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SELF-LIQUIDATING CURRENCY
SCIENTIFIC AND UNSCIENTIFIC VEGETARIANISM
AFRICA
A CONTINENT IN THE MAKING
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
"HE SHALL JUDGE THE WORLD”
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February 15, 1933
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LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Thousands Permanently Out . . 291
Cooperative Factories, Minneapolis 292
Canada’s Care of Unemployed Alen 293
Relief Experiments at Tecumseh . 297
Orchard Workers Wanted $1.50 . 297
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
Bubbles from the Propeller . . 291
20,000 Suicides a Year.....291
Federal Law on Conspiracy . . . 299
Hurricane Will Be Along .... 300
Baker’s New Station at Laredo . . 301
MANUFACTURING AND MINING
Oil and Coke Hurt Hard Coal Market 300
General Houses, Inc.......301
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
11,000,000 Autos Used Tunnel . . 295
The Big Joke in Canada .... 297
Power of J. P. Morgan.....297
Seatrain Handling of Freight . . 298
Sweeping Changes in Trucking . . 299
O’Connell Stung the Dominies . . 301
Hoover Scolded Wrong People . . 302
At Philadelphia in 1839 .... 302
Seguin, Texas, Yes
Self-Liquidating Currency
Depression Cure
Advantages of Self-Depreciating Money
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
Two Prime Ministers Agree . . . 291
Priests Lose Citizenship .... 292
Pasadena’s Profitable Plant . . . 292
Archbishop Finds Out About Law 296
Beck Despondent over America . . 296 “Only a Scrap of Paper” .... 298 A Tax on Utility Poles.....299
Proclamations by the President . . 300
AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY
Destruction of the Farmers . . . 294
Salinas, the Lettuce Center . . . 296
Would Get Rid of Low Lands . . 296
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Auto Engine Uses Charcoal Fumes 293
How Radio Waves Are Dampened 294
Ice Cakes Used to Lower Bridge . 294
Electric Eye in Publishing Business 295
Cooper Alloyed with Beryllium . 295
HOME AND HEALTH
William G. Scheckels and Fishbein 299
Scientific and Unscientific
Vegetarianism
Potato Prejudice
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
Tokyo Now Third City .... 292
Africa — A Continent in the
Making
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Rabbi Wolf Wants His $750 . . . 296
The Robert Dollar Professor . . . 297
The Denver Y.M.C.A
A New Business for Rectors . . . 301
Church of England Viewed from Inside
“He Shall Judge the World” . 315
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The Golden Age
Volume XIV Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, February 15, 1933 Number 350
Bubbles from the Propeller
Chairs Make a Difference
Fewer Funerals in Hard Times
IN AN office employing forty persons the office chairs were carefully adjusted to the workers, with the result that there were 20 percent fewer colds and minor illnesses within a year, and the general disposition of the entire force had improved, including that of the boss.
20.000 Suicides a Year
FEW years ago we had 10,000 suicides a year in America; then it was 12,000, and now we are told that it is almost 20,000 and rising rapidly. The percentage increase is higher among men than among women, showing that the pressure of hard times affects them most.
The Real Four Hundred
HE real American four hundred are the four hundred and two persons who each carry a million dollars or more life insurance. Thirteen of these carry live million dollars or more, and seventy-nine more had two million or more but less than five million.
A Convention of Millionaires
IN THE home of Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia, in October, there was a convention of three hundred millionaires, the largest of the kind on record. After a careful survey of the country they concluded there is nothing much wrong with it except that taxes are too high.
October’s Decline in Stocks
IN OCTOBER the stocks listed on the New
York Stock Exchange lost 1214 percent of all the value they had left on the first of that month. They are now in such bad shape that if the alleged statesmen at Washington had any nerve or any common sense they could buy for the people as a whole everything there is to sell for about three-fourths of the cash actually wasted by us in the World War.
CEMETERY officials have taken note of the fact that there are fewer deaths in hard times. People cannot pamper their appetites; they cannot eat as much or as often, and as a consequence they live longer.
Two Prime Ministers Agree
IN ONE week recently, in England, Prime Minister MacDonald and former Prime Minister Baldwin declared that the outlook is black and hopeless, and in the same week Montagu Norman, head of the Bank of England, expressed the same view.
Peiping Puts on 1,000 Policewomen
EIP1NG takes a step ahead this year by putting on 1,000 policewomen. These women will be well educated, be expected to give lessons in sanitation and hints on the proper care of children, and to warn girls from the country districts of the dangers of the big city.
War Club Returns to Fiji
IN 1874 King Cakobau of the Fiji Islands surrendered his war club to Queen Victoria.
King George recently returned the club to the islands and it will hereafter be used as a ceremonial mace in the place where it was once used to make a permanent dent in some aborigine's skull.
Thousands of Philadelphians Permanently Out htlip C. Staples, chairman of the Philadelphia County Relief Board, says that there are tens of thousands of workers in Philadelphia who will never go back to work because many Philadelphia industries were just ready in 1929 for a full program of machine production when the crash came. Now the machines have been installed and are waiting and the next big boom will put them in motion, and there will be work for them, but not for human hands.
Two Hearts in a Pennsylvanian
Edward Reynolds, of Wilkinsburg, Pa., has discovered at the age of 32 that he has two hearts, a small one on his left side and a larger one on his right. Since the depression came on several big financiers have been discovered that did not have any heart at all.
Has California Come to This?
FOR appearing at the Olympic Games, Los Angeles, wearing placards which asked justice for Tom Mooney, several youngsters have just been sentenced to nine months in prison and their attorney has been dismissed from the faculty of the Southwestern Law School. It seems incredible.
Tokyo Now Third City
TOKYO has increased its area from 31 square miles to 233 square miles and taken in 82 villages and towns in so doing. The result is that with a present population of 5,312,000 it now becomes the third city in size in the world. The seven largest cities in their order are London, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Chicago, Paris and Moscow.
Got Your Green Trousers?
A DISPATCH from Bradford, England, center of the wool fabrication industry, says that men will be wearing green trousers this coming summer. Anyway, they have made up the cloth, and they say it looks well, and unless the men balk there will be thousands of them that before fall will be clothed like the lilies of the field. The new7 cloths are being sent first to Cambridge University, where, if the college boys fall for them, they will spread to the rest of the -world, maybe.
