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GRAVITATION

AND ELECTRIC ENERGY

"JAPAN’S UNDECLARED WAR”

THINKLETS AND INKLETS

CHILD TRAINING

JIG TIME SALADS

JEHOVAH TEACHES HIS PEOPLE

CRAVING FOR PROSPERITY

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Vol. XIII - No. 337

August 17, 1932

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LABOR AND ECONOMICS

WlIAT IS ON THE DOORSTEP . . .713

Why Needy Are Helped . . .728

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

Nice Note from Chicago . . . 714

Thinklf.ts and Inklets . . . 715

Smallest Book in the World . 715

Music of Spheres a Reality . .716

Effect of Kreuger Suicide . . 716

James F. Greene at Geneva . . 717

Have You Been to College? . 718

Child Training ......721

Icicle 230 Feet Long .... 735

MANUFACTURING AND MINING

Loveland Forges Ahead . . . 715

2e Electric Rate in Virginia. Minn. 717

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Rail Cheaper than Autos . . 715

Decline in Bank Clearings . . 715

Across Roof of the World . . 715

Why Variant Interest Rates? . 719

Railroad Travel Century Ago . 719

Airplane Travel Around South America.....734

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

“Japan’s Undeclared War”

The Kaiser’s Coolies .

Hysteria in the Senate Too Late with Ventilators

. 711

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Socialist Republic in Chile , . 719

Political Free Lunch Counter . 720

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

Starving the Wrong Horse . .714

.Singular Habits of Salmon . . 714

Individualsm on Farm Must Go . 715 Raising Grapefruit in

Rio Grande Valley . . . .715

French Peasant on Own Land . 720

Why Chickens Did Not Grow . 723

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Gravitation and Electric Energy 707

Tubeless Radio Coming . . .710

Detachable Electric Periscope . 713

Second Reinmuth Planet . . . 716

HOME AND HEALTH

Harry Newburg Cut His Finger 717 Government by Federal Trade

Commission

Jig Time Salads

Notes on Health

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Lied Deliberately at Every Mass 718

Glorifies Man. Belittles (v d . . 719

Jehovah the Teacher of

His People ......724

Saintokowski Blazejowski

Ouciiokovvski ! .....728

Craving for Prosperity . . . 729

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Volume XIII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, August 17, 1932 Number 337

Gravitation and Electric Energy By c. e. stewart

THE subject of gravitation is a very interesting one, especially as it relates to attraction between heavenly bodies. '‘Attraction of Gravitation Not Universal” {Golden Age, No. 314) seems to be well and truthfully thought out. Therefore, Newton’s “universal law of gravitation”, that “every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely as the squares of their distance apart", is not true. The variableness of the planets in their orbits proves that the “constant attractive force”, necessitated by the. universal gravitation theory, is based upon a false premise.

It is said that an atom is composed of one proton and its many or few electrons, depending upon the substance, whether gold, silver, lead, wood, or glass; gold atoms containing many electrons, and wood only a few. The proton is the positive element; the electrons are the negative element. It is claimed that a proton weighs 2,000 times as much as an electron.

An atom is a miniature solar system: the proton is the “sun”, and the electrons are the worlds or “planets” whirling and zigzagging at terrific speed, each in an orbit of its own, around its “sun”. If these electrons were to collide, change their course or their speed, it would change the substance. What causes the cohesiveness of the atom? It must be electromagnetic energy, a positive and negative force having tremendous affinity, the proton being the dynamo and the electrons the magnets.

Solar System Is Gigantic Atom

Our solar system is a gigantic atom: the sun is the great and glorious dynamo (proton), spinning on its axis with unthinkable speed, electrically charged to perpetually send out its light, heat, and power; and the planets are the magnets (electrons) which absorb the light, heat, and power which the dynamo sends out,

and the absorption is wholly dependent upon the valency in each magnet (planet).

The valency of a planet is all important. Each chemical that makes up the bulk of the earth, be it hydrogen, oxygen, bismuth, carbon, gold, silver, copper, lead, or whatnot, has its own drawing power, some more, some less, and the sum of the units makes up earth’s valency, its drawing or magnetic power. And at least most of these elements are also found in the moon and other planets, and in the gases of our sun.

All the planets in our solar system swing around the sun in elliptical orbits, the variation of the orbit of Venus being the least in miles, and the orbit of Mercury being the most eccentric; but taking into consideration the great diameter of the orbit of Neptune we find that it is the nearest a perfect circle. As each planet at perihelion and at aphelion is always in the same constellations, regardless of its speed in orbit and distance from the sun, and as these points of closeness and farness from the sun vary from 44 days (Mercury) to 82 years (Neptune), and even more on the newly discovered planets, the gravitational influence is thereby proven to be nil, as far as the universe is concerned.

Causes of Elliptical Movements

The thought of the earth’s accumulating magnetic energy as it nears the sun, and discharging that energy as it recedes from the sun, is very illuminating. Therefore, it seems that the density and super-valency of the northern hemisphere is responsible for the elliptical orbit. As the north half of our globe takes the heavier charge, it is the most natural thing that when the earth is under the sun, as in July, it would then recede the farthest from the sun, for then the sun is shining more directly into the northern hemisphere.

At aphelion, greatest distance from the sun, the earth is negative and the sun attracts; at

perihelion, closest to the sun, the earth is positive and the sun repels; and at about the mean distance the earth becomes neutral; but, as has been explained, its momentum carries it on and on in its orbit. This also explains the causes underlying the extraordinary atmospheric disturbances during the equinoxes. The earth at neutral would have less power of resistance of any climatic influence than at any other time; the spring equinox is always the worse, because up to that time the earth has been positive and expending its force as does the sun—fighting the sun, as it were.

