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rre33p.k 4 1 contents c r o 9 8 j ny w w u r r m r labor and econobiics l .d 4 i 8 7 th wow u t8i o-niu dm e 7 negna e d 8 manufacturing and mining y llagtluwotkaaputnr bhormngwilltbaoillast 9 th pho.gb.ta btinea of plod b e 10 80cul and educational ib.para al &m rrr 8-w dj a mw 4 r 8 11 i11 rutotrdoa of our merektmuh tmua exporta and idadon 8an.hlrry dam for big bmkm pinancaommerce-transportatson immcnre expo opoadm f tha demand for aotomobilu tank car8 for tramportation la 12 u 13 bmom b a b mlou aohd 14 persecution p 14 o more tremble mdoa erdrh wbrrr thr weak a n fro 11 agriculture and husbandry what rotation of crop accompllahr 1s conservsdon of s i frrdlity 16 ol turning florida swamps into f 16 dyauniting the eurh into pamibe 11 to rutan the coming of d 4 politicai domfstic and foreign th fntnre of wireless 17 comets-the science and invention trunps of the huve 17 16 the mmdactrue o lighfdng f la wood more durable than hum 18 haubg wt tmct ih i n-ous m d stupid cbildrar teeth emaction the cure for d h n neglect of the bible 19 19 housewifery and hygiene washing made e a v ikn.be and peatilaice 1 21 religion and philosophy tiil.int with the d a d 23 10 the trail of the serpent by laodicea messenger dealing rith man s early reladonrhi with the angcsmd rhoring why therair n o r ro much dttea .beat coamdution with the d u d the pubiicrtion of this remarkable and thrilling wrid rill begin in 8 m b qoen irme a this maguinet f worth more than the price of aycu r rnb~cnption subscribe nowmd be #rue to get it d l the golden age published ewry other week a 1265 broadway new york gty t woodwortk hudgings martin clayton j woodwort h lditw robertj marti n t b&ws 1irnqs willia 1 eudcings .scc-r and trearurrgpumm md porrm the ddrrrduch kl r pga mraer u rha 1 6 broadway new york city 25 tm gntsacopy 4 1 5 0 ayar t i c afori entry u -d t a pa oohuna york n y .

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golden age new york ciq n y edncd october 1.1919 i .t na 1 salutatory isdom of the right order is essential to the nor is this magazine publisw for pecuriiary profit rdfare and happiness of mankind during or gain to anyonr all the money realized from its the few years recently p a t the world through fiery publication above the operating expenses will be used =periences has acquimd a vast amount of howl for the further dibemination of such knowledge amongst the people as will be beneficial to them it is edge bet to properly rppb that knowledge is now the important question there is a perfect standard backed by some of the best and ablest men in the of rppliatim and when that standard is hown and world and shall be maintained as an educational mefollowed the result is d to k satisfying it i dium for the purpose of teaching the tnae relationship s the privilege and duty of c-rery one who can do s between science agriculture labor &id p u n rcli@on o its publication is for the to render aid to his felbenefit of the people low m the wise applicaadvising than of per:2 tion of acquired knowt h e golden ace and pointing thanba ledge and to aid him to ikholdl timesa gateway open d n k better and nobler life incrc knowledge and and puce is poised on outspread win n joy rtmd tiptoe while .he sin d its purpose is to exwisdom such aid t o good-bye old -1 plain in the light of accocnplish a good regood-by old t u n 1 divine wisdom the tms or angels n i t to b u thim pt s l should be rendered ut on moaning misery and hate meaning of the great unselfishly the wise looe hold the key phenormna of the prcsman will hear and inof tbinm to be and hope hoi out a fair rhitr page ent day and to prwe t o crease in learning and bids yon write thinking minds by ex this magazine enters wt dkep delight ih dence incontmvertib:e tbt field &erefore with th glory o the golden agefr mission which is pecua n and convincing that liuuldturiqut i t b time of a greater ties ing of mankind is now at ih rivals because it h a no compctitorr every one joining in a similar &ort hand like a voice in the wilderness of confusion its mission is to announce the incoming of the golden age to do-good will be welcomed by ru then are more sad hearts in the world today than its policy i and shall be not to array the rich s r at m y time of its history a devastating war has against the poor nor the poor against the rich the classes against the masses nor the masses against the acted the nations until thyan tom and bleeding classes bat it will seek to do good unto dl mankind to death accampying the war came the gmat it is not published in tbe interest of any religious pestilential influenza claiming double the number of dendon nor is it the advocate of any political victims that fell as a result of the war i n the past party o r organization it k no rwpectv of persons few years millions have gone down into death and other millions bemoan the loss of their loved ones becaw of racq color or condition of suvitudc w 11 11 11

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4 tiu gazbae for o g i r9rg everpdxrc the cud of uvinglmormb higher d high rtld ranaitionr of real want m d farnine stare m a q people in tbe face in pnctiully d the mder l of the world k o c are m strike or thrddqb rh to strike .ad thereby stop the wheels of cormnercc there is a pznad unrest everphcra t the hanciau are no less ipcrpl .they have n yielded d t t the demands of labor only t n o he convinced in their owti minds that further yielding d mean disaster and the tension h beaxing roch thrt the industries of the land arc threatening to elore down ali of which d d bring greater distrerr both to producer ihd m u a the chicago s m h 88id i d and examiner in its financial columns recently the very time of tfn -tat increue of knowledge and w b then k a reason and that reason we must ucubin m d govern ourselves accordingly tila wide dhcrsity of knowledge which if p@y applied wodd r&ult_in great and beneficial wisdom to the peopk what then ir the d mean ing of the p t conditions and is thm a p e r&edy that will bring order out of choor rtld atabfish a luting peace prosperity md happinus to the people tee goron ags enters the field for the vay purpose of uuwaing thest qu md ddently expects to answer them bo the rrtisfactioa of all thinking minds tar golden agewin carry into the homes of the people the desired meurqe which wili tend to restore c&uicil to the disturb md -fort to the i f dechre the corporation heads and their backers walko aob in the crane and hkesttr works are rehad for saddened heark we not expect t accomplish more serious and exbensire industrid interruptions if the this by human wisdom because that hu been tried budding workers prove to take tju5r responsibility rr lightly s u thar fellows in the cnne and harvester rhw if tbe and hiled and such wjsdom i foolishnesr in the sight rtmt milmy 43qloyee are uncompromiringly insistent upon of jehovah but we will point the people to the clear uvarv-seven per cent increase in the g v9e rhm sy a and-indisputable evidence in the light of present-day anployerr and thdr finanaal backem let it come t an utrane o fiiancid men do not m n e words they state point ic events disclosing the dhkdy acpreued ranedy for tbq rrin bock anployera to the limit il rl t &cry i the rcwnstruction of hunua &aim that d bring l porhnt indaatry i chicago and the middle west tenitn i be stdm the desire of all nations assuring to t e life h psople n h