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Church. This is composed of a group of fine young men and women, some of them University students. Under Mr. Schellenberg’s loving care the work of the choir has been fostered and the young people themselves have taken a deeper interest in the soul-winning work of their church. Though Mr. Schellenberg hopes to go to Africa as a missionary he is intensely inter ested in his Japanese friends. W S —Rev. John H. Hunter. NO STRIKES IN RUSSIA Russia, under Sovietism, has its own unique and summary way of dealing with strikes and strikers. Anyone found guilty of inciting a strike is promptly executed. Anyone engaged in an actual strike is shot on sight. ( “ Sovietism,” by Wm. English Wall ing, Bage 64). Naturally, strikes are seldom indul ged under such penalties. As one of their American lecturers quaintly says, “ Strikes are discouraged and do not often occur.” Just before the present law was enacted, the printers in Petrograd struck. It only lasted two days. It was cured by what the Government sardonically termed “ eco nomic strangulation.’’ .. At that time, every class of people was on rations and “ economic strangulation” meant simply that the rations of the printers were withdrawn. After two days of starvation, the strikers surrendered. In Italy and other countries, under extreme but different conditions, strikes are “ cured” by application of drastic remedies, which require the entire attention upon totally different issues. And yet here in the United States, jnen who are on strike resent the mild application of an injunction. They proclaim to the world that their rights are being ignored. They laud Sovietism as a far better type of gov ernment than what here prevails. Most of them do not know that strikes of any moment in this country during the past five years have been in consequence of orders issued by the Central Executive Committee of Mos cow of the Communist Party of Amer ica, to promote in all possible ways strikes and disruption in general. They do not know the persuasive way in which Russia deals with this ques tion. But their leaders know all about it, that it is part of a world wide revolution which is laying the foundations in America to establish here a Bolshevist regime built up on the ruins of all that has made this country prosperous. Sovietism is the political expression of Bolshevism. Communism is its economic expression; and the two in combination represent the impossible attempt to create a Parthenon out of chaos.—Better America Federation. (Continued on page 658)
York-Philadelphia-Baltimore turnpike ’■S-the first great American highway. Benjamin Franklin, as deputy post master general, made this post road serving the scattered colonial settle ments show a greater income than the principal post road between England and Scotland. Richard Fairbanks, who conducted an office in a Boston tavern in 1639 to receive letters from ships, was the first colonial postmaster. Benjamin Franklin in 1775 became the first Postmaster General of the United States. Gummed postage was adopted in the United States in 1847. Postmaster General Montgomery Blair initiated the movement in 1861 which has resulted in the formation of the Universal Postal Union. A con crete example of this international co operation is found in the fact that the letter sent for 5 cents to Australia today cost $2:04 in 1857. The money-order system was adopt ed in 1864. Postal savings banks, the greatest savings bank in the world were started in 1911. R. F. D. service brings the city to the country. This rural service was started in 1896., Parcel post was adopted in 1913. Air mail service was started May 18, 1918. For two years it has been operating an advancing service on a transcontinental route 3,000 miles long from New York to San Francisco, and earned in 1922 and 1923 the honor of making the greatest contri bution to the progress of American aviation. On February 25, 1924, the Post Office Department had more than 351,000 in its employ. Besides the 43,677 letter carriers, there are 62,- 400 clerks, 44,417 rural carriers, 51,393 postmasters, and 21,316 rail way postal clerks. AMONGST THE J A P A N E S E OF LOS ANGELES One of the interesting bits of work carried on by the Protestant churches of Los Angeles amongst our Japanese residents is that of the Union Jap anese Church, 118 North San Pedro St. The new building in which the work is housed was finished only last year. It is quite modern and up to date in its appointments. It was made poss ible through the united efforts of the Japanese Christians themselves and the Boards of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches. A few months ago Mr. Henry Schel- lenberg, one of the students of the Senior Class of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, was invited to take charge of the choir of this Union
THE PRINCE OP THE AIR One of Satan’s titles is “ The Prince of the power of the air” (Eph. 2 :2), and “ The prince of this age” (John 12:31). During the Great War, we saw and heard the havoc the machines of the air accomplished. Many thought there was more than human fighting, :|f-that is, in the language of Scrip ture, there was a wrestling against principalities, against powers, and the rulers of this world’s darkness, who are said to be “ spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.” The past filled us with horror, what the future will be in air forces we cannot conceive. In a recent debate in the House of Com mons, Sir Samuel Hoare, the ex-Min- ister for Air, said: “ Great Britain must maintain a Home Defense Air. Force of sufficient strength to give adequate protection against air attack by the strongest air force within strik ing distance.” ' The most arresting part of a notable speech came when he drew a compari son between the British air strength and that of France. The figures were: France ........1,000 machines. Britain ........ 100 machines. “ That,” said Sir Samuel, “ is a stag gering disparity.” “ Eight machines,” he said, “ could drop 170 tons of bombs on London in twenty-four hours. They could keep up a bombing attack of seventy-five tons a day for an indefinite period.” — Selected. EARLY HOME OF ABRAHAM Ur of the Chaldees, the home of the Patriarch Abraham, is to be explored by archeologists down through the dust of centuries to the earliest rec ords. The work will be undertaken by experts of the University of Penn sylvania Museum and of the British Museum. No systematic digging has been done at Ur, but great libraries of cuneiform texts have been gathered at the two museums from material picked up at Ur by passing explorers and Arabs.— The Bible Student. America’s most cherished quality is the pioneer spirit of its people. The United States postal system, in the spirit of America, has been a pioneer in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and now, with the opening of the 20th century, it is abreast of the foremost in progressive ingenuity and invention and service. It was a mail courier who blazed the first trail between New York and Boston. It was the mail coach which brought into existence the old Boston-New POSTAL PIONEERING THROUGH THREE CENTURIES
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