The theory that sun force in the form of light causes the rotary motion of heavenly bodies may be a correct one. But there must needs have been something to start the rotary motion in the first place, and something that caused the planet to become balanced in its orbit and constant in its axial motion. Every heavenly body was probably “set” spinning and whirling in its place at creation. It must be true that the whirling of the sun and planets on their axes, and also their orbital speeds, have much to do with keeping them in their respective places; for they have “set” places of operation. (Gen. 1:16,17) Whether the earth is a direct creation of Jehovah or whether the planets were thrown off from the sun and shot out into space to find their “balance” at the command of God is immaterial, yet for us to incline toward the former view is reasonable.

The electronic energy of the sun makes impingements against the electronic content of our air, and this friction causes light. The earth turning like a ball, up and over from right to left, always speeding eastwardly, the day side of the earth always turning away from the sun and the night side always turning toward the sun, it is very easy to see that the western or back side of the earth should be receiving the greater push and the eastern or front side receiving the lesser push, causing it to keep up its habitual axial motion. And the proof of this lies in the fact that the outer strata of air are always moving eastward at greater speed than is the surface of the earth, apparently trying to keep pace with the more swiftly moving moon.

Light Rays Cause Rotary Motion

We quote from “The Propulsive Power of Light” (Golden Age, No. 324), with approbation, the following;

How can revolution and rotation be caused by the power of light? Well, you probably know, or can understand, that a slow-moving bullet, from a gun, going through a wooden target would cause much more push against the target than a more speedy bullet of the same size. And if a lot of the slower-moving little light bullets [electrons] were striking and going through a fringe of materials around the outer edge on one side of a planet and a lot of swifter-moving little bullets [electrons] were striking and going through the same fringe from the opposite side, there would be more push on the side receiving the slow bullets than on the side receiving the swifter ones. . . . Light strikes the side that is turning away from it at a slower’ speed of impact than it strikes the side that is coming toward it. . . . The light striking the on-coming side goes through quicker . . . than the light striking the receding side. There is consequently much more of a push on the receding side than on the approaching one, and the rotation is thereby kept up.

If light had sufficient propulsive power we should find our moon rotating on its axis. But such is not the case. The moon revolves once each lunar month; that is, it shows all sides to the sun each swing around the earth; but it does not rotate on its axis, for its face (the pointed end) is always toward the earth, and this shows that the affinity these two dead bodies have for each other is very much greater in their electromagnetic force than any light influence can possibly have, as shown by the upper strata of air following the course of the moon—eastward, and north and south of the equator; and, in a general sense, this is true of all earth’s volume of air.

The moon, made up of materials something like our earth, is also a magnet, and has an attraction foi’ the earth, and the supercharge is in the pointed end, which faces the earth, which charge is so heavy that the moon will not rotate, the moon's speed and the centrifugal force of the earth keeping the moon at a respectful distance. The magnetic power of the moon is sufficient to influence not only the earth’s air volume, but also the ebb and flow of the mighty tides in our oceans.

The Usefulness of Our Firmament

Besides being useful as something to breathe and maintain life, our firmament, or air cushion around our earth, has other functions. It is very important. The electrical energy that the sun sends to the earth makes no light or heat until it strikes our atmosphere. The electronic content of that energy makes impingements against the electronic content of our atmosphere, setting up friction, and the deeper and the more direct that energy pierces our firmament, traveling 186,300 miles a second, the brighter and warmer it becomes at the earth’s surface. This is proven by the fact that the “darkest [and coldest] hour is just before the dawn”. While we are in earth’s shadow (at night) the stars glisten and sparkle in all their glory; but as soon as the sun’s rays begin to pierce the atmosphere above us that portion of our firmament is lighted up, bedimming the stars or neutralizing their light, and gradually, as the earth rotates eastward more of the firmament above is lighted up until all is blackness, for those rays have not yet penetrated the atmosphere in our vicinity; but just as soon as the sunshine begins to illuminate the firmament immediately above us the dawn begins and the darkness is driven away.

All of us know that radio reception is better and freer of static at night than during the day. At night we are in earth’s shadow and out of the zone of the sun’s rays making impingements against the electronic content of our atmosphere, and therefore the electric energy is more or less “at rest”, not agitating the magnetic waves.

It seems reasonable that each planet should have its own gravitational law, according to density and valency, reaching only to its atmospheric boundary. The moon, having no atmosphere, would, therefore, have no gravitational pull, and a loose object, unmagnetized, could not adhere thereto. The earth is too far removed from all other planets to have any appreciable gravitational relation with any of them; hence no planet will ever be pulled into and collide with the earth. The earth being negative (electronic), and objects on the earth being earthy and also negative, so far as their earthly composition is concerned, they have an affinity for each other, and our atmosphere having also an affinity for the earth and pressing upon it with a 15-pound pressure at its surface, causes what we know as “gravitation”. At ninety miles above, beyond the confines of our atmosphere, all is deadness, without a gravitational pull. Beyond our atmosphere all is blackness, frigid, inert. Without the “firmament of heaven”, our atmosphere, we should be unable to hold on; the firmament (Ps. 19:1) is the conductor of light, heat, and poAver—life—enabling us to move about and have our being. (Acts 17:28) Without our atmosphere, the earth, traveling through space at the rate of 1,110 miles a second, would be as slippery as a peeled onion coated with ice. Our atmosphere, therefore, is earth’s pneumatic tire, and the tides are the shock absorbers, ‘auto-mobilically’ speaking, making our earthship an easy riding vessel.

Causes of Equinoctial Storms

The variation of any planet which swerves slightly from the beaten track is not caused by any gravitational pull, but rather by another planet’s passing through the electromagnetic current which plays between such disturbed planet and the sun. Most of our major storms come near new moon, caused by the moon’s passing through the electromagnetic influence the sun is sending earthward, thus disturbing our own atmospheric conditions. And, for similar reasons, our equinoctial storms are the more severe, because the full shock to our atmosphere is administered more directly when our sun is over the equator, for then, besides the earth’s being neutral, our sun and moon and earth are lined up and centered more directly within the field of electric energy. At other times the sun’s rays pierce our atmosphere more or less obliquely.

