Awake!, June 8, 1950

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CONTENTS

tortketeers in Charity

Na Accounting of Kund? <^ollreted Charity Begin* at Cnlleetors’ Home S<jare Campaigns

Attempts to Curb the Racketeers

Transportation Troubles

Easing the Bousing Shortage

Psychiatric Prattle

Worldly Religion ’a Head End

Who Shall Ba the SaviorT

: Religion More Worn Out than Politics Religion Responsible for Delinquency

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Oddities in the Nevrs

Secrets of th? Salad Bowl

Leonardo and the Church

The Wise Old Owl

A Wise-lookinChatterbos

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RACKETEERS IN CHARITY

RACKETEERS and charity have things in common. Both are keenly interested in your money. Each is Un inseparable f feature of capitalist society. True charity nineteen centuries ago meant to sell what you have and “give to the poor”. Modern charity, wrote Paul Laf argue, “'means to steal wholesale, and [>ive away retail?" In America charitable institutions are viewed as pillars of virtue and somewhat sacrosanct. Little wonder that the sacred name of charity has shielded operations of sorneof the “meanest crooks on earth. You, Mr. Average Citizen, are their perennial victim.

Fake charities rob the American public of an estimated $100,000,000 a year. Chicagoans are swindled of $5,000,000, and their Los Angeles cousins lose $10,000,000 annually. The “take” in New York city is purportedly “beyond estimation” It was against such exploitation that the New York Star protested: “Many dubious characters have made a career out of running phony charity campaigns —entertainments, games of chance, or high-pressure solicitations—under the cloak of reputable agencies. Very often, the organization or charity gets less than a tenth of the funds raised by the slick racketeers,"

The multimillion-dollar hoax is plied across the nation through four common channels: door-to-door solicitation,street and subway solicitation, high-pressure telephone and mail solicitation, and charity entertainments. The charity racket-

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eers, quick to recognize the taking ways of many orthodox religions, often duplicate the formula for success. “Many of the worst rackets,” commented the Star, “operate under the protecting cloak of religion.” Tn some states it is an easy accomplishment for a smart operator to get himself and a few henchmen incorporated as a “church”, and he is ready for business. A more highly organized charity racket may lease copies of its certificate of incorporation to associates at a flat rate, or, send them out garbed as “ministers” or “nuns”, giving them 25 to 50 percent of the daily haul. One such enterprise was the “Mount Zion Remnant Church of Christ” in Queens, New York, whose white-robed “nuns” admittedly received 50 percent of the profits, until the state attorney general revoked its charter. So numerous were the ch arity racketeers dressed as nuns or priests in New York, that the Roman Catholic archdiocese recently instructed its own mendicants to cease begging in front of subway stations or department stores.

The high-sounding “American-Catholic Orthodox Church” was another outfit that made charity a worthwhile enterprise. For fifteen years its “Community Mission”, on Manhattan’s West 40th street, obtained funds to finance fictitious summer camps and recreation centers supposedly operated by the “mission”. 5V hen prison sentences ended their career in 1946, the racketeers were picking

the public’s poRkni for $100,000 every year.

"Wortftp Charities”

Newspaper accounts of the goings-on of such swindlers invariably lament that some “sorely needed” funds have been diverted from other "worthy charities”. The general impression conveyed is one of sympathy for the "legitimate" charities, which, like fabled royalty, "can do no wrong?’ Such subsidized myths would have you believe that the only racketeers in charity are ex-hootleggers, “out of work” since the repeal of prohibition. Unusual, however, was Miami Life's screaming headline of January 22. 1949: ‘'Miami Salvation Army’s ‘Charity’ la Nothing but a Petty Rack kt?” fnrmsed at the alleged refusal of this well-known organ frat tort to extend ita charity to a blind man for more than one night, the censure declared; .

We think it's the most vicious and hypocrit-ieal racket perpetrated ujwn the charitably minded people! . , * This incident shown the Halvatfrn Army really doesn’t care for anything or anybody . . . that its officials are interested only in piling as much as they can into their treasury (wonder if much of it goes, as rumored, to the founders of the racket in England?)—and it piles up pretty high, with all the money, strap paper, old furniture and clothing (all of which is quickly converted into cash and not dealt out to the poor, as popularly believed) that gullible Miamians pour into it. Miamians should cease supporting the Salvation Army. . , . They should be just as callous toward the Salvation Army as it is toward the needy.

Miami Life probably was very skeptical when the Salvation Army claimed the appointment of Frank Costello (ex-conviet and reputedly head of the major rackets in Noir York city and along the eastern seaboard) as one of its fond* raising chairmen was all an accident, especially when the Salvation Army "decided it hadl no legal right to refuse the $18,000 raised by Costello, because it was contributed for religions and charitable purposes”.

The birth of the new Mate of Israel opened up new vistas of operation for the charity hoax and unleashed a host, of "relief” for Palestine drives, Alert to this new threat from the charily £umc

-was reporter Albert Deutsch : "There are several worthy orphanages in Israel/he wrote, “but judging by the multitude of charity solicitors dunning New York Jews for funds, it would appear that all Palestine is populated exclusively by orphans!" Experts in the field of Jewish philanthropy have long been concerned about the activities of Palestine ‘’charil jrs" Dr. Mark Wfachni tiers study of the problem for /be (*<f until <?f Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds in 1946 was candid in its findings. Admitting that "substantially le^s" than the amount collected by Jewish agencies ever readies Palestine, Dr. Wfrdinitzer’s report revealed :

While the dffices vary Bamewhnt in their fund-raising and office-management procedures, many nf theni full short of minimum standards established by endorsement, agencies in the philanthropic field. . . . Administrative and fund-ruising costa are excessively high, usually amounting to about 40 to 50 percent of collections.