than submit to ;m tmreuonrbl t wage o r unjust andition if it must come to a drutic cwdl12xrt-y and happiness we invite all d e r lwing tion between employer and employe well and good they t the representatives of apitd dedd not avoid the t a t law-abiding god-faring persons io aid in passing this l t the t i g be settled now and definitely they arc r r e hn rg musage of comfort on to those who desire to be bo meet and combat it to rhal condtuioa u the usertianv comforted n e troublesome tima upon the earth have awakand socially daily problems are arising the solving ened the people to a realization that they hava of which seenu beyond the power of human ingenuity neglected bible study and have not provided thar children with sufficient taching conccming the grrat seeing althee things coming to pars before our v q l truths in the bible our religious department will eyes who a n lightly pass over the words of the great carry in a c h issue a carefully arranged bible study master foretelling these times when there would be in such simple form that it can be readily anderstwd upon earth distnss of nations with perplexity the by any one this will enable the people to ramin sea and the wava roaring men s hearts failing them at home and quietly study their bibles and increase for far and for looking to the things coming u p m knowledge and in divine wisdom every parent the earth i o w u it u a duty t his child to see that the child is n these distressing times have come at the very provided with proper biblid instruction the climax of the development of inventive genius-at golden supply this long-felt w n age d at the nations a n in distress politically kcially ,

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r labor n and economics open the mdsuad t cmtnlizirqpmrhues and discontinuing competition whemer k is wasteful .nd omecwsuy amld ha fait t rrrtllt in great o problem is engaging the attention of the ultimate swings and it is the pubiic i the end that nian people as few prapasitioru have ever d n oe plan evolved by the railroad brotherhoods is bued haa to foot the bin homer the roo are oped n upon the constantly rising cost of living to the con as t the gavemmmt r operation of tbe nilroads sumer the knowledge that the repeated increases in this has not been such a total failure as mna]r would wages have brought no real benefit to the workers like to think a large part of the apparent lorsw are since the and greatly bat have gratly enriched the owners of capital the due bd decreased basinincreased wagu the ttlr s g ebill of january oa conviction that further advances in wag at the expense of a cost of living exceeding that of the wage 1919 was 66 per cent higher than the carraponding increase are wholly futile the knowledge that in figure for the last month of private opmticm cruse in the productive power of human eftort should government operation without the active and willbe reflected equally in increased wages and dmeased ing cooperation of the employes tends toward stagnacost of riving not increased cost of living the knowl tion and bureaucracy and docs not satisfy the legitiedge that increased cost of transportation results in m mate aspirations of the rdroad workers hence there increase in the cost of living while dmeased cost of must be a considerable participation of employes and transportation results in reduced cost of living and officers in railway management as long as the the assurance that the rights of all railroads are based brotherhoods are in opposition with capital and entircfy on grants which the public made t the government against them they will not feel the reo sponsibility which they must feel if the interests of the present omen the remedy proposed is that private capital be elim public arc to be preserved inated from the railroads by requiring the private as a matter of fact it has been a long time since ownen of nilroad stocks and bonds to surrender the executive heads of the railroad companiu were their securities for government bods with a 6xed in control of the properties over which they presided fntcrest return based upon the money actually in railroad presidents have said repeatedly that it wa9 vested and that the roads be managed by corpora becoming impossible to manage the railroads under a tions in which the public the operating managements system -of federal control plus ,the interfemce of and labor shall be equally qresented one-half the forty-eight separate states the rate-making power net savings would go to the public by increasing sem was lost long ago and s was the control of wages o ice without adding costs or by reducing costs the the roads were btihg held up by the government on other half would be divided between the openton one hand and the employes on the other and it has and the wage earners not always been true that the executive heads of the the railroads would be ptaced in control of a board railroads have managed those properties in the interselected one-third by the president one-third by the ab of their stockholders sometimes they have operating okaalr and one-third by the employees managed them with an eye on the stock market someand are to divide any surplus between the nation and times with a view of completing mergers in which the bankers were interested was not the new haven the employees or t meet any dqficit by taxation o no matter how the railroads are operated t h e are wrecked by a man selected by a leading banker it is claimed that there are now 12,000,000 stock three partnus in the industry capital labor and the public i t is a self-evident f a d that until manage holders of the railroads their holdings would not ment is wholly efficient the rate the public p a p is be disturbed by being exchanged for government exccssivc it is labor s proposal to readjust the inter bonds they would have a larger actual voice in the ests in the railroads to a new balancc i t is labor s management of the railroad properties as voters of c i that skill skil the prime force in the railroad in the united stat government than they ever had as lm a dtutry and that beyond giving to capital a rr~sonsble stockholders i t is well known that the officials of return on the money honestly invested the public owes the railroads have been selected by the bankers and their sdections have not always bcen good ones it nothing tlmg ptumb pun he plumb plan for sohring the nilrkad mu:

