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Volume XI-No. 270                      January 22, 193 0

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Volume XI                      Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, January 2.2, 1S30                        Number 270

A Little Bit About Homes

AS LONG- as we have human beings on the earth they will be interested in homes, though the home of the future will probably be quite different from the one to which we are accustomed today. Indeed, the old-style individual home is passing away before our eyes.

The World War, with all the bricklayers, masons, carpenters, plumbers, etc., engaged for four years in killing other bricklayers, masons, carpenters and plumbers, left a great shortage of homes. The Avar brides had war babies and had to live in with the old folks until room could be made.

As soon as the Avar was over, great efforts were made to correct the situation, the building mechanics who Avere spared returned to their usual labors, tremendous strides Avere made in the adaptation of machinery to the work of building, and shortages are already mostly a thing of the past.

Since the Avar England has rehoused a tenth of her population, and Holland about one-fifth of hers. Philadelphia claims to be tAVO years overbuilt. Berlin, at last accounts, was still short in homes for her people. London has erected ten thousand houses a year.

The British Viscountess Byng of Vimy has been building four-room cottages at $750 each, and renting them at a profit of $1.10 a week. New York has had many ambitious rehousing Avorks under Avay, especially the Lavanburg model tenements, which rent at $6 a month per room. It will surprise some of our readers to know that New York hoav claims to have better housing for its workers as a Avhole than any other city in the world. Yet Avith all this it has some areas that can only be viewed with shame and regret. Ncav Zealand housing conditions are very superior.

In England, Holland, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden and Norway the federal and municipal governments have not hesitated to courageously tackle the problems of housingdesign and housing shortage, and to solve the problems involved. After all, what greater good can a government accomplish than to help everybody into a comfortable and sanitary home?

The Drift to Apartments

A survey of NeAV York building permits shoAVS that the general drift of neAV construction is away from the individual home and toward the apartment, away from all-frame types to nonframe types. This is generally true also, though there are still many new individual homes being built in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. The strongholds of apartment houses are Boston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco.

The day of the skyscraper apartment house may now be said to have arrived. New Yorkers like to live near their work. They can not be blamed for that. Hence it is no surprise to learn that $50,000,000 worth of residential skyscrapers will be built forthAvith in doAvntoAvn New York, within a feAV blocks of the heart of the financial district.

A realty company in Chicago is planning a skyscraper apartment in the middle of a fiftyacre suburban tract. This elaborate plan calls for collective ownership of apartments, golf course, tennis courts, bridle path, swimming pool, recreation fields, drug store, delicatessen, barber shop, beauty parlor, medical and dental offices, a city in itself.

Noav York has carried the reduction of space for an apartment to what would seem to be the last extreme. One room answers all purposes. Corner alcoves and cupboards house all that the home contains. Only an occasional meal is eaten at home, and that can be bought at a delicatessen, cooked and ready to serve, or may be cooked in a central kitchen in the building itself, for a small sum.

The only porch that many New Yorkers know anything about is the fire escape. With a board across the opening, and possibly a quilt spread over, the board, the little folks play safely far up above the street levels. Company must not come to many New York homes. If they do come they will have to go to a hotel. The sick must go to a hospital.

Of late years many New Yorkers, accustomed to city life in the winter, and preferring it, have small homes in the suburbs in which they live during the pleasant summer months. The newer apartment houses are equipped with wireless aerials, lead-ins and grounding switches, with the conviction that radio is here to stay.

Good and Bad Landlords

Landlords are only a temporary expedient. The Scripture statement, “They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,” with none to molest or make him afraid, puts the landlord out of the picture; but he is in it now, nevertheless.

The good landlord is Matt. M. Dinan, of South Bend, Indiana. When a tenant has paid him rent for twenty-one years the tenant gets a paid-up lease on the house he occupies, the lease to run until the tenant dies, or until he moves out of his own accord.

Another good landlord, almost too good, some would say, is the city of Vienna, -which has virtually taken possession of all the rentable property in the city, and rents it out for what it thinks the renters can afford to pay, and that is next to nothing; the landlords are not getting anything out of their properties except the privilege of paying the taxes.

In Russia rooms are rented by the yard and paid for on the basis of the tenant’s weekly wage. In Genoa, Italy, in the properties of Alessandro Ganasso, any family that has a new arrival in the family gets one month’s free rent for each child born.

Coming to the other side of the landlord matter we hear of districts in England in which it is a common practice for landlords to charge extra rent for houses on the sunny side of the street, on the theory that less fuel is needed to heat the house. The extra rent is supposed to equalize the tenants’ saving in fuel bills.

Probably he can afford to pay it, but the tenant who occupies the three top floors of the new thirty-two story Hotel Delmonico, at Park Avenue and Fifty-ninth street, New York city, pays $45,000 a year for the privilege. The rental of another . Park Avenue apartment is $36,000 a year.

A New York landlord insists that all his tenants must be vegetarians like himself. He can not bear the odor of cooking meat. His properties stand empty most of the time. The top floors of walk-up apartments in New York are no longer popular. Elevators are in common use.                                '

New York landlords of apartment houses are required to furnish 68 degrees of heat between six o’clock in the morning and ten o’clock at night, whenever the temperature on the street is 55 degrees or lower. This rule of the City Board of Health is of only recent enactment. The need of such a rule has been evident for years.'

Moving Day and Movers .

Once a year Chicago sees almost one-half of its population move, and New York is not far behind. October 1 is the day when the great exodus takes place, and all efforts of the real estate men to distribute the burden over other dates seem in vain.

The moving day is chaos all over the city. Moving men charge double the rates asked on other days. Workers for the various public service companies have to work sixteen to twenty hours to make the various connections demanded. Family life for the day is wrecked.

Thore is another great class of movers in New York: the homeless men that are ever on the go and yet have no place to which they can go. The number of these men has been increasing steadily for the last ten years. As fewer and fewer men are required in manufacturing, owing to the great increase in industrial efficiency, more and more men become destitute and are deprived of the privilege of making a home or even living in one.

An odd feature about moving is that many of the families that move out of certain quarters, looking for better accommodations, or better landlords, or what not, find themselves less suited in the new locations than in the old ones and, after a year away, move back into their old quarters.

The annual moving bill is set at about $107,000,000 for the 7,000,000 people who move. The landlords are supposed to be set back $15,000,-

000 for alterations, $30,000,000 goes to the moving companies, $65,000,000 for new furniture, and $12,000,000 goes to plumbers, carpenters, painters, laundrymen, charwomen and others who have a hand in the work.

As to Building a Home

The safety of every large fortune in the country depends upon the number of people who are permitted to own their own homes, yet it seems sometimes as if the present possessors of those fortunes are trying to see how few people may have that privilege.

It takes money to build homes and equip them, and that means that good wages must be paid, and opportunities be afforded to participate in the profits of the nation’s business. Some years ago 54.4 percent of the homes of the United States were rented, and only 28.2 percent were owned by their occupants, free of incumbrance.

The principal items of expense in home building are set at 36 percent for the foundation, 29 percent for carpentry, 10 percent for plumbing, 9 percent for heating, 8 percent for hardware, 6 percent for painting and 2 percent for lighting. For an average brick structure, out of each dollar of the total cost 26% cents goes to labor. Bungalows, sold in South Brooklyn for $5,600 to $5,800 each, cost 57 percent of that amount, the remaining- 43 percent going for promotion and financing. ,

America has still some distance to go before the blessings of this civilization will be uniformly distributed. Thousands of homes, even in supposedly progressive cities, are still without running water in the kitchen sinks. At least onefourth of the housekeepers in Atlanta, Ga., Wilmington, Del., New Haven, Conn., and Springfield, Mass., still fill and clean kerosene lamps. The Power Trust could change this if it would.

The gambling orgy in New York has made it hard for some builders and home owners. The funds that should have been kept at home for legitimate development of the community, and at a modest rate of interest, were sent to New York to engage in the highest form of gambling known to man.

Poor as conditions are in spots in the United States, they are nothing as compared with European conditions. In a Budapest (Hungary) paper, not long ago, an advertisement appeared, “Half a bed to let by decent family: inspection invited.” An investigation showed that the entire bed was for rent, but on a half-time basis.

Old Homes and New

Germany has a house at Winkel, in the Rhine district, that is known to be eleven centuries old. The rooms on the ground floor are a little below the ground, and divided by a full-length wall. Light comes through small slits in the outside walls.

The oldest residence in Great Britain is Dun-vegan Castle, in the Isle of Skye. Part of it dates from the ninth century, or two hundred years before the Norman conquest.

At East Tibury, England, there are remains of huts at least a thousand years old. These huts, all circular in shape, vary in diameter from eleven and one-half to twenty feet. The poet Chaucer described these early dwellings as Teapot hall, all roof, no wall’; and the description could hardly be improved upon.

The Whitfield mansion, at Guilford, Conn., built in 1639, is still in use. Built of stone only nineteen years after the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, it has walls two feet thick, with a main chimney sixteen feet across. As the house was originally built, a team of horses drove through the front door and out the rear, dragging huge logs behind them which, when in position, were rolled into the fire with crowbars.

The old-fashioned grate was the cheeriest kind of a fire, though not an economical heating arrangement. Nevertheless, it would be fine if every home could have a good usable fireplace. There are times when nothing, else in the home can be as attractive as an open fire in the grate.

New York state has plenty of farmhouses over two hundred years old that are still in constant use. They are roomy, w^Tarm, and comfortable,' and built by men who knew how to build well. There are still many old and beautiful homes in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia and other of the eastern seaboard states.

At Clark’s Green, near Scranton, Pa., there is a fine old mansion which contains a bedroom that can be reached only through the ceiling by taking up the loose floor boards of the attic floor. This home was, one of the “underground” stations of slavery days in which runaway slaves were kept during the day time. At night they were spirited on their way to Canada and liberty.

Tn the newer single homes now being built in the vicinity of New York more attention is being paid to closets than ever before. There are plenty of them that house disappearing beds and other articles of furniture that are used only at dressing time. One woman told her builder that her closet must have room for 200 pairs of shoes!

Decay and Repair                         '

Dry wood does not decay, and a house that has been properly built will be dry. Decay in wood is caused by low forms of plant life, fungi, which destroy wood for their food; but the fungi themselves must have moisture in order to live. The reason that roofs and porches decay first is that they are most exposed to moisture.

There is a great deal of building done by men who take no pride in their work, and who put in lumber that has not been properly seasoned, and make no provision for its ventilation, nor even for it ever to get fully dry. It is no wonder that such houses are badly in need of repairs in twelve years, and can not be expected to last over fifty years.

The British Isles still have many thatched roofs. Reeds are plentiful, and the danger from fires is not so great as it would be in America’s drier climate. A thatched roof is warmer in winter and cooler in summer than any other kind of roofing. A good thatched roof is . over a foot thick and in the wettest kind of weather does not get wet more than an inch down from the top. The high winds that we have in America make thatched roofs impracticable here.

The old-style shingle, an inch thick at the butt and half an inch thick at the thin edge, was a good roof cover, but such shingles can be had no more. The modern ones are hardly three-eighths of an inch thick at the butt, and are almost paper thickness at the thin edge. They have killed themselves, and asphalt shingles are taking their place.

Steel construction is coming, slowly but surely. The steel men insist that a house with a steel frame is indestructible; will not shrink, warp, swell or rot; will not harbor vermin; can be insulated against heat, cold or sound, and can be made lightning-proof, tornado-proof and earthquake-proof.

