Golden Age, October 14, 1931

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MAJOR AND MINOR NOTES KINGDOM WORK ABROAD A SHEEP AND A GOAT RACKETS IN RELIGION LIBERTY OR OBEDIENCE WHICH?

GERMANE QUESTIONS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ON EARTH

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October 14» 1931

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

LABOR ANO ECONOMICS

Hawarden Pays No Taxes . . . 7

Most Cities Control Own Water 8

Reason for 7,000,000 Jobless . . 12

Eight Million Handicapped .

Workers ........15

Utilities Companies Fight People 19

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

Major and Minor Notes .... 2

If Right, Why Wrong? .... 6

Dollar Book Plan Dropped . . 7

School Children in Russia. ... 8

Four Sizes in Paving Brick . . 8

Back to the Jungle.....9

England Still Pays Tithes . . .10

Methodist Gas Stations . . . .12

Financial Training Suggestions . 13

‘' Cruel and Unusual Punishments ’ ’ 15

MANUFACTURING AND MINING

Bituminous Strike Helps Anthracite........10

Sandersville Makes Ice . . . .11

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Slump on the Ocean ..... 9

Regional Loan Offices . . . .10

Details of New Liner . . . .10

Cries of the Railroads .... 14

International Bankruptcy in Sight 19

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

Spain’s New Parliament ... 2

Nearly All Nations Signed Pact 6

Labor Laws in Wisconsin ... 10

Reclamation of Nile Delta ... 2

An Ever Blooming Rose ... 5

Soil Does Not Affect Seeds . . .14

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Valuable New Artificial Gold . . 5

New Super-Giant Variable Star 11

Termite Incendiary Bombs . . .11

HOME AND HEALTH

Another Death from Natural Causes 12

Germane Questions

Some Free Dental Advice . . . 26

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

Why Canada Suffers

Labor in India.

Collapse of Hankow Dike . . .11

Russia Making Progress . . .13

Britain’s Terrible War Losses . . 14

Strange Doings in Spain . . . 15

Kingdom Work in Fiji

Kingdom Message in Africa . . 17

Radio Responses

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Got It Straight

Sheep and Goat at Mari'dai.e . .19

Racketeering of Missions

and Evangelists

Liberty or Obedience—Which? . 21

Kingdom of Heaven on Earth . . 27

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Golden Age

Volume XIII

Brooklyn, N, Y., Wednesday, October 14, 1931

Number 315

Major and Minor Notes

The American Dole in 1930

TN THE operation of the American dole sys-tern in 1930 more than forty million dollars were expended for relief of needy employees of indigent corporations unable to maintain them while business is poor. This was twice the amount of the previous year.

Turkey Adopts Metric System

HpHE Turkish National Assembly has passed a law making the metric system of weights and measures obligatory. The law is to go into effect in 1933. The law prohibits the sale of other than metric system weighing and measuring devices.

Unemployed 'Will Wear Labels

Soviet Offers Work to Americans

AUSTRIA’S unemployed, joined in a self- OOVIET Russia, just to rub it in, because the help organization, have decided to wear United States has millions of unemployed

white arm bands bearing the words “Willing to work, but workless”. These arm bands will also be worn by youths from the time they leave school until they find work.

The Depression in Chile

THE Chilean government has declared a complete moratorium on all foreign debts for the balance of the year 1931. The United States minister in Santiago is maintaining a bread line at his own expense, at last reports feeding thirty to forty men per day.

and refuses to recognize the Russian republic, has stated that it will give work to 6,000 American miners, machinists, bricklayers, carpenters, and railroad men.

Reclamation of Nile Delta Lands

TWO THOUSAND square miles of land in the

Nile delta are in process of reclamation. At an expense of one million dollars machinery has been devised for washing these lands of their salt, after which they will be planted to cotton, corn and sugar cane.

The Drought in Saskatchewan

Spam’s New Parliament

THE drought in Saskatchewan, and in por- jWiF THE 470 deputies who have taken their tions of Alberta and Manitoba, was so se- A/ seats in the new Spanish parliament only

vere, and the winds so high, that in places the soil has been removed to the depth of several inches and crops are a total failure. The Canadian government will see to it that in the emergency all the needy are fed.

Mining Conditions in Wales

Congressman Lewis of Maryland, himself a practical coal miner, after a tour of inspection of Welsh coal mines expressed the opinion that the average Welsh miner is better off than the average American miner. His wages are less, but hours are shorter and housing conditions are very much better.

14 had ever sat in parliament before. The new parliament has the responsibility of making a new constitution for Spain, to take the place of the monarchy. There has been no parliament in Spain for eight years.

Britain Jails Too Many Innocents

IN THE past five years 8,000 men and women, many of them scarcely more than boys and girls, have been detained in Britain, pending trial, only to be discharged by juries, free of blame or reproach. Meantime they sometimes spend as much as two months in prison before their cases are called.

Kentuckians Fight for Education

IN THE University of Kentucky last year 81 percent of the students did something toward paying their own expenses. Their average hours of work per week were 22, and the rate of pay only a little over 30c an hour.

Uncle Sam as a Road Builder

Uxcle Sam is not as big a road builder as

some people imagine. Between them the two states New York and Pennsylvania spend almost three times as much money in road building as does Uncle Sam. At least they did in the calendar year 1930.

65,000,000 Telephone Calls a Day

THE American Bell Telephone system now completes about 65,000,000 calls a day, and that is a good many calls. It figures out 40,000 exchange calls and 2,000 long-distance or toll calls each minute in the day. The number of calls per day is increasing rapidly.

Our Efficient Machines

IN LOADING pig iron two men now do the work for which 128 were formerly required;

in operating open-hearth furnaces one man does the -work of 42; in certain machine shops one man does the work of 25 skilled machinists; with the oxyacetylene torch four men do in three hours repair Avork on locomotives which formerly took eight men three weeks.

Electric Light Rates at Virginia, Minnesota

OCTOBER 1, 1913, when Virginia, Minnesota, acquired its own public utilities it was paying 1.1.3c per kilowatt hour. Since that time it has put in operation six reductions in rates, and the present net rate is 2c per k.w.h. AU necessary improvements have meantime been made out of the revenues, with proper allowances for depreciation and interest.

