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Negna E d ~ u t i o niu,-dm..
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MANUFACTURING AND MINING
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H o r M n g W i l l t b a O i l L a s t ? . . , ........... ,
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Th. Pho.gb.ta bTinea of P l o d & - , b e . . - . . - .
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PINANCaOMMERCE-TRANSPORTATSON

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Rutotrdoa of Our M e r e k t M u h . . ......... I t
M u a Exporta and Idadon..
8an.hlrry Dam for Big B m k m

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Immcnre Expo- of P o a d M ~
Tha Demand for Aotomobilu..
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Tank Car8 for Tramportation

POLITICAI;-DOMFSTIC

AND FOREIGN

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Persecution lo P o h d ....,
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Mom B a b M~ u a More Tremble?-..,... 14
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Erdrh Wbrrr thr Weak a n Fro..... 11
- AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY What Rotation of Crop Accompllahr.. ....... 1s
Conservsdon of Soil Frrdlity.. .............'....16
Turning Florida Swamps Into F-..
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. Dyauniting the Eurh Into Pamibe .......... 11
To Rutan

the Coming of D-

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The Mmdactrue of Lighfdng ,..,..,.
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Wood More Durable Than hum .,..,..,
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Th Fntnre of Wireless ........................ 17

Comets-The

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SCIENCE AND INVENTION

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Trunps of the H u v e ~ . .

HOUSEWIFERY AND HYGIENE

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N-ous
m d Stupid Cbildrar.
Teeth Emaction the Cure for D h n . .

Washing Made E a v

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RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Neglect of the Bible.

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TIIl.int With the D a d ? .

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The Trail of the Serpent

Dealing rith man's early r e l a d o n r h i ~with the A n g c S m d rhoring why therair n o r ro much d t t e a .beat
c o a m d u t i o n with the d u d

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New York Ciq, N. Y, ~ e d n c d . October

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1.1919
I

SALUTATORY
ISDOM of the right order 'is essential to the
Nor is this magazine p u b l i s w for pecuriiary profit ,
rdfare and happiness of mankind. During or gain to anyonr All the money realized from its
'the few years recently p a t the world, through fiery publication above the operating expenses will be used
=periences, has acquimd a vast amount of h o w l - for the further dibemination of such knowledge
amongst the people as will be beneficial to them. It is
, edge; bet to properly rppb that knowledge is now
the important question. There is a perfect standard backed by some of the best and ablest men in the
' of rppliatim and when that standard is h o w n and
world and shall be maintained as an educational mefollowed the result is d to k satisfying. It is dium for the purpose of teaching the tnae relationship
the privilege and duty of c-rery one who can do so between science, agriculture labor &id p u n rcli@on
Its publication is for the
' to render aid to his felbenefit of the people,
low m the wise applicaadvising than of per:2
tion of acquired knowT H E GOLDEN ACE
'
and pointing t h a n b a
ledge and'to aid him to
Ikholdl Timesa gateway open d n k ,
better and nobler l i f e
i n c r c ~knowledge
~
And P u c e is poised on outspread win-;
- and
~ n joy
d rtmd. tiptoe while .he sin-:
Its purpose is to exwisdom. Such aid, to
Good-bye old -1
- plain in the light of
accocnplish a good reGood-by. old t u n 1
Divine wisdom the tms
or angels . n i t to b u thim pt.
sult, should be rendered
On. moaning Misery and Hate..
meaning of the great
unselfishly. "The wise
Looe hold. the key
phenormna of the prcsman will hear and inOf tbinm to be:
And
Hope
hoi&
out
a
fair
rhitr
page,
ent day and to prwe to
crease in learning."
And bids yon write,
thinking minds by ex-;This magazine enters
With dkep delight
dence incontmvertib:e
tbt field, &erefore, with
Th. glory of THE GOLDEN A G E
r mission which is pecua
Nand convincing that
liuuldturiqut I t b
time of a greater ties+
ing of mankind is now at
IH) rivals because it h a
no compctitorr. Every one joining in a similar &ort hand. Like a voice in the wilderness of confusion, its
mission is to announce the incoming of the Golden Age.
to do-good will be welcomed by ru.
T h e n are more sad hearts in the world today than
Its policy is and shall be not to array the rich
r
at
m y time of its history. A devastating war has
against the poor, nor the poor against the rich, the
classes against the masses, nor the masses against the a c t e d the nations until t h y a n tom and bleeding
classes bat it will seek to do good unto dl mankind to death. A c c a m p y i n g the war came the gmat
It is not published in tbe interest of any religious pestilential influenza, claiming double the number of
d e n d o n , nor is it the advocate of any political victims that fell. as a result of the war. I n the past
party o r organization. It k no rwpectv of persons few years, millions have gone down into death and
other millions bemoan the loss of their loved ones.
becaw of racq color or condition of SUvitudc

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TIu G a Z b Age for O&

Everpdxrc the cud of Uvinglmormb, higher d

high- rtld ranAitionr of real want m d farnine stare
m a q people in tbe face In pnctiully dl the mder
of the world
kborch are m strike or t h r d d q
to strike .ad thereby stop the wheels of cormnercc
There is a pznad unrest everphcra

t&

The hanciau are no less in p c r p l ~ .They have

yielded d
t tn the demands of labor, only to
he convinced in their OWTI minds that further yielding
d mean disaster; and the tension h beaxing
roch thrt the industries of the land arc threatening
to elore down, alI of which d d bring greater distrerr both to producer Ihd msuma. The Chicago

d and Examiner in its financial columns recently

88id i

I,

r9rg

the very time of tfn -tat

increue of knowledge
And w b ? Then k a reason, and that reason we
must ucubin m d govern ourselves accordingly.
TI& L a wide dhcrsity of knowledge, which. if
p@y
applied, wodd r&ult_in great and beneficial
wisdom to the peopk What, then, ir the d mean- ing of the p-t
'conditions, and is thm a ~ p - e
r&edy that will bring order out of choor rtld atabfish a luting peace, prosperity md happinus to the
people? TEE Goron AGS enters the field for the
vay purpose of uuwaing thest qumd ddently expects to answer them bo the rrtisfactioa of
all thinking minds
Tar GOLDENAGEWin carry into the homes of the
people the desired meurqe which wilI tend to restore
C&UICIL
to the disturb&
md -fort
to the
-

I f , dechre the corporation heads and their backers, walkaob in the Crane and H k e s t t r works are r e h a d for saddened heark We & not expect to accomplish
more serious and exbensire industrid interruptions; if the this by human wisdom. because that hu been tried
budding workers prove to take tJu5r responsibility rr lightly
and hiled and such wjsdom is foolishnesr in the sight
u thar fellows in the C n n e and Harvester rhw:
- - if tbe
rtmt m i l m y 43qlOyee~are uncompromiringly insistent upon of Jehovah. But we will point the people to the clear
uvarv-seven per cent increase in the ~ g v9e.
a
rhm. sy
and-indisputable evidence in the light of present-day
anployerr and thdr finanaal backem. let it come to an utrane
Fiiancid men do not mince words. They state point*
events, disclosing
ranedy for
- the d h k d y acpreued
,
tbq rrin bock anployera to the limit; .rill &t
&cry i&
the rcwnstruction of hunua &aim that d
l bring
porhnt indaatry in Chicago and the Middle West tenitI be s t d m
the desire of all nations, assuring
life,
nth&than submit to ;m tmreuonrbl;
- to the -psople
wage o r unjust andition. If it must come to a drutic c w d l12xrt-y.and happiness. We invite all d e r - l w i n g ,
tion between employer and employe+, well and good; they,
t
the representatives of a p i t d dedd not avoid the t a t ; law-abiding, God-faring persons io aid in passing this
let the thing be settled now and definitely; they arc rrrg
musage of comfort on to those who desire to be
bo meet and combat it to r h a l condtuioa u the u s e r t i a n
v

comforted
n e troublesome tima upon the earth have awakand socially. Daily problems are arising, the solving ened the people to a realization that they hava
of which seenu beyond the power of human ingenuity. neglected Bible study and have not provided thar
children with sufficient taching conccming the grrat
Seeing all t h e e things coming to pars before our v q
truths in the Bible. Our Religious Department will
eyes, who a n lightly pass over the words of the Great
carry in a c h issue a carefully arranged Bible study
Master foretelling these times when there would be
in such simple form that it can be readily anderstwd
"upon earth distnss of nations, with perplexity, the
by any one. This will enable the people to ramin
sea and the wava roaring, men's hearts failing them
at home and quietly study their Bibles and increase
for far and for looking to the things coming u p m knowledge and in Divine wisdom. Every parent
the earth I"
o w u it u a duty tn his child to see that the child is
These distressing times have come at the very provided with proper Biblid instruction THE
climax of the development of inventive genius-at
GOLDEN
AGE 'd
supply this long-felt want.
The nations a n in distress politically, k c i a l l y

LABOR

and ECONOMICS

l m g " P t U M B PUN''
HE "PLUMB PLAN" for sohring the nilrkad

Open*
the m d s u a d
t
,
cmtnlizirqpmrhues
and discontinuing competition whemer k is wasteful.
.nd omeCwsuy amld ha*
fait to rrrtllt in great.
problem is engaging the attention of the
ultimate swings. And it is the pubIic, in the end, that.
i a n people as few prapasitioru have ever done
plan, evolved by the railroad brotherhoods, is bued haa to foot the bin, h o m e r the roo& are o p e d .
upon the constantly rising cost of living to the con- As tn the gavemmmt'r operation of tbe nilroads,
sumer; the knowledge that the repeated increases in this has not been such a total failure, as mna]r would
wages have brought no real benefit to the workers, like to think A large part of the apparent lorsw are
since the
and greatly
bat have gratly enriched the owners of capital; the due bD decreased basinincreased
wagu.
The
t
o
t
a
l
r
~
s
g
e
bill
of
January,
conviction that further advances in wag- at the ex1919,
was
66
per
cent
higher
than
the
carraponding
pense of a cost of living exceeding that of the wage
increase, are wholly futile; the knowledge that in- figure for the last month of private opmticm.
cruse in the productive power of human efTort should
Government operation without the active and willbe reflected equally in increased wages and dmeased ing cooperation of the employes tends toward stagnacost of riving, not increased cost of living; the knowl- tion and bureaucracy, and docs not satisfy the legitiedge that increased cost of transportation results in m mate aspirations of the rdroad workers ; hence there
increase in the cost of living while dmeased cost of must be a considerable participation of employes and
transportation results in reduced cost of living, and officers in railway management. As long as the
the assurance that the rights of all railroads are based brotherhoods are in opposition, with capital and
entircfy on grants which the public made to the Government against them, they will not feel the responsibility which they must feel if the interests of the
.
present o m e n .
The remedy proposed is that private capital be elim- public arc to be preserved.
inated from the railroads by requiring the private
As a matter of fact, it has been a long time since
ownen of nilroad stocks and bonds to surrender the executive heads of the railroad companiu were
their securities for Government b o d s with a 6xed in control of the properties over which they presided.
fntcrest return based upon the money actually in- Railroad presidents have said repeatedly that it wa9
vested, and that the roads be managed by corpora- becoming impossible to manage the railroads under a
tions in which the public, the operating managements system -of Federal control plus ,the interfemce of
and labor shall be equally qresented. One-half the forty-eight separate states. The 'rate-making power
net savings would go to the public by increasing sem- was lost long ago, and so was the control of wages.
ice without adding costs or by reducing costs, the The roads were btihg held up by the Government on
other half would be divided between the openton one hand and the employes on the other. And it has
and the wage earners.
not always been true that the executive heads of the
The railroads would be ptaced in control of a board railroads have managed those properties in the interselected one-third by the President, one-third by the ab of their stockholders. Sometimes they have
operating oKaalr and one-third by the employees; managed them with an eye on the stock market, someand are to divide any surplus between the nation and times with a view of completing mergers in which the
bankers were interested. Was not the New Haven
the employees, or to meet any dqficit by taxation
No matter how the railroads are operated, t h e are wrecked by a man selected by a leading banker?
It is claimed that there are now 12,000,000 stock.
three partnus in the industry, capital, labor and the
public. I t is a self-evident f a d that until manage holders of the railroads. Their holdings would not
ment is wholly efficient, the rate the public p a p is be disturbed by being exchanged for Government
exccssivc It is labor's proposal to readjust the inter- bonds. They would have a larger actual voice in the
ests in the railroads to a new balancc I t is labor's management of the railroad properties as voters of
c
l
a
i
m that skill skil the prime force in the railroad in- the United Stat- Government than they ever had as
dtutry; and that beyond giving to capital a rr~sonsble stockholders. I t is well known that the officials of
return on the money honestly invested, the public owes the railroads have been selected by the bankers, and
their sdections have not always bcen good ones,
it nothing.

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p3 th*
In tirunrill a d e s there n mach talk that the r o d s If they ut tbe 8ctnd m e n 4hrtc
' a d be returned to the owners 'and that when they interest on the bonds, won't t h q k as much interested
n ~ ?
returned there must be r dividend p a r m t t c d by u t h y
tbe United States treasury o r else a marked i n c r e a ~ Railroading is the only business that has every hin ntes. But this is not r good time to increase rates. dustry and every individual in the country for its client,
IS. f a the guarantee of dividendr, if the W- and e v e y p e w n in the ~ u n t q
~h to ~ W W
h.
a nil-4
invaluable *Nice the mod. perfo-t
& m pmte
-fie- of printe
it d not be long, and a g h n b b4 h f o n m p r i v t75,W m i l a of l h + the i v e line
~ bekg
&
c w d
fie g a i n of
95 d C 8 1a d emplofi4 about 7 m a to the m i k
Tbua liai
for the f905 lina
or 1800,OOO in
CO
L placed in the han& of the
--r?nsportatim
p l u i c b-eu
q the m u t c l h r a born in Tau.
in
OM, fattened i. Iowa, slaughtaed in Chi-3
and
rb*h the Gorernmmt
pmpedypke &dQ
briw
in iced a m to Your h a
10 -01
as the schook, highways, water supply,
f r a
I m p r * l V*
poU.l facilities, i r r i p t i m and fire protection already Ymr M ~ O U P
fornia, your other m e l m from Colorado or Southern
+Qeinistered by i t
Under any system of private ownenhip it is and Indiana, your strawbema from Missouri or Mississinit P" 6 m g a from norib
mifor-.
drip k a ral problan to h o w what to do
=
and
T
a
p
F
u
r
banwas
fmm
the s d o a r d ;they
t(u
ma& ~ v i o w l , , , me ktthing to
vith
Eveq
brhg
you
~~erythinC
pu
cu
Or war
mw them ri* the s y r t e a thly d d ym Our nilmadsurq 650 too. Or
mq
XI SO^ beaebt, so that they might have the a h a m
and
child
in
the
land,
which
is
about
three
woman
of aommon terminals, through trains and such other
t
i
m
u
what
the
roilroads
of
any
other
land
carry.
d
as come from unification.
Under the Plumb 'Plan the division of dividends
a to
it to
ad-bgr
I t L M e v e d that if the Plumb Plan is adopted the is am
Prtsidentps appointees to represent the public on the
of the, operating employes to get their additional comboud of directors should be chosen much u the me*
thrn
pnsation in th form of divihd.
bcn Of me
are chmepfor
life' Or of wage. It is hoped that this will provide an offset
during
Thq .har!d not
,
beclaw of the'prominent phce they occupy in the B an indolent policy on the part of the c m p l ~ swho,
instead
of
exerting
more
effort
to
create
new
busines3,
couacils and activities of the political party in power.
could deade merely to raise wages, and so impose a
. I t is claimed by bankers that if private capital is
upon the public
to enter f m l y upon the venture of further developing
Some objections o f i d to the plumbPlan ut
the railroads, and if railroad credit is to be reSstab- ht labor itself
mthing, but apparently anlished on a solid basis of genuine confidence. 6 per
relativdy high wages
Empard
with other
cent. on the final valuation, plus a modest share in indust*
rtrength in ways
and might use its
= m i n e in excess of this penmtage, would consti- that
not be for the best intuests of he rest
mte the minimum required. This, it is believed, it will of the countr).. It is
would
that more
be impossible to guarantee.
b t devoted to increasing wages than to increasing
If the railroads under pub!ic regulation cannot cfficiencr and ht
men Hould be retained in
finance themselves, and if the Government will not
would not be able to malre good under
&Iance
as long as
are run for private pmfitt private operation. It is f
too, that
nilit necesSdy follows that the Government must take -& would haye to be built out of Governmat
over the o m e n h i p and dtimate control of the rail- funds, there
be political f i dsong
~ differat
ma&- The plans for a partnership of a p i t d a d the sections for such new lines, and new "pork bills" that
--mt
do not work- They
out of
would put the notorious river and hubor appropriaThe mitoad brotherhoods have learned that in an tionr f u in the ,hadc
ultimate test of strength they have the power to enthe Prophet ~~h~ in hk viia chaptheir demands upon both
a d k v e 2:34 foresla the d r e a d l ~& & locomotiva
writ. Compulsory arbitration is out of the question.
ning ,like the ligtning,,, "with flaming torch- in he
Tbe nilroad anployes constitute a large part of the day of his prepaxation," he little imagined that thue
atireuship of the country, and they will be interested wonderful "cfiariots" were destined to become the
as dtizars, will they not, in seeing that the railroads property, not of kings, nor of the rich, but of the
are w t l y mlnnged? And how about the public? common people, like himself.
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1919

SOW
C

and INDUSTRIAL

lYU%POWXR OF THE PRESS

blaelrs and whites u a result of the reign of t m r .
During the war a large influx of negraer into
T
be tm,
that if' wie
no crimes, scandals, riots, accidents, etc., t h m Chicap
O v e ~ ~ ~the
~ ~neZm
d e section
d
and n e f l m s
of means were being gradudly forced out of it intowould h wyless n e w s p p u t , but 2
if
coald spin f m W r p a p e r s h t new mAe a ~ u t l f i n gwhite. sections. This caused a strained
(i6ag entirely a t of the e r b w
~b~ influ- situation. The actual beginning in Chicyo wos in
a k e of the press is remarkable. An indiscreet state- a
at an amusement r
m
mcnt o r an untrue statement a t a c r i t i d dme has
Negroes are intoletant of the indignities t o which
aot infrequently produced disastrous d t r . It has they were subjected before the war and claim with
r i ~ ins ~ ~ h i and
n Gconsiderable
~ ~
force that having done their full share
becn d d m e d that the
Chicago in fdy w e n largely due to two items, which in making the world safe for democracy the): =e
not to be deprived without protest of the libatica
we reproduce herewith.
On the morning of the worst day of the race dots which they fought 0 e a j o ~ .
The large packers of Chicago have announced
in Washington, D. C, Washington paper printed
this on its first page:
that they will dismiss d l negro employes, passibly
hoping thus to effect the removal of some thbusands
UJ(OBILIZATY0S FOR TO-SIGHT
of ncgmes back to the South, where they arc needed
"It w learned that a mobilization of every available s:? ::
mm stationed in or near Washington or on leave here has for farm work and where they arc more appreciated
A newspaper is the smallest thing 8 man parbeen' ordered for to-morrow evening Rear the KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS hut on P e n n d v d a Avenue between Seventh chases, but it is like the tongue: "The tongue is a
a d Ei&th erect*The
of assemMy is 9 o'clock, afid little member; the tongue is
fire,,and setteth on
of the
the purpo* is a
fire
the
c
a
n
e
of
nature;
behold
how great a mztprst two evenings to pale into insignificance. Whether ofiicial
ter
a
fire
kindlethl"-Jamer
3:sp
,cognizance of this usemblage and iu ktent vill bring about

its forestalling candot be t d d "

Two days before the riot in Chicago r Chicap

paper said:
q'ot only is Q~icagoa meidug-station &d port af refuge
for colored people who are anxious to be free from the jurisdictioa of I j ~ c hlaw, but there has b m built here a publcity
ar propagada-machine that directs
appcab or carrim or!
an agitation that every week mchu hundreds of thoawds
of people of the colored w e in the SouthStates. Tbs
State Street blocks south of Thirty-6rst Street are a 'newspaper row' with The Defendrr, The Scorch-Light, The Guide,
The hrdzvocatr, The Whip, as weekly publications, and there
are also illustrated monthly magazinct such u Thr Hal&
Cmkrr). m d The Fworitr."

In Washington an individual crime was made 8

race issue. Marines, soldiers and sailors took up
the issue which had been suggested to them. Unoffending negroes were assaulted upon the streets and
were even dragged from street cars for the purpose.
The trouble in Chicago a week later amounted
to a small sized civil war. In one instance in the
latter city a negro woman and the child in her arms
were beaten to death by whites without provocation. Scores of other deaths resulted among both

E E C U N D m OF JAPANESE WOMEN

IT

is part of the scheme of Japrnrsc civi1izs:ion for

mothm to rent thefr daughters te foreigners or

others as temporary wives, and &ere are brokers in

Japan who make a business of supplying such wives,
sometimes showing a dozen or more to the prospective purchaser before the final choice is made by
signing a register and unmade b y signing off.
Japanese bride-merchants in America do business
entirely by photograph, and of course, according to
American laws the brides thus selected by their
future husbands become permanent additions t o the
family.
While with our Western ways of looL.ing at thine
we may find fault with the Japanese women for the
view they take of the matriage &tion, we a n not bnd
fault with them for any failure t o act as mothers.
So many children are being born to the Japanese
women of California as t o cause some anxiety t o the
people of that state.
Ten years ago the number of children born of
Japanese parents in California was 246. During the
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the one year and in one nothem California county

during that year there were 176 children born of
Japanese parents and but 86 born of white parents.
There are now more than 30,000Japanese children
in California who are native-born and possess all the
rights of l a s i n g and ownership held by white children. Statistics show that intermarriage between
.whites and Japanese is almost unknown. T h e chif.dren of such marriages are excluded from white
,society and they and their parents are compelled to
live in the Japanese quarters. These conditions d o
not augur well for the amalgamation of the Japanese and white races.
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Here we have a very literal fulfilment of the
Lord's promised punishment of Mother Eve and her
daughters: "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly
multiply thy sorrow and thy conception."-Genesis

3 : 16.

THE WOMAN SPELCBINDGR

S THE PEOPLE
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seeks

draw near to the better age,

a leveling process is observable. The worker
to act on the plane of the captain of industry, and
to manage the business. The laity perceive that the
gulf between them and tbe clergy is an illusion. The
average citizen demands his share i n the actual govcming. T h e powerful and influential are correspondingly reduced. Mountains are trimmed
down and valleys raised up.
Woman seeks her place by the aide of man, and
if possible a little above. Having secured the vote,
she becomes a voter, and some of her enter politics.
They say that in the older woman-suffrage states,
the woman politicians are the equal of their male
predecessors anywhere.
I n the newer woman-voting commonwealths the
evolution of the woman in politics is going on. The
first stage is the zealot, enthusiastic, with a burning
zeal for the uplift of womankind. She is developed
into o r is succeeded by the crafty self-seeker. T h e
woman politician steps from the chrysalis; and find y the funale grafter and corruptionist comptda
the cycle.
I n many states the woman voter is at the zealot
stage. The opportunity for doing good, of reforming, af correcting abuses, appeals to the best instincts of the high-minded. Consequently the door
opens, and forthwith appears in the approaching
political campaign the woman political speaker. It
is the Republican oratress first. I t remains t o be
seen whether she will equal her male predecessor,
who from his soapbox so deftly threw a spell over
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of woman's magnetism should help the new oratorsto-be to become the real thing.
Anyway, a t the suggestion of Mrs. Medill McCormick, Chairman of the Woman's National Ekecptive
Republican Committee, schools of public speaking
for women are t o be the thing: for the womeh must
be qualified as campaign rpeikers. W h o knows but
that the binding of the feminine spell might put into
power the right parties, whoever they may be?
woman'^ struggle t o escape from- economic, industrial, civic and social bondage is one of the interesting signs of the day. There is coming the day
when woman will forever cease t o be man's serf,
-bound to the home, but a s a boon companion be
with him in a mutual helpfulness which will mean
much for the rise of the race to'the place and power
intended for d l the people.
Throughout all the years of human history which
precede the promised kingdom of Cod upon earth
woman's position, Scripturally and historically, has
been second to that of man. "The head of t h e
woman is the man." ,(1 Corinthians 11 :3). T h e
fact that we see this headship now questioned is
evidence that .the long-promised kidgdom is near.
At its close the Scriptures show sex distinctions will
have entirely vanished. "They t h a t enter into the
kingdom shall be as the angels."-Matt.
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EDUCA~ONINCINC~.NATX

N E of the most ruccessful educational enterprises

in the United States is the Douglass High School

of Cincinnati. Blacks from rtI over the city g~ to this
school by preference. They fe$ that they get the
best chance by staying in their own crowd, and they
are probably right. In the main itntranco of the
Douglass School a n four placards reading: "SelfControl, Self-Reliance, Self-Respect, Race Pridc."
The teach- are of hightlass, and largely drawn
from the South. T h e x h o o l has every feature calculated to make it an attmctive rendezvous for e d ored boys and girls until the closing hour, which is
9.W P. M. Its play rooms, libraries, medical attention, open-air rooms for tuberculou~children, special
c l u s u for defectives, and courses in manual training and domertic science, d l have proven that the
best way to deal with the colored boy or girl to
make for contentment and order is t o give them a
chance, and to give them that & m c e by themselves.
While it is true that "of one blood Cod hath made
dl nations of men," neve+eless under present imperfect conditions a wise segregation is probably ul
advmtagt to all concerned.

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MAKIlVC THE WORKER ' A PARTNER
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ISCUSSION proceeds widely u to the best

way to meet the increasingly insistent demand of the worker that.he be permitted to have a
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voice in. the management of the business. All employers now know that they mast d a l with their
employes by collective bargaining and it would
seem the part of wisdom 'for thetn to 'spend some
time now i n considering how they can make the best
solution of the new situation which is bound to arise
when the employee demands a voice in the management.
. It' is a curiotls thing that while the avkrage -man
' will admit that he knows nothing about most subjects he has never studied, such as music, geology,
botany, astronomy, etc., he is fully convinced of his
ability t o govern or help to govern business or polit{&a1 institutions of any kind without ever having
studied the subject or without having ever had the
least experience. This makes the coming business
parther a liability for a time until he has learned
something of his new duties, but not as much of a
liability, perhaps, as some people would like to
think.
It not infrequently happens that a night watchman or railroad conductor or other unskilled or
am&-skilled worker is thoroughly saccer~fulin controlling the politics of s ward, the operations of a
lodge or the conduct of a labor organization. They
control such affairs because they know men and how
to deal with them. While, therefore. a great many
mistakes will be made in the transfer of a certain
amount of power to the workers in an industrial organization, nevertheless it is highly probable that
the manufacturei will discover qualities of leadership where he has not been accustomed to look for
them, and where they will be of value in the budness.
When a suspicion orists between a manufacturer
and customer, as a result of a supposed injustice or
grievance, the man who is calltd upon to settle that
grievance and remove the injustice is a man who
has made a study of human nature, m d at the same
time is capable of seeing both s i d a of a problem.
Such men are to be found in the marketing end of
a- business, either in the sales o r advertising deputrnents.
The laborer is j u t or necessary to the manufac-

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turer as the customer. TIis opinions exercise a considerable influence in labor ranks and his vote counts
for just 3s much a the president of his company.
The suspicion in'which he holds his employer mayv
be and probably is many times deeper than that of
any customer and may affect the efficiency of his
work and his whole attitude toward the business.
This suspicion must be cleared away not by a mere
statement of intent but by interestihg and truthful
statements regarding the necessities of the'company;
its policies and what it hopes to do. I t would seem,
therefore, that the marketing eqd of a business is the
end best fitted with this new problem which is here
and here to stay. The best thing to do withr a pressing problem is to solve it and not try to dodge it or
postpone it, especially if it is 3 problem that wiil not
be dodged or postponed.
"A wise man wiil hear, and will increase learning;
and a man of ~rmdcrstandingshall attain unto wise
counsels." (Proverbs 15 ) . This is as good advice
to the managers of labor to-day as it was thousands
of years ago, when it was written.

HOW LONG WILL T H E OIL LAST!

HE production pf petroleum 'in the United

States hai averaged about 950,000 barrels per

day for the past year and a half, with a consump
tion ronlewhat in excess of production. From January, 1918, to January, 1919, the stock on hand decreased from 150,000,000 barrels to 128,000,000 barrels, but had risen to 132,165,OW barrels by'the end
of May, 1919. .
When the Standard Oil Company begins to seil
oil stock in the open market it is a pretty good sign
that those on the inside see the beginning of the end
and are trying to place their money where it will
be safer.
There a n seven1 distinct oil fields in the United
States: the upper ruches of the Ohio River, Northwestern Ohio, Southeastern Illinois, Northeastern
Oklahoma, North Texas, Northwestern Louisiana,
Southeastern Texas, Southern Glifornia and Wyoming. Some of these fields are now 85% exhausted.
The average investor in oil stocks, especially in
new companies, never seema to know that most wells
decline in production very rapidly, which makes
necessary constant drilling to maintain production.
The average decline of flowing wells in some fields
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::day now produce only 30,000 bards and ocr
: one property where at that time thirteen wells were
producing 13,000 barrela of oil per day o m hundred wells arc now producing only one tenth as

TEE PEOSPEIATE MWES OF FLORIDA

LORIDA produces about 52 per c e n t of the en-

T h e Bureau of Mines of the Federal Government

Tgtated recently. in effect, that the country is now
-facing a serious shortage of petroleum. While this
country has produced 579% of'the world's supply of
petroleum it has done so by a depletion of the Mtiond resenre supply.
'.. Oil wells, like mining properties, are obviously
%elf-liquidating. Every barrel of oil or pound of
metal removed correspondingly reduces the amount
recoverable and consequently reduces the value of
the property. Hence, the absolute necessity of oil
producers being continually on the lookout for new
:sources of supply to serve as a production supply
,against their declining wells.
Few, if any, producing companies ever show on
their balance sheets any reserve for oil depletion.
It frequently happens that a new company will begin to pay dividends prematurely, with the result
that it soon requires more capital with which to
continue operations. I t is generally unwise to
purchase stock in companies which pay immediate
dividends.
All of the oil companies--the most prosperous as
well as the most wheezy-would be glad if they
could find some way of maintaining a permanent
supply of oil, such as was miraculously provided for.
the widow by the old Hebrew prophkt Elisha. The
story is brief and very interesting:
T o w there cried a ccrtain wornan of the wives of th wcs
of the prophets nnto E!isha, saying, Thy servant my husband
is &ad; and thou knowest that thy servant did f a r tbe Lord:
and the creditor is come to take unto him my PAW sons to be
bondmen And Elibha said unto her, WXat s h l l I do for thee?
tdl me: what hast thou it1 the house? And sbe ui4 Thim
handmaid h t h not anphing in the house, save a pot of oil.
Tho he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of dl thy
neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. And w k n
tbx an come in thou halt shut the door upon thee and upan
thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and them
rlrrlt set aside that which is fulL So she went from him, and
shut the door upon her and upon her sans, who brought the
rarck to her; and she poured out And it came to pey when
' the wuek were full, that she said unto her sob Bring me yet
a vessel: a d he said unto her, There is not a v u v l more
And tbt oil stayed. Then she came and told the man d God:
and he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou
and day children of the rest."--2 Kinqr 4:l-7.

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tire varld'r supply of phosphate and about 82

per cent. of the supply of the United States. These
phosphate beds, underlying almost the entire state,
are one of the great reasons for the productivity of
Florida soil T h e greatest and richest beds of phorphate are in the vicinity of Tampa, which has the
distinction of being the largest shipper of phosphate
rock in the world.
T h e phosphorous employed in the manuf?cturr of .
matches and for medicinal purposes is obtained from
phosphate rock by mixing it with coke and sand
and heating it in an electric furnace. It is marketed
in the form of sticks, which are d e by conducting
the phosphorus from the melting pot through a pipe
surrounded by cold water. T h e phosphorus solidifies in the pipe and can be removed u a continuous
rod. The phosphorus sticks are packed in jars covered with water, to avoid spontaneotls combustion.
Acid phosphate, for years one o i our most popular
soft drinks, could nbt be manufactured o r sold at
the soda counter, if it were not for the output of the
Florida mines. Owing to its remarkable influence
on the growth o f bone in young animals, it has been
used in the treatment of bone affections. It is also
most effective in pulmonary troubles and skin diseases and as a nerve t o n i c
It bas been well known for many years that a
trace of phosphorus in the manufacture of bronze
adds greatly to the tenacity of the metal and to its
value I t is an essential of calcium phosphide used
for distress signals a t sea and was widely employed
during the Great War in the manufacture of smoke
screens for hiding vessels from submarina.
Phosphate mines, strictly speaking, are not miner
a t all, but merely open pits. T h e deposits are of all
sizes and shapes, hard-rock, soft-rock and pebbles,
and frequently occur in pockets of limestone, from
which they are scooped with the naked hand. The
work is all done by negro labor, principally with
pick and shovel, but sometimes by dredges or other
hydraulic apparatus After mining it requires to be
washed,' dried, pulverized and sacked.
T h e human family needs these phosphate deposits
a t the present time for food and medicinal purposes,
and it strikes us that a fatherly Being who had the
foresight and beneficace to lay up stores of food
and medicine for an uncruted race is a. God the
human family can trust, and a God they will love
when they know him. "And God saw everything
that he had made, and behold it was very godg'Genesis 1:31.

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AMERICAN EXPORTS AND INFLATION
N the end Europe must pay for our goods in their

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money wiU buy. So vast is the seeming inflation of

business that busineu men everpwhere are enlarging their businesses, like the man m the parable
whose found "broaght forth plentifu1Iy: md he
thought w i t h himself, saying, What shall f do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my
barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow
all my fruits, and my goods. And I will say to my
soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many
years."-Luke
12:18#1

own goods or in gold. Meantime we can and

should lend them all of our savings that we can
Spare, but if we go further and inflate our credit
position in order to lend them more we cannot fail
to cause a further rise in the cost of living. The
proposition to accept European notes, backed by
European mortgages, in payment 'for American
goods, is all right, but not if those notes arc to be
used as a basis for the further inflation of our curm c y . The temporary and illusory gain that would
DAYS ?OR
follow such an inflation would be more than offset .
by the unrest of labor and a11 the other evils which
HE only man in the world with a full bank
accompany inflation..
account is the American, and he will have
It was in August, 1915, that the quantity of money plenty of foreign friends as long as he has money to
in the United States began its rapid increase. One lend
month later prices began to shoot upward, keeping
Representatives of many foreign governments
almost exact pace with the quantity of money. In and municipalities have been rushing to America
February, 1916, money suddenly stopped increasing, to secare g r a t loam here Some of the amoum
and two or three months later prices stopped like- are :
wise. The money in circulation in the United States
The S n i u Republic, $30.000.000
rose from three and one-third billions in 1913 to fjve
Denmu4
15,000,000
Cxccho-Shma&
25,000,000
m d a half billions in 1918, corresponding to the rise
BelOiarq
50,WObo
in prices.
h a b ,
75m,oao
The money in circulation in 'the world outside of
Fid,
Several minillio~r
Russia increased during the war from fifteen bilPoland,
Several millions
Argentiq
SNc*
milliom
lions to forty-five billions and the bank deposits in
B
d
Smd millions
fifteen principal countries from &venty-seven bif-,
A large loan
lions to wventy-five billions. Prices have trebled '
Fmacq An important bond iuuc
also.
The main cause for the present extension In bank
In addition, the most powerful financial syndicate
credit is the Liberty Loan. Subsuibers for the ever formed in this country, if not in the world, will
loans have not paid their bonds in full. These bonds undertake to loan from one to fiJe billion dollars in
are unrivalled security for borrowings and will con- credits to thousands of foreign buyers with which in
tinue to be so until the Government which issues turn to p u h e American foodstuffs, raw materials
them redeems them. Until they are paid there is and other supplies.
little chance that prices will fall materially from
As much of these vast sums 411
never leave the
their present high level Prices in Europe since the country but be expended here for American prodwar began have riseh more than they have in the ucts, a great circulation of money will result and a
United States, and for the same reason-too much large volume of 6usiness will be done By American
money. In Russia the Bolsheviki have issued eighty concerns, linked up with the int&national financiers.
billion dollars of paper money, or more than all the There will be plenty of work until these amounts
rcst of the world put together.
are spent, and at good waga,.for American labor
The poor world is sutrering from rornething that will not permit its net return for a day's work to
only a few individuals urperienc+-too much money. decrease, whatever figures the cost of living may
They are finding out that money "maketh not rlch," rucb.
without corresponding i n c r u s t in the things that
The time is coming, of course, when Europe will

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rh.ttrrtd industries, and also be able to ship goods

into the American market; and then a reaction may
be urpectod in Ameriu, with the usual phenomena,
of l e u work, Iowa wages and falling prices. But
for 8 time thir country u safe k o m the difficultiu
incident to business depression.
The time ia coming, however, when a perplexing
situation muat be met; for borrowings have the unfortunate faculty of the limitation imposed by the
ability of the borrower paying interest. But it looks
;r Gough America was safe for another year of
good timer

MSTORA TION OF OUR MERCHANT MARING

HERE has been no American merchant marine
worth while since Commodore Vanderbilt
sold his line of trans-Atlantic steamers to his English competitors. The necessity of building ships
t o transport our soldiers to France has again placed
a great fleet of merchant ships under the American
flag. The Shipping Board has announced the opening of 62 regular cargo liner services, twenty-five
ot which start from New York. They cover South
America, Africa, the Pacific, Italy, France, the
North Sea states and England. Besides this it has
been announced that over $200,000,000 worth of
merchant ships have been ordered, which indicates
that the magnificent ship-building facilities put up
during the war for military needs will not be allowed to go to ruin.
The plan of sale announced for Government ships
b very generous. I t allows the purchaser to charter
for three years, paying from his profits. At the end
of the three years he has the option of buying the
ships outright a t $110 a ton or returning them to
the Board.
I t is not clear just how the American buyers of
American ships expect t o make money out of the
purchases, because it i s quite well known that
American-operated ships are the most expensive to
nm in the world; and often fail in competition on
equal t v m s with the shipping of other nations.

year. Taking all kinds of foodstuffs into considention the United States is now exporting four times
as much 3s before the war. The money value is six
times as great. I t is now estimated at $3,000,000,w
per year dhilt then it was $!kN,000,000per year. "
Many 8 man ir deceived .by such figures into
thinking that it represents the incruring wealth of
the country, whereas it represents the opposite.
Every ton of raw material taken out of the land impoverishes the r e d w d t h by that much. It seems,
all right to the thoughtless, but it is like what the
Bible speaks of when it says, "There is 8 way that
seemeth good to a man, but the end thereof is destruction." A country which enlarges its exports
by sending away its actual wealth would come to
not 'ng if the process were continued bang enough.

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WING to the unprecedented prosperity of the

fanners, the demand for automobiles is now
estimated a t 60 per cent. ahead of the supply; and
orders, both by dealers and the consuming public,
are being booked for months ahead. The growth in
popularity of the motor car is shown by the registration figures for the year of 5,500,000, over a million cars better than the best previous figures. In
California there is one automobile in use for every
seven adults in the state.
No family purchases an automobile without the
families next door desiring also to fulfil the ancient
Bible prophecy to the effect that "many shall run to
and fro" (Daniei 12 :4). In order to fulfil this divine
prediction, men that are wholly unable to afford it
mortgage their houses m d . sell* everything they
have, as though an automobile w e n a "pearl of great
price." All over the country the American people
are beating their chicken houses into garages.

TANK CARS FOR TRANSPORTATION

ORE than 100 commoditiu are now transported in tank cars. Kerosene, gasoline, sulphuric, muritic, nitric and picric acib, ammonia,
alcohol, benzol, ether, cod-tar, chlorine for bleaching, tannic acid for tanning, turpentine and rosin
IMbiENSE EXPORTS OF AMERICAN FOODSTURF for paints, vegetable oils for soaps and butterine,
N 1918 the quantity of fresh beef exported waa linseed oil for paint makers, soya bean oil, castor
540,000,000 pounds, or 86 times as much u in b u n oil, peanut oil, cocoanut oil, olive oil, corn oil,
1914. T h e quantity of bacon exported was 1,000,- whale and fish oils, fats and oil from the meat
000,000 pounds, o r five times the amount exported packers, asphalt for roofing and roads, caustic soda
in 1913 The amount of condensed milk was 553,- for soap, silicate of rod? and potash b r soaps and
000,000 pounds o r 26 times aa much u in 1913. Of fertilizem o k r w , glucose, vinegar, pickles,
this amount 25,000,000 pounds went to India or four sldmrnrdmiIkandwintarcaUrhippdintankarr
times as much as was shipped to India the previous of tm+

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TO &ASTEN TadF COBIZVG OF DEMOCRACY

being experimented with. Certainly no one could
HE NATIONAL SOCIAL UNIT ORGANI- have any better purpose than the backers of the
ZATION is the name of a corporation whox social unit system, but they are dealing with a situ-

inceptidn w a i recently approved by Supreme Court

Justice Lydon of New York. The charter Burpost is to "hasten the coming of a democracy, both gcnaiPi mb efficient, by building upon a basis of population units an organization through which the people
an get a clear idea of their common needs, and can
utilize the technical knowledge of skilled groups in
formulating and carrying out programs to meet
these needs."
A similar social unit system in Cindnnati is reported to 3ave successfully developed a quite genuine democracy in small groups of the population,
who by the unfavorable conditions of tenement city
life had been unable to "find themselves" eociologically. The groups by a direct process of practical
- education in the social and economic needs of the
people cultivated in a mixed population a spirit of
independence quite comparable to that which has
been the pride of American tradition. Incidentally
the social unit incurred the cordial opposition of
the local politicians who found their grip increasingly impaired as the knowledge of their former
subjects grew.
Knowledge ia power. It is independence I t is
the foundation of true democracy, which in essence
is the actual direction of the people's affairs by the
people themselves.
The time for genera! enlightenment on dl topics
is not merely coming-it is here. The chains of
ignorance and superstition are about to be forever
broken. The common people are about to enter into
a greater and greater freedom which will soonand to the people, unexpectedly-blossom out into
that which Paul promised, when he foresaw the
better age just now ahead, and said: "The creation
[dl created beings] itself dso shall be delivered
from the bondage of cormptim [the chrixu of ignorance, superstition, direuc and ultimately death]
into the glorious l i b e q of the [perfect earthly]
children of God."
The coming of that which has not yet c o m e
genuine democracy-is
just around the future's
comer. I t draws very near. All humanity will
soon go forth to meet i t but k will not come
through any of the well-meant plam vtrich are now

ation too complicated for them to save i t The

world will be saved far democracy, but it will be'
through the agency' of the coming kingdom of Messiah.

19REEDOiU EXISTS WBE- WEAK A R E FREE

HE d e w of dvilIzatioa of a community nuy
be measured by the liberty accorded to the
weaker membera of the community. Where the defenceless are defended and the individually weak
are backed up by the power of all, liberty exists in
tangible form.
Those classes which a n without 8 mice and without a vote are most likely to be imposed upon by
the strong and unscrupulous. One such class consists of those who under the law are classified as
infants and minors. I t is a promising sign when
the rights of such classes are defended as in a recent
instance in an Eastern city.
A boy is not supposed to exercise any particular
IegaI rights, but when a property owner in Dobbs
Ferry, N. Y., chased nine-yearsld Roland White so
that the boy fell down and hurt himself, because the
lad was scooting past the house on a pushmobile, it
waa apparent that in Dobbs Ferry at l u s t a boy
has some rigtits.
The man had asked the children why they could
not scoot on the other side of the street; his wife
was nemous and the noise annoyed her. One of the
neighbors was not surprised that the boy might have
suffered from the kind of pain that gains plaintiffs
substantial amounts from damage suits, for she said
that when the man was chasing the boy he had such
a temble look on his face that it frightened even
her; but the magistrate merely imposed a sentence
and then mercifully suspended i t He made it plain
that the majesty of the law protected even boys on
scooters, becruse "there is no law that prevents boys
from scooting or roller-skating on the side-walks,"
and that "a man must remember that he was a boy
once himself."
If judges and big people generally remembered.
that they like to have liberty themselves, and would
allow others the rune liberties they insist on, and
if they would protect and help and be a big brother

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ization would take a step upward and there would

be real liberty for grown-ups as well as for children.
In the Golden Age, which is fast approaching, the
rights of every person will be safeguarded, even
those of little boys and girls. "I will make a man
more precious than fine gold; even a man than the
golden wedge of Ophir" (Isaiah 13:12). The people
u e promised a better time than they have ever even
dreamed bf, as evidenced by these words :"Eye hath
not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him" (1 Corinthidns 2 :9) ;
and Liberty for the weakest, even the boys and the
girls, will characterize the greatness and majesty
of the coming better order of things.

JEWISH PERSECUTION I N POLAND

T h t the Jews would have a v a y hYd timc for

many' centuries was not unknown to the Jewish
prophets. And even thew pogroms were foretold;
for the Prophet Jeremiah says: "I will send for
many hunters, and they shall hunt them' from every
mountain [kingdom], and from every hill [lesser
nation], and out of the hola (protected placer) of
the rocks [strongholdr of society) ." (Jeremiah 16 :16.)
Thu dreadful hunting of the Jews, however, is prelude to the re!gathering of as many of them as desire.
back to their home country. The Messianic kingdom
will come after enough of the Jews yt reestablished,
and through them will flow the grateot b&t
to all
the people of the whole world

DO HORE BALMNS MEAN MORE TROUBLE P

HE break-up of the Austrian empire fur created

four new Balkan -staty Hungary, Jugo-Shvia,

NDER the charge that all Jews are Bolsheviki CtecbnSlovakia and Poland, besides old Austria

the ruling party in Poland is engaged in a

rhuneless persecution of Jews, with a view to making their political hold on the country stronger.
Ugly illustrated posters, depicting the Jew or a serpent or vampire, appear in the newspapers and are
doing everything possible to fan the fanaticism of
the ignorant masses into a brutal massacre.
The Jews are blamed for the high cost of living,
despite the fact that this phenomenon is world wide
and has been caused by the fiscal policies of the
warring countries,
As high as eighty Jews have been killed in a single
pogrom in Poland, and they are of frequent occurrence; sometimes whole streets of Jewish homes are
burned down, accompanied by brutalities in which
the Roman Catholic Polish Christians seem to equal
the Turks in their attacks against the Armenians.
Some of the factories in Poland belong to Jews,
but in them no Jewish operatives can be employed, .
despite the fact that one-third of the populace are
Jews. Polish workmen will not work with Jews
and they can only work in small home industries of
their own. Theycan not enter the civil service.
The Poles, politically and culturally a backward
people, have won the power to make their land a
hell for its three million Jews by no merit of their
own, but simply by the victory of the Germans over
thc Russian and of the Allies over the G e m s .
The P o l e understand well what their r6le in
Europe is. Their r6le is to keep a strong conscript
u m y on the Vistula, while the French keep watch
on the Rhinc. They know very well if they fill this
die, they may treat Jews, Germans and other minorities Y they plcasc.

The civilization d the world broke down because the Great Powers played the Balkan states
against each other for their own purposes. T h e
Russian Empire md the p h of Germany for a
Mittel-Europa collided. Now the whole of Central
Europe has been Balkanized From the Baltic to
the Aegean the whole territory is now filled with
small, ambitious, ind&tely
bounded stater. Will
they keep the peace? Will their larger and more
ambitious neighbors help them to keep the peace,
or will they, in pursuance of their own ambitious
designs, contrive to keep these small states quarrtling among themselves in the hope of themselves
profiting by the melee?
Europe must get to work. Will she get to work
better with a large number of petty states or a
small number of large states? Are customs barriers a help to commerce or a hindrance? If there
are many boundaries to cross will trade be facilitated or hindered? If Europe docs not get to work
boundaries or m boundaria, what will happen?
Practically all the people of Europe, a t l u s t an
overwhelming majority, profess obedience to the
commands of Jesus Christ, but evidently they have
two things more to learn. One of them is suggested
by Paul, that "if any would not work, neither should
he eat" (2 Thessalonians 3 :10) ;for unless Europe
gets to work she will not have enough to cat except
by borrowing money from the United Statea and
paying for food with the eume money. The other
thing that these ~hri'stiansrequire ir to realize that
there is no permanent relationship possible among
them accept that based upon thia ancient principle:
"Tbou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
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AGRlCULTURE and EWSBANDRY

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WHAT ROTATION OF CROPS ACCOMPWSEES ly fulfil his promise, "Behold, I make all things new"
T HAD probably been discovered elsewhere by other (Revelation 21 5). The earth ia being made new

fannen that corn always does well when it fdlows a crop of clover, but it was discovered anew
in 8 d o n of Nofib Carolina by a young farmer
who purchased m abandoned farm and who nbticed
that his first crop of corn did best in a part of the
fidd that had grown up to wild clover. The next
spring he seeded all his wheat in clover and has
bear doing it ever since. His farm is now one of
the show-places of the state. Other farmerr in the
naghborhood have followed his example and fmm
8 poor farming country have built up the best CornBelt in that prrt of the South
Many years ago a great potato-producing industry developed in Aroostook County, Maine. The
potatoes were grown in rotation with oats and
clover; two years of potatoes, one of aats and one
of clover, with as heavy an application of fertiluer
as the potatoes would pay for. Wonderful results
were obtained by this rotation and enrichment of
the soil, and now ft has been discovered that this
u m e rotation, with equally good results, can be
oMained in any potato-growing country.
In the so-called Black Belt of Alabama and Musissippi many lands had been cropped to cotton
without change or rest for a hundred years. The
yield of cotton had fallen so low as to make the land
practically worthless until somebody dixovercd that
it was naturally adapted to alfalfa. Now it is producing great crops of alfalf& three or four tons t o
the acre, and after a few years produces corn rivalling the yield in the Corn-Belt states.
Twenty yean ago the sand-hill country of North
Carolina was regarded as worthless. Fifty cents an
acre was a good average for the land. The roil is
little but sand for 20 feet or more down. A hotelkeeper undertook to raise vegetables for his t a b l t
H e found that cowpeas and fertilizer worked a revolution in the soil. After turning under a few crops
of pea vines he was able to produce 60 to 70 bushels
of corn per acre. The system spread gradually until
now the sand-hill re&on is one of the most prosperous in the state. Now land is selling at $200 to $250
per acre and the yield of cotton runs to a bale or
more per acre.
By these and similar methods the Lord m i sure

before oar very eyes and the land is yielding it?

increase.

DYNAMITING TEE EARTH INTO A PARADISE

HE-USEOF ELECEUCXTY m d dynamite in
the Great War has developed methods for deal-

ing with &, stumps m d water coursu which will

alter the face of the earth. In digging ditches the holes
are drilled two feet apart and two feet drip, the number of rows depending upon the width.desired for the
bed of the s t r u m As soon abou't 10 holes arc drilled
and loaded they are exploded by electricity. The
blast lifts the soil 200 feet in the air and scatters it
out over the adjoining land for a 'distance of 150
feet, leaving a clean ditch. If a deeper bed is desired
the first bed of the stream can be blasted out by another layer of holes, or a third.
One of the principal uses of dynamite in clearing
up large areas is that of blasting out stumps. Three
holes are drilled on opposite sides of the stump, all
slanting in toward the center, and reaching down to
the subsoil beneath the stump. Crow-bars are generally used for making the holes, but portable electric and compressed air drills are also used.
Another great use of dynamite is in clearing land
of boulders. This is done by t h e e methods, dcapping, which consists in removing the d p a m i t e
from the shell and packing it in a compact conical
heap on the boulder, and then covering it with several inches of thick heavy mud; blochholkg, which
consists of drilling a hole into the boulder and chuging it with a small amount of dynamite ;and mahe
holing, which consists in rolling the boulder oat of
its bed by placing a hole under it similar to one of
the holes used to remove a stump. If a sufficient
charge of dynamite is used the boulder will be
broken into fragments. Boulders should always be
snakeholed before attempts at madupping or blockhaling are made. The mud used for mudcapping
must be free from stones. If stoner are present in
the mud they will be thrown like bullets. Blockholing requires mom labor but is the simplest
method for breaking very hard boulders, and the
only method for breaking boulders over 3 feet i n
diameter. I t requires much less dynamite than either
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Who should have supposed when the Prophet

said, "The desert shall rejoice a i d blossom
the
rose" (Isaiah 35 :I), that one of the instruments the
Lord will use for accomplishing the fulfilment of
that prop&ecy is a'force (dynamite) which has been
largely used by n+n for the slaughter of men?

CONSERVATION OF SOIL FERTILITY

HE VERY FOUNDATION of soil fertility and

roil conservation is carbonate of lime. Grbonate

of lime in the roil takes out its acid humors and toxic
poisons and brings in useful bacteria. It brings clover

and alfalfa a d brings nitrogen out of the air. Sowing it abroad over the fields makes a vast difference
in the fertility and permanence of the soil. When a
million tons a year of carbonate of lime are used
along the Atlantic seaboard that part of the United
States will turn into a veritable Garden of Eden.
Every great and enduring civilization in the world
has grown up on a soil that was alkaline with lime,
not acid. Babylon, Palestine, Egypt, Greece, Italy
and France are all lands rich in carbonate of lime.
The great west beyond the Missouri river has often
as much as four per cent. of carbonate of lime.
The primary cause of decay in farming along the
'Atlantic seaboard is the fact that the soils are d&dent in carbonate of lime. On that one fact, so long
forgotten or never leamed, rests all the discouragement and decay that is found from Florida to Nova
Scotia The eastern farmer has one of the best climates and the very best markets in the world. The
only d i 5 d t y is that the land is lime-hungry. A
land hungry for lime is insatiable . Manures will
not remain in it, phosphorus unites with silica, iron,
or alumina and becomes unavailable; the soil becomes acid, useful bacteria won't grow in it, nor
the clovers nor alfalfa.
There are vast stores of carbonate of lime all
d o n g the foothills bordering on the Atlantic coastal
plain, unnumbered millions of tons are ready for the
farmer's use. Machinery is ready, capital is ready,
d the railways. All that is needed is education
H a e in the east is the population, here are the
homes, farms, schools, roads, villages and the impoverished, half-abandoned fields lying within drivkrq distance of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and New York. All, that is needed is to educate
the farmer t o understand that he must have carbonate of lime oa hia soil and a prosperity will follow
thrt will a m u e those who have grown to maturity
in the belietthat the one-time fertility can never be
restormi How true it is that the "people perish for
lack of knowledge" &Hosea 4 :6

TURN~NCFLORIDA'S SWAMPS INTO FARMS

AKE OKECHOBEE, the second larzest -lake

wholly within the United States, lies in the center

of the everglades of Florida, with its surface thirty
feet above the sea. The discovery of this fact made
possible a vast reclamation work now under way,
by which a very large part of what was once s u p
posed to be waste land is finding purchasers who see
for it a p e a t future.
Four canals havt been completed from Lake O k t
chobee to the sea, and a fifth is under way. Four
of these are to the Atlantic Ocean and one to the
Gulf of Mexico. Supplementing these there is also
to be a canal 200 feet wide and 12 feet deep, fitted
with locks, which will be suitable for navigation,
and can be used to control the water levels in the
other canals and hence in the whole district.
The drained lands are already producing large
crops without the use of fertilizers,of any kind and
a town of 2,000 inhabitants, Moore Haven, is now
standing at the junction of Lake Okechobee with the
canal leading to the Gulf where but two years ago
a11 was covered with water. There is no question
but that this country will shortly be producing great
quantities of sugar, for which it seems eminently
fitted. I t also h'as great possibilities for a great variety of other cropa, including cattle raising. The
country is level and free from large timber, and
tractods can be used in clearing it and working it.
Rranchu of the Florida East Coast Line and Atlantic Coast Line have been built a points on the
lake and other l i n u are projected The pru in
process of reclamation is larger b a n the combined
stater of Rhode Island and Connecticut.
One of the commissions to man at the time of his
creation by the Almighty was to subdue the earth.
(Genesis 1:3.) Which is the nobler work for man?
subduing the earth and drawing from it its bounties
for the blessing of hi fellow men? or subduing and
exploiting his fellow men 7

HAULING MILK WITH TRUCKS

FARMERS

a few years ago got up at unearthly

houn of the night to get their milk to market,
and even then sometimes get the lacteal fluid in
too late for the babies. Ha& of ten to thirty miles
were too much for horses, but today the fanner gets
up early, but It a revoaable hour, and with an auto
truck gets the milk in from long distances and on
time. Truck transportation tends to stabilize the
quantity and to incruse it by making a sure market
for a l l the milk the fumtr an bring.

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THE FUTURE OF WIRELESS

HE FUTURE OF WIRELESS lies in part in its

use in the direction of aviation, for it is obvious

that there is no other way -in which aviators can be appri~&of their own whereabouts in fog or darkness.
With this id= in view a new transmitter has been d t
vised which will project into the air beams of wireless somewhat like the searchlight but without the
light, capable of expanding or contracting in area
covered. Through the aid of these beams it is hoped
that some day the flying aeronaut in time of fog
can be guided'from one part of the country to another.
Arrangements are now in effect by which navigators at the Brooklyn Navy Yard are enabled to give
bearings to ships lost in the fog off the Atlantic
Coast. The vessels wire when they want assistance
and then, with the aid of several stations; the office
fixes the ships' locations and they can proceed without waiting for clear weather.
It does not appear that it will ever be any too
safe to fly rapidly or fly at all in a fog. In Canada
an aviator went head on into a barn in a fog killing
him instantly and completely wrecking his machine.
How many have been killed by running b t o trees
and other obstructions in fogs will probably never be
known. But the wireless will at least help to make
it safer.
There are wireless instruments' now available
which provide for taking bearings under any weather conditions. When signals are heard strongest
in the operator's head telephone a movable pointer
indicates the direction of the incoming signal. The
geographical direction is then secured by a glance
at the compass. Therefore, if signals can' be heard
from two wireless stations offering a wide angle the
aircraft operator has merely to make a simple triangulation to get his exact bearings. The densest fog
is no obstacle to the receipt of these signals.
In the course of normal development it is to be
expected that v k y soon wireless telephone convcrsation will be held between aircraft and ships at sea.
- I t then becomes a simple matter for the aviator lost
in the fog to gef his exact position almost instantly
by this method.
I t is said that in Captain Alcock's remarkable
flight across the Atlantic direction-finding coils were
built into the wings of his machine, so that when

the machine was pointed toward the great wireless

station a$ Clifden, Ireland, the machine continually
recorded the fact. When the machihe veered to the
right or left the signals immediately ceased recording on the receiving apparatus. This was so simpk
that the pilot did not need to understand the signals
being sent out. As long as he could hear the signals
in his telephone head-gear he knew he was heading
directly toward the wireless station' where he subsequently landed. The Clifden station is in constant communication with the wireless station at
Glace Bay, Canada, so that Captain Alcock was able
to hear the station throughout his voyage and keep
his machine pointed toward it, thus overcoming the
effect of the side drift caused by the winds.
As the aviator, apparently lost in a trackless sea
of fog, may know whither he is bound, so the child
of God, in a world that is filled with darkness and
confusion, may know that he is guided by $he eye
of him that never sleeps. "I will guide thee with
mine eye."-~s&ns 32 :8.

COMETS-THE TRAMPS OF THE HEAVEN3

OMETS, along with shooting s t v r and meteon,

are the tramps of the heavens. Thy are supposed
to consist of geses which escaped b c i i swept up by the
planets and moons of the solar system st the time
the system was formed by the repaxation of these
planets 'from the sun. Their orb& arc very kregular
and are inclined at a11 angles to each other, whereas
the orbits of all the planets lie very nearly in the same
plane. The planets revolve from west to esr~taround
the sun, while comets not infrequently back around
the sun in the opposite direction, from east bo west
The orbits of the planets are almost perfect circles,
while the orbits of the comets are ellipses.
All the comets which visit our sun are aupposed to
belong to our solar system, although th; visits of some
of them about the sun are separated by hundreds of
thousands of years. Donati's comet hor 8 known
orbit of more than two thousand yean, and ita aphelion
(point in its orbit farthest away from the sun) is five
times more distant than the orbit of the planet N e p
tune. Halley's comet has an orbit of seventy-fivp
years, and Encke's comet of three and a third years.
Stars shine undimmed in lustre even thmagh the
heads of comets. The earth has oa a number of occa-yitb=
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OPt experiencing the least visible effects.

If it should
eaconnter a comet head-on it is, doubtful if it would
experience anything more s d o u s than a shower of
meteors.
A great many comets have been swuved from their
original orbits by coming in dose proximity to the
larger planets. About forty have been thus captured
by Jupiter, Saturn, U n n u s and Neptune, although
Jupiter possesses the lion's ohue. They have been
a p t u r e d in the sense that their aphelia are now in
the vicinity of these planets, and this fact has suggested
the thought that each of the comets has its aphelia
=ear some planet, the farthest aphelia being about
p k n d s that are so remote from our sun that they can
not be seen by the most powerful telescope.
The most interesting feature of a comet is its tail,
which develops and increases in brilliancy as the comet
approaches the sun. The tail is always turned away
from the sun, so that while the comet rushes around
the sun the tail gradually changes place from being
behind the comet to being in front of it. Hydrogen
tails are long and straight, hydrocarbon tails are long
and curved Tails of iron or other metailic vapors
are short and bushy. At times the same comet will
have two or 'more tails of different types. Comets
a n continually disintegrating. Sometimes they come
too close to the sun at their perihelion passage and
become split into two or more comets, 'each with its
own tail. Sometimes the tails become tvisted or
brushed aside as if they had encountered some unl m w n force.
Sometimes they disintegrate entirely
into periodic swarms of meteors. I t is supposed that
the great star shower in 1833 was caused by the passage of the earth through the nuclius of what had
once been a great comet
Comets travel at a leisurely speed through the frigid
A t e r regions of the solar system. This speed is
gradually accelerated as the comet draws nearer and
nearer the sun, until it has acquired, near the time of
its perihelion passage, a velocity that occasionally exceeds two hundred and fifty miles a second.
I n one respect comets bear a close resemblance to
the "wandering s t a n to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever," of Jude 13, in that both
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THE MANUFACTURE OF LlCHTNZNC

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know.

HUNDERCLOUD is the most stupendous and

powerful generator of electricity of which we
A single lightning flash may carry twenty thousand a m p e m at a pressure of millions of volts. During
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menace to balloonists and aviators, and on this account

they were made the subject of special study.
Thunderclcmds are columns of heated air which
have r i K n from the earth's surface, due to the heating
effects of the sun, and have carried moisture up with
thun. This moisture d o u not condenoe in the form
of drops until it comes in contact with dust particla
or electricany charged partides which act as centers
of condensation. The water condenses much n w e
quickly about partida charged with negative el=tricity than with particles charged with positive electricity. The negatively charged drops being smaller
and lighter are amed to the top of the cloud, very
often forming a heavy negative charge, while the
heavier positively charged drops fall to the bottom
of the doud, forming 2 s t m g positive ch-.
The
effect of wind on raindrop, is to break them up and
change thun from positively charged d r o p to negatively charged droplets. Thus every thundercloud
is seen'to be really a huge electrical generator. The
earth itself is a great storage battery of negative elec:
tricity, estimated at 600,000,000volts;
When a charge of electricity in a cloud gets s&ciently great the lightning flash takes place This
may take place from the top to the base of a cloud,
or between the base of the doud and the earth, or
between one cloud and another, sometimes w e r distances of twenty miles.
A flash of lighning always produces a powerful
inductive effect, which may cause flashes to occur in
rzpid succession. I t frequently happens that a negatively charged doud approaches the earth, and in doing so .the inductive effect changes its charge to positive, and a thunderstorm follows.
One of the most beautiful of the Psalms of David
is David's description of a thunderstorm. H e says
poetically, describing both the thunder and the lightn:ng, "The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of
fi re.'-Psalm 20 : 7.

WOOD MORE DURABLE THAN IRON

GREENHEART TREES growso

in dense jungles of
South America and require great labor and expense to cut and ship. They are heavy that they will
sink instantly alone and when placed in the water
~villoutlast iron or steel. For this reason, and because they are impervious to the attacks of insects,
they are used for the sills of drydocks and canal
locks. This wood has been known to stand under
water for over a hundred years and remain in perfectly sound condition. T h e wood used in the gates
of the Canada Dock, built in 185% was so perfectly
preserved that it was used again in 1894.

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HOUSEWIFERYand HYGIENE
NERVOUS AND STUPID CHILDREN
ity to digest his food. Malnourished children should
0 ACHIEVE MARKED SUCCESS, a man especially be guarded against getting too t i r d

n e e . bniru plus physical endurance. and every

ambitious father w a s his boys to have that surplus of
physical vitality which spells courage, initiative and
persistence. No amount of mere intellectual keeness or
a ~ f infornution
d
a n make up for the b s s of vitality
which enables men and women to enjoy the struggle
of life and get on well with other people.
- I t is the delicate, finely attuned instrument which is
most easily thrown off the key, and it is the sensitive,
high-strung child whose nerves are most easily injured
by overstnia, Such chil&en should be checked
rather than spurred, and their eager desire to please
.should not be urploited to tickle the vanity or unbition of parents and teachers. Many a nervous breakdown at thirty or forty is due to overstimulation and
overactivity when the child should have been laying
up a store of energy and forming habits of physical
and e m o t i d thrift.
I t is of great importance that a child should have
the normal weight for his age and height. If a child
is seriously underweight this is an indication that
something is wrong. It means that he is using up
his energy more rapidly than he should, and that some
&y he
have to pay for i t
Stupid children require attention for a different reawn. It has been estimated that from 3,000,O to
5,000,000 American school children have adenoids,
diseased tonsils and other glandular defects, which are
making them appear stupid and are causing them to be
backward in school. The child troubled with adenoids
breathes through his mouth, and a lax lower jaw and
vacant, sleepy eyes give an unmistakable expression
of stupidity and dullness. The transformation in such
children when the adenoids, by a slight operation, are
removed, is often very rapid. The child with adenoids is stupid and sleepy, because he is not getting
enough oxygen, and his blood is consequently laden
with impurities and the cells of his brain are not
properly nourished.
I t is also estimated that one-fifth of all the school
children in the country, o r 5,000,000, are malnourished. Undernourishment is the soil of diminished
rcsiatance upon which J1 sorts of physical and mental
disuses grow. Malnourished children, having !ittle
rcseme energy, fatigue easily. A healthy child recuperates quiddy. Overfatigue lessear a child's abil-

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Childten require about a pint and a half of milk

per day apiece in order to keep in the best condition;
if they dislike it as a beverage it may be disguised ib
the fonn of cocoa, milk soup, custard or cream sauce
for vegetables. Well-cooked cereals, especially oatmeat, should form one of the mainstays of the breakf a s t Green vegetables contain substances which
stimulate growth and are helpful to the intestines
because of their bulk.
The question of sleep is especially important for
malnourished or nvvous children. Amcrican children, as a rule, get too little sleep. They should retire early, and take a noon nap, preferably before lunch.
A nervous, sleepless child can often be put to sleep
by having him spend a quarter of an hour in a bath
of ninety degrees. When a nervous child fiu into a
temper or tantrum, scolding and punishment will
usually only increase the nervous tension. A warm
bath and a quiet rest time in bed are more likely to
meet his needs.
Practically a11 the children found suffering from
malnutrition were found to be accust6med to having
either tea o r coffee at breakfast.
In the matter of food and all other matters of the
physical and mental health of children, no better
philosophy has ever been devised than that which puts
the responsibility upon the parepts. "Train up a
child in the way that he should go,&d when he is old
he will not depart from it"-Proverbs
11: 11.

TEETH EXTRACTION A CURE FOR DISEASE

R COTTON, of the New Jersey Hospital, at

Trenton, discovered that many of the patients

suffering from mental disease had also serious chronic
infections of the t m t h , tonsils and stomach, and that
by removing the infected teeth he was able to restore
many patients who, with fonner methods of treatment, became chronic patients .and remained in the
hospital until the time of their death. As a result of
the extraction of infected teeth Dr. Cotton was able
to increase the proportion of discharges to admissians
from 43% to 87y0;in other words to double the number of patients who left the hospital.
The X - n y photographs of teeth show that m v l y
people have infected teeth who have no knowledge of
i t The failure of the dentist to recognize the arirt-

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lnce of root infection and the practise of

in 'ing between 5.30 and 7.00 ~'dock, while her husband
pivots, gold crowns and bridge work without first cared for the children.
taking radiographs to bc sure &at there are no inThe method of washing by an electric washer is
fected roots has caused more rheumatism, pernicious very simple. The tub of the machine is filled &tb
anemia, heart disease, Bright's disease and mental dis- lukewarm water into which a solution of one-half
eases than we can measure. Bacteria a t the roots of cup of soda crystals and oaohalf jar of soap jelly,
infected teeth must have an outlet, especially if the made from any kind of soap, is placed. The motor
tooth has been crowned and all means of drainage is started and when it gets humming the clutch is
from the upper part of the tooth is thereby cut off. thrown in and the solution churned for two minutes
Then the bacteria filter through the bone in which the until sudsy; then the machine is stopped and the '
teeth are embedded, migrate to other organs and set clothes put in. The machine is then nm 15 minuta
up secondary foci of infection. The only known pre- for ordinary washes or longer for clothes badly
ventlon of the effects of this infection is to have all soiled The clothes are rinsed in the machine in d d teeth removed in which the nerves have been de- ing water, d l of one kind bang rinsed together. In
strayed, an well as the tedh known to be infected. rinsing, the machine ia run another five minuta and
No one should attempt to preserve teeth by having the clothes are then wrung out into cold Muing water
the nerves killed Such teeth should be extracted.
ready to be hung out to dry. The cost of the electric
These deathdealing germs, hidden away out of sight washer is $100 for the preferred designs.
about the roots of the teeth, suggest those secret faylts
Probably no part of the Bible has thus far had t
which undermine and destroy character. "Cleanse more significant fulfilment than the statement, "In
thou me from secret faults."-Psalm
19: 12.
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread tin thotl
return unto the ground ; for oat of it Iv?rt thou taken:
WASHING MADE EASY
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou ictura'
HERE is no dodging the family wash. It has to (Genesis 3 :19.) The fact that we see in every direcbe done. It is done. The weekly expense for an tion the elimination of the arduous work of mankind
average family in moderate circumstances is calculated is in itself a happy augury of the coming approech
at $3.00. Of this amount $2.00 goes to the laundress, of Messiah's kingdom, the dawn of the Golden A g e
10c. for her carfare, 3%. for her lunch, 25c. for soaps
and powders used, and 30c. for electricity consumed. " FAMINE AND PESTILENCEn
The electric washer has made a great change in
ARNINGS are issued by the medical pmfesmany households. One woman reports that it takes
sion to get ready for a recurrence of I d u her one and one-half hours to do the week's wash, enza. The history of epidemics shows a m r r e n c e in
fifteen minutu to get the water ready and put the the succeeding year, and the black pllgir-as
"Inmachine away, and one and onequartet hours to do fluenzap'-is expected to stalk through the land again
the a c t . washing. Her machine runs with a quarter this fall. Public Health Departments ort in receipt
horse-pow- motor, consuming about 15c. worth of of many anxious letters of inquiry, and in answer the
current per month, and the soap and washing powder warning is going out to prepare for what b coming.
run the total monthly bill up to 40c. - She calculates
The good advice is given to build up strength to
that in three and one-third years she has paid for her meet a possible Influenza attack. As a preventive,
machine, paid the interest on the investment at 6910, exercise and good food are recommended
and cleared over $50.00 in cash, besides not being
Health Departments express themselves that the
bothered by having a laundress around
expected epidemic will be less serious than that of
Another woman reporb that it costs her one and 1918, because many of the population are immune
one-half cents an hour to run the machine, another through having had the disease once. 1
that previous to the purchase of a machine she emBrotherly love among men would banish influenza.
ployed a k u n d r u s for two days each week and now It would see that all had the vitality builders of good
that she does her own wash in three hours per week food, good air, plenty of light and outdoor exercise.
with no help whatever. Another, with
family of Lack of love among men is destined, in the near
eight reports that four hours a week suffices for the future, to bring the further fulfillment of the word
wash, and another that in 142 wuhes she used 200 of Jehovah : "in divers places pestilences" (Luke,
cakes of soap with the electric washer. Another, a . 21 :11) ; "before him [preceding his Kingdom presmother with a l u g e family of small children, reported ence] went the pestilence' (Habakkuk,3 :5) ; '1have
thpt rbc did the family washing cvay Monday morn- w t among you the pertilenct"-hms, 4 :la
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RELIGION and PHILOSOPHY

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NEGL6CT OF T m BLBLG
H E PURPOSE OF THIS MAGAZINE in providhg a Religious Deprtrnent is that the cornmoa people at little cost and inccmvenience to than-

selves may carry'm a systematic course of Bible study

in their homes. In this department will be found dis' d o n of Bible questions and explanation of Scripture
passages of the deepest interest to all studenta without
regard to cmd or denomination. It is not our purpose or desire to induce any one to join anything. Our
purpose here u purely educational.
No nation or people cm clfford to neglect Bible
study. It will be conceded on every hand that the
nuh and hurry of the twentieth century has greatly
retarded Bible study. The people arc feeling the result thereof. \Ye hope to turn their min& back to r
sober, candid w i d e r a t i o n of the great truths contained in the Scriptures,
The Bible is the torch of civilization and liberty. Its
influence for g w d in society has been recognized by
the greatest statesmen of all times. Aside from being
a masterpiece of literature, science and poetry, it con-.i-'tains a statement of Cod's purposes concerning the
human race. In times past it was not possible to be
understood for the reason that it was not God's time
for it to be understood. The Bible itself assures us
that a period of time would come in which the people
would understand and appreciate the Bible teachings
and profit from these teachings.
The prophecies of the Scriptures are in fact the history of the world written in a d v ~ c c It m-t be
evident to every reasonable person that no hum=
mind could have foretold centuries ago the happening
of present-day events. The Scriptures declare that
holy men of old wrote the Bible as their minds were
moved to act by the invisible influence and power of
Jehovah. In humony with this expressed thought,
Jehovah caused the Prophet Daniel to give a brief outline of the world's history from the time of Nebuchadn u z r r until the present day. Although Daniel had a
mental vision of things that should come to pass, yet
he could w t -dustand than and he recor& this
fa& saying, "I beard but I understood not Then said
I, 0 my Lord, what shall be the end of these thiigs?
And he [Jehovah] said, Go thy way, h i e l , for the
wof6 art c l o d up and sealed until the time of the
cod Many rhU be purified and made white and
tried, but the wkked shall do wickedly and none of the

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wicJced shall underst.ad but the wise shall understand." (Danitl 12: 8-10.) The wise mentioned here
is not necessarily one who is learned after the manner
of arthly uisdo- but b the one who p o ~ s e s
reverential desire to know Jthovah'a purpose concerning man. The Scriptunr referring to such ~ay,
"The reverence of the Lord is the lw!gimhg of wisdom." "The secret of the Lord h with them that
reverence Him and He wifl show than His plan."
The Bible is a g r a t ehouse of knowledge
and wisdom. I t claims to be a revelation fnna Jehocourse .Ild what
vah conceining mm, bir origin,
will lead to his !idhappin-,
pace ud joy. It is
g i v a to the
the oldest book in existence. It
Israelites, the chosen people of the bd,m d handed
down from one gcnentioo to wthcrn m d has been
miraculously preserved by Divine intavmtioe It h a
outlived the stonns of centuries. Men have endavoted by e v possible
~
means to dertra~rk They
have hidden it, burned it and attempted bo compel
the people to'refnin f t o m studying it; p
t th baok
still lives and more and more is nunkind realizing the
need of understanding it. If all the pe~plcsof the
world to-day understood the Scriptures and diligently
sought to abide by their teachings, t h v e w d 4 not be
a strike known in the knd; there would be no labor
troubles ; there would be no setioru d c t between
labor and capital; then would be no a d e r h g of the
people from the unrighteous condu@of the profiteers ;
there would not be the present distress of nations with
perplexity. It is equally true that tho BlW amtains
a clear statement of the Divine remedy provided for
the rectification of all these difficultia.
It is quite probable that very few a n aware of the
fact that the world's great systems of transportation
by steam, electricity, gas engines, flying machines, and
the g e n e d great increase of knowledge was foretold
centuries ago and that Jehovah caused His Prophet
Danid to make record of it. In the light of presentday events we can see that this record was made for
the very purpose of calling the studcat'a attention to
the fact that we
rr?ched a gr& thiage in the
social order of things. Daniel had been told that in
the time of the end the Scriptures would be unfolded
and understood by the student who was wise after
God's order of wisdom. Then Jehovah caused him
to record that which d d constitute proof that the
desired time had bcar tuche4 "But thou, 0 Daniel,

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shut up-the words and s u l the book until the time of

the end. Many shall run to and fro and knowledge
shall be increased." (Daniel 12:4.) The "time of
the end" 'here mentioned clearly doer not mean the
end of time, because time will never end; nor does it
mean the end of the earth and its destruction; but it
does mean the end of the world, i. e., the end of a
certain long-established social order of things-theend of a period of time W e may conddently know,
then, that the great inventions and increase of knowledge which have reached a climax in the day in which
we are living is one of the strongest proofs of the
authenticity of the Scriptures as the Divine word and
a further proof that we have reached the end of the
old order and the beginning of a new, a different and
better order.
And this is the time in which the Scriptures are to
be understood. This is the time in which the people
have greater need to understand them; and the sufferings and trials, distress and disturbances that have
come upon the peoples of earth will cause them to
turn their minds and hearts to searching the Scrip
tares as they have not done before.
That the nations are in distress and the people
perplexed is evidenced upon every hand. What the
people really want to know is how they can extricatc themselves from the present d i l u m . If Divine wisdom foreknew and foretold the present
dilemma, then we may reasonably expect to find
in the Bible a Divinely provided remedy for relieving the people; and this we do find.
In subsequent issues of this magazine it is our
purpose t o show the progressive development of\
Jehovah's plan from the time of creation of the
earth down t o the present day, and by placing the
prophecies alongside of current history--the thinqs
which we daily see coming to pass--to produce the
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incontrovertible proof that we are standing a t the
msy portals of the Golden Age.
The Golden Age has been the great desire of men
and nations for many centuries. Jehovah established a model governmcvt amongst the Israelites
and gave t o them a perfect code of laws. Had they
been able t o keep those laws perfectly the Golden
Age would have come in thcir day. T h e Lord
- dealt with that people, as shown both b y sacred and
profane history, for a period of 1800 years and then
cast them off because of their unfaithfulness. He
used their experience, however, to teach other nations a great lesson which has been profitable for
Christians throughout the Gospel Age and which
will now be profitable for a11 the world. T h e inability of the Israelites to keep the perfect law proved

that man without the aid o! the Lord cannot bring

in the Golden Age, and further shows that when
man has reached his extremity it will be God's op
port unity to establish the very things that man dtsires. The prophetic proof is that shortly following
the end of the Gentile Times (which, in fact, ended
in 1914) the Lord will make a new covenant orrangcment with the people through the medium or
intervention of the p a t Messiah, and by a?d
through this means establish a perfect condition on
the a r t h . Under such an a m g u n a r t profiteering
will be impossible. The oppression of the masses
by the classes will be impossible. The people will
be taught righteoumess and in order that they
might profit thereby evil influences will be rtstrained. They will be taught just what to eat and
h o u to cat it, how t o exercise, what is correct and
proper conduct, the proper things to read and study,
how to keep the law perfectly; and this much-needed
aid ministered by and through the Messkh will open
the way for the blessing of a11 the nations and peop l u of the earth in harmony with ,the promise
made by Jehovah four thousand years ago.
Concerning the o r d k of things under the wise
and perfect rdler and the beneficent influence of the
g ~ v e ~ m e during
nt
that time, the prophet of the
Lord wrote: "And the government shall be upon
his [Messiah's] shoulder; t n d his name shall be
called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the
Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace; and of the
increase of his government and peace there shall
be no end" (Isaiah 9 : 6 , 7). Furthermore, the
prophet says concerning the righteousness of His
reign: -"With righteoumess shall he judge the poor,
and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth:
and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his
mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay
the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle
of his loins and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf
and the young lion and the fatling together; and a
little child shall lead them. And the cow and the
bear shall feed; thcir young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the o x
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the
asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on
the cadratrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain [kingdom]: for the
earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as
11 :4-9.
the w a t m cover the sea."-Isaiah
Some of the blessings that will come to the people
during the Messianic reign are described by the

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opened, a d the eorr of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Then ahdl th.func nun leap u an hart, and the
toogut of the dumb sing: tar in the wilderness dull
water b d out, and stm8mr in the d e r u t And
tbe nmaned d the Lord shall return, and come
to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their
huh:they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sarrow and sighing shall flee away."--Isaiah 35 :5,6,10.
.
That t h e pmmhes to mankind may be more
,clarly understood aad bet* appnciated, we will,
beginning with a mbsquent number of this m a p rine, prrbliob a series of d c l u showing the progreuivt steps of Jehovah's arrangements from the
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Jehovah promises shali constitute the desire of all
nations.
To the people now we say, Be not discouraged
b e c l i w of the s t r e u of the times in which we are
living, but be brave and very courageous. Avail
yourselves of opporttrnity of acquiring more knowledge of the Divine revelation concerning the coming b l e u i n p of the world that you may be able tb
more fully profit by these blessings when they do
come. Avoid strife and contention; be calm and
considerate of all, rendering righteousness unto
every one and patiently waiting tho Lord's good
time to establish complete righteousness in the
earth.

TALKING WITH THE DEAD (?)

(&s M 4 . r 4 h Nan Perk BwJ
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dat!h. Truly

greatest desire is to live forever in a state

of happiness. Nothing hro been so ce&in as
the provub says, "Thc living know
that they shall die." Neariy every living p e r m has
lost some friend, relative or loved one in death. The
present condition of the d u d ones is of great interest
.
to the living for two reasons: (1) because the living
are keenly interested in their friends and loved ones;
I and (2) because the living contemplate that they may
soon go to the &me place. Naturally, the living examine anything that purports to teach that they can
talk with their departed friends. This desire to mrnrnunicate with the departed one3 has been greatly
augmented by conditions produced by the war, beu u s e so many have died as a result of the war and
many more have died from the pestilence that came in
the time of the war.
Recently the public press has printed much concerning the dead and the ability of certain !iving ones
to communicate with'the dead These published experiences are attracting wide attention throughout the
world and should not be passed by lightly. If the
living can talk witb the dead, then all the people
should know it. On the other hand, if from a fair
consideration of all the evidence we should find that
the living cannot talk with the dead, but that the testimony produced in support of the contention is decep
-tive a d misleading, then, of course, the people should
be acquainted with these facts.
-- It is intemting to note the class of men who are
producing and publishing this evidence. They are not
of the superstitious, ignorant or uneducated. On the
contrary, from the world's viewpoint, they are men
of great learning, of high moraj and social standing,

and of stridest integrity. As such matters are usudly

considered, they are strictly compctmt witnesses,
whose testimony should be candidly weighed a d considered. We introduce a few of these witnesses and
give excerpts from their testimony as published in the
public press by the Metropolitan Newspaper Service.
Prof. James H. Hyslop, PhD., U . D . , Secretary of
the American Society for Psychid Reseuch, testifies that interest in psychic1 phenomena has greatly increased since the war; that such was predicted before
the war through Mrs. Piper in a message quotd by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Prof. Hyslop farther states
that the present wide interest is due tm a combination
of 'duences: first, the wholesak loss of life; and second, the materialistic state of the age; that by far the
largest number of persoas who became interested in
psychic research had their interest aroused by the
death of some friend or relative; that finding the
clergymen knew no more about the matter than themselves, or could offer only faith as an escape from
doubt, they sought the psychic research for heip; that
it is doubtfwl if thr same interest wowld have been
arouscd by f h t same uar i t s the Middk Agrs.
Many ask, Why should the recent world war create
such an increased interest in psychic phenomena? We
expect to show herein that it is dur tbw for such increased interest and that the war is merely incidental
to it.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a positive witness that the
living communicate with the d a d ( ? ) , has written
much on the subject. It will be noticed that the musages which purport to come from the dead come
through a medium. A few excerpts from his testimony follow :

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'I think that the presr~mptionis very d e a r that in the case

of some mediums, like Eusapia Paladino, they may be guilty
of trickery when their powers fail them; and yet at other
t i m a bave genuine gifts.
'When the war came it brought umestness into our souls
. n d ~ d UI elook more closeljr a t our own beliefs and reassess
their d u e .
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"The nfigiotn side of it 1- saw to be of infinitely greater
importance and it is this of which I will presently speak. I t
seemed to m e that a11 these phenomens large and small have
been the telephone bells which said to the human race, 'Rouse
yourselves. stand by, be at attention 1 Here are signs for you.
They will lead you up to the message which God wishes to
aend.' P h y r i a l phenomena make religion a very r u l thing;
no longer r rmtttr of faith, but a matter of actual experience
,
and fact.
'I have spoken of a body of fresh doctrine. Whence does
thh come? It comes in the main through automatic writing
where the hand of the human medium is controlled either by
an alleged d u d human beihg o r by an alleged angel.
.
Thua written communications are supplemented by a vast
number of utterances and by the verbal message of spirits
given through the lips of mediums. Sometimes it has even
come by direct voices. I t h u come through the family circle
md table tilting.
"The lessons we may learn teach us of tlre continued life of
the soul; of the nature o f that life and how it is influenced
by our conduct h e r e If this is distinct from religion. I must
confess that I do not understand the distinction. T o me it
is religion, the very essence of i t
"As to o t h a creeds, it must be admitted that an.acceptance
o f the teachings brought to us from beyond woutd, greatly
modify conventional Christianity. ,
v i t d of d l , it would C O U ) ~ and
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make absolutely
certain tk fact of lift oftrr death, the b a A of all religion.
It would confirm the unhappy results of sin, although it would
shaw that t h u e r u u l t s are never permanent It would con6nn the idea of h a v e n and a temporary p e d taste which
c m u p o n d a to purgatory rather than to hell. Christianity
mart change or must perish. She h u deferred it until her
churches are half empty, until women are her chief supporters
and until both the learned part of the community oa the one
ride and the poorest c l u s on the other are largely alienated
from h a . T h e people are alienated because they frankly do
not believe the facts presenftd to them to be tru. Thir reason
md their sea^ of justice is equally offended. One can see
n o justice in the vicarious sacrifice nor in the God who would
be plaated by such means. Above all. many cannot underrtrnd sucb u p r a s i o n r u,the redemption from sin.
"Never ru there any evidence of a fall of man; but if
t h e w a e n o fall, then what became of the atonement, of
the redemption, of original sin. of r l u g e put of Christian
mystical p w h y ? Too much reem to have been.made of
Christ*# death. Men die continually for their convictions.
Thourrndr of our lads did in France Therefore the death
of Chrirt. beautiful u it is in the Gospel narrative, has seemed
to a ~ s u m eundue importance Too much stress has been laid
upon Christ's d u t h and far too little upon His life. That
w u where the t m e grandeur and t h e true lesson lay. Never
had any one such r robust common sense o r such a sympathy
f o r wellmess. I t was this most wonderful and uncommon
life and not H b (Cbrist'r) duth which ir the true center of
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"He (Christ) came down at r time of great earthly depmvitl; a time when the world was almost u wicked a r it u
now; in order to give the people in example and teaching of
an ideal l i f c Then H e returned t o His o m high station,
having left an example whicb u still occasionally f o l l o r e d
"If such r view of Christianity were generally accepted,
then I think we should have a creed which might unite the
churches, which might bt reconciled with rcieqce, which might
defy all attacks, which might carry the Christian-faith on f o r
an indefinite period.
'Messages from the dead have been received in many laWs
a t various times, mixed with a good desl h t this world
which we could verify. The mcsuges upon t h a e points seem
to me to be infinitely reassuring, whether we regard our own
fate o r that of our friends. T h e d e p ~ e d~ c that
c passing
L usua1;y easy and painless and followed by an enormous naction of peace and euc,
"The spirit is not a glorified angel or 8 goblin, but it is
simply the person himself, retaining all his strength and weaknesses, his wisdom and l h folly, exactly u he has retained
his personal appearance.
"Communkations usually come from t h o u . who have not
long passed over and tend t o p o w fainter u one would expect There is in Mr. I h n s o n Rogers' life a very good case
of a spirit who called himself Manton and claimed to have
been born at Lawrence, Lydiard, a d buried in Sfbke, Newin*
ton, in 1677. I t w u clearly shown afterward that there w u
such a man and that he was OUws Cromwell's cbaplu'n So
far as my own reading goes thir fr the oldest spirit on record
as returnkg. All agree that life beyond is for a limited per i d , h f t e r which they pqu on t o yet other placer, but ~ p parently there is more comrnuniation )theen these phases
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than between UJ m d tbe spirit Imb*

Other witnesses of the same character as Sir G n a n

Doyle are Prof; Crawford, Prof. Lodge, Prof. Barrett, Gerald Balfour, ~ i s h oFallows,
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Rev. Fielding
Ould, Archdeacon Wilberforce, and' many others of
more br less prominence.
oThe distinguished witnesses above m&tibped claim
to bclieve in Jehovah God as the great First Cause,
the ail-wise and eternal One. They a h i t that Jesus
Christ came down from hcavtn, wai a man, lived on
earth; that He died, was resurrected and ietumed to
heaven.
They quote from the Bible and thereby admit the
authenticity of the Scriptures-that the Bible is the
Word of God.
With these admissions from the wise and distinguished witnesses we have a basis from which to
reason and a rule by which t h a r testimony may be
weighed and considered. Just here we are reminded
of the words of the Prophet Isaiah speaking as the
mouthpiece of Jehovah, relating to the very question
under consideration: "And when they shall say unto
you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and
unto wizards [mediums] that peep and that mutter
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the law

5 28, 29). The Apostle Paul speaks of the dead

.ad thc testimony: if they speak hot according to this being"asleep, unconscious, knowing nothihg.-1 CO=
word, i t is becausa.there is no light in than." (Isaiah tinthian, 15 : 18; 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18.
8119, 20.) In ocher phnse, the Lord's prophet here
But, it will be insisted, the above Scriptures have
says that all the testimony offered ;ith reference to reference to the body being dead and unconscious,

communication with the d u d , if not in harmoay with but the soul continues to live. As above quoted,
and supported by the Word of Cbd is conclusively Sir Conan Doyle says: "The results of psychic re' provqd untny.
God is His own interpreter and He acarch, the deductions which we may draw and the
' will explain His Word to those who seek to underlusons we may learn teach us of the continued ljfe
. .r. e d , i t
Bible is the Word of Truth, "For of the soul."' W e quote from Bishop Fallows as
prophccy came not in old time by the will of man; follows: "In recent yearn great stridu have been
, - but hdy men of God spoke as they were moved by made in the explanatiort of psychic phenomena and
th; Holy Spirit." (2 Peter 1 :21.) I t was Jesus in the years to come the science of communication
Christ who said, "Thy word is truth." (John-$7:17.) with the dead wilt be made a part of the curriculum
:'#Ah Scripture divinely inspired is indeed profitable of great educational institutions. I have called the
for teaching, for instroction, for correction,. for that new sci,ence Immortalism because it depends for its
discipline which is in righteousness, so that the nnn existence, & the immortalby of tk soul, in which
of-God may be complete, thoroughly fitted for every we all believe, and the pra4matilon of identity begood work." (2 Timothy 3:16, 17, Diagiott.) Then yond the grave."
by the testimony of the Bible let us examine' these
From the two eminent witness- above quoted, it
'questions and settle than accordingly.
is seen that the theory of Gmmunication with the
I t must 'be conceded in the outset that if t h ~
dead dead rests strictly upon the old doctrine of inherent
can communicate with the living then the dead are immortality of the soul. Is the immortality of the
t conscioas after death and know 'everything that is
soul supported by the Bible? Our answer is, there
- trmspiring'. The first important question, then, to is just one Scripture in the Bible that supports it
d d e e n e by the Scriptures i*
and that Scripture Jesus declares is a lie and the
first lie ever told, and Satan told it. It is found in
Genesis 3 :5. The occasion was S a h n using the serW e quote some pertinent Scriptures bearing di- pent as a medium through which to speak to Mother
reftly on the point: "In death there is no remem- Eve and thereby deceive her with reference to eating
brance of thee; in the grave who shall give thee of the forbidden fruit. The woman mid, "We may
t h b ?" (Psalm 6:s). "Wilt thou show wonders to not eat of the fruit in the midst of the garden of
-'the dead? Shall the d u d arise and praise thee? Eden, for God hath said, Ye ahall not eat of it,
Shall thy loving kindness be dcclartd in the grave? neithe; shall ye touch it, lest fe die." And to this
orethy faithfulness in destruction?" (Psalm 88 :lo, Satan replied, "Ye shall not surely die; for God doth
1-1). . "Thou turnest man to destruction" (Psalm know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
90:3). "The dead praise not the Lord, neither aoy shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing
good and evil." This statement of Satan, "Ye shall
that go down into silence."-Psalm
115:17.
The Scripturu clearly show that one who dies net surely die," has been the foundation of every
stops breathing, does not think, has no feeling; false doctrine from then until now and it is the one
therefore v u l d not be conscious. "His breath goah to which Jesus referted when speaking of Satan as
' f m h , he nturneth to his earth; in that very day his the father of lies.
I
Subsequent to the violatidn of God's law, Adam
'thoughts paisb'*-Psalm 146:4.
"For the living know that they shall die, but the and his wife Eve were sentenced to d a t h and driven
9 :5.
from Eden m d in due coune of time they died.
dead know not ulything."-Eccluiastu
. !'Whatever thy hand hdeth to do, do it with thy Was it merely the body o r the aoul that died? ' Let
mi@, far there is no work, nor device, nor knowl- us first determine what'is the soul. Man is a mu1 ;
td&, nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest. he does not possess a soul. Every living creature
-Ecluiastu 9 :lo.
is a soul. W e say a man has f cow; he possesses a
"Neveriiieless, man b;ing in honor abideth not; cow. But we would not say t man b a cow. "And
49 :12
he is like the b w t s that perish."-Psalm
the Lord Cod formed man out of the dust of the
JCsus declared that a11 the dead are in their graves earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
and asleep--unconscious, knowing nothing (John livea, and man btcomr o Jiving soul."-Genesis
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Clearly, then, we see t!mt Jehovah fcrmed from tlie

elements of the earth the body of man and theq
breathed into his nostrils ihe breath which living
creatures breathe. This breath animated the body,
started the circuktion. and the result was a moving,
sentient being, whic!l God designated a soul. God
in ,His Word applied the term living soul t:, the
lower order of animals long before the creation of
man. (See Genesis 1:a,
30, marginal reading.) H e
.!so used the word soul as applicable to beasts, saying, 'Zevy a tribute unto ,the Lord of the men of
war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of
the asses, and of the sheep.'*-Numbers 31 28.
When one dies, then, it means a separation of the
breath ot life from the body, which means exqinction of the soul, just as the beasts die. "For that
which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts;
even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so
dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; SO
that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for
all is vanity. All go unto one place; are all of the
dust, and a11 turn to dust again" (Ecclesiastes 3 :19,
20). T o settle all qcestion absu: the soul being
subject to death or not, the Ps3lmist says, "M;hat
man is he that liveth and shall not see death? shall
he deliver his soul from the hand of the grzvc?"
(Psalm 89:48.) Eut even more explicit are these
wods, "The soul that sinneth it shall die" (Ezck:el
18:4). If the soul were immortal, it w o d d not be
subject t o death; not even God would be able to
destroy i t Jesus plainly said that Je!~ovsh has the
power to destray the soul.--Matthew I0
Who then is immortal? The cri?:urcs answer,
"The blessed ahd only p t e n t a t e . the king of kings
and lord of lords, who only hath immortality" (1
Timothy 6:15, 16). Immortality means that which
is not subject to death and is offered as a great prize
to the faithful follower of Jesus unto death. "Who
will render to every man according to his deeds: to
them who by patient ccntinuance in well doing seek
for glory, honor and immortality, eternal life."-Romans 2 6,7.
This prize of immortality is offered to none except
the Christian, who having made a consecration to do
God's will, continues faithfully unto death. T o such
Jesus said, "Be thou faithful unto death and I will
give thee a crown of life" (Revelation 2 :lo). Again
the s;ripturw say, "This mortal must put on irnmortality" (1 Corinthians 1533). And here the
words are addressed only to the faithful unto death.
T h e Bible plainly teaches that "man is of the earth,
earthy"; he is not spiritual (1 Corinthians 15:45-47).

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Man is a human being; he is not a spirit being. "A

spirit [being] math not flesh and bones" (Luke
24:39). T h e Apostle in his argument in 1' Corinthians 15 plainly shours that human or natural beings have human or natural bodies; that Adam was
a human a?d not a spiritual being; that none aFe
given spiritual bodies except the faithful followers
of Christ Jesus and they receive such only at the
resurrection.
These Scriptures, then, prove conclusively (and
there is none to contradict them) that man has not
an immortal soul; that man is not a spirit being
but a human; that man when he dies is dead and is
not conscious; therefore .could not possibly commt!nicate with any who are living.
T h e twtimony of the e m i n e ~witnesses above
cited is in direct contradiction of the Bible. First.
they deny th* man w a created 8 perfect human
being and fell. On the contrary, they teach the doctrine of evolution; namely, that man evolved frcm 3
much lower order and has been progressing sincThe Bible says that God created man in His ow?
image and likeness (Genesis 1:26, 27) and we a r e
certain that God never was an ape nor in the i c r of one. In addition to this, the &riptures p;a;n .;
dec!are, "His work is perfect" (De'uteronomy 3-7 1
The Sc;iptural account plainly shows that man v:9lated God's law and was driven from Eden, his F e r fect home, sentenced to death, and died; that :sentence was in process of execution covering a
period of 930 y e a n ; t b t the perfect man begot no
children, but only the imperf;ct man under the sextence, of death exercised his t o w e r of transmit:. .,life. - I t reasonably follows, then, that the imptrt'f man c o d d not bcget t pe;fect child. Hence God :
prophet wrote, "Behold, I was shzpen in iniqu:::,
and in sin did my mother conceive me" (Psa'-51 : 5 ) . Again, "Wherefore, as by one man (Adam:
sin entered the world and death by sin, so dca:?
passed upon all men for that all have sinned" ( R o mans 5 :12). Human experience corroborates t A e
teaching of the Bible, as it is well known by all careful observtrs that the human race is degenerating
and has been for centuries; and no evolutionist has
ever yet been able to prove any progress of the
lower brder of animals to a higher order, nor has
any connecting link been found between animals
and men:
The testimony of the eminent witnesses above
mentioned in substance denier the ransom sauifice
and one of them in particular expressly denies it.
1irhile the death of, Christ is admitted, the value of
His death is positively denied.
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The Scriptura plainly t u c h tbkt,them k rw other the aothendcity d tb Scriplet thdt w

aunt given under heaven whereby we must be stand or f d by them.
ssved. (Acts 4:12) "I determined not to know myThe testimony quoted from gii Conan -It
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thing among you save Jesus Christ and him cruci- mits that Jwoa died and rose &om tbe dead and
6ed."--1 Corinthians 2 2 .
ascended on high St. Rul, the inspired witnew of
The whde race wu under the c o n d ' d o o of Jehovah and whoae testhony we bcficve to be more
death through Adam's disobedie~lce. The only way reliable thvr th.t of the eminent scholars of our
forthem to get out from under that burden is by r present time, concerning the dead add: "Now if
rrrraun price being provided and paid. A ransom Cbiirt be preached that k rose from the
means r corresponding price. Adam was a perfect how say some among you that there is no m t c CJSSUI and there was no man on earth who c d d re- tion of the dead? But if t h t r t be no r a d o n of
deem the n e e or give God a ransom for him. the d u d , then h CMst not r h ~ and
: if Chrigt be
Psalm 4:7.) God promised that He would m##nnot risen, then is oar preaching vain, md ycmr faith
nma from the power of the grave and rcdeun him is also Mia. Yea, m d p uc found fahe w i t n ~ a
fmm death. (Hoses 13:14.) The life of Jcms uu of God; because we have testified of God that he
transferred from the spirit to the human plane. He &red up Christ: whom he r a i d nat up, if so be
n~ begotten by the power of Jehovah, was born that the dead rise n o t For if the dead rbe not, then
M y , brmless, separate from sinners, without dt- is not Christ, raised: and if Christ be not raised,
fiiancnt. Concerning Him we read, "We see J-,
yoor faith is vain; ye a n yet in y a u rim ' Then
who was made a little lower than the angels for the they also which are f d e n asleep in Christ are persugering of death, crowned with glor~rand honor;
that he by the grace of Gcd should taste death for
every mann-Hebrews 29.
Sir Conan Doyle says, "He (Jesus) came down upon
tbc earth to give the people the example and teaching
of .nideal lift." Of Himself Juossays, "I am come
J'tbrt they [the pebple] might have life uid that they
might have it more abundantly." We believe that
Jerur h a better witness than Sir Conaa Doyle
because He was the son of God anct spoke with
authority and knew more ab.out His mission to
e u t h than any man. Again Jesus said, "Even as
the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto but
to minister and to give his life a ransom for many."
(Matthew XI:=.) Again Jesus said, "God so loved
the world that he gave his only begotten son, that
rhosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
hove everlasting life." (John 3 :16) Sir Comn
Doyle and his corroborative witnesses see the abso1necessity for denying the fall of man, the great
atonement sacrifice and the paying of the ransom
price in order to sustain their theory that the dead
uc alive, because the consciousness of the dead abmlutdy denies the necessity for a redeemer.
There is no teaching in the Scripture that haa
brought more comfort and consolation to the hurt
- of the r e d thinker than that of the resurrection of
the dead. If the theory that the dead arc alive and
an communicate with the living is correct, then
the dtxtrine of the resurrection of the dead is a b
rolutely frlse. Resurrection means a restanding to
rift, which would be impossible if the dead were alnrdy alive. Since these eminent witnesses admit

shed."

