The Golden Age

A JOURNAL OF FACT HOPE AND COURAGE

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"HOLY YEAR” OF AHOLAH AND OF AHOLIBAH

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CAPITALISM IS DEAD

CLASSIFICATION OF FOODS

OBEDIENCE GIVES BOLDNESS

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Vol. XIV-No. 366

September 27, 1933

CONTENTS

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LABOR AND ECONOMICS

Third of Pennsylvania Unemployed 816

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

More About Clothing.....803

“Holy Year" of Aholah . . . 810

— AND OF Aholibah......811

145,000 Homeless Women and Girls 812 Witch-Burnings in Canada . . . 813 “News" Appreciated Truth . . 814 Robot Preacher Now.....814

We Pray for Jehovah's

Government.......816

Medalie Hit Nail on Head .... 817 12,000 War Munition Plants . . . 817 Unemployment Ruining Youth . . 818 ’One Touch Makes World Kin’ . 829 Index to Volume XIV of

“The Golden Age"

“Carried Over"

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Locating Stock Exchange's Heart . 816

Common Sense from The Arbitrator 817

Cost of World War

Thirty Cowhides for Pair of Shoes . 818

Anything May Happen

Who Ordered the Baby Bonnets? . 820

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

Fascism in Sweden

Travel Allowances of Senators . . 816

What a Lucky Generation! . . . 817

Inauguration of NRA

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

Reforestation Nov,’ Under Way . . 820

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Busy People Burn Up Sugar . . , 826

HOME AND HEALTH

Classification of Foods .... 823

Poor Little Baby Mother! .... 824

The Deadly Mosquito

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

Slavery in Russia

Does Justice Have Itching Palms?

Food Purveyors to Reforestion

Workers

Police Quell Riots Thej' Cause .  .

Capitalism Is Dead

Two Types of Mothers

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

The Favors of “Holy Yexr" . . 809

The Papal System

“All of Pagan Origin" .... 810

Huge Swindle in Belgium .... 810

Rome — Aholah's Holy City . . . 810

The Rock of Peter

The Purgatory Swindle .  .  .

Prize Liar

The Bible Game

Cadman’s Radio Hour

Remaley Puts on Vestments .  .  .

Five Preachers Hear Good News

Obedience Gives Boldness . . . 825

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The Golden Age

More About the Clothing of Men and Women

THE French are rated as having a weakness for uniforms. Every kind of man in every kind of job where it is possible is put in a uniform. When the uniforms are badly worn they go to Africa, where they do duty all over again. The black man is never so happy as when in a white man's cast-off uniform.

Theatrical costumes, after a theatrical production has folded up, go to gladden the hearts of bucks in the Cameroons or Basutoland. The world's recognized market for tin stage-armor is northern Zululand, and it seems that they insist on wearing it even on the hottest days. It is said that native soldiers fight better when dressed in gaudy uniforms. The Devil had that all figured out long ago. Fenton's translation of Ezekiel 28:12 says: "Thou art a past master of science.” Military uniforms, and their effects upon the minds of men and women, have had much to do with maintaining the Devil's institutions, and still have much to do therewith.

The cast-off clothing of New Yorkers goes all over the world. On Elizabeth street, in the heart of Chinatown, New York city, the street is lined with stores which will buy anything in the line of clothing or shoes that has anything of present or prospective value left in it.

The highest grades of men’s and women’s wearing apparel are sold secondhand to New Yorkers themselves who know where to locate such shops. There are women who scorn to be seen more than once or twice in the same gown, or who dispose of dresses which their husbands do not like. Some tailors bluff their richest customers into thinking they need new suits, when all that the old ones need is pressing and they are as good as ever. Then they get the cast-off clothes as a perquisite.

Shoes — Stockings

In the days of the Roman Empire laws were passed which tried to regulate the style of shoe to be worn by each class. It was a foolish law.

the covering of Lucifer, and in the foundations of the New Jerusalem. Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and perhaps others of the writers of Sacred Writ, mention them.

Tn symbolic imagery Jehovah God addresses Jerusalem (‘'■Christendom") : “I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.’’ •—Ezekiel 16:10-12.

Nose rings and toe rings, once worn, are out of style. In the sixteenth century the popular place to wear the ring was on the thumb. Wrist rings (bracelets) are still in use. Ankle rings (anklets) are sometimes worn. The Romans wore heavy rings in summer, and lighter rings in winter.

At any 10c store a woman can get “jewels” to fit any costume. Rich people seldom wear their genuine jewels; they keep them in the safety deposit boxes and usually exhibit themselves in carefully made imitations. It is well known that certain types of earrings are adapted to certain faces and produce impressions not otherwise obtainable.

Buttons, as ornaments, are traced back to the year 1250 (A.D.). The earliest mention of the buttonhole occurs in the year 1561. At one time hand-made, hand-painted buttons were worth $5 apiece. As they have cheapened they have multiplied mankind's sorrows, but not woman's. She found a better way out of the dilemma.

Today a man has 5 buttonholes in his pajama coat, 3 in his pajama pants, 8 in his union suit, 5 in his shirt front, 8 in his soft cuffs, 3 in his collar, 3 in his shirt collar, 2 in his shirt sleeves, 6 in his trousers, 5 in his vest, 3 in his coat, and 3 in his overcoat; total, 51. A man that goes insane is said to have “lost his buttons”. The effect is substituted for the cause.

Hats and Corsets

Julius Caesar pulled a fold of his toga over his head; it was all the hat he had or needed. Millinery got its start in Milan, Italy, whence the name Milaner, milliner. Italy still pays much attention to hats. The home of the greatest racket ever conceived on this earth, it still bestows the red hat on its chief racketeers, the cardinals.

Because he is naturally artistic, an Italian in his native land will wear a plume in his hat without batting an eyelash. In 1928, to offset the hatless wave then passing over the earth, a certain kind of hat, the "varsity straw”, was made compulsory headgear for Italian college youths. Ever hear of Leghorn hats ? They come from Leghorn, Italy.

The man that caused us to lose our top feathers is dead; so we cannot do anything more to him. He was a Swiss. He invented the hat in 1404, and men have been bald ever since. The hat was first made in England, in 1510. The Jews of Spain were once compelled to wear yellow hats; in Germany bankrupts had to wear yellow and green hats. Once a year the pope used to “bless” hats of violet silk, lined with ermine and embroidered with gold and jewels. He sent these around as gifts to other crooks.

It is less than 150 years since the prince of Wales, at his first court ball, shone resplendent in a hat that was trimmed with 5,000 steel beads. He had on pink-heeled shoes, and his black velvet suit was covered with pink and gold spangles and lined with pink satin. He must have looked beautiful in his pretty clothes!

Panama hats are not made in Panama, but they come through Panama on their way to market. Ecuador, Peru and Colombia are the producers. The material is the shredded leaf of a small palm. The weavers begin work early in the morning, to keep the shreds from drying, and keep their fingers constantly damp. It takes three weeks to make a single hat, and the price on the spot is usually $50.

The most costly hat of record is a $1,500 sombrero presented to General Grant in Mexico, said to be the finest specimen of a Mexican sombrero ever made. Secretary of State Seward, of Lincoln's cabinet, had a Panama hat that cost $1,000. A good cowboy’s sombrero may cost $20.

Because of her absence of taste, and her unwillingness to wear anything but bonnets of a certain shape, Queen Victoria had the milliners of two generations in despair.

The shape of the cardinals’ red hat, with its broad brim, small, flat crown, and cords and tassels of special pattern, has not changed in seven hundred years.

The “stovepipe” hat now affected by politicians is an outgrowth of the Puritan steeple-crowned hat. Benjamin Franklin carried it to Paris, and Paris carried it to the ends of the earth. The Puritans wore their hats indoors and everywhere.

Britishers call a derby hat a “bowler”. The French call it a “melon”.

Hat sizes are fixed by measuring the length inside from front to back, and then the middle width. Add together and divide by two. The result is the size.

In the seventeenth century both men and women wore corsets, and they may still be had for both men and women. Not so long ago they were still in use at West Point, and may be yet. Women have greatly improved their figures and their health by their general abandonment of corsets.

Changing Women’s Styles

The universal and perpetual entertainment of the new generation is to laugh at the styles of the generation that is gone, or going. As soon as a new style appears a woman wants the thing, whatever it is, because every other woman is getting one. But as soon as every other woman really does have it, then she wants something else, because it is so generally in use.

Take this matter of sleeves. In the reign of Richard II they were so long and so wide that they often reached to the feet. Thieves carried their booty up their sleeves. In the reign of Henry IV a law was passed prohibiting the wearing (by men) of scarlet robes twelve yards wide, with sleeves, called “side sleeves” (a term still persisting in Britain), hanging to the ground, and bordered or lined with fur, if of the value of £20 or more. If they had to pass a law for men, where did the women get off ?

Under the Norman kings sleeves were fitted down as far as the elbow, there to break off into loose flaps a yard long. Sometimes these flaps were tied in a knot. Norman kings and knights wore their coats of arms on their sleeves. Almost nobody could read, and before a knight busted the head of another man he looked at his heraldic device to make sure he was pasting the right man.

In the days of Chaucer sleeves for both men and women were of the most beautiful and costly fabrics conceivable, and of every color imaginable. They were removable, and each sleeve of different materials and colors. A man spending a week-end in the country had to rise early so as to baste or sew on his sleeves for the day, and when he was ready to appear in company he looked like an escaped lunatic.

Our own times have seen women dressed in jerseys with tight-fitting sleeves, and they have seen her with leg-of-mutton sleeves, tight on the lower arm and at least a foot in diameter near the shoulder. Fifty years ago she laced until she could hardly breathe. It was the style.

In the Days of the Whale

The whale is about gone, and what we shall do for soap when he is numbered among the missing is something somebody else will have to figure out. But in his day he made lots of excitement for the men, and provided the women with bustles, stays and hoopskirt patterns. Every woman tried to look like a whale, and some of them succeeded. There was a time when if two women met each other on a sidewalk one of them had to walk in the road. Some of the whalebone went into fans. They too have passed away.

One of the jobs of the king of England is that every year he and the queen have to select four women’s dresses. That decision determines what will be worn in the British court that year. It is not such a whale of a job now as it was when hoopskirts were in vogue.

You don't remember the days of the bangs, do you? They were a fright. The women have labored hard through the ages to see how badly they could look, but they have looked well anyway. The worse the style, the better they show off in it, and there is a suspicion that they know that well.

There has been a change in architecture, due to the change in women’s styles and in the women themselves. In 1910 the correct width for a stadium seat was considered 19 inches; now it is 17 inches, and this change enabled Princeton University to seat 6,000 more persons in its stadium.

Thousands of years ago the women of Mesopotamia wore golden hair nets and changed their style of hairdressing constantly, to keep abreast of the times.

Paris the Center for Women’s Styles

Paris still nominates the styles for the rest of the world. The Toronto Daily Star says: “It may be shocking, but it is nevertheless true, that the naughty ladies of Paris come closer to being the arbiters of fashion than any other influence that could be named.” The present style in women's hats dates from the moment Lindbergh took off his aviator’s helmet at Le Bourget, after his flight from New York to Paris.

THE GOLDEN AGE

America buys her models in Paris, but makes her own dresses. So it has come about that Paris has become a great experimental depot at which the effort is made to find out what w’ill “take”. The artists of the world gather there, and change is always in the air. The French try to anticipate what the Americans will like, and succeed very well; but sometimes they miss it.

Some American firms are said to employ artists whose powers of perception and memory are such that they can inspect thirty model dresses and go to their rooms and draw every one of the thirty, and color it just as it was in the original. The drawings are then sent posthaste to America, and sometimes enable the American manufacturers to get a start of a week or more on what is doing in Paris. This bootlegging of fashions is rightly considered a disreputable piece of business.

Paris employs both male and female manikins to exhibit models, the males having only recently been put to work. The general use in America of the automobile has had a distinct effect on styles. Out of twenty models carefully and painfully and secretively designed, it may be that only one or two will make a hit, and nobody can tell which they will be until the manikins begin their parades. Fashion is a perennial gamble. Nobody can direct it long.

Women Have Achieved Dress Reform

The women have achieved dress reform, and it looks as if the reform is a permanent one. The move toward pajamas is probably only a fad. Skirts are really more becoming, more comfortable, and more sanitary. And they are cooler, too. When a leg or arm is wholly enclosed it is made unduly warm.

