expended by the public of Kansas City during this period for vaccination alone.

Besides the vaccination expenditure many people suffered from the after effects of vaccination, some of them severely. For these, medical attention was required, in soiiw instances, over a period of months, with added expenditure. Besides, there were numbers who, from reading of the epidemic, imagined they had the symptoms of smallpox, and desired medical advice, which added to the cost. This phase need not be entered into at length, the above outline, being, we believe, sufficient to emphasize our point.

While the medical interests of Kansas City were busily endeavoring to cope with the sudden big demand for vaccination and preventive treatment, and while the public generally was hovering between fear and terror as to the extent of the scourge, the business interests of Kansas City were struck a blight as serious as it was sudden. Merchants who had been hopefully anticipating a satisfactory holiday business following the general slackening of the summer, suddenly saw’ their expectations go glimmering, but patriotically s-wallowed their losses and cooperated fully with the movement to eliminate what seemed to them a raging smallpox epidemic.

The proprietor of a specialty store who was asked to estimate the loss suffered by Kansas City business through the epidemic publicity, threw’ up his hands and said: “It is impossible to estimate the figures. Our business alone fell off in November 40 percent.” .Another business man reported he had letters from the territory asking if it was true people were dying in the streets. Country residents were heard to remark they would be taking their lives in their hands to come to Kansas City to shop. We note in an interview in a local paper in February, 1922, a statement by one of the officials of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, as follows: “The symphony concerts would have been a larger success financially and of wider educational value had it not been that Kansas City was suffering from an epidemic at the time the concerts opened. Music lovers in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska who had sent letters of inquiry about sittings at the concerts for the entire winter withdrew their patronage because they did not desire to visit Kansas City at this time. That was an accident that probably never will happen again.”

Typhoid

In 1898, 32 years ago, the attack rate for typhoid fever in the army was 88 per 1,000 men; that is, 88 men out of 1,000 were attacked by typhoid fever in the United States Army, and the death rate was 9 per 1,000, 9%, in fact, nearly 10. In 1899, one year later only, the attack rate had declined to 22.98 or 23 per 1,000, where it was 88 the year before, and the death rate had declined to about 3 per 1,000, where it was almost 10 the year before.

Now this decline continued until 1908, that is, from 1898 until 1908, ten years, when the attack rate was only 3 per 1,000 and only 30/100 of one percent, or one-third of a man per thousand men died from typhoid! This does not include the Spanish War volunteers, and were only those of the regular army. And in the Spanish War volunteers the attack rate of typhoid in 1898 was 166 per 1,000, while in the regular army it was only 88; the death rate in the Spanish Volunteers was 17 per 1,000, against about 10 in the regular army. Then the next year, in 1899, the attack rate was only 17, against 166 the year before and the death rate was a little less than 2 per 1,000, against the death rate in. the regular army of practically 113 per 1,000. ' '

The reason for this sudden dropping in both the regular army and. the Spanish Volunteer army is well known to those of us who were alive at that time, because the papers were teeming with the awful, unsanitary conditions existing- in the camps where the soldiers -were housed. They were held there for a long period of time, some of them never getting out of the camp except in boxes, and the conditions of filth beggared description. Relatives who went there to see their sons and fathers were so incensed that they would go home and stir up the newspapers, until it was widely printed all over the United States that the sanitary conditions were such as -would make any Illinois hog raiser ashamed to keep his hogs in such surroundings, and the food they had -was so contaminated and foul that any hog raiser would know his animals would die of cholera if kept that way, and our boys died of typhoid fever. You see, until they had it kicked into them by outraged public opinion they didn’t Know enough to keep a camp clean and in a wholesome living condition.

Now this is the astonishing fact that I want you to note, that this great reduction in the regular army of an attack rate of typhoid fever of 88 per 1,000 down to 3 per 1,000, and the death rate from 10 per 1,000 to one-third of a man per 1,000, occurred three years before there was any inoculation for typhoid fever! It was not until’1911, three years after this great reduction occurred, that inoculation in the army was made compulsory I The disease already had dwindled, thanks to sanitation, and was rapidly disappearing before a single inoculation was performed!

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