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LABOR AND ECONOMICS

No Taxes in Tel-Aviv

Swiss Railways Operated for Public 818 Labor Provisions in Constitution

of Mexico

Minimum Wages in Canada . . . 820 Who Is the Most Valuable Citi,.e;i? 820 Work for 200 Men

Hartford and Cleveland .... 821 Ohio’s Old Age Pension I.aw . . 828

social and educational

Blood Lust Up 100 Percent . . 812 Hove France Locks After

Her Veterans.......814

Tucker Prison Farm, ALtansas . 8 IS The Odd Magic Square .... 822 Some of the Biggest Things . . 828 Arrangement of the Hollow Square 823 Children Absorb Instruction Readily 823 Index to Volume XV of

THE GOLDEN AGE .... 830

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

The Krupps Received Their Reward 814

Longest Double-Track Tunnel . . 816

London-Australia Air Service . . 818

Thompson’s Embarrassing Question 821

Stealing from Widows .... 821

The Federal Reserve Staff . . . 821

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

The Men Who Voted Against War 812

NRA Easing the U. S. into Fascism 812

General Butler on War .... 812

Great Britain Stood by Germany . 813 3,500,000 Political Prisoners . . 814 Reduction in Number of Politicians 828 What the World War Accomplished 829 Farmer-Labor Party Goes Left . S29

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

Interesting Facts About Bees . . 815 The Dry Blizzards of 1934 . . . 815 Tropical Park in the Everglades . 829

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Germany No Longer Needs Colonies 813

“Diel You Know?”.....815

Effect of Sounds upon Liquids . 815 High-Speed Bike for Level Ground 821

HOME AND HEALTH

Sales Propaganda Keeps Millions

III (Part 2).......803

Pleasant Way to Obtain Iron . . 824

Rotondi’s Raisin Bread .... 824

Deaths from Vaccination . . . 824

A Bunch of Ideas......824

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

Russia Has 2,000 Fighting Planes 814 No Defense Against Air Attacks . 816 Otoes Want Their Pay .... 818 American Resources and

Achievements.......829

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Purgatory........817

Jesus Born About October Fir:₃t 825

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Volume XV                     Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, September 26, 1934                    Number 392

Sales Propaganda Keeps Millions Ill

In Two Parts—Part 2

MINNESOTA comes next on our list. Doctors got in the habit of exploring J. N. Peterson, of Minnesota, for cancer, but after abstaining from aluminum ware for two and a half years he had a complete recovery.

Mrs. C. Walker, of Minnesota, killed two dogs by feeding them in an aluminum pan, and came mighty near getting rid of her hubby by the same method. For six years he was forced to bed by dizziness, headache and vomiting after a few hours’ work, and could take only raw eggs and fresh milk right from the cows. Now he works sixteen hours a day, and Mrs. Walker has no idea when, if ever, she is going to be able to collect the insurance on him.

Mrs. Agnes L. Brown, of Minnesota, suffered with stomach trouble, constipation, headaches, sore mouth, sore throat and heart trouble, dizziness and loss of sight. The children had heart attacks and sore mouths; the husband had trouble with heart, stomach, kidneys and head. All these troubles ended with the disuse of aluminum utensils, but since then a single meal at the home of a friend brought Mrs. Brown headaches, shortness of breath, soreness of tongue and a miserable feeling all over. She noticed that the major portion of the meal was cooked in aluminum. Mrs. Brown had a dear old lady friend who laughed at the idea that aluminum utensils, alum baking powder and white flour could do her any harm; she died of cancer, self-induced. Her son noticed that his baby was getting sores externally and refused to eat. Mrs. Brown told him aluminum utensils were killing his child. He went home, smashed the whole set with an axe, got enamel ware instead, and the whole family got well. She knew of a case where a ham boiled, but not cooled, in an aluminum kettle, made ill every person who ate of it. She says that the alum used to soften the city drinking water of Virginia, Minnesota, is a big help to the M.D.’s and undertakers.

A. L. Dosh, of Minnesota, had in his family a patient suffering with what appeared to be tumors of the breast for over seven years; they were of the size of a large pea, and almost black. Before breaking they became very painful, and the pain spread throughout the body. Six weeks after dumping the aluminum ware the last of these tumors disappeared, and there has not been the slightest return of the trouble; also, a stomach and bowel trouble which was very threatening passed away, and the patient is regaining health. Another member of the family was cured of ulcers and bad skin eruptions by the same means.

Missouri Wholesale Poisonings

Missouri believes in doing things on a generous and noble scale. At the General Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, 325 employees were made ill. It is the boast of the aluminum ware makers that they have their wares in every hospital. The results seem to show that this boast is true; and when you come to think of it, that it is the business of a hospital to make people sick, and to keep them sick, it is not such a bad here-and-now edition of the purgatory scheme. Every business today is run for revenue only.

The St. Louis Star-Times advertises “A New Tuna, Luxury Brand, Packed in Aluminum Can, New, Delicious”. We anxiously await reports of results.

Mrs. J. R. Griffith, of Missouri, noticed that when her dog Tim was fed from an aluminum dish he always left some on the sides and bottom, but when fed from an enamel dish he licked up every particle.

G. A. Bauer, of Missouri, had a skin cancer which, it was explained to him, he could have removed for $50. He stopped eating food cooked

in aluminum ware; the “cancer” dried up, and he brushed it off with his fingers.

J. N. Ragan, of Missouri, warmed and drank one morning coffee that had been left in an aluminum percolator the previous morning; as a result he was nearly blind for nine months, until the aluminum worked out of his system. Two eye specialists consulted were unable to understand the case or to help in any way.

E. M. Moore, of Missouri, entertained for a Sunday meal, noticed that it was all cooked in aluminum, and laughingly thought to himself he ought now to get some results. He did: Monday he was ill; Tuesday his back was very lame; Wednesday he was practically helpless from severe pains and soreness in his kidneys; after tw⁷o weeks they were still sore. The pain was inside, not outside.

Mrs. F. AV. Robinson, of Missouri, writes that since discontinuing the use of aluminum ware her husband's hands have become soft as velvet; for years they were covered with a thick gray crust of a grimy color; deep cracks came which would heal and crack again. One physician was honest enough to say he did not know what it was; another said it was tetter; another said old men were subject to it; and the fourth and last told him he must keep his hands out of water. A neighbor who kept hot soup constantly bubbling on the back of the stove in an aluminum kettle nearly killed himself before he found out the cause of his trouble. His liver was so enlarged he could hardly lie down.

At Galena, Missouri, in the family of Richard Crabtree, some chicken was kept overnight in an aluminum pan. Two of Mr. Crabtree’s children, a boy of one year and another boy of four years, died and were buried in the same grave. This was all regular; nothing unusual about it in any way. The deaths could have been forecast by any reader of The Golden Age as a most natural result.

Natal, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, his wife and thirty others, were poisoned at a dinner given in Dr. Weizmann’s honor in Durban, Natal, South Africa. It was a regular, formal, up-to-date poisoning; no unusual features of any kind.

At Verdel, Nebraska, the wife of Fila Sherman, his seventeen-year-old daughter Vivian and his thirteen-year-old daughter Esther died within a week after they had eaten corn prepared in an aluminum pan; very sad, but quite to be expected.

Mrs. F. AV. Morse, of New Hampshire, writes that when she ceased to use aluminum ware she ceased to have stomach trouble; she is quite sure it was these utensils that caused her to have a skin cancer, now also healed.

At the Overbrook Hospital for the Insane, Newark, N. J., after a Christmas dinner, out of 280 guests all but 50 were taken ill within two hours after the feast. There was nothing the matter with the food itself. The answer is so plain that anybody can understand it. The aluminum utensil people boast that nearly all the hospitals in the country cook their food in nothing but aluminum.

Matilda R. AVellman, of New Jersey, writes that her dog died of cancer of the rectum; his drinking pan was of aluminum ware.

New York Wholesale Poisonings

If the smaller, less important states can have wholesale poisonings, they are not to be denied to the Empire State. There was one at White Plains, where G5 persons became desperately ill, and another at Jamaica Hospital, Richmond Hill, New York, where 60 were stricken; everything regular. The “health authorities” never know any reasons for these wholesale poisonings, and never will know any.

It would seem as if the opinions of Dr. Hal Truman Beans, of Columbia University, New York city; Doctor N. S. Hanoka, of New York city; Doctor Frank C. Gephart, chemist, New York; Andrew Dingwall, Ph.D., chemist, Brooklyn; Lester C. Himebaugh, biochemist, New York; Max Kahn, associate in biological chemistry, Columbia University; John Allen Killian, professor of chemistry, Fordham Medical School, New York; Dr. Matthew Steele, Ph.D., instructor at Columbia University; Dr. AVilliam J. Gies, professor of biological chemistry, Columbia University; Dr. Hattie L. Hoeft, physiological chemist, Teachers College of Columbia University, ought to have some weight, but apparently their well-considered advice that aluminum compounds, when taken internally by man, are poisonous, has not registered as it should. Even though most of them may not wish it, we are helping to get their ideas before the people, as a public duty.

Doctor Royal S. Copeland, United States senator from New York, and former commissioner of health of New York city, states that food should not be allowed to remain overnight or for any period of time in aluminum cookingware.

E. W. Symondson, of New York, lost his mother, presumably by operation for cancer; he is now well convinced she would be alive today had she never had any aluminum utensils. When he notices people who look ill, and inquires, he often finds they cook by what may be called “the great graveyard way”.

Buffalo Boy Scout Troop 66 left some onions piled on aluminum dishes used by the troops, and they were overlooked; in a few months the dishes were still more useless than ever, as they were pitted with holes.

Miss Edith Hollenbeck, of New York, had vomiting spells three or four times a week; the doctors said it was cancer; she threw away all her aluminum utensils, and got well.

Chris Jenson, of New York, became entirely incapacitated for work as a result of the habit of using for drinking and cooking purposes water left in an aluminum kettle, but his palpitation of the heart and fainting spells all disappeared within a year after he threw the aluminum ware away.

Clayton J. Woodworth, of New York, tilted an aluminum skillet in a gas flame; the skillet took fire and fell in pieces; as the aluminum hydroxides, sulphates and chlorides had worked out into the food, their place had been taken by the fats used in cooking. An aluminum teakettle was mended several times, due to aluminum hydroxide passing out into the foods and drinks of the family. Pie crust rolled out on a table top of pure aluminum was so gray it could not be eaten. Obviously, a metal unfit for a table top would be a metal unfit for use as a cooking utensil.

0. 0. McIntyre, New York newspaper man, divulged that 900 were poisoned at a bank executive luncheon in New York. Same old story: nothing of this was allowed in the newspapers; it is thought better to risk the lives of a few men such as Mitchell and Morgan than to have aluminum shares go down.

Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes, of New York, made a shampoo in an aluminum basin; immediately after using the shampoo her hair felt like a coil of very fine wire and broke off most unaccountably.

Mrs. H. V. Champlin writes of the death of her father, after his eating of chicken cooked in aluminum and allowed to stand in it for a few hours; two other members of the family were also made seriously ill. The mother, Mrs. C. J. Baker, died from the poison three days later.

In the nine years from 1920 to 1929 cancer rose from twentieth place to second place as a cause of death; it knows no help but the knife, the N-ray and radium. One would think that all doctors would be willing to recommend fresh fruits and vegetables and to cut out white bread, pork and aluminum utensils and see what would happen. They would learn something.

New Zealand and North Dakota

Dr. R. Atkinson Reddell, of New Zealand, in a letter to Doctor Betts, states that he has long held the view that the cooking of foods in aluminum ware is destructive to health and was glad when Betts’ book Aluminum Poisoning put scientific information on the subject within his reach.

Mrs. Ivy Gillanders, of New Zealand, was very ill with stomach trouble and colitis, but, since ridding her home of every aluminum article in it, now finds herself in greatly improved health.

Roe E. Remington, biological chemist, North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, North Dakota, found by experimentation that aluminum compounds, when taken internally by man, are precipitated therein, and thus are poisonous.

Henry W. Haven, of North Dakota, had a sick kitten, and incidentally a sick wife. He made his wife feed the kitten for ten days in something else than aluminum, so the kitten would get well, and then happened to think of his wife and made her feed herself the same way. It was hard on the doctor who had had her as a regular customer for eight years; for she got entirely well. Henry says the only place for aluminum utensils is on the rock pile.

Ohio Wholesale Poisonings

Ohio is a great state, one of the very greatest in the Union. It claims the same rights as any other great state to allow its citizens to be poisoned wholesale as well as retail. The Toledo Y.W.C.A., famous for its cleanliness, carefully selected chickens, cooked them in aluminum, and allowed them to stand therein from afternoon till eight at night, when they served a banquet to 300 high school young women. The result was regular in every way; 70 of the young women became very ill. Any “medical authority” that would have dared discover the truth on this would have lost his job. There is too much profitable advertising at stake. What is an occasional wholesale poisoning of our finest citizens when we have the reputation and integrity and dividends of our greatest financial institutions at stake?

Mrs. Elsie Hoppe, of Toledo, boiled beef hearts and tomato soup in an aluminum kettle; the result was regular. She, and four of her children, ill. Mrs. Everett Smith, and daughter Lois, died from home-cooked food, allowed to be stored for some time in aluminum before being packed in glass jars.

W. L. Bryden, of Ohio, suffered from a gnawing sensation in his right side and up the colon to its turn; he thought he had cancer; he discarded his aluminum utensils, and recovered entirely.

Dr. P. D. Pottle, of Ohio, observed that on a hot July day seven goats refused to drink water from an aluminum bucket, but drank eagerly when a different bucket was provided.

Mrs. Lawrence Harbauer, of Ohio, told Dr. Betts she had used aluminum ware for years without any ill effects. She died in less than thirty days after she made that remark, and they found in her gall bladder a stone over 1| inches in diameter. Her husband, even after her death, continued the use of the utensils which had ended the life of his companion; shortly thereafter he died from ulcers and cancerous tissue, aluminum-caused.

Mrs. Charles Frazer, of Ohio, cooked the food for goats in aluminum. One of the goats developed bowel trouble; when enamel ware was substituted the goat got well.

