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SURVEYS THAT SAVE LIFE ANI) MONEY
Few pi (i|ile know that there is an organization, with head
quarters in New \ ork City, that sends its engineers to cities
throughout Am lira lor the purjioso of making surveys that
save lives and property and jet, does not make a charge for
this service. This organization is the National Board of Fire Un
derwriters.
Kuril one of the engine rs sent out to a city is an acknow
ledged expert in that part of the survey in which he engages.
These engineers inspect buildings, groups of buildings and 1
wholx* blocks to ascertain the possibility of a sweeping fire, and 1
are thus aide to bring the “ionflagration breeders” to the at
tention of til*, authorities. They inspect and test the fire appar
atus in all stations and gauge the efficiency of the personnel of
Ihe firemen. Also, the supply and pressure of water are in
sp<eted and tested, as well as the* number and availibility of
hydrants.
A completed survey gives an accurate picture of just how
safe a city is from the menace of fire, and a detailed report on
the condition found is made, along with definite recommenda
tions for improvement Written copies are placed in the hands
of city officials. And when these recommendations are accepted
and acted upon, the town becomes a safer place inwhich to live
and work.
Thousands of cities have been visited by the engineers for
these surveys some of them several times—ami it takes little
imagination to visualize the number of lives that have been
spared and the property that has escaped destruction by fire
as a result.
EDITORS VIEW SOCIALISTIC ISSUE
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The Industrial News Review recently asked country news
paper editors for their opinion on various phases of the “power
question. With around 1,200 replies now tabulated, some ex- 1
tmnely interesting facts are being produced.
Only 42 of the editors said that the utility industry is not
givng good service—while 1,111 feel that service is good. Only
295 editors favor municipal ownership of power plants, while 1
8f>3 are against it. While 250 editors believe that hVdleral idee- 1
trie developments are justified as a national necessity, over 900 i
think they are unjustified. Contrasted with 891 editors who op
posed the wholesale death sentence for holding companies, only
210 approve it.
Most important of all, perhaps, only 157 editors believe that
government or municipal ownership of the electric industry
would give more progressive, efficient and cheaper service—tax
es and public subsidies considlered, against 947 who feel other
wise.
It is very probable that these percentages showing an over
whelming opposition to any socialistic trend that would put the i
government into business to the injury or destruction of pri- i
vate enterprise, represent the general feeling of informed citi- i
zens. It was not accidental that in the last election voters turn
ed thumbs down on proposed local measures to put various
states into business. The American people, for example, realize
that the private electric industry, under public regulation, lias
been one of the most beneficial and progressive influences in
our social and industrial life—and they likewise sense the mani
fold dangers that inevitably follow when bureaucrats are given
eontrol or management of an essential business.
These answers of editors provide an illuminating and val
uable commentary on one of the most discussed questions of the
time. They are encouraging to thos*e who feel that private en
terprise is better than socialism, and that the role of govern
ment iu business is properly that of umpire and not, a favored
participant.
EARNED SOCIAL SECURITY
It would seem that, “social security" is destined to be a po
litical issue for a long time to come. Within the parties there is
considerable internal dissentiou as to what is the proper pro
gram to pursue.
In the meantime millions of American citizens are quietly
and effectively achieving social security for themselves without
benefit of government.
They are setting up trust funds and saving accounts. They
are buying life insurance in unprecedented amounts and more
and more of the insurance is sold of the annuity type which pro
vides old-age income as well as protection for dependents.
This is not an argument against government social security
which is believed to be a compelling need of the time. It is, how
ever, a tribute to that old type of. American independence which
guards against the future through individual thrift, foresight
and good hard work.
] ANNOUNCE FEDERAL POLICY
The first statement of the president as to the future poli
cies d*alt with. the problem of the Federal deficit. Air. Roose
velt, in a brief announcement, said that he believed it would
soon be possiblt to balance the budget and that he intended to do
so at the earliest possible moment.
Various commentators, some of them close to the White
House, anticipate that the budget will be balanced by the end
of the 1937 fiscal year which starts next July.
It is doubtful if any act of the President and the Congress
would do more to restore confidence in our government's fi
nancial structure, or to stimulate industry and investors. Once
the budget is balanced- and kept balanced—we will know the
Federal debt will grow no larger. And, with a balanced budget,
we can apply ourselves to the trcmemluous task of reducing the
debt to a more normal level. That, obviously, cannot be done so
long as the government spends more than it receives and charg
es the difft rence against the future.
It has been Mr. Roosevelts opinion that during a time of
depression a country should spend far beyond what it receives
and, once a reasonable amount of recovery is not'd, reduce out
go and return to a business foundation. The current condition
indicates that the time is here when business ought to make
emergency spending unnecessary.
