Golden Age, September 25, 1935
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Vol. XVI - No. 418
September 25, 1935 CONTENTS
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Millionaires Broke in Los Angeles 807
Did Not Wish to Go to Work 821
Reducing Number of Professionals 822
Missionaries Using Slaves 823
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
Abuse of the Insane 808
Impatience of Youth 808
Peace Messengers 817
Phonograph Experiences 818
"Missionaries" After W. R. Brown 819
DIVINE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE 825
MANUFACTURING AND MINING
Most American Factories Are Idle 807
Electrical Power Direct from Sun 809
Cost of Electricity Cut in Half 809
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
"Trinity" Leans Toward Wall Street 809
Fast Time from Portland 809
Germany's New Highway System 809
Japanese Mission in Brazil 822
Secret Levy on German Exporters 822
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
"WHAT IS FASCISM?" (Part 2) 803
Agricultural Experiment Station 810
Not All Spent on War Equipment 810
President Against Constitution? 810
THE RAPE OF ETHIOPIA 814
Canada Ready for Fascism 822
Jewish Refugees from Germany 822
Americanization in The Oranges 823
AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY
Possibilities of Corncobs 811
What Became of the $8,355? 811
Cows, Mosquitoes and Malaria 811
Electrocution of Artichoke Worms 811
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
The Great Rift of 1935 812
Location of Foreign Bodies in Eye 812
Avalanche in Sight of New York 812
Photographs Internal Organs 812
Substitute for Cotton 812
Moon "Turned into Blood" 812
HOME AND HEALTH
Washington Star Turns in Sleep 813
The Value of Lettuce 813
About Potatoes and Tomatoes 813
How to Get and Get Rid of Eczema 813
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
Trying Out the New Sound Car 820
Shark Helps to Solve a Murder 821
Plague of Green Parrots 821
The Longest Phone Call 821
Protocols of the Elders of Zion 822
Gasoline Substitutes in Germany 822
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Missionaries of No Good in Australia 821
"It Is Indeed Wonderful" 823
Missionaries Using Slaves 823
"National Union for Social Justice" 824
Catholics Tired of the Hierarchy 824
Advice from "Silent Unity" 829
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The Golden Age
Volume XVI Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, September 25, 1935 Number 418
“What Is Fascism?” By David Wilkie (Great Britain)
(In Three Parts—Part 2)
THERE are only two persons in Germany “privileged” to call themselves “Leader”. One is Hitler, and the other is Baldur von Shirach, the leader of the Nazi Youth Movement. Both Hitler and Shirach are Roman Catholics. Goebbels, Roman Catholic, the minister of propaganda, the prime molder of Germany’s mind, was educated by the Jesuits. In 1923, when Hitler’s revolt in Bavaria failed, Goering fled to Rome. Later, in 1931, Goering was sent to Rome as Hitler’s envoy to the pope and Mussolini: “a mission,” says the German author of Why Nazi? (a Nazi sympathizer), “which was highly important for the further progress of the National Socialist movement.”
In Mein Kampf Hitler says: “After all, the only infallible touchstone for distinguishing right action from wrong is: visible success.” This makes Al Capone a saint until he was pinched. This is the Jesuitical “code” of morality upon which Nazism, and Hitler’s philosophy, is based. This somewhat prepares one for the following observation by one of Hitler’s semi-admirers, An Eyewitness in Germany, page 78: “Adolf Hitler has with profound insight made use of the Roman propaganda’s many centuries of experience, and National Socialism’s whole organization betrays the papal hierarchy as its model.”
Hitler is a Roman Catholic, like every other European “dictator”—the late Pilsudski, Mussolini, and Dollfuss. He acquired his anti-Semitism, so he says himself, from Lueger, a burgomaster of Vienna, a well-known anti-Semite preacher, and a “devout” Roman Catholic. In the story of the actual intrigues that made Hitler the chancellor of Germany there lies the truth about Nazism.
JESUIT CONTROL OF THE WORLD — BY FASCISM
It is difficult to popularize a tyranny, and, as everybody knows, the Roman Catholic hierarchy is the most perfect example of tyranny the world has known.
The job of the Jesuits is to make it seem desirable, even necessary, that the government of mankind should be turned over to the Roman hierarchy.
The curiously interesting methods by which men are persuaded to put their worst enemies in control of their destinies are set forth in this article.
The writer of the article, a university man of high standing, conceals his identity under a nom de plume. He is one of the few men who, having inside knowledge, dares tell the truth.
Every reader of The Golden Age will be fascinated, but more than fascinated; for he will be instructed as to just how the Devil is working his game.
The article takes down the screens and lets the honest reader see just how the Jesuits are planning world control by Fascism, and how they are succeeding.
If liberty is lost, all is lost; and liberty is lost wherever the Jesuits succeed in forcing a dictator upon the people. This the people sagely suspect.
Made Chancellor by Papal Intrigue
Hitler became chancellor of Germany, and later “(constitutional)” dictator, purely and wholly by papist intrigue. Hitler was not made chancellor by popular vote or voice. He was called to the chancellorship by Hindenburg after von Papen had persuaded Hindenburg to dismiss Schleicher. This is well known. What is to be noted is that von Papen, like Hitler, is a Roman Catholic.
It is amazing how this has been forgotten in the rush of events since. Nazism rules in Germany today, thanks to von Papen. Democracy has been trampled on, the Jews beaten, Karl Ernst, Strasser, and Schleicher murdered, thanks to von Papen, the Vatican’s “lay nuncio” at Berlin.
As a matter of fact, von Papen, so-called “Nationalist”, and not Hitler, was Germany’s first Nazi dictator! Von Papen was chancellor before Schleicher. He, too, was “invited” to the chancellorship by Paul Hindenburg, without either parliamentary or public support.
Yet this von Papen, whose party had won only 10 percent of the votes at the election, while he was chancellor in June, 1932, summarily "dismissed" and "forcibly removed" the Prussian cabinet led by the Labor ministers Braun and Severing, who had held office for ten years as heads of an efficient administration. This, a year before Hitler became chancellor, was the commencement of Nazism in Germany.