All the planets in our solar system occupy a narrow zone in their swing around the sun, not unlike a gigantic wheel. Placing ourselves in space, in our mind’s eye, away to the north of our system, then looking south we see the sun in the center and all the planets plunging headlong from right to left, from west to east, up and over the sun, and from east to west under the sun, at hourly speeds ranging from 12,156 miles to 107,012 miles, the earth’s average hourly orbital speed being 66,579 miles.

The north pole of our earth points approximately at the North Star at all times, showing that the axial rotary motion is constant, and whether the sun is north or south of the equator depends entirely upon where the earth is in its orbit. The earth is up, over the sun, in January; hence the direct rays of the sun strike the earth at a point about 23 degrees south of the equator. The sun is the farthest south of the equator December 21, but the earth does not reach its closest point to the sun until about three weeks following this date.

We should not think that the earth “wabbles” and by this action causes the sun to travel 23^ degrees north of the equator in June and the same distance south of the equator in December. No; that is not the way of it. Neither should we think that our solar system lies flat, spread out over a vast plane. No; not that. It is upright like a wheel, “toed” out slightly north of due east. The earth is over the sun in January, and under the sun in July; and, odd as it may seem, the earth is in perihelion (closest to the sun) in January. Everything else being equal the people living south of the equator would have it much hotter in their summer than we have it in ours; but everything else is not equal.

Land has a mean density of about six times that of water, and a much greater valency. The northern hemisphere contains much more land than the southern; lienee the magnetic influence of the north half of our earth is greater than that of the south half, as proven by the compass always pointing north. The water on our globe, with its periodic tidal movements, serves as a minimize!’ or balancer of moon shock; and the greater volume of water south of the equator serves as a magnetic equalizer, and also is the agency provided by which the southern hemisphere is kept cooler.

As the relationship of the sun and earth is explained in this more satisfactory light, so the philosophy of the movements of other planets, which are similar, becomes more comprehensive. And this is as it should be, for they are all directed and their paths laid out by the same allwise and loving Creator.

Marvelous Moon Movements

The movements of the moon are marvelous. Photographs teach that the moon is egg-shaped, with the small end eternally pointing toward the earth. It has no axial motion. Its orbit is, of course, around our earth. It is outside earth's orbit between first and third quarter moons. It is inside earth's orbit between third and first quarter moons. It is behind our earth at first quarter. It is right in front of the earth at third quarter. It is at south declination (284 degrees south of the equator) part of the time. It is at north declination (28$ degrees north of the equator) part of the time. Of necessity its path is in shape a screw; a gigantic elongated corkscrew, if you please, with the earth whirling and speeding, untouched by some 240,000 miles, through the middle of this spiral path. All these changes are made in about every twenty-nine days, the lunar month.

From first quarter to third quarter the moon speeds up to overtake and pass in front of the earth, meanwhile the earth seems to slow down in its orbital speed. From third quarter to first quarter the earth seems to speed up, meanwhile the moon floats lazily around into position for another monthly sprint. While the earth is traveling in fourteen days about 22,371,000 miles, the moon, to go from behind at first quarter to in front at third quarter, must travel some 23,000,000 miles; and while the earth is traveling in the next fifteen days about 24,000,000 miles, the moon must ‘slow down’ to lose what it had gained.

The next time you view a full moon overhead imagine our earth and our moon in a race of terrific speed, both traveling parallel, going east, 240,000 miles apart. Note the time; and the next night at the same time you will be able to see the gain the moon has made—about 50,000 miles.

A very marked peculiarity about the moon which shows divine wisdom in the ordering of its path and the changes incident thereto is that it comes to the full in the north in the winter, giving long bright nights for the benefit of the people in the northern hemisphere when the sun is at south declination giving us short days; and the moon fulls south of the equator during their winter, giving the people in the southern hemisphere long bright winter nights while they are having short sun days. This in itself shows the benevolent goodness of our God in the balancing of our solar system for the best interests of all Ills earthly creatures. If Jehovah has done that with our moon for the blessing of the peoples of earth, what may we expect God has done for our solar system as a whole, and for the multiplied millions of other solar systems throughout an unlimited space!

Tubeless Radio Coming

MAKE much of your eight- or ten-tube radio, for the next radios will not have any tubes at all. At least that is the claim of Ernest Patrick, Columbus, Indiana, now only 21 years of age. The receiving set made by Patrick dispenses with tubes, relying entirely upon a new wire hook-up. Chicago capitalists will put the invention on the market. The tones arc said to be softer and mellower than where vacuum tubes are used.

“Japan’s Undeclared War in Shanghai”

THIS is the title of a book by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, of Shanghai, that will make one realize what a terrible thing was the war that was ‘not a war’. The book contains 42 half-page reproductions of photographs that will teach one all he needs to know, how a smiling scene of peace and industry can in a few hours be turned into a terrible picture of devastation and death.

Following the pictures are statements of fact by a dozen Chinese and one Japanese writer, and they make one sad as he realizes the power that has been raised up in the East, to become one of the world's worst monsters. For cruelty, the Japanese soldiery takes the prize.

It seems that at the very time that Mr. De-buchi, Japanese ambassador at ‘Washington, was reassuring Secretary of State Stimson that no land troops would be dispatched to China, they were actually being transported to the scene of hostilities. This is a code of ethics strictly Japanese, strictly militaristic. Truth and militarism are natural enemies.

For sheer avarice and wickedness it would be hard to match the needless destruction of the Commercial Press and the Oriental Library, the cultural center of China, and on which tens of thousands of schools were dependent for the supply of books. The militaristic party of Japan thinks it to its interest to keep China disorganized. Xo disorganizing force could be more potent than the destruction of the publishing center.

Three times in a week the flood refugee camps were bombed. These were miles away from the center of the conflict. The attackers claimed that they could not see the Red Cross and Blue Cross flags and that the camps were surrounded by barbed-wire barricades. As a matter of fact there were no barbed-wire barricades, and if the flags could not be seen the barbed wire could certainly not be seen.