PRESIDENT TO SOUTH AMERICA
At this writing President Roosevelt is on the way to the
Inter-Aineriean peace conference at Buenos Aires, where he
will make a speech the first day and then return. He was pre
ceded south by an imposing American delegation headed by
Secretary of State Hull—implacable fighter for better commer
cial and diplomatic relations between countries.
There has been considerable discussion concerning the value
or the futility of the futility of the conference. Some point out
with truth, that there is no danger of a war arising in North or
South America, that Europe and the East are the danger spots.
However, it is the President’s belief—which is shared by
many—that if nations of the Western Hemisphere show Europe
that a round-table discussion can lead to friendly settlements
md agreements, some progress toward world peace will be made.
\nd it is likewise believed that if the President takes a forth
right, and aggressive stand for peace and throws his prestige
igainst armed conflict, powers which are now elose to war may
think again before giving the command to open hostilities.
'Pile President’s trip to Buenos Aires is in the nature of a
•esture in a world which was never nearer to armed chaos. As a
natter of fact, in recent months there have been occurrences
nore contributory to war than there were in 1912 and 1913.
Everyone hopes that the gesture will be productive of good,
n the meantime, it seems that every seasoned commentator and
•■very old-time war correspondent, is certain that war in Asia,
md Europe is inevitable—one of the leading co ns ■spoil dents re
cently stated, on departing for Europe, that lie was going to
•over the next war.
The ItaLo-German recognition of Spanish rebels has fur
her widened the cleavage between these powers and France and
tussin. The greatest force existing today in both Europe and
Vsia is hatred.
The old bogey, “The cost of living’’ is again in the head
ines. Some industries are considering plans whereby the cost of
iving index will he used as a basis for wage increase or cut. An
idvanee in the index is forecast for the near future.
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PROVERBS !
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PARABLES |
By A. B Mann
Perhaps people do not realize
vhat they are saying when they use j
ho expression “He is a chip off
,ho old block.’’ This has reference
o heredity and means that it is
is natural for the offspring to bo
ike the parent ns it is for the chip
o bo like the block from which it
las been cut.
Recognition of this fact should
^in tolerance for those who are of
jnfortunate vicious heredity. In all
such cases justice demands sym
pathy and tolerance in judging
guilt and in fixing moral responsi
bility. More than this and in ad
vance of it, the matter suggests
necessity for caution in selecting
the block from which the human
chip is to come.
drink and degradation
By R. A. Adams
(For the Literary Service ureau)
The degradation to which drink
will drag °ne down and its influence
in and on crime have been brought
to us again in the murder of the
lawyer Dickon by Ferris in Detriot,
Michigan. This man came from one
of the best families in America,
but drink ruined him.
He offered t/> buy drinks fo
strangers. He took these strangers
to his own hotel room to drink with
him. I)ring changed these women
into female demons and made them
capable of this terrible crime.
Drink caused the man to seek asso
ciation with these dissolute charact
ers. Drink made him forgeful and
earless on that fatal ride, and
drink dehumanized the murders and
made their terrible deed possible.
At the door of this demon may be
laid thousands of such crimes, and'
yet the people of this nation voted
to unleash his terrible thing. And
this is only a small part of the
peanalty to pe paid for their folly.
Trapping Season Is Here
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ALTA VESTA
A GIRL’S PROBLEMS
By Videtta Ish
Dear Alta Vesta: In your last
letter you mentioned a matter of
great concern, and this afford- me
the opportunity to say some of the
things which long I have desired
to say.
All work of reaching people, in
erer.ting them in Christianity and
persuading them to accept it as
the rule of their lives is evangelism,
and every worker thus engaged is
an evangel, or messenger.
What we now call an evangel
istic campaign was, in earlier days,
called a “revival” and the evangel
ist of those other days wa- called
a “revivalist.” This has been the
method of spreading Christianity
and winning men to Jesus Christ.
It is estimated that three-fourths
of all persons who have become
Chrisians have been reached and
won by means of these revivals and
revivalists
I have an engagement now, and
must close. Will tell you more about
t in my next letter. Love to you and
Aunt Cornelia.
Your loving Father
^TieWiLLER
WRITES |
(For the Literary Service Bureau)
(For advice, write to Maxie Mil
ler, care of Literary Service Bur
eau, 516 Minnesota Ave., Kansas
City, Kans. For personal reply
send self-addressed stamped en
velope.)
Maxie Miller: I am a boy twenty
years old and I love a girl twenty
years old, too. My folks do not
rank up with her folks and I ain’t
educated like she is. But we love
one another and want to get mar
ried. I cap marry the girl anyhow,
but hate to make her folks mad
that way. I don’t want to hurt her
folks, but love is love, I say, and
we love a whole lots, too. Answer,
please. Sammy.