Mrs. Louis Cook, of Ohio, bought a set of aluminum ware at a big price. After using for a time she noticed in the kettle a crystal, like salt, touched it with finger tip, and tasted. It was sour, and produced a sore on her tongue that took two weeks to heal. If you want that kind of sores on your intestines, you just go right ahead and use all the aluminum utensils you wish to. Don’t allow anything we may say to stop you. You have a right to die by a selfinduced cancer the same as anybody else, and should be protected in that right; only don’t get sore when somebody tells you about it.

Dr. Arles Pottle, of Ohio, reports a case of a patient with heavy ulceration of the stomach completely healed when the lady discontinued using aluminum ware.

Garnet Pearl Walker, of Ohio, writes of a neighbor girl who had violent vomiting spells for years; she switched over to using granite ware, and the trouble ended completely.

Mrs. I. A. Hall, of Ohio, says her mother broke out with hives, became unconscious, and was so swollen as to be unrecognizable. A physician said it was from her kidneys; another said it was rheumatism and her teeth would have to be extracted (he overlooked the fact that she had worn false teeth for thirty-five years); a third said it was from her liver; a fourth said her tonsils must come out, and he had his wish. The attacks continued nine months, but in sixty days after discarding all aluminum ware she became a well woman. Incidentally, antagonism to the literature of the Kingdom turned into friendliness. All the people need is to have the liars stop lying to them.

Mrs. Grace Daugherty, of Ohio, had sore mouth and a sore lip from wearing an aluminum plate and cooking in aluminum ware. These troubles disappeared when the causes were removed. A stomach trouble of long standing also disappeared.

The mother of L. V. Gates, of Ohio, had violent attacks of gallstones for several years and was told she must be operated upon; but when she stopped using aluminum ware she had no more attacks.

At Steubenville, Ohio, it was noted that Tom Parry’s canary will neither chirp, sing nor bathe when given water treated with alum and other chemicals, but bursts into song and bathes birdfashion when given pure spring water. Says Dr, Betts: “Thousands of voices of little children are similarly silenced as reported concerning this canary.”

One reason why cows occasionally give poisoned milk and children are slain thereby is that the cows eat white snakeroot (in Ohio) or rayless goldenrod (New Mexico) and the excessive amount of aluminum compounds which these contain is more than the human system can handle.

The people of Columbus have 500 tons of bauxite (aluminum-ore compound) thrown into their drinking water every year. It is used to purify (?) the water and help the chemical companies continue to operate at a profit. Iron sulphate should be used instead, and is harmless.

Adolph Kurzen, of Ohio, talked with an aluminum worker who said there is a disagreeable and sickening smell from working in aluminum, the fingers become sore, and the worker lives but about ten years.

Charles Howard, managing editor of the 86-page Toledo Times, was dismissed within twenty-four hours after he allowed to be printed an article by himself upon the aluminum question, after he had thoroughly investigated the facts. It is dangerous to tell the truth.

It took the Federal Trade Commission five years, required 158 witnesses and 4,000 pages of closely typewritten testimony to reveal to the Mellon government the facts that are freely revealed to our readers in this issue. As soon as the report was published it was immediately suppressed for reasons which are so self-evident that it is a public shame to even mention them.

Oklahoma Has Poisonings Also

Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1933, dumped into its water supply 251 tons of alum, undoubtedly affecting the health of thousands. Iron sulphate could have been used instead, with perfect safety.

Mrs. Jack McKenzie, of Oklahoma, writes that vomiting spells were killing her boy, but he recovered when she stopped using aluminum-ware utensils.

J. H. Barger, of Oklahoma, had a constant pain in his stomach, sharp pains in chest, was very nervous, and lost twenty pounds in weight; tried all kinds of doctors and medicines without result, but obtained complete relief when the aluminum ware was discarded. Now, at meal time, he is hungry, eats all he wants, and feels fine.

Arthur J. Edens, of Oklahoma, was kept ill by eating food carried in aluminum containers in his lunch kit. After lunch came a nauseating feeling, followed by pains in the stomach. The malady disappeared with the utensils.

W. V. Stanley, of Oklahoma, was bothered with stomach trouble and heart trouble, was forced to stop on the street and sit down on curbs or in doorways, and could not climb stairs. Not one of these symptoms has appeared since he quit killing himself by small doses of aluminum hydrate taken from his kitchen ware three times a day.

At Tecumseh, Oklahoma, 90 girls were poisoned at the State Home for girls. Everything about this poisoning was regular, including the absence of any explanation by the medical “authorities”.

A subscriber in Oklahoma noted a letter from the president of the American Medical Association, deploring the increase in trench mouth. The lady wrote Dr. Fishbein that the cause of trench mouth, which he had admitted he did not comprehend, was that the soldier boys tried to drink from aluminum containers. He replied: “Careful scientific study in various parts of the world indicates not the slightest danger to the human from eating food cooked in aluminum cooking utensils.”

Under the circumstances one can partly comprehend the following from the Journal of the American Association for Medico-Physical Re* search:

The Journal of the A.M.A. is the vilest sheet that passes the United States mail. Its language merely keeps within the Postal Regulations. It is conducted meticulously upon the principles of graft. Nothing new and useful in therapeutics escapes its unqualified condemnation. Its attacks are generally ad hominem. Its editorial columns are largely devoted to character assassination. No reputation, no life, no character is above its libelous assaults. It is of such reputation that the statement of a fact in its columns is prima facie evidence of its untruth. Its editorial writers work in the seething ooze of corruption and write with a “muck rake”. This reputation of the Journal of the A.M.A. is general in the United States. Its editor is of the type of Jew that crucified Jesus Christ.

Ontario and Oregon

Margaret Carson, trained nurse, served twice in the largest hospital in Toronto. Each time she developed cankers in her mouth, due entirely to the fact that at that time the cooking in that hospital was all done in aluminum. Since then the hospital in question has done away with all aluminum utensils. Looks as if, in Canada, the health authorities were willing to learn something.

W. A. Sinclair, of Ontario, writes that a Doctor C., having made a study of aluminum compounds, is warning the people against the use of aluminum for cooking and fully agrees that the position of The Golden Age on the subject is correct. He is not generally supported by the medical board of his city.

A. S. McKenzie, of Ontario, tells of a surgeon who rejected hot water for the purpose of sterilizing a surgical instrument, when it was brought to him in an aluminum container. He said the contaminated water coming in connection with the blood stream might cause serious trouble. The Pelton and Crane Company, sterilizer manufacturers, made them of aluminum. For some unpublished reason they now make them of stainless steel.

Mrs. C. R. Fair, of Ontario, had heart trouble and sinking spells, gradually coming closer and closer together; often her husband had to resort to artificial respiration to pull her through. Paying attention to The Golden Age, she noticed those attacks always came after eating cabbage, rhubarb, spinach or anything that would clean the kettles of their verdigris. She then discarded all aluminum ware, and has not had one spell since. A hardware man to whom she confided admitted that aluminum ware is not fit for anybody to use, and stated that he advises customers never to purchase it.

J. A. Manning, of Ontario, took a quantity of defibrinated cow's blood, and stirred into it alum (one of the acid salts of aluminum) in hot water, with the surprising result that the blood turned into a solid. He thinks this shows why people are slowly killed after eating meat cooked and allowed to stand in aluminum vessels.

Mrs. Dudley Ryan, of Ontario, very ill of stomach trouble, threw out all her aluminum, and got well. (She reports a neighbor who had a piece of beef turn green when left in a pot overnight; another churned in an aluminum vessel and the butter turned black; another mixed a white cake batter in an aluminum bowl and a black streak followed the spoon.)

At Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 75 students were made terribly ill from eating foods cooked in aluminum ware which had remained overnight in the aluminum containers. This poisoning was in every way regular. All possibility of chemical poisoning was eliminated by the state board of health.

Mrs. Aurelia L. Culp, of Oregon, finds that she and her husband are benefited physically, and their minds made more clear, by discontinuing the use of aluminum ware in cooking. Recently for four weeks in a hospital she was able to identify at once the foods which had been cooked in aluminum, noting a slightly bitter taste.

Kate Ronde, of Oregon, writes two remarkable letters, each of which would make two pages of The Golden Age. We wish we had space to print them. Six years of investigation makes her certain that when she stopped using aluminum she stopped having the flu, and that most flu victims are regular users of Mr. Mellon’s metal. She discovered that five cats refused food that had stood in aluminum containers, and would not taste it even when sugared and creamed, yet they were hungry enough at the same time to eat plain bread. Since discontinuing the use of the metal she has ceased having neuritis, and is no longer always tired out, has no need of laxatives, and misses the palpitation and sharp pains around the heart which were regularly hers before.

Pennsylvania Wholesale Poisonings

Pennsylvania has as able chemists as are to be found anywhere. Prominent among these are H. J. Force, of Scranton, Dr. Clarence A. Smith, of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Dr. Arnold K. Balls, associate in chemistry, University of Pennsylvania. These men have all borne testimony to the fact that aluminum compounds, when taken internally by man, are poisonous. Those men are honest and they are disinterested. Their advice should be heeded. However, wholesale aluminum poisonings in Pennsylvania go right on, year after year. Eight were poisoned at the Capolozzi wedding at Pittsburgh. Everything about the poisoning was regular.

At Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, 200 church diners were poisoned at the First Baptist church, due to the fact that the entire supply of gravy was collected into one aluminum container. When the highly paid advertising experts got on the job they quickly changed the word “aluminum” to “metallic”, so as to throw the public off the track. An advertising man is a useful man.

At McKeesport, Pennsylvania, soup made of fresh and excellent materials was allowed to stand from 11:30 a.m. to 5: 30 p.m. in a closed aluminum container. When eaten it sent a father, mother and two children to the hospital deathly sick. This is not a complaint: it is only telling about it.

The Pittsburgh Posl-Gazette mentioned that the new Thompson restaurant is equipped with Allegheny metal, which contains no copper, zinc, tin, or aluminum to react with food acids or taint foods with a metallic flavor. Allegheny metal is not plated, and is unrusting and untarnishing, and is considered the very best. Probably Mr. Mellon uses this in his own kitchen.

Prof. H. J. Force, of Scranton, thirteen years a pharmaceutical chemist in New York city, and twenty-two years chief chemist of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, humorously tells how to kill your friends with the aluminum sulphates, aluminum chlorides and aluminum hydroxide formed by cookery:

‘ ‘ Give them the following dinner: Sauerkraut cooked in aluminum; tomatoes with salt and baking soda, cooked in aluminum; bread baked with alum baking powder; custard pie baked in an aluminum pan; and coffee made in an aluminum percolator. Let all stand twenty-four hours in aluminum, and then reheat and serve, but tell your friends what they are eating, and let them read this first. This should prove to anyone who is honest about aluminum that it is poisonous. If people will not believe the best authorities, then they must take the consequences.”

Mr. Force says further:

“A friend of mine, after having seventeen carbuncles, threw out his fancy aluminum ware. The carbuncles disappeared. Another fed his dog from an aluminum dish; the dog died from a cancer of the face. Two others each gave a dozen young ducks water in aluminum pans, and all the ducks died in less than two weeks.”

Mrs. G. Lijjpenot, of Pennsylvania, always cooked in aluminum, and every four or five months had severe attacks starting with diarrhea and pains in the abdomen as though someone were sticking a knife in and twisting it. Sometimes she could hardly get her breath. When she switched over to enamel-ware utensils these attacks, which had persisted for years, ceased.

• A. K. Brubaker, of Pennsylvania, jeweler and optometrist, is not purchasing any more aluminum frames, finding that they give some patients a sore nose and sores back of the ear.

Paul Pierce, of Pennsylvania, writes such a comical letter that we reproduce it entire:

‘‘After reading about aluminum about four years ago, and promptly discarding every piece of the darn stuff, we have derived great benefits. My wife had a small tumor in her one breast which left entirely in three weeks, with no recurrence in four years. She was sick continually. I was fat, ugly, and a chronic grouch. We got along like a tomcat and a bulldog in a barrel. After we sold the catalytic stuff to a junk peddler, I lost 38 pounds in a year; I lost that ever-hungry feeling. Thanks to the good articles published, we get along wonderful.”

Harry C. Knapp, of Pennsylvania, dropped in weight from 195 to 140 and was so dizzy that he staggered like a drunken person. Everything he ate passed right through him, and he could get nothing to stop it. In three months from the time he replaced his aluminum ware with iron pots and granite ware he was back to himself, and has not been sick since.

H. D. Pitzer, of Pennsylvania, had a brotherin-law about to be operated on for appendicitis; they used aluminum ware exclusively in their house. Pitzer advised a change of cooking-ware as a substitute for the knife, and the prescription worked like magic.

Lawson H. Force, of Pennsylvania, took a new aluminum shaker, filled it half full of fresh cream, and shook it violently for fifteen minutes. At the end of that time the aluminum in the cream was so strong it could be smelled; one taste was enough to make one spit it out immediately. He believes that to drink the cream would have caused harmful results, if not death.

Claude C. Corle, of Pennsylvania, had heart trouble, Bright’s disease, and strangling spells at night; his wife had kidney and bladder trouble and headaches and underwent three operations in septum, tonsils and breast. Change of cooking-ware made them completely well. Since the change they have not spent a cent for either drugs or doctors.

F. E. Koob, of Pennsylvania, is employed in a place where he has seen much food cooked and served in aluminum containers, with many resultant cases of indigestion, gastritis and headache readily observed. A doctor of his city ordered a patient to discard over $100 worth of aluminum ware.

In a work published by Dr. Arthur R. Cushny, of Pennsylvania, in 1906, it is established that even then it was well known that aluminum poisons the bowels and kidneys and causes degeneration of the nerve cells and fibers of the spinal cord, particularly those of the lower cranial nerves.

Emmett Baxter, of Pennsylvania, when he discontinued using aluminum ware noticed a great improvement in his kidneys in two or three days, and in ten days a long-standing trouble had disappeared.

Quebec and Queensland

Professor R. F. Ruttan, of Montreal, Quebec, is one of the authorities that aluminum compounds when taken internally by man are poisonous.

William E. Comfort, also of Montreal, reports great benefit to his health since entirely ceasing the use of aluminum ware.

