December 1925
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THE AVERAGE AMERICAN According to the compilations of the economists, the average American is now spending $5.02 a year for jewelry and 15 cents for art. He is spending $27 for joy riding and $1.28 for the work of the church. He is blowing in $3 for ice cream and 98 cents for hooks. He is spending $45 for fancy foods and 8 cents for the salaries of the profes sors. He is giving up $4.15 for soda water and 6 cents for ink. He expends 11 cents for health service and 65 cents for coffins.—Exchange. WAGES IN AMERICA A table of comparative wage scales recently published is both interesting and important as affecting competitive prices. A large American corporation with factories also in Europe, reported in November, 1924, the average daily wage paid.. Reduced to dollars at rates of exchange, the same type of labor en gaged in production of identical com modities, received: Italy _ ___ ______ $0.96 Belgium _________ ______ 1.14 France ._____ _ , ___ 1.24 Germany ..... _ n_ 1.55 England ___ --------- 2.28 United States ... ......5.60 —' Better America Federation. STATE TOBACCO B ILL EXCEEDS SCHOOLS’ COST California spent $11,000,000 more for tobacco last year than was expended in maintaining the State’s public school system, according to statistics received at the State Department of Instruction. The compilation was made by Dr. John K. Norton, Director of Research of the National Education Association at Washington, D. C., from government figures. During the year California expended $86,932,711 for tobacco, Dr. Norton’s re port shows, a per capita of $21.62, while the cost of the public schools in the State was $75,576,931, or a per capita of $18.80. Dr. Norton’s report also reveals that Californians annually spend $567,- 704,700 in luxuries.—News Item. A GOOD EXAMPLE IN A LOS AN GELES COURT A record for a murder verdict carry ing the extreme penalty was set in Judge Keetch’s court yesterday after noon when a jury found Sidney Adams, a negro, guilty of first degree murder after twenty-six minutes of delibera tion. The verdict was without recom mendation, which means the infliction of the death penalty. The trial was begun Wednesday morn ing and required little more than a day and a half. Adams was accused of killing his wife, Annie, at the home of Mrs. Lil lian Cohen, colored. His wife had left
him, and he shot her after a quarrel resulting from his efforts to have her return. Judge Keetch will pronounce sentence Tuesday.—L. A. Times. RAPID TRANSIT Daniel says, in that day “many shall run to and fro in the earth.”- That is being literally fulfilled as never before. It is almost impossible to get a berth on a train or ship. It is said that six million people come in and go out of New York daily, and there were rail road tickets sold last year in the United States equal to all the people in the world. We can now travel around the world quicker than we could cross the plains in the days of pur fathers. Dan iel follows this statement by another: “And knowledge shall increase.” Oh, we are literally defying human learn ing; we are placing it far above the ipse dixit of God. We have learned more since 1840 than we knew at that time.—The Prophetic News. THE WONDERFUL WORM The earthworm is a much-despised creature, against which war is waged by both man and birds. But the earth worm makes agriculture and its many kindred activities possible. Without it our trees, plants and grass could not grow. Observations taken in Yorubaland, West Africa, show that earthworms are capable of bringing to the surface an nually, in the form of “casts,” 62,200 tons of soil per square mile. In less than thirty years every inch of soil to a depth of two feet is treated in this way, thus insuring natural ventilation and drainage. In •an acre of average soil there are roughly 200,000 worms, each of which acts as a miniature mill, grinding the soil far more finely than any man-made contrivance could do. When the farmer ploughs his land, he merely does on a larger scale what worms have been do ing for centuries.^? (Philadelphia In quirer). THE DIAMOND JUB ILEE OF THE CHINA INLAND MISSION The China Inland Mission has been at work in China for sixty years. Out of the 2,000 Missionaries sent out under its auspices, 1,134 are still at work. Two thousand voluntary Chinese leaders have given themselves to the service of God, and the Mission employs 1,500 paid Chinese workers. More than 100,000 Chinese have been baptized, after pro fession of faith in Christ. This is a great record. We recall the fact that in the Boxer massacres out of the 135 Missionaries and 53 of their children who were put to death, 58 of the Mis sionaries and 21 of the children were attached to its Missions. It has a martyr roll as well as a roll of converts. Its income last year was the largest but
one in the history of its work, and it faces the present crisis ,with confidence. Its story is a romance and it owes much to the leadership of its founder, Hud son Taylor, who has left an ineradicable mark upon its history as well as upon its character. Its work has been a mar vellous display of interdenominational cooperation blessed and used by the Di vine Spirit. MOSLEMS ARE MAKING SOME “HEADWAY” CONSTANTINOPLE.SAt last after 2000 years the felt fez of the Turk is going into the discard. Reason: Too much of a heat trap for tropical suns. Foreigners wandering the streets of Constantinople wilted in the blazing •summer sun in spite of linen suits and pith helmets or panamas, have mar veled at the perspiring fortitude of the Turk going his way with a rimless, sweaty fez perched on top of his cran ium. But all that' is to be changed—and with the highest official sanction. Osmer Lutfi Bey, President of the Court of Cassation in an official proclamation has just stated in effect: “Moslems may henceforth wear what ever headdress they find most to their taste or most hygienic. In the sacred text of the Prophet headgear other than the fez is declared unreasonable. The Faithful may from now on wear any sort of hat that jolly well suits them.” —News Item. TRACT SOCIETY’S ACHIEVEMENT The American Tract Society held its One Hundredth Annual Meeting in New York City recently, at which time the General Secretary, Dr. Wm. H. Matthews, reported as follows: “There were distributed 815,699,200 pieces of literature, in 178 different languages, at a cost of $2,750,000. Last year it disseminated 39,000 books and 200,000 tracts. Of the books, 23,500 were in foreign languages and 15,500 in English, while 125,000 tracts were in foreign tongues and 75,000 in English. “In addition, foreign publications were imported from Italy and Hungary in large numbers and distributed here. Songs were sent out in all of the main European and some other tongues. “In the future,” Dr. Matthews reported, “the society expected to place special emphasis on foreign literature. It will conduct a campaign this year for a $200,000 centennial fund, to which churches and individuals are asked to contribute. The main needs, with their estimated costs, are: Spanish books, $15,000; foreign hymnals, in five additional languages, $15,000; re ligious books in additional languages, $10,000; new tracts, both English and (Continued on page 568)
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