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THE HABILIMENTS OF MEN

BUSHIDO

’'ELEPHANTIASIS”

OBEDIENCE BRINGS HONOR FROM GOD

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Vol. XIV-No. 360

July 5, 1933

CONTENTS

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LABOR AND ECONOMICS

Wages of Farm Hands .... 612

Supporting the Government . . 615

Removing Burdens.....615

Queen Anne’s Bounty .... 6'22

AVbat Is Expected of Roosevelt . 623

A Message to the Madmen . . G30

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

Boiled Down

One-Cent Luncheons, Kelly, Iowa 616

Cost of World War

Achievements of the Negro . . . 620

Tried and Found Wanting . . . 621 “Christianity in Decadent

Civilization’’

The 11 hjiliments of Men . . . 625

MANUFACTURING AND MINING

Largest Output of Gold .... 614

Tupelo, New Albany and Memphis 618

Economies in Rayon Manufacture 618

Tur. Clever “Crucible’’ Scheme 638

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Barter Associations in Britain . . 611

Air Ports of the World .... 612

No Bank Troubles in Canada . . 613

Scrip Largely Used in South . . 614

Millions in Gold Exported . . . 618

Worst in the World.....621

Squeezing the Little Man to Death 623

Interest System Sucks Lifeblood 630

Salaries of Bank Officials . . . 630

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

Breach Between Britain

and Germany ......615

Britain and America Acted as One 619

In the Polish Ukraine .... 621

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

Controlling Floods with Dynamite 611

Mcttur Dam, South India . . . 617

Farm Bill Should Cheek Erosion . 619

SCIENCE and invention

Rubber Clothing......613

Metal Fasteners for Timber Joints 615

Transmission of Facsimile Telegrams 617

HOME AND HEALTH

Lead Poisoning Among Children . 611

Serums Kill Babies.....618

Stove Enameling Poisons Thousands 619

Curative Properties of Olive Oil 632

Tropical Disease ‘ ‘ Elephantiasis’ ’ 633

Campaign Against Diphtheria . 634

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

Canadian Church Joins Council . 614 70,000 Die in Chinese Earthquake 631

Bushido — What Is It? . . . 631

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Higher Criticism Discredited . . 622 “Out of Thine Own Mouth’’ . . 623

This “Holy Year’’ 1933 (Poem) 624

Obedience Brings Honor from God 635

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The Golden Age

Volume XIV

Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, July 5, 1933

Number 360

Boiled Down

Sentenced to Death for Stealing Jam

OR stealing jam from a government warehouse at Moscow the manager and three employees were shot, three others were sent to a prison camp, and two more are to get three years in jail.

No Wage Cut in Denmark for One Year

NGERED by employers’ demands for a 20-percent wage cut, the Socialist premier of

Denmark demanded and got from the parliament a law extending all present wage agreements to February 1, 1934, and forbidding both strikes and lockouts until that time.

How Canadian Liquor Enters America

WO-THIRDS of it goes to the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, and a

tenth of it goes to French Oceania. None of these places had any liquor business with Canada until after the ban had been placed on liquor exports direct from Canada to the United States.

One Hundred Years of Union Labor

IN THE year 1833 six men formed a labor union to resist the cutting of their wages from nine shillings to six shillings a week. They were banished from England to Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia. This year Union Labor is celebrating their moral victory.

Barter Associations in Great Britain

HARDLY had the barter associations got under good headway in the United States before we learn that the movement has spread to Great Britain, where there are already hundreds of them. The plan is to keep the workless busy and give them assistance in partly helping themselves.

Electrical Stimulation of the Heart

BRITISH device stimulates the heart into activity if used within ten minutes after it has ceased to beat. A needle is injected into the

heart and an electrical current is used to produce an artificial beat.

Lead Poisoning Among Children

HEMICAL analysis shows that there is enough lead in the paint on some pencils to

kill a child. In one year sixteen children suffering from lead poisoning were admitted to a single child’s hospital in Montreal. Two of these died a few hours after admission.

Look at Your Electric Light Bills

OOH at your electric light bills. What do you pay per kilowatt hour ? In Washington,

D.C., where Congress does all the legislating for the district, the top charge is 3.9c per hour, which rate provides a 7-percent return on the valuation of the local electric light company.

Terrible Conditions in Berlin

IT IS estimated that there are more than 100,000 prostitutes in Berlin, driven by hunger. Nearly half of Germany’s factories are closed • there were 17,000 bankruptcies last year, and 16,000 suicides, in Germany. Ninety percent of the workers earn less than $50 a month.

Controlling Floods with Dynamite

GOOD results have been obtained in Louisiana by the use of dynamite in relieving flooded districts. In one place a ditch 550 feet long, 70 feet wide and 6 feet deep, was created by the explosion of about a ton of dynamite and resulted in lowering the water levels over a wide area.

Ten Subways Under East River

THEBE are now ten subway tunnels under the East river, all of them twin-tube layouts. One of these is the Pennsylvania Bailroad’s line connecting up its system with the Long Island and New Haven railroads. The others are parts of the three subway systems of Greater New York.

Industrial Home for the Blind

THE Industrial Home for the Blind, 520 Gates

Avenue, Brooklyn, gets in touch with newly blinded persons and teaches them how to make use of their other faculties to do useful work in the world. All the mops used by post offices throughout the United States are made in this home.

Cost of Merchant Marine Subsidies

SING the carriage of United States mails as a pretext, the vessels of the United States merchant marine receive approximately $10,000 per trip allowance from the government to equalize the costs of operating American shipping with corresponding costs under foreign flags.

Huge Russian Irrigation Scheme

USSIA plans to irrigate about 10,000,000 acres in the Volga region, 4,000,000 acres of which will he devoted to wheat. Scientists from Russia have been visiting North America, Central America and South America to make the best possible preparation for the intensive cultivation that is projected.

Wages of Farm Hands

WAGES of farm hands are now the lowest they have ever been. In Georgia and South Carolina they are receiving but 40c a day, with no additional jobs to be had. Owing to the decline in prices of farm products most farmers are doing their own work-, employing additional help only when absolutely necessary.

Favorable Labor Decision in Pennsylvania

THE Supreme Court of Pennsylvania made a remarkable decision favoring labor. It ruled that strikers might picket a theater, distribute circulars and operate a sound truck asking people to remain away from a playhouse, even though this peaceful assertion of rights did damage to a business.

