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SKIES
POUR DOWN RIGHTEOUSNESS
SECONDS ON THE DIAL
COMMON SALT
IDENTIFYING THE INSANE
WHAT IS METHODIST HELL?
BOLDNESS PAYS
HID
IN DAY OF GOD'S ANGER
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Vol. XII - No. 306
June 10, 1931
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LABOR AND ECONOMICS
German Imperial Railroad
Company ........ 586
The Federal Deficit .... 587
Movements of Wages . . . '. 587
How the Unemployed Live . . 588
Big Fellows Reducing Fay Rolls 589
Crisp County Demonstration . 590
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
The Skies Pouring Down
Righteousness . . . . ... 579
A Lesson from Hebrew Grammar 585
Seconds on the Dial ..... 587
1,000 Workless Ministers in
Southern California .... 588
The War of the Future . . . 589
Boldness Pays ....... 601
manufacturing and mining
The Richman Brothers Factory 585
The Uses of Chromium .... 593
As to Dextrose in Honey . . . 596
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
Public Ownership in Virginia, Minn. . ...... .
Influx of Cheap Chinese Eggs . 587
Excessive Oil Importations . . 587
The Taxicab Business . . . .
Ford Company Profits . . .
Concentration of Wealth. . . .
The Cunard Company .... 591
The Dirigible LZ 129 .... 591
What New Martinsville Gained 596
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
Training the Girls in Alabama . 586 How Wars Are Arranged . . . 598 The White Hope ...... 601
agriculture and husbandry
In Eulogy of the Cow .... 592
science and invention
Keeping Exteriors of Buildings Clean ......... 587
No More Ice-Covered Planes . 588
Monolithic Structures Withstand
Earthquakes ....... 588
The Supply of Xenon .... 588
Some Facts About the Body . 600
HOME AND HEALTH
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Harmless . . . . . . . . 5871
Dorothy Beckman, of Otto, N. Y. 591s Discounting Doctor and Dental
Bills ........ . 593,:
Common Salt ..... . . -594: Identifying the Insane . . ,.»597s Interfering with Their Devotions 607
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
What Is the Methodist Hell? . 599 Makes a Difference ‘Who Smokes 600 Hid in the Day of God’s Anger . • 602's Religious Liberty in Hempstead,
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VoiuAio jQl Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, June 10, 1931 Number 306
The Skies Pouring Down Righteousness
"Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.” (Isa.
45; 8) “The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”—Isa. 11:9.
THE Lord our God has been very generous in the way in which He has spread the waters over the face of the beautiful planet upon which we dwell. The average depth of these waters is about two miles; in places it runs to seven miles. The above scriptures reveal God’s purpose to sometime pour down the truth from the heavens and to saturate the atmosphere of the earth with it miles deep, “as the waters ... ...cover, the-sea.”
Many of us have been so engrossed with the beautiful figures of speech with which the Scriptures abound that we have measurably lost sight of the fact that, in addition to being provided for the enjoyment of those who have large imaginations, they contain repeated and plainly stated announcements of the things 'which God purposes to do in the earth, which things vre see now being done.
W/.7/Before the discovery of the radio, who would have supposed that there would ever come a time in our day when Jesus’ words to His disciples would he fulfilled, “Whatsoever ye have i spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that- which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops” ? (Luke 12: 3) Yet this is exactly what the radio doos. The message of truth is spoken in the “darkness” or seclusion of the studio; it is c"7 spoken, in the ear (in the microphone) in the closets and it is proclaimed upon the house-iy. tops by the antennae which today, quivering | ■ with the message of the truth, are literally attached to the housetops of millions of homes in : world.
Prior to the discovery of the radio, who would .supposed .that the skies would literally dwu. righteousness, literally deluging a community with the message of the Kingdom, and literally causing the judgment of Babylon, the Devil’s organization, to reach unto heaven and be “lifted up even to the skies”?—Jer. 51.: 9.
A Visit to WHK
This is not much of a story. It merely .tel Is a little, and a very little at that, about one of the more than 200 radio stations now weekly broadcasting the electrical transcriptions of Judge Rutherford, every one of which is filled to the full with “righteousness”, truth, on the most important subjects that can engage the attention of men, the great truths of the Scriptures, the gospel of the Kingdom, stated so kindly and yet so plainly and so forcefully that all who listen may readily appreciate and accept, each who will, God’s precious gift of truth which thus conies to them out of the skies.
It so happens that the WHK radio station manager was on the way to the one-day service convention planned for Massillon, April 12, and a convenient opportunity was provided for learning something of what was going on there. More of this later in this article, but now we give attention to the more important general aspects of what, not only this station, but hundreds of other stations are collectively doing to fulfil the scriptures which appear at the head, of this article.
One of the myriad duties entrusted to the manager of a radio station is to constantly check up radio reception of his own station and other stations wherever he happens to be; so a conscientious and capable manager is seldom avzay from a receiving set for any considerable length of time. The manager of WHK has his auto equipped with a good receiving set. and as he drives about from one place to another, fulfilling his engagements, he gives constant attention to this phase of his work from sunrise to midnight.
Like many other intelligent up-to-date-business men. M. A. Howlett, manager of WHK, is a great admirer of Judge Rutherford and listens regularly to his lectures, which at his station go on at 7:10 o’clock Sunday evening. “Waightowee features are on from 8:50 to 11; 00 Sunday morning and from 2: 00 to 3: 00 Sunday afternoon, and from 6: 30 to 7: 30 Sunday night; from 7: 30 to 8: 00 on the mornings of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and from 7:00 to 8:00 o’clock on Thursday evening, every week.
On the morning of Sunday, April 12, Mr. Howlett took five of. us out in the service work at Massillon, and we all took a hand in it and placed twenty-two books and booklets, besides having the following wonderful experience in fulfilment of the scriptures heretofore cited:
The Inundation from Above
At 9:45 a.m., having then been out in the work about an hour, we gathered in. the car, turned the dial to AV J AY, Cleveland, and as though the speaker were in the car, in came the opening announcement:
This is the Watchtower program, featuring on this occasion Judge Rutherford in an electrical transcription of his celebrated lecture on “The Resurrection of the Dead”. Judge Rutherford stands as a towering figure in the world today by reason of his masterful defense of the Bible as the Word of God. The bringing back of the dead is one of the two great and vital truths taught in the Bible. You are now about to hear something you have never heard before.