Bruening was connected with the Catholic trade union movement. To use Walton Newbold's words, he was "always cajoling the Social Democrats, more particularly their trade unions". Elsewhere Newbold refers to "the Catholics of the German Centrum and their allies, the Social Democrats". These quotations are from Newbold's book Democracy, Debts, and Disarmament. The papist chancellors Wirth, Marx, Bruening, and von Papen prepared Germany for Hitler; and the Social Democrats, stupidly enough, made themselves the "allies" of the Roman Catholic Centre Party whose vote later on made Hitler the "constitutional" dictator of Germany!
After being elevated to the chancellery, Hitler held a general election. He wanted to win two-thirds of the seats in the German Parliament in order to enable him to abolish it "constitutionally", to vote itself out of existence.
The "Election"
Hitler obtained permission from Hindenburg to dissolve Parliament and to hold the election, but on condition that whatever the result the composition of the government was not to be changed!
Can you beat that? Hitler was taking a chance to get supreme power, but he was not risking the loss of the power he already had!
No sooner had the "election" started than Goering got to work. He had newspapers suppressed for publishing a report that stock exchange prices had slumped. He prohibited the entire Social-Democrat (e.g., Labor) press from publishing a Social-Democrat manifesto!
At this stage Goebbels was appointed to the newly created post of minister of propaganda. This gave Hitler control of broadcasting and cinemas, and of the press, through a system of censorship which Goebbels introduced.
Then six days before the date fixed for the election the Reichstag went up in flames. Does any common-sense person doubt for a moment that it was set on fire by Goering? The effect of the fire was stupendous; and Goering, Goebbels, and Hitler made the most of it. The Communists were accused of setting the Reichstag on fire, and the Socialists with "complicity". Van der Lubbe was said to have confessed his crime and association with both Communists and Socialists.
On the strength of this imbecile's "confession" the official press agency announced throughout the length and breadth of Germany: "Through this confession the united Communist-Socialist front has become a palpable fact." In the course of investigation it was stated several weeks afterwards that the Socialists had been entirely cleared from the charge of conspiracy in the crime.
Labor Press Squelched
On the strength of the fire scare, the entire Labor press, consisting of more than two hundred daily newspapers, was suppressed until further notice. During the last few days of the election Nazi speakers stumped the country accusing the "Marxists" of being murderers and incendiaries. Murderers? It is only non-murderous Nazis who coin words, or names, like "The Night of the Long Knife". Hitler stood forth as the "bulwark" against those "Reds" who had dared to put a match to Germany's citadel of Democracy, the Reichstag.
Still Hitler doubted the result. He wanted, understand, not merely a majority, but a two-thirds majority, the majority necessary for the temporary elimination of Parliament. Again Goering came to the rescue. Under cover of suppressing the "Red" danger, Goering obtained from Hindenburg a presidential decree which enabled him to establish an iron rule, first over Prussia, and then gradually to the other German states. Germany was put under "martial" Nazi law. Large internment camps were formed, and Communists, Socialists, Liberals, true Nationalists, intellectuals, state officials, etc., anybody and everybody suspected of anti-Nazism who could influence public opinion by pen, speech, or position, were thrown into them. The Labor branches throughout the country were kept in a riot of disorder by a series of raids carried out by Nazis who were practically free from official interference.
In spite of all this force, suppression, quackery, jailing, and raiding, Hitler did not receive an absolute majority. Out of 647 seats, he obtained only 288. Compared with the previous elections of November 6, 1932, the Nazis had gained 38 seats, the Nationalists 1, the Roman Catholic Centre Party 4; the Socialists had lost 1 seat, and the Communists had lost 19. The Government Parties (e.g., Nationalists, 52, "Other Government Parties" 9, and Nazis 288) held a total of 349 out of 647 seats. What Hitler had wanted was a two-thirds majority to enable him "constitutionally" to eliminate Parliament. He failed to get this two-thirds majority. What happened next?
The Reichstag met in the Kroll Opera House: Hitler introduced an "Empowering Bill" giving the Government complete and absolute power to rule without Parliamentary control. And the Roman Catholic Centre Party voted in favor of it! This gave Hitler his necessary "two-thirds" majority.
Hitler became chancellor, thanks to the papist von Papen; and he became the "constitutional" dictator of Germany, thanks to the papist Centre Party.
The Murders of June 30
Hitler's next task was to remove from office in the party every sincere Nazi who could by his position or prestige influence policy, and who was not prepared to sell Germany, or betray it, to the general of the Jesuits. This was accomplished on June 30, when about 100 Brownshirt officers were massacred (by Blackshirts), and also a number of non-Nazi patriots were dealt with, such as General Duesterberg and General von Schleicher.
General Duesterberg, former deputy chief of the Steel Helmets, the German ex-Servicemen's Association, was arrested on the night of June 30. (It was the practice of the Inquisition to make its arrests at nighttime.) He was first taken to Dachau concentration camp, and then to Colombia-Haus, Berlin. He was released on August 2, and said after his release: "I have not been shot, but I am a living corpse" (see Manchester Guardian, August 30, 1934).
June 30 and the Austrian Debacle
Note the following facts:
(a) Nazi "disorders" broke out in Austria just a few days before the murders took place.
(b) The murders happened a few days after Hitler's return from Venice, where he had been discussing Austria with Mussolini.
(c) Among those murdered was Herr Rudolf Mai, former leader of the Nazi Storm Troopers (Brownshirts) in Upper Austria; also it was reported in the press that "many leading members of the Austrian Nazi Legion in Germany are said to be missing since the Hitler 'purge' started on Saturday".
Put two and two together now, and you have the truth about the "Second Revolution". The crime of Roehm, Heines, Ernst, Mai, etc., was that they believed in the Anschluss. They had preached it for years with Hitler: to them the "Third Reich" was the Anschluss.
If Roehm, Heines, Heydebreck, Ernst, and Mai, etc., had been living when the swastika went up in Vienna, they would have led the Brownshirts and the Austrian Nazi Legion in Germany into Austria. Mussolini meant nothing to them. They believed in 'Germany First' and the Anschluss. Of course, this would have upset the whole "Black" (Popish) plot and the alliance of Germany and Italy.
Leaders Bumped Off
This was one of Hitler's main planks: the union of Austria with Germany. But this did not suit Mussolini, a power in the "Black International"; so, at Venice, Hitler agreed to give up the Anschluss idea, and instead to help Mussolini to "preserve" the "independence" of Austria. In other words, they would share Austria between them; but no Anschluss, because power might change hands in Germany. Knowing that this would create trouble in the Brownshirt ranks when it became known, Hitler "bumped" the Brownshirt leaders off before they had time to organize resistance.