Sammy: Prom your letter I can
see hat it would be very unfortun
ate if you’d “tie up’’ with a girl
who is well educated. More, Sammy,
I think if folks did not want me in
their family I’d be too proud to
beg myself in. Then, Sammy, un
less you go to school and improve
your education you can never make
an educated woman happy and that
means unhappiness to you. My ad
vice is that you get into school
somewhere, as soon as possible, and
that for the present, at least, you
aneel this matter of marriage.—
Maxie Miller.
SERMONETTE
By Arthur B. Rhinow
THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THE!
SEEM
An old aneedote, not voueed for
by documentary evidence or even
reliable witnesses, tells of a man
who had been under a severe ner
vous strain until his mind was af
fected and he had to be sent to a
anitarium. Careful treatment, how
ever, and kind nursing soon effected
encouragement' improvement, so
that after a few months the doctor
cngraulated the patient and told
him he would be able to leave the
institution in a week or two.
The patient was, of course, very
happy to hear this, and he decided
to send the good news to his fam
ily. lie wrote the letter, perfectly
coherent, and enclosed it in an en
velope. When he wetted the stamp,
however, it slipped out of his fin
gers and fluttered to the floor,
where it landed, the printed side
up, on he back of a roving roach,
completely covering the insect,
which was frightened and fled. The
man bent over to pick up the lost
article, but could not find it. As he
looked up, however, he beheld the
stamp slowly though irregularly
ascending the wall. He was puz
zled, then alarmed and horrified.
He was “seeing things” again.
With digust and despair he tore up
the letter, exclaiming, “What’s the
use! I’ll never get out of here.’
A little investigation would have
shown that his alarm was unfound
ed. Instead of the phantasm of dis
eased mind, the queer would have
turned out to be just an unsual
coincidence, something to laugh at
instead of worrying over.
Things are not always what they
seem, including our anxieties and
fears. Examine them, before or af
ter the event, and we often find
that our misgiving were groundless.
Pace life fairly and squarely, with
open mind and honest heart, and
much that appeared to be wrong
side up will prove to be right side
up. And remember when all seems
turmoil, there still is God.
MRS. SCHUYLER SAYS
By Mrs, Josephine Schuyle:
FOR THE CALVIN SERVICE
Where Was Man First Civilized?
The historians have long and
solemnly assured us that the fi s'
civilization appeared in the valley
of the Tigris and Euphrates in Mes
opotamia. The Aryans (therre is
really no such thing as an Aryan
race, but since some Europeans in
. ist i>n calling themselves this, we
will humor them) painstakingly
t aced their ancestry back to these
first urbanites of the Uear Sast.
One historian recently suggested
that it was just possible that civili
zation began in Africa—but, of
course, he added it was of Semitric
origin. That linked it, however va
guely, with Europe and European
history. But now, lo and behold!
our Ame dean scientists are mak
ing undreamed of discoveries of
ancient cities in the Americas.
Up till now, as you may recall,
the Americas have been referred
to as the “New World.” The In
dians that the g"ld-hungry, blood
thirsty Spaniards found in Mexico,
Central America and Pen were
not at first rated civilized. For had
thay been how could the Spaniards
have civilized them. The theory was
hat they were savage Mongolians
who had crossed oerr the Aleutian
Islands only a few centuries before
the European got here. That left
these two immense, fertile contin
?nts without human life for mil
lions of years previous to this. A
Preposterous idea but accepted in
;he best circles as truth.
Now, some of our bright young
(dentists are uncovering all sorts
pf conflicting data. In Nebraska
(where no one ever dreamed there
BE GAME
By R. A. Adams
(For the Literary Service ureau)
[f you have been unwise in dealing,
However sad you may be feeling,
Since your own folly was to blame,
lust chuck your losses and be game.
Whatever might have been your
losses,
Whatever fate, or fortune tosses,
Forbear excuses now to frame,
But chuck your losses and be game.
What e’er may be your situation,
And whatever your inclination,
Be not a coward, to your shame,
But ‘face the music,” and be game.
EDITORIAL BACKS DAVIS
FOR A. U. PREXY
New York, Dec 2 (C)—The lead
ing editorial in The New York Age
last week was headed “A New
President For Atlanta University.”
rhe edieorial closed with this para
graph :
“We feel hat the Trustees of
Atlanta university would be hon
oring themselves and their school
by the selection of Dr. W. Davis
as its next president.”
BISHOP OXMAN SPEAKS
ON GAMMON DAY
Atlanta, Ga„ Dec. 2 (C)—Dr
Willis J. King, president of Gam
mon Theological Seminary, announ
ces December 15th as Gammon
Day, with Bishop Oxnam as the
principal speaker, and a special
memorial service in honor of the
late Bishop Thirkield, Gammon
founder.