Sid. Dalia Veechia, of Queensland, nearly lost a sister and a nephew who drank milk which had stood for fourteen hours in an aluminum container. Out of twelve adults and five children at the place where the poisoning occurred these were the only ones to drink of the milk which had stood in the aluminum container, and the only ones to be made ill.

Saskatchewan, Scotland, South Dakota

Mrs. A. M. Cook, of Saskatchewan, received from her hubby some cured finnan haddie that looked and smelled very tasty. She put it in an aluminum kettle in the cool cellar over night and boiled it twenty-five minutes the next day for the midday meal. It was so bitter it could not be eaten. Mrs. Cook noted an entire disappearance of digestive troubles since discontinuing the boiling of coffee in an aluminum percolator.

Peter Crown, pioneer, of Saskatchewan, had no appetite, but did have cramps in legs and a splitting headache and expected to die almost any time. He got well from the time he gave up using aluminum ware.

As we go to press we have reports of 58 men of the Highland Light Infantry poisoned at Gailes, Ayrshire, Scotland. The 58 men belonged to two companies, but no cases were reported from other companies in the same battalion, or other troops encamped at Gailes. When this is sifted down it will without doubt be found that the food for the two poisoned companies was cooked and kept in aluminum containers.

There was a grand wholesale poisoning at the Ziebarth home in Elkton, South Dakota, that would have warmed the heart of any aluminum ware advertising man. Previous to the day of the action beef and pork were cooked in a large aluminum pot. The gravy was stored in the same utensil over night, reheated the next morning and poured over the meats, after which buns ■were prepared and placed in cartons for the noon lunch. Within three hours 250 persons were acutely affected with food poisoning, many lost their sight temporarily, and the use of their limbs. More than 150 persons received hospital treatment.

Switzerland, Tennessee, Texas

Switzerland prohibits the use of aluminum compounds in foodstuffs. In Switzerland such a thing as happened at Elkton, South Dakota, would result in something being done for the people, but in the United States the only result would be to have somebody rush into print in The Scientific American or The Literary Digest and air his profound and invincible ignorance by telling the 250 people who were nearly killed that aluminum utensils are perfectly safe. And they would prove it by quoting from the Journal of the American Medical Association and other large advertisers of aluminum ware.

Lucy Templeton, of Tennessee, noted that the birds would not drink out of an aluminum dish. They have no advertising section to maintain.

A. L. Butcher, of Tennessee, writes that squirrels will not eat nuts that are proffered to them in an aluminum container, and birds will not eat food that has been mixed in aluminum ware. On his own account he notes relief from excessive fatigue, improved memory, and a complete freedom from attacks of the flu and neuritis with which he was previously affected.

Mrs. W. A. Lee, of Tennessee, had an open wound on an injured leg for seven years. At one time she was in bed seven months with this, and at another time two months. The trouble disappeared completely when the aluminum ware was discarded.

At La Grange, Texas, a lady and her daughter were made desperately ill by drinking buttermilk made in a churn the rod of the dasher of which had been painted with aluminum paint. The paint worked off with the churning process and was drunk with the buttermilk.

Airs. H. D. Warren, of Texas, and her daughter, were subject to frequent vomiting spells until they threw their aluminum ware on the dump, but have had no trouble since.

D. E. Logan, Jr., of Texas, found that his boarding-house lady used for him her own aluminum coffeepot instead of the one he furnished: result, his tongue became sore and swollen on one side; but when he stopped drinking coffee at his boarding-house the tongue got well in two days.

Sarah Wallace, of Texas, was under a doctor’s care for fourteen years, too wretched to care whether she lived or died. During all that time she used aluminum ware exclusively. Now she says she has no aluminum ware but can put in eight hours in a day in the Lord’s service and the only thing wrong at the day’s end is that she is somewhat tired and as hungry as a bear.

Airs. Ruth Lloyd, of Texas, had a forty-five-piece set of aluminum ware that kept her husband, herself and two children often ill with stomach trouble, bloody flux, flu, and pains in the head. Since they discarded their nice, pretty set the whole family has been well except when they went visiting relatives who cooked in aluminum.

Airs. J. J. Johnson, of Texas, reports a woman, angry because her sick husband came home with enamel kettles, insisting, on a doctor’s orders, that all his food be cooked in them, instead of in the nice aluminum kettles she had always used, and which had kept him continually ill with stomach trouble. However, in three weeks her hubby was permanently cured, and the wife was so delighted that she took all her aluminum ware out into the back yard and, with a hammer and a large nail, made sure that every piece was ruined so that nobody else would ever be harmed by it.

J. B. Lassiter, of Texas, with his five-year-old daughter Mary, were both killed by eating poisoned beans, carried over from a previous meal in an aluminum vessel. His wife, a sixteen-year-old son, and two daughters were made ill from the same cause. A two-year-old baby that went to bed without supper was the only member of the family not poisoned. “When this poisoning case got into the papers it was carefully referred to as “metal” poisoning, not as “aluminum” poisoning; and thus the advertising man saved his job, and the hardware man the profits on his aluminum-ware business.

Virginia and Washington

Cr. M. Kitzmiller, of Virginia, writes that though he had been eating crabs all his life, yet when he first ate crabs cooked in aluminum utensils the crab juice ate holes in his clothing and even in his shoes wherever it touched them.

Martha B. Smith, of Virginia, never had neuritis until she cooked in aluminum, got over it when she discarded the utensils, and got it immediately again when she went to a convention where the food was thus cooked, and was so ill that for two days she could not walk.

R. O. Chandler, of Virginia, was told to part with his teeth and tonsils, to recover from bleeding gums and awful pains in the stomach. His wife was not told what to do for her impending cancer of the stomach. Now they no longer have any aluminum ware in the house, the husband, wife and four boys enjoy the best of health, and Chandler still has his teeth and tonsils.

• B. W. Branscome, D.C., D.O., of Virginia, released fourteen puppies, fifteen days old, one by one, into a room containing milk in an aluminum receptacle and also in a granite-ware receptacle, and every one of the puppies went to the granite-ware receptacle for its food and shunned the aluminum one.

• C. A. Downey, of Washington, suffered so with gas in stomach and bowels that he lost six to eight weeks’ work each year. When he discarded his aluminum utensils he got well at once, and gained 21 pounds in weight.

Wason Brothers, of Seattle, Washington, advertise: “Don’t use aluminum or nickel coffeepot : use only seamless enamel ware.” Occasionally there is a merchant with a conscience.

Mrs. Theodore Nordenum, of Washington, reports that a neighbor 88 years of age had suffered from stomach trouble for years, but gained immediate and permanent relief when he ceased using aluminum-ware utensils.

West Australia, West Virginia, Wisconsin

A gentleman, in a West Australian newspaper, merely signing himself “C.H.”, tried three times churning in aluminum ware. Each time the butter had a greenish tinge and an unpleasant taste and was thrown out. Others have noticed that mixing butter in an aluminum bowl imparts a slight color, a disagreeable odor, and a bitter, unpleasant taste.

F. D. Forquer, of West Virginia, had sour stomach and gas in stomach and bowels and a nice set of aluminum cooking utensils. His kidneys pained him very much, he lost weight, and his friends thought he was going to die. His house burned down, he had to buy new utensils and selected enamel and iron, with the result that he got entirely well.

Two physicians and a clinic of physicians advised Mrs. Ethel Lemburg, of Wisconsin, that her only hope of life was to have her gall bladder removed; but she removed her aluminum ware instead, as being less expensive and less dangerous, and now she has perfect health and still has her gall bladder.

What a dastardly thing it is that men who already have more than heart could wish will in avarice persist in the business of poisoning millions of fellow creatures, making life miserable and hastening death. The definite breaking of the everlasting covenant does not, we may be sure, escape the notice of Jehovah. “He that is higher than the highest regardeth.” (Ecclesiastes 5: 8) The covenant which emphasizes the sanctity of life cannot be lightly broken.

Nor can the perpetrators of slow murder come to plead ignorance of the fact that the metal they urge unsuspecting people to use for preparing their food is dangerous to health. They know the facts and have thoroughly organized their forces to suppress the truth by means of a subtle and ubiquitous censorship. The Lord Jehovah knows and will recompense the wicked. He will deliver the people, “and precious shall their blood be in His sight.”

The Men Who Voted Against War

WHEN the United States Congress voted for participation in the World War, 455 for and 56 against, it made the biggest mistake ever made in the history of any nation. The influence for good then lost will never be regained, and the billions then loaned will never be repaid. Only 7 of the 56 men who voted foi' peace are still in Congress, but all agree that their course was right in 1917, when Uncle Sam was flattered into pulling the Allies’ chestnuts out of the fire. Britain’s default puts the finishing touches on American bitterness over the deal America received as a reward for its generosity, its resistless energy and courage, and its colossal foolishness. Before America would participate in another World War she would see the earth open her mouth and swallow the whole of Europe from the Urals to the Bay of Biscay. The flattery that worked before, the propaganda that was so wonderfully clever and successful and untrue, would be hooted and jeered from one end of the country to the other. Never again! If the poor of Europe had benefited to any extent, we would say less about it, but they are as badly off as the people of America.

NRA Easing the U.S. into Fascism

Leo Gallagher, Tom Mooney’s attorney, recently returned from Germany, is convinced that the NRA will fail, and that when it fails the American people are in for worse things than have recently happened in Germany. He believes the course of events will be, as in Germany, persecution, industrial deadlock and, eventually and inevitably, Communism. But we are convinced that God’s kingdom, man’s only hope, will cut the whole performance short. Meantime, no doubt, the Inquisition in all its “glory” is ahead. Let it come.

General Butler on War

General Smedley Butler told the Veterans of Foreign Wars that war is a racket espoused by Wall Street and munitions trusts, that the marines are a collecting agency, that the same crowd that gets up a war, and collects the profit from it, is the one that calls the veterans ‘treasury raiders’ when they endeavor to get the compensation that is needed, and that in the new war that is in the making the Americans will probably be in it on the side that owes them the most.

Getting Rid of the War-Makers

Henry Ford thinks that if the world could get rid of about 100 men who control the munition business we should then have a warless world. That is something like what Jehovah God has declared His purpose to do. All these munition makers, and all the other troublemakers, no matter how many they are, or how powerful, will be destroyed by the angels of Jehovah God in the impending battle of Armageddon ; and thereafter, according to the Scriptures, there will indeed be a warless world. A dispatch from London says that Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford, has been threatened with kidnaping and is being closely guarded. All the kidnapers will be destroyed in Armageddon, too. Henry ought to get Judge Rutherford’s work Vindication (in three volumes, at 25c each) and see the wonderful things that are going to happen; it would surely interest him if he got started to read it once.

Blood Lust Up 100 Percent

IN THE year 1900, in the 31 principal cities of the United States the homicide rate was 5.01 per 100,000; last year, in the same cities the rate was 10.7 per 100,000. In other words, following the war which was to make the world safe for democracy, the murder rate has more than doubled. It is observed that many of the murders are committed by persons of education and refinement—a considerable number of them by women.

America’s Scarlet Army

AMERICA’S scarlet army is said to consist of 400,000 persons, guilty every yeai' of 12,000 murders, 3,000 kidnapings, 100,000 assaults, 50,000 robberies, 40,000 burglaries, and 5,000 arsons. If the entire sum of the crime bill ($13,000,000,000) and the annual racketeering bill could be saved for one year the national debt could be wiped out. The interest racket and the purgatory racket are two major crimes not included in the list.

Great Britain Stood by Germany

GREAT BRITAIN stood by Germany during the World War. Coal was sent without restriction to Scandinavia and handed on freely to Germany. Shipments of oil seeds, tallow, lard, fish oils, animal oils and fats were more than doubled, and went into Germany for the manufacture of glycerine used in high explosives. The export of copper to Sweden doubled; that of copper from Sweden to Germany trebled. In the first six weeks of 1916 Great Britain shipped 20,000 tons of zinc ore to Rotterdam, whence it went to the German munition makers. In 1915 Britain sent Sweden twelve times the amount of nickel sent in 1913. By these means Germany was able to hold out two years longer.

A Reproof of Christian Britain

IT SEEMS in order to reprove Christian Britain for shipping 16,000,000 rounds of ammunition to her well-oiled Bolivian brethren and only 2,000,000 rounds to her Paraguayan brethren. There must be some reason for this injustice, and (excepting for unanimous confidence in the world’s richest oil company) one is almost tempted to think that Britain sent more to the one than she did to the other because there was more money in it. But would it be right to lay such charges to a Christian nation like Britain? Maybe we can straighten out the kink in this by singing “God save the kink”.

Germany No Longer Needs Colonies

ERMANY no longer needs colonies, or other sources of raw materials. Her chemists now produce sugar in large quantities and very edible biscuits for humans from ordinary wood; the fodders thus produced for cattle, hogs and poultry are so nutritive that meat, lard, butter, eggs and milk are thus produced indirectly. Cotton, wool, silk, gasoline, oil, grease, alcohol, are all obtained from a cheap grade of bituminous coal and ordinary forest timber.

Penniless Colonists Return from Australia

GROUP of penniless colonists returned to Great Britain, after nine years of failure in trying to wrest a living from the semidesert lands of Victoria. Finally the Victorian government advanced them enough to return with their families to England, there to enter the ranks of the unemployed.

The Joys of Life in Russia

eter Stepovoy, Ukrainian, writing in the Sault Ste. Marie (Canada) Daily Star, gives the following extract from a letter to him from Russia, dated January 8, 1934: “I am informing you that I am alive and also my family and we wish the same to you, though I did not know what we are living for, or how we live. Last spring we bought buckwheat chaff, ground it up fine, mixed it with molasses, cooked and ate it, until the weeds grew. After that we lived on the weeds until the grain began to ripen. Then we cut the heads from rye, dried them and ground them on stones, and made bread. I can’t explain to you how glad we were when we saw the first bread on the table. Other food, such as meat, pork, fish or any kind of fats, we have forgotten how it looked. We eat chaff, and that is not so bad. Others eat their own children, cats, horses, anything that they could eat. It was frightful the way people died from starvation, and it was not possible to pick them up and bury them each day. In our village 1,300 people died.” This is one of five similar letters published in the Star. In another Mr. Stepovoy’s correspondent tells of a man in poor health, with a sick wife and tw^To small children, ten and twelve years of age, who had to live an entire year on 13 bushels of grain.