Sugar Beet Wages $108 a Year

THE Mexican Welfare Committee of the Knights of Columbus, in Colorado, reports that in the sugar beet fields of the IVest the average wage per person was $108 a year. This means that the whole family has to Avork in the fields and that even then there is nothing left to carry it over the winter season, when public and private charities must come in and help carry the burden. ■ .

Births in Budapest

IN THE city of Budapest three-fourths of all the births take place in clinics and hospitals. One-fourth of all children born in these institutions are illegitimates.

Porto Rico’s Starving Children

TN AN appeal for funds made by the Porto

Rico Child-Feeding Committee, the declaration is made that more than 200,000 children of the island are undernourished and slowly starving. Thousands are living on one meal a day.

Illiteracy in New York

TN NEW YORK there are now 300,000 grown

up people who can neither read nor Avrite. As these are the first to be discharged and the last to be reemployed, their education is a vital matter to the city and a strong attempt will be made this fall to do something about educating them in the rudiments.

Ages of New York’s Population

npwENTY-FOUR percent of New York’s population are under 15 years of age, 19 percent are from 15 to 24; 36 percent are from 25 to 44; 21 percent are over 44. The number of children in the city who are less than five years of age is actually fewer now than it was ten years ago. There are 3,770,000 people in New York city who are less than thirty years of age.

Digging His Own Grave

HPHE Toledo News Bee has a cartoon of a J- short-sighted executive digging his own grave. His shovel is entitled “False Economies”, and his pick “Wage Cuts”, while the hole he is digging is called “Lower Purchasing Pow’er”. All that would be needed to complete the wreck would be for every business man to cut the wages of his help in half.

‘Let Alone the Blind Leaders of the Blind’

npHAT it does not pay to try to tell anything

to people who feel that they already know it all, and whose general attitude toward others is that of the bullfrog, seems indicated by the scientific fact that bullfrogs and turtles are deaf to human speech. The only sounds that are audible to these creatures are those that resemble the croak of the bullfrog.

Anti-Catholic Fight in Vera Cruz

THE anti-Catholics of Vera Cruz, Mexico, seem to be very much in earnest, after all.

They have now ordered that all teachers in the primary and higher schools of the state professing the Catholic religion must be dismissed.

The New Million-Dollar Bills

THE new million-dollar bills being made at

Washington will bear the portrait of ’William Crawford, one-time secretary of the treasury. Not anticipating that there will be any great rush for these, the Government is printing only about 500; but even that number represents $500,000,000.

Philadelphia In for a Bad Winter

PHILADELPHIA is in for a bad winter. In

3% years 611,913 persons have been arrested in that city and 250,000 have left to go elsewhere. Uncollected taxes are in the neighborhood of $17,000,000, and there are now 245,000 unemployed; and 600 mills and factories have left the city.

Rochester Business Men Go off Dole

FEELING ashamed to longer continue on the dole, i.e., to expect the public to take care of their idle employees, fourteen progressive concerns in Rochester, N. Y., are setting aside 2 percent of their annual payrolls as a fund from which unemployment benefits will be distributed after January, 1933.

White Prestige Gone for Ever in India

T ord Irwin, former viceroy of India, declares that white prestige is gone for ever in the land of the Hindus. He attributes this to three things: the defeat of the Russians by the Japanese, the employment of Indian troops against white men in the World War, and the evil influence of motion pictures on the Hindu mind.

THE rector of Old Trinity Church, at the head A SUBSCRIBER sends us a copy of the San

of Wall Street, New York, has just com- Francisco Daily Pacific Builder wherein a

Prayers for the Unemployed posed a special prayer for the unemployed. If Senator Borah is right, some of the rector’s parishioners will have to do something for the poor besides praying for them. He says the rich must feed the poor, and that they will have to do it whether they want to or not.

Chinese Kowtowing to Cease

rpiIE Chinese government has put a stop to -®- the ancient Chinese practice of kowtowing, wfliicli is bowing until the forehead touches the floor. Hereafter, instead of kowtowing, the Chinese will bow three times while standing, and let it go at that.

An Asparagus Story from Germany

IT MUST have been a good season for asparagus in Germany. A single stalk cut in Walldorf, a small town near Heidelberg, weighed one and one-half pounds and is claimed to be the biggest, heaviest and most palatable stalk of asparagus ever raised.

What the Liver Does

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg says: “Ten million blood cells die every second of our lives.

It is the liver’s duty to see that these dead corpuscles are disposed of and that their iron and coloring matter, 'which may be used in making new blood cells, are in large part retained, stored up in its cells, to be used again.”

A Valuable New Artificial Gold

A VALUABLE new artificial gold has been produced in Sheffield. Composed of aluminum and copper, the alloy can be made so as to successfully imitate the various carats of gold color. The new material is stainless and can be used for dinner plates at a price to compete with nickel silver.

An Ever Blooming Rose

AN EVER blooming rose, an act of the

Creator, not due to any 'wisdom or plans of men, has been discovered in New Brunswick, N. J. The rose blooms from June into October. It has been patented by a local florist and will be marketed. The rose has been given the flame “The New’ Dawn”.

Church Classified as Hospital church to be built at Pittsburg, Calif., is listed along with other buildings under the general heading “Hospitals”. And then our correspondent says, “Now I expect to see churches appearing under ‘Jails’, ‘Morgues,’ or ‘Public Incinerators’.” Now, was that nice?

No Nations Have Confidence in Each Other

OREiGN Secretary' Estrada of the republic of Mexico, in an address at Mexico city made the statement, “I know of no two governments which have mutual confidence in each other, and this is one of the gravest calamities which overhangs the nations. The lack of confidence is universal, in spite of what the official statements say with automatic frequency.”

Nearly All Nations Signed Kellogg Peace Pact

HE Kellogg Peace Pact, which declares war a crime, has been signed by every nation of

earth except Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, - Uruguay, Ecuador and San Salvador. Most of the nations that signed the Pact used the ink still left in the pen to order fresh war materials. Since 1914 Uncle Sam’s naval costs have more than doubled.