A dog carries only about one-fiftieth of his weight in fur, and seems to get along all right in cold weather. A man that weighs 150 pounds will have 15 pounds of clothes. It is too much. Women now have clothes that weigh only about one-tenth what they used to weigh. And they do not complain of feeling the cold. But they would not complain anyway, if it was the style, even if they froze solid.

The reduction in feminine clothes, i.e., the reduction in weight, has definitely added to feminine health and stamina. The puny, neurasthenic women of fifty years ago are no longer to be seen. British physicians who have examined thousands of boys and girls report that the girls are much better developed than the boys. Women’s clothes are all washable, too, and that has not a little to do wfith their better health.

The Life Extension Institute, which made a study of the facts, states that the average weight of a man’s clothing, minus his shoes, is ten pounds, while the average weight of a woman's clothing, minus her shoes, is 22 ounces, or just one-fifth that of the man’s, and the woman, in her featherweight apparel, can outwalk, outdance, outrun and outswim her mate. Women's thin summer clothing, with its lack of tight collars and belts, has always been the envy’ of the men.

Another important item: A woman can buy three or four dresses, and look beautiful in each of them, for the price the man has to pay for a single suit. Masculine taste is to dress well enough to be unnoticcable; feminine ambition is to dress well enough to attract attention.

With a machine or device specially made for the purpose, the Hygienic Institute of the University of Munich proved that tight-fitting clothes, and especially the perfect fit of a coat, should be avoided. Everything must be loose on the body. Sleeves and trousers, in particular, should have wide openings. An open or V-form collar should be preferred to any’ other.

The Fight for Short Skirts

The French designers first put the women into short skirts, and they were obedient enough. Then, in 1927, they⁷ tried to move them the other way, and the women would not budge. They liked the freedom of the short skirts, and every’-body liked the pretty silk stockings. The women won out, and it so discouraged and disgusted the leading French designer, Paul Poiret, that he retired from the conflict, and has settled down in the country.

The president of the French Academy’ was similarly affected. He said, mournfully, that now, “when you have painted half the length of a woman's portrait, there is nothing more worth painting.” As artistic material for a canvas he considers the flowing robes of a long dress much more interesting than the prettiest pair of silk stockings ever made.

The girls of Hunter College, New York, put the matter to a vote, 6,000 of them voting, and seventy percent of them revealed themselves as rebels against long skirts, ■which they denounced as impractical, uncomfortable, uneconomical, inconvenient in the subway, and unhygienic.

The result of the action of the girls of Hunter College, and literally millions of other American girls and women, was a buyers’ strike which nearly ruined many department stores and created a panic in Paris. Hitherto the designers had led the way and the women followed, but on long dresses, nix. The department stores that carried only the long dresses in stock found that the average selling time for each dress had increased about one-third. Sales fell off alarmingly. The women won the fight.

The cloth-makers were intensely interested in this fight. When it started they announced cheerfully that "something like 150,000,000 more yards of varied fabrics will be ordered in a year to make the long, flowing draperies of the evening frocks, and the circular and flared skirts of day dresses"; but it did not take place.

In Budapest, in 1930, a young woman sued an elderly man because he stepped on the train of her dress. That would have been all right but the shoulder straps of her dress both snapped; and if you know what happened then, you had better come in here and write about it, for the thing is too complicated to fit into this typewriter. The court ruled that that man was not to blame; the girl had a right to wear what she pleased, but it was her business to look after her skirts and not have them in a place where they could be walked on; a good argument for short skirts.

Men Shocked (?) by Short Skirts

The minute you find a man who sees anything wrong with a girl's wearing short skirts you may know right away that you cannot trust him as far as you could throw a bull by the tail; the biggest squawkers about a thing of this kind are mentally unbalanced on the subject.

Once in a while comes a statement from Vatican City about “the shameless immodesty of dress of modern women which results in insults to the eyes of God”. When the Creator made woman He made a beautiful thing and endowed her with enough sense to take proper care of herself without having a bunch of more or less celibate priests, who themselves dress in long skirts, wailing over her “lost condition” because she reveals some of her charms. Silly attacks on women’s dress have been carried by the Roman clergy all over the world, and accomplished exactly nothing.

When the congress of idolatry, otherwise called the “Eucharistic Congress”, came off at Dublin, the Irish girls were obliged to have sleeves sewn in their dresses. It is a wonder that the rules did not require them to be sewn up in sacks. The whole thing harks back to the harem and the purdah.

One of the duties of the “apostolic” administrator of the Tyrol is to see to it that no girl wears flesh-colored stockings, and that her dresses have sleeves to the elbows, skirts halfway between knee and ankle, and collars that come within two inches of the neck. Perchance he sallies forth to “righteousness” with a tape measure and opera glasses!

The bishop of Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, France, even went so far as to prohibit boys’ wearing their shirts open too low^t at the neck. He is in the wrong business. He should be a mortician.

League of Nations Takes a Hand

The League of Nations thought that if righteousness is merely a matter of covering up more of the women, they might as well have a hand in it, and followed up the Vatican’s pronuncia-mentos by forbidding bare legs to women entering the administration buildings, and prohibiting lawn tennis in bathing costumes. Women should be kept in bags, with puckering strings around the necks. The influence of the zenana and seraglio is plainly discernible.

General Pangalos, of Greece, undertook to interfere with the length of women’s skirts and got fired out of his job. Served him right. Meantime the progressive Kemal Pasha abolished the veil throughout Turkey.

As the “apostolic” spasm of righteousness over the length of women’s skirts spread around the world, there were frequent repercussions. In Budapest the wife of an American theater manager was arrested for indecent exposure as she was leaving a theater’ where she had witnessed a play. She had on a dress designed by one of Paris’ most eminent designers, Jeanne Lanvin, and says she is through with Hungary for ever.

At Asbury Park the board of old women and hypocrites comprising the Hotel Association went before the city fathers and tried to have women dressed in beach pajamas ruled as improperly dressed. A waste of breath.

In Jerusalem the rabbis covered the billboards with Jewish proclamations that girls would hereafter clothe themselves with the garments worn by their mothers “and little girls must be trained to wear their sleeves down to the greater part of their hand and their skirts to cover the greater part of their legs'’. How silly! Seems as if they could find something more important, and more nearly their own business, to talk about.

Suggestions About Women’s Dress

Men like manly men and womanly women. That is why men that dress in skirts make a poor hit with men, and why men do not rave over women dressed in bloomers or street pajamas ; not, however, that the women have not a perfect right to wear them, if they choose, but that women look more attractive in skirts.

A Paris court decided that a famous woman athlete was free to dress as she pleased as a private citizen, but as she insists on dressing in male garb she can, with propriety, be excluded from the French Women’s Sporting Federation unless, when she attends the Federation, she adopts women's attire. Seems like a sensible rule. Women should dress as women; men, as men.

No man can effectively dictate to women what they shall wear, and the women change their tastes, and are often illogical. When stagecoaches were small and crowded, women wore crinolines. The women of the present are the best dressed they have ever been.

One style changes another, profoundly. Short hair caused total loss of employment to 12,000 women in Chefoo, engaged in the making of hair nets. The general use of rayon has made great changes. The general use of the automobile will inevitably keep skirts short. Style affects and is affected by everything, houses, rooms, cars, offices, clothing, hairdressing, etc. The influence of demons is seen in the fact that fashionable women of London go to clairvoyants to get suggestions regarding dress designs.

Practical suggestions are that women who seek to look slender should choose dull colors and keep to the same tones throughout the costume. To enhance the height, emphasize the vertical lines and avoid encircling ones.

Black suggests the cynic, gray the humble, violet and purple the aristocrat, deep blue the thoughtful, light blue the frivolous, turquoise the witty, crimson the ardent and romantic; green, wholesomeness; yellow, entertainment; orange, conviviality. We take these from a lecture on color given in the Brooklyn Museum, by Nan Hornbeck.

In the reign of Louis XIV there were 500 fan-makers in Paris: now maybe there are five, but maybe not one. In the reign of Edward VI a woman worth £200 might have a silk dress; otherwise not. If a man was worth that amount he might have buttons at the knees and wear gold lace or silver lace. We laugh; and so will they (our descendants). Furs of animals tortured by being caught in steel traps are no longer popular; other furs may be had.

Trend to Standardization

The quaint costumes of remote corners of the earth are rapidly disappearing before the march of Western men and women in airplanes and automobiles, and especially before the march of the motion-picture man, showing Hollywood styles in every part of the planet.

Japan, though it still uses millions of kimonos, has switched over to Western dress almost bodily and China is rapidly following suit. It is asserted that a well-made kimono could be made to last forty years. As now made the kimono is of one piece, uncut. The garment is ripped entirely apart and washed in corn oil twice a year. The material is only twelve inches wide. The finest old gowns of China have been shipped to New York and cut into hangings and neckties. The ancient silks are superior to the tin-laden fabrics of the present.

The changes of dress enforced in Turkey have often been mentioned of late in the public press. Kemal Pasha insists that all Turkey shall dress in Western togs. Something of the same insistence seems to animate the rulers of Bolivia, who have just relegated to limbo the styles that have come down from the days of the Spanish conquest.

The Hungarian girls still wear from eight to a dozen daintily embroidered petticoats, all in different colors, handed down from many generations. Marriage trousseaus are objects of veneration approaching ancestor worship. It is a custom that should go, and probably will.

Overalls are now worn by all the women in a mill in New Bedford, Mass., on the ground that they are less liable to catch in machinery. A London maker of men's shirts has brought out a style for women.

Common Sense in Dress versus Snobbery

The desire to be well dressed is common, and it is reasonable. The desire to be overdressed, and the inclination to be proud because one has something in clothes that others do not have or cannot afford, is snobbery. Yet it does not seem that sameness is desirable in a world where there are such possibilities of color and of style. Look at the flowers. No two are exactly alike, even though there are thousands of styles, and millions made according to each style. Nevertheless, variations of costume were unknown to most of the nations of the ancient world.

In Hungary the Ministry of Culture ordered all schoolgirls to wear a common uniform, including sailor blouses. The style spread to Atlantic City, where, the last we knew, the highschool girls, in the effort to stop snobbery, were wearing middy blouses and blue skirts, which uniform, incidentally, is very becoming to young girls.

In English boarding schools for boys loud checks and Oxford bags are not allowed. Sunday suits of young men must be navy blue or dark gray. The black coat and striped trouser combination is taboo. The only cap allowed is the school cap. Only white soft collars are allowed. Socks must be black. In summer they may wear gray flannel shirts with collar attached.

The claim is made for the British that they are much less interested in style, and a good deal more insistent upon quality, than Americans. But the reverse claim is made that the leisured class in England is easily distinguishable by its clothes, while the clerks and small shopkeepers dress badly.

In Paris, to be well dressed, a woman is said to need from six to twenty umbrellas, one to go with each costume. In ancient Sparta they were not burdened with such foolishness, as the law permitted women only three dresses. The tendency of democracies is away from dress distinctions.

Reformers have always been against dress extravagance. Legislation against the wearing of costly apparel has been often enacted, but never accomplished anything. The extent to which expensive dressing may go was shown in the case of Madame Jeritza, the upkeep of whose wardrobe cost her between $40,000 and $50,000 a year. She had more than 200 pairs of shoes, and more than 500 pairs of hose, and was considered the best-dressed woman in grand opera. It is estimated that women spend more than twice as much on clothes now as they did before the war.

The girl of today can have a good-sized wardrobe for what it cost her grandmother for a single taffeta silk dress. Modern clothing is not made to last for generations. American girls do not wish to wear the old clothes worn by their great-grandmothers.

Hard times have wrought changes in women’s garb. Reversible coats are to be had. Chiffon dresses are made with two or more slips. The new artificial laces are both beautiful and unalterable ; they wear well, are waterproof and are less combustible than ordinary lace. In the West Indies there is a natural lace-like cloth which is used by the native women for dresses.

Perhaps, in the end, with a perfect climate, man may be clothed almost as he was in Eden, but probably not quite. Clothes, if always worn, will ever remind mankind of a time when they were naked before God and in need of the covering which in His great love He has provided.

The Favors of “Holy Year”

NOTICE how nicely it is all fixed up in the "'Holy Year^-’. The two most prominent Americans are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Protestant, and Alfred E. Smith, Roman Catholic. Mr. Roosevelt is given the degree of LL.D, at the Roman Catholic university in Washington, and Mr. Smith is given the degree of LL.D, at the Protestant university of Harvard. Guests at the latter award of degrees were J. P. Morgan and Owen D. Young, with big politicians not a few.