Rockefeller and Soviet in Collaboration

OLITICS makes strange bedfellows. Here are two dispatches sent the same day, one from London and one from Paris. The London dispatch says that the International Research Library of the League of Nations is the gift of John D. Rockefeller, jr.; it is one of the great libraries of the world, and cost $2,000,000. The Paris dispatch says that the League of Nations is so near collapse that the Soviet Republic is proposing that both Russia and the United States join at once, so as to save it. France is eager to have Russia join the League. The British Labor party is very desirous that both Russia and the United States should join.

Treaties Outmoded in 2y₂ Years

IN 3,000 years in which such records have been kept, it is known that 8,000 peace treaties have been effected. The average life of these treaties was 2| years. Since the World War the number of peace treaties has greatly increased, and their probable value greatly decreased.

Severe Discipline in Russia

A NY worker who falls below his quota, in either quality or quantity, will have his wages cut up to as much as one-third, says a dispatch from Russia. An engineer, responsible for a fatal train wreck, was ordered shot. Aviation is developing rapidly. By the middle of last August the aviation mail lines were 31,815 miles in length, and it is expected that within three years from now they will reach 124,280 miles. This summer 5,000,000 Russian youth received military training. All Siberia is well covered with aviation lines.

How France Looks After Her Veterans

FRENCH veterans receive pensions, half fares on all transportation systems, preference in government jobs, rebates on certain taxes, cash loans at low interest and without security for starting in business, special grants up to $1,000 for purposes of home building, assistance in meeting payments on insurance policies, assistance from government welfare projects. Additionally, the law requires that in every business 10 percent of the personnel must be war-wounded or pensioners.

No Taxes in Tel-Aviv

IN THE beautiful Jewish city of Tel-Aviv, Palestine, a community of 80,000 is maintained by merely passing around the hat. When anything is wanted for the city the inhabitants cheerfully chip in, and in this way have paid for a municipal building, a sports ground and theater, for hospitals, and for exposition grounds and buildings. There are no Gentiles. There are now 250,000 Jews in Palestine, 50,000 having come in the past year, many of them driven out of Germany by the persecutions.

The Krupps Received Their Reward

THE Krupps, Germany’s great armament firm, did not go unrewarded. Not only did they receive the highest decorations for patriotism from the kaiser, but after the war was over they received 123,000,000 shillings from the British government royalties on the Krupp patent hand grenades which British troops used in killing many thousands of Germans. Not even in America do we have a finer example of the ‘honor’ to be found among Big Business concerns.

Recent Sayings of Doctor Goebbels

Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, German minister of propaganda, recently said: “I know that it is a sacrifice for us not to have a new war. War is the most simple affirmation of life. Suppress war and it would be like trying to suppress the processes of nature. These are also terrible. Every living thing is terrible.” We submit that a man who can talk like that, so soon after the most terrible of all wars, is demonized, unquestionably.

3,500,000 Political Prisoners

IN THE New York Times Van Gheel Gilder-meister, a Dutch Quaker, who has devoted much of his time during the past twelve years to bringing about the release of political prisoners, declares that, excluding those in concentration camps, and excluding Russia, there are now 3,500,000 humans in prison in the Balkan states on account of their race or their political views.

German Children’s Country Year

TWENTY THOUSAND Prussian boys and girls, new graduates of the German school system, compulsorily left their parents on April 16, 1934, to spend eight months on the land, under the leadership of 1,800 teachers. The boys will work in the fields, while the girls will learn household tasks. Book learning will be strictly national, folk and race knowledge, political history, technical knowledge, field and map work.

Russia Has 2,000 Fighting Planes

A TACOMA business man who makes frequent trips to the Orient declares that Japan has 350 fighting planes, while Russia now has 2,000, built by the Germans. On account of the fact that Japanese houses are built of paper it is thought possible that if war breaks out the Russians might do incalculable damage if they select a windy day for an attack.

27-Year War in Morocco Ends

THE 27-ycar war waged by the French in Morocco has finally come to an end with the complete subjugation of the last of the wild Berber tribes. The victory is considered important because the airline to South America traverses the country where the last fighting occurred.

Interesting Facts About Bees

BY ARRANGING themselves in hollow cube formation bees keep their hives at 57 degrees even when it is 30 below zero. The membership of the hive is in two classes: those on the outside, that keep the cold out, and those on the inside, that work to keep up the interior heat. From time to time these change places with each other. In the summer a worker works himself to death in six weeks: the first two weeks he is a packer, working entirely on the inside of the hive; the next two weeks he is a pollen gatherer; and the last two weeks he gathers nectar, sometimes flying 84 miles and back for a single drop. The nectar when gathered is 80 percent water. This has to be condensed until it is but 18 percent water. This is done by hanging a drop on the top of a cell, where it is continually fanned by wing movements until it is ready to pack away. If humans were fed food as nutritious as that fed to the larvae of bees a baby would grow to weigh 7,000 pounds in a few weeks. Very few bees sting: it may mean death to the stinger. Bees can tell other bees when they have found a rich supply of prospective honey, but they cannot tell where it is, though they can lead the other bees to it. Bees have police that prevent strangers from entering, although bees do sometimes get into other hives than their own and steal the honey there stored.

The Dry Blizzards of 1934

THE dry blizzards or dust storms of 1934, due to soil erosion, are but the precursor of further and worse storms, yet they were so bad that whole fields of seeded oats were blown away with the soil, high drifts of fine dust formed, snowplows were used at Valparaiso, Indiana, and in the Twin Cities (St. Paul-Minneapolis), at the height of the storm, and throughout the entire day, motorists drove with lights. Over a large area it was necessary to suspend flying, surgical operations were postponed, and telephone operation was considerably interfered with.

Could Easily Have Swallowed Jonah

IN APRIL a creature with a mouth three yards wide was washed up on the Romani beach, between Egypt and Palestine. Its body was more than fifteen yards long. Such a creature could easily have swallowed Jonah.

“Did You Know?”

SAY'S William Kean Seymour, in Progress

Today: “Did you know that thousands of lives ebb out slowly and piteously with little cries and squeals and snarls on the red altar of ‘Science’? Did you know how a committee had conceived a plan, world-wide and international, to give one thousand dollars for the best report of year-long dental torturing of dogs? The advance of ‘Science’! Each dentist takes a dog, infects with pus his jaw, and waits, and watches, and notes his torment for a year, and then kills off the dog and sends his paper in. War against decaying teeth! Science! Progress! The dog again shall prove his loyalty and help some fiend to win a prize. I do not ask this sacrifice; you do not ask it.”

At the Close of the “Holy Year”

AT THE close of the “holy year”, in the holy city of Chicago, and in the holy Y.M.C.A. of that city, dogs were run in a treadmill to study exhaustion; the exhausted dogs were pushed back into a tank full of water to see how long they could avoid drowning; and a dog that had been starved for 21 days was denied water on the 26th day. At the Johns Hopkins Hospital forty pairs of dogs, 80 dogs in all, were joined together, Siamese fashion. Do you wonder that God is about to destroy this civilization?

Can You Swim?

A SUBSCRIBER in Nova Scotia says that if ** the ice at the poles should melt enough water would be added to the oceans to raise their level 150 feet. This ■would mean that all the seaport cities, and these are the largest cities in the world, would be drowned out of existence. Can you swim?

Effect of Sounds upon Liquids

BY INTENSE sounds liquids may be thrown into such violent vibrations that small holes or cavities are produced in them, the sides of which clap together with great violence. Flowing milk is sterilized by exposing it to intense audible sounds.

Farm Population Greatest in History

THE farm population of the United States, which was 32,509,000 on January 1, 1934, was at that time the greatest it has ever been. Due to AAA and other legislation the move is now from the farm back to the city.

Sheba Seems Definitely Located

SHEBA seems definitely located, eighty miles north of Mareb, Arabia. French aviators flew over this marble city, which stretches for three miles along a ridge. They took numerous photographs, and came down to within 200 or 300 feet, despite the fact that they were frequently shot at by the hostile Arabs. The existence of this city, first reported by Napoleon’s soldiers, was doubted for many years. It must have housed 200,000 people, and still houses a considerable number, as all the buildings seem to be intact. It is in the midst of a farming district.

The Goddess of Smallpox and Cholera

AT VEERASINGANPET, Central India, in order to appease the goddess of smallpox and cholera, devotees permit hooks to be inserted in the muscles of their waists and drag around a small chariot containing an emblem of the rather unsanitary and unpleasant lady. Recently the British authorities tried to put a stop to these orgies, resulting in deaths of two devotees, and one magistrate and one constable. The poor natives have not yet learned the value of sanitation, and that incisions into the body are entirely useless and foolish as cures for either smallpox or cholera.

No Defense Against Air Attacks

OF THE German planes that bombed Britain during the World War, less than 5 percent were lost, and when a daylight raid was made on London, June 13, 1916, and a fleet of 94 planes went up to fight the invaders, only 5 of the 94 planes even succeeded in locating the enemy formation. More recently, in a night test, a fleet of planes flew over London, and with all the latest aids, such as powerful searchlights, only about one plane in 10 of the 300 in the flight was even located at all. This all seems to show that in the next war there will be substantially no defense against air attacks.

The Blue Danube Express

THE Blue Danube Express, new 28-hour train between London and Budapest, runs once a month. The coaches are bright blue, fitted with radio. A gypsy orchestra boards the train at the Hungarian frontier. In Hungary recently 20 farmers were thrown into jail charged with the high crime of listening to the Soviet Russian broadcast.

Occupations in India

FROM the 1934 Hindusthan Year Book we learn that when the last census was taken, three years ago, they then had in India the following occupations: professional identifying witnesses, drivers of epidemics by charms, horoscope casters, wizards, witches, mediums, earwax remover, setters of gold nails in teeth, breakers of horns of dead bullocks, suckers of bad blood, searcher of conch shells, cradle swingers, and sellers of grasshoppers.

Buddhist Monks Are Cleaning Up

REALIZING that their swindle has seen its best days, Buddhist monks at Peiping are cleaning up on the proposition. Three of the monks hocked some 400 sacred objects, some of them several times life-size, and then started in on a 108-day prayer fest, thinking thus to throw the government off their trail. They were dragged away and sent to jail, as the Chinese government paid them wages to safeguard the things that they stole.

Longest Double-Track Tunnel

THE world’s longest double-track tunnel is now in Italy, where the mountains are pierced between Bologna and Florence by a hole 11J miles long. Ninety-eight workmen lost their lives in its construction, which took twenty years. The electric line of which it is a part, a remarkable engineering feat, cost in the neighborhood of $100,000,000. The new tunnel cuts seven hours out of the running time between Naples and Milan.

Restoration of the Electrocuted

Professor Smirnov, of Moscow University, claims he could quite easily restore to life persons electrocuted for crime, or otherwise. He lays bare the heart, makes injections in the direct path of circulation, and induces artificial heartbeats by means of ultra-short radio waves. Two persons have thus been revived in Moscow, one supposedly dead of heart disease, and the other had been electrocuted.

Paris Plans to Out-Eiffel Eiffel

THE Eiffel Tower, 1,000 feet high, constructed in Paris in 1889, and now used as a wireless station, will be put far in the shade by a new steel tower which is intended to be 3,250 feet high, projected for the Paris Exposition of 1937.

THE NINTH

in the series of short Bible talks by Judge Rutherford is presented herewith. The doctrine of “purgatory” is considered by many to be a Bible doctrine. Others, aware of the fact that it is not mentioned in the Bible, think that it is in harmony therewith. It is therefore appropriate in this series of Bible talks to consider the doctrine of “purgatory”, viewing it in the light of the Word of God. This Judge Rutherford does in his usual direct and straightforward way of dealing with questions which are of vital importance to the people. He does so, not for the sake of controversy, but that the people may be enlightened and have the comfort which only a proper understanding of the Holy Scriptures can bring to mankind. The lecture presented herewith deserves prayerful and thoughtful consideration.

Purgatory

THE Catholic clergy in particular, and many Protestants, teach the people that those who died in sin are now in “purgatory” or torment. What is meant by “purgatory”? and who are there ? “Purgation” means to “cleanse” or “make pure”; and the supposed “purgatory” is presumed to be a place for the cleansing of men from their sins, so that when a sinner dies he might be cleansed after being dead. The clergy claim that this may be done while he is dead. They also teach that the prayers of priests can be said for one in “purgatory” and thereby his term of punishment shortened and his release be much earlier. Many good people have paid large sums of money to Catholic priests to pray for their dead ones upon the theory that they could get them out of “purgatory”. It is therefore seen that the “purgatory” teaching has been used as a means of obtaining revenue.

The doctrine of sinners suffering in “purgatory” is wholly false and has brought a great reproach upon the name of Jehovah God. It would be a terrible thing if the Almighty God would commit men to “purgatory” and then permit other men to pray for them to get them out, and to receive a money consideration for so doing. As the Bible plainly teaches, those who have died are entirely out of existence and unconscious, not knowing anything. If we believe the Bible, then we must certainly know that there is no person in “purgatory”, and that there is no such place in existence. There is not one scripture in the Bible to support the “purgatory” theory. The false doctrine of “purgatory” began to be taught in the Roman Catholic organization some 1600 years ago, and since that time Catholic priests have continued to preach it and collect money for prayers upon the pretext of getting men out of “purgatory”. The people have paid their money and got nothing in return. This is another false doctrine of Satan based upon his original lie, his purpose being to deceive the people and cause them to suffer both mentally and materially. Because this doctrine has been taught so many centuries doubtless many priests in the Catholic organization verily believe it to be true; but that does not make it true. Ask them to show you one text in the Bible to the effect that the dead are conscious in “purgatory”, and they will not be able to do so.

Some will cite the case of the thief that was crucified the day that Jesus died. The thief said to Jesus: “Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.” Jesus replied: “I say unto thee today [that is, now], shalt thou be with me in paradise.” The word “paradise” means a garden or beautiful condition of the earth, and has no reference to a place of cleansing. Jesus did not go to “purgatory” or any other place that day, because He was dead and in the grave for three days. After His resurrection He ascended into heaven. “Paradise” has reference to the beautified earth which will be made so by Jesus during the time of His kingdom. The thief died that day and went into the grave, and is there yet. The meaning of Jesus’ words, therefore, is this: That because the thief exercised faith in Jesus he would be brought forth during the reign of Christ and have an opportunity to live on the beautified earth. This matter is fully explained in the book Reconciliation, which you should read.