It is surely perfectly obvious that these Brownshirt leaders were not expecting trouble. Roehm made the Brownshirt army. He was its organizer No. 1. Heines was a Ross-bach man, a leading Nazi terrorist. Men of this sort don't wait to be slaughtered. They had met trouble before; but then they knew that it was coming to them. They weren't killed for anything they had done, but for what it was expected they might do when they learned of Hitler's "treason".
To General Daluege was given the task of "cleaning up" the entire Nazi Brown Army after the June executions. He stated afterwards that "several thousand" leaders and men had been removed or subjected to disciplinary action. Then in the next breath we were told by Hitler that Captain Roehm had "no following". Then why were those "several thousand" cashiered or removed? The "purge" reached out over the whole of the Brownshirt organization. It altered its character completely. It left Popery in possession of "Nazism" and "on top" in Germany. Blackshirtism, Popish Fascism, rules Germany; Brownshirtism, or "true" Nazism, is finished.
The murder of General von Schleicher had nothing to do with the other murders. He was murdered, and his wife also, because dead men (and women) tell no tales. He knew the whole intrigue that made Hitler chancellor; he was regarded as the chief menace to the popish plot to rule Germany under the name of "Nazism". As stated by "Artego" in The Referee (Britain), July 8:
"In his conversations with Schleicher (when Roehm and Schleicher were conspiring to remove Bruening from the chancellorship) Roehm revealed to him certain secrets about the internal affairs of the National Socialist Party and about its leader. Altho' Schleicher did not speak about those things confided to him, he allowed others to see that he was in possession of knowledge about the Nazi party and about Hitler the publication of which would have put Hitler in an unbearable position and ended his political career."
The Pope Behind the Scenes
Broadcasting to Britishers on July 3, a Mr. Crossman, an eyewitness of the scenes during the Hitler murders, said that whenever he had spoken to the German people, from Munich to Berlin, all, without exception, told him the same thing, i.e., that "the pope was behind the whole of the trouble".
To bear witness that the Nazi party was on the wane when the conspiracy which made Hitler chancellor took place, listen to the following accounts of eyewitnesses, a Russian social democrat, a biographer of Nazism, and a French Marxian Communist.
Kerensky, the famous Russian politician, and anti-Communist, says, page 321 of his book about Russia, The Crucifixion of Liberty:
I was in Germany myself in December 1932, during the chancellorship of General von Schleicher. The Nazi influence was then plainly on the decline. In order to beat them finally it was only necessary to push the new chancellor's experiment to its conclusion; in his internal policy he had the support of the central elements of every class in Germany... Instead of doing everything to support Schleicher, however, Hugenberg and von Papen turned to Hitler and almost pushed him into power.
The (anonymous) German author of Why Nazi? says, pages 23, 89:
The intrigue which overthrew General von Schleicher and installed Hitler in his stead had been contrived, not by him, but by other forces... His (Hitler's) movement had undoubtedly begun to decline and was showing signs of internal disunion. Baron von Papen, whose mediation had brought about the change of Government, was (made) vice-chancellor... He publicly described the Hitler experiment as a detour leading eventually to the 'authoritative State' which was his ideal.
Lost Two Million Votes
Henri Ernst, the author of Hitler over Europe, says, pages 12, 13:
At the end of 1932 it (Nazi party) lost 2 million votes and the Strasser group announced its secession. In January 1933 Schleicher was on the point of hitting the Hitler movement on the head and putting it under his own command... In the middle of January a secret meeting was held between Hitler and von Papen at Cologne... the news of the meeting got into the papers a few days later... At this meeting Hitler came to an agreement with von Papen. In this way the sudden fall of Schleicher and the sensational nomination of Hitler came about.
This, from three sources, is the story briefly of how Nazism got into power. Hitler was not made chancellor as the result of a popular demand. Germany was not in wreck and ruin. He was not carried to the highest administrative post in the Reich on a swell of popularity for Nazism.
In his Merttens lecture, 1934, "The Roots of Violence," Mr. S. K. Ratcliffe said, with perfect truthfulness:
"The German people are profoundly anti-revolutionary. During the eight years marked at the end by her admission to the League of Nations, Germany had rebuilt her industries and her civic life, had overcome to a great extent the destructive influences in the national character, and by persistence in the policy of treaty fulfillment (afterwards so bitterly repudiated) had regained in great degree her international standing."
There wasn't an earthly chance of a Communist revolt. Nazism was a declining force. The German public had rejected the idea of violence. After thirteen years of turmoil, tolerance had triumphed, Germany was becoming Nationalist, progressive, and more thoroughly, and sensibly, democratic. Schleicher "was on the point of hitting the Nazi movement on the head".
Germany "Saved" for the Jesuits
The Jesuits saw Germany, and their vision of the "Holy Roman (Catholic) Empire", slipping from their claws. "Down with Democracy! Down with Tolerance! Up Murder! Up Dictatorship!"
Papen and Hitler "saved" Germany for the Jesuits, just as Mussolini "saved" Italy for the "Holy Church".
"Fascism" (meaning "Nazism" too), wrote Ludendorff in his book The Coming War, "is a fighting instrument of the pope." "Fascism is the offspring of the Jesuits." "The ways of the Church of Rome and Fascism are identical." "The Papacy and Fascism are inseparably united: together they constitute what is called 'Rome'." "What astonishes me is that the fact should have been overlooked that national socialism of the Fascist type merely means collectivism of the Romish brand."
Thanks to the Jesuits, the old "Holy Roman (Catholic) Empire" has virtually been revived in Central Europe. Thanks to the Dominicans (the "Inquisitor-General" is always a Dominican), the "Universal Inquisition", known by the name of "Gestapo" in Germany and "Ovra" in Italy (i.e., the secret police), once more rules over Poland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Italian Peninsula. But it won't be for long.
(To be continued)
Social and Labor Items
Millionaires Broke in Los Angeles
ONE man in Los Angeles, worth $6,000,000 before the 1929 crash, has applied for a position as teacher. Another, once worth over $1,000,000, is receiving $33 monthly to go to school and learn a trade; he declares his intention of fighting his way back to independence. In one trade school are several persons each of whom had once accumulated over $150,000.