The Japanese militarists think their operations around Shanghai were necessary to put an end to the Chinese boycott, but their trade now has been wrecked. The Chinese are poor, desperately poor, and they have now been reduced to such destitution that they will not be able to buy for years. Moreover, the hatred which ruthless atrocities have instilled into the minds of the masses in China will take many years to outlive.

The invaders are accused of having used dumdum bullets in their operations about Shanghai; the charge was made by G. F. Bume, M.D., a Viennese surgeon, in charge of the Red Cross General Hospital at Shanghai.

"When Chih Tze University was burned, the gatekeeper, a man servant, and several maidservants, were ordered to commit suicide by reentering the burning buildings. Though their hands were tied behind their backs they ran for their lives; thirty shots were fired at them and though two were slain yet several escaped.

Because Huang Yuan-kao refused to commit arson, even when bribed by substantial sums of money, a Japanese officer scooped out his eyes with a knife. This poor man has a wife and mother depending upon him for support. Hitherto he operated a little Chinese bread shop.

Even after Shen Tung-lin and other inmates of his home had obediently worked all night digging trenches for the Japanese, at dawn their home was burned and seven of them were slain because three had deserted during the night. All were bound and shot, but the bullet aimed at Shen Tung-lin merely knocked him senseless, and he was found living beneath the bodies of his father, mother, three uncles and two aunts. A neighbor rescued him.

By a narrow margin, a clash was averted between the British and the Japanese. A truck with Japanese sailors was passing through the streets in the area patrolled by the British troops. A British army sergeant saw one of the Japanese shoot a Chinese boy who was slightly stooping, standing in the street. The boy dropped dead. The sergeant, on the spur of the moment, leveled his rifle to shoot the offending Japanese, but at the last moment restrained himself. However, the British commander asked for an explanation of the incident and the answer came back that the boy was planning to throw a rock.

Two prominent American residents of Shanghai, one of them an official, saw a Japanese sailor murder a Chinese man wearing civilian clothes. Six or eight times the human fiend thrust his bayonet into the prostrate body of his victim until life became extinct. “Each time the victim flinched,” said the witnesses, and it can well be believed.

A newspaper man tells of what he saw just outside of Kiangwanchen, where the warriors

were burning the homes of the poor fanners. The account merely says, and we quote it:

An officer turns one of the peasant-garbed group away, to face the sun. His shining sabre flashes, up to its hilt in the human sheath; the body falls; a second takes its place, and once again the sabre finds its pulsing scabbard. And now, a diversion; the next, a tall and likely lad, is flung unbound face down, upon the two who clutch the panting earth in death; and as he falls, a volley from six officers’ revolvers makes a minor outline on his back and courses up his spine. The volley dies, the pistols now are empty, the jerking figure on the ground now is still and another takes his turn. I leave, for fear is on me now; the sunshine gone; my feet are lead.

We conclude with a letter of W. H. Daub, dated February 16, 1932, published in the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury. If it represents the degree of civilization attained by the Japanese under American tutelage, one could well wish they had been left untutored.

I had occasion to call at the main post office this morning, and as I was coming out, I noticed that Japanese marines were stopping and searching all Chinese coming south on Szechucn Road.

I stopped for fifteen or twenty minutes, and watched their procedure. During this time eight different Chinese were stopped—one apparently a coolie, one a small boy coming from the market with a chicken on a string, two well dressed men, evident!}’ of the merchant class, and the others probably shop or office clerks.

The procedure in every case was the same, and 'began with a resounding whack on the side of the face. After this, all pockets were carefully’ searched, the lining of clothes, inside of hat, etc., etc., and during the search there were, in each case, several more blows to the face.

While I watched this barbarous performance, I thought of the newspaper statements from General Uyeda, Admiral Osuma, General Shimomoto, and others, in which they try to make ns believe that their quarrel is not with the Chinese people, but with the military and the government. Here is a concrete example of the Japanese attitude toward the Chinese people. Actions speak louder than words, especially Japanese words, which their actions belie upon every occasion.

We all know of the horrible deeds that have been done during the Japanese occupation of Ilongkew. The Japanese think they have satisfactorily excused them as the excesses of irresponsible ronins and reserves in the heat of the moment. What I have described above is happening today, at the hands of regular Japanese marines, well within the Settlement boundaries, and directly under the orders of those leaders who profess sympathy and friendship for the Chinese "people”, and charge Chinese troops with lack of discipline.

The Kaiser’s Coolies Contributed by Northern European Office

<0OME books,’ wrote Bacon, ‘are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.’ In the last category comes a book just published with the above title, and written by Theodore Plivier, who served in the German navy in the war.

In spite of the author’s animus against the officers (which rather weakens the evidence) the book will doubtless be widely read and discussed.

According to Plivier, the officers were brutal and drunken; they feasted while the men starved. The men were cruelly ill-treated, savagely punished for small offenses, and were always in a state of discontent.

The book provides an account of life in the German navy which can only be compared with Remarque’s writings concerning the. war life of the German army. The reading is not cheerful, as it vividly depicts a series of incidents in the naval warfare and culminates with the mutiny in the fleet.

Concerning the shelling of the Ariadne we read as follows:

A burst of flame. Boots, debris, fittings torn from their places become hurtling projectiles. The air pressure sweeps the men’s bodies away like autumn leaves, smashes them against the iron walls . . . The repair party has vanished: so have the wounded who have been placed on stretchers on the deck , . . Compartments are smoked out, decks are swept clean.

Again, we have the description of a turret in the Seydlitz after her magazines had been set on fire by a British shell :

There stands No. 1 of the gun's crew, exactly as during the action, his eyes to the sights . . . No. 2 and the other sailors stand as if alive . . . But yet it's quite different. It is the rigidity of figures in a china cabinet. Then1 faces have lost their colour, they have not even the dull phosphor blue glow of the dead. Their eyes are burnt-out dark hollows.