Furthermore, priests have no authority to say prayers for forgiveness of sins of those who have died. Only God can forgive sins, and prayers for the dead are not heard by Jehovah. No man’s prayers are heard until that person believes on God and Christ and then consecrates himself to do the will of God. To claim that men are suffering in “purgatory” and can be released by the prayers of others is not only a false doctrine, but a defamation of God’s name. The dead are in the tomb awaiting to be awakened out of death. Jesus said: ‘Marvel not: the hour is coming in which all that are in their graves shall hear His voice and come forth: they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection by judgment.’ (John 5:28,29) Each one must decide for himself whether he desires to believe the words of imperfect men or to take the authoritative words of the Lord. My advice is that you read your Bible, together with the books explaining it, and find out these truths for yourself. Learn of Jehovah and do His will, and He will enlighten you.

[The foregoing lecture is one of a series of eighteen talks obtainable in the form of phonograph records which may be run on any phonograph at the usual speed of 78 revolutions per minute. These records are being distributed by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, 117 Adams St., Brooklyn, N. Y., with a view to disseminating Bible truths among the people. Judge Rutherford's talks are universally known, having been given by radio, from the platform, by the printed page, by electrical transcription, and now obtainable for the phonograph. Inquiries concerning the phonograph records should be addressed to the Society, and not to us.]

Items of Interest Near and Far

Tucker Prison Farm, Arkansas

FOR no reason, except that certain types of so-called “white” men find pleasure in torturing black men, or other unfortunates that come under their power, convicts do the work of mules on the Tucker prison farm, Arkansas. Eight teams of six convicts each do the work of eight mules drawing cotton planters up and down the mile-long rows.

Otoes Want Their Pay

IN 1870 Uncle Sam gathered up most of the Indians and put them in what is now Oklahoma, but was then Indian Territory. The Otoes, taken from Nebraska, are now wondering why Uncle Sam failed to pay them a little sum of $11,000,000 for their Nebraska holdings, which they claim is their due, and have asked permission to sue the government for the amount.

DD.’s Bark Better than They Bleat

THE Reverend Harold Anson, rural dean of Oxted, England, is quoted in a London paper as saying that he never could make out why so many of his clerical friends who spoke with charming voices to their fellow men found it necessary to bleat like sheep or howl like dogs when talking to God.

Asiatic Quarrel Ended

THE rift between China and Persia, which lasted for 1,300 years, was closed May 8, 1934, and as a result Persia will establish consulates in Shanghai and Nanking. That’s right, boys. “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.”

London-Australia Air Service

THE last contracts have been made, and regular weekly air service will be maintained between London and Australia, starting in December. The schedule calls for the trip each way to be made in 14 days. Five four-engine planes will be employed, with a cruising speed of 145 miles an hour, and the initial contract will be for five years; subsidy, £318,426.

Highway Tunnels Through Mont Blanc

FRENCH and Italian delegates have discussed the building of two motor tunnels through Mont Blanc, so that tourists may go between the two countries by way of the Alps all the year around. The tunnels will be of concrete, each 21 feet in diameter, and connected at intervals, throughout the length of miles.

Swiss Railways Operated for Public

THE Swiss railways, owned by the state, are operated for the convenience of the public.

A Swiss pays $12 a year for transportation, and, having bought his ticket at the first of the year, he can thenceforth go anywhere he pleases, and as often as he pleases, without further expense until the next year.

Black Cat Upsets Bulgaria’s Nerves

AT MIDNIGHT, May 8, while great doings were on at the Union Club, in Sofia, a black cat fell into the electric light machinery and plunged the Bulgarian capital into darkness. Great excitement prevailed, and it was feared some great plot was afoot, until the cat’s burned body was produced.

ARTICLE 123 of the constitution of Mexico covers “Labor and Social Welfare". What has taken the labor movement of Europe and the United States many years of agitation, organization, struggle and sacrifice to establish is sought to be accomplished in Mexico by constitutional provision.

Economic reforms are established with magnificent courage and thoroughness in Article 123 of the Mexican constitution and written into the basic law of the land. No supreme court can declare these measures unconstitutional, for they are part and parcel of the constitution itself.

The labor of workmen, journeymen, employees, domestic servants, artisans, and, in general, all labor, is governed by laws in conformity with the following principles laid down in the constitution :

Eight hours is the maximum limit of a day’s work, and seven hours the maximum limit of a night’s work.

Workmen must receive at least one day’s rest for every six days worked.

When necessary to work overtime it shall be paid for at the rate of double time. In no case may the overtime exceed three hours daily nor continue for more than three consecutive days.

No women of any age nor boys under fifteen years are allowed to work overtime.

Unhealthy and dangerous occupations are forbidden to women in general and to boys under sixteen years of age.

Children under twelve years of age are not permitted to work in factories, and for children over twelve and under sixteen the maximum limit of a day’s work is six hours.

The minimum wage paid a workman must be sufficient to supply the normal needs of life of the workman, his education and his lawful pleasures, considered as the head of a family.

In all agricultural, commercial, manufacturing or mining enterprises the workman has the right to share in the profits.

The fixing of the minimum wage and the profit-sharing is done by special commissions appointed in each community.

The same wage must be paid for the same work, regardless of sex or nationality.

During the three months immediately preceding childbirth, women shall not perform any work requiring considerable physical effort;

By John C. Harding during the month following childbirth they shall enjoy a rest with their wages paid in full and retain their employment. During the time of lactation they are allowed two daily periods of rest of one-half hour each in order to nurse their children.

The employer who discharges a workman without just cause or for being a member of a union, or for having taken part in a strike, must, at the option of the workman, either continue employing him or indemnify him by the payment of three months’ wages.

(It is said that President Obregon used this section of the constitution to compel British and American oil operators in Mexico to continue operating their works when they at one time threatened to lock out their Mexican workers by shutting down.)

In all agriculture, industrial, mining or other class of work, employers are obliged to furnish their workmen with comfortable and sanitary habitations, for which they may charge rents not exceeding one-half of one percent of the assessed value of the property.

In labor centers, when their population exceeds two hundred inhabitants, a designated space of land shall be set aside for public purposes and the construction of places of amusement. The establishment of saloons and gambling houses is prohibited in such labor centers.

The laws recognize the right of workmen and employers to strike and suspend work.

Strikes are lawful when their object is to secure a balance between the various factors of production and to harmonize the rights of capital and labor.

Suspensions of work shall be lawful only when the excess of production renders it necessary to close down in order to maintain prices above the cost of production, and when previously approved by the board of conciliation and arbitration.

Every contract between a Mexican and a foreign employer must be legalized before a competent municipal authority and viseed by the consul of the country to which the workman wishes to go, with the understanding that in addition to the usual clauses it is clearly specified that the cost of repatriation of the laborer shall be at the cost of the foreign employer.

The following stipulations are null and void and not binding on the contracting parties, even

though included in the contract: Those which provide foi' an inhuman day’s work, on account of its notorious excessiveness. Those providing a wage which in the judgment of the board of conciliation and arbitration is not remunerative. Those which provide a period of more than one week before wages are paid. Those which assign places of amusement, eating houses, cafes, taverns, saloons or shops for the payment of wages, unless employees of such establishments are the ones involved. Those which involve a direct or indirect obligation to purchase articles of consumption in specified shops or places. Those which permit retaining wagos by way of fines. Those constituting a renunciation on the part of the workman of the indemnities to which he may be entitled because of labor accidents or diseases contracted from the work, damages occasioned by nonperformance of the contract, or for discharge from the work. All other stipulations which imply the waiver by the workman of some right vested in him by the labor laws.

Considered of social utility: Institutions of popular insurance for old age, sickness, life, lack of employment, accident, and others of a similar character; therefore, both the federal and state governments encourage the organization of such institutions, to instill and inculcate habits of thrift.

The cooperative associations for the construction of cheap and sanitary habitations for workmen are likewise to be considered of public utility, when these properties are intended to be acquired in ownership by the workmen within specified periods.

Minimum Wages in Canada

CANADIANS trying to find out minimum wages being paid workers in that fair land found girls working in a biscuit factory in Montreal 72 hours a week and receiving in wages, salary, emoluments, bonus and compensation in general the munificent sum of $1.50 per week. In Quebec, where the Roman Catholic system is in full control of everything, they found one family with six persons working, two females and four males, and among them they earned a gross income of $20 per week. A big slice of this $20 goes to the priest, as a matter of course. And if any of the six dies, then another big hunk must go to him or he won’t say any masses for the “repose of their souls”. And that would be just too bad; now, wouldn’t it? One of the girls in this family works 55 hours a week and receives $2. If this girl goes wrong and then subsequently dies one wonders if her Catholic employer will do the handsome thing and come across with a nice little bonus to be turned over to the priest for the “repose of her soul”. Seems as though it would be a nice thing to do, doesn’t it? It seems there is a direct relation between income and subsequent “repose of the soul”; the less income you get here, why, according to Roman Catholic theology, the less chance of “repose for your soul” hereafter.

Who Is the Most Valuable Citizen?

WHO is the most valuable citizen, the man with the little income, who is forced to spend almost all that he receives, or the man with the big income, who spends only a very little of it and is almost forced to see his pile of riches get bigger and ever bigger? The man with the little income helps everybody with whom he comes in contact. The man with the big income cannot even help himself, because the safety of his pile depends upon the contentment of the common people. It is calculated that in 1929 the classes with incomes of $1,000 or under expended 94 percent for goods and services, 3 percent went for taxes, and 3 percent was saved, while in that same year the classes w’ith incomes of over $1,000,000 expended but 6 percent for goods and services, 17 percent went for taxes, and the huge amount of 77 percent was saved to accentuate still further the difference between the moneyed classes and those that have little.

Work for 200 Men

SOMEONE who does not give his name is circulating a printed memorandum to the effect that he thinks it would be a good idea if each 100 working married women whose husbands are employed would give up their jobs to 100 single men who would marry 100 working girls who in turn would give up their jobs to 100 married men. Well, it does not seem just the right thing, in these days when jobs are so scarce, for the childless married women to be working for good wages while their husbands are also working for good wages.

Financial Department

Carl Thompson’s Embarrassing Question

Carl D. Thompson, able editor of Public Ownership magazine of Chicago, and secretary of the Public Ownership League of America, which has done so much to keep the wolves of high finance out of some two thousand of American cities that now own their own utilities, is demanding an answer to the following question. He says: “Think it over—what’s the answer? What do you think of a system that makes it possible for one man, Eugene Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Company, to receive as salary and bonus $5,450 per day, while 14,000,000 are unemployed and get nothing?” For his own highly important work Mr. Thompson last year received in salary a sum so small that the only way he could live was by fees received for outside lectures. The hogs that have ruined America are not even interested in the only things that would enable the old usury system to stagger a few paces farther ahead. They prefer, and will justly get, complete ruin.

Stealing from Widows

THE Denison (Texas) Press tells of two widows, mother and daughter, left with a quantity of bank stock and $35,000 in cash in the bank. The bank management loaned out their money to parties who owed the bank, demanded and received payment from such parties, and maneuvered the books in such a way that in the end the widows had neither cash nor security, lost all they had and were reduced to the bread lines. A Denison subscriber who knows of the circumstances is in hearty favor of the death penalty for all such rascals, and approves the action of the governor of Georgia in releasing two highwaymen as a protest against the light sentences or no sentences at all imposed upon the biggest thieves of our time. Armageddon will straighten it all out.

The Federal Reserve Staff

HPHE staff of the Federal Reserve Board and J- the Federal Reserve banks, including branches, is 10,522, and their combined annual salaries are $18,833,670. One could hardly have supposed that so few men could succeed in getting the finances in such a condition that it would be necessary to put all the banks in the country on a holiday. The 24 chairmen and governors have salaries of $641,735 per year, an average of over $25,000 each.

The Wire Cage Swindle

AID Hon. George G. Sadowski, congressman from Michigan, in an address on the floor of the House of Representatives: “I should like to see the interest-paying game taken away from private bankers. I cannot understand why bankers who do not own the money they lend, have a right to charge interest, or toll, on the use of the money. . . . The government has permitted the Federal Reserve system to buy interest-bearing bonds with non-interest-bearing currency, made legal because the government delegated its sovereignty to private bankers, the Federal Reserve system. The Federal Reserve promised to the people of this nation an even and proper flow of bank credit and an adequate currency. It has done neither. The Federal Reserve should be abolished; all private banking should be abolished. The right to issue money and credit should be returned to the Federal government.”

Hartford and Cleveland

HARTFORD, Connecticut, has a population of 164,072; its citizens pay $3.00 for the first 15 kilowatt hours of electricity that they use; and, of course, they buy their current from a privately owned plant. Cleveland, Ohio, has a population of 900,429; its citizens pay 59c for the first 15 kilowatt hours of electricity that they use. Cleveland has its own municipal plant. The people of Hartford just dote on being robbed. The city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, is but 33 miles from Hartford, and located on the same river. Holyoke also has its own municipal electric plant, and the cost to the citizens for the first 15 kilowatt hours is but 60c, as against Hartford’s charge of $3.00.

High-Speed Bike for Level Ground

A N ITALIAN priest has invented a highspeed bicycle for use on level ground, which it is claimed will do 40 miles an hour. A rocking pedal transmits power to the rear wheel by means of a lever. Sprocket and chain are done away with.

Banks Slowly Reopening

OF THE 4,609 banks closed in the United States in 1933, only 1,260 had been reopened a year after the bank holiday. The other 3,349 were still closed tight, with funds tied up for future liquidation amounting to something like $4,000,000,000.

The Odd Magic Square

THE following information, showing how to construct the magic square of any size in which there is an odd number of figures, was sent in to us by C. F. Henkels, of Pennsylvania. The square is so constructed that the totals of the numbers in the two diagonal lines, and of the numbers in each perpendicular and horizontal row, are all the same. In examining the examples given below it will be found advantageous to trace out the largest one first, beginning with the number 1 and concluding with 81. The rules will then be more readily comprehended.