The lecture followed, and we heard it all, every word, but toward its close the dial was turned to bring in AVAIL’, Columbus, when we heard Judge Rutherford’s clear and lucid lecture concluded. As the concluding announcement was given, the dial was switched again, this time to AVGAR, Cleveland, and we heard the opening announcement. A quick turn of the dial to AVK’B.C, Cincinnati, and another to WORC, AVoreester, Mass., revealed the fact that all three of these stations were making the same amiouncewont simultaneously, and a moment ■ la.ter Judge Rutherford’s kindly voice was saying :
The word “resurrection” means standing up again to life. If the dead are to live again it follows that they are now dead and not alive anywhere. The resurree-llfOlbljhe dead is so plainly taught in the Bible that there can be no doubt about, it.
To know that those now dead and in the grave will bo awakened and brought back brings hope and consolation to those- who mourn the
dead. No one could know this without having proof from a reliable source. The Bible contains that proof. The books published and now being distributed amongst the people show exactly where in the Bible to find these proof texts. The whole question is there made plain and easily understood by all.
It is the privilege of those who understand theB?blc to comfort others who desire consolation. The Scriptures use the word “sleep” to describe death bees use sleep denotes a state of unconsciousness from which............
there is an awakening. Hence it is written, in 1 Thes-...........
salonians 4:13, 1.4 and 17:: But I woul d not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are^“"‘ asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Then wc-which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall wc '■■■■■A ever be with the Lord. ’ ’
Babylon Getting It, and How!
Occasionally we shifted from one station to-another; and as we made one of these shifts we ......
heard something that perhaps Babylon did n-'n like to have told so plainly, but it is the truth nevertheless:
Many good parents have lost their children at tlrf.’ytri "hand of the enemy death. Such children are not in ■' heaven now, nor in purgatory, but arc in the gravri'"""" which in poetic phrase is described by the prophet as the “'land of the enemy”. Such record a] „> are Jeremiah 31:15-17: “'Rachel weeping for her riifidren refused to be comforted, because they were not. Thus saith the Lord, Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be rewarded,..............
saith the Lord; and they shall come again from the land . of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.” This promise is emphatic that the dead shall be awakened. ...........................
The clergy have told sorrowing
babe was in heaven with the angels and enjoying bliss. If that were true, then the parents should not sorrow for them at all. The statement is wholly false, as shown by the Scriptures, because the Jiabd “land of the enemy”, which is death,
due time will be brought back and united with, its parents. For many centuries Satan has beclouded the issue concerning the resurrection of the dehdj!!hMshSi..............................
done this by having his agents teach the people that the dead are alive, in heaven, purgatory or hell. Not wishingto make themselves unpopular bysaying babes are in hell, the clergy have put them, in heaven, and that without any Scriptural authority.
We rejoiced as we realized to the full that Babylon’s punishment was reaching- unto heav-teh .and.'was “lifted up even to the skies”. We could imagine in our minds’ eyes the destroying wind of truth that was sweeping over Massillon. We could imagine the Lord of hosts filling the streets of Massillon with men as with caterpillars. As a matter of fact there were about 250 Bible Students there, and as we shifted our radio car from one point to another we must have seen nearly a score of them. Meantime, wherever wo went Judge Rutherford’s lectures on the resurrection continued:
As stated in Psalm 16:10 and Acts 2:34, Jesus died and went to hell. God raised Him up out of that condition. He was the first one resurrected from the dead, and His resurrection is complete proof of the resurrection of the other dead. In order to meet the argument of those who denied the resurrection of the dead in the days of the apostles, these words appear at 1 Corinthians 15:12-18 and verses 20 to 22: “Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; y<- arc yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them triat slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made dll V
In brief, the plain teaching of the Bible is this: Death befell man because of the violation of God’s law; all mankind inherited the effect of that condemnation; God promised to redeem man from death and to bring him out of the grave, where the dead are; He' sent Jesus Christ to earth, who died and was raised out of death and thereby provided the ransom price, in order that all who believe should not perish, but might live: and this is a guarantee of the resurrection of the dead. At the time of the death and resurrection of Jesus men had been dying for 4,000 years and. had gone into the grave. Not one of them had received a knowledge of God’s provision for salvation. After the resurrection of Jesus this message, recorded in 1 Timothy 2; 3-6 was given to the people: “This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is
one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” '
Ohio and Massachusetts
As we listened we realized that although wo were listening to an electrical transcription that was coming to us at the same time, now a little from Cleveland (WGAR), and then from Cincinnati (WKRC), and from Worcester (WORC), and although it was the actual voice of Judge Rutherford that we heard, yet it was really God himself by this means uttering His voice of truth and causing the vapors to ascend from, the ends of the earth, making lightning with rain, and bringing forth the wind out of His treasures. (Jer. 51:16) With inescapable logic the message continued:
How could it be possible for all to have a knowledge of the truth, when billions of them are dead and unconscious? The Bible answer’ is that they must be awakened out of death and be brought back to life and be offered an opportunity to receive such knowledge. Therefore Jesus, in John 5:28, says that in God’s due time all in their graves shall hear His voice and come forth. There would be no reason for the death and resurrection of Jesus unless such would result beneficially to fallen man. No benefit could result to any man without knowledge; and the dead have no knowledge. Therefore God has provided for their awakening out of death in order to get the knowledge.