Most American Factories Are Idle
MOST American factories are idle; 10,000,000 factory workers have no jobs. The Department of Agriculture has made studies that show that if these idle men had been busy for the past five years they could have provided a new $5,000 house for every family in the country, or have scrapped the whole American railway system and rebuilt it five times over.
"Civilization" Spreading in Africa
CIVILIZATION is spreading rapidly in Africa. The native does what he sees the white man do. The white man knows how to make whisky and get dead drunk; so the native has learned how to make it, and he gets drunk, too. The white man, when he leaves school, often celebrates; the black man, when he leaves school, is initiated in the saloon. The white man imbibes freely on festive occasions, such as weddings. When the black man has a wedding all hands get as drunk as possible. A returned missionary stated that at Sierra Leone a half-breed wanted to sell him a book of Irish Sweepstake tickets. As fast as the whites can do it they are bringing the blacks down to their own level.
Egyptian Labor Methods in California
UPTON SINCLAIR'S Epic News contains pictures of gangs of men hitched to plows, harrows and cultivators in lieu of horses or tractors. The men were working on SERA project No. 1, D4, 876, Long Beach Boulevard. Elsewhere in California college men have been employed as mules to plow and do other like work at $1.50 per day.
Don't Be in a Hurry to Be Frozen
DON'T be in too big a hurry to be frozen, with the hope of being thawed out a century or a millennium from now, to see what the world is like. The dogs that had sodium citrate put into their blood, and were then frozen and subsequently thawed out, do not behave normally. One of them has never since been able to stand or walk unassisted.
Improvements in Nazareth
IMPROVEMENTS are being made in Nazareth. The market has been divided into three parts: fruits and vegetables are sold in one place, livestock in another, fuel and lime in another. Elements of sanitation are being introduced. Municipal licenses are being required for dogs. Signboards are being restricted.
"This Yere Is Sakrid"
AN ITEM in the Morris Island (N. C.) Swamp Angel states that a tombstone near San Diego, Calif., reads as follows: "This yere is sakrid to the memory of William Skaraken, who caim to his deth by bein shot by Colt's revolver, one of the old kind, brass mountid, and of sutch is the kingdom of heavin."
Abuse of the Insane
A WRITER in the Washington Herald, who had a period of incarceration in a hospital for the insane, tells of having witnessed hundreds of chokings and beatings in one of Uncle Sam's havens for war veterans. According to his tale the favorite method of choking is with a towel wrapped around the neck and twisted. When a patient is to be pummeled in the stomach towels are wrapped around the pummeler's fists, to save his knuckles, and also to make the pummelings resemble bruises received through falls. When a patient offends an attendant he is given the ice pack, by the doctor's orders, and the anonymous writer says: "I've seen men who fought in mud all over France without flinching sob like a baby in a cold pack." Bitterly, this man says: "Yes, I've been a patient in the most violent ward of a 700-patient hospital. Ninety percent of the violence I saw there was among the attendants, not the patients. I talked to many of the patients who had been in other hospitals, state institutions and private sanitariums. They all agreed that there is less brutality in the veterans hospitals. If that is true, I shudder to think what goes on in state institutions. I saw one man thrown by two attendants as you would throw a bag of grain. The fall broke his pelvis bone. Three days later he died of 'pneumonia'. The two attendants are still on the job, or were over a year after it happened. . . . Because I have been a patient in a mental hospital I cannot secure employment of any kind. My wife must earn our living. . . . Where are the sob sisters? Where are all those great humanitarians? Why not laws to protect the inmates of asylums from the brutality of angry attendants?"
Impatience of Youth
EVERY year there are about 60,000 marriages in New York city, but every year there are about 5,000 divorces among these young people, and in only ten percent of the cases is the divorce contested. Youth is impatient, and often selfish. Of course, nobody can make anything out of a thoroughly selfish man or woman, but love can go a long way, and patience can go farther still to make the marriage yoke at least endurable. Every year more than 100,000 children are affected by the divorces granted in this country. These are the real sufferers, and everything endurable should be undergone on their account.
Bleeding the Public by Charity Lies
IN VARIOUS parts of the country concerns have built up large businesses by bargains made with charitable institutions, on this wise: For the use of the name, a small (a very small) percentage goes to the charity, while almost all goes to the promoters of the swindle. Thus a benefit show for a Los Angeles relief association received 4c out of every dollar taken in, clerks got 30c, and the charity swindlers received 66c. A milk fund swindle in Philadelphia spent $862 for free milk out of a total of $22,000 taken in.
Papa Spanked Theodore
AT Camden, N. J., Theodore Emicie, 18, pleaded guilty to stealing an automobile to take his girl for a ride. The order of the court was that papa should spank Theodore, which he immediately proceeded to do. And now all the world that has been spanked is left to wonder about the details. Was the best girl there? Was Theodore just spanked on the cloth, or, horrors! was it the kind of spankings that mother used to make?
Sane Locked Up with the Insane
EPIC NEWS, reporting the rescue of Mrs. Blanche Ashley from an insane asylum, where she had been landed by two of her children, cites Harry Lutgens, director of state institutions, at Sacramento, Calif., as declaring that more than half of those confined in California state hospitals are sane. This is a great note; still Mooney is yet in prison in the same State.
Alberta's Health Insurance Scheme
THE province of Alberta, Canada, will try health insurance. Each head of a family will pay $2.01 per month; seems like a large amount. Some families do not have that much medical expense in a year, or ten years. Eyeglasses are extra, but everything else is provided in care of the sick.
The Central Kitchen Idea
THE central kitchen idea has been so developed in one district in Germany that in an area of a hundred blocks anyone living in the district may telephone to the central kitchen and have meals delivered at once, and hot. Standard containers carry the food through pneumatic tubes.
Finance and Transportation
Trinity Church Leans Toward Wall Street
THE discovery has been made that the tower of the Trinity church, New York city, leans eighteen inches toward Wall Street, at the head of which street it stands. This is peculiarly appropriate. Some years back, and perhaps even yet, the Trinity Church Corporation was known as the wealthiest church corporation in the world and the most heartless landlord. Owner of the greatest number of slums in New York city, and the very worst slums, it was almost impossible for its tenants to get needed repairs made, or the slums made sanitary.
No Tips on Chinese Dining Cars
TIPS are strictly forbidden on Chinese railway dining cars on the ground that waiters are only doing their duty and that duties should be performed without thought of individual reward or discrimination. It is hoped that, in time, this high standard of civilization may spread to Darkest America, where tipping barbarities and vulgarities still exist. To reduce the huge costs of Chinese weddings, mass weddings are now in quite general custom.