The Apostle then pnxmdr to pnm conclusively that Christ did rise from the dead md
then positively stater : "For since by man came
death, by man came a h the feS~eCti0fiof the
dead. For as alI in Adam die, even so dl in Christ
shall be made alive. But every man in hh own
order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that
are Christ's at his appearing." Again St. Paul
stater, "There shall be r resurrection of the dead,
both just and unjust" (Acts 24d5). Jesus testified, "Marvel not at this:' for the h o k ir coming
in which. rll' that arc in the graves shall hear
his voice and shall come fcxtAti (John 5 28.) Jesus
gave an illustration when he awakened La&m u
to how the dcad shall be awakened. (John 116-44.)
It will be noticed in this last instance that L u a r u s
had been d u d four days and Jesus did not call hirn
back from t b spirit world, but he caused the stone
to be rolled away from the tomb and then "cried
with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth; and he that
was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with
grave clothes" The record is absolutely silent on
thk matter of his consciousness while he was dead.
Tnus it will be seen that the testimony of the
eminent wftnessu abwe cited, who have recentfy
staded the world with their statanents, is flatly contradicted by the Scriptures.
Sir Conan Doyle in his testimony says, "Bfy point
is that psychical phenomena must, when properly
undefttood and digested, make religion a 'very real
thing and no longer a matter of faith, but a matter
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when the son of man cometh, shall he find faith on
the earth?" (Luke 15:8.) Zhest eminent gentlemen would destroy faith in G o d s Word as a veritable fulfillment of the Master's prophecy.
But, some will say, can it be possible that these
eminent scholars are telling falsehoods and trying
t o deceive the people by making them believe that
the spirits of dead men can tip tables and make
them walk, can cause the hand to write, can speak
through mediums and can even make their voices
heard direct? How these things impress the mind
of another is illustrated by the following incident:
The father of Mr. A had been dead a number of
years. H e was met by a spiritist, who said to him,
"Mr. A, would you like to talk t o your father?"
Mr. A replied, "W'hy my father is dead." "Yes," replied his questioner, "but you can communicate
with th'e dead." Mr. A expressed his unbelief. Then
his questioner said, "Mr. A, are you willing to give
the matter a trial and let me demonstrate to you
that you can talk to your father? If you will go to
a certain number on a certain street and call for
Mrs.
and say to her you have come to communicate with one of your dead friends, but do not
tell her wfrom; and then put her to the test and see
if she can call up your dead father." Mr. A assents.
H e calls on the woman, who is known as a spiritualistic medium. He says to her, "I came here for the
purpose of communicating with a dead friend. I
am a skeptic, but I came a t the instance of my friend
and I want you t o prove t o me whether or not I
can talk t o some one who is dead." The medium
replies, "If you will do what I tell,you, I will make
an effort t o put you into communication with the
one 'with whom you would like to talk. T h e conditions I impose upon you arc these: First, you
must sit quietly in that chair. You must not resist
m e with the power of your will, but be entirely suhmissive and willing to be convinced. You must
then center your mind upon the person with whom you
would like t o talk." Mr. A agrees to the conditions
and c a m e s them out, sitting quietly, being willing
t o be convinced and, therefore, submitting his will.
I n a short time the medium announces the presence
of some one who wishes to talk t o him. Mr. A
listens and presently he hears a voice speaking to
him and he recognizes it as the voice of his father,
-long since dead. The father then relates to him
certain events that transpired in Mr. A's boyhood
and ~ l s otells him other things which Mr. A subsequently proves from other evidence is correct. A
has been a Christian up to this time, thoroughly believing in the Bible. Now he goes away, however,

convinced that his father is alive and not dead and

is able to talk with him.
The question is, Did Mr. A hear his father's voice?'
W e answer, No, because his father was dead and
the Scriptures conclusively prove that dead men do
not talk. Experience proves the same thing. But
can it be denied that he heard a voice? And we
answer, No; nor will there be any attempt t o deny
it. W e admit that he heard a voice. W e admit t$at
Sir Conan Doyle and all of his eminent associates
who testify t o communicating with the dead arc
testifying to what they believe t o be the truth and
that they have heard voices, seen writing and observed tables walk. But instead of this being the
work or v o i c e of the spirits of departed men, we
answer that the voices and works are those of demons who never were men, and this we will prove by
the scripture;; and proving this assertion by the
Scriptures ought t o be sufficient to satisfy every
one, in the light of other Scriptures heretofore cited,
that the dead are not conscious and cannot communicate with the living.
Lucifer, who afterward became Satan, was in
Ederas the overseer of man. He deceived Mother
Eve and caused the death sentence t o come upon h e r
and Adam. I n pronouncing this sentence, Jehovah
will put enmity between thee and the wosaid,
man and between thy seed and her feed. And it
shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel."
--Genesis 3 :15.
Satan was deprived of his position as overseer of
man. Adam having lost his dominion, t h m was
none in the earth in authority, Horrified at the results of Lucifer's wrongful course, the angels of
'heaven (sons of God) desired to uplift man and
God permitted certain ones of them t o undertake
the task. (Hebrews 2:s; Genesis 6:l-5.) Tiiese
angels were granted the power t o materialize in
human form and to assume dominion over the
affairs of earth. They likewise had power to dematerialize. Satan determined that he would not be
thwarted in his purpose of opposing Jehovah. He
had become a liar and the father of lies and now,
with a malignant heart, he set about to'seduce these
angels, his former companions in glory, m d through
them to retain control over man. H e injected into
the minds of these spirit beings the thought to take
wives from amongst the daughters of men, which
they did, thereby leaving their own loftier estate.
Thus Satan caused the angels to sin and fall. The
offspring resulting from this unholy alliance filled
the earth with violence and God announced His
determination to destroy all flesh in the earth He

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ro d r c d Noah md thar brought on the deluge. the d u d should be put to death. (Exodus 22:18;
No& a d hir b i b , eight in'all, not having been Leviticus 1931; 206, 27.) An attempt to comcontaminated by t h e evil ones, received favor in municate with them was declared by Jehovah as an
Cod's sight and w e n saved in the ark which Noah abomination in H t right. "There shall not be
had buildtd at the direction of Jehovah. The great found among you a +tch or 8 charmer or 8 condoad destroyed dl flshly beings save those that sulter with familiar rpirits, or a medium o r a bewere in the ark. The angelic beings, however, a- mancer, for all that do these things are an abomina18:lo, 12.
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their power to dematairrlize, were not de- tion onto the hd"-Deuteronomy
Saul, the fint king of Israel, had a seance G t h
.stroyed. What became of them? The Bible inswers that they were restrained of their 1and a medium who prethded to call up Saxnuel rimilar
r eonfined in the darkness of the atmosphere near the to what the eminent witnesses above mentioned
earth. "God spared not the angels that sinned, but have nlated in modern tima. (See 1 Samuel
cast than down to tartan^ [mistrandated hell] 289-20.)
Somuel waa 8 god prophet. He died.
.and d d i v m d them into chains of darkness to be S a d , the king of Israel, became evil and Cod withmewed unto judgmenLn (2 Peter 2:4.) . "rtre drew His favor from him. The king then directed
angels which kept not their fint estate, but left their hia servants to Snd him a witch or rpiritualistic me-own habitation, he hath reserved in everluting dium with whom t~ consult. Ha uu directed to
chain, under darkness unto the judgment of the the witch living in the cave a t Endor.& Knowing
. p t day.- (Jude 6.) In this condition t h y w e e that it WM his duty to put tn deatb all such meto be &ned
until the judgment day, the infer- diums, as provided by the Law; a d knowing that
ence being tbat at the judgment day they would u- if she recognized him M the king of Israel she would
mist greater power than at any time since the not operate for him, 6e disguised himself and then
- hod. At no time since .the flood have they been per- went to the cave to see her. Evidently the demons
mittcd to materialize in human form. We here assert revealed to this medium that the man who stood
thatt he judgment of the fallen angels is at hand and before her was the king of Ismel, and homfied, she
thetefdre this explains why they exercise so much exclaimed, "Why hast thou come to take my life?"
Saul then admitted to h a that he me the king but
A" more power now than at any other time Of this we
will speak later. Since the time of the deluge they promised to preserve her life if she would obey
have had power to communicate with the human race him and call up Samuel, the d u d prophet The
oat). thrwgh the instrumentality of willing mediums. seance then took placa The demo^ awed to
The Scriptures designate Satan as the prince of p u s before h g mind a vision of a man rising from
devils or demons. (Matthew 12:24.) In some man- the earth and the witch cried out; and b a n g inn a Satan has dominated the other demons or devils. quired of by S a d a~ to what she saw, she said she
He is spoken of as "the prince of the power of the beheld an old man rising, wearing a mlritle, the d t
air" and "the god of this world." (Ephesians 2 3 ; scription being like that of Samuel the prophet
2 Corinthians 4:4.) The first lie was the word Saul fell prone upon the earth and then the medium
spoken by Satan to Mother Eve, "Ye shall not proceeded to tell him that the message from Samuel
surely die"; and ever since he has kept before the was that on the morrow be should engage in battle
minds of humanity the falsehood "There is no with the Philistines, that he would be defeated and
- death." The _theorythat every man has an immortal that the king and his oona would be killed.
Sir Conan Doyle in his tatimony stat* "Some
soul fin& proof o d y in Satan's lie. T o sustain his
f d w position Satan h u ever kept before man's mind mediums like Eusapia Palladino may be guilty of
that the dead are alive, even more so than before trickery." The duaons played a trick on the witch
death. The evil spirits otherwise spoken of as de- of Endor and on Saul on this occasion and lied to
mons, under the control of Satan, have aided him both of them. Samuel was dead and therefore could
in
u t r y i n g out this great l i e Many times the not arise. History discloses the fact that the battle
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between Saul and the Philistine did not take place
Scriptures refer to them as "lying spirits."
The communication of man with these evil spirits the next day but several days afterward and that
impersonating the dead is not a new thing. I t has all of his sons were not killed, but that two of them
, persisted since the flood. When God made the Law survived v d lived for years.
From the days of the flood and1 now these evil
Covenant with the nation of Israel, as a safeguard
against these demons He provided in the Law that spirits or demons have been unable to communicate
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idaence; and this explains why, in the incident

above recorded, Mr. A was requisted to remain
quiet, not to resist with his will. but be willing to be
taught and to concentrate his mind upon the one
with whom he would like to speak.
When Jesus was on earth these demons possessed
,human kings, operated throtrgh mediums, and Jesus
cast than out-See
Matthews 9 :32,33 ; 10:8 ; 12 22 ;
Mark 5:l-20; 9:17-27; ~ u k 9:3842.
e
These demons have mindi ;uperior to human
minds and doubtless are perfect in memqry. Having u k t e d since the time of the flood, they are
f d a r with the events of earth and, this explains
why one such could impersonate a human being
who has been dead a long while. Sir Conan Doyle
cites the instance of one who named himself Manton and who is said to have died in 1677 and who
was Oliver Cromwell's chaplain. I t is an easy matter for a demon familiar with. the life of Cromwell
and those living at his time to come forward and
produce such evidence and thus overreach a mind
that is willing to be convinced
Mr. A above mentioned did not hear the voice of
his father but he heard the voice of one of these
demons, who being familiar with his father's life and
history was able to produce facts having a tendency
to convince th; son that his father was still living;
and the son, being ignorant of who these demons
are, fell a ready victim to the delusion that his father
yet lives.
But why, one asks, should such eminent professors
u Sir Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge, Prof. Hyslop
and other great and wise men be overreached by
these demons. I t might seem probable, says such a
one, that a weak-minded person would be overreached, but it seems rather unreasonable that such
great men should be mistaken. W e answer that the
greatest mia that has lived is not equal intellectually
to these spirit beings who arc restrained in darkness.
God forelmew and through His prophets foretold
that these men, wise in their own conceits and in
the eyes of o t h m , would advance such argument
in the t i w s in which we arc living, deceiving others
and being deceired Long ago He caused His holy
prophet to record the words which subsequently
St. Paul quoted: "For it is written [Isaiah 29:14],
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and I will
bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where
is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made
foolish the wisdom of this world? , For after that
in the wisdom of God the world knew not God."
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foolish to sensible men who believe in the Scriptaro

for these great wise men to say, "Christianity must
change or must perish?". In other words, they are
stating that the great plan of redemption provideJ
by Jehovah must yield to their increased wisdom
a d if it does not so yield then it must perish.
But, asks another, why should we attempt to deny
the power to communicate with the d u d when we
get much codsolation from the fact of talking 6 t h .
our dead friends? And if your contention is correct
tkat it is the demons m u n i a t i n g , what p u v
or motive would they hare in impersonating people
who had b n n dead for some time?
The answer to these questions is the real kernel
of the nut, so to speak. There never was a crime
committed except there was 6 motive back of i t
The so-cdkd communication of dead people with
the living is a crime upon humanity because it blinds
them to God's great purposc The real motive is to
keep the people in ignorance and in darkness concerning the provision that God has made for the
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salvation and blessing of mankind.
God said to man, "Ye shall surely diew; and
Satan said, "Ye shall not surely die" Satan lied.
Satan has ever dpposed Jehovah's purposes and f ehovah has permitted him to do this for the purpose
of teaching mankind a gnat lesson and magnifying
His own (Jehovah's) power in due time The great
plan of redemption provided by Jehovah will become operative through Christ and His chosen
bride To Abraham Jehovah said, "In thy seed
shall a11 the families of the earth be blessed." This
was the seed of promise and it i? the seed against
which Satan has warred at all times. S t Paul plainly
points out that the seed of promise is the ChristJesus the head and the faithful members of =s body
who continue to follow Him even unto death and
participate in the first resurrection. When this
promise was made to Abraham, Satan sought to
have Sarah, his wife, debayched that the seed would
be destroyed. When the promise w a passed down
to David, Satan attempted to have David killed.
When Jesus came to earth, recognizing that He
was the promised seed, Satan sought to kill him and
ultimately succeeded, through his agencies ;but God
raised Him from the dead and exalted Him above
all others, making Him head over the Church, His
k d y . Satan and the demons have waned against
the Church and against Christ Jesus all through the
Age. They have sought to destroy true Christianity
and now the wise men boldly say, "Christianiv
must yield to the further deception of Satan or be
destroyed. How many will be fooled? Jesus said

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dl except the elect, and if it were posrible he w d d order and t&e tfor the beginning ~f the new,
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deceive the v e q elect
which will 'bring kr the Golden Age, Jcnu said, "But '
. Above we quoted the scriptare th.t there ia no u the dap of Noah wae, ro rhll .Ira the coming
other name givea under heaven whereby we must of the Son of man be" (Matthew 24S7). It d be
be saved except the name of Christ Jesus. Tbe teb remembered, refming to the Scriptural account of
timony of the eminent witness Sir Gmaa Doyle k to Noah's day, that the demo= then had overreached
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the effect that too much stress is laid on the d a t h . and debauched practically all of the human rrce and
, of Christ Jesus, He is a very prominent man and the people were indiffemnt to the prtachings of
he otrd the other professors named have a wide in- Noah and they were going abottt pursuing that
flucnce over the people and the public press is open which would gratify t h d r desirer. They had dis- to these influential men now to influence the people; regarded God and Hia Word .ad we see d y the
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and thua Stan is blinding these great men and is same thing now prevailing; and it is bdrig brought
blinding those who yield to them, including a large about chiefly through the ministration of the demons
number of clergymen, just as the Apostle said it who did i t in Noah's day. W e warn the people,
would be (2 Corinthians 4:3,4). If the people can therefore', to be not deceived bf the testimony of
be thoroughly convinced that their dead friends ue wise men, but to turn their attention to 8 careful
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alive and not d u d , then they will believe that man and faithful study of the Bible, whkh'onlj contains
did not fall; that there was no necessiq for a re- the pure doctrine with reference to G d B sprmiabn
deaner; that Jcsp Christ did not die to save them; for the salvation and blessing of mrmkInd.
that there is no resurrection of the dead; and t h w
The above Scriptural proof adduced, therefore,
Satan and the demons would succeed in destroying conclusively shows that the dead are dead m d are
the faith of the people in God's great plan of re- not c o n h s ; that the living cannot c q m u n i c a t e
demption. I t is easy, thercfote, to be seen that one with the d u d ; and the testimony of thc eminent
. of the greatest menaces to the human race today, wise men is fall7 and c o n d a s i v d j explained by the
the strongest delusion, and that which threatens to Suipturrs, which show that in the time in which
destroy the very foundation of faith in God's Word we are now living the demons would exercise
and plan, is the deception held before the people greater power, deceiving the rhinb of man*, inducthat the living can communicate with the dud.
ing them to believe that their dead friends are dive
a
d by thus pretending fraudulmtly to bring them
From the Scriptures above cited (2 Peter 2 :4;
a
measure
of comfort are in fact deceiving them and
Jude 6) we have seen that these demons were to be
from God's great uronp
driving
them
restrained in darkness until the judgment day. The
for
their
o
m
tion
on.
;fear inference to be drawn from this is that when
The result of this delusion will be in 8 short time stii
the judgment day is reached they would be able
exercise greater power than ever before because greater confusion, in fulfillment of 'lTesw8P ~ o P ~ ~ C Y *
they would be in a m-urn
at l a s t relwed from "For then shall be great tribulation, such u was
their rrstnint. 0 t h Scriptur~
clearly a d conclu- not since the beginning of the world to this time;
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sively prove that we are in the time of the judgment no, nor ever shdl be."-Matthew
This time of great stress, however, will be folupon the nations and upon Christendom, and that
this is also the time of the judgment of the evil lowed by the reign of Christ, introducing the Golden
. spirits, the demons. This explains why the great Age, during which all blindness of mind and conwar which has just ended was used as a means of fusion will be removed and during which time the
inducing more people to turn to spiritism. The knowledge of the Lord shall fill the whole earth as
great war was foretold by the Lord Jesus as the the waters fill the deep, and every one will be
time when "nation shall rise against nation and brought to a knowledge of the Truth and in that
kingdom against kingdom," and that this would be time a11 the d u d shall be awakened out of death and
one of the evidences of the end of the old o r d n of being brought to an accurate knowledge of the
things just preceding the inauguration of the new Truth (1 Timothy 2 :3-6),will l a m that Jesus a r i s t
order, which is the Golden Age. The Great Master gave His life a ransom for all and that in due time
sytcd that a further evidence of that time would be the testimony will be given to alI, and a l l wiH underthat this war would be followed by general social stand. And those who do understand m d obey the
disturbance, revolutions and like trouble throughout Lord will be blessed by being lifted up to perfection
the earth; and we now see that in progress. As an of body and mind and united with their frienda to
additional evidence that we are at the end of the old enjoy everlastingly peace, prosperity and happiness.

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Its Origin

Its Import

What It Will AccomjJish

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N a n York Clty, N.Y.. Wednesday. Octobr 15, 1919

No. 2

CURRENT EVENTS- -THEIR MEANING

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CUSTOM has long obtained throughout Great

Britain of celebrating the lint week of August

as "bank holidays." In the summer of 1914 the Irish

question was engaging the attention of England and
causing much concern. At the same time there was a
great deal of agitation among the laboring elements,
and. it was generally understood throughout Great
Britain that the beginning of the bank holidays that
year (August 1st) would mark the beginning of a
great strike, which would not only tie up commerce but
would stop every wheel in the United Kingdomtbe very thing that ham just come t o paas. Necessarily the tension was high in Great Britain at that
time and every one was in an attitude of expectancy.
But just before the time for calling the strike, the
great international war began. The labor agitation
ceased and the labor elements joined hands with
the other elements of the social order of Great
Britain and went out t o fight Great Britain's
enemies.
But the war did not serve to permyenfly appease
the wrath of the discontented of the labor and radical
elements. Shortly after the war these elemtnts in the
social order began an agitation. and for the past few
weeks Great Britain has been in the throes of not only
a disturbed labor and financial condition, but what the
mblic press t e r n a bloodless revolution. A met*
politan paper recently said:

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"Great Britain's bloodlass rrvolution is gaining fast and the

Lords and Commons in daily session are progressing with
proposals designed to equalize opportnnititr in m r y phase of
lifc
'The coal nationalization plan h gaining adherence in hi&
places, despite the vigorow and virile attacks by the plutocratic holderr and agents of coal'tractr. It i~ contended
the government's witnesru and u p v M that the titles to these
areu are invalid and have been nnjnstly and illegally held for
anturies.
T h e government Ia having itr hands full Wth tbe anemployment quest~on,and cool heads alone will avert clash Amcriu n r may have a better idea of conditioru whtn thty lurn
that whereas in the United Stater, according to Mr. Gornpers,
less than fifteen pa cent. of wage u r n e n arc o ~ u t d kl
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the British Isles less than Bfteen per cent are not In other
w c r b , labor ir making tremendous efforts to gain entire control of the government Lloyd George h u been driven to
radical utremer. to conaliah labor."

We frequently hear the expression, "Histoy VU

itself." W e are forcibly reminded of the parallelism
between conditions prevaiiing in G n a t Britain a d
those which once prevailed in Palestine. For centuries
Jehovah dealt with the Jeyish people. and Jetusalem
was the ecclesiastical center of the world. English
scholars have long contended that England occupies a
position relative to the world similar to that occupied
by Jerusalem in the closing years of the national historp of Israel. The Prophet Jeremiah, who was s p a
cially sent to Israel between the years 646 and 606 a c,
describes the enemies of Jemsalem as "the people from
the north country," a rash, radical element. This r a d i a l
element from the north had come down and laid siego
to Jerusalem. When word was brought that the armies
of Egypt were marching toward Jerusalem, these peaples of the north, otherwise known a s the W d e a n r ,
withdrew from the siege of Jerusalrm to war .gainst
the a n n i u of Egypt, and having defeated t h m , returned and again laid siege to Jerusalem with the w&
known r a u l t recorded both in sacred and profme hi,
tov:
The peoples from the north described by the prophat.
very fitly picture or represent the labor and radical elements of Great Britain that laid siege t o the government of England in 1914; and hearing of the oncoming
of the Gennans they withdrew and fought the c n q
until their defeat, only to return and renew their sieg.
against the government of Great Britain.
In this connection we arc reminded that according tb
Bible chronology the old social order of things reached
an end with 1914. In other words. there the period
granted to the Gentile as a lease of undisturbed r u l e
ship of the earth ended When Jesus was asked what
would be some of the evidences of the end of the world
(the old order) and the beginning of the new, he answered, "Nation shall rise against nation and kingdom

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against kingdom." and this shall be followed by famine,

pestilence and revolutioa. All of this trouble, he set
forth, would immediately precede the inauguration of
his reign of righteousness, which would bring
the
Golden Age. It iq a matter of histthat the international war began exactly on time, 1914; and that this
war has been followed by the great pestilence of mButnn, which claimed more victims by far than fell in
' the war; and also by revolutions and gcneml foad
r h o r t y , which might be described a s a famine. Thew
cvidmc+r indicate that the Golden Age is at hand.
E v a y sane person who belicvcm in the existence of
J e h d aa the all-wise Creator must know that all the
e v a b which are transpiring in the world arc occurring
in h u m m y with his foreknowledge. The Bible re
cords, "Known unto God are all his ways from the
beginning (Acts 15:18). Jehovah. then, must have
foreknown the conditions prevailing in the world, in:
cludjng dl the strikes, labor troubles, revolutions, e t c
W e have but to refer to the Sciiptures to know that
he foreknew such. His prophet was directed to record
these words: "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall
u m men; and all the proud, yea, and all that
do wickedly, shall be stubble ;and the day that cometh
sh;rU burn than up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall
lave &em neither root nor branch" (hlalachi 4 : I ) .
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e ir used in the Scriptures as a symbol of destruction b d fitly.represents the destruction of the old and
unrighteous order to make preparation for the new incoming better order of things.
The public press fully recognizes the disintegration
of the present order; that the fire is burning away the
d d rtructnre, but the reason for it Ms seemingly been
entirely overlooked. The Los Angeles Tiincs recently
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Wne-bdf of the world is ablaze, the other half smoldering.

The hrlf capable of saving t l ~ eproperty already on fire is just
nar --pied
checking the spread of the conflagration
to ih own home baildings. A w e qui )rut spirit is at

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domirud incentive to most human actlon.

prrwt
"For h m m i t y is only just emerging, somewhat fearfully,
somewhat r e d t l ~ s f y ,from the shadow of a great crime. The
dawn of puce b obscured in the cloud-rack that follows the
wake of the nrr a m p e s t
T o r the time being the tendency of social forcea is toward
discord and disintegration. -4lrnost every newspaper dispatch,
foreign and domutic, affords evidence of this dangerous
trend England, France, - Grmany Redivivus, the three
balance-wheels of Europe, are running out of true.
"Our people at home are fretting under new laws and new
obliptioam; restless and irritated, they are turning away from
the wisdom of the ages. These psychological causes are manifest in violent disturbances. The whole world is mutinous.
' I n such sporadic outbreaks u the IVincipeg revolt. the
Chicago riots, the promiscuous bomb-throwing at leading

ddrexu in tbe United Stater. the Saturnalia of the dryr of

the h u m race in unpoliced Liverpool, the general strike
situation tha! thrutena to pudyxe England, we see the ecowmic peril that springs from this g e n t d world-spirit of
rest dirruisfaction m d d i s l i k for all former restrain&

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the ast of living qoo up the price of h u m life pou d o r a

The ume spirit permutes not oilb popuh P s t u . but mn
popular decencies and morals.
I?he h m o r t of tbC niest war ever indicted on suffer&
human it^ h.rr tried the world's rod to th limit of ea&rmet The 4 0 a h u becn violent. Hrmun luton h put
in# through a spasm of protest. Hmac, riots and extramgance and immodesty and jazz music m d rhimmie d.ncu are
a seething wash of u n r u t
I s humanity going on the rocks? It wcmr tu-be-h
margin of s a f e at timu appears to k cut down to 8 reekI i a t y fine Iiic Tbe ship is passing through
rey
steering closer than caution warrants to the m f r . h d mdcontenta in the fo'd~leare trying to unsteady the h a d of th.
pilot."

Of course the writer of the above does not uie "fiten

in a literal sense, but uses it symbolidly to represent
the destructive elements of society, one warring against
the other; and this fire that is destroying the present
unrighteous order has come because individual and
national selfishness has gone to seed, and the time of
God's judgment is upon a11 such and the fire of his
jealousy is burning away all the dross, preparatory for
a better order. we foretold this long ago, saying,
"Thereforr wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the
day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is
to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon than mine indignation, even all my
.fierce anger; for a11 the earth shall be devou.4 with
the f
in of my jealousy" (Zepbniah 3:8). In harmony with the foreknowledge of Jehovah thus recorded. the secular press of the world is recording the
happening of the events. While passing through this
fiery time it is not enjoyable to any one. but the one
who really appreciates what it means and what shall
follow after will take courage and rejoice. It really
means the passing away of a system of selfishness and
unrighteousness to be followed by a time of blessing.
The Lord's prophet, after using the above language
applicable to the present time of burning, then says,
"For then [after this fiery time of distress and trouble
ends] will I turn to the people a pure message [a message that they can all understand and appreciate], that
they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve
him with one consent." There is real comfort in the
thought that all of these troubles will but prepare the
world to realize the blessings that God has in store for
them. A11 these experiences are part of the Divine
nlethod of instructing ~nallkindthat the only feasible
way of correcting the difficulties existing i s by and

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through the agency of Messiah's kingdom, the inaugn- t h w arc better t h tfiv are a& 'Artide F er the tn18
of s a n m i f Or the status of the hionme
in
ntion of the Golden Age. Before these blessings long
relatiori t o the League covenant This ir not relfishner or la;
hoped for md promis& begin, the prurnt imp-suluity, but the same m e n d procar which unw r cindet.
fect and unrighteous systems must end.
in a man's eye to e n p s r man of his attention thrn doa
Part of the people for centuries have been in a n a- ,,
dismmd i, ta, neighborhood of Jd*."
alted position, while the greater number of than have
The Landon.Doi?y H m f d records conditions of unbeen far below them. T h i d t e d ones, then, would
be repraented by the hills or high places, while the rest a w n g ia France in the following m p h :
d c g r would picture thwe of the lower walla of liic
9.0.
d* A&
F W ~ a
h d looking tr ~ ub tt r s ~ dtime of the dm k .the
prophet of the Lard says, ' Z v q valley [low place, ~
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t ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
kJW people] shall be
and every
and plot to min dctodau
Leon k d e in t h Action
hill [high people] shall be made low ; and the m k e d ~ r o y o ~rw
r , hc m o t
Ms d t s .nd
~ h.In
[unrighteouu, profiteers, etc] shall be made straight point of f a c ~the mo-t
k not o d d at 9. But t
b
the
sign*-%
for it
a mand the rough places [the c o m a difficult to under- makes It F ~ W
MeOu manifestadon of the de+o discontent m o u e the whole
nude
n i s does mass of the worten.
stand or pass over~s,a
not mean that the ppor will ultimately dominate the
me nuin immedim
is of
,lo,,,-r
the
rich, nor the rich be brought down to a low condition ; high cost of living, which people in England C-ot p s i b b
but it does mean a general leveling pmcus in which appreaate. But opvt tram that there is a general rerue of
every
have a fir
opportunity for life, libaty disillusionment a d dlroppaintment Victory h u turned into
*-d happines under he righttom reign of the M-dust aud aha,and the worken of France are realizing that
for them four years* struggle hu brought nothing."
siah. It is, therefore, profitable for the people to a p
. ~reciatethe real mtaning of this Pment disturbed
F m P ~coma
s the word that the following trades
to
the aft (or were at the time of the correspondence) on
mudition and to Prepare
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bleuing~that must follow.
strike: metal workers, tailors, milliners, bootmakers.
Among the Present o r old order of think
there am mechanical modellers, saw-mill workers, printers, plumrich and the poor &- bers, butchers, carpenters, glove makers, builders,
nunely*
men% the high and the low e l m m b * the d c d and newspaper employas, subway men, transport workers,
arnsurative elements. The public F m MY
brmze workers, taxi drirrrs, e l s t r i d worken at
bward an- Bourget Campany, auplhated e x p i d o n of these elanof Maison Brassert, Maiother- The strile
the laborers
son Brcguet, Maison Dnfagd, and aeroplane workers
the -*list.
dw
to heated WQ*
at Courtevoie. In France outside of h i s builders are
it is not ~ J J X Oto~speak
~ ~ ~ affairs
on strike at Valmdennu, timber warken at SainteIs not Tulle, tramway workers at Caen, gas workers a t Nc
these elements a, 6 - g
"hot"
coafhcd to
Pa*
the
bat is emhe=
vers, metal worken at Grenoble, electrical workera in
in practically every nation. W e append some appro- h i n e ,minas in pas-dexalais.
ptiate excerpts from the daily p e s s as evidence of
As further proof of the spirit of discontent and the
the fervent heat that is prevailing among these heat p-ailing
the elunents, we quote from the
d o u s elements. The Philadelphia Public Ledger
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says:
"What have L e peaple'd b l y ken riotlng about? High
prices. To read the recent cablegrams from that l a d of
long history and magic beauty one would have expected the
rioting to be over Fiume or the Adriatic Islands ar the
- :. exclusion of Italy from the French alliance But the source
. ' of the trouble was more o~mmonplaceand unsentimental. I t
was simply that the grocer charged too much for 'eatsp and
the tailor for clothes.
'%rope is thinking of itr s t o m a h and its back, n d its
political right8 or its national boundariu
"And Europe h a no monopoly on this line of Lought The
plain people of America are more interested today in the
steadily mounting prices of most of the necessities of life
and the constant warnin- that things will be worse befor8

"When has &era beca mch r tumult?

"A hundred thousand strikers in the building tradu in
Chicago I
"A ' A d r e d and fifty thousand railroad shopmen on strike
in America !
"A 'A -1e.a
kwyefr boure &united .ad kumcd because he assisted in p r o ~ c u t i n gradialsl
"Whites and colored in near civil war io Chicago!
"Strikes in full swing or incubating in maoy America
cities ; labor unrest dl over the world l
"A night of riot in Liverpod described by a newspaper as
'the most dbtrusing night ever p a s ~ din a civilized c i d I
" S h i k u of policemen, street car workers. railwar operatives and mine workers in various pub of Englaodl
"Where u e we headed for?"

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Tbe %n F d m Cdl a d pod, nf&g

to simi.hr-&tions ,,.,.*ling
in different p* of t+ a*
jpuks of it

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smintr throughout a large part of Central and Eastern

Eure=
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h a r t s of men are full of w4ty." We quote :

" O h a of hta tha at&a

ritb rhkb dm d still
cchar =em less like the crimes of individual men than ra
dace &an which has ~ i r c upan
d
h u d t y . The coarse

.fthirdf.euc~evenkmrppedot& Itbegan,aofuu
thL generatian is cnnccmn4 in Anneni* where the Turb
h i ha Chrirtirnr without provoking the ~ocJkdOrbtian natioaa to anything more tho mild pretests. I t s p r d
to the Bahaa, r h v e the second B a l k ru was preceded
and ueompaaied by the most appalling w n c r u . The
&&Irep- upon them massacres, in which no ooe'r h?n&
were dcm, war r sensation early ia 1914
. With the outbruk of the war between S v r k md Amatria
tk d i r w bkred up with renewed for)., and when the tittle
.
Nbecame a put one the g m n s narc urried into Fnacc
.Id Belgium on the one side and into Russia on the other.
The Cvmrns md R u s r h s committed rtrodtia upon each
orhu in the cast, and in Poland both sidu persecuted the
Jerr.
"The B o l h d s t revelation introduced a new element of
baed-vy
and desire for revenge on the one hand, fear on
the other. The number of killings by the Bolshevilci h u
kea uaggenkd. but though it is claimed Lmim h a not
ldllcd wantonly, it k admitted he mared no Yfe that stood in
the way of him swccar On the outskirts of the revolutioa
wavered a barbvic fringe, the offspring of poverty and ogpression, who killed like b e u u and were in turn killed, eves
by the rcvolutionirts.
TINenemies of the revolution m e from bte f h t u
bbdthirse u the m
a
t of the terrorists. In Finland, Manmrheia m
i nponed to have hlled about nine thousand.
Kokhsk k known to hold 'down his 'liberated' districts with
a bloody hand and bas executed hundreds, ;nJuding seven1
members of the Constituent AsxmMy who took refugc with
him from the Bolsheviki; the Japanese hold large pa* of
Siberia under r reiga of terror, m d Petlwa'r forcer are
charged with the almost incredible crime of killing a in' d p t i n g - t h e killing of 84,000 Jews in the Ukraine.
"Spoataneoua as well u organized cruelty has been n m pant everywhere The f a c e s of order and of disorder are
almost equally savage. What is going on. seems to be a general breakdown of civiiired restraints throughout a large part
of central and eastern Europc It ir just such a brmkduwn.
appuently, u preceded tlie destruction of the old Roman
avJLrtioa fifteen hundred years ago. The dcril u let loose
in &world, the h a r t s of men are full of cruelty. Soch a
.dc@s~eration
a n &a# great muof men d o r a toward
- ?the
beart just a s it cm individuals. Conceivably the whole
.-world m a y be attacked by i t Neither westcra E u r o a nor
-Amcriu u crfc We do &t know what tunputr may-sweep
over u r
no antidote ucept
cliU'b to a few
standards which have proven g o d W e u n not tell what of oar
institution# will survive. or if any wiU survive mjm&red.
but we m bt r u n b a t the morc-tolulnt we =,& lllQt
kindly, the more willing to stu* tbc other man's point of

the mom chPa we ahdl bar* of tdldiry oa to wL.L

we most d u e in civill.tion. Thir is m time for the adtivation of hate. I t is no time to denounce or vilify even the
wont and weakest of mankind. It is a. time for understrndiry.
only
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ClpitJistr have becomecanvinctd that the man tbey
yield to the denun& of the labor and radical elcmmts,
the more will be demanded of than, .and here is r
growing antagonism betweenthe tvo danents. T+eo
is o &rat to withdraw cnpitd from public .nd private
t n t m p r h , which, of mume, would depress kuiaar
d finmcial interests to the detriment of all. With
both capital and labor idle. the two dements would dhintegrate or melt. With a constant wasfare between
the two the result would be the same.
Recently a bill w u introduced in Congress that is
kno\vn u tbc Plumb plan for thg control and ape&
of the railroads. Its chief provisions are t h w : 1. Purchase by the Govennnmt of aH the nilmad
s t u n s on valuatiom determined finally by the courts:
2. Operation by a directorate of fifteen, five to be
chosen by the President to represent the public, five to
be elected by the operating officials and five by the
classified employers.
3. Equal division of sarptus, after paying tixed
charges and operating corts between the public and the
employee.
4. Automatic reduction of rates whtn the a~
ployes' share of the surplus is more than five per cent.
of the gross operating revenue.
5. Regional operation of the lines as a unified syrtun.

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6. Buildin~of extmsions at expense of the cornmunities benefited, in proportion to ;he benefit.

7. Payment for the roads made through Gonrnment bonds bearing four per cent. interest.
It is claimed there are six million members of labor
o r ~ n i z a t i o n sadvocating this bill. T h e New Yark
World commenting upon the bill says : "The diff e m c e
between the Wall Street looting system and the
Brotherhood looting system is that VJall Street provides the oiiginal investment for its operations, while
the Brotherhoods insist that the United S t a t u must
furnish the money."
A labor paper, speaking for the labor element on the
same subject, says: "The American labor unions and
the national farmers are ~ ogoing
t
to permit the rdrrrn
of the railrcads to private hands. The robbery of the
people by the a1lcge-d owners of the railmadi ha been
stopped, and the bandits are not going to be restored
to their plunder by any means. Let every one take
notice. The unions are out for national ownership of
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?)rt condition rteordcd by the public press as lbove

quoted is not one that has come sudrtmly upon the
world but has crept in gradually as a thief in the night.
It is impossible to read this record of present-day
events without having in mind the prophetic words
recorded nineteen centuries a p by the inspired apostle
and prophet of the Lord :vho said: "Bgt the dzy af
the Lord will come as a thief in the night ; in the which
the heavens shall pass anray with a great noise, anqth;'
elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth a!so
and the works that are therein shall be burned up. . . .
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the &r
of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat." '
.--2 Peter 3:10-12.
I t should be remcmbcred that St. Peter was
prophet a9 well as an apostle ;that he; as other prophets,
was a mouthpiece of C o d , ~ ocxpound ~ r ' ~ iuttennce
re
concerning things that would come to pass. As were
other of ~ ~prophets,
d ' he ~was moved to write of
thin@ which, not being due in his time or day and
therefore not appteciated then, are now due to be fd'Financial men do not mince kords; they state pointedly filled and can be appreciated by those who obsenpethe
they will back employe:^ to the limiv win permit every irn- events transpiring in tile !ight of the testimony
po-t
industry in Chicago and in the Middle West territory reorded in ~~l~ \vrit.
@ k strike-itricken rather tl~an hbnlit to m unreuonabk
or unjust coadition,. ~f it
come
+ drastic issue
Throughout tile Scriptures"earth"w11en used symk t v e t n emplopr and Crnployee, well and goad; they, the bolically, represents societ)., or the prevailing social Orrepresentatives of capital declare, will not evade the contest; der. "Heavens" used in the s)plbolicaI sense m-.u
Ict the thing be settled no\*! and definitely; they are ready to powers of spiritual control or ecclesiastica~elements
matt and combat it to r final conclu~ion,is the .asertion.'
prevailing at a stated time. "Fire" used in a figurative
There is an ecclcsiasticrl element which is described sense, as in the Scriptures quoted a b a ~ erepresents
,
or
in the Scriptures by the symbolic te? "heavens," and piCtura destruction. \vith prpphetjc \vision, this
it is v;ell 'mown to all that this element is melting and
looking to the end of the d6e, the time thrau@
disintegrating. The Rev.. Dr. Gmham is reported re- which the
is now
refers to the pc.d
ccntly to have said :
"the day of the Lord" and states that it will come upon
"LVorld-rocking social uphcavalr, thrutcniw to dtstro). 111 the world "as a thief ia the night," that is to say, unreligion, uc due to come in the n u t few y w s . Ameria, in ot,servcd except by those who are
md dw
the muntime, is in peril of bCcomina drunk with a sense of
iu p o w r
of h j n p destroyed, *erefore,
have other
in^
the hea"&'ls (meaing the present pawn
of spiritual control) shall pass away with a great, his*
nrtionr in tk p u t "
h'ew York City is ing, troublesome noise. And so we see the pnscnt
The R ~ D~~ .. R. Stnttoir
ecclesiastical elements mixing up with the worldly elereported by the ?;ew York -4mnicce as saying:
rnents and disregarding the teachings of Jesus and the
. .
'We stc church& inviting opera 'rtarr' to r i a at theis
apstles and melting away or disintcgating.
continu, -. scrvictr m d securing 'movie artists' in the f r u t i c efiort to
- - attra~tthe crowd, and very recently we had the annocncc- kg, the apostle says: ".kid the eltmmts [clarly
mmt in our Papers of one Putor wf.10 introduced the jazz meaning the rich and poor dencna, the Rnancial a d
b a d into kir services.
labor elements, the radical and conservative elements,
"I believe, my frio;&, that h e new church methods are
etc.1 shall melt pith feflent heat;" that is to say, they
8 shameless surrender to the worst tendencies of the timu.
"And the next stage--1v11at shall it be? hiore pronounced will become so hot one toward another that the result
\-aude:.ille features? Tight-rope walking across the heads ,,,ill be a uithdnwal of capital and a supension of
of the congregation from the gallery to the choir loft? Conreemred flcg d;ncinp a d t$e4reljbims hanet; h!weell
he labor through strikes, ausing the elements to melt or
preacher's 'stunts'? Arr we to hrve this?" ,
disintegntt
Iiad out that any attempt to return the roads will pre-

cipitate a great conffict .which will k won by the

unions." .
Another paper, the mouthpiece of another branch of
the ndical element, says: "Nothing less thsn the
foundations of private ownership of every public ind u s t y are menaced by the Plumb plan bill now i;l the
li+s against the old system of railroad control, which
h u run its course and amply proved its inefficiencyand
worthlessness." Continuing, this writer points out that
"the working class" has in its favor "tht menacing unrtu due to the sooting cost of living, the ability of the
workers to counterbalance capitalist control of Conp e s s by the general strike if aggression should force
the use of this weapon, and the p!ain fact that the
numb plan is the ocly workable way out of the milroad irnpassi, sometlling which no anount of slander
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regarding it can disprove."
Another great daily, spaking for the financial side
of the question and which shows how the two elements
are incrudng in fervent heat One toward the other,
~.
says :

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It would be distressing inclccd if the present order

should pass into a chaotic condition, and .there would
be no basis for our Iiopc of 3 better condition to come.
I3nt the Lord, througl~ his prophetic \\'itness, the
Bible, records a sure basis for our hope of 3 better con, ditiorl to follow immediately after the pracnt disturbed
conditions. St. Peter further says: "h'evertheless we,
according to his promise, I d for new heavens and a
new earth, viherein dwelleth righteousness" (2 Peter
3:13). Those here referred t o as "\t.e" of nmssity
must be the class to wlrich St. Peter himself bdongcd;
and since he was a fully consecrated Christian, fdlowing in the footsteps of his Blaster, Christ J c s u , he must
have meant a11 \\rho come into this covenant relationship with Gocl through Jesus Christ and who strive t o
be obedient to the Lord's arrangement, who have full
faith and contidencc in the pron~isesof Cod and who
look for, as well as hope and p n y for, the coming of
hfessiah's kingdcm-that ctass'a~hohave lurned to sincerely pray as Jesus taught thctn to pray: "Thy kingdom come; thy mill be done on earth as it is done in
Eeven." Looking for tllese things, they confidently
expect them, and they base thdr expectancy or hope
upon the sure Word of prophecy.
The Apostle Paul tells us that the god of the present
world is Satan (2 Corinthians 4:4), who rules in the
hearts of the children of disobedience, and that he has
blinded the minds of the people to God's real purposes.
The old order of things is the outgrowth of the best
efforts of selfish man; and it is clearly denlonstratd
that where selfishness prevails and the order of society
is directed by selfish agents the best results cannot be
attained for the people in general. . T h e "promise"
mentioned by the Apostle in the above quotation evidently means the great promise which God made to
Abral-,
assuring hinl that "in thy seed shsll all the
families of the earth be blessed." St. Paul clearly defines what is meant by this seed. saying. "Now to
Abraham and his seed were the promises m d c H e
saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, A'nd
to thy seed, which is Christ" (Galatians 3 :16). The
term Christ means Bfessiah. For centuries the Jewish
pcaple have been looking for the hfcssiah. The
Apostle then describes who shall constitute this bla,f
sih--the Christ, the seed of aQbraham--saying, "-4s
many of you as have been baptized into Cllrist have
put on Christ. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye
Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
This class, then, relying upon the Scriptural assurances, have confidently lookcd for the time coming
when Messiah would constitute the new, invisible ruling power-the "new Ireavens;" and by the cstablishmeat of his rule in tlie earth througll his perfect hwnan
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agencies would iristitute the "new orth," otl~envise

described ;is the Lord's Kingdom, !vhich would fully
establish and b r i ~ gin the Golden .4ge: In that age
righteousness will prevail and blessing will bz adnjinistered unto all the people wllo yield thcmselvcs in
obedience to the righteoug government.
St. Paul referred to the suffering of humanity, the
distress anlongst the people. and the comirlg blessinp
when he said, "The whole crcation glaaneth uib
tnvnileth in p i n togctlicr until now. waiting for the
manifestation of the sons of Cod" (Romans 8:19, 2).
The word travail hcre nscd has application to the spasmodic pains of a woman in child birth and pictures tlre
incoming of the new order. Truly the tiurnan race
evcryvhere is groaning and travailing now in a condition of pain. It is longing for deliverance and a better
time, but knows not how it is corning. The apostle
says men are waiting for "the manifestation of the
sons of God;" that is to say, for the kingdom of JIessiah, the inauguration of the Golden Age. All this unrest and confusion, therefore, is but a sign, cvidrnce
or proof, to the thoug11tful and reverent person that
we are approaching the day of general blessings.
An unanswerable argument proving that this is
God!s due time for the introduction of the new order
of things is that lie is lifting the vsil of ignorance and
gradually letting in the light of intelligence and inven- .
tion upon mankind, exactly as his prophets foretold.
(See Daniel 12:1, 4.) Grmt enlightenment has conu
gndually to the pcople. Had hnowlcdge conle sooner
the trouble would lnve come sooner; and though socicty might hare reorganized itself after the storm, it
would not have b c n "a new earth [social arrangement],'whercin dwelleth righteo&ness," but a new
earth or arrangement in which sin and vice would have
abounded much more than before.
It is the privilege and duty of the Christian at this
important hour in the world's history to aid and comfort his fellow nten. The Christian cannot c n p g e in
the strife that breeds more 'discontent. Rather
should he strive to point the world to the sure Word
of prophecy now in course of fulfilment and t o the
sure 'promises that a better d&y is coming. TIrc
poor worid groans. not only under its rcal. but also
under its fancied ills, and erpecklly under tlle discontent, selfishnus, pride and an~bitionwhich fret
and worry .nice because they cannot fully satisfy
themselves o r be satisfied. T h e Christian can see
both sides of the question, and it is his privilege
and duty t o counsel those willing to hear to be content, avoid strife and patiently wait until Cod's due
tirnc and way for bringing in the blessipp so long
. promised to matikind.

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THE CRALLGNGE TO STEEL

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little David of the newly-organized-inte

union employes of tlw steel industry in his
challenge to the sttel.Goliath makes demands that are
interesting and typical of t h e wants of workers affiliated with the trades unions. \%%ether the reasonableness of the unionpen's position can find its way
into the reactionary philosophy which Goliath has assumed since Andrew Carnegie's. Homestead battle remains to bi seen, for the unionized employs are said
to be few and the employers belittle their efforts.
In the long-ago the relationship between employer
.and employe used to be that of a relatively well-to40 friend to his working friend who was good at carpentering, o r something else. As an employer hired
more men he knew each man less, and finally he
knows the worker not at all, save as a producing unit
in a cost record. The human element gradually vanished, and employers cultivated political economists to
think out justifying reasons for the unsentimental
treatment of workers. Tlle economists devised the
theory that labor, that resultant of human effort and
emotion often unto death, was a "commodity" to be
traded in like hides or Topper. This is t h e accepted
economic theory, and the workers in compact groups
hzve adopted it to force from employers the price for
their "commodity" that will enable the worker to have
a good home for wife and childrzn, with plenty .to
eat and wear, and enough edccation.btsidcs so that
the coming generation may get out of the evil conditions forced upon labor and excused by the "commodity" theory. So labor demands the right to turn
the employer's theory against him ,and to sell him in
one_ big bargain the labor of all thc workers. ins t a d of continuing to give the employers the right t o
force undesired prices for labor upon the men individually. Employers do not like this "collective targ;riningWfor it d w away with some of the profits they
have secured on under-paid work, but it stabilizes
labor prices, and all 1:ands know what to figure on a
long as the uniform price scale is in force.
Xo one likes the man that compels another to do
something he objects to doing, particularly i i it cnts
donn one's personal purchasing ability. So the employer does not like to keep in his employ worken
that strive to force the employers to pay s price agreeable to the workers for their "commodity." Such
men are marked for future reference, rnd at a con-

venient mclrnent are quietly dropped from the pay roll.

The steel trades union seeks to have such men reinstated, so that the workers may bo represented by men
of adquate ability to cope in bargaining with the employers; and they ark that such representatives of &bar as may have been discharged be paid for the time
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lwt from work since their discharge.
In the d a m of the industrial age, when water wheel
and stearn engine was first hitched' up to a string,.of
machines, employers hircd men on the theory that the
longer hours a man worked the greater his aggregate
production. Jlen, tvonlen and even little children
were worked such long hours that they seldom saw
the sunlight outside of factory walls; for seven days
a week was none too much for "Christian" employers
to exact of workers who were poor and couldn't wear
good clothes and who sometimes swore or lost *eir
tcmpers, to the scandalization of refined and "noble"
ladies and gentlemen. But by hard battles and the
assistance of philanthropic friends-of-humanity in
high places, the fourteen and sixteen-hour days were
cut to twelve, then to ten, to nine and to eight, and
t h e n is considerable unbiased opinion among &ciency men that the hours might drop to six without
diminution in productioa So the steel workers ask
for a universal eight-hour day thro~ighoutthe industry.
The galley slave chained to the immense oar of an
ancient ship. used to work day in and-day out till he
dropped- down sick at his post and was neatly dbpatcl~tdm d fed to thesharks of the deep. In p a p n
countries men drag themselves to work in r hopeless
every-dqy grind. In a revolutionary France, insanely
doing away. with e~erythingsavoring of a dreadful
past, the): had one day without work in ten. I n America we have what is scicntitically conceded to be the
most efficient arrangement, viz., one resting day to six
working days. But in our sted industry thousands
wark -cry day without respite, for what can one mnn
do against Goliath, even though conscience and a'
weary body demand the needed ration of rest t o
work? So labor asks the steel chiefs for "one day's
rest in seven."
It seems inconceivable that in a day when s,tores
close evenings at five and Wednesday afternoons, and
women ~vodcersarc not permitted to work more than
so many hours a week, that there should be straight
twenty-four hour shifts of work anywhere in America. Yet there are shifts in the steel industry when

the wotlca goes on say a t five, and xftcrnoon fol- have no tentiment of l o y . 1 ~f o t anyone. Labor is
1001%morning, and evening to midnight nrccteds the not unreasonable in requesting "double rates of
day, and then the wee small hours ma on to another pap for all overtime and for work on Sundays and
five A. M. before the worker rests from his labor. holidays."
On the impersonal "commodity" theory of wages
Men \\or?< l i h this not because they want to but because an impmonal industry f o m s than to do so the relations of employer and employe a n -theoreticalo r suffer a dismissal which may keep t h a n from get- ly l i k tho* of two machines handling parts of 8
ting work anywhere in the country such as they are p m d u a Labor reasons that in the long pasternployfitted for. Labor is eager to work, but it wants to err have compelled labor to do a great mmy things
work like a human being, and to it reb Goliath for that it did not do .willingly, md why dould not th..
tkc abolition of the twenty-four hour shift.
employer be compelled to do some t h i n p unwillir!gly
A man's wage in tlie uhimate consists not of money hinlself? Lebor finds some difficuity in keeping the
but of the things okainable through the day's labor. union men paying their dues when the pinch of bad
f f anything happens, designedly by the employer, or conditions is not felt and there is no strike on.
othem.ise, whereby he gas less for his money, he
In the interests of efficiency, which' rignifier the obsuffers an actual cut in wages. Rising prices are an- , taining of the last grain of product per wage unit,
other name for diminishing wages. Ii the wage be- anployerr favor having only the most nearly physically
fore the price raise was scarcely enough for subsist- perfect men working for than. This is bad for the
encc, the actual \\.age reduced by the high cost of men who are a bit old or not vcxy well o r very strong,
living places the worker in a plight. For America to but who are as well qualified as the stronger' p e n to
r a i n the America that was a good place for the do not an excessive but a good day's work. The emcommbn people, the worker nlust receive r real w a n ployer can handb the younger men better,' and they
enough to limp up his health and his family's health, work harder for the advancement which smeral yean
buy good clothing, food and other necessities for an, of experience will t a c h them comes to few, and to
give the children an education to make life worth obtain which the young men are willing to sacrifice
while, and lay by for niny davs and old age. There- all the rest of the workers on the altar of p e r m a 1
fort the steel worker asks for "increases in wages ambition. So, to take from the employer another inrrrflicimt to guanntce American standards of living." strument giving him undue advantage in bargaining
If the same wage is paid in d l brancl~esof an in- for the great industrial "commodity," the workers dedustry for the same kind of work, it places the buyer mand "abolition of physical examination of applicants
on a basis where he knows where he stands in his for emplo)ment."
No matter what concessions labor may obtain from
own competitive affairs. W'ith the present varying
wage scales, the highly pzid employes in one p h t its employer, or vice versa, neither p a w will be fully
may be kept partly idle while work is djverted to plants satisfied. If the employen shodd own the whole
paying less for the same kind of work, thus incras- thing bodily, including the plants and the workers as
irq the number of low-paid employes at the expense slaves, they would posseu no real satisfaction, for
of the high-wage ones, and decreasing the chance of their good would be at the expense of their fellow men.
the low-paid workers securing suitable raises in pay. Men are not a commodity, the economic fiction notThe workers are seeking "standard scales of wages withstanding. And even if labor should reach the extreme of taking over the ownership and management
for a11 crafts and classification of workers."
Any man espects to work a reasonable nrrmber of of the plant, there would be no co~tcntmenttherewith.
hours. That time is sold to his employer. The rest Both parties are operating from the point of selfof the day and of the night is his own, time, as much interest, ~vhereashappiness and co~tcntmentreside at
as the clothes on his back or the watch in his pocket. the other pole of unselfish interest, by each in all and
. ?- >T o devote personal time to an employer's use is like by d l in each. At no very distant day all parties will
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loaning the employer one's overcoat o r shoes, and for attain thzt l~appinesswhich they seek, and then Iabor
-such service he should receive a return added to the troubles will cease forever. THEGOLDENAGEsolvent
. regular wage rate. The question of loyalty to an em- of labor difficulties is the golden rule. Before ldng the
ployer might enter in with an employer who had per- oft-repeated prayer will be answered and God's will
soml relations with the employe, but where an em- will be done on earth a s it is done in heaven. The
p!oyer deals with Iabor as a "commodity" the sue- steel industry will become a vast brotherhood with
gestion of loyalty in connection therewith is a contra- the union motto realized of "One for 3U and all for
diction of terms, for steel, sugar or a typewriter one."

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SOCIAL and INDUSTRIAL

A
RF.BLRLDING TRE WORZD
CCORDING to Lloyd G o r g e the world is
a b u t to be rebuilt into a world of sunshine
for 9. Of the old world the British Premier paints
a sombre picture: "What was the old world like? It
ww a world scarred by slum, disgraced by 'sweating'
whtf* unemployment thrwgh the vicissitudes of ipdustry brought despair to multitudes of humble homes;
a world where, side by side with want, there was
waste of the inexhaustible riches of the earth, partly
throwh ignorance and want of foresight, partly
through entrenched selfishness."
L.loyd'George has liwd up with the inevitrble, and
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set his face'against further existence of the ordcr that
has "waxed old," and which by 1314 had begun to
pass away. He says, "If we renew the least of that
world, we shall betray the .hr;oic dead. We shall store
up retribution for oursdves and for our children"
Among millions of others the great Welshman
sees the futility of seeking to perpetuate that which
is worn-out : "If any are inclined to maintain this old
world, I& them beware, lest. it fall and overwhdm
them & their households in r u i n The old world
must and will come to an a d . No effort can shore
it up much longer."
The Golden Age is coming and Lloyd George may
be among the billions to hall its glory and in some
little way help to extend its beneficent influence, for
be professes willingness to help: "It' s1:ould be the
sublime duty of aH without tllought qf panismship to
a k P t in building a new worid where labor shzll
have its just reward and indolence alone shall suffer
want."
Mach as the great ones of the present order prate
about "rebuilding," they will be permitted to play but
an insignificant part in that work, for their very contact with present evil methods disquaSies tllern from
coustructing the pure cdi6ce for restored humanity.
Their stewarbhip has aboct come to its end, and into
,th& place will step men whose unswerving loyalty to
' :God has qualified them to can-y out the divine pur-poses for the restoration of a distract4 and crushed
world.
Concerning the sequence of coming events the Bibl i d prediction is, first, concerning this worn-out
mrM: " T h y shall take away his dcminioo, to consun?e and destroy it unto the end." Of the "rebuikling" the Great Book says. "And tile hngdom a l d
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dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom 'under

the whole heaven shall be given' to the people [the
truly faithful Jewish and Christian people] of the
sainth [the prophets and apostles] d the moat High,
and all dominions [rulers] shall s e n e and obef'
him. Hitherto is the end of the matt-."
(Daniel
7:26-28.) In due time even the Lloyd Georges will
turn to God alone fpr divine aid in remedying coaditiocs too hard for human wisdom to control.

HOW PROHIBITION WORKS

N practice, prohibition works better than some
thought it wodd.' T h m were m e who looked
u p m the closing of mloons, breweries, distitleri*
malt houses and bottlingnworks with alarm, lest tht
army employed in t h e places should be without emp!oymcnt and a considerable burden be added to an
already heavily-burdened people.
Now it appears that the matter is rapidly adjusting
itself. The buildings arc being turned into factories
acd salesrooms for the production and distribution of
all kinds of things that men and women med and
use, and which many arc now able to get instead of
t h liquor that once consumed their surplus earnings.
It is no loss to a community when the money once
sptnt for liquor goes for ice cream, soft drinks, movies
and otlnr frivolities; it is a gain, for the worker is
entertained, and withoat his injury. And if the money
once spcnt for liquors goes for F e r f w d for the
family, better clothing, better farnishings, music,
boob and the thousand and one othtr things that improve health and comfort of mind and body all' can
rejoice in the change, even including tho* who once
had profitabk work in tbe liquor buskrcss, but who .
could never take satisfaction in it because their fellows
were cursed and cursed only by the work they did.
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The Lord used the war as the deciding fsctor for
bringing the liquor tratfic to an end. We do not
bdieve that it is the will of the Lord that the American people should ever have in their midst again a
means whmby some u n rob 0thof ma& and
health and bring mistry to their wives .and childby pandering to their diseased appetites. Nor do we
believe that the Amtrican Government would ever wish again t o license it.
"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.. (Prav.
20:l) Before the prohibition era statistics showed
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N the physiolagkl effects of alcohol the school
books leave but one ylrwer, for mentally,
m o d y and p h y a i d y the total abstainer always hzr
th beat of every war of alcohnl. Froxu a criminj

viewpoint the desirability of sobering the southern

negro speaks volumes for national prohibition. From
an economic point of view effrcimcy men are quite
unanimous in preferring the nondrinker. The voice
of science concurs that the drug alcohol should be
placed with other habit-forming drugs beyond the

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Thoughtful men, however, felt that there might

arise from prohibition consequences easily as serious
as'the continued use of the drug. The prohibition
leaders are well meaning persons, but largely men and
namcn of the zealot type, rather narrow-minded, unacquainted with the broader aspects of public or
private administration, and particularly inept in the
f o ~ s e e i n gand weighing of psychological results which
to the sophisticated politician are his hourly st& in
h d e . The prohibition "fans" either did not understand the psychology of a prohibition forced upon an
unwilling population, or they regarded it a negligible
factor.
Some would-be managers of other people conceive
of the handling of human beings as like the moving
of insensate raw materials-just get them in a legal
steam shovel and put them somewhere, and there they
stay put. But people have minds, while things have
not; and if they are to be made to go, they have to go
first with their minds, and afterwards they zmh their
bodies go. There is no permanence in an arrangement
where bodies are put somewhere first without minds
being put there also. Physical force fails; it puts
bodies without putting minds. Unless extreme coercion makes the minds think it is wiser to go along
with the bodies, the minds sooner or later try to put
bodies badc; and then not merely is the trouble for
nothing, but perhaps brute force stupidly outrages
mind by putting the bodies back again.
It is claimed that the putting of drink away from
the people was accomplished without first converting
the minds of the people. If the man$ had been accorded the chance to vote, it is not quite certain that
prohibitia would have come. Pressure was brought
6 bear upon a few-the 1egkMo1.l. Legislators arc
pecukrly susceptible to the methods of the zealot
reformer; thdr political stability depends on the
voters' *te of mind; and if a moral-reform zealot
happenod along in war time, when no one dared to
k suspected of hindering the G r a t Crusade. the
hgklator wuat docilely along with the dormer nthr

than haw the voten all worked up over him. So war

prohibition went through, with little thought about
it by the common people a something for peace times
also, in the most &cult form to change back agaban a ~ ~ ~ ~ d to
m the
c n federal
t
cdtutioa
The popular mind not h r v b g ps~nttdto the puca
proposition it h at work to get bock wh-.
it started from. AlJ kin& of orgumartr are k b g
suggested to the people why the prohibition which h, -.
ought not to be. There ia dissatisfdon, a d t h c ~
am not lacking powerful h a n d intto @
money to s a that antiIpmhibition thoughtr get into
the disturbed minds of the people
Thought. of discontent tnvel in d&;
ad,not,
because the people c u e so much for b e u , but because they have a grievlnce o v u a sumptuary k w ,
they conjure up the whole family of grievances, red
and imaginary. ,
First is the personal-rights gricvulce. The mpn
who wants to get tipsy likes to assert his personal
right to abuse his health, his mind, his job, his reputation and his wife and family, and is able to build up
a plausible argument Ciovering a n extensive field of
personal rights versus civil righta
A curious phenomenon of the w;ar-p~ohibitionsihration is that the saloons remain open. In this is an
astute psychology. Users of liquor find that taking
away drink signifies taking away a method of life.
The bar across which the soft drink now finds its way
was once a center of good-natured discussion. NOW
every bar.is a protracted indignation meeting.
Prohibition appeds to a large number as a wrong,
b e u w many consider that it waa inflicted on them
"dishonesdy," slipped o v a when ir.was unsafe for
one to assert a right, because some one else could
vociferate that said amxtbns might be inimitable to
the war.
The news is out through waiters, servants and merchants that the wealthy have stocked their cellars with
drinkables a
d -that there h no pmhibition for the
man who had a few hundreds or thousands of dollars
to invest in liquid refr-enb.
Mart drinkers are
poor,, and they object that what puts them under the
prohibition h and others not under it is the &stinction between poverty and wealth. This the brewery interfind no difficulty in magnifying into a
&tiond scandal.
Cultivated discontent 4 now a speciaty of the
liquor interests and may be expected to come to the
surface through devious channel. The unclosed saloon h c o m u the entw of strike propaganda. Thc
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rents of discontent. Struggles over wages may be

more numerous and show a vicious spirit because of
the class propaganda which is quietly going on in
corner saloom. And it is easy to imagine that strikes
may not k the only methods employed to h a m s and
annoy those whom they are led to regard as the privileged clwu.
There is no human cause better than temperance in
g 4 , but it is questionable whether at this particu. lar d i d time the interests of temperance have not
bem somewhat hindered by what is essentially a wartime measure.
The Good Book says, "Be not among wine-bibbers
for the drunkard shall come to poverty" (Proverbs
2320), and "Who hath woe? who hath sormw? who
hath contentions? who hath wounds without cause?
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek
mixed wine" (Proverbs 23:29-30) ; but it also says,
"TOeverything there is a season, and a time to every
purpose under the heaven; a time to rend, and a time
to sew; a time to keep silence and a time to speak."
(Ecdesiastes 3:l-7) In due time under Golden Age
ipnditions the people will be elevated enough not to
want any drug stimulation, alcoholic or othenvise.

took enough of his valuable time to go through n u m

bcrless judicial decisions and to compile from t h i w
five of them the following definitions :
"Intoxicating liquors arc those liquors which arc
intended for use as Beverage and which contain dcoho1 in such proportion o r percent. that when COIP
sumed in any &&tity that can practically be drunk by
an ordinary man, o r in any quantity that the human
stomach can ordinarily hold, will produce a condi*
commonly known a s intoxication o r druak-."
This is an ideal definition from a l m viewpoint,
hecause it contains so many words that wodd require legal construction or interpretation. The words "intended," "pnctically," "ordinary," " o d i y , " a d
"con~monly" are suficiently indefinite to give mplbyment to courts and lawyers for a total of many months
or even years. Of course, lawyers m-ust live.
The other learned definition is: "Drunkenness Or
intoxication is a materially abnormal m e n d o r phy*
ical condition manifesting itself in the 1- of the OF
dinary control of the mental faculties or bodily fun*
tions to a substantial extent." This definition JSO
cop
tains four good words for the courts to wrangk over,
namely, materially, abnormal, ordinary and substantial.
SIDE ISSUES OF PROB7BITION
If many states follow.New York State, another byHERE is ,no reform without unexpected minor product of prohibition may be laws impinging someresults. One of the outcrops of prohibition is what on personal liberty. Home brewed root beer
the effect on the vineyard industry. California is hard . with "any trace of alcohol" may incur liability to a
hit. Investors have $200,000,000 in the grape-growing fine of $100, $500 or $1,000 and imprisonment for
industry and some 50,000 men, women and children six months. The ailing person who needs wine "for
. work in the vineyards and allied interests. The 40,-his stom3ch's sake" is under the same liability, ex000 ton 1920 crop worth $12,000,0 is at stake ; it is cept when protected by a physicianrs prescription. The
too much to be eaten. and is a loss, it is feared. if not farmer's cider is a menace to his pocketbook and l i b
erty, unless made unfit to drink or de-alcoholired The
crushed and converted into wine.
At great cost of time, labor and money 110,000 man who never would "snitch" at school will have t o
acres of practically useless land, some of it almost a find new principles of honor, for he can be comdesert, has been transformed into vineyards by some pelled to tell where he got his liquor or be jailed in
8,000 grape growers. One of the tragedies of pro- contempt of court. The great question of thc old
hibition is that hundreds of families, aggregating per- English common law will probably come again to the
haps 40,000 persons, may lose their all should these front on account of armies of professional and amawine-grape vineyards lapse back to sagebrush or des- teur spies bent on tracing down the scent of aicohd
and incidentally turning up anything else. That old
ert land.
Another by-product of prohibition is the mental ex- question was "whose home is safe !"
ercise it is giving jurists and lexicographers in trying
to find a definition for "intoxicating." The new con- TENS OF MlLLIONS FOR COLLEGES
HE cause of "higher" education receives a d i c
stitutional amendment forbids "intoxicating" bevertinct advancement in the twenty million dollam
ages, and it is necessary now to know what this means.
There is a grave difference among men and women recently given to Yde University. This sum will be
of high purpose on this point. The brightest minds expended for a memorial building and for fellowof the country have applied themselves to supply the ships, professorships, scholarships and prizes.
Another institution of higher education in
d&tion.
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the nation for a ten million dollar increase in its endowment fund. Before the drive was a day old four
million dollars were subscribed by a donor who had
already given seven million dollars to the institute
Whoever it is that has put up this eleven million dollars he is a fairy godfather, for no one knows what
his name is.
The high cost of living has inndcd college precincts
and among the low-paid workers of the nation are college professors, and particularly the instructors who
do most of the direct teaching.
The same high cost has struck a hard blow to the
college man. The tuition fee at New England's grutest technical institution has been raidd from $250 to
$300. While this is a large sum to a poor young man,
it does not represent nearly an of the cost of the education of the students. ' The actual expense to the insitution of one of its courses in technology approaches
$800 o r $900. When the student has paid his $300, he
is the beneficiary of charity to the extent of $500 or
$6Nl more. The average college student rather pfides
himself on his independence; yet he is as much an
object of charity as the inmate of an almshouse.
The cost of supplying education in the colleges has
gone up with the general cost of living, and every
educational institution which has not received a liberal
increase in interest-bearing donations is "hard up."

the P d c Cout states, which are the m u a of the

ambitious, idle and restless, and which show a percentage of 0.2695 per cent. The northern central
group, devoted largely to fanning, has 0.2202 per cent.
insane. The western mountain group ir stid to have
the most representatively American populatian, witb
quite a low proportion of foreign born, and they rYllr
low in insanity, with 0.1506 per cent. The m l o d
people are not-so subject to insanity as the white no,
as the southern group of states comes lowest with but
0.14595 per cent insane. Religion may have a bearing, for the groups having a predominant Roman
Catholic population are high in insanity, and the
Pacific Coast group with a considerable population
devoted to theosophy and other forms of spiritism
shows a strain of insanity, while the south, the
stronghold of Protestantism, is fowut in proportion of the insane. ,Romanism and spiritism play
upon the emotions, cultivate superstition and demand the absolute surrender of the will to the religion, without fortifying the mind with knowledge
and building up a strong charactv based upon reason and faith combined.
In the last score of years it h a been found easy to
get rid of relatives by medic@ affidavits as to their
sanity, and it is considered that t h e n is a considerable number of persons incarcerated in insane institutions who are as sane as anyone outside. A periodic
EVERYBODY INSANE1
investigation of the inmates of all such institutions is
HAT everyone else has a screw loose except our- ' mommendcd in ordtr to stop this abuse and give libselves is a truism. George Bernard Shaw says erty to thousands wrongfully shut up in these "gilded.
that "the longer I live, the more I amainclined to the hells," and that in such instances the parties to this
belief that this earth is used by orhcr planets ru a worse-than-murder crime should& liable to urandary
lunatic asylum." A "scientist" has calculated the punishment
nurnber'of years until, at the present rate of increase,
' A further large propodon of inmata of these inthe entire population will be "off enough under stitutions are the victims of spiritism--persons that
alienist standards to be fit for the asylum.
have dabbled with demons until "obsessed" and
Some figures are available for estimating this, if finally periodically "possessed" by them. I t was to
American standards are representative of world con- thir class that Jesus brought relief in the many inditions. I n the fourteen yean from 1890 to 1904 the stances where he "cast out devils" or, a s described
percentage of the United States population in i n w e in Biblical language, "He went about doing good
institutions rose froin 0.17 per cent to 0.183 per cent and healing all that were oppressed [through spiritThe populace then had not begun to go to movies and ism] of the devil." (Acts 10:38.) These unfortuwere not living at the present dizzy rate, but in the nate insane need not keepers and straightjackets,
six years from 1904 to 1910 the rate rose to 0.2042 but the power of One stronger than man to break
per cent. and in the seven years to 1917 to 0.2276 per the hold acquired by devils through the surrender
cent. Statistics are not available for the war year of of the will in superstition and spiritism. Such a
1918 and the high-cost-living year of 1919, but insti- power is about to be manifested and under t h e ,
tutions for the insane must be increasing their borders. healing influences of the Golden Age "the whole
The relation between industrialism and insanity ap- creation. which groaneth and travaileth in pain topears by grouping the states which are largely indus- gether until now. shall be delivered from the bondtrial, in which group the percentage of insane is age of corruption (physical, religious, moral and
02715 per cent. The group next worse off is mental degeneration) into the glorious l i b e m

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S T R m T H OP PLYWOgD
T ht ban tliscovcnd that a piece of wood cut by
a machine into thin panels and glued together in
such a manner that the grain of one panel runs at
right m@es to the grain of the bva adjacent panels is

quirtd size, and require reheating of the hardened

lower a d to make the cylinder of proper length and
thickness. The ends of the cylinders are cut square by
first running a hat thread of glass about the p r o p *
line of cleavage, following it with the pasage of a
stronger. weight for weight, than a steel bar. This bar of eold iron o v a the same place.
wood, caned plywood because of the lvay it is built up,
Experience has shown that the best way to store the
l a p t by layer, has been found of g r a t value in the glass in quantities is to let it remain in the cylindrical
airpkce industry. Ribs made of plywood are more form until about the time for shipment. Hence, in
than two and one-half times as strong as those made glass wsrehouses, the storage space is filled with
of other wood$, and work has now begun on malting these cj-lindcrs, each six or more feet tall pnd about
the w i n e themstlve~of this material, thu, eliminating two feet in diameter. T h e tubes are cut by running
the flap of the cloth entirely.
a hot iron Qve; the desired line of cleavage, f 0 1 1 0 ~ A serious difficulty which has been overcome in the ing it r;ith a cold iron, when the big roll breaks
use of p l p o o d for airplanes construction was the mak- open as easily as if it were cut with a diamond. The
ing from blood of a glue that will stand any quantity roll is then heated sufficiently to permit it to be flatof moisture without letting go. An equally satts- tened and is ready for the market.
f;l~toQ' one has been made from casein, obtained
Apparently, in Bible times, the art of making t r a p
from milk- These new glues will be a valuable ad- parent glass had not been perfected. Thc apostle said,
dition t o cabinet makers and builders. Furniture
we
through a ghssdarklyv (1 Car, 13 :12)
made with them will not come apart, nor veneers as though to imply thet glass in those days was more
warp 0s peel- P l ~ o o da n be made from the or less opaque. How thankful we ought t o be, living
finest rvalnut at a total cost of less than 3c. Per at the dawn of the Golden .4ge when even the poorest
s q u r e foot, can be put, On over ordinary wall PaP:r,
homes have plenty of windows and clear glass in all
,
and \\-ill last a life time.
of them. It is not so long ago, in England, since tho
In Lhis P ~ Y ' strcnger
~ ~ ~ ~than
, steel: we have
lord, of some of the old castles had their ~lndoivs
illustration of hobv the Lord can take characters, weak taken out and stored during the \vintct. time to protect
in themselves, and surround thcm with S U C influencc~
~
Glass
them from possible darnqe by the elements
Ihun
and $0 fortify thcm by his promises as to
veT precicus thing then. %ow it is ,-heap and
"mighty through God to the pulling down of xtrong
eve,,.\,.flcre.
holds" of error and sin.-;!
Cor. 10 :4.

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MANvFACTLRE OF WIND0W GL4SS

INDOW G ~ S is
S madc by tc.0 methods.

P h t c glass iq madc by a process similar to the

rolling out cf dough, but window glass in general is
nude by b!cwing glass into the form of' cylinders,
either by hand-blowing or machine-blocving. A niachine-blower is an applratus which automatically dips
a big pipe into a 1;ettlc of molten glnss, and ,then
gradually raises it, pulling a11 the molten glass upward
3s thc pipe rises. A constant s-eazi of air kept flowing in through the pipc causes the glass to Zssurne the
form of a cylinder. Haah-blowing is substantially the
same in principle 7.s mnc:iinc-bic\c-iclg, esccpt th:~t the
glass which is partially b!n:vn must be redipped forr
cr f i ~ etimes into the molten glass to procure more
and )-et more material, to inake the c~!inderof the ra-

PRACTICAL lIELPIVLIYESS LN BUSINESS

T the New York Edison Company last sumniet
t!~ere 1 ~ 3 san exhibit of practical helpfulness
for the workers, designed however, not for altruistic
p u ~ o s e s ,but to teach employes the uses of electric
current so that they might talk it up among their
neighbors. Any employe might bring in his beans
or blackberries, rvit!l the jars and sugar, and have
his canning done free oE charge, so that when the
m3n brought home those jars a!l done the wife
nligh! te!l her friends how it was all done in an electric fireless cooker. Last spring employes brought
in their fine curtains and had them done in an electric ~vas!iing m3cliine. The hoyscout flags and c3ps
were w;;hed in the same machine, and the boys
talked about it ever~where. Someday the heads of

industries will do things for employes and probably

others from a genuine desire to "do good to all."
The
is long Past when an employer might
curse him a p l o y w with impunity. Now the ide? is
for an exeeutive.,to give his men the same treatment
he wants them t o pass on to the public. The averip CustomCr, on account of the experience of Some
body he has heard of, imagines that an electric light
cornpay, for example, is always trying to "put
something over" on him. Too little attention has
been paid, to the way public service employes, excepting street ailway men and telephone operators,
treat the public, but now that is being changed for
the better, not however because it is right but because it pays.
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man with great natural gifts is the one who

always needed in the occupation where
mch gifts count. For example, no one is more useful to human society than the'resrarch man. SpeakTng of his characteristics the London Electrician
says: "He is born, not made.. H e has the creative
gift, the faculty of seeing new combinations and
possibilities where the most accomplished technician
without the gifts sees only known ones. H e retains so incurable an interest in experimenting that
he is willing to sacrifice to it the joys and emoluments of managerial power. A man of proved creative power is sought after, you might almost say
courted." Such men are scarce enough now, but
the day is not far distant in the better age when
there will be thousands of creative minds better
able to work out the world's problems than any one

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W R I T E R on industrial topics, Philip Cabot, in

Electrical World, speaks thus of bu~incir conditions prior to the war: "We had not competition but industrial war. The unsuccessful competitor w u killed and eaten by his adversary." The
Wmld comments: "The weakness of competition
lay in the fact that there was not-and there is not
pet--any proper criminal code against this murder
and cannibalism. Until a corporation can be ruthl a s l y extinguished for industrial murder, tl~rough
receivership and a complete ousting of the criminals
forever, competition will remain practically nonexisten+" Many business men are evidently doing
a little forward-looking toward the approaching better day when a man will not have to be a crook to
be in big business.

WATER P O W m SYSmAf
CANADA'S
NE of the greatest engineering feats of K s t o v
is n o r being carried out by Canada. She
needs a t least three hundred thousand horsepower
a remod in order to supply Ontario with light, hut
and power, and in ordm to get it she is widening
and deepen@ the Welland river ond forcing it t0
flow the wrong way; building a great mill-race from
the river t o a point n u r Queenstown; erecting
that point a g u t power-houae through which'ten
thouund cubic feet of water will rush cvefy second.
just before the m t c r reaches the pow- house it
will drop through the & distance of three hundred feet. The immenx quantity and the apeed a t
which it comes will easily generate the power require& The artificial 300-foit fall combines the 150foot fall of Niagari with the rapids above and below
the falls. The mill-race is really a great canal.
The canal will be eight and a half miles long and
involves the digging of fifteen million cubic yards
of rock and earth. The earth sections of the canal
will have sloping sides, the bottom being thirtyfour feet wide and the top one hundred and sixtytwo feet wide. The rock sections will have vertical
sides forty-eight feet wide and thirty-five feet deep.
The electric shovels used in digging up the dirt
are the largest in the world. They pick up eight
cubic yards of dirt, carry it t o a dump car eighty
feet above, and go back for another load, all in less
than a minntc Each shovel weighs three hundred
and seventy-five tons.
The channelling machines are th; most powerful
made;-they cut to a depth of twtnty feet. For drilling, hollow drills are used, the advantage being that
the cuttines
.. are blown out of the hole as rapidly
as they are made. The holm are made 12 feetdeep
and 7 feet apart and at times as' many as a thousand
of these holes are shot a t once, breaking fifty thousand tons of rock to fragments. Much of this rock
is afterward broken up for use in making concrete
for the bridges which cross the canal.
There are 1500 men at work on the job and it is
hoped to finish it by 1921, at.a cost of approximately

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What a blessing the Lord has stored up for mankind in the rivers and streams that ceaselessly pour
their torrents from the higher to the lower levels of
the land, and to the bosom of the seal No doubt
the time will come when the water powers of the
world will do a major part of its work. How gracious the arrangement of Cod by which he "sendeth
rain on the just and on the unjustf'-Matthew 5 :45.

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PARCEL POST AND THE EXPORT TRADE

ARCEL post is the quickest and most cco;?omical
method of transporting light weight merchandise between the nations of Korth, Centnl and South
America At present there are four different limits
of weight, depending on the country of destination,
11,20 and 22 lbs: to mcst countries. Cuba is the exception with a limit of 4 Ibs. 6 0s. Shippers must
learn the limit of weight of the country tb which they
make shipment so as to avoid uruiecessary division of
goods.
I t surprising how goods can be divided into great
numbers of packages and yet arrive safely at destination when sent by parcel post. A Chicago mail order
house sent 300 11-Ib. packages to a small to\vn in the
eastern part of Bolivia, thousands of miles over water
routes and mountain trails, and the goods arrived in
perfect condition, not a n item missing or damaged.
Ordinarily the &stoms duty is collected according
to the weight and valuation shown on the tag attached
t o the parcel, but consular invoices are necessary to
certain countries when the value of the shipment is
above a certain amount.
The English arrangement with reference to parcel
post is to charge one rate of postage for packages less
than 3 Ibs. in weight, another for packages from 3 to
7 Ibs. in weight, another for packages over 7 lbr. The
heavier the package, the less the rate o f postage. This
is an incentive to buyers to increase the size of their
parcels and orders.
There are some barriers to the full use of the parcel
post that should be removed. The limit of weight to
each country should be the same, 22 lbs. It should
be allo\\-able in all countries, as is the case in some, to
pack all kinds of mailable articles in the one package,
instead of requiring articles of different customs classifications to be packed and shipped separately. Arrsngemcnts should be perfected for sending parcels
C. 0.D. Customs should be levied in all countries
on the net weight, so as not to encourage the shipment
of parcels insafficiently wrapped.
In countries where duty is collected on the gross
weight of packages the exporter is at a loss to know
what to do. His customer demands that the goods
shall be so packed as to reach him safely, but wishes
to pay duty on the least amount possible. This often
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We sometimes wonder how Daniel and his three

fellow-Presidents managed to control the 1M provinces of the then known world, tvhcn there wal
neither telegraph, telephone, railway. steamship, n u t p
mobile nor bicycle. The courier seemed to be' the
iastest thing known in those days. \Vhat would Daniel
have thought of a courier service which could handle
300 11-lb. packages from Chicago to the interior of
Bolivia and think nothing of it 1

SClENTIFIC DESTRUCTION OF RAILROADS

UCH complete destruction of railroad property
was never before known as was visited upon the
railroads of Western. Belgium and Northeastern
Francc during-the Great War. During the American
Civil \Var the bridgks were burned and the tracks tom
up. The rails were hated in the middle and then
wrapped around tree trunks. defying all efforts to dislodge them, or a great pile of tics and other cdmbustibles wcre set afire and the rails for a distance were
piled criss-cross on the top of the pile and allowed to
all melt together in the center. But these achicvcrnents of the American War pale beside what the Germans did in France du+ng their retreat.
A V-shaped device drawn. by a locomotive first
ripped the rails from the ties; the joints were torpedoed ; embankments were blown away, clear down
to the. nattfral soil; cuts wererblown in from the
sides; tunnels were blown up ~ i t such
h
lavishness
as to pulverize the soil clear t o the surface above
the arch; culverts, abutments, piers, and the earthworks leading t o them were blown t o atoms;
bridges, telegraph lines, signals, stations, awitchtowers, cranes, nothing was spared. At bridge sites
mines were plantcd with delayed action fuses calculated to explode a dozen days later, after temporary
bridges had been put in position, and secondary
mines were also placed calculated t o explode
months later, after the permanent bridges had-been
put in place.
As they face the ruins of their once beautiful land
we can imagine that the French people may well feel
like Jeremiah of old when he said, "Thou h u t heard,
0 my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole
land is spoiled." (Jer. 4:19, 20) W e are glad for
the French people, and for the world, that the era in
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T B TWC~TXBLE
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OIL S ~ ~ ~ ~ A T I O N

HE VEGETABLE OILS have become an impor-

tant itan in the food supply of mankind. They

come into direct cnmpetition with butter, lard and lard
substitutes. T h e vegetable oils are substitutes for
cotton seed oil and that'in its turn is a substitute
for lard. LYd and other animal tats come into competition with butter in the manufacture of butter
substitutes. Thus the supply of vegetable oils has
a direct effect upon the market price of 211 the edible
fats.
Prominent among the vegetable oils is that of the
soy-bean. which comes mainly from hfanchuria.
T h e port of Daircn alone, during the calendar yeor
of 1918, shipped direct t o the United States more
than 128,000 tons of this oil. The customary milling
ratio of soy-beans to beancake is 24 to 23, so that the
vegetable oil shipment from this one port t o the
United States in one year represents a crop of
3,072,000 tons of soy-beans.
T h e great packers, who m a t e most of the butter
substitutes, are now developing a trade in tinned
milk with the Orient and with South America. They
will naturally wish to bring back the vegetable oils
of these countries ap it means cheaper raw products
for butterines and eventually lower prices for milk
through the fall in price of butter.
T h e soap and paint manufacturing concerns, and
the consuming public that is on the hunt for lower
living costs, \%-illbe interested in the importation of
these vegetable oils. as ,~~r.ell
an the packers, while
the d a b interests will wish to see their importation
stopped at once.
This illustrates the marked difference between the
commerce of to-day and commerce of Bible times.
I n those ancient days international trade consisted
almost entirely of highly valuable silks, spices, and
metals, and necesasrily so because of the meager
means of transportation; but to-day the whcle world
is ransacked for the every-day food of mankind

HIGHWA Y MOTOR TRANSPORT

AILROAD managers complain that their buriness is being cut into by truck transportation.
T h e new system serves the people satisfactorily and
the business is yet in small enough units not t o
dominate the communities it works for. Highway
transport between Chicago and Milwaukee has become a n established fact by the United hlotor
Transport Lines which connect various warehouses
and terminals in each city with those in the other.
Similar transport l i n e are in successful opention
in the East, 2s between Yew York and Boston

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ANOTHER BURDEN FOR TEE TROLLEYS

HE country's street railways have'been having
a hard time, and the automobile has added t o

their burden. If those who have automobiles-and

their friends-prefer them to trolley cars, o r if small
shippers prefer trucks for cost and convenience, t o
interurban express, it will seem that the trolley men
should find ways and means of improving their service t o meet modern competition. T h e trolley men
have long had their own way in utter disregarb of
the common people, and the man on the street cannot be blamed if he feels a little secret ~ t i l f o c t i o n
at seeing rural transportation shaping up a little
toward the coming ideal whcn the ptmple will wiscly
control a11 such service.
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ELECTRICITY IN TRAA'SPORTATIQN
CCORDING t o C. Townley, the business e x p

A
riencc of the electrical men has been the retarding cause of the slower extension of electricity in

practicd tnnsportation. They have not known

enough about either the science o r the art of railr ~ a d i n g . Their profissional pride, their belief in
m d seal for the electrical profession, has led the
electrical experts to ~ ~ e r e s t i m a ttheir
e
claims of
what they a u l d do, and underestimate the cost of
doing it.

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RUBBER Ir7IGmS
MPORTS of ~ ~rubber
d are
i larger
~
than ever be-

fore, the lorn in millions of poundds being in

1919, 3%; 1918, 389; 1917, 333; 1916, 267; and 1914,
131. .The cost per pound dropped from 52 cents in
slackening of war
1918 to 39 cents in 1919, owing
demmd.

AUTO MOB^ ITEM

$2,000,000 land purchase in Detroit, by t h e

makws of the Dodge automobile, is an index of

in the automobile industry.
- Automobile prices are following the general upward trend of prices, with a dozen or so manufacturers announcing advances.
The "ship-by-truck" movement recently ran a
caravan of eighteen trucks across country to demonstrate their value to hliddle West farmers.

AERO rnSURANCE
ERO enthusiasts should have aeroplane insurance. The Automobile Insurance C o r ~ p a n y
has decided to insure aircraft. "Uany shall fly t o
and fro."
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POLITICAL, DOMESTIC and FOREIGN

WHO IS TO RULE TEE W O W ?
ritirh Empire dominated the League of

THE"

Nations, and she wilt continue to dominate

it. Several p a ~ t sof the Empire, each wich a popuhtion less than that of New York City, have a r gnat
'
r representation in certain matters as the whole United
Stain
Before the war Britain held about one-fourth of the
d
ontfourth
habitable area of the world u ~ governed
of the world's population Now, as a result of takiq
over the Gamim colonies, Persia and Mesopotamia, it
' har about one-third of the world and its inhabitants
under its control, and with the passing of Gtnnany
from the stage it is in effect and in fact the mistress
of the world. Between 1871 and 1914 there was added
to the Britijh Empire over 4 . ~ , O C Osquare nliles of
territory, and a popuiation of more than 60,OOJ.W.
The British bankers have found the spread of the
Empire valuable to thetn. The field for their investments has widened, and thcy have always realized
, that the British navy was back of their bonds. And
thcy hive been none too generous to the natives of
the conquered lands.
In Egypt a labor day lasts 12. to 15 hours arid the
wages are equivalent t o 25c. per day for adults, and
12c per day for children. The difference between
these wages and the wages that must be paid in Great
Britain represents profit for the banker and therefore
British m r ~ e ynaturally ~ e k ~ i n v e s t n f eabroad.
nt
But
some of the bankers so manage things that they get
back, in one for& or another, a good part of even the
pittance tltat the native !aborer receives. An illustration of this occurred in connection with the present
Khedivc
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H e was loaned 82,000,000 pounds at 7y0 with 1%
for amortization. The bankers gave him, however,
only 20,700,000pounds in cash, and 9,00Ci,CCUpounds
in his own notes at par. which they had bought at 6SL70
of their face value. The remaining 52,00.00G pounds
- they kept as security for the amount actually loaned,
, j.
. but the Khedive is to pay tbc hterest on the whole 82,- -' 000,000. At this rate the Knedivc will pay 31y0 for
his money, besides losing over 3,C00,000 pounds the
first year on the 9,000,000pounds o f his own notes.
The Khedive. of course, gets the money to pay this
interest and to reiux~dthe principal by taxing heavily
his 25c per day subjects. The sad part o i it is that
even under this thinly-disguised slavery the lot of tlie

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common people is better than under native rulers who

are not in some sense responsible to the British crown.
The Egyptian people, feeling the burden, were led
by some to hope and believe that the deliberations at
Paris would give them self-determination, the rig@
self-government, but although the British Government
has officially stated several times in past years that it
has no right in Egypt, it nevertheless does not let go
its hold, because Egypt is the key to the Suez canal,
and the Suez canal is the key to the Far East I t cannot be denied that the British have greatly improved
the condition of the people of Egypt. They have given '
them honest courts and clean government, which is
something they never had before and would not have
if left to themselves., Yet the Egyptian people are not
satisfied and want to govern themselves in their own
way, possibly in hope that they can keep for their own
use a larger part of that daily wage of 25c
It is not at all likely that the Egyptian people will
get greater liberties by any movement of their own.
They tried it by starting an insurrection, and before
it was quelled eight hundred of them were killed, sixteen hundred wounded, thirty-nine sentenced to death,
twenty-seven to imprisonment for life and two thousand to other terms in prison. Sixty British soldiers
and civilians were also killed and one hundred and
forty-nine wounded. We regret that in quelling the
Egyptian insurrection the British bombed the villages
of the natives, thus ki!ling innoctnt women and children and noncombatants.
If the Egyptian people, and all the other African
and Asiatic peoples under British rule, gain greater
liberties they are likely to get it first by an old force
now manifesting itself in a new way. Some e v e n
hundred years ago, in 1215 A.D., the Britkh people
took away from King John his right to manage the
British Government. In 1911 they shelved the House
of Lords. Now the papers are full of stories of what
the great labor unions of England have in view. Practically all the workers of the British Isles are in these
unions, and since the war thcy are interesting thanxlves actively in the domestic and foreign policies of
the Empire in a way they never did before. It is not
clear how any political party can resist the demands
of these laborites and remain in power, and if t h y get
what they demand they will be the real masters of the
greatest Empire that ever dominated the world.
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The d right to the rulership of the world, how.mu,

rests in the One who bought it with his own
precious blood. It is of this One, the Lord Jesus, that
the prophet &tingly says, "The government shall
be upon hir rbouldu" and "Of the inaxax of his
.ad p e a t h v t Shd be M cnd" (1%
It
i
s for that long-promised rule, now near
9 6 , 7)
at hand, that we p n y when we say, "Thy kingdom
aanq thy will be done on urth as it is done in
heaven."-Matthew
6 :la

will become a law until it ia approved by a nrwlp

elected ~ i k s d a as
~ , the legislature is called
All over the world a trumpet message is sounding
forth. It is the =me that was cast upon the Liberty
Bell of 1776 Finland is m e of the lateat to rcapond
to the divine call uttered b u r &
of y m WO:
"Proclaim liberty throughout all. the land unto d
the inhabitanta thereof."-levitiaur 25

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HERE
W
he'

Almost evejbody in Berlin is gambling.

crowds ired the baccarat tables never diminish
and the money changes hands in large sums, 20,000
and 30,000marks at a turn of the hand. The conrtrnt round of gaming, eating and drinking g o u on
dl night. Surcely anyone thinks of leaving before
dawn, and many remain tor breakfast. The people
odmit that the war was a great gamble, a game in
which everything waa staked and lost
Along with the gambling and eating and drinking
in these dubs a craze for dancing has broken out.
and thousand of young girls are there nightly in
gowns which &auld cause their arrest in New York
During the March riots when blood flowed in the
streets the.bands jazzed in the halls and the girls
screamed with laughter as they whirled around the
may polc The sacritices of the war have given way
to a disregard of all oxiventionalities.
The course of the German people since they
started fn the great war and until now reminds one
of that of the prodigal son, who wasted his patrimony in riotous living. Many of 'those now feverishly gambling with one mother are liable to discover that "the riches of wickedness profit nothing,"
and that the Lord "casteth away the substance of
the wicked."-Proverbs
10: 1-3.

TEE FINNISa REPUBLTC

NEW republic has been born, Finland. It
has taken a long time for the Finnish people

to decide what form of government they will have.

For seventeen months they have been independent
of Russia, and during all that time the debate has
p r r c on furiously as to whether the country should
be a republic or a monarchy. The decision wan
finrliy made. The new Finland will be governed
by 8 president elected for six years, on the first
o d o n by the existing one-chamber legislature,
which remains unchanged, but ever afterward by a
special Elective Assembly of 300 members, chosen
by the pcoplr No bill which the president vetoes

kings are beat known wd have the

longest time to popularize their beneficence,
they are the lust wanted While A m t r b ir d
coming the sEionr of royalty, saascrppinO md,b&g
before them, and thr ubest people" are vieing with
one another as prince'a messenger b o p ond p ~ c k horses, the kinp and pMca am behg chwd out
of European countria and are meeting with demonstrations on the other side of the ledger.
The soldiery who should be the direct bmefiaa r i a of a plundering nobility and kingdom, are r e
ported in Austria or with one voice protesting
against recent alleged efiorta to establish a monarchy. The entire armed force of the nation are
rcportcd active in thc protest
With dl itr defects the republican form of government in best liked by the people beczrw it gives the
would-be kings the least chance to meddle with the
people and affords the common people the largest
opportunity to lo& after; their own dairs. At any
rate the Austrian soldiers, representing the common
ptoplq &owed that "the kings havs had their day:
by urging in a demonstration bcefore the Parliament
building that the republican fonn of government be
retained. Similar demonstratioar were reported
from the country diotrictr of At&%
Humanity ia drawing near the ideal rocid order
long promised in the Word of God. In the better
world about to take form upon the earth the divine
principle will be established that it is not designed
that most men should be autocratidly ruled by a
few men, or that man should, without full and free
consent and cooperation, exercise authority over
man Man was given dominion over the earth and
over the lower order of creatures to be their b e n t
ficent autaaat. but the relationship of man to man
will ultimately be that of a re& brotherhood, the
full realization of that republiconism in which each
man u the kingly equal of all other men and each
woman a beautiful queen in a world of equals.
The Anstrim soldivy dimly sense the future ordet and are reaching out for the
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AGRICULTURE and HUSBANDRY

T a 6 F A R .AND T a 6 MOTOR TRUCK

world, but the world is not independent of him.

He is nearest to the food supply and can furrl food for
himself and family with less difficulty than others.
Supplies of clothing are at his hand dm; wool. hides,
flax, conon, etc., requiring only his industry, and that
of his family. H e can make his own shelter, of logs
if necessary.
If transportation facilities are poor he can get along
with almost no assistance from the outside world.
There are men now living in certain districts of the
United States who can remember when the annual store
bill of the family was less than two dollars. A little
d t and a little iron was all that was purchased, and
the man and his family did the rest
But the farmer wants more than food, clothing and
shelter, and his wife and family want more. They
want education; teachers, books, stationery and school
supplies. They want information; mail facilities, tclephones, telegraph, wirelus. They want music; pianos,
organs, phonographs, records. They want amusement ;
games, toys, n~velties. They want furnishings; carpets, furniture. draperies. They want conveniences;
kitchen utensils, tinware, crockery. They want sanitation; plumbing, heating, ventilation. They want art;
pictures, wall paper, statues. They want hardware;
locks, hinges, cutlery. The farmer wants all these and
more H e wants implementi of all kinds to help him
in his work; reapers, threshers, mowers, plows, cultivators, seeders, tools of all kinds. H e wants hamess,
fertilizers, seed His wants are legion.
It k these and a thousand other natural and proper
wants of the farmer that have made the complex thing
we call civilization, with all its factories, warehouses,
stores, banks and trade and transportation facilities.
W e all live on the things produced on the farm.
It follows then that transportation to and from the
farm is the thing we all need, and need badly. And
i. this thing is here at last. The ox team was a step, the
,
dirt road was a step, the canal was a step, the farm
- wagon was a step, the railroad was a step and a great
one, but the automobile was the thing that brought r e
sults. Since the advent of the automobile there has
been more agitation for good roads, and with better
results. thin in all the years that preceded its advent.
Everybody wants good roads now because everybody
has YI automobile and wants to go everywhere in com-

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Good roads are spreading in

fort and with speed.

HE farmer is independent of the rest of the every directioz~and in some d o n s the horse has pnctically disappeared
Many farmers now have passenger cur for pcnonzl,
travel, tractors for farm work and motor tnrdro for
hauling produce to market. This is all moving in the
right direction, in the line of better roads, and the
bringing of the food producer nearer to the consumer,
nearer to the man who supplies the farmer with the
things he must have if he is to do the pat work of
feeding and clothing the swarming millions who depend
upon his fields for a livelihood.
The ebb tide of the sale of tractors
farmers'is
passed, and the trend toward a large volume of s d c l
has set in. The fann tractor b not yet been the p o p
ular thing with the farmer who could not yet see the
use of investing the price of several horses in a m o c h i ~
that in a recent degree of development racked itself to
pieces in a couple of y u n . Intelligent experience is
being built into the tractor now, and the implumat has
be& developed more nearly to do its work.
The Great War did much for the development of
motor trucks. Hundreds of trucks, bearing the U.SA
stamp on engines and radiator$ went through heavy
shell fire that shot tops and bodies away, the trucks
continuing to run, and hauling loads over open fields
and tom, muddy roads near the front ,
The capacity of any truck can be ?creased by the use
of a trailer. It is better to get a small truck and buy
a trailer later if you must. There is danger of loading
motor trucks too heavily. Sometimu the platform
scales that will be used to weigh the load were kistded
before the day of motor trucks, and have insu9icicnt
capacity to weigh very large trucks heavily loaded.
Some states demand exceptionally kge fees for
heavy trucks, because of the damage they do the roads;
only $50 is charged for a five-ton truck, but anything
heavier calls for a license fee of $250 to $500.
For a ton truck the cost will average 10c per mile.
If the truck repIaces horses the principal saving will
be in feed, harness, shoeing and veterinary service, less
care, less space, saving of driver's time, wider radius
cf marketing, l u s shrinkage in hauling livc stock,
better market condition of perishable products, livery
charges and safety without hitching. Doubledecked
motor-truck bodies are desirable where two or more
classes of products arc handled, such as livc @try
and eggs.

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G ~ d ' r Word u full of promises rrrpoctinO the

glorious epoch, the Golden Age, when "the earth shall
be full of the knowledge of the Lord" (1%. 119;H a b
2:14); when "every man shall sit under his vine and
under h u fig tree; and none shall make them afraid"
( M i d 4:4) ;when "they shall not build and mother
inhabit," but when home ownership shall be general
(1s. 65: 21-23). Thus a time is anticipared when
every man in the summu season will be interested in
the production of the things that come to hb own
tabfc. And this is the natural inclination of healthy,
n o d m e n This docs not mean, however, that there
will not dways be great fields for the production of
the world's staple cmps. The farmer will long continue to k a great factor in feeding the world, and the
motor truck will enable h
i
m to deliver that food whm
and where it will be most needed.

Wh.t a lesson the Lord taught in Hir atery about.

the seed that "As soon as it was sprung up, it witha ered away, because it lacked moisture" (Luke 8 :6).
How like the human heart is to soil, as the Lord
compared it, and how needful for it, under presknt
conditions, to be continually plowed and harrowed
to keep it Irom becoming hard and selfish md
unsuited to the character growths the Lord desires.

TB& S N A U AN t X W ? 7 3 L C O ~?%!i"oR

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NE of the gratest friends of the fanner is the'

toad, which makes a living on the insects which
are, injurious to crops. l-he t d s worot
the h e ,
for this reawn the snake is a poor dditioIl to the
live se
Beoidm killiq toads
fiveon ,-ni
the =dems young birds, which
and destroys eggs not only of the 4 birds but of
ham Y weU There seam to be an instinctive dislike
TB& VALUE OF ThE M U Z H
to h a on the part of the human f d y , which lea&
HIRTY y a r s ?go it was solemnly and oflidJly the average person to kill them On bight Thip a~ersion
declared that the Great P h h m
~ would
t
a ~e a to
~ be pmper enough.

Th

:
,

of any value agriNtturaUy except a sparse

never
grazing country, but the mdch system of dry farming
has made it one vast wheat fief4 furnishing food for
milliotu of people.
SoiI that docs not have a mulch will 4 whm it
gets dry, and these cracks me the liner on
form. A bulch on the surface will prevent clod formation, and the labor of d - b e d preparaticm
plowing is less. Land that his a good surface mulch
before it is plowed is mellow and loose, and it is easy
to prepare the field in ideal shape to receive the seed.
To see how capillary attraction works in pumping
water out of the soil, take a cube of sugar and dip a
comer of it in your coffee and see how quickly the
liquid climbs up. I t is being moved by u p i U ~ r y
t i w Put some loose sugar on top and you will see
that the liquid does not climb through it so npidly,
The reason ir that the graim are so far apart &at capillariv has been destroyed. This is the philosophy of
the mulch In soil which has been thoroughly mulched
the evaporation of the much-needed soil moisture is
cheeked.
When one considers the great amount of moirturc
necessary to mature a crop properly, it is easy to understand the great need for conserving the supply. It
taka more than 500 lbs of water to make every pound
of dry matter found in the oats plant, and it takes about
400 lbs. with wheat. Corn will do with a little less.
Unless great attention is given to storing the rainfall in
the soil, and putting the land in condition k that it is
not lost by capillary attraction, there is apt to be a deficiency at just the time it is most needed.

The story is an d d one, and a sad one, of how Satan

in deceiving Mother Eve acted through a wrpent which

he had obses~edfor the purpose, a d how,
of
this use of the serpent against one treated in God's
likeness, the serpent was "Cursed above all uttle, and
lbove e v w beast of the field."--6ene~i~3 :14.
FI-ECTRICALLY REVIVED P U N T S
HE EFFECT of electrical currents upon pknt life
has been long known and is gradually being utilized more and marc A Connebicut.florist now utilizes
it forreviving almost lifeless plants which have been
shipped to him from long dist&~ces2nd arrive in an
almost d u d condition Two or more cells are connected up with fine copper wire, the positive pole
being connected to a nail placed in the soil of the
flower pot, while the negative pole is secured delicately around an u p p u branch. I n a week or two
the plant is fully revived and growing in a flourishing fashion. I n some sections market gardeners
have been caught stealing electricity from power
wirer o r third rails which pass their premises.
How little we know about the invisible forces
which God has made f ~ the
r controlling of his universe. Here is an unsrm fn>rce which has on almost
miraculous power ovtr life And what is life? I t
also h an unseen force, and, in the words of one of
the greatest of earth's philosophers. "life is incomprehensible." The Prophet Ezekiel says of dead nations and dead human beings, "I will put rhy spirit
[breath] within you, and ye shall live."-Ezekiei
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SCIENCE and INVENTION

right t&e and place finished it. Tonnrd the last
U-boats could be trailed just as accuntdy w if t h q
had been maneuvering on the surface of the ses.
Attacks by aeroplane were also frustrated by thc
magnifying of sounds. Grut reflectors w e n employ&.
eat ice had to ba chipped from the gages and instrn- to catch the sound of approaching hostile aircraft at
\\;hen the approximate location of the apmmts a d the air-speed indicator v.3~so clogged 4 t h n@t.
ice that it r e f u d to ~itorkat an. Dtiring the last four proacl~ingaircraft was determined by this sound-~vave
h o u n of the flight the radiator shutters and thermom- catcher, then powerful searchlights wcrc suddenly
flashed on, and their beams pointed in the direction
eters were almost completely incructed with ice.
On account of fog the sense of vc';ticality was previously indicated by the sound detector. The antidestroyed, and for part of the trip the aviator was fly- aircraft guns and the Allied aeroplanes did the rest.
A man's voice can now be magnified until it cm
ing upside down, but had no knowledge of the fact
until Ile came down within fifty feet of the water. Not be heard twenty miles. The ticking of 'a watch can
until he saw the mountainous billows ready to engulf be amplified until it can be heard above the roar of
him did he realize his predicament and shoot up again. a crowd. A wireless station recently received a telpThe speed of 124 miles per hour was made up partly phonc message from Europe and, through its mpliof the zaaal machine speed of 30 miles per hour and Ger, startled hunters in the marshes eight miles away.
partly of the breeze that always blows from \Vat to It is quite possible that by means of this apparatus
East at the high altkudes of one to two miles in which a means will yet be found for persons to converse
with one another bct~vccnany points on the face of
the greater part of the flight occurred.
the globe.
The
landing
was
nose
down
in
a
bog
which
mmpled
-K
With mirzcles such i s this transpiring before our
up the fonvord end of the airplane like a s h u t of paper
say who
and left it a complete tvrtck. It is hard to see in Cap- eyes, what will the critics of God's ~ o r d
tain Alcock's achievement anything that will tend to h3b-t ridiculed the thought that "the Fathe; sceth
make ocean travel by airplane popular with those who [and heareth] in secret" the prayers of his saints,
have found this world a pretty gocd place in which to uttered in the privacy of their closets?-Matthew
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There is an interesting hannmy of thought, howwcr, between these v/ond:rful P.ights of human beings JOINT USES OF AIRPLANGS ~h
WIRELESS
and the statement of the prophet regarding those that
M'ONDERFUL supervision over cetiain earthly ,
wait upon the Lord. I t is true of both that "They shall
=*airs is possible through the combined rise of
mount up with wings 2s eagles" (Isa. 40:31). In the two great inventions, the airplane and wirelest tdeone case the wings are literal wings, even though made 'phonc. The latter invention has now reached a stage
of wood and canvas. In the other case the w i n e are where practically any one can bc instructed in handling
tile Old and Sew Tes:aments of the sacred Scriptures. the talking and receiving apparatus.
At Hardin, Xfont., an aviator has bccn engaged to
THE SfA GNZFYXNG OF SOUNDS
carry the mulager of a 103,OCX) acre wheat ranch from
T \\'AS THE MAGNIFYING of soxnds that beat one part of the field to mother, and by the wireless tdthe U-boat. During the last years of the war the ephone he is ablc to report back to the ranch head_
and destroyers kept almost perfect track of quarters or give local orders to gang o r section foremen
,j
- -* one another's whereabouts. Every move was closely wliile in flight.
The same principle is made use of in California.
checked up, all by means of the microphones mounted
in the vessels. At first thc advantage was ~ i t the
h U- Tllere, in the dry season, forest fires frequently do
boats, which could detcct the merchntmvl one to two grcst dan:agr The Government has now laid out four
hours' fail away. Latcr the Allies had the better micro- airp:ane routes of 150 miles each over forest areas;
phones and the C'-bolt was tloorned. Its every move these routes to be covered every day, and cxperiurcc
was known 2nd the dropping of a depth bomb at tlie h3s shown that forest fires are easily detected anywhere

TWO THOUSAND NIL68 IN A MGHT

APTAIN ALCOCK'S great flight from Kemfbundlurd to ~ l i f d m ,IreIan4 1990 miles in 16
houn, was mode under conditions calculated to strike
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DISTRIBUTION dF INSANG
HE distribution of the insane is interesting.
Of course, the location of the sanest of the count y must be the capital city, but the District of Columbia leads in the number of in=% with a pucrntw
of 0.8406 per cent., over twice that of the next
petitor, which is Roman Catholic h f u r ~ d r u ~ ~with
tts
0.3761 per cent. The Federal Hospital for the insane
is at Washington, but no such excuse can be o f i d
for hiassechuscns. What foreign birth and rctiqion
m y have t o do with this may appear fmm the fact *'
that the percentage of insane in Wyoming is 0.1207 per
cent. Massachusetts has between three and four
O m PLANETS AND THE FZXED STARS
times the best of \Iryoming both in insane and i n f o p
H E only planets which can be seen from the earth eign bom.
are those that belong to our own sun. Vcnus is
a near neighbor. At times it comes within 26.KO.000 NEW SOURCE OF PO EZR
Wes of US, t ~ h i l eNeptune is 100 times as far away.
EADERS in the electrical industry se; possibility
Venus and Jupiter shine with a brilliancy surpassing
of the discovery and development of other
thht of the brightest fixed stars, but rtnlike the fixed and better sources ~ f ' ~ o w than
e r any yet known.
stars they have no light or heat of their own but bor- Jn discussing the slow dcvelopmcnt of water powers,
row itall from the sun.
hfr. L: C. Reynolds of Geneva. N. Y.. says that
shines with a clear ~parklingwhite because it "Contrary to 'the general belief the depletion of the
has a cloudy atmosphert. Jupiter glows with a yel- world's coal supply t o date is but a small nick out
lowish fingc, because it is in agaseous condition Mars of the immense dcpcsits still untouched. Long beglows with a deep red tinge, due to his snow-covered fore such deposits are exhausted power from some
surface, while Saturn is a dull l a d color. Mercury is undeveloped source, possibly dire? from the sun,
so r i a r the horizon, i. e.. so near the sun, that he can will be available." Evidently there will be plenty
be seen only in spring or fall, and then only at twilight. of power even for a world population ten times that
Neptune is so far away that il cannot be seen with the of to-day.
naked eye.
Because they are so close to us, the planets appear ULTRA-PIOLET FOR COiYSVXP~mES
t o wander through the sky from day to day. The
N inventor in Germany h y ~devised an electric
nearer the planet is to the u r t h the greater the rate
treatment for consumptives in a r m m where
at which it appears to move through the sky. Once the patient can walk around. Quartz electric bulbs
%urn is located it is easier to keep track of him than arc suspended from the cciring and the walls are
other planets, as it taker him 30 years to make his trip covered with a material which reflects the healing
arollild the sun.
ultra-violet rays in which the patient is completely
, The *ed stars are all suns. emitting light and heat bathed.
of their own. The nearest one of these is 10,000 t i m u
u far distant as Neptune, o r 26,000,000,000 miles POWDERED COAL
away. There are very few railrvay trains that can
N England progress is being rnade in the commake 712 miles in 24 hours, and keep it up, but a train
plete combustion of coal, by pulverizing it so
thzt could do thzt could make the journey in ad even that it can be blo+n into the furnace. T h e advan100,000,000 years, provided the fuel lasted, and nothing tages are higher temperature, smokeless combuswore out, and the train crew and passengers did not.#
tion and no loss of heat units via the ash pile.
' tired in the meantime.
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"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fin- CREAP WIRELESS PHONES COMING
I
OVERNhlENT red-tape permitting, the Mar, gm, the moon, and the stars, which thou hast orconi wireless experts expect in a very few
; dained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him! and
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years, at most, t o see wireless telephone systems
9 the son of man, that thou visitest him [plannest for his
recovery of perfect human life and eanhly dominion in making longdistance conversation' possible to any
part of the world at nominal car+
; The Golden Age] !"-Psa.
8 :4, 5.

within the areas covered. For this purpose the aviator

flies at an elevation of from 6,000 t o 10,000 feet.
IVonderful as arc these things that men a n do, and
are now prepared to do on a vaster scale than ever before, in viewing the landscape o'er with a view to its
better administration, how much more wonderful u our
God, of whom it is written. "The eyes of the Lord are
i in every place, beholding the evil and the good" ( Prov.
1 15:3), and "Neither is there any crcatuw that is not
lMnifest in his sight: but all things are naked and
opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to
do 1"-Hebrews 4 :13.

