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H S Born in a land where women carry modesty to the point of masking even their faces, the oriental sensibilities of the late A. Zarath Kumar Ghosh, a Hindu, were violently shocked to find New York girls posing in the nude for artists. So he willed his estate, on his death in 1920, to two girls of this city, with the exhortation that they “aban don their present work and use their legacies to fit themselves to earn their living in another manner.”—News Item. NONPARTISAN AND INTERDENOMINATIONAL This much we want to say about the campaign just ahead of us for the Bible in the schools: It is a matter that should interest every real Amer ican regardless of. his religious . or political affiliations. One purpose and one alone actuates us, and that is to give the boys and girls who must make up the future citizenship of this coun try a fair chance. The movement is, and must con tinue to be, undenominational, or what is better, interdenominational. A campaign committee consisting of, or representing all denominations, relig ious and patriotic societies, and patri ots who belong to no church or society, should be formed at the earliest pos sible moment, and interdenomina tional mass meetings be held and with prayer and patriotic zeal all go to work to avert an evil which through religious and political prejudice has cursed California for so many years.— The California Voice. CHRISTABEL PANKHURST ON WORLD CONDITIONS In a message given in Ascension Memorial Church, New York City, Miss Pankhurst said recently: “I want the people of New York,” she said, “to see Christ in the news papers as well as in the Bible. A good citizen should equip himself with the Bible in his right hand and the news paper in his left, the great Book teach ing him to recognize in the happen ings of these times the message which the Spirit of God is delivering to hu manity, namely, that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. “The newspapers confirm prophecy in every issue, reporting as they do the signs of the times, whether it be ‘wars, or rumors of wars,’ or ‘earth quakes in divers places,’ or just now, ‘the sea and waves roaring.’ The so cial unrest which they portray is but the same as the advance report of the apostle that ‘in the last days, perilous times shall come,’ to which he adds A HINDU’S VIEW OF AMERICAN GIRDS
a list of problems that are now becom ing more and more recognizable. “The year 1925 will, we may ex pect, see a big advance toward the final crisis of this closing age. Before that final crisis is reached there is still much to happen; yet history moves more swiftly than it used to, and the end will come sooner than some sus pect.”— Press Report. CHICAGO BANDITS STRIP STORE OF $125,000 GEMS Chicago.— Three robbers stole $125,- 000 worth of diamonds from a Jewel er’s shop in the heart of the Loop today and escaped with bullets whist ling past their ears. ' The robbers had held the store for half an hour unnoticed by the hun dreds who passed the door. With three employees tied hand and foot in a back room they had emptied three safes and picked the best of everything from show cases and display windows. —News Dispatch. ONE CURE FOR CRIME “Over 11,000 murders were com mitted in the United States last year, or double the number twenty-five years ago. This is a bigger toll than in any civilized country.”—News Item. Chicago has the unenviable notor iety of being the world’s crim$ capital. . There are 1300 law-breaking gangs with a membership of 50,000 members in Chicago. The most of these are said to be boys. The United States has 1,000,000 inhabitants in prison. The penitenti aries are stuffed to suffocation. Leavenworth has twice as many in mates as it was built to accommodate ^ -3000 . Atlanta has to use the lavatories for sleeping quarters. An attempt is being made to parole 1300 of her “trusties” to make room for new recruits. Uncle Sam spends $8,000,000 an nually to support criminal courts and convict lawbreakers. In a single State more than fifty convicts, including seventeen murder ers, are at this moment seeking parole or pardon. As soon as a man is con victed and sentenced the machinery for his probation or pardon is started. The judgment of a court or jury doesn’t seem to mean much of any thing any more. A conviction is merely something to start from. The Chicago News says that, while the nations are discussing peace and disarmament, Uncle Sam can hardly hear anything on account of all the crime and shooting in this country. Maybe if we grew a little more hemp— at least enough to go ’round Sg-there would be a more wholesome regard for human life.— L. A. Times.
05SH5E52SH55SffiH5ffii3 Every builder must add his taxes to the selling price of the building he constructs. Every railroad must add its taxes to the selling price of the passenger tickets and freight charges. , Every landlord must add his taxes to the rents of his houses. Every clothier must add his taxes to the selling price of his garments. It makes no difference whether it’s labor, or materials, or service that is sold, the taxes must be added, and they are! Unless taxes are added to selling price all industry, farming and busi ness would have to cease. This is simply the operation of a natural law. Everyone must and does pass along taxes to the consumer. We are all consumers. Hence every body pays taxes! Decreased taxes mean lower cost of living.— American Educational Asso ciation. AN EARTHQUAKE A DAY With earthquakes happening some where in the world at the rate of one each day, Father Jerome Ricard of University of Santa Clara, declared that California was a notable excep tion to the general rule, as history has shown long intervals of time elapse here between heavy temblors. “Far more to be dreaded,” wrote Father Ricard, who is known through out California as ‘the padre of the rains,’ is the atmospheric whirler of the plains States, where the resultant loss of life and property is higher. “When a quake and its secondaries have passed, we may have to wait fifty years or more for a recurrence. Hence all fear should be banished.”— Ex change. Thus speaks the scientist, but what saith the Scriptures? (Read Matt. 24: 7; Mark 13:8; Luke 21:11-26; Rev. 16:18). , It is a fact worthy of note that in the recent earthquake in Santa Bar bara, the First Baptist Church, which has always rung true to the Old Book and the Whole Book, was the only church in the city which was unin jured. This i^ also true of the store owned by Mrs. H. R. Hitchcock, an earnest, consecrated/ Christian busi- (Continued on page 449.) TAX FACTS Every manufacturer must add his taxes to the selling price of his pro duct. Every merchant must add his taxes to the selling price of his goods. Every farmer must add his taxes to the selling price of his produce.
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