Overworked the Telegraph Company
IN ATTEMPTING to put the screws on Congress one of the public utility crowd at Warren, Pa., sent hundreds of fake telegrams from his city, signed by names selected at random from the city directory. His employers admit having expended $700,000 to swerve Congress from the path which, had they had the courage to follow it, would have eliminated the public utility holding companies, with all the evils that go with them.
Electrical Power Direct from Sun
ALBERT G. BURNS, president of the Congress of National Inventors, is authority for the statement that experiments now in progress show that the sun will shortly place 200 billion volts of electrical energy at man's disposal daily, making electrical energy dirt cheap, and doing away for ever with the necessity of coal mining or any other laborious work on the part of man.
Cable for Television
A NEW form of electrical cable, containing copper wires suspended in gas, will carry 200 telephone conversations, or the extremely rapid impulses necessary for television.
Fast Time from Portland
THE Union Pacific Railway Company's new streamlined train "City of Portland" made the trip from Portland, Oreg., to Chicago, 2,200 miles, in 39 hours 45 minutes, clipping 19 hours 15 minutes from the old running time. This is a great achievement, even though it may look small compared with that of the planes, which make the same trip in 14 hours 55 minutes.
Costs of Electricity Cut in Half
THE United States Geological Survey reports that in 1919 it required 3.2 pounds of coal to produce one kilowatt-hour of electricity, but within fifteen years thereafter the efficiency of steam plants had so increased that the fuel requirement was only 1.45 pounds per kwh.
Planes May Not Fly over White House
IT IS now illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House; and the law is a good law. Others than the president have been disturbed by planes flying in close proximity to their homes, and the president should be spared this.
Germany's New Highway System
GERMANY'S new 4000-mile highway system, of which 14 miles have been completed, is 80 feet wide, will take six years to construct, and involves a cost of $750,000,000. The road is built to allow for speeds up to 140 miles an hour.
Contemplated Air Lines
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS, British, contemplates air services across Africa from Khartoum to Nigeria and all British colonies along the Gold Coast; there will also be a line to Hong Kong, connecting with the London to Australia line at Bangkok, Siam.
Russian Woman Sea Captain
A RUSSIAN woman sea captain, Anna Ivanovna Satinina, 27 years of age, graduate of the naval school at Vladivostok, with the aid of a crew of 30, recently piloted her vessel 9,580 miles to Odessa, on the Black sea.
Russia Has 3,000 Planes
RUSSIA has 3,000 planes, 800 in the Far East; 800 more recently demonstrated at Moscow; there are 350 at Leningrad, 300 at Kiev, 170 at Kharkov, and 100 at Rostov-on-Don; there are squadrons at other points.
Sundry American Items
Two Aluminum Murders in Illinois
A WOMAN of 55, the mother of five children, and a daughter of 29, are dead at Princeville, Ill., murdered by the Aluminum Trust. The story of the murder is just another one of the hundreds which have filtered through the news in the past several years. The mother and daughter ate freely of rhubarb, cooked in an aluminum kettle. The sad story, as published in the Peoria Journal, was as follows: "Witnesses told the jury that the rhubarb came from the Swanson garden, that it was picked Saturday morning and prepared in an aluminum kettle. At first it was thought some chemical action might have resulted from this cooking, but physicians said such was unlikely." The key to these murders is in the last six words of the statement just quoted. As long as the physicians stand by the Aluminum Trust, and stand by the Journal of the American Medical Association, and stand by each other, and stand against the truth on this subject, these entirely unnecessary slaughters will continue. The Golden Age does not expect to change the minds of these men; all it does is to tell the truth about it, and let each assume his own responsibility before God and man.
Ghosts Can Be Rented in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA is the only city in America where ghosts can be rented. It seems that in 1874 some 4,200 horses were sent to the glue factory, but their value is still listed in property valuations of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. The taxpayers pay out, in interest charges, $77,500 for the upkeep of these dead horses. Naturally, the horses being dead, the money must go somewhere, and so it goes to the live owner of the dead horses' ghosts, at the annual rate of just a shade less than $18.48 per ghost. It is the expectation of the owners of the bonds that they will draw interest forever.
Not All Spent on War Equipment
THE $10,000,000,000 of American money loaned abroad did not all go for war equipment; millions of it went for swimming pools, libraries, roads and schools in lands where the United States is hated because it loaned the money. American taxpayers in districts where there are no swimming pools or libraries or good roads or schools will be interested but not enthused to know that a fair share of their taxes goes to pay the interest on that money.
The Greatest Agricultural Experiment Station
THE greatest agricultural experiment station on earth is the United States Department of Agriculture. A few years ago it was urging farmers to expand, to invest in the most efficient and expensive machinery; now it wants three million of them to go back to subsistence farming, wooden shoes, tallow candles and cradles. The farmers have some reason for feeling sore. In the drought region, when benefit checks were given to them, they could not get out of the buildings where the checks were given them until they had paid their back taxes. And the news has got around that one hog raiser in California received a benefit check of $400,000 for hogs he did not raise, and a Florida corporation got $800,000 for sugar cane which it did not grow, and the plain dirt farmers who never see very much money wonder at the niggardliness toward the little fellow and the generosity toward the millionaire.
Forty Foreclosures a Week
THE Home Owners Loan Corporation, otherwise known as the HOLC, is now making forty foreclosures per week. The average man has nothing to gain from borrowing money from the government over borrowing from a local bank. In any event it is some bank that at the end holds the whip hand. The very fact that the government itself has to borrow money from the banks, and insists upon paying interest on it, shows that the banks are more powerful than the government and practically own the country. What was it President Lincoln said about this wonderful government of the bankers, for the bankers, and by the bankers?
Publicity Agents Employed by Administration
IN A radio address at Washington Senator Metcalf, of Rhode Island, declared that the government is employing publicity agents outside of the law, and paying them as much as $10,000 a year to turn the tide of public opinion in favor of the "brain trusters" now in the governmental saddle.
President Against Constitution?
ALL Republicans and many Democrats are now insistent that Mr. Roosevelt is against the United States Constitution, and seeking its destruction, though as part of his oath of office he said that he would, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend it.