“Tfte War to End War”

HE war to end war was a great success, for the munition makers. So well have they

Germany Can Pay Only What She Borrows

TT HAS been said many times before, but it

is still true, that Germany can pay only what she borrows. Germany now owes more abroad than she did at the end of the war, and she can pay only as long as she can borrow7. The only reason either the Dawes plan or the Young plan has worked at all is because American money has been pouring into Germany.

Why Canada Suffers .

TN 1928 Canada produced some 400,000,000 bushels of w'heat and disposed of it at an average price of $1.25 a bushel, thus receiving in return about $500,000,000. In 1931 the crop is about half what it was in 1928, and the price, is less than half; so the amount received is less than a quarter of the sum the country had to turn itself with in the former year.

Cheap Labor Not Always Cheap

OME northern mills that moved south in order to get cheaper labor, due to a wanner

maneuvered the politicians, college presidents and newspapers that the various nations spent last year $4,158,000,000 for armaments. And, though the times were harder in 1930 than in 1929, yet the nations in 1930 expended $100,000,000 more for armaments than in 1929.

New York Edison Company Against the Poor

HE New York Edison Company, true to the principles of the Power Trust, has issued

climate and less organized condition of w7orkers, have gone broke, not having found the workers as competent as in the north. A moderately rigorous climate is more conducive to industry, mental and physical, than one w7hich is apparently more congenial.

Operating at a Deficit

CCORDING to the official analysis of corporation income returns for 1927, 203,006,

new rates, showing that it is for the rich and against the poor. Householders who have averaged less than $1.96 per month will find that their rates are increased by the new rates. But the rates of the rich will come dow7ii. Half the people of New York city will have to pay more under the new’ rates.

If It Was Eight, Why Is It Wrong?

overnor Pixchot calls attention to the fact that the Government of the United States has appropriated money to give help to those in need in China, India, Ireland, Cuba, Italy, France, Germany and other countries, and wants to know7, “If it vras right to give help to such foreign people abroad, why should it be wrong to give similar help to our owm people at home?”

or nearly 45 percent of the companies filing returns, reported a deficit. The proportion of business companies reporting deficits in 1925 and 1926 was, respectively, 41 and 43 percent. The total deficit for 1928 amounted to over tw7o billion dollars for the companies that made no net profit.

What the Tramps Were

OF FIFTY-THREE “tramps” interviewed at

Butte city, Montana, only three were really tramps. Most of the remainder were honest workers who had been displaced by machinery: bakers, glass blovvers, firemen, puddlers and farm laborers wdio had been displaced by modern devices for doing by mechanical means the vzork that had hitherto required hundreds of hands.

Dollar Book Plan Dropped

FTER trying it for a year the publishers who inaugurated the dollar book plan have abandoned it, being convinced that books can

not be sold at a profit for one dollar each. Prices have now returned to the usual $2.00 and $2.50 formerly charged. Meantime Judge Rutherford’s books, the best in the world, are delivered at the door for 30c each.

1931 a Wonderful Peach Year

□PHIS has been a wonderful year for peaches, large, luscious, and at prices that have filled the growers with sorrow. In the height of the season in some markets in Georgia the finest peaches that ever grew were selling at 10c a bushel, and even in Atlanta were selling at 25c a bushel. Many of the growers let the fruit rot on the trees rather than try to market it.

Biggest Ear of Com

npHE biggest ear of corn is 49 feet 6 inches high and 15 feet 6 inches in diameter. The kernels average 1 foot high and 3 feet wide and are made of quarter-inch steel plate. All together this ear of corn comprises the new water tank of the Monarch corn and pea factory at Rochester, Minnesota, and rests on steel one hundred feet off the ground.

Wrecking Buildings in New York

EW YORK is constantly wrecking buildings, some of which are twenty-five stories

Foolish Operation Kills a Mother

OOLISHLY yielding to a mere whim, surgeons at Rochester, Indiana, performed Caesarean section so that a child might be born at the same hour of the day as its father had been. The child survived, but the mother died. What right did those surgeons have to perform such a dangerous operation when it was not necessary?

Operation Restores a Voice

SURGEON in Philadelphia performed an operation on the throat of an eleven-year-

old boy which resulted in the restoration of his powTers of speech after he had been silent for eight years. During all that time the child had breathed through a silver tube, inserted when it seemed necessary to save his life, as a result of an attack of diphtheria.

Psychiatrist Urges Sterilization

r. Walter M. English, president of the American Psychiatric Association, urges

sterilization of 1,800,000 persons in the United States who have the mentality of children below the age of 9. He does not say how many of these are to be found among the clergy, financiers and politicians who think the Devil’s organization constitutes Christ’s kingdom.

King Entertains Blind Soldiers

T EDINBURGH King George entertained forty-seven blinded Avar veterans at lunch

high. Speed is everything. Glass, plumbing, boilers, furnaces and woodwork are first cleaned out, when holes are cut from the top of the building to the cellar and everything except iron girders, granite and marble goes down the chute. The cellar itself is cleaned out with steam shovels.

Hawarden, Iowa, Pays No Taxes

AWARDEN, Iowa, pays no taxes. In six years its municipal power plant has paid

eon, shook hands with them, and gave them his best wishes for their future happiness. It was doubtless all he could do, but it must have been mighty poor satisfaction to those who lost their sight in the great madness. How many years of your sight would you be willing to trade for a royal handshake?

A Good Picture of Our Civilization

GOOD picture of our civilization was provided recently near Elizabeth, N. J. A fast

off all the city’s indebtedness, and from now on the profits from the sale of power, light and water will pay the salaries of all city employees, provide police, fire and health protection, and finance public improvements. The rates have been four times reduced and are now the lowest in the state.

train knocked a poor man off a trestle, killing him by shock and drowning. When his body was carried home it was found that his family was starving, and that the man crossed the trestle daily in search of work, thus saving the few pennies it would have cost him to travel by a safer way.

School Children in Russia

HERE is no physical punishment of school children in Russia. Those who do not behave properly are spoken to by the children’s committee which is responsible for behavior. If misbehavior is persisted in, the matter is brought to the attention of the Soviet. If a teacher acts in an unseemly manner or shows bad temper, the -same process takes place.

Precarious Employment in Automobile Industry IT SEEMS hard to stabilize employment in the automobile business. Out of every one hundred persons employed in the motor vehicle industry during 1930 there were 83.8 persons who either quit or were discharged or laid off, as against 59.7 out of every 100 in the 74 other industries for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor compiles figures.