Dispatches from Vatican City are that the ‘’Holy Year” will probably be prolonged for seven or eight weeks after it would normally end, carrying it over until May 20 or 27, next year. Meantime the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus pledged unanimous support of the Roosevelt policies.

Meantime, also, the K. of C. Holy Name Society is bending every energy to close the mouth of Judge Rutherford: to prevent him from broadcasting the truth over the radio.

The “Holy Year” of Aholah, the Harlot — Ezekiel 23

Rackets to Be Driven from New York City

Mayor O'Brien, of New York city, has ordered that all racketeering in the big city must come to an end. Just how the New York Stock Exchange, Tammany Hall and the Roman Catholic church will he ended, and what will he put in their place, has not been explained.

St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the Red

THE rector of St. Patrick's cathedral, New

York city, is reported as saying that offerings have dwindled to such an extent as to threaten ability to meet expenses. Meantime, Catholic institutions are doing everything possible to get Judge Rutherford off the air at the earliest possible minute.

The Papal System

Macaulay, the famous British historian, said:

“The experience of twelve hundred eventful years, the ingenuity and patient care of forty generations of statesmen, have improved that policy (of Rome) to such perfection that, among the contrivances which have been devised for deceiving and controlling mankind, it occupies the highest place.”

“All of Pagan Origin”

THE following extract is from the Christian

World:

“Newman, in a passage of his ‘Essay on Development’, speaking of the early Catholicism in its contact with the heathen world, says: ‘Temples, incense, lamps and candles, votive offerings, holy water, asylums, holy days and seasons, processions, blessings on the fields, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images, and the Kyrie Eleison are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the church.’ ”

Huge Swindle in Belgium

ON AUGUST 8, 1933, to see an apparition of the virgin Mary, which was not there, and to see some snowflakes fall which did not fall, the Belgian state railway ran forty excursion trains into Beauraing, Belgium, where a new Catholic church is under construction. The railroads are said to have gotten $240,000 out of the swindle, and the building fund of the church got a big boost.

accounts Chris was still in the mud. St. Christopher, it should be explained, is the Roman Catholic “saint” that prevents accidents to travelers. The medal, so the Providence Visitor explains, was blessed by an Irish priest in 1932. Of course, that was a whole year before the Mollisons and Chris himself fell into the mud.

Rome — Aholah’s Holy City

Dean Alford, in his letters from abroad, describing the city of Rome, said:

“Rome is essentially a pagan city. Her churches . . . rise everywhere around. Bells are continually going . . . Yet, with very rare exceptions indeed, the worship of the people in these churches has nothing in common with Christianity. . . . God has passed out from the practical worship of the people: the Son of God has, as a matter of fact, ceased to be an object of their adoration. The Eternal Father is found in their pictures as an old man, — the divine Savior as a little child; but both are subservient, and nearly all their worship is subservient, to one purpose: the glorification of a great goddess” (Mary).

Rome contains 433 churches and chapels. Five are dedicated to the “Trinity”, fifteen to the Savior, four to the crucifix, two to the sacraments, two to the “Holy Ghost”, and 121 to the virgin Mary. Not one of them, of course, is dedicated to Jehovah God.

The Rock of Peter

THAT this matter of the primacy of Peter has been a matter of serious strife in the Roman Catholic church is apparent from the following memorandum accredited to Archbishop Kenrick, of St. Louis:

“Five varying interpretations of S. Matt. xvi. 18 occur. The first, that the church is built on the rock of Peter, is taught by seventeen fathers; the second, that the rock is the whole body of the apostles, represented by Peter in right of his primacy, is held by eight; the third, that the rock is the faith which Peter confessed, is the most authoritative, being supported by forty-four; the fourth, that the rock is Christ himself, is held by sixteen; while the fifth interpretation makes the rock to include all the faithful, being the living stones of which the church is built. No numbers are assigned to this last view, and it is to be observed that several of those who maintain the first and second opinions also support the third and fourth, and so may be deducted from the calculations.”

Accordingly, Archbishop Kenrick sums up thus: “ ‘If we are bound to follow the greater number of the fathers in this matter, then we must hold for certain that the word petra means, not Peter professing the faith, but the faith professed by Peter.’ ”

The Purgatory Swindle

OUT of 410 Roman Catholic priests, who, between them, left the very considerable sum of £12,499,868, only 84 of them believed sufficiently in “purgatory” to leave £31,779 for the ‘release of their souls from its fires’. When it came to their cash they bet 390 to 1 that the whole thing is a swindle.

“Father” J. Barrett, who left £12,547 and provided for the celebration of masses for 500 years after his death, was one of those who really believed in “purgatory”, of which he gives us the following secondhand description:

“Good God! how the great saints and doctors astonish me when they treat of this fire, and of the pain of sense, as they call it. For they peremptorily pronounce that the fire that purges those souls, those both happy and unhappy souls, surpasses all the torments that are to be found in this miserable life of man, or are possible to be invented; for so far they go. Out of which assertion it clearly follows that the furious fits of the stone, fever, or raging gout, the tormenting colic, with all the horrible convulsions of the worst diseases, nay, though you join racks, gridirons. boiling oil, wild beasts, and a hundred horses drawing several ways and tearing one limb from another, with all the hellish devices of the most barbarous and cruel tyrants, all this does not reach the least part of the mildest pains in purgatory.”

Rev. James P. Fullam, Prize Liar

Until this little scrimmage with the Roman Catholic dignitaries started there did not

seem to be any particular call for offering prizes to liars. We always knew, of course, that the priests of the Roman Catholic ‘church’ are the banner liars of creation, but it is only now that the Reverend James P. Fullam, pastor of St. Mary’s Church, Inc., Dalton, Nebraska, shines out more brilliantly than all the rest.

In a letter to radio station KGKY, seeking the removal of the Watchtower programs from the air, the Reverend Fullam delivers himself of the following paragraph, after which, with true Roman Catholic hypocrisy, he has the unmitigated gall to conclude with the expression, "In the spirit of American fair-play: ‘Live and let live.’ ”

Ex-Judge Rutherford's pet hobby seems to be that of taking delight in defamation of character and the utter destruction of religious freedom under the cloak of his title of Ex-Judge. His vitriolic remarks and vituperative attacks are made to assail 20,000,000 lawabiding citizens professing the Catholic religion in this country. The target for his poisonous arrows is particularly the supreme head and chief pastor of the Catholic church, the pope, whom he slanders with his venomous detractions. His stuff is so vicious that the New York Times called him the “uncompromising foe of organized Christianity”.

Take a glance at the lies (in italics) in that paragraph. Judge Rutherford has defamed nobody and destroyed nobody's religious freedom. Ue has made no vitriolic remarks and no vituperative attacks. He has not assailed any lawabiding citizens, let alone 20,000,000 of them. He has not shot poisonous arrows at anybody, not slandered the pope and not made venomous detractions against him, and his utterances are not vicious, but clean, true and wholesome, filled with logic, beauty and love.

Then what is it all about ? Nothing at all, except that Judge Rutherford has several times challenged the pope to appoint his best man, so that the two of them may, over the radio, discuss the interesting and important question as to whether or not the pope, claiming to represent Jehovah God, does in truth and in fact represent the Devil, of whom, it is apparent, the Reverend James P. Fullam is such a well-favored and buxom child.—John 8: 42-44.

— and of Aholibah, Her Younger Sister—Ezekiel 23

“Perfecting God” at Augusta

T THE All Souls Unitarian church, Augusta,

Maine, Reverend H. Mortimer Gesner, Jr., preached at 10: 30 a. m., Sunday, April 23,1933, on the subject “Perfecting God”. His conclusions were “that the perfection of God depends upon the perfection of man”. We record this as a sample of the depths of idiocy into which fallen man has plunged.

Cadman in Skirts

THE New York American publishes a picture of Reverend Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, LL.D., dressed in women's clothes for a part he was to play in a playlet put on by the trustees of the church of which he is the pastor. A man in skirts certainly looks comical. He is about the shape of the great big baked potato advertised by the dining-car service of the Northern railroads.

No Church Bells to Ring in Next R ar

A FTER nineteen hundred years of careful study, the clergy of Denmark have petitioned the government to abandon the practice of having the church bells rung to expedite mobilization in war time. They learned this much quicker than they do most things.

145,000 Homeless Women and Girls

AS A RESULT of a three-day census of the transient and the homeless made by the national board of the Young Women's Christian Association, it is estimated that there are 145,000 homeless women and girls in the United States, female tramps. It is hoped that sometime conditions in America may rise to the level prevailing in Darkest Africa, where, among the intelligent heathen blacks, such a condition of things would not be tolerated.

Sierra Madre’s Astonishing City Manager

IN SIERRA MADRE, California, the city manager debarred from a municipal art exhibition a painting depicting the miracle of Christ changing the water into wine at the marriage in Cana. Why stop there? Why not invade the churches and homes of the city and tear from every Bible the second chapter of the Gospel according to John? A still more thorough job would be to burn all the Bibles in the city, and have all believers in the Scriptures shot at sunrise. The city manager explained that the subject is controversial. How sad!

The Bible Game

< ^<rFHE Bible Game,” bearing the endorsements of Reverend Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Reverend Charles E. Coughlin, and ten other bishops, rabbis and other clergymen, is a clever enough subscription plan, and a good bookselling racket too.

The way it works is that you scrutinize 75 pictures and tell what texts they represent. The thirty prizes for best answers range from $225 down to $5 each. The catch is in the statement “All verse-answers for the series of pictures must be found in a reference book entitled ‘The Bible Treasury’.” That helps sell the book and collects names of prospects.

The newspaper publishes the four pages several times. They get part of their pay in subscriptions ; maybe all of it. It is a “Bible Game” all right, and is being popularized in Illinois.

Clergy Business in South Africa

A CLIPPING from the Week-End Advertiser, just at hand, says:

Young men who qualify for the church, after seven or eight years of study, are finding it increasingly difficult to get work. Many of them pass their examinations and are ordained only to find that they may have to wait for years before a congregation becomes available. Some of those who became clergymen during the past two or three years have returned to the university to take teachers’ courses, while others have turned to farming and other lay occupations.

Britain’s Ecclesiastical Hoboes

THE tithe was a tax laid by the feudal system upon land owners, so as to take the care of the clergy from the shoulders of the feudal aristocracy and place it upon the farmers. But as the ecclesiastical hoboes got hard up they sold their tithes to laymen, public schools, colleges, nonconformist ministers, the war office, or anybody that would purchase. And now there are more of them for sale than ever, for the farmers have risen in revolt and are refusing to pay them to anybody at all.

Machine Guns on a Rum Ship

WHEN the British rum ship Anna came into

Finnish waters to unload a cargo of alcohol the Finnish coast guard was interested until the rum ship got out a machine gun and got it ready for action. Ordinarily it is not considered to be good form for sailors of one nationality to murder officers of another nationality when they are engaged in the discharge of their duties, but maybe as this was a British rum ship, and the Church of England is one of the leading stockholders in British distilling companies, we had better not say anything about it, for fear of offending somebody.

Cadman’s Radio Hour

THE announcement was made over the radio that Cadman’s radio hour is in debt $15,000 and the suggestion was made that it might be a good thing to come across and help pay it. It strikes us as a most interesting thing that here is the Cadman hour, backed by Big Business, widely advertised in the papers and over the radio, and cannot maintain itself. And then here is Judge Rutherford, talking regularly over many times as many stations, and never asks anybody for a red cent. And further, it would be hard for anybody to offer a valid reason why the Cadman programs should be financed, but Judge Rutherford’s addresses contain food for the mind and heart of all classes, rich and poor, high and low, and are worthy of universal support.

Tried to Keep His Job

SAPULPA (Oklahoma) dominie was fired by the congregation, but his contract had yet three months to run; so he got a permit to carry a pistol, on the grounds that his life had been threatened, but he drew it on the congregation as he tried to minister to their spiritual needs after he had been fired. Then the congregation got sore and had him arrested. Now if he had only spent that money for an alarm clock instead of a gun, you can see for yourself that he would be away ahead. Now he has no job, no alarm clock and no money to buy one, and faces a fine besides. It surely is tough.

Remaley Puts on the Vestments

UR SUNDAY VISITOR, Roman Catholic paper of Huntington, Indiana, once edited by an ex-Presbyterian minister, quotes at length and approvingly from the writings of B. E. Remaley, of Portland, Oregon, once a prominent ‘Bible Student’ of that city, in which that gentleman is quoted as saying:

No one knows better, or should know better, than the officials of the Watch Tower Society who were sentenced and served nine months in the Atlanta penitentiary, that the offense was not on account of religious faith or doctrine, but on account of the Espionage Act, and they were amenable. And not only amenable to that but also to God's law as expressed in Romans 13: 1-15, and suffered as evil-doers, and not for righteousness’ sake.