Odd Types of Houses             .

Mud houses ought not to be as rare as they are. Every building lot has the material, if mixed with straw and properly molded, for a good house right on the lot where it is to be built. A subscriber for The Golden Age has expended a fortune in trying to interest his fellow men in this inexpensive building material, lying all about us, but all to no purpose.

At the eastern end of Lake Ontario, on Amherst Island, there is a mud house over 100 years old. The walls are eleven feet high and four feet thick, molded in one piece. They were evidently built in a form. The clay, mixed with straw, was tamped into place with saplings imbedded about six inches apart. Originally, the outside of the house was plastered, but it is now protected by clapboards. Otherwise no changes have been made.

There are many sod houses still in use in western Kansas, eastern Colorado, northern Texas and western Oklahoma. The early settlers were far from sources of lumber, so they erected their homes from the virgin sod, cutting and piling it after the fashion of the modern cement blocks. These houses are cool in summer and warm in winter, but not too beautiful.

Dugout dwellings are the only kind that soldiers in the front-line trenches know. It is a case of dig or be killed. The best digger stands the best chance of surviving the terrible onslaughts of his fellow “Christians”. Let us hope that the poor' heathen never get converted, at least not to the machine-gun poison-gas type of Christian.

Two ex-soldiers in San Francisco made a hit recently. They squatted on a $100,000 building lot in the heart of the city, and as they had no home and little money they built themselves a dugout after the manner of 1914-1918, charged admission, and now have a flower garden, beautiful shrubbery, radio, telephone service and all the comforts of home.

Concrete and Steel Homes

Concrete homes, or steel homes, or homes which are part concrete and part steel are sure to be more widely built, with the passing years. Large numbers of steel homes have been built in the British Isles. One of them was erected in three hours in Europe recently, to demonstrate what can be done. A can of standard-size bolts is all that is needed to put the house together.

Germany has a firm which makes at its factory complete houses ready for tenancy. They can be put up in two days. The side walls are

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of cement slabs ten feet square. Floors and roofs are of the same material. Doors and windows are cast in special sections, and can be placed as desired. The builder casts his piers in the ground, lays light iron beams upon them, and upon these beams erects his cement structure. After fastening all the sections firmly together he calks up the cracks with fresh cement, which hardens in a few hours, and the house is done. It seems to us that this is a sensible way to build inexpensive, durable homes.

Hollywood, California, has a rectangular house with massive concrete walls on the outside, and no outside windows. The rooms are arranged about an interior court and receive light through glass ceilings. This would not appeal to us. It is too much like a convent or monastery or jail.

In Berlin a gigantic water tower of solid brick construction 'was transformed into an apartment house accommodating 100 persons. French architects have designed an octagonal house of seven rooms and bath which is mounted on a turntable, so that any of its eight sides may be srvung to face the sun or the breeze.

Detroit has a $50,000 house which is reserved exclusively for guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Alger, whenever they have a house party. At Jamaica Bay a fisherman has his family in a dwelling wdiich is perched on piles above the ever-changing tides. Such homes were once very common in Europe, and are still to be found in parts of France and elsewhere.

Unhomelike Homes

The most unhomelike home in the world is probably the home at 43d St. and Broadway, New York, in the basement. For fifty cents a month you may register as a guest and receive your mail or other communications. You may ■write letters and send telephone or telegraph messages at standard rates. A locker may be rented by the day, week, month or year. A razor can be rented for ten cents, or an umbrella for a small sum. You can get your shoes shined or* repaired, or your suit pressed. There is a barber shop, news stand, drug store, theatrical ticket office, and haberdashery. But if you wish to stay over night you must go somewhere else!

In 1859 somebody wrote that “The home is fast disappearing. Our young ladies have no longer the ideals of their mothers”. Sounds as if it 'were, written seventy years later. Now many American homes are merely places to sleep. One-sixth of the marriages are failures.

Between 1900 and 1920 the number of restaurants increased four times as fast as the number of families. Between 1914 and 1925 bakery production increased four times as fast as the number of families. Between 1910 and 1920 the number of delicatessens grew three times as fast as the population. These figures show that mother is doing something besides cooking.

London has 250,000 basement rooms. This cellar city is next to the Thames and within a stone’s throw of Westminster Abbey and the houses of Parliament. In high water the residents of these cellar rooms are liable to drown, and many of them have so drowned. In any ■weather the poor inhabitants fade and die from ■want of air and light; but they are too poor to move elsewhere, and these apartments are always cro-wded. Brooklyn has many apartments below the street level.

Housekeeping in Borneo has its disadvantages. Eight or ten or even a hundred families live in a single community house. The houses are constructed on piles, with ladders leading to the outer uncovered veranda, which runs the entire length of the house.

In the Philippines the native huts are exceedingly diminutive in size, and when the children grow to be any size they are placed in community homes. Trial marriage is a Philippine custom, lately adopted, in modified form, in the United States. Particulars can be had at Hollywood and Reno.

A young couple in Breslau, Germany, ejected from their home by a court order, moved their worldly effects to the city hall steps, chalked off their Tooms’ and prepared to camp out. This produced the desired results, and new quarters were found for them forthwith.

The Kiddie Proposition

“What is home 'without a mother?” has its natural corollary in “What is home without a bunch of kiddies?” If -what people want is rest and quiet and peace, then the cemetery is always handy; but until we get there we must expect to mingle -with live ones, and the kiddies are the livest things there are in the 'world today.                     .

The kids are always interesting from 0 to 100. By that time they are in their second childhood, and interesting all over again. There is no telling what a human being will do or say under stress; and that is what makes living such an exciting pastime.

An eleven-year-old youngster startled his Sunday school teacher by saying, “I am tired of this Jesus business. Let’s have a livelier kind of stories.” Another one of these modern productions that needed guidance made the startling remark: “I’ve discovered Dad is Santa Claus, and the stork, and now I’m going to look into this Jesus Christ affair.” It is to such children that the future must look for its men and women. Shall they be told the truth, or will the old Santa Claus, hell fire, trinity and immortality lies be ladled out to them as heretofore? In any event, it may be set down as certain that they will not accept them.

Children are still appreciated in most homes. Many adults unwilling to have children of their own are 'willing to adopt those of others. The Child-Placing Department of the New York State Charities Aid Association reports in recent years a great increase in the supply of foster-parents. The preference for adoption runs to girls, and especially to infants. It is hard to find homes for boys over six years of age.

While some girls are paying more attention than ever before to learning how to care for a home, with all its problems of cooking, sewing, mending, rearing children, nursing, and trimming the household budget to fit a small income, yet not all girls are that way inclined. When a real estate agent made the suggestion to one girl that she should buy a home and settle down she is alleged to have made the reply: “What do I need of a home ? I was born in a hospital, educated in a college, courted in an auto and married in a church: I live out of the delicatessen and paper bags: I spend my mornings on the golf course, my afternoons at the bridge table, and my evenings at the movies. When I die I am going to be buried at the undertakers. All I need is a garage.”

One Thing After Another

Bears in Pennsylvania

EARS are getting too plentiful in western Pennsylvania, They are too fond of sheep and honey to suit the farmers; and it is not pleasant to have four-hundred-pound bears wandering around the premises, anyway. One farmer has killed five of the mammoth creatures.

Telephone Employment Passing Out

THE great army which has been in the telephone business while it was in process of development is now rapidly passing out, and it is estimated that as soon as the automatic systems are fully installed ninety-five percent of those now in the business will be jobless.

Turkey in Bad Shape

TpURKEY is in bad shape, owing to a wet -®- season w^Thich so damaged raisins and figs as to practically stop business in these important Turkish products. Costs of living are now fourteen times what they were in 1914. Fuel is twelve times as high, and house rent sixteen times as high, with other things in proportion.

Kaiser Wilhelm a Spiritist

S HITHERTO suspected, it now transpires that ex-Kai'ser Wilhelm is a spiritist, He recently submitted questions, a photograph, samples of handwriting and pieces of clothing to a spiritist, and was reported to be greatly enraged vuth the replies to his questions.

The Millionaire Income Class

TWO generations ago, in a farming community, a man who w^ras worth $1,000 was the Croesus of the community. A year ago there were in the United States 228 persons with an anmial income of over $1,000,000. This year the number of persons having such stupendous incomes has increased to 290.

Brazil Overloaded with Coffee

IN THE effort to keep coffee prices, at a high level Brazil has been buying all coffee offered by her growers and storing it in ■warehouses. Now^t the warehouses are full to overflowing, there is no more money to pay the planters, and a fall in the price of coffee is almost sure to follow quickly.

The Negro’s Unequal Battle

IN THE city of New York the average head of a negro family receives $85 a month, out of which $40 must go for rent. Although the income of the negro family is 17 percent lower than that of the typical family of the city, yet it must pay almost three dollars more per room per month.

Anti-Semitic Riots in Europe

THE students of Central Europe continue their riots against fellow students of Jewish birth. In several places the Jews have been attacked most savagely, surgical instruments, chair legs and cudgels being used as weapons. Much property has been wrecked at Vienna and Prague.

Pennsy’s New Electric Locomotives '

THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s new electric locomotives will be built to operate at speeds of one hundred miles an hour and are expected to cut the time between New York and Washington to four hours or less. The electrification of the line from New York to Philadelphia is expected to be completed within the next two years.

As to Unordered Merchandise              -

AS A discouragement to the practice of sending unordered merchandise and subsequently attempting to collect for the same, the better Business Bureau advises not to use it, to take reasonable care of it, and to surrender it on demand, on the payment of reasonable storage charges. However, legally, the receiver is in no way obligated to pay for the merchandise.

Selling Religion a Tough Game

ALONG ISLAND pastor is reported to have said that selling religion is a tough game, that ministers have to produce their own goods and then sell the people something they do not like. He thinks every seminary ought to teach golf, polo and bridge, and send the new recruits out to sell goods for two years before turning them loose in the pulpit. Somehow there did not seem to be any Scripture citations in the report which we saw of the talk. But come to think of it, selling religion and teaching the Bible are two entirely different things, as different as night is from day. Perhaps he was right after all.

Helena (Arkansas) Torture Chair

Circuit Judge W. F. Davenport, of Arkansas, has ordered the destruction of the electric torture chair hitherto used by the sheriffs of Phillips County, Arkansas. When the torture chair was brought in before him Judge Davenport made the statement that if prisoners were going to be mobbed before they were brought into court, there is no use in having a court.

Ferguson’s Figures on Sects

TN AN American magazine Charles W. Fergu-*• son claims that there are nine kinds of Presbyterians, seventeen kinds of Mennonites, eighteen kinds of Baptists, nineteen kinds of Methodists, and twenty-two kinds of Lutherans, besides seven divisions of Eastern Orthodox churches. Altogether he lists 216 different sects as operating in the United States today.

Mennonites Making Good

TpRIENDS of the Mennonites will be glad to know that they are making good in their new home in Paraguay, whither they emigrated from Canada because of unfair, unchristian treatment during and after the World War. They are seeking a land where they can be let alone in war time and not be ordered out to murder their fellow Christians.

A New Grain in Russia

RUSSIA reports the discovery of a now grain, combining the resistance to cold of rye with the richness of wheat. Experiments have shown that with this grain, without artificial fertilization, the land produces three times the weight of food usually obtained. Russia is transferring its prisoners to farms in order to increase the food production of the nation.