Other authorities say this estimate of "costs” fr too low—a bona fide Palestinian institution can consider itself fortunate if it receives 20 or 30 percent of the "charity” funds raised here in its behalf 1

No Accounting of Funds Collected

According to Nations Business, many charity "campaigns are conducted by about two dozen professional fundrairing organizations, which operate na tionaiiy. Most of these, like the John Price Jones Corporation, are legitirrmte businesses. There arc also as many as 150 less legitimate fund-raising organi-

zations, many of which operate only in restricted areas. They are interested only in their share, which often turns out to be the lion’s share". In the 1922-45 period, American charities raised more than $23 billion, as reported in the Yearbook of Philanthropy. But when has charity’s priesthood ever given the public an open accounting of the billions raised in behalf of humanity! The lack of such accounting was the subject of severe criticism by Emanuel M. Josephson, M.D., in his book, Your Life Is Their Toy:

One of the principal benefits which the social service racketeers confer upon mankind, in return for the support of their activities, is a deluge of statistics. They publish statistics on ... no end of things. But never has the social service racket published any statistics that truthfully reveal what their support costs the public, or what percentage of the funds which they gather in the name of the poor and unfortunate is expcndedjjn their own salaries. Such information is systematically refused the public who contribute and support.

As to how the activities of major social services differ from the everyday “garden variety of rackets”, Dr, Josephson explained:

In no wise except that they are accepted as genteel and proper, and entirely within the law. . . . When organized social service is involved, fraudulent collection of charitable funds and their conversion to other uses than those represented to the contributor becomes legalized and sanctified. The very magnitude of the funds involved—billions of dollars each year—has served to make it one of the most “respectable" of the Big Business group. Flying the banner of “charity", and consequently utterly unsuspected by the gullible public, it has grown into a perfect specimen of the racket.

In their desire for wealth, organized charity has long considered the common beggar a serious competitor. Such articles as “Don’t Give to Beggars" (The Forum, June 1938) have warned the publie not to “spare that dime", if by giving it you think you can “fob off your responsibility to organized charity". When it comes to charity’s responsibility to account for the public’s funds, they insist that “that is their business”. No doubt it is their business, and a profitable one at that.

Charity Begins at Collectors* Borne

Occasional leaks in the wall of secrecy surrounding charity’s operators show complete agreement on “the best possible way to spend charitable funds”. Many popular charities had their humble beginning in New York state around the turn of the century. New York’s charities, among the country’s most influential, fell into such disrepute in 1914 that an investigation was launched in the state legislature. Hearings before the Thompson Committee made shocking disclosures of the misuse of charitable funds by the “Charity Trust”. The “brains" of the charity rackets often held positions in several organizations by interlocking directorates. From this vantage point it was a simple matter to divert funds to personal, political and commercial ends.

Committee hearings uncovered a nest of racketeers in charity. The general secretary of the Charity Organization Society netted $20,000 a year from only two of the positions held. The secretary of the society’s Buffalo branch received a salary $4,000 higher than that of the mayor of Buffalo. The head of the State Charities Aid Association, it was learned, received $100 per “working day” as a Public Health Council member, in addition to a fixed salary of $8,000 per year as SCAA head. Charity’s affiliations even included “reciprocal” deals with big business.

Senator Thompson later introduced a bill to further investigate the charity swindle. Mustering all of its resources and paramours, the Charity Trust waged a bitter and successful fight against that

bill, which died under the governor's veto. The wrath of public sentiment forced a temporary halt, hi the illegal traffic. When the embers of public anger no longer smoldered, charitv's leadership was found to he in the hands of such organizations ae the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association, all of which exploited the public's fear of disease. It is that same fear of disease that today brings millions of .dollars annually into the coffers of organized charity.

The cries to help fight cancer, tuberculosis, heart trouble and many other diseases are familiar sob-stories ‘ when charity “passes the hat”. Frequently, ns in the case of "Christmas seals", the nation's ratlin and press join hands in behalf of "the chub?*'. The bulk oF funds are usually divided between the local find national organizations. A small fraction of it may even bp used for subsidizing research. The people who generously contribute to the charity, however, are led to believe they are directly aiding the oppressed.

The use of Christmas seal funds by the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association was revealed in a loiter to the New York Times From Dr, Louis I. Harris, former commissioner of health of the city of New York, ex officio and honorary officer of the local association r

So far ais I have been able to discover, dur ihg many years of inTimate contact, an utterly insignificant fraction of the several millions collected by the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association during the past decade and a half has been used to supply diagnostic care, medical treatment, sanitarium or hospital care, or any nf the necessities of tuberculosis patients or their families Tn fact, I am confident that none of the money is used to assist those suffering from tuberculosis. . . . the funds have been utilized . . . first and principally for salaries to workers to carry on its propaganda.

If the prospective contributor tn the Christmas seal business would carefully read the 1949 Christmas seal sales latter, he would nowhere find the promise that money received goes directly to the TB victim. The one seeking charity's aid, according to Dr. E. Josephson, is "given, or sold, pamphlets tolling him what attention he should have, where he should live, what he should eat—everything but that most vital advice, where be could get the money with which to do it”.

Scare Campaigns

When charity s noble institutions scare the public into contributing with a 'You may be next!" one wonders if they refer to the public's falling victim to the disease or to the charity racket. The morbid fear of cancer moves millions to pour their money into the cancer associations, which premlijinbly wage relentless war on the disease. According to Four Life h Their Toy (Josephson), the “war" ie iimre zealously waged against your pocketbook:

The>c cancer tciationa have not used the funds which they have gathered for the relief of cancer victims or for the payment nf institutions for their care. The money haa been uyvil for die payment of salaries to the medical bosses find to other personnel and for public-' ity, propaganda and advertising that lu^ed more victims, . . . The more closely one studies the situation, the mure une is inclined to wonder whether the true function of these cancer associations is ngt to place cancer quackcry on a higher level and on a more lucrative financial plane.