It will be apparent from this that this former ‘Bible Student’ has taken his stand with the one that led Jesus up into a high mountain and offered Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time if He would fall down and worship him. He has taken his stand with those that are for Big Berthas, howitzers, shrapnel, machine guns, flame-throwers, poison gas or anything else that will lend support to the Devil’s empire, and he is against the Prince of Peace, who said “Blessed are the peacemakers”, “Love your enemies,” “Put up thy sword into the sheath,” “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,” “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them,” and “If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink”.

Remaley could now be a good and acceptable priest of the Roman Catholic church, for he believes essentially what they believe, and could be and is a comfort to its priests in their judgment day and when they are engaged in their great fight of trying to suppress the message of God’s kingdom, the hope of the world. Everything indicates that all the enemies of the Lord will be in essential agreement just when Armageddon puts the quietus on their activities.

In our judgment President Roosevelt would be consulting the best interests of the American people, and his own best interests, in severing connection with these groups that worship Satan, and are actuated by his spirit; but it is for him to do as he thinks best.

Reverend Peacock Was Preaching

everend A. C. Peacock, of the Central Christian church, Atlanta, was in the pulpit preaching. He may have been preaching from the text “Love thinketh no evil” or “Thou shalt not kill” or "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them’’. Somebody came to him and reported that there was a strange colored man in the neighborhood. Reverend Peacock stopped his sermon, put on a deputy sheriff’s badge, armed himself and led forth the armed male members of his flock. When the Negro saw them coming he fled and they shot him. There is no evidence that he was guilty of anything, but the evidence can be easily manufactured. That is a business of itself.

Witch-Burnings in Canada

Jim Hunter, of the Toronto Evening Telegram, describes the Charlesworth witch-burnings of Canada in terms of the past. He says:

The uproar was awful. Women screamed, kiddies asked what it was all about; they joined in the shouting. Hen churned about seeking for a better spot to see the show. Everyone shouted, and into the night stillness went the sound of many voices. In the center of the ring stood a lone woman; she was manacled and bound. At her feet was a pile of faggots. A man advanced and lit the pile. As the tiny flames licked their way up the doomed woman's clothes, her lips curled in defiance. Men laughed. It was all right. They were burning a witch. Hadn't she bewildered the poor multitude with her witching? Women shrieked; children were held spellbound by the face on that woman. Some few turned away in disgust. One lone scream rent the air as the flames reached the poor creature's vitals. The show was over, and the many agreed that it had been a good show. But that was way back in the middle ages. Things, thank Heaven, don't happen like that nowadays. This is 193d. We are broadminded, and tolerant. Yes, sir! Judge Rutherford and his religion has been banned from the Canadian air. Other religions now enjoying air freedom, please note.

Arlington News Appreciates Truth

THE Arlington (Massachusetts) News, in an editorial entitled "Whom Shall We Believe gives its readers some good advice:

When we turn on our radio in these days we hear the voice of the church, Protestant, Catholic, Jew and others. All speak with authority, presumably all have a message for all people, or why is it broadcast for all to hear, rather than being confined to any particular group or parish? Out of this volume of talk, much of which is good, some bad, it becomes difficult to sift the wheat from the chaff. It is refreshing that Judge Rutherford on Easter Sunday reminded us that the Bible still points the way and in spite of the failure of governments and church leaders to remain true to spiritual ideals, Jesus still reigns and His witnesses are known by the fruits of the spirit which are justice, love and mercy. The world is anxious, waiting for God's message, tired of the propaganda of false prophets. Therefore we welcome the voice that admonishes us to trust God, read and study the Bible and place our dependence in the things of the spirit. It is not our business to point out what church leaders should talk about, but we believe that the public is getting an overdose of propaganda and not enough pure religion.

On the day that the foregoing appeared, Reverend Lewis Hall, pastor, 11 AVhite street, Arlington, wrote to the editor of the News saying:

“I have just completed reading your editorial entitled ‘Whom Shall We Believe?’ It is refreshing to read such an editorial which challenges people to place a faith in God. Certainly the present conditions indicate that material things have failed those who depended upon them. Turning to principles of righteous living and contacts with the Eternal, men find a never failing God who is ‘our refuge and strength in time of trouble.’ I congratulate you on your splendid editorial which I hope many will read candidly.” We consider this a good letter, the writing of which should bring a real blessing to its author.

Robot Preacher Now — Ban Beaten By Reynolds’ Correspondent

(Reprinted from the London Daily Sacs)

A ROBOT archbishop in every parish, and a clergy list on the dole. Such is a possibility of the future should the church decide to follow the example of the evangelist - who - is - in -301 - places - at - once.

I have just experienced the most remarkable religious adventure of a lifetime. I have been to a robot church and listened to the address of a preacher who was eating his dinner on the high seas thousands of miles away.

With a congregation of a thousand I have stared at an empty rostrum, an empty chair and a bunch of flowers. I have heard the voice of the preacher emerging from the flowers, and sweet organ music filling the hall.

I have gazed in fascination at the organ and the open hymn-books on the illuminated musicrest. The books were visible because the organist who should have sat in front of them was invisible. Everything was so realistic, and yet so unreal.

And it all came to pass because of a ban by the B.B.C.

As I listened to the preacher he was speeding to New York on an ocean liner. And whatever he may have been doing aboard ship at the moment, he was also talking, without opening his mouth, to congregations in 299 other places in all parts of the world.

It sounds fantastic, but science has made it ridiculously simple. It’s just a matter of exploiting wireless and the gramophone. Everybody knows that records arc regularly “put on the air.” But few realize that since the talkie invasion the science has been developing quietly in religious circles.

And the man who has done more than anybody to exploit to the fullest extent the possibilities of mechanical voice reproduction is Judge J. F. Rutherford, an American lawyer, who has given up the bench and his legal practice in order to devote his life to Bible teaching.

All do not agree with Judge Rutherford’s teachings. The B.B.C., for example, refused to allow him to state his views from their studios. Canadian radio stations banned him too.

Yet he believed that thousands were eager for his message through the ether, and he found it humanly impossible to give personal broadcasts from all the American, European, Chinese, and other radio stations that were willing to ‘’sell him some air.”

So he preached his sermons to a recording machine, and the records are now broadcast to millions. But even records cannot get past the B.B.C. and the Canadian stations that frown on controversial topics.

That made Judge Rutherford think of his “electrical transcriptions.” It is all very simple. A hall is hired and wired under the very nose of the B.B.C. Records are played behind the scenes and linked up with an amplifier which takes the place of the speaker on the platform.

Sermons are split into three 22-inch discs, and voice reproduction is perfect. The illusion is complete if the listener closes his eyes. Otherwise the effect is ghostly.

“Electrical transcriptions” take place regularly in three London centers each week. Others are added from time to time. There was a touch of irony about the one I attended, for ushers at the entrance to the hall wore caps bearing the initials “B.B.C.” But the men were not engineers from Broadcasting House. They were employed by the Battersea Borough Council which leased the hall.

Five Pentecostal Preachers Hear the Good News By W. F. Nelson (California)

WIFE and I witnessed to a lady over the back fence of our home, which resulted in placing some booklets, among which was a Lord's Return. This lady was a member of the Pentecostal church, to which she had belonged only eight months, having been a Catholic all her life previous to that. She had never seen the inside of a Bible until eight months ago, and was particularly interested in the Lord's return, as she said their preacher was always talking about the return soon of Jesus. Now it seems that ‘some of the good sisters’ of her congregation came to her home and found her reading these booklets and became quite excited about it and told her they were poisonous. She came over to the house and questioned me for quite a long time, and we took the Bible and went over the different points until she became convinced it was the truth, and she took home quite a few more. In a few days her pastor came down and said, “I hear, Sister B----, you

are reading some of that poisonous literature of Judge Rutherford.” She replied, “Why, these books are wonderful, and you can prove everything in them by looking up the scriptures, which he gives, and you find that they are just as they are written in my Bible.” The preacher became

quite angry and they had quite a set-to, but this Mrs. B---- is Irish and she gave him plenty.

Well, the result of this was that on the following Sunday evening, at the church, after the meeting, the preacher said to the congregation, “Dear brethren, I want you to pray for Sister B----,

because the Devil has gotten a hold of her mind, and is threatening to destroy her soul.” Mrs. B---jumped up and asked him how she was

being destroyed; and he said, “By reading the terrible books of Judge Rutherford.” This made Mrs. B----quite angry, and she challenged the

preacher to prove they were poisonous and of the Devil. And so the poor fool set the next night as the time he would prove to his congregation that they were of the Devil.

On Monday night two hundred and fifty church members of this and other Pentecostal churches, with four other preachers, turned out for the show-down, the five preachers sitting up in the pulpit. Mrs. B——- brought the Lord's Return booklet and asked McKee, her preacher, if he would read out the poisonous parts of the book; but he refused. She then got her Irish up and said, “You tried to make a fool of me last night before this whole congregation, and now you are going to hear what is in this book;

and if you won’t read it, I will”; and, turning to the congregation, she asked them to get their Bibles out and verify all the Scripture citations, and for an hour and fifteen minutes she read this booklet to them and gave different ones the Scriptural citations and had them look them up, and the five preachers sat there during this whole time and all they said was, “Lord Jesus, rebuke her! Lord Jesus, rebuke her!” Finally Mrs. B----became exasperated and said, “Oh,

rebuke, hell! You have been trying to have Jesus rebuke me; why don’t you call on your father the Devil?” The preacher sat down, and one of the other preachers turned to him and said, ‘‘Well, Brother McKee, I am glad she is not in my congregation.”

After the meeting was over, one of the oldest members asked for the booklet and took it home with her to read. The other members stood around and kept saying, “Why, they [meaning the preachers] didn’t say a word; there must be some truth in those books.” And they came to this Mrs. B---- and asked her questions

about it, and she sure had good answers for them; and to think! she has heard of the truth only in the last month or, possibly, five weeks.

Further results of her witness came about three days after this, when one of the preachers met her on the street and asked her if she could get him some of those books; and she replied, “Sure, I can get you a whole carload, if you will read them.” So he got thirteen booklets and a Reconciliation.

I found out he was a Russian Jew who had been converted to this so-called “Christian church”, so sent him the book Comfort for the Jews; and heard last week that he thought it quite a wonderful book. Mrs. B---- quit the

church, and told me she was going to get some of those books in every Pentecostal home in —----. I thought this experience so out of the

ordinary that you would be glad to hear about it. Of course I cannot begin to give this experience as thrilling as it really happened; so you will have to add the thrills to it yourselves.

At this point I received some further information as to how Friemark, the Jewish preacher, received the books. He said, “This book Reconciliation is a work of art; and how I wish my people would read the book Comfort for the Jews! But they won’t.” If nothing more comes out of it, at least this bunch of preachers have been proved before their congregations to be a bunch of four-flushers and it sure has created quite a stir; and I am in hope that we may be able to get into the church of this Friemark and put on the judge’s talks over the transcription machine; we have been putting them on every Sunday in two of the biggest parks in the county, with very good results.

We Pray for Jehovah’s Government

Fascism in Sweden (?)

From the fact that 50,000 people paraded in Stockholm in the greatest conservative and anti-Socialist demonstration ever seen in Sweden, it is believed that Fascism is beginning to get a start in Scandinavia. The number of Fas-cisti in Britain is now about 5,000.

Travel Allowances of Senators

BY A VOTE of forty-two to thirty-five the United States senate refused to cut its travel mileage allowance from the dishonest rate of 20c per mile to the honest rate of 5c per mile. Some of the remote senators clear over $1,000 on every round trip from their home states to the capital.

A Third of Pennsylvania Unemployed

A REPORT of the Department of Labor showed that at the end of January 36 percent of the working population of the state of Pennsylvania was unemployed. In some industrial counties the unemployed ran as high as 56 percent.

Locating the Stock Exchange’s Heart

S SOON as it heard the news that there would be $525,000,000 reduction in the pay of Federal workers, and in the compensation of veterans, stocks listed on the exchange jumped $2,500,000,000 in price, and bonds $1,000,000,000. Seems that the Stock Exchange’s heart is in its wallet.