Episcopdl-Presbyterian Mix-up

ST. GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, New

York city, was to have had a communion service presided over by Dr. Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, and a Presbyterian. Bishop Manning heard of it and reproved the pastor of St. George’s for daring to invite a person not duly licensed and ordained to hold such a service. Dr. Coffin countered by inviting his Episcopal brethren to come to the Union Theological Seminary chapel to hold the same service, and now everybody is laughing except Doctor Manning.

All Races of One Blood

XPERIMENTS of Dr. Noguchi, famous biologist, with sun rays, ultra-violet rays, special diets and glandular treatments are said by him to demonstrate that racial characteristics are the result of a combination of glandular secretions and physical environment and that negroes can be made white, or any other desired racial changes may be made, by judicious use of the means named.

Russia to Have Cement Plants

A CHICAGO engineering company has secured the order to build for Russia a series of huge cement manufacturing plants, flour mills and grain elevators, aggregating $110,000,000 in value. Russia will supply the capital, material, and labor. The Chicago firm will engineer these undertakings and train Russians to build and operate similar plants. The fees to be paid by Russia -will be huge.

The Continental Jugendherbergen

THE Continental Jugendherbergen are boys’ and girls’ hotels scattered all over the central part of Europe where vacationists can sleep in excellent beds for seven cents a night, three rolls can be had for two cents, and a cup of coffee for three cents. Young people on walking or cycling tours are sure of good treatment and good care in these hotels, each of which is under a manager known as the father of the Herberge.

The Moral Police of North Carolina

Dr. Wm. B. Spofford, of the Episcopal League for Industrial Democracy, declares that the churches in the textile regions of North Carolina are owned and controlled by the mill owners and that the clergy are the moral police for the industrial lords; that the houses of the workers are mere shacks unfit for human habitation; that in instances their water supply is pumped from levels below their sanitary facilities; that the workers work in temperatures of 90 to 100 degrees without ventilation and that the recent killings of v/orkers were cold-blooded, deliberate murder. He also states that he has personally investigated conditions and knows that the workers are keen, honest-to-goodness, 100-percent American types, and that the cry that they are agitators and radicals is absolute rubbish.

Christ’s Seamless Robe

HD HE only clothing that Christ had which was J- any special value was a close-fitting garment, woven in one piece. Even that was taken from Him when He died. On the other hand, the most expensive wardrobe in the world is that at the Vatican. The finest silks and laces, bespangled with the finest gems, are part of the papal wardrobe, as well as woolen garments the wool for which is obtained from a special herd of sheep.

Oregon Methods in Britain

A FRUIT grower with seventeen years’ experience in Oregon is finding it profitable to grow fruit in County Kent, England, near the London market. He thins his fruit when they are of the size of walnuts, keeps them six to ten inches apart, and digs the ground around the trees and keeps water flowing to them. In a year when most British fruit has been too small to be salable he has done well.

Air-cooled Trains in France

FRANCE has adopted for summer travel a new device for supplying passengers with cooled and filtered air similar to that used in America in picture shows. In the hottest weather the windows are kept shut, but the passengers are at all times in comfort, and cinderless. This innovation has been found entirely practicable in France, and is bound to spread all over America, because the railroads here are now trying desperately to find some way to keep their passenger business. Here is a way that has not been tried, and a good way too.

Federal Radio Espionage

WE ARE advised that a new system of federal radio espionage has been inaugurated, and ambitious plans are in progress for a considerable enlargement of the staff that will be devoted to this class of work. The report which comes to us says:

An individual file has been started at the Commission for each station. Whenever anybody writes in to the Commission complaining about the station for any reason, the letter goes into that station’s file. Likewise are letters of praise included.

Whenever, from the letters, it appears that something is wrong, a secret investigation will be made of the station.

If the investigation shows that there is sufficient ground, recommendation will be made to the Commission that the station be denied a renewal of license.

SZ.tW Deserters from the Army .

TT IS claimed that there are 67,000 deserters ■*« from the United States army now wandering about, enjoying their freedom. The average number of deserters each year runs about 7,000. After a deserter remains uncaptured for three years he can get a deserter’s discharge, which thereafter prevents him from being locked up. Most desertions are laid to unsatisfactory rations.

The Long and Scalloped Skirts

FTER dressing sensibly for years many New York women are now falling in with, the whims of Parisian dressmakers and buying dresses which are long and scalloped and are unsanitary and dangerous and make them look twenty years older. Shame on the fashion makers 1 They are moving backwards and now trying to undo all the good they really did for womankind in recent years.

Sanhedrin to Review Jesus’ Trial

URING the past ten years a movement has been on foot to reconstitute the G~reat

Sanhedrin at Jerusalem and to review in an official manner the trial of Jesus held 1894 years ago. The plans have now progressed so far that it lias been virtually decided that the Sanhedrin shall be composed of twenty-three rabbis, twenty-four scientists and scholars, and twenty-four practical, hard-headed business men of analytical mind, all to be well knov.m among the Jewish people as men of honor and integrity.

The Fahy Dinner in Washington

T THE Fahy dinner in Washington, in 1926, according to Senator Brookhart, United

States senators were invited to help themselves to hip flasks, and Mr. E. E. Loomis, of the Morgan Banking Company, did so, and it smelled alcoholic. But the interesting thing about the dinner is that Otto Kahn engaged Mr. Brookhart in conversation regarding his expressed hope of squeezing some of the $7,060,000,000 out of the railroad valuations, and a few minutes later Mr. Loomis opened up the same subject. This suggests that the real object of the hip pocket dinner was not so much to give them a taste of forbidden liquors as it was to stop, if possible, the honest revaluation of the railroads.

Demons Attack British Dogs

roeessor Frederick Hobday, principal of the British Royal Veterinary College, in an address at Ayr, Scotland, made the statement that in numerous instances in Britain packs of dogs behave as though they had seen a ghost; the malady might affect a single dog or cause a group to run howling for miles, perhaps being killed by rushing into an obstruction or into ■water.

Victims of Mergers

NE can not pick up a newspaper without reading of some new merger. The next time you read of such a merger take a moment to reflect that it means ruin to many innocent men, and there seems no way out of it Today in New York there are plenty of former executives, men of real ability, glad to take jobs as doormen, messengers, or anything they can get, and at any price.

Pensioning Aged in Delaware

ENSIONING the aged in Delaware has been begun by one man, Alfred I. du Pont, paying the bill. This is surely a move in the right direction, and one that can not fail to bring down blessings upon Mr. du Pont’s head. It is expected that the state will take up the work shortly. Institutions are so expensive that many •well-informed persons believe any state in the union could do what Mr. du Pont is doing, help people in their own homes, to the extent of their necessities, and actually save money over present methods of herding them all in unhomelike institutions.

Poland Asks for Palestine

PARIS dispatch, published in the London

Daily Express, states that Poland is ready and anxious to take over the mandate for governing Palestine when, the question of revision of mandates comes up before the League of Nations two years hence. Poland’s reasons are twofold: First, her claim is that she has the largest Jewish population in Europe; second, she is a Boman Catholic country, and the pope is knovm to be exceedingly anxious to obtain control of the Holy Land. It would be strange indeed if the Jews, after such great efforts to escape from their Polish tormentors, should again find themselves under their control even in their ancient dwelling-place.

'Wickmann the Good Samaritan

IN THE last four years Charles T. Wichmann, retired merchant tailor, has mended, free of charge, the clothing of thirty thousand.homeless men and boys at the Salvation Army Memorial Hotel, 225 Bowery, New York. “Dadd/’ Wichmann, as he was affectionately called, has passed beyond, and we may feel sure that the Lord will have a good place for him somewhere in His kingdom.

Millbury’s Dog Fireman

MILLBURY, Massachusetts, has a dog fireman of which it is justly proud. The other morning the house of its master took fire. The mistress of the home rushed out of the house, carrying two of her children to safety. When she rushed back to get her ten months’ old baby she met Rex carrying the baby down the stairs, the proudest and happiest moment of the dog's life.

Anarchists in North Carolina

IN THE year 1929, in North Carolina, anarchists in uniform wrecked a building occupied by workers, clubbed their street parade, used bayonets, revolvers and clubs, kidnaped and flogged several men, murdered Ella May Wiggins, and shot 23 men in the back and are now haling workers before the courts to do anything that has been left undone. A preacher helped some by putting 100 of the workers out of his church. They did not know it at the time, but this was one of the best things that ever happened to them.

The Gastonia Solicitor

IT IS claimed that the Gastonia solicitor who successfully pleaded for the conviction of the seven labor leaders rolled on the floor, shouted, knelt in “prayer”, denounced the defendants as “foreign communists” and “devils with hoofs and horns” and screamed at the jury, demanding, “Do you believe in the flag? Do you believe in North Carolina?” All we have to say is that if that is what it means to believe in the flag and believe in North Carolina every man in the box should^ have jumped to his feet and shouted “NO” in tones that would have raised the roof. To send seven men to prison for five to twenty years after that kind of court-room farce is a disgrace to humanity.

Ministers on the Pay Rolls

WHEN one hundred members of the Baptist church at East Marion, N. C., were dropped from the membership because they wanted decent hours of work and decent wages, and had gone on strike to get them, it was discovered that the pastor of the church, and the deacons too, were on the pay roll of the mills. And now thou knowest what the pastor in a mill town is for.

Treason, Rebellion, and Conspiracy THE six unarmed workers at Marion, N. C,, -S- who on October 1 -were shot in the back and killed are still dead, and the sheriff has been exonerated. Of the workers not shot in the back, and still living, five have been arrested and are being tried for treason, rebellion, and conspiracy. The industries of Marion consist of two mills, the employees average to work 67% hours a week for a wage of $11. These wages are only two-thirds the wages paid in Massachusetts. It seems to be treason in North Carolina to want better wages.

Dollars Make All Da Alike

A COMMISSION of the Georgia Baptist Convention, assembled at Gainesville, Ga., has made the following resolution: “A few years ago we Southerners were bitterly denouncing New England cotton mills for the way they treated their labor. Now that some of these mills are coming South, we find some of our Southern statesmen angrily defending these same practices in the South. Then they denounced high protective tariff of New England industries: now they are clamoring for that same protection for Southern mills. Surely dollars make us all do alike.”

The Gastonia Grand Jury

fPHE same grand jury which indicted the strike leaders at Gastonia for defending themselves from attack by a mob, which indictment has resulted in the conviction of seven of them for murder, flatly refused to indict any of the nine men, composed of bosses and employees of textile mills, who shot and killed Ella May Wiggins, and also refused to indict any members of the mob charged with kidnaping three union organizers. This grand jury is doing all in its power to wreck America, and deserves to be indicted itself.

Dull Life of a Folder

NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Vassar student worked six weeks in a bindery to find out what are the actual conditions under which factory women work. She found that work as a folder provided such fatigue and such low wages that no other pleasures or relaxations were possible except eating and sleeping, and she has announced that when she is twenty-one she intends to be a radical.

Big Business Out of Hand

sited States Senator Sackett, in a speech at Louisville, admits what everybody knows to be the fact, namely, that holding companies have really put an end to all antitrust laws and legislation designed to control railroads and public utilities. These holding companies actually control all kinds of competing businesses; but Congress can have no authority over them, because they are not engaged in interstate commerce.

State vs. Private Insurance

IN AUSTRALIA insurance is a state matter.