If you manage to tighten your heart and purse stringy enough to see through’ the exploitation of bugaboo diseases, don't feel too confident There are hundreds of other chariI ips sizing you up as a “mark". “The leech has two daughters," says the proverb, “saying: ‘Give, give.'" Life magazine (November 14, 1949) shows the notion's Community Chests seeking a modest $185,000,000 for U. S. charities. “Even the Red Cross, which has traditionally remained aloof from

united campaigns, joined in.” Why look a gift horse in the mouth when all you have to do is get on and ride it in the $185,000,000 “charity sweepstakes”? The Red Cross did just that, and their share of “the purse” will be plenty. How, when and where the impoverished, sick and needy will benefit from the funds are all good questions for the answer man. Charity’s collectors will not answer them.

Turning to the World Almanac (1948) one finds the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis considerate enough to disclose that “since the establishment of the National Foundation in 1938, a total of $39,060,869,48 has been left with its chapters for local aid to infantile paralysis victims”. In the same period of time $25,944,285.99 has been authorized “for reseach, education and epidemic aid”. The brief report does not reveal the total amount of money raised in all that time, nor does it show, beyond a general statement, how that money was actually spent. When the results of the 1947 fund-raising appeal ($17,987,800.66) are compared with the amount authorized “for research” in a ten-year period, one wonders what became of the other millions received by the Foundation in all that. time. No accounting is given of the amount applied to salaries or other “overhead”.

The Foundation’s annual “March of Dimes” is held during the last two weeks in January, commemorating the anniversary of the late President Roosevelt’s birthday. The function of the “March of Dimes”, prior to Mr. Roosevelt’s demise, was carried on and known as the President’s Birthday Ball. Interesting is the declaration of Dt. Joseph S. Wall, of the Georgetown University Medical School, before a Subcommittee on Public Health, Hospitals and Charities of D.C.: “Not. one penny of that fund (Birthday7 Ball) will go to buying a crutch for a crippled child. The majority of the dollars in that fund will go for the purchase of monkeys.”

Attempts to Curb the Racketeers

In some cities, however, alert citizens are beginning to seek a basis, if any, for their faith in organized charity's widely touted virtues. Oakland, California; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have decided to clamp down on all community-wide fundraising activities. Committees have been formed to investigate the status of any charity7 seeking the public’s money. If not satisfied with an organization’s worthiness or integrity, the committee does not approve of the solicitation and advises the public not to contribute. Little wonder that the Winston-Salem committee challenged the “March of Dimes”. It questioned the Foundation’s need for more than $15,000,000 in national reserves, plus almost as much “lying idle” in local chapters. The committee looked distrustfully at the “campaign costs” of 12 percent, plus “administrative costs” of 15.5 percent. It doubted the necessity for the Foundation’s increase in net income from $1,349,000 in 1939 to nearly7 $18,000,000 in 1947. In honesty to themselves and their fellow citizens, Winston-Salem refused to approve the 1948 “March of Dimes”.

Other attempts to break through charity’s iron curtain of secrecy have not been so successful. The grand jury of Westchester county7, New York, on April 26, 1938, recommended to Supreme Court Justice Raymond E. Aldrich the enactment of a law to compel charity organizations to file with the county clerk a statement of the proposed use of funds and a report of actual disbursement. Racketeers in charity7 at that time were found to be getting half or more of the proceeds from charity7 campaigns. Commendable was their recommendation that a commission be established, similar to Wall Street's S.E.C., to guard against charity swindles. The proposed legislation was bogged down in the mires of legislative process and conveniently forgotten.

Very likely future attempts to emash the charity ring will meet a similar fate. Racketeers in charity are too well entrenched in this materialistic world that lives and dies in pursuit of the dollar. But they forget the inspired proverb: “He that gatheretb treasures by a lying tongue is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.” —Proverbs 21; 6, Douay.

Lovcrc of righteousness, with a knowledge of God’s Word, realize this world’s lack of true charity portends its early destruction. The incoming new world of Jehovah God under h£is Christ will find all racketeering a thing of the past. Under the bounteous Kingdom rule, mankind will look to Jehovah God as their true Friend and Benefactor. All thanks will rightly be given tn Him, the f?fFercrf '"every good and perfect gift”.

‘Transportation Troubles

Tllodess Plane

The pilotless plane that flew over New Jersey game time ago wob not just a new development. The throttle on it had been left on after the motor waa cut off. When another pilot spun the propeller the motor started and the plane Boomed into the air, narrowly missing the confujwd pilot. Alt airlibeH iu the vicinity were alerted until the piloting plane finally crashed two and a half hours after its take-off.

Steam'pvwcred Automvbilef

Some ul the possible reasons why gasoline engines replaced steam power for automobiles were given by Alec Hodson of Lavenhan, England, when he explained to a prospective buyer of his 1901 steamer that there are eight major knobs to push or pull and Ave assorted water and pressure pumps, making driving a whole-time job, with no time for boredom or preoccupation with scenery'- The motor must be started with a match, and the foot high Hames scorch the driver. Also, “once lighted there can be no hanging about. You have decided to go for a spin and you are committed to it.*’ It is not difficult to understand his final statement that “when you drive a vehicle of this kind people are apt to regard it os peculiar”.

Lives, Mo ton sr Died

For twenty-five years George Biermisaer had & perfect driving record^ then a 22-moiiti)-oI<f child just setmed to roll into the wheels of George’a milk truck. He leaped out, rushed the stunned hoy to his mother, and waited for the ambulance. The ujubulujice doctor found that the child was unhurt, hut when he turned to tmsura the truck driver of this the doctor found ffre truck driver lying on the floor, The horror of hitting the child had a heart attack, and George Biernnsoer was dead.