Priests Lose Citizenship in Vera Cruz
ANGERED by what the president of Mexico styles the insolent and defiant attitude of Achille Ratti, pope, the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, has issued a decree that priests are no longer citizens. It also directs the governor to begin immediately to dispossess the clergy of all churches and other religious property they have been using, and to convert it into social and educational centers or put it to other public or social uses. Every time Air. Ratti opens his mouth about Mexico he sticks his foot into it clear up to his thigh.
Autopsy of a Slot Machine
A UTOPSY of a slot machine, of the type common in New7 York city, show7s that the machine pays out 75.6 percent of the money paid in; 50 percent of the symbols on the rotated wTheel are dead; the wheel cannot stop at them. The player’s chance of hitting a capital prize is exactly one in 1,000.
Cooperative Factories in Minneapolis
TN A STRIKE of milk-wagon drivers, in Min-*- neapolis, in 1920, the Franklin Cooperative Creamery was organized and got its start, and is now7 the largest dairy company in the North-w7est. More recently the workers in dry cleaners’ establishments have organized a successful cooperative firm, and now the glove workers have done the same and are making w’ork gloves in eighteen different styles and materials.
Ford Automobile Baling Press
A T THE Ford Motor Company’s plant at River Rouge there is a baling machine v’liich takes what is left after the glass, leather, tires, batteries and nonmetallic parts are removed, and folds an entire car up into a bale of scrap about the size of a bale of hay. A conveyor deposits these bales in charging boxes and the boxes are emptied into a new furnace which holds 600 tons of hot metal at one time.
Pasadena’s Profitable Municipal Plant
T AST year the Pasadena municipal light and pow7er plant illuminated the streets at a rate of 2y±e per kilow’att hour, and supplied residences and commercial lighting for a fraction less than 4c pei’ kilowatt hour. The surplus and the general and special reserves up to June 30, 1932, amount to $6,111,308.86, which the Big Business crowd might have had just as well as not, if they had gotten hold of the Pasadena plant in time.
Lash Still Used in the South
PRISONERS may still be given the lash legally in Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia. In Alabama the whipping must be done in the presence of a physician; in Virginia the prison superintendent must give his approval before a prisoner can be wdiipped, and a physician must examine him before and after he is whipped. The lash has been theoretically abandoned in four southern states.
Evangeline Adams, Astrologer
vangeline Adams, astrologer, is dead. It is said that, beginning to broadcast astrology (which is demonism) over the radio in 1930, within three months she had received 150,000 requests for horoscopes, one of which was from J. P. Morgan. The following year she received 4,000 letters a day, and the next year she was dead.
Katherine Plunkett Dead at 111
atherine Plunkett, oldest woman in the British Isles, died recently at her home in northern Ireland about six weeks before she would have been 112 years of age. She died without illness, and apparently without pain, after breakfast, sinking as though into a sleep. Iler complexion was good, and sight and hearing were only slightly impaired prior to her end.
Canada’s Care of Single Unemployed Men
ANADA is caring for two thousand unemployed men by giving them nominal employment in connection with the trans-Canada airways system. The men will be housed in railway cars on sidings and receive shelter, food, clothing, and 20 cents a day nominal wages. This is far better than total unemployment and total nonprovision of life's necessities.
Digestive Apparatus of the Termite
HE termite of Central Africa, an ant-like creature, builds a residence twenty feet high and ten feet wide and housing millions, all under one queen. Its food is the inside of houses, furniture, telephone poles, or anything else made of wood. Within its stomach it has tinier creatures that do its digesting for it; they keep part of the food for their own use, but the bulk of it goes to the host.
How Easily Trade Is Upset
TT SEEMED like a good thing, the Ottaw’a Economic Conference; at least good for the British Empire. But it is difficult to carry out the high idea of trade within the empire. Since the conference Canada traded aluminum ware for Russian oil. Immediately, Trinidad noticed that some of her oil orders from Canada had been canceled, and now she wants to know how it comes that a Canada that does not want to trade with Russia and does want to trade with the empire does neither.
Chinese Auto Engine Uses Charcoal Fumes
CHINESE inventor has adapted charcoal fumes to automobile operation. In an official test with a Buick car 42 pounds of charcoal were used to cover 30 miles of rough roadway in 77 minutes. It requires a heating period of five minutes before a car can be started. It is expected to use the device only in districts where the present cost of gasoline is prohibitive.
Faded Crowns Adorn the Wizards
everend Dr. William P. Ladd, dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, at New Haven, says: “A short time ago it would have been lese-majeste, certainly very provincial, to impugn the intelligence of our great bankers, merchants and industrialists. Now they wear faded crowns and few are left who reverence these erstwhile wizards.”
Beautiful Yacht Sold for $1,500
NE of the most beautiful yachts in the-world, the Hirondelle, built in 1911 at a cost of $2,000,000, was recently sold in Providence for $1,500. It requires a crew of fifty to sail it, and as no Big Business man today feels like supporting a crew of fifty sailors, the yacht goes begging. The man who bought it at auction is now looking for a purchaser.
Ireland Still in Fighting Mood
TRELAND is still in fighting mood, as was manifested when the prince of Wales recently visited Belfast to dedicate the new Northern Ireland parliament buildings at Stormont. Railroad lines were broken and ripped up and telegraph lines were cut in the effort to prevent the dedication, but it went through without a hitch. Eight thousand armed Orangemen aided the 4,000 armed soldiers and police that escorted the prince.
Colorado River Already Dammed
THE Colorado river is already dammed; to be sure, not with the permanent Hoover dam, which will hold back two years’ flow of the mighty stream, and create a great inland lake, but the temporary dam is in, and the river is now diverted by it into a tunnel, cut for the purpose, that takes it around the site where the Hoover dam is in construction. The dam builders are now down in the bottom of the old river bed, but dry and comfortable.
Robot Wounds Its Inventor
WHILE a British inventor, Harry May, at
Brighton, England, was exhibiting his wireless-controlled robot, the robot suddenly seized a revolver, turned quickly, and shot its inventor through the right hand. The inventor was unable to explain the incident. Manifestly a demon found the contrivance suited to his purposes and made use of it.