Reception Committee Cleans Out Broadway Bank ONE of the most thriving of New York’s in

dustries is the bank holdup. On July 7 a group of four men, one of them in the uniform of a policeman, acted as reception committee to the employees of a branch of the Corn Exchange Bank, 110th street and Broadway, when they came in the morning. After greeting thirteen employees, they had the vaults opened, helped themselves to $23,835, and went happily on their way without being disturbed.

Medalie Hit the Nail on the Head

United States Attorney George Z. Medalie hit the nail on the head in his address to graduates of the New York Law School when he said:

“It is quite dear to all but judges and lawyers who do not wish to unlearn what they have been taught, that the legal methods of today and the machinery of justice are utterly unfitted to our present-day life. Justice is delayed no matter how conscientious judges and lawyers may be. Justice is inadequate no matter how fair-minded they and even juries may be. Our tools are useless.”

Common Sense from “The Arbitrator”

THE ARBITRATOR says plainly and with -*• good common sense:

If Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a crusader he can drive the money-changers from the temple of Wall Street by a simple socialist expedient that does not involve the confiscation of private property. He can stop trading with the enemy bankers and extend the postal savings service to accept accounts subject to check. Then he can watch with pride the run to deposit in the official banks. The government will make a profit and the people will save their money, all of which should hereafter be issued by the government, not by private banks.

'What a Lucky Generation!

Roger Babson, statistician, recently said:

“What a lucky generation it is that can watch at one time the working out of Fascism in Italy, Communism in Russia, Socialism in Spain, and controlled Capitalism in the United States! The working out of these programs necessarily means confusion and distress. Reforms are going on simultaneously all over the world. This means but one period of world adjustment. Already order is emerging from chaos. We should be thankful that these various programs are all going on at once instead of having the whole world taking up the same experiment at the same time, thus prolonging the agony.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.

AN item from Washington says that Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., sailed July 5 for a trijj to Europe, and that his companion on the trip is a son of one of the Morgan partners, George Whitney. All who think that the house of Morgan does not run the world, please signify it by raising the right hand.

What the Munition Makers Desire

MOST people are willing to work hard for that which they very much desire. On the other hand, if you see somebody working very hard at something it gives you an inkling that he very much desires something. The armament makers have recently been buying one after another of the more important newspapers in France, and France is today the most warlike country in the world, and the best prepared for war. What do you suppose is in the mind of the munition makers ? It looks as if they were bound to have some business, and would resort to any steps necessary to get it.

12,000 War Munition Plants

THE War Department announces that it has collected and classified data on 12,000 industrial plants that could be used to make war munitions in an emergency. Of course, no use will ever be made of this information, as the Kellogg Peace Pact officially declares that war is a crime, and Japan and all the other peaceloving countries have agreed that it shall never henceforth be used. The mention of these 12,000 plants where war munitions could be made but will not be made is just to help the rest of the world see how absolutely peaceful we are in our intentions.

Cost of World War

ACCORDING to testimony at a recent congressional hearing, the direct cost to America of participating in the World War was $50,200,000,000. It should not be thought that this entire amount is a total loss. Benefits received may be set as high as 30c, and thus the net loss to Uncle Sam of rushing to pay the debt to Lafayette, and other imaginary debts, was only some $50,199,999,999.70. However, the incidental losses to the world of having this great peaceloving country plunge into the seething maelstrom of European politics was actually many times the foregoing sum.

Frightened Woman Threw Away Her Gold

A LARMED by the statements of government officials, and really thinking that because she had some gold she must surrender it, so that the banks which already have more gold than they know what to do with may have still more, a San Francisco woman threw a tobacco can full of gold off a ferry boat and into San Francisco bay. This happened on March 14, one of the days which had been set when all gold pieces must be surrendered.

Inauguration of National Recovery Act

THE National Recovery Act was inaugurated by telegrams to the presidents of chambers of commerce in every city of more than ten thousand people, urging the organization of a campaign committee consisting of the mayor, the official heads of the chamber of commerce, clearing house association, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, retail merchants, Federation of Labor, advertising club, Federation of Women’s Clubs, welfare societies, ministerial association, and real estate association. Doesn’t look as if anybody had been left out intentionally.

Country Going Along as Usual

EVERYTHING seems to be going along as usual. Mooney, admittedly and officially innocent of the Preparedness Day murders, is still in prison for life. J. P. Morgan paid no income taxes to the United States for three years, but did pay them to Great Britain. The new secretary of the treasury, Mr. Woodin, is on his list of cotton saints. Priests and preachers are working desperately to get Judge Rutherford off the air. Everything seems to be going along as usual, in a world made safe for hypocrisy.

Did Wrong to Steal the Coal

THERE was no food in his house, there was no fuel there, and the man had had no work for many months, so the father of seven kiddies at Upper Darby, Pa., stole a bucket of coal from a coal yard of a wealthy coal dealer. The coal dealer is a township commissioner and a member of the police board. His influence keeps a policeman closely watching his coal yards. He insisted that the unemployed father go to jail. The law in Upper Darby is taking much better care of wealthy coal dealers than it is of poor men who are unemployed. Looks as if things ought to be evened up a bit.

Whitewashing the Akron Disaster

TT IS quite a job whitewashing the loss of the Akron. It was against the rules to fly at less than 2,500 feet, and against the rules to fly into a storm. Both of these rules were violated. The Akron got too low, and when one end of it hit the ocean it broke in two and sank, and that is the end of Uncle Sam’s $5,000,000 investment. Whitewashing was still in progress at last accounts.

New York’s Thoughtful Burglars

THE etiquette among New York’s leading burglars is that gentlemen in this business should bring along their own collapsible cardboard boxes in which to pack their loot. This was done at a fur house on West Thirtieth street, where seventeen persons were left tied up in a storage room when three armed men, one of them a fur expert, walked off with $15,000 worth of fox furs. It is no longer considered the polite thing in New York to wear masks at a holdup, and as it is not necessary, it was not done in this case.

Thirty Cowhides for a Pair of Shoes

A CANADIAN legislator told the House of Commons that up in the country from which he came a farmer must now part with thirty complete cowhides in order to be able to get one pair of shoes, and he wants to know just why that is. The clergy will explain to him that this is a part of Christ’s kingdom, and if he doesn’t like the way they do things in Canada he can go to Russia or elsewhere, but we don’t intend to have him standing up and criticizing this grand civilization we have built up. And what is more, the chamber of commerce and the press will back the clergy up; they always do.

Unemployment Ruining the Youth

THE police commissioner of New York city, commenting on the advent of youth into the world of crime, recently said:

“A most disturbing fact to the police is the immaturity of the great majority of these criminals. In past years the criminal at the ‘line-up’ was middleaged, intemperate, experienced in crime, and limited in his activities to a special type of offense. Today the opposite. The ‘line-up’ presents a parade of youths ranging in ages from 17 to 21, versatile in crime, who coldbloodedly and calmly recite voluntarily, in the presence of the spectators and press, the most intimate details of the planning and execution of ruthless crimes. ’ ’

The Strange Experience of a Murderer

THE jury was out in a New York murder ease.

While it was deciding whether or not to send the murderer to the electric chair he solved the matter by pleading guilty to manslaughter and was given a sentence of five to ten years. Meantime the jury came into court and announced that it had found him not guilty. But its findings were not accepted.

Slavery in Russia

WOULD you think it possible for a handful of communists to enslave 100,000,000 people? Yet that is about what has happened in Russia. By the new zoning regulations only loyal communists may live near enough to the border that they could by any chance escape; peasants will find it next to impossible to enter industrial pursuits; villagers may not move without obtaining permission from the village authorities.

Chicago Teachers Storm Banks

THAT is a peculiar story that comes from Chicago, that during the spring holidays 5,000 of the teachers gathered in Grant Park, split into groups, and then, by a prearranged plan, under the sympathetic guidance of 240 policemen, who are also back in collection of their wages, made a rush on live banks, and demanded that they do something about paying their warrants. The banks explained that they will pay when the taxpayers do, and that they won't until they do. The teachers are supposed to teach patriotism to the children; but what do you imagine these unpaid teachers will teach them ?

Does Justice Have Itching Palms?

ALONG ISLAND police justice did the handsome thing by two of his lieutenants, one of whom was the chief of police and the other a police sergeant. When he had got $50 in fines out of a man for speeding and afterwards using intoxicating liquors and bad language, he did not keep all the money himself. He kept only half of it. The balance he divided between the chief of police and the sergeant. None of us would have known anything about it except that an honest assistant district attorney noticed inconsistent marks on the court docket. We all knew that Justice is blind, but this is the first evidence we have had that she also has the itch.

Boys Completely Ruin a House

IN FLUSHING, which is part of Greater New J- York, boys so completely stripped a vacant house of everything removable that the building collapsed, a total wreck. One often sees houses and factories more damaged by boys in a few months than they would have been by a lifetime of ordinary wear. Sometimes every window light disappears in a few weeks.

Ideal Holdup in Long Island City

TWO robbers entered a store at Long Island City and ordered the proprietor and his clerk to hold up their hands. They did, but when the proprietor held up his hands he had a gun in one of them and immediately shot and killed the older of the two thieves. The younger one became frightened and started to run and the police wounded him in the neck and jaw and got him too. Seems like an ideal holdup.

Strawberries at $330.96 per Box

TT SEEMS that William McAllister, of Ironton, Ohio, ate two strawberries from the estate of Reverend Isaac Russell. That led to his arrest, and a fine of $9.85 for larceny. Assuming that there are 67.2 cubic inches in a quart box of berries and that the average berry occupies a space of one cubic inch, it will be seen that if Mr. McAllister had eaten a whole box he would have been set back $330.96. He did not know that a preacher’s berries are so valuable, but now he knows. Incidentally, he claims the price per berry of $4.92V> is entirely too high, and has hired a couple of smart lawyers to see that he doesn’t pay anything, except to them.

Anything May Happen

Wickes Wamboldt, editorial writer for the Hattiesburg American, discussing one senator's advocacy that the government lend money to individual persons to pay their delinquent taxes, and the proposal of the president of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that the government guarantee business against loss if business would again hit a normal gait, said, in part:

“Anything may happen now. There is nothing too bad to happen. And there is nothing too good to happen. ... It is the sacred duty of every living soul to try to prevent a stampede, and particularly it is the duty of all persons in positions of responsibility and leadership.”

Who Ordered the Baby Bonnets?

Mr. Brisbane, in the New York American, cites a Washington newspaper man as writing :

“As a member of the 125th Transportation Corps, I was located at Bassens, France, after the armistice, our company having charge of the care and operation of the forty gantry cranes at the mile-long dock there. I helped unload 100 cases, twelve great gross in a case, of baby caps or bonnets. Just 2,073,600 baby caps, and they still were stored in the warehouse there when we left.’’

Mr. Brisbane wants to know who ordered the caps. Who can tell him ’ We do not know who ordered them, but we can visualize about how and where and when the ordering was done. Probably somebody with a baby-cap factory wanted a share in the money that was being thrown away all over the country for making the world safe for hypocrisy. A good feature would be to have some clergyman weep in the pulpit and tell his audience that all the babies in France had been slain by the Germans, and that France had no money to pay for baby caps for any new babies that should be born, and it was no more than right that to pay our debt to Lafayette we should furnish the caps for as many new babies as those that had been slain by the Germans, with some left over for good measure, and besides, it would give several months’ work to the baby-bonnet factory right in their own town. The results as listed by Mr. Brisbane were so good for somebody that it would have paid to hire a preacher to weep, and to pay him $100 a drop for every tear shed, and even to pay extra for the peck of sliced onions he would need to have with him in the pulpit to work up a good weep.

Capitalism Is Dead; Long

(Report of an interesting leaflet

T LAST the fatal news is out. The Honorable John D. Capitalism, who has been seriously ailing for a long time with a chronic incurable disease, has passed away. Capitalism, the omniscient, the omnipotent, the omnipresent, first cousin of the rock of Gibraltar, has given up the jolly old ghost and called it a day.

There has been so much secrecy surrounding the event, so much fear that the sun would cease to shine and the stars go on a strike if the truth were known, so much suppression of the news by those mighty institutions that are supposed to give the news, so much shuddering and whistling in the dark, that the exact moment of the old bastard's final snort is not yet definitely known, but as near as we can make out from the evidence at hand, it occurred on March 4, 1933.

On that day, according to those near the bedside, the, patient revived for a moment, asked for a shot in the arm, took a swift mournful look at one putty-faced Hoover who was preparing to go on a fishing trip ('?) and otherwise scurrying for cover, and another hopeless look at one complacent Roosevelt who had recently been sentenced to the presidential chair, rolled his eyes in a wild spasm of agonized desperation, fell back on his pillow with a final gasp that had much the sound of a razzberry, and passed out of the picture. Came the dawn.