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HOUSEWIFERY and HYGIENE

UNDERNOLIRISEMENT INVITES PESTILENCE

GOOD

food is a builder of strength and a prevcnt i . Rut some light is thrown oil the likelihood of tlie comnion pcople k i n g able to obtain nlore
,.nourishing food this year than in 1915, by some information frcm the New York Departn~ent of Health.
The high cost of 1ivi;rg h a s a bearing on the "flu''
pestilence, by diminishing vital powers as follows:
Sickness has been irrcreascd by the cos: of food ; families which never appealed for charity are now doing
so ; upomen are being driven illto industry ; cllildren
under sixteen are giving up education to cnter factories as unskilled labor; meat, cgb, sugar and milk
a n no longer seen on many tables; t l ~ cbirth rate is
decreasing; infant mortality is increasing; malnutrition is prevalent amo:lg 'adults as well as chiltlren; in
1318 21 per cent. were upder~wurished,against 33
per cent. now; Xew York has already had 100 more
infant dcriths than by this time last year; out of over
2,OCO famiiics investigated 51 per cent. had annual
\ .
earnings of less than $90, and 25 per cent. less than
$1.203; 21 per cent. earned undcr $600; cheap coffees
and'teas are'replacing milk; 18 per cent. are in debt
to food dealers and landlords; 37 per, cent have no
m a t ; 54 per cent. are using much le-s than formerly ;
33 per cent. use no eggs; 30 per cent. no butter and
10 per cent. no sugar. In most of these families the
economic balance, which used to be precariously maintained, may be overthrown by the slightest change in
living cor~ditions. Wage losses c a u x illness, which
in turn decreases income, and tl~ingsgrow more
hopeless.
I f ' some of tile people get the "flcl," they spread
infection, and all m y contract it. The disease finds
a fertile soil in the undernourished bodies of the poor.
It is too much to espect that a11 will yet make the
healtli of each the concern of all, but the sickness of
one is of vital importance to many, for death steals
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. . indiscrimil~ately into the windows of all, rich and
: p b r , when malnutrition in a tenement affords a nest
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FOOD A N D HEALTH
PROPERLY nutritious diet produces a natural
i m ~ u n i t yto disease, especially to those disuses
propagated by germs. A properly nourished body is
much more resirtaut to the attacks of diseasebearing
gcrnls than an improperly nourished body. Overfccd-

ing is as dangerous zs underfeeding; those wllo are

overfed become fat and lazy. and the liver aid kidneys
become overwvrked and break down.
certain foods are almost specifics for certain symptoms of disease. 111diabetes, the principal symptom is
sugar in the urine. and benefit is obtained at once by
excluding from the diet articles which contain ;m excess of sugar and starch. Therc can be no grcat arnour~t
of sugar excreted through the kidneys if there is none
entering the blood.
Because it is.an ideal heat former, the fat stored
naturally in the body in time of hwlth becomes the
first base of supply in case of sickness, and that is the
rcason \rvllypeople get thin when they get skk. Foods
which have no value in keeping up the heat supply of
the body have no value in sickness, and for that reason
meat broths, tea, alcohol, delicacies, cakes, ices and
confections are useless or worse than u ~ l e s sas a diet
in childin time of sickness. Milk, which is a ~~ecessity
hood, and a \vholeso~efood for zdults, is a necessity
in illness.
The Prophet Job's description of a sick man is brief
and to the point. Iie says : ''He is chastened also with
pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with
strnng pain: so that his soul abhorreth bread. and his
soul dainty meat. His flesh is consumed away, that it
cannot be secn ;2nd his bones that &re not seen stick
out. Yea, his soul draweth neat unto the grave, and
his life to the destroyers. If there be a messenger with
him-[if the i\lessengcr of the Covenant, the Lord at his
second advent, who has come t o establish his kingdom or1 cartl~],an interpreter. one among it thousand, to show mall his [the hfessenger's] uprightness: then hc is gracio;s unto him. and saith, Deliver him from going do\va to the pit: I have found
a ransom. His flesh shall be frcshcr than a child's:
he shall return to the days of his youth" (Job 33:lP
25). When the incoming Golden Age is fully established, "The inhabitant shall not spy I am sick"
(Isa. 33-24). Death came originally because the
first pair were c ~ c l u d e dfrom the trees of life tn
Eden. Their food since then has been imperfect;
in the new age perfection of diet is reassured, in the
Lord's due time and way. Meantime Ict us eat as '
wisely as we can.
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USEFUL RECIPES
IIE following recipcs will be of interest to '
every housewife;
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Cottage Cheese
saftens when heated.. Bake in t rhodtrtte wen, bast1 gallon skimmed milk, 1 cup buttermilk or thick. ing
- occ~sionalIywith a \vcll-flavored fat.
rour rniIk. junket tablet dissol;.cd in 2 t a b ~ t s ~ o o n f d ; IIashcd Brov!n Potatoes With Cottage Cheese
rater. Stir thoroaghly together. il'arm to 75 degrees
Chop coid boiled potatoes fine and season them wen
by placing the pail in a vessel of \\.arm water. Set
with
salt, pepper and onion juice. Turn upon a hot
aside over nighlt. In tlit morning, without heating, pour
the curd, without breaking it, upon a piece of heavy frying pan ligl~tlygreased wit11 drippings, and cbok
muslin. Drain until dry. Season with t r e m and salt. the potatoes slowly without stirring till they are
b r o ~ n e dnext the pan. Meanwhile soften a gentrom
Cottage Checse Scuce
quantity of cottage checse with cream or milk till it
Dissolve
to ;M level teaspoon of soda in a little will spread easily. Mix with it any desired seasoning,
milk or hot water to each cup of cottage cheese to such as chopped parsely or pimrnto~,r little leftover
neutralize the acid flwor. Use the soda carefully, as ham or bacon, chili sauce o r picalitli. and spread it
too much is as bad as too little. For a thin saucc use over the potatoes. Let the mixtue stand long enough
1 cup milk, 3: tablespoonful butter,
tablespwnful to warm and soften the cheese; then fold over the
flour, % teaspoonful salt, dash pepper, % cup cheese. potatoes like an onielet, turn it upon a hot platter, and
For thicker sauces add more B ~ u r up
, to 2 tablespoon- serve at once. Many persons enjoy the slight acid
fuls for the thickest sauce. Cook the milk, butter, f a t o r of the cheese with this dish. If desired, howflour, salt and pepper thoroughly and cool it sligl~tly ever, the acid of the cheese may bc neutralized by
before adding to the cheese. Stir the sauce gradually adding )itcaspoon c r more of soda for a c h cup of
into the cheese till well blended, then reheat carrlully. cheese.
After adding the cheese avoid boiling the sauce, for it
Cottage Cheese Pudding
toughens the cheese. Use the sauce for creaming
2 slices stale bread, 2 eggs, 35 teaspaon salt, 1 cup
potatoes, eggs, toa;t, and leftover vegetables.
milk, 1 cup cottage cheese. :/r teaspoon soda,
cup
Scrambled Eggs With Cottage Cheese
sugar, % cup seeded raisins,
teaspoon allspice, 5
teaspoon clwea Cut the bread into
For each egg use
tea~poonrait, plenty of pepper, teaspoon mace,
1 heaping tablespoonful of cheese, the acid of which cubes and place in a buttered baking dish. B u t the
has been neutralized by soda as above, and fat to yolks and whites of the eggs separately, Blend with
grease the pan. Stir the checse d:rcctly into the bezten yolks the milk, salt aed sugar, and cheese, to which
the soda has been added. Add the spice and chopped
egg and scranmble.
raisins and lastly fold in the stiffiy beaten whites.
Cottage Cl~ciseCu:I::s
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1 cup cottage cheese, 1 cup dry trcsg crumbs, 2 Pour this m i a r e ovtr the cubes of bread and bake
tablcspooiis dripping. !icup coarsely chopped pea- like a custard in a moderate o v e . If desirect, iht
wlrite of I cgg may be beaten separately, scveetenccl
nut meats, % teaspoo:~ powdered sage, J,i t-taspmn
with 1 tablespoon of sug~r,and spread over the top
thyme, 1 tablespoon nxlk, 1 teaspoon szlt, jS teaof :he pudding just befort removing it from the men.
spoon Fcpptr, :4 tcxpcon scda, 1 to 2 ta~lespoons
Cottage Checse Pic
,
finely chopped onion. Cook the onion in the drippings
until tender but not brown. . Dissolve the scda in the
1 cup cottagc cliecse, 34 cup stlgar, :/J cup milk intc,
milk and work in the checse. Mix all o h e r dry in- which oile tablespoon cornstarch h;s been bm00dlly
gredients thoroughly with the bread crunibs. Blend stirred, 2 beaten cgg yclks, 1 table:poon melted fat,
t e n s p n vanilla. Mix- the i:lgredients in the order
peanut butter and onion dith the cheese alid ,mix t h t !.i
bread crumbs with t h m . Fornl into fiat cakes. dust given. Eake the pi: m one crust. Caol it slightly and
with b r a d crumbs, or corn meal, and fry a ddkate cover with ~ncringutmade by adding 2 tablcspoans
broun in a little fat in a hot frying pa:i.
sugar and 5 teaspoon ianclla to the whites of 2 eggs
and
brown in a slow o\en.
Cottage Cheese Loaf With Bean,
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Cottage Cheese Cake
- i 1 cup cottage cheesc, 54 teaspoon soda to ncutralitr
--add, 2 cup3 cooked and mashed beans or peas. 1 cup
cup milk, 2
1 cup cottage cheebe, 33 cup sugar,
boded ricc (dry), 1 cup dry bread crumbs, 2 table- eggs, 2 tablespoons cornstarch, 1 tablespeon melted
spoons chopped onion, 2 tablespoons drippings, fat, salt, !iteaspoon lemon ju~cc. Mix the ingredichopped celery or celery salt. Mix bean$, cheese, b m d ents in the order given. hIace or natn~egmay be used
crumbs t n d seasoning together \vcll and form into a for flavoring. Eake 25 minutes in a moderate o\en
roll. The roll should be mised \cry stiff, as the c!lcae cntil brown This makes r very firm custard.
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cutty, and from this rim many of the finest views of

its temples, buttes, canyons and mountains are to

may not assume that even the Jews themselves are,

since the days of Christ, especially the recipient of
God's blessing, and yet it has been marvelously true of
them as was prophesied: "Thou shalt lend unto many
nations, 'and thou shalt not borrow."-Dcu
28:12.

be obtained.
T h e Prophet speaks of a time when "there shall
be a very great valley: and half of the mountain
shall remove toward the north, and half of it to,
ward the south" (Zechariah 14:4). This great val- PRISON FARH NU 2
lq,flewhere designated in the Scriptures u the
HE four officm in charge of ~ r i s o n ' F a r mNo. 2
Valley of Blessings, is God's kingdom, the Golden
in France, where American soldiers were MAge. Beautiful and wonderful as is the Grand prisoned who had been guilty of being absent without
Canyon, it is a s nothing compared to the glories leave, have established a reputation for cruelty that
God will reveal to an eager world with the inau- will linger long. These men were found guilty of
guration of the promised kingdom of life, peace, and kicking, striking and slapping prisoners, using abusive
iivine blessing.
language to prisoners,' making provoking s p e c h u
against
enlisted men under their charge, fraudulently
ANDREW CARNEGIE-MONEY MAKER
converting
money and private propetty of prisoners
NDREW CARNEGIE, just deceased at the age
under
their
charge, threatening prisoners, taking the
of 84 bean business in Pittsburgh as Ibobbin
boy at $120 a week. This was at the age of 12. At 13 private property of prisoners and failing to return the
he was running the stcam en,nine of a small factory. same, ordering the burning of private property of prisAt 14 he was a tclkgraph boy at $3 per week. At oners, gross neglect in furnishing food to prisoners,
15 he was an operator and shortly afterward en- being drunk and disorderly in uniform, and perjury.
It was brought out that prisoners were rolled in the
tered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, rising rapidly to an important position. H e mud for smiling, were knocked down for looking
saved his money and trebled it by wise investments.. around, were knocked down and had their teeth
At an early age he started the Keystone Bridge knocked out for refusing to surrender their money
Company for the manufacture of iron bridges, real- belts, ate dirty potato peelings and evm ate from the
izing that these would soon take the place of the su-ill-barrel in order to get enough to keep alive, were
wooden ones then generally in use. This was suc- punched in the face for being slightly out of line, were
cessful from the start and led to the erection of rail knocked down and beaten upon the slightest pravocrmills, the purchase of vast tracts of ore in the shores tion, while one man for crying out against thue outof the Great Lakes, and the purchase of a fleet of rages had his throat cut.
Four men were beaten with blackjacks until blood
steamers t o bring the ore t o the dock of his own
was streaming from their faces, and when one of them
railwaffrom Lake Erie t o Pittsburgh.
H e retired from business with the purchase of became weak and lagged .behind he was hit from the
his holdings b y the United States Steel Corporation back and kicked into line. The prisonen were drilled
,
a t a price which staggered the world. I t was in front of the muzzles of machine guns, and while
claimed at the time that the price which he asked these things were going on they w e n cut off from the
for his properties was four times their value, but outside world and not allowed to communicate with
that Morgan paid it rather than have Carnegie dis- home, friends or their superior officers. Mtn were
rupt the railroad business by building a new double forced to sleep on cobblestones, and one man was put
track line from Pittsburgh to New York as he had down a twenty-fivefoot hole thirteen days on one can
of corned beef and a box of hard tack. On the fourthreatened t o do.
During his lifetime Carnegie gave away $300,- tcenth day he died.
- iNO,000, of which sum $70,000,000 went to the foundQur Lord said of John the Baptist that among all
'-*;ing of free libraries and the balance t o the great the prophets there had not arisen a greater than he.
Karnegie Foundation a t Pittsburgh, Washington This great mouthpiece of the Lord when approached
and New York, devoted t o education, peace, the re- by soldiers with the demand that he tell them what
warding of heroes, etc. His fortune at the time of their proper duties were said to them, "Do violence
his death was still huge.
to no man." (Luke 3 :14) Surely, if these officers
Andrew Carnegie was not a Jew, and we may not who had their helpless fellow-soldiers under their care
assume that he was blessed in basket and in store had heard and heeded these words they could never
for that reason (Deuteronomy 28:5). Indeed, we have visited upon them such terrible cruelties.

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peoplc's prodiirity for being fooled and .liking if made success both for P. T. Barnurn's
am +d for modern spiritism. T o the "spirits" it
awat be a ' c k w D 1bD see people paying to be fooled
in the ring and side shows of the mystic delusion of
occultism. Not that the people do not see, hear and
feel tbinga uncanny, but that the uncanny amounts to
little or is fit consumption for mental dcfectivu.
For yeam h c k the "spirits" communicated with the
gdlible in brief utterances through ouija boards, slate
writings, rapping and medium. The communications
were w unintelliaile they were called "mystic," bu?
common people would have called them plain foolishness. T d y a more intelligent class is taken in by
the new mysticism by interesting and fascinating magazine articles which a n alleged to come from invisible
spirit authors.
Thc "noted novelist," Basil King, has a series of
vtida in the Cosmopolitan, which according to the
headline is made up of "interesting messages which
have come to him from the dead." H e says, "In writfag these article.#I am little more than an amanuensis,
lad I am at' liberty to take a detached and appraising
dew of r grat topic for the B a r rrsson that the
presentation Is not mint" Mr. King has b u n led to
think that the articles come frum the 'spirits of d a d
people." H e was never more mistaken. for according to
the Bible, which some real Christians still believe to
be the Word of God, "The dead know not anythinf
(Ecclesiastes 9:S), and when a man dies, "in that very
day his thoughts perish" (Psalms 146 :4). If dead
people "know nothing'' and "have no thoughts," the
communicatians of which Basil King is the "arnanuensis" originate from some one elsc-fram
some
spirit, accordii to Paul a' seducing s p W (1 T i othy 4:1), in plain words, a demon, a devil, one of the
faIlen angels confined since the Flood to the atmosphere of the earth-2 Peter 2 :4, Jude 6.
This author reczives his messages, not direct, but
through a female spirit medium. It will be recalled
how often good women have been utilized by evil
spirits in thii way-Ann Lee of spiritualist Shakerism,
Mrs. Eddy of Christian Science, MR. White of Adventism and innumerable common mediums, not to forget Mother Eve whose following the suggestions of
the devil Biblically brought disaster to her children.
It may not disturb some "Christians," but if they

are to become spirits they must drop from the Bible

things held for ages hs essential to Chriatiani@; for,
Biblically, being a Christian is bawd upoa ")tole
hearted belief in .basic doctrines. The spiritist h e
"outgrown" clear-cut teaching, and prefus tD ha*
his mind smothered in a fog of genedties. If the
mind can be filled with vague k d conflicting idus,
the problem is solvtd for the demons of how to
"obsess" and finally "possess" the personality. The
power of thought is sapped, and the mentally s p i n e
less person becomes easy prey for whatever
fol!ows.
Basil King's "spirit: teaches only a partial survivll
of personality ; good persists, evil disappears :'ho etril
endures, because it has not life ; whatever a man brings
over with him is good." This sounds nice, but &e
would-be spiritist must discard those parts of the
Bible about future accountability, such as, "Be not
deceived [by spiritism or otherwi;~] ;. God is not
mocked [fooled]; for whatsoever a man s o d [in
this life], that shall he also reap [in the life to
come] .'-Galatians
6 :7.
But a spiritist does not mind giving upunpleasant
Bible truths when Mr. Demon promises that "here is a
systan that takes every man athis best, howmuch
or little that best may include, making his own achicvt
ment (and not the merit of Christ, which to. the spil~
itist is anathana) the measure of .his reward." .h
other words, every man his awn sairioutl
One of Basil king'^ devils calls himself "?%my
Talbot" and modestly utrma a function Biblically r e
served for Jesus Christ and the manbers of '%is body,
the church" "My special function." says this d e d ,
"is to regenerate the world"; he and the 0th- of Ida
kin "an eager to give us knowledge, while spaking
with hesitation and sometimes with rdudancc of drc
cumstances closest to w." How taafull How refined, for a thug to cut one's throat, to & it with
gold-plated razor l
According to the spiritist, one need not rely p e
titularly on Jesus Christ or on God No more praying to "Our Father," for are not evil spirits ever ready
to come to one's succor? As "Henry Talbot" puts it,
"We can always reach you, if you need and are willing
to listen. Some of us [devils] can penetrate your
problems more easily than can others; but there is
always some one here [in devildom] to help you in
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Thac are accommodating evil spirits, for they are

. prepared

to pitch in and help. "whether or not you

ask for counsel, or are aw&e of it after it has been
given." And how holy these devils arc l for "we cannot perceive evil, and arc corucious d y of 'blanks
, when it is prucat."
And so ready with "helpful'l
wisdom like "the serpent" in Eden assistkg Mother
Eve "to make one wise"; as "Henry" says, "We see
so clearly the road of safety and wisdom, i n yhich no
evil cm be met'with." This is bait to get a suggcstible person t o surrender the citadel. of his will, and
unrcsistingly heed suggestions of the demons : "Cultivation of the spiritual ear [the faculty of receiving
audible demonic suggestions] is of utmost importance,
for through this organ [the 'inner' a r ] you can apprehend the words of life." Rather. the words of
death1 St. Paul says, "The works of the flesh are
manifest, witchcraft, strife, murders and such like;
of which I have also told you that they which do such
things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God."
God Biblically declares uncompromising hostility to
demons; but to catch the unwary, untutored, honest
and simple, how close, forsooth. do these spiritual
outlaws represent themselves to be to the great Judge :
"Your interest in us must never be allowed to stand
between you and your consciousness of God. We an
expressions of him ( !) but do not forget that it is he
who speaks t h u g h us ( !!) and that we [de'rilsj are
the reflection of his glory." (!!!) But faithful St.
Paul warns: "I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils; ye cannot drink [participate in] the
cup [of doctrines, teachings and fcI!owship in the life]
of the Lord, and the cup [of doctrinis, teachings and
fellowship] of devils."-l
Corinthians 10:ZO-21.
"Surrender the will," is the plea of demonism; be;ome limp, pliable, putty-like in the hands of devils;
this is their victory, for the battle is won or lost in &e
mind. So "Henry" wants to mtice you to give in to
him: "I like to help in everything I can. Ask and I
will tell you all I can. You use your mind too actively
in your effort to hear, and I cannot overcome your
thoughts [the impassable barier of the will] at times.
Relax, and lay your head on my shouIder. Give me
your hands, and I will lead you on." Of course.
: "Henry" will lead you on; but who wants to bc led
f
- -' on by a devil ?
Mr. Demon, alias "Henry" claims intimacy with the
Deity, who on Biblical authority expencd him from
heaven ages ago. Through "Henry's" cooperation a
spiritist becomes qualified t o say, "I mxpress the
Father, who expresses himself in me. Things get
their d u e , not because they are mine alone, bat btUUK they are both mine and his. His is the first c r t

ative force, and mine the secondary." A rpiritirt

knows for sum thh is so, for has not "Henry" told
him, ' W e are the prismatic colors of his glory," and
"each prismatic color g i v u back the rays of light with
its special refraction." And when the spiritist geta
the proper slant, he "falls" for all sorts of aesthetic
gush such a s "Beauty is infinite, o r it wotrld not be
beauty; beauty can never be exhausted," which 1s
all right, because "these are among our t e a c h 5
[the devil's, "Henry's"] favorite thoughts."
.
When Jesus was alive, the "spirits" trembled at his
rebuke; they dreaded him: bat now, according to
"Henry," they and Jesur arc on excellent terms : "We
[devils] who arc speaking to you now arc trying to
express in modem terms and to meet in modern conditions the same fundamental truths Jesus taught."
However, they shy at the doctrine of Christianity:
"We generally avoid direct reference to Christian
teachings and influence." But they cannot escape bc
lief in the truths of the Bible, for they belong to the
.class mentioned by the martyr James, "The devils believe and tremble" (Jamis 2 29). It is at the doctrines of Christ the Judge that they tremble: nothing
is more natural than that they should "avoid direct
reference to Christian teachings."
Evidently the same sinister influences which recently
made the peacemaker anathema, now purpose to lead
men to an opposite extreme and to substitute the
il;.nis fcturrz of "mundaim." o r "world-ism" for nationalism. Does not "Henry" make this plain in pmdently guarded words? "The purposc of nationality
is the same as that of individuals. h e r e is fundamcntalfy no more reason for w!%rs betwten nations
than for combats between men of o m gift and men of
another. It is as.lcdicrous an exhibition of coordinate
egotism for race to fight xace as for all musicians to
join in a war zgainst all painters." Fortunately,
"Henry" is in the spirit world and cannot be landed
in jail for talking like this.
The lure of demonism, alias spiritism, is one of the
strongest and subtlest enticements to take Christians
away from Christ. Spiritism is a reality. The phen*
mma a m actualiti~,and the source i i evil beyond description. It is folly to deny the reility of the proven
occurrences of spiritism when their actuality is attested
by scientists under rigid tests. The evil is a real one.
It is here in p w i n g power, and the safe plan is to
follow the tested Biblical recipe, "Resist t f ~ edevil, and
he will fl ce from thec" (James 4 :7) A good course
is to determine to resist everything that savors of the
occult as being of evil. In the twentieth century this
may seem old-fa,hioned, but it pays to be old-fashioned in matters where caution u the way of safety.

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TW% mSSZAH- WaO IS as?

F OR

twenty-five hundred years or more Freemasons have waited f o r the returning of one
Hiram Abiff, the great Master Mason. They claim
he died a violent death because of his loyalty to the
divine secre:s typified id Solomon's temple; that he
must reappear in order that that great antitypical
temple may be completed and its grand service be
_ ,accomplished.
The Mohammedans, are also expecting a great
messenger, a prophet, through whom they and d l
people will be blessed. For many centuries they
have waited his coming. They believe his kingdom
is near at hand.
For thirty-five hundred years or morc Jews have
waited for the coming of the great prophet \vho was
typified by n10ses a:>d whom Moses foretold, and
who was also foreshadowed by Kings David and
Solotnon and by the glorious priest, Melchizedek.
They expect him t o establish his kingdom and restore Israel in Palestine, and with this hope thousands of Jews are now hurrying to Palestine, believing the time of llessiah's appearance is at hand.
Christians of every shade who are conversant
,~' with the Bible look for thp coming of the Messiah,
and they believe that His a p p a r i n g is near at hand.
I n fa&, "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain," waiting for they know not what,
but desiring some relief that will bring to them
peace and happiness and life.
W h o is this great and mighty one expected? The
Scriptures answer he is the great' hlessiah, the
Kiug of Glory, the one who will bring the desire of
all nations. More than four thousand years ago
Jehovah promised Abraham, saying. "In thy seed
,
shall all the nations of the earth be blessed" (Genesis 22:lB). And thus he assured all that his promise would be fulfilled. T h e same inspired witnzss
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plainly states that this long promised one, the
"seed," is the Christ. T h e word Christ translated
from the Greek has the same meaning as the Hebrew word hlessiah, both terms meaning the
. "anointed one," the one given'authority to rule.
. i Jehovah organized Israel into a sample nation. or
- ' government. H e gave t o them a code of perfect
laws. H e dealt with them for upwards of eighteen
hundred years, and used that nation to make pictures or types of the coming Rlessiah, through
whom he would bring blessings to all mankind.
Thereafter Jehovah permitted the Gentiles to attempt t o establish an ideal government in the
earth, and granted to them a period of 2,520 years
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in which t o make an effort. Zedekiah was overthrown in 606 B. C. The 2,520 yearb of the Gentile
period ended in the iutamn of 1914.
The,~jssion of the Messiah is t o fulfil God's
promise to bless all the nations of earth-to give t o ' . all the opportunity of life. H e said, "I am come
that they [the people] might have life and have fi'
more abundantly." H e will establish on earth the
will of God for which he taught his followers to
pray. "And the government shall be upon his
shoulder; and his name rhall be called Wonderful.
Counscller, T h e mighty God, the Everlasting.
Father [lifegiver], The Prince of Peace. Of the incrczst of his government and peace there shall be
no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his
kingdom. t o order it and t o establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for
ever."-Isaiah 9 :6, 7.
All peoples, nations, lrindreds and tongues desire
life and happiness. "There .is none- other name
under heaven given among men, whereby we must
be saved" (Act9 4:12). The Messiah will save the
people from their sins and give them the blessings
of life, but this must be immediately preceded by a
great time of trouble, such as the world is now
experiencing. "I will shake all nations, and the
desire of all nations shall come" (Haggai 2:7).
Freemason, hfohamrnedan, Jew, o r Christian, all
o the Messiah as the only hope for the
must look t
blessings of ma:~kind. Under his bheficent reign .
the influence will be uplifting. a ~ the
d result \%-ill ,
be glorious and God's will shall be done on earth
a s completeiy a s it is done in heaven. "All the
wicked will God destroy" (Psalm 143:20). "He
must reign till he hath put all enemies under his
feet. T h e last enemy that sl~allbe destroyed is
death" (I Corinthians 15:25. 26). ".4nd there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former
things are passed away. And he that sat upon the
throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And
he said unto me, Write, for these words are true
.
and faithful" (Revelation 21:4, 5). H e will make
the earth a fit habitation for man. All the desert .
and waste places shall become habitable (Isaiah
35). "~2ndthe desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is
36:34, 35.
become like the garden of Eden."-Ezek.
The reign of the hlessiah is the Golden Age, for
which all peoples have longed, hoped, prayed and
waited. Behold, it is at the door1

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New York, Werfncsd~r.October

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LABOR and ECONOMICS

SIXTY CELVTSA N HOL'R
various sections of the countrp a r a g e of ~ i x t ycents
an hour for unskilled labor is 1col;ed for. This looks
like a small fortune, compared with the fifteen or twenty
cmts an hour that we3 the ruling figure only a few
years ago.
This i~cre8sein a-azcs represents more than a rise due
solely to high cost of living. The unskilled labor has
' mnltiplied three or four time8 where living costs have
doribled. The laborer is better off than before becausq
his day's pay will buy him more.
I n the wheat belt in the 1919 harvest season as high rn
a dollar an hour was paid for farm help, and in eome
&ions there .were three jobs to every competent m m .
The extra riae in the labor wage is due to the cn~nent
warcity &f labor. This class of workers has been recmited largely from immigration, but the war cut down fmmigration to a fraction of its formel figure, and the
outgoing stream of laborem made the net immigration
very -small, a aituation now aggravated by the great
exodus of foreigners returning to their E u r u p c n homes.
The wage of common labor has responded in part to
the scarcity of labor. The law of mpplp and demand a i
last enables the day laborer to come into his own.
Some emplojment expert8 declare that the crl~ntryis
facing a serious labor shortage, owing to thr home-visits
of thc thousands who have been over herc longer tlJan
usual. and to the reviral of business. 7't.c estimatc is
made that by n e b Sew Y e u the countv -rill be ehort
of common labor to the extent of a m 3 i w and n half
workers. IVkiat this may do to the price by hour that a
lzborer can command may be essimated by the wage
experts, hut ewn higher than s i x t y cents may reasonably
be looked for.
Labor's r a g e is considered t\e basis nn? of all
industry. For example, where c o m e n labor gets a
given u-age, the wage of skilled labor will hc ro11:Uy
rpcaking a certain number of h e s thac ~f th- CY m o n

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labor. This is bccausc common labor ear9titutes a high

percentage of ?reduction costs in the basic irrdustrics.
Any inmcaw ih the labor wage adds makriallp to the
coat of doing b~uiness. With lobor gettin; nlore monev
and the liring cost rising to match, the^ m u d be lotkrd
far demands for increases in the rages o? akilled workers
who cannot be expected to acquiesce i-cl m y rc~rognrle
in the purchase power of the day's pay.
Where the top in wages may be, no on? r e n t l ~ r eto~
predict; but, with dl the apparent rise ttlc worker is not
happy, as he sees the costof-living fiyrcs always a little
beyond his own buping capacity.
The retailers have been lining their rocket9 during
this carnival of high prices. Instead of the 3c profit
that they should be making on a p u n i of leg of lamb
some meat dealers have been making ~ O C ; instead uf
clearing 7c on lamb chops they have beer1 clcaring 25c,
and the m n e with veal. Cantaloupes cozting the r ~ h i l e r
6c have been retailing a t 18c to 25c and tamntoca rnsting
him 5c a pound have been selling a t 30c r.er pound. 'fie
vholesalks and jobbers have all partic:T?ate< too. Another contributory cause is, reckless bujing ox the part
of many.
A House whcommittee investigating War Dopattn~ent
expenditures has discovered that ah.cst 400,G00.000
cans of vegetables, salmon and pork an(! beans were withheld from the market a t the request of t h e c a n e r s 1111til
after the present ccicning season, but r+r?total d u e of
this is only about $1 per head, for the popiJation of the
United States, and not enough to affr-t t!~e ~ituation
materially.
to
But no matter what may be the couq, nccorrli~~g
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the Children's Burnau connrctrd sith t:~cFnitzd St,!&
Department of Labor (;,rju0,000American c1riitLrcn n-e
ectually a t this moment underfed and thq K c a York
Cltp Board of Health finds numerous poor f a n ~ i l i cthat
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have been obliged to give up meat, b u t h and eggr
Efforts to locate the trouble persist

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OR several years the American people have

been

"doubling up" ta-o or more families in houses made

over into apartments or tenements. The country is
nhort $4,000,000,000 worth of howw and there is an
annual need of $3,000,000,000 for building purposes,
two thirds of which ia for homea
I n New York there in an almost total stoppage of
work on new houses. Prices and labor are so high that
those desiring to build are waiting until t h q can put
up apartments or houses which will not depreciate a
quarter in value when the tide of prices has receded.
Some of the percentages of increase in the wholesale
prices of building materials Bince July 1915 according
to the American Contractor, are as follows. ayerage
119 ;lime 116 ;cement 99 ; brick 170 ;sand 150 ; gravel
123; crushed stone 106 ;linseed oil 240; white lead 86;
structural steel 86 ; hemlock 78 ;yellow pine timber 87;
yellow pice 127; spruce timber 71; window glass 136;
plate glass 113.
The percentage incresse of wages has been about o n e
third that of materials, as follo~vsfrom July 1915 to
July 1919; carpenters, shop work 50; carpenters, outride 30 ; brick layers 20 ; cement masons 30 ; wmposition ioofers 50 ; electrical workers 25 ;engineers, koisting 17 ;marble ~ o r k e r 18;
s metallic lathers 13 ;painten
50; plasterers 30; plumbers 27; roofers and sheet metal
workers 20; slate and tile roofers 18; steam fitters 27;
stone cutters '50; ebne masons 35; done setters 17;
tile layers 30 ; wood workers 53 ; hod carriers 69.
An, important incident of these @ues ie that building workers, with a thirty-nine per cent wage increass
and facing a one-hundred per cent cost of living increase, are not getting a fair share of the goods for their
d . j s work. This condition ia attributable to elack
business, and is likely to be remedied when building
increases. With an increazed demand for drilled labor
$he workers may be eqxcted to apply pressure through
dxikes to increase thelr wages to correspond with the
ad~anccdcost of living. The practical result to the
bailder of homes will be that the laborcost increase
l o u l d ultimately be in keeping with the 119 per cent
increase in material prices.
Further price increases may be looked for in lumber,
which may rise from its present average increase of
only eighty per cent to a higher figtue, and there is a
oarcity of some materials. Th= is the burden under
which the home bu~lderof 1920 staggers. It a m u n t a
for the f a d that in New York the number of apartment
housee, tenrments and houses has dropped from hundreds five ycus ago to pradically nothing the 5rst haIf
of this year.
A temporary favorable feature M that building

lhould not only not be chcaper, but should cotit. mora

For a time at 1the discouraged home builder may
not expect to find himself in a falling market. For
those taking immediate advantage of present prices and
rage scales the law of supplp and demand ir operating
favorably and they may be able, for a while, to sell their
buildings at a profit. With population increasing two
to three per cent a year and the number of homer not
increakg by any ouch rate, there &odd be a rising
price for home properties.
These conditions are the result partly of the abolition
during the war of the economic law of competition. In
its place was built up a beneficent q s t e m of cooperation
whereby each party concerned was racurqd a fair percentage of profit. The cost-plus-a-per-cent system d b
couragcd competition and enabled unscrupulous contractors to put at work unheard-of numbera of men whn
worked more or leao as they pleased and produced build-.
ings of unprecedented 6
There u e numberlm hobailt under pre-var
canditionq and almost aa good M new houses, which the
home seeker can buy for less than anything of equal
quaLty the builder of today can offer. A8 long aa this
chsa of budding6 ia in the muket there is no reason
why an e m o m i d home e k e r should buy new h o w .
Under exkting conditionr them ia r conhntly,
widening margin of the popnlation approaching the
homeless state. Scarcity of h o u q high rent8 and extortionate landlords are driving thousands to
paint.
where they find it di5cult to avoid having no robf o v q
their heada. They require homes, but the homes are
m c e 1 y to be had st a f i p rhicb their daily wage
w i l l &or& With building at a atandstill, or progressing
on high-cost lines what are these unfortunate, poor to do?
Certainly they may look fomard with anticipation
to the Golden Age when i t shall not be true that the
men that build houses build them for other people to
live in a d they themselves go homeless. Rather the
promiae is made that soon "they shall long enjoy the
work of their hands1'-Isaiah 65 :21-22.

WILL FOOD ADdnNISTUATION BE REVIVED?

HEY HAD T O revive the Food Administration in
E n g h d and we may have to do no in this wuntry.
There k t d k now of placing warehouse ownerr and
cold dorage men m d wholeders and large retailers
under licenae. We had them under license during the
war. There is U k of enforcing regulations against
hoarding. We did it during the war. There is talk-of'
laying down rules governing the profit which is fair.
We did that during the au. There is talk of cutting thecost of living by using n zone system for shipdents M Live dock and hik T5b rm done during the war.

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benefitted, then, by the abolition of the Food

Adminiatration? Who r a i d the cost of living aina
it waa abolished, and who suffered as a result? If the
Food Administration aaa a good thing to help the
pmple eave during the war, would it not be a good
thing to help save the people now?
There is a hint in Joseph'a experiences in Egypt
that in times of world scarcity one of the mod useful
d c e a of the Government is to see that the people'r
food a p p l y is cared for, so that they may not come to
wmt. Joseph's whole p~uposein buying and Btoring
the food, and doling i t out an needed was 'To save
much people alive."-Gen.
4 1 :1-57 ; 47 :13-26; 50 :20.

IS TZ7ER.E LEATHER SHORTAGE?

IS hard to get at the h t h of some of the state1be Tsure
ments that appear in the daily press. We can not
that wme of the things that look plausible were

not fixed up on purpose to make them look so. But it

doen appear reasonable that there is really somewhat of
r ahortap in leather. h t h e r is a by-product of cattle
raising. Cattle are not raid or slaughtered for their
hides merely. The hides result naturally from the sale
of bed, and the d e s of beef per capita are much less
thm they used to be, because the people cannot afEord
to eat much meat at the p r i m which have recently

p d *
During the Great War the number of European cattle
was gently reduced and it d
l be a long time before
the l a t h e r docks in those oauntriea will be as great M
it ontx ma There are large stocks of leather at porta
in South America, India, C'trina and Siberia, but the
.hipping of the world is not yet d c i e n t to transport it.
There hm been taIk that shoes are selling in Enrope
far 820 to $25 per pair, but thouasnds of shoes were
r e ~ n t l yadvertised for export at prices ranging from
$1.80 to $5.75 per pair, or about one tenth the deged
European prices. Somebody must be getting the difference and it looks as if somebody is getting t
m much.
There u e quite a good rarrny people in the United
S h h today who can not understand why ahoes that
cost $6.75 at the factory should cod the consumer $12.
The retail shoe men claim that they are making l e s
money than formerly because of the loss of business due
to high prices.
The Golden Rule, "Tihatsoerer ye would that men
&odd do to you, do you even so to them" (Xatt. 7 :12),
in 8 rule of businesa none too often followed, but is
ncrerfhelesa the acme of risdom M well as justice,and in
the Golden Age mi be enforced upon all by the unseen
+ha1
powers that w i l l then be in control. The Golden
Rule does not s p w d lies and half-truths in the effort
to maintain fictitious p r i m . .
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demands of labor to a voica la the manage
ment of the businesses with which they ue connected
are of a nature that will not be ed aside. Labor h u
been moving steadily forward in its attempt. to s e a m
a larger share of the profits of industry ever sinthe mauguration of the factory system, which began in
England in the year 1800.
At that time it ass a criminal act for workmen even
to meet in an nttempt to improve their wages and
condition of labor, and for more than fifty years the
employing class in Great Britain, through its control of
legislation, was ahle to attach to trade unions the taint
of l a a l e m a The workmen felt this injuLctice.longbefore the employers admitted it and made their indignation felt at rnrious times in acts of violence in which
thousands of dollars worth of property war destroyed.
The worhmcn were not alone in their resort to
violence. More than one employer has been guilty of
resorting to violence by hiring ruffians anned Kith rifles
to a d as strikebrediers. This practice has now been
almost entirely given up, as the experience of many
years has shown that collective bargaining hu come
to stay, and there is no more reason why workers should
not organize than there is why bankers, manufaeturera,
publishers, etc., should be forbidden to do so.
The high cost of living is made' higher still by e v e T
strike, for it is the people, the whole people, that in
the end must pay for wery interruption of the businem
of producing and distributing the necesearies of life.
Every, inklligcnt workman h o r n this and every intelligent workman wonts steady employment. To be sure
he wants the best wags he can get, but he can not really
want the impossible and must not have the unreasonable. He will be satisfied, and must be satisfied, with
a reasonable share in the profits, but wants his own
representatives on the board of directors to make sure
that figures are not juggled. Kith less he will not be
content.
I n these times, with labor realizing its importance in
the defence of the country and the n~aintainenceof the
county, instead of an employer trying to regulate
wages by impsing his n-ill upon his employes, the best
r a y for him to maintain a permanent labor supply is
to sit around the council table a i t h representatives of
his -men and endeavor to work out the problem on r
baais that is just to all concerned.
KO one can accurately compute the d u e of anotheis
labor. We all know that it is to the interest of the
countm, to employers and employes alike, that the largest production should be obtained with a given amount

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IJP. GREATEST and most natural market outaide

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WE MUST

recreat ion nnd in~provementof the workers. These

being safeguarded, the larger the amount that i. p r e
d u o d the more there is to divide.
The time was when a Pharaoh could say to a people
that he achnowlecl~dWLW mightier than his o n p o p l c
get you straw d-~ereyou can find
(Ex.1:9), "Go
it: yet oot ought of your 11-ork stall bc diminished"
(Ex. 5:11) and hc n ~ k and
d for a time r ~ c i r c d
implicit obedience. n u t now the workers lmoa their
btrensh better than they once did, and the modern
Pharaoh h-no\t-s bcttcr than to send out a foreman to his
men with such a message as Pharaoh of Egypt ecrt to
the Israclitcs. The nearer apprmch of master and rrorkmen to the conlmon ]ere1 is a happy augury of the actuol
dawning of a better age.

the United States is Europe. Europe is like a good

customer who has hecn burned out and requires crcdit.
s h e nerds food, coal, r a r materids and machinq
until
gd on her feet,snd meantime,
she bar
neither gold nor the goods with which to m&
immediate pavmcnt, this country must loan snd keep an
loanin,.
~t is &imated that to
through the next
~~d~Kill need loans from us of $500,000~000,
Fiance about ~ 0 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0and Belgium .Rillneed *hut
$~~0,000,00~.
J J ~ ~ canr.otwe
to
to E~~~~ except
why cannotwe
for ck.h, and if she cannot pap
let her go hunt? \\re can, but if
let her go hnngry
then we go h u n - ~too. It works ant in t h b way. Our8
is a p - a t agricultural county. We rniee more food
than nc can r d . When we can scll this surplus food
SALVAGING BROD-V RICE GRAINS
tmd p r i m our farmers are prosperous. Rhen the
HE 1918 crop of ricc in buirinnn, T r X a , Arfarme"
are prosprous e v e ~ h d is
~ prqerous' be-,
3S,000,000 b ~ l l e l s .
kmms and t i p Carolinu.
farmer
is
kmd
customer,
and a ~ e n d shis
cause
Ordinarily wmc? 2,380,000 bushels of this \vould hare
"OaCT
f
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when
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has
any
t
o
spendWhen E n r o ~
ben converted into hwr. The part thue nsed is made
ceases
t
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need
O'?r
food
e
x
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o
the
h
here
up to the t i n i c ~ tparticles of milled ricc, broken pieces
f, lea thall one-third af a
in size. ~~~~i~~ is the farnler class nil1 lose its purchasing pon-er and we
not a large r i c + u s i q nation and a problem now pre- "ill all feel the pi3ch. Hence it ia i m p o h t that we
if
eatmtE itself as to thc best u x to make of these broken lend to
riee-sair.s.
They can be made into rice-flokes
It
h e ' o f the body politic, &? it is true of
lmk and t a s k lilic corn flakes, or t,hep can be puffed and k d y of Christ. thnt 'we are members one of another".
made into pnKed rice even thoagh the g a i n s arc broken. ( E ~ h .4:25) =ore and more we me led to we that
~i~ flour can
used as a
SubsfitUte for the command to "Love one another; not ns Cain, who
of whq of that wicked one, and slew his brother" (I John
wheat flour in ba!i:,r.g but at the
ethical
12c per lh.. or $24.00 per bbl. could not be considered a 3:11,12) i d not only good from
bnt it is actually good state-manship, and a statesmanverp goo11 investment.
be more and more
a8 we proI n America scarcelp six pounds of rice per capita ir ship that
conmmcd in n year ; whereas thc per capita consumption farther and
into the
*gein f o r c i p couctries is as follows; in Japan each
man,, roman and child cons&nes 141 pounds of rice a OCEAN GUNTS
T I S PROPOSED to build two 1,000-foot steamehipr
year; in C::ico 123 pounds; in Rl~esia11 pounds ; in
Englnnd 27 pomds; in France 31 pounds; in l t d y 101
to run betreen this c o u n t y and European ports.
Thourand-foot ships are big ones, but they do not
pounds, and in Gcrrnanp 9.7 pounds.
It is a favorable sign when n e see men considering represent the progess of which humanity might be
what to do with s ~ c happarently small items of human thought capable. h'o one knows a h a t was the size of
food as broken ricc! r a i n s . Anybody can W a s t e : it other contemplated boah, but Noah's ark some 4,399
requires no brains to do that. But to make the w i s e d years q o , made a good start with a length of 450 feet,
md best use of the fraplcnts of human time, effort, a b r e d t h of :3 feet and a height of 45 feet. The
food, etc.. so tllat the largest and beat results can be comforts of the ark r e r e negligible a n d . would not
obtained for humnnity, this rcquircs thought. 'Tc hare have eatistied the modem tourist trade, but they sated
an illustration of thc Divine view of the ~ a l u of
e human for the load of animals and people that took the trip
food in the command of our Lord, after he had mirac- from "the world that was" to "this present evil world':
ulously fed 5,000 people u i t h five loaves and two little The ark, too, ras scientifically designed, for ita dimerifishes, to gather up the broken fra,gnents of loares and sions are seid by a marile erpert to be those suited for
miuimuin carrJing capscib.
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TWO MZLLION NEW GARDENERS

IIAPPY, enthusiastic, succersf ul and healthy army
of two million gardcnna. haa been added to the
nature-lover8 of our oountrv; 400,000 in the dates
from Maine to Marpland; 250,000 in the states from
Yirghia to Mississippi ;600,000 in the states from Ohio
to North Dakots and 500,000 in tho 'states from Kentuckv to New Bfcsico. That was the enrollment in the
United S t n h School Garden Army for 1919. I t u.t9
dl an outgrodh of the Great War, but it was a grand
dep in the right direction. I t ia bringing foranrd a
new generation that will apprcciatc and lore Mother
Earth and the fresh air anii the p h i s , as the past
generation h u not done. And it will be n healthier
generation, and a far happirr one.
It has good backing too. It has come to star, for it
has been made a part of the required school rork in
many of the curricula arid the garden army director
haa bccomc a part of the official family of tllc State
Dcpartmcnt of Education in some states, and will
probably be madc M, in 311 states. The rork is darting
right. The motto hns been, "A garden for every childevery child in n gardcn". and courss in gardening have
been started in the normal schools, so that the children
may hare the right k i ~ dof teachers. I n Ohio the
legislature ~t avidc $1,.500 in prizes to be awarded to
the coung gardeners, nnd they never appmpioted $1,500
to a more worthy purpose. I n Xcw Hampshire 7 per
cent of the entire population of the state is enrolled in
.the Garden Army.
This movement is an importat part of the work of
the Goldcn Age. Our original inheritance in the gardcn
of Eden is to bc restored, and it rill be redored in
part by the effort5 of men to subdue the carth, as wns
contemplated in Cod's original purpose. (Gen. 1:25)
The ultimate effect will be that "thc desolate land
e h d be tilled n-hcreaa it lay desolate in the sight of
dl that pasaeil by. And they shall sar, This land that
waa desolate is become like t h c garden of Eden."
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The theory is a good one and has the support of able

men. We wish it well and interpret it aa one of the
the Ixttrr en.
hrbingers

GAdlgLINC FOR A SICK MAN'S BLANKETS

HRISTEXDOU is sick; every financier knows it;
yet the financial news from Wall Street rhowr no
indications of a let-up in the gambling spirit. When
the master mind3 of the county are grappling with
the railroad problem i t d a a not rrad well that the
storks of equipment companies have advanced and :Are
cnjoging p.md earnings, with the prospect of an increase in domestic business when the railroads are
rdurncd to pri~atcopcration." It lmks too much as
though somc people were too sure of thcir prcsent
and future profits.
With thc comrnon people of the country gre3tly
agitated over thc price of shoes it does not rcatl WC!~
that "Khilc hide acd lcnther markets reflcdd agitation
nqainst high prices, thc stock moved f o m r d in the
belief that even qt decrcn*ed price levels the company
will continue to make I a r pmfits."
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It looks too much
as thoufill there is somebody that h a had more to do
with cries of lcathrr shortage and demands for higher
p r i m than is right.
With the p a t msss of people in New Tork that
and
has had to @re up the use of meat, butter,
milk, it does not read well that "The local tRction
'liares displqcd a more buoyant tone on reports
that fare increases \~ouldbe allowed" nnd "Buying of
this issue %as prcdiktcd on the belid that higher f a m
will be granted to the traction companici." It looks
too much as though some people were interested in
seeing higher fares whose intcrest is not entirely unselfish.
Gambling is always interesting. There raas the time,
you remember, when clex-en of the apostles cast lots to
see ~ h i c hof the two men they had picked out for the
twclfth apostle should be accepted of the Lord as such.
(Acts 1:15-26) But this ans bcfore thc Holy Spirit
had mme at Pentecost Afterward, long afterward,
they all learned that the Lord liad chosen the Apostle
THE SOCIAL UNIT PLAN
Paul to that high honor, and to him wan panted
IFTEEN THOCSAXD people, in a section of "Visions and rerelations of the Lord" (2 Cor. 12:14)
Cincinnati, have proved that by working together which he was privileged to communicate to the eleven
they can virtually remore porerty, crime and disease \rho had been with the Lord from the first.--Gd. 1:11from thcir midst. Thpp have done it n o r for three 24; 2:l-31.
pears. Xeighborhood administrations are formed which
makc it their business to see to it that every person in BETTER TIMES COMING
a , particular block is adequately provided with work,
ETTER TIUES are coming. I t can be stated confood, medical attention and rccrcation. The theory is
fidently and scripturally that present conditionr of
that when every block in every city is thus looked aftcr, world-wide unrest are but precursors or forerunne'n of
r a n t crime m d pestilence will bc things of the pad. the Golden Age

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MANUFACTURING and MINING

MOTOR TRUCKS FOR OIL TRADE
the loads consiat of long partr, suck m standard lengths
T HAS BEEN demonstrated that a 1 1-2 ton truck of piping and derrick material. These overhang st the
w.ill replace not less than t a o %horse-drawn wagons, renr of the tntck, m d owing to the extremely pom roads

and a large truck will displace from sir to nine horses

and two or three horse-dranu wagons and effect a
considerable saving in labor. -4 2 1-2 ton truck is
u r d l y operated by one man, n-hile a larger truck
usually has a helper.
. Within a radius of less than ten miles teams are
., usurlly most economical to operate, if kept bus? all
the.. time, but it is easier to obtain help to operate
trucks than it is to &ire teams. The truck has the
d v e t a g e of being ahle to perfonn the work more
utisfactorily in the heat of summer and m the intense
q l d of the winter wason.
For long hauls and full loads the motor truck has
tbe advantage of the horse in economy ond in every
other way, prticulwly because of its greater speed.
A.truck can handle goods within a radius of 60 miles
more economicslly than they can be shipped by rail.
Tbis ie because the goods do not hare to be prepared
w t r 4 u y for Bhipment and becaw of the fewer
.- W i n g s that are required. When goods are loaded on
motor t r u c h they are delivered direct to the destination.
Where a milage of 60 or 65 miles per day is covered
the, mast economical sLe of truclc is s 2 1-2 ton truck,
where& in larger centera, where the mileage is 35 to 40
miles per day a 3 1-2 ton truck L the most economical.
. Another advanbge of the motor buck is that i t
cuts down the number of hours a man has t o work
becruse it ehortens the time necessary to mnke delireria
It is ,very seldom that an old employe who has driven
a team for a number of yeare and in broken in on a
motor truck wishes to g o back to the old style of vehicle.
B e f i s the truck an interesting study and takes more
inkrest in it and better care of it than he would the
horses. I t has proved in most in-dances that the old
time horse-driver. who is brolren in and carefully instructed, makes a much better motor truck driver than
a professional Biauffeur.
It is not uncommon now to see trucks carrying from
4,000 to 5,000 pounds making their way over the desert
regions in the far west, rrherc roa& are entirely absent,
fot c l i c e s of fifty to sisty miles.
Special t r u c h are now made for the oil i n d m .
%e requirements encountered by trucks in the
fields of West Virginia and western Pennsylvanis have
proven the necessity of these special designs. Yoat of

which must be traversed in the mountains, the overhung

load sways violently and sets up severe rocking strains
in thc body as well ns in all parts of the rear of the
truck. TIm ayerage body rill not stand up under these
con&tions.
The work of oil drilling requircs the moving about
of much heavy equipmelit, which haa been done here*
fore rlorlp and clumsily by three or four teams of
horses. The roads in oil regions generally beggar description. Not infrequently the best oil deposits are in
locations which are almost inaccessible. Jobs that
formerly required half a day are now done by rcobr
trucks in an hour. Drilling rigs, boilers, pumps, lumbbr
are moved by t r u c h quickly m d with ease, that can be
hnndled by horses only slowly and with dBculty.
\'&en a new field is ope~edup the lume d&ulty
is alrayr encountered in getting machinery and supplies
of all kinds from the mare& railroad to the point
where the equipment is to be used. If there are any
roads in the section at the s t u t they soon becdme KI
cut up with the heavy tra5c and so slippery and greasy
aa ta be almost impassable. Under conditions such
theee, tractore of the uterpillar type haul l d through
to destination which can hasdly be moved by any other
means. Horses can not he worked when the mud geta m
deep as their gamble joints, and this not i&equently
happens in the oil fields.
In Detrsit recently, .in a test, a truck in whieh tho
power is applied to every wheel ascended the Court
House stairs, step by step, with 22 men aboard. This
truck will nin in mnd so deep that the axle housings
drag, and will go doand out of cellars and through
sand, almost anywhere.
Creeping tractors, patterned after the '4anksJ' used
in the Great \fir, are desigded as power auxilliariea
to do what trucks were not designed for. These tractors
will h a d loads over roads where a motor truck would
not be able to turn a uheel. They ore used to pull motor
tn~clrsowr the worst of roads, and for moving boilers,
drilling r i g and casing to new locations; for building
and maintaining roads; for puliing'trees and dumps
and oil casings.
For certain kinds of work where it k desired to
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to operate. These discharge the load add retwn to an
upright position by gravity.. afkrwarda l&;ng automatically. The hopper is V-ehaped, with perfrrtly
straight side, which allows the material to mmpletelJ
clear the body when it aeaumes the dump position.
Constructors, ship builderr, quarries, steel and iron
manufacturers-nll of thoae industries rending out the
~ o s gigantic
t
loads and requiring the moat exacting
schedules of time on their production-are coming
more and more to use motor trucke. Tank cars are
specially designed for the transfer of liquid loada and
are now 'to be seen everywhere. Tank cars are built
with compartments, connected w-ith cross pipes in
the rear which allow any one of the compartments,
or all of them if de$ired to be opened into the main
pipe leading to the pump or fauceta for filling cans
at the rear. Notor driven pumps empty or fill these
tanks in ten minutes time.
The operation of several hundred motor truck vehicles
o\-er a period of one year shows the folloa-ing percentages
of cost:
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~he'"swiftbenste"(EIeb. kirktzrolh, ewaying furnaces)

of I-. 66:20 refer speciddly to locomotives, but as
automobiles are also. after a fashion, swaying fnrrurae,
theg are pmhbly included in the expression I n a
little while the Prophet Isaiah will be back here on the
c v t h and we will ask him, or you can, whether automobiles and motor trnelis are included in that expression
or not.

WORKERS BUY A STEEL PLANT

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the past, except that at dividend time thep have a

chance at greater profib than heretofore. There ia no
doubt, too, that they face the possibility of losing dl
they put into the venture. Business success generally
follows a long period of reif-restraint on the p u t of
somebody, and elf-rentrnint ir a character builder. "He
that ruleth his own spirit [is better1 than he that tdceth
a city." (Proverbs 1 6 : 3 9 ) There are mme who will not
wish these workerr well in their new venture, but we
are not of that class. \Ye hope that they will d e . a
great succeu of their double role uf employer and employee and receive an adequate return for the invertments in money, ekill and self-restraint that thaf put
into the business.

THE MAUFACTURE OF STEEL

0 EXTRACT the metal from an? ore the ore is
melted by intense h a t and by adding to it b e ,
which unites with the impurities of the o n to form r
liquid slag which floatr upon the molten metal. The
metal is then drawn off from the bottom of the furnace,
after rhich it nee& to be refined. Coke is used to
provide the fuel for melting the ore and in order ti,
provide sufiicient air for the combustion enormous
quantities are pumped in through great stoves where
the air is first heated to over 1,000 degree. 'Wee
stoves of which there are three or four to each furnace,
are large cylinders filled with a checker work of fire
brick.
Pig iron always contains impurities, among which are
sulphur and phosphoro~u,and both of these are objectionable and need to be reduced by burning away.
Sulphur in too great quantities cause8 skel when heated
to bend or breolr. Phosphorous in too great quantitien
causes oteel when cold to be brittle. Fof the burning out
of these impuritica oil hna the advantage of providing
a heat which can be easily regulated.
If Tubalain, "an instructor of ever?; artificer in
brass and iron" (Qenesie 4 : 2 1 ) , were to visit n modern
blaat-furnace plant he would snrelp be astonished at the
gigantic ecale on which we do things nowadays, even
though the principles are the same aa he taught fire
thousand pears ago, but all theee improvementr are necessarr to the manufactlire of the machinery and tools
that m i l l be needed to do the drudgery of the world in
the Golden Age on whose threshold we stand.

well to the Actna Iron and Steel Company, a corporation made up of former workers of the great steel
plant at gar^, Indiana. These men. have purchased the
old -4etna gmcotton plant, near Gary, at a cost of
$400,000. To succeed thep nill need to hare among their
numbers sliilled salesmen and office workers a s %ell as
octunl steel makers. They nil1 need to hare an executive
head nnd to obey him. They ill nced to be reasocable
in their rage demands, and all to vork together for the
good of the busincee. T!iey will need to study economy SECC'RITY OF POSITION
in erery way, and rill probably nced the serrices of
4BOR feels that a lorg period of sen-ice for a concern
some good financier.
should give as much security of position as that
If t h q make a succees of their venture, their erper- u n i ~ e m l l yaccorded to la-err, physicians. bankers and
hnces w i l l not differ greatly from their experiencer in others who have grovn dd in the nervice of their clienfs.
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FINANCE, COMMERCE and TRANSPORTATION

TOO MUCa MONEY

to meet the needs of trade, to $3,447,000.000, or about
HEY "free - silver" theories of currency were 3 per cent incre~se;in January 1313, to 83,543.000,000,

rejected in 1896, America'saved itself from a web

like what the p p l e are now etitn:~gled in. Silver
would have been put on the free coiilage bbasis like gold
ahich, if t&cn to the mint is, without charge, run
through the processes necessary to turn i t into gold
.,coin.
Free coinage of gold had not undnlp increased the
volume of currency, bccause gold had been scarce. But
if producers had been permitted to have silver coined
free, the production of silver nou!d have become so
great that the quantity of money ~vouldhave betin noticeably increased.
Some n i g h t sap this would have given the common
people and the business men more money to handle,
and there K O I have
~ ~ bccn an increase in the volume of
business, for if any business man needed money for his
businees he could get d he needcd. There is some truth
in this; hut there is morc truth in the fact that buriness
men do not need much more money, because they do
h u ~ ~ not
s , with moncy itself but with credits advanced by the balks; when a business man obtains a
loan from a bank, he merely leaves the amount on
.,deposit, and draws checks against it, and usually does
not use much cash.
If the volume of money aere increased, most of it
would be deposited by the pcople in the banks, where
it would become the haeis for further loans to bueinese
men. On account of the fact thnt business men do not
draw out money, but use checks, a bank loans more
credits than the amount of the money, PO that the cash
in' the b d a may become the basis of credits ten to
twcaty times the amount of the cash.
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A mcdernte increase in money in banks aenw for
very large increases in credit loans to business men. Safe
nnd sane busiress increases slowlyt bccause bascd on the
slowly incrcasi~gconsunling power of the people, and
. a large increme in the volume of money, such ns would
q a v e resulted from "free silver: would not result in
,$a corresponding increase of legitimate business, but an
-"inflation9 of credits.
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A condition exists today like that from inflation of
silver, but the inflation now is from an unprecederted
increase in the amount of gold. Not ollly has the
rollune of gold increased but tl;at of other forms of currency. The amount of money in the United States was
$3,300,000,000 in 1913. I n January, 1914, it had risen,

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another increase of shout 3 per wnt. I n January, 1916,

it was 83,909,000,000, or about 10 pcr cent more; the
inflatlo,? of currencp due to the war hat1 begun to be
fclt. In J s n u a q , 1318. it was $5,120,000,000, another
inrrense of about 15 per cent. At the present time the
amount haa jrunped tp in round numbers $7,563,000,000
or an increase in two years of 50 per cent, rm advance
in volume of currency wl~ollyunrelatrd to any increase
in thc volume of husineso, or more exactly in the amount
of go& produccd.
This has an cffcct of vital importance to the people.
While the people save a little, they spend practically
all that thrp earu, the saving usually being a compurtively negligible factor. If their income is r a i d , they
continue to save a trifle but usually spend practically dl
t h q earn. i f there is no increase in the amount of
goods produced, the people will simply spend mom
money for the same goods, a process which lusumer, the
tangible form of a higher cost of living, now the
burden of half the headlines in the newspapers
Roughly speaking the iucrease in the cast of living
has corresponded a i t h the incresee in the volume of
currency. From January, 1914, to January 1915, the
average =holesale prices of all commodities increased
3 per cent. The next pear it increased 19 per cent
From 1916 to 1917 it increased 26 per cent and from
1917 to 1915 it shored an increase of 32 per cent, 4
since then has made r further large advance.
The vol~uncof currency and the cost of living increase
or decreabe together. Until the volun~eof currency ia
lessened there is little hope of a material reduction in
prices. In an era of high prices and corresponding discontent, the mental attltude of the workcrs reduces the
volume of production, as aptation takes the place of
Cnciency, and mcn think about grievances rather than
work. If the volume of goods, money and credits doer
not changc, prices remain unchanged.
The outlook is for no part~cularroctraction of tha
currency. If the gold now in the Eanlcs aere to return to
ci:c~lin:~on a m o w the people it would reduce the
volume of money in banks ahich is being used as a
bas& for loans and c r c d b to business men. But the
people are trained to consider gold as for the banks,
and they do not cven try to get i t into circulation. It
k easier to uae paper money and checks than coin, and
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The ~overnmentdid w many thinga for us during the
war that we get to thinking about ita powers of orgmization and imagine thin& it might 5nd ri way to do
to help us with our pa-wlved proble~m.
One of the principal items in the marlietirig of food
is its transportstion. The Government sells the
portation, bcticall? all of it; perhaps it could be persuetled to buy and sell the food itself, or certain kinds
of it. Wouldn't it be a great idea in this country, M it
is in Europe, to place your order with the postman for
butter, eggs, breed, potatoes. etc., and have it come
direct by the next parcel post? Seem w y ; doesn't it?
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We shut our ere^ and imagine a time when the people
of a great district, ncting through the government or
some great cooperative association, will organize regular
motor-truck services radiating from industrial centers
for fifty or a hundred miles and thus effectively bring
the food from the farm to the individual consumer. It
would eccm that it would not take a great deal more
time to learn to grade, classify and price all kinds of
farm produce than it cloes to figwe, parcel post rates,
and tbe same kind of people that were glad a littIe while
ago to buy the Govern~cnfssurplus bacon would prob.
ably Icarn -ily to appreciate the privilege of buying its
fresh vegetables. The details of the job would be a t d
for a Solon, but it seems worth a trial. A n-are house
would be a neces~ity, but it is nothing new for. the
Government to have warehouses. It had many ware
houses during the war.
This pressing problem we may be sure is one to which
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of straightening out the earth'a tangled affairs. ' "The
earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof" (1 Cor.10:
26) and we may be sure he d l see to it that adequate
arrangements are made for distributing its bowtier
among
his countless happy subjects who wiU find here
FROM FARM TO HOME
their
heart's
desire. "The desire of all nations shall .
HERE ARE too man! middlemen betweeu the farm
come."-Hwi
2 :?.
and the home, and the great problem of the day in
how to get rid of tlicm or at least some of t h e n An
investigation showed that there were eight to ten mid- A TRUE STANDARD OF VALL?E
OLD IS T H E world's prgent standard of value,
dlemen between the Sen- Tork farmer and the ultimate
because it M about the only thing of value in time
consumer in the city. -411 of these middlemen ha\-e
demanded profits, no matter what happened to the of war that can be exchanged for necessities by the
farmer, so that it has not infreqnentiy happened that nations at war. K ~ t hthe passing away of wars, a better
the farmer, rather than receive for hls fruit less than the and truer standard of value e m s W b l e .
The real basis of ralue is that which supports human
freight charges, has allowed i t to rot upon the ground.
And it does not seem right for the farmer to receive but life, not that which cm be ued to destroy it. What ir
six to ten cents per quart for his milk while the can- needed in the way of money in r certi6cat.e which k
rumer ten miles away paye from sistcen to k e n 9 cents. good an-where in the world for the rrmc w e g a b
We h d ourselves wondering whether i t may not be quantity of flour, butter, beefs bacon, kmr,mg.rs clothporslble thai the motor truck will solve thb problem, ing and fuel. Ia the combined iuteU@wx of the world
more. convenient cunency do not readily turn back to
metal currency for daily use.
The chance ia remote of a reduction in gold by i b
f i w to other countriix. The situatidh is teverSed that
uned to prmail M regarb payment of gold to Europe,
for interest, ocean freight, tourists, laborers' home remittames, and trade balances. To a masweable e.xtent the
United States has become a creditor nation, which turns
the gold stream toward o w shores. Europe needs rnaterial for reconstruction and will pay America for it with
gold. Europe's exports to America are h r smaller thau
before, which creates a trade balnnce favorable to this
wuntry, with the amount of the balance payable in
gold here.
U the banks could reduce the enormous volume of
loans to bnsineae men, there rrould be less credit-dollars
in circulation, and a contraction of the sums available
for business purposes a-auld ensue, and with less money
going to the people to pap for goods with, prices and
wages will fall. But there is little prospect of a change;
the new Liberty Bonds are remarkably good security for
bank loons, and there can' he no diminishing in their
volume until they are redeemed. Paper money may
not be expected to decreass in volume for the Federal
Reserve notes and tank notes show an increasing tendency toward espa~ision.
That there is no prospect of s decrease in the currency, but rather an increase. is evident. To get people
that have money to refrain from spending practically
all they get is to expect a change in human nature.
There is goilig to 1w plenty of money in circulation,
plenty to pap.for things with. and on this basis prices
should continue high, if u3dwI they do not rise, after
the palliatircs applied hare run thcir course of pnrtinl
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The member8 during the war were able to get lower

prices than others, even on articles for which the government set the price, because the annual dividend amounted to a reduction in priw. Governme~ltrestrictions
hampered the full success of the cooperative system, by
making it ditIicult to obtain the necessary supplies for
manufacturing purposes, and for distribution through
the cooperative stores. The work was impaired by the
fact that thoueonds of the membef~ were called into
the army. Membership in the cooperative societies hclped the soldiers because the societies made up to the
soldiers the difEerencc between their reedar wages and
their pap while in the army, several million dollars being
disbursed in this way.
The cooperative 'societies, while o e e r e d by common
workmen, are a living demobtration of the fact that
the common people require no tutors, but are competent
to manage their own affairs. The great system begun
decades ago in the decision of a few A-orkersin a humble
cottage to join together in making purchases and has
been prudent and eflicient. The same wise management
which raised the united cooperative societies to the position of the largest trade unit in Great Britaiu is now
reaching out for extecsions aud improvements in many
directions.
One of the developments is the purchase of large coal
properties in Torkshire whereby manF of the cooperators
can add coal to the list of articles on which they are
able to save. This is in addition t o p coal mine omed
by the society in the neighborhood of Ken-castle.
Large sums have been expended for farm3 and factories. The society paid during the war $573,480 to
estend its factories. I t paid $3,049,650 for new fadories
and workhops. I n farms and other lands it invested
$3,334,960. The grand total of investment for land and
factories, in war time, rrhen progresa should be slow,
was nearly $7,000,000. The amazing area of farms held
by the cooperative societies is some 33,000 acres, in Lancestershire, Cheshire, Yorhhire and Cambridgeshire.
If the enterprise wcre in America, one uould never
hear the end of it, but who outside of Britain's tight
little isles haf heard much of the prodigious enterprise
of this combination of the common people! At the
present time they are looArg forward to the addition
of the following tu their already great list of businesses :
flour mills, tanneries, jam factories, boot and shoe factoriu, corn mius, U y farms, and other m e l e s s odds
de n b under the classification of " s i d a r enterprises."
Three weaving mills with a total of 1,900 looms are the
property of the sxieties, and not satidied, they are
h u t to extend their tertlle interests, and build a large
anill for the spinning of yarn

I n ,America the common people have awdlowed, bait,

llook and sinker, the dcluqion fostered and foisted upon

them by the banking interests, that it takes gpecial

finaiicial training acquired only at the lower end of

Kew Tork City, to rake money. The British coopemtive societies are securing the money to invest in their
great estensions by issues of what they call "develop
ment bonds," in denominations of $100, $250, $500,
$2,500, and $5,000, 11p to a total of $12,500,000 for the
first idane. The societies agree that t h e e bonds shall
bear 4 1-5 per cent interest payable s e m i - p u d y and
be redeemable at par after ten years; and judging by the
past fidelity of the societies in keeping their promises
they vill meet this obligation the &me as though they
were "repllnz' financiers.
Another dension of membership and busin- is in
process. The cooperative societies run their own banks,
but up to thia time have not been able to persuade the
great British trades unions to place their banking business with them. Arrangements to this effect have been
concluded, and in order to Anit together more closely the
interests of the British trades unions and the British
cooperative societies, a great 'plan of agricultural and
i~dustrialde~elopmentwill ahortly be. announced for
the benefit of both parties.
I n the Cnited Statesplans for cooperation in mnqfacturing and distribution of goods have never been the,.
great succese they are in Great Britain. The British
pecple, it i s said, are more thrifty and more honest in
their dealings than the Bmericans, and both these qudities are required in a high degree to insure eucwss in
cooperation. l'ossibly under the Lash of the high cost of
Living the American common people may become more
thrifty, and no doubt enough thoroughly reliable people
might easily be found in p r a c t i d y every community to
make a sueof American cooperative societies comparable to what ie seen across the eep
The itlea of the Golden Age is a perfect cooperation
among all mankind. It rillbe not merely a cooperation .
for business purposes as now, but a drawing together in
a unity exprejmt by Paul, "That ye should speak the
wme things, aud be perfectly joined together in the
same mind and in the name judgment" (1 Corinthian8
1: l o ) I t vill be the materialization of the brotherhood
of mau and the fatherhood of God.

MORE OIL THAN PIPES

IIE OUTPUT rate of a bottle depends not on the

size of the bottle, but on the size of the neck. In the

oil industry the neck OF the bottle is tbe capacity of.
the pipe lines. The r e t d trade is capable of absorbing
more oil, but it cannot be piped from the r&

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POLITICAL, DOMESTIC a d FOREIGN

SHANTUNG AND THE STUDE.YTS
more professedly Christian nations engaged in the proECACSE its ercellcnt harbor of Kiaochau is the time 'of robbing a peace-loving neighbor, the Japrnew
shortcst npproach to P d i n from the sea, aud be- claimed that th& mirely whhed ta develop the rewurees
cause the province, Shantung, of which i t is the metro- of Shantung so that its inunmse cod deposit8 may be
pal~e,excels in soil, climate, mlnerals and the industrious u . 4 for warming the people. They also claimed that
character of its people, Germany selected it as the basis they wished to girc the Chinese a better government
of its raid in 1891. A corps of engineers visited the ahole than the Chinese can. But the fecb ue that the J a p
Chinose coast and having in view the German conquest anese are morally bankrupt. They have made Shmtung
,
of the world, had just concluded Shantung would w e a base for the flooding of China with morphine, despite
its purpose best in China when, as a result of a quarrel, the fact that the Japanese government entered into a
two German missionaries were killed by uatircs in the solemn covenant with the other nations of the world at
interior cf that province. German troops aere imma- the Internntional Opium Convention a t The Hague in
iotely lncded. t!le occupation cif the tcrritsry w-a an- 1012, prodsing to do dl in their powcr to wsbt China
nounced, a d a ninety-nine y e u lease of Kiztochnu and in her fight against opium and'drtgs. At the same time
outlying districts, together wit11 railnyay and mining that the Japarieso ore claiming this capacity for ruperior
concessioas, woa demanded and obtaindd from the goyernrnent they are engaged, in or&, in n rystemrtic
Chinese government. This lease a s always particularly and ehamclcss mwacre of Chrktion missionaries ond
- objectionable to the' Chinese because the province as, Christian natives.
k l y in the spring of the present year the etudenta
the birthplace of Confucius. Bundreds of thousands of
the Chinese journey yearly to Confucius' tomb to do of Pekin lTniversitg, angered by the mcmss of Japan
I
reverence to his memory.
and the failure of China, usaulted two of the three
hniediately after the outbreak of the mar the Jap- Chinese stateemen who negotiat&l m e t treaties w i t h
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aneve gorernment demandd the surrender of giaochnu Japan, blued upon the piratical Japanese demand of
md the withdrawal from Japanese and Chinese aatera tweaty-one points above mentioned. The government
of German men-of-\mr. The pridege of joining with arrested a number of the studcnte, the Chancellor of the
Japan and England in the driving out of the Germans Universitp resigned and disappeared because of thrmts
. was refused to the Chinese, dmp& their request. The against hh life by memherr of the pro-Japanese party,
Germans were forced to surrender in nine*- &ya..
m d all the nixdents in Pekin above the mnk of elementA year after the outbreak of the war a demand, com- nry cchools aent on etrike. They divided into partier of
powd of trenty-one points, by which control of China ten, speaking against Japan and Japanese goods. They
w b given to the. Japanese, was suddenly presented to \vent to other citim all over China end,organized the
China by the Jnpnnese. These demands came at a time students similarly. Several hundred of the 6tudentr
when neither China r,or the rest of the world nere in were arrested in Pekin. The nest dar the number of
porition to do other than yield to them. It was strictly speakers r s s doubled nnd the arrests ran to over a
Japanese style and Japanese ethics ( ? ) for Japan to thousbnd. The jails could not hold the students and
they sere ~ h n hp
t in the Tniversity buildingo. The
present these demandi at such a,time.
I n 1917 China follored the example of the rnited faculty met and tele~aphedtheir protest widespread.
liferchant of Shanghai aent on strike, followed by
States in declaring war against Germany m d notified
- h a of the abrogation of the TreaQ of 1898. Ten days Tientsin and Sanbzing. Merchants of Pekin and other
:r- later Great Britain and Japan. entered into a m e t cities prepared to join. There was talk of a strike
.treaty, under rhieh Japan w u to retain, in the prorince against pa~ingtases. The gwernment capitulated, sent
of Shantung, all the*rights and privileges granted to delegates to the student3 to make apology, na demanded,
Germany uuder that Mme treaty of 1898. l'hc Cnited *re-i&ated the Chmcellor, gave instructions to the
States go~ernment,altllough a greatly interested parq, delegates a t Paris not to sign the treaty except with
apparently knew nothing of the existence of this secret resen-ations as to Shantung and dismissed the three men
muss of proJapanese afElintions.
treaty until February, 1919.
The mare ve see of the Japanes goyernment the
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more we realize that it seenu to have thoroughly absorbed the h - v r i s y of t h e so-called Chriatirm nations of
the world. But not having had the advantage of centuries of trWnin making black appear white it is Gable
to cover up or conceal its true character. I n these things
which are now coming to light we u e reminded of the
Lard's words: "Beware ye of the leaven'of the Phnrireee, which ia hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered,
that 8 h d not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be
known."-Luke
12 :L 2.

FPILL JAPRNRULG RUSSIA ?

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conflicting atories reach us about Russia
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that we CSLI not believe them all. One month apFrench plan for an encircling blockade, the
&a
peace offer from England, the third a decisim to
h d e at once, the fourth a withdram1 of American
koop*becausewe are not at war vith Russia, and then
a sinking of Russian warships by the British just as the
Britiah Govrrnment anounces that no more troops will
be sent. At one time the newspapers tell us the Moscow
Government hm been conquered, the next we know is
that it has attracted the entire Russian people to its
cause. One day me learn that Moscow is deluged Kith
the blood of offenders against the Republic and the next
that there has not been an execution in two months.
We are told that persons prominent !inthe British Government are increasing their holding in Russian securities and then comes the news that Germany is driving a
great army into the heart of Busin.
There ia one fact that stands out of the Russian collection of misstatements, however, and thnt ie that there
ia no r e d foundation to the alleged All-Rueeian Goyernment of Admiral Kolchak in Eastern Siberia The State
Department m e w e to Colonel How summed him up
when it mid, '.He is surrounded and dependent on the
support of reaction elements rllose principal idea of
government k the reconquest of former p f t s . His
umy is being organized on old lines of Czarist cliscipline. Severd units hare idready revolted against brutalitp of officers."
Kolchak's army was levied by conscription and his
treasnry filled by the reestablishment of the, government monopoly in the manufacture and sale of ardent
. i, spirits, which the late Czar's government, to its last' ing credit, abolidhed at the beginning of the war, at a
loss of $330.000,000 a year revenue. Aided by a m ,
munition rrnd money supplied by the Allies he has diswlved local assemblies of elected representatives of the
All-Russia Constituent -4ssernbly, imprisoned some and
@hot others; he has suppressed the opposition press,
up trades unions and imprisoned all grad@ of
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But Kolchak is losing ground. He hns lost Ufa, Perm

and Jhtcrinburg in quick succession nnd the Russian
Republic ha-!!gained them and a-ith them vast stows of
coal, iron and gold, platinum mines with a yield three
times as great as the rest of the world's in the daya
More the vsr, deposits of nickel, copper, zinc, mercury,
rilver, iridium, cobalt nnd asbestor. Kolchalr's own rup
porters in Paris now claim that he can only hold hir own
with the aid of armed foreign support The Cos~clio
in the South are slowing
There is nobody left in
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Siberia and eastem Busaia to oppose the Russian Republic but the Japanese. Which is the worst foe to democr q ? What will be the outcome? Japan, u, the rumor
has it, is now pouring new thoussnda of troops into
Siberin, while to America is granted the work of lieeping
the railwap open to facilitate their we=*ard flow.
The Scriptures &ow thnt we are in the time when
every valley shall be malted and every mountain be
brought low. (Isaiah 40 :4) We understand this to mean
that the lowly and depressed will be gradually raised and
the proud and autocratic will be humbled. Pic c h s
Japan with-the latter. Her course in wishing to exercise
lordship over the 30,000,000 helpless C h i n e republicans at Shantung does not appeal to us, and we do not
believe the Lord d
l favor her ambitious designr in
Siberia, or in Bnssirr. How do we h o w that it would
be better and safer for civilization to have the pellow
raws clamoring at the door of Europe than to let the
Russians choose and operate their own form of garernment ?

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TEE NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE

HERE are many farmers in the Horthn-est who feel,
rightly or arongly, that they have been improperly
treated at the hands of the railway, grain and banking
powers of the country. Not long ago they conceived
the idea of trying to take the power out of the hands of
men who, when a farmer wanted to buy seed in the
Spring and came into a bank to borrow $75. was asked
to sign a note for $90, and pay interest on that amount
at 15 per cent. They did this with a rush in North
Dakota, because they became convinced that their legislators were crooked because of politics. and replaced
them with non-partisan men who did what the farmers
ranted done. Cdvin T o d e y was the man who sta~ted
the North Dakota movement, a plain farmer stung to
action by what he considered the untrustaorthinesa of
both the political parties operating in the state.
Tondey nu recently tried m d convicted in a wealthy
county of Southern Uinneaota of conspiracy to discourrge enlistments in the .oar against Germony. Each
member of the jury tbrt tried him aaa d c i e n t l j

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wealthy to own hir own automobile; no member of the

Son-I'artism Lcwc was allowed a plncc in it and t!x
defense and one member of the preliminary pnncl openlp c h r & every juror with acknoaledgcd bias qainst
the farmers' movemect. Thc Government's ow= certificote of Tondey's loyalty, and its achnowle~,.mentof his
rid, was not allowed in evidence. Townley war denied
his request to dismiss his l a n ~ e r sand make his own plea
to the jury and since the close of the trial indictments
charging perjury k v e been sought , by the defense
against the prosecuting attorney and the chief witness.
The prosecution failed to produce documentary evidence of opposition to the war in any of the L e a g e
declarations or instruction sheets or letters to organizers,
but the defense was able to show that organizers weie
specScally commauded to not in nny way discourage the Government's war policies, but to support them.
Testimony for the defense was excluded unless it mas
in the nature of a direct answer to the specific charges
of the state.
The newspapers of the muntrp are'not r e v jubilant
over the conviction of T o d e p . The farmers arc now
being joined by organized labor in hiinnewt3 and
\Yashington on a programme of public ownership and
operation of railirays, steamships, banks, stockyards,
packing plant8 and groin elevators, largely ns a result
of
p - . the Townley trial. The surcst woy to mnlie a movement grow is to persecute it.
A true stateaman can not afford to seek for poEer, but
that is the first thought of. everp politician m d every
monarch. The possession of power m k c s a politician or
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monarch blind to what sh011kl be his first and lost
thought, that
ficedom and juatirc? for the
individual. If there are p p h in thc Northrest vtho
have becomc distrustfnl of b t h the grmt parti= their
confidence is not to be gained by force.
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There was a king long ago by thc r m c of nchobonm
who received from =me of his ccunsellors some very
advie On
8nbject Of
T1lc P W P felt
~ ~ that
Solomon had not studied thcir intcrests snfficiently and
dcsired that their burdens be lightened. Brhoboarn 15-as
advised to tell thcm, and (lid tell thcm, "3Ly father mcdz
Yo= yoke b e a ~ m
, d I will add to Four ~o!te:El? father
also chastiied you with n-liips, but 1 will c!lasrise you
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of his bad statesmanship.-1 Kings 1?:1-20.

TEE MEXICAN OIL SITUATIOV

P RIOR

TO 1884 the Mexican Governmc:lt required

oil companies to file notim stating There and when
they i n k d e d B driil w e b npd no operations could Lo
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rcaircd. I n that year, under the administration of

President Oonmles, the Xcxian Civil Codes were w
nmcnded a9 to malre these notices unnecessary. I p 1917
the revisecl Uexican Constitution restored the a r r a n p
mcnt in effect prior to 1884, claiming, m d not without
jutice, that "The ownership of lands and soters within
the limits of the national t e m t o y is vested originally
in the nation" which has "at o l l times the right to impose on private property such limitationr ss the public
interest may demnd as well ss the right t4 regulate the
development of natural r c s o m , which are susceptible
of appropriation,,in order to conserve th- dnd equitably to distribute the public wealth."
In pursluce of these principles a tas of $1 an acre
was levied on all oil acreago held by private owners,
rhcther or not the land was being derdoped. Sub*
quently this was reduced to GOc, which was paid undcr
protest, but when it came to filing notices of when and
where thry mould drill, the companies declined to
complp.with the regulations, with the result that p v ernmcnt troops appeared on the scene and prevented
furtller operations. On May 1, the hlexiau Congress
was mnrencd in extra ~ s i o and
n is now endeavoring to
fir upon legislation for wtidactorily reconciling the
individual icterests of the oil producers and those oi
the nntion.
have such a aedth of
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of the
undeveloped natural resources as Mexico, a mil capable
of producing all the.cereal crops m d 90 per cent of
tile knoIbmfrnits of the world, vast t~
of timber, including many of pmious hardR-oob and dyewoods, a
climate, and every knoaP mineral, with
Ti,\e range
oil field* which exported more than 63,000,000 barrcls
in 191s. ~t is not to bc m-onderedat that ~~~i~~
de5irc3
tllnt the Mexican p p ! c should have a share of the
Iwncfits il;at uill accrue from the development of thesa
rcso~~rc~s.
~cconscioualp,
the uesican ~~~~~~~~t
is trying to
opply on 11eholf of thc Mexican people a principle of thc
the jewcould not
ancient ,~~,.,.;-i~h
la,.,. under
nlienatc?from hii
the land =hich had once been
I ) midortune
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or ,,.,ismanagepanted to hie
,,nt hc codd lose control of it for a time, but once in
come back into
erev z t v Fears it must
chilhen,
debts eainrt
hi, pa.ssion
or t ~ ,of
d
it and against its onners being cancelled.--Lev. 25 :l-55
This Jubilee arrulgement was an illustration of the
plan by ~ h i c hGod purposes to restore to human kind all
that \\.as lost in Eden, m d this reatoration era is at
hand : we are *anding on the threshold of '?he times of
restitution of oll thing% spoken by the mouth of dl tbc
holy prophets since the world bcganD*-Ah 3 21.

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FRENCH DEBTS AND DISCOXTENT

a
HE F R E ~ C
GOVERNMEST
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T m i s t a k e in not accepting Mr. Filron9s programme
whereby Germnny would have been made respoosible
directly for the area rhich she d2vstaM. FraEcc
would tht~shave been able to secure a fsr grc3t.r Ei131
than she is ahle to -re
in indemnities. and it is impossible for her to diyide these indemities amopg the
oancrs of the devastated properties rrithout apparently
favoring some at the expense of others and thus causing
dissatisfaction.
The national debt of Frame is now 200,000,000,000
frnncs, which is morc than half her national wealth.
It is obviously impossible for her to pay the interest on
this r u t sum without resorting to hvoic meagures. The
minister of finances, several months q o , proposed a tax
capital as a step toward cutting do,,lm
of 25 pel. cent
this colossal dcht, hut thc propertied c!eoes olljecied and
he abandoccd hi3 programme completely, having aceomplished nothing by it but to e n d tile cost of li-,-i3g
higher. The Parisian people, realizing that increased pa?
only menus increased prim, are n o r demanding a
complete reorganization of the v;hole system of production and distribution.
The f ~ ~ ~ ~upprcsion
e u t
of newspapers during the
peace nekotiations, or their appearme with long blank
columns, created n bad effect upoh the Parisian people,
more especiallr rs it became h o ~ that
n the
prohibited in Paris had already appeared in English papers.
Of the 100,000 soldiers brought to Paris to suppresi
possible May Day riots. many regiments had to be withd r a m and replaced after the soldiers h d come in contact with the Paris people, se they were co lsnger dependable.
In the army and navy itself there were numerous
outbreaks of discontent during the war the n e w of
which nerer appenr~dil.ntil ieecntl~.The raising of the
red 0% cn four ships of the Black
Fleet, the formkg of Soviets a t Toulon and the rerolt of three artillcrp
regiments at Toulou?e dl show that r e are in just such
"a day of ~ r r f . hCI, day of trouble 3r.d distress, a day of
wnsteness and desolation, a day of d ~ r h e uand gloom; inws, a day of clouds and thick dark.&' (Zeph. 1 : l j )
: t,
as the prophet shows will precede the day ahen the
whole aorld will "call upon the name of the Lord, to
serve him with one consent."-Zeph.
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.Tugo-Slavia has left only 4,000,000 rural population

attacl~ccdto Vicnna, and Vicnna csn not live on these.
of the ~,000,000p ~ p l eof ~ u s t r i a3,00070~-are
industrial, and if some mean8 could b? found whereby
Vien~mcmld continue to be the finnncid, businesa and
railroad @nkr of what
once Au~tro-HunPJr~;it
~011ldcontinue to exist, but as it is these 9,000,000 have
little to do and practically all the e l l t c r p r i ~of~ the city
~ t a . P . ~ t The
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result for the moment has been to
tam the city into one r a t Monte Carlo, but this can not
go on; pcople can not continue for long to live by
60mhling from one,another. somebody must get to work
all starve in a heap.
Or they
Thoughtful mcu have proposed three remedies: one h
union with Qemnnp, but this the Allies will not permit,
another is communi*-, which is impndied. The thing
that ie m o ~ desired
t
by the majority of the people is that
Amcricn shculd take over the coantrp acd develop it.
It is the claim of the -4ustrinns that r e have ~lnnged
mid-Europe into chaos and that we alone have the c a p
the business abilit? to pull it out.
ihl
the o~@uniQ of
The isolation of Viema has
the steamship
ItalY- She h.5 been quietly buying U P
~ecuitieaonce held throughout Austro-Hungq, .thur
obtaining at a smnll cost the control of the merchant
marine of the A&iatic, the verg t h b g she sought to
by the PO-ion
of Fixme, now in her temporary
pwwsion M o result of D'Annunzio's raid.
Vienna has been for centuries the P a t k t rtat of
Roman Catholic poner in the aorld. I n its present idleand hpending ~ o v e r vand d e ~ a d n t i o nwe
8
p b of the "lfidgment of the eat harlot that ritMh
u P i l many waters."-Revelation
11:1.

ON

WHOM SHALL WE RELY?

RE IVE EEADY to give up our old time trust in

it .;holly in forty? DO r e
he!ievc, "Elesscd is that nation who= God is the
as our coins delme, "In G&
~ ~ ~D~dwe * ~ mean,
?
?,,
trust?'? There arc lots of people rn-ho are perfectly
to put their tru-a in the worn
iranl: in szyinFthey
out formulathat yy,c best r a y to keep the peace is to be
prepared for war!'
And there are people =hose tempora, interests are best scr:.cd by a aidesprend manufocuse of munitions of aar.
turc
The secretnr~of one of the great international hnnce
compani~sis said to have madc tkc remark at a banquet,
THE ISOW TZON OF m N N A
';If KC can only get this country into the war we can
Sow he is said to be
IENRA ran once the great e n t e r of ~0,000,000 get nny dnmned thing r e want!'
people. Its population of 2,000.000 was not too nlarnled at the discovery that some of the r e t u d
great to be supported b~ such a hintcrknd. but the erec- soldicrs come 11ndc from abroad sadly brutalized by their
tion of the new state of Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary and e q e r i e n m

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C W N G POULTRY
finished molting or are well into the molt. The hens
UILINQ serves two purposes: Fir&, i t insurea which molt k t , provided they are otherwise desirable,
that the feed will be cons~~med
by the better-pro- arc thc b e ~ tones to save for breeders. A hen which has

ducing hma, thereby incrensing the profit. Second, i t

makes it possible to save those best suited for breeders,
both on account of their better production and on account of their superior strength-and vitelity, qualities
essential to layers to stand up under the eevere strain
of heavy laying. Weeding out the poor hens gives those
left more room and a better chance.
Culling should be continuous throughout the year, of
any hen which is sick, rhich is emaciatd, or which
ahows evidences of nonproduction, weakness, or poor
ritality..
The whole flock should also he given a careful and
sg&matic culling at some one time with the object of
dividing them into two lots, one the better producers
and the other the poorer producers. From the better
producers i t is also desirable to pick out as many of the
best as will be needed for breeders. Bond or otherwise
mark these hens so that eggs from them only will be
. s a ~ dfor hatching. Narlcet those selected as-the poor
producers. Save for laying and breeding those selected
as the better producers.
Hens which show indications of laytng in Augnst\or
September are those which on the aveFqe ha1.c been
the better produccrs for the year. The better producers
during the first laying year are those which will be tile
better producers in subsequent years. Hens showing
indications of having been good producers throughout
the year should be retaiced for the nest year regardless
of their age, but relatively few hens a-ill prove to be
profitable producers beyond their second la)& year if
of the heavier breeds.
SicLness and lack of vigor are indicated by listlesrness,
inactivity, tendency to stay on or under the roost during
the day, poor appetite, dull eye, dark or bluish color of
comb, long toe nails, scaky or crow hcad, and the
tendency to go to roost cerly in thc el-cnir.,o and to be
one of the
to lcuve the roost ,ill the morning.
Molt is one of the most ~nluableand easily applied
tests of proctuction. Hens craw laying completely or
almost complt.tely during the molt. The better producers
lay lute in the fall, and therefore molt late. Late molters also molt rapidly as a rule, while early molters molt
slowly. Therefore, oare the hens rhich have not molted
by August or.are only just beginning to molt late in
September or in October, and discud those which h i v e

not molted a t t h b time is characterized by soiled and

worn or 11rokcn plumage, which is especially evident
in thc tail plumage, while those molted or molting 'show
clean, fresh plumqe or growing feathers. Culling the
carly molkrs just pa soon as they begin to molt ia one
of thc easiest w-ays to weed out poor layers.
I n those breeds having yellow l q s , the color fades
out slowly as the laying season advances. The rapidity
and degree to which the yellow color is lost depends to a
conaidera1,le ertent upon the heaviness of laying. The
yellow color goes out from the scales on the front of the
shnnks first and finally from the s d e s on the rear. Hens '
on grws range do not lose the shank color as quickly or
con~pletelyas t.hose in bare yards. Some soils also tend to
bleach tile color of the legs. Hens showing strong or
mediiun yellow shank color are almost certainly poor
layers, but cccasio:?ally poor layers may show pale or
white shanks. I n breeds such as the Rhode Island Red
a-here thc shnlllrs may show horn color as well as yellow,
the horn must not be confused with the yellow. The
rear and sides of the shank show little of thia horn color.
-4 sick hen or one in poor condition may also show pale
sl:ulh.
I n breecls having yellow beaks, the same principle?
applies as in the case of the yellow shaxib. However?
the color is lost from the beak more quickly than from
the shanks mid is also regained more quickly. The lower
beak blcaches faster than the upper, but may be used
where the upper is obscured by horn or black.
I n yello~v-skinnedbreeds the yellow color of the skin
immediately about the vent is quickly lost with layiug,
and is quickly regained after laying ceases. White or
pink vent color gcnerdly indicates that the hen is laying.
while a yellow vent means that the bird is not laying.
t a hcn laying heavily is large, expanded, or
The ~ e n of
moistt while that of a heu not laying is comparatively
small. hard: puckered, acd dry.
\\hen a hen is laling or about to lay, her comb is
large, rmy:, full of blood, and bright red in color. T h e n
not laying, the comb is small and shrunken, pale or dull
in color, comparrtivdy hard, and covered with whitish
scales. A dark or bluish color indicates sicknesa The
changes in the ~ a t t l e sand ear lobes are similar to those
of the comb, hut not so marked.
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take -onfat. This is noticeable in examining the pelvic

boncs, the two bones which can be felt as points on
either side of the vent. When the h m is laying, these
bones are comparativelr flexible. f hen she is not laying.
they feel thicker and less flexible, due to the fat ahich
has accumulated there. The spread or distance apart
of these pelvic boncs is also ci raluable indication of
whether or not the hen is laying. When laying they are
wider apart than when not laying. The spread can be
roughly measured for practical purposes by determining
how many fingers can be laid between the bones. If
the spread measures two fingers or less, the probabilities
are that the hen is not laying while if the spread ia
greater, she is probably laying. In measuring this spread
the'size of the hens of different breeds, with the corresponding natural di5erence in Q e spread, must be
kept in mind
A hen laying well is s good eater. Her intedines are,
therefore, fuller and more distended, and, require more
room than when she is not laying and not eating so
much. When laying, the ovary and oviduct are of greater
size and require more room. To provide this e&a room,
the distance from the rear end of'the k&l to the pelric
bones increases, with a consequent i n e r e in size of the
abdomen. A spread of three or more finer8 in the
smaller ,breeds, such as the Leghorn, and four or
more fingers in the larger breeds, such as the Plymouth
Rock, indicates that the hen is in a laying condition. A
spread of less than three fingers in the smaller breeds
and less than four fingers in the larger breeds indicates
that she is not in a laying condition.
When the hen is laying, the greater size of the abdomen, together with the lessening tendency to m u l a t e
fat at this point, results in a d t , flexible abdomen,
suggesting, when handled, the texture of a pPrtlr milked-out udder of a cow. When laying has ceased, the
abdomen grows smaller, or contracts, and it feels, when
handled, harder and less flenble.
In culling the flock remember that i t is d e r to depend upon the igrecment of a combination of eeveral
characteristics rather than to select by any one alone.
With this in mind cull these hens: sick, weak. lacking
vigor, inactive, poor eaters, molted or started to molt,
r i t h small, puckered, hard, dry vents ;with wall, shriveled, hard, dull-colored combs; with thick or coarse,
stitr pelrlc bones, pelric bones close together, small
sprrad between pelric bones and rear end of keel, and
full, had, d abdomen. In breeds Kith pellow skin
and ehanks, the discarded hen should also shor yellow
or medium yellow shanks and yellow beaka and vents.
Save they hem: heslthy, atrmg, rigorou~mkt, and
d v e ; p o d erten; not molting or just begmnbg to

molt in September or October; with large. moist ventsi;

w ~ t hlarge. bright-red combs ; thin, pliable pelvic bones
\rcU spreatl apart, witle spread between pelvic bone9 .nd
rear end of keel, and large, soft, pliable abdomen. I n
breeds with yellow skins and shanks, the hens naved
should aLw shor pale or white shanks, and pale or white
beaks and vents.
The culling of live-stock which is constantly going on
upon erery well-mannged farm is something akin to
what is going on in the present operatiom of divine
providence r i t h respect to our race. The gospel a-re
sent forth to the Gentiles "to take out of them a people
for his name". (Acts 15:11) Those gathered by the
gospel call are depicted as of ever7 sort, and after the
full number to twit the divine purpose have been gathered into the gospel net a certain kind of separation ir
cnrried on. "The kingdom of heaven t like unto a net,
that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
which, when it is full, they drew to shore and gathered
the good into vessels." (Matt. 13:47, 48) There ha
nothing in thin to intimate that those unsuitable a t the
first sorting may not grow up and at a later time be nuitable for mother purpose. The object of gathering out the
"people for his name" k declared to be the blessing of
all the residue of mankind-Acta 15 :11.

PUUPOSES OF PRUNZNC
NDER NATURAL conditions planta grow thickly;
one crowds upon the other, m d in that way all
superfluous individusls as well as branches are crowded
out. Under artificial conditions plants u e p l d at
distances which prevent' thia natural pruning. The
incream3 amount of Yood a t a h b l e to plants under srtificid conditions frequently excites growth, m that the
distance between the difierent whorls of branches, which
naturally develop from nenr the end of the growth of
each season, becomes great, giving t h e plant m open
fonn nnd the appearance of having been built by etoriea
By a judicious uae of the pruning knife the gardener
shortens the annual p o d , thus reducing the distance
between the branches formed in successive yeaxa, with
the result that the tree has a more compact and eymmetrical form.
Ertreme examples of the n m a i v of heading-back ate
almost invariably met with in the case of poplars grown
for decorati~epurposes. Among orchard trees now presents greater nooessity for annual treatment in t h i s way
than do the perch and the Keiffer pear, although n a l y
all of the fruit and ornamental t r e a while young require
nre in thir putirmkr.
Another -n
why pruning M necessy w i t h .pknts
pun under vtiiicid conditions k that rome of our mat

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desirable ornnmentd treea and rhrulm have UI unfortunate ~ t u habit

d of growth which resulta in a method of
branching which makea trees unable to withstand high
YLhh or mma. It ia the gardener's buriness, therehre,
to guard against such branching and to so direct the
growth of the tree as to force it to distribute its branches
in such a manner r9 aill best prevent it from being
broken during high winds or heavy etormn. A notable
example of this undesirable system of branching is had
in the silver maple. This tree almost invariably branches
u, aa to throw two strong shoots from the point bf
branching, each of which grows at about the same rate,
with a very narrow angle between them; tho reeult is,
that as the branches increase in siw, the union between
them not being perfect. severe pressure placed upon one
of them has a tendency to split them apart. Everyone
who hns oboend the silver maple has frequently w n
large trees badly broken or split after severe wind
storms. If thc tree trainer had given carcful attention
to the arrangement of the branches during the early
life of such t m s , these undesirable results. which are so
fatal to succcesful park adornment, might have been
avoided. Pnining, then, is necessary in order that the
habits of a tree wluch ere naturally bad may be corrected.
With fruit trees pruning ir important becauee it cnn
be used for the purpose of checking the growth as aell na
for the purpose of thinning the fruit. I t is an old and
well established maxim among fruit goa-crs that whatever tends to check growth increases the fruitfuIness of
the plant. Pruning can be used to accomplish this result.
Contradictory ns it map at first thought appear, pruning L frequently resorted to to accelernte or augment
growth in plants. f cdi growing nursery stock is frequently severely cut back during the resting period in
order that all the strength of the root may be forced into
the formation of 3 single upright stalk which aill make
the plant a ~alablenurwry tree. Severe pruning is dso
resorted to with older plants for the p u r p k of rejuvenating them. Old apple trees and old shade trees are
frequently so treated, in order to induce them to throw
out strong new shoots.
With such plants as the yach. which bears its fruit
upon the growth of thc pre\ ious !Far, pruuing is of great
importoncc, as thc growth can reduce the crop in proportion to the capacity of the tree. Successful fruit
growers thoroughly understand the importance of gauging the quantity of fruit allowed to
borne by a tree
to the capacity of the tree, the ability of the tree in this
rerpect being memured by thr rate of growth, the variety, urd the soil and climatic conditions to which lt is
mbjected.

Pruning is of prime importance also in controlling

the &ion of some of our most dreaded plant diseases.
The study of pear-blight, for instance, has r h o u ~that
this d i d ir very gana9lly communicated from plant
to plant by insects, through the pollen, as they pass from
b h m to bloeeom, or, later in the season, from shoot
to shoot. It is also beliered that the disease cm be carried by the wind and that infection can take place while
the vegetative processes are active and the tissue at the
ends of the branches can easily be entered by the germs
of the die@.
The nay in which pruning ir of service in controlling
pear-blight is as follows: It is the natural tendency of
the pear and the apple while young to form fruiting
spurs upon the body and larger branches of the tree.
These fruiting spurs produce blossoms from year to
gear, which are in turn at^ liable to be visited by been or
other insects carrying the destructive spores of the pearblight iu are the blossom a t the extremitia of the
branches. It is evident, therefore, that a blossom situated upon the body or larger branches of a tree becoming
infected by this disease would communicate it diredly
to the frnmework of the tree, with the result that the tree
n-oulcl bc fatally injured; but if these fruiting spurs are
all eliminated from the body and larger main branches
of the tree by careful pruning the possibility of infection
in this way ia overcome. The available meanr of gaining
entrance to the tree by this parasite is confined to the
smaller branchen, nhich, if affected, can be cut away
without sr\-erely injuring or disfiguring the tree. This
is, in brief, the method of successfully controlling the
pear-blight. I t is purely h mechanical operation, but one
which requires a rigid esecntion of the principle of removing all fruiting spurs from the body and main
framework branches of the tree as aell as cutting out
all infested shoot in other parts of the trw
I n the caw of the dreaded plum and peach rot the
ravages of the disease can be staped to r limited extent
by thc removal of branches which interfere and would
bring the fruit upon adjacent branches in contact, for
it is well known that this disease is readily cornrnunicnted from fruit to fruit if they come in contact. I t is
the rim of succrs~fulgrowers of peaches and plums to
have the f r u i t EO distributed upon the branches that
they shdl not come in contact even when fully developed.
I t is the aim of the peach grower to hare the fruits at
least 6 inches apart, uhile it is the object of the plum
grower to have them 2 1-2 to 4 inches apart.
The gardener, therefore, has M r a m for pruning
trees the removal of dead, dying or broken branches,
the rcmoval of branches in order to prevent the breaking
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it doe8 not pap to carry them longer. The ideal deer u

rectang~larand even from front to rear.
Too much gun gives meat a watery finish, and it
eclls at a discount. Too much grcen silage produces the
same effect. Corn makes a fine white fat. The color of
the best meat i~ bright red. Cottonseed meal f i m up
the flesh and adds to the quality. Steers eighteen montha
old are not sufficiently matured for prime cuts and carcasses past three yenrs are too coarse in meat and uneven
in finish and qunlity. The bones of the older animals
are flinty, and layers of lean meat are stringy and tough,
and the fat is yellow.
The raising of lire-stock is one of the oldest i t p a tions of man, and if you don't believe they h e w aomething about it in olden times read Genesis 30 :31-43m d
see how Jacob, after having his wages changed ten timed
by his avaricious father-in-law, finally managed to get
the better of him by using his knowledge of how m d
BWINC AND FATTENING BEEF
when to make use of pre-natal influences upon the unTEEBS are ready to sell when they get so fat that
born cattle.
the back apparently sinks a little, and an indentation appears deep enough to hold a cup of water so SKY COLORS
that it r i l l not run down the sides. An animal ready
0 T H E FARMER the colors of the sky foretell for
for the block has two bacb, one which grows on the .
him the weather conditions on which his work may
deer, and the other put on by the feeder through the depend. He cnnnot rely on the Weather Bureau for the
use of plenty of the right kind of feed.
conditions for his particular farm, and naturally learns
The first lap in profitable buying is to buy the right enough to forecast accurately hie own wcather.
kind of a steer. Cattle which are merely hide and bones
Sky colors have been from of old an index of the
w hard to judke. Feeders should avernge 900 to 1,000 metrorological. Shakespeare given us the commody
pounds, of good quality and in good flesh. A f m poor accepted index of foul weather:
h r s in k load will bring doan the price of the whole
A red mom thnt ev-rr yet betokened
load. Anew cattle get into very h e condition, make
Wreck to the .seamen, tempest to the fkld,
good gains and are economical feeders.
Sorrow to the shepllerk woe unto the birrle.
Ousts arid foul fla!i.s to herdsmen and to h e r b
Desirable feedera are built like a block set on four
pins, as low-hung rs possible, should be straight dong
On the other hnnd red in the evening indicates the
the back, wide back, thick loin, and deep, well-arched opposite of the morning red.
ribs; should carry out well behind, have wide ehesta and
If the e~eningEL-y, uot far up, but nenr the weatern
round shoulders fitting snugly t4 the body, with a short horizon is yellow, greenish, or some other short aavethick neck, wide, ahort head, quiet eyes and lips not length color, the cl~ancesfor good wcather are excellent,
too thick.
for these colors indicate less condensation and a drier
Cattle which are cunied daily and fed on shelled corn, air than does the evening red.
oats, oilmeal, and timothy and clover in limited quanBut an evening 'sky, devoid of these colors, and overtities, with a little fodder now and then, will average to cast with n uniform gray indicates an air ~aturatedwith
gain three pounds a day. The shelled corn is gradually moisture and ready to drop d o ~ rain
n or snow.
increased until each head is getting a half bushel per day
Shdespeare from 11is depth of resource gives this
and the oilmeal until they are getting 3 lbs. per day. index of a clcar 2ay :
The deem like to be curried and currying them makes
The weary run hnth mzde a golden sef
A n d by the b r l ~ l r ttrack of hls fiery car
them friendly and in good condition to take on fat.
Gives token of a yooctly clay tomorrow.
The currying a h makes the cattle more attractive to t l ~ c
We would like to fay that our Lord referred to weather
buyer. In the spring the corn geta dry and needs to be
signs in the familiar passsage Uatthew 18:3, but thew
ground.
S t e m a n be fattened by the above procese in four words u e missing from the oldest Greelr MSS. and an
months time and obould be dispoeed of at that time, as evidently no part of the Divine reoord.
branches and fruit spurs for protection against infectious diseases, and the retluction of the annunl growth
in order to reduce the clSopin proportion to the cnpacity
of the tree.
The Creator never intended that even in a perfect earth
the trees a d &rube would not necd h u m care. "The
Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of
Eden to drees it and to keep it" (Gen. 2:15), and the
more he knows about how to dress and keep the earth's
surface, and the better use he makes of his knowledge,
the more wonderful will be the results obtained. I n
wveral placea in the Scriptures the heavenly Father
himself is likened to a vine dresser, notably in John
l5:l-8, shouing that the pruning of vines and plants is
necessary to their well-being, and especially to their
f ruit-bearing.

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SCIENCE ard INVENTION

OUR DYE INDUSTRY IN DANGER
a renlJy efective clefense." Not merely ia the dye in1' W A S HECOGXIXED during the war that the dustry a t stalie, but the entire fabric of chemistry and

success of the American dyc icdustry delwnded on allied sciences. The ~clutionproposrd to protect the
the continuance of thc v:ar and that peace rvould see intererts cf American chemical industry and science iP
conditions resumed that had made the industry neglig- a syatetn of licensing the importation of dyes and other
ible. Peace is at hand, and ways and mcam are now chemicda on such a basis that if a substance is being
being suggzsted for saving the millions invested in the produced by American concerns it s h d not k imported
at all by foreign makers until the American plants are
D~lsiness.
Owing to the Germnn propaganda Americans had sn!%cier.t!y r;ell established to meet competition on
bcen led to believe that good dyes could not be mode eqnnl tcrma.
Ae long as nations makc war on one another it is
outride of Ciermacy and that dyes mzde elsewhere would
alivays be more cxpensivc. t l ~ a nthe Germnn m d c pro- al~colutelyr.ecco:ary to practice self-preserration, even
d:lct. This was attributed to the pcticnt research of t h ~ u g hprtiuc.tion casts m4y run higher. I n due time
German chemists, tile frec use of their serviczs made in this cocdition will be changed, for it ir promised thot
all German induntrics, the alleged thoroughness of Gcr- Jehovah in the Golden Agc will "scatter the people that
man scientific education aud alrat might not gen~rally delight in war."-Psalms 68 3 0 .
be known: that German chemists acre so plentiful that
good men co:lld be hired for thirty dollars upward a DIRIGIBLES a d PHOTOGRAPHY
L'SEFLX b-product of the Great War is aerial
montl~.
photoggphy, which givea promise of being widely
Cntil the European u-ar broke out in 1913 there mas
practically no dye industry in the United States. The used heredter in the laying out of railroads, highways,
sites
/c&etelopment of the industry had been opposed by im- irrigation canals, dams, timber reservations,
,-. .--1mensa textile interests o3 t!le plea cf the necescitp of and boundaries. A good vehicle for the aerial photo-.
keeping ccit.! (!o\\n. n-l~ichthe neccsmry protectire tariff grapher is thc dirigible.
A dirigible can be stopped in midair, and raised or
would have raised dnring the deveiopnlent period af the
busines. Out of thc 900 different colors on the market loncred to any altitude desired; i t can be moored to r
American dye plants prodilced nine n:~d was supplving tree and ran get along without shelter. During the war
about tm pzr cent of the market requirements. German i t was nct uncommon for dirigibles to be moored in the
roncemo supplied 90 yr cent of the dyes used and pro- open for mocths without damage. There ip no vibntion,
duced an infinit? variety of beet one plart a!one listhg hencr long csposum can be made by the
and thus the best results obtnined. There i s plenty of
over 11.000 calors.
The anr placed American mnnufa~turee~
totaling some room t s uork and to develop negatires, there is no occast h r x billioil dollars, i n a predicament. Uost cclors ion for haste, and there is no nervous strain upon the
\rcri! siinr,ly ul~obtoir.al;le. acd c r m the g,~vcr~xr,ent photogapher while he is aloft. Thc first cost is about
found itwlf em1)nrrassc~iIto ficd dyes to print it; ekmps fP5.000 acd the opcrnting cost about $1,200 per month.
and cnr:.enc!.. Dye ~vorksprodccc and use chemicals of IIelium can con- be obtained in qaantities for lifting
vdue in the manufacture o i explosives, and the L-nited purposcs. and L. safe, where hgdrcgen is always trencher-.
States f0ur.d it~elf deyrivecl of a sl~pplyof snbctances OUP. I ~ n d i n gis simple; on calm daya a ten-acre arm
.
essential to the prosecution of Kar. Thc government \rill answer the purpose.
I n pliots,"raphic mapping an area of approximately
*
immrdiately e~couragcdthe building up of an Americzn
t-ro
cguare miles is photographed a t each e x p o m e
dye inr',u?try rttitaklc fcr Loth pence and war pnrposcq
,
and hnndreds of mil!iors of dollars were inrested 10.000 fwt above ground; at loner height the area of
courrp is l w .
therein.
"Surcly the m a t h of man shall praice" the Creator.
Prac.ticdly the entire Amcrican dre bnsinrss is in
dznger of destruction s t the hands of a German competi- (Pra. 76:lO) Out of the Great War hare come and are
tion which Congressman Lon,qorth describes as a "con;- coming many inventions and discoveries that u e fraught
petition of an admrearp so powerful, KI fierce and ao with blessings to monldnd. Who would have expected
l
desperate thot no practicable ratee of duQ would offer w a r to bring r new method of mapping the d

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HOUSEWIFERY and HYGIENE

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HYGIhWB VERSUS CORDIAWTY

T WAS a bit of hygienic wisdom that Hedth OtYimr
Gaub of Montrlnir, Kew Jemr. utkred when his
bulletin kid, "Don't shake every paw that is extended to
yau." Certain diwa~cscrc communicntccl by contact.
During an epidcmie of grip a bncinc~sconcern irnprovd
the xickncw record by haring the door knobs continually
,
wiped with an antiseptic solution. Lcss cases cccurred
. af& the precaution than bcfore.
I n the literal as wcll as thc figuratirc sense no one
kncms whose hands arc clcan. h-ot all persons are as
carcful ahout prsonsl clconliness as they mig!~t be.
Same uec something
hniidkcrchicf
- hsincs the hygienic
-for cleaning their noms. -4 small pcrcc~trycharc ;!;in
d k a s e s or mres with which their kncds come in contact.
A till less number harc tubcrculoais or other infcctious
discs., and can communiczte thc dccclly g~ms~ i
the hand. A ,very fcv arc carriers 'of typhoid or of
wsual diwase gcrmc. Promiscuous llandshakicg makes
onc liable to ratch some of these gem.
' Officer Gaub's advice has somr mund mcdical opinion
back of it: "Tbc clctn haad habit is a p o d one, and
t h d d he arlop+d, for it means much i n promoting
community hralth, due to the fact that the human hand
has been shorn to be the mcdiurn through which many
d i m havo bcen pprcad. IInnds!lnking is almost univerad. and ~ h i l eit stands for friendliness and wciabilit?, it he; it3 dmgers. 3lcdical men are d-a,
that tho
infection of influenza is often conveyed in this way."
'l1oesil~lp other c t ~ ~ t a m
might
s
bc put under ban. S o
womm should k i ~ sanotller on meeting or parting. S o
one ought to cat from a spoon or fork, and ~ r t a i n l ynot
with such indecorum as from a h i f c , that another
person has u d , udc3s the cating tool has n ccrtificatc of
sterility. Dctectircs, mnintained a t public expense,
should w e that no unmarried persons, or children especiallr, kiss one another. street railray and railroad-car
seats ~houldhnre remorablc and systcruatically sterilized
covers.
Handshaking should be m d c "enfe for humnn.,
ity" by laws rcqiiiring ally person before grarping another's hand to see that thc hand is properly and suitably
inclosed in a germ proof ,nlore, or 13 tbc cam of the
very paor, a mitten or stocking or a piece of cloth or
paper. Provision should be made for all personp appearing in public to be hygienically clad in &tiseptic gauze
or'in medicated cotton. In due time the public would
become educated up to the correct standard of hrficne,
egpeciallj if offenders were ferreted out by a d c i e n t l y

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lorfie and ale]-t force of medical spiee. But we spare you

The presence of g e m is undeniable, but the principal
error in the foregoing assumption is that liability to
dincasc comes chicfly from the fact that the germs are
upon the body, \VcU nuthenticated medicnl opinion
statcs that mrry p r s o n is literally mvcred wi& germs
and t11nt evcry mouth and nosc is n resemoir of all kicds
of t h e e louer forms of life. The hygienic thing is to
build np .the prm-resisting p w c r s of the people so that
the bodily powers orercome the efforts of the germs to
find brccr!icg graiinds in wcd;cned tisbues. Persans of
good vitality can shnlrc hands and still be safe, if they
arc rcnjocable follo~rersof the advice posted conspicu'oualy in a lorgc hospifal ;
"IF TOG WANT TO LITE WASH YOCR EANDI."