The people as a whole sell their own life protection, and sell at cost. The United States lias done differently. It has turned the life insurance business over to private companies. These have sold policies aggregating $100,000,000,000. About 30c of every dollar of insurance thus bought eventually finds its way back to the policy-holders. The balance is used for profit, for office expenses, and for swinging the stock market this way or that, as the big financiers find convenient.

Soap, Cheese, and Chocolates

ONE of the latest mergers is Colgate soaps and perfumes, Kraft-Phenix cheeses, and Hershey chocolates and cocoas. Well, all of these are good. Hereafter we shall wash with the aid of Colgate soap, brush our teeth with Colgate dentifrice, shave with Colgate cream, put a drop of Colgate perfume on our handkerchiefs, take a drink of Colgate cocoa, sweetened with Colgate sugar, nibble at Colgate cheese, eat some Colgate ice cream, and wind up by eating Colgate chocolate almond bars; and all the profits will go to the one $125,000,000 concern which the National City company has formed to handle these products.

Unemployment in Vancouver

CLIPPING from The Daily Province, of Vancouver, British Columbia, shows that unemployment conditions are so bad that men have been asking to go to jail, as they have no means of support. It is a great civilization; isn’t it? These men can not get jobs, and so they automatically become criminals, and are classed as such, absolutely without any fault of their own.

Damodar KetkaPs “Poltergeist”

awodar Ketkar is the name of a Hindu boy now in London, and Poltergeist is the -word used to describe the unruly spirit demon or devil which in the presence of such a sufferer hurls about glasses, plates, bottles, or anything else movable, and yet without doing bodily harm worth mentioning. The only explanation of Ketkar’s experiences is that it is the work of demons. The London Daily News referred to the matter under the headline “Boy with an Unruly Spirit”, a very good description.

The Machines and the Jobs

IN THE recent tariff discussion Senator Smith of South Carolina inquired why it is that the American people allow themselves to be in bondage to a system that denies them the privilege of enjoying the marvelously cheapening processes of machine production. He said further, “We employ one man now where we used to employ 50 at $2.50 a day. Now we give the one man $10 a day and give the 49 nothing. We have just substituted for the 50 at a living wage one man at a little increased wage and turned the others out to graze where they can find nothing.”

Sixty Thousand Jewish Christian Scientists

IT SEEMS incredible that there could be sixty thousand Jewish Christian Scientists, yet the

Hebrew Christian Alliance Quarterly claims that there are more than that number in New York city alone. The Quarterly says of these: Their connection with that cult hardly raises a ripple in Jewry. They are not ostracised, maligned or persecuted by the Synagogue. But let half a dozen Jews openly confess the saving name of Jesus, and identify themselves with His cross and shame, and there is nothing too vile which the Jewish people and press will say of them.

Dead Bandits and Dead Bankers

REFERRING- to the action of the South Dakota bankers’ association in favor of offering a reward for dead bandits, the dean of Dakota Wesleyan University thinks this should be offset by a public reward for dead bankers who, in recent years, have cost the people of the Dakotas much more than have the bandits. The dean seems to think that theft is theft, whether done by a bandit or a banker. In fact, says the dean, “The burglar gives his victims a little more of a sporting chance.”

What Panama Indians Think of America

THREE San Blas (Panama) Indians, educated in the United States, are admirers of American surgery, sanitation, business ability and generosity, but greatly disappointed with what they saw of American morals. The San Blas Indians do not allow visitors in their villages after nightfall; and prohibit marriage outside of their own tribe, by the enforcement of the death penalty. They refuse to allow their gold mines to be worked, believing it would be the beginning of the end of their race.

Baby Brides of India

THE London Daily Express contains a dispatch from Allahabad, India, reciting that in India more than 25,000,000 girls under the age of sixteen are married. Of this number, 2,000,000 are under ten years of age, and 218,000 under five years of age. Even girls of three and four years are married in a mass system. Births take place when the child mother is thirteen, and would take place sooner did not natural laws intervene. It is hoped to raise the marriage age to 14.

Georges Clemenceau on Death

WHETHER Georges Clemenceau entertained the Bible hope of a resurrection of the dead or not we do not know; but he did hold the Bible position that death is death, a dreamless sleep, a negative state of unconsciousness. In one of his books Clemenceau asks, “When we have completed our daily tasks, do we not seek to recuperate in sleep? Death is no more and no less than sleep. In the evenings every one looks forward to the approaching hours of unconsciousness. Insomnia is considered an unsurpassed evil.”

Dangers of Window Cleaners

rpiIE tremendous towers that are now shoot-ing skyward in New York city, some of them higher than the Eiffel Tower, are calling for peculiar courage in the window-cleaning business. With all the care that is used, two percent of New York window cleaners fall to their death every year. The insurance rate paid for window cleaners is $1.35 a day a man, the highest in any business.

We’ll Be Eating Sawdust Soon

npiIAT we shall all be eating sawdust soon seems borne out by experiments of the professor of chemistry in Long Island University, Dr. Dwight L. Scoles. Dr. Scoles claims to have made molasses out of a mixture of sawdust and sulphuric acid, and a meat substitute out of sawdust and air. A butter was made out of sawdust syrup, glycerin, paraffin and fungus. If these statements are correct there need never be another famine in the world.

Blessing the Dogs at Chantilly

VITE KNEW that they have been blessing the ’ ’ dogs at Chantilly, France, every year for a thousand years past. Last year the dogs had good luck. They chased a beautiful stag into the river where he could be killed in the most fashionable style. But we just learned something this year that makes us sad. We have learned that only the three oldest dogs are brought to the altar and blessed. What have the rest of them done not to get in on this? The dogs at Chantilly, that is, the common dogs, do certainly lead a dog’s life.

Mooney Still Innocent

HPHE trial judge, the police officers, and all -a- but one of the living jurors have united emphatically in asserting their belief that Tom Mooney who has been thirteen years in jail in California w^ras sent there on perjured testimony for a crime which he never committed. Now^t a ■woman in Ohio has made affidavit that her brother, who died seven years ago, confessed on his deathbed that it was he, and not Mooney, that thre^v the bomb which killed the nine marchers in San Francisco’s Preparedness Day parade. Mooney is still in prison and is still innocent, but as long as the Power Trust rules California he will probably stay where he is.

Walnut Leaves and Anemia By W. Davis Haenger

MANY issues back you published a simple article on a, relief from anemia. In fact it was so plain that I am sure many of the readers overlooked it completely.

Permit me to rvrite my appreciation, of the article, and may this letter become a spur to some suffering from lack of blood. Knowing a little lady who was very weak and frail, I suggested that, as stated in the article, she secure from a druggist a quantity of dried black walnut leaves. This she did. Then she made a tea of them. The tea was made exactly as regular tea. Before a week was past she felt better and stronger, and had gained a good appetite. Now after several weeks she looks much better and is gaining weight; her health is improved, and she is an ardent pursuer of Golden Age health hints. Keep it up I

An Elephant’s Prodigious Memory

A SUBSCRIBER writes us that in his neighboring city of Corsicana, Texas, an elephant suddenly dashed from the ranks in which he was parading through the streets with the rest of the herd, rushed to the sidewalk, seized a woman in his trunk and whipped her to death before he could be checked.

It transpired, subsequently that it was this same woman, who, seven years before, had given employment to the elephant’s keeper, and thus had been a means of separating the two. After he had agreed to a change of employers, and when he came to hid the elephant good bye, the woman was along. The elephant remembered her, identified the city, saw her in the crowd, and murdered her for taking his keeper away from. him.

When an elephant goes bad it is customary to kill it; the death sentence was passed upon Black Diamond. Three elephants led him forth from his car in chains, and he seemed instinctively to know that he was to be executed, for he refused food offered to him, which food contained poisons, and went to his death hungry. He was chained to two trees, meantime trumpeting shrilly. Several volleys from machine guns were needed to end his career. The carcass weighed nine tons.

Gravy a la Cenotaph. By Ida Herron

HAVING been so greatly helped by your articles on aluminum poison, I 'wish to tell my experience, in the hope that it will be of help to some one else.

At the time I first paid much attention to your article on aluminum poison I was having an awful time with my legs. They were almost twice their normal size, and the pain and cramps in them would awaken me almost every morning around 3: 30 a.m.

About four months ago I quit using my aluminum dishes for cooking, or even to let cold food stand in them; and though my ankles are not quite normal, yet they are very much better. My eyes do not have the yellow look they had; and I am stronger, and rest well at night.

Some might say, ^cOh, you are off your feet more,’ or something like that; but that is not so, as I have had a busy time with the regular weekly drives for the books, and housecleaning and general farm work has been one continual round of walking and hard work; but I am so much stronger, and thankful to be able to do it.

I don’t even use an ahmiinum cover on a dish while boiling. I had a real bad time for almost three days as a result of using my only aluminum cover two Aveeks ago when cooking porridge. Even after the first day, when the worst of the vomiting ceased, I had awful pains for the next two days.

I am positive it was nothing else but the steam from the lid dropping all the time. I had felt so fine before breakfast that morning that I remember hoping our service director would give me lots to do; and then before noon they had to rush me home.

I have thought since how we often used to remark that fresh roast of either beef or pork had no ill effects until two or three days later. And I had a little aluminum dish I usually used to keep my left-over gravy in, as we were always told they were so safe. _          ■ .

Wall Street Rumblings By F. W. O’Neill

SLIGHT tremors, with the greatest monetary shock ever recorded in the history of Wall Street, struck that famous financial center during the last week of October and shook some of the excessive froth from financial and speculating pocketbooks.

Not only were small investors slaughtered, but so rapid and violent was the fall of prices that many, if not all, of the oldest and most experienced brokers and speculators had to sit tight and watch their holdings suffer severe losses because of the falling avalanche.

Stockholders who did not speculate on margin, but who had bought their stocks outright, saw their peak prices melt in most instances to less than half through the scared selling by minority shareholders. A certain auto company’s shares, for instance, sold for $514 a share on September 18. On October 29 those shares brought only $120 on the market; a loss of approximately 77 percent.

So unsound and unjust is the manipulation, and policy of this financial machine that a minority of shareholders or speculators can, by frantically selling their small lots of shares for what they will bring, establish on the stock exchange prices which affect the balance or majority of shares, and which may total into the hundreds of millions. Ridiculous? Of course.

It is true that many of these high peaks or prices were affected by the same small minority, or manipulated by pools of speculators to a price out of all proportion to the investment and earnings of the companies invo

Nevertheless, those peak prices represented money, and even though termed 'paper profits’ they were redeemable in cash to those selling their stocks at these high prices. And even though they were speculative profits, they had to be paid for out of the productive labor of the people. For where all contribute in labor to the wealth of the community or country, that wealth, by manipulation into the hands of the few, can not but affect each and every contributor comprising a part of society.

There are a few features involved in this .latest financial crash which are worthy of note. During the first shock on T li u r s day, October . 24, when almost 13,000,000 shares were dumped on the market, with net losses estimated at approximately $5,000,000,000, a conference of famous bankers was held in Wall Street’s largest financial institution.

Assurances were made that the banking interests would support the falling market. The secretary of the treasury in Washington conferred with the Federal Reserve Bank, also with President Hoover; and one and all took particular pains to assert their faith in the sound financial security of the country, that there was nothing to fear, that the business structure of the country ivas running smoothly and soundly.