One Roosevelt, it is said, when apprized of the death, could not believe his ears. (After a long experience in Tammany politics, one can hardly believe anything.) He was unwilling to think that the worst had hap-

By Ellis O. Jones (California)

circulations on the Pacific coast)

pened, but was nevertheless very much alarmed. He took a quick look around and saw the money-changers fleeing from the temple with their brief cases and their Rolls-Royces and their trucks and their private yachts filled with gold and currency.

“Ha!’’ came a doughty dictatorial voice. “I see what's the matter. The financial gangsters have put the old geezer on the spot and are going to take him for a ride. If that’s all there is to worry about, I'll soon put a stop to it, for I'm a guy that ‘does things’, even as the whirling dervish. "

Then the wizard of Washington put an extra padlock on the banks, which were already closed so tight that nobody could get anything out except the insiders and favored depositors, and told the ship scuttlers to come back to errin’ with their gold, for he would protect them. And then he made a few other magic dictatorial passes, even as Mussolini might have done had he possessed the same amount of intelligence or what have you, smiled blandly and thanked the people for their magnificent cooperation.

But, alas, it appears, on further evidence, that all this well meaninglessness was too late. Witch-doctor Roosevelt, although he had been urgently called in consultation four months before, was too slow in marshaling his wonderful remedies and mixing his esoteric potions. There had been so many yachting and other outing trips to take, and so much political pie to cut, that he simply couldn’t be bothered with more important considerations.

Now, however, contrite and willing to make amends, he evinces a certain nobility in his refusal to give up hope, but in spite of generous blood transfusions from the public treasury, in spite of extensive skin grafting from the most noted skin-game specialists of all time, and in spite of highlj^ oxygenated hot air injections from the trusty newspapers, the stiffening corpse refuses to be resuscitated, and even acts as if it were glad the ordeal were over. Well, why not?

As much secrecy has surrounded the cause of Sir John D. Capitalism’s demise as has enveloped the fact itself. Not until the autopsy can be completed and the report agreed upon and signed by the wiseacres, can we be sure of what turned the trick. The symptoms certainly indicate a large number of complications. Some say he died of a hardened heart and fatty degeneration. Some aver he died of poor circulation leading to torpid liver, gallstones, swelled head, acute indigestion, nearsightedness, overnourishment, underconsumption, arthritis, too much sugar and albumen in your’n and not enough in mine, etc. Some say he overtaxed his resources, while others say he undertaxed his mentality. Some say that he worried so about his debts and his family that he committed suicide, and cite that on several previous occasions he would have jumped out of a window if he could only have found a window big enough and high enough. Some say that it was an inside job on the part of frenzied financiers who had become so frenzied they didn't know what they were doing. Some say it was those naughty bolshevists. And some solemnly' assert that a fresh young Technocratic lad by the name of Howard Scott, who is known to the police and nearly everybody else, walked up and delivered such a well-directed, scientific blow in the solar plexus that the pompous old windbag was so flustered he suffered a stroke of apoplexy and went into a tailspin. Curses!

But the cause and manner of death can wait. It may be months, even years, before the autopsy is complete. And so at the moment we are a nation of bewildered relatives and friends, to say nothing of enemies, talking in subdued tones in the next room to that where the carcass, all that remains of a once haughty imperialist, lies stretched out, its temperature going steadily downward even though stringent regulations have been issued to prevent speculators from selling its temperature short. We attendants at the wake run the gamut all the way from sincere mourners to unbridled gloaters, and each is trying to comprehend what has happened in the light of his own interest and intelligence, if any.

The mourners have much reason on their side, for old John D. Capitalism, in spite of his many faults, not the least of which was inordinate gluttony, was as bluff and hearty an old scoundrel as any pirate Morgan that ever sailed the financial main or any King Henry VIII that ever beheaded a wife for criminal syndicalism or you know what. In his better moods he was not at all unattractive. He certainly had a way with him and knew how to wear his evening clothes, golf togs and other regalia. Carefully posed in the back seat of his luxurious town ear, he has been able to impress many a keen sociologist with his importance. He has been admired and loved. In the World War many millions worked their fingers’ ends off and laid down their lives so that the land over which he ruled with an iron hand could become a great creditor nation that would never be able to collect what was coming to it. He knew how to be generous. He was generous with his real wives and his divorced wives, and still more generous with his mistresses. Even to strangers, he was often known to give away things he no longer wanted. No matter how much he might take away from you, he was always willing to give a little of it back (if his secretaries would let you get to him). Have you an appointment ?

If he didn’t give anything else, he was always willing to hand out advice, freely and fully. Of course it is hinted that he often received payment in devious ways for advice which was ostensibly free. But why go into that? He certainly believed in thrift. Not only was he willing to save his own money, but he would also save the money of anyone who would deposit with him, so safely in many cases that they never saw it again. He couldn’t bear to see people hoarding what belonged to them.

Though short on culture, he was not a bad conversationalist. Even on one cocktail he could give a splendid imitation of having ideas and knowing what he was talking about. He was particularly good at describing golf shots and singing smile songs. In his most bibulous moments he was fond of telling about the terrible effect of alcohol upon the morals of the working man. But this is not to be understood as making him out a hypocrite. Oh no! Not at all.

On the other hand, it must be confessed that the gloaters also have much reason on their side; for in his more forbidding moods he was nothing more than a crude, coarse, arrogant, conceited, unmoral, immoral, ruthless, conscienceless son of a lousy soandso. He would not only lie and steal and cheat widows and orphans while pretending to be their friends, but he would do worse: he would even hire rascally corporation lawyers to keep them from getting back at him, corrupt legislatures to give his thieveries an absolving cloak of legality, scare poor little anemic and academic economists into scattering fog until nobody could make head or tail of it, subsidize newspapers by advertising and otherwise into misrepresenting the facts, and wheedling servile, sanctimonious underpaid sky-pilots into calling down the blessing of god upon his sacred form of piracy. Blessed are the apologists.

Oh yes, it cannot be denied that the gloaters have much right on their side, maybe fully as much as the mourners, but it is really not a time for either mourners or gloaters. Both arc useless. It is the time for calm, unemotional level-headed practical men to muddle through and carry on. In earnest workaday fashion we must first go about the necessary preparations for the funeral. The cadaver must be quickly put away to save us from the terrible stench that has already begun to pour forth from its more putrid organs.

When that is done, we must stay patiently on the job day after day, for the details connected with the settlement of an estate of such magnitude arc almost limitless. First we must make an inventory of what Sir Capitalism has left us. Fortunately our faithful statisticians have already made pretty complete inventories, and these, therefore, we have but to scrutinize in our task of apportioning and disposing of the estate. And, of course, it is too early to say whether the assets exceed the liabilites or vice versa.

We do indeed find that he left behind many things of unquestionable value, such as a wonderful sun that will continue to rise and set on schedule time even though its rays may be obscured from time to time by much needed rain.

We find he left behind a great bountiful earth, rich in natural resources, mines, waterfalls and fertile land from which the necessities of life can easily be secured. These must go to the people for the use and benefit of all of them.

We find he left behind vast industrial plants and organizations capable of transforming these natural resources into commodities at a rapid rate. These must be conserved and, if they have been idle, reconditioned and put to work for the use and benefit of all the people.

We find many millions of unemployed which Sir Capitalism had no use for though they are willing and anxious to become part of a properly functioning society and lend their ample skill and talents to the forces of production and distribution. These must Ijc reinstated so that they may be self-respecting and profitable members of society.

We find vast quantities of finished products suitable for sustaining life and giving happiness to human beings, already neatly stored in our granaries and warehouses. These must be apportioned to the people, all rightful heirs of Capitalism, each according to his need.

We find efficient transportation facilities which must be freely used to remove these stores of goods.

We find many other worthy things, cultural and spiritual, some of them temporarily in abeyance, during the latter years of Capitalism's irascible senilitude. These must be preserved and reinstated and disseminated broadly for the use and happiness of the people, many of whom have fought, bled and nearly died for mere pittances under the rule of the old buzzard. In short, we find a land of plenty.

On the other hand, we find many, many things which are not desirable and must be discarded.

We find a banking system that is bankrupt. This must go. In a land of plenty, there is little need for keeping accounts.

We find a bankrupt insurance system. This must go. In a land of plenty, insurance is an absurdity.

We find many cesspools of cities, and they too are bankrupt. These must be cleaned up, aired and in many cases scattered to the four winds.

We find slums that must be destroyed, ugly useless office buildings that are no longer needed. They must be razed.

We find huge mountains of debt, taxes, mortgages, bonds, stocks, deposits, which must be repudiated. They are all unjust, but whether unjust or not, they must be repudiated. Those people who are unjustly treated by this process will be taken care of in other ways.

We find millions of real estate speculators, stock speculators and the like. All these must go. In a land of plenty with controlled production and distribution, there is no surplusage to gamble with.

We find hundreds of thousands of lawyers eternally quibbling about property rights. These must go. In a land of plenty where there are no property rights except in consumable goods, these arrogant nincompoops are out of jobs.

We find many thousands of adroit liars engaged in the advertising business. These must go. In a land of plenty, where science reigns, there will be no incentive to tell anything but the truth about a given product.

We find myriads of fathead politicians, stodgy owlish judges, and inhumane jailers. These must go. In a sane land of plenty, politicians must give way to statesmen, judges to human beings, and jailers to nurses and psychologists.

We find millions of people who do not even pretend to be of any social service (goodness gracious! the very idea is preposterous!), but, by the device of getting hold of stocks and bonds and mortgages and other things which were formerly called securities, they expect to live entirely from the labor of others without thought of the social welfare except so fax’ as it reflects back upon their own comfort. All these must go. Dear, dear, what a pity!

Yes, all these and many others who are doing socially useless work must go. But where? The answer¹ is simple. For those who can work, work must be furnished. They must do what is found to be their proper share of useful needed labor. Those who are incapacitated, either by age or infirmity, must be promptly and liberally pensioned. In a land of plenty none need be stinted. What will surprise many of those is that they will Ire happier than ever before, for the chief cause of unhappiness, economic uncertainty and fear of poverty, will have been removed. As for the rest, the chronic bellyacher and incurable mortgage hawks, let them go on scowling to the end or jump out of a convenient window if they prefer death to a life of ease in a land of plenty.

Classification of Foods By Dr. La June Foster (California')

FOODS arc classified for the arrangement of correct combination; as acid fruits (Class 1, which class also includes sub-acid fruits and sweet fruits). When the rules for combination are given, which follow, the "acid fruits'’ rule will refer only to the "acid-’ and "sub-acid’’ groups of fruits. Class 2 includes all the non-starchy vegetables. Class 3 includes the group known as proteins. Class 4 is made up of starches. Class 5 refers to sweets (which may include some of the sweet fruits, and is listed for the purpose of combination). Class 6 includes all foods of the fat class.

Rule of Combinations of Foods

Acid fruits, listed below in the Fruit class under subhead (A) and subhead (B), and all other sour or acid foods, do not mix with starches (Class 4); but do mix with proteins (Class 3), meats, dairy products, and fats, but not with vegetable proteins, as most of those contain some starch.

Class 1. Fruit

• (A) Acid Fruits. Oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, pomelo, are all classed as citrus fruits, and may be used together. Other acid fruits: Citron, pineapple, guava, strawberries, loganberries, cranberries, loquats, tamarinds, kumquats, tangerines, mandarins, nectarines, pomegranates, tomatoes (classed as a vegetable but considered as in the same class with acid fruits when arranging combinations).

• (B) Sub-Acid Fruits. The fruits in this class contain, as a whole, less acid than do those in class (A), especially in their ripe state. If they are acid, then observe the “acid fruits” rule of combination. Sub-acid fruits are: apples, apricots, mangoes, blackberries, raspberries, cherries, currants, gooseberries, huckleberries, blueberries, mulberries, varieties of grapes, peaches, persimmons, plums, muskmelons, cantaloupe, casaba,Persian melon, watermelon, fresh prunes, fresh figs, plumcots.

• (C) Sweet Fruits. Mission figs, black figs, muscat grapes, raisins, dried prunes, bananas, plantain (similar to a banana), carol), litchi, guava, feijoa, dates. The dried fruits may be prepared by soaking them in water for a few moments or, if hard, for a few hours or by cooking them slightly. Do not throw away the water, as it is a good laxative. Never add sugar to the dried fruits, as they contain their own natural sugar. The dried fruits are to be used mainly when fresh fruits are not to be obtained. They can be safely combined with starches. They arc high in nutritive value, but not as cleansing as the fresh fruits.