Onc of Chc rcsolts that r i l l bc the crowning achievea mcnt of thc healing arts n-ill be the eradication of.
dcarlly gcrms from the earth, as has been done in same
localities where a successful fight has been uaged against
ycllolv fcrcr. Aa the Golden A p progresses this will
undoulitedlg be doce, and simultancbucly vitality will
be built up to perfection. Then "the inhabitant shall
uot sap, I am sick" (Isaiah 33:24), but every one that
followa the bencbce~tjpidance of the c o m i ~ gage Kill
gmlually find that '%is flesh shall be fresher than a
child's; he shall return to the days of his youth."
--Job 33 :25.

NEC'ROTICS IN TIBfE OF WAR

HE WAR did something for neurotics; it helped
to discover thcm and thus made it possible to do
romcthing for thcm. A sufferer from neurosis does not
li~lowwhat ails him, nor d&s his physician, but the
malady is very real and its cure easy. The dymptom
is a more or lees imaginary illness, generally diagnosed
as gastrctintestiud trouble, which totally unfita thc
sufferer for service in the battle-line, and results in his
being taken ti the hospital. Over 11,000 cases came ta
light in the army, and it is estimated by the physicians
xho camc in touch with thew cases that probably 10 per
cent of all thc cascs in hospitals of all kinds arc cases of
neuroeis which havc not been identified as such. The old
cure for neurosis in time of war vaa flogging or imprisonment; such a cure is really the torture of the sick.
What the neurotic needs is light emploj-ment in the open
air, or in any position in which the strain upon the
nerves is alight. The neurotic can work, and accomplish
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motive calculated to impair his weaken4 nenous system. brat the misturc thoroughly :add the aeli-beaten ahitca
"Kemcs" are a reality not recognized by thode n-ho do of the g g r ; bakc in shallow tins; cowr with frosting
not have them. The Scriptures indicate that along to- made as follows:
ward the last of his carer, when ow Lord r a s wakened
O T C A ~Fr9sting
C
for L!rr!lrr ~ o t . cCake
~
by the hcding of others, d l at the cspcnse of his ON-r.
Grated
rind
of
orange;
teaspcon
lcnon
juice;
tableYifdity (Greek,.dunanis-Mark 5 :30), hia nervous sysepoon
orange
juice;
egg
go&;
confectioner's
sugar;
tem was badlp shattered. The oweating of drops of blood
mix d l ingredients but thc sugar; nuow the mi\ture to
in the garden of Getheemaue indicutcs this.
~tandan hour; strain; acltl confectioser's sugu until
frosting
k
t thick enough to be spread on the cake.
MOUNTAIN RESORT IN THE CITY

THIS SEEMS

hardly possible, in view of thc fact

t h t most of the p e a t cities of the world are built
at tide water, but such progrew aas made during the
Great Wur in the constrliction and managcmcnt of mammoth gaa bags that i t is now seriously pioposcd that
airshipa be used as hogpitnls for the cure of paticnt3
suffering with t ~ k r c u l o ~ i s .
There are not many of earth's millions that can afford
to go to thc mountains when ataicted with early pulmonary tuberculosir, but it dccs not require a 6rmt stretch
of the imagillation to forcsee a time whcn every city
might be able to give all the benefit of a trip to the
nountains b even the poorest inhabitants. I t would bc
but a trifiing expense to give the a c t e d a few days or
weeks Life in the higher and drier atmospheres a nilc or
less above etery city, b sending them up for a stay in
captil-e airships fitted up for t l ~ cpurposc.
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HONEY AS A FOOD
EFORE the use of cane sugar, honey uas anc of the
principal sweetening materials. As e fmd it is a q m p
of four parts sugar to one part rater, with practicallv
no nitropnous substrrcces. The action of thc bee's digesti+c juices make honey a predigested s q a r mare
wholesome than cane sugar, valuable to delav o~coming
fatigue during great crel-tion. Hozcr is ~light!y lasativc
and has certain ather rery slight ph-aiological rffccts.
A number of good recipes may be made up uitt !;ccey,
as follows :
Bran Drown Bread
Cup ~ b i t eor wholc wheat flour; teaspoon soda: f
teaspoou salt; cup bran ; f cup honer cup sour milk;
# cup raisins floured; sift together the flour, ~ o d sacd
~ a l t add
;
other ingreclicnts; steam 3 hc-~rscr bakc 40
minutcs in slow oven.

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Rufter n o n y Cckc
1 4 cups honep; f cup butter; S egg yolks; 3 cups

flour; 3 tcaspoons pound cincunon; j teaspoon r d t ;

14 teaspoons soda; 2 tablespoons plain or orange-flour
water; whitu 3 eggs; rcb together honey and butter;
add unbeaten yolks; beat thoroughly; add flour riftad
lritb Einnunon and d t ;add sod.d h l v e d in the mter ;

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Olker Spices for Butter Honcy Cake

Instead of the cinnamon, this mixture of spices may
be usctl: 4 tempoon girger; ? teaspoons cinnamon;
teaspnon ground rardnmon secd; teaspoon cloves;
tra<poon nu?n!eg;
teaspoon whit2 pepper; choppd
citron or nuts map a l ~ ob~ addcd.

Honey Ribbon Caka

cup hutter; 2 cups s u ~ a r ;4 eggs; CUP milk;
34 cups flour ; 5 , ten3pons baking pok-der ; lf te6
q m n s ground cardamon seed: 1 3 teaspooru ginger;
4 teaspoon cir.nmon ; 4 ten~poon cloves; 1-3 cup
raisins s d e d and cut in pieces ;1-3 ccp flgs finely chopp ~ ;d t a l l ~ ~ p a ohoney
n
;rub butter and sugar together;
add yolks of cggs; sift together flour nnd baking powder;
add them to the mirture, nltcrating them with the
milk; add whites of the eggs well baten; bake twothirds of ihc mixture in two layer-cake pans ; to the remeind~radd spices. fruit and honey and bake in lay&-'cake p a ; put laycrs together with crystallized honey
between.
Honey Cookies
- 2-3 cup honep; 2-3 cup sugar; 2 1-3 cups flour;
1-"tezcpoon
s o h ; 1 1-2 teaspoon cinnamon; teaspoon
cloves; teaspoon alispice; 2 ounces finely chopped candirct orange peel;
pound walnut meats fbely chappzd : rift togtter flour, spices, and soda; add other ingrrdicn!.: Aneacl thcroughly; roll out thin; cut ~ i t h
l~isc-~~it
cutter; thcse cockies are vcry hard.

Dakrd Honey Custcrd

? cup hone?; 4 ccps scalded milk; f t?arpeon rordcrcd cinnamon; 4 teaspoon salt; beat egp
5 qgs;

cnough to unite yollis and r h i t c ~ ,but rot enough to

make thcm foamy ; add cther ingredients ; bake in cups
cr large pan in a moderate own; the beking dishes
shouid then 5- set in 15-ater.
Soft Iioney Cake
f cup huttcr ; cup honer; egg;

f cup sour milk;

teaspcon soda ; 4 teaspoou cinnamon ; 3 teaspoon ginger ; 4 cups flour ; rub buttor and honer together; add
cgg well beaten ;drl sour milk ;add flour with so& and
rpim; bake in h U o w p.

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TRAVEL and MISCELLANY

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MAKING TEE DESERT SAFE

highly educated people in the world, printing and selling
H E AMERICAN DESERT is triangdar in form, more books in p r o ~ r ~ i oton the POpdation thrn
with itr w
e edge the Sierra Ncmdn and C ~ c a d e other mrult~'. Many S*
a half-door more
85,000 Icelanders in the
mor~ntains.its mathern edge the Mexican border to a lanflagc~flllmtl~. There
p i n t ahout one-third the a e y through Texas. an& its home c0untF' and half that many in wknipcl5 Vanthird edge from c&ew Crrgon to w-cetcrll Texas by a couver, Scattlc and other points in the Xorthwest. Iccline n ~ n n i n gthrough Salt La2;r City and Senta Fe. This land is about the size of Kenhtcb. It hss equal suffrage
countrp contains many prosperous cities. ayicultaml and no jails or courts. The last crime on the island nas
districts and minc~,but the localities that have l~-at2r eommittcd more than thirty ?caw q o . I n the matter of
m~pplieaare widely a~pnratedand travel bct~t-ecnthem civil deportrn~ntno land in the world is as nearly ideal
by automobile is 11nsafc n-ithoct a knomlcdgc of ahcre a"ce!n~dThe Iceland pan? in the mcans o f travel, and there
water can be arcllrcd. Automcbilcs that us2 no rratcr
is
prao:icallv no other way of transporting people or
are aantrd on the Dcscrt.
fha:l
back. F@r that reason the i s l a d
The ,~orcrnmcntt c s rec?ctJy appropriated ten thonsis
p~eticdljand
a~propriakl?
called "The land of
and dollars for sp;ir.liling these desert rrgions with
bridle
paths."
+nhoards directing thirsty travelIcrs to water. About
mar not w p p s e . prhapa, that it vim of literdl
a thou5ax:d !o:r~:sllips h n ~ ealreacl? hecn corcred hv these
s i p s and it is estimated that for $100,00i3 more tile "on- tbst the Lord spoke vhcn he said, "Hast thou
a-hcle trrritory can h coi-cred and sl:ch things as ,lealh entered into the treasure9 of the mow"? (Job 38322)
by thirst %rillbe almost irnpossibie. It is a ~ ~ ~ r p rto
i s c It ma? be that this m p r e m t s truths mming in crystal. m n y to learn that the famous D c o a lralley of CJif- lized form. Water s?mbolims truth, and s n o d a k e s are
ornia contain9 numerous large ~.?ringg,some of which merel.7' ~ s t a l l i z e drain drops. Homrer. it may also
be t-rue that Iceland and other f2r northern m t r i e s
&&drd exmllent sn.imnling to the pa* that
contain
great ' t r ~ a s w c sof mineral wealth or possibly
that district u-ith the s i p s abore mentioned.
even
of
0f86'icnltllrd -filth ahen their -v&~P, m e d
The Prophet mys, "Go through, go through the gates ;
prepare ye the way of the people: cast up, c a d up the 115th dacicrs at the time of the flood, gradually become
to man. ,
highmy; gather ont the etonc~;lift up a standard for "Ore and
the people." H e also $8~3,."Prepare pe the way of B R I T m ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
the T ~ r c l make
;
straight in the r!~=erta highiny for our
plar e*dition
to the
JPxE,1920, a sk
God". (lzaiah 62 :I0; 40:s) There is an intererticg
SGuth pule
under the lcaderohip of
be
analogy het~reenthe signboards in the American Desert, John L. Cope,
accompanied the Shackleton e-Tdipointing the thirst? trarrlers to springs of water, a n d '
as surgeon and geolo@st. The object of the evdithe "standard for the people," lifted up bv the people
u.ill be to
the position snd dnt
of
of C M "in the ?esertn of human sin a ~ l dfo!l>-. Human- m i n c r a l o ~ c a land other
valne, to
of
i+ r i l l find i t ~ a f e travelling
r
w'!~cnthe way of truth is not, the didribution and miSration of ahales and genpointzd out.
erally to estpnd the know-ledge of Antarctica The expcdition a-ill take along a fairly pon-erful ereless sct to
ICELAXD
keep in touch with civilization during ita long stay. I t
CET,AST), like ell other countrics. ha^. ~ufferedgeatly expects to use an airplane in accomplishing the h a 1
from increasd cost of livirp as a r e d t of the G r x t stages of the trip.
"There is nothing covered that ahall not be revealed"
11-ar, hut she has proftcd too. Thc cost of living is more
t\an double what it was four ?cars aCo but the a a r has (JIatthew 10 :2G) The Antarctic continent is now about
taught the pmple lion. to gpt a1m:lt three times as mxch to bc ~ubjectrdto the clo.se?lt scrutiny as to the treasures
for their rcol as fcrnrrlv, for now they have ships it contains for the needy world. Kithout doubt the
plying in re,plar coxrimcrce bct~vcen Revkjavik and coming erpedition d l lay bare many of its riches,
providing s further step in the prrparation of humanity
Ncw Tork.
The people of Iceland, hken as a whole, are the most for enjoyment of the bleesings of the Golden Aga

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SEEING DE ;TROYED FRANCE

AIRPLANES AR5 LIKE BOATS
F THE million tourists r h o pbln to visit " ~ i n e d
N AIRI'r,ASE is an air h
t,
driving through &

O F r a n c e " next XaSon, U l l y t h o u ~ l l d rare'desti~ul

d i ~ a p p i n h e n t . A few, perhaps, picture the whole
of France ss a barren ~~~ ; others set only Northern
France &US
aflastatc(l m d T
t to wander for reeks
u n i M scenes of desolation.
lxe b t h is that not over ten Per cent of France was
.occupied by the Tcutonq and that of this area not over
a tenth, or one per cent of the whole of the ~ u n t Wya s
subject to thf! iron h d . As Francc has an area of oom!!
207,129 scluare miles, the de\-atated pa* amounts to
; about ?v000 quare miles, strung out along the line of
the fiont from St\-itzcrland to the X-orth Spa.
Of arts overrun by thc Germans the battlefield of the
Marne is already as well cultivated ns it \!-as brforc the
war.; other parts show little trace of war. I t is only in
"Xo 31anJsLand" and adjacent thereto that the farms
and villages are very seriously damaged or destroyed.
The villages were originally built of stone. tile and
cement, and d be r~bniltthe Eame way. for that is t h e
- age-long ha!~itof the French citizen. But the thrifty
Frenchman will consider well ahich ail1 be worth most
to him-a restored Propert? or one makillbr a good looking ruin for tourists to gaze at, and thus a location for
a thrifty little bit of trade with the Amcricans.
The real damage to France consists of ruined textile
mills, electric plants, machinery factori6, sugar refineries, machine &tops.,mines and steel works, whose value
totals close to a billion dollars, but whose ruins are
aaj-thing but spectacular.
Tourists that want to see real devastation should
have traveled over the wake of some of the armies of
ancient times when there was nothing but heaps of stone
for jackals to h o d o\.er and every trace of llfe wtu
obliterated.

air the am as a rubmarine drives through the

water. Anything that would retard the speed of l submarine in its element, the water, wodd retrrd the rpsqd
of un airplane in its clement, the air. I n the design of r
boat, every effort ia made to make it glide rrrily md
naturally through tthe water ;nnglea, projedionq everything that
The moat cconomic~design of an a i r p l m h a ig am
ib stream-lhes
that
prmit the tucking axay
of everything exept rings, rudders and propellm, and
the time will come yhen the landing wheels of airplanes
will be tucked up into the hull during flight, u r g d
on the ring tucks up its legs. I n an airplane t r a ~ d h g
90 ,aes per hour if one
the hand above the windrhield, the =-,=tion
is the
ur dipping it into &
water from a motor-boat.
F~~~ the modern air-tunnel
how
the
of
the correct proprtion of airpl.nes. In these m e l a ap i m e n b are made
ahid arniniahre
existing
or
COMeivrble
kind of
dlg
in
watching the bebvior of the
the carrents of the tunncl, and cataloging them, ths
have been discovend which
todafs
machincs stable and airworthy in bad flying weather~ ~ ~mankind
d ~is mdering
~ l lthe ~=iencs of nrvip t i o n of the air;
he
uw&keth upan
(pfialma 1~ :3) i, pumitting aor'
,,.ings of the
race to tate the joys of soiling about in the blue a p l n m
of heaven. It ia said that some kcome rro e n ~ o n r e dof
the air by the fir& flight t m thcp us ncrrr
c o n h t themsel,.es in other -pationr,
though wm&
never k indued to go daft a -nd
tirnc

THE GREATEST STUDY OF B f A m U . .

ERTAINLY no one can oreredimate the value of
UNIVERSAL MILZTAR Y TRAINING
an accurate ansjvu to the question 'What is Man ?"
T IS NOT clear thnt the American people are ready
adopt the policy n-hich brought about the mi. of of all qudions which confront m8n t h b One s b 0 d b.

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The Sational Guard Asbociation came out

flatly against the proposal to put 1,500.000 Americans
u d e r arms every summer, and this would lead Congress
to national militarto look ~ k a n c eat the plan to
ization which has been advocated by some.
There is something oppcaling to the minds of lots of
people in militarism. They
to see the splendid specimells of ph!.sical manhood which thc army brings
together, they enjoy the uniforms, the marching, the
military bearing of the officers, the music, the glbhing
weapons, the visible evidences of strength and force. But
there are other things tbt b y e to be taken into con&aeration, md some of these u e being considered now.

most readily understood for the mason thst we m

all born on this human plane and all surrounded by
thousands of other. human beings. With such mbject
matter for observation we should be thorough9 informcd; but we are not. On no subject are the majority of
people more confused than upon this v e v one. So
limitcd arc oiir p a e r s of obsewation, 80 inaccurate 0rir
ahjlity to make ~lcductions,t t n t we art really c o h e d
to the information, given us in God'd Word. Aside
from what the Bible tells us of man's nature and being
there are two main thoughb abroad in Christendom.
TVe are sure our readers ail1 be greatly interested in the
discmion of this subject ahich be*
on the next prga

RELIGION and PHILOSOPHY

But if the rererend gentlemen of Denver ari! not

interested in looking to the Bible to tind out man'r
origin, some of the rest of us are. But let ua first glance
RTHODOXP would have us beliere that man is briefly at what legitimate science a us about -,
not man at all, but is some kind of a dual being; his
aaul and spirit.
ostensibly human. ostensibly made fit for the earth and
sience intorms us that the hbodp mmposed
its conditions and socieQ but really r sort of ethereal
,.,ten
chemical elements. These elementaare not
mnfined b
in a
nlp- Fdiar b man: for they me loud
&nSive1y
be sighing and moaning for the time of his in other realms
posed
~~t what
science tell ua
V e well.
~
S n ~ ~ an
e emn is lost
about the souJ-that suppsedly elusive geniu pining
a t d e n t ; manifestlv there is no more restraint upon to escap from its body of clay? science kmws nothhg
that part of the mystic subjective self, which is mppowd of mch a being; the most
and painstaking disDots this &ion of the human -tomy has revded no trace of
h h? waiting for the
Of
@it armor 1% to some !nore blissful sphere?wdting it. On the other hand the testimony of =ienceis all
for the fed of the spirit body to j o b it? Is it laid aside to the e ~ f f that
t
consciousness ineepsr,,bb CQ1lOeded
in some celestial service station where "pasta" are kept with organism. ~f a
shock, or the
,f hdises
and whole bodies reassembled after death? Or does the
the nen.ous
mnsciousnesa not on^
new untrammeled arm faithfully dog the steps of its
but it has ceawd with euch benumbing*
ershhilc neighboring body ?
Science tells us that made superior power of ~
n
scatter* the ing + due to his soperior brain. Lower
But, the orthodox tell u, by
red&
man's body is born d k r
mannu of mmewbt, .nd it may
stated =
h e that
ordinsrg generation in animals, God in some unsearch- power to -on
is in propofion
to the sk
finenw
able and inexpIicab1e way implants a q i r i t and associates of the brain h c t u r e . M
~ even in~
h*~ power ~
~
d with that body at the time of birth Orthodoq to th feel varies ditfmnt stsgeir of his individ;"dl=
to distingulh very surely between the spirit
dedprnCnt.
amt
-n
~
t
.
~
. ?
.
.nd the soul; but they ar6 very sure that both are im- than wme of the lower
and
M~
p'RP
mortal-that 'God himself either does not or cannot to
he
into a e n i l i ~it
-uentl,
terminate the exiRtenca which he started. In later years
,f rewning
lapse back a vq
that his
the majoritg. of drthodox bodies have come ta look with low stqe. and
his organim is deworsting.
mnch more than tolerance upcrn the would be scientiiic
me only epirit science horn
about
~ , dthe
UIeoxy called evolution. Practically all of the schools of is the spirit or
of life. And this
life ,i
mence in Europe, which at fist espoused the doctrine depndent upon nourishment, ewn
fie
inof evolution, have long since abandoned it aa being diTidnd cell. ~f nourishment to s tiny cell is cut
founded on insnfficient evidence. But it seems to have t h t
though the life of the organism as
ell die,
g ~ t t e nwell in6Sined into the @?stems of ecclesiasticism. a whole map persist. On the other hand, after the death
That i t is a real and prcscnt factor in religious circles of the mrdinate &ivitia of the body, life-sins
is plain from a recent item in a Denver newspaper, part for
days in
individual ce& of the body.
of which we quote :
Science lolows nothing of a future date. The few
T h e minlecm of Dearer having rretntlr been thrown wientlets a-ho have dabbled hl Spiritism and who profess
lnto mlld trcmon orer the reearream of the mntrorenf to belime in a future date on the grounb of their n- caocernlng the doctrine of erolntinn, arc now to take a long searches in that field, may be truly scientific along
' f'
look lnto the past in the h o p of determlnlng where man
~h~ pmcrnm a m m i t t * ,,i other lmes, but their conclusions in the realm of d t 13 came from nod ahen
tht Den\-er 3Iinisterl8l Alliancw In.mind by President A.H. ism are born more of desire than of science. The word
C. Y o m , h m scheduled an illwtratd Ilrctare for the meet- wiena comes from
boa.~~~~h~~~
by
ing 3fondag on the tople, How Old is Man? It Is cspected
aenfists,
or
by
other4
are
not
science,
however
inter&
that the tradltloncll Blble ehmnolop). of G a r will bc glvm
n m w h a t serious crimp when the pmposltloa of antl- ing
- thq- may be. The very most that real aciena can
' aqrurlm
cavemen par- over the -n
and their Perm.1
.bout sp&itiw is that spirits am evidently beings, of
hleory b reeltcd. by the dbtingulshcd Iectartr from
an inridble n a b And thia accords perfectly with
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what the Bible has to say on the subjcd, namcly, that

there are spirit beings of high intelligence, who never
were huunan beings, but who, through their disobedience,
are estranged from God and from all holy beings.
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But --hat does the Bible say, then, about the nature of
man? Its answer not only w
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n with the best that
science has to offer, but it goes much further in that it
tells the ori,& and present of man, also his future.
The words immediately folloaing our text give some
raluable suggestions upon the point of our inquiry.
"Thou madest him a little lower than the angels,"
estdoli~hesman's relationship to the superior orders of
creation: angels, seraphim, cherubim, archangels, and
quite possibly others which inhabit the celestial sphere.
Whatever man is, then, he is not an angel, not as high
in plane of existence as an angel-is not, in fact. a spirit
being a t all, he is "of the earth earthy."-1
Cor. 1; :47.
"And h a d crowned him with glorp and honor." The
referezce here is evidently to the glorp of being endowed
vith the character image of Jehovah (Genesis 1 :26,27),
and with the honor of being made lord over all of God's
other creation of earth. Not only was he qt~alificdby
his very superiority of nature to be earth's king, but
God definitely "set him over the w o r h of his [Gcd'sl
hands" (Hebrews 2 :7) and "put all things under his
fectJ'.-Psalm 8 :6.
hlnn . according to these Scriptures, is an exquisite
animal, o r i ~ a l l y ' c r o w n e dwith the glory of character
perfection, and' with the honor 6f earthly dominion.
But does not the Bible mention the soul and the spirit?
Quite so; but they in no wise disturb the simple yet
glorious picture of man. The eoul is a conscious being,
the individuality, the ego; the spirit i~ simply the animating principle, the spark of life. No personality whatever attaches to the spirit. Let us examine the account
of man's creation more minutely. We read: "And the
Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life [Hebrea, the
breath of lives, i. e. that breath common to all life] ; and
[M a consequence of this action1 man became a living
..
soul"'-a
pulsating, sentient being.-Genesis 2 :i
Could anything be simpler? This brief statement
of twenty-seven words tells the ahole story of man's
creation. God formed a hody of earth; he animated that
body, and conscious esistence began. But while man is
sublimely and n-onderf~dlymade (Psalm 133 :i-I). in
that his organism is intricately fashioned nr.d the
actions and reactiolls of his elahoraie nen-ons s ~ e t e : n
dcfy accurate calculation, still, there is no m!.stery regarding his nature, if the Bible account be folloxcd EIe
is a human being, an earthly being, made fit for and ap
prop?iate to the earth and its arrangements. KO uncmny "soul" crouchcd in him as in a prison cell; no

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elusive "spirit" hovered over or near him. No: man

stood upright as God's highest linndi\~-orkon earth, ss
Jehovah's representative, cnpahle of responding to all the '
p'rompt,ings of his Maker. The Scriptures leave w
douht whatcver as to man's original perfection. "Bis
[God's] work is perfect" (Deutcronomy 32 :4) ; '*God
'
hath made man upright" (Ecclesia&s 7 :29) ;and "God
saw everything that he had made, and. behold, it was
very good". (Genesis 1:31) If with Jehovah's perfect
taste and with his perfect ability to have improved upon
his o m handiwork he still pronounced man "very g d ' ,
he must have been a glorioua creature indeed. But
though he was a periect being, yct he w a a~ dependent
creature and God had made every provision for his
well-being and happiness. H e had provided for his EUStenance the fruit of certain trees of thc garden, saying,
"Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely cat:
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
ghalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou e a h t
thereof thou shalt surely diey'.-Geneais 2:16,17.
But the sad story is that Adam did diabey and t h w
brought upon himself death, m d a t the same time
brousht upon all his posterity imperfection, sorrow, siekness, suflcring and death. (Romans 5:12,18,19) There
has been no perfect human being on earth since Adam's
disobedience, our Lord Jesus alone excepted. We dl sinned in that one transgeasion and "are come short of the
glory of God". Now our glory, like our howledga, .ia
fragmentary (1 Corinthians 1 3 :9) but while our original - .
endowment of perfect wisdom, p e r f a t justice, perfect
love and perfect power is now disarranged and distorted,
such disarrangement does not affect our nature.
Adam surely und&,hod what death meant; he could
hardly bave realized what it would mean in suffering
and distress, for he had never obsen-ed, much less experienced, dcath. But he had a perfect mind and h e w
full well that death meant the taking away of those life
rights and prinleges which he had received not as a
debt, hut as a boon from his Maker, but even if he had
hat1 the slightest uncertainty on this point Jehovah made
i t plain hen his disobedient son was being driven from
Eden? his lovely home: '.In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread until thou return to the ground ; for out
of it vast thou takelr. for dust thou art and 11nto dust
shalt thou return".-Genesis 3 :10.
Sclne would her? be ixlined to quote the words of the
poct: "'Dust thou art, to dust retameth' was not spolien
of t!lc sov.1". Iiut which is worthy of greater crcdcncc,
I ~ ~ g f ~ l l or
o uJeho\-ah?
There is no eRcrt in this text
to distizl-nirh between the cessation of artirities in thc
body autl the cercat~onof conrciousr.e~a. Llscwhcre we
are told concerning man: "His breath gcrth forth, he
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perish". (Psalm 146 :4) Furthermore it is the same of life but God. The most skilled physician m o t
#'thou' which would be rcspd~siblefor the transgcsion "Back to itc mansion call the fleeting breath". And M
which was to come uncler the scntcncc of death, in case v;c read just as our ow five senses tell us: "The11 ikall
of disobedience. God deds with the rcspocsible part of the d u d return to the earth rs i t ass [the scve~tccn
m individual: W a n lsolnth on the outward appearnrce elements shall disintegrate] ; and the spirit [enern c;r
but God looket!~on the heart". (1 Samuel 16 :7) Jehovah p w c r of life] shall return to God who p v e it1'.certainly knew that Adam's body was not p i n g to walk . Ecclesiutcs le:?.
uound and 40 something without the direction of the
A little illustration might h d p to retain the points in
mind. The r a m i c g diR not read: 'In the day that thy mind. llere is s candle; it l a . neither light nor heat.
body eateth thereof thy body ahdl surely die'; but it did e\:' light it with fire and both light and hect are given
read: "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt off. It h3s power, capacity for performance. Its iittle
surely die". Both the warning and the rntcnce rerc Came can he used to light other candles, or it could be
manifestly to the indiridual, the conscious, sentient, the umd to start a very de&wtira conflagration The wax
responsible being as a whole.-Eccleaisstes 3 :20.
is gratlually burned up; the flame flickers and dies. Its
'The dust of the ground" is, of couree, merely another poweven to start other flamea, or even to work injuxy, is
way of saying "the'elementa of the earth". Before his gone; it gives forth neither light or heat. So Kith tho
tpnsgression Adam had a perfect mind, a perfect body, creation of man. There was h t the inert and hmsible
'perfect environment, perfect life, a perfect dominion. body of Arlam. The brain and nervous sgstem were there,
H e had all thesc things to keep and to enjoy forever. but incapable of perception or reasoning. Then it in
Death is not a normal thing on earth, any more thaa lighted fmm the torch in God's own hand, and both light
it is eo in heaven. But when Adam sinned he lost at and uprmth, both brilliancy of human wit and warmth
once his krfect dominion and his perfect surroundings. of love are radiated. Thousmds may feel the influence
HM mind and body, through dearth of proper nourish- of that pctsonalitg; had i t not been for sin and the
ment, began to lose their respective sharpness and vigor; aiming scntencc of death that warmth and light could
and the bright flame of life, which had ban started by radiate for dl eternity; but M f s d s now strnd a few
Jehovah's own land, began first to dim, then to flicker, years d i c e to consume thc organism and the individual
m d W y died out altogether. AU his powen returned cemes ta M t e , -sea to radiate any mom thoughts or
t h h i n e r t unconscious state in which they were prior to gin? out tendcr ympthies. The soul is .dead. The
b hh being ener,gized with life from a divine fouctain. spark cf lifc is under God's control to be given back a t
And what becomes of the soul at death? It simply the re~urr+ion (which is to be brought about by divine
ceases to edst; i t goes just where the b e goes ahen pawer u a d t of Christ's redemptive m i 6 c e ) and
the candle in muffed out; it goes just where the figures the body simply decomposu into its =vend elunents.
go when they are rubbed off the ~~~~~~~d. You may
But dou not the apostle aap something about being
retain a memory of them; the results of the figuring 'deliyered from thir body of flesh'? And does he not
ma-jke lasting eTen after the figures themselves a& gone. also mention about om-'outward mas perishing, but
Even so, some bfluential souls, "departing, leave behind our inward msn being renewed dry by day'? Yes, but
them footpricts on the sands of time". And do not the the ape-de aas a member af the new creation; and that
Scriptures speak of a resurrection and does not that is another stoq. Uuch of the confusion on the subject
imply that something is dive somewhere? Certainly the of man's nature has cnme from applying Scriptures to
Scriptures spcak of a resurrection ; but why a resur- man which u e intended to apply only to the church of
redion if the individual is already dire wmeu.herz? tho Gospel age, which in admittedly in a transitory
Evidently there is some b d of a record kept of each state. To umder6tand the Bible at all, it is essential
indiedual child of Adan, that his bdividurlity Ixay br that r e "rightly diede the word of truth".
Ifen originally created perfcct, became a sinner, forreproduced in God's due time, that he may be rccre3t.d
with the same identity, and givcn a body, for thcre csu fcited his life and brought sickness w d death upon all
be no conscious existence ~ i t h o u tan organism. 1311t a of his offspring. J e - . s prorided redemption for manrecord of a s o d or being is a vastly differect thizg from kind through his death and resurrection. "By the grace
of God he tasted death for erery man," and this fact
having that soul or being alive soine~here.
Where 2oes the epkit or animating principle go at mu& be. "testified to a l l in due time". (Hebrews 2 :9-1;
death? It simply returns to it3 Giver. Cp ?-I tl:, point 1 Timothy 2:3-6) In Gods "due time" the blessing of
being restored to human M e d i a n Kill be offered to all
of death the possessor of life can retain his life and
pus it on to others by process of procreation, bu; as aocn mankind. The Bible designates mch ss "the time of
ae death has ensued no one has control of that m-e
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LABOR and ECONOMICS

THE COAL STRIKE

The remedia agreed upon in the convention were a

EEKS ago, the representatives of the minera of tho six hour day and five day week, by which it was hoped
Central Competitive District met in contention at that a grcator continuity of employment would be obCleveland This District cdvers \Vestern Pennsylvania, tained, and owing to thc dim light and gas-laden atmosOhio and Indiana and mines one-half of the bituminous phere in which the work ia done the men felt that these
coal produced.in the United States. The t o M biturnin- h o w are proper enough to ask for the mining industry.
ow coal output of the United Stated is approxiautely They also asked for a 60% increase in rages, with time
m d a hdf for overtime and double time on S&dags
600,000,000 tons.
During the past year the men have been avenging and holidays. They. claimed that on $75 per month, at
.only b o or three darn work per week. I n the early put present prices of foodstuffs, they do not get'enough to
of. the year rod waa a drug on the market and when eat and a n not properly feed their children. .
Early in Geptember the miners' delegates met the
there waa a good market for the coal, cars could not be
had in d c i e n t quantity to handle it promptly. T h e , operators at Buffalo. m e miners m e armed with &xed
miners claim that in the ten weeks ending with August inatructions from the Cleveland convention that the
the c u shortages cut production to .the extent of foregoing demands must be met by the operators or they
would go on strike November 1st.
12,000,000 tons.
The reply of the operators was that 'the public is a
Thus it happens that although the men are working
at what appear to be good wages, their actual earnings party to the agreement made o-April lst., 1918; and
during the past year have averaged but $75 per month, that the agreement must remaii in force unhl the
and in 1918, when they bad more work & a t my President issues hia proclamation of peace. They ther*
other time in recent years, their average earnings vere fore declined to grant the miners' demands. They also
only $80 per month. They have averaged during the complained that the demand for a new wage ag-reement
past rear to work only about three daya per week. Tha was sprung upon them in the fall, when they are least
able to meet it, because then ia the time for the great
- daily output is 9 or 10 tons per man.
During the war themen received two increases in pay, rush of coal otders, whereas, heretofore, the spring has
the l a d contract dating from April I&, 1918. That been the time for d parleye.
The conference a-as adjourned to Philadelphia early
contract provided that the men should continue at the
during the war, but not beyond in October ma again neither side seemed able to make
same rate of wag-4pril Id., 1920. At the convention the men claimed any concessions satisfactory to the other. Th. meeting

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that the war is over and that the bantract no longer

holds. They said that they had worked at the old =a&
sina the date of the armistice, November 11, 1918,
?nerdy by common consent
Additionally they called attention to the fact that
although their w q w have riaen 47% since 1914 yet
the average increaee in the eost of living during that
that t h e i r - d
time wrs-65% m d the net d t
condition is wors now than it aos fire @ul .go.

broke up and Mr. Lewis, the Dietrld President of the

miners. returned to Indianapolis a ~ issued
d
an order
that all work ahould cease at midnight October 31pt.,
except such work in the care of properties ss is pennitted under the rdes in force at such time. This order w a s
sent out Odober 15th., with the declaration that "the
United Mine Workers of America me now embarking m
the gre.at& enterprise in the history of the trade union
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~-&tely
after the strike order waa i m e d the
hV-ent
took a hand and Secretary Wilson of the
'Department of Labor, summoned the operators and
tepreeentati~esof the miners to meet him in Washington.
The p a t e s t determination to make no concemiona wad
manifested on both sidea.
Edimatea u to the n&
of miners that would be
rffeded by the .strike ranged dl the way from 225,000 to
800,000 men,. the assumption in latter caee m m t l y
judging that a strike in the Central District would hevitably be carried into other Districts It ia not thought
th.t the Anthracite District will be affected, aa supplemental agreements have been made carrying current
rgreementa over to April lst., 1920.
The miners dated they believe that all of their demanda
can be readily granted without any incrersa in the price
of coaL On the other hand Senator Frelinghuysen hss
dated that the demands, if granted, will cost consumers
over a billion d o h s per year. In any event there ia said
to be less than a month's coal
on hand and a
protracted strike at this time would cause a complete
8 t o p p ~ eof all traffic and industry. The stack of
held by the railroads a t this time is verJ limited. SO
great is the importsnce of the bituminous coal output
the industries of the country that the mount produced
hre doubled within the past ten years.
There are doubtless great profits in the coal businesa
at this time and presumably the miners know this and
wish to enjoy a share of them. They claim that they
u e not Bolshevists but are seeking to effect some kind
of arrangement by which they can be guaranteed permsnent employment as long aa they are able to work and
thereafter a reasonable living for themselves and those
dependent upon them. These are not unreasonable aims.
with' the stsel
The miners are probably ,?pathetic
~trikersand trying to help them to w i n
' The operators are said to be considering the umal
plan of having the public pay for the strike, and pay a
good round interest on it, if the strike is mocessful.
They think that if less coal is produced it will be bid for
at prices which rill cover all posible differences in cost
of production. If the ,.trike is protracted, pneumonia
and influenza are likely to follow the scarcity in fuel
m d distress snd hunger
affect all clasaea
Under the Lever A d a war measure to prohibit interference with production and dstribution of d in war
were =joined from striking ulder
time,
penalty for c o n s ~ i r s c ~Howam,
.
the *e
w u inangurated on November lst, the miners mode leaderless by
the injunction which pardized m y p s i b l e direction of
the coal workers.

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1919

Some Bible students have thought that the text,'"then

shall not be a coal to aum at, nor a fire to sit before if'
(Isaiah 47:14) teaches that the great time of trouble
spoken of by our Lord, aa the "grat tribulation, such
re w u not since the beginning of the world" would be
ushered in by a great coal strike.
Examining the pr~sageciQd we do not #e it that
my. The prophet seema to be describing the f i e referrad
to by President Wilean when he said "the world i b on
fire", m d conveys the thought that the bre in question is
not literal fire, 'hot a coal to a a n n at'', not that kind of
a Are, but a symbolic4 fire, "the fire of God's jealousg."
(Zephaniah 3:8) How carelea we were not to notice
that the literal "earth abideth forever."-EcclrsiastPs 1:4.

FOREIGN COAL SITUATION

HE BITUMINOUS d cituadon in this country
a n n o t be fully understood without a consideration
of the eitution abroad. There
little or no coal in

Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, ItaIj,~Switzerland

and the Balhna. Bitherto t h m conntriea Nve been
supplied by England, Germany and Belgium. Large
quantities hare
reqby Fraag Spain and
Austria, which consume more than they cm produce.
Due to labor troubles, Britain's annual production has
ehrunk from 287,412,000 tons to 214,000,000. This
means that instead of having 75,000,000 tons to export
she can erport only 15,000,000 tons. The whole of
Europe is erpecting thst the United Staten will make up
thia deficiency of 60,000,000 tons and a further shortage
of 21,000,000 tons due to smaller out'puts of Belgium
and G e k y . It would require %0,800 men digging
coal at top speed for a year to produce the shortage of
coal that will be experiend in Europe this year and
this coal can come from the United States only. To
carry thin coal would require 1,620,000 care of 50 tam
each. Pvis is destitute of d re we write.
Many factars complicate the situation. The ship
owners of Norway, Sweden, Denma&
Holland instead of carrying cod
to Nomy, Sweden, Denmark and
~ ~ l l have
~ ~ d ,
to have their &ps csq
to south beria or other places from which return
p
,
and greaterprofib could be o,,toined. They have

preferred that the leas profitable budnew ahodd be

-ed
in uncleSam',, nea mCTchant
while
they re,p the
of the more des*le
corm and
d&inatiom, Shipments from E n g b d hove betn impeded, ves&y sometimes
at anchor three to four
before they can get a
~h~ prk
obbine. for
the -1 rang- from $30 and $32 p a ton at Baltic @
toWpertoninItaly.

Ihe Golden Age for Nwmber

I 2, 1919

I01

LABOR CONFERENCE FAXLURE BY ~ m H 1 1 . m Collective bargaining is the rock on which the recent
HE U S E of Labor Unionism in E n g h d and the Industrial Conference in Wsahington split and went to
This Conference, and the reduction of prima of '
United Stated d a b from' 1830. I n the United pieS t a h Charles A. Dana, Wendell Phillip, Wm. Lloyd food and other n d t i e s were depended upon ta avert
Garriaon, Bobert Owen and Albert Brigbane were aome the threatened coal strike and railroad strike ~ n ifd the
rd of Connow pending, cm not stop
of- its advocates. Horace Oreeley opened the New Fork passlge of
them, the serious reaulta to follow any one can oee.
T d w n to ita diacuesion.
The rapid development of machinery in frat obliterCapital and Labar stand now mnch in the relative
ating the line betwen skihed and unskilled Wea and position that the Central P o r n and the Alliea did in
8 large ahan of the funds of the uniom are devoted to J d y 1 9 1 4 Each a b e d to dominate the other d d conthe organizing of the lower f o m of unskilled labor M sequently the World-Autocracy against theoretic Demin the ase of the unskilled laborers of the S M Truut ocracy. All f a r a a i n g men concluded that in a fight to
recently. To defeat the aima of the u n i m the Steel the finish between them the result would be about what
k t has admitted ita skilled operativeo to a smnU share it has been; practically half of the world was destroyed
in ib earnings and a few docks have, been allotted to and now, in 1919, Capital and Labor stand facing each
other in the same way and far-seeing men conclude that
them and a pension eystem introduced.
Cooperative industria in come af the in&yidd ne- if the thnatened k h t ta a finish talces place the remainamities and in food distribution is a feature of English ing hslf of the world d be destroyed.
trade unionism m d the capital invested in them approxA gigantic blow by Labor is threatened; the Illinois
irhates $100,000,000.
Federation of Ubor hes voted for one big Union of all
There is a decidedly political aspect to Trade-Union- workern in Canada and the United States, and orgmlzed
h,
although in America that feature has been d i e labor plans to join forom with the farmers.
.etrous to ite promoters, M capital and employers here
Capital sap if the %ht must come it might as well
retab corps of skilled politicians that on able to outwit come now, and labor says the same, Is there not a better
any that the labor unions can employ, besides the vast way? Vice-President Marshall points it out in the folmum of money that the former have always at their lowing, according to the Boston American:
~lllmuld
"Just fm long M capital and labor stand and glare nt encll
ererlastlng turmoll nnd n nation-n ide
In England howe=, elm prejn& is 80 &ong that other, w e may
tho& who d e r from the rigid caste and low wages
T h e Congrecll of the United States 18 a klnd of doctor
easier welded token= into 8 Imheahe force, dthoagh tbt tRats rrymptoms md doesn't trmt diseclse.
mom
the bvia of the franchk
nrrmWW
7
' % Ieglslatin mmedy that 1 know.oi can be fooacl to
than here; the Lrbar prodarc peace and quietude and gbod order-unless the
the prope*
which wa8 organized in 1906 deb more thsn 50 msauhetarers see somrthlng more in business than dl,{members af Parliament out of 670.
den& m d look upon the employe8 M brothen in the
Repnbll" and not an eags In the machlne or a8 numbers on
me p d i c a l
of the union
the
in the
Com0n8
the LUbor
az:nlesa
the 1nbortn.g m m have some higher i n e n t i n
With the aid of
fadions
inde ta do thelr work than the men wage trhich comes from the
toold the doing of i t ; if they put in thelr t h e finding how little they
pendedt lobar members, by
Ma,
can do nnd haw mnch more they a n
for the dolns of It,
brl.nca of power and some times ahape leghtiap.
la hopeless from their standpoint.
me goalof meUnionism to bring -der ib It-. "It
b no part of government to boost one man nnd ta
the workerq ht its battle line
burner prsdidy
boot another.
in the united states is OW collective b a r g h b g ; the
1s hopelthe mad wpaasiom of men are to hammer
and other conditiOm of a t legY1atlve hall8 for their llnd and just settlemenrs.
m g n i x d right to adjust
labor in all industries, w n g h an agent of the anion, A government of d i s m t i o n a i c a
T h e only government In businen6 ltie that can hope to
not in the h a of that particular employer rith whom
the b@
is made. In England the main point w e d Uve la a government of 10- and m m m l o n for now, &dea the raising of
.nd & h o r n g "What the economic Ilia of America n e d a I. not a law6f horn, is the nationalizing of the coal
In ~
~
~
mbapU.l
~
of
~
npVIo.m ~
~
America, in North Dakota, an organization of the workIt hd
war wtrlotism~
m, including the farme* hen ~ P the
M
state goV-' m e r e n e m will ba perfect jrrstla in the world until
ment, and this movement s p r d g to other s t a h m y the llon and the lamb lie down together. and not. as they
Q now, wltb t
b lamb b i & o t the Uoa.
next pear be formidable.

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Ihc Gulden Age for Nawnber

"3- n.r
need 1h l y of dtttcnr rho am content tb
Wllag to p8f 8
de 8 d y ' s WO* for 8 W S
v;r h o
@@s mge f o ~8 4 4 ' s work: who bellem mom In tho

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dogged by the kinp of today. The State C o w k b u I q

of P a u q h n i . furnishes one instram of this kind of

mrk A oorpad of the Unittd States f o m in Sibcria
enar.modth..i.tb.luprlsbL
wad remltly beaten ~ ~ C o s w c kof8 the avist troclps of
ahatberorHbrt.a,buslnmradralthh.nh.dno
Conga& opportuaiQ fbr tba dnpl of tB Lord to a t e their Busub-abettrd, if not aided, by the Japme*.
DMC~ &
mn Id&
that of dboo Ben Adhem as t h y ham riderable hubbub has been rained, and properly, over t1.d
fert n w .
&air. It M an oukrge. But mounted C o s ~ k of
s
trumpet call of condena 1s not only tn UI# meek Westarn Pmnqlvmia, togeder with '*thugu, gmgdeq,
a d lar)l, h t to ths high and mighty. rod wbtn dlrtde& m d dstectiva," hrre bmtally beaten up and diqutsccl
td w y a am meam~mbtlforgotten In the I m of =miwith$ the Iad f e n
t.r ear CbrMtrn aMtrf.u them 1. my bop l t .n. p u - peaceable group of stoel &&err
don, prmonlt prtfement and personal s u m om ail k reeks. The public pnss ia rlmost silent on the subject,
' 1ta " p m n t n p a z
pat la the kckgmund sad the capitalist and the laborer except to say that it wrs 5
mast mdlm that the ccmsnrncr 1s r1.w entitled to admisloa sible disorder17 manifestations. No officid has any
lnto tbe broth-.
rod basinos muat be prlmarlly for authority to command anyone to act conto law.
tbe le..a( pnmMhg 8 rontefated and happy m l e .
Furthermore, from the standpoint of his tor^, violent
Yblrl&ndr and wages muat ba memadam. Tbla la r
problem for rlntlon by mca who k h m e la the fatbcrheod treatment of defenseless mlluM in both foolish and
futile. It dirplaya M jpeat an ignorana .of the real
af God and the brothrhoad of man.
*It a l l r on wry man of everJ creed to mlve It: not for value of thinga M the poor old king r h o thought he
one pcrson: not for one dm: but la the lntersts of the ms mutcr of the ser Instead of demonstrating hi3
whole pcoptc.
power, it demonstrated his weahmess, for that which he
"It Is net to k I ~ i ~ p cthat
d
?roan ngnin the Yrurene shalr chose to lobk upon as an adront wrs merely the outwalk tbrnn(rb deld and fnctnr?. through pnlece 80d bovel, working of certain reany powerful and natural i d u lemvln~&bind Him everywhere t k onIy solotioa for e m r ~
enccs which the king ronld have done well to &vestigate
mt prnblem, the buiing Indueno of Hlr golden rulc
Y am In favor of n n j sllcrlati~qmemnum for the Unre m d ~mderstand.
t b t ronld adjust t h m tronhltc~,but I ham no canddence
We suspect that fear plays a large part in these aberIn tbc proposed eettlemmt of thea dimcultin This onem rationd of j~istice. The merits of the stal workern'
na n t r mhtloq rnd I only say it In the h o p that men of
strike hare absolutely nothing to do with the mattcr.
e?ery crscd may ml?= how intik ban bnn o m theology.
The
Constnbilla~are afraid something might hoppen
t b m we hme imagined that m cnuld go to church aa
to
sM
rioting m d they might get h*.
The higher
Sawlay and lore Cbd whom we hrrr not skn. rithout the
rat of thc week lerlng out fellom-men whom we knee wen." officials are afraid they might lose some of their prestige
with the great and influential, unless t 4 y make a show
of force. And so it goes d along thz line.
FZOGCWC THE SEI
GES AGO, when tbe king buslnesr was more flour- -- Those who hare talien upon then!mlveu the renponsiahiq than at present, one Pmian monarch IO f u ihility of public office in theee days have no easy t d ;
fargot himself as t4 hare the sca flogged when i t a r - that must be remembered: B u t they often do the verp
Imked the sacial amenities of hia realm rcd showed more thing which makes their position most dScult. For
dderenca to the moon than it did to the king's .wishes. men to parade around or assemble in meetings could do
The tide rose and wet the ropd feet. The royal mew no harm. On the contrary it r o d d give outlet to their
roce futer than the tide, and the poor tea WM punished restiveness; and after a few hours tho men would g . ~
u conuquence. Who was there that dared to question home tifed md peaceful. This plan was followed in Xea
the d h k of the Iring's commands :who dared even think Tork severd years ago rhen I. W. Ws.' paraded on Fifth
tM his conduct rrs pnenle, childish, infintile? No Avenna Thq were not interfend with, and not the
doubt there was much dutiful &ort at looking approval. slightest trouble resulted. Before the parade fhe police
For W M not the kmg the king? Rss he not the vested commissioner WM besitged with dernmda from whitei n M of the w a n e ; rm he not the- established f a d enthasirstr and p r o f e s s i d patrioteen to interh k i k t i m s af tbe land? Bcridcr, them rruy hare been fere with the prooecdings. The comrnisaioner's course
mme Bolaberik am scrpent or I. W. W. eel hidden in of declining to interfere with the tide proved to be tbe
thee audreioua m e a ; md would not tlut possibility wise one; for in a few hours the tide receded of itself,
justify, -yw, render glorious m d patriotic r h r t othcrrim l u ~ i n gno jetsam of broken heads or bloody uniform.
Row happy the time rhen neither animals nor men
might look like futility and f o o h e m ~ ?
The mrId has not changed much s i n e then. The "shall hurt or destrof and rhen "none &dl make
restless, turbulent mresss of h d i y are rN1 being them afraid".-Isaiah
11:9 ;11 :2.

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6;

"Just new w need a bo@ of dtlrW who am content to flogged

the ldnp of today. The State C d b u G r r J
a d y ' s work for a W s -:
r b o m ntlllng to pf a of Pamqhmtk furPiehes one instance of thin kind nf
QS'8 warn f
w 8 64's m t k : W& b l h ram h th@ w o t t A corporal of the United Strtea form in Sibcrir
um-.6maUlmL.tlrkrpllad
wsd recaatly beaten by ~C&
0.2 the czarist troops of
~~natber#Mbclpa.FnslPaurdrdthh.rehrda
if not aided, by the Japanee. Canepportw11Q nDr t h An@
of Ua b r d to rrlm tLcL Bu-betted,
riderable hubbub hm ken r a i d , and pmparly, owe tlrd
nuues down M& that of AboU Ben Adhem as ther
nm.
Ibrir. It ma an oatrage. But mounted Cossacks of
'The trumpet calI of c o d e n c s is not only ta the mnlt Western Pmqlvrmia, together with "thugs, gmgskfi:;,
a d m,)at to the h i m and mighty. and w k a dlddenh m d detectiver," h n e bmtrlly beaten np and disprrse[l
td wags am mmsurab?y f a ~ ~ p t t cin
n tbe love of aerrlcs p d l e gwnps of eke1 H e r r Kitbih the last fen
i.rearCbrtrt).n~pgpfv,ii~j.~ho~sat.U.~..c
don, m o l l preferment and peraonal s u c c s l ohmst all k weelrs. The public pms is almost silent on the subject,
pnt In the kcl;iround and the cnpitallst and tbe laborer exapt to ray that it ru, Unecesmf' ta "pment" pow
must nallu that the consumer 18 81230 entitled to admtsloo iiible disorderly &ifeatrtions.
No o6cia3 has any
tnto tbe brotherhood, and baslncss mast be prlmsrlly for authoriq to command anyone to act
to law.
tlre iarr of pmmotbg a contchtcd and happy people.
Furthermore, from the stsadpoint of history, violent
UDfrl&adr and r a g e s 6 U S t b B f i d ~ W . mb b 8
wa ah6 blim In the fatherhood treatment of defenseless mrsses h both foolish and
m i e m for soluttaa
futile. It display8 .a great an ignormtce of the real
a t Ced and the brotherhood af mas.
"It crllr on every man of ere- creed to WIW It: not for value of things aa the poor old king who thought he
one person; not for o w d w ; but In the interests of the w u master of the u s Instead of demonstrating hi3
*le
pea@+
power, it demonstrated his wealmess, for that which he
"It is net to be Iltvped thnt soon mgln the Xmurene shalf chose to l&k upon IM an a e o n t WM m e w the outwmlk thmugh field and factory, through pnlacc lrrd horel.
h m v l n ~behind Him tnr>'lrbere the m ? y mtotioa for every
m t prnblem. the h a l i n g Iodumce of H b golden tulc
"
I
am In itlror of any rllcviatia# nrcrsom for tbe time
that ronld adju* theae troohlca. but I have no canadenre
in th@ proposed settlement of theae dintculticlr Thls offem
no new solution, and I only say It In the hope that men of
m r j ersrd may mlYm how futile h been o m tbwlogy,
r k n at bmr Imagined that as muld fo to church aa
Lloday and laic God whom we haw not seen. ~ I t h o u tthe
re#~tof the m!ek larln# our fellonmen whom we Iia-e mn."

pu)GGLNC THE SEA

GES AGO, when the king b u s i n e ~was more flourthan at present, one Persian rnonuch rn far
furgot hi&& aa to hare the ses flogged when it a r 1eoi;ed the aecial arnenitia of his realm md showed more
deference to the moan than it dfd td the king'g's,rishes.
The tide rase and vet the royal feet. The r o p l anger
rose trstn than the tide, and the poor eea a m punish4
u r conatqumoc. Who w s l thve that dared to question
the ehies if the Iring's cammaads :who dared even think
that hiir,vmadn~tras puerile, childish, infantile? NO
doubt there van much dutiful &ort at Imking approvd.
For vm not thc hng the king? Ras he not the vested
inttreata of the country; was he not the established
M t u t i a o r of tbe land ? B c d a , them M J hare been
same B0hBerik4.acasermnt or I. W. W. d hidden in
W a a audacious m e s ; m d would not tb.t pomibility
jurtif~,yes, xender glorious and patriotic whrt o h e m i s
might look like futility and fwbhnese?
The m r l d hm not changed much sine then. The
restleas, turbulent mreses of humanity u e s t i l l being

working of certain reall? powerful and natural i d u e n a s which the king would have done well to investigate
and ~ m d e r h d .
Ve suspect that fear plars a large part in these aberrationd ot justice. The merits of the ntet workers'
strike have abwlutelg nothing to do with the mattcr.
The Constnbulaq are afraid mmething might happen
to start rioting and the? might get h$.
The higher
officido are afraid they might lose some of their prestige
with the great .ad inflientid, unIess t 4 y make r show
of force.. And ra it goea a l l along thz line.
Those who hare taken upon therhselva the responsihility of public o& in these days have no easy task ;
that must be remembered: But they often do the verp
thing which d i e s their position mast difficult. For
men to parade uomd or assemble in meetings could do
no harm. On the contrary it would give outlet to their
restiveness; and after a few hours the men would g7
home tired and peaceful. This plan raa fallowed in Sea
Tork several gars ago when I. W. W.'s p a d t d on Fifth
Avenna They wen not interfered with, and not the
alighted trouble resulted. Before the parade he police
commissioner was besieged with demur& from whitefaced enthasiasta and professional patrioteers to inttrfere with tbc proceedings. The commissioner's course
of declining t6 i n k r f m with the tide proved to be tbewise om; for in a few h o r n the .tide receded af itaclf,
laying no jetsam of breken heads or bloody uniformn.
How bappy the time when neither animals nor men
"shall hart or destroy" and when '%one &all ma*
them afraid".-Isaiah 11:D ;11 :2.

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EVOLUTIONIST GUESSING
&V XOW comes into court o learned scientist of a
famous institution of learning acd tells us all about
it, and what he can not remember and tell at his own
persand knowledge he tells a n ~ a j aa
, ia the cutom
with modern "scientists."
Dr. Evolution tells us, and I prithee, 0 render, do not
laugh at what he tcLIeth thee, that his meeator same
18,000,000 pars aga am a fish by the name of Oateolopis.
He tell6 us how he knows thia, because he mith, "No
brain here, just an animal controlled by a nervous
q~tun."
Than it ceems that the family - trse show8 that
5,000,000 year% later the Doctor's anceston had become
primitive reptiles, and the family name had changed to
Sdymbtlria. The Doctor e.splaim about this second ancestor tkyt he WPS ''also brainless" and a Little more bone
headed th.n the poor fish that started all the trouble.
Then coma another little jump of only 12,000,000 gears
in the genealogy record, with everything running h e
to form, until forth came Dr. "Opos8um" who betrayed
the best teaching of his ancestors by M e s t i n g the
"fist spasm of true brain." No explanation of this.
There is a little b r e d in the record hem Our modern
Doctor is not just sure whether his ancestor appeared
2,000,000 years ago or 2,150,000, but it WM one or the
other and the difference is slight. There in no doubt
that he appeared, for the Dodor says that "There arose
h Wyoming one of the first of the rnaestral primates,
or sp?'and thgt he "4 only a small thimbleful of
brains", which all seems perfectly regular.
The Doctor cuts things pretty h e when he gets dorn
to oar o m times. He admits that "Our record of
human history covers only 6,000 gears" and tells us that
"the average human &uJ war not complete" until about
34,000 years prior to that timc
b d = , ~ o u l dyou h o w the true up!amtion of haw
the W t o r b o w s that we all started from a poor fish,'
m d ho'k it came about that eome of tbw fish, managhg
to lire part of the time out of the ma, made it w i b l e
for us nowadays to ghde to and from our work hanP5ng
on to trolley straps instead of wiggling and twistmg and
Ganing oyselvea through the water?
Would you h o w how the Doctar learned rll these
grand f&
that happened 18,000,000, 15,000,060,
3,600.000, 2,C00,000 ("or maybe, 2,750,000") and
34,000 p a r s ago? Rerder, we are rstonkhed at your
ignormce, but r e w i l l fLU you. Tht Doctor had his

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o m private date stamped on every one of those creatum

when they were born. You must remember tht he is
a "ecientist" and scientists do not do thhp by guesiwork. He had to know these thugs or he a d d not h t e
about them, and there im no other p d l e way to Ma.
It ssems too bad to have men ~ m i n gtheir W-given
mental freultiee in this enlightened Tnentieth CenCary
to try to establieh the thoroughly &credited evolution
theory. The evolution theory has gone into the discard
as a result of thc disoovery of the now well-establiahed
Mendelian low of heredity, which always r o r b , and the
observation that the supposed Lw of Evolution d m not
work and can not be made to work.
All about us RE ree that the various creatures u e of
h e d naturw which do not evolve to h i g h ' natures ;snd
though those who hold to the evolution theory have
made repented endeavors, they haw never succeeded in
blending dinerent species or in producing a new fixed
variety. x o instance is known where one kind ts.
chuged to another kind. Though there u e 6sh that
can w e their fins for % moment os wings, and fly out
of the water, and frogs that can eing, they have nevv
been known to change into birda; and though there are
among brutes some which bear a slight reaemblsnce t6
men, the evidence ie wbolly lacking that man wss evolved
from such creatures. If the theory were correct Erolution would be a fact today, and we would we about UI
fish becoming birds, and monkeya beeoming men.
One theoy regarding the crwtion (excepting man)
by a p r m s s of evolution, to wliich we sa no serious
objection, we briefly qtnte as folloas: It assumes that
the various species of the present are fised and unchangeable os far as nature or kind is conturne& u d
though present natures may be dmeloped to a much
higher standard, eren to perfection, these speciw or
naturer yI.l forever be the same. This theory furtner
assumes tbat none of these fixed specie8 were originally
created SO, but that in thc remote psst they rrere
developed from the earth, and by @u.l
prof
evolution from one form to another. Thew d u t i w ,
under divinely established Iawe, in which &age6 of food
and climate played an important part m y have continued until the h e d speciea, ra at preaent saa, were
established, beyond which change L i m ~ f i l e ,the
ultimata purpom of the Ciator in thir r
w to dl
tppcwanw, hrving been reached. Though each of the
various funiliea of plant6 md a n i d is wpoble of
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other fnmilies or kinds. Though each of these m a y
attain to the perfection of its own fixed nature, the
Creator's desi,~ as to nature having been attained
further change in this respect is impossible.
It is claimed that the orighal plants and animals,
from w5ich present fixed varieties came, became extinct
before the creation of man. Skeletons and fossils of
animals and plants which do not now exist, found deep
below the e&s
surface, favor this theory. This view
neither ignores nor rejeds the Bible teaching that man
was a direct and perfect creation, made in the menw
and moral image of hia Maker. The account in thc
Scriptures is esplicit :
",Qnd God said, Let us make man in our image, after
o m likeness: and let them have dominion over the fbh
of the em,and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over a l l the earth, and over every creeping
thing that &eepeth upon the earth. So God created
mnn in his own image, in the image of God created he
him ;male and female created he them."-Crc:~. I :?C, 2:.

BROTHERL Y LOVE IN PRISOLV

HE REAL NATUPcE of men ahincs out n-hen they
are in prison. .W are on a common level; the d e u
are sewre and life is hard, but it is surprising under
the.% unfavoraLle cocditions to see how much of brotherly interest is manifested toward those who are most
~kfotturmte. There is no place where a sick man, a
blind man or a cripplc is treated more considerately by
his fellows than in prison, and this speaks well for
human kind. One of the first h v e r i e a a prisoner
makes is that tho majoriq of the men in prison are like
the majoritp ollt of it, and that there is no great difIerence. Bad men are just naughty boys who got caught;
but it sometimes happens that men are imprisoned who
are not bad at dl.
The governor of Ncw Tork State has just released a
prisoner, a former lahyer, who blinded himself in an
attempt to commit suicide. 'Xhile he %.as in prison his
attendants and fellow-prisoners taught him the touch
qStem of typewriting, and he now goee forth in -the
brave hoge of picking up again the threada of life which
he once b p e d to snap completely asunder.
m
e there is generally goodhartedness among
prisoners they also have a very definite code oi honor.
The reward for trespassing upon the rights ?f another
prisoner is qually a .sudden black eye from an onlooking
inmate and a-brief period of unconsciousness on a stone
floor. The one who bestows the reward, howeyer, gets
ten or etteen days in the dungeon or '%bull pen", and has
m equal period added to the time which he must sene.

The reward for "mitching" (taftling to a guard) or

"stool-pigconing" (helping to lay a trap for a fellowprisoner) is to get cut with a safety razor bIade from
the opening of the ear to the comer of the mouth. Such
a man is marked for life, and there are many mch in
prison. 13etrega.l of a fellow-prisoner ' h t h no forgiven&.
In a s e m aII men, since the fill of our first parents in
the Garden of Eden, are convicts, outcasts, waiting br
the time when the curse shall be no more. T h d God
that time is coming. Then there will be no prisons, nor
need for any. "God himself will be with them [with
men here upon earth, in the new order of things], and
bq their God. And there shall be no mom curse. There
shall be no night there."-Revelation
21 :3 ;22 :3, 5.

HOW AUTOMOBiZES TAKE Ta6 PEOPLE OFF

ENEFITS of $7,500 were paid afterJa salesman
had stopped at a garage to h f l a k one of the
tires of hia crrr. He evidently got too much pressure;
the rim blew off the wheel, struck him in the head and
trsctnred hia skull. The heim of a New Jersey A r k
recei~ed$4,500 because he tried to help his wife drive ;
the car went o v a an erdbanlnnent into a lake, and three
wen droned. A Deputy SherifZ of Atlanta left an
insurance estate of .$2,625 when the front wheel collapsed and the car turned turtle. The survivors of a
63-year old lumber broker of
received $7,500
after he had been 6ut driving with hin wife; while
crossing a narrow bridge over a deep ravine, the machine
swerved, broke the rail and dropped to the bottom of
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the gorge.
Another amonat of $7,500 w e n t . t ~the wife of a man
driving home; at a strwt crowing he noticed hie
daughter on one side and started to cross over at a speed
of only fifteen miles, to give her a ride home, but failed
to notice that the car was headed for a water trough in
the middle of the road: he tried to steer away but the
right side of his car struck the water-tank and the force
of the blow threw his head forward against the steering
wheel and fractured hie skull, In New York a tire and
rim burst from an automobile and pieas of the rim
seriously injured taro men about the head and neck and
crashed through a drug store window nuu the soda
fountain causing eeveral women to faint.
Accidents are so common nowadays that it is ditEicult
to imagine conditions goon to prevail in the Golden Age
when all accidents will be f o r e . and preventad; for
it is dirinely predicted that "they shall not hurt [myone] nor destroy [cause death] in & my [God's] holy
mountain [kingdom] ."- IEW
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question of nater treatment is one in which the cmplopF YOU COVER a steam pipe with asbestos, magnesia, ment of chemicnl and engineering knowledge is bcth
or other heat-insulating material, you keep the heat absolutely necessary and highly profitable, and it vou?.

in the steam ; if gdu l:nr or coat a hller tube with scale

o r other heat-insulating material, you keep the heat out
of the boiler aater, and send it to the stack. By lagging
your pipes you save fuel easily. By lining your tubes
with s d e you waste it continuously and needlessly.
All natural waters contain more or less of this hest:
insulating material. partly as suspended matter sraci:
as clay, fine sand, i::soluble forms of iron, aluminum,
ctc. which generally may be removed by filteration, and
partly aa dissolved matter, such as compoundv of cdcitun. magnesium, sodium, potssium, and other mineral
dtk.

I n the &sc of a l~oilertube covered with a dense

scale the only way to maintain a constant flow of heat
from the furnace to the boiler water in to increase the
"heat pressure," so to speak; that is, to burn more fucl.
With a drposit of 1-9 inch of scale, 16 ccllts of every
dollnr paid for coal is lost. The low is euily preve~tcd
and the trilv.mtages of soft water abundantly justify
all erpcnditure necessarp to secure it.
Facts mlIectcd by the Government show thnt a
cruclble steel company, by substitut~ngsoft for hard
water, effcckd a saving of $22,000 per annum in ita c a d
biU. Another steel company reported a saving of $30,000
from the softening of its boiler water. A marble
company reported a saving of 21 per cent of its fuel by
softening its boiler water. Othcr companies reported
profits resulting direcffy from the substitution of soft
for hard aater varying from 32 per cent to 7 1 per cent.
The Chicago and Rorthmestern 'Railroad Company,
comparing its operating expenses in 1902-1903, before
and after softexiing its nater supply, reported a saving
of $75,000 per annum. At present prices of coal this
eaving would be twice that amount. It is estimated
of hard water in the locomotive boilers of
that thc'beirse
the c ~ u n t r y involves the annual c&munption of
15,000,000 tons of cod more than would be needed were
soft water exclusively used.
The methqds expploged in softening water are divided
into two cl&ses; those in which the d e - f o r m i n g
property is r h o v e d before the water enters the boiler,
and those in nhich the softening is effwted thin the
boiler itself by means of boiler cornpounda
I t can not be too strongly emphasized that this
sludge and of the boiler compound i W .

be far aiser to omit d l forms of nater treatme~t.(in-

volving the use of chcmicnls) rather than to uuciertake

such aithout knoning accuratel~thccomposition of the
water and of the material uscd to soften it. It is most
important to remcrnber that the quality of the nater,
even hhen secured from the same aource, varies widely
from tin~cto time. .A condition of excessive concentration of nater after a protracted drought map be
changed within an hour to a corresponding excessive
dilution by a summer stom. The result would be to
decrease enormously the perccntsge of dissolved matter
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to a much greater degree, the
and to i n c r ~ w probably
amount of suspcsnded matter.
As a consequence, a prescribed treatment of the water
based on its analysis at any particular time might not
lead to satisfactory results if applied at another time.
.As an instance of the serious dangzr of an unintelligent "dosing" of boiler waters may be cited the results
of a long series of investigationr which have, apparently,
shonm that carbonate of soda in solution produces brittlenes in boiler steel. Cnrhnatc of soda (soda ash) is
used in most water-treating processes and its unintdligent use may r e d y lead to a very.. dangerous condition in a boiler.
Boiler compounds afford a mry e s f u l means of boderwater treatment in plants whose size or value of output
would not justify the use-of a more expensive method
This would be true of a large percentage of the plants
-of the country.
I n spite of 3 great variety of trade names a very Iarge
percentage of nll boiler compounds consist most largely
of carbonate of soda, to nhich caustic soda is sometimes
added, and occnsiondy phosphate of soda. Starchy
materials, and those contabing tannin are frequent
ingredients. Thc supposed effect of these last two
materials is to coat the particles of precipitated incrusting material and prevent its cohesion into compact scale.
The chief disadvantage, assuming that they are used
intelligently, is the necessity of frequently blowing down
the boiler to prevent the accumulation of "sludga' and
of alkaline (mdium) salts in the. water, both of which
c w foaming.
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be supplemented by washing out, and occasionally closing down the boiler to complete the removal of the
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b e v c r competent superviaion of boiler-water treatment is available within the plint organhtian, it in

preferable to soften the water before it enters the boiler,
and this xrnr3t be done when the pensent* of scaleforming ingdienta is high.
The removal of de-forming components from water
by chemical means, whether before or after entering the
boiler, is accomplished by converting the calcium and
msgneainm compounds into practically insoluble forms,
canning them to separate from the water and allowing
the material to be removed by blowing down, filtering or
m&timu by settling.
There are in m e n t use in power plants practically
only one lime-eoda procese, of which there are two
varieties difieriq chiefly in the temperature of the
water when treated. The treatment coneista of adding
to the "raw-" water softening agent0 in carefully controlled amount, according to the composition of the
water, mixing these thoroughly with the water, and
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snf6cient time to elapse for the +paration
of the "eladge'' before the water ia fed to the boiler. In
the case of the '%ot-continuous" prooese thia s e p d o n
is efEected more rapidly, though it admits of less s
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cdpwi* than in the case of the "coldcontinnod'.
Another advantage of the hot procesa ia that it q e l a
the air horn the water and so reducea the corrosion
The zeolite process is entirely unlike the prmmes
described above and, unlike them, g v e s a water of zero
hardness. The softening agent is an d c i a l material
composed largely of sodium compounds, which are exchanged for the d e forming material of the water;
that is, the water diasolvea sodium compounds from the
softener and replaces it by the calcium and magnejium
which hod caused the hardness of the water. The hard
water simply flows over the permutit packed in a
cylinder or is forced up through it and flows from it
with all scale-forming material removed. After a time
the softener must be regenerated by allowing a oolution
d salt to Bow over it, restoring its original mrnposition
and activity.
The construction and operation of this eoftening
equipment is ertremely simple. On the other hand, in
the -%of
water of a high degree of temporary or
csrb0na.b hardnees there is a eompondmgly large
amount of oodium ealta introduced into the water w
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M liable to occur (m is liable to occur
whensofterling water of a similar composition by meanr
of boil? dbrnpbunds). In such cases the folloKing
modSed foihr of zeolite proms L used:
I n this an intermittent or continuoue tank equipment,
M described already under the limesoda process, ia
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lime is used in the tank, the soda compound being

secured from the zeolite. The filter ir placed between
the tank and the zeolite softener to avoid any aludge
coating the permutit particla and m im-p8ir itr
dciency.
No proceea of water ooftening ir n t i s f a c t o ~Pnlerr
the amount of mpended matter ir reduced to a minimum. I n the cane of very finely divided matter this
m a y be done by adding d e d --Om;
for
example-but t h e should be uaed with extreme caution
and always under expert direction. Ordiunrily, though,
auch suepended matter ir removed by
of which
the sand iilter with a down flow of the water b the mod
eatisfactory type. They ue not e+ve
either in
original or maintenance
The parpose d the xwthodp dercrikd above ir to
prevent the formation of ocale. Thars i a mother cleu
of water-trerting material naed -1
to m o v e
Graphite and kerosene are most often used for these
purposes. Their action aems entirely mechanical.
Opinioa as to the desirability of their use vary from
enthusiastic commendation to rbaolute condemnation,
though their uiie seems generally approved by practical
men. Neither ahould be used, however, in boilers in
which there is already a heavy deposit of d e , or the
loosening of this and its accumulation in the bottom of
the boiler is apt to lead to blistering and bagged boiler
metal. Both graphite and keroeene &odd be used v e q
cautioudy. Keroeene, if used in excerrive qwtitg, i,
apt to distil over and attack gaskets
The healing of bitter vatera by phg
nomething
into them to remove their injuriobs dect happened at
least thrice in Bible timea One instance of thb we
have vhen the lsarlites in the d d e r n w "codd not
drink of the waters of Mnrah because they were bitter"
and Moses "cried unto the Lord; and the Lurd showF6
him a tree, which when he hsd cast into the waters, the
waters were made meek" (Exodus 15:23, 25) Another
instance is where Elisha healed the waters of Jericho
by casting salt into the spring (3 Kings 3:19:22) and
a third instance is where he healed the p o d pottage.2 King8 4 : 3 w
The tree csst into the waters of Marah reprea&s tha
croaa of Christ,able now to make dl oru bitter erperiencea meet, and able in the dawning age to give the
poor world a new hope of life. The d t catrt into the
spring represents the Lord's true people during t3b
gospel age. "Ye an the salt of the earth." (Matt. 5 :13)
The Lord will use them to heal rt thek aourcc the water8
of truth made brackish with creedd error, during the

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SUCCESSFUL WELFiUU WORK
for ita memberr, appears in the growth of th, AaocirEW CORPORATIONS a n be woeed of d o h tion from SO in 1306, 1,131 in 1910, 5,263 in 1915, to
kind t b g e from a purely kindly pupom, but m y 6,823 in 1919.

go to great length in doing good to their employu

it p y r . Welfare work L pmfibble baausc it
gain# aome good-wdl from employer, &acts and holb
the bettor claw of workers, &or& mule traking for
the ntr oz amblbou, and mrkos a fractional inin &iency.
So whur one of the large conoernr of the metropob,
the New York Edison Company, doer velfare work on
quite a large d e , it must not be mpeded of millpnmid rnotivas, nor of much elae than adding to or conoening the return on the investmen+
Ths work is carried on through the k i a t i o n of
Employeq now jn its fifteenth year. The social activities e n t e r &out the Club H o w , which is liberally
p a t r o n i d for social affairs, smokers, library, entertainmen% lectures and departmental gatherings. Tvo
annual events gladden the bearb of the workers-the
winter amateur theatrical enterbinmeat, followed by r
bdi, and the summer Association outing. The Cot~pany
h.9 many lady employes; and ladies' nights, appropriate?~enough, are not infrequent.
&Coat of the male workers for any electrical operating
concern get plenty of exercise in their work, but thc boys
and younger men h d vent for their extra steam in
athleticbindoor games and bowling in winter and outdoor gmee and sports for the warm season. The smaller
boyr are organized as Boy Scouts, and have the ue of a
m e r camp on Long Island Sound and a fall and
Kiater shack with kitchen, open fireplace and the other
thine d m to the boy heart, in the great Interstate Park
betveen Kew York and New Jeraey.
The Association furniehm vuione h d n of d c e ,
and h.s several cluaes of membership, octire membera
who m
y vok and hold office, honorary faturea, includi q employee working on m hourly h h , who may shve
in the'bnefits of the sick fund The insurmae featun
provideo &50 without medical ernmination, which m y
with examination be i n c r e d to $1,000 on whale life,
20-papent, endowment or other p h w . The beneficiary
of a dee@ rqember receives $100 additional from the
Company. 2 i c g benefits covering up to 26 weeke am
obtainable by the weekly payment of two nnte for esch
$1.44 a week payable in ase of a k b e u . That the
vuiour features are attractire, or elet that the Company
hu carried on an active propgsnd. or used canpubion

Tho tcluationd faturea u e interesting. A full?

equipped laboratory for educational purposrr ii Miok i n d where practice rad expuimcnL in techid
subjecb w dlorded. Thue ia a Technical whool, r
Commercial rchoal and m b u n t i n g school. T k educational work fram Octobu to April ia tecbnid
coutm iP carried on by lectwo, platform cxpcriments,
laboratory erperiments, ond cLsr work. The Gve techn i d courece covv such principlu of tlcctriciq a a
worker should how, md the principb of direct md
alternating current. and the oarresponding Qple of
nuchinee. The knowledge imparted ia designed to fit
the workers for their work, and the commerd awrw
comprsc elementary branches, telephony, atenograph?,
health factors, and such specidized &to .r appear in
cowssf for infomation clerks, junior elu4 oface bays
and junior iarpecbra. The w g 02 promotion in tb.
Cornpanj s accounting roomr is mule &in by corueor
in bookkeeping, principles of u ~ ~ ~ tmid namounting
g
problem A summer scllool in conducted for the judor
inspectors and w n t a of the light*
inspection and
s p e d e r n e bureau&
how prrcticrl ie the
It m y r q r k ~ o n r cto
instruction worked up in this corporation fchool system.
None of the old-fashioned, stilt& pedagogical bookr for
the modernly e d u d ywng 'nun who in to bun
practical English!, f i t he dudiu wwld benefit myone: chooaiq a theme, developing m original thought,
framing in address, tbe pwta of .EL address, h e t y ,
dirisioxu of oratory, effective speaking .ad application8
of bnsinma English. In uiother cvptle designed to
develop g e n d eSciency the worku studies about
rppeuance, manners, courtesy, right thid&g urd
rpecidized knowledge M anfrctorr, tedd of eEcisnq, the purpose of educstion and citizenship. In onothet wurst for developing generd bwinuam eiacjency
the subjects are: vhrt ir psychology? what ir eonriournesa, attention urd inkrest, inatinct, hbit sad thc
nervorrr qrtcm, e m t i o n and p e p t i o n ,
memory, rueon, the rill, priaeipla of appeal and
mponee in businem, 8nd pl~cbologof American Scienq? With a
of r d practical idar in hia
mind, what wonder thrt m E d h n worker should a u t e
matidly dcrclop in edscienq I
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iarp l~ they are paid full wages d.wing disability and blazed a dishonorable way for bankrupt electric r d ue given the necessary medical attendance. I t k sur- cays, with it8 showing of scorea of mileP of track abana
prising h t only 8 per cent of the widen& are purely doned to weeds and washouts, and New York felectrid, the other c a w being falls 14 per a n t , like fate. From the gfmt Interborough Rapid Transit
struck by ~naterial30 per cent, material in eye 12 per of New York City down to the small* and shortest
wt, buine 6 per cent, cuts 8 per cent, sprains G per cent, lines the Mocedonian cry goes forth.
Trolley lines which were subjected to the promotion
tools 7 per cent, infected wounds 4 per cent, handlug
ashes 3 per cent, and machinery and frost bite 1 per methoda of two or three d e d a w o are reaping t h e
cent each. Only 20 per cent are out over a week. Med- harvest that comes from bad sowing. Private enterprise
ical cabinets and pulmotors are conveniently gtationed built the roads, in return for bond issues of two or three
timea the value of the materids and labor in the mnto render prompt service in sudden emergencia.
PermaGnw in emplopment ie rewarded by a service struction, and sweetened the bonda with huge issues of
annuity for employes over 50, who have served continu- common stock. Both bonds aad stock8 were painted up
o d p for 25 years; it consists of not over 60 per cent of for a "kiUing" and were rapidly psased into the hanrb
the annual wage3 eaiied, at the rate of 2 per cent far of "innocent" investors eeeking something for nothing.
each year of service up to 30 years. To encourage thrift and who by paying erorbitrnt prices rcquind the hind
in a prnctical way there is a saving and loan association, of vested (interest that demanda interest and dividends
conducted at the Company's expense and afording a on the Liquid element of the hancing. The payment of
safe investment at G per cent, with satisfactory arrange- these periodic sums "&inned2' the roade and kept them
ments for loans, mortgages and withdrawal of funds.
from being a d q u t e l y kept up out of what was left
~ r r a n ~ s k e n tofs all kinds are beneficial ta both of income. Finally the war hished the ruin.
employer and employe, if adminhtered in the right
Thirty years ago the only way to interest the men
spirit, and especially if the employer deals with the that h e w how to build the roads was to let them get a
employe on a just and liberal basis as to wagea and big promoteis profit. Without this incentive the electric
promotion. The suspicion is always liable to arise among railways never would have been built. The state could
employes of a concern doing ertensive welfare work, not build them and the common people had not the
that-the welfare is in lieu of an adequate wage, and may vent&me
spirit to combine their little savings into
operate to qumch aspirations for higher pay. It is the great mms required for big enterpriaea. . The
interesting to note tlut the junior engineers, chemists methoda n&y
were those af a period of rather
and other technical men of Mew York City have recently naky promotiou, and it M fair to judge the performance
organized a trades union in order, by collective bargain- of the pnat by the conservative standard8 of the present.
ing, ta obtain a satisfactory income.
The people needed the roads, .nd need them now, and
Welfare work arises primarily from the kind instinda the bnainPanlilre tbing is to keep the rods going for the
of human employers, and secondarily on a more extensive public bene6t Under no c i r c d ~ ought
e ~ the false
scale from the fact that it pays. The motive is a d - Lead af Bfasxhu8etta to be followed, for no prejudice
seeking oae. That it has not yet touched the mainspring and no precedent ahould be allowed to stand in the way
of love is plain because the executives' attitude is ane of of the continudion of this valuable public aenrke.
condescension and patronage rather than the broad
It is sclqowledged that the credit of the companies has
brotherly love that will characterize the Golden Age and been destroyed and that fund8 cannot be raised for
will ultimately knit executives and employes of an in- exknsione,
and improvemezttr Investors
dustry into one big family.
fear to buy bonds and notes of comp8niea whcee profits
are eaten up by high operating cds, whoee rr~enueafor
B A ~ I X P T TROLLEY unws
relief are blocked by public b e commissions, and
0 ONE FAMILIAR with the methods by which whoae very future ie i m e by m unprecedented
American electric railways were finan& it in world crisis. No practical arrangement is known for the
nothing surprising to see the executive heads of some state to m m e e the operotion of the transportation line&
thirty rot& in wlemn conclave and unlll;moua in the The Gring of the price of taansportation hPr been taken
conviction tqst "something must be donc"
out of the handa of the exemtivee and been divided
Without some new scheme for working the long- between aste and municipal authorities into an inexsdering public for more money the managers express tricable eonhzsion. Some executiva want only state
the fear that the electrlc railway systemo of New York commissions and others want both atate and municipal.
State at least cannot long survive. Massdusetta h u T h e r e i e r d m i l v ~ o v u t h e f i n n n c u l ,

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operating, regulntion and public ownership p h advanced to bring relief.

The Gnancial arrangements are ao much a part of the
machinery for conducting an electric railway aa the
rolling stocb: and road bed. The p-t
outlook is that
the k c i a l leg of the stool t crocked through and is
giving way. If thc executives cannot solve the problem
it m y be necessary to look to the state for the permanent
financing of this public neceeaity.
It in suggested +st ntule the state has broad shoulders
it inay not be able to bear all the proposed burdens that
r variee of businesa failures would impose upon it.
The situation is indeed so perplexing that it is beyond
permanent repair by human means; it in part of the
unavoidable breakdown of the present order of things.
Fortunately it will be succeeded quickly by a new
urangement that will not merely fix up present failures
but under the auspices of the Golden Age will so1ve.d
problms perfectly and never come to an end.

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There is almost nothing made, built, or worked, in
which these metals arc not employed Buildings require
iron rails, rods and pipes and steel beams; machinery is
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made largely of iron and steel, and agriculture, mining
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and lumbering are carried on by their aid. Aa these and
other branches of business become more active they
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utilize more iron and ~teeL
The volume of production of iron and 'steel is an
indication of the total prosperity of all lines of busineta.
A comparison of the figures of production at diffe.rent
times shows the changes in general praeperity.
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The orders for iron and ateel show prospective pros-.
perity, or depression, because what is ordered now will
determine the industry of coming months when that
iron and steel is being produced, delivered and'utilized.
Under normal conditione still another indication of
, coming prosperity is the price of iron or steel The price
is baeed on the demand, and when the demand increases
the price goes up. A high price indicatesa heavy demand
and a M v y rolume of orders. S i n e it takes,in the iron
business, two or three month to deliver on orders, the
price ia an index of conditions two or three months
ahead, for it ahow? the volume of businese that will exist
then, when the metal is being delivered and put into use.
Some ok thC figures 8s to the prodaction of these
metals areleadily available and can be used aa prosperity
indices, and some are not. Prices are alwaps public
prope*.
13re figures of volume of production of steel
and iron are assembled and published, rather late, by
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in the Iron Age every month. The volume of unfilled
orders on hand of the United States Steel Corporation
is publded at the cloae of every month. So many
mmpeiing furnaces are producing pig iron that it is
not posaihle to gather and total the unfilled orders
for iron.
A large production of iron and ateel indicates prQperity, present and for a month or m to come. The w e
thiig is indicated if the steel mills are operating at a
high percentage of capacity, up to 95 per cent, which is
as well as a steel mill can do, ancfrepreents full working
capacity. Good business for a couple of months ahead
iP ihdicated if the unfilled steel orders are large. The
most far-reaching index ie the price of pig iron, on
account of the number of months ahead at which the
iron ordered will be delivered, made into steel, and put
into use in general businem
Changea in these fienrea indicate corre~ponding
changes in prosperity. A change ~ h i c is
t ~noted as a
s t a m signal is a m d d a drop in vie of pig ircu- when
the price has been high. It is invariably fclllued by r
serious slump in business about three or four months
afterward. Business men begin to reef their sails, curtall
ertensions'and collect on doubtful credits, when they
eee such a drop in the price of pig iron.
According to the published figures, the percentages of
operation of the steel mi& hare been, 50 per cent Map,
60 per cent June, 15 per cent July, 80 per cent August,
80 per cent September, and 60 per cent in October owing
to the steel strike. The unfilled orders decreased steadllp
from D-ecember to May st the r a h of 640,000 tons a
month, since when they have increased about 600,000
tons r month up to the beginning of the stel strike.
Other figures showing the conditions and prospects of
general business ail1 be published in TEE GOLDENQUB
from time to time as they become available, for it is a
good thing for readers to have first hand information
along these lines.
In general, the countr~is at present in a very prosperous condition, the immediate future bespeaking months
of prosperity, though clouded by the uncertainties of
popular unrest.
With information and statistics for entire industries
and nations available, the average business man, barring
unforseeable turns, is in a better position to know the
future than even the king m d emperors of old. The
standard method of forecssting the future wae, "Let now
the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, staud upp7(Isaiah 4f :13), and "Then came in the
magiciacs, the &?rologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsojers"; but the success of such methods wae more liabIe

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than not to be +s recorded, "but they did not make cent. htanufadurers rut still working on fall and
kc~owathe interpretation" (Daniel 4 3 ) The less occult winter orders ahereas they usually are busy on spring
help and the more knowledge of business data a business goo& at thin season.
man has the more likelv he ie to be successful.
The unrest of labor diminishes production by strikes
or low efficiency. Many workers, &d to spending their
NEW Y O N TRUCK LAVES
large wagea freely, become restive on the lead restriction.
HE SHIP-BY-TRCCK business has come to etay Tens of thousands are going to Europe.
unleea the railroadg returned to private control,
Hundredu of thourn& practiced war thrift and ppn
should. d e v h competitive schemer to destroy the new want to spend their savings. The inhibitions of war are competition. There are now scorea of establinhed rou*
past, and the orders for goods ere like the torrent from
for hauling freight,in every dvection out of New York. a flood b&.
Whether or not this demand w i l l force
Wberever there are good roada there the trucka go.
prim to the sky, m y thinga w i l l be absolakly unobThe longest regular truck route is 906 mila round tainable at any price
trip to Buffalo by way of Albmy. There L a choice of
p e scarcity suggests that the world hss not leached
five different tnicking concerns by which to ship.
the peace and plenty promised for the Golden Age.
Pittsburgh via Philadelphia cokes next with 802 These good things are coming, for of them it ia written,
mila and 31 concerns. Others are: Boston via Prov- "The children of men shall put their trust undq the
idence, 486 miles, 19 concerns; Baston via Sprinfield, shadow of thy wings; they s i d be abundantly satisfied
468 miles, 14 lines; Scranton via Wilkesbarre, 314 miles, with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them
1line; Atlantic City, 290 miles, 3 lines; Hartford, 226 drink of the river of thy pleasures." (Psalms 36 3 - 8 )
miles, 3 lines; Allentown, Pa, 200 miles, 5 linee; And this will, in due tim--come
to psss exactly
Cmdcn.
J., 198 miles, 1line; Port Jefferson, N. Y., eo promised, because, "God loved the world"
128 miles, 1 line; Asbury Park, 120 d e s , 2 lines; West
DECIMAL PRICING WANTED
Point, 120 miles, 2 lines. ,
Other re,Rular lines run to Nt. Bisco, New Haven,
I E OF T H E labor-producing habits of business is
to sell things by 12's and 144's. The only good
Camp Dix, Bridgeport, Albany, Rahway and Newark.
Six linee' make n specialty of regular routea covering reason for continuing an obviously obsolete system ie
Greater F e w York, and 97 concerns will truck material because "It hath been el-er thua"
"anj-where". Tine lines vary in time from meekly to'two
At the Nation4 Hardware Association convention
or three times a week, or daily; and a host of concerns recently the cry w'ent up for a modern method. The
will go "anytime."
hardware men want a uniform method based on the
The cost of trucking freight ie usually less than by decimal system. One manufacturer p;ts up ca~ealabeled
rail; the goods are delivered at the door or at a conveni- ''doze&" and another next doorpacks hia with "gross"
ent terminal ~rax.ehouse; usually the goocis are delivered labels. Others catalogue and pack by the dozens and
in excell~ntcondition; and the time is often lesa than bill by the groes. The proposed improvement is being
by express.
investigated, and if no good objections appear, will be
adopted, and we will be able to say good-bye to tlm old
GREA T SHORTAGE COMLNG
f amilinl.. nomenclature
S DAYS of ci:ange it is hazardous to predict business
conditions half a verrr &cad. but business men are COMMISSIONS ON BONDS
concerned owr 3 condition expected to materialize next
ANY PERSONS owning government bonda and
spring.
desiring to add to their holdings or to sell do not
Orders are comhg, domestic and foreign, in unprece- know what ia s fair cornmjssion to pay on the t m s action. Amrding to the Government Bond ComrnWee
dented-*xvolume.There is unlimited spending ability.
The difficnlty is the probable shortage of materials of the Investment Banked Association the following
with which u, fill the orders, and a s h o w of labor to are the proper aornmisaione : Up to and including, $100,
50 cenb ; $200, 60 cents ; $300, 50 o e h ; $600, 90
do the wort.
The required quontie of raw materials has not been cents; $600, $1.00; $700, $1.10; $800, $1.15; $900,
produced. 'Other shortgee will be: a billion yards short- $1.20; $1,000, $125. The basis for determining the
age in cottdh goods ; s i b and \roolens millions of y a r b market value for the transaction should be the current
short; leather scarce ; steel nnd iron below requirements ; quotation on the New Tork Exchiinge, or after the close
and ao on. Textile mills are promising bupers 60 per of the Stock Exchange for the day, the closing price on
cent of their orders and trill soon reduce this to 25 per tht d8y.

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TEE TURKS

on
sides by Turks and governed
SURROUNDED
by them, the Armenians have been for centuries
all

in a mast difficult position. The Turks are not good

rulem, and the reason for it lies in their religion. I t i~
t h b question of religion that determines government. A
heathen nation, wit11 a heathen ruler, like Japan, shamelessly takes adrantage of surrounding peoplea and
nations without being in the least deterred by conscience.
A truly Christian ruler has constantly in mind the
principles of Christianity, a h.-pocritical Christian ruler
professes one thing and does another, and a hfussulman
go- by the Koran. The Koran teaches intolerance
toward Chrictians. Therefore the Armenians have had
a hard time under Turkish rule.
As m n ' m the Turks entered the war all Armenian
men able to bear arms were forced into the ormy where
they did the menial labor, trench-digging and all service
in which no arms were necesvg, the T u b being afraid
to arm them. Shortly afterward, to a people thue s t r i p
ped of their natural defenders, the announcement wan
made that all Armenians viould be deported to Mesopotamia "for the duration of the nar, in order to safeguard
the empire."
The deportati~nstarted on a set day. Turkish and
Kurdish soldiery started the Armenians on the way, on
f a t . The order included every one, men, women, children, old and young, including cultured and refined
teachers, students and graduates of American-founded
missionary colleges. The men mere separated from the
women and children and marched ahead to "clear the
ay." They mere then marched away to a secluded spot
and butchered. Xext the children were butchered before
the eyes of their mothers, and the women were divided
among the soldiery to be used as they saw fit. Out of
parties of 5,000 Armeninns it frequently happened that
only 100 survived the trip. h i v i n g in Mesopotamia,
without"&lter, with very little clothing, and nith scanty
food, most of the remainder perished, in dl estimated at
about 1,000,000 persons. About 4,000 mannged to reach
the Mediterranean shore and sigilal to French ~arshipn.
The7 were t,akenliirst to Egypt and then, mrny of them,
to America, aherc they are now living.
At the Atbreak of the war the total number of
...eninns in the world was estimated at 4,500,000.
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and this has tended to keep them a subject people. At

t k t time there were 2,100,000 living within the borders
of what is now Armenia, and the rest were scatterdin
outlying provinces. The bulk of the 2,700,000 were on
the Russian side of the border, for Armenia k in two
parts, Russian Arm& and Turkish Armenia, lying
side by side, South and East of the BLock Sea.
When the Russians began their campsign in the
Caumns in the Fall of 1914 the Armeniuu helped
them. Without their d d the s u a x h d d v r n c e inb
the territory now included in Turkish Armenia would
not have been possible. Their diflidtiea btgm whea
the Russian m y of 800,000 men becune Bolsheviaed
and melted away in the summer of 1917. Those w e n
dark days for the Armenians, who had no other course
open to them but to hold the linea which the Russiarur
had abandoned, and nhich were now left in their handa.
With the advent of tho United States into the f orld
War the Armenians received new hope. After being cut
off from the outside world for fourteen months they
were rescued from their desperate plight by the p l u c b
British army which cut its way through from the
Persinn gulf and has since, until recently, garrisoned
the county.
drmenia hae enemies on dl sides, fpr the reason that
she has hlo~lemson all sides. These are now leagued
togethir for her desbudion. Ber natural enemies,
besidea the 3,000,000 Turks that survived the War,are
the 3,000,000 Russian Moslems, called Tartars, who
hare organized the-lvea
into the republic of Azerbaijan with their capital at Baku in Eastern Caucasiq
the 2,000,000 Bolshevist R u s s h s who have organked
the aeorgfan republic in Western Caucasia, and the
1,000,000 Kurds, practically nomade, who inhabit the
~ d mountain
d
regions of Turkish Armenia. If Armenia
could hare kept from getting into trouble with the
Tartars she would have had a chance.
The firat breach between the Armenians and their
Tdrtu neighbore to the Northeast came in the W c r
part of July, 1919. At that time the Tartars murdered
an Armenian o5cia.l. The Armenians made the W
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of sending troops to enforce a demand for the punishment of the guilty. The Tartsra attacked these troopa,
defeated them, and then, as Xoslems, began a systematic
massacre of all Armeniam within reach, including their
o m uaoffending subjects who had the misfortune to be
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Then ia no love lost between the Turks and the feared that the sending of troops to Armenia would
T m u in ravaging the territory of Russian Armenia ahnost mi? embroil the United Stater in estensive
the Turh take three fourths of all Tartar crops ss well European quarrels which have centered about the Darb dl of the atmenian crops, but when the Turks gamed danellea for centuries.
power ncently over an Armenian community they showThe bitterneso which exists between the h&
ed enough interest in the Tartare becanse of their com- Christhns and the Turk* Moslems u a result of
mon lkbdexn faith to allow them to murder the Brmen- Turkish deportations and massacrm and Armeniaq
irPl two days before taking a hand in the same work activitie in behalf of the Buasiam and English is seen
th&vea.
The British army of occupation was withdram from
Armin September. It w u but 42,000 men, but
with the help of the A r m e n i a ~was d c i e n t to maintab order in the turbulent country inhabited by the
mixed Turk*, Armenian and &rdi& peopl~. The
reason it was withdrawn was because the brave British
hop that composed it had been away from home four
yeam and the labor elementa of England wanted their
return, urging that British taxpayers and B r a
midiem can not be espected to keep half the human race
in a r k
S b h a b appeared in the p&at the -=
the
British army moved Northward from the Persian gulf
VY not to protect hmenia, or punish Turkey, ar
hold the Bolaheviki in check, but to get posaession of
the immense riches of the Caspian oil fields about Baka
The aithdrawal apparently proves that if the British
did have this in view it is not now a part of their plan,
or that they feel that the same results can be obtained
m m e a d y in another nay. Thae is no indication that
Great Britain expects to withdraw her troops from
Egypt, however.
The m
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lwish, except on the part of the French, is
that America ahould accept a mandate to govern Turkey,
hcluding h e n i a and the other republics which have
uisen in what was once the Turkish ernpire, but there
are diECp1tie.a. One of these ie h t
Unifed St&
M not at war with Turkey, and has not been, and w h q
lately, in the pursuance of his duties, Admid Brisk1
of & United States Mavy warned Turkey not to conh u e her maasacres of Armenians, Turkey appealed to
the Paris conference for protection agamst h m k a n
rggredop, and the French press took her part
At p k there is no lawful way by which the United
S t r t a can send troop into Armenia without a declardion of wax againat Turkey. The 6rst thing such troop
rill h.or fo do will be to engage in battle with the lhrhi
now enrelo#ing %hatunhappy country. The Pregident
can nat oomtitutionally send these without the c a m t
of cmgnss, although h o p s were sent to Siberia and
Northern h i s wlthout Congressional consent. If wnr
is declared against h k e y it is not likely that enough
soldiers =.be obtained acept by conscription. It is

in bits of news which come from time to time. When

the Armenians retreated with the Bussioas from certain
sectioll~of TurEah Armenia in the summer of 1917 they
destroyed all Tmlcish houses and expelled the Turke
over the frontier in a naked and hrlf-starved condition.
Pu'ow, ar fast as the Turks gain control over territoryry
which hu, been occupied by Armenians, they 8m destroying every vestige of the Annenian popuhtion.
The encircling of Armenia now under way by the
!Rub, Tartus and Kards, all under the direction of
Enver Paaha, of German-Turkish alliance fame, hae for
ita objed the complete obliteration of the Armenians
from the face of the earth. That the Armenian republic
cam hold out until Christmas 8eem quite improbable.
fast as the hvks gain ground in the*
rutvement they carry out their d p b s of -ere,
the Y q girls being wried off to the
harems.
When t b q recently captured NMchman, with an
d t e d slaughter of 6,000 to 12,000 perm=, h e r icana crossing into Persia report having seen the river
at which they croseed full of headless, mutilated, bodies.
It is generally believed that the only argument to
which the ?hrkish enemiea of Apenia w i l l listm k
force, and that as swn as it is dehitely known that
the United States wiIl not eend troop, Armenia and
the Armenians must perinh from the earth, because
the man-power of the & m e n h a is now exhausted. -If
Armenia is dadrqed eivilhtion will h d itaelf acing
a combination of Turkish and Bolshevist forces in bgia
Ildinor which d
l have no opposition in their march
Westward to the Dardanelles.
Armenians sre p r o f e d C l h t h q and the Great
War baa ahown that they have ae much and aa little
right to the name C h r i s t h u any of the other nations
that b e chimed that title But it seems hard to see a
great and edightened people, who have been of great
help to the Allies, and who have suffered so horribly
during the WU, now left helplea to be dedroyed by
Moslem savage%
These are days when Natiom are divinely forgiven
jast u, they have forgiven others, in accordance with
W
e words, <?f ye forgive nut men [even T u r b ]
their trespssses, neither wilt your Heavenly Father
forgive yopr trerpasea"-Matthew 6:1&

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AGR1CIJUI"I'RE and HUSBANDRY

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CIVILIZING T a 6 CACTUS
T IS NORE of a job to civilize the cactus than some
of us imagined a few years ago, when we first began
to hear s h i e s about the wonders of spineless varieties.

We read about what excellent food it made for attle,

and how it was so cheap to produce that the result
in due time, would probably be the raising of cattle in
such numbers that the best porterhouse steak could be
sold at a profit for 10c per pound. Porterhouse ! Porterhouse!! Where did we ever hear that word before? Ah!
That wm before the cheaper cuts had become so expensive we could not afford to buy anything but soup
bones.
We heard about the cachu fruit, how delicious it is,
and how it is all-eady found in candid form in the
Far West confectionery stores, how it is splendid for
jellies and even useful in thc manufacture of paint.
Dispatches are just going the rounds that at San Bernardino, Cal, a cactua food prducta plant is now about
to turn "the wild thorny cactus of the desert wastes"
into cattle food, "table eyrup of high quality and delicious flavor", glucose, gluten, bread flour and paper pdp.
Thia may all be true and we hope it is, for i t is important
to m a & n d that the cactus be made usable if that ia
possible, and it seem as though it might be.
The government has been engaged for years in making
ehbonte erperimente with some fifteen hundred rarieties of cactus at two stations in Texas and one in
Californi~,and has learned a few things which are of
interest in thia connection.
The two worst things about the cactus, or prickly pear,
as it is also called, are, first, that it has some large
"prickers", like thorns, which are called spines, and,
second, that it has some more prickers, like small needles,
which are called spicules. By the time you have shaken
hands once with a cactus which is well provided with
vines or spicuIee, or both (for they gencraLly grow
together)kyou will h o w why we haye to cinilize the
cadua
Anotbrr thing about the cactus is that it does not
stay civilized as it ought In 1905 the Government
imported from the island of Malta a few cuttings of a
large spinele.4s spheies called Opuntk @ua indica, but
what does i t d o after it has been in America for six
years bat develop into a big cactus one side of which is
practically spinelesa while the other side is exceedingly
spiny P I h t can you say to a plant that ncts that r a y ?
A plant of another spineless variety shows the same

how-,
that
disposition ar this one. It M well
lack of epines can be maintained in certain species by
"regetation propagation", and that the ~ariationrback
to spinea are comparatively slight.
There are species of cacti in southern Texae which
are variable. Sometimes they have spines and sometimes
they hare n o t When they do not have spines h e y h
y
do have spicules, however, to a greater or less degra.
As a matter of fact completely spineless joint6 are eomewhat rare. Csually, on &in
varieties, there will be
produced one cutting to a limb entirely or p
d
spineless, and these pgta can be cut and used for fodder.
On some varieties the spines can be d
y burned off
and the whole plant cm then be used.
I n southern Texas the planta grow more rapidly,
n-hile at the California station the development of fruit
is more rapid. The less the plant growth, the greater
the fruit development. Planta which have made no
vegetative growth in a season have produced an exceedinglj hcavy crop of fruit. Fruit usually cornea in the
third year of the plant.
The spinelcsw f o i ~ u do
, not do well in moist mil or
when the air is moist. They rot very badly. I n cold
weather, dso, the poorly mpported limbs cue very likely
to break off. The recommended and d practica in
propagating the plants is by a cutting from an older one.
Resetting is necessary after a few years, on amount of
the deterioration and unsightly condition which manifests itself.
A temperature of 20 degrees Fahrenheit ie about as
low as the so-called spineless Indian-% group of Wi
csn withstand, although thie temperatun may go aa low
aa 40 degrees below zero for the small, extreme n o r t h h
forms. The plants hare great recuperative powers.
Limbs which have become discolored and droop through
an angle of 90 degrees or more will o f t n recover and
gain their normal position. In one cuwr where a loss
of at least 50 per cent waa estimated from r heavy izeeze
the result was an actual loss of not ovu two per cent.
When the plants are sick from fro& they mud not be
cut, bruised or handled on account of the rapid matting
which ensues. The greateat loss in cold n e a t h comes
from the breaking off of large l i m b of the upinelens
form which is in most general use, due to the fact t h t
it is weak at the joints.
The wealth and variety of green exhibited by acti
are scarcely excelled in my other group of plants, a d
the color of the individual pknt ir co&mtlj c h q k g .

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There is the colol of the old, the young and the middle- CORN AND WaEA T CROPS
aged joints, the a ~ t u r n nand apring color, an well ae the
HE CORN crop for thc year saa recently estimated
color of health, disease, and protection. The color of the
at 2,858,000,000 bushels, which is about 26 b d e h
young growth ia often strikingly beautitul, arr ia &o per year for every man, woman and child in the United
that caused by cold weather or severe drought.
States. Xost of thie grain is consumed first by live stock
The flowers of fully one fourth of the cacti change and nftervcrrdi by humans in the form of meat, though
color decidedly as the day advances. Some change from corn in the form of corn flakes, corn meal mush, sweet
light yellow to deep orange with a tinge of red, =me corn, succotash, canned corn,'corn fritters, corn m@&
.
from light yellow to pink, others from brick red to deep and hominy is-widely used, and in the South there are
purple. On the other ha$& many cactus plants have many homes in which no meal is considered complete
variously colored flosers on the same plant, each chang- unless there ie Bome form of corn bread upon the table.
ing or not, as the case may be. One of the southern The crop for 1919 ia considered of good quality and
Arizona cacti has flowers ranging from greeniah yellow fair size. This staple food of Americana and of Amerthrough chocolate to bright purple. Purplish tints may ican cattle was first brought to the attention of white
be produced at will in many species.
men by the Indians of the American continent. It is a
There are a number of species in which new fruits plant particularly suited to oar hot summer climate,
rise from the old ones, which become incorporated as a and not gr0v-n to any great extent elsewhere. We
permanent part of the plant, thus making pendent export rery little.
It is eetimatecl that the wheat crop this gear w i l l be
bunches of fruits of p n t e r or less ertent. Sometimes
this condition of proliferation, a it is called, is brought about the same a~ it waj last year, 919,000,000 bushelq
on by the a k k s of a small fly which deposits its eggs or almut 8 bushels per year for each of us. This is
in the very young flower buds, causing complete sterility 300,000,000 bushela less than was expected; but thia
of the fruit, which is belated and of small size. A still allows a largd quantity for e-rport, on the basis of
similiar condition is caused by lice congregating on the the 1918 euperience. The spring wheat crop this year
tips of the young flower buds and preventing them from did poorly, and it is declared by many farmers in the
opening. These bunches of fruit are of considerable , a-inter wheat helt that they d not attempt the s o d g
importance upon the stock rangee of the Southwest, of spring wheat again. The drouth this year in M o n b a
furnish& succulent and nutritious morsels which con- and Kestern Cnnsdn n-as very severe, practically ruining
tribute not a little to the sustaining capacity of the the wheat crop in those sections.
The word "corn" a used throughout the scripture^
ranges in time of need.
refers
to grain of dl kinds. Some tibnes it refers to
I t is the Government investigator's belief that "Our
wheat,
a when our Lord used the rq-pression, "Except 8
deserts are incapable of supporting crops of native
corn
of
wheat fall into the ground cmd die, it abideth
par-much less of the spineless introduwd varieties."
alone;
but
if it die it bringeth forth much fruit."
No doubt that is his honest opinion, and the r d t of
(John
12 :24) The thought back of this is that if Jesus
careful study, but w-hen we read his opinion we think of
other Governmeut investigators in earlier days, who had not sacrificed his life he might have mnintaine3 it
proved that it would never be possible for a steamer, forever, but in that event he would not hare been privileged to bestow life upon the church nnd the world.
to cross the ocean because it could not carry coal enough
to make the voyage, and the others who proved that
nothing could ever be raised on arid lands nhich are now TO BUY LAND OR TO SELL
T CCRRENT p r i m for farm products the valuation
yielding wonderful harvests of wheat and other crops.
of $300 and upward per acre for land which would
TVe'weve the study which is now being mnde of cacti
have seemed so out of all reason a few pars ago is only
will be of vrrp great advantage to mnnbid in the near
n h t should now be expected. The sale of rnio
futme. Our own conviction is thnt the climatic eon- besed upon its s u p p o d d u e , upon what it is worth to
ditions are so changing that in due time the Anmican its possessor, vhzt profit can be made out of it, snd even
desert will disappear entirely, and that in the meantime at $300 per acre a profit can be made at present out of
the desert $eas kill yield much food that d
l be needed a well-managed farm.
and apprec3ted by man and beast, and this food, we
But the current prices of farm products are besed
apprehend, will come in large part from the cil-ilized upn the apeumption that Europe can be supplied with
cactus. "The desert shall rejoice and bloesom as the credit to buy our goods. As soon as she can no longer
b q at present prices the prices must fall, and when they
rose."-Isaiah
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do fall the price of $300 will be too high. The man who
has money to invest in n farm at the present time should
e.rpect to see his land depreciate in value to a point
where it will return only the profit that it returned
bdore the aar. Unless he can pry cash for the farm he
had better not buy it. But if he crrn pay cash he can
hnrdly put his money into any form of property more
likely to give lasting satisfaction. It is a kind of
property that is very tangible in these intangible times.
A man who has a large farm, larger than he can
work to the best advantage, would do well to divide his
holdings at the present time, especially if he has on
interest-bearing debt that con be cleared off. It ie not
going to be so =y to p3y the interest on a high-priced
farm next year rrs it is this year, and lt d
l be harder
still the year following. Persons who sell fsrm property
now would do weII to sell for cash. Prices on some kinds
to fall.
of farm produds have already be-,
In Abrahmi's time the land w a s free to the urn.
Although -4braham lived just an hundred geara in
Palast~ne(Genesis 12 :4 ;23 :8) yet he never owned any
of the land (Acts 7:5), despite the fact that he maintaincd a p e a t household of 318 servants (Genesis 14:14)
and was accounted a ''migl$' prince'' among the people(Genesis 23 :6) IVhen the time came for him b burp
Sarah he had no place to put her, and the .de of a burial
plot was particularly conditioned on the fact that he was
"a stranger and eojournei' among the Cnnasnltcs, the
real omers.-Genesis
23 :1-20.