Most Cities Control Own Water Supplies

F THE 50 largest cities in the United States, 48 have their own publicly owned water utilities. Out of 689 city water supplies in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, only 11 are in the hands of private parties. Rates charged for water from privately owned utilities average nearly 80 percent higher than from publicly owned utilities, and the waters are less clean and fit to drink.

More than Half Kept Their Word

/f OBE than half of the Big Business indus-Ivl. tries have kept their word not to reduce wages. A survey of 34 industries made by the Charles E. Bedaux Company, industrial engineers, disclosed that 58 percent have neither cut wages nor reduced salaries because of the depression. About one-fourth, of the total number have cut both wages and salaries, despite their promise that they would not do so.

London Exceeds New York by a Million

ONDON exceeds New York in population by 1,220,891. Greater London has a population of 8,202,818, while that of New York is only 6,981,927. However, Greater London extends for nearly thirty miles, and a like area in the New York district would include several million people in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut that are not now part of New York city.

Fish Farming in United States

ISII farming in the United States is coming to he quite a business. Indiana has some 800 acres of ponds devoted to the culture of goldfish, and sells upward of $900,000 worth of them annually. Trout farming requires an abundance of cold water. Nearly $1,000,000 worth of trout wore produced and sold from American trout-farms in the year 1929.

Precipitations of Rain

HE rainfall on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, has been as much as forty-two feet in a year. Thirty-six feet has been recorded at

Cherrapunji, India. Thirty feet has been recorded at Albert Peak, in the Gulf of New Guinea. Thirteen feet has been recorded in the English lake district, and eight feet has been recorded in Germany.

Evidences of the Flood at Philadelphia

rTIHIRTY-FOUR feet below the surface of the street at Philadelphia, Pa., excavators for a new subway extension found a forest of stumps, some of them six feet in diameter, which had evidently been submerged by a great flood. No doubt much of the thirty-four’ feet of earth above them was deposited there at the time of the great flood. When dried, the stumps burned freely.

Four Sizes of Paving Brick

CTING- on the advice of the standardization bureau of the Department of Commerce, the manufacturers of paving brick have got together and abandoned sixty-two odd sizes and shapes of paving brick. It has been discovered that streets are as well paved with four sizes as with sixty-two, and the savings in machinery, labor and materials are considerable.

The Name John Smith

HE PATHFINDER tells us that in Germany the name John Smith is Johann Schmidt; in Holland, Jan Sehmiths; in Spain,

Juan Smithas; in Greece, Ion Skmiton; in Poland, Ivan Schmittiweiski; in Russia, Ivan Skmittowski; in China, Jahon Sehimmit; in Italy, Giovanni Fabbroni; in Scotland, John Gowans; in Ireland, John Gowen; and in France, Jean Lefevre.

About the Big Hook-Up

MADISON, Ind. “Many in Madison were delighted with Judge Rutherford’s broadcast the 26th of July. One man here, with sixteen others, got the lecture plainly, and all were highly delighted; said they had never heard anything so wonderful before. Another prominent citizen and one-time city official said it was wonderful, that he had never heard anything so true, and that the nations are indeed going down.”

Mexico Conquering Illiteracy

MEXICO is conquering illiteracy. Education has become a fad. In four years there has been an increase of 50 percent in the number of teachers employed. The radio is being greatly used in school work. Lectures are broadcast from Mexico City and interpreted in schoolrooms all over the land. Nearly every school, including those eight days distant from the nearest railroad station by horseback, has a radio receiving set.

Big Business Is a Failure

Washburn Child, lawyer, author and diplomat, in an address at San Francisco, said in substance: “Big Business had every chance. It had a clear field for an unimpeded march of economic forces, but it took our property to the gaming table. Did any of its big-bug leadership issue an effective warning? Not any. Boards of directors and officers had their eyes, not on industry, but on ticker tapes. The idol is smashed, and business men are helpless and mute before the economic wreckage.”

Back to the Jungle

REFERRING to the fact that in Los Angeles

7,000 school children had come to school without breakfast, and at noon had not five cents wherewith to get a glass of milk, the American Guardian said: “Shut down your churches. They are an insult to Christianity. Close your schools and colleges. They are an insult to intelligence. Raze your courthouses and capitols. They are an insult to justice. Go back to the jungle.” . . . “Go back and learn that in the realm of living things there is no other critter so low as to starve its young in the midst of food.”

The Slump on the Ocean

T T NDER the title “The Slump on the Ocean”

The Nation says that “conditions in the North Atlantic trade are worse than they have been in the memory of any living man; not even the German submarine created greater havoc”. In the whole world there are now eight and one-half million gross tons of shipping laid up for lack of cargoes, and Britain alone has 45,000 seamen who have been deprived of their means of livelihood.

Relief Riot in Australia

T THE Orange relief depot, Sydney, Australia, 500 men and women rushed the depot and helped themselves to all the food and clothing. Not an article was left. The mob even took the coat hangers which had been borrowed from the neighboring shops. The most that can be said for the mob is that it seemed to be really in want of things or it would not have been so enthusiastic in helping itself to the gifts intended for a more orderly distribution.

Long Hours for Women

TN MOST five and ten cent stores, on Saturdays the girls are expected to work more than nine hours; three-tenths of them had a Saturday schedule of over ten hours, and over a sixth were expected to put in a work day in excess of eleven hours. Americans like to spend their money as soon as they get it, but it would seem that since the bulk of them are paid at one o’clock Saturday afternoon, there is not much necessity for the five and ten cent stores’ opening up before Saturday noon.

The End of Chicago’s Miracle

OR six days Chicago had crowds estimated as high as 100,000 in twelve hours, who came to see a supposed figure of the Virgin Mary holding Christ in her arms. Then, in an adjacent apartment, somebody stepped to a window and half of the reflection disappeared. Then they pulled down the shade and it all disappeared and that was the end of Chicago’s miracle. Meantime it took half of the police of the West Side of Chicago to keep the crowd in order. It seems that through a combination of reflected lights a statue in a man’s home threw’ a shadow on an adjacent plain brick Avail.