How Radio Waves Are Dampened
RADIO waves tend to spread in every direction from the point of origin. When it is desired to send them in one direction two sets of antennae are strung which absorb or reflect the horizontal waves but permit the vertical ones to continue. Thus, by shifting the antennae reflectors, the radio waves can be limited to any desired direction.
Ice Cakes Used to Lower a Bridge
WHEN he had got a 61-ton steel span within six inches of its resting place in a highway bridge, a California engineer found there was no longer room in which to use his jacks. He ordered the span placed on six cakes of ice each weighing four hundred pounds. The sun came up, the ice melted, and the span settled just where he wanted it.
Rio Shops Close Two Hours at Noon
RIO DE JANEIRO, and indeed all of Brazil, is experimenting with a law making it obligatory to close all places of business between 11: 30 a.m. and 1: 30 p.m. In the Syrian quarter it was found to work badly, as it takes a Syrian three hours to arrange his goods and another three hours to pack them back, according to the newspaper account. The law will probably be modified.
Another Bank Robbery in New York
ANOTHER bank has been robbed in New
York, not in the modern style, from the inside, by the president, or the cashier, or one of the tellers, but in the old-fashioned crude style of the eighties. Five armed men walked into an uptown bank just as it was opening for business in the morning, cut telephone wires, caged seven employees, grabbed $13,000 in cash, set off a tear-gas bomb, came out and got into their car and went their way. There was a policeman within a block in each direction.
Curious Enterprises of Uncle Sam
rpiIB book More Merry-Go-Round is authority for the statement that in the Panama canal
zone the United States rents two breweries to Panaman citizens, together with some 300 saloons and two or three blocks of brothels. (In Brandon, Florida, three little children have been expelled from the public school because instructed by their father not to salute the flag.)
A Delegate to the Armament Conference
Sir John Simon, head of the British delegation to the Geneva Anns Conference, owned 1,512 shares of stock in Imperial Chemical Industries, which has a virtual monopoly of supplying munitions, poison gas and explosives for the British government. After the six-month gabfest his stock was a better investment than before it began.
Discoveries of Ocean Scenery
XT ERE the other day they discovered a mountain a mile high within some sixty miles of the Golden Gate; and now they have found a great gorge off New England, with walls 1800 feet high. The only trouble with these tw’O pieces of scenery is that they are covered with water a mile deep, and Beebe in his iron ball is the only one of us that will ever get a chance to see what they are like.
Many Locusts in Argentina
A RGENTINA has been having such heavy visitations of locusts that locomotives have gone out with ten times the usual amount of sand for the rails, and the Central Argentine Railway has fitted some of its freight engines with rubber brushes to push the locusts off the rails. One huge swarm, several miles wide, flew to a watery grave in the La Plata river, which is fifty miles wide-opposite Buenos Aires.
Destruction of the Farmers
THE destruction of the farmers proceeds apace. A friend, a dirt farmer in Kansas, sends us a clipping from the Clay Center Times, showing the local market conditions on December 14, 1932. For their wheat the farmers were then getting 28c a bushel, for new shelled corn 15c a bushel, oats 12c, pigs from 2c a pound up to 2.6c a pound, cattle from lc a pound up to 4c a pound, hides lc a pound, hens from 4e up to 7c a pound. No farmer can live on these prices.
Huge Arizona Meteor Located
VER since the aeronautic discovery of the Arizona meteor crater, an elliptical pit three quarters of a mile long, 600 feet deep, and surrounded by a circular ridge or parapet that rises about 130 feet above the plateau, mining engineers have been trying to locate the meteor itself. It was finally found by electrical methods and confirmed by the prospector’s drill. It had penetrated 680 feet into the earth’s surface.
Electric Eye in the Publishing Business
Y THE use of the photo-electric eye a photograph or painting in color may now be engraved automatically on zinc sheets, three color plates in half an hour. The same kind of work used to take thirty-six hours. The electric eye is now also used to automatically set type from reporter’s typewritten copy. It matches perfectly the colors of inks and papers; something the human eye cannot do.
Blessing the Hounds in Washington
HE Washington D- ily News of December 10, 1932, contains a picture of Reverend Dr.
George Carl Fitch Bratenahl blessing (he hounds at the Washington Riding and Hunt Club. The hounds he really meant to bless are those referred to by the Prophet Isaiah when he said: “They are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand; they all look to their own way, every one for his gain from his quarter.”—Isaiah 56: 10,11.
Lied Till the Very Last
WHEN Reverend Peter Selinas, priest, committed suicide at Fall River, Massachusetts, he accused a boy of 19 of having poisoned him, but his will, written in Lithuanian, acknowledged that he was a suicide. Although the accused lad pleaded with the priest to tell the truth and thus free him from the dreadful charge of murder, the ruling passion of lying was strong even in death and he went out of this life with the lies upon his lips. How the Devil must have loved a man that served him so faithfully in his lifetime and even in his death. He was peculiarly fitted for the discharge of the dutv which he left, that of misrepresenting God.
36 a Critical Age for Workers
N ANALYSIS of 3,700 “white collar” workers listed as unemployed on the pay rolls of the New York City Emergency Work and Relief Bureau shows that their average age is 36 years and 3 months; they are native born, married, and the sole support of a family of three persons. Of these, 95 percent had finished grammar school and 30 percent had attended college.
Copper Alloyed with Beryllium
OPPER alloyed with beryllium can now be made fifty inches wide, any desired length, and so thin that it weighs only one ounce per square foot. It has an elastic limit of 170,000 pounds per square inch, resists abrasion and fatigue, and can he made into tools which do not spark. It is offered for roofs, awnings, automobile tops, oil refineries and power plants. It does not corrode, and retains its set in superheated steam.
Holland Tunnel Used by 11,000,000 Autos a Year
HE Holland Tunnel under the North river is every way a great success. In the five years in which it has been in operation more than 55,500,000 autos have passed through it, and the annual earnings are well over $2,500,000. It is believed to be one of the best-policed institutions in existence. In case of a crash, flat tire, empty gasoline tank, fire or other mishap, the emergency trucks and squads of special police are on the job in jig time and in a few moments the difficulty is removed and traffic proceeds as before. Moreover, the users of the tunnel are noticeably more careful.