How Hitler Rose to Power

Lieutenant-Colonel George A. Drew, author of Canada's Fighting Airmen, in an address at Hamilton, Ont., said: "It may sound to you like a Philips Oppenheim story, but Hitler, German head of the Nazi organization, is financed by the armament trusts of France, England and Czechoslovakia.-’

Learned Navigation in a Library

N AUSTRALIAN, not previously experienced with navigation, studied it in a library in Sydney vith such care that he navigated a 19-foot boat single-handed all the way to Los Angeles, only to have his boat wrecked and to be arrested the moment he touched American shores.

Flights Across South Atlantic

LIGHTS across the south Atlantic are becoming increasingly common, and it is predicted that in the near future there will be a regular three-day service between Paris and Rio de Janeiro. It takes about fourteen hours for a plane to cross from Africa to Brazil, 2,000 miles.

Air Ports of the World

THE following are the number of take-offs and landings daily, according to schedule, of the principal air ports of the world: Newark, 107; Camden, 64; Chicago, 58; Los Angeles, 50; Cleveland, 42; Berlin, 42; San Francisco, 40; Cologne, 40; Copenhagen, 28; Croydon (London), 16.

Japan Getting on Nicely in China

JAPAN is getting on nicely with its peaceful war with China. Manchuria and Jehol fell into its lap without any resistance worthy of the name, and more recently several positions have been occupied in North China proper, several miles south of the Great Wall. Poor Chinks! They stand no chance.

Japanese Trade in British East Africa

IN THE last nine months Kenya and Uganda have imported 25,000,000 yards of cotton cloth from Japan and only 5,000,000 yards from Great Britain. On the other side of the ledger is the fact that last year British munition makers sent more than 4,000,000,000 rounds of small arms munitions to Japan and China.

No Bank Troubles in Canada

T THE time when every bank in the United States was tied up there was no trouble at all in Canada, and none anticipated. Seems as if it might be a good idea to import a Canadian to teach our great banking minds how to take over all the assets of a country without busting it.

Jet-black Teeth in Colombia

rpHE teeth of the Citara Indians, Colombia, -*• South America, are jet black and remain in almost perfect condition from childhood to old age. They chew the leaves of a plant which forms a protective film around the tooth. Adults chew them twice a year, to repair places where the film has worn off.

Sears-Roebuck Operations

TpiIE Sears-Roebuck Company made a profit of $3,105,000 last year in the operation of its mail-order business, but it lost $4,303,000 in the operation of its retail stores, 28 of which were abandoned during the year. The orchard which looks good from a distance docs not always look so good when you get inside.

Rubber Clothing

PROCESS has been discovered which will combine rubber with cotton, rayon and other materials to make an elastic yarn. This yarn may be used not only for garters, girdles and suspenders, but will make cuffs for shirts, belts for shorts, and inserts that will dispense with buttons.

Smithsonian Institution and the Gorilla

FTER a careful study of a gorilla’s brain, thought to be unusually large and well developed, the Smithsonian Institution was forced to acknowledge that it weighs less than half that of the lightest normal human brain. Normally the gorilla brain weighs about one-third that of man.

Ivanov, Incest Expert, Is Dead

octor Ivanov, Russia’s incest expert, is dead, and ought to be. (Leviticus 20:15) For years he dishonored God and man by numerous attempts to produce an ape-man by crosses with female chimpanzees, all to no avail. He was unable to breed even an evolutionist, a higher critic or a doctor of divinity.

Caissons Used in Building Pyramids

IT HAS been discovered that in places in

Egypt caissons were used in the building of foundations for the pyramids. Hitherto it has been supposed that the caisson principle is quite new in engineering. This helps our generation to learn that it is not as consequential as it thought itself.

Wicked Typesetter on “American”

SOME wicked typesetter on the New York

American, running in the headlines of an article about the pope’s “Holy Year”, accidentally or on purpose made one of them read 'Cardinal to Prey’. A friend writes in: “It is not a mistake; it is the truth.” This leaves us all mixed up.

“A Little Wine for Thy Stomach’s Sake”

WINE is an antiseptic which kills cholera microbes. Red wines kill typhoid fever microbes in two hours; dry wines, in twenty minutes. Colibacilli sometimes found in oysters are killed by white wine. In small quantities wine has a good effect on gastric secretions and on the functions of the liver.

The Big Thermometer at Chicago

ONE of the outstanding sights at the World’s

Fair at Chicago is a thermometer 200 feet high. The numerals are 10 feet high and the “mercury column” consists of neon tubes, electrically actuated by a master thermometer. This exhibit was built by the Indian Refining Company.

Klein Gets an Idea

ulius Klein, ex-assistant secretary of commerce, in an address to bankers, said: “Frankly, with a casualty list of some 10,000 banks during the last decade, there does seem to the casual, non-professional observer, to be some warrant for concern.” Now how do you suppose Klein ever got that idea?

John D. Rockefeller, Senior

ohn D. Rockefeller, senior, has given away some $600,000,000 since he retired, in 1896, and his money accumulates faster than he can give it away. He receives about 2,000 letters a day asking for money. He is 93. At the time of the bank moratorium he was caught in Florida without funds.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

LAST year the total income of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was $921,953,-101, which is a lot of money. Payments to the policy-holders amounted to $502,804,651, and a blind man can figure the difference between the two. The amount paid in death benefits was $151,262,286.

Japanese "Retirement Money”

TN JAPAN, when employees are discharged, -*■ they receive two months' pay, called “retirement money-’. The American manager of the Japanese plant of the Singer Sewing Machine Company ignored this custom, and the Japanese workers wrecked his plant and destroyed records of installment sales, which will cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Carlsbad Cavern

THE Carlsbad (N. Mex.) cavern contains the largest room in the world. It is a mile and a half in circumference, in one place is 625 feet wide, and has a ceiling 358 feet high. Twenty-one miles of the great rooms and corridors of the cavern have been surveyed, and several more miles explored. Will Rogers referred to it as “the Grand Canyon with a roof on it”.