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6 the elden age for onoba i 1919 p3 th in tirunrill ades there n mach talk that the rods if they ut tbe 8ctnd m e n 4hrtc a d be returned to the owners and that when they interest on the bonds won t thqk as much interested n returned there must be r dividend parmttcd by uthy tbe united states treasury o r else a marked increa railroading is the only business that has every hin ntes but this is not r good time to increase rates dustry and every individual in the country for its client is f a the guarantee of dividendr if the w and eveypewn in the untq ~h t w w o h a nil-4 invaluable nice the mod perfo-t m pmte -fie of printe it d not be long and aghnbb4 hfonmprivt75,w mila of l h the i v e line bekg c w d fie gain of 95 d c 8 1 a d emplofi4 about 7 m a to the m i k tbua liai for the f905 lina or 1800,ooo in co l placed in the han of the -rnprai s ott mpluicb-eu q the mutclhra born in tau in om fattened i iowa slaughtaed in chi-3 and rbh the gorernmmt pmpedypke &dq briw in iced a m to your h a 10 -1 0 as the schook highways water supply f r a imprl v pou.l facilities irriptim and fire protection already ymr m o u p fornia your other melm from colorado or southern +qeinistered by i t under any system of private ownenhip it is and indiana your strawbema from missouri or mississinit p 6 m g a from norib mifor drip k a ral problan to h o w what to do =and t a pf u r banwas fmm the sdoard ;they tu ma viowl me ktthing to vith eveq you pu war mw them ri the syrtea thly d d brhg our erythinc cu or too or nilmadsurq 650 mq xi so beaebt so that they might have the aham ym woman and child in the land which is about three o aommon terminals through trains and such other ftimu what the roilroads of any other land carry d as come from unification under the plumb plan the division of dividends a to it to ad-bgr itlmeved that if the plumb plan is adopted the is am prtsidentps appointees to represent the public on the of the operating employes to get their additional comboud of directors should be chosen much u the me thrn pnsation in th form of divihd bcn of me are chmepfor life or of wage it i hoped that this will provide an offset s during thq .har!d not beclaw of the prominent phce they occupy in the b an indolent policy on the part of the cmpl swho instead of exerting more effort to create new busines3 couacils and activities of the political party in power could deade merely to raise wages and so impose a i t is claimed by bankers that if private capital is upon the public to enter fmly upon the venture of further developing some objections ofid to the plumbplan ut the railroads and if railroad credit is to be resstab ht labor itself mthing but apparently anlished on a solid basis of genuine confidence 6 per relativdy high wages empard other with cent on the final valuation plus a modest share in indust rtrength in ways and might use its mine in excess of this penmtage would consti that not be for the best intuests of he rest mte the minimum required this it is believed it will of the countr it is would that more be impossible to guarantee b t devoted to increasing wages than t increasing o if the railroads under pub!ic regulation cannot cfficiencr and ht men hould be retained in finance themselves and if the government will not would not be able to malre good under &iance as long as are run for private pmfitt private operation it is f too that nilit necessdy follows that the government must take would haye to be built out of governmat over the omenhip and dtimate control of the rail funds there be political f i dsong differat ma the plans for a partnership of apitdad the sections for such new lines and new pork bills that mt do not work they out of would put the notorious river and hubor appropriathe mitoad brotherhoods have learned that in an tionr f u in the ,hadc ultimate test of strength they have the power to enthe prophet h in hk viia chaptheir demands upon both adkve 2:34 foresla the dreadl locomotiva writ compulsory arbitration is out of the question ning ,like the ligtning with flaming torch in he tbe nilroad anployes constitute a large part of the day of his prepaxation he little imagined that thue atireuship of the country and they will be interested wonderful cfiariots were destined to become the as dtizars wl they not in seeing t a the railroads property not of kings nor of the rich but of the il ht are wtly mlnnged and how about the public common people like himself ticipates

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the g o b age for oaokr l l 1 1919 7 sow c and industrial lyu powxr of the press blaelrs and whites u a result of the reign otmr f during the war a large influx of negraer into t be tm that if wie no crimes scandals r o s accidents etc t h m chicape ~the d e section and neflms it o v nezm d of means were being gradudly forced out of it intowould h wy less newspput but 2 if coald spin fmwrpapersht new mae a utlfin gwhite sections this caused a strained i6ag entirely a t of the erbw ~b influ situation the actual beginning in chicyo wos in a k e of the press is remarkable an indiscreet state a at an amusement r m mcnt o r an untrue statement atacritid dme has negroes are intoletant of the indignities t o which aot infrequently produced disastrous d t r it has they were subjected before the war and claim with r i in h i and g s n considerable force that having done their full share becn ddmed that the chicago in fdy w e n largely due to two items which in making the world safe for democracy the =e not to be deprived without protest of the libatica we reproduce herewith on the morning o the worst day o the race dots which they fought 0 eajo f f the large packers of chicago have announced in washington d c washington paper printed this on its first page that they will dismiss d l negro employes passibly hoping thus to effect the removal of some thbusands ujobilizaty0s for to-sight of ncgmes back to the south where they arc needed it w learned that a mobilization of every available s mm stationed in or near washington or on leave here has for farm work and where they arc more appreciated a newspaper is the smallest thing 8 man parbeen ordered for to-morrow evening rear the knights of columbus hut on penndvda avenue between seventh chases but it is like the tongue the tongue is a a d ei&th e e t the r c of assemmy is 9 o clock afid little member the tongue is fire and setteth on of the the purpo is a fire the cane of nature behold how great a mztprst two evenings to pale into insignificance whether ofiicial fire kindlethl jamer 3:sp ,cognizance of this usemblage and iu ktent vl bring about ter a il i its forestalling candot be t d d two days before the riot in chicago r chicap paper said q ot only is q~icagoa meidug-station &d port af refuge for colored people who are anxious to be free from the jurisdictioa of i j c h law but there has b m built here a publcity ar propagada-machine that directs appcab or carrim or an agitation that every week m h hundreds of thoawds cu of people of the colored w e in the southstates tbs state street blocks south of thirty-6rst street are a newspaper row with the defendrr the scorch-light the guide the hrdzvocatr the whip as weekly publications and there are also illustrated monthly magazinct such u thr hal cmkrr m d the fworitr eecundm of japanese women it is part of the scheme of japrnrsc civi1izs:ion for mothm to rent thefr daughters t foreigners or e in washington an individual crime was made 8 race issue marines soldiers and sailors took up the issue which had been suggested to them unoffending negroes were assaulted upon the streets and were even dragged from street cars for the purpose the trouble in chicago a week later amounted to a small sized civil war in one instance in the latter city a negro woman and the child in her arms were beaten to death by whites without provocation scores of other deaths resulted among both others as temporary wives and &ere are brokers in japan who make a business of supplying such wives sometimes showing a dozen or more to the prospective purchaser before the final choice is made by signing a register and unmade b y signing o f f japanese bride-merchants in america do business entirely by photograph and of course according to american laws the brides thus selected by their future husbands become permanent additions t o the family hn while with our western ways of lool.ing at t i e we may find fault with the japanese women for the view they take of the matriage &tion we a n not bnd fault with them for any failure t o act as mothers so many children are being born to the japanese women of california as t o cause some anxiety t o the people of that state ten years ago the number of children born of japanese parents in california was 246 during the years 1918 this numbgr had increased to 4,920 for