Pupils in the School of Christ
UPILS in the school of Christ are a good deal like the little girl that had her first day of public instruction. She came home and her mother said to her, “Well, darling, what did you learn?” The child made answer, “Not much. I’ve got to go again.” And now isn’t that the way it is with all of us? When we get so we think we know something we have to learn it all over; and every time we learn it we have to take out something and put in something, to keep our knowledge up to date. The one that knew it all in 1918 is a sorry-looking object today, and of about as much use to the Lord as a last year’s watermelon.
Salinas, the Lettuce Center
AST year the United States consumed 49,878 cars of lettuce, of ^hieh amount 20,324 carloads were shipped from points within a few miles of Salinas, California. The interesting thing about this is that Salinas farmers did not begin lettuce growing until 1920. The first car shipped was a complete success, and every car since. At present some 20,000 acres are devoted to it, with most of the land yielding tvo crops a year, and some of it three.
Misuse of Troops by Chinese
HE ‘heathen Chinese' are always doing something that is embarrassing to us Christians.
This last season they had their- soldiers help the farmers gather in their crops. The soldiers continued to live on army rations, and if found guilty of accepting either money or food for their work in the harvest fields they were court-martialed. Now we Christians wouldn’t have done anything like that with our soldiers, would we ?
Road Tax Arrests in Mississippi
IN LAUDERDALE county, Mississippi, warrants have been issued for the arrest of two thousand colored men for not paying their road taxes. The reason they did not pay was that they could not. To pay their other taxes the sheriff has taken their stock, horses and cows; but the road tax is different: it must be paid in cash or worked out as a fine, on a prisoner basis, at the rate of 50c a day. To all intents and purposes it is slavery.
Rabbi Wolf Wants His $750
IRST, old Mr. Louis Bormaster died; second, Rabbi Wolf, of St. Louis, hooked up to pray for his soul for eleven months. He went to the mat 150 times, charging only $5 a flop, and then the family concluded they could finish out the praying job without his assistance. Now he is suing for $750; and can you blame him? Dr. Hardaway, one of our subscribers, who drew this to our attention, says: “If the rabbi wins his suit, his idea will be of value not only to the Jewish rabbis, but to all clergymen, whose salaries seem to be in such imminent peril. If the salaries pass away, how much easier it will be to say a few hundred prayers for the dead at $5 per than to resort to a pick and shovel to make a living
Would Get Rid of Mississippi Low Lands
California engineer, Victor Falkenau, would get rid of all the low lands in the Mississippi valley, and put an end to all floods, by pumping the rich alluvial soil now in the bottom of the stream over behind dikes built to hold it. He estimates this would result in a new acreage of 5,000.000 acre* of rich agricultural land, and would cost $670,000,000.
Archbishop Diaz Found Out About the Law
N A NIGHT in October Archbishop Diaz of Mexico was suddenly taken to police headquarters charged with performing religious functions without registering. It seems the old gentleman did not know that an archbishop is amenable to the law the same as one of the lesser clergy. It cost him 500 pesos to find out, and he did not get back to his palace until 1: 40 a.m. Education comes high, and it is going to get higher as time goes on.
Beck Despondent over America
IN AN address before the New England Society o f Pennsylvania Congressman James A. Beck, of Pennsylvania, said the future of American democracy is filled with doubt. He cited Washington’s warning that a time might come when factions of small, artful minorities might put their own interests above the common good, and indicated his present belief that conditions in America are now parallel to those that caused the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Reverend Haldeman Badly Tangled Mentally
IT IS plain enough who Jesus was. The angel
Gabriel said: “He . . . shall be called the Son of the Highest: and [Jehovah] God shall give unto him the throne of his father David.” But Reverend Dr. I. M. Haldeman, pastor of the First Baptist church, Broadway and Seventy-ninth street, New York city, is reported as having said that Jesus, instead of being the Son of the Most High, is really the Most High himself, and, instead of being given the throne by Jehovah, He is himself Jehovah. Oh well, what could you expect from a D.D.? No doubt Haldeman is profoundly impressed with the great idea that three times one equals one and that one plus one plus one equals one. Great theologians are like that; but the simple, plain truths of the Scriptures, even when stated by the angel Gabriel, they can in no wise comprehend.
The Big Joke in Canada
THE big joke in Canada is that right at the time when the Bennett government was urging all parts of the British Empire to unite in cutting off trade with Soviet Russia, and had issued orders banning Russian coal, asbestos, wood products and furs, it made a bargain to trade a great quantity of 11 r. Helion's aluminum (made in the Canadian plant) for several shiploads of Russian oil, and has refused to explain why. Well, anybody who knows who makes the aluminum and who is minister at the court of St. James can pretty nearly guess why Canada agreed to take the oil.
Washington's Teeth Salvaged
N ITEM in the day's news states that
George Washington's lower false teeth are on exhibition in the museum of a London hospital and that the uppers arc in Baltimore. The account also says that George paid $60 for this set on February 20, 1795, and it does seem as if he was entitled to take them along with him when he went. However, the undertaker probably thought he might as well salvage what he could. But it makes a fellow feel like refraining from laughing very heartily in the presence of an undertaker, either before, or during or after using his services.
The Robert Dollar Professor
THE late Robert Dollar in his eventful lifetime built up a world-wide steamship business, with headquarters in San Francisco, and lines operating to all the principal cities of the world. His charities are well known. However, all of this hardly gives the man the right to a special brand of New Testament interpretation. Yet we have seen a very neat letterhead of the ‘•Rev. Edward Arthur Wicher, D.D., Robert Dollar Professor of New Testament Interpretation, San Francisco Theological Seminary, 18 Kensington Road, San Anselmo, Calif.'’
Will the Rev. Wicher please explain how Robert Dollar should precede the Lord's Word in his lengthy title, and just what kind of interpretation of the New Testament is inferred by such a title ? It would seem that professed teachers of God's Word should rather proclaim that they are interpreting the New Testament according to Christ's instruction rather than according to Robert Dollar, or any other human creature.