Lloyd George's Outlook on the World

L no yd George, looking out over the world, says: “I should describe the countries of the world as rolling aimlessly in heavy seas with rigging wrecked, their hulls leaking fast—without a chart beneath a starless sky. Whither? No one can tell, because no one knows. New captains look wise and promise that all will be well, now that they are on the bridge. I hope they are right.”

Canadian Church Joins Federal Council

THE United Church of Canada, with 2,106,000 communicants, .joined the Federal Council of Churches of America on May 5. The dates of Judge Rutherford’s recent broadcasts were April 16, 23, 39. Wonder it there is any connection between these two facts. Also, since the fusion of the two bodies, Hector Charlesworth stated he thinks it will not be long before the United States will be following Canada’s lead on the handling of radio matters. Haman is surely on the job. Read the book of Esther, all of it, especially chapters 3 and 4.

Kind to Their Relatives

TT CANNOT be said that members of the na-T tional house of representatives are unkind to their relatives. Eighty-eight members had in their offices persons who happened to have the same surname as their own, and all these were on the government pay roll. How many others were uncles and cousins and aunts, to say nothing of wifey's relatives, will never be known.

Largest Output of Gold

THE production of gold last year, 23,911,009 ounces, valued at $494,240,370, is the greatest in the history of the world, and perhaps is the highest it will ever be. The excess is laid to the unemployment, which has driven thousands to seek for gold even if they obtained but enough to pay for their food. A schoolboy in Spokane cleaned up $3,000 in the season.

Scrip Widely Used in South

SCRIP is being widely used in the South;

Knoxville, Atlanta, Selma, Roanoke, Richmond and Dothan are some of the cities. Dothan uses the 3c-stamp system, whereby a stamp is attached to the note before each transaction. When thirty-six transactions have occurred, and the note for $1 bears thirty-six stamps, the scrip is redeemable at face value.

Chinese Soldiers Frozen to Death

TN DRIVING Chinese soldiers out of Man-churia in February, the Japanese heseiged 380 upon a mountain top. Intensely cold weather came on. The Japanese retired; the Chinese, clad in light summer clothing, remained. When the Japanese got ready to resume fighting there was nothing to fight. The Chinese had all frozen to death.

Brave (?) Representative Clancy

AT WASHINGTON, D.C., Representative

Clancy speaking. He called attention to the fact that in Detroit 150,000 men had been out of work two years, that they had 700,000 women and children dependent upon them, and were absolutely desperate. Clancy wanted something done. For the starving men, women and children ? Bless you, No! That would take too much money. He wanted more money spent on the Reserve Corps. Hungry men are liable to get restless, you know, and if they do, well, it is best to be prepared.

$250,000 for a New Potato

SO ANXIOUS is the government to help the farmers, and so anxious are some of the government experts to keep their jobs, that a new form of potato, the Katahdin, lias been developed at a total cost of $250,000. Meantime the farmer that is being dispossessed because he could not sell his old potatoes is wondering just what good the Katahdin will ever be to him.

Supporting the Government

THE Avage-earners support the government.

They maintain 3,400,000 officeholders, with a pay roll footing up to $5,752,000,000 a year. The federal government alone now has 25,000 different ways in which it spends the taxpayers’ money. Many of these expenditures are of direct benefit only to certain special interests. A third of all the workers earn goes for taxes.

Navajos Wanted to Help Uncle Sam

NAVAJO Indians, in the Black mountains of

New Mexico, when they heard of the hanking holiday, in March, sent a messenger posthaste to find out if Uncle Sam was in trouble. Learning something of the situation, they came in to the trading posts in large numbers, buying freely and paying for their purchases in gold. They wanted to do what they could to help.

Removing Burdens

DVOCATES of a sales tax state that such a tax would be applied at a uniform rate to all sales, and would make possible the repeal of all income and property taxes, thus removing intolerable burdens from real estate and from capital earm d or inherited. All of which would be very nice for those who have real estate or capital.

Letting Little Children Suffer

ABOR (Washington) expresses surpise that “an ordained clergyman”, a member of the District of Columbia school board, vigorously opposed a proposal to furnish hot lunches to destitute children, even though $5,000 was tendered for that purpose. It is estimated that there are 5,000 undernourished children attending Washington schools. It seems the “ordained clergyman” has misunderstood Jesus’ words, “Suffer little children to come unto me.” He probably got the idea that they should be allowed to suffer.

False Teeth in C cesar’s Day

ONE of the Roman poets writes of removable teeth which were then in vogue. He did not seem to think highly of them, which is a high and mighty way that people have of showing contempt for something they do not need. While false teeth are not beauty bringers, they are a lot better than vacancies in the jaw, or snags that look like a garbage dump.

Metal Fasteners for Timber Joints

MUCH progress has been made recently in the development and use of metal fasteners for timber joints, permitting factory fabrication of railroad bridges and roof trusses similar to steel construction. In Germany last August a wooden radio tower 4C0 feet high was erected in which the metal joint-fasteners were used.

South American Sunday School Exhibits

OSEY reporters have been watching the Panama canal and have seen consignments of aerial bombs and explosives transshipped to the Colombia minister of war, and machine guns and ammunition transshipped to Peru; but both Colombia and Peru are members of the League of Nations and have signed the Kellogg Peace Pact that Avar is a crime.

Police Afraid in Germany

X AMERICAN returned from Germany is quoted as saying: “There is no protection for anyone who dares to oppose the Brown Shirts. Even a policeman standing oji a street corner within sight or hearing of some incident will turn his back so as not to be a witness and, in my own experien.ee, will advise others not to interfere.”

Ominous Breach Between Britain and Germany T THIS writing there is an ominous breach between Britain and Germany, and anything is liable to happen. Frankly, the British do not like the Nazi regime, and the Nazi envoy, though himself a gentleman, was practically run out of Britain by the extreme antagonism the Nazi movement has aroused in the minds of the liberty-loving British. In Britain and France there is a great deal of ominous talk on the inevitability of another Avar to prove to the Nazi youth how badly their parents Avere Avhipped in the great Avar that Avas to end Avar.

Low but Still High Power Rates

OWER rates in Washington, D.C., are lower than in most other American cities, but still too high. So states a House committee which has investigated the subject. A municipally-owned power plant would save $4,000,000 annually and pay for itself in 25 years, while under private ownership capital charges continue indefinitely.