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ii t k golden age for oaobn i the one year and in one nothem california county during that year there were 176 children born of japanese parents and but 86 born of white parents there are now more than 30,000japanese children in california who are native-born and possess all the rights of lasing and ownership held by white children statistics show that intermarriage between .whites and japanese is almost unknown t h e chif.dren of such marriages are excluded from white ,society and they and their parents are compelled to live in the japanese quarters these conditions d o not augur well for the amalgamation of the japanese and white races here we have a very literal fulfilment of the lord s promised punishment of mother eve and her daughters unto the woman he said i will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception genesis 3 16 the woman spelcbindgr draw near to the better age a leveling process is observable the worker to act on the plane of the captain of industry and to manage the business the laity perceive that the gulf between them and tbe clergy is an illusion the average citizen demands his share i n the actual govcming t h e powerful and influential are correspondingly reduced mountains are trimmed down and valleys raised up woman seeks her place by the aide of man and if possible a little above having secured the vote she becomes a voter and some of her enter politics they say that in the older woman-suffrage states the woman politicians are the equal of their male predecessors anywhere i n the newer woman-voting commonwealths the evolution of the woman in politics is going on the first stage is the zealot enthusiastic with a burning zeal for the uplift of womankind she is developed into o r is succeeded by the crafty self-seeker t h e woman politician steps from the chrysalis and find y the funale grafter and corruptionist comptda the cycle i n many states the woman voter is at the zealot stage the opportunity for doing good of reforming af correcting abuses appeals to the best instincts of the high-minded consequently the door opens and forthwith appears in the approaching political campaign the woman political speaker it is the republican oratress first i t remains t o be seen whether she will equal her male predecessor who from his soapbox so deftly threw a spell over his audience and bound them with his webs u to as the people seeks eam the name of spell-binder surely here the spell of woman s magnetism should help the new oratorsto-be to become the real thing anyway a t the suggestion of mrs medill mccormick chairman of the woman s national ekecptive republican committee schools of public speaking for women are t o be the thing for the womeh must be qualified as campaign rpeikers w h o knows but that the binding of the feminine spell might put into power the right parties whoever they may be woman struggle t o escape from economic industrial civic and social bondage is one of the interesting signs of the day there is coming the day when woman will forever cease t o be man s serf -bound to the home but a s a boon companion be with h m in a mutual helpfulness which will mean i much for the rise of the race to the place and power intended for d l the people throughout all the years of human history which precede the promised kingdom of cod upon earth woman s position scripturally and historically has been second to that of man the head of t h e woman is the man 1 corinthians 11 :3 t h e fact that we see this headship now questioned is evidence that .the long-promised kidgdom is near at its close the scriptures show sex distinctions will have entirely vanished they that enter into the kingdom shall be as the angels matt 22 30 1919 negro educa~onincinc natx in the united states is the douglass high school of cincinnati blacks from rti over the city g to this school by preference they fe that they get the best chance by staying in their own crowd and they are probably right in the main itntranco of the douglass school a n four placards reading selfcontrol self-reliance self-respect race pridc the teach are of hightlass and largely drawn from the south thexhool has every feature calculated to make it an attmctive rendezvous for e d ored boys and girls until the closing hour which is 9.w p m its play rooms libraries medical attention open-air rooms for tuberculou children special clusu for defectives and courses in manual training and domertic science d l have proven that the best way to deal with the colored boy or girl to make for contentment and order is t o give them a chance and to give them that m c e by themselves while it is true that of one blood cod hath made d nations of men neve+eless under present iml perfect conditions a wise segregation is probably ul advmtagt to all concerned 0 n e of the most ruccessful educational enterprises

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ihe o k age for october i 1919 h 9 manufacturing and mining makilvc the worker a partner iscussion proceeds widely u to the best way to meet the increasingly insistent demand of the worker that.he be permitted to have a voice in the management of the business all employers now know that they mast d a l with their employes by collective bargaining and it would seem the part of wisdom for thetn to spend some time now i n considering how they can make the best solution of the new situation which is bound to arise when the employee demands a voice in the management it is a curiotls thing that while the avkrage -man will admit that he knows nothing about most subjects he has never studied such as music geology botany astronomy etc he is fully convinced of his ability t o govern or help to govern business or polit a institutions of any kind without ever having &1 studied the subject or without having ever had the least experience this makes the coming business parther a liability for a time until he has learned something of his new duties but not as much of a liability perhaps as some people would like to think it not infrequently happens that a night watchman or railroad conductor or other unskilled or am skilled worker is thoroughly saccer~ful conin trolling the politics of s ward the operations of a lodge o the conduct of a labor organization they r control such affairs because they know men and how to deal with them while therefore a great many mistakes will be made in the transfer of a certain amount of power to the workers in an industrial organization nevertheless it is highly probable that the manufacturei will discover qualities of leadership where he has not been accustomed to look for them and where they will be of value in the budness when a suspicion orists between a manufacturer and customer as a result of a supposed injustice or grievance the man who is calltd upon to settle that grievance and remove the injustice is a man who has made a study of human nature m d at the same time is capable of seeing both sida of a problem such men are to be found in the marketing end of a business either in the sales o r