TO INCREASE WHEAT TTELD

HE ~ I S T ~ too
E o f ~ nmade by farmers in
the VinBr-Wheat B d t of thinlimg that there will
always be enough moisture for the greatest growth, with
the result that short crops are harvested when more
attention to the savin,n of moisture would have assured
good yields.
farmers in Illinois turns
One of the most
under the stubble as soon as the ab are off. He harrons,
the same daj, what has been turned under and before
sosing time gws over the field several times with the
dm, kq, or roller so as to ];ill off the weeds, to sett,12
the subsQil, and to keep a mulch on top.
shodd be urcd nr seed, for it has
H~~~~~~~
been shorn by experiment that seed acclirnntcd in a
lccditp generally giver better yields than seed of the
m e variety brotto,lght from a di,tance. Fmming and
done,
gradhg the & before
thus rerno*
broken, immature ancl shrircled p i n s .
w d w b apd f o r e i p material. Smut balls ond man?
gains which haye been nfiected by scab will be removed
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grain. \There stinking smut and loose smut are present,

seed wheat should be treated with formalin.
Broadctvting is a very ineffective way of sowing. More
uniform stands are secured with lets e d , and winter
resistance is greater, where drills are used for seeding.
In well-prepared soil it makes little difference what kind
of a drill is used. It ia seldom good practice to plant
at a greater clcpth than three inches; a half inch less
i better. On the Great Plains, from three to fa? p'ecks
per acre is the usual rate of seeding, but in dl other
parta of the Winter-Wheat Belt ah pecks k the usual
quantity s o n .
To avoid the Eessian fl; seeding should be dela~ed
as long as possible. The first frost in the fall destroys
most of these in@&, and thus greatly reduces the
damage which they may inflict. If the 'right date for
planting be selected, neither early enough to be attacked
by the fly nor yet BO late M to cause danger of wmterIdling, fbur-fifths of the injury to winter wheat may
be a~oided,Risks of late seeding may be greatly lessened
by providing-&firm, we&drained seed bed, finely worked
on top, in which there is plenty of moisture and available
plant fd.
Ordinary stsble rnsllure supplies the elements needed
to keep wheat land in good producing condition, except
that it is
in phoephorus. On the
f-8
this
is W
,
added in the &ble a #e m n is made, 50
pounds of rock phosphate to one ton of manure. This
system of reinforcing manure with phosphorus is
practiced extensicely throughout the Middle West and
South. One pound of phosphate dullted in the stable af
ewh horse or cow per day ~ccomplishesthe desired
e
result.
One of the best rotations of craps, for a rotation
which contains wheat as one of the items, is corn, oats.
wheat and clover, the farm being divided into four equal
pa& and worked regularly every season. On C farm
where such a rotation was practiced with elwllert
result3 the programme of fertilization wm as follows :
For the corn ten tons per acre of the abavtdscrib~d
phosphnted manure WJU plowed undu, the ~ l o w dland
being subsequently dressed aith one ton per acre of
limestene. For the oats no fertilization. For the wheat
two fertilizations, one in the fall of a wmplete fertilizer
made up of 200 p u n & steamed bone med, 100 ~ u n d i
"id phosphate
40 Po*d9 mur*b of P0t-h~ and
'I'hls
0C in the spring of 60 p u n & nitrak of
400 pounds of fertilizer p r acre cost) about $6.50 pr
=re for the materials.
The outcome of the foregoing treatment w a sn eight?car aver* of ii bushels of corn per acre, followed by
61 buhek of oats, 33 bushels of wheat and 3 2-3 tono

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of clover, m increase as compared with unfertilized

lands of 50 buahels of corn, 31 bushels of oate, 21
bushels of wheat and over 2 tom of hay.
I n the Golden Age "The seed shall be prosperous;
the vihe s h d give her fruit, and the .ground shall give
hhr increase, and the heavens shall give their dew."
(Zechariah 8 :l2) Many of these changes are n o s being
brought about in the earth in what seems a perfectly
natural way, but which are really the outworking of
Jehovah's good purpoees toward our race. He is using
the minds of men, and the needs of humanity to develop
the euperior methods of cultivation which will make of
the earth an Eden restored. "And they shall cay, Thie
land that'naa desolate is become like the garden 'of
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the con, we may know that the barrennes~of the Jew8

toward the Lord is at an end, and that the d a m of the
age, the Oolden Age, ia-at hand, even at the door. Thus
expect tbat in 8 few years there will be a great
we
returning to the Lord on the pnrt of the JWS,
the fruitage which the great husbandman saw so long ago.Romans 1126.

YOUR BUSEZL OF P
E
ID YOU eat your bushel of peanuta I& year?
You did it you are on werage American, for there
are 100,000,000 Americana and we raised 100,000,000
bash& of peanub in 1918. To be sure, we only
b e s t e d 50,000,000 bushels, but pigs harvested the
rest, and then we hanested the pip. h d when we ate
the hams and bacon we ate the 60,000,000 bush& of
FRUIT GROWING VICTORIES
peanuts that the pigs gathered for us.
AXITOBA, Alberta and Saskatchewan have a l u a y ~ w e ate a lot of peanub from the deb, a lot salted,
been considered beyond the fruit zone on account a lot in the form of peanut butter, and a lot in the fonn
of t h severe ePinters freezing and bursting the trees. of p n u t oil, which-came to ua dhguised as butter,
During the past ten years the Canadian Forestry Com- salad oil, e t c
Uncle Sam haa just acknowledged oP16dd.l~ that we
mission has been gr~pplingwith this problem and at
their Agricultural College at Indian Head, a suburb of do love the peanut. He hne had his dietary experts on
Winnipeg, they now have a bearing orchard of plam trees the job arrd they have mrssured him that .the peanut is a
and appie treea thst is a great success. The trees in this perfect substitute for meat. And meat hu been or ia
orchard are sheltered from the prevailing winter winds sauce. It ought not to be 8carte, but it has been made
so, &d that makes it so even if it isn't m. Meat ought
by a screen of closely-set 6r trees.
A very dserent way of producing a v&e@ of fruits not to be mode earrce by piling it up in a warehaus
where there was none was brought to light in the work until it spoils and has to be sold for fertilizer. But m y of 8 horticulturist at Findlay, Ohio, recently. He had way the peanut is valuable for food and Uncle Sam haa
upon hie farm an apple tree that was decayed in several now set apart $12,000 "for collecting and distributing
placee, had several dead limbs, and his frienda said it by telegraph, mail and otherwhe,.information on the
woyld never field again. He scraped the tree, removed supply, demand, commerci& movement, disposition,
dl the dead matter, filled the holea with cement, and the quality and market prices of $eanuta'* We hope that
tree revived. Then he began to experiment with it. this does not mean that the same thing that happened
Now he has &ted upon the original tree thuty-two to the meat will happen to the peanut. We would Like
vuietiea of apples and six varieties of pears Pad obtaine to eat our bushel next yeor instead of having i t locked
fnrit of vuionr kinds from the tree from early summer up in a warehouse until the Senate ratifies, without
until late in the Fall. The tree ie more than seventy-five resemations, the League of Nations trertp, or solome other
far-off time.
y w s old, and is part held together with chains.
\Ye wonder if those were peanut8 that Jamb referred
An unique incident of our Lord's mimstry was the
pronouncement of B e curse upon the barren fig tree, to in Genesis 43 :11 when he said to his eleven sono
% e t ' ~ r o h i t grow on thee heweforward until the age. "Take of the best fruits in the land in your veseele, and
And presently the bg tree withered may." ( ~ a t t 21
: :19) carry down the man [the ruler of Egypt, Joseph] 8
That fig tree represented the Jewish nation. Our Lord preclent, r little balm, and a little honey, spices, and
r e f e d to the m e tree again, "Now learn a parable myrrh, nuts, and almonds." [Just after r e had w r i t .
of the fig t e e : When hie branch t yet tender. and that we looked the matter up 'hd found that it was
putteth forththves, ye know that summer b nigh: so doubtlese pistachio nuts that Jacob a t t h e kind used
likewise jk when ye see all these things, knoa that it is in Raroring ice cream]. The "garden of nutd'of Cannear, even at the doors." (Matthew 24 :31,32) Thus ticles 6:11 includes nuts of all kinds. The reference,
the I a r d tello us that when we begin to aee Zionism in spiritually, is to the heart-gardens of the Foolish Vvgin
the earth, the Jews beginning to return to Palestine, class that does not yield as quickly as a gardea of spicea
m d large number8 planning to follow them, u is now its treasures to the heart-Qardener, the Lord.

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SCIENCE and INVENTION

J
HAECKEL AS A "SCIENTIST"
0 MAN of science had a greater influence among
his contemporaries than evolutionist Ernest b
lid, who recently died at J e w Germany. Hie many
friends and admirers praised him ae a light of the first
magnitude, and innumerable clergymen of modernist
tendencies swore by H d e l and mistaught the Bible
from their pulpib in the ''light" of the great Cferman.
NOWthat the war has made it possible to ~ U I
German philosophy without being d e d an i g n o r p w ,
the searchlight and the microscope have been applied
to many a Teuton scientist, and the world sees them in
a lesa favorable Qlxt. Even before the war the reliability
of Haeckel's conclusions wss assailed, he wna'robbed of
his cheapLy won laurels, he was convicted of forging
scientific proofs, and his ignorance both of scientific
principles and of his Own principles \raS clearly PmVeIl.
For example, Professor Frank Thilly, in a lecture
before the Sage Philosophical Club at Cornell Univereity, eummed up his argument as follows: 'We have
examined Haeckel's phdosophy and have pointed out its
inconsistencies and inadequateness. I t violates the
fundamental requirements of scientific hypothesis ;it is
not consistent d t h itself, and does not explain the facts.
It ie 80 f d of contradictions that its opponents will
have no di5iculty in citing passages from the 'World
Riddles' convicting the author of almost any philosophical heresy under the sun. The fact is, Haeckel's philosophy is no system at all, but a conglomeration of
different system, a metaphysical potpourri, r thing of
ahreds and patches."
Another critic of Haeckel, Professor 0. D.Chwolson,
of the Imperial University at Petrograd, says, "The
result of our investigation k t e r r i b l m n e might say it
makes one's hair stand on end! Ercehing, absolutely
eueything Haeckel saps in connection r i t h questions
of physical research is false, is based on misconceptions
w b e m s an h o s t incredible ignorance of the most
fundamental qyestions. Equipped with such utter ignormce, however, he considers it possible to declare the
foundation of modern physical science, the kinetic theory
of substance, as untenable. IIaecAd's '\Torld Riddles'
are typical M tnese writings whose authors ignore and
despise the-elfth
commandment: Thou shalt never
write about anything thou doest not understand."
When "scientiscls" fall out. and tear oze another to
pieces, the common people ha\-e the chance to ascertain
juat how Little even the "great" ones know.

WIRELESS FIRE IGNITION

ERE IS a question a t agitating & insurance
mpia just n o , and there are other people d o
are interested. A few yeus ago the otepmabip ~ 6 1 turno" w\.as burned in midoeen There warr no apparent
c a m for the conflagration. It wse at 8 time when
\\-ireless sbtions were very d i v e .nd a hentist suggested t h t the cause of the accident was the crossing of
Uw i d e m waves at the tjme
p b ah- fie &p
took fire.
NOW comes the -omcement
of 8 R e n d &tist,
by which
perfected a
Mr. G. A- hroy, that he
a
p
p
m
b
h
v
e
set
on fire
the electric
of
combustiLle ilrrterfi several pr& away. Thb anwpe follow4 by the ob-ation
af some
recently fdin the Loop
one t h t the bdmn
district of Chiago, killing- a dozen people m d
it had p a d
a large bb; burst into flames j h
near a
pl.nt.
in the .ir about
1\7bt wonderful unseen
I=, elmtric currenb of pll sorts, - e m
heat, ra&+
activity, the spiritud powere of demo*
the
beneficent parers of the holy mg&, 6'Min-g
~irib,
sent forth to minister for them who
be hof
salvation l"HebrerPs 1

SIXTY MILES A GALLON

N A TINY S u o n 'CFoW" does thirty miles or
~ ~ o t o r q cdl m
e fiity miles i n a gallon of gwoline
the proud owner never lets hie friendr forget it. What
will the ubiquitous Ford owner not u y rhcn he gets
the new gasdine m o b invented in Klnnu CiQ? - I t ia called the Van Dyke motor and drimr 40 be
built on quite new principles It gives promise of unheardaf mileage records per galloa h o n g other
claim made for this remarkabIe invention are that it
incre3.w~the pwer ten per cent h u g h a-ent
af
heat ordinarily radiated ;it operatea on 8 fuel srving of
s u t y per cent compared with standard m;
it will
makc an n n u s d y e5cient drplme motor; .it will
make possible the manufacture of a car eelling for $250.
The ancient prophet, DaPi4 would p e r b p ~not be
unduly surprised to come back and rss the common
people skimming over the ground in "ahuioto" costing
four for a thouand dollars, for it waa he who uttered
the prophecy to the effect that "many shall run to and
fro7' (Daniel l2:4), and it is poeeible that 8 100-milean-hour racing machine might not give ooocenr to the
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Hebrew age of Babylon. At any rate,man? are running

to and fro, and if that ia the fulfilment of the prophet'o
prediction, the other part goes with it h t thir is the
"tlme of the end," in plain worb, the end of t h ~ sorder
of things. to be shortly followed by the long promised
. Golden Age.

TRANSA TLANTIC TELEPHONY

idea of u k i n g
BAT THE
r-tion
of
across the m a n by wireleu may be at hand appcm
from the statement that the h e r d Electric Company
is coneidering plans for d o h it. A wealthy New Yorker
has a partner in Paris and wiehing to obviate the delay
of the eIedric c&le, is having pl- & a m up for d i n g
him up l ~ h emy other department of the business with
this difference that fhe call
go by -eland the
response d
l be from Paris.
The consulting engineer of the "0.E." in c h a r p of
this' hind of work, h a perfected the duplex 'wireless
telephone and says that the trans-Atlantic wstm confernplated wdl be much like that of an ordtrlephone exchange. It will mnke it easy for the traveller
who is expected to write a letter home every day, to take
up the hotel-room phone and talk three minutes mth
wife or sweetheart; and something like that will come,
we are confidently mformed, when wireless telephone
exchanges are established in all the principle citiea of the
world.
It will be quite a dream of the ancients fulfilled when
man talks familiarly with his fellow across sea and land.

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SIGNALLING TO MARS?
VERY once in a while some "scientist" gets public.
ity by resurrecting the ancient scienti6c possibility
of communicating aith the planet ?dam
This is alwayn interesting and enough of the c o d o n
people will a t least wan the newspaper paragraph to add
that much "fame" to a man of science. The assumption
is that the planet Mars is peopled with intelligert beinge,
who have a similar feverish liking for "some new thing,"
that they u e trying to communicate with the planet
Earth; and that there ue ''ucientiots" on Mara equally
deeirotle,with the earth ackntists of securing "fame".
But w h o h & whether the 3fartiaas (?) map be quite
good people and might not w e to communicate with
m dkreputable a planet aa Earth?
Another scientist @en
hie bow, .e he repcata the
Grst act of the feOniliOf play, "Yarn and the Martiurs."
It k Profesqr David Todd and he proposes to utilize
the biggest haloon ever made and go up to the highest
height erer gone to by humann. The gss bag will have a
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with the Professor to the heigbt of 50,000 milea. It ir by

meam of a new invention, of course. which perhaps har
never been tried hefore and nobody holvs for sure
whether it will work, but divides the baloon into two
compartments, the upper containing hydrogen g u , md
the lower ordinary frenh air. And the Proftnror hu
just returned from Brazil and "perfected" r nignalling
apparatus for the experiments. The announcement ir
evidently o6ci.l for it is made by Leo Stevens, bdoo%
instructor at Fort Omdr
It
the old
to
the public -'tito
Even
but t h e ~have to be t@
=
Ma" ie
thing dreeeed
ocwioluLl~. The
e p i c of Jerusalem had it right when he n o t e , "The
thing that llath been im that which
k;and that
which is do=
th.t which
be done; t h a a y thing.. whereof ,it m y be said, See, this in new? it hath
been already of old timc, which was before pr." (Eccles
how many timeP the.ncie*
imh% Z9-l0) We
tried si@ to
t
FZSEES AND EORSES 0flNDS
DISTINGUlSHED professor of psychology msvered s question as to the mental procesees of the
lower animals by stating that they thought and felt like
human berngs but to a lees degree
Scientists are on the right track in in\-ertigatiig the
minds of animals for there is wmething to be discovered,
though of what practical value is not dwelt upon. One
"famoua authority," Dr. Francis Ward, ha stndied fish
and says that they actually think. A fieh hoe memory
and judgment to refuse a bait covering a hook, provided
the fish's. latest sad exprience wlth,the hook is not over
r certain number of days or hours distant. The fish was
able ta connect mentally the hook and bait with a s i p d
a few inches above. That fishes love one anotl.er just
as higher animals do haa been proved, aa well .s that
they give expression to their emotions. Indeed, if one
knm-s fish, he can, according to Dr. Ward, watch them
and tell what they are thinking about, what they intend '
to do, and the state of their feelings.
Xore people h o w horees than h o w fish, and that
horeee have emotions and love their friends and hate
their tormentors there is no question. No one of humane
instincts can have much to do with a good home without
gaining an affection far the animal, which is often
reciprocated to n marked degree. That horses even weep
L vouched ior by a prominent veterinarjan who states
that they have well developed tear glands, and that "in
a dumb brute's existence, especially an old and m o u a
horse, there might be times of great fatigue, when hij
physical condition could produce such a reaction, which
u something like hysteria"

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SAFETY ZONES FOR BABIES

ABIES who expect to sp&d their first year of life
in a citp should take care to choose a "safety zone."
, According to a report on Infant Mortality in Saghaw,
Micfi, given out recently by the Children's Bureau of
the U. S. Department of Labor, it is more than 6 timca
as dangerous for a baby to be born in one section of the
town aa in another. The investigations of'the Bureau
have shown that the essentials of a safety zone for babies
are that a majority of the fathers in it must earn a
'liring wage. the mothers must not be employed during
the year before or the pear following the baby's birth,
the mothers must receive proper chre when their babia
are botn, both fathers and mothera must be able to read
and write, aqd the babies m u d be properly h o u d
In Pa,@aw there were several wards where poor
drainage, unsanitary disposition of garbage and refuse,
ouMoor torlets, shallow well drinking waters and dwellings which lacked sewer connection rendered the section
unsafe for babies. I n the ward in Saginaw where the
least farorable conditions prevailed, one baby out of
every 6 died before it was a year old, as compared with
one out of every 34 in the best residential wards. I n
the ward hariog the highest infant mortality, a majority
of the fathers had very small wages. Of the 2 1 babies
who died in this word, 18 hnd fathers earning less thcn
. $S50 a year. The infant mortality rate was only about
half as great for t h o ~ ebabies whose fathers earned
between $850 and $1020 a year aa it was for the city as
o whole, and only about one-fourth as p e n t for those
whose fathers earned $1250 or more, while Babies who
wen unfortunate enough to choose fathers earning less
than $430 died at a rate over twice as great aa that for
the vrhole city.
It is only when the father's earni~gewere small that
the Saginan mothers went out to amk. The infant
mortdiq. rate for the babies of v o r h mothcrs was
133.7 as &mpared with 55.3 for those wliose mothera
were not ginfuIly employed. A low income also mcans
that the mother na a , d e does not receive proper care
before the baby is born. I n Saginaw the deaths of tnsthirh of t l v b@ies were due primarily to prenatal
causes. "Pnqatal Care" says the report, "is especially
needed for the inexperienced young mother and in fnmdies in which the father's earning ore low,judging from
the high mortality among Grst-born babies y l d in the
lower earnings groups.''
There rere, however, in Sagiuam, a s d c i e n t number

HOUSEWIFERY and HYGIENE

of ssfety mner to make the mtea for the city as a whole
compare very favorably with other cities where the
Childrede Bureau has mado a similar study. T '
Infant mortality rate for Saginaw is only 84.6, notab17
less than that of the registration a r m Thirty-nine per
cent of the births occurred in fmiliea where the fatheir
earnings were over $850 a year, a proportion exceeded
only by that of Brockton, Masa Less than an eighth of
the Shginaw mothen were pmfully employed, during
the year prior to the baby's birth or during any part of
the babfa first yenr. In the m a z l u f m cities of
BrocMon and Xew Bedford, Mass, omfifth and twofifths of the mothers, respectively, had worked in order
to supplement the family income. Only 8 few of the
Saginaw mothers, even when employed, worked away
from home, SO that a majority of the bubies had the advantage of bread feeding and mothering. The attendance of s physician a t confinement in Saghaw was the
rule to which there were few exceptions. Very few of the
mothers were cut off from useful inform8tion rega.rdin,n
the care of their babies though their inability to read.
Only C per cent of the Saginaw mothen were illiterate,
ap comparcd Kith 13 per cent in Broctton, ?da33.,
16 per cent in Johnstom, Pa., and 17 per cent in
Manche~trr,S. H.
But, although Saginaw is a c o m p a r ~ t i d ysafe place
for babies, all babies do not have an equal dunce C lire.
If eve* babr is to be given a c h a e , the report points
out, every f d y must be enabled to maintain n fair
standard of living and every erpectant mother must be
in a position to secure proper care and advice. I n this
r a y every. p a t of the city cap be made a safety wne
for babies.
I n the Golden Age human life will be considered
precious everywhere, more highly esteemed than "the
golden wedge of Ophir." (Isaiah 13:12) It will be
esteemed for w b t it is-the
wonderful, inscrutable
gift of God, and while we have reuon to believe that
thc number of new babia, will gradually decrease rs men
cnd women kcome more and more u d i p h lJ interested
in tke welfare of the whole race, yet we may be w e
that when the babiee arrive they will be made welcome
and cared for in such a way, if possible, as to v a n t e e
not orililp their ph~sicalbut their mental and moral wellbeing in every sense!. There is nomething mong with
people who do cot have a warm spot in their hearts for
the little folks that bring so much of sunshine with them
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self-interest, which is a stumbling block to true progress.

HAT A sinile individnd may accomplish who it If you would ha\.c the common people deaire cleaniiness

and appreciate the k ~ t t i f u lin art and nature, they

must firrrt be g i ~ e nthe opportunitJ to earn t h e 4 rice.
Create a condition such that the people do not .think of
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poverty."
What this great citizen of the Chinene Republic k
doing will be the burden of t h o u ~ n d aof altruistic men
nnd,women when the Golden Age has come in ita glory.
Then the great and powerful aiU regard it their greatest
achievement, not to help themselves to the people's
millions, but to help the people by OM with devoted
s e m k When that time comes it d
l be ar though the
cornmirnd, "Forward Xarch 1" had been given for dl the
peoples of all nations, for it mill me the whole wodd
marching on with a progress and a pmpvitg undreamed
of. Every man will be every other man's brother and
eve* woman every other woman's sieter. All will be
far one and one Kill be far all. It will indeed be the
China.
To Chang Chien were given in charge all the public Golden Age of which paeta have mag, dreamera have
institutions of the city, including the poorhouse, the dreamed and for which the whole world b ever hoped.
would Christ have commanded
jails, the poIice and the educational work He has a I t ia coming-soon-for
all
Christians
everywhere
for eighten centuries to pray
scheme of industrial de~lelopmentwhich has taken form
in six land development companies and numerous other the prayer, "Thy will be done on earth m it b done in
industries. There is a; agricultural mllege, working on heaven" unlesa it were in the divine plan that the
eipcrimental fields to ascertain the best crops and the prayer should be fulfilled?
best methoda of handling them. According to "hid',
..these include 6dda of Sen Island cotton, engar-cme AU ABOARD FOR ELTROPE
OR SIX TEAnS war, subgarines, passports, censorfrom America, wheat suited to m e r e n t soils, apples,
ehipe and other conditions have hindered the tourist
pears, figs, bamboo6 and muIbemes. Embroidery is
dweloped into a local industry through a school conduct- trade, but neb year the bars are expected to be down.
Stemship companies report, possibly for advertising
ed by a Chineae lady, the, finest embroidq expert of
the Republic Other departments are under the charge purposebi that 1020 will witnees an unprecedented rush
of specially selected e-xperts. Nan-tung Chow is in- to tsee the aar-torn fields and towns of France and
debted to Chmg Chien for a system of five public parks, Belgium. European travel aiIl cany the fresh distinction
. connected by winding driveways and artietic bridges and of familiarity with the renowned nun- of new battlefields. T h o u ~ n d awill go with reverent grief to see the
containing beautiful lakes and grottoes.
C h a q Chicn is an efficient altruist, for he follows the graves of their soldier dead. Tens of thousands of
definite pian of inaugurating two new enterpa year. former soldiers will accompany their people over scenes
The 1919 program includea an automobile road to the they helped to make historic. The old crowd of millionfornous Lang Shan Hille, and 1928 wiil see more r d - , aires cannot let the newly-rich outdo them in ability to
dikes for flood pmention and a achool for silk culture. talk about "the Continent." Hundreds of thousands af
The c i t i b d Nan-tung Chow, down to the children, other people will revisit the old folks, tonr quietly in the
are with thewise man who has led them up from poverty established manner, visit art galleries and pay homage
to culture and plenty. Chang Chien states the simple at the multitudinous ~hrincsof the old aorld. The total
principles t~ which he won confidence snd aralcened of visitors ia estimated at a million, of whom a third
the Chinese to their present propes: "If yon wish to have booked their pasage provisionally on the hundred
develop a community, you must h
t of all avoid all ahips that w i l l be wait* for them.
altruistically deroted to the welfare of his fellorrs
be seen by any traveler that t&es the trouble to go
up the Yangtse River to the city of Nan-tung Chow.
There livm a Cpinese scholar, Chang Chien, r h o had
tried in vain to give play to his beneficent ideas in high
government positions, and finding the Chinese politiciand control of government inimical there to the welfare
of the common people, the same as in other countries, hc
l d t public aervice and settled in k - t u n g Chow determined to begin to make his community a model one.
The effect of this sage's' efforts has been to create in the
heart of China, what all the missionaria of Christianity
have never rrccomplished, a model for the community
development of tho nation, something that will doubtless
stand as the best that can be accomplished until the
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If the army of tourists could b q i r their march at

once it would be a godsend to Europc, for it is estimated
that the d i o n trarelers will spncl iour LiUion dollars
abroad. The direct effect of this flood of money rilI be
to put billions into circulation and rtimulate Europe's
domedic trrde and manufactures. It will Lc the equiydent of .n American loka of that amourt, with the
tdvrnhge to Europe of not having to be paid back and
a r q i n g w intereat charIt will give Europe a vast
mm with which to repay thin country for manufactured
d raw materials which the poverty dricken nations
uc unable to pay for now with either gold oi goods It
rin go in the shape of h d s baaed on foreign exchange,
m d by rsising the demand for foreign exchange, will
increme the value of the pound, franc and mark, m d
stimulate the parchaw of A m e r i w goods abroad, a
t d e now I.ngukhhg from the 10- met in changing
foreign monetary units into d o l k a In r n s g ways the
promised exodus will be a benefit to both t
h Old World
m d the .New; its failure would be a calamity.
There ia mme danger, hbarever, of the tourist tide
not turnkg Eruopeaard, if the spread of the rerolationuy movement is not checked, far wealthy tourists would
feel anything but at home in a ommunist country.
But taurista are not laoking for any v i a l danger in
tbat direction, though i t mny become more eeriour
The relation$hip established by a rast international
trade maka the whole aorld dependent on every part,
and e v q part on the whole. So unnoticed a movement
u the tourid$ visits to Europe are nemssary to the
\relfm of thousands. I t ia true that throughout the
entire world 'We a n all membera one of another"
(Ephesians 4:23), for the economic body, even aa the
true church, Christ's body, is "not onc member but
many, and whether one member euEer, all the members
suffer with it, and the eye camat eay unto the hand, I
have no need of thee, nor again the hand to the feet, I
have no need of you ; there should be no division in the
body, but the members shonld have the same care one far
u?oth~."-1 C o r i n t l r i ~12 :14-16.

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Kherever he travels the famed two blader of grass grow

where but one had grown. He builb fadoriea, mates
t o n s and cities, make8 whole states and nation8 prosprour. He originates new wants and eA-pmdnthe horizon
of human interests. He eleyeten the standards of livbg
and upp plies the neceseities, comforts and luxuries for
the better life, Whemer he goea he b l e u a the iahabitants of ciQ, town and countq. He t the king of
travelers, because he ia the greatest servant of the p p b .

RBWARDmV mz c-ms
HE SUM O F $3,000,000 h u been aet uide bj the
British Government for special rcwrtdr for the
xmmmding office of the Great War. Of thb amount
Fi$d-Xarohal lIaig and Admiral h t t y rra each to get
$500,000 and Viecout French .ndAdmirrl h l l i ~ a
each get $250,000. The Ameriean castom ia to reward
ib military chiefs with one or more monsber purdes md
pluibly a little better title and pay, a d thrt ia dl.
The English example is hardly W t e d to chiU the
ardor of military men in Ore& Britain. Rathu re may
mappow they w i l I welarme any f d m opportanitier to
m e their country in r militxuy way, m d this dots not
h or peurt 10Nevertheless,
make them p c a m
"Bleeeed are the peacemakers; for t h y chaIl be called
the children of Wn-Matthew 5 :9.

GROWTH OF TEE U. 5: FLgGT

T TLIE TIME the United Htatecr %et made its
grand tour uf the world in 1908 its total t0nnag.g
was 206,627 ;today it is more than five timea as large.
Then there were 800 officers and 13,508 m m ; now t h e e
are 4,000 offiers and 66,000 m(n. Then the largest
ship had four twelve-inch guns ana d d shoot 10,000
yards. NOWthe largest ship carrier tadm fourteeninch guns and can hit the target at 20,000 yards. Then
coal was the fuel; now oil.
mlen the time comes that thep ' h t their s ~ o i d s
into plo~sharesand their pears into pruning hooks"
(Issiah 2:4), what a lot of pruning hooks they rill be
able to get out of one of t h c s armored ships, carrflng
twelve fourteen-inch rifles.

THE CREATEST TRAI?ELER

F A BEGAL crown w e n to be awuded to the greatest
trawer in the world's history it r c d d not fall on A UTOIOBILIF YACA TIONISTS
ANY VACATIONISTS lyt aummer nude 8
~ h r i s t o ~ h e~olumbus,
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Uaroo Polo, h e r i c u , nor any
second-hand a~~tornobile
perfem their transparof the noted explorers of ancient or modem times. Nor
tation
senice.
At
tha
beginning
of the vacation they
would it be dm to Julius C w , Napoleon Bonaparte,
l
;the foks out sad back,
nor -7 king, potentate or nobleman, nor even to the bought recond-hand care, b
best spend& in Lht American army of invasion that w i l l m d enjoyed many pluwnt t r i p about the ~acation
point. On return home tke autos were sold at a net cost
"see ruined! Europe" next y w .
The traveler r h o is entitled to rear the v o w n is the for operation and depreciation which ru r light invest
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WORLD &AS ENDED-YOU MAY NEVER DIE

OR MANY CENTCRIES sickness, sarrow, suffering
and death have aflicted the human race. But there
haa ban just enough joy mixed with the sorrows of life
'to m a t e a ion,+ desire for life everlnsting. And if
that life ererlasting could be accompanied by perfection
the happiness of man would be complete. Recogniziog
Jehorah as the great First Cause, whose attributes are
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o t m m , it m m s entirely mwnable that having permit

ted man to so long desire the blessings of life everlasting,

his wisdom and lme would lead 'him to make provision
for the gratification of that desire. Reason or theorizing
-done could not lead us to a satisfactory concIusion, nor
hrs man tan left to rely merely upon these. Jehovah
baa graciously provided a record. u-r~ttenby holy men of
old and bp his inspired witnesses. wliich record disclosea
that God hos a grcat plan which he has caused to develop
in an orderly and majedic maniier. I n this record, the
Bible, we find the testimonr concerning man's origin, his
course, the reason for his sickne:~, sorrow, suffering m d
death, and a-hat the future holds for him.
The Bible ha3 ne\-er been wholly and completelp understood, bilt according fa the standard stated therein the
light has r;hone brighter and brighter as the centuries
hare progressed, and the promise u made that far gr?nkr
light would be ~ h e dupon its pages in thc close of the agc.
m e n the Propilet Dailiel recorded a brief history of the
world long before these cvenb transpired. Jehovah told
him to close up the prophecy and seal the words, so that
t h q could not bc understood, until the time of the end.
The inference mud he I-eachcdthat uhen that "time of
the end" occurs the Itlblc would IJC better understood.
If in this hour of great distrcss Epon humankind r e
' can bnd a consoling rneesagr that nil1 bind up the broken
heart$d and comfort t h o ~ ethat mourn. then with gladness aoze;hould embrace this message a d be eager to
transmit it to other*, that thqv too might rejoice. This
article is written for the purpose of proving that the
time is here to understand the Bible; that s e are in "the
time of the end"; that the old order is perishing from
the earth ;f i a t the new is coming i n ; that restitution
bleseings wiH koan be offered ta the world and then men
who obey the righteous laws of Jehovah adI never die.
In this article m d a subsequent one, we hope to make
this proof m clear and convincing that all who hare
faith in the B i b l ~can see the reason for the sorrows now
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I n the examination of this mbject we mast apply the

prophetic evidences in the place where they belong. The
Scripturn admonish ns: "Study to show thyself appzaved unto God, a work ma^ that needeth not ta be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth."(2 Timothy 2:15)
The Scripturea that applied at one atage of the world's
history may haole no application now, and vice versa
Sucb was recognized by the New Testament e t e m , and
particularl~by the Lord Jesus himself.
For nearly nineteen centuries students of divine prophecy have e~pectrdand looked for the world to end,
becruse Jesus taught it would end. Many Christian men,
however, failing to rccagnb the distinction between the
spibollc and litrral p h r m of the Bible, have been canfused concerning the end of the world. For instance,
fhe great. John CaI\in taught that upon the happening
of that event Jails, reappenring near the earth, would
cause fire to be emitted from the clouds, eetting the
earth a S m e and totally destroying i t and everything on
it. Being a clergyman of greaknnorn, it waa supposed
that he b a - d his conclusions upon a propr interpretation cf the Bible, and great numbers believed his teaching; and for thia r e w n , with f e u and trepidation,
meny have looked forrard to the ending of the world.
Rcaeon rould lead us ta the conclusion that Jehovah
mould not cwate a aondcrful earth like this, permit man
t o bring it to 3 high at& of cultivati%n in many placm.
and then completely destroy it. *Such is wholly out of
harmony with hio character. Likemet mch is ahoIly out
of harmony with the plain fuching of his Word, whtch
pays : "The earth abideth forever." (Ecdeaiastes 1:4)
"For thus mith the Lard that created the heavensjCod
himself that fanned the urth and made it; he hath
established it, he created it not in vain, he farmed i t ta
be i n h a b ~ k l . " ( isarah 45 :la) When the Bible speaks of
the rcorld ending it does not mean the literal earth, but
it d m refer to an epmh or dispensation of time during
which a certain arfangement of things or sactl order
crisb. In proof of this the Scriptdisclaae that there
was a "world" which existed from the time of Eden
until the 'great deluge: "Whereby the world that tkpn
was. being overflowed witb water, perished." (2 Peter
3 :6) At the end of the flood a new "world" began, and
the promise is made by the same Scriptural writer that
it shdl end. The period of that world L from the flood
until the coming of Messinha kingdom, and his kingdom
rould mark the beginning of another new world or new
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-'? There are several distinct pcriads of time mentioned production, the conditions accompanying the w u made
in the Scriptures ahic!~have their culmination practi- it necessary to establish in ncarly every country r Food
cany a t the same time. Among these are 311e timcs of Idrninirtrator. That the pcoplcs have been in a con&- '
the Gentiles" and "tlie cnd of t)lc world." 'Rse Scrip- tion of famine for the post three yearn no one would
tures disclose that the Gentile Times span a period of. otkmpt to gain.ca?-. From Amenia comes the cry t o d a ~
2520 yare. They had their beginning with the aver- of threat5nd .+n-ation;
r similar cry from' Russia;
throw of Zedekiah, the last king of Isrcl. in the autumn from Germanp'; from Austria; from the Balkans; in
of 607 B. C. at the time Nebuchadnctur of Babylon fact; from ncarlg all parts of thc c h h . Mr. Frank A
established the first universal empire in the carth. This VanderJip, far same time President of the Nationd Bity
period of 2520 Fears, then, necesarily cnded In the Rank of New York, recently, through the A&iatedb
autumn season of 1914 A. D. Referring to this period of
time the great Nastcr, through the Rmelator. ? a d : "Thc
nations were angry, and thy wrath is come." (&yrlr,tion
11:is) ~ h prophecSb
fldfilled
on tlnlc.
submit
testimon?
Jesus
s~ml'ctll.
Eveqone who helie~esthat he i~ the Son of C;od and
that he spoke with authority must beliesc, in the light of
the events that are dad)- transpiring, that the old uorld
has ended. .Jesus had been teaching his disciples that the

and that he
"lne
again
his kingdom should supplant the old. unnghtmus ortlcr.
Five days before his crucifix-~onhie dirciples opproaclled
h h as he a t on the Mount of Olives and propounded
this question: 'Tell us, \nhen mu this happen? jyhat
;our arrival. a3d of the
will be the sign [proof]
of the world ?"
It waa not God's purpoEe that the disciples ~bouldat
that time clearly uder&ud the answer that :he l\laster
gave. His answer was couched in such prophetic phrases
that it could be understood clenrly by no studcllt of thc
Bible until the events transpired. His ansr;er. in thc
- light of present events, however, ia now manifest. He
showed that the end of the world would be makcd with
great trouble and disturbances in the earth. His ansrers
are set forth m the 24th chapter of Matthew and the
2lst chapter of Luke. - b o n g the answers given by hlm
are the following :
"Nation &all rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom, and there shall be famiom. and pestilences,
these are the
.nd e d q u d e s jn divers places.
beginning of sorrows."'-Xatthea 24 :'i,S.
Chronologically, the old world ended in the autumn
seasoiiiiaf 1914, and exactly on time nation rose against
nation and kingdom against kingdom. and there followed the greatest war of all history. Twenty-nine nations
were invalved in that war, including by far the b~eater
. put of (arth;e population. Tbe oat rons in,olrsd arc
prticulplp designated among mankind as Christiac
nations. h e to the prophetic utterances. this was the
be,ainn* of mrrors, marking the end of &c world.
Closely, followed a hirtha fulfillment of this prophetic
answer; namely, the famlne. Notwithstanding the fcrtde condition of the e u t h and the wonderful mcans of

l'resP,dcclared :
"1 doubt ~f Amcrlcn comprehenrb the extent of the
p ~ m l s w uof Ewoprnn intlustry. Of coum, we erpcct idle
n c y tI~rc~i=I~out
t l i ~~ l e v n ~ t cdl~trfcts,
d
but there I s partial
I~llc!;es?;throughout the whole Indrrstrtal a m of Europe, in
1 i ~ ~ t ~nsm 1 as in klligpwnt m n n t r f a In England m m
a
nn
regular -w
irolD
c;o\crument
+t nnemplament, m d the number is
-erpectal to amw ns the Bntlsh ormy is further demobllfiod.
Be'ginm w'.m
m l v i O 8 nnemploment
The
Covernmeut of Hoilnnd Is givlng sobsidlzed food to meet
c~n~litiolls
of nncmploy-mcot. Itdx Is dealing
.n m y
of uncmploycd. GreRt iadustr,es
Poland
proatat*.
1" C z e c h w S l o ~ ~ kthe
~ a limits of dlmtgnnlation hare been
renditxL In Huiunnin the farmers a n without l l n stock
onti tlierc is not e n w h Of sced to plant the field%"
It i8 to be cf@e$ that thb condition of food & o w e

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Follo~ving upon the heels of the 7mr m d the food
bhortage came the greatest pestilence that has d i c t e d
manhad. In four years the war victims mmbered
approsiruately 9,000,000. I n less than one year the
victims of the dread influem exceeded 12,000,000.
Scientists warn against a r e c u r e n q of the peetilence
bccaue the lack of food, causeg lack of nourishment
amongst the people, lays their system open to the attack
of diseak- germs.
Throughout the Scriptures the word earthquae used
in a ~ymbolicsense means re~olution. Here then we
have another fulfilment of the prophetic m w e r of J ~ U S .
With the fall of aristocracy in Russia came a great
revolution. With the fall of plutocracy in Gennany a
revolution occurred thcrc The public press almost daily
reports conditions prevailing throughout Enrope border- I
ing on re~olution,while every drry the nem columns are
filled with reports of a disturbed condition mongsf
labor 'in Amerlca and throughout the world.
I n further a==er to the questions pro~ounded
tlie disciples conc~rnilrgthe end of the world Jesus said :
Then there v;iU be "upon the earth distresa of nations
n ith perplexit?; the Eca and the waves r h g ; rnen'n
hearts failiug them for fcar, a d for loolung .fter t h ~'
t h i n k which are coming on the earth." There d d be
na doubt of the fulfilment of this Scripstatement
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In hia addrw?a to Congess aince these days of disturbPresident Wilson said: 'Theseu e days
of great perplexity, when a great cloud hanga over the
greater part of the world. It earns as if great, blind
m n M forces have been released which have for long
becn held in leaeh aad restraint?
Government officibls u e in perplexiv; financiers are
perplexed; business men are disturbed and their hearts
.re fearful ;men who have to do with l a b organizations
are in perplexitpad disturbed; and the restleas element
of humanity which the Lord likened unto the aea, is
roaring and those who make up the numbers, the
peoples, the waves, are daahing against each other, and
there is a general condition of unrest in the earth, all of
which evidences the fact that the old world hss come to
an end cind the time for the new is here.
One of the most conclusive proofs given in the aiswer
of Jesw is that concerning the Jewish people God
organized the Jews into a nation and dealt e t h them
exclusively for more than eighteen centuries. The time
came when, because of the Jews' unfaithfulness, that
nation was destroyed, and Jesus said: "They shall fall
by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive
into all nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of
the Gentiles until the time6 of the Gentiles be fuliiUedY'
-Luke 21 :U
The student of prophecy finds that there is a parallel
between the events which transpired relative to Israel
and the events transpiring during the Gentile dominion.
Jehovah through the Prophet Jeremiah, spoke to Israel
advising the people of that nation that they would be
driven out of their own country into a country with
which thej were not familiar; that there they would
receive great persecution, and that this period of persecntion and saeEering would be the same length as the
period of their favor, and that thereafter he would bring
them back into Palestine and again show them favor.
Their returning to Palestine, Jesus mentioned, would
mark the time of his presence andthe end of the world.
(See Jeremi* l6:13-18) Through the Prophet Zechariah the Lord Jehovah foretdd there would be great
rejoicisg in Jerusalem over the entrance of the King
(Messiah), and that thrt day would mark the time a-hen
the "double" would begin to count; that is to say, it
would mark the beginning of Cod's favor being rithd r a m from the Jewish people and the beginning of a
period of ,&Bering equal to the period of their favor.
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The Praphet Says: '9ejoiee greatly, 0 daughter
of Zion; shout, 0 daughter of JerusaIem: behold, thy
King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation ;
lowly, and riding upon an aeq and upon a colt the foal
of an ass." (Zechmah 9 :9) Xatthew 21 :I-9records a
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umphal entry into Jerusalem, offering himself aa King.

That gmat event transpired in the spring of the year
A. D. 33. The favor k the J e m began in 1812 B. C.,
m d A. D. 33 marked the end of a period of 1845 yeus,
the time when J e m oSci.lly withdrew God's favor from
the Jenish people, my* to them: "Behold, your houne
is left unto you desolate." Since this period of time
shodd be doubled, according to thin prophetic evid,e]lct,
we must add 1845 years to & D. 33, which brings as b
A. D. 1878, at which time there &odd be mme evidence
of God'e favor beginning b return to the Jews in order
that this p a d l might be carried o u t We h d the
fulfilment in his tor^ in this.
PJddine, mered to rll orthodbx Jem, had long been
in the po~sessfonof Turkey. A war between Tuxkey and
Russia resulted in t&e treaty of San Stephano, which
pract'icaUy eliminate Turkey's European poeaessioas.
At t h i juncture of affairs, there appeared upon
the m e a remarkable man, the Prime Minister of
Great Britain, officialIy designated Iard Beacornfield,
his true name being Disraeli, a full-blooded Israelite
Acting in his official capacity, he called to his aid the
u m y and n a v of Great Britain, aemed notice on
Russia that she must recede from the harsh tresty made
with Turkey, and the result KM the Berlin Congress of
Nations which assembled June 13, 1878 and waa in
ession for thirty days. It was presided over by Lord
Beacoosfield, the Jew, who wrotethe treaty and dictated
the hlicp of the conrention, The amference resulted
in a new treaQ, more fat-orable to Tnrtej,and in consideration f& this act on the paat of Great Britain,
Turkey guaranteed certain religiona*and civil rights to
the Jem in Palestine which ?hey had not enjoyed
since they were driven out at the fad of that nation.
Thus in A. D. 1818, exactly on time, God's favor began
to return to the Jews, distinctIy marking the parallel
fulfilment.
While the favor waa officially withdrawn from the
Jcwa in the spring of A. D. 33, it wm not until ezsctlp
forty y e m thereafter, to wit, A. D. 73, thnt Judea
b n e depopulated and the Jews c
d ta be a nation.
Accordingly, in 1878 favor began to r e h to the Jews
and waa marked progrewively by the dvxnce of Zionism
a d Jews returning to Palesting until the end of forty
to wit, in the spring of 1918, when r distinct
event happened, again fufiUing the peralleliem The
Allied armies under General Allenby had nrcated the
e e a e i o n of Palatine for the purpose of d b h h g in
Palestine a separate and distinct nation for the Jew.
Nathan S b w , the grand old man of AmenJ e v , in r speech delirered in New York City daring
the progress of the nu, said : 'Ve are liring in m cye
when r e u e about to rerlize the two-thoumd-year-old

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hope of the Jewish people. I am especially glad that we

are witnessing the spectacle of the whole world applauding and approving and supporting our great purpoee to
3w?-dablish the Jewish people on their own soil."
Jesus used a parable as further corroborative evidence
af the events that sho~ddbe transpiring h u t the time
of "the end of the world." On a previous occasion he
had likened the Jewish nation unto 6g tree. Now he
says: "l.arn h parable of the fig tree ; When its branch
is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that the
wmmer is nigh: so likewise, when ye shall see all these
things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Venly,
verily I soy unto ~ o u this
, generation shall not p u s till
all these things be fulfilled." In other words, %-hen these
eventa begin to take place the people or generation then
on e d h would be permitted to aee a complete fulfilment
of the prophetic evidences s t forth in this great prophecy, proving conclusively the ending of the old eorld
and the coming in of the new.
8 8 additional evidence in answer to the question,
Jesua said: 'The gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto & nations, and
then tlu md shall come." This has been fulfilled. The
message of the kingdom, translated into every b o r n
tongue and Ianguage, has been carried to the four corners
of the earth. This has not been for the purpose of converting the world, but, according to the testimony of
Jenw, has been "as a witness," thet some of the world
might know about it.
Further &wering hia disciples', Jesus declared that
aa it am in the daye of h'oah, so shall it be in the end of
the world. 'Tor ae in the days that were before the flood
they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in
marriage, until the day that Noe entered the ark, and
h e w q t until the flood came, and took them all away."
And we find it exactly so in the time in which r e are
n o r liring. Very few, comparatively speaking, of the
peoples of earth really stop to consider what is the
meaxting of the present disturbed conditions of society.
They continue vith their business and social affairs as
usual, giving little or no heed to the Scriptural &timony and the fulfillment of prophetic utterances. Such
was true in Noah's day. While Noah preached the people
scoffed q d mocked him. At the present time of distress,
a-hen the' people are greatly in need of comfort, the
clergy rn a class not only fail to tell the people the
meaning of this terrible trouble, but they treat the
subject with contempt and mff at anyone who claims
that the wotld i
b ended.
%%en Jerusalem fell into the hands of the U e d
armiea, this, together with the great influx of Jews into
Palestine, caused a few clergymen to meet in London
and issue a manifesto and publish it throughout the

world, to the effect that the return of the Jews to Paleatine indicater the near establishment of the Lord's
kingdm and the end of the world. An enterprising
reporter of the Chiccrgo Herald interviewed a large
number of clergymen on the queetfon, almost all of
whom scoffed at the thought expressed by the manifesto.
Many of them said, ' V e feel that the present war h a
no more bearing on the second coming of Christ than
other wars and revolutions have had." I n other words,
"Things continue M they were from the beginning."
This very ecoffing of this clasa'of learned gentlemen is
another fulfillment of Biblical testimony proving that
the world has ended We read the words of St. Peter:
"That ye may be mindful of the words which were
spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostlea of the Lord and Saviour:
knowing thin first, that there ahall come io the last days
scoffem, walking after their ~ I
deeireq
I
and saging,
Where is the proof of hie presence [and of the end of
the world] ? for since the fathers fell d e e p all things
continue as they were from the beginning of creatiop.
For this cause thep are willingly ignorani?'-concerning
the end of the world.-2 Peter 3 :25.
Addressing 'hiinself to the disciples in parabolic
phrase, Jeaus likened his true followem, true Christians,
to wheat, and the false, or merely nominal Christians, to
tares. He aaid the two mould grow together in the same
denominations until the time of the harvest, and then
there would be a Beparation. He plainly a i d : "The
harvest ie the end of the world" A clear fulfillment of
this prophetic evidmoe is found in prssent day events
when Christian people, without r e g ~ r dto denomination
or creed, are forsaking the old systems and corning b
gether to worship God in spirit and in truth. st-idying
the l3il~:efor the purpose of illurninatkg their minds
-and doing good to their fellow men.
The Scriptares further Woe that approximately
at the e ~ of
d the world the demons will have greater
power. Theae d e m o q according to St. Peter and St.
Jude, were incarcerated in trrrtanu at the time of the
deluge, then to be restrained until the judgment day.
In a previous issue TEE.
GOLDEXAGE carried an article
showing the' origin of theae demons and how they
practise fraud upon the people by misrepresenting the
dead. We now mark the fulfilment of the prophetic
dtementa of the Bible that theae demons are exercieing
greater power and deceiving Eome of the bright minds
of earth. For instance, a Landon dispatch says:
"Slr Arthur Conan Doyle, the farno116 author. describe11
lnst night h a r be had heard the v o l e of his -0, who hns
been dead for a sear. He said: '1 war la a darkened mom
with UPC men. my wife. and an amateur medium. The
medium was bound in a i r p l a w with a striog. Jly wife

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I heard my son's voice. He -Id. 'Father'.

I m r c d 'Y- son'. He mid. 'Forgfm w'. I knew to
what he r e f w d W e had only one fflfference in dl h b
*etlme--h&
noa-bellef in spiritism.' "

their pons (n
~h~ tb demm
bringing to
misrepresenting the dead nnd overreaching the minds of
men. W h y was it necessary for Sir Conan Doyle to be in
a dark room? Why aaa it necessary to hive a medium
there in order to hear the voice of one speaking from
mother world? The answer in obvious in view of the
in prth&t tb.
s a i p ~
fraud upon mankind, operate ia thd dark, am lying
to deceive r e d su&
q ~ band
, uethis
nor.
nm the case in Noah's day, and mch is the
Tbe Scriptures disclose, in Revelation 7, that approximat* at the end of the world these demons will cauw,
g&t violence among the people Jesus atated, M further
evidence of the end of the world : "For then ehdl be
pest tribulation mch as was not nince the beginning of
the world to thia time, no, nor eoer shall be."
When a long-time lease en& and the buildings erected
on it sn in a decayed condition, and a new owner cornea
iPto poasesaion with the intention of erecting new buildingn, his h
t acta are to tear down and remove the old
and clear the lot for the building of the new afmcture.
The old order or old vorld ended in 1914, and exactly
on time the work of removing the old order began and

prog.rcssa The great King of king and Lord of

and he is remoping the
lords is direding
preparabrJ ta the don
of the new and righraru
order of thhga. Tbs prophet of the Lordy h a d g in
mind thir very time when the kings of earth would be
making a hist desperate stand to hold their poswssiom,
m t c : ''And in the days of thtse k i n p shall the God of
hesven eet up a kingdom, which ehall never be destroyed :
and the kingdom shall not be left to other people,%ut
it .hall brcak in picca,and consume dl them lsingdomq
and it ahall m d for ever."-Daniel 2:44.
We aubmit that the evidence ia conclusive to the
reasonrble mind who believer in the S e r i ~ t u that
~ , the
world ha8 add;that the old order h passing away
r o d the new is coming in ;and if that be true, then this
must mark the dawning of a new and better day ; it
must mark the begdap of the Golden Age, and of
necessity must mnrk the time for the hrlbllment of the
great Biblical promises that Jehovah haa made for the
. b l u i n g of mankind with Me, liberty and happiness.
kr our next- h e we will produce the Scriptaral proof
that them are ndliona now on earth that will never
die, and the man who availa him& of ths divine testimony and conforms himself to the d e u of the new order
w i l l be the one to receive the longdeeired blessings
of life everlasting h a s t d e of happineso

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NOVEhmEI U TO 25

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Nm

lei9 A. D.: (XH8 nlnm Crutloa : 7 4 n - 8 B m t l n m BC.;

267F 01 Ilome : 2-396
at Gralr Olymplul .Qm; sf0
Japanese ; 1339 Jlohammedrn
: Ywninp, V a w , Man,J nplter, S a i n m ; B v w ,
2:Sun rtnm 6 : r e & m., seta 4 :46 p. e : Maan rlrr .st
a. m.. aci. 0 :47 p. m. ; High Ude 11 2 8 r m, Sew York.
14 :Moon last quarter, 10 :40 r m. ! 1918. 2.532 Amcalaa
priaonern rdeued from Cermnn prlaona ; 65,000 Sew Ye*
garment worken a t r i k e for S-honn 8nd 20 pcr cent r y e

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increasa
Xov. 16 :S t LeopoId'e Day. Tfenaa : Praelanutloa of the m b l i e
Day. B r u i l : 1918, Gsrman wldlarm i d s t o a bolblns a
ConaUtuent .isrrmbly : German annr b d r u to evacuate
Paland : Kalscr Been to Holland ; 250.600 Italian p r ( . a n a
go home from Austria: General . W e endm in SwitulL
land : C. 9. B o d of Cenaomhtp d b x n t f n o r d ;
ration of A m u i m n army Mlna.
No?. 10: Qundrennid elrct3on of Chamber of Deputfq Ra8cej
101R. as.000 railroad trlesraphem' w y a drmnd: W u
prodactlon ordeed to slow down in preparation for p.aqr
n;ar. 17: 1918, Amerlcan army bestno the march t o v u d Genzmnr;
Alaseclarraine D w in P u b ; German U ~ L .md dmkm
abdlatr

Elm. 18: Annooncanant tlrat Fraident Wl-n

Na. 19 :Coil shortase In h'cr York.

will so .to PuL

Pw.20: 1918, Twenty German submarine8 surrender to BB-;

post omce conselldata aII & d u n
W-h
hem;
Beginning of 1910 BevolutIon D w . In Mcrlro.
Nor.22 :St Uichad and Cabriel m y , B u l p d r . GBoa~nda:
1918, German nett surrenders to Brltlab: KolchrL m l ~ m
podtion of Dircetor s a d Commarau of BIL..I.P w Ld
nary ; Congmm adlourma ; 'Na:
mlllbitlon bill d g n d
Nor. 22 : Annular cdfpsc o l mn. war before marbe, mdr 8 :ab
8 :57 a. m., vialble In most of the United S t s t a except tha
P a d d c Coart : S e r Moon. 10 2 0 a. m. ; Flrst day ol month
Frimnire (Sleetll of French Revolution: 1918. Homewad
~ l i h o~oot.ti-uhtgovernment o r w r a h i p
h'or. 2; : Flrat day of Jewish month Klrler ; Nu--&
(Sa~nd
H a w a t rntlval). Japan ; 1019. Hundred8 42 l r m y ollkem
nhot in Pettogrnd: P a d v c r s k l lava for England on
Poltsh .dun : Qrdlnal Gibbons a p p r o r a ZLoPlp ; Uroad men awarded wage I n c r ~ e .

Nor. 24 :Bepudiatlon by. Frederick Connty. W h d ;

1918,

K d s u wflhclm at Ammapen. Holland.

Nor.%: 1918, Agreement reached between German S o l d l H rod
Workmen's Cowdl and the Gunuo ~ruanr.o+

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Golden Age
New York. W d n c a d . ~ ,November 26. 1919

No. 5

LABOR and ECONOMICS

CAPITAL - LABOR 7EWSZON
SE SKIRJIISH after another between canital and
lahcr c a u m the common people, who have to foot
all the bills, to n-cnder where this thing will end. Every
%trike to improve the condition of some of us makes it
just that mnch harder for all of us. And the strikes are
eilch strange etrl!res. Thq are not what the? used to be.
This striking of policemen is sn entirely new thing, and
a shocl; all aro~und.
Theoretica!lv palice hsve no right at all to &die;
ior they npresent us, the people as a whole. They
a n appointed custodians of law and order. We want to
laow where the:. are all the time, because we never I n o n
when we may need them. And pet we mast not forget
that the big boy in antfarm are jud ordinary men like
the rest of uz, and they have to lire. and since the prices
of everythicg have risen so dreadf~dythey have fallen
an c a T prep to the id- that they ouzht to hsve more
nionm, so that they can prcnride their families with the
t hhgc they need. It all e m s human enough, when you
think of it. Bxt if they h e w there was m ordinance
forbidding them t o join a union, then they e h d d have
obeped the law. h a n e e th-qp erpect ns to do m.
The st-I strike is and has been a long, hard bett!c.
Penrqlvania is in line with r h a t t k m n q a i n k d v:th
this section had e-rted.
Xany of the workers in the
I b s t r m m a s are of e 4 e d 'Tennsylvsnia &itchn
estraction, a r e y mn~rvative,glow-going, kindly-dispodtioned class of people who live simply. o m their o m
honles and arw?t nith resi_pation conditions which
t h y can not easLlp rhange. I n the deel basin- there
have been but two shifta during the benty-fom hours,
frwr time immemorial, the men plfncrally working h a m
5 :00 until 5 :00.running one week on the day ahift and
the ether an the night shift This anzngement givm the
*mk& one Sunday off everp othrr week. and every other
..xk he rwkm a &right henty-four hour oh*, from

_Y-

5 :00 p. m. Saturday to 5 :06 p. m. Sunday. Then the

followmg week he rrorks from 5 :00 am. to 1:00 p. m.
each day a p until Saturday inclusive, hie night chift
stnrting in at 5 :00 p. m. the next day.
The operation oftlaet furnaces continuonsly is a l m d
inevitnble, as the rlrpcnse of rhntting one down and
starting it again is verp great. In not a few instanma
the temporary shutting down of a blast tarnace h u
caused the failure of the cornpan? operating it XOdoubt
s part of the effort to get three shifta of eight hmra each
intd the &eel business, inctead of the long twelpe-hour
grind which has been the rule heretofore, in dae to the
sumem of the railway workers in procuring a working
day of eight houra. The work arol~nda blast furnace or
steel mill i~ao hard and as dangerous M railroading, and
it is hard to see n h p the one class eho~ddcontinue b
work twelve hour when the other has to work but eight.
P n d d ~ n t Filson's conference at Washington d
representatives of canital and labor had a great bjk
mapped out for i t "for the dwelopmcnt of a new rela:
tionship between cap:tal and labor." but the labar d e b
k t c s bolted and upset the program when the rigfit of
collective bargaining was not concdcd bp the capitalist
group. It is hard to see how mrh a conference wnld do
other than malie M h e r concessions to labor, became
elf can see that lalor h r the drength that corns from
mryrior numbers, and it now =ma determined ba
have a voice in the maragement of practically ern?.
p a t industry Kith vhich it is comected. In Japan this
princip?. of "attezdance of lahor delegates at all conferences of the company has just been mcedad to the
pnnten of Tokio. This is the more lamukable h u m
lahm anions in Japan are dmed orgmizatiom
A blind man, on the I r k side uf the moan. a n ma
plainly that an intelligent, determined. pacrful majoritp will have ib own way crentur3ly. "Be wise now,
thedorq 0 ye (money) kinp."-Psrlm 2 : 10.

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I h e Go&

Age for Nowmber 26, 1919

EIGE COST OF L M N G
UO'S TO BLAME? If we oas bnd him and f5x
him with one in the aaaiam, he L done for, and
the difliculty, of course, w i l l settle itself. Such a & of
mind maliea ldr. Average Citizen m q mark for
people who u e too lrmart for him. AB a matter of fa&
the man to blame is ofttn the best one to help br thing
up, wa may be re &om as anyone to me his erw
corrected.
However, to de6nitely h responsibilitJ for the high
cost of livbg, may enable a good msny Average Citizea
to relieve eome mental tension Such responsibility can
now be definitely and iinslly set upon the right pa*
To know the genegia of "H C. L." throws Light upon the
subject. This ia h o r n in certain circles. The insiders
even b o w the individual transaction with which 'CH.C.
L." was born.
Tradition of the street has it this way: It waa in
the early days of the big war, in 1914 or t h e m h u h
The event took place in the explosives industry. Many
of the smaller nations were caught short of gun powder.
The American powder companies were filled with o r d m
for way ahead. They did not care whether any mom
orders came ar not.
One of the srnaIler countries had erhansted ita
patience waiting for the big powder companies to accept
their order far a few million pounda They approached
a lesser concern supplicating permission to w d their
money. Even the d oompaniea were full of b d n e s s
from large customers, with orders booked far ahead.
The ruling price wam say thirty cents a pound. So the
d concern, in order to dircourage the d country,
said that they would accept the ordm at a dollar r
pound or thereabouts.
The general situation was in control of His Excellencp, Uars, the world's her-Lord of the last few yeam,
and porrder at a dollar was chap beside the possible
rain of War. The order waa placed, and the little povder
concern had the best order yet on ita books.
Within a month or thereabouts, the current price of
powder was a dollar a pound. Other business grasped
the golden opportunitp. Other commodities, bought by
countries at mar, were jumped up to a figure intended
to approaai the rkmorrs standard 'XU &e M c a;&'
bear."
Steel, iron, copper, lead, ,guns, pistols, leather, sllipa,
ocean transportation, grain. canned foods and a swarm
of others, I& Nother Earth, for a trip ahose top wss
l
f o r d into the field
the sky. Government m ~ t r o was
to regdate the rsce beheen supply and the demands
of W u . The insatiable greed of Mars for more and yet
more to burn up and destroy in the Great Paatime,

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interiocking with the willing-ness of the trader to accept

the enormous prim offered without haggling by the
buping agents of foreign governments, created a bad
camhination for Xr. Average Man. He must pay more
or go without and see the food and clothing the kiddiea
needed go sailing across the Atlantic The imperative
d-d
of hungry stomachs and cold backs were the
enforced c~mplianceof the common people with the
r u i n o u c o r n of the War Lordo of Europe. Thue ass
"H C. Lmborn and quickly grew from expangive infancy into boisterous maturity.
The blame for the high cost of living re& upon Mars.
The rcady purse of War began it and sustained i t
On no other aoulders does exclusive mponsibility rest
The whole world is crying out against the high cost
of living ; it is t@ cry of ignorance and emotion against
plain arithmetic
Mathematice sags that them fa w emt of living
problem if the buying p o r n of the worker is undiminished If when commodities rise, wages rise to the
same extent, the workefs dap'r labor continues to get
him just am much at one time .a another. He Lives n-ith
the same d o r t beceuse he has the same thiugu to vork
mth, play w i t h and live u p
But the common people are common people becanse
they ue not amart enough for the uncommon people,
many of whom started from the common lwd and by
ability or crookednea have &en to p h ai power.
If the people were clever enough to insist upon havin5
in the bnsicesa of =change or trade, a mercaue of value
that would not nuy in actual value, they would not be
troubled abont the high cost of Living. If a dollar ronld
alwap buy the ssme quantity of goods, varying only with
scarcity or plenty, the people w d d have one less important factor to contend with. Their wages-would
always be a t a figure that they could understand.
Bat when the dollar, right under the nom of the man
on the street, imperceptihty shrinlrs day by day, the
wage earner, to UEC a ~ ~ m m phrase,
on
does not know
%here he is at." I n his mind for many decsdes a dollar
hss been a dollar. and that was all there was to it. But
with the advent of War a dollar ceased to be a dollar's
worth, and Mr. f orker and Miss Worker found them.dres BOD,?& by mo.th abJ~to boy J
m m d 1.a~
of fbip
aorld's goods.
If the profiteer in labor had nished to find a clever
scheme without being seen, to rob labor of the producti
of his labor, he could not have de\ired a better in~trun e n t than the ranishing doliar.
The business man could alxaps raise prices a t rill
u n l e ~ she was hindered by a public =mice corumirsion
or by a food commhioner. Getting wsges raised, haw-

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eyer, was rot so.simple a matter because it was wually

thc rcs~dtof a fight with the employer. The employer
could d v n ~ skecp ahead in the mcc, for he could raise
prices again 3rd it wodd be some tirne before the worker
would rcalize that the employer's price-increase meant
just that much real wage dccrcase.
One par* as making more than the other party.
It was alrars the business man ah0 did the price raising.
He \\-as making invisible clifferertial between the extra
pay guc'.,ned to the xrorker and the additional price !ie
forthwith charged labor a ~ ~d h i c hordifiacly naa snbstaztidly largrr than the a-age increase it aas supposed

to bdance.

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Labor not understanding, and in the home circle

Gnding the mathematics of prices arid wages traasmuted
into emot:ons end fcelings de~clopedby prirations of
loved ones Ends it impossible to maintain the calm. &I?. possessed
demeanor of pure mathematics. Re &.t cricj
out. Some day he may act. Cor.an Doyle, the ,mat
English v-r~ter,says that unless eff?cti\-e steps are talian
promptly to check rking food cost there m i l l b: T a r e
violence in Great Britain. I n Flore~ce, Italy, the
workers ransacked tlie stores of the profiteera and aftc r
declaring a striLe secured a reduction in pricee ot fXb
to sevectp-five per cent b c e hao doubled the number
of selling booths from wluch low price food is dLhiibcted
and has established cheap restawanb to serve mala rt
dxed prices.
Low food costs are imperatively needed; but if f d
priccs are forced down, who will pay the farmer enough
for him to make a living and enable him to keep on
raking farm products for the lest of the people to eat?
Truly in emry diredion there ue intricate m d perplexing questions which mast be d v e d ta keep the
people from greater discontent, and pet the rolution of
.thew problerns appears to require a more than human
wisdom, and a Solomon has not yet appeared to show
the way- B u G t h e Golden Age draa-s on apace, m d
m n the long looked for Messiah shall arise and bring
order out of the world's confusion and chaos. ''Thy
kingdom come-

TEE LITTLE PROFITEER

!KLIAh' haa to lire, and when rising prices are
fashionable, the price autocrat has to make his p r d t
represent as good a living as before. To a dealer wages
or sa1ar.r are spclled "profit," and his wage may be
Large or EKMII or even miuus-he must make money
whm the making is good. If prim double, the dealer,
to hare the srme wage, ehoald obtain I a e profit. This
is d y fair. Any worker's income ohodd v a q with
priccs, sa thut there be none d tbe ineqnib
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getting less and othen more. Cndesited consequenced

might be cited from such inequalitieunrest, discontent, vindictireness, revolution,aaarchy.
The big profiteer does not be- sole responsibifity
for the prevailing distress. Everyone does who helped
'%oost" prices or wages. The retailer did not neglect h h
part in raising the cost of living. I n the aunshhy trade
d a y of 1915-1916 =me retailen were slow to sense the
changing situation. Honest fog*
they could not
charge a multiple profit on goods they had bought low.
But the little p m f i k n persuaded thern to "play the
game," and get their share of the golden stream while
it lasted. A grocery trade journal ;an full-pago adtisements that raising p r i m ass the dyle and no grocer
should fail to raise his; "evergbody ras doing it," and
"they could get the money." I t as a kind of golden
age, which forced thousands of Fords and hundreds of
''si~es" and "eights" upon a willing r e t d trade.
living hare to
But now dealers looking for s too-&
be reasonable. It hre seemed M though a jail 8enter.m
rras the o n l ~thing to keep some dealers r i t h i n b o u n h
For the public weal, the little profiteers have to adopt
the new fair-price fashion.
Profiteers are nothing new. Thep hod them in d a y
of old, when the prophet Ezekiel said, "Thou hast taken
n s u y and increase, and thou hast greedily pined of
thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten mc,
aaith the Lord God1'--el
22 :13.

DEC-G

PACgLNG
-ON-ANDERSON
bill recently befom
Congresa for the decentralization of the packing
basin- h to oorrect the wratc in haaling animalr
from points all over the country to Chicago or Kansas
City, and then shipping directly back the hished product. It hcpes to eliminate a long string of conmidon
merchant and middlemen. It proposes to licewe a11
packen and provides a lipt of punishable offensea for
unfair, unjustly diseriminatory or deceptive practicer
in cornmerat
The b13 propose8 to license any number of standardi d planb erected
municipalities or m b d i v b i o ~of
states, or by their accredited representatives. It proposes
that records and accounts shall be submitted ta the
Secretary of Agriculture and that the remicea of the
plant shall be available to all customers on the h i s of
fair and reasonable returns and without unjust discrimination. It contemplates the rerpicea of special cars
and the whtanae of the Gowmment in mattem of
inupdim, otandardizatian, plans m d adcice, bat not
h d a l&stma.
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parking buaineu h m a centralized busineaa into ona

in which the local centrs of production will be the local
centre of disM'bation. However, if it in profitable to
decentralize the packing busineaa, one can not but
wondcr why the great padem have not found this out
long ago. But perhaps they have had too many other
things oc L n d to give this phazc? of the b u s i n e ~
rdequate attention. It in freely claimed that the big
packers have been busier in mrnering all sulrstitutcs for
meat than in providing meat itself for the people a t
legitimately low p i c i I t certainly looks & though
sorccthhg is wrong when 700,000 lbs. of beef. lamb and
pork are kcpt in storage 80 long that they hare to be
iold for fertilizer at lJ,c per pound.

POOD AND CLOTmrG

CCORDING to the Natiol~alIndustrial Conference

Board in its recrnt research there is a race between

food aud clothing, as to which r i l l increasc the most in
prim
Betwren July, 1914. and July. 1319. iood increased in
price 30%. but was distanced 10% br clothing, which
increased 100%. Other i n m a w were. shelter 289,
itd, heat and light 57% and sundriea 63%.
The
average ndvanm in the cost of living m e 73%.
t
The figures coniputed by the Board are claimed to be
those of the arerage family expense or budget, and
probohl~.represent the facb, unless there was an effort
to make thc figures as 4 ss possible in order to have
them show that a a , p i n c r e ~ e daa much as the co&
of living. Tlrero is an old sav to the effect that "Figures
do not lie, hut linrs do figure." There is no intention to
d k r d i t the figures arrived at, but M o r e accepti~y
them as finsl, it might be well for "the man on the
etreet" to b o w something about the personnel cf the
Board. their connection? and the motives by which they
might be influenced.
Accordiug to the Board the prrcentagcs of a man'e
famil!. e?;pcli.;r are c1ictril)ntcd as follo~vr: Food 43.lk,
rhrlter 17.; 5,'clothing 13.2%. f ael, heat and light
6.6% ant1 surdrics 20.4%, total 1 0 0 9 .

26, 1919

For m e macon th.t d m not appear on the nui.q

the Sariptuma intimate t
h
tjust before the dam of tho
Golden Age them w i l l be a puiad during wh-kh rwL
will not be obtainable on any c o n d i k Posribly thk

fi be caused by a temporary b d d o r n of credit.

'Tor M o m thea daya there ru
The pasage d:
no hire for man, nor m y hire for beast; neither w u
there any peace to him that went out or came in h u m
of the .tIiiction: for I set all men every one against hir
8: 10.
neighbor".-Zechariah
PRINCIPLES OF SUCCGSS
>TORHER in aa). omupation might profit by
A t h e adiiee giren to army o t % m by Y a j o r C k n d
McGlachlin :
You must have courage, self-reliance and good judgment.
Cournge is a very camman natural gift, but it ma?
aleo be developed by practice in dangerous games and
occupntioiis
S e l f - ~ r l ~ a nisr rusunllc a result of training a d personal effort, to be attained by actually performing tasks.
Good judgment cornea from the atudy of your td;
before you do it and from d e c t i o n upon the resultr
obtained and mistakes that may have been made.
I n your l ~ f efrom day to day, you ehould o h m ? the
principles of simpliciQ, directnew, thomughnesa and
promptness.
Thc shp!er your thoughts and reasoning, the mom
clear will be pour declion. The simpler your language,
the more easily you mil be understoad.
Direct statements will d t in c l r r i t ~of understanding by your ~ u b r d m ~ kand
a by your supnars,
and arc equally appreciated by both.
Thorough treatment of subjecta thnt you are r e q u u d
to handle will result in their effective &position.Y o r m u s t train yourself to regard these subjeets not
merely from your o m standpoint but from that of your
superiors and that of pour subordinates, keeping in tiew
always the interests of thc government which you serve.
Do not sac.rifice thoroughnees to simplicity. Brcviip
is a virtue, but thoroughness is the more important
principlc.
.
I3e pronpt. I t i c icdi=pcnsible. Procrastination is the
root of ali el-il. Those who put things od do not do
&em. Those who do not do them are n o t useful.

DEMAND FOR LABOR

HE maintenance of a proper labor supply dcpenb
JANITORS OLV S T R I m
someu-hnt upon the w n g e pnid to labor. If the r a , p
u s rutficient to keep labor st work the supply is more
HE 7,600 membcrs of the Chicyo Flat Jdtorr'
plentiful than if some am not at work. A llian who i~
Union are demanding $3.60 to $5.00 an aputment
idle temporarily because he is dissatisfied with hu r a p a month and living quartera on ar above the a h & The
or atber conditions of labor is, for that time, not a flat o m e n cieclare tlrat the janiton are now getting
worker at ail. If all the workers in the c o u n e went $125 to $175 a month, free living q u u t e r q fim h a t ,
on a t r h a t the mnle time i t could not be A d that kbor light and g y and that tke d
m rigniqT
d
ir plentiful but that it is warm
$200 to $250 a month.

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t o d q ma!<es them. "Trcin up a &ild in the ~rr-oylie

SA6ATAGE OF TEACHERS
is import- ~h0uldgo; and when he is old, he rt-iu Dot depart froin
STAWS of the tenclling
ant hue
it nze&3 the ?.b!ic zltf?udetornrd the it" (Proverb. ?? :6) is dc: a p o d rccip? fr: I!IC cira!ion
of future! cilizenahip.
future welfare of the people.
A report from l p 1 3 scllool superintendent3 inLcart~9
AUTO THZSVES IN FIPAf;CE
that the Cnitul Strtcll is short 68,000 hackers, or 5.6%
ISI: IIVSDBED autorcobilea, moat of them stolen.
of the 650,000 teaching positlone. There are dao 65,000
were m s e d by the American Expedition in
parwru rco~ptedss teachers who are not fit for their
l'ranm.
The car-stealing epidemic r a s not on5n-d to
ptitionr. Tbis rt-prcoentg 103.000 tcachi:>,rr pooikons
any one rlncq or any one nationalit!-. If R car \ma lcft
withoat tr?riicrs of ctc11 ialr 1li):111:.
by the rcnclalde it was certain to dmppear in a very
Of the 1.512 cchaol ruporintcndentr, 1,430, or 3 4 . 6 5 'abort tune.
a
h u l e d it ta his
and
mrttht the trachers' rdaria
not
built a hap&ack arolmd it. Or passbg anit of ,tme
in P
~ to ~
P in ~
~liv;sg ; ~
other
~
orqank.tion lldpcd itself to mapeta, cnrburctor,
Or sJ.e% repo* that thf.r have
lt necevav
to cpmk plug3. c y r e t.rcs and spare wheel. Instances are
lower the rt.ndnrd af qud~5caticnsm the effort to get on
Ixt?.cm
and ds,.ligkk and in a
tcathers: 1,052 or 69.6% report that the number of girl
=ow
the tf..rco pd rhccls,
nqrl bop teachers belan- twentyone k increediug; l,a95, staring gear and radiitor of a temporarily disabled
or 93.n% "P* that promising young men and rromcn
dlsaFFred and
never rearere&
arc not trkmg up teaching as la the pas:. Tho situation
Fords ~ t h numks
out
llar,l
h least serious where sderies have b x n lncreasfd mod.
trace, ns it wm pracEcally imPbssi51e for
The d e t f l o ~ m m tof tho mind a d char*
of the to prove that tho car cvcr did belong to the American
poung is ~ o b
t be co~npuedwith the -g
of ~
~ d iFO- t ~h~
i great
~ ~U O ~
of ~ Q
windows, if the criterion i!~the wags inaf the g,
F, t
b ,~m&-5 m,hmem,
aml;err. E ~ t h e rthe teaching profernion is amaidered of tl&orm f4 FmOB before the -, .nd when off& for
no p r r t i d a r importance, or there is a sr8hmtic e k e ,& -a q~cklyremeas
to diacred:t the public whooh by impairing their dfim, psople who hrc p&- b h.~agrcrt
ci-.
for the eighth comrmndment 7 ! b u rhlt not SI &&'
Tht red trouble m y bs that the hdim
8 (adm
~0:15),
to
podti- h t fi
negligible factor Lwcnus~they do not auitrol r o w a d appbrn only to *tealing from inaiyid&
principle
are not proper!^ ~ni&Led. Perhaps if the 630,000 Bmu- it just =ong to #teal from on -ation
af pmple
ican teachers were welded into 6 bad- ~ O they
B
from
i n d i n d d , pt thfre
-,
P * m to hg!y reqxctable people, whose co-cea
w d ham a labor ba&ng which would
an, lar when
school boards that pars ap their petitions for r d e f from it ,c,
t o aealmg aith
m-fim,
,m a
pinding ~ o T F I 'SO
~ ~~
.
1Of ~0rkcn
~ s
more k p 0 ~ tGov-ert
The Scriptures &Ow fiat in
Golb
than those that control the future of the people the
*-efts en3 defalcatiom mast be ma&e good for
trach?:s do thro-agh the cducatign of the yonag. 'Ihey the fia
2 0 5 , &ditioI1d; .nd mhm fm
& o d d be g f ~ e nsalary ircr-es at
~ m m m t omp Two=, as might be
Kith 8
r i t h the higher cost of lirkg.
cannot be made good "unto him a
m vham he ha%
Sicholus Vclhiiro:ic, the morn? and mental lca&~!of trespassed", it is requircd thzt #'the trespass be recornSerbia. axording to the Eduational Brcinr, asserts pcnsed m t o the Lurd." ( X d r s 5 :6-8) There is hopa
that "If ~ h c r eis nn!thhprr to be learned from the war, here for som3 P ho 57 stock cunipulations have robbed
it is 1r~.btle~s
this: The education of youth in all t h e wrpor~tiorucf mXons. E pcrsodly required to d - e
conn?rics of the world must become m international up dl t h e &2dc3tions thq r o d l a be reEnced to
virtnal davery for mpriads of years, bct no doubt the
af!'3ir of tLe re^ h t ir.portance."
Seglcci of tb teachkg profesCan b e s m no p r o d - "recompense ur.b the Lord" w i l l take one form of
ing future for this country, for the man and woman of contrition not exp:csxd so mzch in d o b s sad C W ~ J
be l&y
what the *her
of rs in true repcntancc md retormatIca of h e a t
t-tp
pars henee

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1ILRE IS' an imprzsaion that the technical professiona are very well paid Young men by thoussnds
arc fitting th~mselvesto become mechanical, electrical,
and cil-il engineers.
But thcre are so many young technical graduates that
they cannot obtain adequate .
pay. and hence they create
a lcind of educated proletariat. I n S e w York they have
been so underpaid by profiteering emploren that they
have or~anizcdo trades union and are d i n g salary
increases of 8600 a year.
This affects 3.160, including junior endneera, en@neering ami&nts, chemists, architects and inspector8
in engineering work. The presezt college systeni tends
b u d
ovcr-supply of educated Ir-orhrs and a &g
competition among them.
realized how poorlp p-R
the technical
If
professions arc., especially at the outset, far 1-s would
go to college but ~ o u l denter the more remuneratife
and useful trades.
The ralue of colIep education is greatly orcrestimated. %ow that the rorkcrs are well paid, there is not
:hc rearon thnt formerly esisted for spending four pears
ancl 8eveml tilouen:ld dollars for something that no
longer guarantees a good income \,-ith relief from hard
a-ork.
I n breaking r i t h all college traditions and lining up
with the norliing people the roung technical graduates
of xer York haye learned that not exclusi\,enpd, but
cooperation wins succes-..
The advice of old the is etiu
to
the
a&:
but the college lran is learning from znother of
the insects of ancient Palestiie which had n deserred
reputation for getting whatever it went after: 'The
locus^ h a ~ eno king, yet they go forth a l l of them by
ban&."'-Proverbs
30 :Y i .

(1 Peter 5: 10) whose *'tender mercies u e over all bir

works". ((Psalm 145: 9) Men who so f v forgot their
original inlieritmce of godlikeness as to torture a helpleas woman in the night time, have fallen far. m e Lord
says to mme such, "Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as t h ~ r (Psalm
'
50: 21) and the
intimation ia that they thought mong.

FOR mz POOR
O W THAT COLLEGES are raising millions, next
in order should be donation8 of large amounts to
help the children of the poor who are not able to invest

a thousand dollars a year for education. TwenQ million

dollars given to Yale represents about $5.000 per student. To P ~ ~ Or? a~~ ~~ r r~c i Y
a b l ~ the eduatiOn
of the poor children would be .n enterprise like a
national drive for Liberty Bonds. There are, consematively 'Mine9 perhaps ten
the
to
each One of
POQr in this
with an endowment that would provide an income of
$200 a pear would require the raising of the enormo7Yr

of'f@ b*on

If it is a financial impossibility to provide a $200-arear eduatiOn for the Youag people, it is probabl? a
that a few thousand Tale students are goin,"
good
to hare that much added to the liberal amounts already
provided for their education.
"Highei' education is regarded s good enough thing
for tens of
of young men to
in it
hundreds of dollars n Tear a piece, but i t is seriouslp
lacking in one element, for after it has done all it can !t
usually leaves its beneficiaries in the position of those the
Bible speaks of as "ever learning, and never able to cone
to the knowledge of the truth".-2 Timothy 3: 7 .

ORGANIS

YEAR AGO Boston nevspaper men arerapn3-$21

a week. They organized a union, intvPiesed the

TOO LITTLE BAIL
Qpogrephers, pressmen and photstngravers as to ghat
CCASIOFSLCY we hear it said that the bail they were getting, presented demandd of $38 mi-urn
required for certain violators is too large; there for reporters and 845 for disk men, aad got it. Tkc
have been instances in which bail was 2enied altogether. newspaper omers did not \ i m t to reco~mizethe union,
But it is seldom one hears of a case where the bail might but they did when they thought of the cmbarrassnents
be considered too small. It seems to us, however, thar, of missing several editiom. T!ierc \vas no mention of the
51,000 bail is too small a requirement for any one of the brain vorkers' victory in any &:ton newspapers.
three men in h'orthern Sew Tork who climbed icto the
The man who organized the Boston editors and rcroom of Xrs. Le Felche in the abaerce of lier husband, porters in
opening address alluded to them as brain-

pulled her from bed, stripped her in the presence of her

eleven year old son and sir Fear old daughter, m d
poured hot tar and feathers over her naked body.
Tho Jews were forl)idden to torture any living thing.
Torture is ~vhollpforeign to the character of him of
vliom it is mitten that he is "the God of
grad'

less braina-orkcrs. He seemed to think that, as tlle

Scriptures espmss the matter, '?he laborer is ~ o r t tofj
his hire? and he could see no rcamn why the men who
do the rough work around ncrspaper offices shotdd
-ire
trice the pay for their work u do tho% who
achady sapply the material for tho %ding public,

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MANUFACTURING and MINING

S-PT
BEARIAVCSAND OILS
OLL R BEARINGS will bear the heariest loads,
ball bearings rank next and babbit metal ir next.
If the bearings are loose, thick lubricants like graphite
and g r e a r a:e best, especially where there is flying dirt.
Such lubricants form ridges around the shaft at the
ends of the journal and close the openin3 to the
entrance .of sand or d i r t
The best oils for high speed shaft3 with light pressure
ox the bearings are a misture of 20% spcnn oil (obtained from the blubber and head of the sperm whale),
307~olive oil (of which the better grades are dark and
poorer , d e s light in color) and 50% light mineral oil.
For low speed hai its with light pressure on the beari i g s the best lubricant is 50% olive oil and 50% light
m i n e d oil.
For high speed shafts w i f i heavy pressure on the
bearings the best lubricant id 35% lard oil (the liquid
obtained from crystallized lnrd by straining under presNR), 25% sperm oil and 40% henw lcinerd oil.
For low speed shafts with heavy pressure on karings
the bed lubricant is 60% colza oil ( a pale yellow oil
obtained from rape seed) 25% lard oil and 25% M o w
oil (obtained from solid tallow by pressure).
For moderately high speed shafts with very heavy
pressure on the bearing the best lubricant ie 35% sperm
oil, 20% colza oil, 26% lard oil, 16% tdw oil d
6% fine plumbago.
. For low speed shafts with very heavy pressme an the
bearings the best lubricant is graphite-grease which
consists of 26% 'cow, 3070 p a h palm 33% mined oil
.and 12% fine graphite.
The resistance of various oils to k i n g squeezed out of
bearings at 65 degrees temperature Fahrenheit is rs
follow8:

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Seatsfoat oil is obtninetl by boiling out t!ic fret of

~laughteredanimals, and if properly prepared from fresh
material contains less than 55 of l p of fatty acid. but
:he commercial oil sometimes contains as high
30%.
Seatsfoot oil containing over 4% of fatty acid should
not he used aa a lubricant.
Tallow oil should hare a sweet clean odor when used
as a lubricant and sho111d be free from suspenaed matter.
I n the Scriptures the Body of Christ is compared to
the human bodp. and in this figure the joints me porticularly referred to. Tliesc joints, in a way, compare to
the bearings in a piece of machinery. Unlegp thep are
well oiled there is trouble. And again, if they are well
oiled with t11e spirit of loving emice of other members
(4 the Body, "The whole M y fitly joined together and
c ~ m p 3 d c dby that which every joint supplieth. according
to the effectual working in k e measure of every part,
d e t h increasz of the body unto the edifjing of itself
in love."-Ephesians 4 :16.

TEXTILES RUN FyLC

BE PROSPEnITY of the textile industry is shown
by the percentage of the total number of spindles
that ye busy. At present the industry ia running as
nenr full capacity as possible, for an account of repairs
and other n&sq
idleness it is never feasible for 100
cent of the spindles to be in operation.
The following pematagea of apindlea active a t
different d&a clearly indicate the rise of the textile
mills from the depression of hat winter. The figurer are
for the woolen mills, which sre fairly representative af
the whole industry:
-F'rescnt time, 92%, August 91%, July 91%; June
8596, May 63%, April 71%, March 6876, February
59%, January 63%, December (1918) 849, November
8896, October 91%, September'92s.
Sperm oil 1 0
The total number of epindles in the woolen milla in
Liglit minernl 011
1.I
2,176,953
and in the worsted mills, 2,307,178, grand
Cotton-d oil 1.9
total, 4,451,131. Some branches of the business are
Olive oil
"0
I.urd 011
-.,I 0
running 9 5 5 of full capacity, and others are running
R n l e on..-.
".3
double shift, the latter circumstances being the cnrrse of
Seatstoot oil
"..I
the high prices for some goods produced on overtime
Tallorv oiL
".S
Henvs miaernl 0
1
1
.
4
0
Pay rat=
Castor O I L-.....
3ZO
If Solomon, the miter of Proverbs, aere here bdap
bt 220 degFahrenheit dl oila are about equally he might not advise to "Oo to the ant, thou sluggard;
fluid.
consider her rays, and be wise" (Proverbs 6:6), but
Castor oil is ohtniied from castor beans b~ pressing, "Go to the mill norker," for t h g e hrs d d o m been r
darning and filtering and is nearly c o l o r h
time when the mills aere busier than now.

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'.XOSEY
mare go," ideas make ths
1Pbusinera
go. The idccs of all L
' he workers are more

(the supcsinbmdent) told the department bead he hod

decided against it, ending with 'for masons which I cannot discus m t h you! Imagine how epeertilr that man,
a h o could ~ o ort would nut
the time to give hir
resaoxm b a responsii deprrtment hard, nould have
p i l e d tbe chrncer cri any m g g d h m."
Rank md cordial trestment cf workera is likely to
keep them more interested in their ~ o r than
k
in idera
for social, industrid and political change, a d the
opinions of executives in this r e o w is comewhat as
follows: "It is safe to ~ a pthat r h e n the minds of
workers are tarried in the direction of building up.
there L not much room for those id- which tend h
tear d o n and destroy, i d e a oftea lying hidden, &,n
the workers disgndled and gloomy of temperament,
in&nt
of hand, r r d fertile mil for seeds of unrest,
d.kaMadion, or industrinl &if&,' Evidently the safe
tBing for business management ia to be a hind of ';big
brothef' to those who work r i t h them. h the p r e s a t
crisis nothing less aiil nnswer than the practical applicztion of the Golden Rule in every business Such a
business L likely to suffer least in the periodic &or
stonns that m p over iudustry after indurtrp.
It pays t o be brotherly. It ia the n e t d thing for
men to treat one mother ~ t consideration
h
and even
with brotherly Imp It L the thing that is to be the
rule in the fast-approaching Golden Age, for the rule
then is to be that every man, from e a t i v e doan. to
hold his position, mast 'lme his neighbor ks himself,"
and that those that wiU not .ecommodste t h e m h e s
mest ixcvitahlp be dropped as the *fits
of a be*
social order, the d t thst cannot surrive.

cakes the

I
I
I

vdttable than those of euy oce person. A bujioesa i q

imnersely benefittd ahere idea3 flow naturally urd
Iresly from ecerp worker t o those that can mr9. thm
peta at ire.
A rvietp of mgpstion sy3tcms for employes h a k n
hied out. I n most indanca thep failed, but in a few
cases ther 11-1-e achieved the hoped-for succehg Thnt t
b
failures far outnumber the s u c c e a ~ sis owing to the
f d i n g that erecutires have cf not gring redly d d e r ate treatment to those that r o r k rrith them.
I n ose sua~e.rSonsystem d~icribedby System the
n-riter ascribes the fault to the manzgexnent:
"'The b!f.ne r-ted wl~ollpvith the nar.agezoent The
gwem: rn223ger wns not seriously concemnl about pttlng
Idens thst he muld uas from &e Torkern. He a o q falrly
confident tl-.nt he nnrl tl:e erecutiwc asminted t ~ l r lhim
~
svere competent ro r~1nthe busine.js r.i! ~i$:t. The su3:e~tlon
sy6tem Ile looked uwn us more or less of 3 game which
might amuse the employrs.
"As n m 3 : : l t of this attitnrle, no wrioUb @;?artAM made
to apply the saggestlo?~ere3 though rromc of them gnrs
indications of constructive thou-At on the part of employca,
Xot many r,orke:s crn be kept conti;uorrsly Interested In
the moderately resote ch3:ce of winning a rnther rlender
prirc, pnrticulnrlT. when tlle pcrpose of the contest Ia w
obrlowly farclcnl."
I n the few cases rhere the m s e s t i o n system h r
mccm, System continues, the c o ~ ~ o ~faders
l i n ~nre:
"I. The oper.mindetlness of the manngement and the
serious decii.r iOr ideas of cmplo~es.
'2.e.
n i::ii~;~rss to consider rboronghlg the ideas thnt
are offered. 110 mntter --Inether they s e n g d or not at
fint glance: and the inteoaon In MX mse to let tbe mnplop
h o w the dec'sion and the renwn for 1~
"3. The desire to rea-3rd falrly the moo who maker Lhr
mggestIon. If it hfu ary value."
The danger that 3 mnr?ngement runs of being set
down as simpl! hypocritical in asking for suggaestions,
crops out ~ L e nthe ernplog-e is nct fully adrised of the
executive attitude toward the euggesion, and a detalled
erplnnatian is rot giwn a h y the suggestion will not
war:; or is nc: ezpedie~ts t the t k e : "The Eastman
Koda!; Company," cn2tic::es S g ~ f c m ,''um a3 onalrsis
sheet by m a r s of which those responsible for lookhg
into the suggestions of rcrkers masure the cojt of
changes a g a i u t t!1s savings the!- 3 3 effect.
~
The rorlrer
is taken into the confidc;ncz of the management, acd if
an idea canrot be ascd with nrac~icclresults, the reasou.:
ns they are s h o ~ mby t h e acd>jir si;*t ere fully exp l ~ c dto b."
& a rcsdt, t k h concern receirer
corr!izl coopezction from its emplo~es.
I n contxst to the Ecstman nt2tuilr. the following
about a F ~ C - i n t ~ n r l ewho
n t at
h2d appzrcntlp
favored a c g p s t i c n , t d e tbc stor)- of the complete

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WILL LABOA BE SCARCE?

T ALL DEPEXDS upon whether r e c o r t i n u d

lend money to Europe If we lend her what she

requires labor w i l l be scarce, for we shall have to continue to nzn our Eel& and worksholw st full s p e d to
fill her req~rerocnts; but if we withdram our credit
then there xill be a change in the other direction.
Jut at present h b r is scarce in America. Uore than
3,000,000 men have been returned from the T ~ i t e d
States m y and navy to civil life, and nearly all of
these hare at once found profitable e m p l o v t . One
thing that heo made thia pos.d.de is ffie immigration .
sLn?ntion There is no immigrant labor to be hod.
Prior to thc w u r e were &iring a net immigration
from Europe of 800,000 pusom annnally. During the
!last five y c v s there has been no net immigration, the
uumber goin: v t having jws about eqxalled the number
coming ip,

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FINANCE, COMMERCE and TRANSPORTATION

P
PROGRESS OP AUSTRALU
N THE YEAR 1917 the manufactures of Awtrdin
.mounted to over one billion dollars. This means that
die u -idly coming into a position where she r i l l be
able to produce all or nearly d l the things she needs or
At present her principal imports are apparel,
machinew, pnper and drugs. The e-sports consist
principlly of p i n , dressed meat, hide, wool, and
metah. The country contains rich stores of gold. cool
and other metals and miceral..
Au.h.alia ie 2,400 miles long and 1,900 miles widc.
The interior ia at present au immense plateau, an almost
buren plain, except in the eastern and southeastern
portion, in which there are ertersive plnins admirably
suited to stock-raising and agricdtue. The rivers ere
rnbjeet to great irregularities, depending upon the frU
of rgin. The climate is generally hot and dry but very
healthy. Occasioanlly there are excessively hot rinds
from the interior which result in great discomfort,
followed by cold winds from the south. Snow storms are
-on
in June, July m d Auyjt, the winter seaeon.
hrritralian trea rod bushes generally hava w t
fdiage and thick leathery leaved, wdl fitted to retain
moislam Some of the eucalyptus trw have been found
to nuwupo 500 feet in height.
. Ansbalia r s s first s~ttledin 1789 ar a penal settla
m e n t I n 1851 geld was dimvered in lsrge quentities
atd gwt immigration followed. The last convict
urived in 1868, and in the BO years in which it
woe a pearl colony. Awtrrlin and Tasmania received
ahout 143,000 of t h e eriles kom their native obores.
Tb. effect of the outdoor life W M b restors most of
i k e anvicta to noble, upright, healthy rmDbood
l d v D ~of the moat respected familk d Auetralia toby
trace their liuwe to thgs meu.
to think of it, r e all b e e oar l i n w to a
m r i c t , an exile; namely, father A
h For Ood %ath
ands of one blood all nation6 of men, for to dwell on
dl the face of the earth ;.and llath determined the times
before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
that they should seek nfter the Lord, if haply they might
feel dtsr him, and find him, though he be uot far from
every one of us." (Acta 17 :26,27) Ood foresaw the
rirclam of placing a hardy race of men to subdue tho
Abtzrliaa continent and pursued the policy, strange
to US. but wiw. as we now we, of letting its pioneers be
&
for one rereon or motber had incurred ths

displeasure of their fc.llo\t- men. and been bmished from

their midst, only to h d a happier home elseahere.
WASTI-VG OTHERS' MONEY
HI: PEOPLE a ho heTe done thc Icmt work in the
world, and therefore hava the least right to be was*
ful. are frequently the most prodigal in wartiug money
which has been saved by others a~itlwhich temporarily
comcs ivto their care. Rcprcwntativc Blmd of Idaho,
who has been in~cctigntingcocditioila in France. reports
that :O per cent of the funds sc:~tto philanthropic and
hnevolent organizations in France has gone for espenses of administration and that the cornmittre of
which he is chsirnlnn arc I)'ingi:~g with then1 opirfi of
on agrecmc~t under which $1.;00.000.n00 wort11 of
C o r e r ~ l m ~property
~t
which included. an two of the
itema, food and tediles alone worth $500,000,000, n'a
sold for $100,000,000.
Possibly i t was necessary for Government e m p l o y
to destroy eeveral million dollars worth of automobile
parts and other material a t Verneuil, France, u testi~ by a former officer of a motor unit in the +tionfied
ary fome, but it s e a m hard to beliera that sbme m
could not be found for bales of f k , autoaaobik bod@
wheels, tires and rules in a world in the condition of
the one in which we now find ourselves.
The end of the war has left the War Department with
a grest number of unused automobiles on its hands,
some 47,000. Man? of these, still in their crates, are
piled five high in an open field near Washington, when
thep have remained ever since the armistice was signed,
their a v e r s snd u p h o h h y rotting away and theitmachinery oovered with mast. Conin now pressing
for the d e of these machines, and rith m y Oi the
automobile fadories three months behind in their o r d m
there reenu no teamu why they should not be mld at
o m for what they w i l l bring. Any money the Government cur Bave m this way will b eo much leaa it will
have to procure otherwise.
The greatest waster of the agw ia a m&ng d e
eeribed in the eighteenth chapter of Bevelation u
"Babylon the Greav'. Cancerning tht qmblie city
i t b said that "in her was found the blood of propbeta,
and of ruinta, and of dl that rue slain upon the earth."
(Revelation 18: 24) The fall of t h b mystical 159ia
indicated M just prereding the thortwd y e u reign d
Chrirt, dewrribed in Re~elation20 :I-?.

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RAILROAD EQLXPdLENT
OSTHdRI. to upectation the e q u i p n : ~ ~of~ tthe
railroads ia not being kept up es thoroughly as it
should, and the manufacturere of railrood equipment
are being hit by a 8hortage of orders. The ~oie-ent
ia sdling to reduce the billion dollar shortage on the
anticipatad hoome from operation, and fop the time is
letting equipment go. llailroad men say that there can
be no relief for a rear or more.
At the same time there is an enormous demand for
railroad equipment in forei-gri countries, but the proper
arrangements have not been d e yet for financing huge
orders from outside the country. Emopean countrie~
are able to pay only in bonds and the American banlia
are not prepared to handle such bonds for the equipmeat
concern& With an unpnxedented need for their piodnct
in domestic and foreign markets, eqaipment man&turers are obliged to see their plants dose d o n for la&
of businesa

CONFERENCE OF AD YER TISLVC MEN

T "PROCEEDLYGS

of the Associated Advertising

Septemh
Clubs of the Vorld, held at h'ew Orl24th and 25th, rend like a page horn the proceedings of
the League of Xatiox. There were d-ates
from all
p& of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Great
Britain and Argentina, cablegrams from the Prime
Minister of Australia, the President of Peru and other
dignitaries whose habitat is far h m our shoreg
The subjecta discussed were such as to how to help
Mr. TTilson solve the industriel problem, how to make
Latin America better Lno~vnto the people of the UPited
States, how to protect L i b e e %I& holders against
securit.ies of questionable value, how to malie the U&d
States better Anom in Mesico. and other subjects such
as one rould espect t o engage the atkntion of statesmen
but which rery properly engage the attention of those
who have ao much t3 do nith molding public opinion and
directing the success of public ventures as falls to the
encc-despised advertising man.
The advertising man of today is a &jeminatar of
information. He is expected to supply real news, and if
the concern with whirl1 he is coanected is not doing
work that is hportsrit eno11g11to merit publicity there
is no reason wh? it e1,ould expect the public to be interested in what i t has to say. The advertiabg man is a
pusher for business, a pioneer, ao expert in-the art of
creating new wants or new w a s ti, snppip old ones.
E w v person who announces a policr is an advertiser,
8 publisher, a proclaimer of what he purposes to do.
When Satan said, "I w i l l e d t my throne abore the stars
af God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north ;I will ascend above tha

heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High"

(Isainli 14:13,14) lle as advertising or aru~ouncinghis
policy, namely that of self-aggrandizeueut. \\'hen our
Lord said, "I came down from heaven, not to do mine
own will, but the w i l l of him that sent me" (John 6:38)
he was advertising or announcing his policy, that of
complete submission to the Father's Kill. I n the Golden
Age it wdl be apparent to all that La was the wi*
course. The Lord's present I a h exaltation "above
every name that is namcd" is justly merited I n hja
prehuman existence, and in his earthly minim,he aul
always faithful and efficient in all that he was @en to
do. AL promotion was rw inelitable as was SatanJ$
d o d a l l and ruin.
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AIR TRANSIT
HILE transit by air is not yet ont of the rcalm

of science, in eome cases it almost approache

being an estahlkhcd method of transportation.
'I'he d35cult.y of using air commercially h its danger
and e~cessi\-ecost. A motor truck or actornobile can
stop and rest if clisabled, but there is short shrift for the
make air
airplane that wodd like to rest in mid air. -1'0
travel even approach safety there would hare t~ be
established air hues marked by landing places frequcnt
enough for a machine to volplane to safety an.mh~rc.
FXforts are being made to "practhlize" air travel.
An airplane of 19,000 pounds, to carry 3,000 pounds of
mail, and equipped with three motors and mueless telephone, and manned by two pilots and a navigator, i j
being built to run between New Tork and Chicago in
~ewn
hours--provided nothing hapGiant gas-bag machines are planned in England to
travel between h'ew Tork and London. They are to be
luxurious afIairs, Kith s a l o o ~dining
~ ~ , room, and sleeping
cabins The equipment contemplates 3,500,000 cubic
feet of gas, a cm$uo" capacity of wren$ tons, a n o n s b p ability of 6,000 miles and a speed of eighty miles
an hour, to cross the Atlantic in f&ty hours-alaays
prorided the ine\itable does not occur.
It was an approach to p r a c t i d t r ~ p o r t a t i o nwhen
a nine-j-ear-ld Texan Kith hia mother rode from
Houston to attend school at Kew l'ork. The t i p msr
safely made from D d s , ria -bkanias, I h k , Indianapolis, Daytan, Cleveland, Buffalo and Eicghamton
The ri.h of the air h e were sliarply illujtrated by the
killing in a fall of Xajor FrisYtll at Port Jervk. N. Y.
He had said the air
'%umpf', aud it proved to be so.
In the present state of air transit, men, U e richer,
"make themselves ainga; they fiy brag as an eagle
toward heaven" ( ~ r o v k b s23 : 5 ) , but men l a d the sure
power which keep the w l e safe and sound
in hia wide $rmg W d o m of the sky.

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POLITICAL, DOMESTIC and FOREIGN

OUR BOYS AND THE FRENCH

GREAT many A.mericau soldiers did not came nway
from France with very good opinions of either the
country or the people. The? dc-terbcl its mud, which is
everywhere, its unpaved street, its lack of bathtubs, its
omnipresent manure piles, its sj-,stem of charging Amcricans se~eraltimes as much for supplies as it did Frenchmen for the same articles, ontl its women most of all.
The true .Snerican laves and ailmires true -romanhood
and finds little to admire in a community u,l~ere,according to a prominent D. D., a man can enter almost any
home and treat the woman of that home as his o m wife.
And he stated that this k largely h e throughout
France.
The French people did not jind all of our soldiers all
that they chould wish, either. They fomd them too
much addicted to bard liquor, and n i t infreqnently too
rnde in speech and a d . The effect of French liquors
upon our soldiers mar be judged from the fact thnt at
one t i e i3. the summer of 1918 there were 30,000
officersand men of the h e r i c a n troops absent without
leare from their organizations.
According to the mother of an American soldier now
buried in France, the French are reported to be greatly
shocked owr the American neglect of some cemeteries in
which are buried the -4merican dead. Some of these
cemeteries, a pear a f t ~ they
r
were drst used, were said
to be fall of rows of closely packed white cmsea and
long trenches instead of, as n-ith the French, individual
grmes, carefully cared for. I n Borne of the cemeteries
there was said to be no flag flying, no person on c a r d ,
nothing to indicate that anybody had snp interest in the
~eed-mvered grounds. In the French grounds the
officers and mcn are buried together; in the Bmericnn
grounds they are kept separate Dl& is the t h e n for
this ?
Geoerd Persliing is of the opinion thnt the Americans
r h o fell in hsttle in France &odd be allowed to lie
where the? arc now buried, but &is does not seem to
agree nith the general sentimen-t of those wllo have lo&
their lored ores on ti:: field of battle. General Pershing
Was given a great ndcome on his arrival in h'ew York,
but his return did not arraken the enthusiasm expected.
and a few fie?-s leter tb.e propwition to award him a
golden sword n-os receircd so coldly in Congress thnt i t
was abandoned for t!e time. The American people are
thinking a lot now about the bo? they have lost and
are not 80 much interested in the &em,

26, Igrg

It vill be a great day for thc fathers and mother3

and brothers and sisters and sacethearts of the b o p that
fell in France when '-all thnt are in their graves shall
h a r his voice and shall come forth" (John 6:28,29)
and it will be a great (lay for the boys themwlrcs. \Ve
believe that this a\\-akenicg of those no\%- asleep in
death is near at hand am1 that it a-ill not be so long
before some of those boys now buried in France will
come and look a t the very places where all that nes left
of their mortal remains was laid in the summer of 1913.
In a future issue we hope to give the reasons for our
belief that the resurrection nill begin within the next
decade.
SIZE OF PEACE ARdm
T IS GENERALLY believed that Senator Chamberlain effectually killed the so-called March bill, recently
presented for Mr. Baker, Secretary of War, and the
General S t d of the United States a m 7 . Senator
Chamkrlain denounced the bill not only because it
aimed at a vast military establishment, 509,000 men in
time of peace, but because the General S U wanM for
the purpose a lump sum to be erpended entirely at iti
discretion, Congress merely serving in the capaci* of
milker of the public caw to provide the funds. Senator
Chamberlain said that the bill as proposed spelled
"Xilitarism to a degree never surpaseed in the palmiet
days of the great general st& of the German m y . ' '
The General St& n-as what ruined Oermany. Tkere is
no General Staff in the MTJ, probably the most &dent,
best managed department of the Government. Perhaps
that is th* reason for its dciency.
It map be true that there are good reasons wby the
IJnited States peace m y should in a few years be fonr
times as great as it was in 1917, but it would seem ss
though the wreckege in Europe- &odd be canhcing
that it is not a good thing to have millions of armed men
standing around riFith nothing to do. It stands ta reason
that some of those men, those who have the most to @in
br it. or who think they have the most to gain b~ it, will
u-;e what infuenc? they have to bring on war, in the hope
of profiting thereby.
Tillat is the proper size of 8 standing army for the
ITnited States in time of peace? Should i t be 500,000
as propowd bp Mr. Baker, or 300,000 as propowd bp
General AleSndrew, former C h i d of Staff of the American Expeditionq Force, or 120,000 ae it a s in 19171
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do. T!lcre is no need in hiring for a particular job of ~imilartcrms in our OH= day. I n 011 probability the
work four tin1c.s na nlaily workera as are news.iarg for armies of the four Iilngs cornbin?d (lid uot esceed a
t h r t job. An(! thttn tllrre is to be cou.iidc.red also, that thousand men.
to get men for this particular job the wages m u ~ be
t high
enough to attract them, or the- \
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d
l have to be obtained OFFICERS AND MEV
by conscription, md it doen not =rn r e u o ~ t l zfor the
ECHET.IBY BAKEB of the War Department 1United S t a h to resort to conscription in time of peacf.
revol:ed the military order posted a t Camp MacVarious forms of peace conscription hare k n propoded. .41-thur, '\Vaco, Tesm, which, in effect, forbade the
There arc but two general reasons for an army in t h e nrtendance of an officer a t any wid &air at which an
of peac?. One is to properly p a r d our out!:.-ing posses- cdisted mnn was present and which made it obligatory
sion. against sutldon attack. and the other is to maintain upon the o&er either to leave or to force the enlisted
order ct home. \\;hat renon is t.hcre b believe that the man to leave. T I rerocation wad a good piece of
forces adequate for t!~is purpose in 191: \v\.~uld
not again bushes& We do not want in thin country s' set of lazy
be adequate in time of peace ? Senator Swauson s y 3 prig3 that imagine they are some uncommon clsy, too
with .reference to large 1:lil itary expenditures, "A large good ta m o c i a h bitla thek fellom UPiformr do not
p u t of the immeasc sums now appropriated for m- makemen
m a t s could be utilized to secure bstter educational
Benotor Chamberlain haa proested that the&must be
advantages, to construct good road.?, to build better a reformation of the court mu-tial system which w i l l
homes, lo aid religicua and charitable irratitutions, to nake it imposible, as waa recently the cpse in Texr.4, to
develop industries, and for the general advance of impose the death penalty for a minor offense and then
cornfofi and ci\.ilization." These arc the words a a carry it out within 48 hours, before the papers in the
statesman and this is a ststsrnanlikc utterance.
wuld Rech Wa&h@n for review. He presented
I n time of peace the principal du* oi the United a bill authorizing omnegtg for all soldiers, sailors and
Staks army is to preserve order within the Cuikd States m i n e e mvicted by court mnrti.l
itself, and possibly with the idea that because of @war
Elio f h m should not forget that the tlrst reconditiom there would be more disorder than d,
quirement is that they be men, and no nun is r real
Secretary of Wnr Bdier has issued orders that hereafter m s a w b f s k s l m t a i r a d v ~ t a p a f ~ t h a t u e f o r
State oEcirrls can a l l M
y upon oommnnding the time placed in his power. Of dl man on earth the
generala of military departments in their ~ i c i n i t yto milikry o & a z t the last man that can a b d to show
furnish such troops as niay be necessary for the protcc- that he d m not abide by the simple rules of plain
tioa of lives w.d p:.op:rtj, thus performing duties which justiea but must resort to artifice to bolster up his claim
formerly dcvo!ved large15 upon the S a t h r a l G w d of to authanty and to respect Who can imagine the noble
the Strte it&.
Csntzldon CorneLi~the story of whose conmion to the
l?le armics of olden t h e a did not amount to much, at Christian faith ir m beautifully told in the tenth and
riot to start wlth. The iirst account of a "kaitle'' eleventh chapters of the Ads of the Apostles failing to
1-t
recorded in the Scriptures is in the fourtee& chapter of treat the &en under him with utmost c o w - a n t 1
Genesis. TSere four kings carried am? a p t i v e a m - respect? The thought that a man must be priggisll, cruel
ham's ~ e p h e wLot, alter they k d ddefatc.4 the five and unfair to be made mitable &rial for an ofiicer
opposing b g s . I\-@are r a t to suppose ' b s the army could only a r k in the micd af 2x4 who loloas in his
which captured the Sodomites na a huge one, even heart that there ia no r d -=on n-hp anybody s1:ould
though the u m e s oi four kings we i n ~ o d u - d kl con- respect him at all.
nection with it. 'i'hk u-w not ti very lozg b e dtcr the
dood, and the a t k c ~wpulationwas nut ss yet large. A WAR BY-PRODUCT
The suggestion of certrlin higher critits & o ~ tvast
BE EFFECTS of a world war are nct wholly bad.
armies, grest cities, etc., a t t l ~ i stime, u+out of kun?w)A by-product is that there are many less rorkcra in
rith the f o c t s h t , the siiortu* af tuu
the the United State3 than would have been the nomzl
#mod; aad oeoaud, tke ability of ;Lbr&
vi& r i l S rucn, cse if there had been no European vcr. This n~akcj
b even make M attack and &concert and a d u s e the conditious in America fa~orable;rs respects employment,
u m y and deliver Lot and the Sorlomiter
dl their but it no doubt necceaihtes that many Americans bust
g&
'Ihs f m s all a p u that tLe citw, the armies, work at harder manual kbor th.11 they have brvn
$he h g l y powers of that b y , wera v q meagu in aocustomed to, rs oar heavy work hw been Inrgely
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n'Il0 --IRE A--~-PRCHISTS?