In spite of such assurances, the following Monday found stocks continuing their downward rush, until Tuesday completely crashed the bottom out of the market with an avalanche of over 16,000,000 shares1

Conferences still continued; statements were still issued, for what they were worth; but nothing could stop the debacle. So much for assurances 1

Now it has always been, and still is the policy of the moneyed class, that is, those with an aptitude for financial profit, to buy low, and sell high. Your shrewd local trader will buy cows cheap in the fall, when necessity compels many

a farmer to sell rather than carry them through the winter, and the trader will sell them at greatly advanced prices in the spring.

So with financial kingpins.

W h e n s t o c k s ha d reached such a low level that the carefully observing ones were convinced there were splendid opportunities for profit, they bought,andboughtbig. The world’s richest oil magnate and his son bought at bargains and will reap returns which will greatly increase their already overloaded treasury.

And to help insure that profit, and to help forestall any further crash of prices which might eventually the sounder values of their present holdings, they issued, statements to the effect that they were buying; and so unusual was the action of such advertising from this quarter that the turn-about-face of the market, ■which was about due, received an added impetus. Big business also got on the job. One big bank official macle long distance calls all over the United States, requesting that extra dividends be given out to the newspapers from the score of large industries of which he was a director, to help influence and insure confidence in the market 1 Captains of industry were profuse in assertions that business was on a sound basis. Once on the up-grade, big business tumbled ail over itself patting each other on the back with reassurances (for public consumption). They advertised in the newspapers for all the world to read; asserted confidence in the business of the nation; that earnings were better than usual; that values had not changed,

And so, buying low, these benefactors (?) will quietly unload their holdings when prices are high, and the -fact will not be advertised to the buying public, you may rest assured 1

Editorial comment also was to the effect that, while the investing and speculating public overdid the adjusting of prices, basically the financial and banking world withstood the shock with the greatest confidence and security; that the foundations of our money system, since the Federal Reserve Bank has served to unify and reinforce the banking structure, appears to have been firmly established. There were no runs on the banks, they say; no bank, financial or brokerage houses were crushed to the wall as heretofore; business is not affected; and the fact that the Federal Reserve Bank was able to fully meet all the demands made upon it while assisting in the recovery of the falling market was shown as evidence of this security.

Undoubtedly the financial structure has been reinforced, for such a shock wculd have caused

a nation-wide panic only' ten years ago. Yet; basically, what has been done? Unity is strength, and it was only a matter of volume, mere mass of money, centrally located, and distributed through cooperative agencies or banks, that made a workable protection of this latest financial orgy.                        ;                    _

But for every cause there is an effect. Like the man who had tw^To radios sent to his house for trial, and returned them both when the market slashed his pocketbook, so in hundreds of thousands of cases business is going to feel the effects of canceled and limited purchases for many months to come.

Business may be sound according to the present leaders, but of the effect of curtailed purchasing power there can be no doubt. Business has been hurt far more than outw^rard appearances indicate!

So it is worthy to note another feature of these slight tremors of the financial institution. Slight, because it will be INSIGNIFICANT when the greatest earthquake the world has ever seen or known shakes the foundations of this unjust and unsound system.

The financial world could well ask itself what would have been the result of this 1929 crash had it come at a more delicate time in the affairs of men and nations!

And what will be the result of the final catastrophe should unemployment sear the souls of men whose empty pockets rebel against vast manipulations of wealth, or should the fears of financial disaster merge with the rumors and threats of war ?

Financial leaders, while somewhat anxious regarding future activities, probably feel fairly secure in having passed through the recent frenzy. But -will they attempt to correct the errors in the system? As one financial news wu'iter said, “Something is radically wrong when a calamity of this kind can occur, and some measure should be taken to prevent a recurrence even if the whole method of security trading must be changed.”

Yes indeed! But the desire for gold and the power it gives will never permit them to discard the agencies for its accumulation. They will not attempt to curb the element of gambling, or its pools, manipulations, margin accounts, pyramiding of paper profits, etc.; but the real tragedy lies in the fact that actual sound values and productive labor must suffer through frenzied and speculative gambling. .

But in these uncertain times, the “wise servant” is not confounded by these systems, with their unsound and widely-fluctuating values !

Appreciating the truth that physical wants require material means, he not only realizes the necessity for supplying the tangible means of living, but in spiritual faith drinks of another water. And when the great quake shakes the foundations of the financial systems into the dust, the treasure of the wise servant keeps him and prepares him for the true values of the days to come.

For in that day men, and not money or wealth, will be the standard of value; and “'he that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And behold, I come quickly; and my re’ward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be”. (Rev. 22:11, 12). “He that hath an ear, let him hear.”

Hard on the Bookkeeper

A DISPATCH from New York says: “Staten

Island’s "million dollar’ bootlegger, John J. Dunne, has compromised for $100,000 the $498,737.11 income tax and penalties assessed on his bootleg profits by the government, it was announced today. The announcement was made by assistant United States attorney James E. Wilkinson in Brooklyn federal court when Dunne pleaded guilty to an indictment returned against him for failure to report his bootleg earnings. He was fined $2,000 and sentenced to a year in prison, the prison term being suspended.”

This is quite a hardship on Mr. Dunne’s bookkeeper. He seems to be the only one to suffer, but it may take the bookkeeper half an hour to straighten the thing out. Possibly something else besides the income tax of $100,000 and the fine of $2,000 was shaken out of that $498,737.11; but even if it was another $100,000, Mr. Dunne is getting out of it very v^ell and is still $296,737.11 to the good. Well Dunne!

Safety in the Electrically Equipped Home By Vinzens Spath, Electrician

HpHE following may prove helpful to prevent -L the tragedies of preventable electrocution so often reported in our daily papers in the city and country alike.

For the most part I have noticed these occurrences are of the “low voltage” type, except where experienced electricians are mentioned, a fact wdiich makes it all the more deplorable because they are most easily preventable.

In a low voltage case of electrocution the muscles of the body in the path of the electric current, from the hands to the ground or from one hand to the other, gradually stiffen and tighten, thereby preventing free movement to get away. Death finally takes place through suspended animation. The time elapsing between may be from a fe~w minutes to one hour, depending on local conditions. This leaves a fair space of time for some one to do something to avoid death, if done promptly.

If you are caught with your hands cramped on a pipe, cord, or machinery, with your feet on the bare ground or concrete floor, or for that matter even a wet wooden or metal floor, the first proper thing to do, of course, is to shut off the power by some one; but if you happen to be alone and unable to attract somebody’s attention to help you, then a strong concentration of your will power may easily free you; but if you give up, in a little while the chances are much against you.

Look around you if you can see a board or box or even a bunch of newspapers or magazines, or most anything dry and non-metallic. If you could work yourself toward it or work the object toward yourself to stand on it to clear yourself from the ground, and could thereby break the circuit, or give a sudden pull to free your cramping hold, it would likely save your life. You may hurt yourself slightly by so doing, but it is preferable to the visit of an undertaker, coroner, and flowers on your grave.

To illustrate my theory, the following may serve as an example. A plumber was repairing a steam boiler. He was using the old-fashioned defective extension cord, getting close to the boiler, and he got his feet in a puddle of water in a low place directly in front of the fire box. Having hold of the defective cord with his hands, the electric power took a path through his arms, chest, legs, and feet. AU of the affected muscles gradually stiffened tighter, so he was unable to move. Finally he fainted and fell over to one side, out of the boiler pit. This act got his feet clear of the water, and thereby broke the circuit for the most part, thus saving his own life.

He could have accomplished his safety much easier and quicker before without fainting, by trying to move himself out of the water by leaning against the raised floor and throwing himself backward oi' sidewise, thereby lifting both feet out of the water; oi’ he could have smashed the lamp of his cord against the boiler or floor or the wall, causing the fuses of this circuit to burn out, which would have freed him quickly and easily. But the ounce of prevention is even better:

Break away from the age-long and dangerous habit of using any old cord, especially the cheap cord; the best is none too good or too safe. There is not much safety in a pretty silk cord; it is no safer than the old-style lamp cord.

There are several reliable brands on the market designed for wet or damp places; Brewery, Packing House, or Tyrex, which has an outer rubber cover, with a substantial composition or mica weatherproof socket, would offer much more safety in residential basements, kitchen, or bathrooms, where your hands are likely to be damp or wet from your work; there is little or no safety in a metal shell key or keyless socket in such places named above in close proximity to water pipes, furnaces, kitchen ranges, kitchen sink;?, or bathroom fixtures. When you are operating your electric devices in the basement, a good precaution is to wear the old-fashioned rubbers; toecap rubbers are useless for this purpose.

Further, the lighting fixtures immediately below the kitchen and bathrooms should be “weatherproof”. Washing machines, ironing machines, and electric ranges should be effectively and permanently grounded, but such grounding of devices is not and should not lie accepted as a cure-all for everything, as this article plainly shows.

One case of trouble in which I -was called upon will demonstrate the value of “weatherproof” construction of wiring in the residential basement or anywhere where there is excessive dampness. A family just moved into a home in Rose City Park Addition, and, finding the place very dirty, proceeded to clean and scrub the

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kitchen floor in the real grand style: pouring a bucket of water on the floor and starting to scrub. Soon they needed more water, then the trouble began. As soon as they would touch a kitchen faucet or sink, they would get a jolt enough to knock them down. The fact was, the kitchen was the most unsafe place in the house.

I found the water leaked through the floor and along the joists to the old-fashioned and still much-used porcelain rosette and drop cord, thereby electrically charging the wet kitchen floor and creating a difference of potential, that you could not take hold of a faucet without getting a terrible shock.

I simply removed the old porcelain rosette and drop cord and installed a weatherproof socket in the basement. As a consequence, safety was immediately reestablished in the kitchen.

Controlling switches for washing machines should never be mounted directly on the machine itself, but rather on the ceiling, wall, or post near or above the machine, and should be preferably a ceiling pull switch, double-pole, indicating “On” and “Off”, and operative with a strong cord, within easy reach, and installed “weatherproof”.

So-called “Heater Cord”, asbestos covered, is unsafe for use in kitchens, bathrooms, basements, or anywhere where some one is liable to take hold of it with wet or damp hands and in close proximity to grounded devices. It is most deceptive because this type of cord is insisted upon by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, and consequently by many municipal electric inspection departments, for use with portable electric heating devices.

In all my twenty-five years’ experience I have failed to realize the so much crowed-about safety of it, but a short time ago a woman was electrocuted here in Portland. The electric contractor supplied Heater Cord on a washing machine. While using this washer in the basement of her home, for some reason she held this cord with her wet hands while standing on the wet concrete floor.

According to reports of the press, the -woman died about an hour later. She was alone in the house at the time and help arrived too late. It was true that the Heater Cord should not have been installed on the washer; but what about it had she been using a portable electric cooker with specified “Heater Cord” in the basement, such as many people use for auxiliary service ?

What would have prevented her death? The safety of this type of cord seems to exist solely in the highly imaginative minds of its designers and fire insurance agents.

My view, as expressed above, may be somewhat at variance with the latest ideas expressed in the electrical code, but experience has taught me to appreciate the ounce of prevention to gain “Safety First”.

Another dangerous stunt is the practice by some of placing pennies back of burnt-out fuses. Fuses are put in by electricians to act as automatic circuit breakers to protect the building and its contents from too great overloads on wires; but when a penny or some other piece of metal is placed back of the fuse plug, the automatic circuit breaker and safety both cease to exist and danger and grief are likely to follow in one form or another.