Tupelo, New Albany and Memphis

TN TUPELO, Mississippi, profits from the municipal electric light system have built the water system and reduced the public debt. In New Albany, Mississippi, profits from the municipal electric light plant have paved all the streets of the city. And yet residents of these cities pay less for their power than the citizens of Memphis.

Life Expectation of Women

T BIRTH a female baby has a better chance of reaching old age than a boy baby, by 2^ years. The life expectancy at birth, in Australia and in the United States, is 63 years; in Sweden, Norway and Denmark it is 59; in England, Holland, France and Switzerland it gradually scales down from 55 to 52; in Germany it is 48; in Japan 44, and in India 23.

Japan Recognized Manchuria as Part of China

ONE of the reasons Japan gave Russia for going to war with her in 1904 was stated in the following language, in a dispatch from Tokio, February 7: “Successive refusals of the imperial government of Russia to make any engagement with respect to the territorial integrity of China in Manchuria.” The idea that Manchukuo is anything more than a Japanese puppet state is silly.

Religious Clearing House at Pittsburgh

THE Pittsburgh Post Gazette is a sort of clearing house of religious information. In a recent issue, in the same column, and adjoining one another, were stories of a Philadelphia pastor who can do 300 tricks of black magic and a Kansas City pastor who had a red-hot jazz band playing in his pulpit. A third interesting item, about an old-fashioned preacher that preached the plain Word of God, was omitted because they could not locate him and it was not certain whether it happened or not.

The Hearst “Buy American” Campaign

HE Hearst ‘'Buy American” campaign was getting along nicely, and then along came a University of Chicago student, soaked a label off a roll of paper at the Hearst plant at Chicago, and found beneath the black smear that it was made by the Lake St. John Power and Paper Company, Limited, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

One-Cent Luncheons at Kelley, Iowa

T KELLEY, Iowa, the school janitor last \ ear tilled a garden so skillfully, and the products of the garden were so efficiently canned by the home economics class, that the pupils had hot lunches every school day during the winter at a cost of one cent each. The surplus vegetables not needed for soups were traded for milk and cocoa.

Marked Decline in Tourist Travel

ROM 1929 to 1932 the number of Americans visiting France declined from 296,000 to 143,000; the number of British from 881,000 to 522,000; the number of South Americans from 150,000 to 20,000; the number of Spanish from 350,000 to 120,000, and the number of Germans from 35,000 to 6,500. The total from all countries declined from 1,911,000 to 944,000.

Southern California Grand Circle Tour

THE Southern California Grand Circle Tour

is 500 miles over concrete highways, Los Angeles, Long Beach, La Jolla, San Diego, Calexico, Mexicali, Imperial Valley, Palm Springs, Riverside, Pomona and Pasadena. It is claimed that this tour, which includes scenery comparable to the Riviera, Deauville, the Alps, the valley of the Nile, and the date lands of Arabia, is equal to a trip around the world.

The Archbishop’s Fateful “Blessing”

HE blessings of the archbishop of Canterbury are akin in results to those of the pope. He made it a particular point to bless a new trim little vessel, the Southern Cross VI, that was to have been used in missionary -work in the Solomon Islands. The vessel got all the way to New7 Zealand but never arrived at her destination, piling up on a reef off the New Hebrides, a total loss. The crew7 miraculously escaped death, but the $100,000 vessel was completely destroyed, with all of its contents.

British and American Banks

"DRITISH banks are managed by trained

men; their investments are confined to commercial paper easily liquidated; they are not allowed to speculate on the stock market; they employ outside auditors; they have no failures. In the past twelve years 10,738 American banks have failed, with deposits totaling $5,008,324,000.

The “American Banker’s” Joke

TN AN article entitled “Bedtime Story” the

American Banker explains that it is the gold standard (which means that for every 100 cents in silver and paper money, we have forty cents in gold) and the Government's guarantee to redeem gold bonds and certificates, and like things, in gold, that makes this a wonderful country.

Broke into the Bank of England

FOUND by a night watchman in the supposedly impregnable Bank of England, a laborer pointed out that he had entered by an open window, to which he also pointed. Seems like an odd circumstance, all around. The British do things differently than we do here in America. Several thousand of them have given up their pensions, to help the government.

Locations of Big Banks

OF THE banks in the United States having deposits of more than $100,000,000, thirteen are in New York city, five each in Chicago and San Francisco, three in Cleveland, two each in Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit and St. Louis, and one each in Providence, Brooklyn, Newark, Buffalo and Los Angeles. Out of the total deposits of $14,523,306,000 in these forty-one banks on December 31, 1932, more than half, or $7,755,361,000, were in the fifteen banks in New York city, Brooklyn and Newark.

Los Angeles’ Great Dust Storm

LOS ANGELES boasts a dust storm in which it is estimated 1,600,000 tons of dust settled over the city. Assayers analyzed the dust. They estimated that the total amount contained gold worth $56,000, silver worth $8,000, and fertilizers worth $240,000. Half of it was silica, and the other half was made up of aluminum oxide, iron oxide, magnesia, quicklime, potassium sulphate, potash, soda, chromium, nickel and borax.

Transmission of Facsimile Telegrams

FOR several years facsimile telegrams have been regularly transmitted in several European countries, notably France. The Radio Corporation of America, recently censured for its trust activities, has made application to the Federal Radio Commission for the right to install and operate facsimile transmission of telegrams in America.

Houston’s Capuchin Monk

HOUSTON, Texas, has a lady capuchin monk, one with a tail. She was captured in South America, cowl and all. Five times recently she escaped from her cage, and on three of these occasions made straight for a church, looking for other capuchins, no doubt, but she headed the wrong way. The churches she visited were Methodist and Episcopal.

Blessing Parrots, Cats and Calves

WE have heard of blessing dogs and horses, but in Los Angeles a Roman Catholic priest blessed all kinds of domestic animals, including parrots, cats, calves, horses and dogs. If the dog that was blessed had fleas then the fleas were blessed too, at so much per bless. The money comes hard, and today it is anything whatever to get even a quarter away from its possessor.

Mettur Dam, South India

THE Mettur dam, South India, will be completed in September, 1934, and will comprise the largest block of masonry in the world. The cement alone for this job, the largest dam in the British Empire, cost £700,000. There will be a waterfall of 95 feet over a width of 630 feet. The dam will make a million acres of land fertile by irrigation.