In the resurrection there will be two separate and distinct classes. The everlasting home of the first class will be in heaven, while the everlasting home of the other class will be on the earth. Those of the first class will be composed of the faithful followers of Christ Jesus during the period of time that God is selecting His church. The other? class are those who, during the reign of Christ, receive a knowledge of the truth and prove faithful to the Lord and live on earth. Paul the apostle of Jesus Christ, and one of the inspired writers of the New’ Testament, is of the first class. As one of the inspired writers of the Bible, he shows that in order for a creature to go to heaven he must be a faithful follower of Christ, suffer wuth Him, and be made perfect in the resurrection. In Philippians 3:7, 8, 10 and 11 it is written: “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea-, doubtless, and I count al I things but loss, for the excellency of tire knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the Joss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and. the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.”
This emphatic statement of the Scriptures should, for ever put to silence the false claim of the clergy that a man may upon his deathbed repent and go straight to heaven. In order for one. to go to heaven and be uhh. the Lord he must be tried and prove faithful. To such Jesus said: “Be thou faithful unto death, and J. will give thee a crown of hfc.” The apostle knew he would not go to heaven at death, and that ho must remain dead until the ‘second coming of Christ. Therefore the record, at 2 Timothy 4: 6-8, is: “For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous .judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. ’ ’ This is further conclusive proof that the statement made by the clergy, that the good go immediately to heaven, is false. If the good go to heaven immediately at death, then why should there be any resurrection of them at all?
The Trembling and Sorrowful Land
We tried to think of how this would affect those who were really Babylonians, i.e., who were really trying to bolster up the Devil’s organization in this evil day. We thought how very true that from their point of view “the land shall tremble and sorrow; for every purpose of Jehovah shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant”. We thought how true it is that “'the mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight; they have remained in their holds, their might hath failed; they became as women”.
We saw her victims dressed up in spring finery parading to “church”, and we thought how much better the people were being fed who were staying at home and using their radio, and what a blessing we were getting in the car. About this time we shifted to WKBN Youngstown, and on came Judge Rutherford’s mellow voice with his message of truth that
Christ Jesus was the first one to be resurrected from the dead. Prior to that Lazarus was awakened by Jesus out of death for the very purpose of illustrating the manner of the resurrection during His reign. Lazarus afterwards died, and in due time will be completely resurrected. In proof that Jesus was the first, it is written, in Colossians 1:18; ‘He is the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He might have the preeminence.! In 1 Corinthians 15:20 it is slated that Christ was the first one raised from the dead. The promise by the Lord to His faithful fol
lowers, as set forth, in Bevclation 3:21, shows that only the faithful will be with Christ in heavenly glory. To such He said: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne.” Such attain the resurrection of Christ, and this is called “the first, resurrection”. And in Revelation. 20:6 it is written: ‘Blessed and holy are they that have part in the first resurrection.’ ' I ■ ■■J iiiAnjSll
Billions of human creatures have died, and arc now .... sleeping silently in the dust of the earth, totally ignp-1-= rant of any provision God has -graciously made to .....
give them everlasting life. It is God’s will that they ......
must have a knowledge of the truth. They all died as sinners; therefore they must all be awakened out of death to receive this knowledge. In support, of this ; statement it is written, in Acts 24:15: “ There shall ■ be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and : unjust.” And in Acts 17:31 the record is that God has appointed a day or due time in which He will , judge all mankind in righteousness by Jesus Christ, ' i and that the resurrection of Jesus is a guarantee thereof. That is the time when the dead will receive the truth. That blessed time is during the period of the 1,000-year reign of Christ. In further support of this it is written, in 2 Timothy 4:1: “The Lord Je-.............
sus Christ shall judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom.”
New York Was There .......p
We let the Youngstown station go on and . finish telling what they had to say and then we switched to Buffalo, WMAK, and undeterred by the distance in between, Judge Rutherford. continued telling us, where we sat in a comfort-.....: :
able car out on a hilltop on the outskirts,
These scriptures establish two great vital truths which the people should now learn, to wit: The second coming of Christ Jesus and His kingdom, and the bringing back of the dead that they may have an opportunity to live. Nothing could be of greater im-portanee to the people than these truths. Anyone-who ■ ■ would prevent them from obtaining those truths would thereby prove to be the enemy of the people.......
We know that Satan is the enemy of God and of man, and endeavors to keep the people in ignorance. F .• on find that the clergymen oppose the people’s learning the truth as set forth in the Bible, concerning -the second coming of Christ and His kingdom, and the ' resurrection and restitution of mankind, yon may /1,: know at “-nee Ihat these are She enemies of mon whether they know it or not. , ~
On the other hand, anyone who would put himself out to bring to you the truth and help you io understand the Bible, thereby proves to be your friend. At this time there are men and women calling at the homes of the people and exhibiting to them, books
which explain every one of these questions as contained in the Bible, They are not doing this for money, nor to induce anyone to join an organization, but they are doing it to aid the people- to get a knowledge of ' God’s provision for them. The clergymen are the ones that, oppose their work.
Buffalo had no sooner closed than Mansfield, Ohio, WJW, opened up and we had the oppor-■ . tunity to hear the blessed good news of the insurrection all over again, terminating with the comforting assurance that
............Jehovah is man’s everlasting Friend. Some of His . blessings for man in the resurrection will be these: :.......Peace, prosperity, plenty, happiness and health, and
lite everlasting in joy. Read the book Reconciliation and get a clear knowledge of God’s gracious provision m be given to man in the resurrection.
: ‘ Mississippi and Pennsylvania
We shifted our position and ran over to the : other side of town, when faintly we heard the . voice of Judge Rutherford from down in Meridian, Miss., WCOC, coming in once more to Massillon. Five minutes later the powerful KDKA, Pittsburgh, came roaring into the car and we heard the closing announcement:
In the talk to which you have just listened you heard Judge Rutherford mention the book Reconciliation. This is one of the books by this noted author which have a combined circulation of over eighty million copies. It gives complete and unimpeachable proofs in support of the Bible truth regarding the ’ resurrection of the dead. The book Reconciliation and its two companion books, The Harp of God and Gov, eminent, today stand as the only explanation of the resurrection acceptable to critical, intelligent men r and women. Write the Watchtower, 117 Adams St., Brooklyn, N. Y., for further information. Remember:
. Judge Rutherford a week from now, same hour,
- After listening to these ten stations we thought we had been monkeying enough with the radio, so we got out and went about our witnessing work. Mr. Howlett himself placed ten of the 22 pieces of literature that remained :.. behind us to continue the work which the radio had been doing.