We are not spared the details of how these men, when touched by the dockyard men, crumbled to dust and white bone.

Part of a conversation between the kaiser and a sublieutenant is recorded as follows: “Well, it must have been warm work in the turret?” “Yes, your majesty, several thousand degrees.”

Poor souls, victims of a worn-out paganism called “civilization”. To think that the Bible records that man was created in the image of God, and then to consider how he acts when the glowing embers of a misguided patriotism are fanned into race hatred, is to be convinced that the world went mad in the Great War.

The experience will apparently not materially influence the policy of the nations, built upon mistrust of other nations. Some individuals, however, are. alive to the situation and see in all the present organization of earth the evidence of the overlordship of the Devil.

May the Kingdom of righteousness and peace fully come, when no man will be a “coolie” to his fellow man, but “whene'er you meet a man you'll meet a friend”.

Detachable Electric Periscope

n. V. A. Clarke, of New York city, is the inventor of a detachable electric periscope for submarines which may be buoyed more than a mile away from the vessel; it can rise above the surface of the water 14 feet and can see and hear and report everything within a radius of eleven miles. The vision is said to be so good that a submarine could fire at a vessel anywhere within the range of visibility with every chance of hitting it.

What Is on the Doorstep

(From The Survey, organ of the social service profession, in its summary of the conditions existing in 37 cities)

WITHOUT plan, without strong national leadership, with meager and uncertain

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funds, these cities have somehow muddled through the winter, keeping their people alive, but at what costs of broken spirits and human suffering only God knows. Still planless and with no sign of improved employment, with relief needs growing and with relief funds dwindling to exhaustion, they turn their blind eyes to the future, where already the specter of another winter is rising.

Huge relief funds raised in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia have been unequal to the staggering loads in these centers of industrial dislocation. Complete breakdown is imminent. The fallacy of the idea that private, funds could cope with a situation of such proportions as this one is remorselessly exposed. Private funds have done little more than act as a thin emollient on a deep wound.

No rational adult can be. blind to what lies ahead. This summer will bring little surcease in human needs. Next winter will be worse, not better. Yet Congress is deaf. Legislatures are adjourning, cities and counties are temporizing with pinchbeck appropriations, and private social agencies are in positions they cannot sustain. There is no evidence of any real facing of what is on the doorstep, let alone any preparation to deal with it.

Starving the Wrong Horse By A. G.Mustoe (Montana)

A WISE and prosperous farmer has a load of goods necessary for his family. He has a string team, twelve head of horses strung out, all good, true, tried, willing and ready to obey the driver’s will. So he starts out with the load, and for a time all goes well.

Now this wise farmer has two or three fancy horses in cushioned stalls, bedded in fine clean straw. They do not know how to work, and would not work if they did know how. They are groomed every day and fed on the best the farmer has to feed with; they have just enough exercise every day to keep in good health.

Now this farmer begins to meditate and plans for the sure safety of his fancy horses, and for fear he will not raise a crop next year he begins to cut down on the feed for his w’ork horses and stores it away for his fancy horses. His work horses begin to weaken, but the farmer continues the practice till his work horses weaken so that they cannot move the load. Now this farmer has a long way to go yet. Please tell me how he is going to get his goods to his family.

The purchasing power of our financial system has been destroyed by taking from the bull wheel parts to strengthen parts already too strong. Down at Washington they are bonding the already over-bonded slaves and assisting the banks and big corporations. Meantime they are taxing the broke public to pay the bonds and interest. Do you think they will ever get the old bull wheel strong enough to roll again?

Using another figure of speech: We have a very sick patient. Down at Washington our great physicians are prescribing dose after dose, and every dose is making the patient sicker and raising his temperature higher. We are sure facing a time when there will be a funeral, and at that funeral there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Singular Habits of the Salmon

EACH generation of salmon is born in the same stream, and the same part of the stream. After laying their eggs in the gravel, a foot or so beneath the surface, both parents die and their bodies crumble into the meal which constitutes the first food of their children.

As soon as the little salmon are able to travel, they start for the open ocean, in some instances 2,250 miles away, where they find millions of their comrades, and wander in their company four to six years. That they often get as far as two thousand miles from the mouth of the river in which they were born is proven by the tags affixed to them as they come down stream. When they reach maturity the salmon head for the stream in which they were born. They locate it unerringly and undertake its ascent without any food from the time they start until they locate the portion of the stream in which they first saw the light of day. In instances where the stream is dammed, and no way is provided by which the obstacle may be surmounted, they commit suicide in thousands by beating out their lives against the barriers.

It is supposed that the waters of its home stream are identified by the organs of taste and smell. Humans have a trace of this. No foods in later life ever taste quite as good as those we first learned to relish at home.

A Nice Note from Chicago

CHICAGO, UI. “Please be so kind as to send me a copy of Judge Rutherford’s very capably spoken broadcast of this morning. We would also appreciate having a complete list of radio stations over which Judge Rutherford’s sermons may be heard again—and again—God bless him. Wc would like to be informed of addresses here in Chicago where you good people meet to hear God’s Word. Will you please be so kind as to do this for us. A sample assortment of your literature, and subscription rates for the same, will be gratefully awaited. With thanks for the privilege of having heard Judge Rutherford’s broadcast of this morning, and trusting that we may be favored with the courtesy of sending to us what we have requested.” G. S.

Thinklets and Inklets

Rail Cheaper than Autos

THE director of finance of the state of California has officially requested all employees of that state, when making trips between points where there is good rail service, to use the rails instead of autos, on account of the great saving in money. On the round trip from Sacramento to Los Angeles, even when Pullman fares are charged both ways, it costs the state $17.97 more for the trip when made by private auto than when made by rail.

Loveland, Colorado, Forges Ahead

LOVELAND, Colorado, last year paid off $59,400 in debts and still has on hand a cash balance of $73,529. Its excellent financial condition is due to the fact that it has its own municipal electric light and power plant. There is so much profit in manufacturing light and power that it is almost impossible to escape great profits in connection with such a utility if its actual operation is in the hands of honest and capable men.