• (a) Square of 9 numbers:

492     5 10 3     G

3 5 7  or  4  G 8  or  5

816    9 27   10

It will be observed that these numbers are always in the same relative order. In the first illustration the numbers total 15; in the second, 18; in the third, 21. In the second illustration the start is made with the number 2, and in the third illustration, with 3, but the manner of arrangement thereafter is always the same. The start is made with the square immediately below the one in the center.

• (b) Square of 25 numbers:

11 24  7 20  3      12 25  8 21

4 12 25  8 16       5 13 26  9

17  5 13 21  9 or 18  6 14 22

10 18  1 14 22      11 19  2 15

23  6 19  2 15      24  7 20  3

It will be observed that these numbers are also in the same relative order, and that they are sympathetically in order with the numbers in the squares of nine. In the first the numbers total 65; in the second, 70. In the second the start is made with 2, instead of 1 as in the first, but thereafter the manner of arrangement is the same. The start is always in the square just below the center one; and any number may be used to start, provided there is no change made in the manner of arrangement, and the result will always be accurate, and a multiple of 5.

• (c) Square of 49 numbers:

22 47 16 41 10 35

5 23 48 17 42 11

30 6 24 49 18 36

13 31  7 25 43 19

38 14 32  1 26 44

21 39  8 33  2 27

46 15 40  9 34  3

(d) Square of 81 numbers:

37	78	29	70 21	62	13	54	5
6	38	79	30 71	22	63	14	46
47	7	39	80 31	72	23	55	15
16	48	8	40 81	32	64	24	56
57	17	49	9 41	73	33	65	25
26	58	18	50 1	42	74	34	66
67	27	59	10 51	2	43	75	35
36	68	19	60 11	52	3	44	76
77	28	69	20 61	12	53	4	45

The rules are as follows: Construct empty square, with ruled lines, 4 lines each way for a square of (3 by 3) nine numbers, 6 lines each way for a square of (5 by 5) twenty-five numbers, 8 lines each way for a square of (7 by 7) forty-nine numbers, etc. Find the center square. Start to number consecutively and fill the spaces as follows: (See square of [9 by 9] eighty-one numbers.)

Begin just under the center square; always drop down to next square to be filled, that is, down one and over one. When you drop below the bottom line, or to the right of the last perpendicular line, proceed as shown in the movements 4-5 and 5-6. When the square is occupied, proceed as in the movements 9-10 and 18-19, where such procedure is possible, but in other cases proceed as in movements 36-37 and 45-46.

Mr. Henkels says: “The sums are always equal and must be worked according to rule; errors are detected at once when figures do not fit. Why this works out I do not know. If it interests the ‘figure minded’ it serves its purpose. With a little practice the solution is almost automatic, so easily is it performed.”

Just to show what can be done with this arrangement, we take a square of twenty-five numbers, and instead of starting with 1 we start with 3. Then instead of placing in consecutive numbers we place numbers three apart and get this:

33 72 21 60 9

12 36 75 24 48

51 15 39 63 27

30 54 3 42 66

69 18 57 6 45

In working this out we find that when the uniform sum of the columns in any ‘magic square’ (195 in this instance) is divided by the number of figures in a column (5 in this instance) the result is the figure which goes in the center square (in this instance 39).

Refer again to (b), square of 25 numbers,

and note that besides five vertical, five horizontal and two diagonal columns each totaling 65, the same number is obtained by every orderly grouping of four squares surrounding the center square added to the figure in the center square. Some of these are as follows: 13-1-2125-5, 13-14-8-12-18, 13-19-9-7-17, 13-15-3-11-23, 13-22-16-4-10, 13-2-20-24-6.

Some of the Biggest Things

THE highest mountain is Mount Everest, 29,141 feet; the largest library is Biblio-theque Nationale of France, with over 1,000,000,000 books; the tallest building is the Empire State, 1,250 feet; the largest palace is the Vatican, with 1,100 rooms; the biggest ship is the Normandie, of 76,900 tons; the tallest statue is the Statue of Liberty, New York, 151 feet; the tallest church is the Ulm Cathedral, Germany, 532 feet; the biggest church is St. Peters, at Rome; the longest corridor is that of Rames-waram temple, South India, 4,000 feet; the longest railway platform is at Sonepur, India, 2,415 feet; the largest pearl is the Beresford-Hope, weighing 1,800 grams; the longest railway run is from Riga to Vladivostok, 6,000 miles; the largest telescope, at Mount Wilson, will have a 200-inch reflector; the largest railway station is the Grand Central Terminal, New York, with 47 platforms; the largest dome is the Gol Gum-baz, Bijapur, India, 144 feet in diameter; the longest wall is the Great Wall of China, over 1,000 miles in length; the longest tunnel is 25 miles long, under the Pyrenees; the largest battleship is H.M.S. Hood; the largest island is Greenland, 827,300 square miles; the largest dirigible is the U.S.A. Macon; the largest seaplane is the Do-N; the largest bell is the Bell of Moscow, 21 feet high, 21 feet in diameter, weight 432,000 pounds; the largest park is the Yellowstone National, 3,350 square miles; the largest archway is the Sydney Harbor bridge, Australia; the largest army is that of Russia; the largest movie theater is the new Radio City Music Hall, New’ York. The highest jump by a man was 6 feet 8| inches, by Osborn of the U.S.A.; the highest jump by a woman was 5 feet 5| inches, by Jean Shiley, also of the U.S.A. The longest jump was by C. Nambu, of Japan, 26 feet 2y_s inches; the longest jump by a woman was by K. Hitomi, of Japan, 19 feet 11-1/10 inches. The longest non-stop flight was from New York to Rayak, Syria, 5,912 miles, by

Codos and Rossi. The fastest time around the world was by Wiley Post, in 7 days 18 hours 49 minutes. The fastest time was by warrant officer Angelo, an Italian flier, who covered a measured course at 437| miles an hour. Jevdo Kinos dropped 20,000 feet from a plane before pulling the parachute cord, after which he safely drifted 2,000 feet to the earth. Italian pilot flight lieutenant Boscola flew in the air upside down for 5 hours 51 minutes, near Rome.

People Love to Be Humbugged

A FRIEND in Watervliet remarks on the fact that a lady took off her diamond ring in a ten-cent store, to try on the cheaper rings. At length she made a purchase and went off without her diamond ring. After three days she went back and found the ring just where she had left it. Meantime hundreds had pawed it over; they preferred the bogus to the genuine. The friend says that the people prefer the old bogus doctrines and to throw away the kingdom of God with all its blessings of life and happiness; and it is true. The people have a positive mania for being misled and wishing to have it so; Satan has so blinded their minds that black seems white, and white, black; the crooked seems straight, and the straight, crooked.

Arrangement of the Hollow Square

Francis J. Cerves, Michigan, calls attention to the fact that, by arranging them in the form of a hollow square, 8 objects can be arranged in 4 rows of 3 each; 12 objects can be arranged in 4 rows of 4 each; 16 objects can be arranged in 4 rows of 5 each; 20 objects can be arranged in 4 rows of 6 each; and 24 objects can be arranged in 4 rows of 7 each. The last arrangement named is particularly interesting, because 7 is a symbol of completeness and 24 is the symbolical number of all the true and faithful elders. Whatever way they are looked at they are true to their covenants, or, in this arrangement, they are seen as on the square.

Children Absorb Instruction Readily

ONE of the finest things about children is the readiness with which they absorb instruction. Learning from almost every newspaper and magazine and billboard that the finest thing they can do is to smoke cigarettes, orphans in the attic of the orphan asylum at Campulung, Rumania, smoked cigarettes, with the result that Campulung was totally destroyed by fire.

Housekeeping and Hygiene

A New and Pleasant Way to Obtain Iron

SAYS Joann Barnhill, of Kansas: “I have a heart lesion and am unable to eat any food that is harsh in fiber, such as spinach, bran, pineapple, etc. Knowing I need fresh vegetables, and being unable to eat any raw ones or raw fruit, I have had a problem. Here is what I found, by experiment. Spinach makes a delightful drink, tasting much like cherry juice, when I get it ready to drink. To illustrate my point: I have a friend who abhors spinach. I said one day, ‘Do you like cherry juice’’ The answer was ‘Yes’. I said, ‘I believe I will fix you a good drink.’ He thought it was cherry juice, wondered about the color, but said it was most refreshing. I then told him it was spinach juice; he looked horrified for a minute and then remarked that ‘anyway, it was a darned good drink’. Since then we have had several good laughs over it. Being a male creature, and very set, it was quite a concession for him to make. Pull the leaves from fresh New Zealand spinach and extract the juice. My method is to shred with scissors, place in bowl and mash and mash and mash until the leaves are bruised and juice runs out; then I pour cold water over them, stir well, pour in sieve, drain off the juice and add to a tart lemonade. I cannot retain orange juice with any degree of comfort, but this green lemonade, which tastes exactly like cherry juice, seems to agree with me perfectly. I thought perhaps some other of the Lord’s poor sick ones might be benefited, so am happy if I could bring a little comfort to someone in sending it to you. Spinach is so rich in minerals, and yet so many folks do not like it. I feel sure if they will only try this delicious, refreshing drink they will never again say, ‘I don’t like spinach.’ None of the rich minerals are lost when served in this manner, as they are when the spinach is cooked.”

Rotondi’s Raisin Bread

J. Lamobeaux, of California, says that • Doctor Rotondi’s raisin bread is most delicious: 6 cups whole-wheat flour; 3 spoons Royal baking powder; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 cup raw sugar; 2 pounds raisins; 3 cups shredded carrots; 1 cup olive oil; 3 cups boiling water or milk; 2 teaspoons of cinnamon; bake for one hour in a slow oven. Lamoreaux did not say what kind of spoons to use in measuring out the baking powder, which is just like a man, but if he had inquired of his wife she would have said that teaspoons were what he meant.

Deaths from Vaccination

ON THE same day there fell into our hands a list of 27 persons who died from vaccination, and an item from the Carlisle (Pa.) Evening Sentinel. The latter tells of John Marsh, South Mountain farmer, in jail from November to June because he steadfastly refused to have his children vaccinated. At the latter' date Judge Fred S. Reese broke up this man’s family, sent the wife and mother to the County Home, and placed the children in the care of a probation officer, -whose duty it will be to find homes for them. They are eight in number, one of them having been born in February, while the father was in prison. Edgar M. Crookshank, M.B., professor of comparative pathology and bacteriology in Kings College, London, who investigated this -whole subject most elaborately for the British medical profession in 1889, denounced the whole practice as a futility bound to be generally acknowledged sooner or later, and prophesied that vaccination will disappear from practice and be of interest only in a historical sense.

A Bunch of Ideas from Weeks

R. Weeks, pioneer, on Decoration Day • found the entrance to the cemetery an excellent place to put out booklets appropriate to the time and place. He says that equal parts of olive oil and vaseline make a good hair tonic. For a morning tonic (and it is good for asthma too), “Slice one lemon into cups of water, allow to simmer for 30 minutes, add one teaspoon of honey, and drink it hot.” When it comes to locating a faulty spark plug, he says: “Idle engine a little faster than usual; disconnect all plug wires except No. 1, leaving motor run on No. 1 for about a minute; then connect No. 2, removing No. 1, and allow the engine to run on No. 2; and so on. When you come to the faulty spark plug, motor will stop quickly or plug will labor engine a few turns and then stop.”

Blame Mrs. Deming for These

AYS Mrs. Deming, of Michigan: “Equal parts of kerosene and peppermint oil make

a fine liniment. For moderate-sized burns keep the burn in cold water or a wet cloth over it until the pain stops, and you will not have a scar. Filing the chipped edges of granite-ware dishes with a knife sharpener tends to prevent more coming off.”

Jesus Born About October First

JEHOVAH lias caused to be written in His Word all things necessary for the man of God. (2 Timothy 3:16,17) By overlooking the plain statements of the Bible man throws himself open to the temptations of the enemy, spends his life foolishly, and brings much sorrow both upon himself and his friends. Especially now are all men invited to study the Word of the Lord, because the truth is being revealed as never before, it is the time of preparation for a new kingdom on earth, and a knowledge of Jehovah is essential to life everlasting.—John 17: 2, 3.

Since Jehovah has made it very plain in His Word in respect to the details of the event, and since millions of people have for centuries been laboring under the wrong impression, it must be pleasing to the Lord that His people examine the scriptures concerning the time of the birth of Jesus. While it is true that there are more important things relative to the Son of Jehovah than the exact time of His birth, yet there are several reasons why a correct understanding at this time is profitable and praiseworthy. As we examine the correctness of the Lord's Word we can appreciate a reliance upon Him rather than put confidence in the teachings of men. At once we are struck with the blindness of the teachers of religion, both Catholic and Protestant, and how the archenemy has kept the people in subjection. (Matthew 15:14) We can see in the light of God’s Word that there are two organizations: the teachings of Jehovah’s kingdom lead to usefulness, praise, and life everlasting; the precepts of Satan’s hierarchy result in burdening the people with more than they can bear, the teachings are a reproach to Jehovah, and they result in destroying the faith that many honest-hearted people desire to have in the true God.

What is here written is not done to harm any creature or to make a personal attack upon individuals; but the truth is plainly stated to help some honest-hearted that they might see the light, be set free from the entanglements of error, and be enabled to take the first steps in becoming joyful workers in this new kingdom which is even now operating among men. Be it noted at the very outset that the purpose of getting the truth is not one of personal satisfaction in itself, but that one might be furnished for the real and the only work profitable under the sun. Man’s entire make-up bears evidence that he is an expressive creature, and when his faculties are intelligently directed in accordance with the Word of God he becomes a praise to his Creator. That man might praise Jehovah is the Creator’s purpose in placing him on earth. —Psalm 145:10.

Scriptural Proof

Scholars, including some of the theologians themselves, have admitted that the time and practices of the Christmas season have a heathen origin. We will not take the time to examine how the various customs and ceremonies have crept into the observance of Christmas; sufficient has already been written thereon by students of history. Then, too, that would be a negative way of treating the subject. On the other hand, the Bible furnishes us with the positive information upon which we can form definite conclusions. We just can’t improve upon the Bible.