Agriculture and Husbandry
Dog Sensed All Was Not Well
AT Kearny, N. J., two boys were arrested for scaling a fence and playing in a playground where they had no right to play. When the cops came and got them, and locked them up, they also locked up with them a little white fluffy-haired dog named Rex, and after that they could not get to the boys even to feed them; the dog barred the way. He seemed to sense that all was not well. At length, when the mother of one of the boys came, and the dog recognized her, he quieted down, and all left the jail and lived happy ever after.
Possibilities of Corncobs
THE corncob is listed as the source of 166 basic products including axle grease, binders for brushes, boot and shoe heels, buttons, car springs, car wheels, chair cushions, cigarette holders, dolls, door mats, filling for horse collars, fodder for bedding, hats, imitation amber, incense, linoleum, lumber substitutes, oilcloth, paint, phonograph records, printer's ink, printing plates, punk, radio equipment, roofing, shoehorns, sidewalks, tar, telephone receivers, varnish and washboards.
What Became of the $8,355?
A FARMER at Waterloo, Saskatchewan, is a little peeved. In 1917 he borrowed $6,000 on his farm. Since then he has paid $8,355.96 on the bill, and now he still owes $6,238.92. He wonders about this, and just what happened to his $8,355.96, and why it is that the debt now, after eighteen years, is more than it was in the first place. Persons familiar with the Bible's denunciation of the interest system know the answer.
Hope of Resodding the Barren Plains
THERE is hope of resodding the barren plains, stripped of much of their soil by the dust storms. Buffalo grass, the native range grass of the plains country, would be used, and its seed is being threshed for that purpose.
Snakes Not So Fast
THE fastest snakes known in America are said to move at a slower pace than that of a man walking rapidly, while the rattlesnake, about which one hears so much, requires three hours to travel one mile.
Sea Gull Missed His Aim
SEA gulls have learned to carry clams aloft, drop them from a height upon something hard, and then come down and enjoy the clams' insides. A Babylon (L. I.) man claims that he found about two dozen around his doorstep one morning, but that the gulls missed their aim, and when the clams fell on the soft sand of his yard there was nothing doing in the free lunch line.
Cows, Mosquitoes and Malaria
RUSSIAN scientists claim that cows have 100 times as much attraction for mosquitoes as do humans, and the mosquito bites do not hurt the cows. They therefore urge that in malarial districts the cow barns be located between the swamps and the homes, the idea being that the mosquitoes will stop over permanently on the way.
Electrocution of Artichoke Worms
A CIRCULAR trap with a midnight blue light in the center and a web of live wires all around it lures millions of plume moths to their death in California artichoke fields, with the result that worminess in artichoke plants is reduced from 20 percent or 30 percent to 2 percent or 3 percent.
Mexican and Mediterranean Fruit Flies
THE discovery has been made that both the Mexican and the Mediterranean fruit flies and their larvae are killed when the fruit is subjected, for a few minutes, to a temperature of 112 degrees. This does not injure the fruit.
Plague of Ants in London
LONDON has recently had the worst plague of flying ants that it has experienced in twenty-five years. At one time the sky was darkened, a tennis tournament was held up, and piles of them were brushed from the doorsteps.
Fishes See by Invisible Light
DR. BEEBE and his comrades in deep sea exploration have discovered that the fish living a half mile down in the ocean see by ultraviolet light, and that zinc ore fluoresces a quarter of a mile away.
Science and Invention
Advice to a Tobacco User
ESTELLE LAWTON LINDSEY, in the San Diego Tribune, advises a tobacco addict to avoid smoke and smokers for three weeks; after each meal rinse the mouth with a solution (1/4 of 1 percent) of silver nitrate; when tobacco craving comes on, chew gentian root or camomile blossoms and swallow the juice; each morning for one week take a half teaspoonful of rochelle salt and cream of tartar; and in the first two weeks take four Turkish baths, three or four days apart.
What the Restricted Relief Diets Do
DR. WALTER R. CAMPBELL, of the University of Toronto, says that the pinched relief diets cause tuberculosis, eye troubles, gastro-intestinal disturbances, rickets, mental inferiority, and many kinds of degeneracy, costing the people, in the end, billions for malformed, diseased and helpless persons' care, said persons being for ever thereafter unemployable. That is capitalism at its best.
The Great Rift of 1935
THE great rift of 1935 is along a line which includes Italy, Turkey, Irak, Baluchistan, Tibet, Formosa, Papua and New Zealand, and indicates a great uneasiness in the earth's crust hundreds of miles in width and extending nearly halfway around the world. The average annual loss of lives from earthquakes is 15,000, but in the year 1935 many times that number are dead.
AAA Program Gets Results
THE AAA program of plowing under American products is getting results. Several cargoes of Argentinian and Rumanian grain have been received at New Orleans and other ports. Each such cargo means that much cash for American banks that did not see how to get their money back until the scheme of destroying American products was invented.
Location of Foreign Bodies in the Eye
BY THE use of modified X rays a way has been found to locate foreign bodies in the eye. The eyelids are closed when the observations are made, it having been discovered that vision by means of the X rays can be had when the eyes are closed.
100,000,000 Pairs of Legs
AMERICANS have found that frogs' legs make good eating, and have gone after the frogs strong; so much so, in fact, that they eat 100,000,000 pairs of frogs' legs a year. The wholesalers get about 7c a pair. Probably the frog raisers get about half that. Here is a source of meat supply that is limitless; and the meat is good, too. If you don't believe it, try it.
Avalanche in Sight of New York
IF A fifty-ton rock falls from the Palisades into a roadway, is that an avalanche? Well, if that is an avalanche, then the New Jersey shore of the Hudson river, just across from the 125th Street (New York) ferry was the scene of an avalanche May 17, 1935. The big rock fell about fifty feet and tied up the highway for five hours. No one was injured.
Device for Disposing of Garbage
ENGINEERS of the General Electric Company have devised a grinder, weight 75 pounds, which grinds all the garbage and sends it down the sewer, and which may be attached to any kitchen sink. Thus all waste is disposed of, excepting only the bottles and cans.
Photographs Internal Organs of Body
A LOS ANGELES woman physician, Dr. Ruth B. Drown, has photographed the heart, kidneys, spleen and nerve ends of the cerebellum by means of a shortwave radio instead of a camera.
Substitute for Cotton
GERMAN and Japanese scientists, working separately, made the discovery at the same time that alpha-cellulose, the chief constituent of common straw, can be converted into a cotton substitute.