In the interim we had heard WHK, of Cleveland, giving in Polish, Rumanian and Slovak the same message which Judge Rutherford had been giving in English daring the hours from 9:45 to 11:00 a.m. in which we were privileged to listen in to the message of truth in English.
We could faintly imagine how, as a result of a witness such as was given in Massillon and such as is being duplicated all over Ohio and ail over the United States and all over the world, it won’t be long before “one post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end”. (Jer. 51: 31) And the “sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof”. We don’t pretend to say that we know what this “sea” means; that is Judge Rutherford’s job, and it is up to him; but it fits the situation that it might refer in this place to the flood of truth that is being poured out from the skies “as the waters cover the sea”. How happy it makes all who have any part in it, no tongue can tell.
We Go Back to WHK
Don’t ask for a technical description of WHK. It is just one of more than 200 stations that are broadcasting the messages of the Kingdom; but it is one of the important stations and is being signally blessed. It is a commercial station, an important outlet for the Columbia chain programs intimately connected with the civic life of the great city. On September 1 it will be housed in the colossal new terminal building, in quarters and with furnishings not surpassed by any radio station in the world. In the new quarters it will be adjacent to and associated with some of the most important and influential business institutions of the city. An expert staff of thirty keeps everything in smooth running order.
At the convention in Massillon a colporteur just returned from Columbus, Ga., spoke feelingly in her testimony of the excellent results she had placing literature in Columbus because of the clear way in which WHK served the territory in which she had been working. Many other testimonies referred to the service which WHK is rendering. Several mentioned approvingly the “forum”, informal Sunday afternoon 'discussion, featuring various aspects of present truth. '
Does not this help one to realize what a marvelous work the radio is doing in the spread of the truth? Those who know much about the actual door-to-door service work fully realize the stupendous influence these radio lectures are exerting and how they are preparing the way for the “locusts” and “caterpillars” to do their work of leaving Judge Rutherford’s books and booklets in the homes of the people.
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Other Side of the World
An appeal to Manager Howlett brought the loan of some letters from abroad reporting the great satisfaction WHK has, at different times, given to radio fans in the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand and other places in the Pacific Ocean, and the Bermudas in the Atlantic Ocean. We give extracts from a few of these letters, believing they will be appreciated by many of our readers:
Le Son’s Bay, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand. “Just a few lines about the test transmission of your new 5,000-watt station. It may surprise you to know that your station is received here in New Zealand, and greater still will be your surprise when you i*ead of its performance. I tuned in on WHK this evening at 8:10, one hour before sunset. Volume then was loud enough to be heard all over the house (12 rooms); but it increased rapidly until 9:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. your time), when each item, could be heard plainly ‘two miles’ away from the loudspeaker. Tonal quality leaves nothing to be desired, and I can honestly say that WHK is the first station I have heard on the 200-550 meter band that does not fade. This may seem strange, but it is positively true. For the whole fifty minutes that I listened there was not the slightest variation in transmission. You can imagine what a thrill it is to be listening to a station over eight thousand miles away coming in just like a local and with no interference whatever. Not one word of the announcer was missed.”
Lowburn Ferry, Near Cromwell, Otago, New Zealand. “You might be interested to learn I picked up your station at 25 minutes past nine on January 8. Upon looking up an atlas I find Cleveland is 41° 28' North and 81° 4.0' West. Lowburn Ferry is 45° 28' South and 169° 12' East. U.S.A, is ahead of New Zealand time. Cleveland is ahead of New Zealand 88 degrees and. four minutes. ... I calculated the distance as 6,053 miles. The following are the portions of the program I heard. [We omit these] [Later] A report from Quebec that it is coming in fine. Reports from Manitoba and Three Rivers. It seems very wonderful that I should hear your voice 6,000 miles away in a fraction, of a second, yet it takes a letter a matter of weeks. I live 150 miles away from Dunedin, the base of Commander Byrd’s Polar Expedition. It is the middle of summer here now; peaches and tomatoes are ripening, lambs fattening, etc. The tourist season is in full swing. Some very fine American cars are on the road. I was given a ride on a Chrysler ’’ 75 the other day.”
WallaceviUe, Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. “No doubt you will be interested to hear that your broadcasting station WTIK was heard here on the
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eighth of January from 8:00 p.m till about 9:30 p.m., New Zealand time, testing out your transmitter. We received your station with great volume on She. loud speaker, and could clearly hear every word spoken, anywhere in. the house. You were-reading out messages from all over the U. S. A, telling how your station was being reccivt d, notably one from Galveston, Tex., Montreal, California, etc. Your early morning sessions are heard here in the evenings, as we are about fifteen houis ahead- ~ " of you.” . ..........
A Trip Through the Skies ...<
Mr. Howlett fixed it up with the National Air........
Transport, Inc., for the visitor to return to New York by airplane as a guest of the two institutions. One’s first trip in an airplane is the perience of a lifetime, and in the planes of the • National Air Transport a wholly enjoyable' one................
The day was perfect, a gentle breeze from the west, not a cloud in the sky. We had two pilots, -and a mate to look after the comfort of the six j men and one woman who went as passengers. At 1: 35 p.m. the plane left the ground so gently that only close observation could detect the time ......
of departure. In a few moments we were up 9,000 feet, with a panorama beneath of such exquisite beauty as none have ever seen except those who have been similarly privileged. The ) visitor had many times sand he would never go 4 , up in. an airplane except in connection with the.............-
Lord’s work, and it was just this kind of occasion which took him up, but it was wholly enjoyable, a blessing in every sense of the word. , Much of the time was spent in writing, with conditions every way as favorable as anywhere, . and much more favorable than would be pos- ' )
sible on any railroad train.