All grown-up members of families' should know where to shut off the gas, water, and electric power. Right here is the worst failure in most homes. In proportion, most people do not know that much of their own premises. Right here in this supposedly modern city I have seen places without a proper switch to shut off the power, or where the switches and fuses are mounted in such inaccessible places as to make them useless in case of necessity. Where is safety and prevention under such circumstances ?

Many homes have been flooded because the people at home did not know where to shut off the water. Many people have been asphyxiated with gas at home because the much used small gas valves were leaky and no proper main valves provided near the gas range to shut it off completely. The same is true of many gas-fired water heaters, both manual and automatic, with the additional danger of explosion because the pilot flame has gone out.

The Knife Versos the Hand

YOUNG- woman in San Antonio, Texas, injured in an automobile accident, lay in a coma for fifty days, meantime being operated on and medicated without result. At the end of the period a chiropractor was called in, and made an adjustment, and the young woman promptly returned to consciousness. Looks as if it might be well for some of these cutters to take a course in Chiropractic, just so that they will know when not to cut.

Soap and Water Safer than Calomel

(By Dr. Alex. C, Barthels, Superintendent of ths Edinburgh School of Natural Therapeutics, Member of the Society of British Naturopaths.)

MI IN TEREST has been called to an article in the August 7 issue of The Golden Age, entitled “A Paragraph from a Government Letter”, in which a correspondent quotes the Bureau of Public Health Service, Washington. It states that “one-fifth of all hospital days required for treatment of American seamen in Marine hospitals are due to venereal diseases”.

“In order to grapple to some extent with this growing menace, a certain shipping company has been requested to establish a.station aboard each ship where the crew may receive precautionary treatment. After they have been ashore, the sailors are required to use soap and running water and to apply the necessary prophylactic calomel ointment. This is to be obtained in tubes at about five cents each.

“So venereal disease can be cured or prevented for five cents. On what grounds, then, has the public been swindled by expensive treatments? Why has this simple information been so long withheld from the public?” Such are the indignant questions which are asked by the correspondent.

It is the opinion of many thinkers and those of practical experience that it is just as w^Tell that the public has not been able to buy a dangerous poison at five cents a dose. For the active principle of calomel is mercury, a heavy metal which is liable to accumulate in the system to the destruction of nervous and other tissue. It is used by the medical profession as a caustic against venereal sores and inflammations, and their own text-books on toxicology give the symptoms of chronic mercurial poisoning as parallel to those of tertiary syphilis. The drug has been used to such an extent that it would not be easy to find today any one suffering from the tertiary stage who had not at one time received mercurial treatment. At the same time, history does not tell of constitutional syphilitic symptoms until after the advent of suppressive drugs, although syphilis, as an acute disease, has been recorded throughout the ages.

If our conscience and our reason thus deprive us of one of the so-called standbys in the handling of venereal conditions, if, in short, mercury is seen to be a determining factor, if not the determining factor, in the production of tertiary syphilis, we must find some other’ form of treatment. We must study in other channels.

As an encouragement, I would refer to the books of Dr. Hermann, who for thirty years at the end of the last century was superintendent of the syphilitic wards in the famous Hospital Weiden, near Vienna, Austria. He claims that during this time he handled sixty thousand cases of venereal disease without the use of mercury, and that not in a single case thus treated and cured did he observe a spontaneous recurrence, an exhibition of tertiary symptoms or hereditary transmission.

I refrain from indicating the lines along ■which Dr. Hermann worked. The public should not experiment with a serious ailment except under considered advice. I merely ask the authorities to leave poisonous administrations to those interested in cruelty, suicide, and murder, and to turn their attention to the enforcement of that cleanliness in the human system which only the sanitary engineer seems to appreciate.

Perhaps there will come a day when we will all refuse to endanger our physical fitness by associating with that which is unclean, but, in the meantime, if there has been any difficulty, let us go hard for the soap and water and avoid the calomel as we would the plague.

Those Flint Bank Employees THE cashier and other employees of the Union Industrial Bank of Flint, Michigan, took only $3,592,000 of the banks funds with which to play the stock market. They left the cages in which they worked, and the plate glass windows on the front of the bank; nor did they permanently remove the door of the vault in which the bank’s funds are kept. As custodians of the public’s funds they have certainly made a record. The president of the bank has made good the losses and the bank will continue to do business with a new lot of clerks.

Receiving Sets Multiply Rapidly

RECEIVING sets continue to multiply rapidly. There are now 10,250,000 sets in the United States and 9,139,824 sets in Europe outside of Russia and Turkey,

I.B.S.A. Colporteur Meets His Waterloo on Island of Corsica

T HAVE just recently taken a week's eanvass-J- ing trip on the island of Corsica. Colpor-' tears have varied experiences, but this trip contained a few, not severe ones, but odd ones. I shall try to retake some of them and also tell how I met my “Waterloo'¹’ there.

We often hear of the saying that history repeats itself, but such was not the ease this time. Napoleon, a. man scarcely over five feet tall, came from Corsica to France, won many victories, and met his defeat at Waterloo. With me, a man not a great deal over five feet in height, I went from France to Corsica, won victories in the larger cities, and met my Waterloo there, right in Napoleon’s native town.

But before telling of this “defeat” I shall mention some points about Corsica itself, an island probably not much heard of by anybody. It is situated in the Mediterranean Sea, about sixty-two miles west of Italy, and about 105 miles southeast of France. It is rather oblong in shape; its area approximately 5,500 square miles, and its population about 300,000 people. The island of Sardinia lies just south of it. Sardinia belongs to Italy, while Corsica belongs to France. There are regular boat services from Nice and Marseilles to Corsica, making from one to two round trips a week each.

There are some level lands in different places along the coast of Corsica, but it quickly rises to hills and then to high mountains. The main backbone of the mountains runs north and south along the center of the island. Some timber, mostly pine, grow^rs here and there, sparingly up to the vegetation line, and above that, the rock ledges rise high and barren to peaks, the highest 8,900 feet from sea level (but no snow, at least not now in summer).

The more mountainous parts have goats and sheep only, mostly goats. Clusters of houses (villages) are seen here and there up the mountainsides, similar’ to the Swiss villages in the Alps. The Corsican mountaineer has the advantage over the Swiss in that he is always seen with “old faithful” at his side, the burro, doing the packing for him, while the Swiss usually has to carry his load himself on his back. The Swiss can not afford to keep a burro, because the winters are too long. That is, from early autumn, when it begins snow’ing, till late spring, the burro would have to be tied up in the barn, eating daily, and nothing for him to

spoken, not with the Tuscano accent, but strong on the Napolitano accent, as Italians from Naples speak it.

In our compartment on the train (shall explain later the meaning of compartment) were a French couple and grown daughter, tourists, with map in hand and observing route and scenery. There w’ere also a Corsican lady and two Corsican men. Corsicans chatter together loudly, no matter where. And so these Corsicans were talking away in their own dialect, and laughing, while their brethren, the French tourists (who had apparently landed on the island that morning), sat silent as statues, and looked rather amazed, for they could not understand a word of it. The Corsican lady, realizing the situation, and being of a talkative disposition, began to speak in French to the tourists, which eased them considerably. All this rather amused me, to see people of the same nation einbarassed over the language, while I, who am American, but can speak Italian, as well as some French, could understand both the Corsican and the French. Glorious will be that day when all people shall be of one language!

Another train incident: After we were some stations out from the terminus, and while the train was running (and it runs at a fair speed for a narrow-gauge), I saw a railway employee walking along the outside of the train coaches, and putting his hands through the open windows and holding himself to the window sills as he went along. It was warm, and most windows were open; so he could go along somewhat easily. His feet were resting on a board that runs the length of the coaches (the old model coaches). This board runs along the outside, one step below the floor line. It serves as the step in boarding and getting off the train; for those coaches have the seats running cross-vase, the width of the coach, with a door at each end of the seat, and a window in each door. Both sides of the coaches are nothing but a string of doors. The coaches are partitioned off in compartments, two seats facing each other and running the width of the coach, to each compartment. On this narrow-gauge line there was room for four persons to each seat, making eight for each compartment.

I first thought that this employee walking along the outside in that manner was taking a chance, and would be given a talking to if caught ; hut we had not gone many more stations, when, unexpectedly, the conductor was putting his arms and head through the window at which I was sitting, and with punch in hand, and unconcernedly, was saying, “Tickets, please.” After punching the tickets of all in our compartment, he went on to the next, always hanging on the outside of the coaches, and all while the train was running. It is of no use, every locality has its own peculiar methods.

People of smaller localities are generally more honest than in large cities. And so an air of honesty and fairness prevails in Corsica, yet the following occurred: I came to a restaurant in the middle of the forenoon and approached the waitress with the books. She decided to take one, and -went to get her purse, which was hanging on the hat rack near the kitchen door, together with her coat and hat. The mistress’ coat, etc., were hanging there also. The waitress was surprised to find her purse empty, and remarked that she had three small pieces of paper money in it when she put the purse there in the morning, and now it was all gone. She called the mistress and told the story. The mistress said that paper money was taken from her purse there not long ago, and believes the guilty one is a man who often comes there to eat and lingers about somewhat. She told the waitress that no one should leave a purse there any more; but should put it away in a secure place. The waitress had to borrow the money from the mistress to buy the book.

Another incident, but a happy one: A lady was down in a creek, barefooted, almost kneedeep in water, washing clothes on a large rock. She was the wife of the oil agent at the wharf. Her neighbor called to her that I was selling books. She answered that the sailors bring her all the books she needs. “But sailors do not bring you this kind of book,” said I, as I walked to the bank and held up The Harp. She said, “I can not read French; I am Italian.” I then spoke to her in that language and brought out the same books in Italian. She walked up out of the water to the bank, and bought The Harp, cloth Scenario, and a booklet. She seems to be searching, and may it be so; for to search and live up to the light found is the grace that makes man free.—John 8: 32.

Catholicism prevails on the island, but is fast losing ground. People are commencing to think for themselves, and it is high time. Our literature took well, but no real wide-awake interest was found.

Napoleon was born at Ajaccio, the second largest city of Corsica. The Napoleon mansion (Napoleon’s father’s house, where Napoleon was born), still stands, and is used as a national monument. Visitors are admitted on certain days of the week. Only the original furniture is in it. It is a laige mansion, and from the furniture one can see that Napoleon’s father was a well-to-do man in his day. He was a lawyer and judge.

But all this does not tell how I met my "Waterloo” in Corsica. Considering other matters, I could see before starting that I could not remain in Corsica more than a week on this trip; so I took with me a supply of books accordingly. And I thought I made the calculation stronger on the over side than on the less. But I worked fast in three cities, in the week’s time (but did not finish any of them), and my supply kept going down, until in the forenoon of the last day I was there my supply of French books gave out. The boat did not sail until four p.m. Therefore a colporteur without books and with territory on hand and four hours’ time to go, I was as a soldier on the battlefield run out of ammunition and having to surrender. This happened in Napoleon’s native town, Ajaccio.

Yea, I welcome such “Waterloos”. Far rather have placed all the literature with a few hours to spare than to have found dull ears and having to bring some of the literature back.

May the Lord add His blessing, that those who read the books may be benefited thereby. And may He grant us strength and courage to keep going, and to spread the message wider and wider.—Matt. 24:14.

Protestantism Near Its End

A SUBSCRIBER in Portugal sends us the following translation of a news item which appeared in two Lisbon newspapers on the 29th of October. No wonder the Catholic papers are glad to print this item, for it shows that the death knell of Protestantism is sounding. The worst of it is that the poor simp that made the following statements does not even know that he is cutting his own throat. Who wants to hear anything that any man has to say when he admits that he believes nothing and has no message of hope, or comfort, or faith in God or in anything but his own conceit?