Moon "Turned into Blood"
MILLIONS of Americans watched with interest the moon in its longest total eclipse in 100 years, on the night of July 15. The refracted rays made the moon a rich copper color. The spectacle lasted 3 1/2 hours.
Danes Destroy Animals Too
THE plan of making the nation rich by destroying its food is in full force in Denmark, where more than 300,000 meat animals were destroyed in 1933 and 1934.
Health Items
Washington Star Turns Over in Its Sleep
ON June 19 The Golden Age, in the same issue in which the Washington Star was exposed as a mere servant of the papacy, had the following skit:
Sleeping in the Raw
Those who make a practice in the summertime of sleeping nude, with only the summer covers when any covers at all are necessary, report the greatest comfort and ease in being able to turn freely in the bed, and there is a saving in sleeping garments also. Some robust persons sleep thus the year around, and this can be done, too, with the sheet tucked closely about the neck.
The skit was entirely original with The Golden Age, including the title. Seventy-five thousand copies of that issue were distributed in Washington by Jehovah's witnesses. At length they made some impression on the Evening Star; for after 57 days the following wheezed forth from that decadent organ, and it is a safe bet that it traces directly to the item above. But would the Evening Star admit that? Not on your life!
'Sleep Raw and Stay Beautiful,' Experts Admonish Fair Sex
CHICAGO—More than 6000 beauty specialists, putting beauty on a 24-hour shift, bade farewell today to the old-fashioned nightgown. A new creed of the fastidious female will be: "Sleep raw and stay beautiful." Miss Ruth D. Maurer, educational director of the American Cosmeticians' Association, said the body cannot breathe properly when covered. Miss Maurer, whose job keeps her on the jump thinking up new ideas, suggested that women sleep with the pillow under their feet instead of the head. "It's more comfortable and gives you more circulation," she explained.
In America the business of appropriating other people's ideas, and taking credit for them, has become one of the fine arts. What a joke is "glory"!
The Value of Lettuce
THE Vegetarian - Fruitarian - Humanitarian calls attention to the fact that lettuce contains over 6 percent of potassium, over 1 percent of sodium, over 2 percent of calcium, over 1 percent of magnesium, iron about 1/2 of 1 percent, phosphorus nearly 2 percent, sulphur less than 1/2 of 1 percent, silicon 1 1/2 percent, and chlorine over 1 percent. It thus contains all the minerals present in spinach, without oxalic acid, which, for those inclined to have stones in the bladder, is not considered so good.
About Potatoes and Tomatoes
DR. H. G. BURDEN, of Tennessee, tells about a man who for experimental purposes lived on potatoes and nothing else for a year and a half, adding only a little vegetable fat. He worked hard and kept well, and his weight, strength and appetite did not decrease during all that time. It does not take a very big space to grow a ton of potatoes in your spare time, and 1500 pounds will supply one man with his food requirements for an entire year, except a moderate amount of fat or butter. Much of the food value of potatoes is lost by peeling them or by pouring off the water in which they are boiled. Bake the potatoes and eat the skin as well as the meat. Water in which potatoes have been boiled should be used for soups or broths. Never throw it away. Of course, the potatoes should be cleaned well before being cooked or baked.
The tomato is one of the richest vitamin foods. It is sometimes called the poor man's orange. It contains more vitamins than oranges, especially vitamin A. This vitamin promotes growth, protects against infection, colds and sinus troubles. They are almost as good canned as when fresh. Put them up for use during the winter. Tomatoes do not cause rheumatism, as was once thought, and they are more highly alkaline than oranges in the effect on the blood, which is a desirable thing.
How to Get Eczema and Get Rid of It
WRITING in the Arkansas Gazette, L. S. says she discovered that artificial silk undergarments caused the baby's skin to break out in pustules, but changing the type of clothing relieved the eczema. Ralph S. Green (pioneer), writing on this, says: "Clipping enclosed may be a verification of the conclusion arrived at by R. H. Barber regarding the effect of the alum in rayon socks upon his poisoned feet. My own experience with a pair of rayon hose recently may be explained also. Thousands of pimples broke out, beginning at the top of the hose and extending to the top of the foot. As for the "athlete's foot" disease, I had suffered with that for some time, but in the above case my legs were affected. These pimples disappeared upon changing to white cotton socks, and such I expect to continue to wear."
The Rape of Ethiopia
Italy Wants Ethiopia
ETHIOPIA has 350,000 square miles, with only 17,000,000 inhabitants. She has coal, iron, platinum, gold and oil, and can support millions more of people and millions more of livestock. She claims to be able to put 350,000 barefooted soldiers into the field in thirty days and to mobilize 900,000 troops, all together. It is still the law in Ethiopia to punish thieves by amputation of their hands. The war will start without mercy’s being shown by either side. The Italians are morally certain to win it in a few weeks, but may get a great surprise. All the talk about the Italians’ wanting to put an end to the Ethiopian slave trade is pure buncombe. Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign secretary, said, in the House of Commons, “So far as my information goes, the Abyssinian government is doing its utmost to abolish the slave trade.” All there is about the war is that Italy is determined to have Ethiopia so that she can have an outlet for her surplus population, and keep them Italians. It is a clear case of robbery and murder, and the League of Nations hypocrites will cheer the robber and murderer and make it easy for him, and will do nothing for the native who wants to retain control of his own country.
Who Gets Ethiopia
THE French and Italians fixed it up between them that Italy was to have Ethiopia, a country which in thirty days can put 350,000 men in the field and bad actors, too. But the Ethiopian ruler did the unexpected. He knew what was going on and invited in tens of thousands of Japanese, to build roads, factories and laboratories and open banks, and now the Italians will have to consider the Japs, and it is an embarrassing thing to consider. The Italians are enlisting Mohammedan Ethiopians to fight the so-called ‘Christians’ of Ethiopia, but the heathen Japanese constitute a serious difficulty to be overcome. Who will get Ethiopia remains to be seen.
Flame Throwers to Convert Ethiopians
TO HELP convert the Ethiopians to the Mussolini idea 100 Italian flame throwers have been sent to Ethiopia, with a fair chance that none of them will return alive. Flames can be thrown sixty-five feet, but if a bullet punctures the flame-throwing apparatus the whole thing blows up, man and all.
