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of the Socialist Party in Milwaukee. He now spends his time trotting from one strike to another, an ace organizer, inculcating the doctrines of Red Russia. Thus these men of foreign breed are here instilling the Old World class hatreds into the bosoms o f the American workingmen, and are paralyzing this great industrial city o f a quarter of a million souls. And this— in America! What must the rest of the world be like ? I ncreasing C lass C onflict in the U nited S tates Now, the sad, yet significant, part o f it all is that these apostles of violence are receiving much encouragement from those persons whom the people have placed in power. Only recently, Harry Hopkins, into whose hands the Pres ident of the United States committed the trust o f spending the billions that Congress appropriated to be spent in a desperate effort to restore prosperity to the nation— Harry Hopkins, probably closer to the Chief Magistrate of the nation than is any member of his Cabinet— Harry Hopkins assembled his army of W .P .A . subordinates, and vehemently declared to them that the present status of affairs in America forms itself into “ a fight between those who have not and those who have” ; and he then emphasized the fact that “we [the Government]’ are with those who have not.” He declared that if his hearers were not cogni zant o f that fact, it was time they should find it ou t! In other words, the Government of these great United States, instead of continuing to be a government for all the people, seems to be a government for the “ have nots” ; and thus it is instilling for the first time into the minds o f the American citizenry that class spirit that is cursing all the world, especially Europe, sending that unhappy continent rushing pell-mell into a hell of hate and despair. We are not [Continued on page 130] "G irls’ QUERY CORNER ’’Again F rom the time the first questions and Even during the months when, yielding to Miss Scott’s plea for a reduction of her heavy schedule of activities, the K ing ’ s B usiness reluctantly consented to the omission o f the “ Corner,’’ ;letters have been pouring in. And the replies, in many cases, have led to the conversion o f the inquirers and to the stabilizing o f the faith of others. Perhaps it is the knowledge o f the transformation wrought by the Spirit o f God in the lives of such young women as the one who wrote from the Middle West— des perately discouraged and ready to commit suicide— that has led Miss Scott to resume the heavy correspondence con nected with her writing for the magazine. It is with the deepest gratitude and joy that the K ing ’ s B usiness an nounces that, beginning with the May issue, the Girls’ Query Corner will have a place once more in these columns. For sixteen years, Miss Scott has been one o f the Bible Women of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, conducting Bible clubs and study classes for business and college girls and other adult groups. Questions for answer in the Girls’ Query Corner should be addressed: Miss Myrtle E. Scott, 8961 Dicks Street, West Hollywood, Calif., and a stamped envelope should be enclosed fo r reply. Only one question a month can be answered in the K ing ’ s B usiness . In the magazine, no name will" be signed to the query. answers appeared in the Girls’ Query Corner, in the K ing ’ s B usiness for February, 1933, young women B - and sometimes their parents and teachers— have been writing for counsel to Myrtle E. Scott, the director of this department.
ists and “ Brotherhood-of-man”-ists who are giving them selves to the task o f improving “ the old man” by veneering him and polishing him up,on the outside, while the same deceitful and desperately wicked heart that beat in the breast o f Cain, still beats in the breast of “ the old man,” need to recall the words o f the Master spoken nearly two thousand years ago: “ Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outsidé o f the cup and of the platter, but within they are full o f extortion and excess” (Matt. 23:25). J ames ’ G reat P rophecy in P rocess of F ulfillment One of the most remarkable signs of the end o f the age was given to us by the Holy Spirit through James. W e read : Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you . . . Ye havelleaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are; entered into the ears of the Lord o f Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and have been wanton ; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter . . . Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of thé Lord . . . Be ye also patient ; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh (Jas. 5:1-8). This great prophecy can only mean that the coming of the Lord will be immediately preceded by great strife be tween employers and employees, between rich and poor, between capitalist and proletarian. In the struggle, the “ sure word” indicates that the rich will have the worst of the fight. A t this point we stopped writing long enough to glance at the evening paper, the Akron Beacon Journal. Just eleven strikes— struggles between employers and employees — are listed on the front page as being carried on in various parts o f the nation. These words are being written on March 5, 1936, in the city o f Akron, Ohio. A s we write, before every gate of the greatest tire and rubber company in all the world, is erected a miserable little shack, each one of which is filled with men who are holding in their hands clubs, iron bars, or. any other weapon upon which they can lay hold without"police interference, ready to crack the skull o f any man or woman who dares to attempt to pass through those gates without their express permission. They are barring those gates in defiance of the laws o f the state of Ohio, in defiance of the courts which issued an injunction, in defiance o f the sheriff and all other constituted authorities. The company reports that 14,000 men and women want to go back to work, but an organized but lawless minority refuses to let them return without a fight that would doubtless bring a terrible loss o f human life. W e are credibly informed that these law less elements are not barring those gates for money, for Goodyear’s average rate of. wage is ninety-five cents per hour— “ the highest average rate paid by any major industry in America, and that means the world.” The whole situa tion is hard, at least for an outsider, to interpret. It is rather significant, however, that among the strike leaders here, there is an Englishman by the name o f John Brophy. In 1927, Mr. Brophy was the communistic candi date for President o f the United Mine Workers, and the first American Trade Unionist delegate to Russia. Another strike leader is a man by the name of Germer, born in Welan, Germany. Mr. Germer is a radical who for the past forty years has been preaching the doctrines o f class prejudice, hate, and violence. This man once attained the rank o f National Secretary of the Socialist Party, and later he became an organizer for that party. Another strike leader is Leo Krzychi, a communistic charter member
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