THERE IS NOTHING ELSE BUT IJTERATURE IN THE BIBLE, SAYS A PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN

London, 28.—At the general conference which took

place in Worcester, there was an incident which caused a great scandal amidst the theological circle. Rascen, a clergyman of Liverpool, gave a lecture regarding the position and authority which the Bible occupies in the Christian life. After which another clergyman of Worcester, Rev. Locey, began by saying that it grieved him to have to offer a discordant opinion, as he does not consider the Bible as a book expressing the Divine Word.                   .

In my own opinion, he said, there is nothing in the Old or New Testament which can be candidly considered as having been revealed by God. According to Rev. Locey’s opinion, what is found in the Bible is simply a vast collection of valuable literature.

I am very grieved, he concluded, by having to declare that the only thing I can find in the Bible, is a legion of men blindly seeking for God. And it is impossible to find anything else in it besides that.

Satan in the Seminaries

HL. M'encjken, noted newspaper man, is

« credited in the Outlook, and, Independent of September 4, 1929, as saying, “By some hook or crook Satan has got into the seminaries of theology, and the clergy of tomorrow are being debauched.” Mr. Mencken has told the absolute truth. The graduates of the seminaries of today are infidels as to the Bible, and many of them are atheists at heart, having neither love nor reverence for God or for anything with which He has to do. Their only possible effect upon the people to whom they “minister” is to break down and destroy whatever of faith these may have. They hate and oppose the truth.

Error Versus Truth

(Broadcast from Station

THIS morning we continue to examine the arguments made by Job and his professed friends. I hope you have carefully read chapters 14-33 of the book of Job. As we progress you will be able to see who spoke the truth and who spoke falsely. Jehovah has announced the rule by which it may be determined what man is pursuing a wise course. By His prophet (Ps. 25:14) He says: “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant,” On the contrary, the man who thinks more highly of himself than he ought to think, who is proud and wise in his own conceit, and who gives honor and glory to himself or to other men, is displeasing to the Lord God. Concerning such it is written that ‘God resists the proud and shows His favor to the humble’. (1 Pet. 5: 5) The proud and self-important ones speak the wisdom of men and therefore speak error. The humble man who maintains his faith in God often speaks the truth.

Jesus emphasized this point when He spoke concerning the sinner and the Pharisee who belonged to the clergy of that day. The Pharisee, with great self-satisfaction, prayed: ‘Lord, I thank Thee that I am not like other men.’ The sinner smote his breast and prayed to God, ‘Lord, have mercy upon me a sinner.’ Jesus said that the Pharisaical clergyman was condemned for his attitude, while the sinner received God’s favor.

As Job heard the speech of his professed friends he recognized that they were pious hypocrites, and told them so. To them he said: “Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.” (Job 13:7,13) Then Job expressed his continued faith in God when he cried out: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him; but I will maintain mine own ways before him.” (Job 13:15) He showed his faith in God’s love and mercy and his hope of a resurrection when he said: “0 that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.”—Job 14:13,14.

That statement of truth by Job angered Sa-

tan. He therefore moved his agent Eliphaz to exalt himself in his own mind and speak error, that Job might have further suffering.

This statement of Job was in direct contradiction of Satan’s first lie. (Gen. 3:4,5) Had every man an immortal soul, then it could not die, nor could it be awakened out of death and live again. Satan was angry because Job uttered this prophecy of truth concerning the resurrection of the dead, and he moved his agent, Eliphaz, to speak in response to Job’s declaration of truth:

“Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee. Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us? With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.”—Job 15:1-10.

That speech is like unto the argument that the clergy have long used and continue to use against the humble and honest men who seek to learn and to express the truth of God’s Word. They claim that the clergy class is the repository of all wisdom; that the grayheaded sages, whom they call “fathers” in the church, are the only ones that should attempt to tell of a future life. They even go to the point of persecuting the humble men and women who try to study and teach the Word of God, which is the truth. Many a member of a church has been told by his pastor :-‘You had better not read any books or study for yourself. Leave all that to us preachers. We are the guardians of your soul, and your only teachers.’

Then Eliphaz, representing the enemy, makes another attempt to cause Job to turn away from God by inducing him to believe that God would have no confidence in him. He goes to the ex-

tent of saying that God has no confidence in the holy angels of heaven, and therefore would not have any confidence in filthy man, even though he sought God in God’s appointed way. At the same time Eliphaz arrogates to himself all the wisdom from above, exactly as the clergy do today. “Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it; unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.”—Job 15:15-19.

Then Eliphaz proceeds to remind Job that he is wicked and that he must suffer the fate of the wicked. Job was not moved from his position of integrity by the bombastic words of his critics. “Then Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased? But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.”—Job 16:1-7.

In their regular turn Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar continued to reproach Job and to remind him that God had visited him with these great calamities because of his wilful wickedness. Throughout the debate those three men repeatedly attempted to show Job that he will never be justified before God. Amidst it all Job insisted that his suffering was not because of his personal wickedness. He knew that he loved God and had done his best to serve Him so far as he knew. He maintained his integrity in holding fast his faith in God.

In this part of the prophetic picture two things are emphasized, to wit: (1) That the three men who professed to be friends of Job represent the organization of Satan the enemy, and that their claim to represent God always corresponds to the members of the Devil’s organization who claim to represent God, and that these all bring reproaches upon God; and (2) that amidst all the misrepresentation of God throughout the ages God has brought some honest men through the warfare and enabled them to maintain their confidence and faith in Him.

Let every person of fair mind now consider how the facts fit the picture, and what opportunity is held forth to suffering humanity by the doctrines of the ecclesiastical systems. That all humankind, like Job, is full of putrid sores, no man can honestly attempt to gainsay. What, then, is contained in the doctrines of the ecclesiastical teachers that could comfort man ?

The Catholic wing says: ‘If you join our church and follow the advice of the fathers of our church, when you die you will go to heaven. Otherwise you will go to “purgatory”; and if we are not able to get you out upon sufficient consideration, then you will spend eternity roasting in fire and brimstone.’

The Protestant wing says: ‘We represent God; and if you would be saved, you must join our church and follow the advice of our teachers or fathers of the church; otherwise you will 'spend your eternity in torment.’

- Other branches of the Devil’s organization, the purpose of which is to turn men away from Gbd, teach men that there is no means of salvation by faith and obedience, but that man is a creature of evolution and will continue by his own efforts to increase in righteousness until he gets his great desire.

These ecclesiastical leaders claim to be the sole interpreters of the Scriptures; and in putting forth their false doctrines they are supported by the commercial and political elements of the world. Satan is the god thereof. There is no part of the so-called “organized Christianity” that tells the people anything about God’s purpose of redemption through the blood of Christ, resurrection from death, and restitution to life for the obedient ones on earth. The doctrines held forth by these ecclesiastical systems, and concurred in by their allies, not only fail to bring consolation to suffering humanity but tend to drive and do drive multitudes of people aw^Tay from God.

The ecclesiastical systems speak of Jesus and call Him the Redeemer, but their words are merely words of mockery, even as were the words of the three supposed friends of Job. The most that is said concerning Christ Jesus is that it is well to study His life as an example, and that His life was given to men for an example that men might attain unto a high character that would warrant their own salvation. The great majority of these ecclesiastical leaders deny that Jesus was any more than an ordinary sinful man. They openly deny the value of His sacrifice and repudiate the saving power of His blood. Today there is no ecclesiastical system under the sun that is teaching that the blood of Jesus was shed to provide the purchase price of man from death; that all men are born sinners, and that only through the blood of Christ can salvation come; and that in due time God will grant life to the obedient men on earth by resurrection and restitution.

All these religious systems pose as God’s representatives, but in fact are members of Satan’s organization and are therefore frauds and “forgers of lies” and doctors of divinity with no value. All the systems of “Christendom” repudiate the kingdom of God on earth as a means of bringing peace, prosperity, and life, and instead adopt the Devil’s makeshift, the League of Nations, and hail it as the savior of mankind. Amidst it all a few men outside the religious systems maintain their integrity with God.

The proof is therefore conclusive that in the picture the three professed friends of Job, who came as “physicians”; foreshadow the visible part of Satan’s organization, otherwise called “Christendom”, acting through its representatives, and which Satan uses for the purpose of turning men away from Jehovah God. The speech of the three men, who posed as Job’s friends, did no honor to Jehovah, but rather cast reproach upon His name.

Elihu

Another character appeared in the picture, and Elihu was his name. He was related to Abraham. (Gen. 22:20,21) He had faith in God like unto Abraham. He w^ras the son of Barachel, which name means “who bends the knee before God”. The name Elihu means “God of him, my God is he; he is my God himself”. He was a young man. He was one of the silent audience that sat by and listened to the speech of the three professed friends of Job as well as that of Job. Throughout that discussion he said not a word until the three professed wise men had ceased their babble. “So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.”—Job 32:1.

As Elihu listened to the discussion between Job and the three men, he became indignant against Job because Job justified himself rather than extolling Jehovah God. Elihu’s indignation boiled against the professed friends of Job because they had condemned Job and had not answered Job’s arguments. They exalted themselves and made their own self-righteousness appear. Elihu did not condemn Job as the three professed friends did. While lie did not approve the action of Job in speaking of his own righteousness, yet the words of Elihu offered, as an extenuation, that Job was ignorant of the real situation. He said: “'Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.”—Job 34:35.

In this Job pictures many men of honesty of purpose who have never been able to understand that their sufferings were due to their own wilful wrong-doing because of being conscious of the fact that they had tried to do right. Likewise they have never been able to harmonize the claims of Christendom, so called, with a God of justice and love. They have been willing to submit their case to God, having faith that He would do to them that which was best. They have therefore rejected the doctrines of eccle-siasticism, and properly so, because as honest men they could see that such doctrines were not in harmony with the all-wise, just and loving Creator.

Elihu magnified Jehovah. As a young man he manifested respect for the gray-haired savants who had spoken before him, but he used no words of flattery because of their high standing. He began his speech in this manner: “I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion. I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Great men are not always wise; neither do the aged understand judgment. Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion. Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say. Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words; lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man. I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my Maker would soon take me away.”—Job 32:6-13, 20-22.

The praise and exaltation of men is never pleasing to God. In this connection I remind you that the prominent men of the Devil’s visible organization have always been men who exalted themselves and their fellow men. The Avhole period of “Christendom” has been an age of hero-worship. Visit any of the art galleries of Europe or America and you will see the tangible evidence of this statement. In every celebrated painting Avhere the power of a nation or government is shown, there stands forth prominently in the picture the great warrior; by his side the great statesman, and with the two the clergyman, indicated by his garb and his sanctimonious face. The manifest purpose is to overawe the populace and impress them with the greatness of these men, and to cause the people to pay homage to the great leaders of “Christendom”.

Let it be understood also that such celebrated painting’s are further proof of the close union between the financial power, the warrior, the statesmen and the clergy. It is another tangible proof that these are the visible agencies of Satan’s organization. It should be expected, therefore, that they would laud and praise men of their own organization. Why should they do this? The answer is that it has always been the purpose of the Devil to cause men to worship any creature, that man might be turned away from Jehovah God and his devotion be given to others than Jehovah God. Let it be set down as a rule to which there is no exception, that where there is adulation and praise and Avorship heaped upon men, such is the result of the subtle influence of the Devil to turn men away from Jehovah.