Misting Wife

How would you explain this situation to a policeman! You are stopped on tho highway by an officer who asks where your wife is. Knowing that she is asleep in the berk text yori point (Wi* fldently over your shoulder, and then look around to see that Ute Neat is empty. That situation faced Hoy Smith in KankakRe, Illinois, Not until then did he realize that hie wife had gotten out at the filling station Rest Room thirty miles bock down the road, fine was waiting there and had called ahead to have the police send bet husband hack for her.

^Pedestrian's Vengeance

The woman driver skidded her new.yellow convertible over the pedestrian crosswalk at a San Antonio intersection just as the light tnmad red, and waited there for it to change. “Why don’t you back up!” asked a man in work clothes and heavy shoes, “Mind your own business/’ she retorted. Apparently his husiness was on the other side of the street^ for with his rough shoes grind ing into the paint he stepped up on the fender, then to the bood, down the other side, and casually walked away.

Easing the Housing Shortage

By "Awake!" correspondent In Southern Rhodesia

IS YOUR country struggling under an acute housing shortage?

Do you live in'a country where many thousands are lured into cities by better wages, and where immigrants are walking the streets and sleeping in parks because of lack of accommodations? Does Big Business control your government to the extent that it hinders the rapid building of houses and apartments and the letting of these at reasonable rates? If your answer to these questions is "yes”, then tell your officials to come to Southern Rhodesia to learn a lesson in successfully tackling an extremely acute housing problem.

To give you an idea of the problem the government of Southern Rhodesia has had to face, let us review the situation since a few years back. This selfgoverning British colony boasts the highest rate of immigrants per population since 1945 of any country in the world, barring only Israel. It now has a population of about 120,000 Europeans, 2,000,000 Africans and a few thousand Colored and Indians. Of the 120,000 Europeans, 44,000 of them came within the last three years from the United Kingdom or other countries. During 1947, 13,000 of these entered the colony, 17,000 in 1948 and 14,000 in 1949. Just think, about 35 percent of the total European population moved in within three years!

Well, you can see what a time the government must have had wondering what to do with them all. They wanted these immigrants here, because the more Eu-

ropeans there are the quicker the country 'step is to start building. First the con-will develop. And yet here were literally crete foundation is put in, probably for hundreds of people sleeping on park several houses at the same time. Then

benches or anywhere jLy they could find a place ■rj to lie down, waiting for kJwu word of something they co uld call home. What to do? was the question demanding answer.

Rammed-Earth Housing

About the time when this problem was at its worst, in 1947, a private housing board w’as taken over and financed by the government. This board was asked by the government to put up as many houses as possible in the shortest time possible. No time to wait for material and finances to put up permanent dwellings. It must be something temporary, and the material used must be available immediately. The most abundant material on hand, and that which did not need to be imported, was dirt—just plain dirt. Thus was begun a scheme for the erection of hundreds of pise de terre houses, as they are called (mentioned in November 8, 1949, Awake!); the quickest answer to a desperate call.

Those at the head of this board were public-spirited men, who energetically entered into this scheme. In fact, some of them even donned work clothes and shared in the erection of the first few houses. Much planning had to be done in a hurry. Sites had to be found in the most suitable centers of the colony. These sites had to be such that sewerage pipes could be easily connected with the city main. Streets had to be laid out. City water had to he considered. All this meant contending with the slow-moving municipal authorities.

Finally all this was done. Now the next wooden frames are put up, and into these is poured moistened earth that is finally to make up the fourteen-inch walls of the house. As this dirt is poured in, nydraulic rammers keep ramming it until it becomes almost as hard as cement. In fact, more recently they have been sprinkling a small amount of cement in with the earth. As the walls go up, the door and window casements are put in.

At last the ramming is completed, the wooden frames removed and the walls gone over with a rough plaster. Now comes the usual laying of water pipes, wiring for electricity, and the painting. Most of the pises are painted sand, green or light blue, although some are white or some other color. The roofs, which are timber covered with thatch, aluminum or asbestos, display brilliant colors, such as bright red, green, etc.

Bousing Shortage Eased

And so you have your house. Or, rather, 1,911 of them, as that is the number built from August 1947 to November 1949. In some places, such as Bulawayo, there were times when an average of one pise per day was going up. The only thing that prevented this average from being kept up was the slowness on the part of the municipality in making connections with the city mains, granting plots of land to build on, and other such factors. Since 1947 nine different types of pises have been built, each type being an improvement over the previous ones. Improvements have been made in doors, fixtures, roofs, etc. At first the doors were just plain boards, not unlike the storm doors used in the northern United States and Canada in the wintertime. Now they are the same as you would find in any modern home. The baths, at first cement, are now porcelain. As to size, all are either two- or three-bedroom houses. This makes them quite suitable for average-size families. Actually they are built primarily for those with children or other dependents.

This brings us to another very interesting feature concerning this housing program. The rent is quite reasonable: seven pounds fifteen shillings ($21.70) for two-bedroom houses, and ten pounds five shillings ($28.70) for three-bedroom houses, including water. Only families with at least two children (one in the case of returned soldiers) and who have been living in the colony for six months or more are eligible for these houses. This is a far cry from the usual, “Sorry, no children allowed.” Speaking from personal experience, I know it is impossible to get a pise house except under these conditions.

Of course the Housing Board has undertaken oth^r building besides that of pise de terre. Prefabricated flatlets had gone up ip the number of 628 by November 1949. And now, as the housing situation is somewhat eased, time is being takeu to put up more permanent dwellings. Right here we might say that the pises are estimated to have at least twenty years’ life in them. For all of these the workshops of the Housing Board, consisting of three hangars situated in Salisbury, turn out almost 100 percent of the work done. The “prefabs" are built there, window easements, doors and all, and then they are merely fitted together for use. Parquet hardwood floor material for the permanent homes, timbers for ceilings, etc., are all lathed and trimmed in these workshops. It is interesting to note that three years ago one cross-cut saw was all the equipment on hand, but now one hears the steady hum of saws, lathes and several other machines.