Professor Persons Forecasts Business Recovery Professor Warren Persons, one-time teacher of economics at Harvard University, and past president of the American Statistical Association, after a study of the ups and downs of American business since 1875, assembles figures that convince him that business will be normal by November, 1931, or within six months thereafter. This is a calculation based on previous experience that panics wear themselves out in twenty to twenty-five months.

Regional Loan Offices ■

THE United States Department of Agriculture maintains at Memphis, St. Louis, Grand Forks and Washington, regional loan offices where needy farmers may obtain funds needed to enable them to produce crops or feed live stock. In 1930, $6,000,000 of such loans were made with interest at the rate of 5 percent. Eighty percent of the loans made in previous years has been repaid. The average loan is $250. '

Labor Laws in Wisconsin

HEREAFTER, in Wisconsin, yellow dog contracts are illegal; workers may legally strike and peaceably picket; trade union officials cannot be held responsible for acts of other members unless it is shown that such acts were instigated by them; courts cannot issue injunctions without notice, and only after an open court hearing; and injunctions can last only five days; persons cited for criminal contempt have the right of bail, of jury trial, and of filing affidavit of prejudice against the judge; punishment is limited to $25 fine or ten days in jail.

Details of New Cunard Liner

Hl HE new Cunard liner now building at Glas-"L gow will be 1,018 feet long and 115 feet wide and will cost $30,000,000. She will accommodate 5,000 passengers and is expected to maintain a speed of thirty-five knots an hour. Ten miles of carpet will cover her floors. One feature is a $1,000,000 gyroscopic device weighing 300 tons which is expected to keep the ship on an even keel in the roughest weather. The decorations for the 73,000-ton ship will cost $2,500,000. Thirty thousand tons of steel will enter into her construction, and her power station -would be able to provide electric lights for a city of 100,000 persons.

Labor in India

THE Royal Commission on Labor in India has turned in its report in which it shows that, generally speaking, the hours of India’s 1,500,000 factory workers are long, their wages are meager, they are the victims of jobbers and money-lenders, they are unable to calculate the wages due to them, the factories in which they work are unhealthy, they live herded nine or more to a room, and they are unaware of the laws that were designed to protect them.

Abundance of Food in Arkansas

IN THE very districts of Arkansas where there were bread riots last winter there has this year been a super-abundance of food. Almost daily showers and ideal growing conditions have made it almost certain that in that section of the country the scenes of last winter will not be repeated. England, Arkansas, which had a bread riot last winter, this year sent a caravan of food to the unemployed at Henryetta, Oklahoma.

Bituminous Strike Helps Anthracite Region

NOT many concerns are equipped to run their establishments on either bituminous or anthracite coal, but there must be some, for we are told that the strike in the bituminous region has had the effect of helping the anthracite region somewhat. Well, it certainly needs help; there are whole communities, like Taylor, where the mines have been closed because unprofitable and the people are without work and starving; others worked last year but 56 days during the entire year, or but little more than one day per ■week.

England Still Pays Tithes

A TENTH of all the produce of the land, formerly paid to the clergy, was, in the days of Henry VII, granted to all who should come into possession of the estates theretofore held by the monks. In consequence there are thousands of farmers in England today that have to give a tenth of all their produce to persons who have never done anything for them, nor for anybody else, and whose only excuse for reception is that it comes to them as a result of a ruling made four hundred years ago by England’s often-married monarch of the Reformation clays.

Crater Lake, Oregon

HERE are many crater lakes, some in Italy, Germany, India and Hawaii, but none of those is like Crater lake, Oregon. Here Mount

Mazama, 15,000 feet high, telescoped and fell into the interior of the earth. Finally the great hole became filled with water, clear as crystal, and now we have a lake blue as indigo, six miles across and 2,000 feet deep, located 7,000 feet above sea level. The lake has neither inlet nor outlet.

Sandersville, Ga., Makes lee

ANDERSVILLE, Ga., makes its own ice and sells it at 40c a hundred pounds, delivered.

Stole Only Three Cars

TT SEEMS that the Indiana pastor arrested -®- at Newcastle, that state, for stealing automobiles was not a regular thief. He had stolen only three cars, so he says, and explains that he took them in order to further the work of the Lord. He doubtless meant to say “to further the work of god”, meaning thereby the god of this world, mentioned by the apostle in 2 Corinthians 4:4. The hell business is a hard business, these days.

International Music Hall

HE International Music Hall, now being-erected between Fiftieth and Fifty-first

It went into the ice business when the local concern which had already raised the rate from 40c to 60c intimated that it would raise the price to 80c. As soon as it knew that the city had ordered ice machinery it offered to restore the old rate of 40c, but it was too late. The city has found that it can make a good profit by selling at the 40c rate.

Explorer Fears Our Cities

b. Herbert J. Spindex, curator of ethnology of the Brooklyn Museum, just back from a

streets on Sixth Avenue, in Xow York city’s £-'Radio City”, will have a seating capacity of 6,500 persons and will be the largest music hall in the world. It will be thirty-one stories high, will be completed a year hence, and will cost $7,000,000. The roof garden will have fountains, tile walks, grass plots, and be surrounded by a twelve-foot hedge.

New Super-Giant Variable Star

NEW super-giant variable star has been found in the Large Cloud of Magellan,

trip of exploration in the wilds of Yucatan, says he dreads to come back to a place where he is in constant danger of being run down by automobiles on the streets, or catching disease in the subway, or being waylaid by bandits at night; that he always feels his chances of life rise as soon as he leaves New York, and that in the section of Mexico supposed to be infested with bandits there are fewer crimes of violence than there are right here at home.

Collapse of the Hankow Dike

HE immense flood in the river Yangtse, the highest since 1870, caused the collapse of a

visible in the Southern Hemisphere. It is from 12,000 to 33,000 times as bright as our sun. Now that is bad enough. But wait till you hear the rest. It is 90,000 light years away, and one light year is about six trillion (6,000,000,000,000) miles, so the distance is about 540 quadrillion (540,000,000,000,000,000) miles. That is so faraway that if you could go from here to our sun in one second, and could keep going at that rate of speed continuously, it would take you 180 years to personally visit this new sun.

