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from cancer than any other disease, or 292 for every 100,000. Dr. William Mayo, the Rochester (Minn.) surgeon, says, “ We now hope to bring the average age up to the Biblical scale of three score and ten.” We are on the trail of Methuselah. — News Item. The question is not “ How long is it possible to live upon this earth T” but, “ How ought we to live, and where will we spend eternity?” MANY KILLINGS " Measured by the police reports of Chicago a heavy percentage of murder ing may be attributed to illicit booze. A summary made by the Chicago chief shows that there ^ere 238 kill ings by violence in his city during the first six months of this year. Of the total included in the Chicago report only fifteen murders were perpetrated during attempts at robbery. The Chicago folk have been trained to non- resistance during the various hold-up processes. Lumping the cases of murder, manslaughter and justifiable homicide as listed by the Coroner sev enty-one killings were the result of family embroilment or quarrels be tween friends. In a majority of these cases bad liquor started the trouble. There were also a dozen other mur ders that were merely drunken brawls. So it may be definitely understood that illicit booze has very much to do with establishing Chicago’s unenviable repu tation as a city of violence and blood shed. — Los Angeles Times. A I’ RE-MILLEXNIAL METHODIST Commenting upon an address by Rev. Dinsdale T. Young, D. D., a well- known Methodist minister in England. Rev. E. Hewitt says in “ The Christian Herald” : “ I want to say with much gladness that I am one with the Doctor in every word he has said. I pray that it will arouse us all to a more prayer ful searching of God’s Word. The Bible is full of this sanctifying and sweetening doctrine. The mystery to me is how our preachers can leave it out of their preaching and their teach ing. It seems to me that here lies the secret of much of the deadness and falling-off in our congregations, and of the dwindling down in many of our Sunday-schools. To be faithful to our calling, we must not fail to declare the whole counsel of God. This mark of distinction of whose we are, and whom we serve, was never more needed than the day we are living in. I believe a revival of this precious doctrine is much needed, and it would fill our churches and schools with new life and power. “ They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”
will feel nothing but a tingling sensa tion. This shows that the human body has a wonderful capacity for absorbing energy without injury to itself when that energy is transformed into a proper vibratory motion.”— Exchange. JAZZY HYMN BOOKS A New York musician has been en gaged to jazz up the hymn book of one of the churches. There appears to be an impression that if the Sunday-school songs had a little more ginger in them the young folks would like them better and give them larger attention. This is a mistaken idea. So far as the church is concerned there is genuine love and respect for the old hymns. There are stately and splendid har monies that will last forever. At any rate they will be commanding hearts and voices long after the Jazzbos are dead. No sane person would want to mix “ Hot Lips” with "Lead Kindly Light.” If jazz and the hymn book are to meet it must not be in the church. — Editorial-Exchange. STUDENT PAPER AT BERKELEY BANNED BY DEAN Berkeley—.-The “ Occident,” a month ly publication edited and published by University of California students, was indefinitely suppressed by university authorities because of an article in the current issue which was interpreted as ridiculing the Immaculate conception of Christ as set forth in the Bible. The author of the article was Don ald C. Williams of Long Beach. Williams is a graduate of Occidental College and holds a master’s degree from Harvard. He is majoring in philosophy at the University of Cali fornia. The suppression order was said to have been issued by Dean Woods in the absence of President Campbell. Fred Byers, president of the student welfare committee, scored Williams’ article as “ an insult to 99 per cent of the university students.”— Exchange. THE SPAN OF LIFE . “ The average length of life in 1800 was 33 years; in 1866 it was 40 years; and in 1920 it was 68 years.” These are the findings-of Louis A. Hansen in a Washington publication. Disease prevention more t h a n lengthens life— “ it increases usefulness and enjoyment of life. It enlarges possibilities, addB to our accomplish ment and makes for progress," he con tinues. He finds that the highest death rate among males between the ages of 46 and 64, or 256 for every 100,000, 1 b from organic disease of the heart. More women within the same ages die
DANGEROUS NAILS Sanitary statistics show that last year 18,000 accidents, for which com pensation was paid in New York State, were caused by nails. Yet claws are considered more dangerous than nails. — Exchange. WHAT IS EVOIiUTION? According to one definition, evolu tion is a progressive process from an indefinite, Incoherent homogeneity to a substantial and defined heterogene ity, through continuous differentia tions and integrations that may be recognized and codified. We are certainly under much obliga tion for this lucid explanation. Now we shall be able to know an evolution ist when we see him. ROBBERY SUSPECT MERELY STUDYING PSYCHOLOGY Emil Drain, arrested in Detroit on a charge of robbery, says he held up people to find out the psychological reaction. “ I'm not a crook and I wasn t after the money," he told police. “ I wanted to know the psychological reaction of the hold-up man, and the only way to get it first-hand is by being a hold-up man. I was going to start in law school next fall to specialize in criminal law, and I wanted to know what I was doing when I took the work.” — Exchange. Under orders from the government every church, monastery, cathedral and convent in Moscow has been white washed. This gives the otherwise drab city an air of cleanliness and purity. Even the diminutive shrine of the Iberian Virgin at the entrance to Red Square, which to the devout Russian is the most sacred spot in Russia, has been painted. Nearby in letters of white stone on a red background, is the famous Communist inscription borrowed from Karl Marx, “ religion is the opium of the people.” — Los Angeles Times. A l if e - s a v in g v e s t For policemen and duelists, metal vests are recommended as bullet-proof by New York City headquarters. The vests are made of three thicknesses of steel scales held together by fabrikoid, the whole being not much heavier or thicker than an ordinary cloth vest. The inventor explains the marvelous resistance of the vest by reference to a bell. “ If you put your hand between the clapper and-the side of a big bell, it would be smashed; yet after the bell is struck you can stop its ringing by putting your hand on it, and you RUSSIAN DECREE PAINTS MOSCOW CHURCHES WHITE
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