Mr. Hoover and the Motor Car's

Mr. Hoover has advised the American people to buy new motor cars and do it right away and thus help business. But the 8,300,000 families that were workless this past winter will hardly be in the market, and several million other families that were helping them will try to get along some way with the old car. Seems too bad that such a good idea was spoiled by not telling where the money to buy the cars would come from.

The Smallest Book in the World

THE smallest book in the world was printed in Cleveland, Ohio, thirty years ago. The book is five-sixteenths of an inch square and one-eighth of an inch thick. The type area of each page is one-fourth of an inch square. The contents, in 48 pages, are the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and are entirely legible under the microscope. Only 57 copies were printed, and these are now worth $500 apiece. The type was originally set in 24-point titles and 18-point body and then reduced by photography to such minuteness as to bring them outside the range of vision of the unaided eye. There are two of these in the Library of Congress at Washington. There is one copy in the Cleveland Public Library.

The Present Emergency

Justice Brandeis recently declared that the present emergency is more serious than the World War; and without a doubt he is right. But in thinking it over let us not forget that this same present emergency came to us as one of the things we gained by rushing headlong into that war that was to put an end to war. How evident it now appears that the few who had the courage to stand for peace and against war in 1917 were the truest patriots the country possessed!

Individualism on Farm Must Go

Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, in an address to the members of the National Creamery and Buttermilk Association recently, said: “Agriculture, the most stubborn stronghold of the dying individualism, must adopt the combination form of business. The farmer must hang together or he will hang separately. The one thing left to us is to decide the question of the type of control that is going to be exercised over this group action. Shall it be feudal or federalized?”

Decline in Bank Clearings

DESPITE all the prognosticators of better times, business continues to slide downward. In the last week in April New York bank clearings were 53 percent less than the same week a year before; Detroit was slightly worse. Boston, Pittsburgh and Omaha were only slightly better. A 25-percent decline, or worse, was manifest in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Richmond, Atlanta, Louisville, Dallas, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.

Across the Roof of the World

THE Trans-American Air Lines Corporation J- has just been granted a concession, valid for 75 years, for operating landing and wireless stations in Iceland. The line expects to put in a passenger and mail route from Detroit via Hudson Strait, Baffin Island, Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands and Shetland Islands to London and Copenhagen. On none of the ten stages into which the route is divided has more than 500 miles of sea to be crossed. Service will be daily. Aeroplanes and officers will be changed at each stage. It is expected to make the flight each way in 48 to 72 hours.

The Second Reinmuth Planet

THE second Reinmuth planet is our nearest neighbor, and also Venus’ nearest neighbor.

On May 15 it was reputed to be only thirty times as far away as the moon, or some 7,500,000 miles, and in the heavens such a distance is next to nothing. It is conjectured that this planet may at times come within 3,000,000 miles of the earth, and possibly within 100,000 miles of Venus. It is believed to be not more than one or two miles in diameter, one of the smallest of the 1,200 asteroids known.

The Care of Sweet Potatoes

SWEET potatoes are harvested in the fall and are immediately taken to curing rooms, where they are heated to 80° F. for ten days or until they start showing sprouts. This holding at the normal growth temperature of the potato enables it to heal over bruised spots and prevents subsequent deterioration. The potatoes are then held at a temperature of 60° or 70° until marketed. Temperature control, humidity control and air circulation are involved in the process.

Music of the Spheres a Reality

BY USE of the photoelectric cell, popularly called the ‘electric eye’, light can be transformed into sound. On the night of April 23, the sound given forth by the light of the planet Venus was broadcast over the Columbia network and the resultant sustained high note resembled one coming from a violin. From this it is conjectured that the ‘music of the spheres’ is quite probably a reality, and that, to ears attuned, the beauties of the heavens are as great to the ear as they are to the eye.

Pope Hits Nail on the Head

IN HIS latest encyclical the pope hits the nail on the head when he says that there will be no peaceful solution of present social conditions until first in the field of economics there triumphs moral law based on God and conscience. This is merely another way of saying that those who have been living in the finest houses, and on the fat of the land, riding around in the finest automobiles and getting all these things through such dishonest practices as selling masses will have to quit and go to work.

Dictatorship for Liberia

CANNIBALISM in Liberia, the burning alive of men, women and children, and the wholesale extermination of natives who dared give testimony against the misgovernment practiced by the 12,000 descendants of Afro-Americans that rule the country, has led the United States to propose a dictator for the country, and to advise the League of Nations to that effect. The mere fact that a proposition for a dictatorship could emanate from the American department of state shows that the whole sentiment of the present administration at Washington is moving in the direction of the control of everything on earth by Big Business.

Raising Grapefruit in Rio Grande Valley

TT C. Odle, raiser of grapefruit in the Rio Grande valley, shipped a carload of 360 boxes from San Benito, Texas, to Sioux Falls, S. Dak., for which he received $810. The charges were as follows: Picking fruit and trucking to San Benito, $54; wrapping, boxing, commissions, etc., $378; freight charges, $367.20; total, $799.20. But, says somebody, that leaves a balance of $10.80; what is that for? We answer: That is Mr. Odle’s reward for raising the carload of food and seeing that it gets to South Dakota in good shape. He will use it in clothing, feeding and educating his family, and helping to support the government. If he puts less than $10.00 of that amount in the church envelope, he is no good. Now, is he?

Effect of the Kreuger Suicide

THE Kreuger suicide has had a profound effect in Sweden, where he spent $400,000,000 collected in America and undertook to make his homeland a great industrial country. With the collapse of his enterprises there was a tremendous number of suicides. Thousands were unable to pay their rents, and refused to pay, being thoroughly well discouraged and disillusioned as respects capitalism, and inclining away from capitalism toward socialism. While the Kreuger millions were being spent Sweden enjoyed high wages, and the city workers are said to have been better housed, better fed and better clothed than elsewhere in Europe or perhaps in the world. The bottom has been suddenly snatched from this prosperity and it has left a bitterly disappointed people.