Power of J. P. Morgan
JP, Morgan is a personal friend of Herbert
• Hoover and of Franklin Roosevelt and is a frequent visitor at the White House. Through his company, and its dependents, Bankers Trust Company, Guaranty Trust Company, and First National Bank, and through his allies, Chase National Bank and National City Bank, he controls 2,450 directorships in corporations with net assets of $74,000,000,000, or 22 percent of the total corporation assets of the country. He is generally believed to have more power over business and government than any other person.
Relief Experiments at Tecumseh
enry Ford is conducting relief experiments at Tecumseh, Michigan, having opened a store where all the necessities of life may be obtained, but where nothing is sold for cash. Persons wanting goods are given employment at an hourly wage of 20c, and the employment may be cutting wood, clearing snow from the streets, or even cleaning up one's own yard. Several men were given the jobs of washing the windows in their own homes. Women are given jobs at sewing garments for the needs of their own or other families; those who cannot sew do washing or other work. Forty families are being helped in this manner. The rent of the store was donated.
Orchard Workers Wanted $1.50 a Day
ORCHARD workers in the vicinity of Vacaville, California, went on strike, demanding $1.50 a day for an eight-hour day. This amount will procure one fairly good meal in a dining car, if one's appetite is modest.
A lynching committee was organized. One of the speakers, Rev. A. Fruhling, pastor of the Community Church, was in favor of dealing with the situation in the “old American way”, by hanging.
After considerable excitement, several of the principal of the flock stormed the jail, where the strikers were being held for safe-keeping, seized six of them, took them out of town, beat them, clipped their hair, and told them never to return. One would not think they would wish to.
The lynching party was shown every courtesy. Somebody let them have the key to the jail. They were among the most prominent citizens in Ilie community. One of the speakers was a judge.
Snake Dance in Tremont Temple
"D everend J. Whitcomb Brougiier is down in the press as having executed several Indian dances in the Tremont Temple pulpit, Boston, Mass. In some of these he used artificial snakes, and at one point let out a war whoop. We have no objection to this. He might just as well have done it as anything else he would have done. A man that is interested in Devil worship will naturally try’ to interest others in it; nothing else should be expected.
Seatrain Handling of Coastwise Freight
TAISCOVERING that fifty percent of coastwise steamship operation is terminal expense, the new Seatrain coastwise steamers carry three decks of four rows each of standardgauge railroad track, and on these tracks one hundred cars. By this means they are moving freight between New York, Havana and New Orleans in hundred-car lots in the ears themselves, eliminating packing costs, reducing insurance rates, and delivering shipments in faultless condition. It looks as if this new method would entirely upset the freight rate structure of the railroads of the United States.
“Only a Scrap of Paper”
IT SEEMS that the most warlike countries in the world have absolutely no respect for their signatures to treaties and promises to pay debts. At the outbreak of the World War Germany’s spokesman thought it an outrageous thing that Britain should plunge into the conflict merely because her name was attached to a piece of paper. Of course, he did not know that Britain had all along been intending to plunge in as soon as Germany would invade Belgium. And now France, far more warlike than Germany ever was, has also indicated that her signature to a contract is worth nothing, by refusing to pay the small amount of interest she had agreed to pay on the huge sum borrowed from Uncle Sam. The natural result in the United States is an almost universal agreement that it would have been far better, for the welfare of the world, if the Germans had been permitted to go clear through to the Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay, and they would have done it, too, but for the purchased press and the hypocritical clergy of the Devil here in America that pushed a peaceloving country into the great enterprise of dragging Morgan’s French bonds out of the fire.
Weather All Mixed Up
ON DECEMBER 13 it snowed all over California, even in Imperial Valley, and while we should like to say it was warm and sunny here in New York it isn’t quite true. The snow here was mostly melted on December 13, but the air was as raw and cold as it is sometimes at Santa Monica Beach (off Los Angeles) when midwinter guests hastily (and shiveringly) run out on the beach in bathing suits and get photographed for the benefit of the folks back east. However, we might as well admit that it is usually warmer in winter in California than it is in New York.
Rodriguez Says the Pope Lies
President Rodriguez of Mexico says that “the pope”, A. Ratti, is a liar. He does not put it quite that bluntly, but that is what it means. Here is what he said, translated into English: “In an unforeseen and absurd manner there has been published the Encyclical Acerba Animi, whose tone does not surprise us, because methods filled with falsehood against this country are characteristic of the papacy.” He said something more, i.e., “If the insolent, defiant attitude shown in the recent encyclical continues, I am determined that the churches shall be converted into schools and shops for the benefit of the nation’s proletarian classes.”
No Religious Rebellion in Guadalajara
THINGS were shaping up nicely for a religious rebellion in Guadalajara. There was a house full of rifles, pistols, ammunition, dynamite bombs, field equipment, a printing press, and considerable printed matter urging a rebellion. Then the police seized the house; and that’s that. Then the archbishop quickly advised the people of Mexico not to rebel, just as soon as he found it was no use. And the last we heard, the legislature of the state in which Guadalajara is located was expecting to pass a law limiting to eight the number of priests in the second largest city in the country; and that cuts the chances of rebellion down still more. It certainly is tough luck when a church wants to start a rebellion in a country and is not permitted to do so. It looks as if one Ratti and his friends were being given no religious liberty in Mexico to do any political cussedness at all. Meantime the truth is being broadcast all over Mexico. Makes a fellow laugh, doesn’t it?
Federal Law on Conspiracy
SECTION 19 of the Federal Penal Code reads as follows:
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same, or if two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured, they shall be fined not more than $5,000 and imprisoned not more than 10 years, and shall, moreover, be thereafter ineligible to any office or place of honor, profit or trust created by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
Japan an Excellent Imitator
REFERRING to Japan’s seizure of Manchuria, and her subsequent course, the Manchester Guardian says:
Her method is a bland parody of the diplomatic hypocrisies familiar in the West. Having thrust the Chinese government by violence out of Manchuria, she schooled a troop of Manchurian notables in the jargon of self-determination and organized a state. Now she makes a treaty with it as a sovereign, independent power. In this document she establishes with Man-chukuo a perpetual relationship of good neighborhood the same that a young lady of Riga established with a tiger. She merely takes powers to stiffen the doddering Manchukuo government with a backbone of Japanese troops, who are like the stick which salesmen sometimes insert in a flabby fish to stiffen it.