Termite Incendiary Bombs

MODERN airplane will carry 500 termite incendiary bombs, each one weighing about

dike near the great city of Hankow, China, and has resulted, so it is said, in the greatest single calamity that has befallen China in this century. It is claimed that this flood resulted in 30,000,000 people’s being made homeless, and 10,000,000 of them reduced to utter destitution. The unemployed of China are now said to reach the stupendous total of 200,000,000, or about half the population of the land. So much is the real good that our Western civilization has brought to China.

two pounds. These bombs develop 3,000 degrees centigrade of heat and will set fire to anything upon which they are dropped. They cannot be extinguished by water. Seventy-two planes loaded with termite bombs would be able to start 6,000 fires within an hour, in different parts of- a city, or, if loaded with the latest poison gas, would suffice to envelop almost any city of the world in a gas-cloud 60 feet high. If no wind were blowing the city would be annihilated.

Death a Dreamless Sleep

^DEATH is a dreamless sleep”; so says

William Dugan, who was drowned at Laurel Springs, N. J. After five minutes at the bottom of the lake, hypodermic injections were given, he was wrapped in hot blankets and a pulmotor was used, and in nine hours he opened his eyes. He had not been in paradise, limbo, heaven, hell-fire or purgatory. He had just been asleep. His heart had altogether stopped beating and the doctors said that for nine hours no spark of life vibrated through his body.

Methodist Gas Stations of Bellaire

THE Methodist Episcopal church of South

Bellaire, Ohio, has two gas stations, on opposite sides of the street. One is open six days in the week, and the other is open on the seventh. The pastor has charge of both. Five hundred members of the station which is open six days a week have pledged it their business. Now is a good time to learn a business, and the pastor has acted wisely in figuring on some v7ay to make a living when his station which does business on only one day in the week shall be closed for good.

Reason for 7,000s000 Jobless Next Winter

REFERRING to the probability that 7,000,

000 Americans v7ill be jobless next winter, and that shortened work hours alone can solve the unemployment problem, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, says: “When we consider that with modern machines in our factories work which .took the average man 52 hours in 1929 he can do in 34 hours, and that the average work hours have been reduced only from 52 to 50 a week, v7e understand why spare time has become unemployment instead of leisure.”

Dr. Macken Got It Straight

JN AN address at the Broadway Presbyterian church, New York city, the Rev. Dr. Machen, professor at the Westminster Theological Seminary of Philadelphia, made the statement that “if a person declares that the world is basically Christian today he is refusing to face the obvious fact that it is not, and moreover, the dominating forces in world governments, literary life and even the churches are un-Chris-tian”. Dr. Machen has it straight; and here’s hoping he gets out of his present job and takes his stand wholly on the side of Jehovah God.

Another Death from Natural Causes

THE St. Louis Post, in its issue of June 25, 1931, says: “A coroner’s verdict of death from natural causes was returned at Overland today in the case of Teola, eight-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Natkin, 1266 South Broadway, who died last night shortly after she had received an injection of anti-tetanus serum.” To which we merely add that it is too bad that so many people die from “natural causes”, after they have had serums shot into them.

Police Catch Two-legged Polecat

NEW YORK police are pleased at having caught one two-legged polecat. It seems that this particular racketeer had been collecting a tribute from manufacturers of bed clothing. When they refused to pay, he forced large quantities of odoriferous chemicals through the letter box in the front door of several factories. Thousands of dollars’ worth of goods were ruined and the whole street for some distance was uninhabitable for several days.

Red Cross Insults Almighty God

COMMERCE and FINANCE says: "The

National Red Cross has decided not to assist the starving women and children in the camps of striking- miners, because their predicament is not the result of ‘an act of God’. The implied assumption that the distress seen all over the world during this depression is the result of an act of God is an insult to the Almighty. The surplus of goods everywhere which cannot find a market proves the fault to be ours, and no prayers can remedy it unless they lead us to reform ourselves and our system.”

The Purdah System

Captain Robert Martin, medical officer of the

British army, in India, on a twelve months’ leave of absence, speaking in Jacksonville, said that under the Purdah system children are betrothed at six and married at twelve. When a girl is married, no man but her husband ever sees her face again. When a woman has three girl children in succession she offers herself as a burnt sacrifice. She always does most of the work, for wages of two to four pence a day, while her husband stays at home. The male is worshiped as a god.

The $15,000 Solid Silver Caskets

0 MORE will we swallow the items that gunmen ‘are buried in $15,000 solid silver caskets’. It seems that some clever undertakers have discovered that ordinary cheap coffins can be sprayed with silver paint and made to look like the real thing and the relatives of some recently deceased gunmen have succeeded in bluffing for their heroes even after they were no longer able to bluff for themselves. That is a good deal like the way the theologians treat the hell question. Like the pussies of the woodlot they have perfumed the whole subject until it bears no resemblance to what it really is.

Power Trust Makes City Drink Dirty Water

EVERAL times Sacramento has sought to get a pure supply of water from the moun

tains in place of its present somewhat brackish and contaminated supply. Each time the question has been up the Power Trust has spent money like water, fighting the proposition, not because it wants the people to drink dirty water, but because it fears that the impounding of pure drinking water might make some Sacramento citizens desire that the city have its own electric light and power plant. The same dams that would be needed to give the city pure water could be used to cut more than three-fourths of the cost out of its electric light and power bills. *

Financial Training Suggestions

HE Children’s Bureau makes a number of financial training suggestions. Children should be given regular fixed allowances of money; should not be allowed to tease or beg for money; should not expect pay for duties performed; should be encouraged to earn extra money by real jobs of commercial value and should be paid no more and no less for such jobs than they are worth; should not be allowed to do any work physically harmful or exposing them to wrong influences; should not be given tips; should be taught the value of saving for a definite purpose; should be taught to avoid debt; should be taught that saving things is as important as saving money; should be taught the importance of giving as well as spending and saving; should be taught financial responsibility by example as well as by precept.

New System for Naming Children

GEORGIA couple with sixteen children named them alphabetically from B to Q, which was not a bad idea. At Atlanta Uncle

Sam numbers all his boys and had got up as high as 8633 to 8639 inclusive away back in 1918. A colored man there bore the name of “Forty-two” before he ever came to Atlanta. He was born in South Africa and his father adopted the plan of numbering his children as they came on the scene. He happened to be the forty-second child.