Investments in Life Insurance

ANALYZING a statement by one of the great life insurance companies, a man of ability, a physician, widely experienced in financial affairs, calculated for us that 44 percent of its investments are worthless, 43 percent are not good, and 13 percent are O.K. Railroad bonds make expensive wall paper. And, by the way, it is claimed that one official, endowed with adequate authority, could save the railroads $100,000,000 to $150,000,000 a year now wasted in duplicated facilities and services.

Energy Value of Oranges

rp HE energy value of two oranges is the same as of one slice of bread, but the orange juice is immediately available for the system, where the bread requires several hours to digest. Additionally, the lime and alkaline salts in the orange juice are very valuable in clearing the blood, building bone and combating the effects of a sedentary life.

Good Biscuits from Lumber and Air

A T THE Bergius laboratories in Heidelberg, Germany, good biscuits are now made from lumber and air, and all need for human starvation is now definitely at an end. Sugar is extracted from the wood and dissolved with mixed nitrogen salts from the air, as well as phosphoric salts and yeast. The process is said to be not more expensive than bread baking.

New Economies in Rayon Manufacture

THERE are new economies in rayon manufacture, and therefore new terrors to cotton and silk growers. The new process permits the spinning, washing, drying and twisting of yarn in one continuous operation, taking only three minutes to transfer dissolved cellulose into finished yarn. The costs are cut to less than half.

70,000 Die in Chinese Earthquake

SEVENTY thousand persons died in an earthquake at Kaotai, China, on December 26, 1932. Seismographs throughout the world plainly recorded the earthquake, but details of the catastrophe did not reach the outside world until forty-eight days afterward. The only direct communication with the district is by camel caravan.

Young Insult Well Cared For

THE tens of thousands of Americans who lost all their savings in the Insull utilities smash will be interested to know that in 1930 Samuel Insull, Jr., received $106,000 in salaries from his father’s utility concerns, and in 1931 received $113,000. Last year the pickings were less, but his average for the three years is still greater than the salary of the president of the United States. It seems that the Insull utility ship is being salvaged by part of the crew that was on board when it was wrecked. Looks like 100% efficiency.

Serums Kill Babies

A DISPATCH from Kansas City, in the Cleveland Press of March 3, says that physicians there blamed contaminated measles serum for the deaths of Edward Tilgham Connell and Rosalie Thornton Gill, both two years old, at a local hospital. Seems too bad to have to kill the babies, but the serum manufacturers are demanding an outlet for their products, and expect the doctors to help make trade. The doctors get something for it, too.

Chinese Overrunning Oceania

rpiIE Pacific Islands Monthly for December, 1932, states that Chinese traders are overrunning all the islands of Oceania. As fast as an island is safe for trading the Chinese come in and take the trade, because the low living standards of the Chinese enable them to cut European prices to pieces. In the easterly groups there are thousands of Chinese-Polynesian half-castes, and it is claimed that they are an attractive, clever and adaptable people.

Millions of Dollars in Gold Exported

GOLD amounting to millions of dollars daily was being shipped out of the United States just before the bank holiday was declared. The day just preceding that memorable holiday gold totaling 116,000,000 dollars was either shipped abroad or “earmarked for foreign interests”. These transactions were being conducted with considerable secrecy. The president’s proclamation placed a temporary embargo on gold exports.

Utility Scandals in Sunshine State

"^TEW MEXICO people are disturbed over the •*- ’ fact that some of their public utility systems have cleared up as much as 3,700 percent profit over the original cost. In one case the lawyers for one of the utilities, in order to get a franchise, admitted that the State Corporation Commission would have the power to regulate the company’s rates, and after the franchise was obtained the same lawyers argued that the same commission had no right to regulate their rates, and the State Supreme Court upheld their contention. The justices who made that decision will certainly not have to work any more, and when they die it will no doubt be found that they leave large blocks of utility stocks to their widows.

Gloria's Expensive Tonsils

loria Vanderbilt, nine-year-old daughter of the late Reggie Vanderbilt, is allowed $1,000 a week to defray her necessary expenses, but that is not quite enough to take care of anything extra, so, here a while back, when she had her tonsils out, an extra sum of $7,250 was necessary to take care of the situation. Meantime, be sure to see your doctor twice a year.

Boy of Twelve Saves Mother’s Life

IX miles out in the country north of Sudbury, Ontario, a lad’s mother was dying of pleurisy, the doctors would not come without $10 down payment, and the lad had no $10. lie had something better. He had manhood. With a razor blade he deftly made an incision in his mother's back and let out over a quart of fluid, and the best of it was that the mother got well without the doctors.

Cuban Conditions Reversed in Thirty-five Years

HIRTY-F1VE years ago the United States engaged in war with Spain to free Cuba from military rule. The United States was at that time a republic and Spain was a monarchy. Today Cuba is under a military rule so severe that over 2500 persons opposed to it are said to have been slain, 40 of them by a single police official. What a dreadful condition the whole world is in!

British and American Governments Acted as One l-arence K. Streit, League of Nations correspondent to the New York limes, is authority for the statement that, at least during the Hoover administration, it was often the case that the statesmen of Great Britain appeared to speak for the American government, and that other of the great powers viewed these two with suspicion as attempting between them to dominate the world.

Women in the New Administration

WOMEN have been signally honored in the new administration. Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, is the first woman to hold a cabinet appointment. She is experienced and capable. Airs. Nellie Ross, former governor of Wyoming, as United States treasurer, will have her name on all of Uncle Sam’s money. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, as minister to Denmark, is the first woman ambassador.

An Avalanche of Failures

WITHIN the past few months there has been an avalanche of failures. Some of the oldest and most reputable concerns in the country, the Studebaker Company, National Surety Company, Louis K. Liggett Company, Brentano’s bookshops, have been unable to keep the pace. The list is interminable. And it will be longer before it is shorter.

Stove Enameling Poisons Thousands

NAMELED stoves are all the go. Millions of them are in use and millions more will be made. Many of the enamels used contain lead and poison the women who do the enameling. In Britain there are special safeguards to protect enamelers. They seem to be largely missing in America. Young workers are more susceptible to lead poisoning than older ones. Women are made sterile by it.