Sweeping Changes in New York Trucking
NEW YORK is one of the greatest freighthandling places in the world. The city is what it is because it is the terminal of the world’s greatest railways and the world’s greatest steamship lines. In and out of its warehouses go the products of whole continents.
A great change is now taking place in the manner of handling many of these goods. The great railway systems will make their own deliveries and collections of freight. Straightway, stock in terminal and trucking companies goes down. The railroads say frankly that they expect to be able to move the goods between the patron and the railroad for less expense than it can be done by any other method. Quite likely they are correct, and many a flourishing trucking business in New York will have to part with valuable men, and dispose of trucks, and go out of business, as a result.
A Tax on Utility Poles
TN THE year 1921 the city of Little Rock, Ar-J- kansas, raised the annual tax on poles in the city, belonging to the power and light company, the telephone company and the two telegraph companies, from 50c per pole to 75c per pole. Thereupon these four representatives of Big Business, who are always so eager to have the common people pay their full taxes and be otherwise law-abiding citizens, kept on paying the old rates for ten years. Probably this was by connivance, not only with each other, but with some politician who is so crooked he would make a corkscrew look like a knitting needle by comparison. Anyway, the people of Little Rock have just found they have been robbed, and they are good and mad and will now assess these burglars $1.50 each for their poles. It seems as though every way a burglar turns in these days he meets with some discouragement. It is almost enough to make Big Business turn honest, like other folks, but not quite. That job will be done in Armageddon.
William G. Scheckels and Fishbein
William G. Scheckels beautiful five-year-old child, once the light of the home at 540 Newton Place, Washington, D. C., is dead of lockjaw following vaccination. He was vaccinated so that he might have the privilege of attending school, to get a chance to learn how to live. The investigation has been turned over to the 'Health Department’, and, as they are always regular M.D.’s, that will be the end of it. And that brings us to Fishbein, the president of the American Medical Association, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. He has just written a book in which he proceeds to tell us how superior is the judgment of a member of the American Medical Association to that of Jesus Christ, in the following language: “To the modern informed physician, such risings from apparent death are not miracles because they are perfectly understood. To the uninformed observer of more than 1900 years ago, such an incident might well appear to have been a raising from the dead.” No doubt Fishbein feels that it is just too bad that he did not have an opportunity to teach Christ the importance of vaccination, and to explain to Him that if anything is ever to be done for William G. Scheckels it will have to be done by a modern informed physician. Meantime, “see your doctor twice a year.”
The Denver Y.M.C.A.
A POOR woman suffering from tuberculosis jumped from the tenth floor of a Denver hotel, with her seven-year-old daughter in her arms, killing both. The police vent to the Y.M.C.A., where the dead woman’s husband lived, to tell him of the tragedy, but they learned from the Y.M.C.A. officials that he had been locked out of his room because he could not pay his rent. Seems too bad that with a sick wife he wr.s dead broke too.
In Jesus' day there were no Y.M.C.A.’s where a poor man in hard luck could be accommodated and helped in a Christian manner, and so He said, ‘’The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” But if He had ever shown up at the Denver Y.M.C.A. He would have been made as welcome as could be, we are sure of it, so long as He had in His jeans sufficient coin of the realm to pay for His room. Otherwise, there would have been nothing doing, and He would have been in the same fix with a Y.M.C.A. as He was without one.
Proclamations by the President
THE commander-in-chief of the armies and navies of the United States seems to have overlooked the law which requires that before federal troops are moved the president must issue a preliminary proclamation. This was not done when the troops moved against the bonus marchers at Anacostia, nor was it done recently in Yew York when fifty infantrymen were moved from Governor’s Island to Bryant Park for a three weeks’ public exhibit of engines of death.
Mr. and Mrs. John Myers, Ephrata, Pa., whose twelve-week-old baby died when the bonus marchers’ camp was gassed, say that the baby was asleep at the time it was gassed. A dispatch from Pittsburgh shows that just a week before the baby was gassed a Pittsburgh concern shipped the government a quantity of teargas guns, hand grenades, projectiles, guns and gas masks.
If it had so happened that there was anybody in charge of the federal troops more foolish than General MacArthur it is probable that the casualties would have been more than they were, but there is no likelihood that such could be found. Now, if Falstaff could only have been living in Washington in 1932 what a chief of staff he would have made!
Business Opportunities in Philadelphia
UNDER the head of “Business Opportunities” the Philadelphia Inquirer of October 9, 1932, contained the following advertisement: “Preacher with following, needs promoter to develop religious idea, build tabernacle, etc., and show profit. D-924. Inquirer office.” We don’t know who the preacher could have been. It wasn’t Peter; he had plenty of religious ideas and he wanted to build a tabernacle, but got sat on, and did not do it. It may have been Judas; he was the only one of the apostles to show a profit, but we hadn’t heard anything about his coming back from where he is, and we doubt, in short, if he will ever do it. The thing is a mystery.
Hurricane Will Be Along Presently
WINNIPEG has a judge, a Mr. Stubbs, who
is giving some Canadians the shivers. He recently dismissed five men charged with rioting and possession of dangerous weapons. They were on a picket line and had a brush with the police. The police handled them too roughly, and the judge did not like it, and said so. All Canada is talking about him, some praising, some condemning, but he goes right on. He recently said: “If our legal and judicial system is such a frail, fragile and delicately-constituted artificial structure that the few puffs of fresh air of criticism which I have made against it have so seriously affected it that it is impaired and deterred in its functioning, then it is high time a hurricane came along and blew the whole thing away. In the words of Patrick Henry: ‘If this be treason, make the most of it.’ ”
Oil and Coke Hurt Hard Coal Market
IN 1927 the annual consumption of oil for house heating was 11,000,000, but in three years thereafter it had grown to 18,000,000 barrels, and is still growing. In spite of somewhat higher cost of heating a home by oil rather than coal, and the still more objectionable fact that everything in a house heated by oil finally gets to have an oily touch or an oily appearance, the oil heating is popular because adjustments can be made to a nicety and the apparatus requires no attention from one day’s end to another. There are no ashes to handle, and there is no coal dust to contend with.