James F. Green at Geneva

James F. Green, Yale senior, gave the hypocrites at the Armament Conference something to think about when he said to them:

It is young men and women of my age that will be commanded to commit suicide. It is my generation which will be requested to destroy the best of human culture, perhaps civilization itself, for causes which future historians will discover to be erroneous, if not utterly7 stupid or actually vicious. We have thus lost interest in being prepared for cannon fodder. In a sense I am presenting an ultimatum rather than a petition. The students whom I represent are watching critically every action of this conference. For behind your deliberations stands staring down at us the spectre of death.

‘Hating the Whore’ in Mexico

MEXICO continues to “hate the whore”, because she knows full well that most of her present troubles have come from that source. State after state of the Mexican republic is cutting down the number of priests permitted within its area. The state of which Toluca is the capital has just restricted the number of priests to 34 instead of the 150 that until now have been working their particularly despicable form of graft on the poor and ignorant. That leaves 116 more candidates for overalls and alarm clocks; and oh, how they hate the idea! After a lifetime spent in loafing and sponging it must come hard to get down to honest toil.

Harry Newburg Cut His Finger

AREN’T you sorry that Harry Newburg cut his finger while he was at work? Look at all the trouble it has made. Harry is a city employee, you know. First, Dr. Alfred B. Cassassa turned in a bill for fifteen visits at $2; but that did not seem to be enough, so he shoved in another for $25 for a sacra iliac support; and if you can find any connection between a little cut on your finger and a sacra iliac support you are some humdinger of a finder. The connection does not immediately appear, until you learn that Doctor Cassassa split fees with Dr. Walker, and Dr. Walker is brother of Mayor Jimmy Walker, whose private safe and interest in items running up to $964,000 is now under investigation. The doctors have high-hatted the rest of us so long that it seems good to see them getting some of what is properly their due. Cassassa, pazzazza, mazuma, Ponzi. Maybe that is not the right way to conjugate Cassassa; it is so long since we studied Latin that we. forget, but that is the sense of it, if there is any sense to it.

Hysteria in the Senate

REFERRING to the wild moves to balance the budget, Senator Johnson of California, addressing his confreres in the Senate, said: Wc are hysterical and worse. It would be infinitely better if the entire Executive Department should bo securely confined on the Rapidau and the entire Congress lost in the woods for a month, until we get our heads on our shoulders and our feet again on the ground. We are dealing here in paradoxical—I might almost say idiotic—fashion with appropriation bills, and with human beings affected by appropriation bills. We have grown so hysterical we arc utterly unable to see the paradoxical position in which wc place ourselves. We stand here and yap and whine about unemployment day after day. We tell of the miseries of our people, and how it is impossible for them to obtain work; of what an outrageous, shameful thing it is that in a country such as ours six or eight million people are tramping the streets begging for work and hungry. And then, at the very time we indulge in these lachrymose and eloquent appeals, we adopt a rule by which we put on the street a great many employees of various departments to swell the ranks of the unemployed.

2c Electric Rate in Virginia, Minn.

LOOK at your electric bill and see if you pay more than 2c per kilowatt hour. If you do you pay more than the residents of Virginia, Minn., have to pay. And we will bet you do, and a service charge besides. In that favored town the charge for 50 kilowatt hours is just a grand total of $1.00. In Scranton, Pa., where the current can be manufactured for less than it can at Virginia, the charge for the same amount of current is $3.50. Of this amount, $2.50 is for the electricity consumed, which is 2^ times what it is at Virginia, and the balance is what is called a theft charge, or “service charge”. In America, when wTe want advice on how to run the country, we send down to Washington the men that have loaded American families with theft charges, and the Government listens to them and takes their advice. Anybody can be a great financier if you put him in a position where he can legally steal $2.50 from every family every month in the year. And it is no wonder such financiers are “patriotic” and eager to run the government. Look what they get out of it.

Tragic End of a Ten-Year-Old

NO TEN-YEAR-OLD boy can be very bad, and Wm. Schneider, Jr., of Brooklyn, wasn’t so very bad, even if his teacher did have to send for his mother, to tell her all about it. The next day was a beautiful spring day and William’s father, for punishment, ordered him to stay in the attic all day. A few hours later his body was found hanging by a top cord, and a note nearby gave his possessions to his brother and said, “I go to hell.” The discovery of the body nearly killed the father. How glad we are that poor little William is only asleep and will come back soon into a world from which the eternal torment lie will have been for ever banished !

Blaming God for Hard Times

Reverend Doctor Clifton Macon, assistant rector of St. Bartholomew’s Church, Park Avenue and Fifty-first Street, New York city, says the depression is world-wide because of a wide apostasy from God. In other words, he thinks God is to blame for the hard times, and that despite all the surplus of good things with which the land and the earth is filled. Next thing you know, some clergyman will be blaming God for every bank that goes broke because some clever match peddler sold them too many bonds that rested on no more solid basis than square miles of the deep blue sky. No man should try to preach who is trying to make a fungus growth above his ears serve as a substitute for brains.

Government by Federal Trade Commission

George Starr White, M.D., famous Los

Angeles physician, is on the warpath. He has discovered, so he thinks, that the Federal Trade Commission is under the thumb of the American Medical Association, and it does not make him happy, for he has not found government by the Federal Trade Commission a reasonable thing. They want him to come to Washington for questioning.

When a man lives in Los Angeles it does not set well for him to be told that if he wants to continue to do business he must come all the way to Washington to present his case. He thinks that if the commission is wise enough to tell him how to run his private business they ought to be as well able to do it one place as another, and so he has suddenly got the idea that a good thing to do would be to dispense with the commission altogether. He thinks that if Congress could set up such a strangling commission it could also break it in pieces. And he may be right, at that.