But what has been the result of all this activity? Has it helped cope with the housing problem ? Yes, it has done that' and more. Four centers in Southern Rhodesia now have one or more pise sites. These are Salisbury, Bulawayo, Uintah and G-welo. By November 1949 from six to eight thousand found refuge in the pise houses alone, without counting the flats and others, and also the tremendous amount of private building going on.’In Bulawayo the .pise de terre bouses haye absorbed almost five thousand homehunters, while other ventures of the Housing Board there have taken another two thousand. But more than that, this undertaking has given employment to hundreds of the very immigrants who made the emergency which has;had to be met. Also thousands of natives have been able to find employment, ■ which has helped to solve another problem for the government.

Drawbacks, and the Complete Solution

Of course some will and do complain about these houses, and with some justification, but in most cases it. is not the Housing Board which causes the complaint. For instance, the main roads may continue to be poor and inadequate to carry such an increase in traffic. Such is not the fault of the Housing Board. Or, if the sewerage has not been suitable it ia likely because the municipality has been slow to make connections with the main. Other drawbacks can also be attributed to outside causes. Some houses show slackness in workmanship, but these are few and far between. There have been cases where strings have heen pulled, thus causing the usual policy to be temporarily forgotten. /Vs an example of this we have the case of a family of six pushed into a two-bedroom house, while a couple with one child occupied a house with three bedrooms. But these are things to be expected under the present system of things. The remarkable thing is that such acts have not occurred more often than they have.

Admittedly, it is not a perfect solution to the country’s housing difficulties. Despite the number of houses and flatlets that have gone up, two thousand are still living in the old Salisbury Royal Air Force barracks waiting for permanent accommodation. Thousands of others are seeking temporary shelter in hotels, trailer camps and even in native huts, hoping for the day when word will come through saying they have a house to move into. But even taking these facts into consideration it will he confessed by most people that the government has made at least an admirable attempt to give a home to those who have fled from the economic problems and restrictions of other countries and who now seek a livelihood here in Southern Rhodesia. To give credit where credit is due, it must he said that for the short time the Housing Board has been operating it has done a big job and has done it well.

However, there is only One Government able to satisfy perfectly all the needs of the people, housing- as well as other needs. Only One Government is absolutely free from political and commercial curtailments. Just One Government possesses the powder to do ■what all other governments have failed to do. That Government is the heavenly Theocracy. Under its administration none will have, to sleep in parks or railway stations, but each will huild his own home and inhabit it, not for ten, fifteen or twenty years, but for all eternity.

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‘Psychiatric Prattle

Dr. Dora Papara, visiting Greek psychiatrist and assistant superintendent of a government mental hospital in Athens, declares: “Love is a continuation of the fairy tales of our childhood. It is something which conies tu an end very quickly, more quickly than most people believe. But if you marry a man who is a good father, at least you will have a, good. child.” Even if you. don’t mally like the win to begin vjith, w viill grsya nearer to him and a “practical affection will develop”, ttie lady doctor believes.

HEN a New York Tiwifis book reviewer remarked that this is an “age of survival”,, he inferred that the people, all the 'people now living, are alive only because they have thus far escaped annihilation in “an age of slaughter on a mass-'production basis for both military and . political purposes”. He wrote:

Never before have so- many survivors been scattered all over the world. Men and women are today walking the streets of most of the world’s great cities who have survived horrors beyond imagination and. chances 'beyond calculation. They are .the veterans of German death factories, of Soviet slave labor camps, of Japanese prisons, of war in every climate, of sudden catastrophes and long years of near-starvation.

None has survived unscathed. Even in America and other uninvaded countries the hot breath of calamitous fear has seared the hearts of the populace until hysteria reigns sovereign. AH exist in a world of clock-round uncertainties. People are living in the kind of fear which, according to IJ. S. Supreme Court Justice Black, “blinds the vision and obscures the reasoning power.” It brings to mind the proverb: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

Actually, the fears and perplexities of the hydrogen-bomb age have led to a mental breakdown of tine wo-rld, afflicting young and old. Defining this world-wide mental illness as something “deadlier than atom bombs”, the president of the U.N. General Assembly, General Carlos P. fiomulo, pointed up its awful proportions by asking’what would happen if “mankind had suddenly been confronted, with a scourge which would fill everv

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medical treatment for as many as one person in five in this country alone; affect the lives of practically every family in the world, and require the building of special communities where five, six: and seven thousand victims would have to live separated from their families and communities for num ths, years and in some cases for a, lifetiHieb

This disaster is no “mere fantasy” but “already an existing reality”, the U. N. president declared. And no editorial avalanche, no clamor of the people, no parliaments of man, no conclave of scientists, not even a religious crusade, can do anything to alleviate the world’s-insanity. General Romulo painted this horrendous canvas out of factual data from the offices of t he U. S. Surgeon General, the U. S. Public Health Service and the World Health Organization. The specter that is driving the world to insanity is an unrelenting, immovable fear of no longer surviving. Eleanor ’Roosevelt photographed its malefic, face in the cold light; of printed words when she wrote;

The human race has persisted until now largely because it has had an ample margin for error. It could make mistakes, but never on so large a scale as to threaten its own existence. It could indulge in war, despoil the earth on which itaj subsistence depended, and engage in massacre, invited disease and plague out. of filth and ignorance; it could do all thesp things, make all these mistakes again and again, and yet have an ample cushion against ultimate catastrophe. It can no longer do that.

An age of sanity is called for. “Human nature must find .some great unifying force that will change its nature from a will, to war to a will to peace,” warned. William James. Some master surgeon

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must operate on man’s nature. The charter of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declares, “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must he introduced.”

Who Shall Be the Savior?