The avocado is one of the finest fruits known, and will combine with practically all fruits and vegetables. It is nourishing and laxative, and takes the place of meat, as it has some protein. It is very fat, and is to be avoided if liver and gall bladder are not in good condition. It can also be used in place of butter.

Class 2. Non-Starchy Vegetables

These, listed below, combine with all classes of food, with the exception of tomatoes, as they are acid and follow the “acid fruits” rule of combination and do not combine with starches.

Non-Starchy Vegetables classified: This class of vegetables includes celery, spinach, New Zealand spinach, cucumbers, Italian squash, chayote, celery root, beet tops, turnip tops, small beets, turnips, carrots, and parsnips. Lettuce (plain, rodan and romaine lettuce), okra, oyster plant, salsify, zucchini, mallow kale, endive, vegetable marrow, parsley, ripe olives, New Guinea butter bean, mustard greens, chicory, sorrel, etc.

The vegetables in the following group are supposed by most authorities to be less easily digested than those in the preceding group: French artichokes, Brussels sprouts, small peas, small mushrooms, cauliflower, dandelion greens, kohlrabi, small pumpkin, rutabaga, Swiss chard, sauerkraut, water cress, onions, garlic, chives, leeks, cabbage (raw), radishes.

Tomatoes are one of the best foods known, containing the most vitamins of practically the entire vegetable class. Follow the “acid fruits” rule of combinations; that is, do not mix acids, like tomatoes, with starches. They are best used with proteins, non-starchy vegetables, and especially avocado. They balance fats well.

Non-starchy vegetables are laxative, energizing, and exceedingly cleansing. They are the one class of foods that can be used by almost every sick person, regardless of such person’s condition, whereas starches and sweets and fats are frequently contraindicated. Proteins frequently must be limited, especially meat proteins. And even though fruits are the most healthful and most cleansing of all foods, they must be limited in some cases for a time until

the body is able to stand their eliminative properties and their purifying action. In such cases vegetables start this action and make it possible for the body to rebuild itself and reduce the hyperacidity to the point where acids can be tolerated. Acid fruits are actually alkaline when introduced into the system, though they may produce a temporary irritation to people who are already very toxic.

Class 3. Proteins

This class consists of dairy products, such as milk, cheese (preferably cottage cheese or Philadelphia cream cheese), buttermilk, clabber custards, junket, and other dairy products, jello, and eggs, as well as meat proteins (lamb chops, rabbit, chicken, lean beef, turkey, mutton, Belgian hare); most fish products (fresh fish, such as sole, sand dab, sea bass, black bass, pickerel, fresh cod, trout, etc.); nuts (pine nuts, pecans, almonds, hazelnuts, pistachio nuts, hickory nuts; less desirable are walnuts, peanuts, cashew nuts and acorns, as they contain a greater proportion of starches and do not lend themselves as readily to the rule of protein combination).

Proteins combine with fruits and non-starchy vegetables; not so well with starches (as the digestive juices that are formed by the stomach that render protein fit for digestion are in excess for the digestion of starches, which causes them to ferment, and protein digestion is then interfered with. Proteins are the tissue-builders of the body; but if eaten in excess they produce acidosis. They should be eaten very moderately after the age of 40.

Class 4. Starches (all bread and flour products)

Choose mainly those made of dark flour, and cereals made of whole grain, dark or whole rice, potatoes (bakedpreferable), large carrots, beets, and parsnips, Hubbard squash, succotash, hominy, Lima beans, navy beans, green corn, sweet potatoes, Jerusalem artichoke, cassava (tropical sweet potato) tapioca or cassava starch, yams, sago (taken from the sago palm) tapioca and sago are more or less demineralized and are not among the most valuable starches. Mushrooms, truffles, lichens (Iceland moss), and agar-agar (known as Japanese gelatin) are also classed as starches. Starches combine best with non-starchy vegetables (except tomatoes, which are acid). They can also be used with sweet fruits; never with acids, and best not with proteins.

Class 5. Sweets

Sweets combine with practically all other foods, but are best used with proteins and non-starchy vegetables.

Class 6. Fats

Fats are contained in all seeds of plants, and found in most animal food, as bacon, etc., and in olives, most nuts, all oils, avocado, etc. Fats combine best with non-starchy vegetables and acid fruits, and fairly well with starches.

Poor Little Baby Mother!

rpiIE Nursing Journal of India reports the birth of a baby weighing 4 pounds 3 ounces at the Victoria Zenana Hospital, Delhi, the mother in this case being herself a baby girl less than eight years of age. The child was a full-term child and the mother is able to nurse it.

The Deadly Mosquito

MOSQUITO has six fine needles with which it can suck up blood, but only the females attack humans. It is said that one of the reasons why the Roman Empire fell was that the mosquitoes spread malaria. In Siam 50 people are killed annually by tigers, while 50,000 are killed by malaria.

Busy People Burn Up Sugar

X AMERICAN physician has discovered that the brain of a busy man needs much more sugar than other parts of the body. The same man needs 100 percent more sugar when he is busy than when he is at rest. Studying 300 people, and examining the blood flowing into the brain and out from the brain, he discovered that much of the sugar was lost in transit. The blood in arms and legs was found much less laden with sugar.

Two Different Types of Mothers

IN NEBRASKA a poor mother hitch-hiked -*■ eighteen miles with a dead baby in her arms, so that she might get it decent burial; and the next day, in a Denver police court a young father and mother admitted to a judge that they detested their six-week-old golden-haired child, and consented to have it placed in an institution where it will have some of the care and protection to which it is entitled in its years of helplessness.

Obedience Gives Boldness to the Diffident

IT IS true, as a matter of course, that the Creator has the absolute right to demand perfect obedience of every creature, and it is true, as a matter of fact, that every one who will gain eternal life must come to that state of perfect obedience.

Can we say that it is any harder for one person to be obedient than it is for another? A person with much self-assertiveness has much self-confidence to aid him in carrying forward, and enduring whatever may come. It is easier for a diffident person to receive a command, but harder for him to face the issue. The one has too much confidence; the other, too little.

Jehovah God is the author of the laws that have produced all the interesting types of minds with which we come in contact. He makes use of now one type and now another for the work He has in hand. Naturally, He selects according to suitability. ‘God hath set the members in the body as it hath pleased Him.’—1 Corinthians 12:18.

It is manifest that the prophet Jonah was a chosen vessel to the Lord. It is not unlikely that he was the only man of his generation that could have performed the task that was given him to do, and which he accomplished. God could have raised up somebody else, but, as the Master Workman, He used the in strument which He had at hand, the one best adapted to His purpose.

For reasons which we now clearly discern, but which must have been very hard for Jonah to comprehend, this timid, shrinking Israelite was ordered to leave his homeland, and go to the then capital city of the earth, a heathen city at that, and a city that had been unfriendly to his people, and to deliver to them a message from Jehovah God.

It is deeply significant that the name Jonah means “Dove’’. It well describes this gentle, timid, shrinking, inoffensive man who dreaded the publicity that would be attendant upon his acts if he were to go to the capital and proclaim against it. The story shows that he reasoned that God would accomplish His purposes anyway, and did not need him.

He Tried to Evade the Issue

There have been plenty of people since Jonah’s day who have tried to do what he did, when he undertook to go on a business trip so as to avoid doing the work which he knew Jehovah God wished him to do. Instead of going to Nineveh, he took ship for a destination which may have been either Spain or the relatively near-by city of Tarsus. More likely it was the latter, as a regular rate of fare existed between the two points.

He probably thought that if he went on this business trip Jehovah God would select some other person to make the announcement to the Ninevites, and he would get out of doing an errand which to a person of his temperament would be peculiarly unpleasant. He seems to have thought that as soon as he left the Holy Land, the one land in all the earth over which Jehovah God exercised sovereignty, the issue would be settled and he would be at peace.

The Lord was not in the least surprised by this act on Jonah’s part. He knew he would do it, and knew what to do to help him to make up his mind to be fully obedient. The record says that “[Jehovah] sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like [margin, thought] to be broken”.—Jonah 1:4.

To be in a great storm at sea is to be in the midst of one of the most terrible but at the same time one of the most fascinating things in life. One feels that his only hope of life is in the soundness of the good ship beneath his feet. If he thought that was in danger^- of going to pieces it would be enough to make the stoutest heart quail.

The sailors on that boat told about that storm for the rest of their lives. The little ship stood first on one end and then on the other. It lay over on one side and then turned away over and lay on the other. It plunged headlong down into yawning chasms of the deep, and every time it went down it looked as if this plunge would bo the last. But each time the stout old prow hit the oncoming wave it rose to the occasion and went up a mountain of water as steep as that it had just slid down, only to go quickly down into another whirling vortex, and so on and on.

Jonah Enjoyed the Excursion

Jonah had something bigger to worry about than a storm at sea; he had just had a narrow escape from doing the hardest thing he had ever been called upon to do, but now that they were out of Joppa harbor he would just go to bed and forget all about it; he would sleep it off. The sea was rough, but it only made him think of the big cradle in which his mother used to rock him to sleep. In no time he was in dreamland, fast asleep.

But while Jonah was taking it easy down below decks, the captain and the sailors were in the worst storm they had ever been in. They thought the ship was going to break up, in which case probably all would be lost. They began heaving the cargo overboard, so as to get the big leak up above the water line. It seemed no use. The storm got worse and worse.

The shipmaster, fearing the worst, decided to call all hands, and, coming upon Jonah, shook him and said, “What meanest thou, 0 sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.” When all hands were on deck, as was the custom of the times, they cast lots to see whose fault it was that they were in jeopardy. The angel of Jehovah God was there supervising the lot, and it fell upon Jonah.

Jonah’s moral courage was equal to the occasion. lie told the shipmaster the plain truth, who he was, what he had been commissioned to do, and how he had tried to escape his duty, now, he perceived, all in vain. He admitted that the great storm was on his account; that it had been sent by the great Jehovah God, Creator of the sea as well as of the dry land, whom he feared.

The account shows that the sea grew more and more tempestuous. The captain and others were afraid, not merely of their own fate, but with genuine kindliness of heart they asked Jonah why he had thus been disobedient to the One whom he recognized as the time and only God, and what he thought they must do with him in order that the lives of all on board might he saved.

Jonah Benevolent in Face of Death

Jonah’s response to these solicitous inquiries commends him to all. Believing that there was no hope for himself, and unwilling that innocent men and women should be drowned on his account, he expressed the positive conviction that if he were thrown overboard the storm would cease.

Under the circumstances this was tantamount to suicide. A selfish man would have poohpoohed the idea that he was in any way responsible for the storm, and would have urged unceasing efforts to navigate the boat till the waves closed over it. It is very apparent that Jonah had a good heart.

But the shipmaster and sailors had good hearts, too. They saw Jonah’s hopelessness, and his resignation, and tried to save his life along with their own; but it was all in vain. At length they too despaired; for the record shows that the sea meanwhile grew ever more and more tempestuous.

Fully convinced that Jonah had told them the truth, these brave men finally cried out to Jehovah God: “We beseech thee, 0 [Jehovah], we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, 0 [Jehovah], hast done as it pleased thee.” With that they took up Jonah and cast him into the sea; and the sea ceased from her raging.

How different the language and the spirit of these heathen men from that of the heartless gangsters of our day, who would have turned the machine gun on him right where he stood, without a moment’s hesitation; or the strongarm squad that adopts the most ruthless tactics with the most innocent people in the world, Jehovah’s witnesses.

Jonah’s faithful witness to these men, even though it had been the witness of his own disobedience, was not without' result. The record could have ended right there, so far as the men on the boat were concerned, but God has seen fit to preserve in the record that after Jonah had been heaved overboard “the men feared [Jehovah] exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto [Jehovah], and made vows”.

Thus, even at the moment of what he thought to be death, Jonah, by his faithful adherence to the truth, had borne a good witness and had honored Jehovah’s great and holy name. Surely, surely, the faithful spirit of Jehovah’s witnesses is not altogether lost upon the police officials and magistrates before whom they stand in moments when all seems lost, and in a better age we shall doubtless have some records of the sayings and doings of these men, among themselves, preserved for us, and shall know that our labor is not in vain in the Lord.

To Jonah All Seemed Lost

When Jonah went overboard it was probably night, for he was asleep when called. The storm was of God’s own making; therefore as severe as the ship could stand. Jonah reasoned that he had been unfaithful to Jehovah God. No doubt to him this was the end of all things; he might as well die and be done with it.