advertising deputrnents the laborer is j u t or necessary to the manufac d turer as the customer tiis opinions exercise a considerable influence in labor ranks and his vote counts for just 3s much a the president of his company the suspicion in which he holds his employer mayv be and probably is many times deeper than that of any customer and may affect the efficiency of his work and his whole attitude toward the business this suspicion must be cleared away not by a mere statement of intent but by interestihg and truthful statements regarding the necessities of the company its policies and what it hopes to do i t would seem therefore that the marketing eqd of a business is the end best fitted with this new problem which is here and here to stay the best thing to do withr a pressing problem is to solve it and not try to dodge it or postpone it especially if it is 3 problem that wiil not be dodged or postponed a wise man wiil hear and will increase learning and a man of ~rmdcrstandingshall attain unto wise hs counsels proverbs 15 t i is as good advice to the managers of labor to-day as it was thousands of years ago when it was written how long will t h e oil last he production pf petroleum in the united states hai averaged about 950,000 barrels per day for the past year and a half with a consump tion ronlewhat in excess of production from january 1918 to january 1919 the stock on hand decreased from 150,000,000 barrels to 128,000,000 barrels but had risen to 132,165,ow barrels by the end of may 1919 when the standard ol company begins to seil i oil stock in the open market it is a pretty good sign that those on the inside see the beginning of the end and are trying to place their money where it will be safer there a n seven1 distinct oil fields in the united states the upper ruches of the ohio river northwestern ohio southeastern illinois northeastern oklahoma north texas northwestern louisiana southeastern texas southern glifornia and wyoming some of these fields are now 85 exhausted the average investor in oil stocks especially in new companies never seema to know that most wells decline in production very rapidly which makes necessary constant drilling to maintain production the average decline of flowing wells in some fields t

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-10 ,approximate 15 a month pools in oklahoiiwhich three yeare ago provided 500,000 bars per day now produce only 30,000 bards and ocr one property where at that time thirteen wells were producing 13,000 barrela of oil per day o m hundred wells arc now producing only one tenth as ihe golden age for oaobcr i 19x9 tee peospeiate mwes of florida lorida produces about 52 per cent of the en much t h e bureau of mines of the federal government tgtated recently in effect that the country is now -facing a serious shortage of petroleum while this country has produced 579 of the world s supply of petroleum it has done so by a depletion of the mtiond resenre supply oil wells like mining properties are obviously elf-liquidating every barrel of oil or pound of metal removed correspondingly reduces the amount recoverable and consequently reduces the value of the property hence the absolute necessity of oil producers being continually on the lookout for new :sources of supply to serve as a production supply ,against their declining wells few if any producing companies ever show on their balance sheets any reserve for oil depletion it frequently happens that a new company will begin to pay dividends prematurely with the result that it soon requires more capital with which to continue operations i t is generally unwise to purchase stock in companies which pay immediate dividends all of the oil companies the most prosperous as well as the most wheezy-would be glad if they could find some way of maintaining a permanent supply of oil such as was miraculously provided for the widow by the old hebrew prophkt elisha the story is brief and very interesting t o w there cried a ccrtain wornan of the wives of th wcs of the prophets nnto e!isha saying thy servant my husband is &ad and thou knowest that thy servant did f a r tbe lord and the creditor is come to take unto him my paw sons to be bondmen and elibha said unto her wxat shlli do for thee tdl me what hast thou it1 the house and sbe ui4 thim handmaid h t h not anphing in the house save a pot of oil tho he said go borrow thee vessels abroad of dtylh neighbors even empty vessels borrow not a few and w k n tbx an come in thou halt shut the door upon thee and upan thy sons and shalt pour out into all those vessels and them rlrrlt set aside that which is full so she went from him and shut the door upon her and upon her sans who brought the rarck to her and she poured out and i came to pey when t the wuek were full that she said unto her sob bring me yet a vessel a d he said unto her there is not avuvl more and tbt oil stayed then she came and told the man d god and he said go sell the oil and pay thy debt and live thou and day children of the rest 2 kinqr 4:l-7 tire varld r supply of phosphate and about 82 per cent of the supply of the united states these phosphate beds underlying almost the entire state are one of the great reasons for the productivity of florida soil t h e greatest and richest beds of phorphate are in the vicinity of tampa which has the distinction of being the largest shipper of phosphate rock in the world t h e phosphorous employed in the manuf?cturr of matches and for medicinal purposes i obtained from s phosphate rock by mixing it with coke and sand and heating it in an electric furnace it is marketed in the form of sticks which are d e by conducting the phosphorus from the melting pot through a pipe surrounded by cold water t h e phosphorus solidifies in the pipe and can be removed u a continuous rod the phosphorus sticks are packed in jars covered with water to avoid spontaneotls combustion acid phosphate for years one o i our most popular soft drinks could nbt be manufactured o r sold at the soda counter if it were not for the output of the florida mines owing to its remarkable influence on the growth o f bone in young animals it has been used in the treatment of bone affections it is also most effective in pulmonary troubles and skin diseases and as a nerve tonic it bas been well known for many years that a trace of phosphorus in the manufacture of bronze adds greatly to the tenacity of the metal and to its value i t is an essential of calcium phosphide used for distress signals a t sea and was widely employed during the great war in the manufacture of smoke screens for hiding vessels from submarina phosphate mines strictly speaking are not miner a t all but merely open pits t h e deposits are of all sizes and shapes hard-rock soft-rock and pebbles and frequently occur in pockets of limestone from which they are scooped with the naked hand the work is all done by negro labor principally with pick and shovel but sometimes by dredges or other hydraulic apparatus after mining it requires to be washed dried pulverized and sacked t h e human family needs these phosphate deposits a t the present time for food and medicinal purposes and it strikes us that a fatherly being who had the foresight and beneficace to lay up stores of food and medicine for an uncruted race is a god the human family can trust and a god they will love a when they know him and god s w everything that he had made and behold it was very godg genesis 1:31 f .