At 9,000 feet no people could be discerned with the unaided eye; roads were about an inch " and a half wide; autos three-quarters of au’:ra::“™ inch long, the cutest little things era", ling around that one could possibly imagine. Houses, the big ones, were about three inches square. “ ' j One could easily put a good-sized village in an , ordinary suitcase. The Allegheny about four inches wide; the Susquehanna, more . than a foot. The Allegheny mountains have deceived us; they are flat, or nearly so. At Sunbury we counted thirty-five islands in the river , to the south, at Shamokin a row of sixty-nine ; potholes where the coal had been taken out from ; underneath, with many more potholes in the ; hills to the southeast of Tamaqua. At one point were seven reservoirs for supplying the coal One * of these was only an inch and a half across. It took eleven i ntos to cross the anthracite coal belt all the wa.y from Shamokin to Tamaqua. But don’t try it L. an auto: you’ll never make it ! The Kloinhar-s truck farm, at Easton (eighty acres) is the shape .of a piece of pie and about that size.
The trip across New 'Jersey,1 including the landing, was made in twenty-nine minutes. Fcmr-thiriy p.m. saw us on the landing field in 'Newark Airport, and 6:00 p.m, at the Bethel table giving thanks to God for another day in the service of ti-e King of kings, who daily loads u<, with benefits and deliberately and intontion-aliy makes 1 Las people, HA true people, the happiest individuals ihat walk the face of the earth.
The Richman Brothers Factory
AT THE Richman Brothers clothing factory . .in-Cleveland, Ohio, largest clothing factory in the world, every one of the four thousand employees, from the janitor to the president, is a stockholder in the institution. Those who have ■used these clothes speak exceedingly well of them.
- A gentleman who made a trip through this great factory says of the splendid arrangements made here to care for the comfort and happiness of employees:
Before we realized it, lunch time arrived, and we were escorted to the factory dining room where we were seated with the three Richman brothers and other company executives. Here we were served a luncheon that would do credit to any first class metropolitan hotel. Meanwhile, we watched with fascination while
several thousand employes passed in orderly rows, between: long steam tables, cafeteria fashion,rte-tlbi?/ regular places at tables which seemed to be- withbil number. Never had we beheld so many people seated at one time in one dining room. The food, prepared in the company kitchens, was excellent, yet we were told that the average cost of a complete luncheon w about 24 cents. The company operates this huge restaurant, with an annual deficit of about twenty thousand dollars . . . an investment in the health and ebtik tentment of its employees. -ri
Soon we heard the strains of a popular dance nuin-bcr, rendered by the Richman orchestra, and we adjourned to the dance floor occupying one wing of the-first floor. Here we were thrilled by the unusual spectacle of a noontime factory dance, and the evidentenjoyment of the hundreds who glided gracefully over the polished floor to the rhythm of the music. - > w—
A Lesson from Hebrew Grammar
[Eeprinted from the Youth's Companion]
AMAN of high character but ordinary eduea-tion was addressing a roomful of school children, and he said to them: “All of you. know the1'verb which says, fI am, thou art, he is’; and all of you know that verbs in. English. French, German, Italian and Latin run in that way: I love, thou lovest, he loves; or I walk, thou walk-est, he walks. But do you know that that is a very bad tvay for a verb to run? Do you know that the old Hebrew’ people arranged their verbs the otlrnr way around,: u-fe is, thou art. T am’?”
Then he aib.wd: “That is the way to look at life. Say to yourself, looking up to God, 'He is’; then look at your neighbor and say, “You are’; last of all think of yourself and say, T am.’ First God, then your neighbor, then yourself. Thai is the way to think and to Jive.”
One who heard this story was so struck by the thought that he could not-rest until he found a Hebrew scholar able to tell him whether it was really true that Hebrew words<are<'eo-iijti-gated in this way. “Yes,” said The scholar,sMbe-Hebr ew verb i s e on.j ugate d as you/ say. Why < do you ask?'’ So the other told him what the man had said to the school children. ?:ri
“Well, well ’’’ exclaimed the' scholar, with-radiy ant face. “I have been studying Hebrew forty years, and never once has it occurred to me thh| Hebrew verbs have that wonderful and beautiful sigjiilieane.?!”
: He sat for some moments, saying;:,i|IIi|||| thou art, I am. How beautiful! Yes, to he sure: He is, you are. I am. Wonderful, wonderful!” t
Training the Girls in Alabama
ALABAMA Kas a 'training school for girls, and according to reports which have strayed into the northern papers they ought to be pretty well trained by the time the school " gets through with them, that is, if there is any.......thing left' of them, which seems doubtful.
After numerous reports had been widely circulated that girls were whipped, starved and allowed to die without medical attention, an investigation was undertaken, and it came out early in the hearings that girls had been put in strait-jackets and handcuffed and had their mouths scaled with adhesive tape wHIe their bodies were lashed with whips. That i§!igOTfi: some. If the British have done anything worse than that in India we have not heard of it.
Public Ownership in Virginia, Minnesota
SEVENTEEN- years ago the electric light and power plant of Virginia, Minnesota, was owned by private parties. The rate charged was 11.34 cents a kilowatt hour. The citizens decided to take advantage of a clause in the franchise which permitted the city to purchase the property.
Many citizens objected. They claimed that the plant was old junk, dilapidated, worn out, and would have to be rebuilt entirely. Nevertheless the consulting engineers advised the purchase at the large price of $550,000. Now note the result.
. The plant has been wholly paid for out of earnings; it has been wholly rebuilt; new and larger water mains have been laid; a complete new distribution system has been built; the gas plant in its entirety has been constructed; the heating plant has been rebuilt, and the plant is now worth $1,846,820.51.
But wait! You have not heard the most interesting thing about it. The rates to the people have been gradually reduced until now the rate is 2 cents a kilowatt hour. Compare that rate with the rates you are paying every month to the Big Business Burglars, and you will know ■why it pays them to buy newspapers and college professors.
German Imperial Railroad Company How It Looks After Its Personnel
[Translated from the Esperanto edition, of The Railroader, by H. W. Kline.]