'2'IBCHfSX, 3s u p h i l ~ ~ o p i i~ccor&r,o
~,,
to the EncpclJpedia Erittaaia, is rhc oppacite of Socidisn.
The aim of the Sor.dirts i:- to crater :J power in the
Gorcr-ezt
a d to n!die t.5e G ~ 3 St
t n;?, as they call
the prospecti~esclciaht arran,-ent,
the controlling
fador in nearly e r e q activity of hum= life. Anarchism
U fist fiz State b e a d y hm too much *me?, and
thrt n e a r 1 all d:e troubl~sof maokhd originate from
thst fact. Soc.inli;m Erliercg in ,-entrg!ization of power
more and more, iu behalf of the peaplc. -4carchism
belieres in decentraliz~tionfor the same reclson.
w m c r g in the the0ric.s of =archim me of k o
distinct schools, the one believhg in tile gradual sprmd
of their doctrines agd the other believing that force h
necessar;r. There is great antaganism be*een the two
schocls of thought, but both admit that if &eir philorophp shorJd prevail it would wipe out the weaker n;entd,
is not a
moral and physical ~pecimensof the race.
very clieerlul outlmk for an? of ua that me prirablp
forced to admit, just to ourileltes, that we are not aa
strong either nmInUy, morally or p h p i d y , y we
could r i s h !
We do not know to which of these s b L a of thought
Alexander Besliman and Emma Q o l b belong. We
only h o w that these t r o are lergely in the pnbLic q e a t
preeent as thep haye just been relawed from prison and
PFO hewn as mrchiSt leadus. B g b L described
correctlp as "a studious, earnest, middy read man of
wry pleemnt, quiet mamer." He desimater himself as
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an idealist nhote viers ncd I2enl3 conflict rPith t h m of
capital." \Then d i e d in court if he was an miuchist he
rc.fuscd to n=n-er, further than to my, "The hearing is
*n inmaion of my anecienoe a d my thoughts, not aa
inquiry into my actions."
I n the Homestead steel strike t~enty-eightrears ago,
when he was but a lad, BergB o t a d injared E C.
FricX, and fcr that crimc p e n t fourteen years in B Pennsylranir prison. H
is sentence of h o pegn a t Atlanta
l'e~tenri3r,., juct completed, ass for vioktion of the
fedition aci. ?lies Coldman aas arrested and seritenccd
3t f l : ~snnic f illle a1 Cerlmsn and has just been rclcascd
k o m tile Uirsouri Etatc P e n i t e u t i q at JcXcrson Citr.
Eoth Mr. CErkman and U i s s W h a n bare issued
statementi ol? couilitions in their p!m3 of confinrment
that call far inre+tigation m d netion Officers a k o
dischcy the state or federal rules in their rnlnqement
of prisons arc alxrchists themaelrcs, are they mt? The
meaning oi t h e word *'Am.rchf' is ''without mlc" and
rules are eren more necessaT for the rulers than for the
ruled. If a r d e r does not abide bbp the ru!a expressly
p r e p n d to limit his ovn poacr, how cro he, rith r

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good corscionce, require cf o:hers that tLer keep the

rules he is n:ppowd to cntarcc!?
And then comes up the qucrtion of blrhcrirm. 13
that Anarchism? The gemera1 idea in the public mind
eeemr to be that it arnou1.1ts to the scme thing. and there
has been a last amount of licmture circulated to cnc o w e thrt idea But we have an intareoting prod
that the two are quite diiTer?nt, and that not in R w i a ,
rhere tb mmch.bb u e r e e ~ g n i z d a&* *Pmatc
and distinct from the Bolshe~-iats(Scchlids). We had
the illustration in this countrv, a t a lecture room of the
Rand School. =!me them rras a lecture on the mecaiug
of t h e term "so~ict". The hour dc\-ot?d t~ the lecture on
this topic hod passed; sl;d h e roor.1 uar occupied by a
committee givuig urel'ill tttentiou to the homing
problem, r h e n i t KM burd open by a gang that threw
them into the atreet, along a i t h their furniture, and
made a complete wreck of the Mom. The men who
broke up this orderly mectiry of thinking men and
women were ux:ckiAq nere they not? If not, what
r e r e the).? At any rate they were not friendy to thr
sol-iet (&ishe\-kt) id= and made tile attack for that
reaswn.
And hat about those riots in O d s ? There a mob
of fire tilousand people partislly wrecked the c o ~ n t y
court h o w with bombs in order to ntaL their vengeance on the n e p o whom they finally ~ c w d e d
lynching. All law snd order were thrown to the aindm,
and the mayor who attempted ta stem the tide N
s t r u g up and barely e3cp.ped with hie life. Ia it not 8
gmd time to do a litile knrt-searching on then
qdons?
On August 9th, Representative Blanton, Democnrt, of
Teue i n t r o d u d in Congress a joint resolution ''decluing that a state of anarchy e x h in United Stxh,
authorizing the president to f r interdate
~
mails a&
tr&c from further udawful interference, and to a&
quately protect citizens in thck prop*
righta" Has
llepresentatirc Elarton is apparently amusing OM or
more departmcntg of the Goremment itself of not
living up to t!ie rc!cs '\vhicll hare been prepand bf
Congesa to limit its poaers. His m i t i o n i n that tb
men who kEve violnkd these mlw nre anOTCbiCtL L
that t r u e ?

At Portland, Oregon, on September 15th, Resident

ITilson expressed conviction that unlesa the Ircrgue of
Sation3 b e c o ~ e sa reality, now existing Oovemmentr
will be overthrown aud t l ~ e i rform changed. On the
fame &y Senator O r e n u n of North Cuolinr in the
United Stotcs Senate ussd almost the rrms h g u q e ,
~ a g n g "Until
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t!:ia ia done there can be uo pew. but
uurci:, rcro:oticn, s:m-ation and awc11y:rill ahlk up

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AGRICULTURE and HUSBANDRY

AGRlCULTURE ZI)' ALASK.4
HE AREA of Alaska is a little more than the combined a r m of Maine. Sew- Hampshire. Vermont,
Jiassachusettc, Rhode Island, Connecticut, 4cw Tor!;,
S e w Jerscp, Pennsylvania. Delarc-am, 3Iarylar.d, Virginia, \Vest Virginia, Sorth Carolina, Soutlr Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The tillable arm is h u t q u d to tbat of Connecticut.
Much of the land, ewn on rather steep hillside*. is
boggy, the drainage k i n g poor. The formation of the
roil and the blanket of moss, dm& nnivcraallr present,
greatly extends the marshp area. I n some places the
layer of dead and living moss covers t ! g~ o u n d to a
depth of sevcral fect. The poncr possessed by the moss
of absorbing nnd retaining l u g e amounts of wcter and
its character as n nonconductor of ~ C P ?will. to some
ertent, account for the cold, n e t condition of thc underlying soil. The pregnce of this dense mossy laycr ma1;ci
travelling very difficult, since crcviccs, rocks, fallen
limbs, and trees are so co~ercdthat numerous pitfalls
are hidden from sight. I3enefcid results follow the
remoral of the moss so that the soil mar be sarmed
u i d thawed earlier in thc season.
In general, the coo-it of Alska is characterized I)!g e n t rainfall and a rather constant temperature. due to
the Japan current, ahich sweeps thc nholc c a d . I n
many placer zero temperature is seldom expericrced.
The average daily range of the thermoxmter dming the
summer months is very small. The temperature a t
Wmgell, Juneau and Sitka are almost the same ao
those for the same period at Trondhjem and Bergen, in
h'om-ay, Helsiagtors, Finland, the whole of Scotland
m d thc OrLney Islands. The total amount of summer
rainfall, while large, is not clcesive. I n general, along
the coast rcgion, the wintert snow has disappeared a t
sea l e r d hy the middle of April, a!thocgh mow flurries
are comnlon for some time after that date. Killing frosts
u e seldom experienced between May and October.
The organic content of man:; of tlie Ala.4ian soi!s is
rcry much higher thnn .in any of the agric.uliura1 lands
of the States. Frequently the soil is arirlulous and
require considerable lime to sweeten it. I n placrs the
roil is p e q in appearance and when dry it bulna
redily. There is considerable of this mil in the southeastern portion. I n southwestern Alaska n gnvclly submil is morc J u n d n n t and thc presentx of volcanic
material in some plnces renders tbe soil very rich and
r e q u h less drainage.

Tile southeartem part of ,Usjlia is hcaviI:; embered

c-ith a grswtll that will ercntually be very rduablc.
Thc spruce grows pight fcet in diameter and more than
two hcndred feet high; red aod yellow ccdars abound,
11s1:ally a t ~omr?little devation above the sea. As thc
exportation oi lumbcr is un!3\\-ful the only use of the
forests at the prcsent time is for lumber and fuel for
t hc sparac population.
Thc gnsses of A l ~ ! i a flolirish to an extraordinnrp
cleg~ecin nll parts of thc country. \Vherever the timber
is cut a n y and the undergrowth of &rubs is kept
dolln, a dcnw g r o ~ t hof g a s s soon taken pie, to the
c+clu.;ion o: all other plant$. Timothy, orchard grass,
and blue grass grow to p 3 t size. One of the most
cornam nctire grasses is the ,Unalran red top. It is n
proclineni factor in nearly all p u s mixtures and frequently excceck n man in height.- White clorer is spreading rapitlly. The grass is nutritious, the cattle n l ~ a ~ s
becoc:ing slerk and fat during the summer =son.
Alaskans claim that i t is more expensi\-e to make hap
,
on the g c u n d than i t is to bring i t from San Franctcco
or Scattlc, but this is because of the crude hnnd-sc~zhe
..
methocia cxploped. A few days' work in leveling off the
irregular I~umnocks,M that mowers and horse rakes
t
coultl I* uqcd, soultl rcduce the cost to a few dollus
per t a x
Thc abundance of berries in Alzska has been a subject
of rcmark by everyone who has mitten oonoerning this
country. The flavor of most Alaskan berries is escellmt.
They arc widely used for foad, being put up by the
v:hitcs in the usual nay in preserves, jellies aii3-i.aos;
among the natives the principal method of prewving
them is in scd oil.
One of the native plants uscd to a considerable extent
is 5vild r:ce, tfrc undergroufid bulbs of ahich are collcctctl. Cried, powtlered, aud lnade into a sort of cakr.
Bcach peas grow- i : ~many portions of the country. The
p!cllti yield nbundnntl!-, and the pods are well filled vith
-mJl, juicy peas about the size of the French p e a of
the xnrkct.
There is quite a number of pot herb plants jrhich
grow nncll in ~\1*1;a, nmong which are skunk-cabbage,
~hcphrrd'a pars, horse-radish, dandelion, and turnip
tops. The hardier vegetables of our own garden rlso do
wcll, such as lettuce, radishes, carrob, parsnips, onionti,
PC=. snap beans and rhubarb.
Potatoes grow, but not to o size) desked, although
isolated specimens weighing a pound each am Q k

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olitzined. I n rcme nleecs cs5bage aar.d c.ulfloaa n;!l

I!asl;a. RT-P.c=t? ?r.d barli-r are grown in a ? c i e n t
not heol. Samplcz arc frequently swn o i i h abnnrmtll
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sinn2snce in tl:e ~ic;.th 01 l:;lr.;pe t s supply 1 ~ 2 1
lcF-s\.ior cf beets and t u m i p ~ ,the p k t r fr?quut!y c:erund:, ar,d also t a goCiC e\:?ri:t iar crport. C'sttls,
atten!atir.g to c o ~ l p l c tthcir
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life c>tr!e in one season. rl:e?p azd *\vine ere esin;!~licl!* ;aiscd in the= countrib?,
I n s s ~ Bcnxs no criiargcd root is fsrrncd ncd ihe plan: s;l~.ep doing n c l l i.c Im!sr;d, n'liich app-ws 12:s nuopim s to eeed early. Some rnrieties ci birnjp are 12;s ticas from 33 a g l . i ~ J t u dstandpoht thnn Alaska.
subject to this undesirhble trait t t m others.
CIIX h o p s for the i ~ t u r rof &h's
'Eic rc:tl:cS ai gardening which have k e n generally dzvcriopmen: lie chiefly in the relatively rLight climatic
employed are rerv poor. Often a llsrge n r n ~ m of
t l a k r tlsnges which we judge will be required to make LIL?
is cspndcc! in pinnticg n c r o ~but~ occ? plaxtecl it is coaa country more ccngnid. This pan of the wuntry
J l o ~ e dto care for it9zlE. C1o.e plectiug r m s to be n-ill rrruzl!y bc the fir-L to be dereioped. But our h o p s
the r d e . Pohtoes are gecerdly rlmt~c!
eiu inch- apcrt e s t ~ n dto rlla iuthest limit3 of the intsior. W e trust
in roll--Escns?:t.-d nct more ihnu a foot. Thc r c d t of i n our Gcd that he has dl the meam at ilis diypo~pl,nnd
such glanting i; a thick growth of vines that covers the all the -mvi-rr required, to bring d o a t such climatic
grouni to such m extent tBai the sun's rays nc-;er reach chmgc~.s will evectuolly make the whole interior of
33 :L
the groucd
It is not surpri~ing
- thrt emall potatoes . U d a "rcjoice a3d ~~CSSOILI as the ros".-IsaiSh
r e r d t from sncb plating. k d d i n g up of the coil is
OLD MAXIHS VALL7ABLE
,perally practiced. Tmallp thc bcls are form4 e h u t
AST I 1--ll?MER hs becn laughed at for givhg
three or four feet wide and r a i z d Li high abore the
crdexce to the anciezt maxima of the farm, but
general level as con be done ecocornically.
the r r i k d States llcpcrtment of Agriculture has
At nearlp ere? A!n.kan rillsge ss=c cow. p i 2 a ~ d
t h o q h t thcsc rural pro~erhsn.oh,r of an inrest$ation.
po~dtrpare kept. a-hi!e k r s s are kept =t come of t!:e
The rcsdt is t l u t mazy of them hove been prored to be
!o*r
places. At serrrnl plzces clairies are m k t a i s e d ,
the eyprcssion of the keen common oense of agriculhrreupplics of milk and m a l l c;u=tities of butter 5e'sg
ists of olden time and vorth perpeixating.
furnished d u r i ~ gmscp mont!ls of the year. P i p thrire
It is &5cult in the countrp to hc\v just thc b s t time
esceedinglp well bat when allowed to n?n at l a r p their
to p h n t diiierert seeds. 'I%o old ma*
furnish correct
flesh is liable to acquire 3 fishy flayor. Protection of live infcnnation by makirg comparison with the develop
stoc?: from the n-intar rsins is exential, although there
menr of othcr planrs under local cozditions. Beans are
is a Cock of sheep on one cf the islands that !us no
heit phcted rnen thc blackberry bushes blofson. Ewly
o*cr ?helter than thst prorid2d hy a r c i very *omus
gardenkg nu? commence when the catkins hare formed
gro\rth of spyuce rrew. The reinter range is of little
on the maple trees. At the close of the reaqon warning
\.due, as the g a s s c s contcin iitt!? EL:?rltion z f k r being
of frcst L given b ~ t!lc
- maturing of the c d e b u r T ~
s d e d t p the winter rsin;.
'Klcre is ri best tinie for e r c v farm operation, and
In aoutheastcin ll3::;2. ~Sththe erception of the this is aeccrztc.1:; iudic~tedby some tree, shrub or p l a t .
tide Eats, l a d must ilr5t ;>? c!rnrzd of the derse farest Scicntks b.ave imagined thct their "scientifi~'~'instrugrcx21, and in some plac~sthe dec? n;css \rill have to bc r n e ~ t ssere silprior to an-thing el-, but the WashinG-.
renal-ed. The sprwe stumps m u t be dng out, as ther ton r c s r c h c r s arc demonstrating something that the
are v e q slow i3 rot~i::g, aud not irf rc-quently prodrcc Bib!e ages rgo said might be espected n o s : "The vkdo:n
Icrge second-gron-th timber. 13 atditiox to ckark;, t t . . ~ of t!ieir aisc men shdl perish [bc- found comparatively
h n d m u t t c thorou~hl;rh i n e d azd protected agciu~t sortUessl ;olld the ucdere~andiagof their pr~deri: mcu
EceLmge from abo:-e. TIIL ditching and rezoi-31 of s t d l be hid."-Isaiah
23 :1P.
s t m , is
~ \-cry
~ luborIous and csyc?;s;;e. In the sostha?stc.rn portion of tht c~ilctry&c csp:rse cf clearing JrECETARIA4,YIS:7fA SETTLED QLXSTIOI\
m a y the st7n.1~~
will uot be rct-icirrd, nor is drninixg
IX Lord atc roast lamb and settlc'd the vegctdhn
r..zc?ss3ry t o t!le ss21? cstcril. Lzc.!; o!' i?lar::cts ant! transqccsiion, and since fia hror;s tbnt hnmon beings
prtetion facilities retard ;he ng:ic.~!:;:rcl dorelcpmett r q i r e s o ~ mcnt
c
wc fecl xire he will so arrange matters
cf the c o u t r r , but these are kixg L~iprovedg~duall!.. in the k c o n i c g GolOcn Age that dl will hare opporn l c n c h a t i c conditioa.;, t o p o ~ a y h y ,soils, etc.. of t m i t g to get thclr quota. The distribution of mcab
Sorapy, Iceleod, the Orlatty Ielzd.:, s- \rc.!l a; Fcst- is a silbjeit to which any ruler can afford to give
land, Sr:cden a r d Finland, are con~parcclwith those cf proiound a;rcntio~l. I t is something that touches the
Alaslia, it s5e:ns pra(2rtL'le that al:at his been ncconiplish- inttreria of erery h m z n being except reget~rinnsand
d in these E u r 3 ~ e r ncocctries caa also be done in m A others as do nct acar leather shoes.

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flocks of dzck.4 and gt3.2~. -4 single duck is easy prry
for an eagle; h i t let this king of Lirtl* apprnr near these
nesting plrces, and he will be attacked and literally t o r .
in pieces by sxarnls of ducks, which, at tlw rest of a feu-

Lives protect one another.

OR-ingto a low grade of moral ethics on the part of
the p e a t Inen of thc xorid, hummity is still in a darkage stage where the fittest to survive are imaginrd to be
the most ferocious, unscrupulous and destructive. Tho.5~
to ~ r h o mhomage is paid are still as in the dark past of
man, "the m i g h b men" and those a h o by what e
prominent thinker t e r m "commercial cannibalism"
hare amassed immense stores of gm&. The wisdom
of thi3 world ia their wisdom. h-one other would be
permitted to be taught. Time and again in the dark
ages the world's great ones hare d r s m e d various
h~unanetheories in the blood of their advocates and
adherents.
The best wisdom for the common people is to follow
what is termed c l i a e wisdom As James says, "The
wisdom that is from above is first pure [sincere, not
double dealmg]. then peaceable [not rrarlike], gentle
[not rough and boisterous], and easy to be entreated
[not hard hearted], full of mercy [not cruel. ferocious
and destn~ctire], and good fruits [not evil fruitage of
wicked acts], without partialitg [treating all alike with
liindness], and without hnocrisy." How dserent from
present methods of persistent deception of the people in
the public press, in the pulpit and everywhere else that
it pays to withold or distort the truth!-Tames 3:17.
The time is coming when the antiquated type of great
man w i l l be as extinct as the monsters of the geologic
pad, and in their plcce the great ones of the Golden 9 g e
will be the gentle, Christlike lovers of mankind, who
rill be the beloved leaders of a world full of those of
whom it is said, 'The meek shall inherit the earth", and
r i t h the earth " e h d inherit everlasting life." (Matthew
5 :5,19:29) The a-orld d l be a good ]>lace for the
common people to li\.e in when the oppressors are gone
and =hen the people 1 0 ~ their
s
neighbors as themselres.

virhout roc]. .-:earn or elzctric, wires, and unaffected by

heat or cold. 'I'hc motor u.ill r1111 equally well in the air
or submcrgcd in trakr. It car1 be quickly installed in
nn automoljilc-after which no more 28-cent gasorm!
Mr. Smith says, 'This inrention d l furnish power
for heating houses, as well as lighting houses and all
buildings and streets. The electric railway companies
can rern0c.e their trolley wires, and dismantle their
costly poacr plants. .4U unsightly smoke stacks can be
removed, as thcre Kill be no need for coal. Pittsburgh,
the smoky c i q , can be made as light ss day. There w i l l
be no more coal famines in the winter months, as coal
will not be needed, and the coal mines can be sealed, and
the coal barons will be checked. Yotorists d
l operate
their automobiles without using gasoline"
Some day nen- sources of power are ddined to be
discorered, and if inrentor Smith hss an invention of the
claimed efficiency, he will be a renowned world benefactor. But the financial interests will won know ity
aorth, and -sill seek to quietly ' ' ~it,"in order to
prevent a catastrophic annihilation of wlaei in oil, coal
and public utiliQ properties.
The Good Book says that mch blessings are to be
divinely g i ~ e nto man that "eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither hare entered inta the heart of man, the
things which God hath prepared for them that love
him". (1 Corinthians 2 :9) In the Qolden Age dl men
sill love God for his gaodneas and far his matchless
charscter, and i t may be that some such imention as
inventor Smith's msy eoon appear to inaugurate some
of the blessings that are to come

FUTURE FOR THE AIRPLANE?

Aemnutics, which gpesks with

British caution, the airship appean to have a great
fuhue for
commerce where time ia a dominant
factor and the demand is suEcient to jnstify r large
machine.
It has also a p e a t field in the opening up of nev
countries where other means of communication are
difficult. Tlie o d y limitation to-size will be the cost of
the airship and its sheds, just as in steam vessels it is
the cost of the vessel and the cost of deepening the
ROTARY MAGNETIC MOTOR
O K SOON the problem will be solved of a mctirp harbors that limit the size of Atlantic liners.
Der~lopmentsof this character generally take place
povser and mechnnism far more efficient than yet
devised, is u ~ o n but
- ~C. H. R S m i t b of O<r~,no.S. ~lmrly. Orkcrwi2 ffnilurcs occur, as in the caw of the
k'., claims to have refuwd $1,000,000 for 3 new rotarv Great \\-c.ztrrn. It may be many y e m M o r e the rirship
magnetic motor. The new device, he eavs. will opera:tl is incrcnwd from its present marimurn of ;50 to 1,500
sutomobiles. street cars. locomotircs. shipplnr. I i g i ~ t i n ~fwt. If tho dercloprnent is subsidized or msiPted by
plants. m d in fact do a n ~ t h i n guhich is being doce bx the gorernrncnt, very rapid development may be acmmpliahcd.
my other prime mover.
In peace time the seaplane, airplane and airship will.
The machine b mid to be driven by magnets, on SJ
dm@
phn thrt any one can produce his o m power, hove their uses. But except for apeciPl semicea of high

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utility it is quertiol~ablewhether they w i l l play more

than a minor I~artas compared with steamship. railway
and motor t r w p o r t .
An errmple of spccial service wcu when an Italian
soprroo, engaged to sing in Paris, missed her train at
Xiion. She hired an airplane and got to Paris in good
time. Another artist flew from Paris to Deaurille to
keep his appointment Herminie Korner, leading lady of
the Uunich Theater, flew from Munich to the -4upburg
Theater and return with two of her company. Joe
Lakro, an actor, flew from Hanover to the Hamburg
Theater and dropped 60,000 dodgers over Hamburg.
While it is written that men "shall mount up on
eagles' wings" and the present development of the air
machine perhaps sdciently fulfills this prediction, there
u e ma& pronounced b i t a t i o n s on present rnethoda of
air transportstion, that something else may haye to be
looked for, for the complete fulfillment of the old
Biblical pronouncement.

SEA WEED UTJZlTIES

AIIIE MAX has been busy reaping and consuming the products of the surface of the earth, ha
has neglected an entire realm of the vegetable world.
I t is e s t i i t e d that there are some 15,000 varieties of
what in ignorance of its life-giving qualities is termed
wa "weed". Only a little attention has been paid to the
vegetable growth of the waters, but that has yielded
valuable results.
T h e idea has taken root in some astute minds that
reamed ma7 hare commercial or money-making possibilities, m d with selfishness as a motive, something is
being done to mrrh-e them raluable to humanity.
In Japrn the matter has been gom into for same time,
m d 600,000 Japanese n o r work in the seaweed indnstry,
turning the water grou-ths inta boots, picture frames,
muble &ring, electric switchboards and r subtitate
for cotton. Thc French seaneed beconics a stiffener for
mattand a oizing for straw hots. In South
Awtralia it works up into ropes and cord for fishing
neb. In Essex, England seaweed is used for fertilizer,
end in other parta of EnkIDPd "'Iavei' is akn as a
regetoblc In Ireland "tope," eatem hot, becomea a
remedy for rheumatism nod throat troubles. I n America
-weed is employed to regubte the bowels. Xow certain
nrietiea u e being trmsfonncd, with other materials,
into bricks for b u i l b g purposes.
According to Profereor Charlea E. Bessey, of the
Univew of Nebraska, seaweeds are d n s d e d umrding
to color, d there are many nrietiea-1,000 blueqrcan dimes, 10,000 green rerwecda, 1,600 brown mme& 2,500 red seaweeds m d h u t 400 rboerortr.
Parhpr it ru p e in reftmnoc to the hitherto ua-

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utilized fields of the sea that the Bible predicta that icr
the Golden Age, "I [God] will multiply the increme of
the field."-Ezekiel
36 S O .

HE PROCESS of extracting copper from ore hu

cost sirteen to twenty cents a pound. It required

the stamping of the o n to powder. sometimes its roasting, and then the chemical treatment to eparate the
metal from minerals composing the ore
A new procese, the Greenwrit, claim to e-xtract -the
copper directly from the ore at from seven to ten cents
ia
a pound. The method is electrolytic and the copper
practically pure.
Old p r m m obtain from 65% to 80% of the copper
in the ore. By the new method fmm 77% to 87% ia
secured.
I n ancient Hebrew times the mining and ertraction
of coppr aas described poetically: Ustone man melts
for coppr ;he searcheth the stone of thick darkness and
of the shadow of death; he hath d r rhnft far from
the wanderer: they that are forgotten of the foot are
suspended [in the ehaft] ;awry from mu! [in the shaft],
hath thrust
they waver to and fro; in the f i t
his hand ;he hath overturned m o n n f~rom the roots ;
in the roclcs he hath cleft cham&"
(Job 88:l-11)
There acre copper mines in the Sinai Peninml., and on
tlie Red Sea shores were furnrea m d the wharves
whence the copper was ahipped. In Uer tima of persecution Christiane were forced to work in the copper
mines of that locality.
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NITROGEN INDUSTRP
OEHYAX Government loan of 200,000,000 marks
was the basis for the great nitrogen works at Oppau,
near Lud~igshafen.The factory rJ1 have W a g e
capacity of 350,000 tons of ammonia fcrtilinr, d r
daily ~3p8cityof 2,800 tons, and will employ 8,000 to
9,000 persons. The first building of the eeven to be built,
is completely equipped a i t h machhry, end it magnitude may be sunaised from the fact tbrt it hne 3,500
telephones and haa already cost $750,000.

RECENT ClZELUICAL P U N T S

HE ACTIVITY of an industry may be indicated by

the number of patenb issued to inveptcm Patent9
in ehtmstg never were eo active before. , h a g mrsp
recent patmts us: a proclos for reparating nitrogen
from air, one for the recovery of iodine from redduer.
m d one for the formation of pmmoni. by meam of the
electric uc A proaar L patented for the de&dJtic
treatment of tinead mmp, one for r m
af e k b i c
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WHEX
IN INDUSTRY
YIXG Alcohol was dethroned aa a beverage
list July the annual u r of the drug UI the Cnited
States dropped from 269,000,000 to 100,000.000 gallons,
the latter q ~ ~ a n t ibeing
t y connuned largely in the various
arts, ant1 the differcnec having been drunk heretofore
wlely as a beverage.
I t is prcdicted. however, that the time is not far
distant when 2,500,000,000 gallom of alcohol rill be
annually employed in the arts and indlistriea and for
niotor fuel in automobiles. As the petroleum supply
drindlrs and the price of gasoline advances to that of
alcohol, alcohol will rapidly replace gasoliine as a fuel.
Even now denatured ethyl alcohol in carload lots is the
cherpcr. Furthermore. alcohol yields more power to the
gallon than gasolim, it does not clog carbureter:, it is
clean to handle, and does not have a disngreeable odor.
There are scores of untouched sources of commercial
dcohol. Anv plant, fruit or grain which can be fermented is a possible spring for the greater stream of the
drug which is yet to flow to do the work of man. Palms,
corn stalks, sawdust and the cactus are among the
articles which can be fermented into some kind of sugar,
and the sugar into alcohol. Alcohol may be enthroned
again as King-not as a beraage but as a'power, in the
realm where gasoline now reigns.
I n olden days dcohol was not known m a separate
dintillate, and the liquidn containing it were noteaorthp,
or notorious, as intoxicants. NOW-that
the fcmntrg is
legally dry as Bahara, the Biblical warnings against
intempemnce may be out of date, but they rill long
wire as reminders of former d a ~ s :for -ample, of an
England or an Smerica, made "merrie" by its liquors.

A regular service 1 3 operated from France to Morocco,

starting at Toulouw. with stops at Barcelona, Alicmtc,
Mdaga and Rnl~at,bringing Rabat two dats' journey
from Pnri~. Po~sengersand mail leave Paris by the
night train and the flight to Rabat. J f o r m . takes siitccn hours. A branch 1ir.c runs to Orm in Algeria. An
airplane service in also being arranged from London to
Rrithh West dfrica.
n
The period of human pr0grres.s beginning in 1800 ir
predicted in the Bible as "the day [priod] of hir p r e p
-tion"the preparation for the Golden Age by
means of every conceivable improvement that can make
for the comfort and well-being of people-Nahnm 2 : 3.

AFRICA AND TEE AllRPWNE

IB GEORGE LLOYD, Governor of Bombay, is
conridering a waplane service between Bombay and
-hi,
to be est.blished by New Yeu. An inland
p o d service k in hand between Bombay and the other
principal cities of India
The Belgian OoPernmrnt ia &out to develop commercial aviation on the Congo. There will be regular
mail and passenger service between Kixwham and StanIqville. The trip ad1 take two days, and the service
w i l l start after S e w Ycar, with twelve 300-horsepower
hydroplanw. Each plane will c a v 900 kilos at a speed
of I15 to 140 kilometers an hour.
Central Africa missionaries want hydroplanes to take
the place of a fleet of launches n o r running between
various mission rtations. At inland poinb landing^ r i l l
be arranged in the straight. smooth central streets of the
mti1.e towns, which are UPIIPII~
100 feet wide and
el#nd af gram and other obstrrla

CANADIAN CHEMISTBY
S ALBERTA, Crmsda, the Government h h t to
establish a reaearch department to .id in dmdeping
the natural r e o u r r e of tha province It ir hoped to
built up large induetrier in a d , oil, ruhv.1 g u 4
enlt. The Dominion Government hau p n p P e d a
tory of Canadian Chemical Industriq giving a runmey
of the industries devoted to chemistry md their work
for the past six years.

BRITISH MOTOR INDUSTRr

S THE PRICE of gwoline r k a them m with it
the zeal of inventor9 to dnirs a bcttcr fuel.
Hundred8 of minds are nor working on thir probhm
h'ottingham, England, reporto that an Aminventor has produced a fuel which has bem jwlgcd
wortby of an oflicial tsst. The new mator fnd L, chimed
to run an automobile thirty milea for tm cmb.

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT I N EJRM ZW#S

S Bible tima the relation between master d renant
war very close, despite the fact that these mmanta
wen sametimes hundreds in number. Abraham hut 318
mrrlnta barn in hie own houae, not counting their rim-and chidren. (Genesir 14 : 14) Job had 22,000 bmd uf
Live stock and it must have taken many manta to h k
after these. (Job 42 :12) Eliaha wre.plowing with twelve
yoke of oxen. rlso implying many m a n t a (1 Kings
19:19) Yet the customary salutation of an employer to
him -ants
was 'The Lord be with you", and tbe ctut o m q reply of the senant was. "The Lord blesa theew.
(Ruth 2 :4) Modern methods of demanda, curt d u d e ,
violence. machine guus. etc., do not point the way ta the
Golden Age. Wiser couneel r n ~ ~ prevail,
st
and it ail1
prerul. ur due time, for the time d
l come when the
p a n i n g creation. now reaching blindly after better
things, shall be delivered from the bondage of cormptiom
into a gloritws liberty from rin m d every evil thing.-

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NOTIFS ON INnOZA-ZA

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* item conceraiag the cam of infection korn

bsted cf mcceptibility to in0uaua being
par&icPLTly atfeted by antiseptic applications to the
nose md &at, the d b q consideration i~ the vitality
of tho indiridd.
fn the Cnited States S o 7 n hundred men rolmteered
for exhaustire tern. There m2n were in the best state
of health and sere kept so during the period of experiment. They were subjected to eveq possible mode of
iptoction. Live idcmza bacilli were sprayed hourly
into their nonr and thmatj. T h g were fed g e m with
their food. They rere 1;ept in close contact in nlrnost
every conceil-able re? with influenza patienth sleeping
with them, eating rith them, breathing the sane air,
and rigorously wing to get the diIn 9pite of dl
effarts, not one of thh hale a ~ heartf
d
group of sailors
contracted thc "fin". nis esperiment is ad~ancedas
strong proof of the theory that-the contrading of influent. ir principally a question of strong or weakened
condition of the bodyTke medical publication Eq;gcio publinhes n o t a on
the exprience with
in the common school in
Stockholm, Sueden. The school had 711 pupil. of whom
419 c~ntmctedthe disc=. So far as a careful study of
the recard goes, the ~prcndof the disease among the
pupils in the school was almost at the same rate ss the
avernga spread throughout the city. In consequence it
is not considered worth while to close the rehools becaw
tb fact that the pupils are together in the school docs
E O ~produce more danger from the disease than if the;r
were at home
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IMdlCBTTY TO "FLU"
BOARD SHIP,or wherever
quarters are
A
the chnnceo of influenza idection
high. A battleship
sleep with limited cubic spocs
deepiug

confined,

we

crew

where proper ventiktian t impossible, like the conditions in a crowded c i v tenement. Even in a hospital
ward,. with ten feet betaten bed centers, inf31ienz8
cprearla, but in thips where hammocks are tao feet apart,
says the London Lancet, the chances of infection are 123
times u gnat r b where the d o r s lie %ad-to-foof"

fashion, for infection rhk varies u the cube of the

dim,

d i m s two days d t e r 8 veU

d e b e d bwering of 1
5
u
t
y
in
:trro eyer tha cause
a long journey; in d e r the ~ A EofQ
too~ much
alcohol; in thc fuurth a tong
walk
d
f
e
r
thc
h g confinement aboard ship.
Anything that lowers ritnlity may open the doors t o
a prompt attack of "flu". The exhaustion may come
from n drug, from constipation, from indigestible fad,
from staying up too late, from overworking or uerckmg,
from a Et of passion, r:om bcdy rentilated lodging,
'~7)rki~g
or sleeping room, or from poor or under
nutrition.
Imm*snity to influenza ranges from Stnod none in
the under-naorished of rar countries to the almo?t
complete immunity of the athlete. It will tach 100
per e a t in the perfect h c m n bcings n-ho d
lbe deve!oped i n the Gol&n Age. It rill thea Iw h e , as the
Bible sots, "The Lord Kill gire rtragth unto bid
each anccrucbed to the

EE Xeav York & d i d Jmml pullinha ur inter-

people."-Psalm

29 :11.

PRETZNTIOLV OF PESTILENCE
HE REGCLATIOS nnd prevention of p a t epidemics ir in-gly
dircussed irr. tha London
Lonest. the leading British medical j
d The Lancet
iP concerned over the iaahili* of the profesi01~
to handle
the influeria pestilence. I t nsh the quertion:
uCnn tbe m t epidemlcr of dimme rblch from tlme tO
tlme srrecp over the earth be prcrented by humnn effort?
*When tbe recent truly terrlble epldcmk of Lnflucnu-re
use the aorda dellbemtely, tor the d e a t h outnumbe*
lmmuumrably those caused
four and a half parr of tb$
greatest war In hLstory-mept over the world. how_mnnf
were saved from Im attacks by lndlrldual or cornmunet
m e a r e s of precaution7 The medlcol profuslon =not
claim that the course of the -idem& ' ~ r u
a r h ~ &88-4
much less w e d , by any &ch mensurcr
"In the hMorp of ~Idemlcs.Indue- took lta o r l ~ nIn
region mmewkn nenr the Russian border of !hrkeston.
epreadlng along the trade mutee nr trnnnportation m o d
The epidemic focus of l n P u e w Is aomewhem on tb.Easterd
border of R u s k I t la not too moch for a recoutmctiw
medial p r o f d o n to oonceire tLc clearlug up of r r g l whlcb by L
u l n ~ ~ i b l lmi dv its neglect has every twenty:
d e or tLtm years orlglnatcd mrcs of d W 9 e rpreadlkf
over the globe. But thir eridence h restrlctccl to one particular outbreak of th.
T~KI
HFOUed Spaam I&uenza of 191519 uow we know mt where. The rroo*lr br
not show the w e dear w s s from o m well-dedrrtb
curter to tk rsn of tb. ~ t e The
. interms at rtak. me
the rewards of mcma & pmeotlng wen one single pan&-'
m l soch
~ as th.t of 1118 or lQ18,a n ou Coo wksal a scab

Immunity &pen& on p c r d vitality. lo the crse of

w r d mcdicrl tnea r h o bad ken inrmune for months, for 8 W

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The Cjolden Age for

"Prr-vcutntive mcclicinr cnn proudly clairn to have opened

the ryes ui rnvclcrn stntmmr~i rrnd ndmi~~iatrutulu

to the
over\vhclmirl,n Inlld~rt:~nce
to the stuts uucl the people, of
dealing seriuuslg \\-it11 rlle j,roblems of dbensr preventloo.
'l'oilny Inrzr. mr;tl~nod fnr-seeing measures \tirh this obJect
occupy n plucr in ~ ; r u c r l c ~politico.
I
"\Ve like ~ I Jpicture n wurltl t v h ~ r ethe prerentlon nnrl
eradimtion of all diwnse tlint can hr! pnrrcntrd or erudicntacl sl~oultlbe the nim-vm
the firat nl~n-f nut1onaI and
interaatlunal ~ k , l l c y and effort; uhcre mcxsurrs 1;aving us
their objecr the F:IV~:I?
of 11111lionsof h u m ~ ~lives
n
\ruultl be
though: cs worthy of a g:c:~t rt:~tesrnau'ae n e r ~ i e sfind of the
Intereat of the public nn I'reo Trdtlc, bimctullisn and the
nnfionallzatlon nf the r:til\vi~ys. \Vllell :he ?muke and nolse
of \var ha\-e clenred awily. and the nations are rer~lly n t
pence ngalin, the aratesnlrr! of the !rorltl could flntl no higher
or more atin~ulnt!ri~
aim fur their energies thrw the clennsing
Of epidemic breeding gounds."

carried world wid^. But EO supposition is insigDifiant

enough ro prevent a "scientist" from building a worldreforming theory upon it. 'l'hc "scicntilic" conclusion
is that "anorher wcr rrould be follosred by a widesprud
pestilence, and even. effort & o d d be made to a&
ware hi the future."
The truth a b u t the black plague peetilenor, M that
Eutope am flooded with ksietics who r u e infected but
immune to the pnelunonic plague, and that when the
infxtion spread it focnd aii unusually luge number of
persons in a low ~ t a t eof vitality owing to the world
scarcity of food. Yoi.wn gases and volcano88 probably
had nothing to do viith it.
Lcciecce is a useful handmaid of society when it
confines itself to facts. But the d i ~ i n eopinion of same
of it is as when Paul s p h of "science falsely so called"
(1 Timothy 6 : 20), and '<The wisdom of this world M
fooliahess nlth God."-1
Corinthians 3 :10.

The proMcm of thc U.D.'s is r a l acd great, and their

purpose is gocd. but it r:ould be better if they forgot the
"proudly" part. becal~ac '.Pride goeth bcforc destruction." (Prorcrl)~16: 18) E r i d e ~ t l ythe clean=hg of
pestilcnw foci depends upon worldrride g o d government, and ffmt cannot be e-qcctecl until the comiug FREh-CE HYGIEhYC RENEWAL
Golden Age ushers in the Kingdom of God. Tlien dl
CAUPLLIGPU'for the reconstruction of the regions of
disease will gradually be banished, uc! ilun~nzitj.built
France de~astatedby the war has been imu,rruratcd
up in vitdity until it will be impossible far g e r x s or by thc Interallied Congcss for Social Hygiene. This,
bacteria to h d a feedkg gro-ad in wenkeued tissue. according to the Medical Record, includes problems in
hygiene in the war territory that, on account of tho
VOLCANOES TO BLAbiE?
thoroughnew of Germnn "frightfulness", are novel m d
HX ILfEDICcU; profession has an idea 1 Every difficult.
conceivable source for the "flu" had been raked over,
Many French v e h , contray to rules of cidized r a r but it has required a "scientist?' to blame the pestilence fare, hove beell poisoned in o variety of ways. Here the
of 1918 .on the volcanoes. There uns on eruption of water itself must be actually disinfected by means of
Mount Kloet in Java recently which wiped out some ozone or a process known as javelinition. The inhabitthousands of natives, and years ago Krakatoa exploded ants are advised to boil the rater they use, and where
and U e d the upper air 115th the volcanic dust that they desire to reoccupy their properties on devastated
caused the brilliant sunsets of 1883. Thb proves that h d , are counseled to dig deep artesian wells so as
there hsve been p e a t volcanic eruptions, ahich must be avoid the perile to health of the driuking of palluted
the firot premise in estabkhbg the blame for the -'flu' surfaw water.
-on the volcanoes
Ln mauy places the soil itself will hare to be purified,
The "scientists" say that they do not h o w , ant1 some of it superficially and some quite deeply. Where
cannot be sure, and that "sutlicient time h a not elapsed" there are shell holes. ~?:inesand other dccp openings, an4
m d probably it might be added that they never wiil yater has collected, the surface-is trausformed from
know, but they ask respectful consideration for the idea good farm land into poisonous marshes. Malaria is a
that in some unexplainable and disconnected way the mccccc, and the Inlid has to be thoroughly and decply
thoroughly heat-sterilized contents of the volcmo~sdis- drained. I'spowcl surfaces are being disinfected, and
tributed throughout the atmosphere ma?- be, or migllt insect life dc.s;roycd, which might become a meliace to
be, responsible for the untold suKuing u d grief of humnn healtli by touching i1;fected places aud communipatilene.
cating the infection to thc people. Old latrines, dun,"
The theory is again that the poison gases let loose aver henpi, r&blt-s m d daughter houses receive s p i a l attenIKau'r Land" were carried el-qwhere by the winda tion, that the soil where they have k n may become fit
and aused the "0a" in Spain, & m y , Englmd, agoin for hum^ beings to live on. for children to play
FrPnce, South America, Africa, Asia and the United on and for the raising of food. I n some places there u c
States Of course, there were rahs to wash the air subterranean passages and dugouts, which oi tours have
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hea1U1, and thc filling in of which is arc of the pecnliar ITAtl.rlN BABIES DYING
p r o b l m being met br the acqencies started ir, motion br
T.lI.I.48 nAEI1CS are perishing fcr lack of m*
the C o n g for
~ Social Eygiene.
The Amcricnn Frce Milk and llclief for. Italy h u
been aJliing for ~100,000to provide dry milk and conC&7.. bF ADlWOIDS
dccsed milk for babies in Italy. Out of about 300,000
Italian babies needing 11dp only a little over one-tenth
been a great pr6\-nlcnce
F ~ T Y EE , ~ Sthere
of
tonsils and adenoid grotith
;a childreo, have b?cn proprly p r d d e d for. How eerious is the
in It@
the fact
which q u i r e remood by surgical opentions that are
during
the
war
ninety-three
per
cent
of
the
u t t l e were
md ncce,,av
both plinful and expensire. lt is
in order to enable the killed to feed the familia of Italian 6Cldicr~ The
h t there plloUld be
c ~ i l to
h dewlop in p,.,,rth md prmentdirrased or in9uenza epidemic caused the death of over r million
w&ened conditions for life. Prevention is much bctter pr*=sand left innumerrbic norsing babim behind,
howeTer, eFpecidy sine the sur@d
oper- thowands of whom hotre died from h& of nourishment.
firna
ationc mmt quito frcqucntly bz r e p t e d one or more It mpcrtcd that unless very 1WP qurntities of milk
are sent to Ital3; another you w i l l wo very fen brbiea
timea in rfter yearn.
corntry.
Even
ago it
known by some people that t
h "live
ora of p c i t k s by babics is one of the chief cross of
BEST HIFALn7-GuARb
dkmed md enlarged tanails and adenoid groehs, which
LL
KISDS of gcrmicidcr am emplayed by people
d t from the suction.
who
cm d o u for health vht gemrlesmess, but
Tonsils uc a nmssity to the Wr, especially ta
they
supply
a
fluid
acrrdioa
The
accordhg
tb the l'hiladelphia TuberculostS Committee
norking c~h,
S * ~of
remom
tonsib are an indicator of the condition of the body. the best One is
dirt,
but
it
took
r
"scicntise'
t6
l&O
c
~
l
t
m
of ths
thq we discrscd the b o d is out of
e-*rmd
contents
of
~
n
~
~
e
d
of
wadad
hands,
and
which nsultr most frequently either tiom over eating or
from not w i n g the right kind of foocls. TOOmncI: to ~ ~ ~ t h~t bvn farc thee w k r numbcr of @rmr
rrmoved with ths dirt. &tWVGI',
P y S the C C ~ milk is not
for it is too rich a food, unkathe
mittcc,
n
singla
rplash
in
m
p
v
water
is
not adequnte,
child is older and gets pleoty of excrck.
but
the
hands
must
be
d
i
l
i
m
y
and
f
9
0
e n t l ~rcrubB~ remaving the
the tonsil,,
lIrd. unless
them is a tcnwners of the mi~sclesof the n& ladkg to b d , cff~tuallyenough
visibly m o r e tho soiled
thooc p a t . This t~oublccan be c a w by a g a d u a b condition, in order to be d@ewrded
infection. It is hcreic treatment to "wUh and be than'',
osteopath or chiropractar.
Diseased tonsils arc alone rutfrcient cane for adenoid but pcrlieps worth while, particularly if the old aa
net' ;t
growths. Thrsc growths ere also caneed bp mothers not PCIC tNC that
suiticiently cleansing the b ~ b f snostrils, thus causing
TBE DRUG F7CE
8 gathering of matter aod an irritated condition.
-Catarrh, which results from an q ~ a v a t e dcold when
CCORDISG t o tho X m Tork City H d t h Depa*
tha system ia out of condition. is arothcr cauw- of
mmt. obrrvationa made o* 2,776 drug usem,
rdcnoid growths. I n fad anything that irritates the indicrrte t h t in a b u t half the c a w acret -s
of drug
tonsils acd those parts of the now, kuch as whaopiw lure thc can? of other persons part of the time, thw
cough. long b r d crving spells, ck., will cause adenoid i n c r e ~ i n gthe danger of sprp.d of the via. Besides the
gron-ths m d diwased tonsil.
number rcgister~d-about 6,C)Oetbere arc about 90,000
Children r h o suffer wit11 catarrhal colds should be other addicts in the city. I t is tviclcnt that there u o
W g h t how to clrrn~cthe nasal psmgcs canrenicnt!~ rr.any recret channels thraugh which
ma reaching
md cfEciently. and this is something m a y adults do not the victims. Int:re&ing f t ~ m
are publidhcd concerning
know. The process is esrremely shplc.
thc 'Jirt:;placc of drug w s registckd including the
Into a cilp of warm water. quite warm to the toucii Vnitcd Sratcs u-ith 2.621, and Italy second with nearly
but not hot, sprinkle enough mlt ta give it a m i l a d t ns many. Thc way in which the users bccrms involved
task. Thm using the hand rs a naptrclc snuff the in the mcshea of the drug habit was told b? r 1mlution thoroug3.r up Grrt one w t r i l and then the number. 1,222 f d thmugh evil sssocirtiom, 480 thrwh
0 t h until some of it m . s down the throat. Expd the illnrsr. lO8 to relieve pain, 72 h g h inw-4
:
mhts of the nose and repeat until fully clean&.
alcoholic drink, 60 opium aneking, 1% fam* trouble,
Follow by @?ghg ths throat with the uma dutbn. 3 d m uld out, and 30 for the plersms af the

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RECIPE9
Eonty P.u&'ing
KTIRGLY di.sregarding the r!i~':t mcdicina! value
3 cup honer; 6 oul?ccs bread crumbs; 4 cup milk;
I
worthy r i ~ ; ~of! half lemon: ? teaspoon ginger; 2 egg y 0 . b ;
of honer, it is P rrho!~:a~::c, U Y C ~ I Lfo~d?ti:E
of extended use. It is qrmb!r and intrcr!uc;e a p l ~ a s - 2 iaSlc7pwns butter: 2 egg whites; mix honey and
ing trarjety an? makrn thc dlct mox apptiring aa,! Lrcad crumbs; ndtl mill:, searoning, rolh of t a g ; beat
consequently more wholrwme. Tlie cheapest form in mixtilre thozoug!llp; add butter and d J h of egga well
whic5 to buy honey ia extract. in hsttles. Iloney makes beaten ; atenm a b u t % hours in pudding mold which i o
& large nuiber of good rccipcs, some of which arc as not =ore than threequarten full.
follows :
Ronw Brced
1 quart cream; 6 b d b
~ g e m i f CUP d d a t c ? t
2 cups h m q ; 4 alps r$ flour; teaspoon soda : 4 teaconbm~
q o o m anheed; 2 tc8rpoonn ginger; 4 teaspoons pander- flarorcd h o n ~ ;chill honey b P
*
ed cardsmom seed; 2 egg yolks; f c,,p brown ellgar; it in pan of ice water; whip creun; add it ta honer.
silt flow with spices aad soda; add otl\er ingcdic;l',i; miriug well; line a dish with 1 . d ~fingas; fill with
put dough in W o w buttered pana to m itich tlept!, h o a c ~and cmam; m e nrY coldm d bake in hot own.
Fruit d B o w J a g
Bo.nry Sponge Cape
A good jell? may be mede from winter apples a d
? cup m F r ; f cup honer ; 4 eggs ; 1 car d t e d flour : hon~?,wing a mpfal of h o n to
~ crch cupful of apple
mix mgar md h o n ~ boil
:
until syrup + i s a thread j ~ , and
, ~ prmng
as in a r ~ - n t l p
hmT
~ l l e n&OP.&
from F p n ;beat !'oh of fe6"' until light ; e m b a& dth-other fruits mitabk
jelly; the more
pdar qnlp over Y O of~ e g p ; beat mkture until cold; d&c&-ly flarored honey are b& for tbia purporr.
add %OW; at md fold beaten whites of eggs into d a l f a honcp g i h g arr errpecaly
tar&
mixture; bake 40 or 50 minutes in pan lined with
Honey Ft:&ye
buttered p a p , in slow oven.
3 cups sugar; 4 crlp tone!- : 3 c7.1p water; t eg;
c
H o n q P m d Cake
1 cvp mew; 8 cup h o a q ; 1 cup burkr; 4 e g p ; whikr ; 1 teaspoon ~anlllaextract ; boil togetha ruw.
bon" and water until syrup rpina a thread when drop
.~
2 ~ p pastrp
s
flour; 3 teaspoon p ~ r d e r ctar
F C Z ~ ; 3 tcazpoon man; t t=poon
nlaiil cr, ormge- ped frcm c spoon (ahout 250 degrees F.) ; pour q - u a
flower water; rub together but?er acd s::g:r; acLi over well-lcakn whiter of egp, beating o o n t i n w d v
h a q ; add
of eggs wnJ h & n ; drJ~ h i b of
s eggs,
mixt'ue
Pour
Paw ;
k t c n to stiff froth; thcn pkin or ormge-i?owcr aate:; add flavoring after mk-ture har cooled a Bttle. Drop
Papcr.
add p d C a y flour sifM ~ t m&h and cardamom Jced ; in rnnll piems On buttCred Or parha
beat misture 10 minuks; put dough into ram1 tin with may be omitted.
Raney Caramels
high sides; bolie in elox oren one hour.
"
c
u
p
s
granukted
sugar ;4 cop cream or milk ;) tu_n
Eoney Drop CaLcs
4 cup honq; 2 cap butter; 4 teaspoonc*amon ; hone?; h p butter; mix i n g r d h t s ; h a t .ad r
4 ~ r s p o o ndoves; 1 egg ; 14 to 2 cups f l o u ; 4 terspoon until mew ir dissolved; cook without rtirrhg until n
be ronned from a.littlc of mi*=
hpptd
&#
,
; 2 tab!espoons ,rater; 1 cup *&kke,
cut in mall firm ball
beat hone, md butter until butter meIb Ivbde int3 cold water: beat niistura until it crptallizer; pan?
the m k h r e is wann 'add tho spices; when cold add part into buttere2 paus; cut into squaru; the additioll of
of ibn, egg well beaten, so& dis~~lvcd
in water, and. pecnnnuts im?mrca these
rri6ir.s; add enough more fl01i.r to make a dough that will
Hony Popcam E&
&P b fnemfb on a L.lCcred tin ; xonc? be hnt,.d up,,t LbOt
hdd
US &pa, h b r e a in a moderate oren.
Lei: aithont beir.5 greatly chrngtd color or flavor :if
Honey Brar. CooEies
it ia herted carefully moat of the water is erpahd; the
2 tablespoom butter; f cup honey; 2 egp ; f to 4 honey then b m e r hard on d i n g and caa be used for
t e r r s ~rod.; 4 cup flour ; 1 cup bran ; teupoon m k q popcorn U ; To mrts than, dip the popped
powdered artsed; rub together butter aud Donep; add corn into tke hot honey, rhape into bdb and cod. IIone?
eggs unbe&tcn;beat mixture thoroughly; rift tqether popcorn b d h absorb moirturo when atancling in the air.
IY
d a , misted;
, combine dl the ingre0imta; drop T h q mud t h d u r e ba eithrr kept very d d y covered
from feupoon on buttered tin ;haka in moderate own. or nkGlted md dried b e being wed,
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RELIGION curd PHILOSOPHY

MILUOlVS NOW LIVING WILL NEYER DIE

mu. If a man keep my nying,
he shall never dle."John 8: 5L
E IXQGIRISG mind naturally asks: Why should
man we death at all? Is it not posaible for him to
live everlastinglp? Xot understanding why death baa
=>-aged the human race and what remedy Jehovah has
pxwided against it, the many hare concluded that death
hu drcrya prm-ailed among men and men rill always
dic. An understanding of the Scriptures clarifies the
mbject entirely.
I'he rnrd created but one man--4dam.
All the works
d Jehonh me perfect. (Deutcronomy 32 :4) 31an was
created in the image and likeness of God and Jehovah
e
v
e him dominion over the things of earth. (Genesis
&: b628) The first man, Adam, king perfect in organism and having a perfect rife, Eve, and the right to
proppte his race and fill the earth. not only had life
and liberty and happinem himself but could ha\-e maint.incd the rune for all of his offepring had he hen
obedient to Jeho~xh. Chd had informed him t.hot a
violation ef his law would result in the l m of e v e M i n g
ba had. The Genesis account is that God told Adnm tkllt
dnth would mdt from disobedience of the divine
coamand Man did violate God's law and was aenb e d to die, the farmd ps -- of the judgment reading :
'Tor dust thou art and unto dust thou mhdt &urn."
To cairn this judgment of death God eeparated Adun
fmm hb perfect home, Eden. deprived him of the perfect
foad which grew there. cawed him to feed upon the
poimiour dements of tire earth, and thus the death
mtencc was esccutcd.
Tk perfect man Adam hegat no children. bat while
-ing
the sentence of dcath he exercised his pro-tire
powers and t h e were born of Adam aad Eve
chiIdm. Tbey inherited the impcriections resulting to
their pumts by reason of the death qnteuce. "As by tin
dkbediof one man [Adam] .sin mtcd inta the
rerld, and death by sin. so d a t h has passed ~ p o nall
men, for that all horc rinnrd." (Romaus 5: 12) Thus
tbe whole r.ce cune under legal condemnation. and thus
~
~
d Gqd's
m arrangement
g
we ran appreciate
tbr words of the P m h i c t : "I3ehold, I was shapcn in
iniquity, and in uh did my mother eanaire mc""V'erIly, ~ C 1 1 y .I my nnto

of mankind, the rhola m ultimddt d d go into

hops foo
death and then w d d ba no
them in the futum Qal promirsd, W,that ha
would redeem man from death. Throwh the pmpkst
he mid: "I d
l m m m t h a n from tbt pamr of the
gmve ;I w i l l redeem thtm froan death."-Haa 13 :14

Sinceaperfectnunhad~d.ndb~dath
upon the r k , nothing but the life of a pnted mmn
could catisfy that judgment; and m n a dl of the h
~
~
race were imperfect, therefore "nona of them amM by
any means redeem his brother, nor gin to (3ad a ~ w m

for h S ' - Y h
49 :1.
and in
Jesus in his prthuman crib-tenco was the
order to carry out the Father% w i l l his lite nu transferred from spirit to human "God sending his own Son
in the likenem of sinful tfrsh, and for
ocmdemned
sin in the flesh." (Romans 8 :3) He wm rich in haven11 glory, wisdom and power, and tbougb be WM rich
"yet for ?OUTsakes he h r n e pmx, th.t ye t m h
h b povedy might be rich." ( 2 Corinthiana 8: 9) The
human race had lost the right to life, and dl were p i n g
into death. I t l ~ e nJesur ame he said: CI an amno tbat
they might hare life, and that they might brs ib mom
abundantly." (John 10: 10) "The Son of mrr, ame
not to be ienini~teredunto, but to rninbtm, and fa give
his life a roruom for many." (Matthew 20: 28 ' W e rsa
Jes=, who was made a little Iowcr than the .ngab for
the suffering of death, crowned with glory a d honor,
~ grace of God should taste death for every
that he 1 ) the
man."-Hebrews 2 :9.
The death and resurrection af Jam p r m i a - i
ramon1 or purchase price for-the enthe humur ru?e.
Then in God7a due time everp one of Adun'a ram, the
living and the dead, must h o w thir frct and haw a
chance to accept the benefits of it. 'Tor thin is good
and acceptable in the sight of God oar Saviour. who will
Ilare d l men to be saved [from ffie andemrution of
dtath bv the rmlsom sacrifice]. and to come unto t l ~ r
k n o w l ~ g eof the truth. For t h e n is one God. and one
Medintor between God and men. the man Christ J e s u ;
r h o pave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due
time." (1 Timothy Z : 8-6) This ramom prim for the
p u r h of -kind
from dmth tnr pmided marly
1.S00 years ago. But nten h e ~ econtinned to die for the
r e r r n it was not Cd'a due timt to begin fa offer them
P&
61:5.
Thir judgment of deuth being justly inllicted by life. "Cod rt the first did visit the Cientilca to take out
J s b v a h for a riolvtion of hh l o w could never h laversed of them r people iorhiaarme....Andafter t h L I d l
by him, and unleas he made some yrovisiou for the relief return, and build yin the hbemach of David, which

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is fallen down; ancl I will build again the ruins thereof, centurv than ever before. and with it has cunle a greater
and I rvi!l set it up: thiit the rrsiclue of men might seek enli~l~t-l~nlcnt
of proplc c.o:lcprnin~ the Erble. bwali:.e
aftcr thc I ~ r d and
, nll the nations upon whom my rime the tir?:c is due. -4ntl ow :L I : ~ - I ~ ~ S of \I:? Scriptun.s
k callcd, saith the Lorcl. who doeth all thrse things."u1.e li~:ili:::: 0111 tliot thc Iliblc llicrills c.xac~lywhat it
::;-.ril(.:y. t h s t .Ttbl:ovah pro\.ided tl~rouyhthe drat5
Acts 1 5 : 14 - 17.
;!r.cl rcill~rcciionoc .JCSIIS a purchn.;e prlcc for all men,
,Jchoyrh madc a l,ronli;?e to hithful -xbl.ahsm, sa,-ir;6,
'Inthy m d elldl all the families of the i-arth bz "nd in c;oc!'s tine time a kno\vletlge of this fact m u d
blesjed.9 The
of Abraham is the Christ, Jcalls be b r o ~ ~ g htot all, "kc'ai~sehe hati1 ~ p p o i n k da day in
the Head and the church hij bodv. ((jalatlafis 3 : 16, 2;. t l : ~~:l;ich he will judge tllc world in righteousness bp
s]
he Ilath ordained; rhere29; Colcssians 1 : 18) From the time of the death and that man [('hrist J e s ~ ~whom
uf
IIC
1
~
t
.
h
g
i
~
t
n
a.;jul.ancca
unto
all men, in that he h ~ l h
rwmredion of Jesus until llir second coming is the tinlr!
which God
visited the natiom of the earth alJ ! . a i d h i ~ l
the d~ad."--Acts 1:: 31.
\Vhrn are tlicsc prccious promises due to be fdiilled?
had the Gospel preac!lcd as r witness. according to
Jesus' prophetic steterncnt, in order that those ~ v l ~ olleferring to the article in our last issue concerning the
l~enrdand made a full consecration to do Jehot-ah's will end of the aorltl. 1i.c quotc again the I\-ords of t!!e
and rcnxin ohdiefit ucto their covenant might thus Vaster: ";\l?d the nations were angry, and thy wr.?th is
Ibe gntl~credout iron1 among nien. and with the great comc. and the time of the dead that the? shollltl be
K i l l s Christ Jesus, conetitute the promired seed of jndgecl, and that thou shouldest give reward cilto
Abraham, thro11gh which the blessings will comc to senants thc prophets, and to the saints, and to them.
innl?l;ind under Ucssiah'e reign. There will not be a grcnt !hat fcnr thy nrmc." (Revelation 11:16) C'lcarQ, the~i,
r~iimbcrof tllcsc. Jce11s hin~sclf is authority for sn:;ing
inany of these g e n t truths are now due to be understood,
that i t \rill be just 3 litrle flock, a compurativcly small h a u s e the old order is passing avay and the nca order
and every one of his diacil11c.s
number. (Luke l?:3?) Only tho* who, during the is mmirlg in. Jesus tniigl~t?
Gospel age and before the setting up of his kingdom. ~mphasized.his second coming and the establishment of
make a fcll consecratioll aud prove thercselvcs over- his kingdom. One of them, referring to that gIorio11a
comers have thc promiw of immortality. the promi* of time! wrote: "Times of refreshing shall come ftom the
face of the Lord [Jehovah], and he d send Jesm
joint heirship a i t h Christ Jest18 in Ilia kingdom.Rerelation 2 :10 ; 3 :21.
Christ, which before aas preached unto you, w h the
of reditUti0n of
For -7
good, hon& men and Tomen hare heavens muat retain until the h~
asked, mhat hope is there for me of getting Life ever- things, which God bath ~pokmby the m e of all his
lasting? The church spstems, through their creeds, holy propheb since the world began." ( A d 8: 19-21)
ha\*= answered this qcestion in this vise : Catholicism Therefore the time mnsi come when there shrill be offered
said : Only a v e q few die qnd go to hcaoen. The major- to d i n d the blessing= of being restored to the conity of Catholics a t death must spend s long p r i o d in ditions that Adam enjoyed defore he s h e d ; m e l 7 ,
pnrgatorp, and there is a chance of these being after- perfection of bod? and of mind, and perfection of conwards transsferred from purgatory to heaven. and all the ditions ~ ~ r r o u n d i nhim,
g insuring hi8 P m e a d * i
others mast ~ p e n dtheir eternie in fire a d brimstone. happiness.
being tarmentcd forevrr. The answer of the creeds of
Are we near the fulfillment of that prophecy?
,
& the answer of Jews -mncemhg the end of
the various P r o t e s h t ~psternsis rean? worse. A m r d i a g 6ot.e a
to their theory no p u r g a t o r ~even is provided. There is the world: "For then shall there be great tribulation
no hope of life merlasting in happiness according to such as w u not since the beginning of the world to this
their thmrp =cept for those who become members of time. no, nor ever shall b e And except those days
the church and die and go to heaven. ,411 others must should be shorlned, there should be no flesh saved: but
spend ekrnitp being tormented by fireproof devils. Is for the elect's sake those d a p shall be shortened.*there any wonder that ru~lonable,sensiMe men have Matther 84: 21, 23.
rejeded the churches, rejected the Bible, and eren
This sa-g
of Jesus is subject to only one intcrpreturned against God? Forced to believe that thls ars the tation; namt-lr, that the old order sill comfletely p l s g
only p r o e i o n made, t h q hare disregarded all B i b l i d away by the great& t h of trouble the world h a erw
teaching. This has been a great mistake.
k n o m ; that there w i l l never ba another mch t h e of
l be m great that dl the humen nce
Entering the Twentieth C e n w great truths are trat~ble;that i t d
being unfolded to maukind. The propem in inrention, would per* from the earth unlesa the Lord would
~ i e n c eand education in p u r l i a more muked in thin cause it to be hartend, but for hb eLct'8 &, n d y ,

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26, 1919

ZJt

t h w "horn hc bas M or t&m out of the world-tho

fire of my jealous).. For then m i . 1 turn ta the people
h r d Jcaru and thc true Chrirtiam-fcr the sake of a pure message, that they m dl call upon the n.ms of
6 thm drp w i l l be ~hortenedand will therefore the Lord, to serve him with one conwnt" (Zephaniah 3:
d t in nuny h~mrnbeings passing through this time 8,0) \?ly turn to the people c pure message after t h b
should the Lord permit time of trouble is over unless God intends that the
of trouble d t h o u t d~ing.
m y ta m p e death in that time of trouble unles he pcopIe should profit by it?
m y children hart ka left fathmless in thh time
azpected to & t h some good? Why say for the elect%
th.t ha b going to shorten the time, and thus M e of war Lnd r e ~ o l u t h ,d with comfort tht Lotd'a
m e r e a be but one conclusion. prophet up: '?rum thy fatherless children, I
from
The el& d i t u t e the seed of Abraham according to preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me."the promise, throagh which blessing shall be ministered Jeremiah 49 :11.
to the remainder of nunkind- 'J%en=fore God would
After tho* who pu6 through the time of trorrble ham
rpue aoma to pass through this time of trouble that the been ministered unto m d given the opportmitiea oi
elect might begin the reconstruction work of the hum= blessings by the Messiah, then those who have slept in
M y , M with those who remained on earth
their graves in desth LhJl be awakened d given 8
A e b ?during to the gnst time of trouble that is knowledge of the truth That will be-tbdr#due time"
now acting msnkind, the prophet of the Lord wrote: to hear the message concerhg the rmram. Ward
it ab.ll coma to pass that in all the land, saith the not at this, for the hour M coming in which .Il.in their
come
p.rb therein shall be cut off and die ;but the ga\.m shall hear his [Christ J d ] voice md
Lord,
third sh.U be left therein. And I w i l l bring the third forth; they that hare done good unto 8 remnv&on of
part h g h the fire [the fiery trouble]. and will refine life; and thep that have done evil [and dl ahp have gone
them rs dm is d e d , and will try them es gold t inta death have done evil] unto a mun&ion [restand6hal.l call on my name, and I wiU hear them: ing to life] by jadgmemts." (John 6: m,39, Revised
triad:
Id
l my, It is my people: and they shall soy, The Lord Verdon) "There shall be mumxtion of the a d ,
ia my God." (%chiah 13: 8,9) Why bring 8 part both of the just .nd of the unjukm (Acb 24: 15)
d the people through the fiery trouble unless it is God'r "Christ is risen from the d a d m d become the &stfruita
pnrpme to give than a churee to accept ths blessings of them that dept. For ainm by man [ A h ] came
thatghaIIbemiaisteredthrongh~7Cleulytbbu d e d t a , m b y m a n [ C h r b t J c s u ] a m s d s o t h e ~
mo dl
the pr~poa;for he q s theae will hear him and will xdi011 of the &ad. For aa dl in Adam die,
baome his people rad be obedient to him
in Christ shall be d e dire But every man in hfr uwn
concerning 0rder." ( 1 Corinthian# 16: 20-23) The a@e
then
the prophet d the Lard,
those who lme
in
time, mid: &%lessed pKw.Reds show that the If%Pst reign \mtd he
is
&at
the paar : the
rill delivm bath put
C!nemiea under hir f a The krt enemy that
him in time of trouble The Lord w i l l p m e m him and shall be destrayed ia death.*
It sin be during the reign of the glorioaa H u h
keep him dive, and he sha.U be b I e 4 upon the earth
[not in heaven] :and thou wilt not deliver him unto the that the following test will be fully naliad: L?f a man
w i l l of his enegnies." (Psdm 4 1 :1,3) This is a wonder- keep my saying, he shall nsvar aa death.'' It annot be
ful hianti= for mm in this hour of p a t dinturbance said that man, in the true t?enae, livg until he hu the
and d i s h to be wnsidarte of the poor and afflicted, legal right to live, and the legalright ta live will come to
to ded rightmesly w i t h their neighbors, to live in peace him only when it is oflered M a graciom gift &.rough
and honor the Lord. Such are the ones that are promised Christ Jcsu~,as the Apostle stipulateb (Romans 6 :23 ;
deli~eranaein the time of trouble. Those who seek 5 : 18,lI)) Jesus declared: USnd rhosaver lireth and
meehers and righteousness and aroid turmoils are belie~cthin me @hallnever die." (John 11:26) This
spcciallp promiaed protection in the time of trouble. Scripture must have a fultillment, and the time for the
beginning of its fulfillment L the beginnbg of resti-Zephaniah 2 :2, 3.
Referring again to the same p a t stress upon tile tution tinlcr, which commence with the r e i p of the
dead and *g
away,
m r l d md what &all follow thereafter, the prophet of Uesiah. The old order
new w ~ n in,
g there are millions of p r ~ n on
a
Jeho~ah=id: Un'rit ye upon me, ~ i t the
h Lard, n n t ~ l and
W through th.* fradb
the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination this earth now who
the h d ' a l'kh*
d%rh.U rimer die.
is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the k i n g who,
The prophet Job
@v.m er r beautiful pieture d
doms, to pour up11 them mine indignation, even all my
&roe anger: for all the earth shall be devowd with the tbis ~ o n p m e n tfor tha restoration of mnnlrind Ha

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158

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d&h
a man who is a@
,
and dck; cmd t h e ~is
bmught to him a knowledge of the great ransom. He
believes and accepts the Lord's teaching and obeys the
righteous rule and is restored to his ~011th.ar.d his flesh
becomes frerhcr than thnt of a child. Nark t?:is beautiful Scripture: "& kcepeth back his so111 from the pit,
m d his life from perishing by the sword. He [man] is
chpstcned Jso with pain upon his bed, and the multitude
of his bones with strong pain: sa that his life a1)horreth
bread and his soul dainty meat. His flesh is corsumed
away that it cannot be seen; and his b n e s that were
not seen ttick out. Yes, his soul daweth near nnto the
e v e , and his life to the destroyers If there b r
rnesxqer with him [one to deliver to him the m e s a 9
of c d d i o n through the raneom sacrifice]. an interpret-?
[one who interprets to him and explains the Scriptureel.
one among a thowand to show unto man his [the
T ~ r d ' s luprightnees: then he [the Lard] is gracious unto
him [ma], and asith, Deliver him from going d o ~ mto
the pit: I [sars the man1 have found a n n m m [a purrhaser?. His flesh shsll become frcahcr than a ci~ild'a:
I;e shall return to the d3ys of his youth. Hc stall pray
unto Cdd and he will be ffa~~orable
unto him: he shrill
see his face with joy: for he w i l l render unto man his
righte0uslless.''-Job
33 : 15-27,
St. John, the follower of the Lord Jesus. was convicted
of the alleged crime of sedition and banished to the
Isle of Pntmos. W e he was there as a convict in

Wait Thou On God

n zenrnus frlend of rntniom and men!

Pour quesdonlng llnw rercal
A Sfnrrba'a raw lor the Master's m u m
S o : needful for mu t o f e d
.
-

Tour reme drrlnr- t h a t Heathmrlom a d s ,

.%nd eaperly picncls for l1Zbt":
K h i l e C'hr~stian pra)cr and denials falls
To rescue t h e ~ rsoula from bllahL
Too say T h e y crr on m i m ' b brink
For burror r i t h i n par Wu;
Yet twenty-cine hundred hmtben sf&
Into C h r t t l ~ nmrcs d bur."
Are r o ! ~mnre r i k ihan the ra'.tha, r h o gave
To jwstl** him cherlahed S9n?
Or h ~ t rh e Inrd of a conquered p r a
.Abnndmd Ria work undone!
both Gad deaenA on fmlllble ann
To tutbli..h .'The Only S ~ E Y : "
And if thcr fail can Him Lorc,mnd-mn
ihc bel:,it=;,= io errdlmr E r n e .
Uath I f r . i h * c!nimr a11 rllrer ral gold.
Otdaictd th:~: I;)? sr:\iltv +tore
)lust win a row1 in:. :he 115par fold
Or
i t .~
forcr ~ r ; n u r c ?
-. r i a .~
Aath He. h-fnrc m-h-re r?d!n?? *,me*
TEe h t 8 r m s anal r:lr:h -hn'l riec.
Co~<fgnIlwlthe f I?* nf :I h l o n ~ . b ~ ~rare
~i~ht
Tu monr:a like >-nu and me:.
Ten os. 0 Chr!nt. n h n r:~Eere! rxr5 la*=.
Rare hlliinnr nf ~rntnttzbtr l a r w
nrecli-I i n si;.ltt nf thy b:wd ~ro!aed rrazr
y n-..-~~
d -bed
in hnnalcrs -re#?
-.
Creed a n r n - r h c Y - : hut reawn crta-So!
And --n
nnrl trnth am*:
Tls ,jet can Id1 nf rhnt \\*onl. I anor.
'I will draw all mm unto Me!'

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a rock quo?,
the Lord visited him and ga+e him a
w-ondcrful mental viion of the blessings to corn*. St
John saw tho incoming of the Golden Agc, and auhlimdj
dwribed it thus: *'And I e a r a new h a v e n [inrisible
ruling power of the Christ1 and a new earth [ma
organized society on earth1 : for the fint heaven a ~ . dthe
first earth \rere pasxd away [the old ordcr of thin@
perished] : and there wan no more eea [no more radial,
hnarchistic clcmcntl. And I John paw the holy city
[ymbolic of Messiah's kingdom], the new Je~raiern,
coming down from C d out ot heaven, prcpred M a
bride adorned for her liushand [thus describing thc
righteons kingdom of the Lard, the Messiah t8l;ing
possession of the t h i n g of earth]. -4nd I heard a p t
voice out of hearen saying, Behold the tabernacle
[dwelling place] of Cod is with pan [on earth, not in
heavenl. md he will dwell with them. and they a l l k
his people, and Cmd himself shall be with them, and bc
their God. And Ciod a W wipe a r a p dl t e u s from their
eyes: and t h e n sl~allbe no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying. neither shall there be any man pain: for the
formcr things haye passed away. And 21e that sat upon
the throw said, &hold, I d t d things new."Revelatmn 21: 1-5.
I n this glorious reign of Christ the great enemy, of
dcnth. wili be destroyed. m e n there is no more death t o
live in
ravage hmRnkind the peoples of euth
in happiness, in pace forever.

*,

God hmrte* not: the cmtwia

All obrtsclcs from His wth
f?la zrmelou. Plnn rorketh wide ud d w
R%ik slaw
is. Ris
.
. .
-.
-.richtccru wrath.
131s :lopet rbnll rnrer ma earth
As the raters e'emprad tJm i+a:
Each roo1 sha!l learn of t h e Sarlour'l mrth
And lbe blood of AtonclncDt tm
*God all1 to men !"-Clemt
eeboc. that
RL. "mt fm!W with rr tore
*'Shail bc tn 111:' when on z~&I'.
T h e " B r M ~ m "and '%ride'' a M .(rs&
.
God ncrkw bv m r i n r o r work*
810.4s rwrrth Hlr p;rrpwc hat
By idnita 1~1nds maken His
L-wra.
Or r h m e t h is a m unLsed.
0 hrotbar mlnel no lnaser wim,
So? question God's Lor* a n 6 ml;ht:
a e si
u ~ erti ot a joy d M n e
reulct! & e J u s o n right.

WE

Lug Down Your R r r h

T r y doro p e r railr. .re nntioru, ncar m d far.

Teke p u r tall m i n r ?n r m m ' r trinntphnnt uu,

1,lnk town to tnr. r . \;rite in iron 1-n:rdr
'Ihe lon:.r:rl.nr3l
;;nd nfr.enlhnttl& landr.
p-ra rnild-ecr,I wrr.:lh : k n o n . l d ~ e .H:ht d l r t n a
$>:,:I re>: thc:r nlcu~rncrraby r r r r r line.
glen joined 13 u n i t y *ball wonder long
That t a r e bod power to lrnd thelr h c r r U utmY,
And mndr I t v?rCud(~sand mh!lme to slay.
I l a . grmdiy n o w . t h ~
wonders of our d(r7
A-.- u~nkln: prrpemtinn for Chrlrt's r o r r l ray.
And with *at
)nyonr holm our P D ~ L
Tm r:n:rh the h.11 of ! ~ r o g x s ru i t rollr.
knnwinc ibaf all as .mt rampleh or
l a but t& dawniag ~bstprcrdr tb um.
J. a. nrut*.

Ihc

Golden Age for Novmbe~26, 19x9

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TRAVEL and MISCELLANY

Unny of the automobile accidcntr at crossing occur
THE MODERN FAIRY LA-VD
a
t
P
~ which
S
ue well p r o m c d with bell8 or 0 t h
hIR17,ASD is a count? inhebited by little chjldr~ll
ripuls,
or
am
o
p
n to the view of the autoist I t is no:
it
a d fairin; bnt n0.t of ,IS
~ u ago.
n
f&r2.1nndwe lire in. the driver's i~ldiffercnceto dangr, his dctermination to
~t ucs
a pact to
dream to loo!; frDn the editorkl get by firrt, his zlouness in working the mechaoiam nor
~t seems like
oh
of THE G o L .\CE
~ ~across
a a e to tb h h crcitmcot ar.d confusion, but hia inability to =ti-.
wonderful sky line of h'ev York. chmging hourly with mate the r@ of the oncoming train that bring
a nekness of tint, of ehrdcw and light, r i t h tier on tier d i m ~ t ~ r . train is mually upon b in a shorter
of stars br night. a:ltl som4imm wqlendent with the tlmc then he t.llink8 it Can brThe higl-.er in t!:c scale of p c ~ f c c t i ~8n man is the
Glov of i l l ~
sun-ncvcr tile rrsme,and
more b.lu?ced his faculties, and among 0 t h -a
the
inriting one to fairyland
It ~ 8 the
5
petical Lord Dun=, who recently qeke ~ a k the
r cheek that ~ r u h c peu b upon *ition
tn X m Tork. on -The Land of Xy Dream7 and g m hate. Jn the age rllich nil1 noon opcn them w i l l be
plenty of time for men to 1em:i thoroughly things t h y
the poet's x-icr: of the city:
of nov nqlect. for the new age rill b r b ta man a con' T h e f i s t impression your city made U F O ~
itr m e e anci scientific crdcrlines~. I rev: the ~ c n t
le~$llming lifdime, until at laat life's oistaI in conditions contributing to @t?~tmjope~t- ill
bnildingr ~ i i htheir -dorrs
in rcg:llJr raws.
thought they were comp!ctcly under tho d o m i n u c ~of stretch out withorkt end. \l%o \I-odd mgl~
~ c ~ ,h c n
logic, and could not enter into the realm of fabric,. Eut 0
a 3 f i p p h n i b is before him?
st sunset timc on thc first mcning I looked on the Wool- MORE ACCIDE,YT~
as if twilight t a d kiddcn the
rorth T o ~ e r and
,
it
C~SSE~TIC.L:T
famer rmcntly ~ a m e d broke
,
bus of a g c a t mountsin, and only the r m i t
jaw, ai:il wa:t to the hospital. Covlcdient seems
rweded Kith its incrccliblc precipices liiting their to be daakwous State, for mother
there war
insmitable beacon:."
trying to open a fruit jar for his wife, and broke hid
Xarked appreciation of ihe bt30tifd is not 8 kdt v;rict. fitill z c t h c r \pas g h d i ~ gTI..& for a m a t pic,
given in peat measure to d,for lifc is tm hard, and when the 1:jcdle 01the g i n d ~ rflea 00 and fractured
the struggle for bread takes the energy, and leow little his knee u p
for rppmiatioa of the WO~&-6 of ocr kPutifU1 world.
An accident ma? hagpen any\vllerc. pin prick r i ? h
But t5e time of the Golden Age is at h a d , r h m i t will tile re~d!,mtseptic pi;or,ing is c ~ m z o n . Others t:*dt
be given to all to open \: ic]c their e>%s u?d w the tender h ~ v eoften happcrcd we. tke falling of p!skr frcm th?
beauty and the gloriocs ~ m j u t fof cxcrtion. Xan nil1 -ling; :he dropping of an i c k ~ e l lor 8
of -rj
have the opportuuity to bccone f l ; k o f o do as the from the &:en:h
bafi tubs
s t o of
~ abuahg
~ ~ r o p hJob
r t a;lggests, "J)eck thyself n o r with mafeat? arc quite or&;:y
ancidccta.
and ercellcnc~:and ari-a!- t i l ~ i d \r ith glor: GP(: bczutr."
IU on0 i n ~ t a~ ma a
lphg on a couch in 8 5
-Jab 10 : 10.
hcmc ; the riamg rind blcr ti* curtein a s h s t the 23
jet. which sct fut to the curkin and then to the cida.3
TRA VELERS' RISKS
clcthesX EYPERIYEST by EOEC b o 9~c i t i d mdt9 of
a
S o per-w can claim to be h u e , or can g t
automcbile. 'I'iler trletl to place \\-kere k is immu;?c from c-rpomc to accidentdl
d u e to anr t:avclcr
sen how close i k ~ ?CCL?;~! lei a trsir. 3 1 to then bcior: InjulT.
they got off the t:aik LC: th?? %:00d an the 0:hi.r t i ~ ( " i . 13 Xetr Tork an o:.c:l;cdd trr,ilcr
hoke, fell
I t n-a3 practic~llyir,lpo=;b;: to estinlnte rile tinle, f o i il::~ passing auton~obilec:d oe-:c:t.]y b-ed
=zd
i3 ncz?!y every icstacce t!le nain a o d d have struck &hocked fcur men.
ticni. Few if arp adult3 !lave anp conception of the
ssme ~ r o r h c nwere stirring boilkg tnr on a paring
t r d n cnvers the job. -4.n ac;omohile with t r o occu?mts app:oach?d.
speed Kith whic!l a faat-o~pro~ching
ground. A t
m~le*an hocr it gc-s eighty-eight Ceet ;\ b~mb!c I.?? stung the driver. Th? n~tchinehit tila
a rccozd, and is upen a person on tile trork before ho ket:le oi tar, tippal it over, scattered tLe tar, and ba&y
burned tl:c a-orhen.
csn get out of the m,t.

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GOLDEN AGE CALENDAR

NOVEMBER 26 TO DE-

I.U: 1919 A. D. : 6048 d a c e CYe8Uon: 74274 E ~ r a t l a r !

SRSO Jerrlsh : 3672 of Rome : -095 C r e O l m ~ p k dua.
2SiS Japanese; 1339 M o h a m m d a n
IT: Yornisg. Venus. N a r s . Jupiter, SatPra : Bodno. 1 I a c ~ .
BOY.2 3 : Pun rlres 6 :Wo. m. set* 1 :35 p. m. : Yoou rbw 8 :08 0. EL
sets S :OY a. m.. '5vllfght bezinn 5 :IS r m. end8 8 :14 9. m,
Itizh tidr I:J4 a. m.. 10 :20 p. m. ( S e t YO*) ; St J a
Chriaoctomr Dy. Greoco.
Nm. 27 : T b a n k q i r l n g DR.'. E. S.. Potto Elm: 1018. Indm
army In Germmy : PractIcdlr JI G e m a n r a l d i u r b d o l
d i s c b a r ~ r d: Orer 1.500.000 primsera dmmd b t G-M;
Constnl~rinaple ocrupird by Urttlrh:
Students' h#
Training Corps at colleges dmoblllzcd.
Xor. 1S : 1018. Ea!:ium
d c a - o f German t m p e : Moonq'r rentencr
e o m ~ u t c dto life iciprisonment.
S o r . 20: 1913. Critieh army renches German tmntter: V. l. P a e r
C o n f r z r n r ~r*nrwentativer to be ~Vilsom,Lcruing, WMtq
Home and UIIbs.
SOT.
30 : St. Andrm'r E ~ T .
Queensland. Tlrtorfa. S.r Zuland.
3lanila : 1?16. I:u*sixn Ileet surrenderm to A1116 ; RrpnbUe
sf Llrhxanin pmclsirnecl; 1&or r o t e agmlnat m y uy*
reflurrlon; Elreaericj closed br Yrcddtntial d
m

Drc. 1:
Day. Portuc&l.
Dtc. 2 : Klng's CoronaUon Day. S1.m; 1318, Kt=
Dtc. 3:

Drc. S :

Dtc. 6:

Drc. 8:

Drc T :

Dcc. 8 :

h l e h o t u ef
Bfontcnegro d e y ~ d .
ArMr D J ~ ,Grortfo : 1@1X. C n d e l d reigra u hll AdminisUrrtor ; Srlgor restrlcrions runorad.
S h a n ~ n n i DaF. Rhodrsin : P ~ a r n t a t l o n B l u s M Tlrgln
>!.try Dny. Ilulpnrin. 1:llnnnin. Serhio : 1918. Wllson u t l n
far f h e I'earq Conference: ~ ~ v n s t m c d oCongram
a
of
4.600 men a t Atlsntic City: PAlmay UecuUrea urgm
return of roads to private ownerrhlv.
Birtb of Prophet Dnr. Turkey: 1918. nrrt m m I s X u
SorZ: Turkish Pact surrc;rdcn to Ulle; Food riot. i n
Cologne.
1916, Aruhblahop s f Canterbury r p p g l r to Chr(atlaar te
support d i e League of S d t i o w : IWlrhe~IAi 8 c h U a s in
Berlfn; Pope exhart?r for "guId&~ecby R o r t d e a e r of tho
Puce Conhren~"
Birthday of Conhrlua. China ; SL
D.7, Uha;
Dcr?h of 3lacco Dos. Cuba.
Zmmanrlrte Concepllon Fay. A r t c n t l n r Arutrla. Ennga~y,
I l o l i r i ~ Brazil. Quctr-. Chlli. Co:ombir, Corta Rler,
Dominican Rcpubllr. Ecuador. Gcrmsa+. GurCcrnala.
Rondurw, ftnl?-. P n n r x o . Paraguay. r h l l l p p l n y Pqu,
Sal\odor. Spain, Cra;uax, VenerucL.

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VOtbum 1 WEDNESDAY, D-EB

NUYU

CONTENTS of tlb GOLDEN AGE

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capacity, as to logidation suitable to meet the
HE October labor conference went ta pieces present industrial situation.
The American Federation of Labor, apparbecause three interests, labor, capital and
ently
impressed with the thought that labor,
the public, met togethcr as interests, and from
the first they each seemed to conclude that the orgnilizcd or unorgnllized, ia wholly .unrcpreon the new board, has issued a call for
. moat important mission of each party was to sented
a
general
conference at Washington, on Decem*hangtogether, no matter what happened to the
conference as a whole. ,We all see XIOW that ber thirteenth, etating that labor is now confronted with dangers so p a v e as to affect the
- this was not the right way to go abont it. There very foundation of its stmcture,
were some mistees, too, in the personnel. I t
idamed the situation to have Elbert H. Gary
,* among the representatives of the public, while British Lcrbor Pdicy
the steel strike was in full swing, and the larger
HE British Government has announced a
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of unorganized labor, including the profedvery liberal labor policy. Among other
dons, was not represented st alI.
things i t proposes the state purchase of mines,
Now the President bas issued a can for the social amelioration of the mining areaa,
another conference whose mission it rill be, admission of the miners to councils for the
not to deal directly with any condition which reorganization and economical management d
now
but to search out the underlying the mines, and a free career to mining Memt
k museexists,
s, and propose a remedy that will amid
It also proposes an inquirp and propaganda
such deplorable conditions as those which have to promote increased output, the deoelopment
: rectm* confronted the country.
and control of electric and witer power sapply,
The object of the conference is declared to be a national maximum forty-eight hour week, a
b determine some plan by which "our indus- living wage for all workers, workers to have a
tries map be conducted with sach regard for voice in working conditions, workera to have a
justice and fair dealing that the worbman d
l hancial interest in their work, provision to be
feel himself induced to put forth his best efforts, made for workers in periods of unemployment,
*hat the employer d l have an encouraging the workers' homes to be made healthful d
profit, and that the public will not suffer at the their transport expeditions.
b d s of either clam."
Lloyd George, the British Premier, ia, -anThe new conferees, of whom then are seven- nouncing the British labor policy, made an
;en, include ten government officials, snc.b ss utteruke that is remarkable for its breadth of
&bet of6ce!rrq governors and other public view. He said:
tcinIa, two lawyen, two college presidents,
aMiUiona of g a k t young men hart ffur the
3 railroad official, one merchant and one new nod&. Hun&& of thousand6 dhd te dabW it.
It aaaembled in Wsshington, k m - I t ~ U b ~ t b e p r o r n i a ~ m a C P ~ . I .
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"What d m a new world mean? What m a tbs dd

world like? It lm 8 w d d where toil for m
wd
honest aorke- men and women, parch& nothing
tetter than
p e n q s .nrieqjmd
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rarred
dm and
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where unanplopent through the vicimituder of i n d m
try brought despair to multitudes of humble homm; a
world when, side by ride with wmt, them w.s wads of
the i n d d b l e richa of fie earth, p.ru, through
igu0-e
and want of forethought, partly through
entrenched selfibhncss.
"If we renew the lease of that world we shall betray
the heroic d e d We ahrrll be @ty
of the bssest periidy
tbat ever blackened a people's fune. Nay, we shall etom
up retribution for O ~ V aW d for our children. The
old world mast m d &ill come to M end NOeffort
it up much longer. If there be my who
*ed
to d m il let them beware
it f d l upan
them and oversrholm them and their hoasebolh in ruin.
the ablime dub oaf d,riaout
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MEBICA has lagged behind some countria

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deal of constructive work has been done, and

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plans are being tried out which give promise of

splendid results, if they can be put into general
operation We mention a few instances which
have come to our notica
The Clark Equipment Company, Buchanan,
Mi&., haa made of its grounds a high-class
perk A m p l e t e greenhow qdpment, band
rnd band stand,basketball, football and baseball
tuuna and grounds, hospital for employes and
families, cooperative store, and shop committses of employes for keeping in touch with the
plant management, are features which tend to
the promotion of tranquility of mind among the
employes. The employes of the Clark Company
are encouraged to become stockholders in the
company, and when they do so receive special
dividends upon their stock, in addition to the
regular dividends paid to other share-holders.
The Clark company builds and sells homes to
its employes at cost of construction.
The Lpcoming Foundry and Machine Cornpan?, Willirunsport, Pa, also has various teams
for athletic contests, an orchestra, a sick benefit
association, a newspaper, life insurance for all
employes, badges for long and continuous serand a plan of building and selling homes
to its mployea gimilnr to that used by the

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Clark company, and proved equally mccesaful.

m e h k r n a t i o d Harvester Company, Chi-0,
has tried out a plan of having a Hoase,

composed of employes elected one from each

d e p d e n t ; a Senate, amposed of the foremen; and a cabinet and executive, composed of
the officers, after the plan of government of the
TJnited States. Tbe House and Senate meet
wee&,'
on company time, to discuss working
conditions, safety, sanitation, wages, hours and
piece work Any changes mnat be approved by
all three bodies.
The constituency of the House members is
voter is
arranged as to make m e that
prsonal
with his
small factories there is one representative to
every twenb-five or thirty employes;in large
factories one t.0 every 2 0 or J M ~ P ~ O Y ~The
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effort is made to keep the House from becoming
oversized and unwieldy, but the men have the
utmost freedom in choosing their representatives, M otherwise the company has no way to
learn the real opinions of its men.
Grievances in the plant are mttled &st
between the employe and the form-; or, that
failing, between the employe, the foreman and
the employe's representative in the House; or,
third, between the representative and the superintendent of the plant; or, fourth, in the House
and the Senate; or, fifth, by the president of
the company. It is fomd advantageom to
employ an executive whose business it is to see
that there ia no friction a t any point in this
industrial machinery, which in actual test has
been found to work splendidly..
Under this arrangement, the hours of l&r
have been reduced from fifty-three hours per
week to forty-fonr hours per week, without
decrease in production, twelve hour shifts of
certain employes have been eliminated, and
piece-work rates have been rectified where it
was shorn that they were too high or too low
in competition with other workmen engaged in
similar operations. Standards of production,
quality and cost, have been fixed for each
department and wage dividends, on a fiftyfifty basis, have been paid to the men and thc
company for increases in production above tk
standard production I n some cases these wag
dividends have run aa high as seventeen p
cent, paid every other week in cash.
In same factories, production has been spe.
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production with other similar groups. This is
called the group~roduction~ysiem. Bonuses
and prizes constitute special rewards for the
workers in these groups.
Another method which has been tried satisfactorily is the setting aside of a definite percentage of the net earnings of the company
to be divided among the employes in the form
of wages. This resulted, in one case, in an
increase of fZty per cent in wages to the men.
Fclm of Ccrpitdbb
BNP of the capitalists of the wuntrg seem
to have a well-defined fear that no matter
what concessions they make to labor, or what
effort to ameliorate the workers' social and
industrial relations, they will make not progress
toward solving the problem of labor's menscing
attitude, and therefore they are talking about
plans for resorting to force.
The Merchants' Association, New Pork, advocates that employes of public utility companies a h d be enlisted like an army, so that
employes would contract to work for a certain
period, during which they wuld not legally quit
or be discharged except as provided for. This
looh like inviting a lion to q
t a halter made
of aotton twina
Frsak A Vanderlip, former president of one
of New York's greatest banks, is of the opinion
that the nation can not permit the creation and
growth of large labor combines which, if left
unchecked, "would be in a position to threaten
the foundations of Ameriam social and
nomic life We have to "permit" many thine
General Miles,now eighty-years of age,
does not like the look of the way things are
going. I n an address at S h a w m t Congregational Church, Boston, November eleventh,
after remarking that in China the laborers work
seventeen hours for five cents worth of rice,
and in Japan earn but fifteen cents a day, with
eighteen cents a day in the factories of Tientain
and twenty cents as a day's wage in Russia, he
declared that if the state does not take suitable
steps to curb labor agitators, he i~ in favor of
resorting to mob violence.
Other capitalists, studying the question, and
noting that limitations have been put upon
combines of capital, propose the limitation of
labor combines, but a thing which they fail to
mention in this comection ir that the lawa

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accomplished little in preventing the ambinea

of capital, which is combined now in as gre8t
~trengthas ever before in history.
Still other capitalists acknowledge that we do
have large corporatiom, and declare frankly
their belief that the countries where the develop
ment of large corporations has gone furthest
are those countries where the people enjoy the
highest wages and the best conditions of life.
They even go further and declare that, as a
rule, the smaller the business is, the more unsatisfactory the wages and working conditions.
Lcrbor~rnbta
T GOES without saying that labor has in its
camp many men who are very foolish; men
who think. riches can be distributed without
being produced, and who have the idea that
aomebody has a greit, d&p, exhaustless tresg
ury opt of which fabulous wages could be paid
forever without anybody putting anything into
the bag; but the average workingman is not a
natural born fool and can be depended upon m
the long run to act with reason and judgment
One thing which has diatarbed eome capitalists is the situation in Australia. There labor
has had full control of the states and of the
commonwealth itself, and has the most elaborate and elastic system of boards and courts in
the world, objects of labor's own creation, but
with the continued growth of trade-unions in
the commonwealth, the number and seriousness of strikes continue. I t seems that the
very class thnt placed the labor statutes on the
books ignore them and resort to strikes to gain
their ends. This is not fair to the pahlic, tm
their employers or to themselves.
b o t h e r thing which ha3 distnrbed some
capitalists is the attitude of organized labor
toward the proposed gift of Xr. lfelville Q.
Henry, of Tacoma. 'bir. Henry is a wealthy
man, but in his declining years and in feeble
health. He has a coal mine, estimated to be
able to produce 1,000 tons cf coal daily for a
hundred years, and to be able to lay down c o d
in the to\nis from Seattle to l'ortlund a t fourfifths of the freight rate alone now paid on
coal brought in there from I\->ulning. He offered this mine, free of all cost, to the labor'unuons
of the Northwest, estimating that it u-ould enso
$bl,OOO,OOO to the laboring men of that country,
but complains that his offer was coldly received,
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had hoped to solve some of the problems of an eight-hour shift in the steel industry. !l!'&a
labor, because, to use his own words, "most was a step in the right direction. Tho t w e M
people cannot realize the silent tragedy of the hour shift is a barbarism that can no longer lm
toiler. He does not live, but barely exists in tolerated. Such hours break down the vitality
mod cases. There is a world full of wealth if of men and are extravagant even if paid for,
managed for all. I feel sure that now, more because the increased fatigue of the worker is
than ever before in these days of high aost of not compensated for by his increased earnings,
and cannot be. He is worn out before his time.
livihg, labor should own and control ita soof supply of the most important necessities,
So ditficdt and serious is the labor sitnation

even to owning its own dairy herds and fruit that the Pittsburgh Leader solemnly says, "The
people of America must go down on their knees
ranches." These are noble sentiments.
and ask for divine aid. We must pray for those
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who exercise authority that they may be .Rise
E ARE all interested in thie labor problem. and just. W o must pray that all of our citizens
It is a aelf-evident fact that only a savage may be faithful to dnty and obedient to law."
flghb for his o m intemsts regardless of those
I t is evident that the laboring people of the
about him, and there is an obligation owed alike world plan its control. In England, in the
by the employer and the employe, to conduct municipal elections, the labor aoaialiets gained their affairs so that the community as a whole control of thirty-nine out of forty-three districts
does not suffer. Senator Edge, of New Jersey, in London. All the industrial centers wera cap
made x wise observation when he said, "Labor tured by their candidates and they predict that
is not the employe of capital (only), but of the they will control the government of Englsnd
people a t large, of the whole United States, and in the g e n e d eleotions next year.
the people are the employer of capital also".
At this time, it seems to us that tho& who
The membership of The American Federation have been stewards of earth's wealth and power
of Labor is now 4,000,000, but this is only about in the reoent past can do well to read with great
one-sirth of the laboring force of the United care the parable of the unjust steward who was
States, so that the other five-sixths have to be about to lose his stewardship, and who was
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donsidered in these questions. We must not cammended by his master became he recogPited
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forget that every time a reduction in output is that that time had come, and did the wised
d e , some one's standard of living ia r e d u d ; thing he could do under the circnmstancea He
awl not infrequently this loss is passed on to yielded gracefully to the inevitable, and made
some clam that is not at all organized and is himself eolid with his former debtors by lightenunable to bear i t I t has been said, and we^ ing their burdens. See Luke 16:1-15.
-*hint tmthf ally, that reckless indifference as to
Bnpibyment
of
Soldterr
whether the ahop wheeb tarn or not k one of
HE hvernmer~thaa reported that of ths
the great c a w of the High Cost of Living.
4,000,000 men who were returned to civil
We are just getting to the point where the
ethics of the labor question is coming to the life since the signing of the - armistiae about
light. I t is a time for thought and effort to do eighty per cent mere taken back by their former
right, and not a time for passion. There mu employers and only about 25,000 had been an.
a Cime when rebates were considered all right; able to s e e m employment of any kind up to the
,
now everybody knows that i t was a contempt- date of the report, in September. This is 8 very
ible piece of thievery. The public is waking up remarkable showing and indicates great prosto the principles of right. A proposition has perity in the country, with a desire to do the
just been made to create a permanent industrial right thing by the soldiers on the put of
b o d in Washington to regulate industry in employers. Occasionally there are disappoint
the manner in which the Interstate Cornmeroe ments. Not long ago five ex-soldiem robbed a .
Commission r e d a t e s traffic We think wen Chicago bank and explained EB their reawn t&t
of this wggestion. It is so good that it mems they had been unable to get work. Of the 25,009 jobless ex-mldiem 10,000 are mid to k t,
late in arriving.
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THEaE wave of hasort of moral
Iover8influenza,
as a result of the war, sweeping
tho world1 Men have good reason to cona

clude that war breeds hate and more mar and

more hate, and earnestly study horn to inaugurate eome form of control that will stop theperiods of murder madness.
J u s t as the war m a breaking out, a great
world's peace congress mas assembled in Germany; its deliberations were cut short the h t
day, and its membcrs fled A few weeks before
there was heralded an over the world: "Peace
and good will to men"-"no more war, cr new era
bas commenced". A new era had commenced,
sure enough! The world is a cage of hawks.
How can the doves of peace mrvive in it unless
the hawks are chained?
All must admit that lore. is the essential
quality in peace, and that hate is a quality
vhich invnriably causes rar-the destruction
of human liberty and order. The cultivation of
love, even for one's enemies, is the basis
principle of Christian philosophy. Even justice,
wisdom and power are deficient without it; in
fsct, love is the very essence of life, and Bate
the agent of decay and death. We seem to hare
=ached the climax of the principle (or lack of
principle) of rule by human force, which only
provokes hate d e s s absolutely just and loving.
The machine gun, the ritle, the revolver, the
bomb, the baronet and the boycott are not the
agenta of effective p e r d o n , but of irritation,
hate and retaliation. The machinery of government is obliged to be constantly angmented by
more force in opposition-more hate. The
working people are eolidly organized against
the capitdists; and the employers and the
capitalists are rolidly organizing against the
working people-more force and more force,
but no l o ~ k
With man's nature unchanged, is there any
prospect that organized human government by
the u8e of force can put down all resi~tanceand
insognrate perpetual peace, that insurrections
and rars will case1 History forbids any
a d d u d o n . The power of seldshness and

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human force, altboozh those who ha forrnod
state
the League of Nations, a ellurch n
s tried
system apparently, may t q it as it
by a church and state syatem during le dark
ages and failed.
Collecti~eman's character is fised rystalIized. Generation after generation of dyoutl~s,
while plastic, under kindly tutoring, 'molded
to a humanitarian spirit, hare not retqinecl it.
How can the atart he made? How get r@of the
old cnvironrnent-tho old human natcre]? Eren
a p a t military and police force an4 an extended judicial system are inadcqnate tqprotcct
fully thc property and lives of the law-abiding
and the innocent. Predatory nations and gangs
plunder and murder n-orse than mas ever k n o n
in the dark ages. Robbers in the daytime, on
the atreeta of our populous cities, ply their
inhuman calling.
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,Men have theorized that the race dodd be
educated, trained and evolved to a high& plane,
pdparing it for the coming of Christ, ieady to
set up hh kingdom. But when could the(start be
made? Millions of priests and minist rs, also '
religious teachers, following generati n after
generation, and hundreds of theologi schools
nt work for nearly 2,000 years, and still fie Tars
and the selhhness, the murders and !robbery
and hate have grown worse and worde! The
theory that a clergy clase o r m y othet human
class e m reform the world ia forever a d h a l ly exploded. Phenomenal, superhuman, divine
power, and that alone, can start the new order.
The change must bo positive and r a d i d The
prayer which our Lord tanght his disciples,
"May thy kingdom come, and thy will be done
on earth as it is done in heaven", indicates to a
certainty that the time will be when that change
will come. "Man's extremity is God's opportunity". The problem has become so complex
that there is no hope that man can solve it. Yet
unlem it is solved, soon the ram will perish in a
debacle of murder and starvation.
Tbere can be no question, h o ~ e v e rthat
, in due
time, when man is ready to admit t h 3 he has
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crimc. This will probably take the form of tho

temporary pllysical paralysis of any one who
atten~ptslo harm his neighbor in word or deed;
and no force \\-be
illneeded o r permitted by
either hnmzn governments or indiridunls. That
tntould perfectly solve the problem The hawks
would be clirrined, and the doves wo-dd survive.
~ 1 1gmdu&ly
~s
the qndity of sc?lfi&nossand
hate ~roulclbe eliminated from all except the
incorrigible, thosc who would not or could not
refonn. Ycnt up liate and seliishness in their
w e being the active agents of decay, they
drop off in deatli. But those ivho desire
to refom], and those who 11ad a large rncasure
of the q i r i t of lore and ol~dience,n-ould not
chafe under restraint; they \~-ouldsurvive and
prosprr. Grndl~allythe new order, tlic kingdoin
of hearcn, \-iould begin to be institntcd in 3
~latumlway. Tlic Scriptures show that this is
thc way in ~i11icllour Lord's prayer will be
ans~t-crcdin duc time, and that then padually
d l that 1:ave died will reiurn (recreated) from
t l ~ egrare.-John S :25, 29.
~atllologiPt arc m,&ing astollishlg advnnces ill &scoverirlg the causes of disease and tho
rncans of prolon,nirig 11man life. They claim
that it is not impossible to find some means of
prcrcnthg tlic cells tliet conlpose the human
is
b d y , fronl breaking down. O I ~ fllat
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diseovcred, thcy claim, the problenl of endesu
life is eolrcd. I t is well known that loving,
d i ~ ~ o s i t i o nconduce
s
to 10% life;
diriric lorc k i n g so vastly inore vitalizing than
h ~ t ~lore,
l i under the couditions provaili~~g
in
kiilb.clom of heaven on earth N-e might
reasonably assunie ~ r o d dbe the means of preventing tllc ccUs from breaking down.
Scientific attainmelit d o n g d lincs is miraculous tllcse days. .4stronomere, geologists,
electrical apcciolists and chemists note in their
he great &anges wnding in the physicd
world, changes destined to increme
~ t a lerlcrgy which can be evol~edfrom niattcr
Or
it? md to
certnin de'itnlizin~
agents that have for tl~ousandsof rears had im
adrerse infiuence on organic life on the planet.
In fact the earth has never been completed, and
the human race has ever becn liring under abnormal canditions. Bat shortly nlanlrind will
for the first tinie experience what living on a
oompleted earth under a perfect divine govcrnnrent will be--"the desire of all nations".

