August 1926
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THE NEW JERUSALEM The Jews are coming to their own in Jerusalem. There is a new popula tion of some 200,000 Jewish souls in Palestine, and the influx of the race last year alone was greater than for the five previous years combined. It is rather interesting to learn that the heads of the new families moving in had with them an average of some thing like $2500 in real money. They are, therefore, prepared to develop the ancient country along modern lines and are doing it. Already there are saxophones in the new Jerusalem. Exchange. God’s promises must be fulfilled. Keep your eye on Jerusalem. LOOKING FORWARD Statistical sharps assert that the population of the United States in 1950 will be 146,500,000. Of the total they risk their reputations on the statement that 90,000,000 of the inhabitants will be city dwellers. The farm population 1 b not expected tq show much of an increase. At present 51.4 per cent of the total is repre sented by what are classed as rural dwellers. By 1950 the cities will have a heavy majority. The growth is not so much in the cities themselves as in the districts adjoining the big towns and, therefore, lumped with the city growth. The experts are afraid to make any estimate of the population of Los Angeles, but the authorities here declare that we will have 4,000,- 000 citizens by 1950. At that, they will be mostly Americans. We have the heaviest percentage of native Americans of any large city in the country.— L. A. Times.
They enjoy such freedom and absolute abandon that it is impossible to keep them in asylums and orphanages, and the problem is beyond the govern ment. IS THIS YOUR DOLLAR? This is the story of the American Dollar and how it is spent. According to the American Education Digest, here is the accounting: Cents Living costs ................................... 24% Luxuries ............... .......................... 22 Waste ................................;.............14 Miscellaneous .........i................. 13% Investment ............... - ...... I............ H Crime ____r........... -......................... 8% Schools ___________________ _____ 1% Government ......... - ........ ------——- 4% Church ................ - ......................... 0% FLY MENACE TO HEALTH As summer approaches, various scientific bodies start preparations for the long and arduous campaign against the fly. Pamphlets are dis tributed, warning against the terrible danger of disease from infection, spread by flies throughout the coun try. These campaigns have proved themselves invaluable, as they give in formation which helps the city to alle viate the suffering caused by these pests. ., - But whatever the methods, the flies seem to thrive on them, as they are with the people each year in" double numbers. It has been said by a French scientist that one fly produces 3,985,- 969,387,755,100 other flies. His ex periments showed that the fly multi plies faster than many microbes.— Dispatch.
AN EXCELLENT RECORD Six women who have been serving on the St. Louis division of the Penn sylvania Railroad since 1918 have been cited by the road for having made perfect records on their Jobs. During the seven years of service not one accident has happened at the crossings over which these six stand guard.— News Item. BIRDS AND BUGS ■ One naturalist says that the birds are the saviors of the human race. But for them the insects would take possession of the world and destroy its food supplies. Birds are blamed for being destructive of grains and seeds, but this is but a trifle when compared with the benefits accruing from their service. The bugs and worms would clean up most of the farm crops but for the thoughtful ministrations and hardy appetites of the birds. One robin can eat his weight in bugs every day.— Exchange. , FOR BETTER BABIES The Cradle Society of the Red Cross in France on the principle of a circu lating library has created an exchange of nursery equipment. Parents who are a bit embarrassed can borrow or rent almost everything needed to smooth baby’s path. Clothing, bed ding, wraps, milk bottles, perambula tors, sterilizers, scales, go-carts and about everything the child can use from a teething ring to a rocking horse may be “ borrowed” at a nominal fee and the children of the poor there by obtain many of the comforts and luxuries of those born with a silver spoon. The high cost of babies is brought to a minimum and young cou ples are given every encouragement to swell the population.— News Item. RUSSIAN CHILDREN PILLAGE TOWNS Russia has gold to assist strikers but none with which to buy "bread for her own children, as evidenced by a dispatch from Moscow which states that, driven by hunger, great flocks of vagrant children are descending upon the large cities from outlying sections like famished wolves, robbing pedes trians, pillaging houses and destroy ing property. Madam KaUnin, wife of the Chair man of the All-Russian Central Execu tive Committee, spent a night with these pariah urchins, and found that a special form of Communism exists among them. One of their number, for instance, specializes in stealing purses; another, loaves of bread, etc. They even have their own intelligence service, being informed beforehand whenever the police plan to raid them.
Single Volume Sells for $106,000
The highest p r i c e ever paid for a book was g i v e n in New York City recently for the famous Melk copy of the Gutenberg Bible, a volume made in 1455 and the first book ever printed from movable type. This rare vol ume was i m p o r t e d f r o m Melk, Austria, where it had reposed for nearly five hun dred years. The paper, p r o p e r l y made of white rags, is strong
Gutenberg's Bible printed before Columbus - discovered America
and enduring; like all genuinely permanent paper, It has not turned yellow in the slightest. The present owner is Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia.
— Courtesy “ Brown’s Paper.”
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