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golden age f i oc t 1919 11 finance commerce and transportation american exports and inflation n the end europe must pay for our goods in their l i own goods or in gold meantime we can and should lend them all of our savings that we can spare but if we go further and inflate our credit position in order to lend them more we cannot fail to cause a further rise in the cost of living the proposition to accept european notes backed by european mortgages in payment for american goods is all right but not if those notes arc to be used as a basis for the further inflation of our curm c y the temporary and illusory gain that would days ?or follow such an inflation would be more than offset by the unrest of labor and a11 the other evils which he only man in the world with a full bank accompany inflation account is the american and he will have it was in august 1915 that the quantity of money plenty of foreign friends as long as he has money to i the united states began its rapid increase one lend n month later prices began to shoot upward keeping representatives of many foreign governments almost exact pace with the quantity of money in and municipalities have been rushing to america february 1916 money suddenly stopped increasing to secare grat loam here some of the amoum and two or three months later prices stopped like are wise the money in circulation in the united states the sniu republic $30.000.000 rose from three and one-third billions in 1913 to fjve denmu4 15,000,000 cxccho-shma 25,000,000 m d a half billions in 1918 corresponding to the rise beloiarq 5 o o 0 b w in prices h a b 75m,oao the money in circulation in the world outside of fid several minillio~r russia increased during the war from fifteen bilpoland several millions argentiq snc milliom lions to forty-five billions and the bank deposits in b d smd millions fifteen principal countries from &venty-seven bif a large loan lions to wventy-five billions prices have trebled fmacq an important bond iuuc also the main cause for the present extension in bank in addition the most powerful financial syndicate credit is the liberty loan subsuibers for the ever formed in this country if not in the world will loans have not paid their bonds in full these bonds undertake to loan from one to fije billion dollars in are unrivalled security for borrowings and will con credits to thousands of foreign buyers with which in tinue to be so until the government which issues turn to puhe american foodstuffs raw materials them redeems them until they are paid there is and other supplies little chance that prices will fall materially from as much of these vast sums 4 1 1 never leave the their present high level prices in europe since the country but be expended here for american prodwar began have riseh more than they have in the ucts a great circulation of money will result and a united states and for the same reason-too much large volume o 6usiness will be done by american f money in russia the bolsheviki have issued eighty concerns linked up with the int&national financiers billion dollars of paper money or more than all the there will be plenty of work until these amounts rcst of the world put together are spent and at good waga for american labor the poor world is sutrering from rornething that will not permit its net return for a day s work to only a few individuals urperienc too much money decrease whatever figures the cost of living may they are finding out that money maketh not rlch rucb without corresponding incrust in the things that the time is coming o course when europe wl f il i money wiu buy so vast is the seeming inflation of business that busineu men everpwhere are enlarging their businesses like the man m the parable whose found broaght forth plentifu1iy md he thought with himself saying what shall f do because i have no room where to bestow my fruits and he said this will i do i will pull down my barns and build greater and there will i bestow all my fruits and my goods and i will say to my soul soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years luke 12:18#1 t

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have placed d l the orders needed to reestablish her rh.ttrrtd industries and also be able to ship goods i t the american market and then a reaction may no be urpectod in ameriu with the usual phenomena of l e u work iowa wages and falling prices but for 8 time thir country u safe k o m the difficultiu incident to business depression the time i coming however when a perplexing a muat be met for borrowings have the unsituation fortunate faculty of the limitation imposed by the ability of the borrower paying interest but it looks gough america was safe for another year of r good timer tank cars for transportation ore than 100 commoditiu are now transported i tank cars kerosene gasoline suln phuric muritic nitric and picric acib ammonia alcohol benzol ether cod-tar chlorine for bleaching tannic acid for tanning turpentine and rosin imbiense exports of american foodsturf for paints vegetable oils for soaps and butterine n 1918 the quantity of fresh beef exported waa linseed oil for paint makers soya bean oil castor 540,000,000 pounds or 86 times as much u in b u n oil peanut oil cocoanut oil olive oil corn oil 1914 t h e quantity of bacon exported was 1,000 whale and fish oils fats and oil from the meat 000,000 pounds o r five times the amount exported packers asphalt for roofing and roads caustic soda in 1913 t e amount of condensed milk was 553 for soap silicate of rod and potash b r soaps and h 000,000 pounds o r 26 times aa much u in 1913 of fertilizem okrw glucose vinegar pickles this amount 25,000,000 pounds went to india or four sldmrnrdmiikandwintarcaurhippdintankarr times as much as was shipped to india the previous of tm mstora tion of our merchant maring here has been no american merchant marine worth while since commodore vanderbilt sold his line of trans-atlantic steamers to his english competitors the necessity of building ships t o transport our soldiers to france has again placed a great fleet of merchant ships under the american flag the shipping board has announced the opening of 62 regular cargo liner services twenty-five ot which start from new york they cover south america africa the pacific italy france the north sea states and england besides this it has been announced that over $200,000,000 worth of merchant ships have been ordered which indicates that the magnificent ship-building facilities put up during the war for military needs will not be allowed to go to ruin the plan of sale announced for government ships b very generous i t allows the purchaser to charter for three years paying from his profits at the end of the three years he has the option of buying the ships outright a t $110 a ton or returning them to the board i t is not clear just how the american buyers of american ships expect t o make money out of the purchases because it i s quite well known that american-operated ships are the most expensive to nm in the world and often fail in competition on equal tvms with the shipping of other nations t year taking all kinds of foodstuffs into considention the united states is now exporting four times as much 3s before the war the money value is six times as great i t is now estimated at 0 0 30 00 0w per year dhilt then it was kn,000,000 year per many 8 man ir deceived .by such figures into thinking that it represents the incruring wealth of the country whereas it represents the opposite every ton of raw material taken out of the land impoverishes