From the brink of peril can humanity turn to the U. N.I Back in 1947 the secretary general of the U. N. buoyantly predicted: “When we in the United Nations apply ourselves to the improvement of education, of health, of the general living standard, or of communications or housing in the most remote and backward country—we are removing the germs which one day would lead the world to its final Armageddon.” Alas! the secretary general’s hope that the following year of 1948 would bring about agreement “among the world powers and a'settlement of their problems” brought instead the lugubrious headlines “United Nations Expected to Drop All Disarmament Plans” and “Fifty-Year Arms Plan Mapped”.

People are learning that to lean on politics for salvation from world disaster is to lean on a broken stick. Political analyst Raymond Swing could hardly have stated that truth more bluntly when he weighed the failure of modern statesmanship, declaring. “Strength, in the full past meaning of the word, is no more. What remains is only the strength to destroy; . . . Unahle to prevent destruction’ statesmanship is simply making an effort to influence the area and intensity of destruction. It is trying to do this by increasing the means of destruction, which is to betray its full and horrible helplessness. . . . Statesmanship has arrived at a dead end."

• The words are truer in a fuller sense than the added italics indicate, because the shape of things this political prophet decries brings humanity to the time foretold in the Word of earth’s Creator and Liberator; "We thank thee, Lord God almighty, who art and wast, that thou hast assumed thy great power and begun to reign; the na'tiolis were enraged, but thy wrath has come, . . . the time for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”—Revelation 11:17,18, Moffatt.

Religion More Worn Out than Politics

A force more potent, more renovating than politics must come to mankind’s rescue. It must come in the form of a moral power mighty enough to regenerate and control human nature, turn it about-face from the paths of selfishness to the paths of unselfishness. Politics, a means to power, assuredly is second only to the love of gain as a pathway to selfish attainment. “If the world is long to survive, the gigantic power ’which man has acquired through atomic energy must be matched by spiritual strength of greater magnitude,” warned President Trunian. Then he cried: “Oh for an Isaiah or a Saint Paul to reawaken a sick world to its moral responsibilities!”

The president, addressing Catholic, Protestant and Jewish representatives of organized, orthodox, world religion, naturally would not recognize any "spiritual strength” other than what generates from such worldly religion. For example, he w’ould not recognize Isaiah’s own voice crying out today with all the force of its prophetical fulfillment—a fact Isaiah himself foretold, declaring:

Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine;

they stagger, but pot with strong drink. For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he sai|h, I cannot; for it is sealed: and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I urn not learned. Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. —Isaiah 29: 9-14.

Religion Cries for “More Politics”

Now if politics has reached its dead end, and religion is the last straw, then what has religion got to offer 1

Here is a sample. Certainly the average clergyman should be ashamed to claim it for his own. As Dr. John Bennett, professor of Christian theology and ethics at Union Theological Seminary, of New York, recently admitted before a conclave of America's foremost religious scholars and educators, communism has gained its poiver because of the failure of Christendom’s religion. Hence religion must corhe forth with a more appealing call than the materialistic appeal of communism. This is the crux of orthodox religion’s dilemma; what can she offer? “To compete against communism, we need constantly to teach, stress and inculcate a positive ideology,” cried a Minneapolis Lutheran pastor.

But what “positive ideology”? Not the positive ideology of God’s Kingdom G ov-ernment under Cbrist Jesus as exercising irresistible power in the earth now, that is drawing sincere-hearted persons together from across the barriers of religion and race, from beyond the iron curtains of political ideologies, into a real unity of mind and confidence, preparatory to entering a new world of endless life and happiness as soon, now, as God’s Armageddon destroys “the destroyers of the earth”. No, what the pastor advocates is about all that any religious clergyman can advocate—a man-made political ideology. Because Pastor Hjortland happens to be a resident of the United States and not Spain, Russia or India, he advocates democracy. “We must teach children what democracy is and also the cost of creating it.” He illustrates his “positive ideology” in action by describing an "ideal Armistice day parade”. There would be the American flag and the soldier in uniform, the nurse, the doctor, the teacher, the housewife, the mechanic and the fanner. At the head of the procession would be carried a banner declaring: “These are all patriots if they do their chosen task for the common good.”

Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, Lenin's Russia, all reveled in these souped-up star-spangled parades. Today communist countries go wild over them. The more religion Hesses them, the more the flag is waved, the deeper into the heart and mind of youth is stamped a super-heated patriotism, a fanatical, hysterical, political nationalism. It does not show disrespect for democracy nor the flag to say this. But the clergyman who waves the flag and bandies the popular political creed not only betrays the fact that his religion cannot stand of its own strength, but, worse still, he cheapens God’s Word by using it to ingratiate himself into the world’s friendship, thereby making himself the enemy of God and Christ, whose kingdom is not of this world, “is not from hence,” “has no such origin.” (James 4:4; John 18:36; see An Ame rican Translation) In reality, what better thing has religion to offer in this present life than more polities?

But if polities has reached its dead end, where does that leave religion! Worse than dead, is correct. “It must be said that1 the record of the government [in stopping the spread of communism] is better than the record of the churches,” Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk, secretary of the Department of International Justice of the Federal Council of Churches, admitted before the Missions Council of the Congregational Christian Charehes. —New York Times, February 14, 1950.

Religion Responsible for Delinquency

“People commit crimes because of the disastrous decay of religion, faith and hope," FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover was quoted as saying by Drew Pearson on Augusto 5, 1942. With that the Bible not only agrees but goes so far as to place all the bloodguilt of the world upon false religion's head. (Revelation 18:24) What religionist can deny it?