Religious Excitement at Pomeroy

HERE is great religious excitement at Pomeroy, Ohio. Reverend Floyd AY. Dick was arrested charged with writing worthless checks; Reverend Henry Dye was fined for drunkenness; Reverend H. L. Henthorne was fined for operating a large sedan with license plates issued for a smaller car; and Reverend J. C. Ward was failed for stealing chickens. Collections are slow and the business is badly run down.

Farm Bill Should Check Erosion Somewhat

PPLICATION of the new Farm Bill should operate to check erosion somewhat by letting some hard-worked soils have much needed rest. Today nearly a third of the land under cultivation in the United States has lost most of the original topsoil, and most of the rest is suffering considerably from the same cause. In thousands of places gullies have been worn to the bed rock; in thousands of other places the farmers are now subsoil farmers, getting meager crops. Many ponds have been silted up and the fish destroyed; many fertile fields have been covered with gravel and sand. In Kansas the windstorms have in many places blown the topsoil away. It is estimated that erosion takes twenty-one times as much away from the soil every year as is taken by cropping. Uncle Sam is now studying the erosion problem at ten field stations.

England's Naughty Tithe Resisters

NGLAND’S naughty tithe resisters lead the auctioneers a dog’s life. One will bid $2,500 for a cow, and then when the auctioneer calls for the bidder he will testify that he has but 16c to his name. Or a group of men will allow bidding to progress until it stops, and when the auctioneer calls for the one who made the last hid a dozen men will all claim to have done so. Oftentimes the auctioneer is plastered with mud while running up the sales.

Fosdick Has the Right Idea

everend Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, of Riverside church, New York, is reported as having recently said:

“Christians never were meant to be respectable. The Master was not. They crucified Him between thieves. He was maladjusted to the status quo. We, however, though we use His name, are so unlike Him that no wonder we do not remind people of Him. And at no point are we more unlike Him than in our conventional, easy-going respectability.”

Cost of World War

THE cost of the World War was $340,000,000,000, of which amount $51,000,000,000 was expended by the United States. The resultant benefits to mankind have been of about the value of a sack of peanut shucks. There are probably not more than 340,000,000 homes in the world, and their average value is probably less than $1,000. In other words, for the sake of murdering one another, the world has shown that it is willing to burn up the house in which it lives, and live out in the open, without shelter.

“The Poor Souls’ Friend”

BRITISH publication, The Universe, carries an advertisement urging its readers, “Do not forget the Dead.” That seems like a generous and noble thought. But it goes on to say that we should write for particulars to know how we can do something for the relief of the souls in purgatory, addressing Superior, Syon Abbey, South Brent, South Devon. The thing that disturbs us is to know why we should have to write to Great Britain to get in touch with some person that designates himself as “Superior”, in matters of this kind. How do we know he is superior? Maybe he wants money; and if he does, right in the midst of this depression, he has got to furnish positive proofs that he can do what he says or he won’t get it.

May Be Just a Coincidence

BOUT the middle of March Lloyd George expressed the thought that if peace is to be preserved there will have to be one great central conference, and that it might well be presided over by the pope and held in Rome. A month later the pope intimated that he has definite hopes of winning over the British Anglican church to union with Rome. This may be just a coincidence, or it may be something more. We shall see, in due time.

Memphis Clergyman Confesses

everend John Clarence Petrie, Memphis, Tennessee, in a letter to the Memphis Appeal, made the interesting observation:

“If wc parsons went out into the streets of Memphis and really told the truth we not only would empty our churches completely but we would be mobbed.”

Reverend Petrie did not mention what the parsons were telling the people instead of the truth, but we can guess.

Achievements of the Negro

MERICAN Negroes own 700,000 homes and 200,000 farms; they operate 700,000 farms as tenants. They own 22,000,000 acres of land, an area as large as all of New England excepting Maine. They conduct 70,000 business enterprises, in more than 200 lines. Among these are 40 insurance companies, employing 8,000 people, and 51 banks. In the United States there are 68 cities, towns and villages populated and governed entirely by Negroes.

Superstitions About Baptism

THE hold that superstitions about baptism have on the people was illustrated at Newnan, Ga., recently where a Catholic mother gave premature birth to a child not expected to live. Frightened lest a loving God would consign her child to limbo for all eternity because she could get no priest to mumble a few words over it and sprinkle some water in its face, she finally got a Baptist minister to do it for her. The whole performance in the eyes of Almighty God amounted to exactly nothing. The child had no faith and could not believe anything, and was therefore not a candidate for baptism in any sense of the word. It shows the superstitious hold that the clergy still possess on the minds of the people in some parts.

Worst in the World

Wji. G. McAdoo, one-time secretary of the treasury, said in a recent speech that the credit structure of the United States is a disgraceful failure and that he knew nothing worse in the whole world than the American banking system. Being unable to improve upon this remark we refrain from making comment. Thomas AV. Lamont, a partner of J. P. Morgan, said, ‘No civilized country of modern times has suffered so cruelly from unscientific and inefficient currency and banking systems as has the United States in the last 145 years.”

Wicker Tired of Being Calm

AT A SESSION of the Columbus (Ohio) Ministers’ Association Reverend Rufus Wicker stirred his comrades mightily when he said, as reported:

“For the past three and a half years the American people, ministers included, have been willing to follow the dictates and slogans of high officials in Washington, such as ‘Keep cool with Coolidge’, ‘Don’t stand up now, you’ll rock the boat,’ and at present arc heeding the ‘Be Calm’ slogans being spread in newspapers and in other fashion as a help to the present banking condition. The time has come for ministers to get up on their hind legs and howl.”

Tried and Found Wanting

ON HIS seventieth birthday Lloyd George delivered himself of a speech in which he said, in part:

“The existing industrial, financial and economic order, with its blind and cruel greed, with its extravagance and its poverty, its luxuries and its miseries, its waste and its chaos, with its tens of millions of honest workers reduced to eating the bread of charity whilst the riches of Providence are rotting in the fields because they are not permitted to reach the needy; with its slums where no humane man would house his cattle, with its nations organizing to starve and slaughter each other—this system has been tried and found wanting.”

