October 1926
T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
572
REVISED TEN COMMANDMENTS A Kansas City preacher tells his congregation that the Ten Command ments are now entirely out of date and he threatens to rewrite them to fit modern conditions. About tbe thing the moderns would do would be to pull them down to nine, or may.,?p eight This minister does not like the wording of the decalogue and the fear is that he would probably trans form the stately language into some thing that should be sung to a saxo- phone accompaniment. That would be bringing them up to date. ___T ■ A TfmAfl GERMAN LAMP DISCOVERS ALL COUNTERFEITS Frankfort (Germany). — Experts connected with a subsidiary company of the Allegemeine Elektricitaets Ge- sellschaft at Hanau have announced discovery of a quartz lamp by which counterfeit bank notes, fake pearls false teeth and the faintest shades of ink may be detected. The experts today demonstrated how the apparatus, by means of ultra violet rays, discloses the most subtle falsifications whose detection hitherto depended on microscopic investigation and complicated chemical analysis. — News Item. THE POPE ' 8 GARDENERS STRIKE For the first time in history the gardeners of the Vatican laid down their pruning hooks and spades and struck for higher wages. They said their pay for a nine-hour day, four teen lire or about a half dollar, is quite insufficient. They said their strike was but a one-day affair to bring their grievance to the Pope’s ears. After recovering from the shock of a labor walkout within the grounds of the apostolic palace, the manage ment agreed to study the question. As several hundred employees of the Vatican 'have been complain'r.g of low pay, their demands pruent a problem which taxes the treasury. As the Holy See is considered a foreign and sovereign State in its re lations to the Italian government since the loss of the Pope’s temporal powers and the Vatican servants do not be long. to Fascist syndicates, it is a moot question whether jurists would con sider them subject to the Fascist labor laws, Including the recent pro hibition on strikes. II Lavoro, Fascist labor-syndicate organ, says that although it cannot approve of the gardeners’ disrespect for their superiors, it would seem but just to try to satisfy their demands. — Dispatch.
“ Seventeen years ago the average age of prisoners was 40 years; today it is 26 years," declared the Sheriff, as he outlined the problems confront ing the Sheriff’s office and of the mea sures taken to combat them. Respect for law, our Constitution and our Flag were stressed by the speaker. — News Item. THE BIBLE HEADS THE LIST The Bible in the English language is the most widely sold book in the world. Whether or not it is as wide ly read we do not know, but the American Bible Society reports the re markable total of ten and one-half billion copies sold in 1925. This breaks the record for all previous years. Increases were shown in Chi na, Japan and throughout the Far East. Russia alone declined to admit the Bible as an influence for good. — Exchange. 1 o ■■ EARTH’S BIGGEST CITY Following the latest annexations and additions to the city it is found that the area of Greater Los Angeles is now 420.55 square miles, which is by far the greatest spread of any city on earth. When it is realized that London covers only about 120 square miles of territory the possibilities of our vast mileage may be guessed. Men with vision and sanity see a Los An geles having the greatest population of any city in the world, as well as the largest area.—-L. A. Times. During the past five years, ten thou sand boys between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one have been confined in the jails of New York. In the same length of time 13,688 boyB and girlb have been confined in the jails of Brooklyn. The Increase in crime dur ing the past five years in these two cities has been one hundred per cent. This is an appalling state of affairs, and unless the causes are ascertained, and the remedy speedily applied, well — anarchy and hell are ahead. • — Selected. JAILS CROWDED WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
FAMINE IN PREACHERS Are we suffering from a dearth of preachers? The Presbyterian denomi nation id said to have over 1000 churches without pastors. The boys that go to college axe learning to be painless dentists or mining engineets instead of taking to the pulpit. — Press Comment. GIRLS AND CLUBS The leading women’s clubs of the country are organizing junior auxil iaries so that the flapper daughters can be merged into sedate club wo men while the jazz is still on them. R is said that there are already more than 100,000 members of these Junior organizations and they are increasing rapidly.— Exchange. UNFINISHED BUSINESS While there are 27,110 children in this country who neither go to church or Sunday school, there remains a tre mendous lot of “ unfinished business" on the tables of these moral and Chris tianizing agencies, and we doubt if building million dollar churches and hiring operatic slngerB is the best way to get to it.— The California Voice. BANKERS WAR ON BANDITS Chicago. — The Illinois Bankers’ Association has completed arrange ments for the purchase of $11,179 worth of rifleB, shotguns and ammuni tion to be used by vigilante organiza tions formed to combat bandits. The plan calls for the employment of 306 men as special volunteers, ready at all times to drop their regu lar business and start in pursuit of robbers.— News Item. — o— FITTING THE CRIME For two years or more police judges in Kansas City have made it a rule to send drunken automobile drivers to the municipal farm. There, with a ball and chain anchored to the hind leg, they have been required to put in eight hours a day at breaking rock or building roads. The officials say that one treatment is usually ample. They either quit drinking or driving. — Daily Press. LAXITY IN HOME ONE CAUSE OF CRIME Lack of discipline in the home is responsible for the alarming increase of crime among Juveniles, it was de clared last night by Sheriff Traeger, speaking at the regular monthly meet ing of the Times’ Masonic Club, in the dining room of the Los Angeles Masonic Club in the Alexandria Hotel.
In planning fo r next year’s Sunday School Helps remember that the Interna tional Lessons w ill a p p e a r monthly in The King’ s Business Order In quantities at Club Rates— Five or more subscrip tions to one or to separate ad dresses at $1.00 each per year.
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