The so-called “coal strike” of 1923, which was a determined effort by the miners to get more money and a determined effort by the operators to pay less, finally resulted in a drawn battle, worked great injury to the hard coal industry. Customers concluded it was a fuel not to be depended upon, and many went over to coke. In 1927 some 4,700,000 tons of coke were used for domestic heating in the east, and last year the amount was more than twice that. Those who have once used coke refuse to return to hard coal, on account of the higher price.
Every dam that is built reduces the market for anthracite; every steamship that goes over to oil propulsion does the same. Many great manufacturing enterprises have gone over to soft coal because they did not feel sure of hard coal supplies, and they will not change back, on account of the higher prices charged for anthracite and the cost of altering their boilerroom equipment.
O’Connell Stung the Dominies
ORDINARILY the bishop business is a nice business, speaking from a money point of view. It is until something goes wrong. It seems that Daniel O'Connell did most of the stock gambling from various leading lights of the ecclesiastical firmament, but the pinch in the stock market finally sent him into bankruptcy. Among his unsecured creditors was the Right Reverend Thomas M. O'Leary, bishop of Springfield, Mass., who let him have $460,000 of his loose change, together’ with notes footing up to $810,000 more. The Society for the Propagation of the Faith got bit for $75,000. Cardinal Dennis J. Dougherty, of Philadelphia, as archbishop, is sorrowful to the amount of $25,000. Other sufferers are Right Reverend Thomas McDevitt, of Harrisburg; Right Reverend John J. McMahon, of Trenton; St. Catherine's Rectory, Riverside, Connecticut; Reverend Charles II. Duffy and Reverend Leon D. McGraw, Worcester, Massachusetts; Bishop Thomas C. O’Reilly, Scranton, Pa.; Reverend John J. Finn, St. Martin's Rectory, Amityville, N. Y., and Reverend James Hogan, Little Flower Institute, Wading River, N. Y. All together, when Mr. O'Connell's bucket shop failed he had $2,035,182 of liabilities and only $131,503 of assets. It will take a long time to get this back from the servant girls and washerwomen who paid it in the first place. But there is one nice thing about the mass racket: it is all clear profit; the clergy have all they make, except as they have to split with the bishops and moguls higher’ up.
General Houses, Inc.
ENERAL HOUSES, Inc., is a combination of the Pullman Company, General Electric Company, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and five other nationally known building-supply manufacturers to erect pressed-steel houses that will be secure against weather, water, lire, vermin, lightning and earthquake, and will keep cool in summer and warm in winter. The plan of this new housing system is to enable the average family to select its home in a showroom, have it erected by a small crew within four days, pay for it on the installment plan, and trade it in after a few years as first payment on a larger or better model. The first structures were designed by Howard T. Fisher, who announced the formation of the company. The new houses will be shown at the Chicago World’s Fair to be held in 1933. '
Baker’s New Station at Laredo
EFORE they get through with it, the persons responsible for shutting off Norman
Baker's station KT NT at Muscatine, Iowa, stand a good chance of being sorry for it. The 300-foot steel towers of his new station at Laredo, Mexico, are said to cost $100,000, while the total cost of the station is $225,000. The call is XENT, and the channel 1,115 kilocycles. The power is 150,000 watts, which is 100,000 watts more than any station operating in the United States. The United States has no treaty with Mexico limiting the operation of this station, and there will be nothing to prevent Baker's telling everybody on the continent what he thinks of the American Medical Association and racketeers in general, and there is not the least doubt that he will do it. ‘There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor hid that shall not become known.’
A New Business for Rectors
EALIZING that the rectors and such like will soon be outcasts, we are always interested in anything that looks like an opening whereby they can make an honest living in place of the dishonest one they have been making. Anything whatever is better than to make a living defaming God's holy name, which business is the only business the clergy have had till now.
The Rev. Harold F. Davidson, rector of Stiffkey, Blackpool, England, has found something to do. Convicted on immorality charges, he exhibited himself in a barrel on the beach, and raised $400 before the police stopped the show. No doubt this man looked better in the barrel than out, and his idea that a barrel, and not a pulpit, is the right place for him may have been quite correct.
Oftentimes the police are too impulsive. If they were to rush in and grab the clergy when they first start to lie about the Creator, and when they deny the need of a Savior, we could forgive them; but when the clergy flop over to the side of honesty and try to make a living by exhibiting themselves in a barrel, why butt in and almost compel them to go back to the pulpits which they have disgraced? People that reform and want to clean up should be given a chance.
Eric Forgot to Wash the Dishes
WO things show that Eric Morley’s mamma did not bring him up right. The first is that
Eric, at 24 years of age, broke into a Montclair mansion which was closed for the summer, which thing he should not have done. The second is that he helped himself freely to everything that was in the family larder, and slept in all their best beds, which was all very impolite; but the worst thing that happened was that instead of washing the dishes he let them pile up in the sink. The reason that was the worst thing, worst for Eric, was that a son of the family chanced to come home on an errand, noticed the dirty dishes in the sink, and when he returned to the resort where his folks were staying he commented on it. In reply he was assured that when the family left home everything in the kitchen was spic and span as it should have been. Now Eric is in jail, and the next time he breaks into somebody’s house and eats the canned fruit he will be careful to wash the dishes and make the beds. lie was there two months before he got caught.
Hoover Scolded the Wrong People
ME RICA now has about 13,000,000 wageearners that are out of work. A few months ago President Hoover scolded these people for hanging on to the little money they have left, explaining that if only they would bring it out of hiding, business would be revived, and everything would be as it was of yore. Then Uncle Sam wanted to borrow' some money and offered the extraordinarily low annual interest of % percent for $250,000,000 in one-year notes. With that the big fellows came forth from their hiding place and offered $4,128,000,000, oversubscribing the issue sixteen times. Uncle Sam also offered 2% percent for $350,000,000 for four years, and the big bankers offered $6,670,000,000, oversubscribing the issue twenty times. These facts show w'hat everybody knows to be the truth, that it is the big bankers, and not the common people, that have brought America to her present distress. Having taken everything in the country, they put it under lock and key and persuade the president to scold the common people and tell them it is their fault that there is no money in circulation.