Mellon Institute in Seven Years

IN SEVEN years the Mellon Institute has succeeded in bringing forth three sentences about aluminum: ‘‘(1) Aluminum is not a poisonous metal and does not give rise to any disease. (2) Aluminum utensils are very resistant to corrosion by foodstuffs cooked therein. (3) Aluminum does not accelerate the destruction of vitamins or other food accessory substances during cooking.” How would you like to hire a clerk to do something and have him take seven years to do it so badly? The clerk should have written that in seven minutes, and it would have had just as little sense to it as it has now.

‘ Drive Out the Money-Changers”

T T NDER this heading the Philadelphia Rcc-ord says, significantly, ‘'The new president is sincere and able, but unfortunately he hasn’t had time to throw out the same financial advisers that misled the Hoover administration to its ruin. The president has promised to drive the money-changers out of the control of the government, but Mills, Meyer, Ballantine, S. Parker Gilbert, and the rest of the Wall Street crowd are still making their headquarters in the treasury, under the pretense of advising the new secretary. That's the reason the Record is fearful for the fate of the nation.”

“Christianity in a Decadent Civilization”

Reverend Doctor Reinhold Niebuhr, of Union Theological Seminary, New York, lecturing at Yale Divinity School, made a close approach to the truth when he said:

“The civilization and culture in which mankind is living will perish through the very miracle of productivity which it helped to create. The unequal distribution of wealth is slowly undermining the stability of our civilization. It creates unemployment for millions ; and the competition of unemployed with those who are employed further debases the living standards of the latter. This tendency of a machine civilization to make profit-seeking an end in itself will not only destroy it, but it produces individuals who are incapable of saving it from disaster.”

In the Polish Ukraine

THE Manchester Guardian contains three columns narrating the horrible persecutions of Ukrainians in the Polish Ukraine in the year 1932 and says there are enough to fill a volume. Children twelve to fourteen years of age have been in prison for a year; prisoners have had their hair pulled out; they have been beaten on the soles of their feet, on the stomach, and on the stretched throat; held up head downward and put to the water torture. On September 28 five students were arrested charged with setting fires at Jaworow. They were tortured by the police until, as alleged, they made a full confession. Thereafter the real culprit, a half-witted person, was discovered, but the innocent students who were forced to confess are still held in prison.

Higher Criticism Discredited

ir Charles Marston, British scholar and financier, referring to the results now being obtained by archeological expeditions throughout the East, said: “The results to date of these expeditions have all tended to discredit this higher criticism of the Bible and so far as they have gone have proved that the Bible narratives, that is, the narratives of the earlier books of the Old Testament in which the expeditions were mainly interested, have a great deal more to be said for them than has been commonly supposed, revealing many details of these narratives as accurate historically.”

Queen Anne's Bounty

BEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY, the name of the law in England under which one-tenth of all a farmer raises goes to the support of the church, is meeting with strong opposition in its enforcement. The house of an auctioneer was tarred and feathered from roof to ground. The farmers are refusing to make bids of anything more than a few pence for goods; sample bids are 2d. for a pig and Id. for a sheep. After the sale, as in America, the goods are returned by the buyers to the distrained farmers. The farmers that hitherto have been the mainstay of the church are getting to hate it.

Hymn of the Tithe Resisters

THE hymn of the tithe resisters of Wales, composed for the occasion, is sung to the tune of “Old Hundred”, and goes:

“Cod save us from these raiding priests Who seize our crops and steal our beasts; Who pray, ‘Give us our daily bread,’ And take it from our mouths instead.”

On the occasion at Wrexham, where the hymn was first used, the farmer offered his children for sale, stating that if the church sold his stock to satisfy their lust for money, they might as well sell his children, as he could no longer keep them.

The Comite des Forges

ROM an article in the Neiv Outlook it seems that the Comite des Forges, of France, largely owned by the De Wendels, has for a generation been one of the principal troublemakers of the world. Like the Vickers Armstrong Company, of Britain, it connives at wars and discords in any part of the world where there may be an outlet for its products. During the World War it restrained the French government from injuring its works in Lorraine, from which works airplane material and possibly airplane parts were sent to Germany via Switzerland. It controls a large section of the French press, leading a reviewer in the Toronto Mail and Empire to say, “If the French people generally are dependent upon their newspapers for the truth about politics and international affairs they are surely hardly less ignorant of them than the Eskimos.”

Reverend Robinson’s Lutheran Wallop

everend Felix G. Robinson, pastor of St.

John’s Lutheran Church-by-the-Sea, Long

Beach, L. I., a young man of 34, has what is known as the Lutheran Wallop. He tried this out on a member of his flock, 68 years of age, the president of the church board, at the Sunday morning “service”, February 19, and being a broad-shouldered, heavy-set man, he made a great hit. He blacked both eyes of the aged man, besides giving him contusions over the right eye and lacerations of the forehead. He did this in church just before he was to preach on “What the Church Ought to Be”. It is believed that Reverend Robinson could have put even more marks on a man three times his age, 102, than he did on this man that is twice his age, 68. The Lutheran Wallop is a powerful wallop. The congregation was greatly edified; also the police.

Pointed Paragraphs by President Roosevelt

SOME interesting paragraphs from President

Roosevelt's forthcoming book follow:

It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.

Two-thirds of American industry is concentrated in a few hundred corporations and actually managed by not more than 5,000 men. More than half of the savings of the country are invested in corporation stocks and bonds, which have been made the sport of the American stock market.

The reason we can not take advantage of our own possibilities is because many selfish interests in control of light and power industries have not been sufficiently far-sighted to establish rates low enough to encourage widespread public use.

Ninety percent of unemployment is wholly without the fault of the worker.

Catholic Ban Against Hitlerites Lifted

THOUGH Hitler, Germany’s dictator, is nominally a Catholic, yet the Nazis (National Socialists), of which he is the head, have been under the ban of the church until recently. The ban was lifted March 28, but is still effective to the extent that National Socialists are barred from Catholic burial. The Jews in Germany and Austria are having a hard time, all the power of the Nazis being used against them in boycotts and otherwise. Censorship is in force in Germany at the time this is written.