Young Prisoners in Ohio and Washington

THOR some unknown reason the prisons of

Ohio and Washington states are peculiarly severe on young violators of the Volstead Act who fall into their care. Judge van .Waters, who made an investigation of many of these cases for the Wickersham Commission, found that brutal punishment of children sixteen to fourteen years of age we > inflicted for the mildest infraction of prison rules, such as speaking in the dining room during meals. One child was found dead in the dark cell to which he had been confined for some minor offense. One wonders why the officials of Ohio and Washington state prisons should wish to show to all the world that they are at the very bottom of the sewer.

Russia Making Progress

INCE 1913 Russia’s coal output has increased from 28,000,000 tons to 83,000,000 tons; her oil output from 9,000,000 tons to 25,000,000 tons; her iron ore output from 9,000,000 tons to 16,000,000 tons; her agricultural machinery from 67,000,000 roubles to 760,000,000 roubles. Her wage earners have increased from 11,000,000 to 16,000,000, and today there are no unemployed. Last year she printed 500,000,000 books, as against 120,000,000 in 1913. In 1928 there were 605 newspapers; now there are 1,409, and their combined circulation is three-fifths that of all American publications. Russians are not allowed to read anything that in the remotest way criticizes sovietism. Everything is being standardized. The 42 standards of January, 1927, had been increased to 1,958 standards in October, 1930. No wonder the capitalistic countries df the world are frightened out of their wits at what they see being developed in Russia, And American engineers are doing the work. ■

Soil Does Not Affect Seeds

RA. Emerson, professor of plant breed-» ing, Cornell University, tells of a pure line of wheat grown on rich soil for twenty years and another lot of the same pure line grown on very poor soil for the same length of time. Throughout the test the plants on the rich soil were large and thrifty, while those on the poor soil were lean and poor. At the end of the twenty years the two lots were planted side by side on uniform soil and the plants of both lots were as nearly identical as any two lots of wheat could be. Twenty years of luxurious living on the one hand, and of lean living on the other, had not changed the inherent qualities of the wheat one iota.

Secretary Lamont’s Optimism

IN A RADIO address Secretary of Commerce Lamont expressed complete confidence in business men to bring back prosperity if legislative bodies would only refrain from meddling in business matters. Thus far the business men have had everything their'own way, and we have eight million out of work. That is about one-third of the total number of workers. As we understand it, in a little while, by letting Big Business have its way still more completely, first, half of the people would be out of work, then two-thirds of them, and finally all the work would be done by robots, just as Mr. Edison prophesied. But is this the kind of prosperity that is best for the nation?

The Cries of the Railroads

FORTY years ago, and even less, the railroads had everything their own way. Then Henry Ford built his first “tin Lizzie”, and now everything is changed. The buses are carrying the passengers, and the trucks are carrying the freight. The railroads are dying, but they are dying hard. Their incomes now are only 50 percent of what they were in 1926. They have asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 15-percent raise in rates, which, if they get it, will mean that a lot more business will go to the trucks. One of the Pennsylvania Company’s vice presidents, at an address in Boston, suggests that the best way out is to turn over to the railroad companies all forms of transportation by land, air and water and thus protect the 800,000 stockholders that have their money tied up in the railroads. Nobody likes to die.

New York’s Drive on the Soothsayers

TA7EARY of the annual tribute of $25,000,000 ’ ’ paid to fortune tellers, palmists, mediums, clairvoyants and astrologers, New York city has detailed one of its women police to arrest them and bring them into court. After she has finished that job there will be plenty of work left for her among the international soothsayers that meet at Geneva, Paris, Rome, London, Washington, Berlin, The Hague, and every other place where the prophets of peace and righteousness and prosperity have been meeting, lo, these many years. New York magicians estimate that there are 125,000 soothsayers in the United States, of whom one-half are in New York city. Chicago’s soothsayer bill is estimated at $10,000,000 annually.

Just a Bum

A FTER a poor man committed suicide in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church one of the officials of the church Avas asked if the man was a member of the church, and is reported to have replied, “Oh, no. Just a bum. Plow in the world this unfortunate creature got in here we don’t really know.” It seems that the man who slew himself was previously a happy American wage earner, but for some time he had been out of work. Being out of work made him a bum in the eyes of those who employ others and who, in hard times, let their workers go without ever knowing or caring what becomes of them. Wonder if, when Christ was on earth, the scribes and Pharisees did not think of Him as just a bum.

Britain’s Terrible War Losses

DURING the World War the British empire.

put 9,000,000 men into the field. Of this vast number, one in three was either killed or ■wounded. Today there are actually 1,476,000 persons receiving pensions on account of injury or loss caused by the war. Among the survivors are 6,500 ex-service men who are in lunatic asylums for the rest of their days, and 32,000 neurasthenics who are totally unfitted for the strain of modern life. One cripple, after eleven years on his back, learned to walk a yard. And it took the same length of time to patch up some of the destroyed faces so that their owners could again walk out amidst their fellows. So far the war to end Avar has cost Britain more than $50,000,000,000, and no end in sight.

No Revolution in America

XPLAINING why there might be cannibalism in the United States, but could not be such a revolution as occurred in France in 1789 or in Russia in 1917, Oscar Ameringer calls attention to the fact that in the United States ‘■'the handicrafts and home industries are gone. It is a land where existence depends on the smooth running of the whole. Wheat raised in North Dakota is ground into flour in Minnesota and baked into bread in New York city. Steers raised on Texas prairies are slaughtered in Chicago and sold over the block in Pittsburgh and San Francisco. Cotton raised in the Mississippi delta is woven into cloth in Massachusetts, made into garments in Illinois, and sold in every state of the Union.” God has a still better way, and that is to bring life and peace to the people, the common people, by Himself disposing of all their oppressors, visible and invisible.