THE German imperial railroad company arranged the following distribution of drink and food during extreme heat and cold:
Drink-
la,) Summer. | liter of black coffee, -J liter of tea; one bottle of mineral water or lemonade, as desired. Condition is that temperature of warmth must be 23 degrees Centigrade in the shade at 10 o’clock in the morning.
(b) Winter. -J liter of black coffee, | liter of tea; plate of bouillon or plate of any other kind of soup, as desired. Condition is that weather must be a minimum of 10 degrees cold or cold and wet weather.
These drinks are received not only by the executive personnel, but also by all others who must strenuously work under the sun’s rays in the summer (or at fires, for example, in the repair shops, as blacksmiths, etc. ) and during extreme cold in the winter.
Food '
Customary jrarm food, or bread spread with
something, with one of the above mentioned drinks. Condition:
(a) Increase of the regular working time by a minimum of three hours. (Valid only for the train crews.)
(b) Extraordinary sharp, cold weather of more than 20 degrees C. (Valid for the train crews and for the supervisory forces in stations, where the supervision is difficult.)
(c) Hard labor in extraordinary occasions. (Valid only for the persons who are affected at such times.) ' '
From Der Deutsche Eisenbahner, Translated by Joza Zupanic, of Beograd, Yugoslavia, for La Fervojisto {The Railroader),
Remarks by the translator: This is the way things look in Germany concerning the newly arranged distribution of extra pay. It would be very interesting to know a little something in this connection about other railroads. We in Yugoslavia do not have anything like this among railroaders. .................
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Influx tif Cheap Chinese Eggs
GGS may be bought in China for 3c a dozen, American money. As a consequence a vast rindttstty1 has: grown up in which, last year, 60,000,000 dozen eggs were brought in, resulting tin a loss to American poultry growers during the iyear of something like $200,000,000.
Excessive Oil Importations
XCESSIVE oil importations, principally from South American fields, are making hard traveling’ for some 300,000 oil wells in the United States, and many oil companies are near the end of their rope. The worst of it is that -the South American fields are owned by Ameri-■ ean business men.
■General Motors Executives
HE^ ■ General Motors executives have been ' ■taken care of very nicely, thank you. They ■have had their salaries, big ones, too, and besides .that they have had. 5 percent of the net profits annually, with the result that eighty of them have become millionaires. In other words, they have come to be included in the little group of 4 percent of the people who own 80 percent of the wealth.
A Plucky Blind Stenographer : >
BLIND London girl, Violet Harper, learned to write shorthand by the Braille method, at the rate of one hundred words a minute, and reads and transcribes her notes at the rate of sixty words a minute. She has been appointed to a clerkship in a British government office.
The Taxicab Business
IT GIVES one a start to be told that the taxicabs of the country now carry more passengers every year than do the railroads, and that their revenues are five-eighths of the passenger revenues of the railroads. In New York city last year 380,000,000 passengers rode in the city’s 20,000 taxicabs.
Development of Odorless Polecats
B.-OCHESTEB (New York) man has discovered a means of breeding odorless skunks. The new animals are without stripes and have been deprived of some of their fragrance. Now won’t- it be wonderful if by some device a class of preachers can be developed that will tell the truth about this "hell” business? What a wonderful world this is getting to be!
Me feferal Deficit
THE federal deficit is put at about $800,000,000, which is the largest in history. It .is about the same as the annual bill for the army. and navy, which is $750,000,000. This annual bill for the army and navy, by the way, ■is am increase of 161 percent over the pre-war figures. The official declaration of the Kellogg Reace Pact, that war is illegal, seems not to have come too soon.
AfouemeraJs of Wages
TN MARCH, 1930, one hundred and forty-two J- concerns reported wage movements to the United States department of labor; eighty-two -percent of such movements were upward to better wages; eighteen percent were downward to less wages. In March, 193.1, the tables were almost reversed. Three hundred and ninetyeight. concerns reported; eighty-five and one-SOfisipereent.........of wueh. -movements were down
-Tourteen. and one-half percent Milililillilllliimges downward averaged' employees.
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'Keeping Exteriors of Buildings Clean
NEW YORK has a big business in cleaning the exteriors of buildings. Various methods are used, sand blast, abrasion by carborundum wheels, washing with live steam, muriatic acid and hydrochloric acid, and impregnation of the stone with paraffin wax. In the cleaning process many ornaments and other parts have to be removed and replaced, to keep the streets safe for pedestrians beneath.
Coal Tar Dyes Make Serums Harmless
HE newspapers are telling us of some great discoveries at Washington University, St.
Louis. The account is so naive .that we give it just as it appears, merely I’emarking that; another way to avoid the serum sickness is to* avoid the serum itself:
The scientists at ■Washington University found, that, by combining organic compounds, which they call “diazotised amines”, with the active substances in diphtheria and tetanus antitoxins they could eliminate serum sickness. The “diazotised amines” are similar to substances used in making many coal5 tar dyes*
No More Ice-Covered Pltines
THE Goodrich Rubber Company has invented satisfactory overshoes for airplanes. When passing through freezing clouds these overshoes are inflated and deflated by a motor-driven air pump in the cockpit of the plane. The ice breaks up and disappears, carried away by the wind. Thus one of the greatest enemies of the airplane is subdued. Hitherto many an aviator has lost his life because the wings of his plane became overloaded with ice.
Monolithic Stmctures WWwtimd
A T THE time of the San Francisco earthquake it was found that the monolithic concrete structures stood the shocks 'host of all. Now the same thing has been found true at Managua, these structures having suffered but; liftlrtjHt the shocks which razed the city. The 'Managua losses are put at $20,000,000, of which only $2,000,000 was covered by insurance. Managua-lies in the midst of the most insecure land surface of the world.
Accidents in Sports
MORE persons are injured in playing golf than while traveling on railroads, and more than twice as many are injured while playing baseball as are injured in street-car accidents. There are more persons injured while dancing than are injured in subway accidents. These figures have been collected by the Aetna Life Insurance Company. More accidents occur in the building-construction industry than in any other branch of work.