the redwdth by that much it seems all right to the thoughtless but it i like what the s bible speaks of when it says there is 8 way that seemeth good to a man but the end thereof is destruction a country which enlarges its exports by sending away its actual wealth would come to not ng if the process were continued bang enough wing to the unprecedented prosperity of the fanners the demand for automobiles is now estimated a t 60 per cent ahead of the supply and orders both by dealers and the consuming public are being booked for months ahead the growth in popularity of the motor car is shown by the registration figures for the year of 5,500,000 over a million cars better than the best previous figures in california there is one automobile in use for every seven adults in the state no family purchases an automobile without the families next door desiring also to fulfil the ancient bible prophecy to the effect that many shall run to and fro daniei 12 :4 in order to fulfil this divine prediction men that are wholly unable to afford it mortgage their houses m d sell everything they have as though an automobile wena pearl of great price all over the country the american people are beating their chicken houses into garages 0 t e demand for automob m i =pw

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qooldm age for october i 1919 1 18 r political domestic and mireign inceptidn w a i recently approved by supreme court justice lydon of new york the charter burpost i to hasten the coming of a democracy both gcns aipi mb efficient by building upon a basis of population units an organization through which the people an get a clear idea of their common needs and can utilize the technical knowledge of skilled groups in formulating and carrying out programs to meet these needs a similar social unit system in cindnnati is reported to 3ave successfully developed a quite genuine democracy in small groups of the population who by the unfavorable conditions of tenement city life had been unable to find themselves eociologically the groups by a direct process of practical education in the social and economic needs of the people cultivated in a mixed population a spirit of independence quite comparable to that which has been the pride of american tradition incidentally the social unit incurred the cordial opposition of the local politicians who found their grip increasingly impaired as the knowledge of their former subjects grew knowledge ia power it is independence i t is the foundation of true democracy which in essence is the actual direction of the people s affairs by the people themselves the time for genera enlightenment on d topics l is not merely coming-it is here the chains of ignorance and superstition are about to be forever broken the common people are about to enter into a greater and greater freedom which will soonand to the people unexpectedly-blossom out into that which paul promised when he foresaw the better age just now ahead and said the creation [dl created beings itself dso shall be delivered from the bondage of cormptim [the chrixu of ignorance superstition direuc and ultimately death into the glorious libeq of the [perfect earthly children of god the coming of that which has not yet come genuine democracy-is just around the future s comer i t draws very near al humanity will l soon go forth to meet i t but k will not come through any of the well-meant plam vtrich are now t to &asten tadf cobizvg of democracy being experimented with certainly no one could he national social unit organi have any better purpose than the backers of the zation is the name of a corporation whox social unit system but they are dealing with a situ ation too complicated for them to save i t the world will be saved far democracy but it will be through the agency of the coming kingdom of messiah 19reedoiu exists wbe weak a r e free he d e w of dvilizatioa of a community nuy be measured by the liberty accorded to the weaker membera of the community where the defenceless are defended and the individually weak are backed up by the power of all liberty exists in tangible form those classes which a n without 8 mice and without a vote are most likely to be imposed upon by the strong and unscrupulous one such class consists of those who under the law are classified as infants and minors i t is a promising sign when the rights of such classes are defended as in a recent instance in an eastern city a boy is not supposed to exercise any particular iegai rights but when a property owner in dobbs ferry n y chased nine-yearsld roland white so that the boy fell down and hurt himself because the lad was scooting past the house on a pushmobile it waa apparent that in dobbs ferry at lusta boy has some rigtits the man had asked the children why they could not scoot on the other side of the street his wife was nemous and the noise annoyed her one of the neighbors was not surprised that the boy might have suffered from the kind of pain that gains plaintiffs substantial amounts from damage suits for she said that when the man was chasing the boy he had such a temble look on his face that it frightened even her but the magistrate merely imposed a sentence and then mercifully suspended i t he made it plain that the majesty of the law protected even boys on scooters becruse there is no law that prevents boys from scooting or roller-skating on the side-walks and that a man must remember that he was a boy once himself if judges and big people generally remembered that they like to have liberty themselves and would allow others the rune liberties they insist on and if they would protect and help and be a big brother t c

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14 ihe g o b age for october i 1919 to t h o lenr able to look out for therndvu civil ization would take a step upward and there would be real liberty for grown-ups as well as for children in the golden age which is fast approaching the rights of every person will be safeguarded even those of little boys and girls i will make a man more precious than fine gold even a man than the golden wedge of ophir isaiah 13:12 the people u e promised a better time than they have ever even dreamed bf as evidenced by these words eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entered into the heart of man the things which god hath prepared for them that love him 1 corinthidns 2 :9 and liberty for the weakest even the boys and the girls will characterize the greatness and majesty of the coming better order of things t h t the jews would have avay hyd timc for many centuries was not unknown to the jewish prophets and even thew pogroms were foretold for the prophet jeremiah says i will send for many hunters and they shall hunt them from every mountain [kingdom and from every hill [lesser nation and out of the hola protected placer of the rocks [strongholdr of society jeremiah 16 :16 thu dreadful hunting of the jews however is prelude to the re!gathering of as many of them as desire back to their home country the messianic kingdom will come after enough of the jews yt reestablished and through them will flow the grateot b&t to all the people of the whole world do hore balmns mean more trouble p jewish persecution i n poland the ruling party in poland is engaged in a rhuneless persecution of jews with a view to making their political hold on the country stronger ugly illustrated posters depicting the jew or a serpent or vampire appear in the newspapers and are doing everything possible to fan the fanaticism of the ignorant masses into a brutal massacre the jews are blamed for the high cost of