England Also Wants Ethiopia
ITALY has been giving popular demonstrations of all known forms of bombs and poison gases. Ethiopia has laid in 1 ton of poison gas and 176 tons of munitions; which is nothing for a war with Italy. She has appointed an American professor of international law and a French professor of law to represent her at the preliminary peace conference; Italy is offended at this, for she had hoped to deal with Ethiopia direct. When the Italian troops began to pour into Africa the British hurried and, for $1,500,000, bought the right to a large part of the watershed of northwestern Ethiopia, for use in the Sudan. And this peeved the Italians, too. When Ethiopia found she could not buy munitions in France, Belgium, Denmark or Czechoslovakia, and that in some instances shipments already paid for were detained, the emperor said: “The Belgian government informed us this was to avoid the reproach of participation in the armament of the Ethiopian empire. Isn’t it a worse reproach to facilitate the accomplishment of Italy’s program of violation of treaties and coercion of a free people, weak in all resources except the justice of their cause? Is there one policy for the weak and another for the strong? The weak must be kept weak so that the strong may have no difficulty in destroying them.”
International Murderers, Incorporated
INTERNATIONAL MURDERERS, INC., British Branch, did a wonderful business with Italy during June. The British government, that being one of its side lines, did not, of course, dare to raise any objections. But it is quite different with Ethiopia. The cabled “explanation” of why Ethiopia is denied the same privileges as were accorded Italy is as follows: “The British and French attitude is based on a special agreement among Britain, France, Italy and Ethiopia whereby Ethiopia agreed to limit the importation of arms except when it was ‘strictly necessary’. The Ethiopians also agreed that any shipments of arms into their country could be stopped in the event of war.” There you have it. Isn’t that rich? The whole world knows that Italy is about to wipe Ethiopia off the map. Under those circumstances it is not ‘strictly necessary’ for Ethiopia to arm in self-defense, and when the war starts she cannot arm, because the murderers are conscientious objectors to supplying arms to a weak nation attacked by a strong one.
Something Else "Unveiled"
THE London Evening Standard has been running a series of articles entitled "Abyssinia Unveiled". The articles have been highly insulting to Ethiopians (from whom the writer seems to have had hospitality and most generous treatment), and paint Ethiopia in the worst possible light. They have appeared under the name of "L. M. Nesbitt". But the Evening Standard has been careful to conceal that "L. M. Nesbitt" stands for Louis Mariano Nesbitt, and that Mr. Nesbitt is a half-Italian. So one could hardly expect his writings to paint Ethiopia in anything but the worst light! But why does a widely read paper like the Evening Standard print articles on Ethiopia from such an obviously biased journalist? Incidentally, the Evening Standard belongs to Lord Rothermere, who a short time ago was backing Sir Oswald Mosley, the British Fascist, in the Daily Mail. Rothermere must have an unfathomable (sic) sympathy for anti-Ethiopian and pro-Mosley (i.e., Fascist) articles. A few years ago Rothermere's son, Mr. Arthur Harmsworth, was a candidate for the throne of Roman Catholic Hungary. Mr. Louis Mariano Nesbitt is now no more, however; he was killed on July 20 in an air-crash on the Swiss-Italian frontier. He was on his way from Rome to London.
Selassie's Sons Educated in Ohio
THE sons of Haile Selassie, ruling monarch of Ethiopia, were educated at Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, where the three boys left an excellent impression by their good behavior, studiousness and ability. Prof. F. Ernest Work, department of history, Muskingum College, decorated by both Italy and Ethiopia, has pointed out that England and France promised Italy Ethiopia in 1915, as a reward for switching the Italian army from the Central Powers in the World War, and Mussolini is now insisting that the promise be made good.
The Ualual Boundary Dispute
THE Ualual (Walwal) boundary dispute between Italy and Ethiopia becomes a ghastly joke when one learns that even on the Italian maps themselves Ualual is shown as being on Ethiopian territory. Italy's pretense that she is seeking satisfaction for border trespasses is the most perfect hypocrisy imaginable.
Courtesies to Burglars
BENITO MUSSOLINI is what might be called "a Christian burglar". He is a Roman Catholic and sufficiently attached to the papacy that he has ordered the crucifixes to remain in every schoolroom in the country. He is out to steal the land of Ethiopia, and has announced that the only thing that will prevent a war will be for the king, Haile Selassie, to ask Italy to assume an armed protectorate over the country. This brings up the whole question of etiquette toward burglars. Thus if some gang gathers at your front door and sends word in that they are going to murder you, burn your house and swipe all your valuables, the first thing to do is to find out if they are "bread-worshipers", and if they are, and are well armed, the next thing is to ask them to come in and make themselves at home for the rest of their lives, and to petition them to assume an armed protectorate over the premises.
French Tell Italians to Go Ahead
FREDERICK T. BIRCHALL, London correspondent of the New York Times, says: "It is generally understood that when the subject of recent Ethiopian conflicts came up in his conference with Pierre Laval last month, the French foreign minister gave the Italian premier a free hand to carry out any police operation he cared to undertake in that part of the world. No forceful interference from Great Britain is likely either." What this means is that if Italy is strong enough to grab the new Ethiopian oil deposits she will get them, the same as Paraguay grabbed the oil fields of the Grand Chaco, and Japan grabbed the iron ore and coal mines of Manchuria. Some will wonder why the League of Abominations is silent while all this thievery is going on. But the League is only an international joke.
The Pope Wants Ethiopia
A DISPATCH from Vatican City says that the pope remains "neutral" in the Italo-Ethiopian conflict. All the more shame to him. He has constructed an Ethiopian college on Vatican ground, and professes to be very much interested in the Ethiopian people. Then why does he not come out and openly condemn this braggart and murderer instead of remaining "neutral"?
The Religious Business in Ethiopia
IT SEEMS difficult to think of any religious business more foolish than the one that is dominant in Italy and Spain and all over South America. Though less blasphemous, in Ethiopia it is perhaps more absurd. Pierre von Paassen, in a letter to the Atlanta Constitution, says that every family of prominence has its own chaplain; morning devotions conducted by him last two hours. The family meanwhile remains standing, leaning on crutches. The poor have wooden crutches; the wealthy, gold and silver ones. Those in the religious racket seem to have the idea that the more foolish and unreasonable their claims and their methods, the bigger will be the crowds that follow them, and the more they will collect. That being the case, the pope would find a fine field in Ethiopia for his racket.
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