1,000 Workless Ministers in Southern California IT IS estimated that at least 1,000 ministers are without work in the southern part of the state of California. The presbytery of Los Angeles has 108 churches and 324 ministers, and it is claimed that if every Methodist minister should vacate his pulpit the vacancy could be filled in a day. It won’t be long now’ before all the rest of the churches will dose and all the ministers will be at work at some honest kind of labor. After they get used to it they will like it.
Bow the Unemployed Live
IN PHILADELPHIA a check-up was made of fifty families in which the head of the family is unemployed. Here is how they manage to live. In twenty-six of these homes there is some member of the family still w’orking, and bringing in $5 a week or more; the whole family lives on this. Of the 24 families left, half were supported by relatives and neighbors. The rest were being taken care of by churches, relief agencies and former employers. Today, in Philadelphia, men who formerly made $60 to $75 a week as expert mechanics are now collecting junk at 2c a pound.
Facts About Seasickness
IT HAS been found that deaf mutes are immune to seasickness, as are also very young-, children in whom the semicircular canals of the internal ear are not fully developed. Our sense of balance is provided by fluids in the canals mentioned, and seasickness is an involuntary and natural result of the disturbance set up in these fluids, so the doctors say. But now why. is it that if you eat half a dozen Brazil nuts you won’t be seasick, anyway?
The Supply of Xenon
OU have all seen the xenon signs which have as their base the rarest of the noble gases found in the earth’s atmosphere. Do not be alarmed with the thought that the supply of xenon may soon be exhausted. Dr. Humphreys, of the United States weather bureau, says there is enough of it that, loaded on freight cars, 19 tons to the car, the train would reach forty times around the earth and, traveling at twenty miles an hour, would be six years passing a given point.
Still Waters Run Deep
DUC‘ATOUS have just discovered anew that it is not the child that has the most to say that is most intelligent. It often happens that the child that is less glib is more capable than--”----the talkative one. However, one may not assume that all still waters are deep. The shallowest puddles are often and usually perfectly calm. In other words, neither talkativeness„nor,,.„„„. silence can be taken as a sign, of intelligence. Some people are talkative to cover--absence of thought, and some are silent- because they have nothing to set their vocal organs in operation.
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SHE war of thu future is 'described by John Galsworthy, novelist. He says:
There will be no eliivali’y. honor or glory Ju a future war; no distinction of age or sex, or between '.-the- .sick or healthy, will be shown. There will be no . immunity for culture, There will be nothing but flying, invisible shapes, raining death and desolation, .■''■' I i t , The country that indulges in war will become a shadow of its former self and slink down, into the pit of the past. This is no cry of alarm, but common sense.'
Executives Got Nearly Half
IT SEEMS that since 1911 the stockholders ....... of the Bethlehem Steel Company have received dividends amounting to $40,000,000, and that seems like a considerable sum of money. But besides this, and without the knowledge or ap-/;■■■ provnl of the stockholders, $36,000,000 more was drawn off in bonuses to the executives. The ...... oft-repeated claims of the Big Business crowd, that they have no honest men in their ranks, none who can really be trusted by the people, ... . seem quite well substantiated by the facts.
No Money t& Bury Her Babe
ONE of the saddest cases of poverty of which we have heard was that of a Cincinnati mother whose babe died on the day of its birth. She had no money to provide a funeral, and kept the little body in the house eleven days, washing it every day and nestling it in her arms at might, trying in vain to think of some way to ......-give-it a burial, until finally the police took the oody away. Even after turning it over to the officers she begged that she might be allowed to hold it once more.
Sig Fellows Reducing Pay Rolls
THREE of the largest industries in the United States are the Ford industries, the Steel Trust, and the Telephone Trust. All three of these have turned over thousands of their em-to be fed by the public in the bread v- --/-Unes. They continue to have millions of dollars for stockholders. When business picks up the men who are now in the bread lines, being fed at public expense, will be brought back to work for indigent Big Business. But as soon as they have piled, up sufficient surplus for Big Business they will go back again to the public bread lines.
The World’s Tea Trade
CHINA now supplies only 8 percent of the world’s tea trade, as compared with 73 percent from India and Ceylon. The people of Australia are the greatest tea drinkers in the world, consuming 8.15 pounds of tea per head per year. New Zealand and the Irish Free State are a close second, Britain ’’Atf, then Newfoundland, Canada and Holland. The United States is away down on the list, using only % of a pound of tea per inhabitant per year.
Ford Company Profits
THE Ford Company profits -in the last two-years were $126,000,000. In the two preceding years the loss was $115,000,000 due to the shift from Model T to Model A, with heavy expenditures for plant and tools; in 1925 and 1926 the profits were $190,000,000; and in the two preceding years, $197,000,000. For the two years ending February 28, 1923, they were $177,000,000. Of the total assets of $782,000,000 which the company now has, nearly one-half is cash. The Ford family own all the stock.
Behold What Hypocrites We Are!
THE Prohibition Enforcement Bureau has ruled that there is nothing wrong with the sale of non-intoxicating fruit juices which may ’develop a wine alcoholic content in the home afterward. With this ruling in their possession, salesmen of grape juice are traveling all over the country urging Prohibition Enforcement officials and others to stock up with their wares, assuring them that in a few weeks it will turn into Burgundy or port or whatever is wanted, and that they will service it free of charge.
Juries 'Are Sometimes Fooled
A BROOKLYN jury convicted a fellow citizen of first-degree robbery, despite the fact that six other witnesses corroborated his alibi. At the last minute he was saved from going to prison for twenty years when another, arrested for another crime, admitted his guilt for the crime charged against the convicted man. The detective who caused the innocent man’s' arrest and conviction admitted afterwards that he had all along felt doubt of his guilt. Seems too bad, does it not, that an innocent man should have to go th rough all that, and without any redress? :: - ■< 1 ■ ........?