living despite the fact that this phenomenon is world wide and has been caused by the fiscal policies of the warring countries as high as eighty jews have been killed in a single pogrom in poland and they are of frequent occurrence sometimes whole streets of jewish homes are burned down accompanied by brutalities in which the roman catholic polish christians seem to equal the turks in their attacks against the armenians some of the factories in poland belong to jews but in them no jewish operatives can be employed despite the fact that one-third of the populace are jews polish workmen will not work with jews and they can only work in small home industries of their own theycan not enter the civil service the poles politically and culturally a backward people have won the power to make their land a hell for its three million jews by no merit of their own but simply by the victory of the germans over thc russian and of the allies over the gems the pole understand well what their r6le in europe is their r6le is to keep a strong conscript u m y on the vistula while the french keep watch on the rhinc they know very well if they fill this die they may treat jews germans and other minori i s y they plcasc te u nder the charge that all jews are bolsheviki ctecbnslovakia and poland besides old austria the civilization d the world broke down because the great powers played the balkan states against each other for their own purposes t h e russian empire md the p h of germany for a mittel-europa collided now the whole of central europe has been balkanized from the baltic to the aegean the whole territory is now filled with small ambitious ind&tely bounded stater will they keep the peace will their larger and more ambitious neighbors help them to keep the peace or will they in pursuance of their own ambitious designs contrive to keep these small states quarrtling among themselves in the hope of themselves profiting by the melee europe must get to work will she get to work better with a large number of petty states or a small number of large states are customs barriers a help to commerce or a hindrance if there are many boundaries to cross will trade be facilif tated or hindered i europe docs not get to work boundaries or m boundaria what will happen practically all the people of europe atlust an overwhelming majority profess obedience to the commands of jesus christ but evidently they have two things more to learn one of them is suggested by paul that if any would not work neither should he eat 2 thessalonians 3 :10 ;for unless europe gets to work she will not have enough to cat except by borrowing money from the united statea and paying for food with the eume money the other thing that these ~hri stiansrequire ir to realize that there is no permanent relationship possible among them accept that based upon thia ancient principle tbou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself 3 t he break-up of the austrian empire fur created four new balkan -staty hungary jugo-shvia,

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the golden age for october l i 19x9 1 agrlculture and ewsbandry 1 4 fannen that corn always does well when it fdlows a crop of clover but it was discovered anew in 8 d o n of nofib carolina by a young farmer who purchased m abandoned farm and who nbticed that his first crop of corn did best in a part of the fidd that had grown up to wild clover the next spring he seeded all his wheat in clover and has bear doing it ever since hs farm is now one of i the show-places of the state other farmerr in the naghborhood have followed his example and fmm 8 poor farming country have built up the best cornbelt in that prrt of the south many years ago a great potato-producing indust y developed in aroostook county maine the r potatoes were grown in rotation with oats and clover two years of potatoes one of aats and one of clover with as heavy an application of fertiluer as the potatoes would pay for wonderful results were obtained by this rotation and enrichment of the soil and now ft has been discovered that this u m e rotation with equally good results can be omained in any potato-growing country in the so-called black belt of alabama and musissippi many lands had been cropped to cotton without change or rest for a hundred years the yield of cotton had fallen so low as to make the land ni practically worthless u t l somebody dixovercd that it was naturally adapted to alfalfa now it is producing great crops of alfalf three or four tons t o the acre and after a few years produces corn rivalling the yield in the corn-belt states twenty yean ago the sand-hill country onrhf ot carolina was regarded as worthless fifty cents an acre was a good average for the land the roil is little but sand for 20 feet or more down a hotelkeeper undertook to raise vegetables for his tablthe found that cowpeas and fertilizer worked a revolution in the soil after turning under a few crops of pea vines he was able to produce 60 to 70 bushels of corn per acre the system spread gradually until now the sand-hill re&on is one of the most prosperous in the state now land is selling at $200 to $250 per acre and the yield of cotton runs to a bale or more per acre by these and similar methods the lord m i sure i what rotation of crops accompwsees ly fulfil his promise behold i make all things new t had probably been discovered elsewhere by other revelation 21 5 the earth ia being made new before oar very eyes and the land i yielding it s increase dynamiting tee earth into a paradise he-useof eleceucxty m d dynamite in the great war has developed methods for dealing with stumps m d water coursu which will alter the face of the earth in digging ditches the holes are drilled two feet apart and two feet drip the number of rows depending upon the width.desired for the bed of the strum as soon abou t 10 holes arc drilled and loaded they are exploded by electricity the blast lifts the soil 200 feet in the air and scatters it out over the adjoining land for a distance of 150 feet leaving a clean ditch if a deeper bed is desired the first bed of the stream can be blasted out by another layer of holes or a third one of the principal uses of dynamite in clearing up large areas is that of blasting out stumps three holes are drilled on opposite sides of the stump all slanting in toward the center and reaching down to the subsoil beneath the stump crow-bars are generally used for making the holes but portable electric and compressed air drills are also used another great use of dynamite is in clearing land of boulders this is done by thee methods dcapping which consists in removing the dpamite from the shell and packing it in a compact conical heap on the boulder and then covering it with several inches of thick heavy mud blochholkg which consists of drilling a hole into the boulder and chuging it with a small amount of dynamite ;and mahe holing which consists in rolling the boulder oat of its bed by placing a hole under it similar to one of the holes used to remove a stump if a sufficient s charge of dynamite i used the boulder will be broken into fragments boulders should always be snakeholed before attempts at madupping or blockhaling are made the mud used for mudcapping must be free from stones if stoner are present in the mud they will be thrown like bullets blockholing requires mom labor but i the simplest s method for breaking very hard boulders and the only method for breaking boulders over 3 feet i n diameter i t requires much less dynamite than either snakeholing or mudcapping t i

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