Jehovah caused the necessary information to be written by Luke to help us to arrive at the correct time of the birth of Jesus. By the way, it may be noted according to the Scriptures that Luke was a physician, and his practical knowledge would enable him to take a greater interest in stating the details relative to the birth of the Savior. (Colossians 4:14) In Luke 1: 5 we read, ‘■'There was in the days of Herod, king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah: and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.” (A.R.V.) It is important to note that Zacharias functioned in the priest’s office in the course of Abijah. The specific time of this course is referred to in the eighth and twenty-third verses of the same chapter.

Now, what connection has this course of Abijah, which according to the Scriptures was a period of about fifteen days, to do with the birth of Jesus? Why was it so carefully stated in this chapter bearing upon the conceptions of both Jesus and John the Baptist? If we can show from the Scriptures the exact time during the year when the course of Abijah occurs; furthermore, if we can prove that it was at the end of this course that John the Baptist was conceived; and then if the Bible discloses that the conception of Jesus was about six months later, all of these things would form an unbreakable chain leading to the certain conclusion as to when the birth of Jesus occurred. So

that the reader may be assured of the objective, it can with certainty be said that each of the above steps may be proved by the plain statements of the Bible.

Courses and Months

According to the commandment of Jehovah there were twenty-four courses of service each year to come into the house of the Lord. (1 Chronicles 24:1-19) Those who served in the various courses were the sons of Aaron, and they served in the capacity of priests in the temple. This would allow of two different sets of priests each month to serve in that capacity. Concerning Zacharias it is written, “And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course, according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. And the whole multitude of the people were praying without, at the time of incense.” (Luke 1: 8-10) According to the Scriptures, be it noted that the course of Abijah occurred the eighth in order, and it was this course that Zacharias filled in the capacity of priest. (1 Chronicles 24:10) Since two sets of priests served each month, and Zacharias served eighth in order, it naturally follows that his course of service fell in the latter part of the fourth month according to the custom of the Israelites.

In order to more specifically locate the time of the year when Zacharias served as priest in the temple it will assist us materially to know when the first month began. According to Jewish reckoning the month began with the new moon. In the new moon the Israelites were commanded to offer burnt sacrifices unto the Lord, in addition to those offered on the sabbaths and in the set feasts. (1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 2:4; 31:3; Amos 8:5) So the Lord gives us Scriptural information connecting the new moon with the beginning of the month, in 1 Samuel 20: 24-27. It was customary for David to sit with King Saul to eat meat “when the new moon was come”. Furthermore, in the twenty-seventh verse it is written, “And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David’s place was empty.” See also verse 34.

Beginning of Year

Jehovah provided a means whereby His typical people might determine the beginning of the first month of their year. It marked the time of the spring harvest period, which in the land of Israel occurs about the time of the spring equinox. Today the Jewish first month is calculated by Jehovah’s witnesses from the new moon nearest the spring equinox. According to the law the priest was to wave the sheaf of the firstfruits of the harvest on the morrow following the sabbath after the passover. In Leviticus 23: 5-11 we read, “In the fourteenth day -of the first month at even is the Lord’s passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord : seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, "When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest; and ye shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morroiv after the sabbath [next day after passover] the priest shall wave it.” This first month of the year was called Abib; later, after the captivity, it was called Nisan, and in it was celebrated the Lord’s passover. “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.” (Exodus 12: 2) The details of the Lo'rd’s passover are stated in Exodus 12:3-51. More recently it has been customary to reckon the beginning of the first month under consideration at the new moon nearest the spring equinox. But the Scriptural proof is sufficient in itself that this month began in the spring of the year, and at the new moon of the harvest season; the fourteenth day thereof, Jewish reckoning, would mark the full moon and the time of the passover.

Since Zacharias who became the father of John the Baptist served in the course of Abijah (Luke 1:5), and this course was the eighth in order (1 Chronicles 24:10), it follows that he served the latter half of the fourth month, which would at the earliest be the latter part of our month June. While serving in his course the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, “Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.” (Luke 1:13) And now note how carefully Jehovah fixes the time period in Luke 1:23-25, “And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house. And after those days, his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, Thus hath the Lord dealt with me, in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.” This occurred early in July according to our reckoning.

Time of Annunciation

And now follows the clue to when we may know to be the time of the conception of Jesus. “And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God, unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.” (Luke 1:26,27) Among other things which the angel spoke to Mary were these: “Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.” (Luke 1: 30, 31, 36) This occurred about December 25 according to the Jewish manner of reckoning.

According to Jehovah’s fixed time, nine months later Jesus was born. It was while Joseph was in Bethlehem “to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn”. (Luke 2:5-7) Thus the birth of Jesus occurred about October first.

It might be added by way of reasonable explanation that according to our way of calculating the days and months the exact birthday anniversary of Jesus from year to year would vary at most about two weeks for six lunar months after the spring equinox, the beginning of the month Nisan being at the new moon nearest that equinox. The Jewish month, calculated according to the lunar cycle, is somewhat shorter than our own modern solar month, and hence every several years an extra month was added to the Jewish lunar year. These facts were taken into consideration in reaching the calculation of about October first. However, the exact day from year to year would not fall more than two weeks away from the date October first. The confusion in calculating time is not due to any fault with the lunar system of calculating the months and seasons, but to our own modern way. Undoubtedly at some time in God’s kingdom man will use the right way of calculating months and seasons as appointed by Jehovah God. “He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.”— Psalm 104:19.

Corroborative Proof

Another line of proof supports the above finding and is also based upon the Scriptures. Jesus became the Messiah of Jehovah at the time of His anointing, and this took place when He was thirty years of age. It was at the Jordan river that Jesus was begotten as the Son of God by the spirit of Jehovah, and then the call to the Kingdom was extended to Him, which call He accepted, and He was there in line for the Kingdom as the great Prince or Son of the King of eternity. (Luke 3: 21, 22; Jeremiah 10:10) The actual anointing of Jesus took place within a reasonable time thereafter (Luke 4:1-21); but it is sufficient to know from the Scriptures that at that time “Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age”.—Luke 3: 23.

Now, according to Daniel 9:24 “seventy weeks” were determined upon the nation of Israel to “'make reconciliation for iniquity”. As in the case of Genesis 29: 27, these were “weeks” of seven years each. A day is appointed for a year in the construction of this prophecy. (Ezekiel 4:6) It will be noted that Christ as the Messiah of Jehovah came at the end of the sixty-ninth week and the beginning of the seventieth week appointed for reconciliation. Daniel 9: 25 states: “Know, therefore, and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem [454 B.C.], unto the Messiah [the Anointed One] the Prince, shall be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks”; a total of sixty-nine weeks. Verse 26 continues: “And after threescore and two weeks [which followed the seven weeks] shall Messiah be cut off,” in death. Now, in the twenty-seventh verse it is stated: “And he [Christ, the Messiah, or Anointed One] shall confirm the covenant with many for one week [the seventieth week]: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.”

According to the above the Messiah was literally “cut off” “in the midst of the week”, when His sacrifice ended. The "midst of the week” would be at the end of three and one-half years after His coming as the Messiah or Anointed One. Hence it follows that Jesus was just thirty-three and one-half years of age when He was crucified. The ministry of Jesus extended over four passover seasons, and at the last one thereof Jesus was actually killed and became the great Passover for the sins of all who believe on Him. (1 Corinthians 5:7) The several passovers during His ministry are specifically mentioned at John 2:23; 5:1; 6:4; 19:14. Since the passover of the Jews occurs in the spring of the year, in the middle of the lunar month Abib, or Nisan, or about the first part of the modern month of April, it was at that time that Jesus was thirty-three and one-half years of age, when He was crucified and thus “cut off”. Counting back one-half year, or six months, previous to that time would bring us to about October first, the birth season of Jesus.

Circumstantial Evidence

Circumstantial evidence also corroborates the time features pointed out, that it was not in the beginning of winter when Jesus was born, but at a milder time of the year. The shepherds were out in the fields at nighttime, tending their flocks, when Jesus was born. (Luke 2: 8-20) In the latter part of December such a thing would be unreasonable, for the rainy season and cold weather is over Palestine during that time, and there is no grass to feed the sheep in the open. (Ezra 10: 9,13) The sheep during that time are kept in folds until milder weather invites them out.

Since the statements of the Bible show that Jesus was born about October first, should we celebrate that season of the year in honor of the birth of the Savior ? No! Jesus never instructed His followers to hold any such celebration; neither does Jehovah at any place in the Scriptures warrant the observance of such a season. Much of the money that is spent in getting sick on such an occasion, and the time spent fussing around trying to make creatures happy (if they are actually made so), might better be spent in talking about the works of Jehovah and about the time coming, under the Kingdom, when men will think right and act right and be a real praise to the Creator.—Psalm 145:10-13.

Political and Miscellaneous

Reduction in Number of Politicians

WEARY of supporting an unnecessary horde of officials, steps are under way in Montana, Indiana, Oklahoma, Washington, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia, Nebraska, New Mexico and Michigan to do away with some of the counties, which, in these days of automobiles, can be made to include much greater areas and larger populations without imposing hardships upon anybody. It is easier to go 50 miles than it was 10 when the counties were formed.

Ohio’s Old Age Pension Law

OHIO’S old age pension law, effective during the second half of this year, provides $25 per month to persons over 65 unable to support themselves, with no one who legally could or should support them, and who have no income in excess of $300 annually. If single they must not have property in excess of $3,000; if married, not in excess of $4,000.

Will Do Anything but Work

William Allen White, famous Kansas editor, addressing the graduates of the University of Kansas, said: “We have dumped at the portals of your life one of the most elaborate, metallic scrap heaps that the history of civilization has recorded. A gaudy bauble it is. It shimmers with the simulation of bright reality. It roars, it clatters, it shrieks and hums like a going concern. It will do almost anything but work. The prospect is appalling.”

Operation of the Sales Tax

TN CALIFORNIA it has been calculated that, J- on account of the sales tax, the average head of a family works from 3 to 10 days in the year for the state and not for the benefit of his family. The money thus paid to the state cannot be used for the personal needs of himself or his family, and thus the whole community suffers. A plan is under foot to secure the passage of a constitutional amendment doing away with it.

American Resources and Achievements

THE United States of America has 16,000 cities, 59,000 miles of navigable waterways, 160,000 miles of electric transmission lines, 250,000 miles of railroads, 316,000 oil wells, 736,000 miles of pipe lines, 750,000 miles of surfaced highways, 2,000,000 miles of rural roads, 6,500,000 farms, 34,000,000 acres of rivers and lakes, 37,000,000 buildings, 88,000,000 miles of telephone, telegraph and cable lines, 100,000,000 acres of cities, 100,000,000 acres of mineral lands, 127,000,000 major machines, 185,000,000 domestic animals, 500,000,000 domestic fowls, 500,000,000 acres of forests, 700,000,000 installed horsepower, and 1,000,000,000 acres of farm land. The productive power of its workers is unequaled anywhere. Man for man the American produces more coal, more metal, more food, more fabrics, more transportation, than does any other worker. Today almost all this vast property is in the hands of a few people who if left to themselves could not make a living, but the ones who do all the work, and have produced all the wealth, have lost their homes, their savings, their insurance and their hope. God’s kingdom alone can straighten out this otherwise hopeless tangle. In the face of all this, in radio and other fields, there is the most desperate effort being put forth to get yet more into the hands of those who already have it nearly all.

What the World War Accomplished

WHAT the World War accomplished is clear from the following figures (figures include active force, trained reserve, air force—latest figures):

Armed Forces Armed Forces Total

	of 1913	Of 1934	Aircraft
•Austria-Hungary**	3,600,000	*30,000
Belgium	340,000	584,224	195
Britain	803,128	1,141,987	1,434
Bulgaria	450,000	33,000
France	5,300,000	6,952,213	3,000
Germany	5,400,000	1,100,500
Greece	150,000	583,450	120
Hungary (See Austria-Hungary)		•*35,000
Italy	3,380,000	6,495,535	1,507
Japan	1,400,000	2,177,000	1,939
Portugal	150,000	419,800	130
Rumania	580,000	1,600,827	799
Russia	5,400,000	16,210,000	750
Turkey	1,928,715	665,800	50
United States	213,445	444,661	2,351
Totals	29,095,288	38,473,997	12,275

Church Receipts Falling Off

THE income of churches and other so-called “character-building” institutions in the United States dropped from $1,101,000,000 in 1929 to $435,000,000 in 1932, and a still bigger drop has taken place since. Something desperate must be done, and so, on Monday, October 1, all the pastors, priests and rabbis are going to get together, along with Rotarians, chambers of commerce officials, editors, and prominent personages in women's clubs and other public organizations, to the intent that on Sunday, October 7, every person in the United States that can be coaxed, wheedled or driven shall go to church. It does not matter what church, nor what the pastor believes, nor if he does not believe anything. An effort will be made to have as many public officials as possible issue proclamations the obvious intent of which is to get the people to go to church, and the real intent of which is to get more money for a failing cause. The 12 “Come to Church” stamps are very neat, but will not avail. Churchianity must go.

Farmer-Labor Party Goes Left

THE Farmer-Labor party of Minnesota declares what is apparent to everybody with a brain, and that is that capitalism has failed. Then it goes on to demand government ownership of all factories, mines, water power, transportation and communication, banking, packing plants, public utilities, all forms of insurance, school textbooks publication, and many similar reforms. It favors price-fixing for farm crops, and exemption from taxation of homesteads to the value of $4,000.

Tropical Park in the Everglades

CONGRESS has set aside 2,500 acres of the Florida Everglades for a tropical park where rare plant and bird life may be saved from extinction. This area, larger than Rhode Island, includes Cape Sable, thousands of wooded islands, and thousands of miles of waterways for light-draft pleasure boats.

National Guard Called Out in Oklahoma

Governor Murray, of Oklahoma, called out the National Guard to prevent the sale for taxes of 100,000 acres of land in ten counties. He was quite within his rights in doing so; and yet, if the sheriffs had resisted, it would have resulted in civil war.