Look back no farther than the seventeenth century to the Thirty Years’ War that gave birth to Protestantism and planted the seeds of modern world wars. Looting, robbery, rape, torture, murder and wholesale massacre were commonplace in the Thirty Years’ War. Towns were burned, villages deserted, a third of the cultivated land reverted to wilderness. Peasants fled to the forests in outlaw bands called “wolves", and preyed upon civilians and the soldiers of both sides. F/Iw-utww. in Oixtrak lYwy ceased. Economic life was rained. A fourth of the population was killed) Finally the people of Europe sickened of slaughter and no longer thought it worthwhile to fight about differences of religion.

Historians see a very strong parallel between the Thirty. Years’ War period and the present period of ideological struggles. Will religion, courtingall sides of the conflict, needle humanity on to fight over religion-fostered differences of social organization and philosophy until the peoples once more sicken of the carnage and throw off worldly religion herself! See Revelation 17:15-18.

A Harlot That Hires Her Lovers

Politics will not always supinely align itself with any brand of religion, but religion will play the harlot with any political ideology’. To illustrate, the Orthodox Church in czarist times branded Bolshevism as the instrument- of the VbivA, Wt uWer Vn<> Ym'nYevik trrtimpln and during the heat of the war with Hitler the Russian patriarch declared that the Bolshevik state was returning people to “primitive Christianity”; and in 1945 Patriarch Alexius directed a reporter to inform the Western world that “communism, aside from its materialistic and atheist theories, is quite acceptable to the Orthodox”. “Monasteries are based on communist foundations.” “We consider that Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin has created the best possible condition for the work of our Church.”

Opposing the patriarch of Moscow, the pope of Rome (in his speech to German Catholics September 5, 1948) delinks communism as “an enemy7- of the Church”, against which Roman Catholics "may even come to a fight to the last drop of blood”. At odds with both patriarch and pope, and hoping to shine up to capitalist democracy, the former president of the Federal Council of Protestant Churches urges that the summons Ci Ww pops? io a "YoYy 'war” Ye rejected as the “sinister suggestion of the Devil”.

But which of orthodox religion’s weak-hearted mouthpieces calls for God’s Kingdom rule from heaven through Christ Jesus to work for mankind’s benefit on earth today? Not one. Instead of being a virgin bride for Christ, worldly religions are willing consorts of political systems. r

Haw weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing that thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; in that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou seornest hire; but as a wife that com-mitteth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband! They give ^ifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hires t them, that they may come unto thee .on every side for thy whoredom. —Ezekiel 16:30-33.

Yes, politicians, to sound pius, may call for "more religion”. But religion can only call for “more politics”. Now that politics has reached its dead end, it only means that religion beat it there.

Altogether the religious false prophets and their beastly world systems must shortly answer to God Almighty in His great day of world-cleansing. It must be so, if true worship, freedom and peace are to obtain on earth. Through the voice of none less than Isaiah, God has declared unconditionally that it shall be so (60:13): “I will make the place of my feet glorious.”—Contributed.

ODDITIES IN THE NEWT

Qomic Books and Coca-Cola 5f 'Potatoes and Baseballs Don’t Mix

C, The London Daily Mail’s New York eorre- g C A runner was on third base in Little Boek, spondent reported that Americans are distrustful § Arkansas, when the defensive catcher pulled a of their allies since Britain banned comic books S potato ont of his hip pocket and threw it to third, and France attacked Coca-Cola, American tradi- When the third baseman fumbled, the runner tions or the constitution conld have been attacked, St broke for. home where he was tagged by the catch-but not comic books and Coca-Cola. He said, “To g er who had been holding the hall all the time. Americans Coca-Cola is the fountain of life and g The confused umpire first called the runner out, comic books the food for the soul.” § then changed his mind and allowed him to score.

T)o You Think It Would Work?

C, From Johannesburg, South Africa, comes a suggestion to float two hundred icebergs Up from the Antarctic and anchor them off the coast in an attempt to improve South Africa’s weather. Mr. T. D. Vaneggen, former Antarctic explorer, who suggested the scheme, contends that this would cause cold updrafts uf air, which in turn would bring rain. He says that it would take two years for the icebergs to melt.

^Bubble Trouble

Two tons of bubble gum, 250,000 sticks of it, all at the disposal of countless little fingers, brought a deluge of complaints from teachers and parents Until a deputy sheriff got some of the young bubblers to explain that they found the gum near a dump in Southfield Township (near Detroit, Michigan). Despite the quantities that the local "younger set” had consumed, the deputy said that there was still enough gum “for the whole state of Michigan”,

thieves Dig Quite a Divot

<L Stealing a green at a golf course sounds like quite, a job, but that is what someone did to the number five green at the Warren Valley Golf Club in Michigan, The enterprising thieves expertly cut and rolled up 225 square feet of expensive grass around the cup and took it with them. It is reported that they left the hole.

eftlaking a 'Mountain out of Mole Hill

C, There's more than one way of making a mountain out of a molehill. The Board on Geographic Names in Washington did so at the request of the citizens of a West Virginia town when they changed the name of Mole Hill to Mountain, West Virginia.

aA Big Bite

Lend lease supplies from the United States to Australia during the war ineluded false teeth, but tha uppers went to Sydney and the lowers to Melbourne. Their use would have required a GOQ-mile bite 1

Z^OOL, crisp and Vj colorful! These are three essentials for a salad if it is to be refreshing. And if it is not refreshing, it is not worthy of being called a salad. A lukewarm salad at a meal is as much, out of place as a Lukewarm soup in an ice cream parlor. Colorful? Yes, indeed. Salads must be harmoniously colorful and attractive in appearance. Serving salads on wilted or decayed lettuce leaves is as tragic as splattering mud on oil paintings. So if a “Cinderella” salad turns out tattered and torn and shabbily dressed, be sure it is not allowed to leave your castle’s kitchen, not until some artistic touch has transformed it into a dainty dish.