CLARENCE WILLIAMS
HAS NEW PROTEGEE
New York, Dec. 2 C)—William
Cooley, who recently came to New
York from a CCC camp in Georgia,
is fast coming to the top, according
to announcement by Clarence Will
iams, Broadway song publisher who
s sponsoring the young man. Cooley
has a marvelous baritone voice, and
has won every contest in which he
has engaged over the radio, sing
ing a work song especially written
for him by Mr. Williams called
“Song of the Extra Gang.” Recent
ly Cooley sang for Postmaster
General Farley’s beefsteak dinner
to the President at the Biltmore
hotel. One of the steaks was serv
ed to Cooley right in the Biltmore
by the white waiters.
SEEK CHURCH AID
FOR SHARECROPPERS
Philadelphia, Dec. 2 (C)—The
Methodist Episcopal Board of Home
Missions and Church Extension is
being urged to give “material and
spiriitual aid” tip tjie southern
sharecroppers.
had been cities till the cowboys
built them) they have been digging
up one ancient layer of civiliza
tion after another. In New Mex
ico the same story. In New York
State and North Carrolina and
Georgia new and disconcerting1 dis
covt ies are popping up. And in
Yucatan, the Maya tombs are giv
ing up more and more evidence of
astronomy, art and literature as
enjoyed by Indians there thousands
of years before the United Fruit
Company decided to civilize them
(by overwork and underpay on ban
ana plantations).
Ag iculture Basis of Civilization
\\ ithout well-developed agricul
ture, no civilization is possible. A
very high form of ‘culture’ is pos
sible but civilization, which mere
ly mean the living together of large
numbers of people in communities,
depends upon a staple foor supply.
Grain and vegetables must be rais
ed in large quantities to provide
enough food for a city of people.
Meat is fa* too perishable and dif
ficult to obtain (before the refiger
ated era especially for great num
bers of people ever to have lived on
it entirely. This does not mean that
grain is superior to meat as a food.
It is by all scientific exxperinvent,
definitely inferior* to both meat and
vegetables. Civilization, because i»
depends by necessity upon a less
‘vital’ protecting source of food,
has always bred disease which
hunting folk never contracts. But
the fact remains, hose folk who
first cultivated, first built cities
(May I disgress here o say that
cities are probably the world's
greatest blight. They have given
us Arts and Sciences but they and
their grain-raising supporters
have already made great parts of
the eerth sterile. The grain-raisers
of our Middle-West have in one
century destroyed the fertility of
one-third of the United States.)
American Plants Oldest
Dr. E. D. Merrill, professor of
Botany at Harvard university, has
made a study of original American
plants. He finds that com, “Irish”
potato, all varieties of beans, tom
ato, pepper, sunflower “Jerusa
lem” artichoke, squash, pumpkin,
a Towroot, peanuts, tobacco, pine
apple, avocado, and a score more
of tropical fruits all originated in
the Americas and were never
known elsewhere until after the
so-called “discovery” of America
by Columbus. The Irish potato is
really the “Inca” potato and was
aken from Peru by the Spaniards
to Ireland where it was so well
like that it became the staple food
of the Isle and was named for it
The most amazing thing about
all this is that corn, tobacco and
beans are “botanical orphans.”
They cannot be found anywhere in
a wild, uncultivated state. This
means that they’ve been cultivated
for so many millenmiums that all
trace of their wild ancestors has
disappeared. To have developed
them into the' size and quality
which the Spaniards found on land
ing here, required, we now find,
many more housands of years than
we had thought Indian Civilization
had lasted.. The irony of this is
that wheat, barley and rice which
he other “older” continents cultivat
ed can be found in a wild state still
and their evolution reveals that hu
man cultivation of them is not as
old as that of the American plants.
So our scientists conclude that ci
vilization first started in America
which leaves traditional European
history high anl dry.
First American; Not an Indian
The finding of a human skeleton
in New Mexico beside that of a
mammoth which had been wounded
with an arrowpoint, upsets the
theory of the first American being
Mongolian. The mammoth lived
here before the Ice Age and the
shape of the human skull found
indicates an indigenous American.
Mongolians probably came here
later and mixed with this original
stock. Probably also, Africans
crossed to South America (note
how close they are and recall the
daring, sea-faring West Coast
Krus). Africa^! never crossed to
Brazil in great numbers because
there was no need to. There was
plenty of room at home, Europe’s
situation in 1492, when Columbus
sailed West, was different. It was
over-populated and starving. J
What one objects to In the Eu
ropean conquest is the cant and
hypocrisy of the books written
about it. The making up of the
“racial superiority” theory to just
ify a Christian Civiliza*ion’s cruel
and bloody enslavement of Indian
and African.
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