Index to Volume XV of The Golden Age

NUMBER 367

Sending Forth the Truth unto the Clouds 3

Brief Answer to Catholic Bulletin

Levied for Church for 19 Years

The Federal Reserve Swindle (McFadden) 7

The Big intolerance Drive

Achievements of Medical Profession

Remarkable Recovery of Sight

Time Required for Gastric Digestion .... 12

Vaccination Certificates Necessary Where 13

One-Sixth of Jobless 111

Prison Witness Flogged

"Evil Servant” on the Job

Liberty Has Passed

Heaping Together Debts

Unemployment Here to Stay

Still Murderers at Heart

Public Utility Items

NRA Items

Obedience Brings Joy to the Sorrowing 27

Honest Catholics in Baltimore

NUMBER 368

Latin America (Part 1)

“The Mimic God” (Editorial Comment) 44

Brotherhoods Object to Rail Dictatorship 46

The Utilities

Points from Insurance Literature

Public Relief

87% Increase in Prisoners in 9 Years ....50

Americans Unpopular in Cuba

Why Farmers Get Nothing for Milk .... 55 3,000 Pictures per Second

Cigarettes and Mental Instability

Toxin-Antitoxin Admittedly No Good .... 57

What Stopped the Vomiting (Aluminum) 57

World Digs for Water to Drink

NUMBER 369 "Preparation” for Armageddon

Making the Final Choice

Latin America (Part 2)

Health Program

5,000,000 Slaves in China

He That Considereth the Poor

The Nation and the House of Morgan .... 88 3,530,000 Families on Relief

Twelve Kings Without Kingdoms

Why Britain Conquered India

Preventive for Felons

The People Want Medical Liberty

Good-bye Gallstones

Orange Confectionery

A Five-Cent Meal

Whole-Wheat versus White Bread

NUMBER 370

Value of Knowledge and Understanding 99 “Preachers Present Arms” ...

The Correction of a Lie (Plainfield) ....109 Inspiring Letter from N. J. Jonadab .... 109 Latin America (Part 3)

Three Million Accidents in Pennsylvania 116 Slight Relief Due to NRA

Plain Statements by Huey Long

Strange Happenings, These Days  118 Where the Utilities Differ

Golden Gate Bridge in Construction ....119 Corrected Figures on Prisoners

A Recipe for Hominy

Deodorized Garlic

No Redress for Removing Wrong Eye ..121 Uses of the Electric Eye

What Bombay Is Like

Tithing Farmers Hate the Clergy

Protestant Church in America Bankrupt 125

NUMBER 371

"Editorials” on Religious Tolerance .... 131

"Holy Year” for the Indians?

Do Something to Appease Torturers .... 135

Bishop Hickey’s Funeral

Protest and Petition

Jury That Feared and Honored Jehovah 139

More About “The Correction of a Lie” 142

Announcement to Radio Station Owners 144

Not All the Clergy Are Alike

Latin America (Part 4)

“Clergy Who Censor the Psalms”

Responsibility for World Tribulation .... 154

The Gardens of the Blind

Preparation for Fasting

NUMBER 372

Latin America (Part 5)

Said the Plowman to His Mule

Watson Experiments on Dogs

The Curse of Interest

"The Truth About Tobacco” ....

The Habits of Rats

A New Source of Fertilizer

Canada’s Cooperative Commonwealth .... 175

Lead and Arsenic Poisoning

Fasting Scientifically_____________

Progress in Human Vivisection

Senator Hatfield on the Warpath

“The $ Sign”-—and Balaam’s Ass

Portion of Jesuit Oath

*No Catholic Conscientious Objectors .... 186

Help Mother Out of the Bonfire

Back to Church Movement

Blind Leaders of the Blind

NUMBER 373

Beverages—Potations—Drinkables

Another Despicable Fraud

Kingdom Announcements by

Judge Rutherford

Priests Took Back the Money

“Golden Hour of the Little Flower” .... 207

Judge Jones, of Versailles, Is Dead

Building an Electric Hotbed

Activities of the Farm Bureau

General Johnson’s Verdict

Statistics of Crimes in the U. S. A

The Two Best Cashiers

Vivisection in England

Canadian Radio Commission Under Fire 216

Analysis of Canadian Population

From the Bilingual Standpoint

Kingston Torture Chamber

Paddle W’orse than the Lash

Jehovah the Great Life-Giver

NUMBER 374

Suggestions on Diet and Health

Why Use Herbs?

The Massacre of the Tonsils

Hygienic Cookery

The Bible on Health and Cure of Disease 240

2,000,000 Lepers in India

Bibles in 669 Languages

Springfield Saved $2,000,000 Last Year 244

John McGovern, Ruler of the British .... 246

One Million Dollars to Make a Saint .... 248

Scant Time to Correct Falsehoods

Obedience Brings Honor in the Temple 252

The Indian’s Lament

NUMBER 375

The Horse Thieves of High Finance .... 259

Power Trust “Efficiency”

Jehovah’s witnesses in Quebec

Feverish Preparations for War

Canada Willing to Disarm

Ex-Service Men Return Their Medals .... 267

Seeking Vindication of Jehovah’s Name 268

Re Challenge (Terms Plain)

“Back to the Church”

Summit, N. J., Rebuked

Let Them Return to Whence They Came 272

Demons Entrap a London Ex-EIder

On Squaring of Mixed Numbers

How to Elevate the English Language .. 275

France’s Enormous Military Force

The A.A.A.A

Tugwell Medical Slavery Bill

From One of the World War Soldiers .. 281

Two Great Mysteries

The Degree of B.D

NUMBER 376

Protest and Petition Fifty Feet High .. 291

To the Catholic Press

“The House of the Good Shepherd” .... 303

Deflating the American Banker

The Golden Age

Schools Gradually Closing

California Old Age Pensions

Hearst Goes After the NRA.

Another Recipe for Whole-Wheat Bread 308

Our Diet Memorandum

Galilee (Poem)

Trifocals and Quadrifocals Soon

Windmill a Half Mile in Diameter

On Interest (Poem)

Proclaiming on the Housetops

We're Off (Poem)

NUMBER 377

Shall Radio Censors Rule?

To Safeguard Broadcasting

Norway

What Is the Cross ?

Official Stupidity in Baltimore

Vivisection Useless and Barbaric

A Prescription That Worked

Ability of Dillon, Read & Company

Power Trust and San Francisco

Growth of Winnipeg

Beaufort’s Scale Ashore

Down on the Farm (Poem)

American Municipal Governments

Obiter Dictum

A Few Profitable Investments

London "Bobbies” vs. American Police 347

Russia’s “Voluntary Settlers”

Conditions in West Australia

Senator Long Is Pessimistic

Russia Not a Paradise—Yet

Obedience Sweetens Friendships of God 349

NUMBER 378

Sweden—Whence the Days of the Week 355

Radio Petition Attacked

Pennsylvania Railroad Items

Harvester Machines Shipped to France 365

Catholic Control of the Press

The Threat of Fascism in America .... 366

National Economy League

“Onward, Christian Soldiers”

Moscow’s Anti-Religious Museum

Books Awarded French Diplomas

Whole-Wheat Cake and Pudding

Red Pepper Virtues

Food Chart

How Fruit Is Grown in Germany ..

Chat with the Figure-Minded

Saints of the Federal Council

The Nobleman’s Return

NUMBER 379

League of Nations— Anglo-Papal Conquest

Shall Censorship of Radio Continue? ....393

An Appreciation

What a Land Is the Great U.S.A.! ....395

Free Radio Essential to People’s Liberties 396

How Shaw Cleared His Brain

Foolishness of the Interest System

American Air Transport

The Federal Octopus

Lynchings Greatly Increased

‘Bugs’ Baer Sizes It Up

Bewildering List of New Inventions .... 403

Silver Cost of the War

May Teach Their Own Children

Traditional Record Not in Scriptures .. 405

Lord Tavistock and Ruskin

The Quest for World Power

Common Salt and Poisoned Dogs

Give Flapjack a Chance

Effect of Pasturization on Milk

Moths and Borax

Whole-Wheat Pie Crust and Date Bread 409

Earth’s New Overlordship

NUMBER 380

World Control

Judge Rutherford’s Statement to Congress

Hearings on McFadden Bill

If You Ask Me (Free Speech)

Baffling Use of Nines

Overgrown Box of Capitalism

The Delicate Balance of Life

Loss of Confidence

Tax-Exempt Securities

Huey Long on Common Sense

More Stars in Henry’s (Ford) Crown ..439

New Ways to Get Money

The Smothering of Presbyterianism

“Catholic Association Urges World Parliament” ....

Origin of the League Idea

Jehovah’s witnesses ‘Standing for Their Lives’

Racketeering in Most Despicable Form 446

NUMBER 381

Persecution in Germany

Bible Students Cleared in Reich

Natural Disasters Not the Worst

The Demand of Jehovah God

Freedom of Utterance a Vital Necessity 466 No Controversial Subjects?

Fort Wayne Awfully Bad

When Children May Leave School

Aluminum Safe?

Human Creatures Made to Live Forever 470 Animal Trainer ......

Getting Fruit Juices from Coal Alines 471 How to Drive a Car

‘Not to Threaten, but to Warn’

NUMBER 382

Housing Survey in Mississippi

Pope Blames God for Hard Times

Ministers Fundamentally Off

The Reign of Terror in Poland

“The Holy Tunic of Christ”

Franco-German Cooperation in

World War

Mother’s Day

R. C. Catechism vs. R. C. Bible

At “Church” on Mother’s Day

"Congress .Shall Make No Law—”  493 Eustace Percy (Canada) on New World 495 Disposing of the Rights of the People 496 Artificial Weather Not the Best ............496

Canadians Still Permitted to Think .... 497 Newfoundland’s ‘Welfare Island’

Sweatshop Cpnditions in Toronto

Ingersoll’s Vision of the Future

“Russia Makes Me Think”

The Number Seven

Jehovah’s Glory

Concentration of Wealth

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NUMBER 383

Flee Now

Short-Wave Radio Reception

Speech on the Gold Bill

Liberty to Regimentation

Cost of World War to America

Joke on the Unknown Soldier

“Why Burn Your House?”

“Anti-Nazi” Bill

Taxes and the Iliuh Cost of Lhing ....531

Morgan the Corsair

Ramie

Health Food Fit for a King

Coughlin’s Bellyache

The Liverpool Cathedral

NUMBER 384

Thirty-five Centuries of Free Speech .... 547

The Inconsistencies of Science

The Decline of Liberty

The Priority of Labor (Lincoln)

Proposed Addenda to NR A Codes

‘•Good Times” Again in Chicago

The Welfare Racket in Philadelphia ....554

Imbecile of Interest

Automobile Information

The Horrible New Gases

Jehovah

The Twilight of the Kings (Poem)

Questionnaire of The World Tomorrow 563

Remedy for Constipation

Teeth and Turnips

What Is Real Baptism?

NUMBER 385

Protest

Germany Gave T’p as .Much as America 590

Internment on Italy's Penal Islands .... 590

If Christ Came Back (Cartoon)

Origin of Curious Customs

Care of the 8ick

Rebellion

Another Diploma from Paris Exposition 598

Letters Received at Paris

The Sabbath Day : A Past Shadow

Topsyturvydom (Poem)

NUMBER 386

Famine Conditions in North America ..Gil

Radio Hearings Before Committee

McFadden’s Statement

Statement of Jehovah's witnesses ....618

Federal Radio Commission

Roman Catholic Hierarchy

Chain Broadcasting Systems

Catholic Action

Resolutions re Addresses

Boycott Methods

Collusion

“The Vicar of Christ”

Protest Against Injustices to J.w

Redemption

NUMBER 237

Man’s Four-footed Friend—The Dog .... 643

Letters re Transcription Machines

Roman Clergy Work Together

How to Make Yogurt and Kumiss

For Those Who Prefer Hot Bread

Tolerance of Catholic Church

“The Depression as We Have Known It” 660

Indulgence^ Ejaculations

Catholic New York

Latest News from Belgrade

Life

This Blasphemy Speaks for Itself

Transcription Meeting at Geimiston ....661

Obedience Made Ready God’s Vindicator 665

NUMBER 388

America’s Jobmaster General

Persecutions in Germany

Air Mail Contracts All Right

Psychiatrists Taken Too Seriously

A Pill for Evolutionists

Lieutenant Maloney of Buffalo

Infantile Paralysis from Cowpox

Poisoning at Denver and at Natick ....693

Cereal Coffee

What the World War Cost

Methodists on Worshiping Flag

Holy Name Society

Kingdom

Riddle of the League of Nations

“The New World”

NUMBER 389

Could America Live Alone?

At the Levee

Some Remarks on the Dictatorship

The War-Makers

“Whom Satan Hath Bound”

The Bankers’ Dole

The Government's Horses

How Did This Truth Get Out?

Preaching Gospel bv Machine ...

85,000 Poverty-stricken Churches

Attempted to Steal Holy Undershirt ~ 728

Armageddon ........._

Lord’s Coming to His Temple

Latvia Goes Fascist

NUMBER 390

Praying for Prosperity

Prayers for Nation-wide Prosperity ....745

Saint Anthony of Padua

St. Jude Does the Handsome Thing .... 748

In the City Home of Dependents

Margaret Allison Writes to the Cardinal 751

Protest to the Purgatorian Society

Soul

Two Badly Frightened Priests

Doctor Wirt Cut off the Air

The Acquittal at Hesse-Darmstadt

Now or Never in California

Another Weighty Petition

International Anthem at Toronto ..

Fifty-one One-eyed Clergymen

How to Test an Aluminum Utensil

“Cancer: Its Prevention”

NUMBER 391

Sales Propaganda Keeps Millions Ill .... 771

The Perils (?) of Free Speech

Dividing the Lord’s Property

Movie Short-Cut to Insanity

Rome’s Heart Never Changes

Sorrows of Newfoundland

The Dead .......-

Zaro Agha Dead at Last

John Hanson, First President

Valuable Hard Times Recipes

The Highest Waterfalls

The Modesty of Peter ...............

Gems of Obedience

Letters Received at Paris

Raw Scraped Potatoes for Burns

NUMBER 392

Men Who Voted Against War

Joys of Life in Russia

Facts About Bees

Sheba Definitely Located

Purgatory

Labor in Mexican Constitution

The Odd Magic Square

Some of the Biggest Things

Pleasant Way to Obtain Iron

Rotondi’s Raidin Bread

Deaths from Vaccination

Jesus Born About October First

A Real Benefit to Humanity

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