"Out of Thine Own Mouth"

IN THE effort to satisfy a critic Reverend Dr. F. W. Kerr, pastor of St. Andrew’s United church, Westmount, Montreal, Canada, made the following remarkable admissions:

“The program of Jesus looks so unlikely on the surface that people have refused to risk it. But we are beginning- to wonder if we have not macle a tragic mistake. We have tried the ‘war’ way; perhaps we shall have to try turning the other cheek. We have tried the way of self-assertive aggressiveness; perhaps we shall come in the end to the way of meekness. We have tried the way of every man scrambling for himself and letting the Devil take the poor beggar who loses out in the scramble; perhaps we may be driven to accept the principle that if one member suffers the whole body is in terrific danger of pain and death. All this looks as if there are ultimate laws that keep driving us toward the way of Jesus as the only way of saving ourselves.'1

What Is Expected of Roosevelt

J. Cummixgs, in the London Xews Chroni-• cle, tells what is expected of President

Roosevelt:

“America presents today a picture of despair that leaves the world agape with incredulous astonishment. With her fourteen million unemployed on the brink of actual starvation; her sinking credit; her falling dollar; her ruined export trade; her bankrupt States and great cities; her thousands of bank crashes; her huge budget deficit; her fantastic real estate indebtedness; the hopeless insolvency of her agriculture, saddled with mortgages equivalent to a burden of some 30,000 million dollars; her countless gangs of lawless ruffians ; her chaos of counsel; her crude, rigid Constitution and her utter lack of resiliency in face of a national disaster—these are the chief elements in a domestic situation which President Roosevelt is expected by a desperate but not yet wholly disillusioned people to conquer. This American situation, though millions of Americans still refuse to admit it, is inextricably bound up with the world’s situation.”

Squeezing the Little Man to Death rpWENTY-TWO independent dealers in Bal--L timore paid more taxes than 135 chain stores operated by one corporation. In Baltimore, as elsewhere, when a small gasoline dealer gets to doing a fair business the locality is checked by one of the big companies, which builds a station on the opposite corner and by secret rebates and so-called ‘courtesy cards’ proceeds to take it away from the little man as easily as a 200-pound man would choke a child to death.

Horning In on Roshotsky's Business

TT SEEMS that Israel Roshotsky, sixty-three -L years of age, had had a monopoly of all the hired praying business done in the Bayside Jewish Cemetery for twenty-five years. Then David Ross, a year older, and who should have known better, tried to get in on the racket. Israel got mad and threw’ rocks at David, but whether this was while David was praying, or in between praying jobs, is not stated. Then David got mad and had Israel arrested, but the case was thrown out of court. Seems as if Brooklynites who are engaged in the praying business ought not to get mad as these two men did, and, anyway, they ought not to throw rocks at one another. Nobody can pray right, at least those that hire him cannot get their money’s v’orth, if while he is praying somebody socks him on the block with a rock.

American Security Owners Association

IT IS common knowledge that 1 percent of the people of the United States own GO percent of the wealth; the public utilities have helped greatly in bringing this disastrous situation about; they have helped take everything in the country out of the hands of the people and put it into the hands of the 1 percent. In April, when the national House of Representatives had passed a bill transferring $26,000,000 in taxes from the consumers to the utility companies, and it looked as if the United States Senate might concur, the president of the American Security Owners’ Association circularized the members, giving the names and addresses of all the United States senators and urging great haste in communicating with them to the end that no such patriotic act of justice and relief should be passed. The big men, who have most to lose, seem the most determined to lose what they have left.

This “Holy Year” 1933 By Peter Winkel (Iowa)

(To be chanted to the tune of “Et Tu Petrus”)

THIS year was made a ‘‘Holy Year” And Catholics from far and near Are asked to come to Rome.

The pope has issued a decree That's binding on his flock, you see, And none should stay at home.

AVc wonder as we contemplate

Why Ratti thus did designate This Nineteen Thirty-three.

If I were asked to make a guess

I'd say that things are in a mess;

He’s short of cash, you see.

It takes about nine million bucks

To feed the pope, and all his crooks;

And that’s a lot of dough.

It used to be an easy job

To get these shekels from the mob;

But now no more, by Joe!

Depression’s hit 'most everyone ;

Collecting dollars ain’t the fun

It used to be of yore.

Some ‘‘special scheme” must now be found

To make the Catholic wheels go round Or she may rule no more.

The show that Ratti’s going to give ‘Will long within your memory live, If you will cross the deep.

He’s going to show the skull of Paul, And at the bones of old King Saul They ’ll let you take a peep.

They also have a rusty nail

That held our Savior to the rail, When He was crucified.

A sliver of the cross you’ll see,

Some clothing that He wore, maybe(?), When on the cross He died.

If you have done some things “taboo” And conscience now is both’ring you, Just sail for Italy’s shore.

For all the “holy things” you’ll see They’ll charge a big stiff entrance fee, But sins you’ll have no more.

This graft is called a “Christian Church”; She’s occupied a lofty perch For fifteen hundred years.

The time has come when she must go;

She’s brought the people only woe And oceans full of tears.

’Tis Lucifer that’s been the Boss;

He’s caused the people all this loss And war and sin and strife.

Jehovah God has now decreed

That Jesus Christ the world shall lead To righteousness and life.

The biggest battle of the age Will soon in all its fury rage, God’s name to vindicate.

The angels of the Lord will kill All who oppose Jehovah’s will And righteousness do hate.

The Lord will slay this dev’lish crowd

And all the haughty, rich and proud That selfish power seek.

The only ones that will survive This battle, and come out alive, Will be the kind and meek.

The Lord will then with power reign, Abolish war and death and pain, And health and peace restore.

The rulers at that time will be God-fearing men of old, who’ll see That graft will rule no more.

When peace has thus been ushered in, And man been purged of greed and sin, Big miracles they’ll see.

The dead will come back from the grave,

No more for popes and kings to slave, And happy they will be.

They’ll have the opportunity To live on earth eternally, And thankfulness to show.

But those who hate this glorious deal And like to rob and rule and steal, Beneath the sod they’ll go.

Christ thus will change this earthly globe, And clothe it with a glorious robe It never wore before.

The earth will then with music ring

And all men praise JEHOVAH, King, For ever, evermore.

The Habiliments of Men

THE essential habiliments of men are shirts and coats; these two garments he cannot well get along without; they do for women as well as for men; they go back to the beginning of the race. Adam and Eve made their first (partial) shirts out of fig leaves; their first coats were made by Jehovah God.

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