The religionists have fallen into this trap at all times. The Jews have magnified the names of their rabbis and exalted them. The members of the Catholic church have exalted their clergy and even called them saints. The members of the Protestant ecclesiastical systems have exalted their clergy and hailed them as great and mighty men. It is true that this has been due largely to ignorance on the part of the people. It is also true that that ignorance has been induced by Satan the enemy. Many Christians who have allied themselves with neither Catholics nor Protestants have also exalted men to their own injury. It may be laid down as a safe rule that where a person professes to be devoted to God and at the same time is exalting any man or men he will have great difficulty in standing the test and proving his complete faithfulness to God. The majority of such fall away.

Elihu assigned the reason for the disastrous results to those who worship men. He said: “Let me not . . . give flattering titles unto man . . . ; in so doing my Maker would soon take me away.” (Job 32: 21, 22) His words are really prophetic. Many have been taken away from the Lord because of flattering words. Many have fallen because they have been willing to receive words of flattery heaped upon them. But one might ask, Why would God take away one who flatters men? The answer is quite apparent when Ave understand the great controversy that has long existed betAveen JehoAmh and the DeA⁷il. Let it be kept in mind at all times that Satan the Devil has tried and is trying to alienate all creation from God. Let it also be kept in mind that JehoA^rah has said, 'There is no other God besides me.’ Remember that no creature can get life except by and through Jehovah. Therefore if a man who claims to be a servant of the Lord Avould give flattering titles to men, and laud and magnify men and make heroes of men, he Avould be folloAving the lead and the instruction of Satan the Devil, and not folloAving the Lord and being obedient to the Word of God.

Every creature that is pleasing to the Lord God must welcome the knowledge that comes to him of the distinction between God and Satan, and take his stand unequivocally on the side of Jehovah. Elihu put himself on the side of Jehovah and unequivocally stood for Jehovah God. This is important also to keep in mind as a rule that should be followed by all avIio are pleasing to the Lord. The great sage of Israel, Paul, in his day saw the danger of receiving flattery and giving flattery to men. He said: “Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then

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neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.”—1 Cor. 3: 5-7.

Addressing Job, Elihu said: “Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy. He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. Behold, in this thou art not just; I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters. For God speak-eth once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.” —Job 33:8-14.

Job had spoken without understanding. He could understand that his suffering was not because of his wilful sin against God. His professed friends had not taught him in the right way, even as the clergy have not taught the people in the right way concerning God and why men suffer.

Then Elihu proceeded with his speech in praise of Jehovah God. The words of Elihu were prophetic and told of the Lord’s purpose to stay the destructiveness of sickness and death, and to redeem or ransom man; and that those who will then be obedient to God, after receiving knowledge, shall be restored to the days of their youth. His were words of life, showing God’s purpose to give life to man by means of redemption, resurrection and restitution. He first shows the human race, pictured by a man sick, afflicted, emaciated, and almost dead. He shows man abhorring everything about him, even his bread and meat, because of his great suffering, and then points out that if there be with man a messenger to interpret and make plain the right way, God is gracious to man and delivers him from going down to the grave; and he assigns as the reason therefor the great ransom provision. His words are;

“He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and ths multitude of his bones with strong pain: so that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness; then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s; he shall return to the days of his youth; he shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy; for he will render unto man his righteousness. He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; he will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.”— Job 33:18-30.

Thus, through Elihu, God caused to be spoken the great truth of His purpose to redeem fallen and suffering humanity through the precious blood of Christ Jesus and that in due time He would bring all men to a knowledge of the truth. This prophecy further proves that in His own due time Jehovah would have on earth some who vrould speak His message of truth fearlessly and boldly and give God all the credit therefor and that the truth thus spoken would bring consolation to all those who hear.

Next Sunday consideration will be given to the message of truth, which message and understanding thereof throws a flood of light on some important events that are coming to pass in our day. In the meantime please read Job, chapters 33 to 38, inclusive.

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IT MAKES a difference what you cook your food in. My family "was being poisoned by the use of aluminum cooking utensils. My husband and I were in terrible shape with kidney, bladder and stomach trouble. After reading the

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articles in The Golden Age we stopped the use of aluminum cooking-ware. We got some granite ware and went right on eating the same food with no discomfort after eating, and our other troubles vanished.

Bible Question and Answer

UESTION: A writer asks: “Which is the Lord’s sabbath day? is it Saturday, or is it Sunday?” Another letter asks: “Which is the sabbath, the first day of the week, or the last day?” Still another letter asks: “What is the sabbath that the Christian is to keep?”

Answer: “Sabbath” means repose, cessation. Genesis 2:1-3 reads: “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested [shabath] on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified -it; because that in it he had rested [shabatli} from all his work which God created and made.” Some professed Christians claim that this mere statement is a command from Jehovah fastened upon His human creatures, requiring them to keep a weekly sabbath; but there is no Bible record whatsoever that Adam 01* any of God’s faithful servants up to the time the Hebrews or Jews left Egypt observed such a sabbath day. The verses just quoted refer to God’s great rest day, which day is not twenty-four hours long, but is as long as each of the days in which He was creating some new features of our earth. According to Psalm 95, God was still resting from His earthly work over three thousand years after creating Adam; and according to the Apostle Paul’s argument in Hebrews, chapter four, God was still resting over four thousand years after man’s creation. It is into this rest or sabbath of God that properly instructed Christians enter through faith in God’s Word. According to the harmonious testimony of the Scriptures, God’s sabbath or rest day will not end until the close of the thousand-year reign of Christ Jesus, to whom God has assigned the work of restoring man to human perfection and reconciliation with God and making the whole earth a paradise. Thus God’s sabbath day toward earth’s creation will not end until seven thousand years after He made Adam. On the basis of this we conclude that each of the creative days was seven thousand years long.

In view of this great sabbath day of His own, and in order to provide for the regular recuperation of fallen man from his weekly toil, God commanded a weekly sabbath day upon the Hebrews, whom He had just delivered from Egypt and with whom He had just entered into a covenant through Moses their mediator. The first Bible record of any human beings’ keeping a weekly sabbath is of the Hebrews in the wilderness of Sin. Due to the covenant which had been made by the slaying of the Passover lamb in Egypt, God began to give them a set of laws, and He established the weekly sabbath day among them (and no one else) as a “sign” between them and Himself. (Ex. 31:13; Ezek. 20:12,20) The law said: “The seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God.” (Ex. 20:10) Hence this sabbath fell on what we today call Saturday, beginning really at sundown on Friday and lasting till only sundown of Saturday. The Hebrews, or Jews, were the only people ever under this sabbath day obligation; and although Jews today do not know it, the Lord Jesus released them from this sabbath obligation and all the rest of the law covenant by dying on the cross, “having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances” (Eph. 2:15), “and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.” (Col. 2:14) Hence Christians, whether formerly Jews or Gentiles, are not under a law to keep Saturday or Sunday or any other day of the week by a total resting from bodily work. Meeting together on Sunday is not observing a sabbath, but merely a commemoration of Jesus’ resurrection on the first day of the week and how the apostles used to assemble on that day and be visited by their risen Lord.

True, the Apostle Paul used to go into the synagogues of the Jews on their weekly sabbath day, but that was merely to get a large audience to preach the gospel to. In Galatians 4:10 he criticized Christians who wanted to make Jews of themselves by observing days, months, times, and years; in Colossians 2:16,17 he states that the Jewish sabbath day was a shadow of good things to come, which shadow passed out when the good things came with Christ’s coming. In Hebrews, chapter four, he shows that Christians enter into God’s great sabbath through faith in God’s provision for redemption and faith in the priestly work of redemption by Christ Jesus. It is a sabbath or rest of faith; and true Christians enjoy this sabbath every day of the week, even though they may be required to work physically all week, including the first da;/ and the last. Like the Apostle Paul, Bible Students feel at liberty, therefore, to go out on Saturdays and Sundays, preaching tire gospel from door to door by mouth and books.

The Children’s Own Radio Story By C. J. W., Jr.

Story Forty-four'

AS JESUS and His disciples went toward

Jerusalem they passed through the village of Jericho, near which they encountered two blind men sitting by the wayside.

These blind men, knowing from the voices and tumult made by the great concourse of people that followed Jesus, that it was indeed Christ the Lord, raised their voices and cried: “Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David!”

The people near by tried to silence them, fearing their outcries would disturb Jesus; but the blind men simply cried the louder, and their voices carried above the noise of the crowd, and Jesus heard them.

He stopped and stood still, turned in their direction, and said: “What will ye that I shall do unto you ?” Then the poor blind men stretched forth their hands and cried, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.”

And Jesus had compassion on them, and went up to them, and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes were opened, and they saw, and glorified God, and followed Jesus in the multitude, rejoicing.

Then Jesus and His disciples went to Jerusalem, to attend a certain feast of the Jews; but they did not stay long this time, for certain people had tried to stone Jesus for saying He was the Son of God. Although Jesus’ time was fast drawing short, the end was not yet due; therefore, He withdrew Himself into a part of Palestine beyond Jordan, where John the Baptist had first baptized, and there He stayed for a while.

It was during this sojourn in Perea that an occasion arose that called Jesus into Judaea, where He performed the most important miracle of His ministry. We say the most important one, because the effects of it were the most far-reaching, and what these effects were will appear in due course: for events were happening rapidly now, and every day brought Jesus’ earthly life nearer to its close.

This was the occasion that called Jesus from His retirement in Perea into the land of Judaea, and to the town of Bethany, wherein resided Mary and Martha, of whom we heard recently: these women had a brother, named Lazarus, who became very ill. In alarm lest he should die, they sent to Jesus, imploring Him to come and heal Lazarus.

In those days there were but two modes of travel: walking, and riding upon an animal, such as an ass or camel. Jesus and His disciples owned no animals; they walked from place to place. So Lazarus had been dead four days when Jesus arrived in the town where he and his sisters had made their home.

Following an ancient custom, the body of Lazarus had been wrapped in many thicknesses of linen and laid in a stone vault, or box, sealed with a mighty slab of stone laid upon its top. This box was chiseled from the solid rock in the floor of a natural eave, such places being very popular with the ancient Jews, who used them as tombs.                '

Jesus must have been touched with sorrow when He thought of its being necessary to let poor Lazarus die, in order to strengthen the disciples’ faith; for the Bible says that when He and His followers, and Mary and Martha, were gathered at Lazarus’ tomb, “Jesus wept.” This is the shortest verse in the Bible, and the most touching, for it shows plainly the beautiful tenderness of heart of the great Son of God. and how even the death of a man whom it was His intention to raise immediately, affected His sympathetic and loving nature.

But not for long did Jesus weep. Stretching forth His hand toward the figure which lay in its stone box, He cried with a loud voice: “Lazarus, come forth.”

And the dead man arose from the uncovered tomb, and came forth, swathed in the linen wrappings, which Jesus instructed those near by to take from him. And Lazarus, crying with a loud voice after he had been released from the grave-clothes, praised God and glorified the name of Him who had performed this wondrous deed.

But did the Jews all feel the same as Lazarus about this? Were they all convinced that Jesus was truly God’s own Son? No, indeed. A few there were who believed, and of course the faith of Jesus’ own disciples was strengthened a him dredfold by this miracle; but some of those who were present carried the news of Jesus’ deeds to the high priests in the temple at Jerusalem, and the Bible says of this, that “from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death”.

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