BStfet Willard on 'Starvation
aniel Willard, president, of the B. & 0.
Kailroad, in an address at the University of Pennsylvania, defended the theory of capitalism, claiming that it is the best yet. developed hut admitted that it has the very seriou,.. defect of not. providing employment for millions who are now willing to work, and that if he were so situated he would steal before he would starve. Here is an honest admission by- one of the world’s great men that poverty is a direct incitement to crime. He who labors to put an end to poverty labors to put an end to crime. He who is indifferent on the subject is responsible for crime. God’s kingdom, which will put an end to poverty, will put an end to crime.
■In Union County,
N A D V E R TIS E M Eli
(Ky.) News tells us that in'Union county this past winter hundreds of met), women and children have begged for their food, and at times have; eaten from garbage cans. Honest, upright, hard-working men have stood in iine, with tears streaming down their cheeks, holding sacks wherein to carry food to their loved one& Ad The farmers of Chenango county, New York,; have been making a special effort, to aid the hard-hit farmers of Union county, Kentucky7. Contributions from the Power Trust, the Steel Trust, the Telephone Trust, Henry Ford, and others that are finding this country rich and'' prosperous, will not be rejected in Union county.
Concentration of Wealth
IN 1920 the incomes of wealthy men in the
'United States, men having incomes of $1,000,-000 or more, totaled $77,078,130. Nine years later this sum had increased to $1,185,135,330, or more than fifteen times as much; so much for the ultrarich. But in 1920 the incomes of men of $5,000 or less income totaled $15,274,217,-215, while in 1929 these incomes, as shown by the income tax returns to the United States treasury department, had dropped to a total of $8,282,000,000. In other words, the big fellows in the last ten years have multiplied their incomes by fifteen, while the smaller business and professional men have had their incomes cut in two.
The Crisp County Demonstration
TIRED of the excessive rates charged by the
Georgia Power Company, Crisp county, Georgia, built its own power plant and cut the rates 25 percent. In the effort to hold its customers the Georgia Power Company made a cut of 35 percent in the Crisp county rates, effective for Crisp county only. Then the State of Georgia brought action against them to compel them to show cause why the rates they wrnre offering should not be made state-wide, and the Power Company in sudden fright petitioned for the privilege of charging in Crisp county the same rates as Crisp county itself is extending to its citizens. Meantime the Power Company has lost almost all its Crisp county customers, and deserved to lose them. And it may have to reduce its rates 25 percent all over the state, and deserves to.
Several Ministers Get in Wrong
THE ministers seem to be having a hard
time of it. A Newark (N. J.) dominie helped hold up a garage, a lunch 'wagon and a chicken market, and now is wondering how the bishop will take it. But the chances are that the bishop is holding up widows and orphans by some-crooked stock scheme. Then a Missouri pastor shot and killed an evangelist of whom he was jealous. And a Chicago ecclesiastic framed up a bookseller and must pay $5,000 for malicious, prosecution. If he could get the bookseller to sell him a certain obscene book the dominie was to get part of the fine that would follow; but. the fine did not just happen to land where he thought it would.
Enemies of the People
THE more units there are in an electric power and lighting system, the more efficiently the system can. be run. One plant after another-can be closed, and the load it formerly carried can be shifted to a central station whmc tor added cost will be negligible. So the cities of Burden and Dexter, Kansas, sold out to. the city of Winfield, which has a municipally owned plant; and do you know that the Kansas branch of the Power Trust, namely, the Kansas Gas and Electric Company, was so mean that it brought an injunction against the city of Winfield to restrain the people from getting the benefits they desired? ’Winfield Municipal, by the way, turns over to the city something like $125,000 a year as a resul®^M operating all its own utilities.
..........Tie Cunard Company
HHHE Cunard Company still has plenty of money, but it won’t have if its profits continue to fall off the next few years the way they have for the last two years. The net profits for 1929 were $4,048,195, but last year they were only $93,005. The loss of almost 98 percent of the previous year’s profits is a good indication of the depressed condition of trade all over the v mid. It is noted that the demand for third '.- ■...cabin, passage continues to increase while the more expensive and more profitable suites of rooms; go almost empty. There is relatively little freight' moving anywhere.
Would You Believe H?
............‘IXT’.OULD you believe it that in a Michigan * ’ ■ city the Power Trust had accumulated so much-surplus, had so fully paid off all its debts and had made such low rates that it did not care to reduce them further, with the result that it deliberately refunded to all its customers 10 percent of their total net bills for. the entire year? Why, no! Of course you 'would not believe it. The thing is impossible and preposterous on the face of it. But that is just what was done at Wyandotte, Michigan. The only difference igw.s;.is'.';that.'. .Wyandotte is not on a Power Trust hookup, biit its. plant is municipally owned; and that is all the difference in the world.
Dorothy Beckman,, of Otto, New York
/JIHE QUEST tells us of Dorothy Beckman, ■*• eight years old, of Otto, New York Diagnosed by two medical doctors and a medical sisms^ecialist-as shaving bulbar paralysis, and given up to die in two hours; two chiropractors came and stayed with the child three days and nights and effected a complete cure. When it became apparent that the child would recover, the home w*«v^g?wuarantined-by the. health officer, in the ex
pectation that the chiropractors could thus be kept away and the child wonk! die as the diagnosis said sho should of right do. But the chi copraetors came anyway, and were used to save the child, though they faced a term in jail for ’doing so. What is this thing that has got us by ths throat, anyway?
The South’s Awful Murder Rate
CHICAGO is bad, with a murder rate
per 100,000 population, and Detroit is bad, with a murder rate of 13.3 per 1(50,000; 'but the South is very much, worse. The rates in Auguste, Jacksonville, Macon, Miami, Mobile, Nashville ; and Savannah are all over 30 per 100,000; Birmingham and Shreveport are over 40; and Atlanta, Lexington and Memphis are over 50; Memphis isrthe worst of all. The rate in Moscow, from 1924 to 1928 was but 4.9 per 100,000, which 'does not make the Russians seem like such bad people after all.
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