And then, 0 thou great and good God, at just exactly the right moment along came His divinely provided life-preserver, a living one, too, big enough to provide quarters for Jonah for three days and nights while he tried to figure things out. Most life-preservers cover but a portion of the body. Jonah’s covered him all over. He was as safe in there as he would have been in heaven, though possibly not as comfortable.

We spend little time discussing the anatomy of the “great fish” that Jehovah “prepared” to entertain the prophet. A great fish similar to the one caught near Miami, and exhibited all over the United States, could have done it easily enough. Orca (“killer”) whales more than sixty feet long have been seen stranded at Algiers in the Mediterranean; sperm whales have been seen in its waters; sharks thirty feet in length have been found containing the bodies of men whole and entire. Any of these could have taken care of Jonah.

There is one credible instance of a sailor’s being swallowed by a whale and recovered alive after several hours in the whale’s belly. The digestive juices of the whale affected his skin, but he lived for years and was otherwise unharmed. Details of this were published in The Golden Age some years ago.

Jonah Had Plenty of Time to Think

Instances are on record where sea creatures have been swallowed by sea monsters and have eaten their way to life and liberty. Jonah could not very well do that, and, besides, even if he could have done it, his life-preserver would be gone, and the moment he got to the outside the water would rush in and he would be drowned.

No, there was nothing for him to do but lie there, with the seaweeds wrapped about his head, and think the thing all over. There were no electric lights. It was warm enough, but it was close, awfully close. It was terribly wet and sloppy. The teeth pointed inward; they had mercifully spared him coming in, but he did not see how he was going to get by them on the way out, or indeed, for that matter, how he was going to get out at all. The way he put it was, “The earth with her bars was about me for ever.”

And then Jonah got to thinking about God, and what a fine thing it would have been if he had been obedient, instead of making a fool of himself. And Jehovah God, the true and glorious and wonderful God, inclined His ear and listened, and forth up from the deep came that pitiful little cry broadcast to Him from the belly of the great fish, and He heard it.

Jonah does not tell us all he said, but no doubt he started out by telling the Lord that he was sorry, genuinely sorry, for the way he had acted, and, said he, and we have this part of his prayer, “They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of [Jehovah].”—Jonah 2: 8, 9.

Jonah thus told God that it was a lying vanity, a false pride, that had kept him from going down Nineveh’s main street with the message of the hour, but if in His mercy He would let him out of his prison or life-preserver (whatever one might wish to call it) he would be most happy to go on the errand to Nineveh, his voice would be a voice of thanksgiving; he would pay to Jehovah God the vow that he had long ago vowed; he would be obedient, true and faithful. Jehovah could deliver him from even such a ridiculous plight and take him from the belly of the great fish.

No Change in Jehovah

There was no change in Jehovah; He was the same all the time; but there was a big change in the prophet Jonah. He was still dove-like, still modest, shrinking, bashful, diffident, but he had had a bellyful of having his own way, and meantime the big fish had also had a bellyful of Jonah. What was this indigestible thing, anyway, that was short-circuiting his digestive apparatus 1

And then “[Jehovah] spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land”. There is nothing said about Jonah’s washing up, and washing and drying his garments, and locating some ripe and luscious fruit in the place where it would do the most good. Those things would be provided as a matter of course.

But as soon as the exigencies of the situation were provided for, ‘the word of [Jehovah] came unto Jonah the second time, saying [just what it said before], Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I told you to preach, when I mentioned this to you before.’

And did Jonah go? Did he? You could not see him for the dust. Were his excursion to Tarshish and his three days’ rocking around in the belly of the great fish lost on him? Not so that you could notice it. Probably the digestive juices of the great fish made his skin look like that of a leopard. He was a sight to see, and a messenger to listen to.

Anyway, he went down the main street of the then greatest city of the world, and he had no more than entered the place when, with all the earnestness of a man snatched from the jaws of the tomb, he began to proclaim his message that Nineveh must repent within forty days or be destroyed. He probably thought it would not repent, and would be destroyed anyway.

Jonah’s Mission a Complete Success

The thing did not turn out the way Jonah thought it would, but it was nevertheless a complete success. Quite likely his simple narrative of his own personal experiences in the ship and in the great fish, and his personal appearance, his deadly earnestness and his expressions of gratitude to the Creator, were the deciding factors. At any rate, here is what happened, and we commend it to the attention of the president of the country:

So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water: but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.—Jonah 3: 5-10.

It is noteworthy that when Jonah was down in the belly of the great fish he said, “I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple” (Jonah 2:4), and, also, in his reminiscences he says, ‘‘When my soul fainted within me I remembered [Jehovah]: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.” —Jonah 2: 7.

We Quote from the Book “Prophecy”

At this point we quote from Judge Rutherford’s book Prophecy a paragraph from the subtitle “Assyria” which links the whole thing up:

The prophetic books of Jonah and Nahum arc devoted exclusively to Assyria and Nineveh, its capital city, and strikingly foretell a state of the Devil’s organization in which a political class will be in the saddle and adopt and follow a false religion because it is thought expedient in carrying out the political purposes. In this the political factor is strongly and consistently supported by the commercial power, the “giants”, which together with the politicians are made the principal ones of the flock of the religious system. The prophetic record concerning the Assyrian world power seems to clearly foretell a condition of the Devil's organization existing during the period of preparation and immediately before the great conflict between Satan's organization and God's organization. Otherwise stated, it foretold a condition existing on earth when approaching the time of the establishment of God’s kingdom, which is the present time.—Prophecy, page 145.

We are not discussing at this time whom Jonah represents, but from the foregoing it is plainly manifest that he represents those entrusted with a warning, rebuking work to the great politicians ensnared in the Devil’s religious systems in the interim between the Lord’s coming to His temple and Armageddon.

Let us each make the personal application to ourselves. When the great Jehovah God gives me a message to the rulers of this world, will I try to dodge the unpleasant and unfavorable publicity ? Will I try to get out of going straight down the main street of Nineveh and telling all, right and left, that they must repent and turn to God or perish ?

It may suit the flesh very well, for a time, to make business an excuse. But what kind of excuse is our own petty private business as compared with the great business of Jehovah God, the business of setting up the Kingdom in the earth, and serving notice on the rulers that they must repent or quit?

But we need not suppose that any of us shall have the experience of miraculously escaping from the sea, as did Jonah. More likely, if we are swallowed up by the sea of commerce we shall be swallowed up by it for keeps. Many are thus swallowed up and thereby lose all their privileges of service.

Jehovah God found a way to help Jonah overcome his diffidence, but we ask you to put yourself in Jonah’s place. Don’t you honestly think that he would have had a much better time if he had gone to Nineveh in the first place? And if he had been sufficiently in earnest about it, it is possible that his original message would have been as convincing as the one that he actually gave.

Obedience brings boldness as a cure for diffidence ; of course it does. But since diffidence is nothing more nor less than the fear of man, is it not just as veil, nay, much better, to be obedient in the first place, and thus spare oneself such inconveniences as those to which Jonah was subjected? Let everybody make whatever choice he thinks best.

“One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole Work! Kin”

ERRATA: In No. 360, on page 634, “malarial mosquito’’ should be “filarial mosquito", in each instance.

The Postman of Vatcho

THE postman of Vatcho, Slovenia, has just -k celebrated his eightieth birthday by having another son, which is his sixteenth child, so far. It is all right, and we don’t suppose the young man wants any advice from us, but he will find as he grows older that a big family is a heavy responsibility. The command to multiply and fill the earth is a general command, not limited to any particular family or occupation.

Casualty Underwriters Complain of Doctors

THE casualty underwriters of New Jersey have filed a complaint with their national association, complaining that certain doctors make $500 to $750 per week hanging around the Compensation Bureau and doing nothing but serve as experts in casualty cases. The result has been a 40-percent increase in costs of such cases, operating to the disadvantage of employers, insurance companies and the workers.

With Full Knowledge

WITH full knowledge that we rarely publish testimonials, or make any mention of them, a man and his wife near Toledo wrote us the other day: “We have had The Golden Age in our home ever since the first copy was printed, and never missed a copy. We are now enclosing post office order for renewal, which is the last dollar on earth we have. We would rather do without something to eat than miss The Golden Age.”

Chicago Continues to Make Progress

CHICAGO continues to make progress. Holdups are staged on a newer and grander scale. At 3: 30 in the morning, just as a dance was breaking up, five masked men made eighty-two guests and eleven employees lie down in the middle of the ballroom floor and throw their cash and jewelry into a pile. Those that did not respond quickly were kicked into submission. The haul netted the thieves about $500 per head for each person held up. All wires were cut. Police that scoured the district found no trace.

Reforestation Now Under Way

THE desire to do something for the unemployed has started off in grand style a work of reforestation badly needed. Work has been planned which it is calculated will provide 1,314,900 man months of labor. It includes construction of forest telephone lines, fire breaks, range fences, forest highways and minor trails, clearing away of fire hazard rubbish, erection of fire protection structures and administrative buildings, control of insect pests and blister rust, improvement of public camping grounds, and the planting of new forests and thinning of old ones. It is known that work of this nature actually repays in dollars and cents the investment in it. This will require 250,000 men, who will get not to exceed $30 per month and keep, and be expected to stay on the job for at least one year.

Distress in World’s Richest Country

IN AN address over radio station WOL, Edward F. McGrady, American Federation of Labor legislative representative, referring to conditions of distress in the world's richest country, said in part:

“Our investigators have found as many as five, people sleeping in one bed. They have found three families living in a tenement of three small rooms. Thousands of infants have died because the mothers, suffering for months from hunger and malnutrition, could not give these infants proper nourishment. Our hospitals are overflowing everywhere with the victims of this depression. Insane asylums are disgracefully overcrowded. Mass poverty and despair are the order of the day. Local relief has almost completely broken down. Twelve months ago cities that were able 1o contribute $15 to $20 per month for a family of five have cut their relief to $S and $10 per month and in six of our large industrial sections they areallowing only fifty cents per week to feed a human creature. This makes no provision for housing.”

Index to Volume XIV of The Golden Age

“Carried Over”

Food Purveyors to Reforestation Workers

OMEONE who has a quantity of inferior food he wishes to dispose of seems to have found the Civilian Conservation Corps at Camp

Big Springs, Glenburn, California. At least that is the inference we draw from a letter signed by forty-nine members of the company, which says, in part:

“We are not getting anything fit to eat out hero. Last Friday we had for lunch one cheese, one meat and one jam sandwich. The meat was green as grass and there were worms crawling on top of the cheese, and no jam in the jam sandwich, and tonight we had meat we couldn’t get close enough to to eat because it smelled so bad. Our chow is either burned or raw or so rotten we can't eat it/’

A Hard-pressed Sleuth

TN SAN FRANCISCO a Federal narcotic sleuth, anxious to make a showing for the big wages he receives from the government, saw a colored man come out of a drug store with three capsules of quinine. He jumped to the conclusion that here was a narcotic peddler; so he handed him $2 for two of the capsules, and then arrested him. When the Negro was brought into court he did not know what it was all about, and the report of the chemist showed that he told the truth. The sleuth should be given a blue envelope. He is probably depressed by the reports from Washington that seventy-one sleuths have been let out of the Department of Labor because it was found they were spending plenty of money but accomplishing next to nothing.

Police Quell Riots They Cause

POLICE in various cities have shown remarkable ability in quelling riots which they have themselves caused. In Washington, D. C., a group of unemployed wanted to present their grievances to the district commissioners. The police refused to grant them a permit. President Roosevelt said he saw no reason why their request should not be granted, and so notified the commissioners. The commissioners and the police stood pat and refused to allow the demonstration. But the unemployed made their demonstration anyway, and 150 massed policemen, armed with clubs and tear gas guns, had no difficulty in quelling the riot they had caused. One man with a baby in his arms was knocked to the pavement. The policeman who did it could have felled him if he had had a baby in each arm.

AGAIN —A COAST - TO - COAST HOOK-UP!

The readers of The GOLDEN AGE will be pleased to learn that Judge J. F. Rutherford (in person) will again be heard in a eoast-to-eoast network. It gives us pleasure to inform you of the dates and subjects of his lectures as well as to list below the stations over which these broadcasts will be made.

October 1	TIME
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October 8                       October 15 THE MIMIC GOD WHY SERVE JEHOVAH	11 a. m.             9 a. m. Central Standard      Pacific Standaid

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