Cool and crisp to the sense of touch, bright and colorful to the sense of sight, salads must also he tantalisingly delightful to the sense of’taste. Here is a splendid opportunity to bring the positives and negatives into htfppy union, to join bland foods and highly flavored condiments together in successful wedlock. Mild cottage cheese with sharp chives, tasteless potatoes with zesty flavored onions and celery, bland pears with tangy dressing, reserved lettuce with snappy, lively relish—ten thousand times ten thousand—there is no end to the combinations that can be brought together in a salad bowl by the artistic hand of a master salad maker. But, really, it is not as difficult as it sounds. Fundamentally, successful salad-making is very simple. Learn the rules and follow* them, allowing your creative imagination full play, and you will turn out novel salads worthy* of praise.

“Salad,” the name coming from a root wrord meaning to salt or pickle, originally consisted of simple herbal greens over which a delicate blend of olive oil, vinegar and salt was poured. And while such are still popular, there are other types, including vegetable, meat and fruit salads, that call forth praise for the cook when properly prepared.

Some people even imagine that a salad should be some sort of heavenly confection which is angelically rich, intensely sweet and extravagantly dressed th clouds of whipped cream, lavishly topped with nuts and cherries. But before you attempt salad-making on the grandiose scale, perfect the art of making simple salads.

In green herbal salads lettuce, endive, escarole, romaine, cos, watercress, curly chicory, dandelion, mustard, spinach and chard are used. Choose the greens intelligently, making sure they are tender, fresh, succulent and crisp. Endive and escarole, when young, have a delicate bitter tang that becomes too strong when the leaves are old and tough. The darker leaves usually contain more vitamins. If you have your own garden, pick them early in the morning and keep them in a cool place until needed. On the other hand, , if you live in the city and must take what you tan get, then restore part of the lost crispness by soaking the greens in cold water for thirty minutes before making the-salad. But even at the best, and after careful cleaning, greens are still mostly “weeds”. Not until a salad dressing is poured over them are they raised above the “rabbit food” level.

Dressings for the Salads

On greens use only a French type of dressing. Mayonnaise, cream or other types of dressing are for other types of salads. Essentially, a French dressing is nothing more than an oil, olive or other vegetable salad oil; an acid, vinje-gar, lemon or grapefruit juice; salt; and condiments of various sorts.

A typical basic French dressing might have the following recipe: 2 cups oil, f cup vinegar, 1 teaspoonful salt, £ teaspoonful pepper, 1 teaspoonful paprika, | teaspoonful dry mustard, a dash of bitters, £ teaspoonful sugar. Mix seasonings, add vinegar, then oil, and shake or beat well. A tablcspoonful of glycerine in a pint of dressing will improve its consistency. The quantity of vinegar and seasonings may vary according to taste d'esired. Spicy,vinegar drained from watermelon pickles is good for variety. Mint is sometimes added; also anchovies. Herbs, such as basil, dill, tarragon and sweet marjoram, are also used. To make a vinaigrette sauce, for example, to a pint of the basic French dressing add i garlic clove, i green pepper, | cup onions, all chopped fine. Also add 2 tablespoonfuls horseradish and J tablespoonful curry powder. Some people prefer to leave the garlic out of the dressing and simply rub the inside of the salad bowl with a piece of it.

Speaking of recipes, here is one for a basic mayonnaise: 4 cup egg yolks, £ cup vinegar, 2 quarts salad oil, 1 ounce salt, 1 ounce dry mustard, J teaspoonful red pepper, £ teaspoonful paprika. The yolks, fresh or frozen, are allowed to reach the same room temperature as the oil. Then beat yolks until light and creamy. Bissolve salt, mustard, pepper and paprika in the vinegar, and beat this mixture into the eggs. Next add the oil by pouring it in in a very fine, steady stream, all the time beating, the faster the better. If oil is added too rapidly the emulsion will “break” and separate.

Now if this basic mayonnaise is used on head-lettuce or tomatoes, add another cup of vinegar or lemon juice. Or if Thousand Island dressing is desired, then, to every quart of the basic mayonnaise, stir in 6 ounces of chili sauce, 3 ounces India relish or j cup of chopped sweet pickles, 2 hard-boiled eggs, { small onion, 2 ounces of canned pimiento, J teaspoonful paprikq. The onion and pimiento are chopped fine. Similarly, to make a Russian dressing, add 3 ounces catsup, | small onion and £ cup dill pickle, chopped fine, to every quart of basic mayonnaise.

There are cream salad dressings, both sweet and sour cream. Also a bacon sauce, in which bacon fat provides the oil, is popular for certain green salads. There are a host of dressings made in which various fruits, such as pineapple, strawberry, orange, cranberry, banana, are minced and added to mayonnaise for special effects. All of which makes the novice wonder which dressing should be used. It is very important that the right one be chosen, as one writer points out:

The wrong dressing is as harmful to a salad as is water in place of oil in your car. Some salads, such as potato, having a comparatively flavorless body, require a sharp, highly seasoned dressing. Chie ;en salad, on the other hand, with its Adicst flavor, requires a bland dressing that the chi 'ken flavor may not he lost. A colorful acid fruit salad takes a thin French-type dressing, that its beauty and flavor may not be hidden in an opaque mass.

Possibilities Unlimited

In addition to the host of succulent green salads there is a vast combination of salads, too numerous to count, in which various cooked' vegetables form the main hody. To mention a few: asparagus and cheese, heets and celery, carrots and raisins, cucumbers and onions, potatoes, eggs and celery, or cabbage, apples and celery are some of the combinations you will like to try.

Exciting dishes are created when various meats, fowl and fish find their way into the salad howl. Bits of roast beef with cooked string heans, cubes of cold chicken with celery, peas and apples, diced ham and cabbage, or tuna fish with celery, crab meat with tomatoes, shrimp with pineapple—all of these make mouthwatering salads. And don’t forget to add nuts to these salads. Chopped filberts, blanched peanuts or almonds are a “must” in a chicken salad. Or^hat is an apple salad without English walnuts ?

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