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THE KING’S BUSINESS Have they not an equal right to forbid the waste of land in raising tobacco that might be used for raising corn ? But instead of this they are apparently work-, ing hand in hand with the American Tobacco Trust to perpetuate, not merely this appalling waste, but unquestionable injury to our man power.
O H A L L W E HELP TH E PRO FITEERS OR TH E GOVERNMENT? Much is being said in these days about the “Profiteering” in different lines of business, and unfortunately, much that is being said is justified by the facts. But apparently two of the worst manifestations of profiteering in the name of patriotism are those of the Tobacco Trust and of the flag manufac turers. We have had something to say about the Tobacco Trust in another editorial. But the manufacturers of flags are coining money out of false appeals to patriotism. When the first anniversary of America’s entering into the war came, people were instigated and urged and almost dragonaded into purchasing new flags, even though they had purchased flags,during the year. It was urged that what was needed was a new flag, if they were really patriots. When they came to purchase new flags, they found that there had been an enor mous rise in the price of flags. Now every one ought to be loyal to the flag, but loyalty to the flag does not demand that we over-decorate our houses with them or that we purchase a new flag every time the flag manufacturers stir the people up to do it. The money for the flag does not go to the Government or to the Nation. It goes to those who are coining money out of the patriotism of Americans. Better far put the money into Liberty Bonds, where the money does go to the Support of our Government, in this great time of crisis. He was born forty-six years ago in the City of Liverpool, England. Soon after coming to this country he became a student at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He proved his unusual energy and equipment there, not only by the splendid record he made in his classes and in the outside work that he did, both singing and preaching the gospel, but also by the fact that though he entered the Institute without anything, he paid his own way through, and left with $300.00 in his pocket that he had saved up for further training. After graduating from the Institute he went to McCormick Seminary, where he grad uated with honor. While in McCormick Seminary, having become a member of the United Presbyterian Church, he organized a United Presbyterian Church in Ravenswood. This church was gathered together almost entirely through his own preaching, and in a few years under his ministry it became the largest United Presbyterian' Church in Chicago, with a Sunday School of one thousand scholars, and with a stone church building and a parsonage. Afterwards he was made pastor of the largest United Presbyterian Church west of Pittsburgh, at Sparta, 111. He remained there five years and built a new church. Having T A R . RA L PH ATK INSON . As Dr. Ralph Atkinson is to become a member of the faculty of the Bible Institute September 25, 1918, and also one of the editors of T he K ing ’ s B usiness , our readers will be interested in the following brief account of his history:
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