Only a little more than 4,000 years ago the

polar ice caps on the plnnet aggregated approsimately 11,000,000 square miles, devitalizing
human life almost to the point oE extinction.
Ice is a rery great devitalizing agent. The polar
ice caps now aggregate only about 2,000,000
square miles. Kormal conditions arc asserting
themselves; and the ice will, in the not distant
future!
be gone. Then the meteorolosial
condltlons on the planet will become ~ c r f c c t *
The clouds arc dark and threatening now dl
over tllc lsorld; hut the sun is shining behind
them. "Scck rigl~tcouaness,seek nmkness: it
may bc yc shall bc hid in the day of thc Lord's
a n ~ e r . " "Xy dcterminntion is to gather tllo
nat~one,that I ma^-assemble tlio 15ngdon1s to
pour npon theru mine inclignntion, even all niy
fierce anger; for all the earth [sclfish social
order] shall be dcvourcd with the iirc of my
jcdousy [not literal fire]. For then [after this1
I \\*ill turn to the people n pure languagc [the
truth] that they may nll call npon the naine of
the Lord lo senlc liim vith one consent." (Zcplianiah 2 :3 ; 3 :8, 9) ",lnd God shdl wipe
d tcars from ll~eireyes and there shall be no
more death, neitller sorrow nor c r ~ i n gneither
,
shdl there be
more pain; for the former
things
~ a ~ p emda y . Bellold I make all
things nc~."-Rc~elation 21 :4, 5.

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the Boston police left their positions the
following inoitatioll by Professor E. H,Hall, of
the H a n a r d physics department, appeared in-the Boston Herald :
"Come back from your vncations, roung mcn; there
is sport and di~ersionfor you right here in Boston!"

President A. Lawrence Loyell, of Haward,

issued this bulletin:
'?n accordance with its traditions of public service
the rniversity desires in 8 tinlc of crisis to help in m y
it can to maintain order
support the b w s
"a9
of tho Common\rcalth. I therefore u r p all studenta
do n, to prep;,c tllemsehn for wryin ur
Gove,,
of the Commooncdth
them
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eestuaab +.. rolunkr for woa

dl,tr a
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kould be empm
that the%
pn rcpha
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csll Z 1 0 m the Oavmor."

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PETROLEUM from Sicily wa,a burned in

the temples of Jupiter before the beginning

of the Christian era, and petrolem from the
Caspian Sea cleposits about Baku haa been the
source of the "holy fire" burned for cenhries
in the temples of India The famous petrolem
spring at Cuba, N. T., was mentioned by mismomnca nearly three hundred rears ago, and
petroleum vas sold as medicine dourn to the
time of the disco!-ery of the process of refining
the crude oil so that illuminating oil could be
obtained from it.
The first efforts at obtaining petrolcum in
the United Sta?es n-ere confind to collecting the
oil from surface springs. Nine barrels. were
t h s obtained in n\stern Pcnns5-lvnnia in the
spring of 1858 and were sold promptly in New
York City for $278.19. m e first oil well was
snnk at Titusdle, Pcnnsylranjn, by Col. E.H.
Drake, and at a depth of 69f feet he struck a
rein of oil wl~ichrose to within ten feet of the
top of the well. During the next four months
the well procluced 2,000 barrels, which sold
readily at $20 per barrel. The production of all
-wells in the country amonnted the next year to
500,000 barrels; in ten years it had risen to
5,000,000 bnrrels; in 1880 i t was 26,000,000
h r r e l s ; in 1900 it was 63,000,000 barrels; four
years Inter, with the advent of the antomobile,
it was 120,000,000 barrels. Oil and gas were
formed similarly to coal. Copious vegetation,
replete with carbonic acid gas, ww laid down in
deposit, cot-cred and eonhcd, and subjected to
decay, subsequently formed oil and its fumesnotnral gas. Gas, however, is not the fumes of
oil alone; for it is frequently found in regions
indcpendent of oil.
Xo longer in use is the fourcornered fully
closed - in tower, but the great, convenient,
~cvcnty-fourfeet standard rig; no longer the
dinli~lutivc stem, bailer, jars and bits that,
conveniently bom~dtogether, constituted only a
fair burden for tho back of the husky tool
dresscr; but great massive tools that require to
b e handled by power cranes; no longer the
twcuty fcct of hole per shift of twelve hours,.

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but one hundred tsventy feet in the stun; time;

no longer the 694 foot hole but an average, in
Penmylva."a, of l
w feet*
Here, for example, is a brief history of Bradford Oil Company's No. 46. The first forty
feet n-ere pat down 16 inches in diameter
through loose earth, mud and soft slate; and 3
~voodenbox or tube, called the "conductor box",
wns inserted to the bottom, to keep back the
foreign matter from the hole. This first hole is
called the spudding hole, because drilled by
what is cdled the "spudding" process.
-At tlic bottom of the spudding hole a hole 8)
inches in diameter, called the "big" hole, was
sta~%cdand continued through dl the water~roducinasoils and rocks to a depth of 350 feet.
Here the well was cased with iron pipe 69
inches in diameter, set h d y on the bottom and
reaching clear to the wrf-
At the bottom of the big hole another hole
G4 inches in dinrncter was started and sunk to
the bottom of the oil-bearing strata. The oil
pand of this particular well w p '75 feet thick, of
a rich brown color, very soft and h e , and
highly productive of oil and gas.
The drilling of an oil well is a man's job; it
in no job for a mller of hair ribbons and perfumery. The old-style method of drilling was
by use of a steam engine; and thew are even
yet largely used, though some prefer the gaa
engine because it stands the strain better. me
heavy tools are laboriously lifted to a generous
height and then suddenly dropped back -the
hole. Between lifts the engine speed is greatly
accelerated, became it has nothing to do. Therefore the engine room of n drilling rig is an
exciting p l w .
Shooting the well is no ladies' job either.
The old-time oil-well shooter travelled a t night
in a buggy, carrying with him enough nitroglycerine to shoot his next well. If the horse.
ran m a y or if he struck a rough spot in the
road, they filled in the spot the nest day and
sent another man the nest night with another
load. W e n No, 46 was shot, they touched off
100 quarts of nitro-glycerine in tho oil-bearing
strata at one time. Kobody bas ever been down
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circumstances, but the effect seems to be to

loosen up things somewhat and start the oil to
flowing, if there is any to flow.
After the well is hot", tubing two inches
in diameter, properly equipped with "working
burrel" and "standing valve" at the bottom, is
inserted to the bottom of the hole. How would
you go about it to put an iron pipe a third of
much larger iron pipe?
mile long do\Vould 3-ou first screw the pipe together on the
ground and fie* lift it up and drop i t into the
holey If you tried that plan would you not be
o f d d it w.odd bend a little b f o r e you got it
straight up in the air!
Or wodd you just hold
pipe down the
with one hand and screw in the lengths one after
mother with the other hand, gradually letting
down the pipe until you struck bottom? ~ u
snpporre yon got tired and dropped a few
lengths or a quarter of a mile of pipe down the
well1 How would you get i t again? Well! You
can let the oil man worry about thaL He knows
how to do it, and without losing any of his
precioua oil, or even any of his precious gas.
But it is no job for one of the weak sisters.
he bas
the
the
put. in his rod, equipped with another
sort of valve, a d this, too, has to reach d~the
way from the top of the bottom of the well.
Then he is ready to pmnp. This rod is called
tb
surfsoe mdS
number of sucker rods can be operated from a
sing1e Power
cOnreniena~lomted
referen- to the group. Com~mssed
muoh Wed for P ~ P ' D and
~,
some 8dv.ot a p s over any other method.
Tho average prim
P-lvank
wtrolenm
$2+50; now it stands
a t $4.25 per barrel, n-ith small probabity of a
decline. The average production per well is
approrimately hdf a
per d a A
~
small operator
twent). ~rodncingwells
a very comfortable income, while one with fifty
wellshas the
for a f ~ r t n n e . A
gueher
a
ore*
but
P e u ~ i v a n i ahas probably had i b last great
gasher.
The first place where petroleum is mentioned
in the Bible ila in the account of the construction
of the Tower of Babel. There the partially
evaporated fluid ia referred to as "slime".
"And they had bricks for stone, and slime

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liad they for mortar." (Genesis 11:3) The

first battle of himtory occurred amid the "slimepits", the oil-bearing strata a t the head of the
Dead Sea. "The vale of Biddim was full of
slimepits; and tho ldnm of Sodom and ffomorrnh fled, and fell thero9'.-Genesb 14: 10.
Curiously enough, bricks cemented together
with dried petroleum have been found in large
qnantities in Nineveh and Babylon, and the oil
deposits in the valley of the Dead Sea are now
being developed. I t was these oil-bearing and
sulphur-impregnated shales that supplied the
"brimstone and fire" which destropd Sodom
and Gomorrah. (Genesis 19 :24) We are glad
to have the prophetic assmanee that those
1)eople of Sodo% destroyed SO many Yeas ago,
s h d ~ e "return
t
to their former estate"
t(Ezelriel 16: 55) on the borders of the inland
sea where they once lived.
g ~ c b i l o ekrcc
r
RSOSS o d g thomometers can look nt
the quicksilver in the bulb and mmfort
themselves that there, a t least, is something
that is not lessening in value Thoae needing
that qniwver
thermometers shodd tnLe
is worth $1.2'7 a pound and going up, because
it i.
mrm.
s e-prec
~ ioru
adcksilver is one of
it is found at h'ew
In the United
men,
CaLfofia, md mmes
haden,
Sp+
it
from the 8dPhnr
i,oinnabu ore, by a enment of hot lir
so to bum the adphruand leavethe mercury,
me tenor qicmver,
in fie rnetafiC
daq Of q n i M v e r to d t e nith gold into an
amalgam causes the chief use of the metal bcl
The
fi the *f
one in the th-ometer,
mercury is sproad over a copper plate, over
w h i the
~ gold ore is washed; the gold from
its ~ p ~ i ~ in
h contact
~
wi* the
and
is promptly malg-ted
mith the qUicb:silver,
f ram which i t is s e p a r a M by heat. b o t h e r
familiaruse is as a medicine when hbm to
fino globular ponder -5th rose water, under
the name of blue mass. Among the chemical
comp0-d~ is bichloride of mercary, made by
heating a mixture of mercuia dphata md
common salt, which ia sometimes taken at^ 8
poison, and results in painful and lengthy 8u.ffeting and in death.
Quicksilver is also essential to the man&ture of highmirron~

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PbreQn h W h n g e

orth only about 404; cents

ange is figured so that an
e q d amount of old is represented in the
money of both cow 'es. Some bills of enchane
are cabled across, d there is no interest to he
taken into account but bids payable in thirty
days, or other pe iod, take into account the
interest payable f the tying up of the funds
for that time. Othqr items carefully figured in
are insurance, frei- t, packing, c o d s s i o n and
wear of the gold cog, as though it were shipped.
If the pound is fluct;hating in value, it may go up
or down, daring h e period; and the broker
selling the eschange figures the risk in as part
of the cost of tbe emhnnge. Quite o high charge
is made on time alls of exchange for remittances to conntries where the local currency is
making wide and frequent fluctuations.
The value of the exchange of different countries i s published daily in financial pages of the
nempapets, gnd change bankers are continp.2Lly kept advised f changes through the day.
The value of es
for France and some
other countries
as so many francs for
100 cents in gold ;If a country's currency is
inflated it wiU be qorth less cents to the franc,
lire or other unit, m d will require more units to
equal 100 centa in pld.
b a t h e r factor prodaces flactuationa in exchange: &when bought and sold by
the baakern becorhes in effect a commodity
aod subject in p r i v to the law of supply and
demand If, for axample, there are twice- as
much goodo shipped to France as are shipped
from France, French merchants will owe pore
than they sre able to pay without the bankers'
nhipping gold. French merchants having bills
to meet for goods received will compete for the
available erchanm, and w i l l bid the price of
exchange up, so that they will offer more francs
for 100 cents in gold than the local value of the
franc would warrmt. This amounta to paying
more than the billed price for the goods, makes
the goode cost more, reduces tho profits of the
French merchant, and hinders him from ordering goode from Werica, on which he may lose
money. If there i s too great a "balnnoe of
trade" in favor of Itbin country, and the foreign

Thc pound is now

BE unfavarable copdition of forrign ex- in gold. Foreign e

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and its effect on foreign and domeg

tic. trade and op manufactures aud agriculture
have been much in evidence in the newspapers ;
bat it might w well be so much Greek, for some
aP the public who do not understand enaugh
about foreign exchange to know what is wrong.
Foreign exchange is the medium of exchange
for business between, for esample, this country
and Englwd. I t is not the exchange of money,
f o currency
~
or gold i8 employed ns little as
possible, but is such an exchange as takes place
when one dcder pays another by check; no
money passes, but a transfer of credit is made
on the m o u n t s of n single bank, if both dealers
use the same bank, or between two banks if
they employ different banks. Foreign eschange
employs paper or drafts, something like checks,
called bills of exchange.
A transaction in foreign exchange requires
four parties; a merchant, Id,and a broker, B,
in thie oauntry and a merchant, BJd, and a
broker, BB, in England. Merchant M sells
ods to merchant BM. Instead of sending
e bill direat, merchant M sells it, with a draft
on BM, to broker B, who is buying such b i b
constantly. This gives merchant M the money
and gives broker B a credit payable from
E n g h d , whicb becomes part of his fund of
like credits. Broker B does not collect direct
from British merchant BM, but send the bill
with draft attached to British broker BB, who
presents the draft k~merchant B&'who pays
the bill to BB. This completes the transaction.
Like trsnsactions where merchant BM sells
goods to merchant M are executed in reverse
order. The grand totalsof transaction8 is larger
on one aide than on the other, and the differenae
i e periodically eettled by shipments of gold. A
person wishing to remit to England without
having sold goods can purchase a bill of esohange out of the fund of credits of broker B
and snail the bill of exchange direct to England,
where the receiver eollects the money from
broker BB.
Ordinarily a dollar ie worth 100 centa in gold,
and a British pound is worth 486f cents in gold

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merchants are unable to pay the balance with

bills based ou goods shipped by them, or with
gold, the trade between the two countries is
reduced to the figure where the imports and
erporta and the corresponding hills of exchange
balance each other. Each country has a certain
stock of gold, most of which is needed to
mstain the value of the local currency, and part
only can be shipped to pay for bills of exchange.
The government cannot afford to permit too
.much gold to be sent out of the country, or the
currency would become disorganized and, the
gold foundation being removed, m y drop to a
very low figure or become subject to wild
0uctnations, especially if the government prints
an excessire amount of paper currency not
based on gold, to take the place of the gold
which bas h e n shipped away.
I n extreme instances when the scarcity of
exchange is excessive and cannot be overcome
with counter shipments of goods or gold, as a t
present between this country and Europe, the
discrepancy can be overcome by this country's
loaning Europe amounts enough to balance the
unavoidable difference. Europe pays this corntry out of the money loaned, and securities, on
account of v:llich it was proposed to loan credits
of from one to five billion dollars to Europe in
order to keep trade going there and here.
If the matter cannot be balanced up with
goods, gold or loans, foreign trade has to fall
in volume and become equal between the countries. I n this country this w-odd cause the decline of the great prosperity in manufacturing,
mining, agriculture and trade enjoyed since the
early summer of 1919. The consequences would
be too serious to be readily invited-such
economic, industrial and social effecta as flow
from factories wholly or partially shut down,
men out of work, and the increase of poverty,
discontent, unrest and of revolutionary 8entiment. The effect would be felt both sides of
the ocesn and would be serious. I t would not
be properly remedied by turning over the
management of affairs to men who did not
understand the intricacies of commerce.
If the balance can be restored between tho
eoantries, the valnc of exchange will willrise to
its n o d fieme. Rising excl~angestimulates
trade, because merchants deal under the o p
posite risk of falling or fluctuating exchange,
and have the some chance to make money that
aL
o
d dealer has in a rising mark&

Tho problems of commerce and =change aro

liable to become too p a t for even the experienced minds that are working upon them. They.
are part of the conditions that were foretold Ipy
Christ, when he said, "There ahall be upon the
earth distress of natiom with perplexiw,"
(Luke 21 :25) and when the old Hebrew prophet
said, "That they may do evil with both hands
earnestly, the prince [profiteer] asketh and the
judge [ruler] asketh a reward [graft or honor] ;
and the great man uttereth his mischievous
desire [for a share of the spoils] ;so they wrap
i t up [arrange it]; the best of them is as a
brier; the most upright is sharper than a thorn
hedge ;the day of thy watchman and thy visitstion cometh ;now shall be their perp1enty."Micah 7: 3,4.
Pig Iron E d to Bug
OULD-BEbuyers of iron are reported to
be finding it hard to g e t Several factors
look toward some rise in the price of pig iron,
such as the strikes affecting iron, steel, coal and
coke, and the huge demands of business; and
furnace men are unwilling to sell much iron at
present prices, when the possible artificial
scarcity may send the price u p and cause a
relative loss on iron sold now. Buyers are eager
enough to order the metal, but sellers prefer to
wait The prosperity iii the pig iron business
is an index of prosperous conditions for some
months to come; especially i~this true when a
rising tendency in prices show a n unsatisfied
demand, and more business going on than can
be supplied with iron.
Aviation by Dirigible
UEKNG the World War a German dirigible-flew from Bulgaria practically the whole
length of a G i c a and return without mishap.
Some of the Zeppelins were 800 feet long,
with speeds of 80 miles per hour, and carrying
capacity for 500 passengers. I t is believed that
in this type of machine lies the future of aviation as a field for legitimate transportation.
The dirigible can be built to fly around the .
world without landing, can stop for repairs in
mid air, can descend slowly in rr fog, or Can
rise above fogs or storms if desired. The airplane does not have these advantages, and en- ,
gineers are now s e r i o d y considering the estab- .
lishment of aviation lines in which dirigiblca
be umd exclusively.
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POLITICAL- DOMESTICAND

~atfanaUm
in Rwria
m E L E S S dispatch from the Rnssim
Republic claim that two &onsand industrial establishments have been nationalized by

them, o r about eighty-two per cent of all the

industries in the country. It is very difficult to
obtain from the d d y press any adequate idea
of what the Rmsian people are trqing to do;
and perhaps the newspapers themselves do not
know, and are contenting themselves with raising a general howl in lieu of giving out real
information on the subject. It looks from the
above dispatch as though the aussians arc
t*?,- to ,Tork
the
of
is
~ ~ ~ ~ 1897
~ the
~ ~ l ~- . ~ fora
i

this claim:
"The combinstione, h s t s and qndicates, of which
& people at p ~ e n m
t m p b , dm0nstr.k the pncti-

cmbilitr of our basic prhciples of association. We merely

to pd
this principle a little fnrther and have
jndwtrieSoperated in tbeinte& of d,by the nationthe people organized-the organic unity of the whole
pe0Pl~

"The preaent industrial system proves itsell wrong by

the immenae m o w s it produces; it proves itself absurd
by the immense W&
of eucrgy and material which is
admitted to be its concomitant. Abginst thia s y h we
nir OIU protest: for the abolition of the slavery it h u
-ght
mt*%
we p l a e Ow best
dortr"

While it has some favorable points, National-

ism as a whole is quite impractical. Although

Nationalism does not, like Cornmanism, directly

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Ntrari. Colony, of ~rrlifornia,fonndd by Aev.

E. B. Payne, on the theory "One for all ancl
all for one." It had many advantages over
other colonies in that it picked out its members,
and did not accept all sorts. Idoreover, it had a
Lodge form of government of very thoron~h
control. I t s founder, giving the reasons for the
failure, in the Srrn Fraucisco Ezcmriner, said:
"~ltruri.WM not a complete fdure; we demonb+rated tlmt M,good d
l m d rincerity-which prevailed for r part of the time-mdc a happy community
life, md on the other aide, that mpicion, m y and
dfieh motive8 diaholix human M ~ Ra? d make life
not worth while. T r did not continue b tnut a d conbider
, but fell
~ one~ another
~ u wel did at
i kt~
~ b.cL~into
the r a p of the rest of world."

What some people demonstrate by experience

inductive
b.sed upon
Imowledge hmn nature.
One wanting
a lesson on the futility of hope from Nationalism while selfisliness still controls the hearts of
men, can get his experience cheaply by boarding
for a week each a t three or four second-class
"boarding houses
About September first, General Maurice, the
the New
e e a t London rnilitarg critic, said
york rinzes:
ody hop I p. of o
i
e-by
f o r e of -8
is thmugh a long, M prof &ustion. That process k at work, .nl will continue to work
long we antinue
rupph
of food md

".

muniti~nr horn the BolsheviLi and fprnirh their

o p p n a b w i t h both; but it w i l l not be npid d it
-threaten the destruction of the family, its ten- will be costly."

d o n e would
~
m l y be in that direction. b o n g
its advocates are many broadminded, philanthropic sods, some of whom have helped, withO u t hope of personal advantage, to found colonies where the principles of Nntionalism were to
be worked out as p ~ b f i cexamples. Some of
these colonies have been utter failures, and even
the practically snccessfnl hare been forced to
ignore Nationalist principles in dealing with
the world outside their colonies ; and, as might
be expected, they have all had considerable
internal friction,
Severlrl colonies on this Nationalist plan have
~tartedand failed in the United States. One of
%e most noted failurea ie that known u the

Maybe we are not as wise as General Maurice.

Certainly, if what he seeks to overtis what
has been tried several times withoat success in
this comtry under the guise of XationaJigm, it
is far more Likely to overturn itself t , to
be overturned by force. It takes some people a
long time to learn that the one anre way to bring
great success to a difficult cause is to persecute
it. Pe-ptioo
muses investigation, and hvestigation of a new thing is more likely to bring
to light its good points than its defeck
So deep-seated are the laws of wnstitntional
selfishness, and SO certain a m their operation
tlat, if dl the rich were dead today, and their
wed& distributed pro rats, thorn laws would

within 8 few yearr reproduce tbe very oonditions of today. And any system of laws that the
majority of men might enact, which wodd deprive men of the opportunities .for exercising
their a w i s i t i v e and selfish propensities, would
mp the life of progreas and rapidly turn civilization back toward improvidence, indolence
and barbarism.
The only hope for the world is in the kingdom
of om Lord Jesus Christ, the Millennia1 b g dom. It is God's long promised remedy, delayed
until its due time, and now, thank God, it is
nigh, even at the door. Man's extremity will be
M'B
opportunity, at a juncture when human
ingenuity and s W have exhausted themselves
in seeking relief without a ~ a i l "The
.
desire of
dl nations shall come."

UncCe Sum's Boys A broad

Tm

E is an apparent differellee of opinion

between the Congress and the executive
department of the Government regpecting the
p l w in which United States troops may be
rrsed Congress alone has the power to declare
war; get the Secretary of War holds that the
Resident alone can determine where United
States troops are to be used, and that no authorization for the use of Gnited Stater troops in
Siberia ass needed. If the President or the
Secretary of War can legally place troops in
Siberia they would seem to have equal rights in
Mexico, Canado, Japan, China, England,
France or elsewhere, actually producing a state
of war to which Congressional sanction would
be a mere form. The Constitution evidently did
not contemplate this, and Congressional leaders,
led by Senator McConniclr of Illinois, are DOW
protesting against the further ass of United
States tmps in Enrope or Siberia without
instructions from Congress. The Versailltreaty with Oermany provided that Bmerican
troops shall be maintained in Europe for
fifteen years. The League of Nations, if adopt
ed, would hare legnlized this.
The pressure for return of American soldiers
from Siberia w t ~hastened by the flogging of
Benjamin Sperling, n Brooklyn soldior, by
Cossack chiefs in Eastern Siberia who me
nominally responsible to Admiral Kolahak, the
ruler pro tern of Western Siberia, but who are
aetaally mere instruments of Japan on her west
aud maroh into Siberia The Kdchak Qovern-

~ m n harr
t apologized for thr autrtrge; and the
Japanese Oovernroent ia expeoted to do so, as
it is beiieved to have been the mare respansiMe.
The American troops in Siberia are understood
to be under instructions to stay there but not
to fight
Tbere ir m doabt that we are a t a place where
the polioy of oar Government must be definitely
b e d respecting European affairq and e s p i a l ly the use of our soldiers in oomection with
those affairs. h c r i c a n forces in the Adriatie,
acting under the general orders of the British
Admiralty recently drove out of Tran, Dalmatia, Italian troops that had been landed
there in the attempt to seize the port without
the oonsent of the Paris conference. This
brought upon as the displeamre of many
ltalians who natnrally blame us for depriving
them of one of the things promised to them
in the secret treaty nnder which they entered
the war. They cannot understand why their
secret treaty should be set aside while the
Japanese secret treaty respecting Shantung is
considered sacred
Concerning the Government's recently announced purpose to send 7,200 men to France to
replace troops abont to return, and the further
announcement that Borne of these troops would
probably be used in Silesia (on the borderland
between Oennany and P o l a d ) in connection
with the voting abont to take place thare as to
whether Silmia is to be inoluded in the new
Poland, Senator Moses, of New Hampahim
uid:
"The mdem for our hoops to go to Silegis are simply

curying out the general acheme adopted by the President at the Peace Canierence of making the United
Statea a party to aU the internal dispub of Enrep.
If the treaty chould be ratified in it. preaemt form, this
would be an everyday aeumsio~."

We b o w that at heart our President does not

believe in the United States concerning ibelf
with the Silesian coal miner or other strictly
European affairs. We remember that ha was
elected the last time because he kept w oat of
the war. He stated just prior to that reelection
that it is "the &ied and traditional policy of the
United States to stand aloof from the politioa
of Empe", and gave expression to the fear
that the success of his political opponents would
mean "that we ahall be drawn in one farm or
another into the embroilmente of Europe.''
'SVo believe that it i a gwd governpenti4 polia

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for the United States ~ovemmentto avoid entangling itself in the border diaputes and other
local affairs of Enmpc and Earopean countriee.
We have a reason for this. It r e d : "Let
none of you suffer as a busybody in other men's
matters." (1Petcr 4:lli) I t ia quite as true in
national life M it ia in private life that most
people have snWcient to occupy them in sttending to their own business properly; and if they
give mfiicient attention to the business of othere
to be competent to meddle in their concerns
they are surely neglecting to some extent their
own affairs. One of the best ways to help along
the Golden Age is to mind oar own business
and enmurage others to do the same.

gain their former business. Fdl

entail a long, bard fight.
Tbe Belgian Government ia dew the right
thing by farmers whose lands wew within the
fighting zone. These lands me k i n g leased to
the (3overnment at fivo per cent of their p m - m r
value, the Government guaranteeing to return
them to their owners in a few 5%8TS' time in
good condition as before the war.
Full recovery of the amtry is impeded by
the peanut politics of the clerical party, wbi&
the majority
in the effort to retain its hold
party of the Government, if^ w
n
g to discoarnge the use of the French langaage, by which
the Belgian people.have hitherto kept in touch
with the progress of the wotld.
The value of Belgian prop* destro~ea
~ebim
~ e t # n #&n$m
during the war- is estimated at $7,000,000,000*
BELLfOTM was the fist ~ m t tor ~
0, a b u t $1,000for every man, ~ ~ n i tand
ul a d
in the W a r so it ia one of the first invaded in the wuntry. The
debt is now onecountries to show signs of recovery. While it is half that amount.m e r e is a plethora of paper
a great industrial c o m t ~yet
, it is also one of money,
prices are ~ k y - h i ~ h
tbe most alosely tilled countries in the world.
~
h ~ ~~ ~isg~
soi - ~ being
h only about
agrid*al interests did not suffer to any the combined sim of Kew Jersey and Delaware,
appreciable extent d d g the war or since- The yet ib popnlation is eqaal to that of the whole
fanners received fabulous prices for their pro- of New England; and its fivers,
aep
ducts, and still d v e them
arc short, are so important that fifteen of them
The ad mines of BeWm were undamaged have been candbed. These canals are all in we.
bl the
a d
now said to be produchg
The glory of Belgium is in its a g r i d b r e ,
e i g h e - f o ~Per cent of their Pm-war total, th, Belgian0 being universally considered the
~ e r m i bthe export to E ' r m of 300,000 model farmers, or, we should say, gardeners,
tans pst month and considerable (pantitien to of the world. xearly all the farm work in
Hollmd, Switzerland and Italy.
Belgium is done with the spade, and the --hole
the war o n e - h a the blast f ~ r x m x s land i~ one vast garden. Every farm is fully
destroyed and haif the rtmainder were stocked, but the cattle are not turned out to
-4
so that a t present only one- fourth of graze. They are fed on green crops, arranged
ths
f
~ that Were
*
in ~operation
~ in to come forward in regular succession. Every
1914 ue in blast now.
particle of liquid manure is collected in a tank
C1~twance~
th*fl~h the port of b m r ~
are sunk in the floor of the cattle shed. It is these
said to be about one-third what they were before l i q i d manures that have made Belgim the
the war, and thin presumably represents in a garden spot of the =orld. .
fair may the gC?m2rd condition of the country.
Belgim s w m to be the one conntrp whi&,
The t r m p ~ r t a t i o ns i b t i o n is in pretty gbod hrrving at first accepted the Reformation docthe G r m n a ~having r e b e d the mlling trines, waa driven by persecution back into the
stock which tbey carried away, together with Roman Catholio Church and has since remained
much other riln.87 equipment- Passenger there, ~ t apparently
h
no desire to again look
travel about the same now before the war. into "the perfect law of liberty". (James 1%)
Hmdreda of the great Belgian factories ate I n our opinion the grcnt war and the present
&idle,
ill and a great many of the old employes struggle of the clerical party to maintain itself
of them factorim have been lured to France by in power will result soon in a real and great
the u e r wsges. Bepairs for the faotories. Reformation in Belgium. And we think, too,
difbdt to obtain, and in mnny cases their that this Reformation m i l l make itself fdt in
ham been ruined and are d
e to re every part of the world.

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&ropecur Food Situation' ROM the s w g of the armistice to the end

of June, 1919, Mr. Hoover, the world food
administrator; sent relief foods amounting to
$7i0,000,000 to twenty-one European countries.
Without this food the people of Europe wodd
literally have been starved.
Europe paid for the food, and paid high
prices for it. h e r i c a n bacon sold to the
Qermans a t as high as $1.60 per pound. At
present the warehouses of norfhern Europe are
packedwith food of all kinds, which is in danger
of spoiling &use there is no market for it. I t
is not that the Europeans do not want the food,
but they have not the money to pay for it. Mr.
Hoover estimates that to release this food to the
hungry nations that desire it would require a
credit of $4,000,000,000. But credits to a Europe
that is virtually bankrupt and facing revolution,
do not fdl the professional American financier
. with any special enthusiasm.
In August of this year, in the city of ChemRitg Germany, ninety citizens nnd soldiers were
killed, and two hundred and fifty wounded, in
food riots in which the famished rioters killed
the horses of the soldiers and divided their flesh
ambng the people.
&I unexpected reversal of the usual experience
occurred when the relief expedition tried to sell
dour in the southern part of Russia They
found that local flour, scarce as it was, was
selling in the open market for about two-thirds
that asked for the hnerican flour, and were
obliged 'to take it elsewhere to dispose of it.

Urriwmal RPridng

hTVERSAL military training has been proposed ns a convenient method of providing

a trained soldiery for the protection of the
country in case of future wars. Plans for this
vary from the Swiss plan of six months training
spread out over a period of eight years, to the
so-called West Point plan of requiring one
year's continuous training for all youths of
eighteen, military court martials for all viola.
tors of military law, and organization into an
army reserve at the close of the period .of
kdning. It is conceded that universal military
training would save the lives of many men in
case of war and that it builds up the physique.
Xn New Pork State, under the Slater act,
p w i e d in 1916 and mended in 1917 and 1918,
dl bops in the state above the age of &teem

""

years, and not over nineteen years of age, arc

required to report for military training "not
more than three hours in each week" for fortp-'
one weeks in each year. In New Pork City the
time spent in training is one and one half hburs
per week, including the use of arms, disciplinary
exercises, close order drill, skirmishing, signalling, teamwork, personal hygiene, sanitation,
first aid, and military customs, Schoolboys are
trained in the afternoons, and boy laborers
after 5 p.m. Employers are required to see
that every boy they take into their business is
registered for training.
The movement toward universal military
training is a natural outcome of the World War,
and yet it was the universal military training
of Germany that plunged the world into the war.
The Prince of Peace will have a more effectual
method of preserving peace than training everybody to fight. m e r e is always the fear that if
yon train people to fight, they will sooner or
later fight whether it is necessary or not. "In
his day shall the righteous flourish; -and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth."
-Psalm 72 :7.

Ten Million Under A m

HINA is said to be contemplating a system

of universal training which would give her

at all times ten million men under arms. W e
would suppose that China wodd have learned
something from the eqeriences of Europe ;but
perhaps it is a little too early for the Chinese
to see that their past course haa been the wise
one and that their proposed c o m e is most foolish, dangerous to their o m peace and to that of
the rest of the world. "Blessed are the peacemakers" (Matthew 5: 9), and it should reqzre
a large amount of argument to persuade any
sensible person that ten million armed men
constitute a peace-promotipg body.
South Ahican Natiuea
,
N THE general awakening of the world
incident to the World War, the natives of
South Africa are discovering that out of
94,000 natives who went to the war, 40,000 were
left buried, while those who returned are
debarred by low from purchasing land, from
employment in skilled industrial work, and
from church membership in the Dutch Reformed
Church. In Bible times the black rsces wew
treated like human beings. sJee Aak 8:!2'739

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AGRICULTURE AdD
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Farming for Nothihg
war, lowering ~ ~ ~ fe vi et qs~ l l e r e ,~ o d dnot
ARMERS are making some money, but when hare driven many out anyway. When the n-ar
the m o u n t paid by the public is compared started, the country wrs about to enter a serious
nith what the farmers get, some of them feel depression with hard times for m ~ n pclasses.
as though they were farming for almost notll- The hard timcs have come for many %hide the
ing. If a farmer gets $8.37 for the four and a country appears prosperous; for the profits

half bushcls of wheat that make a barrel of

flour, it would seen1 that a~ inordinate profit is
~lurdesomewhere when the W e r sells the same
flour into loares for $58.70, and the hotel keeper
sells the flour in bread slices for $587.00. I t is
alleged that the farmer makes no money on his
l e n t - a - b u s h e l wheat. 1nquir)- is being made
where the profit goes between the farmer and
the consumer and to find mTaysof getting the
food to tlie user with less cspense.
The miUer sells the grain as flour for $12.75.
This makes a charge of $4.35 betveen farmer
and miller for his serhce and for transportation, storage, inspection, commissions, insurance, and depreciation in volume. The consume r pays $14.00, giving the retailer $1.25 a
barrel, which \rill be acknowledged as a reaeonable return. The baker is not rolling in wcalth;
for most of the $43.95 he is supposed to get goes
out for the labor that distributes the loaf nt the
doors, and the rest to bakery expenses, including labor, ingredients, repairs, upkeep, insurmce, interest, depreciation, waste, and the
other unavoidable costs of a small plant.
Perhaps much of tlie seemingly high cost is
owing to the inflation of the currency to double
or more what it wns in pre-war days, uld51ig
everything seem double, including expenses
and profits. If the figures mere reduced to a prewar h i s they nould not seen1 so formida\?le;
for the farruei 11-ould receive $4.19, the nliller,
$6.35, the retailer $7.00, t l ~ cbaker $29.33, and
the hotel beeper $394, tlie "profits" not appearing excessive anp-liere in this schedule, considering the cost of doing bu,'clncss.
Farmers have to pay doublc for farni labor,
but it costa the fain1 worlier taicc as mnch to
live; and so with costs all along the line. Xost
classes, perhaps, are not much worse off than
beforc the war, but feel worse. Farnlers are
being driven out of the business, but it is a ques'ion whether the forces in operation prior to the

from the fnrmcr to collsnrner in most cases are

n disappearuig factor. Tl~creare p o d times

for eonie, vexy excellent times; but thPy are

for those that .are in a position to control selling
prices, n-Iiich the farnicr is not.
Tlle situation is interesting, perplexing, deceptive, cou~plicated. Workers, dealers, procluccrs seem to h making money, but are not,
anrl cannot locate tlie trouble; or if they can,
they are unable to control it, excepting a favorcd fern. l'lle firmcrs are beginning to cry out,
and the cry is almost like that to come pictured
by the Apostle James: "Behold the hire of the
l a b r c r s [fa~mers]who hnve reaped down your
fields, n-l~chis of you kept back by frand [the
rnrious sche~niilgof profiteers], crietli; and
the cries of them m-hich have reaped are entered
into the ears of the Lord."-J ames 5: 4.

Seventy MiUion A c m
OT THAT land is to be created-that

was
N
done ages age-but over seventy, million
ocrcs in the United States are to be made avnil-

n b l c s o m c time. I t is the 54,4T1,700 acres of

\vet nnd overflo\\-cd land that Congress is thinking of, with o. view to having i t reclaimed $10
forin pu-poses.
According to the Department of the Interior
this vast tmct, over four per cent of the total
area of tire country, call bc readily and econoniicnlly drained and made dry enough for agriculture to flourish. This is an area over twice
tliat of Scw England, more than the states of
Xcw Tork, Pennsylvania, Xew Jersey and
l~ela\rare,or more than the srrm of those of
101r.a and Illinois.
Most of the wet land is in the bottom of the
hIississippi and along the Gulf and Atlantic
coasts, but the heart of the a p i c d t u r d section
contains t ~ c n t million
y
acres. Much of the area
i~ adjacent to centers of population, and a very
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cross o r run near the swvamps. At the nominal not to name the fruit before it bcgins its existvalue of $10 an acre the land is worth $750,000,- ence; bnt if it materializes, i t might be termed
000, but once made productive it ~ ~ o u l it
d , is the "willow-peach." The time is coming when
estimated, advance ten times in value, to about millions of agricnltnrists will be trying e v e q
eight billion dollars. It has practically no conceivable experiment to improve farm and
popdation now, but when reclaimed could sup- orchard products; and then out of the myriadr
port 100 persons to the square mile, and would of idem, some are bound to be fruitful and came
llie fldfilment of the ancient prediction that in
furnish homes for 2,500,000.
The interest manifested in the question is the Golden Age, "Then shall the earth yield her
from ita possible effect on the cost of food. increase. "-Psalm GI :6.
Once drained, the swamp land is rich and productive of large, valuable crops. Wet lands in Blowing U p the Campa~na
the Miesiesippi valley, South Carolina, Florida,
OR miles around the city of Rome, It&,
Xew Jersey and other states, after reclanlation,
extends a barren expanse called the Camare producing enormous crops. Every farmer pngna Romana. Lack of water and a stratum
lalows the worth of bottoms and meadow lands, of tufa, or porous volcanic soil, have kept the
n-hich are what the swaxnps become when the ground from prodneing anything but grass.
American methods of applJring dpnamite to
water is drained off.
As the amouilt of land in the couiltry reclaim- increase the fertility of land are being emable through drainage is much greater than ployed. Out of the vast stores of explosives left
that through irrigation, and is richer and more over fro= the war, the Italian government is
accessible, the belief is prevalent tliat private using some to improve the Campagna. Exploenterprise, which hitherto has done most of the sives are placed about two feet below the surreclamation, should be superseded by a great E R C ~and detonated, tearing up the soil and
national movement with provision by the gov- making i t cultivable. I t is figured that if the
ernment for making useful as much of the entire aTea were usable for farm purposes
cnongh produce might be raised to feed Borne.
eeventy million acres as is feasible.
Even if supplying of esplosi~esdid benefit
Some of earth's land is desert or barren
because it has too little water, and some because s business allich made cohsiderablo monep
it has too much. Either adding o r subtracting during the war, and which is alleged to be prewater may bring a condition like that spoken of pared to promote war as a business proposition,
by Isaiah, the prophet: "The desert shall re- the common people are glad to see that busineas
joice and blossom as the rose; i t shall blossom doing r o r k of a Golden Age variety.
abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and ~uigDoubk kops of Berrita
ing. "-Isaiah
35 :1, 2.
HE YEAR 1919 produced double Grope of
A WJCow-Peach
berries in numerous localities in the UnitedT IS hard to predict what the Burbanks of States where the weather conditions were right,
the Golden Age mny produce in the n a y of and in the early part of November the second
plant development, but many wonderful things crop of raspberries was on sale in considerable
have been done, and esperirnents are going on quantities in the New Pork markets. This is
everywhere to obtain better food for the people. not such an uncommon thing as some of the
In Orefield, Pennsylvania, William Baer is newspapers seem to think;for when the weather
trying an interesting experiment. He has plant- permits.'it may happen any year. Those who
ed a tract with poulig peach trees and one raised the berries know that the bushes which
"lonely" willow tree. The hope is that the bore a second crop in 1919 will bear no berries
willow through its contact with the peach trees in 1920, the plants having already utilized
mill b ~ forth
g n new variety of peach. The their 1920 vitality, so to apeak. Them L a
experiment ia designed to enable the pollen of species of strawberry, however, which prodoter
the pea& blossoms to lodge in the blossoms of cxop after crop throughout the serrson, and it t
the willow, with the possibility of the willow not anressonable to expeot that in the near
blossom becoming fertilized and an entirely fntum means will be found to develop the oama
new fruit produced. I t perhaps would be well characteristics in berries of other type&

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phere called the chromosphere, which .boot.up

Or
for
MONG the fascinating, but as yet unsolved.
mOuntainOlls
(or
nm)
thouand
iB
IDOMtroBI
subjects of astronomy are the relations
b m n the an,the bm-spots, the planeta, a n ~ l
douds or P ~ ~ W PUP wi* ligh*
.
the
terrestrial phenomena. I t is obviom that the "peed, md evidenti~borne daft
-ptions
rays,
mysterious orb of day is the source or snstainer sive power of the
been known to
Out a
of
of all forma of energy on earth, and it is known
long
in
One
that certain solar cycles are paralleled by relatAbove the chromosphere for a d i s t ~ ~ ~ofo e
ad oyelea on earth. There is a border land of
relatiom between ~n and earth %-hi& some 1~000,000miles or more estende a soft whitish
declare. is not understood, and which others light c d e d the
which at time0 miatrim hm been ~eientifxallyinvestigated.
form about the sun, and at times extends in only
Or three
The corona
to be
Even savages appreciate the sun and the sunof mW
ad)Light, but it has taken the painstaking efforts con'~osed of
"~"ws,
e"tr0'o'uel~
attenmted,
espy
of hm&eds of astronomers with gigantic and
&&ate scientific i n s t m e n t o to convey the tail of a conlet. I t s appearance i b b a n t i f a y
knowledge that the s m is a most mysterious demrib9d a@''a complex glory of @ polar
rays, dark rifts, filaments, straight, w e d and
heavenly body.
interlacing,
and stnpendons synclinal strnatureta
The sun is a globe 886,500 miles in diameter, m4th
nebolous
motth g.,,
immensely hotter than tbe greatest heat attainable by even the electric arc, and estimated to be
Sm'spots
t~ be
the photo- .
p
~ which~ hot ~Outer ~gaees,rush at
at least 15,000 degrees Fahrenheit. I t tnrns ~
amand like the earth; bnt d-e
the
tho tremendous speed toward the interior. s~nthe
abntrai or equatorid part rotates at a different Vats are Q~~~ numerous at
speed from the polar part-the former in 24.9 times coming a t r e d a r intervals of l L l 3 gears,
days and the tatter in 26.4 days s t 30 dcsrees f r p ~ p
which they decline fn nmnber to a periodic
latitude. This goes to show that the exterior, a t nlNmUm The Years
ma*mSm-Wb are
lW, 1893, 1904, 1916, 1927, and 1938, and the
kart, ia not solid.
minimum spots are 1889, 1900, 1911,
Tbe 8un proper, or interior, is Liquid, solid, years
1922, of
1033,
so on.
te this
or w e o n b i t is not certain which- for a t sohedde.
ahodd be about half
nurly l 5 , W
it
be h o r n how
fiIlimnm; but 1919
hen
mutter act3 even under the tremendous pressure
of
sun-apot
ritb one .pmf
a t the sun's center. Its average weight is 1-41 m,O,OOO
by 100,000 miles, the
times that of water. At the s u r f a c e i f there be
a surface-gravitation wodd be so great as to
A s t r o ~ ~ m ehave
r s definitely asce-4
that
2i.a times tllat at the ourfm of the earth; the f~llo.\~i-ing
phenomena vary a t the same time
~ 0 neighing 100 pounds would weigh as the sun-spots: the fecuh'or bright wtP near
2,796 pun&, and
instantly
by her ~~"u"-sPo?s; the eruptions and pr0mintXl~e~
of
and a fat mnn would have no the chromosphere; fie form of the corona from
0partial shafts or arrowhead form with minimum
chanoe a t all.
spots, to a for111 well developed in every directhe interior
the sun
see*
theOnr
photosphere,
a Brilliant
d f i uR113t
~ ~surface
g
of tion nit11 maximum spots; auroras or n o d e r n
white hot gas, which is constantly boiling or an$ sonthern lights; changes in the day and
mrping up from below in groat centers and 1:ight du~tUnti0n8of the earth's mrrgnetia conBinldng down around the arean, producing a fitions; magnetic 8torm% which aFe ~
h
t
mattled appearance like rioe graino in soup. \\.hen sun-spots rue -w;
tho W ' s
This is the surfam in which sun spote occur. average temperature, which is l w t when the
- Above the photorphere is B red hot r a w c;potr are most, Md M e q ~re&b 4tb~

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11.13 year period by from .9 to 1.8 degrees

Fnhrenlleit. "AIany othcr terrestrial changes,"
says the Britannica, "in rainfall, cloudiness,
number of cyclones, panics, prices of foods,
famines, growth of trees and even flights of
insects have been seriously compared ~ l t h
sunsnots. some showing rather well substantiated
periodic~tpwith the spots, and others probably
with purely fanciful results."
It is interesting that serious magnetic disturbances arise from shafts of the corona not
necessarily arising from sun-spots, but going
out in definite directions anti rotating \ l t h the
sun; when such shafts of coronal elnanations
strike the earth, there arise the great magnetic
storms w h ~ hcause auroras and even destroy
the efficiency of telegraph and telephone svsterns in the areas affected. The sun-spot periods
do not agree with any other h o w n periods of
the planets or other members of the solar
gystem, and seem to arise from conditions
peenliar to the sun, or from some mknown
influence quite outside the solar system. I t is
taught by some who have studied the subject
much, that the relative positions of sun, planets,
and moon with definite points on the earth, tend
t o produce such phenomena
storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and hot and cold
spells o r "waves".
I t Seems as though to know the Sun nv0llld1>(?
to know the Creator. AS yet we understand very
little. The more n7e learn, the better we understand how mysterious are the sun and the stars,
the mom we can say s y m ~ a t h e t i c d y~ t the
h
~ t - ~ r o ~ ''God
h e his wise in heart and mighty
in ~tren@.h;who spreadeth out the heavens ;
who maketh k c t u r n s , Orion, and Pleiades, and
the chambers of the south: who doeth preat
things past finding out; ye4 wonders wi&ont
number."--Job 9 :4 - 10.

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night of September 21st they are looking a t

portious of thc bcnvens which could not be seen
hy them on March 21st because of the bright
ligl~tof the sun. Again they are each looking a t
different !tars. The inhabitants of the ncntb
polar regions and those of the south polat
regions never see thc same stars. But the man
on the equator, by rem&ning up all night on
those two nights, can see all the stars the
heavens contain that are visible to residents of
our enrth. Astrononlers make frequent trips to
the Andes observatories because of this fact.
To one stall&ng on the ecluator, or elsewhere
at a distance from the poles, the s-s
seem to
rise four minutes earlier each night than the
night previous, so that in six months all the
stars that were seen on a given night have
clrop?ed below the horizon and are no longer
visible. This gain of four minutes each day
throughout the year b r i n e back backto visibility
l ~ the
y end of the year the stars that were visible
the year previous. Thus the sun appears to
l-ise 365 times each year while the stars appear
to rise 366 times. This appearance is due to the
actual revolution of the earth around the sun.
Standing on the equator
looging toward
the north the observer will see the north pole
, b r just at the horizon; looking toward the
south he will see no such pole star, but will note
that "the chambers of the South?' (Job 9: 9)
wiafie
are relatively empty as
northern hemisphere, within W ~ &are located
"the sweet influences
of the Pleiades'* ( ~ 38:~
31), the abode of Him that ''stretched ant
north over the empty place, and hangeth the
ear& upon nothing." (Job 26 :7) m o bught
the prophet ~~b astronompt
50,000 Feet, Not Miles

IN COLD type it looks badly to read that the

Aatmnomy at the Equator

professor who is going'to signal to Mars
HEBE are some advantages in studying espected to rise 50,000 miles in his balloon.

T
astronomy at the equator that do not apply
at other portions of the earth. Let us h o g i n s

two persons, one a t the North Pole and the other

at the South Pole. There are two fights in each
year when the days and the nights are of equal
length a t every point on the earth's surface.
Those nights are approximately Narc11 21st
and September 21st. On the night of Xarch 21st
those two men are l o o b g at a certain section
ef th, heavens, each at a different part. On the

(You are right! I t n-as feet, not miles, that were

mcnnt) It is believed that flights at a height of
50,000 feet are possible, a plane with a passenger having already flown a t a height of
31,500 feet. Only a broken water pipe prevented
the flight to 37,000 feet, which was the estimated
capacity of the machine.
Passengers on the railways of Colorado fr&
quently faint when crossing the mountaim at
an altitude of only about 10,000 feet

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HOUSEWIFERYAND HYGIENE
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aonrc
~btocrd
food, while twenty-flve per cent have defective
ideal home is neither a childless home eycs. In many instances the pnrents of these
nor one in which there are so many children children are doing emwthhg in their power to
while
that the father and the mother can not properly help thesc little ones get a proper stcare for them. We believe that in most h e r - in otllers the parents are wholly irresponsible
ican homes children are welcome to the extent nnd indifferent to the welfare of the little beings
that their fathers and mothers feel able to give that ON-ctheir existence to them.
The hunmi f d y is like an old apple tree
them a fair start in the world. But with the
rising cost of living mnny are wondering nearly ready to die, that puts forth an enonnoua
whether they can properly maintain numerous quantity of blossoms but bears little f m k
additions to their families; aiid thc mothers, When tho tree was yomig and healthy the blosupon whom the burden chiefly falls, have recent- soms viere fewer, but there was more fruit in
ly been considering, in the International Con- proportion to the numher of blossoms. In the
ference of Wodeil Doctors, whether Congress early da$s of the human family there were fre&odd not be petitioned to mnke it legal to give
medical advice on the subject of birth control. quently a good m y years before any children
At present it is illegal to i n i p r t any infoma- appeared. I n the case of the ten p a t r h c h s
from Adam to Noah the first son in the family
tion on this subject.
In France -the Government is coilsidering was born when the father had reached the
what proper measures can be tnlfen to increasr! average age of over 155 years, and Noah was
the b i i rate by increasing the number of 500 ycnrs old when his first ahild was born.
marriages. I t is observed that there are nanny -4cnesis 5 :1 32.
more babies this Fear thnn last year, as is to be
I T e arc familiar with tlie suppositions of the
expected; nnd it ie also obserrcd that the babics higher critics that these years before the flood
this year are remrl;able for tlleir size, weight verc not really years, but that they were merely
and general liealth.
months of thirty days each that were d e d
In England it is noted that sincc tlie war the years. This is just like the higher critics. It
proportion of boy babies to girl babies is as would explain how h ' o d was actually only 500
1,052 to 1,000. This is a remnrliable increase, month old when we thought he wss 500 years
an a&jnstmeilt of nature diich has beell ob- old, so that his first son wns born when Noah
served in connection with other wars, a scelning wns a b u t forty-two. But it leaves us with thg _
attempt to replace a part nt least of the. hj-s interesting suggestion that his grestgranddestroyed. England also hopes to accelerate fntker Enwh was only sixty-five months old
the birth mte.
~r!~en
\re thought he was sixty-five years old, so
I n Poland the baby question comes up in that Enocli's first son was born when Enoch
another fonn. I t is eetimatctl that in this part 11-a~less than five and one-half years old.
*f the world arc not less than a ulillion babics
This nrrai~genentof the higher critics made
born shortly before o r during the war that l~nre it especially nice for Enoq Cainan and Mahdnever had suficicnt food to develop either uleel, fatlicr, son and grandson. In this instance,
bentally or physically, aud as a consequence nccodiiig to the higher critics, there could have
.re dwarfed and liclpless.
k e n but eleven years and three months differA sad feature about the babies in even this ence htn-een Enos and his grandsoh and all bvored land is that one per cent of then1 an. three of the boys could grow up together. mt a
-ontally defective, one per cent have organic cute little higher critic Grandpi Enos must have
srt disease, five per cent hnre or h a ~ ehcd been at his twelve-year old birthday party, with
; w d o a i s , twenty pcr cent have adenoids, his cldcet son Cainan seated at his right hand,
eased tomils or other similar defect^ and having I)? that time attained to the r i p e old
Mme number are suffering from i n ~ ~ c i e nage
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grandson Mahalaled nt hie left, already attain- crenlcnt in that babies grow up and work, and
cirl to the age .of nine months mid rapidly p o ~ = the vork makes cvcrything worth more. If the
Sacriuncnto babics hove fifteen cents' wofi of
irlg up into young mnnhood.
milk a J a y for three 111onths of wintert each
free Hi& to h b i e
b:~by ~vouldrepresent a n iuuestmeat of rbopt
GROPE is an ilhstration of what s milk- $13 a year OF $30 for the two years. But 89 q ~ t
l e a diet does to babies. I n I t d y alone ovcr ten per cent of the Sacramento babies will
tllonsands of little ones hare died from lack of get the free mi&, the amount per baby is only
milk. In Germany and Austria, it is said that $1.50 n year. Thk makes a &ry nice investment
children exhibit a growth retarded in develop- of the pcoplc's money; for if Sacramento red
ment by about the period of the cconon?ic block- estnte j>lmps $90 a year per baby, as it has m
ade and that many children are so pudcrnour- Xe%-York the last tit-enty years, the profits on
ished as to be immediate l-ictims of slight dis- the $1.50 invcstme?lt are some $78.50.
orders that would ordinarily malie no trouble.
If the unearned i~lcrzil~ent
real estate inS o t eveq- k~1crlcn;lcity is so provident OL' crease were only a quarter of the total increase,
its reMlurcea of child life m Sncrmi~ento,Cd- i t would be $20 a year, which u-ould give the still
ifornia The Conuuissioner . of Public IIeaI th, more modest proflt of $1850 per baby. Besides,
Dr. Q. C. Shmons, desenes especial honor lor the free n d k
make more of tile babies grow
his care for the Sacrrrqento babics. He h3s up, which would be pure "relret", as the bwimade arrangements so that free milk winill bo l~essphrase goes. There are few better inveatdistributed this ninter to families with c3ildreil ments then giving poar babiea free milli,though
nndcr two years of age. Commissioner Sim- why it should be only during the winter is not
mons says: "Si~icc nil& has gone up in price clear; for babies have to consume lacteal
mnny f d i e s are cutting don-n on their supply, during the rest of the yenr, and to give them
causing ohildren to be sick and undernourished ; milk all the time would cost o d y abaat W a
hence we have armriged to distribute milk free year when averagecl over all the babiea, and
of any charge."
this would leave a good profit.
There i a no Ameriesn mmrnunity that would
Better days are ~ c m i n gfor babies. It ia &
not have gone to the rescue long ago, if i t had the time when "there is a generation, whom
been horses or hogs that viero undernourished teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth w
or suffering from epidemic, for horses and liogs knives, to devour the poor from off the eaPtLi,
posseoa some value to business, and without and the needy from among men'? (Pmvarbs
'them p f f t o might be deareased. If hog8 were 30: 14) Some day, soon, the Galden Age will
of no vdue in business no one would turn a be here, and then it will be different; for of that
hand if all the hogs in the country had cholera time it is mitten, " W o is like unto the Lotd
What counts in theso days is how muoh money our God, who dwelleth gn high1 He raireth up
can be nude out of a thing.
the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy
Babies are of value, however, for without out of the dunghill; that He may set himiii&
grown-up babies no money could be made at all princes, even \\it11 the priuces of Hia people."
in anything. Babies create the unenrned in- -Ps&
113; 5 - '7.
crement of land and buildings ; a t any rate this
increase io vdue of property is caused by in- The Osteopath
crease in population. The increase in New Pork
HE Osteopath tells you that if the body b
State in babies and in assessed valuation of real
to function properly every part must be in
estate-which largely represents unearned in- normal relation with every other part, and thqt
crementshows that babies increase in econom- organisms contain witlin themselves the i.l)ic d u e from time to time. During the period hercnt power to cure discise. He has the id*
from 1881 to 1890 the average increase in real Ulat if there is anything serious the matter fit
estate value per baby was $1,101. The worth of you and if each one of the principal born :
a baby to business donbled in the period from your h d can
~ be used as a pudding-stiol t+b
1890 to 1917; for with ench a d d i t i o d baby real up tke rest of your anatomy and to get a c
estate d u e s jumped $2,151.
warm current of blood flowing &mu& fr
The rewa why babies create unearned iu- M y , you wiIl get well; and you

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There are 310 mechanical rnovementa b o r n

He ttllr you h w a sirth dorsal vertebra,
lmiw tarried b n t 4 iin true rclntionship to the to mechanics today; and all of these find
verW,ne above d below it, will involve the representation in the haman body. Here are dl
vasomotor nerves to the stomar.h, impair the
seeretory power of the gastric glands, make
digestion alow and incomplete, form gas in the
domach and cause pain and distress of mind,
all of which can h relieved by one who knows
how to redet the slipped vertebral joint.
He tells p a how a slip off a curb atone or any
other slight fall may cause a misplacement of
the peldo boncs that will cause all the symptoms
of appendicitis; and he euggests to you that
More you let them cut you open you had better
fhdotlt whether or not it is necessary. Maybe
the osteopath can
you up is a few minutes
M thbt you won't need to be cut at all.
He tells you how a fall mnp so aEfect the
#pine rn to cause cystitis, and when the spine is
corrwttd the bladder trouble disappears. He
tells gvrr how the neck vertebm, gctting out of
proper relation to one another, may cause distortion of the features and pains in the face and
jaw, stiff neck or headaches mbich only osteopathy am relieve.
. In & well authenticated case in hand an
m t snEcrod severely from worm fits. In one
d these a worm eight inches long was taken
from his nose. I n the accompa~~ying
convulsions
his ahest became deformed by the knees being
brought up SO forcibly against i t that one side
waa depressed nearly half an inch. After thirtyllfre years, osteopathic treatments removed the
curvature of the spine which had peraistcd all
this time, lifted the depressed ribs and the
appearance of the chest is now normd.
It ia well that we come to reverence our bodies
md thck Maker. What a wonderful lot of soldism are those white corpnscles, roaming about
through the human system, attacking and destroying invading germs and de~ouringparticles
of dead foreign matter! Thcy form a dcfensirc
m y ; and whenever germ inraaions occur they
in great numbers, like trained soldiers, to
estrop the invading host. Often many of them
~iaccamhin the atmggle, and their dead bodies
go to form the pus or " m t t e r " so oftcn oberved after injuries. They are 3n embodiment
* he8ling power of nature; and recovery
xn infectiotls, diseases is due largely to their
The blood contains other germicides
l mtireptia, and health returns wherever
m in proper q d Q and quantity.

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the bara, levers, joints, pullerg wedges, pumps.

pipes, spirals, eccenuwl. wheal8 and axles, balland socket movements. beams, girders, trusses,
buffers, arches, c a k 1 , colunme, and supports
known to science. T h osteopath belicres that
if dl of these pmts are kept in good mechanical
working order by the aid of a capable anatomi c d engineer, good health mill persist for a
decode or two after thc body =odd ordinarily
kave gone to the scfap heap.
How wonderfully w-eare made ! The Psalmist,
using the human body a s a picture of the Body
of Christ, says, ''I w i l l praise thee; for I am
fearfully and s-opderfully made : marvelous ore
thy works; and that my soul finoweth right well.
My substance mas not hid from thee, when I
was made in secret, and curiously wrought in
the lowcst parta of the earth. Thine eyes did see
my substace, yet being imperfect; an4 in thy ,
book dl my members were written, which in
continuance were fashioned, when a s yet there
was none of them. How precioua are thy
139: 14-17.
thoughts unto me, 0 God."-Psalm

New O i b to Eat
as though prohibition were turning
Imen.TtheLOOKS
liquor men from parasites into buainesa
The saloon was a,wnster, but the new

brcmer and saloonkeeper may prore a dangerous rim1 to men long established in business; for the wine nnd liquor men are showing
themselves good losers, and are attacking the
problem of making a l i d n g and tnrning brains-into dollars, w i t h vigor and effect.
I n California the grape gravers, who were
cloeelp linked with the wine interests, wem
greatly co~lcerncdover the destmction of the
values in their properties. Now they are h d i n g
11swavs of utilizing the p a p and are turning
\mates into useful products.
The wine interests h w e put the chemist a t
work. Hitherto the only valuable pnrt of the
grape was the juice; but i t is announced that
the grape has been made to yield an edible oil
that is destined to r i d the olive, corn and
cotton-eeed oils as food for man.
One fifth of the tonnage of grapes is pomace,
the pressed misture of sldw and seeds, and of
this tventp-five per cent is grape seed, or about
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now cmshed, grape oil estracted a t a cost of acceptable on topics under any of the ten
$1.20, and the rcsidue of the seeds is used for drpartmcnta. Boil everything clown and malce
f e d for animals. I t may not be long before tlii~lgsclear. Keep a copy, for what you aend
grape oil appears on the pacers' shclvcs, and %-ill not be rctnrnd, but considered a contribua new food product given not merely to the tion to our work
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American public, but to the people of the world
Pot Rowt
rhererer vineyards exist.
The same chenlistry that gives the grape oil
Take a piece of beef krom the round in a
looks forward to tho production of edible oils chuxk Sear this all over by pressing it down
from the seerls of tomatoes, pumpkins ancl other in a hot frying pan, Arst on one side and then
vcgcta1)lcs. Littlc by little tlic pressnre of neccs- on the o t h r . This makes a covering thnt keeps
sity is bringing Llcssings to the people, making in the juices. Then simmer it a long, long time
life plemanter, affording \-n~*iety,and niakiilg in a deep corered dish. When i t is half done
less intolerable the cost mid conditions of li~ing. put in salt and pepper, chopped onions and
plenty of finely minced vegetables, and keep on
A Vegetarian Samson
TEEN Dean Ihffield Cutting of Seat- conkirtg till it is tcndcr and the juice is pretty
tle stands six feet,-ncigl~s185 pounds, and well absorbed. You can keep i t shut up in the
is n giant in strength, and lie lias nevcr cater? o\-en or let it cook slowly on the back of rmgc,
tneat. All day long he handles s i5-pomid drill but it must cook slowly nnd a long time. A fourpund piece a-ill easily make three meals. The
ut the shipyard without particular effort.
His strength docs not come fro111animnl food; n*mailling juice may Iw t l i i e n d A cup offor he bredfasts on a quart of cool water, toluntoes with vegetables may be added.
lnnches on three pcnnut sn~iclnicl~cs,
two or
Pot Roast
three bananas mid a pint of inilk, and dines
on beans without pork, mashed white or sweet
Wipe one and one-half ponnds lean beef. Cut
potatoes and other regetables. \\;hen a chilcl lle in oiie ancl onc-hdf inch pieces and sear, nnsaw a picture of a dog rctrieting a fowl, and covered, in oven at temperature of 450 degrees
lias nelTercared for meat since.
for ten minutes. Add one onion sliced, eight
This boy's experience rcminds one of rr youth slices of carrot, two sprigs of parsley, It teain an oriental court, who insisted on lwing fed xpons pdt, 4 teaspoon peppercorns, 2 cups
on "pulse" and water, meaning mlcooked grain cnnned tonutocs, 1cup peas. Corer ruld finish
of various ldnds, ancl as a result displayed the baking. Before serving, thicken with three
of butter to which have been added
best physical and mclital developlncnt in the tc\l~lc~poons
thrcc trrbleapns of flour.
court.-Daniel 1:8-16.
Clipping8 and Artick8
Hamburg Boast
RIEKDS of THEGOLDEXAGE who mail us
Sccnrc from Four butcher about twenty m t s
clippings, wvill llclp the editors by obsening
tllcse suggestions: Do not seiid whole news- worth of harnlburg steak, well p u n c l ; mix
papers or pages; cut the clipping out; if it tliorouglily \\it11 the nlcat one cup of bread
cqcupies more than a column, cut tllc papcr cn?ml)s,oile lnrgc or two wnr.11 onions, chopped
around so as to i~lcludethe parts in otlier fine. Scnsol~to taste w-it11 salt and pepper.
columns, without having parts on narrow I'loce in b . i ~ i gpall, put sek-crd small lurnps of
strips; if it is on more than one page, pnstc or butter on top allcl pour a cup of swect rnilk or
pin the colwnns together at the top of Glc water orer dl, to make gravy.
clipping; on blank spaces in t!ie licacling or
elsen-here, not d o \ n ~side of clippilrg, write
Y t is the opinion of Four huml~lcscrvant that
legibly name, totm, state and date of newspapcr
o r magazine; do not roll clippings, but fold flat. there \rill be but very feru now living who \6V
Recipes suitable to the next approaching not die if the cookillg recipes given in t?
S arc ~~~~~~~~ed. Why not give recip
season, and practical hints on homc-keeping G ~ E AOE
health and hygiene are suggested from women for healthful food dishesr
U.S. D.,POLO
Iloblfs,
frienda From my reader brief articles cue

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TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY.

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h t l Won& in China
fear of evil spirits, and thc desire to
.THC
ontwit them or appease thcn~,is thc sccret
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accepted by them. m e s e demomi a m indeed all

a b u t as, as thcp were in thc time of our Lord;
but the i(1caa of the Chinese that they move in
strnidlt lines, or can I>c frightened by anything
that htunnn Ixinga can do, are of course absurd.
MI the spiritudiatic phenomnenn of our day are
the work of tlicsc demons, as has been prcviously slio\\~iin thcse columns. In worshiping
demons tlie Cllincae are only doing in another
\my what is doiic by every person who attends rr
spiritualistic scance; and the same is true of
persoils \rl~o,while supposing that tbcy worship
tllr true God, arc! boning down to doctrines
which dishonor Him and his Word of Truth.

of most of the illogical things that thc Chincsc

do. Thc reason for tlic u-all8 about thc CGncsc
.
turial plots is to kccp out c\il spirits. Tlie
tttnt~~es
of animals and gods stationed at tho
four corners of thc lots arc to frighten thcsc
apirits away. Thc tn-o large painted eyes at thc
- bw of eacl~b a t ore to eilablc the craft to scc?
tho evil spirits whicll arc lurking in thc 11-aters,
a d so to avoid them. Tllc tcmplc roofs and the
rich men's -hou&s arc dccorntcd xvith large
camid ~ t - o dragons
d
to drive tile spirits away.
They nrc supposcd to t r a r d ' i n straight lirlcs
' only; niltl for that reneon the \vondcrful Crcat Aimtnplierie h t
l\Td.lwinds ttnnkelike over lrills and through
lIAT starts the rain? is a question worthy
valleys throngl~outthe fiftccn i l u ~ ~ d n~ilcs
r d of
of tlie invostigati~emind of a child, but
its Ici~gth. To foil the plans of the evil spirits olic a h i e l ~some adnits could not answer.
t l ~ kwall was built with many steep turns.
The r.vidcncc is strong that without plenty of
Temples arc: built with blardi w d s opposite the dust tllerc \\-onltl be no rain. The nudens of
emtrance gates to stop tllc p r o p s s of the cr-cry rair~dropis believed to be s mote of dust.
devils, and pots rind jars are left on the house If it is t n ~ ctliat the co~~densation
of tho
roofs to. catch them. Buildi~lgsare limited in lnoistcrc of the air is dependent upon tiny bits
- height for fear tlic cril spirits in tbcir flight^ of dust, it can r e d l y be seen how important the
nriglit run into them.
dust of tlic atmospliere is.
This clcmon I\-orsliip lcads to supcrstitioxl in
Dust plays an important part in four ways:
tree dircction. It llas worcn itself about It is one of the chicf causes of haze.;it probably
' enrything pcrtnining to dcatli. llodics rcnlai~l ecmcs rrp centers of condcneation for fog parrulburicd until tfic mctliun~assilrcs tllc family ticles and rain drops; i t is the con= of the
that the lucky day ]ins arrived. IYhcii the day e u ~ ~ r i sand
c elinsct colors and of the air colordocs arrive, the body is buried with food and itself; slid it is the cause of twilight.
clothing for its Euturc ncccls, and sometimes
l
It is b l o ~ n
Dust comes from s c ~ c meonmes.
with a h o r n a d cart in which to travel a h n t . np flwm the s u ~ ofh the earth by wind; i t
Fastened to the coffin is a rooster, whicl~is conics from apuce outside tlic atmosphere; a s
mpposed to convey the spirit to its ancestral salt dust it rises up from ocenn spray; and some
home. China has vast coal deposits, bnt t l ~is blorn up f r o ~ n~olcmoes. In the volcania
Chinclro %-illnot develop thcsc k o u s e of their csplosinn of Uount K r h t o a , between Sumatra
mpemtitions fcors of disturbing thc dgad. Thc nnd Java. dnst and s t e m were thrown up
forcstcl hare long since clisappcad, and thc 111-oitg nliles into the air. The dust from ihis
i people mffcr tiarril~lyin tlie winter for want of cspla~ionproduced the
sunset colors
the fuel which lics right at their hand.
of 1M3, which lasted for three or four years,
.All can see that i n s t d of being partakers of show-iiig that the volcanic dust remained mae Lard's table the p r C!incm arc partakers pendcrl in the air for that length of time.
R'tbe table of dcvils" (1 Corinthians 10: 21)
l)niit is carrid by tho rinds for great
b Apostle plainly shtos that all the n-orrl~ip distances. I t may be said that tbere is no square
kntly offered to idola weut to the hens miie of earth &at has not received duat from
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I f a man wero given the problem of how to

create an earth and an atrcosphem which 11-ould
provide suitable water snpp!y for practically
the cntire ~arface,hc vould probably sct out to
invent an eia'wmte system or' some bind to do
the work. But the Creator, who did o better job
than any human couici have imagined, employed
dm dust of the grouna ro .give the rain its stnrt
to.nater the ground, and used the sane dust to
paixit the beautiful tints that are the despair
of the artist.
To ;rccomplidi great things ma11 cmploj-s
great agexicies; but "base things of tllc ~rorld,"
we are told, "ai~d things'\rhich are dtlspieed,
hnth God chosen, to bring to notlliiig thins&that
are."-1
Corinthians 1:3.

South Africa to Boom

URnTG the war among otller countries,

South Africa learned aomctlling a b u t

taking care of itself without outside help. Much
of the foodstuffs had previously been imported;
but when war drafted the world's shipping,
South Africa, rather than starre, learned to
produce its onn food.
The people had imported even their brcahqost
eggs from England, but now they r d s e plccty
of e g g and chickens for home consumption.
Butter and cheese arc being produced; zxid thc
traveler can drudi home-grown coffee, sxid eat
South African vegetables. I t is diificult to get
textile and machinery industries underway, but
mills and factories are gradually rising.
The tourist today finds Johannesburg, not
a village, but a city of tall buildings, street cars,
theaters, movies and hotels. The world demand
for diamonds never was so great, and the Kimberly mines w e opersting full capacity. South
Africa is called a good country for white people,
with 2,000,000 whites, and some 3,000,000colored persons there. The land is developed in only
a few parts, and the hardships of frontier life
are no worm there than elsewhere.
The real boom for South Africa will materidiEe after the Golden Age ia baugurated; for
Sooth Africa nil1 hare rith all other countries
the good things that are coming. 11'11at is
wiitten of "Zion", will d s o be true of the most
distant countries :"Jehovah shall comfort Zion :
he w i l l comfort dl her waste places ;and be will
make her wilderness Ute Eden, and her desert
like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness
ahall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the

voice of melody-" (Isaiah 51: 3) Yes, Sou*

rif rica \\-ill boom !

Roiui o f Epaom Sclls

N ADDITIOX to thc best Iinown use of cpsom
salts, and its en~ploy~ncnt
as o fertilizer and

Ias raw material for the manufactute of the

sulphrrtes of sodium and potassium and in sizing

and dyeing cotton goods, a new use has been
found in Tcsns.
Tliere the trawler cnrr pass swiftly over a
road of this unique road-building material. F o r
tcli llliles out ofRockport, some 170 miles soutlt\vest of C;1l\-eston, the road is k i n g surfaced
u i t11 a material ~vfilchnnrilyzcs twenty-five per
cerit cpeom salts, a1:d \vllich is obwned from
flats \.rhcre tllc evaporation of the Gulf water
inprc,qq.llatcsthe soil with this sdt.
Iligh\vay engineers, it is declared, r i d the
iuistnre a good road-surfacing material; for
the salt absorbs enough moisture from the air
to keep the roads damp, free from dust, and firm
011 the dryest days. It becomes slippery in wet
weather, but this is overcome by adding a small
proportioli of shell and regulating the slope of
rhe surface of the road.
Ectter and bettor roads m i l l be the slogan as
the cirilization of the Golden Age rises higher,
but there is one road the like of which has not
been seen. Tlle orders 11511go forth to "make
straight in the desert [of man's failures] rr
highway for our God." (Isaiah 40: 3) Not that
God will nse it for himsclf, but he will have it
for men to use. As intimated, it will be a figurative, though wry real road: "The highway of
thc! upright is to depart from evil.?'-Prov-- erbs 16 : 17.

Bright Clothes for Men

LL MUST have noticed the gradual advance
of women into the' realm of men's attire,
and a growing use by men and boy6 of garments
suitable for the fair sex. It is only a few p a m
since a colored hatband on a man's hat nu
unknown. Now a London tailor is trying to
introduce d e s , pink breeches and brigbh
stockings among nlcn. I t is our belief thst tb
gradual removal of d l differences of aex .i
under way, appropriate to the new conditb
of the Golden Age when none will die and t
repopulation of earth will no longer be nap
s+ry. See Mark 12: 18-26 for a ohtame&
ama conditions to exbt in the "neww.@

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tears from their eyea; and there sh.n he 110

w. P. Pa& V. I. A-v
more death, neither sorrow nor mybig; ncither
Qolden Age is that period in human shad there be any more Q&L" (Ieslsh %; Job
hiatory referred to by the Apostle in Acts 33 :25 ;Revclation 21: 4) Unr Lord tell8 a s that
he speaks of "the restitution of .during his thousand-vear relsll on earth, d ill
3: 20, 21
come forth :theY that have done
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l=ga, wllich God bath spoken by fie mouth their graves
pod;
to
the
nmrrection
of life; a d WYthat
of & his holy prophets since the
began9'.
*nre,y it sill intereating to inquire what tho have done evil, to the resm-cction by judipnont
reign of the
buman ram has lost and what will be restored (John 5: Z!l) This thousand-year
day for Uu mrld
sill be the
- te it during the 1,000 years during which the Lord
see what a joytul
it
b: bt
is to r e i on
~ the earth
declared in heavens be glad, and let the ear* rejoice; let
Bevelation 5 :10 and 20 :6. We find in the first men say among the *tionq a j e h O r e~i 8 n e a n
.chapters of the Genesis aceom$ that man I;et the fields rejoice, and a t b t
therein,
made in the image and li!;eness of Gocl, . .., .because he mmeth to judge the earth."-! mxived a paradise hone, everlasting life, 1 ~h~~~i~,~~ 16 r31,33.
happiness, and tlle doininion of the earth, prosnd plea8aroto
haR been oar
Hdhe
to God's
; assist in showing the wonderful plan of om God
that the man raa pronounced by the
towards the human race, to mnny soldiers on
'to be very good. 171e Bible
us that Adan1 the Border and to gome of the womded at the
for
and the hnmnn race, On Walter Reed Hospital, at the National Capital,
bboount of dxiobecbence.
by means of the Photo-Drama of Creation. We
L
It requires but a casual glance at Adam's f,d qnite a number interested at
time.
b&tity-for we are d of the blood of Adam myt h i d
tho interest will
dm
men
:(A& 17: 26)-to see what we have lost throngh -4th one leg or one
bgin to ah
in the
7 t h fall of father Adam.
morning with two l e g md two arms; when the
f
On -mt
of the World mar, the United c4wvhecledchairmen"
have no mom m e for
'stab8
providing for more than 280,000 that form of transportation! Won't there be
: m d * many having lost l e v , arms, sight o r times at Walter &ed and all the great hospitals
' : k u i n & , e t c The other nations have mmy mili, this country and thronghout the world7 Nor
,Ek,m who
in the same condition as are some ndl &ese great blessings be
to rnldiers, ad our ?ma= soldiers.
but mill surely extend to all the hmnaa nrce,
,
hgreat Creator declares that he w i l l re- both the dead and
living.
&Om b the d h g and obedient all that they
The headlines of the daily papem
hare lost, when his kingdom is established on overtaxed in recording only 8 few of those
the earth. We will not at this time refer to the u-onderfd things.
d d e n c e s that the Lord's fiingdom i3
Khen our Lord a t his first advent raised the
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very near, jmt at the door. m e see from dead, healed tlie cripples, the blind, and the
lrrish 13: 8, 9 and otl~erScriptures, that deaf, Iris work waa onlp a type of the grand
re are millions now h m g who will never ~ m r khe will soon begin in the antitype. In the
dk, bllt
f d into b e
subjects of the
Jesns mked the a c t e d whether they
, 'ingdom Take notice of a few of the joys that Glieved that he could heal them. Upon a reply
ill come to all of these.
in the affirmati~e,the man was healed instantly.
".The eyes of the blind shall be opened, the I11 the great nntitype, faith in the Lord and hia
8 of the deaf shall be unstopped, the lame kingclom will be easy. Speaking of the timee in
P &all leap as an hart, and the tongue of the which we are living, the prophet tellrr au (Daniel
~brhallsing." "The flesh of a h old man shall 2 :44) : "And in the days of thew Lingr shall
w
3 that of a child ahd he shall return to the the Ood of heaven mt up a kingdom whioh.sbd
I
d his ~rmth.""God ahall wipe away all never be d e s b p % "

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the burden of saving the world. "It ie f o r m

Who WiU Show the Wq?
T IS said that in some of the European lating," says Dr. John R Mott, intemtional
nations the people are becoming depressed Iiend of the Ebnng,bieu's Christian Asquatio&
oiid diecouragd. During thc war tkcy wcrc "probably the greatest program undertaken by
stimulated by the supreme effort to nin the C'hristinns since the days of the Apostles. The
war; tlrm ~ u o y c dup by nopes engendered by i'roicutant charclics of America face the impromises of a peoples' peace; now disillusioxicd, nlcdiatc i~cccssityof intervention in the troubled
industrial situation in the country."
and heart-sick, they are W n g into npatby.
Thc clcrgy will make an intensive investiI t had seemed as though t l ~ comllon
e
11mi was
Tllc reucarch platform includes :
gation.
to be rewarded for liis sacrifice; as though,
"-4 first-hand study of industrial disputes with r
autocracy bmi~lcd, democracy would be
blessed with prosperity and pace. But thc vier to rcndcring any possible rerrria fowarda just
lezaders have felt it uecessary to rivet chains ~cttlcmcnts;
"The study and cataloguing of fhe occasiann af the
upon all to constrain the restless; they see no

snppms:-s~im
of frce epeecl~,and ts furnish euppreswd

way of deflating curreilcy and giving the people groups thc place and opportunity for free discusion of
relief from exorbitant living cost; and they cny cnd 1111 aff~irsshort of violence:
feel obliged to fetter Freedom, just alien the
"To promote among employers the id- of recognizing
common people believed they would a t last be Ii~borin nmnagcment, looking dtimrtcly to their having
free. Industry seems s h u t to feel the chill l ~ m d a voice in ii~mcialcantrol:
'To promote the ides o m o h a n p l o p of responsibil- .
of ~l'ncertainb. Finance calls for funds to rehabilitate the fallen structure of industry m d ity for production; and
"To dudy cooperation movemmta, the problcmr of
trade. Governments cannot continue the prterthe
immiggt, a d to prepare Literstun on minimum
nrrlism of war. All hands are weak \17isdom
standards.oi ~ving,t b
d labor and indnstq.
fails. Leadership is dismayed.
ilausiry, women in indurrLr, rgricdtnta hbc~,.migra- '
Lord Curzan, spokesmh for the ~ r i t i s h tory workers, racial relatiom, and governmat mi- - - .
Government mys :
and relations."
'
%othing mmna to me more certain thnn that great
The general committee, in charge of the - : '
trouble and unforeseen developments lie before the world. world's hope, is composed of 150 prominent . . ,
I h b t whether re a r c d t of the war we have sncccedcti
in pacifying Europe. IYhether we have or not, it is clergymen and l a p e n from the various denom- . $ '
certain that for m e time we will be insccuze as to the inationel boards, and is aasured by government * -- .
stability of Asia Having cscapd the dangers of the officials, large employers and labor men that "a .
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war, Asia may be confrolltrd with a peril even more united Protestant constituency would have treserious through disorder and the brcal;up of Russia mcndoua influence. The time has come for the
church to take part, and the church's puticipaand Turkey."
The words of other leaders go beyond per- tion d l be welcomed." ''It is high time," says . .
plexity, and border on dismay. The aearcll Dr. Fisher, head of the industrial reTXions
continues for a Noses to lead tlie world out of department of the movement, "for a united -9
the quagmire. The clergy feel that the mission Protcstaritism to cease bcing content with abis t l ~ ~ i r "The
s.
new world conditions, brought stract statements of principles and to get down .about by the n-ar conditions of industrial life, to nctunl participation in the labor disputes 02
of international relations, and of cducotion," :he present."
Even militarism eccs the need of an orderly
declares Professor Shelby of Lane Tlieologicd
Seminary, "all for increased leadership by the scttling of the world's new warfare. Colonel
cliurch and especially by the ministers. I t is the Cornegic says, for the Interchurch movement:
"Sothing i- morc nrcessry than the spirit that comes
duty of the millisters to aSbUnlC rr greater
through t l r churches to illdustry for promoting bet&
lc~derehipin the world thnn t h ~ yhave ever rclntIOU Lct~'c'cncjn yloyeru and employes."
'wi'ore exercised" The clergy t h h k the world's
Tl~cchurcli is thc chosol champion k destr
llope may be realized if ollly they may exercise autocracy Y I ~
nuke the world safe. Th8t.t
greater authority a i d power than they did c.11urches \rill do what little they can no r
through the dark ages.
doubts. That they may accomplish their I
The Interchurch World Movement take8 up ioas purpose is quite another qneati

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his vine, and under his fig tree. '' (Micab 4: 4)

I t will be ideal-the Golden *when
qwq
man, woman and c u d will be happily placed in
his own home amid a culture and s plenty mch
Look at the besptifd
as yet are &own.
suburbs of o m cities, and thbk of nation
nation dwelliw in Such surroundinm from one
end of the continent to the other and the whole
world over'
Now the cry of everyone from prince
pauper ia for the blessings of peace. Fdse
prophets cry, ''Peace I pew !!"-bat there is no
peace. Nahmal war ceases; internecine war
commences; and no human wisdom can see the
end. But the end is promised; for in due time
the
to the
mmmotioq
peace.
war ceases;
war
desired. The
come the "grest dm"
militarists will no longer lead men into war, but
the Prince of Peace" will "guide our feet into
the n a y of peace." (Luke 1:79) e4Nationshall
not
lift up sword again& nation, neither &dl
TIlillh 35:lO.
they learn war any more;" but the people
How wiU this wonder come to passt
"shall beat their swords into plowshama, and
Fk.C the -on
pple d
l be gven
their
into ytba', (w
2: 4) a
It ia
th8t a m' bled (lm* of &e & of paw
-r
des~emtefrom POP'*
md '
me' w h the heceme; for
m
m
"1
e n d
conm1atiom of religion. But in the happy pem
her lib.
a rirsr,, (w
66: 12), .nd
Qolden Age of man there rill be plenty; for
incnaw of hi. gvemt
"the earth shdl yield her increase" (Psalm67 : hbdoml and
then,
be ID an4 t.
(t04 "I .riU
6, ; md,
the C O m order it, and to e d b b h it t& jod-t
and
[grain], 4rill i n c r e w it, and lay no famine ~ t jnstia,
b
[in
relatiom of
UPQn You; and I
m d t i p b the froit of ''0 henppfodh even forePer," b d
sets
h,
m d the increase of the field." (Eeekiel36: his signahre
he
.alof
2% m) This
tome b th. (3od-given di*
of
periorm
9LZ
emeries of a thousand Burbanks workinn for
love of the people.
H e w k e Right IY I8
All w i l l rapidly come to have good homes and ZEDEKIAH, last king of Israel, wan a very
pleasant surroundings. Nowadays the worker
wicked mler, and to him the Lord said:
M l d a a palace and a millionaire lives in it; he "And thou, profane, wicked prime of Israel,
builds an apartment, and has the privilege of whose day ia come, when iniquity shall have an
living in it as long as he pays another million- end, thus 4 t h the Lord God, Remove the dinaire rent. Bnt then, "they [the workers] shall dem and take off the crown :this shall not be the
not build and another inhabit ; but they shall same :exalt him that is low, and abase him that
build houses and inhabit them; they shall enjoy is high. I will overturn, overturn, ~ r t a r n
it:
the work of their hands." And every worker and it shall be no more, until he come whose
ran have his own Little orchard. The worker right it is; and I will give it to himw-Ezekiel
will not create an orchard or vineyard for the 2 1 : z - 9 7
rich, and never taste the fruit; for "they shuU
The one whom right it ia to mcceed to the
not plant, and another eat, but they shall plant throne as ruler and blesser of mankind in tho
vineprds, and eat the fruit of them" (Isaiah Lord J e w the Christ, the great Messiah.
5: 2l,22);and "they [the workers, for dl wiU Nearly nipeteen.centuries ago he
to emtb
m be produeem] &all ait every nun under M a man and d i d rrpon the crow that he might
need is v i t d The desired end is dear. The t h e
for action ia ahort. The means alone are in
-ation.
Who will be the true Momr to lead to
tbe Pro~llised
Landt The near future will decide.
T b Word of ()od afithat it will be
w t m d his church that fi l e d h m i t y
out of Egyptian bondage into the aolden Age.
W i t k t a doubt it will be done through the
church of God. But among the claimants to be
the eWrch, it mnst be decided who is the church.
The divine decision will in due time be rnanifested in the -mplished
fact that nome claimant will have done the task.
It is a wonderful Golden Age into which the
world is mn to emerge from dIVbese and
disaster. It is the dream of ancient sages made
nil. It is the reabed hope of the world. I t is
64thedesire of all nations". (Haggai 2:7) For
th~
~
isl a period
d
in~
~we are told
a t the world 'dshd obtain joy and glfiess,
he away.,,and

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provide the ransom or purchase price for the

numan race by which mankind could bc legally
released from the condemnation of death. He
arose from the dead and ascended on high.
Before going away be taught his disciples to
pray to Jehovah, "Thy kingdom come, thy will
be done on earth as it is done in heaven." (Uatthew 6: 10) He told his disciples that he expccted to return. (John 14: 1-5) They asked
him the specific question, "Tell us, when shall
these things be? and what sllall be the sign
[proof] of thy eonling and of the elid of the
world"? He answered that the time n-onld be
marked by great troulAe in the earth-a _great
world war, in which "nation shall rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom". (Matthew 24: 7) That war bcgan in 1914 and is
He further said that 'the war \vould be
on&&
followed by famine and pestilence. The famine
is now in the earth; and likewise v e have exericnced the pestilence, the great influenza
e said further that the mar, famine and pcstilence ~ ~ o n be
l d followed by revolutions; and
. such have already occurred in some of the
uations, and all other nations are being threatened He further stated that upon earth there
would be "distress of nations with perplexity ;
men's hearts failing them for fear". (Luke 21:
26) And this is fulfilled. "For then shall be
great tribulation, such sa was not since the
beginning of the world to this time, no, nor
24 :21.
ever Bhall ba"-Matthew

A Ns~bI& In 8cRcCigion''
PI1OMlNCNT church paper of one of the

I t also seems to notice an apparent chilling

of public intereat in "drives" to raise money
for religion. Many people have agreed 6-1set
aside specified sums from their incomes for the
next five years for one, two or three purposes;
and the church paper in question thinks that
more money can be raised by getting new converts and getting the money out of them, than
Ly trying to raise more funds from the olc1,ones.
There is a suggestion, too, that the people
who have been in the front line trenches on all
these recent drives would welcome some evidence that tlieir money is being wisely cxpended, and that the results coveted and promised
ore attainable, if not in the immediate present
then in the not far future.
\Ye think theso observations by our conternp r a r y are opportune. We are inclined to stress
this matter of professed ministers of religion
attending to the business of religion. We real1::e, of coarse, that having little to do during the
11-cek,and little on Sundar, luirlisters are easily
intercstcd in any worldly subject in which some
or all of the members of their congregations
are interested; and this fact is no doubt r e
sponsible for many of their recent activities.
W e hope this idea of having ministers enconraged to preach the Gospel will not be lost sight
of. Many of them have preached on every other
subject, and to dwindling congregations, as the
statistics show; and if now, thia time-honored
custom of trying to run the world'^ affairs
should give way to a faithful preaching of the
Word of God. and the means bv which men mav
gain everlastkg life, we go on-record as prophesying a renewed interest in religion by some
who hnd formed the idea, justly or unjustly,
that many ministers were in the preaching
business to preach what the people wanted and
not what thc Bible teaches.
We think our contemporary made a mental
hitch in insinuating that the best way to raise
more money is to get more converts. We know
that some lmve formed the idea tllat the tm
ideal of religion is "To get more converts, to
raise more money, to build more churches, to
get more conrcrts, to raise more money, to build
Inore churches", e t c ;bat we think cr better eon-,
ception of the matter wouid be obtained by
studying the Scriptnrea, especially the life of;
Christ, and noting the absence from his preacb
i11g of any desire either for nambera or c o b

great religions denominations has made an

appeal that should strike a responsive chord in
every human heart. I t proposes that for the
immediate future the professed church of Christ
eliould pay a little less attention to preaching
about fighting, and raising money on first one
religious "drive" and then another, and devote
its energies to preaching the Gospel.
I t calls attention to the fact that for cereral
pears past the people have heard a great deal
about fighting, and it is not sure, now that the
soldiers have returned, that all of them ham
developed in Christlikeness as a result 04 their
activities and environment while abroad. Why
thia should be vhen the soldiers have been
ministered to daily by the Knights of Columbus,
the Y.M. C. A. p d other war o r g m h t i o n a is
wt arplrincd,
.
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bed with the idea that the greatest object of
- and
Clubtian should be to lead a Christlike life.
to tell of the coming kingdom of righteous-

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5clothing will be the best

the world affords, against the yellow badge of
anti-Semitia reproach. His dwellings d
l be
amid gardens, in place of Europe's owr-crowded te2ementa and hovels.
"The 3ews9', says the h n d o n ~ ~ e c t c z t o"are
r,
to have Jernsalem at last; they are no longer to
he there on snfferance of the Modem. The
tables are to be turned; they are a t last able
to stalk proudly through its streets; i t is the
Moslems and the Christians who are henceforth
to take the wall. The mailing PI- is deserted.
one comes there nor. For the first time in
centuries the ape&de
of the crouching Hebrew
lifting up his voice in lamentation8 a t the lost
glories of Iard has ~ h 0 U yC a i d . There is
nothing to lament. The sun &he8 on Zion."
"Them is a time [the long, bsrd, so-called
"Christian" age] to b r e d down [Jernsalern],l
and Q time [forever] to build.'' (Ecclesiastes
3: 3) This is the time now begun. Soon Jerusalem is deatined to blossom out into a beauty,
honor v d grandeur greater than even the most
mwh-m Zionist might expect; for it is "tho
Holy One of Israel" who is f d G l h g his o m
~ r o ~ h e c i ebefore
q
.deye? "He [the Holy One
of Israel] shall build my city C J e d e m l , and
he shall let go my [the Jemishl captives [cap
tive for eighteen centuries in Europe] not for
prim nor reward."-Isaiah
45: 13.
And to what peak of hoqor are the Jews in
Palestine to be lifted T "Thus saith Jehovah, The
labor of Egypt [the whole civilized world] and
merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans
[the pagan world], men of stature [of pmnlinence] shall oome over [to the Jews in Jerud e m l , and they shall fall domn unto thee [the
restored Jewish state], they shall make mpplication unto thee, saying, - Surely God is in

the higher education.

nsss, peace and life eternal, that m i l l be the joy

and eatisfaction of every human heart. If the
ministry will trim to this, and away from fighting and drives for church money, they may yet
save something out of the wreck that civilization
now faces.

i fir the Jacr

0 THE Jew, after r e l e w from his seventyT

p
, bondage to Babylon, the very thought
of the captivity
hatefd and c v e m g
mas

eli-ted;
the new
to be
w s c h p r e d e d Christ's b y
one refined from all tram of tbe pagan.
History repeats itself; and today in Palestine
the Jew plans for a Jewish polity, entirely
freed and cleansed from every suggestion of the
age-long captivity in Europe. I t is not surprising that the Zionistic Jews, or "Palestinians",
agreed that as candidates for the o o n s t i h t
assembly the only eligibles should be HebrewBpesging J k . No mixed dialect war,to have
an o5cial footing in reorganized Jewry. Not
men Yiddish, though the language of seyen
millions, is to be permitted in official circles.
Thus the strange exile of a nation, for -8
maintaining its identity unaltered, begins to
end. The break with Europe ie to be complete.
Anything the European oppressom h a w forced
upon the Jews is to be discarded-the ignoble
habib of mind, dress, occupation or speech are
to go forever.
The Jew in Palestine is to be a farmer, an
occupation denied to him for oentnries. He will
institute the most advanced system of education, with the world's most famous educators,
in contrast with the enforced R w s i m denial of thee."-Iaa.iah

mmected

it was to

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H O W LONG?

Qd
or all rlght! how 1sbm priestly robBern at Thlne nltar atmd
Luting In prayer t4 !lme, the bloody hand
h d hoghty brow of wrong?

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D I I B L g B 10 TO

ar

T a r , l9lD A. D. : 6043 .Lnn CrrUon : 7C?7 BynntUr Em : 6Jerkb Era ; 9672 of noma : Z-6
of O r a t Olympbd m;
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Buy : Homing ; Xu=. Mereory,

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.:I1 R a ; Ebb dde 10 :1S r m. #ad 10 :OI p. air. (SewYon) :
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;1918, -drat
W b n u r l r d at Brat. #'caner

Der. I4 : 1911, 6011tbPol4 dlrce: 1917,

e m k d Julioned by Y d d Iusl M d n k t m u o n

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River, is the poorest in the history of 6 e fishing

W questiops are of greater human interest business. In the great Frascr River, of Britislk

just nowswpb
tl~nnthat of food. Everybody must Columbia, the salmon pack this year was only
eat to live, and all are interested to'knom 7,000 cases as compared with 155,700 cases in
whether there is food enough in the ~ o r l dto 1915. The Canadian Fish Comrniszion believes
business has been ruined br a
feed its millions, and if there is how those that that the &on
too efficient system of traps and seines in the
need it can get it.
As a whole the American crops are excellent; Puget Sound region; that the fish have been
and in the matter of live stock we have now caught before they could get to their epaming
4,609,000 niore swine, 350,000 more milch cows grounds, and therefore reproduction has ceased.' ' "
a ~ 287,000
d
more of other cattle than we had a If this is true it is a pity; for salmon is a staplb
year ago. Australia has a vast surplus of food; article of food that will be missed.
and the crops in Canada, South Africa, Argentina and in many parts-of Europe were all of C m e d Foods
GOOD many of the plnnts that were former- *
generous proportions.
ly engaged in the manufacture of alcoholic
The great American hen continues to do her
duty. Last year she produced, it is calculated, liquors are now being turned into "food fact
23,052,000??000 eggs. That looks like a lot of tories", and we do not h o w whether to view.
eggs; but it amollnts to only 210 eggs per year, this wifb pleasure or with alarm. It dl-depends a *
or a little more than one every other day, for upon what the chemists connected with these
every man, women and child in the Unite& plants intend to do.
I f they ore planning further assaults upon thb
States. Probably the poultry raisers ate some
life insurance companf8 mortality experienos . "
eggs whibh have not been counted.
It requires a great quantity of food to sagply tables by fixing up doctored frankfurters, cakes *
110,0,000people for a year. A Little while ago colored with egg-yellow made .from &a1 tar.
the Government disposed of what many people* dyes, bleached fruits, processed rancid oils,
tbought was a large surplus of food, accumula- cream scoured with soda aeh, corned beef and
ted for the srmp; but somebody got to figuring ~mokedham redolent with chlorine, ice cream
on the total and estimated that the whole lot colored u-ith ribbon dyes and pies made of rqdid not amount altogether to a day's supply per juvenatcd decayed fruits, we can tell them now
hoasehold. The Government bought this meat that there is plenty of this kind of material on 'rat wholesale and sold i t a t the same prices, in the market and we can get along better without
some instances for 50 .per mnt less than the these things than with them.
Just recently we discovered that the Horse
current prices charged by dealers.
There is one article that is short, however, and Aid Society has a aannection with a Brooklyn
that is salmon The salmon catch, all the way sausage factory?,possibly the same plant, o r one.
from W r i n g Sea to the mouth of the Columbia of the plants, i n which some 60,000 diseased

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zattlc were formerly tamed into sausage annually, nntil the proprietors of the works were
sent to the penitentiary. Now these diseased
cattle are diverted; we do not know just what
do8.s become of them.
3 i the chemists wonld turn their attention to
the nceds of the human system they wonld do a
great service to humanity. As an indication of
possibilities along this line we note the familiar
fact that the human body contains some sixteen
or seventeen elements; that the soil contains the
same elements; and that the grain which grows
on the soil contains the same elements. Yet
R-hen we make our grain into white flour we
take for human use the least nutritious portion
of the grain, containing only a few of the
elements, and give to the cattle the outside of
the grain, the most nutritious and 'valuable
parts, and the only ones that contain the minerals needed by the system.
Dr. Wiiey, the food expert, recently toId the
House Committee on Agriculture that it is due
to the use of white wheat bread that at the
-,tbreak of the war only shtyper e n t of our
men were found to be in proper mndition
me human system is not
ior
properly nourished by white bread.
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working away a t the milk question, and
4 a v e discovered a method for condensing buttermilk and reducing it to a semi-solid condition
where i t gives promise of being of great utility
in baking. I t is said that this solid milk can be
added to bread, producing a more healthful
>oaf, and one which takes a delicious brown at a
comparatively low baking temperature. This
lower temperature allows the retention of a
larger amount of moisiure.in the loaf. It looks
a s though this discovery might be one of cansiderable value.
F o . some tirle a means has been used for
converting fr& milk into a dry pomder which
can k shipped aiywherc and eighty per -mnt
of the freight uved. This powder may be kept
forweeks, or even for montbg and with proper
precaution can be remade into fresh sweet milk
a t the end of that time.
\fi.lk is ideal as a food because it has all five'
ul the elements necessary to human life and
growth, 'fats, nitrogenous sn~stanees,sugar,
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other food can take the place of milk for the

human infant. Without its vitamins the growth
is stunted, as is now so unhappily the case with
the million or more of European babies that
have never tasted milk; and there is an effect
mpon the eye, cnllod dryeye, which shows t4e
hunger of the child's system for just what the
milk provides.
Because it is pertinent to our subject, and
because i t is importarzt, we mention here that
where infants of under eighteen months cannot
be nursed, the best available substitute for the.
mother's milk is to be had by letting good fteah
cow's milk stand until the richer portion hss dl .
risen to the top. To this top.milk add an e q d
volume of pure water, and to the mixture add
one ounce of sugar of milk to each quart of
mixture. After the child reaches eighteen
months this preparation may gradually give
way to ordinary cow's milk.

Distribution of

IT Is

eaW enough to criticize our ~ m w n t

methods of distribution, h
t we ought to
criticbe them and keep on criticizing them until
we do something definite to improve a p l m
whereby i t costs from two to ten times as much
to deliver foodstuffs to the consumer ss it doer *
to ~ r o d u c ethe food itself--a ~ l a nwhich has '
incieased in "efficieneg" until now every
people in the country support a distributor, aa
against thirty-one people in 1870. Gambling in
the stock markets has something to do with this
inefficiency; and Congress ought to make it
illegal for these gamblers' quotations to paas
through the mails or over the wires. In one day
there is more wheat sold in Chicago than comes
into Chicago in an entire year; and e v e q time
it is sold there is a tax,however slight, laid on
everp table in the land.
Another item which enters into diatnbntion
costs and the welfare of the people is the storage of food. I n August, a representative of
Swift and Company informed a Congressional
investigation committee that the total mpply of
dressed mcats ready for the market on Jnw frrst'wse d c i e n t to last for only ten days. But .
if that was the tiatb on June first, and if.the
newspapers tell the truth,which is equally uncertain, then it was not true three months later;
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for at that time, and with men, women apd
children suffering for lack of food, it was estipb
ated that there was $Z!,ooO,OOO,OOO worth of food '
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stored in h'ev Torl; City, not altogether in the

lic~nsed\i-arehouses, but ~nuchof it in brewery
lofts and other unlicensed places.
At that time, when the Government began to
get after the hoarders and profiteers in human
necessities, millions of dollars worth of foodstaffs were seized in a St. Louis warehouse on
the charge that they had been held over three
months with the object of increasing the price,
ten million eggs were seized in Detroit, and
there were like seizures in Buffalo and elsewhere. At that time the charge was also made
that warellousemen were storing food in one
city as long as the law permits, and then m'oving
it to anothercity and re-entering i t to storage
without keeping any record of the time when it was first stored.
Recanse of their power, the five great packers,
Snift, h o u r , Wilson, Morris and Cndahy,
upon whom the nation specially leaned in war
time to supply food to the army, are now the
special ol~jectsof su~picionin the matter-of
profiteering. Tlle~efire packers own ninety per
cent of all the refrigerator cars in the country.
In 1916 they slaughtered eighe-*o per cent of
dl the cattle, handled half the poultry, eggs and
cheese, and are rapidly gaining control of all
foods for man and beast. They are also making
large inroads into the marketing of building
material and fuel commodities.
These five packers have gained control of 762
other companies. They now manufacture o r deal
in 775 commodities and dominate the food sup
ply of the world. The recent boost in shoe prioes
is traceable to them in this may: Controlling the
hide supply they took excessive profits and
passed the increase on to the manufacturer,
who added something more for himself, and the
wholesaler and retailer followed the uame
course. Those packers quickly dominate any
field thev enter. In 1917 Armour first undertook
#:( a; in that same year he became
tile F
the gr;~;ut,,~t
rice merchant 'in the world, his
s d e s emornltlxg- to more than 16,000,000
the wholesale price of
pounds.
rice increased eighty-five per cent.
The big packers control 'the stocbards to
which the nation's meat supply is shipped,
control the commission men who are the produccra' only representatives a t the yards, discriminate against independent packers who
would use the yards, prevent new packers from

getting into business, and restrict the meat sapply of the nation by so manipulating the livestock priccs as to discourage the producers. A
favorite way to do this is to boost the market
until an immense quantity-of stock is ]mown to
be on cars on the way to tlie yards, and then to
~uddenlydrop the priceb so that on arrival at
destination the shipper receives far less than
the stock quotations had led him to espect. The
financial power of these packers is so great that
no competitor can hope to succeed if they use
their power to break d o ~ mhis credit .
OrEdith in Food
HE widespread use of the automobile has
so reduced the demand for horses, and the
growers find them so unprofitable, that the Government has sanctioned the sale of horse meat,
with a view to killing off the surplus supply.
It also hopes to add to the leather snpply bp
this means. All horse meat o r horse meat
products must be labelled as such.
The New Pork State Department of Farms
and Markets has issued an appeal to the people
of New Tork City to learn to eat rabbits, calling
attention to the fact that a t prevailing meat
prices rabbits are cheap and wholesome food,
and are considered a great delicacy in many
parts of Europe.
The United States Depa~tmentof Agricnltnre
has been setting forth the virtues and advantages of the goat. The goat will eat anything,
stay anywhere and submit to any kind of treatment. I n return it gives a rich, creamy milk that
i~ especially good for babies and can be m a b up into sevendifferent k i d s of cheesa
Roasted kid is considered to be one of the most
delectable of meats.
In the foregoing, the Government has made
efforis to assist thg common people in providing
a meat supply at prices within their means, and
in this has done a good work. I n times of high
prices for meats we might remember the canditions in the siege of Samaria when "an w ' 6
head was sold,for fourscore pieces of silver".
(3 Kings 6:25) and the terrible conditionswhich
prevailed then and a t the time of the siege of
Jerusalem in A. D. 70, when women even ate
I h ~ i or m children.
I t is a comfort to know that these conditions
of smrcitp are all temporary mid mill give m y
to a better time when there will be plenty for dl.

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."Fear not, 0 land; be glad arid rejoice:.for the

.Lord mill do great things. Be not afraid [of
food shortage], -ye beasts of the field: for the
pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the
tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine'
do yield their stren&--Joel
2 :21, 22.
Benefiting the Cripples
BOUT 200,000 American soldiers received
such wounds during the World War that
they are more or less ,disabled and require special training to fit them for the future. Human
nature is very forgetful of what i t owes to its
benefactors; and these soldiers, who might find
many ready to help them today, would not h d
as many two years from now. Fnrther, it can
not be long, in the nstnre of things, before
they will be expected to compete with those who
are unin jured, and when they do, it is necessary
that they be specially fortified by training if
they would hold their positions.
The Government is undertaking the training
of all disabled soldiers; and experience has
shown that there k hardly any trade or profession that they can not master under the personal and kindly a r e of their teachers, provided
they have the will to do so. Their compensation,
when fitted for the new work, is usually superior
to that before they entered the service. 'While
learning they are given compensation of not
lees than $75 per month if they live alone, and
$30 for wife and $10 for each dependent child.
During the Golden Age there will be Borne
very wonderful. healing8 of cripples. We rend,
"Then ahall the lame npm leap as an hart".
(Isaiah 35 :6) We had some wonderful examples
of God's power to heal daring our Lord's
ministry, and also daring the dare of the
apostles. How thrilling mast have been tho
scene, shadowing forth the coming glory of the
3.'-~sianicage, now-dawning, when Peter lurid
to #.he man lame from his mother's womb,
"Silwr a~rlgold have I none; but such as I
hare I give thee: In the name of J e w s ,Christ
of Nazareth rise up and walk And he took Eni
by the right hand and lif'ted him up: anci immediately his feet and d e bones received
drength. And he leaping up stood and walked,
m d entered with them into the temple, walking
and leaping, and praising God". (Acts 3 6 8 )
Immediately following this wondexfd exhibition of God's power comes St. Peter's still more

wonderful sermon on the Times of Restitntion

(Acts 3:19 - 21) as a resul t of whicli .thousands
of Jews were converted to the Chrishan faith.
Mining Under the Ocwn
ATE O F the oil fields of the .PaciGc Coast,
lying within a few miles of Las Angeles,
extends out into the Pacific Ocean, and a considerable number of oil wells +re located at
some distance from the shore.
31England, the workings of the Cumberland
ma1 field run two miles out under the sea The
ventilation of these mines is a nioe engineering
problem, but is successfully accomplished.
At Workington, England,-in the year 1837,
before the science of surveying was at3 highly
developed as at present, the sea burst through
and the workers were drowned.
Many of the oldest mines of England, long
ago worked out and abandoned, have filled with
water in the lapse of time, and constitute an
ever present danger to the miners in adjacent
mines, who may be drowned at any moment.