‘''Cruel and .Unusual Punishments”

HE United States Constitution expressly provides against the cruel and unusual punishment of prisoners. But how about those presumably innocent who are being questioned by the police? Is it OK to relay-question a woman for thirty-five hours, to tie a man to the floor and pour water into his nostrils, to beat a man with rubber hose, to hit him over the head with a telephone book, to question him over a corpse, to handcuff him upside down and then spray him with tear gas, to drag him around by his hair, and to beat him with brass knuckles until he is covered with blood? It seems that such things have been done by the police and prosecuting attorneys in Albany, Birmingham, Buffalo, Camden, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, Kenosha, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New Orleans, New York, Oakland, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Richmond, St. Joseph, St. Louis, San Francisco, Seattle, Waco, Wichita Falls, Washington and West Allis. The Wickersham report gives this information to the world in all its shamelessness. It gives the facts in regard to more than one hundred instances of extorted confessions. Most of our police are believers in the doctrine of eternal torture and of the practices of the Spanish Inquisition. Naturally they would try to be like the god whom they worship and adore. See 2 Corinthians 4:4.

Eight Million Handicapped Workers

HE United States has eight million handicapped workers. Some have defective hearing, some defective sight, some are maimed, some were crippled in the World War and some in the industrial war. The public is interested in all these. Collectively they have great possibilities. The public pays for their education. But when they come to the doors of Big Business and seek employment they are all turned aside. What is to be done with them? They go into the little businesses. But when the little businesses go into the maw of Big Business, then what? Oh, well, they are sent to the scrap heap. Big Business should revise its ironclad hiring regulations and take at least its full proportion of the handicapped. It is only humanity and common sense. It is manifest that for every exhibition of selfishness and disinterest in its fellow men Big Business will ultimately have to pay a high price. It is better to be generous now than forcedly so later.

Strange Doings in Spain

TRANGE things are happening in Spain.

Here is a district, formerly with plenty of rain, in which no rain has fallen for seven years. Here is a story that four thousand Madrid children are sleeping in the former royal sausage factory, using royal bed linen with crests. Here is another story, that Cardinal Segura tried to smuggle in circular letters addressed to all the Spanish bishops, advising them to sell all possible church properties before they could be seized by the government. With that the Madrid government sent an ultimatum to the Vatican demanding the removal of Se-g’ura and giving the pope only five days’ time in which to make up his mind what to do. Many of the clergy of Spain have discarded clerical dress for citizen attire, because of fear of the people. Lands held by the nobility as a result of loans made by them or their ancestors to the king must be restored to the state. Troops have been moved into the clerical strongholds to prevent a clerical revolt. A decree has been issued preventing the sale or transfer or mortgaging of any ecclesiastical property. This ties up millions of dollars of property held in the name of banks and private individuals for the 38,000 nuns and 10,000 monks who have such great financial interests in Spain. Things are certainly moving in Spain.

Kingdom Work in Fiji By A. L. McGregor 'and A. Aucliterlonie, Colporteurs

THE beauty and manifold charms and attractions of the islands of the South Pacific have been recorded by many writers. They have written in a romantic and thrilling way that has caused many people to long to visit these ‘Isles of Enchantment’. Many of these writings have been greatly exaggerated.

According to the Blue Book of Fiji, Year 1929, the estimated population of Fiji is as follows: Europeans 4,702, Half-castes 3,244, Fijians 91,711, Indians 73,121, and Chinese 1,464. The two main missions in Fiji are the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia and the Roman Catholic Mission, both under the control of Satan the Devil. Satan, through the Methodist mission, controls 78,000 Fijians; and through the Roman Catholic Mission, 12,979 Half-castes and Fijians.

Two days after our arrival we started our campaign, in IBSA Week 25th Sept.-5th Oct., in the capital town, Suva. It resulted in the placing of 210 books and booklets. We started by placing a good number of a two-page paper of “Freedom for the People” in the Chinese language with the Chinamen, who are mainly in stores and shops. They expressed surprise at two white men visiting their quarters placing papers in their own language. They are a quiet, hard-working race, and as very few can speak English it is hard to know just what they thought of the message.

The European population in Suva we found to be, in the majority, a selfish, snobbish class of people, a great many being rationalists or evolutionists. In Australia one would term them as the ‘middle class’, but on coming here, and being placed mainly in positions of authority, whether in stores or other places, and being able to ‘lord’ it over a few of their fellow men (yes, fellow men though they be black in color) they become heady and selfish. However, even amongst the Europeans we placed many books and booklets.

The Indian population in Suva is large. We could only bring the message to the many Indians, who have been educated in the English language. Amongst these we met, in the majority, a civil and generous class of people. These Indians, particularly the young Indians, have a great interest in the world’s affairs. They are ever desirous of increasing their knowledge, and we found great interest paid to the Kingdom message. We placed a big number of JFR sets with them. We have been stopped many times on the streets by Indians desirous of obtaining the books.

The Fijian population here in Suva is also a large one, and some day soon we hope to bring them the Kingdom message in their own language. We found a few who could read English well, and who readily took the books. On the whole the Fijians are a ‘happy-go-lucky’ race, but since they have become ‘civilized’ many in Suva and in Lautoka, two of the main towns, are becoming selfish in many ways. The grand total of books and booklets placed in Suva in three weeks was 700.

Fiji consists of about 250 islands. Eighty of these are inhabited. Suva is on the main island, named Viti Levu. On finishing off Suva we purposed going round .this island. We traveled by a cutter from Suva to Ligatoka. Ligatoka is a beautiful district situated on either side of the Ligatoka river. Here we met with a great welcome. In two days we placed 200 books and booklets. The Fijians were very surprised to find two white men living in a little tent six feet by eight feet. We have roughed it in our little tent, and with the terrific heat, rains and mosquitoes we have had a grand time.

In Ligatoka we met a fine class of Europeans; more homely and natural, and we placed sets of JFR and 10 booklets with nearly all of them. We had to finish the district in two days in order to catch the passenger train to our next stop. This passenger train is run by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, wdiich company owns a large portion of this island. This train is something like an IBSA meeting: seats free, and no collection. It is said that this is the only free passenger train in the world. Although the journey is slow, and the seats hard, still one gets there.

Our next stop was Lautoka. Lautoka is the headquarters of the C.S.R.Co., whose sugar mill is one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Here we found the Europeans divided into three classes. This division is no doubt caused by individuals who feel more important than their’ fellow men. The first division consists of the officers, who are a snobbish lot of individuals and who, in the main, had no time for the Kingdom message. The second class are engineers. They are a more civil class, and

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