Too Late with the Ventilators

AN ENTERPRISING firm of distillers engaged a nine-story building on Water Street, New York, and had put in about $300,000 of their plant. The molasses from which the liquor was to be made was brought in to an adjoining garage as gasoline and then was pumped into the distillery. The plan was to install up-to-date ventilators that would have disguised the fumes, but the prohibition agents in the district were too smart for them. They smelled the liquor, and now one more competitor of the greatest distiller in the country, Andrew Mellon, is for the moment unable to do any business, merely because he was late putting in his ventilators.

Lied Deliberately at Every Mass

A NEW HAMPSHIRE paper tells of an assistant pastor who at all masses on a given date denounced as communistic propaganda the little booklet The Kingdom, which had been distributed in the vicinity of his church. He thus lied deliberately at every mass.

This man is in the right business, one well suited to his peculiar abilities; for William Hogan, formerly a priest, in his authoritative book on popery sets down the rule: “I pronounce all Catholic priests, bishops, popes, monks, friars and nuns to be the most deliberate and wilful set of liars that ever infested this or any other country, or disgraced the name of religion.”

Have You Been to College?

A FRIEND in Knoxville, Tennessee, writes that one of the Knoxville company made a Sunday call and was proceeding with the testimony, ‘‘The people need a righteous government. Centuries ago Jehovah promised—” She got that far when the lady of the house interrupted with the startling information, “I do not want to hear anything about Jehovah; I’ve been to college.” She had learned all there was to know, and that settled it.

Now imagine them all lined up in front of Peter. They all want to get in. Conversation ensues: ‘Have you been to college ?’ Tes!’ ‘Then step right inside.’ ‘How about you? Have you been to college?’ ‘No!’ ‘Well, you can go to hell.’ That works all right for the present generation. But what about the so-called ‘general judgment’? Peter and all the rest of the apostles except Paul would have quit their jobs and gone to hell, for they were all “unlearned and ignorant men”, and all we would have left in heaven would be this wise Jane and others like hex- that are so steeped in foolishness that you couldn’t get an idea into their heads with a mallet and chisel.

President of New York Stock Exchange

TESTIFYING in Washington before the Senate committee on Banking and Currency, Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, known as one of Morgan’s men, declared the 1929 panic was caused by the common people who took too much stock in what was told them by Andrew Mellon and President Coolidge, said he did not know anything about agriculture, the basic business of the nation, and declared if speculation were stopped by law the greatest gambling house in the world would move to Canada. Incidentally, that might be a good thing for the United States; whether it would be of any benefit to Canada would remain to be seen.

Why Variant Interest Rates?

OME people are wondering why on March 5 the United States treasury put upon the market bearer certificates in denominations of $50, $100 and $500 at an interest rate of 2 percent, while two days later, on March 7, it put upon the market bearer certificates in denominations of $5,000 to $100,000 on which the interest rate was fixed at 3% percent. The natural conclusion is that the treasury department knows the little bonds will be bought by little financial people and it wishes to give them little reward, while the big bonds will be bought by big financial people and it wishes to give them a big reward. It thus emphasizes once more Josh Billings’ rule that “them as has gits’’.

Railroad Travel a Century Ago

CENTURY ago it was not such an easy thing to ride on a railroad. The following rules were posted in the stations of the Liverpool and Manchester lines. Traces of these rules persist in those still in effect.

Any person desiring to travel from Liverpool to Manchester, or vice versa, or any portion of the journey thereof must, twenty-four hours beforehand, make application to the station agent at the place of departure, giving his name, address, place of birth, age, occupation, and reason for desiring to travel.

The station agent, upon assuring himself that the applicant desires to travel for a just and lawful cause, shall thereupon issue a ticket to the applicant, who shall travel by the train named thereon.

Trains will start at their point of departure as near schedule time as possible, but the company does not guarantee when they will reach their destination.

Trains not reaching their destination before dark will put up at one of the several stopping places along the route for the night, and passengers must pay, and provide for, their own lodging during the night.

Luggage will be carried on the roof of the carriages. If such luggage gets wet, the company will not be responsible for any loss attached thereto.

Cadman Glorifies Man and Belittles God

everend Cadman is reported as saying: “Man is justified in the firm conviction that he can win victory over death. . . . Examine your own hearts, your semi-divine powers that God has given you, and you will know that God is obligated to meet your expectations of immortality.” You will have to go some to beat that.

And now what shall we do? We will just give you a little paraphrase. I count all this semidivine stuff as the pure unscriptural bunk and so much concentrated extract of pure theological piffle (Phil. 3:8); for God only hath immortality (1 Tim. 6:16), and if victory does come our way, “Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” —1 Cor. 15: 57.

Socialist Republic in Chile

THE great financiers, making their headquarters in New York city, who have about a billion dollars invested in Chile are wondering just what will happen to that billion if Chile should decide to adopt the form of socialism which prevails in Russia. The Guggenheims, W. R. Grace & Company, the Bethlehem Steel Company, the Power Trust, the Telephone Trust and the National City Bank of New York all have huge interests in Chile and will certainly not want to see the country go Bolshevik. The leader of the revolutionary movement, Carlos G. Davila, was formerly Chilean ambassador to the United States and is considered a capable man.

The Political Free Lunch Counter By Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt (New York)

IN COUNTY and town governments alone in this state, leaving out incorporated cities and villages altogether, there is a vast army of about fifteen thousand officials most of whom are elective and have constitutional status. These include in the counties chiefly county judges, sheriffs, surrogates, county clerks, registrars, district attorneys, coroners, county attorneys, and commissioners of welfare; and in the towns, supervisors, town clerks, justices of the peace, assessors, town collectors, highway superintendents, constables, and welfare officers. These paid officers, with minor exceptions, are found in all counties and towns. They constitute what may be called the regular Army of Occupation. But, besides this army of occupation there is an even greater corps of what I would call the Home Guards, paid and unpaid, part and whole time, elective and appointive, representing the police, light, fire, sewer, sidewalk, water, and other local improvement districts and the school districts with their boards, superintendents, clerks, and teachers.

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