A Courageous Mother at Sheffield
SLOWLY the people are stirring in their sleep.
Occasionally one even opens his eyes a few minutes, to take note of the dance of insanity and death called “civilization’’. A mother who has evidently awakened placed the following embarrassing inscription on a wreath on the Sheffield War Memorial:
“In memory of my beloved son, who, at the instigation of politicians and ministers of religion, was persuaded to shed the blood of his fellow men. He succumbed to his wounds in the Great Northern Hospital, Holloway-road, London. His last words were, ‘Mother, war is hell; I die a murderer.’ ”
At Philadelphia in 1839
T PHILADELPHIA, in 1839, when the Pennsylvania Railroad w?as about to be built through the city, a poster, newspaper size, was circulated, protesting against it. At the top of the poster was a picture of a locomotive running over a child and knocking a plug-hatted citizen’s buckboard off the right of way. A woman with a skirt the shape of a cowcatcher has just escaped. An irate citizen is trying to arouse a cop, but all to no purpose. The wording of the poster was as follows:
Mothers look out for your children! Artisans, Mechanics, Citizens! When you leave your family in health, must you be hurried home to mourn a dreadful casualty! Philadelphians, your rights are being invaded! regardless of your interests, or the lives of your little" ones, The CAMDEN AND AMBOY, with the assistance of other companies without a charter, and in violation of law, as decreed by your courts, are laying a locomotive rail road! through your most beautiful streets, to the ruin of your trade, annihilation of your rights, and regardless of your prosperity and comfort. Will you permit this? or do you consent to be a suburb of New York!! Rally people in the Majesty of your strength and forbid this outrage!
Africa — A Continent in the Making In Four Parts — Part III
ANGOLA, or Portuguese West Africa, is of the size of all that portion of the United States east of the Mississippi river and north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, with Virginia and a second state of the size of New Jersey thrown in for good measure. The Portuguese have possessed it since 1575. It has a coast line of 1,000 miles, a hot climate, plenty of rain, a soil of great fertility, and could produce enough food to supply the entire present population of Africa. The estimated population is about 4,000,000.
When the pope divided the earth into two parts, giving everything west of the Azores to the Spaniards, and everything east of them to the Portuguese, he laid the foundation for the Portuguese discoveries and occupations along the African coast. Additionally, the Portuguese held to the correct theory, that Africa is a continent, and that if they pushed far enough down the coast they would ultimately find a way to Asia.
The Portuguese have never been good colonizers or administrators. The effort to believe the nonsense of the Roman Catholic religion seems to take away a man’s sense of justice and therefore his common sense. Accordingly we find slavery in Angola. The thing is covered by legal artifice.
A law is in effect requiring each native to obtain a certificate showing that he has done three months’ hard work within the year. No one is obliged to hire him; but if he cannot produce a certificate, he is seized and forced to labor several months as a prisoner.
The Best Port on the West Coast
At Lobito bay the Portuguese have the best port on the West African coast. From this port the British have just completed a railway to their tremendously rich copper mines in the Katanga belt, near Elisabethville, in the Belgian Congo. Copper of the value of $300,000 has already been shipped from the Katanga mines. The knowledge of the existence of the deposits was gleaned from David Livingstone's journal.
The first train across Africa, from Lobito bay, on the west, to Beira, Portuguese East Africa, on the Indian ocean, made the journey in July, 1931. The route was through Elisabethville (in the Belgian Congo), Northern Rhodesia, the Victoria bridge across the Zambezi, Bulawayo, and Salisbury, a total of 2,949 miles. It took David Livingstone two years to make the same trip.
It is only a little while ago that Lobito bay was one of the principal slave ports of the world, and only about thirty years since the Portuguese authorities cleared up the skeletons and abandoned manacles that marked the old road to the port. The slave trade with Brazil is long since gone. Pretty soon it will be a thing of the past everywhere.
Angola is a backward country. As the women wear no waist garments, they have their backs scarified in patterns of which they are very proud. A favorite style of hair dressing is the permanent toque. Clay and castor oil are rubbed into the hair, which is then arranged and allowed to dry. Among the articles sold in the native markets are rats, palm worms, caterpillars and broiled grasshoppers. If you don’t like them you don’t have to buy them.
The Bulawayo (SouthRhodesia) Chronicle of July 16, 1932, contains a photograph of a monster lizard, seen in the great swamp at the northeastern corner of Angola, on the edge of the Belgian Congo. At the time photographed, this creature, 50 feet long, was tearing lumps from a dead rhinoceros. The photographs were taken by a Swede, J. C. Johanson, overseer of a Belgian rubber plantation in the Congo state adjoining. It is easily possible that this huge lizard is the oldest living creature on the earth. The sight of it was so terrifying as to cause Mr. Johanson to faint.
Southwest Africa
Southwest Africa, grabbed by the Germans in 1884, is of the size of all that portion of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, omitting Wisconsin. It is suitable for stock raising and dry farming. In the rainy season thunderstorms are frequent and the streams are filled.
For some reason or other the natives did not want the Germans to take all their best land and shove them out into the drier parts, and so first the Hottentots and then the Hereros, and then the Hottentots again, made it interesting for the newcomers, killing more than two thousand of them, but in the end German arms triumphed. Both sides are said to have resorted to the most savage practices.
GOLDEN AGE
We do not know that the Hottentots and Ilereros were stirred up by the British to attack the Germans, but they may have been, because it is well known that Cecil Rhodes and other empire-minded statesmen of Britain were extremely anxious to head off the growth of this particular German colony.
The British took over Southwest Africa, after the World War, under a mandate to develop it for the benefit of the natives. They seem to be doing this in true British fashion, if we may judge from the fact that out of 207,000,000 acres in the colony only 5,033,000 have been set aside for the blacks. The other 201,967,000 acres the whites will keep for themselves, as their pay for managing the difficult problem.
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