A Coffee Shortage
THIS wouldlook nice for a headline, would it
not, in a day when we are fed with news
regularly that first this item of food and then
that item is not to be had at the old price
because the supply is so limited?
The facts are-that there probably never w a s
a time in the world when there was as much
coffee in sight as there is a t this moment About
half of the coffee-users of the world have beenwithout coffee for five years, and during that
time the production has been the same as ever.
The green coffee beans keep indeMtely, m d
get better as they grow older.
Maybe somebody can tell us, atop this information, why coffee that can be bought wholesale
in Brazil for 124c should sell here at retail for
75%but it is hard for us to understand. It look8
to us as though the system of distribution is
too well organized, so well organized that the
common people have not even a "look in" anless they can arrange for coiiperative hying.
Well ! Anyway! The Golden Age comes
along, not all at once, but gradnallJ. Given tho ,
necessities of life in abundance, and statesmen
who have a real and abiding interest in peopte,
it wiU not be long before mc3l a condition ss
this w i l l be corrected.
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Zhe Nero MiIIiolu~~*tes

and England the dresses are alleged to be
HE new millionaires, created by the blood- nearing the vanishing PO^& and if they pt '

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money of ,
,,fit,
hare dis&g&hed
themselves by a display of foolishness, anring

country than thep were at

much worse in
some of the b a t b g resorts, we can adopt lthc
the year 1919, unexampled hitherto in the Japmese sQle of separating the men culd
history of the United States, or in any other women bathers by a line, and paying no further
judge, w the
i ~
pas- attention to such fittie items as dreas. At one
corntry, far as me
Bible aception of the Roman wire
in the American resort over 500 girls were detained
by the policv, and word sent to their mothers
period Ijnst before its f d .
aemat.erof pen on^ adornmeht, nothing
to bring lheir daugliters sficicnt underclothing
that they w ~ BO
J home in ~ c ~ ~ corYtbc
,
has h e n too m e O*
mltly to suit ae
of tho newly rich. Dealers in gems h ~ found
e
clothing would be supplied by the c i l ~ .
A t the most espensive restaurant in -h'ew
it almost imposli~le
to importsuficient qoantitics to keep their customem supplied, and the Tork, whcre bvo tablespoons of coffee cost
fifty cents, the most beautiful and elaborrrtel::
gems sold have k e n of the V e V highestqufity* dressed
in lint vFaiting
of the age
The dealers report that whereas they bave two
msh seo60ns, E~~~~~
and chfis-,
this ,-ear for an opportunity to obtain seds. T l ~ ehouses
it has been Christmas in every day of every in which some of these people live have cost
month. ~ fis ian ~
P*esltby itate of afldrs. fabulous sums. One is alleged to have cost
$5,0N,000. One man used 200 tons of coal to
During the
the most erpen- heat Ids house during last year's coal fm~linc.
parts
the comtq, -4 w o m a
$
~ for ~ opera
,
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rates rangilin~from $7 to 0 5 per day, were
E~~~~one is
to criticize them milliononnblc to care for their p e s t s , and resorted to air.es, but in some -es we Dar tile judgment
thc construction of automobile camps to'provide
too -ire. We therefore mge slat
'lelter lorthose who could not be -mmOreaders do not tlrink too uncharitably of them.
dated with rooms indoors.
Remember that they as well as tLe poor are in
seat st
At saratogb where a
ring come respects under the control of the present
side is L&80,
the d e a ~ c dZidmidon is ,id
qstm. Custom has k c d laws and bar$l-l0, panda
n e r e ~ d e das never before, d a a e s around tlleir-heads and hcmts. F&,e
tho gate r w i ~ t sran&% from $6%m
t o ~ncep(ionsof Christianity, endorsed by the
per
the dnily bets at the track whole world, rich and poor, Tor an~turies,&kc
ruming as high
$2t000~m*
In the gmt worn deeply the grooves of thonght and reason
cities, b 0 0 k I d C ~ rtoTl
~XT!d fie *-SC~R~!~S and i, %.~&their minds travel to
fro. They
placed other millions.
feel that they must do as other mcn do; that
gambling at Sarabgs was not a m h e d is, they must use their time and talents to their
to horse-racing; bat at the &d table hundreds best ability and on "bnsiness pl.inciplest'.
.of thansands of dollars were repeatedly pivoted Doing this, the money rolls in on them, because
* : r h the tn~nof a card. A 8imila~mania is money and W e r p are creators of wed*
rep*
from France, where fortunes are won
Thus they no doubt reason that having the
f ~ lost
~ d
hi a single P ~ WI t is mpposed that wealth it is their duty not to hoard it dl, but
part of this . h i i J h - s b g x~ervomtenmion in to spend Eomc of it. They perhaps question
America and in F'rance is due to the suppression whether it would be better to dispense it as
'of, the liqaor traffic a this a m t r y and t h e charity or to let it circalate through the avenue
cocaine M e in France.
of trade, and w a p s for labor. Under present
The women of France and England are wrong conditions, therefore, it is extremely
'reported to have lost much of their womanly fortupate for the middle and poorest dasses
'modesty during the year, and perhaps the same that the wealthy are "foolishly' extraragant",
is true to Borne ertent in this country. In France rather thhn miserly, spending lavishly a portion

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of t l ~ eflood of wealth rolling into their coffersfor diamonds, for instance, xliich require "diggill;.', polis1.Ling i n d mounting and thus givc
employment to tliousands ~vhowould only add
tn tJic 11u.slbcr out of work if th2 wealthy had
no foibles or ex-travagances, but hoarded ail
tlw mollc~~the^ could get.
I11 m3king thesc suggestions for i3e measure
of consolation tl~cymay affol-d to the poorer
clas~,c,c,1,-e would not be nnderstood as in any
sense jastifying the selfish extravagance of the
ricll, \\*hich is n-rong, and n-hich the Lord condemns as 11-rorig. (Jamcs 5: 5) Can we wonder
that many .are envious, and some angry and
embittered, when they contrast t l ~ ewastefulness
of the newly rich r i t h their own familjs
penury, or a t least enforced economy, While w e
wait c11tj.l the I d r d shall vu~dicatetheir cause,
\;.c cannot wonder tbat soch matters arab-en in
the 11crrrts of many of the common people feelings of e n y , Ilatred, malice and strife such a s
we see occaslonall~manifesting themselves in
the currcilt news of the day.

Condiffomo f Newsboys
IC ISBESTIGATIOK of the industry o f
street nlarketing of newspapers in the
principal cities re\-ealcd interesting facts about
the newsboys.
I n Ciilchlnati, for esample, there arc 3,800
ne~vehoys, or 1'7% of the boys of the city
ht\\-ecn ten and sixteen. The boys are not
orphans; for 81.2% have loth parents living.
They are not from very poor families; 90%
of the poor families in which there are newsImjs receive no cbarital~le assistance. . The
.Jews are 6 5 of Cincinnati's popdation, 'but
furnish 2972 of the uevrsboys, shoning that the
trading instinct is a strong factor in turning
boys to the occupation. A b u t 87% are native
bdrn. The native born are 90% in Seattle,.SO%
in Baltimore and 707; in Boston.
The daily earnings o f . newsboys averagc
twenty cents in Cincinnati, twventy-two cents in
Raltilnore and twenty-eight cents in Chicago.
31%England and MTalesthe earnings of- 45,000
street traders are 123 cents a day.
3lany newsboys are in constant touch with
degrading or criminal surroundings. According
to lfaurice B. Herter, Snperi~~tendent
of thc
United Jewish Charities, vzllo made the Cincinnati investigation, tlie boys on two papers were
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thirteen were colored men with extensive criminal records. I n some cases the boys bave to
bribe these men to obtain their quota of papcra.
"KO wonder," says the Journal of Educatiott,
'lying, .cheating and gambling Qourish".

Human Longevity
NLT a little while ago r e leerned from the
"experience tables" that the average of
human life has gradually increased from 33
to 35 Years. How is it that it is now said to be
shortening? The answer is that it is shortening
for those who have reached 55 or more years of
age, while it is greatly lengthened for.=ny ~:h?
would have died in infancy but for the superior
care infants now receive.
Between 1900 and 1910, in nine l h e r i c a n
States, the average d e a rate
~ for all persons
under 35 years of age decreased 15%. For
Persolls between 15 and 20 gears of a@ tfris
decrease was as e c a t as 1976. Between 35 and
45 years of age the declsease in the death rate
waS 7%. Bettreen-43 and 55 gears of age i t %-as
2%. But over 55 years of age the deatli ~ - a t c
ilwreased 9 5 . The causes assigned for this
increase arc cl~icflydiseases of the heart, Mdneys, circulatory s>-stem and npoplesy.
These diseases of maluritr, or "degenerative
diseases", a s the ~115-sicianscaU them, 6110~~
M-hatwe d l hiow to be a fact; nmely, that r e
are living too fast. A French surgeon belieres
that he has discovered a method to prevent all
these diseases of old age. It consists in grafting
the interstitial gland from a young aliimal to
an old animal, causing the latter to l&c OIL
youth and rigor. His first erperin~entswere
uith 120 aninlals, in each case wit11 success.
His next experiment w-as n-ith n man orer 80
yenrs of a@, upon .wliom he , d t e d a gland
taken from a monkey. The result was that in a
short time the man was restored to the health,
vigor and mental alertness of a man of 30 gears. '
The time is at thc door when fie life of
humanity shall be returned to its youtli, but
our understanding 'is that the restoration will
be done by Christ; for tlie gift of God, e t c r ~ ~ a l
life, can come only through him. (Romans G: B )
Nevertheless, the French experiments are interesting. They are adding to our fand of human
Imo\rledge and at any rate enable us to see how
easy it,uill be for the Lord to perpetuate humall
life indehitely when, in due h c , his kingdom
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MANUFACTURING AND MINING

me CIriZmn N i h f e a

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y A. IF.Clarke nitrate has to bc lightered out to vessels oitcil
HlLI'S nitrate of soda deposits were dis- to a distance of several miles; but great efticicovered by'Indians about a hundred years ency in t h i s work enables the loading of as high
ago. I n building a fire they noticed that the as .250 tons per hour, in spite of the he~.vy

ground took fire in various directions. Fearing

that this was the work of evil spirits they took'
specunens to the priest, who analyzed it and
piled the unused portions in his garden. The
next spring there w k wonderful vegetation in
the spot where the nitrate had been piled.
Curiously enough, nothing grows on the nitrate
beds themselves ;but when nitrate is mixed with
soil the results are marvelous. Experiments
have & o m that on soil where nitrate of sodn
was nsed the productivity lacked only about
twenty per cent of being double what it was
without the nitrate.
The only nitrate deposits capable of being
nrorked commercially exist in Chili, and cmstitate Chili's most important article of export.
Fish skeletons hare been found in these nitrate
deposits, and it is supposed therefore' that at
some time the deposits constituted the ocean's
bed and were formed by decay of its fishes and
seaweeds. The dcposits are now f o m a at eleva:
tions of 2,000 to 6,000 feet above the sea, to
whicli they have been raised by the earthquakes
that are characteristic of the region The
grounds are largely owned by the Qovernment
and are auctioned off from time to time.
T l ~ erock in which the nitrate deposits are
found is generally white, but may be yellow,
gray or violet. I t is salty to the taste and
soluble in water. The nitrate pampas are in
tbc midst of rainless deserts. The calicbe
(nitrate rock) is broken up by explosives, transported by roil to rock crusl~crs,boiled, rebed,
crystallized, dried and packed in 200b. bags
for shipw--)ti. Iodine and table salt are byp r o d ~ ~ ccl"'the
ts
process of manufactrue. The
standard nii'rde nsed for fertilizing purposes
is ninety-fivc 'per cent pure.
It is estimated that 50,000 men a r e employed
in the 1G7 plants engaged in the production of
commercial nitrate?, and that three per cent of
ihc available deposits are being worked. During
the war Chili experienced rr great boom, on
accou~itof tho immense quantities of nitrate
rrsed in the manufacture of munitions. The

swells frequently experienced.

-Surely-Ood'sways are not man's ways. JTliat
a strange thing that, out of these desert wastes,
should come something which is causing hundreds of thousands of. acres of land in the
United States, and elsewhere, to yield almost
double their usual crops.. The Lord .has available all the materials wherewith to turn this
earth into, a Paradise again as soon as the
clock of tho ages has strnck the.time that suits
his plan and purposes.

Oil From Cool

MPERILED economically by the hard peace
conditions, Germany is impqdled to thrifty
employment .of her resources. A resource lacking in the German Republic is petroleum, and
the Germans are establishing vast factories to
convert coal into petroleum and coke. The coke
will contain mod of the energy from the coal,
and the petroleum will be a clear addition to
the national resources. According to the claims
of Prino8 Lomenstein, a prominent chemist
and manafactarer, 134% of the coal can be
taken out and the remaining ''ookelike" substance burned with only 2% loss of &ciency.
The 134% will comprise 10% crude petroleum,
13% benzine and 2% heavy oil. The government plans to build huge plants for the pr-ss,
and to utilize the "coke" in the national railroads, which hitherto have used annually about
12,000,000 tons of coal. The processing of the
coal will give 18,000 tons of benzine ;,H,W -tons
of heavy oil and 120,000 tons of cmde petroleum for use in the nation'e industries.
The distillation of coal of shale fof oil is
not new. A process was patented in England in
1850 and another in this country in 1854. By
1859'over sixty plants were w o r h g the American oil shales and mpplping the newly invented
"kerosene", to take the place of the whale and
animal oils and candles hitherto nsed for lighting. Up to 1860 the shale-oil industry prospered, but the discoveq of petroleum in liquid
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"He becomcth poor that dealeth with a R ~ B & , sabject to the same divine law as anyone else,
hand; but the hand of the diligent mah-eth rich". and that one of the requirements of even the
Mosaic 1av was the employer should so regofste
,-Proverbs 10:4.
working conditions "that th?. manservant and
thy maidserrant may rest as well as thoa*.hxreaued Mficiency
j N A manufacturing plant no factor is as Denteronom~5: 34..
haportant as the contribution of the workers. tic&,, rndmt'he ability and aillingness of the worker to
the a,,imREsSED
out all the work possible is au-important,
takation of inUlemillions of
of ,ha
nd has been a prime mover in the efficiency
vdted
is
as
nd profitableness of manufacturing industries.
oaO _.
mc,w, or aqs
War conditions have had an interesting effect
r2sl or lo.?%
md 8tmL.-.-pan the working branch of manufacturing.
chcmkd~
8,034. or ?.6%
2810, or 7*0
I ~ccordingto a large Philadelphia manufacturer
2,174. or 6-65
'un investigation shows that the product per
1.72s.. or 4.45
man per hour under identical conditions today
per rind ~r~nung1,433, or ~ 0 %
l,ols, or 27% .
a d before the wnr is one-third less now than
,
or
'hen. This is notwithstanding. an increase of
Ch,.
-d
98i, or zS%
100% in wages. I n an investigation covering
Vehicles
mar748, or 2.096,
I everal states the wage per man per hour had
303, or 9%
ncreased 240% while the product per hour
M~~~~~~~~
2,047. or 6.4%
had decreased 62%.
TOT&or10076
Of course, the reliability of such figures is
pro& n o m i divide h m a s & ~ t i e s
>jc?~t
to investigation as to motive8 that might duction, distribution, and consamption. of the
wntrol the investigators. What the average industries heh lhted, those devoted to distribubusiness man Grids k liable to be what he wants tion momt to 44.5%, irnd those devote& to
o find. Fignres a n often be "adjusted" to tell
are 55.574, &owing a substantial
limost any story.
commerce
equality between the two. If fa-,
But if the figures are to be relied ripon, the and finance were added, the figures wodd be
'
)utcome of easier working will result in a smaller somewht dierent.
+mlumeof &Pods produced, less goods Per capita,
It is noteworthy that the one industry that
and higher prices for the goods that are Pro- has been a drag on the others-bcveragcsduced. There is no question that if every worker with billion dollars investment, has been rcipcd
~roducedtwice as much there would be twice BS ant by national prohibition. u is the only one,
A T ~ I I C ~ available for distribution among tb.
aeept tab-, whose d e s h & o n eodd .not
workers, whether by the current
spstem cause some seriotu consequencks. It is gone,
4r nnder any other r6gime. The only way to
is a good riddanw.
ell plenty is w-o-r-k
The industries of today, with an American
Perhaps same of the let-up in work is owing ' population of n hundred million, are nothing to
'0 justillable causes. Somtimes inathe past the those of the incoming Qolden Age when the '
vorkers have been vorked too hard, in which billion and a half world population will in a few
case GI.-.
oug:~iiu k orfr less strenuonsly; for a hundred years rise to over
billion. of
workers health and well-being are of untold this incomprehensible number over a billion
pore importance than the product of his labor. ahould be domiciled in the United States, md
Knowing the tendeniy of employers in the far the industries of the corntry should be ten or
and the recent past to drive labor beyond twenty times what they are now.
mdnrrmce~persons of broad view are glad to The contraat between those now having conwe any improvement in working conditions. trol of these vital and indispensable ipterds
Employers seem to think that they are a kind is suggested by two Biblical erpressions: now,
privileged class, not bound by necessity to "the workers of iniquiQ flourishU (Psalm 92:.
work to the extent they make their employes 1 ) ; then, *%I his days shall the righteous
work. They should remember that they are flourish".--.Psalm 72 :,7.

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Short-Line RaiZroading
EOBOE N. BRBSON had put SOIII~ $700,000
of hi8 o m money into an *&mile railrod
running O U ~of Savannah,. (korgio. The line
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stock has been largely wiped oat; and there

seems not the slightest chanoe of ever d e m ,
dividends on the investment
Things look blue, if not bl& for the a d land dnd it is typical of the little roads which
have signed the ahort-line contracts mverning
conditions of operntion.
lr.e m m W s railroad u p a n s i n reqnires
substantial, enterprising b n h s a a e r 6
Brinmn's
He the &d of mm that
throws railroads
new Str@tobf36of country,
and O ~ n np
s and develops them The railroad
development of the land is in the hand. of the
B ~ S Othe
~ esermtive
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heads of the hpndreds
of A o r t - b e feedem for the big s ~ s t e m *
HOWmuch does Mr. Brinson feel like building
like the others he has
another ~ho*line
b a t and succossfdy managed up to a paying
position, before heasold them to others? What
is
become of the necessary expansion of the
coontry's
mo
develop the terAbv
just ready for new

no other large city. He a s s &g

the road.
begin to show a fair retarn.
.
It wras s tgpiad, lo& m d enterprise. MZ.
Brimon y e s president, general manager, m d
pretw mu& d the oEcer~. He a u l d pay
on
worken better wages than they had
fslrm or in the timber. They gladly worked
bard for &, because he wm a pod bow.
8n emergency the ahop men would put on extra
Steam to get tbs rolling stock ready for -newed seniw, Others f l n 6 1 y worked the same
a ~ y and
, regarded themselves much bettar off
than they had been
The
was not yet seasoned, and before putting good, substantial, new locomotives
on the line, Mr. Brinson bought five old "rattle10comoti?es, to talie the bmt of
The
is passing. Perhaps new
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rough
and
to pieces. be opened np eEectively by truck lines. Perhaps
enough
The linefor
hadthe traffic;
carsand
of it borrowed
Om,
bUt the cheaper
foMd inthe
transportation
Ford
than
motor
r i l o a dIntrentivc
s w i l l be
needed extra rolling stock from the big lines,
better
id
anstan
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f
worfig
oh
new
which were getting new business from the Mid-,
erien
the
will
redize
that
land and glad to aemmodate a new "feeder". wold
behold, J1 things
IIe
air. Briuson has appeared and testified before Bre: beCbae aew',m-z C o h t h w 5: 17,
the Bonse Committee on Interstate Cornme&.
-The road had been in operatioh d d y 1 feG 1 V'W WeighhrManrr
fears before the h e r i a - G e m a n #.at. Now
R. EDITOR: In your issue of October lst,
he cannot get a shopman to help oat by speed19l9, page 6, second ool-,
you make a
b g np when a locomotive is oat of repair a d stakmeht which has been called in question,
is urgently needed to handle traflic. The big
"Every year our railroads erty 650 tons
lines no longer loan him their cars. The bcal for every mrin, woman, .andchild in the land".
hbor r&ives the same wages as the Govern- 1 would like to a& whether ,this mm
adsc
ment pays evewhere. He cannot mhke the print or a misstatement. I f that meam each
old dedc, to 'Indrlce t r a c to move over his man, qroman, and child, and there are five i x the
~
h e , evcn if he could get the cars to carrp it. average family, it would mean 8,!250 tone t@ be
The total investment in the road is a b u t loaded and unlokded for each f a y , a&d it
$1,200,000, including $360,000 of bonds. Mr. monld look as if Dad would h o td~hustle lively
Brinson says the bonds are k default as to in moving freight, id adition O hg
a
interest payments ;but the bondholders, being living,-EL M., Los hgele8, Calif., Oo+25,1910.
1 d ~ o p l e ,have not foreclosed. He dates Just the kind of shot no might have apecwd .
that he cannot possibly. operate the road to from r eonntry where the climate is ro perfect
dear expenses, to stty nothing of paying interest that houses ere a noismes, do-g
in a burden on the bonds. The value of hi $700,000 in the and the food question is a joke1 E. hT. ought to

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live up in the frozen North through one or two

of our January and February water-pipe festivities, asld "left" our imitation marble 'dabs,
our limestone-laden flour, our "bony"-laden hard
coal, our Yoaded" fabrics; and then he would
know why we have to have things up in this
country in the winter time ~ J order
I
to keep alive.
Suppose now, E.M., that we were to get a
box of oranges from the paradise where you
live. I t comes right through 3,127 miles to New
Tork. To start with, let us suppose it weighed
60 Bs. Statistically speaking, when that bos of
ornrlges reaches our front steps it w i l l weizh
just 93.81 tons. You just send the box right
along and see how bravely Dad runs out and
lugs that 93.81 tons up the steps, and watch the
smiles on the faces of the kiddies when he does
so. Railroad tonnage is figured in ton-miles.
650 tons for each person means 650 tons carried
one mile. But most of our things are carried
many miles, and this runs up the tonnage. A
ton of Scranton cod in Los Angeles would
weigh, thcoreticdlq-, over 3,000 tons. But,
pshan-, what is the use of our sending coal to
Los AngeIcs? They would not know what it
was \vhen they saw ft.

Rice Imports
T H E shipment of American foods to ~ u r o
has had an interesting effect upon the rice
trade. I n 1917 the total rice movement from
China and Japan to the United States was
33,456 tons; but in 1918 one American banking
company alone, through one American port,
imported a quantity three times as great.
I n 1694 a vessel bound for Liverpool from
Madagasozr was blown so far out of her course
that she had to put in to Charleston, S. C., for
repairs. Wt~ilethere the captain of the vessel
gave a small package of rice to one Thomas
Sm.ith, to use as seed. It bad been supposed
previondp that rice would qot grow in this
country, but Sqith grew enough rice tbe first
year to almost feed the whole colony, and it has
been a ~ t a p l ecrop of the marsh lands of the
southern states ever since. No doubt the Lord
knew how suitable is the Sonth for rice production; and it was his hand that guided the Madagascar vessel t o these far shores, and laid the
basis for a part of the great food supply that
will be needed by the myriads of mankind that
will
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Canada's Finances
new governing factors of Canada w i l l
bave large problems to handle. During the
four years ending with 1918, ~ a n a d i a ninvestors
advanced seventy-one per cent of the total sum
of $1,56l,Gl9,024 put into the war during that
period. In that time the national aebt was
multiplied by more than five, and the interest
on the debt by more than nine. Kithin that
period, although the gold supply increased, the
paper money in circulation increased so greatly
that there arc now only forty-tmo cents in gold
back of every paper dollar, while in'1914 there
were seventy-four cents back of each dollar.
The Qovernmenfs requirements'forthe year,
on account of demobilization and other extraordinary expenses due to the war, are estimated
at $800,000,000, of which m o u n t only about
$280,000,000 can be provided by the revenues of
the country. Somebody must."find" the balance. At the close of the fiscal year Cannda's debt
will be about $2,000,000,000, or $250 per capita.
The pension burden in Canada will be verv
heavy. The 8,000,000 people of Canada nil1
try to pay in pensions an amount equal to that
paid by 50,000,000 people of the United States
to the Union Veterans of the Civil War.
No Solomon, or collection of Solomons, will
the complicated questions that modern
~handle
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statesmen have to face without experiencing a
large part of the "distress of nations, with
perplexitg" which our Lord said would imrnediately precede or accompany the time when they
shall "see lwith the eyes of their understanding]
the Son of man pming [into control of earth's
affairs] in a clond [a time of trouble such asnever a s since there was a nation] with power
[irresis t i b k ] and great glory" (ultimately).
Then the Lord adds: 'When ye see these things
come to pass, h o w ye that the kingdom of Cfod
is nigh at hand". (Luke 21: 2531) The new 4
Canadian legislators have a bard job ahead of
them, and in the end they will be even more
glad than others when the Lord lifts the burden
from their shoulders, and bears it away himself
by inaugurating the Golden Age for which we
have always longed. What a blessed condition
will then obtain everywhere! AU who wiU accept the gracious arrangements of the incoming
Messianic kingdom will thereby be enabled to
retarn to divine favor and life evirlasting in a
world-wide Paradise restored.

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A Canadian Revolution
they go farther and believe that the Liberals
OBODY-need be alarmed when we state themselves are a s mtrustworthp as the Conser-

that a revolution is in p r m s s in fie p e a t

country to the north of us. It is a peaceful revolution, but none the less real. The people seem
bent on no longer entrusting their interests to
either of the two old parties, but of having a
housecleaning, from the ground up. The work
of removing all the old political elements and
placing new parties and new men in charge of
the country's affairs is in full ming, and
apparently nothing can stop it. During the war the Canadians came to feel
more and more a just sense of their country's
importallce in the affairs of the world, and a t
its conclusion demanded separate representstioil of Canada at the peace conference and the
privilege of signing the treaty on their own
accoui~t. I n the treaty a s drawl there is no
distinction between Canada and other powers
signatory to it. This determination of the
Canadians to have something to sa? about how
they will be governed in the future is now
reflecting itself in the domestic politics of the
provinces and dominion.
Throughout the war Canada was wverned
by what the Canadians have d e d a Unionist
Government; that is, a coalition of the s o - d e d
Conservative and Liberal parties, in which all
differences Were meyged until the W a r should
be
Now the common people are raising
such a clamor to be heard on their OWII a c e o a t
that the old line-up of the Conservatives and
Liberals has been resumed, and for the delectation of the public the Liberal leaders have been
telling the peaple what they think of their late
bed-fellows- 1x1a statement printed in the
public press they recently denounced the Qovernment in these words :
charge thit the
hBB
to
represent the people m d has outlived its usefulness.
No body of men has the right to asurp power and
continue to rule without submi*
ih policg to the
considerntion of the people. The b-ent
h a failed
to take the people into its oonfidence in framing its
policy in the pat, rs also in formulating ib policy
for the future"

The Canadian people as a whole seem to

believe pretty much all that the Liberals have
had to say about their late bed-fellows, bat

vatives. They claim that the whole arrangement by which the people have been governed
by orders-incouncil, by which liberty of tbonght
has been terrorized through wholesale arresb,
~eizureof publications, and breaking-up of
-meetings of law-abiding, God-fearing pepple,
through overworking the word "patriotism",
has been, to my the least, extra-legal.
Now the Canadians seem to have reached the '
conclusion that, for them, terrorism shall cease
to terrorize. And who shall say that they, at
least, have not s h o r n some real common sense,
and some red patriotism? Does true patriotism
mean that one may never dare to have a different opinion from that held by the person or
persons who, for the moment, have the reins of
power? Or does it mean if one is really patriotic,
that he must wave his arms and throw his hat
in the air, and shout himself black in the face,
e v e v time such person o r persons give expression to a new thought or to a wntradiction of
an old one?
The new determination of the Canadian .
people to be done with old party lines first came
to light in a by-election held in St.Catherines,
Ontario, in Febmnv, 1919. The District had
always been a Conservative stronghold. There
a new party, the Labor party, entered the field.
It had been unknown hitherto, and a candidate
was
Kith m c d t p . But 'it -e-erp
near * g
fie election, and its mppor,ters
claim that it did win fie election if the votes
had been honestly counted. It W ( C ~a startling
indication of the temper of the pe-le, of their
determination to have a real democracy instead
of an autocracy posing as a democracy.
During the summer there was another expression of the popular dissatisfaction with t h ~
old Canadian par tie^ in the troubles at Winnipeg. There were many thine connected Kith
the Winnipeg troubles that have never been
cleared up, and it is not generally known on ' .
this side of the line, even to this da& that the
majority of the Winnipeg strike leaders were
British-born, and of proven loyalty to Canada
and the Canadian people, right at the time when
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disturbances among foreigners. In the Fall the News, tho o3icid organ of the s t d e r s . When
Canadian people had theit long-desired oppor- he was arrested and taken to the penitentiafl
tunity to give an expression at the polls of near Winipeg, another gentleman, by the fiatns
just how they felt about how things have been of Woodsworth, was placed in charge of the
nranagcd by the old parties.
same paper. The latter is an interesting
, In October came the eleotions for the legisla- character,
idealist, for b e n t y years a
tare of Ontario, the most populous, most con- minister in the Methodist chutch, hrithor of ii
servative province in the Dominion. Besides patriotic book, entitled "Stfangera within on?
the new Labor party, the United Farmers of Gate-Conling
Canadiwk,'' fouhder of the
Ontario, enother political party only two yews Winnipeg People's Forum, founder bf the
old,,entered the field. These farmers are. abso- Canadian Welfare League, and Director of th9
lntely against any return to the sale of Liquor, Bureau of Social Bemarch of Manitoba, S&Sare opposed to intervention in Russian affairs, katchewan abd &be*
At tbe end of a week
demand that Canhdian p o l i t i c k s keep out of he also was arrested oh the chatge of inciting
European affairs altogether, welcome settlers to hold an unlawful assembly. When the facts
from oppressed lands to come to the Dominion, were explained to tbe pebple of Brantford, they
have a plan of progressive legislation in View seemingly concluded that those responsible for
which they hope to make into laws, and are the arrests of h e n s and Woods*orth were
linked up with similar organizations of farmers entitled to a rebuke; and they W n i s t e r e d it.
in tbe provinces of New Brunswick, Manitoba,
Since then the United F a r n e t s have W O ~
Baskatchewan and Alberta., who furnished them three out of five by-elections in New Bmnsffick,
with speakers in the campaign.
Ontario and Saskatchewan, p o h t s twenty-five
The result was a campaign that is described hundred miles apart. h New Brunsxiek the
car: having taken on the ncrtnre of a religions United Farmers candidate was returned by ur
revival. The women voters leaned more and 3,000 majority over a returned boldiez'.- In
more to the .side of the two new democratic Ontario the Farmers' candidate had a mnjotity
parties. Prominent men who entered the con-. of nearly 2,000 and ih Saskatchewan of nearly
test on-the Government side swung to the side $000 votes. This sho~vsatl awakebed people.
of the people during the fight The outcome was
The Farmers' platform hcfddes lowering of
a surprising rictory of these two brmd new tariffs on goods imported from other countries,
parties over the two old ones. The Consema- especially if imported from Great Britah:
tives, who had formerly held thescontrol by a reciprocity dith the United States; a tariff
I total of 80 out of 111 seats, were dethroned, commission; taxation of unimproved l a n d
i hlld the coalition of the Labor afid United vafues; &n income ta9 ranging fro* 2 o wti
! Farmer parties bas 56 seats, a msjorify of gne $2,000 to 50% on h w b e s of $lW,WO; d e r i t over jll the old party mttidates md ihdepend- Gee W; hkorne tsr on cotporlation profits:
public ownetshi of public necessities :abolition
ents put together.
The people of Ontario went to ~ n s i d e r a b r e of titles; abo tfdn of the C a d i a n senate;
trouble to lay emphasis upon their d i s a p p r o ~ d national prohibition; feferendnm and r e d ;
of the old parties.. A so-called labor-soldier and complete equelization bf the parliamentary
candidate was defeated a parently for no other .'stahis of women
reason than that he was acked by the expiring
We cfinhot bdt s~pkthized t h the people in
Conserrative guverilment. One man wire report- their aspirations for a Bore democratic governed as elected l~ierclybecause he had been attack- ment, and in these aspirations they kpproach
ed as a Bolsh~dk.Tlic mayor of Brantford waa more nearly to tbe standards set forth in the
elected, mppnsedly, because he ignored the Scriptures. 'J?o the confusion of those who
demands of the Cangetoatives tbat he should imorantly claim that the Bible eanctions an
not let one of the western labor leaders, Mr. established empire rule over the people, instead
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of "a government bf the people by the people," ' v e n ~ speak
The gentlemarl, W
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the dispute in Brantford centered, is a Method- of government which continued for dyer fbnr
ist minister, hnd at the time of the troubles in hundred years. And it was changed for thet of
Winnipeg waa editor of the Western Labot ti kingdom at the request of "the Elders," with.,
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Out the Lordg approval, who said to Gamnel,

then acting a s a sort of informal president,
"Hearken tlnto the voice of the people inall
that they shdl.say unto thee, for .they have not
rejected thee, but they hnre rejected me,'t)rat
1 should not reign over them". The people feel
their need of a wise and strong d e r and w i l l
findhim in the Lord, and in him alone, and that
shortly. The nca parties in Canada may do
romething to alleviate the condition of the
people; but they can not do much. The conditions the leaders of these parties must face
.are very difficult. They mill find themselves
confronted with problems they have not forepeen, and trill be expected to produce changed
conditions more quickly &an mill be possible.
We hope for them that they will be wise, and
lund, and just, and strong for the interests of
all the people.

Governmentat Linzi fatiom

T IS plain enough that if none of us ever did
anything, or produced anything, we would
all be naked, homeless and starved. Until we
get to work and produce something there is aot
much to govern, unless it be to form a sort of
mutual defense society to prevent the stronger
from killing and eating the weaker. 60 the
fundamental fact of government is work. '?f
any would not work, neitlier should he eat."
(2 Thessalonians 3: 10) We mnst not get the
idea that any kjnd of government man can
devise \.ill
make it unnecessary for him to work
And just now, when there is a shortage of
almost everything that human beings need, due
to the great waste of the war, the governments
of the world are right in their conception that
anything that will cause the people as a whole
to produce more goods will be to the benefit
of the people ne a whole.
This brings ns to the question of how men can
8 " b e induced ta produce more, M, that there will
: ' be more to divide. The prevailing rule of
thought in the past has been that the only
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thing that mill indace the avertye man to put
forth his best efforts is a desire to own and to
hold things. And it mnst be admitted that there
- is a great deal of truth in this contention. A
system which makes each 'man responsible for
the care of his own wife and children will cause
the average man to put forth more effort than
where his work will be um'd for the benefit of
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Any man u7ho has the idea that it would ba

better for the Government t o own and operate
all the industries of the country would do me11
to visit m y public building in any city of tho
lrnited States and note the general shiftlessness
of the ompants, the dih, disorder and indifference manifest on all aides, and then turn t o
any equally large boilding in the hands of a
private concenl and note the difference. The
general atmosphere of the one is dirt and laziness, and af the other cleanliness and indust-.
%'he acerage man looks npon a political job
as on easy one; and while he has the job he is
Liable to e-nd
most of his energies in m g
to retain the job rather than in trging to render
efficient service. But if he bar, a job with P
private concern he knows that he must prodpce
definite results, and that if he does not do it
he may lose his job. He sees lother men about
who are doing their beat to help themselves up
in the world; and his fear of what they may do
to h i rind his family if he does not do the
work expected of l h leads him to put forth
more effort than he might otherwise do.
So then there are some good things to be said
about competition. But competition in many
lines is an nbosolute waste. Five telephone systems o r tnfo street railways in the same community are a nuisance. TKO telegraph companies render better service than one; but it is
n great waste to the community rn a whole to
lave to maintain two complete set8 of offices,
poles, wires and equipment. Hel'e is a legitimate field for Gorernmcntal activity-how to
produce an absolutely reliable and efficient telegraph service, one equal to that provided _by
private owners, but at less expense to the public.
The public should pay less to the Qovernment
f a such a service than to prirate owners because a Government ownership of telephone
.poles and wires would enable athe telegraph
lines to be operated in conjunction with them a t
reduced cost All the wires could be cnmed
npon the one set of poles. Governmental telegraph service in European countries shows
that this is a problem which, if placed in the
right hands, can be handled efficiently by'the
Government, and at reduoed costa to the public.
Besides, the Government has facilities, through
the Post Office, for the delivery of telegrams.
Competition, if it can be honestly maintained,
d l d d resnlt in good 'eervice and low prices to
the consumer. But if dI fhe milk dealers, for

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example, gather together and agree on certain

prices, competition ceases, and there is as true
a monoply as though one concern did all the
business. And there is the disadvantage that
one concern- conld 'do all the work, and do it
more efficiently and more econo~uicallythan a
dozen, all traversing the same streets, nt the
same time, with the same product. Which is
hetter, to have a real monoply and not admit
that it is wch, or to admit that monoply is
inescapable in such a business, and-endewor
to hold it in restraint by having the municipality itself engage in the business as a competitor1 In numerous cities abroad this plan is
followed with good results.
Unrestrained competition is bad, too; for it
leads to long hours, abominable shops and
factories, adulteration of goods, false representations of merchandise, and the dishonest underselling of competitors with a view to ruining
&em. We mnst have the aid of a Government,
national, state or municipal, to prevent the
stronger from killing the weaker by laws of
their own making. Fortunately, a t this stage
of the game, the worker himself has something
to say about i t ; and his protests against long
hours, low wages and unsanitary working conditions all operate to the advantage of society
as a whole. He would render a still further aid
to h u m a n i t y if he vonld blazon upon the
housetops every act of adulteration of goods or
misrepresentation of them that comes to his
knowledge, even if he lost his job by doing it.

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I n that case the Government he has benofitted

ought to aid him in securing emplopent.
What is needed is rr spring of human endearor
other than the law of selfishness, a new well of
water, a law of love, p motive that has the
interests of others more in view than one's onn
interests, which, however, should not be neglected. The present governments of earth are f a r
better than none at all; and we all do well to
think about their activities in constrnctirc
fashion, considering what they can reasonably
do in the interests of the people a s a ~ h o l c
without a t the same time becoming intolerable
nuisances by inefficiently and expensively doing
what private enterprise can do better, and by
attempting to gecide for us jnst bow we shall
think on questions in which they are interested.
The more the pGople expect the Government to
do for them, the higher 611 be the taxes which
mnst be estracted from the people in one form
cr another. There is no escaping this.
The thing that we all desire, whether we
h o r n it or not, is the establishment of Christ's
kingdom. ''Thy kingdom come. Thy nill bc
done in earth, as it is in heaven." (Matthew 6:
10) Earth's new King will know just what
laws to put into effect, and just how to enforce
them He alone has the power to give such a
government a s mill insure neither sickness,
sorrow nor death to those who obey his jnst and
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.This is earth's hope, and its
righteous d
only hope. And, best of all, "The desire of all
nations shall comeWi-Haggai 2: 7.

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The Great Agnostic's True Vision

I see a world
Where thrones have crumbled
And where Mugs are d w
The ~ t o c r n e yof idletaw
Has gcrlshed h m the earth.
I EX a world without a rlrrm
Nan at rut Ia

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forces

Hnve by &ma been enahveil;

1.lghhlng and llzhs

m d waoe.
r N t and drme,
&ui 8ll tbe
ollbtk powers
of eartb and alr
An? the t l r e 1 ~ tDUM
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For the hnmfu~ma%
I .ec a world at p a q
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d every fonn of art;
with mud68 myrlad roiaer, thrllld;
While llpa nre rich
with word. oi love' and tmth;
A world & which DO ~XUO
dgbr.
Wtnl

No prisoner monms;
A world on ahlch
The gibbet's shadow does not fall;
A world where lnbor reaps f t r iull rewnrd;
\%re work and worth go hand In hand.
I see a world
\\'Sth4at tbe beggnr's oulstret&ed palm,
The mkr's heartless, rtonf rtur.
The plteour wall of wmc
The lirld Ilm of ~IM,

TM crud eyes of scorn

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Wltbout dLseaac of P u b or bra4
Shnpell nnd far.
And.
AS I look
Life lengtbem,
JOY -4
Iavc rrmpleS tbc arth.
. And wer all lo the p a t dome
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Dehudmting Grapee
when the demand for dehydrated products
TES tons of g a p e s in twenty-four hours is woulcl make the operation profita5le.
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the record nlaintnined by the first commercial dehydrating plant of the kind, located
in Pomonn, California. It is a saver of waste
products; for fore-five per ccnt of the grapes
treated would have been scrapped, because
broken or otheni-ise injured by heavy rains.
Conntry people are fnnliliar -4th the old
method of drying fruits, by exposing them, in
trnys, to sunli,nlit, dust, flies, and germs. When
drying attains the dignity of n manufacturing
.process the old nanle is too co~mnonplaceand
it becomes dehydration, which signifies the
extraction of water, or plain '.drying". Fruit of
any kind map be dried by the nen- process, and
stored indefinitely. l?ien soaked with water,
ille dry cells swelL up, and the fruit regains
much of its original size and, according to the
inventor, most of its flavor.
If dehydration plants were scattered generally over the country and made a s accessible to
the farmer as a dairy, the over-production of
any kind of fruit or vegetable could be turned
from loss into profit; for the dried product
might be stored until the close of the season for
l l ~ efresh fruit or vegetable, and then be placed
on the market, without fear of deterioration, to
the advantage of farmer and consumer and to
the lowering of the cost of living.
Dehydration plants make for easier work in
ibe kitchen If there were a'plant in a city the
housewives, instead of going to the labor and
expense of canning and preserving, could bring
their fruit to the plant and get it back dehydrated and in a form most convenient for
preservation and uso Doubtless many new
recipes might be invented for sweetening or
flavoring frnits before having them dehydrated,
and hitherto unusual combinatio~isof fruits and
vegetables might be made by enterprising
housewives: The existence of drying-plants in
towns and cities +rill open up an entirely new
field of enterprise and originality in home and
store. Grocers would need have no fear of loss
through spoiled fmit'and produce; for anything approaching the danger line could be
rushed to the dehydrating plant and.returned
in ite new form ready for Bale immediately, o r

In the Pomona grape-dehydrating plant, the

grapes are placed in large trays with screen
\wtt oms, and slipped into huge oven-like driers.
Heat comes from large gas burners; and heated
air is circulated over the grapes by a huge fan,
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it through a net work of chilled
pipes, on wliich the moisture is condensed and
drips away, the dried air returning for furthcr
duty. The repeated nrre of the air is one of tho
fiecrets of the economy of the plant as compared
with other pla~ltswhere the air is discharged
into a chimney.
I t is l a r g ~ l ythe California wine grapes that .
are being dehydrated, in order to meet thz
deliland that will arise for the use of such '
grapes for the making of mine in the home,
certain officials#having ruled that wine mag be
made for home consumption
Savings in freight, crates, tin, mgar and
decay are claimed for the new process. Immense losses can now be prerented in crops
that ripen quickly, or that are damaged by
rain. frost or heat, and greatbadvantages are
predicted for housewives in country, town and
city, wherever the dehydrated system obtains.
Poor humanity needs the help that a general
economy of food n-ould furnish, for now by tens
of thonsands people in war-torn Europe are
being "burnt with hunger". (Deuteronomy 32:
24) With wlmt nnspenkable relief wil-ihese .
distracted ones welcome the day when "they
shall not hunger nor thirst" (Isaiah49: lo), and
"they shall be no more taken away with hunger
in the land" (Ezekiel 54: 29); for -4th many
such improvements a s that outlined above will
the Golden Age be blessed.
Buying in the Dark
T H E latest in 9 e l a n d - A r k b6kness is
"peanut units". The guileless gullible buya
EO many square feet or acres of land sweetened
with the promise of all kinds af profits from
peanuts that will be g r o m on the land.. A
Chicago concern is said tp be offering land in
Florida, to be planted aith peanuts, a t the
modest ( 1 ) price of @,!5OO for ten acres, or
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HOUSEWIFERY AND HYGIENE

Qphm a PestiIence Now
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'TRID fever, ship, jail and camp fever rue
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some of the names under which typhus
ferer has traveled in the past, and through
which it has won an undesirable reputation.
It is now raging ~ t the
h proportions of a
pestilence in the war belt from the Baltic Sea
lo the Black Sea. Physicians are unable to cope
uith i t ; and it is pronounced to be on far too
extensive a scale for even the Red Cross to
meet with hope of success.
The disease i s rare in the United States because it is a filth disease and the Americans
are one of the cleanest people in the world.
When it occurs it is usually among immigrants.
It is rare in European centers of population;
but in filth centers, such as certain cities of
Ireland, Russia, Ea-pt, India and Mexico, it
Becomes epidemic. Its presence is both a misfortune and a disgrace, because due to overcrowding, bad ventilation, poor food, and bad
habits, which are the fruits of ignorance.
Typhus is Like typhoid in some respects, but
is easily recognized, quarantined, disinfected
,and controlled. I t is communicated by contact,
by the breath, by germs arising from the &in,
and by the dust of the room. Under favorable
conditions about ten per cent of the cases die,
but in centers of filth and squalor the mortality
is nppalling. I t bzgins like typhoid, but develops
n dull red rash. Since the treatment consists
mostly in combating the causes that give rise
to the disease, it appears that it is cot well
understood by physicians, who have to let the
disease mn its course of fourteen to twenty-one
days, withont being ible to assist nature materially though they mitigate the snffering.
The prospects a& that with the people of the
war zone exhausted, poverty stricken, undernc?mished, apd discouraged by the miseries of
war, the dreaded pestilence may spread from
itfi present zone of Lithuania, Esthonia, Poland,
U k r d a , Serbia and the B a h n states into
Hungary and Austria. Only if prosperity can
be restored in other nations of Europe can the
typhus be prevented 'from extendini itself all
over the continent. There is a ehortage of food
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for every doctor in Pohnd, with a worse condition elfiewhere. ,It is thc morst visitation of
typhus since the dark at~es.
This is one of the great pstilences.dircctly
due to the war. It is one of the indications of
the end of this age, and of the early establishment of the kingdom of God. It is m i t t e n of
this time that, "Before him [before the Golden
Age] went the pestilence" ( H n b a W 3: 5);
and Christ said that the days immediately before his presence would be' mdrked by ''famines
and pestilences". (Luke 21111) It is good however, to know that the pcriod of evil conditions
will be very short, and that ttio world %il quickly pass into the better days of the Golden Age.

Remedial Foods
SE celery for any form of rheumatism or
dyspepsia.
Lettuce for insomnia.
Watercress for scurvy.
Onions are the best riel-vine known.
Spinach for gravel.
Asparagns to induce perepiration.
Carrots for snffering from asthma
Turnips for nervov disorders and for smw.
Raw beef, for frail binstitations and for consumptives. Chop fine, season with sdt, and heat
hy placing the dish in hot water.
Cranberries for erysipelas. Use esternally as
\veil as internally.
Cranberries, raw, are good appetizers.
Cranberries in cases of yellow and typhoid
fevers are almost indispensable as a tonic and
to clear the system of harmful germs. F o r some
forms of dyspepsia there is no more effective
remedy known. Carry a supply and eat frequently during the day.
Use crnnberries for biliousness.
Fresh ripe fruit to pnrify the blood and tone
up the system.
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Sour oranges for rheumatism.
Watermelon for epilepsy and yellow fever.
Blackberriee for diarrhoea
Tomatoea are a powerful aperient for the liver, for. dyspepsia and indigestion.
Bananas for chronic diarrhoea

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BU I. 8. AVorl there muses these waters to be precipitated

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great deluges upon the earth. With the breaking

T I5 very manifest that in al~tedilnviantimes of this canopy the hot-house condition of the
the entire earth's sutface was of uniform earth was relcnsed, and the waterj froze as
temperature and moisture-that there were no they fell and entrapped under mountains of
extremes of heat and cold, wet and dry as now. mow and ice many msuspecting forms of life,
This means that the entire earth was' in a mudl
It might bb well for geblogists who have tried
more -fruitful condition then than now. In one in vain to ascertain the time and cause of the
certain locality-the Garden of Eden-absolute
great Glacial Age of history to oonsider again,
perfection prevailed. In this place the beauties in the light of the canopy theory as above
and grandeur of perfection were such as to stated, the Scriptural narrative of the Flood.
stagger the efforts of the most active imagina- It is F C ~ Tmanifest that daring the earliest
tion. The uniform temperature and moisture periods of enrth's'development only the lowest
condition8 prior to the Flood remlted from forms of life were in efistenoe. This is ac"the waters above the firmament'lair-remain- counted for in the light of the fact that the
ing in suspension as is observed in the case of relative proportions of the various elements of
the planet Saturn today. This canopy ~ e r v e d the earth's otnlospllere were such as to wtain an a kind of hot-house condition, preventing only those fonns of life a t that time.
JVith the passing of time through the several
lowering of temperature. Hence, it rained not
at dl,but "there went up a m i s t from the earth, epochs in the creation of the earth both the
and watered the whole face of the ground". temperature and thq component elements of the
--Genesis 2 :5, 6.
air underwent great changes. As, for instance,
This. equable climate .and uniform moisture in the Carboniferous Age, the surplus amount
insured an abundance of the most varied t p p i - of carbondioxide of the air a t that time supcal vegetation, as well as animal life. As evi- plied this neceesary element to the rank forests
dence ,of this fact note the finding underneath with which the earth was covered, until a dimiglaci6l ice-drifts of bodies of tropical animals nution in the amount of carbon, by reason of
ih perfect state of prwervation. An antelope its absorption, caused such rank growth to
was found thus recently with undigested'grus cease, Ou awount of the .absence of animal
in its stomach. And more recently still, during life at that time there was no way for natare to
the summer of 1919, specimens of fruits, such ;aaintain a balance of atmospheria conditions as
as orange& lemons, bananas, cocoanuts and now. This condition resulted in the deathof
many kinds af edible fruits now extinct, were the vast forests of that age. But being highly
found in a petrified state underneath an old impregnated with carbon these forests did not
avalanche at the base of White Mountain in decay; for under such conditions, without safPennsylvania, Also the petrified rerhains of Acient oxygen, decay was impoesihle,
frcrh&nrfl~nqd horned toads were in evidence
With the dement upon the earth of this
carboniferous
canopy and its simnltoneoas con*
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sumption in the vast forests of earth, there
. what does this prove?
S h p l y that &ere was once an abundan& of were laid the foundations of the great ma1fields,
tropical fauna and flora in the present state of which still exist ;hem snbaeqnently by deluges
Pennsylvania Plien what 'magical wand hath and avalanches became submerged, teanlting
wtonght bo great a transformation from t r o p in their h i n g mined tram beneath the earth's
i d to low temperature conditions T The answer ~urfacetbday. At the "end of the age," the air
being filtered of its mrplus amount of carbonie, The Flood of the Bible in Noah's day.
Let as now follow "the waters above the dioxide and hharged, instead, with an increased
hr~lmment", and see them gradually collect, q o u n t of oxygen, the earth teemed with
under the iatluence of earth'e centrifugal force, mprinda of 'living creatures, fowls of the air,
about the pole^ wtil the great pull of gravity cattle, creeping thine,' eta

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At the psychological moment, man, the crown- is said to be nitrogen! With this great amount
ing act of creation, steps forth from his plastic of nitrogen intruding itself in the air the

mold "a little lower than the angels", but the ori,@nnl elements of oxygen and carbon-dioside highest of earthly creations. God had prepared must of necessity be much diiuted. And this
j : him
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a place ; and Eden was his home. I n is now u~lderstaoda s having .hen the immediate
Illis home, as already stated, it was Adam's cause of the shortening of life after the Flood.
~~rivilege
to remain forever, provided he should Xot only was the air thus diluted, but it
reason of such conkeep inviolate the laws of his Creator. His polluted-poisoned-by
descendants likewise would haye beer1 born vith tamination, beconling in a sense death-dealing.
the same privileges. +nd with the gradual inLest some may hold with the old text-books
crease of liis lnrgc family, now estimated a t on Chemistry that nitrogen is a conlponent part
twenty billions, he would gradually, as neces- of the air, it only becomes necessary here to
sity had demanded, have extended, by subduing call attention to the fact that this substance
111s earth, the limitations of the Garden of Eden undergoes no change whatever in the process
until it reached that condition of world-nidc of respiration Carcfdy-mndncted experiments
paradise.-Genesis
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shorn conclusively that in the process of animal
This plan of subduing the earth n~ouldhavc. respiration there is an appreciable decrease of
been much more easily rrccomplislletl t h all tlis oxyKen and a correspl~dingincrease of carbonone upon v h i d ~man has been engaged since dioside. But the amount of nitrogen in both
knowledge began to increase, because the pure (so-called) and impure air remains the
"tliorns and thistles" of the earth \:-ere little in same. Thus we see that nitrogen has bef?n an
e\-idoncc until after the Flood. Besides, Adam intrusion hl the air ;but before we have finished
i l l the l~cginningvirtually had control over the this discussion, we propose to show how even
vnrth, and it was only necessnl-?-at that time t o . this temporary interference will, S i c the perl,~-ingit into comj~lctesubjectioa. But Adam mission of evil, result finally in great benefit to
lost this near-perfection control, and with it, llumanity. In the first place it hastens the
his perfect mailhood. As a result both mail and "dying" penalty; and *is within itself nTasa
the earth began a gradual decline donm to the blessing to man during the supremacy of evil
t h e of the Flood. After this event rapid decay in the age just now passing away. - I n the
of man was manifest; and the eart:~swarmed nbsenee of qonrersion to Christianity and genuine refomlation of Life, long exposure to evil
with the promised ,"thorns and thistles".
It becomes necessary at this stage to consider influences renders any character more depraved.
again the relative component parts of the air, All have doubtless observed that little children
and its temperature, since these determine ordinarily are more nearly immune from comwholly the variety a
profusion of life on mon vices than are adults.
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earth, and the, degree or their vitality.
Besides this, it now appears, during these
The comparative absence of nitrogen in the days of "increase of knowledge" that the nitroatmosphere prior to the Flood was due to the gen, stored in the atmosphere, is yet to serve a
minimum amount of decay during that time. most important economic purpose in contributBut with the wholesale destmction of plant and ing to the restoration of the earth's fertility. -. ,
animal life at the time of the last deluge, and Of l a t e y e a r s the agricultural scientist has
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2ccey of same, the air became discovered means of extracting this element
~ a i ual i d PFith nitrogen-the
result of this from the air and of causing it to-enter the soil
decay. This intrusion of nitrogen, a by-product, of earth, where i t becomes available plant food.
into the air had tile effect of upsetting its This is lrccomplished by growing certain plants
former balanced state of equilibrium.
called legumes-peas, beans;the various kinds .
As proof of this statement note the beginning of clover, eta., which, by the process of osmosis,
of shortening of l~umanlife immediately follow- absorb nitrogen from the sir and deposit it
ing. And, of course, as death and decay in- tl~roughroot nodules into the soil,'-where it
creased by reason of the continued shortening becomes amalgamated by a kind of microbe
of life, the amount of nitrogen in the air also action with the soil, setting free certain imincreased until at the present time seventy- portant elements which are at once taken up
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Kor is this all: It has been found that nitrogen can be very profitably Used in thc manni'acture of high explosives. This being true, the
rakious governments ha\-, during the recent
war, had recourse to this almost inexhaustable
snpply of material, constructing immense chemical plants for the purpose of extractiw out
of theair this necessary element. But -4th the
sie;ning of the armistice this output i s now
being turiiled into an entirely different channel,
that of manufacturing nitrogenons commercial
fertilizers. This will greatly aid the earth in
yielding her "increase", a s foretold, and wilI
result in another blessing to man instend of an
injury. How literally true is thc statement that
"God is able to make even the m a t h of man
to praise him"!
With the increase of the food products of the
earth as s direct result of rendering the soil
more productive, m i l l come a corresponding
increase iu the qz~alityof such foods. This fact
has already been delnonstrated by carefully
conductcd experiments. Two pigs from the enme
litter were each segregated and given =actly
the same attention as to water. food and geiieral
environment. I n fact, all collditior~swere exnct1)the same in every respect as to tlie miount of
food, and each given the sanie lrind of food.
The food in each case was corn in equal weight.
The only difference was th_e quality of the corn;
one lot of xhi& was growl on soil producing
only fifteen bushels per acre, wide tlie other
corn came from land producing sixty bushels
per acre. The test extended over a period of
11inety days, simnltancouslp conductcd. The pig
fed on the better quality of corn gained more
than tsvice as much increase
miit as the
other pig which consumed thc Qspio
., mc nnniber of
ponnds of fqod containi~k the inferior quality
of corn.
It =ems pertinent to note in this connection
that of all a v e ~ ~ nof
e s human activities, none are
making greater progress tl i n that of intensive
farming. The goal of this particular line of
activities will have been consummated when the
entire earth is fully "subd~~cd",and caused to
become eneecdingly fruitful. I f any one doubts
that these things will Le accomplished i t is but
necessarp to remind such a n one that these
t h i n e are already being accomplished today.
Consider, for instance, the tonlato which only
rr few pears ago grcw in its mild etatc, and n w t
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of proper selection, breeding and cultivation its

size is increased more than seventy times, not
t o spcak of t h e g r e a t improvement in its
luscions~~ees.F r o m everywhere come easily
veriiied reports of the development of the pecan
from the originally wild seedlingwhich wqnired
W a n e to forty years to begin bearing, to the
modern paper-shell of eight to ten times its
origind s i x , and bearing profitably at .five to
eight years of age. These illustrations are
tnkc-n fro111 the achievements of the present
arernge crop productions, and do not consider
.the ~namelonsachievements of such men as
Bnrbanl; and other specialists.
L Cs s t h a n twenty years ago the average
farmer was contenting himself with growing
but oile crop pcr year; and each snccessive crop
\\*as rgpitlly depleting his soil. Today he i s
gron-ir~g
two or more crops per season-at least
one a lcpn~e--and at the same time is improving fr01i1 ycrtr to year the fertilitg of his soil.
And this \vitliout using commercial fertilizers.
)\?lo
that believes in God shall doubt his
~ ~ - o or
r d p o ~ i c r ?He has spoken and is able to
perform the same. He has said, "My Word shall
!-lotreturn unto me void, but it shall accomplish
tlie thing wliereunto I have sent if'. H e declares
that lie will make the place of his footstoolthe earth-glorious; that " J e h o ~ a hwho created
the eartli formed it not in vain, but to be in.hnbited"-LLtl~at even the desert places shall
become like the ancient Garden of the Lord".
Therc remains in this connection one other
!honglit to he considered. M7e have already
o b ~ e r r e dthe descent and precipitation from
time to time of deluges of various substances
upon the earth, and the effects of these d e l u i s
npon all life a t that time. According to scientists of the present day? there is yet another
clcluge, consisting this time of .electricity, approaching the earth. This aiUlin a few gears
will be precipitated npon the earth, and it is
clain~edwill rcsult in p e a t benefit to humanity,
Iwcausc its eontact m t h the earth Prill destroy
i~ljuriousmicrobes, germs and parasites. This
\rill cause fermentation to cerrsc and thus produce the effect of preserving for an 'indefinite
pcliod of time all perishable fruits and vegetables. This will in a measure partially restore
nntedilorioll conditions, and will produce tbe.
effect of greatly dlcvinting human sufferings.
Finally, as a concluding thought, it remains
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the air is for the purpose of consetving another

v e v important use. It is claimed in the Bible
that there will be a resurrection of both the
just and the unjust. The Savior himself said;
"Marvul not a t this; for all that nre in their
graves shall come forth''. Now we take this to
mean jnst what it mys, that the dead shall return to life. But how is this to be accornplishedl
Do we expect a return of their decayed bodies
out of denth?
By no means. ?Ye nnderstand and hold -rith
the Bible that their bodies have become n o n est
by reason of their "return to the dust whence
they came".
But do we expect them to return as human
beings?
Yes.
With Be.& and bone and sinew a s of yore?
Exactly so.
Where will their bodies come from?
God in whose memory they are held nill
provide for them necessary bodies jnst as he
did that of the first man Adam.
Now we return to a consideration of nitrogen
ant1 its further use in the air. I t is claimed by
chemists that a considerable portion of the
human body is nitrogen. Then in the resurrection of the twenty billions of the Adalnic
family now asleep in the tomb, much of this
element being s t hand, long held in suspension
for this very purpose, will be cbnsumed in
providing, in the general resurrection, human
bodies for all now asleep in death, but who
$hall "come forth" "in due time". And incidentaUy, this process, and that above mentioned, of
enriching the soil, will have the effect of filtering
nitrogen from the air. This will restore its
former pristine purity as it was in the days
before the Flood. Under such a condition of
atmospheric purity, man, breathing the mdiluted invigorating oxygen, would live approximately a thousand years. In addition the
perfect fmits, resulting from increased fertility
of the earth lie above shown, will ~qaintainthe
po~siEilitiesof ewrlasting life. And this is
exactly what the Bible teaches, and exactly
what humanity instinctively desires.
7Qith a return of the billions of humanity from
the tomb back to earth, and being surrounded
by the snper~bnndnnceof earth's perfect fruits
of that time, disease g e m having been d e s
troyed by the descent of the eIectrical canopy
now so close a s to wme almost in contact a t

times, thia bnttlo-rearrod earth, drenched

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humau gore, will in tune become a veritable
Garden of Eden.
Paradise, lost through -4dam's transgression,
will, througll the merit of the Ransom, "to be
testified in due time", be restored. Burning and , *
frown deserts now defying the ingenliity of
man, being subdued, will be transformed into
drenndands r>f beauty snd glory. 'Supplanting
the marshalling of the hosts of w-ar,with their
instruments of destruction and death, will be @
the busy hum of productive machinery and the
march of i n d u e t r y a p p l e g the cnmulated
energy of inventive genius to the harbessing df .
all the hitherto lathnt forces of nature, and
bending these into complete subjection and use
for the etrerlnsting blessing of the entire human
race. Then the billions of dollars now being
applied to destructive purposes will be turned
into constructive channels. "Swords shall be
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h a t e n into plox-shares, and spears into pruning
hooks? KO more uprising of "ation against
nation9'--there m i be but one nation, a holy
nation. Nor \till war be learned any more; for
Jehooah "rnzl<cth wars to cease from the river
to the ends of the earth". Then will be realized,
through .the everlasting ages of eteraity, the
true import of the message of the angels on
the hills of Judea as they sang the song ef
'Teace on earth, good will among men".
- Wit'f t h i s condition of perfection-of tho
mnterial earth d come logically the pei-fection
P man, mentally and morally, rzs well as phgsI dly. A11 incentives to selfishness and greed
Oei~~g
eliminated, by reason of earth's supelabundance, the "re sidne of hnmsnitg shall
attain perfection in every respect. Then also "the kno\rledge of the Lord shnll cover 'the
earth as deep as the ocean". Then shall his .
"glory be r e ~ e d e dn~idaU flesh shaU see it tbgether". Then shall hmlani&, no longer donfused, "know the tm#' and thereby become .
"free". With his reason thus restored the mind
of man will again become superior to matter.
.
Since the earth was made for man, not man
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f o r t h e earth, he mill h able to order the
eensons at will--even the "winds and the waves :, '
will obey him".
The Apostle Peter, our Lord and all the holy
prophets since the world began, declare that
the human racx( is to be restored to glorious
perfection, and shall again have dominion over:
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be. a sign unto yon; Ye shall find thc babe

llniwrsd P m e
'.On earth peace, gwd ~ ~ toward
7 1 mn/t-Lut;r $ : I ) . wrapped i n swaddling flotll@% lYiu in
manger." (Lukc 2 :10-12) Awed by this \ision
C H R L S T x A s is w ~ r d c d man). people na and thrilled njth &ir c n p i r o ~ ~ n t ,the
, .hep
the date of thc birth of the bdw Jesus in a herds in ,rondcr and
stood speedRt Rethlchen
Or
the dde lees before the fieayenly messenger. Then mdis correct is of mall imprtancc, bnt the event dcpJy there
nith
nngela
was and is of
greatest import3ncE.
mnliitn;Io of t]lc lleavcnl?;host, angels bright and
Bethlehem is eituatcd on en clcvstion over- fair; and 3,
of this
event
looking a deep ravino, beyond which are fields of the age8 they joyfully sang together an
where shepherds graze their flocks. Beautifol allthem of praise to Jehovah, " G l o r ~to God in
for ~0cZItionis this historic spot, particdarly the highest,
on earth pace, gbod
attractive to one of poetic mind and deep rever- toward lllen".
ential h e a r t , a n d doubly w since the P a t
J ~ p cenbries
g
and the bnrdens of earthly
events, recorclc'd in Holy xTrit, which therc c a r e s h a r e c ~ r e c e do r Gdden
glorions
iranepired nearly nineteen centuries ago. From ~ s i o nfrom
minds of most men who
tfie snwouncling hills of 3uclm the shepherds themselves Christians; and today these wotd6
had broWllt their d e e p to the field opposite announcing universal peat%to thoso of worldly
Betlilehe~nand corralled them &ere for the Nind
as but a hollow mockev. xeftr]y
night. I f t i l e the others slept, one or more of ,inet,,,
cenhries have come and gone sins
the shepllcrds kept v i d over the flocb, ~ d t i n g .that heavenly messenger announced the birth
for the dam of day. The atmosphere of J n d m of Jesus and brought a message of good tidings;
is exceedingly rarided, and the stars shine forth and after these long years of laborions =sort
with nnnsual b c a n t ~and brilliancy, and
on the part of
men to establish ideal conthe glorp of the night is enhanced.
ditions, wit11 dismay they witness the whole
Without doubt these lowly herders of sheep -:~orldrocked from center to c i r c d e r e n c e nnd
were men of @cat reverence for h d , men who all lrindreds and peoples engaged in the strife of
trusted in his promiaea made to their father tongues, tumult, distress and war. Now the
Abraham and hem? were expecting the earning great mass of so-called Christendom is trusting
of Messinh. b d for their faithfulriess J e h o r h ifi fie god of f o r e and violence rather than in
rewarded them with s woriderful vision. While ->c Gocl of peace and love. Millions of earth's
tlrese humble watchers were t w i n = into the -brrl)ltants, including those who pose as teachers
starlit heavens nnd mcditatinguponthemajesty and preachers of the Gospel, haye turned36
and expressed wisdom of Jchovah, thme ~ u d - infidelity, disregarding the Word of God, and
denly appeared unto them 8 star of remarkable advise, counsel and engage in. strife and
l ~ ~ i l l i n n c standing
y,
over against'Bethlehern, violence. Alas! their faith in God and in bis
c . +.- :$e,,@led the city of David. Simnltari- precious promises is gone.
ro~~!;:hn migel of the Lord, the heaven1J mesEow different with those r h o truly love the
s e n p r , ap~cnredunto them, and the light of Lord arid who atudy to show themselves approvthe dory of the Lord shone round about them. ed nn t o God ! Their diligent and prayerful
Then the shepherds were sore afraid. What search to h-iorn the meaning of these e+ents
man of .reverential mind would not Fave been past and present the Lord has been pleased to
nwe-struck at snch a marvelous mamfestationl reward with a clear vision; and now they aro
To calm their fears, the heavenly messenger privilcgad to mark the majestic onward tread
sweetly said to these humble men of the fields; of Jehovah in the unfolding of his marvelow
"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings plan. And thus understanding, their h e a r b are ,
of great joy, which &dlbe to all pepple.' For tilled with joy; and the sweet message of that
unto yon is born this day in the city of David a ;'.svedy host resdunds through the corridor8
Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this d ~ dof the n g , cdlli~lgattention .to the momentoun
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events that are transpiring and the even n e a t e r man should die because of his disobedicncc to
ones iniinediately to follow. Not only do they the Ian-, Jehovah chose, a s a means of enforcing
rejoice in their o m hearts, bnt it is the privilege this jud,mcnt, to compel man to live o u t ~ i d cof
of such true foUoaers of the Master nit11 con- the perfect Edcn and to feed npon the poisfinonfi
fidexlce to say to the bewildered and frightened elements of the, earth until complete death
of nominal Christendom: "Behold, t h y God would ensue. Hence he drove 'the two out of
r~irncth".
Eden and set a flaming sword at the garden's
And now we invite all sober-minded peoples entrance, lest Adam might return and partake
of corth-Christian and infidel. Jew and Gen- of the tree of life. F o r 930 years Adam battled
t jlc, bond nnd f ree-to come with us' xvhilc we with the elements of the earth, daily saccum@ing,
together briefly review this beautiful Christmas until a t the end of that time he was datld.
story, and ascertain its meaning and significance
The s&et of all the snflering, sorrow, sickness
to the groaning people of all the nations of and death of humankind from then until now
earth. Its message of comfort is intended for lies hi what occurred in -Eden and followir~g.
all; for the angel of the Lord said: "Behold, I IVhile in Eden the perfect msn did not eremi*
bring you good tidings of great joy, which his power to beget children; and I~ellrcthe
fillall be to all people". The time is now due perfect pair never bronght forth childnm. It
for the world to bcgin to understand the real was only after undergoing the legal kntene of
meaning of what occurred on that memorable death, and after they had imbibed the poisonons
morning in Bethlel~em;and those who do under- elements of earth's vegetation, thnt this pair
stand and avail themselves of such knowledge cohabited arid children resulted. It is reasonwill h greatly blessed and comforted in heart, able, therefore, tb see tliat this condemnation
mind and body.
fcll upon the offspring; and that the father,
11-11y should -the babe Jesns be born at all? now imperfect, d d not beget a perfect child ;
TI-hg nlnrk his birth nith such ceremony and h e ~ ~ cthe
e offspring of Adam wonlrl'be an irnjoyful expression by llle heavenly host t Ths p e r f e c t one. F o r t l G -reason the Psnlnlist
a n s w e r i s t h e olcl, old story, which grows \\-rote: "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and
s~veeterthe ofteller told; and never so sweet as in sin did my mother mnceive.me". (Psalm51:.
no\v, because the time is here for its nppreci- 5) And for the same reason the inspired witness
said, "As by one man sin entered into the world,
ation by mb..
Four thousand years before the staging of and death by sin; so death passed [by inheritthis drama in the hills of Judrea, Jchovah had nnce] upon all men, for that all have sinned".
(Romans 5:12) T h e ultimate *result of tho
created a perfect pair-Adam and Eve-and
provided them with a perfect home 'in E d e n operation of the divine law of necessity W O R ~
He had endow'ed them with power and authority h a v e m e a n t the complete extinction of the
to bring forth children, to fill the earth and to hu~naurace. T o d a ~ instead
,
of men living 930
coxltrol i t and to make the entire earth a s a years, the nverage life is much less than one- garden, a glorious spot, a fit habitation for a tenth as long.
happy and perfect race of people. To this first
God forelnew the course that man would
pair the L o r d granted the privilege of life take; and before the foundation of the world hc
everlasting in a state of human blessedness, 'outlined .a plan for human redemption -and
conditioned, however, upon a faithful obedience blessing. Xearly two thousand years after.the
to .&is law. The wife, deceived by Satan into hunlankind had wandered in the earth in sorrow
a violation of the divine law, in turn induced and distress, Jehovah spoke to his s e m t
her husband to take the step of disobedience Abraham, likewise an imperfect man, but one
wiifully rather than be separated from her. who exercised great faith in God, and to him
The result of this trans,gression was an infiiction made promise that through his seed all the
of the penalty of the law, whieh penalty is fanlilies, nations, liindreds and peoples of earth
described in the Genesis account (chapter 3) as should have rr blessing. (Genesis 12: 2, 3; 22:
n dying condition nntil death was fully accom- 18; Galatians 3: 16) Later, God organized the
plished, a return 'to the dust whence the Lord descendants of Abraham into a nation bnder
had taken the elements to make man.
the name of Israel, arid with that nation rrnd
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time reiterated his prom'rae to bring a blessing pcrfcct human being-nothing

more and
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to the nations of earth throug11 the seed.of nothing less.
Abraham. The I ~ r w l i t e sverily believed that
At once, then, \co see that none of Adam's
this promised seed was an earthly seed. The ~ t o c kcould mect this requirement of the law and
promise at one time was conhod to the house redeem the human race k u 8 e all were in!
of David; and when David ascended the throne perfect, having descended from Adam. And.
the Jews thought that the t h e had come for this thought is expressed by the Psalmist,who
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the blessing of mankind. Tllc prophets, how- sap, "None of them a n by any means redeem
eyer, foretold the coming of another and great- his brother nor give to God a-ransomfor him".
er one; and at the time of Jesus' birth all (Psdm 49: 7) Any child begotten by n member
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thonghtfd people of Israel were looking for 'of the Adamic stock =odd nece6sarily be im,
the coming of the Messiah. God through bjs ~>crfect;hence cthe amount concerning the conprophet had foretold that Messiah would be ception of Mary and the birth of the babe Jesus.
boni ill Bctlilehem of Juha-Matthew 2:5,6. ghows that shc conceived by the power.of thc
Hcrc we e i n p h i z c one thing prominent in holy Spirit. (Matthew 1:l8-25) Therefore
the message bmugld by the angel; namely, the Jesus n-ps begotten not by muq M born of s
word all. I t will be marked in thc examinatiol~ woman, cmd when born he w-aa "holy, harmless,
of this a11d other Scriptures relating to- the undefiled and separate from sinners". (Hebrews
reden~ptionof man that God had promised to 7: 2G) J\?len he grew to manhood's estate he
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bless all the families.of thc cnrth, and thnt at was thc csact counterpart of Adam prior to his
tbe birth of Jeans the angel announced that diaohedicnre. Not until we understand theso
I
this is glad tidings which gllall be brought to all tltings can n-e understnnd why there n-as RO
i
' people. It i s not the thouqht of the Scriptures
mudl joy in heaven aniong the angelic host at
that we11n mrfisagc ~souldI>e brought to all at thc birth of Jesus. The heavenly beings had
thc same time; but ihat ill God's due t h e every heit observing for four tl~onsandyears tha
one of the human rare would hear this messagc dow;\snrcl course of mankind. They had see11
of glocl tidings and \\-odd each have the oppor- ihc preot degradation and sorrow that sin had
tunity of availing hirnsclf of the Ixnefit of it. inflicted npon thc hu~nanfamily, and now they
making prorieion
The race ~ v n sjustly condemned to death lx- pcrerivecl that Jehovah
cause of disohdiencx to tbc la\\- of God; and for ihe rcdenvtion and Messing and uplifting
this jndgmcilt could not bc sct mi?c or rerersed of all mcn.
T h a t which man prizes aborc everything
for the renson that God is unehangcable. His
1an.s arc ked. IIowevcr, sucli a jud,ment aonld else is lifc'; for wjthout life nothing else call bc
be satisfied by the dcmaitds of the law being enjoyed: Tlie ti-holc human race, being under
met. In due course of tinw God made promibe the condelnnalion of death, ultimately must die.
to tlre house of Israel, his ~pecidlycho~en Why, then, did Jellus come to earth! U'hy
pcoplc, that a provision f o r releasing manbind Itc born t He answers; "That the people might
from death and the effects of tltis j u d e ~ e n t Itave life ancl have it more abundantly". (John
would bc made. Y 'ticill ransom them from the 10: 10) He "was madc flesl~and h e l t anlong
power of ihc grave: I will redeem them from us? (John 1: 14) "Frasmuch as the'childrei~
.-'q death
: 0 cleatli, I \\ill be thy plagues; 0 grate, are partakers of dceh ancl blood, he d s o limself
,
like\\.i.w partook of the sane." (Hebrews 2: 14)
I n-ill bc' Uly dcstrnction."-Hosea
13:14.
The word ransom means a price etactly "Ve sec Jesus, \\-llo \\.as made a little lou-er
... correspox~ding. A perfect man hacl violated t l ~ a nt1)c rrngcls [namel~,t, human being] for
Godk: Ian-, and dcnth resulted. Therefore. tlic thc suffering of death, crowned with glory and
of God should tast-e
only thing that could constitutc n ransom 'or Ilo~ror;that he by the
eorrcspor~dingprice for mankind t\-onld be the dcatl~for every mrm." ( H e b m 2: 9) Jesus
life of another pcdcct man, exactly equivalent himself declnred
he laid down his life for
. to Adam while in Men. I n other words, t l ~ c the sheep. (John 10:11,15, 16) Here he uses
tedentption and deliverance of the human mcc the word sheei, to iilustratc. those who arc!
frocJeath, and its restoration to human per- milling and obedient to the will of God, that
fection and happiness, must entirely depend they shall mceivc the benefit of his sacrifice.
And this opportunity must come to dl, as
5pon
tile voluntary submiasion to death of zr
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St P a d states: T o r this is good and accept- sacrifice and continue thus faithful nnto death.
zblc in the sight of God our Savior, m-110 will T h c ~ eare promised a part iq the first resnrrechave all men to tic saved and to conle unto the tion and an nssociation nith Christ Jesns as
Therefore we
Imo\.vlcdge of the truth. For there is one God, inembers of tlic royal
and one mediator between God and men, the e m understand the words of the Master when
man Christ Jesus; who gore himself n rn1160~1lie aid that only a little flock (comparatively
for all, to be testified [ t o dl] in dnc t h e . " opedring) of maidiind n-odd hare this blessing.
(1 Timotiiy 2:s-6) Here again it is observed -Luke 12: 32.
that it is God's will that all nlen shall be saved
The purposes of the Lord in this regard a r e
from the condemnatio:i of death and thercaftcr esccrtained from the nrords of the Apostle:
brought to a Imo~vledgeof God's provision for "God a t the f i s t did visit the Oentiles to take
them, which tnoxlcdge opens to them tke op- out of them a people for his name. And to
portunity of accepting Uie benefits of the ran- this agree the words of the prophets; as it i s
som ~acrifice. Hence, says the Apootlc. thesc: written, Aftcr this I will return, and I will
facts must be testified to all men in God's due build again the tolrcrnaclc of David, which is
t h c . As this testimony comes to nleil at fallen down; and I will build again the ruins
different times a11c1 they nnderstand it, they - tlicreof, and I m i l l set i t up; that the residue
rejoice in i t because to them it is good tidings, of men might seek after the Lord, and all the
good news of a better thing for them-an up- Gentiles, upon whom my name is called."
portunity f o r life.
-Acts 15 :14-17.
Why, then, if Jesns died on the cross llearly
Jesns taught IJs disciples, and through them
nineteen benturies ago, tihodd tllc humail race the chusch has been taught, that after be had
c:ontlnue to suffer? The Scriptural ansu-cr is ascended on higb he would return in course of
clear. TIE promist. to Abraham \-:as that in time and gather mlto himself the saints, and
his seed should tllc bleseing come to mcdcind; the11 \\-ould estal~lishhis kingdom for the purand this seed must first be fully devcloped pose of blessing mankind. .All C % r i s h people
before tlic benefit of thc ransom sacrifice call have looked forward to the second coming of
be extended lo sll. I t is important, tllcrcfore, the Lord, a11dto the end of the wicked order of
to perceive what constitutes tllc seed and how things sad the estd~lishmentof a new and
it is developed. Tlle Scriptural proof i s that righteous order. This same thought was in the
this seed is the Christ, the Messiah, composed mind of the di~cipleswhen they approached
of Jesus, the Head, and the church, meaning Jesus just before his crucifkion and propoundthe called-out class n-hidl constitute the mcm- ed to him the direct question : "Tell as when
bcrs of the body of the N e s ~ i a hclass. ltence St. thcsc things shall be, and what shall be the
Paul argues: "As many of you a s h a ~ ebcen procf of thy coming and the end of the world ?"
baptized into Christ have put on Christ
And -blattl~ew 24: 3.
The Lord Jesus anfivered their question, and
if ye be Christ's, tllci lare ye Abr&nm's seed,
and heirs according to the promise".-Galatians
the answer is recorded in the twenty-fourth
chapter of Matthcw and the twenty-first chaptcr
3 :27, 29.
I t bas pleased t'nc h e a ~ e n l yFather to devote of Lukc. He describes the great stress and
the period of time elapsing from the resurrec- trouble that is now upon the human race.
tion of Jesns until the setting up of his kingdom Among other things he said that there mould
to the work of selecting those who would be be a great world mar in which nation would rise
w . i n g followers of +e Master, and who wodd against nation, to be accompanied by famine,
prore their faithfulness and loyalty to him even pestilence and revolntions and a time of trouble
unto death, and to whom he would grant the such a s never was before; and dl mankind arc
privilege of joint-heirship with Christ'Jesns in witnessing the f n L f h e n t of this prophecy $t
his Iungdom. (Romans 8: 16, 17; 2 Timothy 2: t l i s very time. Again he said in answer to the
11,13) The selection of this class has been from m e question that there wonld be 'hpon the
among those who have ~oluntarilyconsecrated earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the
their lives to the Lord. Not every one who says, sea and the wares [restless h d t y ] roaring;
"Lord, Lord", %
be
-iof
ll that class, but only men's hearts failing them for fear, and for lookthose who enter into a covenant with God by ing after thoec things ~ h i c hare corning on the

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earth: for the powers of heaven [ecclesiastical

qatems] shall be shaken". (Lnke 21 :25, 26)
All the trouble that has fitted the natiom
since the fall of 1914 has been clearly in fulwment of the prophetic utterance of the Lord.
To the Christian this means (and soon all the
world Kill learn to know that this is the meaning) that the kingdom of the Lord is a t hand,
that Christ is present, that he is tearing away
the old order of things preparatory to establishing a kingdom of rightkousness and peace which
hall constitute "the desire of d l nations". "I
trill shake all nations, and the desire of all
nations shall come".-Haggai
2 :7.
The wars, famine, pestilence, rc~olutionsand
like disturbances that so much-distress hnmankind d q not constitute any part of the &lad
tidings. No one rejoices in this suffering and
trouble; but the Christian rejoices that these
tronbleso~lletimes are the proof foretold by the
Lord that would precede the establishment of
his kingdom of righteousness which would
bring blessings to all the groaning creation.
The message that has been preached to the
people f o r long centuries, and is yet being
preached by many, to the effect that i t is the
Lord's purpose to save a few in heaven and to
consign all the residue of mankind to a condition of endless torture, contains no glad tidings to any one of an honest heart. Surely it
could be no real joy to any person to be convinced that he would spend eternity in heavenly
bliss while at the same time some one Far and
' d e a r t o him would be spending eternity in
torture. Such a doctrine is not taught by the
Word of God, but is the result of a distorted
interpretation of the scriptures.
The divine program, which has been develop
ing progressively for many cef pries, has now
z about renit:>,; :he point of time for the world
of man kin^ to, begin to understand and a p
preciate some nf the lengths and breadths and
heights and 2=pths of tho love of God. His
inspired witness m e : "Times of refreshing
shall come from the presence of Jehovah; for.
he 9Fill send Jews, who before was preached
unto yon, whom the heavens must retain until
the times of restitution of all things,which God
h a t h spoken by t h e mouth of an hi8 holy
prophets since the world began9'.-Ads 399-21.
T h e word refreshing here rmggesta the
thought of something that makes one happy
after a long experience with that which is con-

trary to happiness. The autumn season marks

the dying and falling of the leaves, the trees
appear bare, and the wind moans and sighs
through their branches. Then follows the long,
dark, cold winter, picturing i n + ameasure the
long night of saffering and death that has
aficted the human race. In the spring -son
the warm, gentle rays of the sun, falling npon
the earth, cause the grass to spring forth, tho
trees to bud and leaf, followed by the blossom8
and the fruit, the singing of the birdn a ~ the
d
rejoicing of dl nature because of the reviving,
or coming again to life, of that which was dead' .
Seemingly the Apostle had such a picture in his
mind when he said that times of refreshing
would come a t the establishment of Messiah'r
kingdom because i t would mean the restoration
of thnt which father Adam lost for himself and
all of his offspring, namely, life and all the
sweetness incident thereto. The perfed man
Jesus, having laid down his life and thereby
providing the purchase price for the human
race, now returns for the pnrpose of ministering to mankind by giving to him the very thing
that he has long desired.
Long ago the Apostle saw this and wrote:
"He [God] hath appointed a day, in which he
will judge the world in righteousness by that man
[Christ Jesus] whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in
that he hath raised him from the dead". (Acts
17:31) The assurance here then is to every man
that has lived on the earth that he must have
a fair and impartial trial in a time of righteo_ne
ness, which trial is for the purpose of giving
him an opportunity to render himself in obedience to the lam of God and live. I t means th6t
millions who have gone inta death will retarn
again; for "there shall be a r e s u m t i o n of
the dead, both of the just and the unjusL'' (Acts
24:15) Tbe great Master himself assures us
that all in their graves shall hear his voice and
awaken to the resurrection by judgments, i. e.,
a time of trial and opportunity for.life and its
blessings.-John 5 :2629.
The work of reconstructing the human race
will devolve npon the great Messiah, and that
great work will begin as soon as the present
trouble upon the earth has ended; for Jesus
assures us that there never will be another time
like it. (Mattbew (24: 21) Then, under his
righteous reign, every one will have a chance
of hearing the sayings of Jesus and then w$

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---...Aapp!y his' lrorde, 'Terily I say unto you, If way, and it sllall h called The n-ay of holiness:
a mzll lreep my sayiiig he shall never sce death." the u:lclea~i shall not pass over it; but i t dial1
That Scripture, like all other sayings of the h for those: the wcl?-faring men, thougll fools,
IJastcr, inust havc its time for fulfilllmnt; sllall not err thcreiil". This highway is the
and no one could keep his sayiugs until first !Scssi~h, \vho i s @;iten a s a mediator between
they heard tlle~n. T!lc iuillions ill death could God and npn, to ]cad man back to the state of
not hear until a\;.nlic:ied oat of death, and the perfection; and thc \I-ZIJ- to pass over it will
n~illionsnow on carth could not hear until God's bc by rcndcring tl~emselvesiu obedience to the
due time and mltjl they are told. Tllat due time la\\. of tlic Yessiah. It ~ h d lbe a holy, a
is about a t hand.
rigliteous way. KO person shall be permitted
Will that be a time, then, .of rcjoicing and to progress ip \vickednesi, in profiteering, in
gladness? Thc Lord t!lroug11 the proplict gives oppression, in lcccping the people in ignorance
us n vision of that great time of blessing, sap- or filching their pockets under the pretense of
irlg. "The ~rjldcr~iess
and the solitary plzcz! preaching tlle Gospcl or mythit else; but its
~ 5 n l lbe glad for theill and tlir desert slid1 objcct sllnll he Lhc cltnansing anw'glessiilg of the
rejoice, and blosso~nas the rose," thus pictnr- people, and it shall be so clear mld plain that
ing how the earth itsclf shall begill to yield thnt every ninn can understand it. "No lion shall be
~ ~ l l i cihs necessArp for the sustenance of there"; that is to say, no monstrous beast, such
mankind and pcrnlit him ,to enjoy thc fruits as czars, beastly governments, oppressing corof his labors 11-it1:out the interrcntion and porations, or ecr.lesiastia1, political or financial
oppression of the profiteers. "It shall blossom sysleuis. "Sor any ravenous beast [government
nl)undantly, and rejoice even wit11 joy and GP opprcssii-e violence] shall go np thereon, it
singing: the glory of Lel~anonshall be given ~liallnot 1w found there; but the redeemed shall
111110it, the cscolle~~cy
of Carmcl and Sl~aron, vall; tllerc." Thc earth and everthing in it sllall
the\- ellall see tlie ~ i o r yof the Lord, and thp Lw mudc co~iducireto the uplifting and blessing
excellency of our God."
of mallkind.
Before the comili,rr of that glorious day,
H a v i n g i n mindi then, that the Apostle
holvever, the prophet irlfers that the people nssul-cs us time and again that Jesus ransomed
would become very much discouraged and the entire human race, all of them, the prophet
without strength. EIe pictures thcm as tremb- conti~~ncs
: "And the ransomed of the Lord shall
ling in their knees and hanging doun their return [meaning they shall return from the land
hands, and for their encouragenlent says: of thg enemy, from death and from their bond"Stre~igtl~en
ye thc weak hands, and confirm age in blindn~ssand ignorance and superstithe feeble knees. Say to them that are of a tion], and come to Zion [the Messiah] m i t k
fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, songs nnd everlasting joy upon their heads:
your God u-ill con~cwith vengeance, eve11 God t11c.y sllall obtcin joy and gladness, and sorrow
with a recornpence; he will come and save you." and s i g l ~ i n gsI1nl1 flec away". (Isaiah 35)
St. Paul tells ns thnt the whole world aside lndeed then all shall lino\i- the truth ~f the
from Christians are blind, and blinded by thc message that the nngcl brought to the shepherds
ad~ersary. Many peopje are actually blind, as they w\.ntcllcd their flocks-good titihgs of
l\-hilc practically all are blind concerning a great joy unto all.
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hlcssiah's kingdom will establish a .ulirersal
vision of God's plnn.
T h e p r o p h e t t h e n pictures the blessinp peace. As the propllet declares, rrllcn bis'bingduring the reconstruction, saying, "l'lic~i tlic do111 is establislierl, then the nations
come
Pyes of the blind slldl be opened, aiid thc ears and eny, "Let us go up to the mountaill [king
] tllc Lord, and he ill teat h us of his
01 tho, deaf shall bc nnstopped. Then shall tllc ( I o ~ I ~of
lame mall leap a s an hart, and the tongue of thc: lvays, and I\-c-~vill~ ~ in lliis kpaths.
And
cluml~sing: for in the wilderness s1:all waters they :;111:11 tcat their m-ords intn ylowoharcs,
_ and tl~cirspeais into pru~~hlghooks
:nation shall
brcak out, and streams in t l ~ edcsert."
Then the prophet describes a way opened not lift up cr ~31'ordagainst naticn, neither shall.
for the human race to journey back to the they learn \!-at any more. But they s h d sit
perfection of life, of boay and mind, contin- ever?. Inan nilder I i s vine and nitder his fig tree;
uing : "And an Iii~hwayshall bc thcre, and a and none sltnll make them afra:S'.-Micah 4 :14.

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To assure sach a lasting blessing will require,
of course, nothing short of a perfect ruler.
Then the earth w i l l have such, for "the government shall be upon his [Messiah's] shonlder;
m d hie name shall be called Wonderful, Coanseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father,
[Life-giver], The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall
be no endM.-Isaiah 9: 6, 7.
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To the Christian, therefore, who has a clear
vision of the divine plan and who appreciates
the time through whidi the world is now passing
this should be the happiest Christmas he has
ever spent, beranse by the eye of faith he can
see the Sun of Righteousness rising with healing in its beam, driving back the great dark
night of suffering, tumult and trouble, preparatory to the bealing,'blessing and uplifting of
the human ram, back to the perfection of life,
liberty and happiness. The incoming of this
glorious time means the beginning of the Golden
Age-a time of rejoicing for all who love
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AGE inaugurates a children's Bible ahdy department. There is no desire or purpose to

teach the doctrines of any sed or q t e m ; but
the sole purpose is to instruct t
h cbiidren in
the Bible. To do so we have arranged this study
in question and answer form,.propotanding the
qnestions and briefly answering, citing the
Scriptures where the proper Biblical answer
may be had. We snggest that the parents propound these questions to their children and aid
them to locate in the Bible the answer, thw
familiarizing the child (and incidentally the parent) with the texts of the Bible and enabling
them to get some insight into the gloriow
character of Jehovah and the Lord J e w n
We suggest f i a t the ohild be given one
question each day and that in addition to the
answer here given, it be encouraged fa 'wk up
the' Scriptures cited and any other Scriptures
that, with the aid of the parent, it might &Id
bearing on the question. As this is a primary
study, we therefore begin with the mbject

THE BIBLE

1. What is meant by t 7 word

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Bible?

Juvenile Bible StucEy

Answer: A book that contains the Word of
AN'S highest duty and privilege is to God as expressed to man, and has reference
glorify God One who loves and obeys tho to all the sixty-& books collectively, contained
p a t Creator Iovbs and obeys righteousness, in what is commonly accepted as the Holy
makes a better citiwn and a greater benefactor Scriptures.
to mankind. To love and obey Jehovah one
2. What i s the Bible?
must know him. How can we h o w him except
Answer: It is an expression of God's m
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through his Word, and how can we know and toward man and an outline of his plan concemunderstand his Word unless we are. taught7 ing the human race, given for man's instraction.
If it is proper and necessary to send oar chil- --John 17:17; 2 Corinthians 4 :2.
dren to th6 public schools that they there may
3. Are we invited to study the Bakl be taught concerning the a e W things of this
Answer: Yes; Jehovah says to as: " E i e ,
life, with ~trongerreasoning is it proper and ' now, let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18);and necessary that they be taught concerning the "Study to show thyself approved unto &dY'.
things that have to do with their eternal welfare -2 Timothy 2 :15; J o h 5 :39; Deuteronomy
. and happinea
29 :29; Revelation 1:3; 1Peter 3: 15.
The Biblical education of children, b e believe,
1. Ghould we ezpect to udrskmd the deep
- has been sadly neglected. Every parent owes a things in the Bible ?
d u e to his own child and a corresponding duty
Answer: If we study it mith a reverential
to every other child to whom he can render aid. and prayerful desire we may understand them.
h view of the time of great stress now upon T h e reverence of the Lord is the beginning of
the .human race, is it not high time that WB take wisdom." [Proverbs 1:7) The plan of God is a
some positbe' action toward the instruction of secret which he has promised to reveal to those
the children concerning the greatest thing about who reverentidly seek to understand it m e
. which they should know, the Word of Godt secret of the Lord is with them that fear him;
We believe that all parents, whether Chriirtim and he will show them his plan."-Psh 25:
or not, desire to aee their children grow up in. 14; 1Corinthians 2 :10.
righteousness and truth. Became of tbe long5. Can everybody understwid the Bible?
felt need in behalf of the children, TEEQ o ~ ~ w rAnswer: They could, if everyone would corn-

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ply with God's d e s . Certain portions of the

Bible are due to be understood a t ccrtain times;
but even when those times come, he will not
pei-mit the wicked to nnderstand, bnt the wise
slid1 anderstand.-Daniel 12:10.
1;. Who can understand the Bible?
Answer: me 5ret thing essential is an honest
desire to understand it. (Lnke 8 :15) Then one
must be wise after God's manner of wisdom
(Daniel 13:10; James 3: 17); and that kind of
nisdom means that he recognizes Jehovah God
as the-great First Cause, the Creator and the
Giver of all good gifts. Then one must search
the Scriptures and study them.--John 5: 39;
Jeremiah 29 :13 ; Acts 17 :11; 1 Corinthians 2 :lo.
7. Is the Bible intended to be understood; or
is it a book sltrouded in mystery, only for one
clnss to understand?
Answer: It is a reasonable book; for God
invites us to reason with him (Isaiah 1:18;
Job 13 :3) ; and the Bible gives the reason for
God's dcaling with man and also the hope that
man has. (1Peter 3 :15) We should reason when
we study the Scriptures or talk t o others abont
them.-Acts 17 :2.
8. If reasonable, then why cannot ever3body
undet-slnnd the Bible?
Answer: Because not every one is honest,
and the dishonest uill not be able to understand
it. (Luke 8: 15) Some do not desire to be righteons and good; hence they do not understand.
(Matthew 5: 6) some may be honest and desire
to be righteous, but do not study. (2 Timothy 2:
15) Some are too wise in their own conceits
concerning earthly Kisdom and do not g i ~ God
e
credit. for knowing and stating it in his Word.
(Matthew ll:25; 1 Corinthians 1:19) And
some are too wicked-Daniel 12 :10.
9. Do the great, the wise, the mighty and the
noble and educated have any special advantage
in understanding the Bible, and is it necessary
to have a finished college education in order to
uttderstand it?
Ansmer: No; on the contrary, the vision
(which means an nnders'tanding of God's Word)
is hid from many who are wise after the manner
of e a r t h l y wisdom and is made known and
understood by those who humbly and honestly
seek to understand, though they may be poor
and have little education.-1 Corinthians 1:20,
21, 26-29.
lo. What is necessary for om to do to understand the Bible?

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to understand it and a revcrence for Jehovah
a s the g r e a t eternal One, the Maker of all
things; he must hnve failh in God. "Without
f a i t h it is impossible to please him." (Hebrews
11:6) Second, he must have a sincere desire to
know the trnth and tell the Lord he is willingao .
(lo his will.-Proverbs 1 :7 ; John 14 :26 ; 1 Coi-'
inthinns 2 :12 ; Psalm 25 :14; Ilomai~s8 :14.
11. Is it profifable to study thc Bible and if Q;
so, in what u ~ a y t
Answer: See 2 Timothy 3:1517; John 17:lT.' .
12. Does a knoroledge of tlte Bible enable o?Le
to do better9
Answer : See 2 Timothy 3:16.
13. Is the Bible written entirely in plain tanguage, or is some of it in sytnbolsl
A ~ s w e:r Some of it is written in plain phrase,
while many parts of it are written in symbolic
language, some in parables and dark sayings.
-Mark 4 :32; Y atthew 13 :35; Revelation 1:l-3.
14. Why ulas not the Bible written irr ptakt
1ang:iage so evcrjbody could understand it, artd
tcitl~ozrtsymbols or darlt sayings?
Answer : God's purpose is to reveal on nnderstanding of his plan gradually. F o r instance,
he had the prophets write many thiiga a-hich
they conld not understand. They merely served
as clerks or writers to make a record of things
they saw. (Daniel 12 :8) The prophecy of the
Bible is history written before it happens.
Jehovah foreknew everything,from the begin-.
ning to the end (Acts 15: 18) ;and he caused it
to be written in such a way that it could not be
understood untiI the prophecp is h f i l l e d by
the events taking place. Then he expected the
people to understand it
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15. Can you give an instance i n which'the
Lord foretold something Zo happen that we now - .
see?
Answer:' Yes: He had Daniel record many 6
centuries ago that the time would come when
there would be rapid traveling across the land
and a great increase of knowledge in the world,
which has come within the last hundred years.
(Daniel 12 :4) There are many instances of
find from time
this kind in the Bible, as we
to t h e in these studies. The Lord revealed
through another prophet a description of the
locomotive and railway train, many centuries
before any man ever thought about inventing o r .
building one. We will give the description oP
this in ~ o m elater lesmn.
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track to the destination. It is an uemplilication

Sentice for ~ u c t e r a
of
the Biblical maxim that "whosoever Kill be
T TEE foundation of the swift, smooth
trmel of today is an intricate s y s t e ~of chiefest, shall be servant of all". (Ma& 10: 44)
coordinated service. Without the surrender of Presumably i t is true of the personnel of a
,
bankers down, if unfaithful, that
the individual railroad worker's will td that of - ~ p t e mfrom
they
a
r
e
liable
to hear the other Biblical inthe system, travel wodd be both ditficnlt and
junction,
"Cast
ye
the unprofitable servant into
dangerous, and civilization would sink toward
shall be meping and
outer
darkness:
there
the level of the semi-barbarous.
25 :30,
Every railroad man is inspired with the ideal gnashing of teeth".-Matthew
of a s nearly perfect se+ce as he can render.
Service by a worker-the public sccrrcely hears of, The Rig Bean
0 ACCUSTOXED are we to the bean in a
the car inspector, makes m e that no car leaves
li:e terminal in s condition that might cause an
.shell that it rather sarprises as ta see in a
accident. The engineman's service calls for nn- dieplap ujndow a bean two or three feet long.
intermptbd watchfulness and thoughtfulness This monster among beans is a butter bean
over every rod of track and at every signal, to originated in Japan.
One seed of the new bean my grow &to s
make safe delivery of the cargo at every stop.
Safe and e5cient senice by the conductor plant 90 or 100 feet long bearing 100 beans,
takes a pereonal, ~incereinterest in the pss- each up to four to six feet long and weighing
sengers, watches conditions, observes the dis- ten, twcnty or thirty pounds, or more. I t woultl
patcher's orders, and sees to t$e safety and as t'&e a lnrge and hungry family to dispose of
f a r rrs possible the comfort of the hundreds one twenty-pound bean a t a meal or even in
temporarily in his care. Serrice by the shop- a d a ~ .Just horn mu& the big bean might help
mail takes care that the rolling stock is in us out tho cost-of-living problem may be figured
good condition as possible in the time allowed' out by G c oarions by estimating how manj'for the adjustment and repair of engines and miqht be raised in a city W - y a r d .
The Japanese bean first began to be used in
cars and is an importsnt contribution toward
the efficient operation of the system. The rail- this country after the war got under way, and
road clerk's service contributes in some measure is now being widely used as a staple food I t
tq the possibility of the managements having is said to be good eating when cut and fried
the records which make for the efficient opera- like egg plant, or boiled and eerved mi a
white sauce.
tion of the qstem.
If this is a specimen of how the field is to
There is-no place where Iack of t h e q i r i t of
service shows more than in the conduct of the "yield its increase" in the Golden Age, what
executives. Their spirit travels through the u-ondcrful things may be expected when the
prannnel, and manifests itseIf ih the acts of better order is fully under way l
ev: ;m~ployeof the road Ooverningihe entire
spski+r is the service rendered by the bankers D h m t A a p d Shkcg~
snd financiers who act as directors, appoint
BE milk shortage in Switzerland is made
executives, control policies and supply the funds
worse by the foot-and-month disease, which
required in a large way to purchase materials, is epidemic. On account of danger to the pegple,
equipment and labor for the best maintenance dances m d other Bssemblages of the people,
and operation of the system.
including funerals, are greatly restricted in the
Modem travel is the resultant of the ecrvice ' attendance permitted. No milk is allowed to
of thousands working separately but all to a reach condensed-milk factories or milk-chococommon end. In a snaxssfnl railroad it repre- late plants; and the. milk rations of children
aenta the best that can be done for the money ore reduced thirty per cent. Cattle markets are
to secare the safe and comfortnble delivery of closed, and farmers from infected districts are
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S r ~ n :r uominn; N r m . Vcnw and lU.am to Dce. 31 ; Jupiter to J r a 1; Satcue Cccnlw; V ~ U %
m d ~ u p ~ t after
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D m m t c r Y. Wedncxdou
3Johm.rnednn .month Rahin TI -Ins
: 8 n n rirrs
7 :" a. 111. : rcln 4 : 3 i
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I11
Gcrmanv . Allim dlrcidc thnt I l m ~ l n lrer*i.lf mn#t
brinr o<ti;r nut nf rll~an.and " r r In nccnrd In rrfurln=
t o -undcrtnkc n n ~lnrre mrlr:nrs rxwJitiou into
n u s s i a . A pcthina r i t l l 2R.r:OO *icnntllrrr n ~ > ~ - l i n ~
fnr rc!&sc of 300 rnnwienti~!rrr nl~jcctom fronr thc
Fort teDrenvnrth mjlitrr). d l s c i ~ l l ~ rWrac.ku
y
ie
6ii.m t o YcereLary Baker. .
December L'. Thuradav
Chrintmu Dny: I i ' i G . Battle nf Trenton (25.26) :
1018 Ruminn prlncfa and C y n u t nfftrcrr bnalnt

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to met the 1910 d&clcnw
t h e S2.2G-a-bushel GOT-cnt
price of r h u t
D c e m b r r t3. 6undau
Proclumtlon Day. A
December W . Yondau
Bank Holidays, Costa n l a . (29.31)
1918. P m l d e n t Wilma annonncen t h a t 'Yt Is the'hon~eicnceof
tbr! world r e now menu t o plmce upon the throns
whlch o t b n s tried to unuw'"
U. S. S e n a t o n r m i v e
l i l i n d r ~ 01
~ .tel-m*
v r o A ~ na ~z d u t krrplng
AIJJ~XICIUI bore h - ~ u s s i a .
December SO, Tvwdoy
' 1 O l i . Coldest h'm Pork day In t h l r w - t b m ran.
Ullrtecn degrees b l o w s c m : 1918. d d t a ~ r e e m c n t
nledc between Unltrd Rtatra. Cmada. ond C h a t
Urltuln; l'raident Wilron dednrca t o 6.000 Britlah
rorknren "If Urc fnture had nothlng for nm but a
new uttcinpt l o keep the world a t the rlcbt pnlae by
rr 1UIIni)c-e of 110wer. the Unlted S t q t a would t a k e no
i n l r r a : t i n i t k u s c #be wlll join no minbination
e T p o ~ \ . e r 1;.
I s n o t x e o m b ~ n n t j n of
~ us oli".
~ ' o - n - . ~ J~e c
~ l n v ~ .hi*
~ ndherenCC t o Ute ..old systed
q f ~ l l i : ~ n c emllcd
s
the bnhnce of
u e r : I mhould not
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route t o I t f l l ~to see tile klag, t l ~ eporn and the

rc+urns C,OO@.OOfl,MJOfmarn wnrtll of pro&:: tnken

from 5Yench banks. Chnplaln IWrop m n k n n mport
on Ule uliered l n ~ ~ e i r , u rand
y
yroCtcerrng of the
I. U C A. i n Franeu
Deccmbcr Pt, Fridnv
Uil~
a f t e r ChrintJliar. Clrinn, Denmnrk. n n t r h W s t
lndim Germany ScIller1:trrcl~ h'cw &:rlnnd. KrltrerImnd ;' Borlnr liar. ~ u f i t r n l i ~Ilnnz
;
Knr~p. Jumniru.
1;hoderin: S t S t ~ p h c n 'Ua).
~
AWtrla. Uclrirjn:. Finland Hunclrrr 1-lv.
1018. Po!w Jlcll-dirt klndl,
tyon;lsbr bir hid nail hopport to thr. clccision of tlls
ersalllw Council : I'mritwrs uar nlrr~lnnw to Ukc
t h r i r enormorlr 1)roiita from C;*n~iur.?-to Switzcrlantl ;
German Sl>nrtacnn f o r m bcizc Ute Pruarian \Tar
NiolrrW~.
December E, :.alur&y
Geeond Dnv a f t r r Chrbtmrs Western Aurtrrlin:
1 0 1 s 1)sr11n \~oriirnen's wtl soldiers. couneu coal-em* .
lor iurpor= 01 recullstruction ; Interr.ention In Husr
u LUIU nC.-.e in
WII by tlir Allicr;

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Jenuary I, 1920. Thvndoy

K c r Tcnr'n Day: - noginning of tbe r a r 4714.
J n l i ~ n Em. nnd nf Ole rclr 1957. 8pani.ll E r s :
Jen-id1 ~ r a of
i T M ; b h h ~Day.
. BaIgnN :
mill*
Smr Y ~ a r : Wnrln: flollclny. C h b Dutch
) h t I n d i n . t:~twall. Ilonr
~ a d e m d r o e cDar.
H?lU : Zilnz'r 13Irthda;r. Slcnl : ISnl, Union of G m t
Drftnln nncl Imlnnd; IRW. Wmcoln'. E m r o d w U o n
hodurnmtion: 1018, Genercl March d e Cbkf of
s t a r . r n l t d s t a t - Arm)-: mlrlwq-jki rlH m u m a n tn61,11a In lllnct
and a,,ture ~ d - ;
prnclnlm Crlman nep,,blk: -te
rw
trol of rnllroods until cIghteen month# afm Lbc w a r ;
1319. Popc Uenfdlct's h'cr Par'. menage to b a r f a
benavoienlly h o w Ibe Peace (;onfuaoca nuy r a u l t

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L Wedncday
S m Yrrr'a Err. Rwlttcrlnncl: Xlrmorial D ~ T POr.
11icaI : Icrln- Horlm' 1:irthclav. B l l i ~ a r i n ( n e t ccle
b r a t n l this tiinc). 101T. G r n r n n r nnnorlnrcs n n r c
wtrtetccl rubmarind m r t a r e in rcrtoin xoncn: loin.
liolalle~ikireyolt crtah?bl#cs a . temporary Bolrherikl
r e p u b ~ i c in b ~ ~ e n i zc.crrnnny,
.
n'or Icart t ~ e
Uuitnl Slate$ /lu,lGU,OU0,000.

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Blctbndlat Collrge: l~knncel b m p a w ta u m m e the

nrnlrrhtc for -4rmenln. Bgrla and L t b o ~ o n : . kafrcr'n
palace damaged S 1 , ~ O U . W b~ theft m d vandullue

J a n u a m 2, FrMov
binlln Shi\.nrnU DM,. Indin: ArbW Day. drl;nna:
I"l1ri~irnt~oe
h y In l?oman C!tholic m n t r l a : 1913.
Christian I'e3111e'~Party in G e m a n y pmt-tl ~ h l t
lc~irilntion .'o,,porlar liberty i n J U W O C ~ I ~rrhwls":
~
Pre;jdelrt n~llxoa'n jnornep t h r o w h I t l l y I8 'like n
*iumllbal pron?mionv ; h m h r J0bn-n
pmtmt~
more rhnldilrp
blood of b - 1 brs
in ltusda.
J a n u a w S. 6afurday
Cnrnival Day, E:mt:
&n 6 1 u 0.7. h a m a r :
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~ l:ra. ~ L , ~~~~. l~ d ~l]zranec
i ~i ~: uondq
,
ktore
l e n t Carnival. Iloljrin, Honduras. Peru: 1917. Dnltcd
Si'tc~ .*\.era diplomatic relntlora with G a m y and
dlriuirscn Ambo*urdor Bernrtord: 1019. Promlncnt
Uritnas petltlon r e l u s c of 1,500 eanuricntlous objectom in Brltish prisons; Colombia asks ULLLttd S t r t ~
t o pny the SM.000.000 due her t h m u r h t h e 1.uncbing
of the Panama Republic ondrr t b e ~ R a o m a l te l m e :
The antboritien and m immrnne c m r d gin Yrurldent
\r'llron a n e n t h u d a ~ t l cwelcome: b e -uners
that
the tmak of tbe Peace Conference im "to o w a d i e the
friendship of l h c warld," m d mot tn a u b l l v h t h e
hlaneco~-powu principle; he dlrcpow u e n 4 l c t ; be ablu fir ~ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 , to
~
Earope: Rcqr Admiral Rodman ree~mmcncla t h e
d e t ~ c t i o nof tbe s u r m d e r e d Gennmn w a r &Ips
ir.ldch rervmmcndation the Gennnns follored La*)
;
T u r k win Lllllnp m e n h a s .
'Yndav
Janwnry 6, Uondfy
1010. Special propat.nda .rent# a n ~1.d
oa
AmcIIC8.n Wnr s h i p t o combat nntl.llrltimb p m m m d a ;
M U D IJeKS
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a r e p r ~ ~ t full
fd e l w a f ~

JOnuaTy

Jac~aw6, T s ~ & v
Chriatmnn DRY. llussia. (C-S) ; Eplphamy Dy. ta
no-m
' a t h d i c n u n t r i n ; 1919.
u d UIIa!
g i v e P r e s i d e n t \ViI~on a tumultuoos grccumc.
Congwm appropriates t h e S100.000.000 "to rwIctru1
Europe"; Germany -nnnounccu llut I t b -rJ
for her t o ~ 9 n t e m c n e cncrpctlcrlly . (&mt
tba
nUwIn3mbj,evlkl, by -ins diplofiatle
mfliw
I'rmldeDt padercrrrki Or -Iaad
Nabr
for A l l i d help o ~ a i ~ ~ t
;
I'iefJoml
Rccurlty LUIme
a n u t d r e mt-ru a m -.
Palca ngalnst BQiabevim ; !l'heodorc Baamelt a i r .

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