Golden A JOURNAL OF FACT HOPE AND COURAGE in this issue KINGDOM MESSAGE IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA EVENTS IN CANADA WHOLE WHEAT RECIPES CAN GIRLS AFFORD TO SMOKE? NOT TO BLAME FOR THESE A SYMPOSIUM ON MEDICINE PLACING OBEDIENCE ABOVE LOVE OF KINDRED every other WEDNESDAY f. five cents a copy one dollar a year Canada_Foreign I.25 VoI.2 XIII. No. 33 June 8, 1932 CONTENTS LABOR AND ECONOMICS POLITICAL--DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN Small Users of Electricity Robbed7,56 NEWFOUNDLAND ON RAMPAGE . 549 Mellon6 Feathered OwnNest . 55 EVENTS IN CANADA ....... 550 40,000,000 Living Below Standard 557 JOHNSON WANTS BETTER Wild Boa’s of New York .... 557 GOVERNMENT ...... 555 Public Work at Stand Stil . 557 ANTI-INJUNCTION BILL Now A LAW 555 Jonesboro, Arkansas ..... 557 801 Businesses Overboard. 558 AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY Niles Feeds Manyfor Little . 858 RAISING PULLETS IN ALBERTA . 552 Rocky Mount ill Splendid Shape 558 Unfilled Orders of Steel Trust . 559 SCIENCE AND INVENTION Uncle Sam’s Tax Bill .... 559 To Utilize Currents of Upper Air 556 Coal Mining Perplexities .-,59 Wingless Flying Machine 558 Bakers Will Help Feed Hungry 559 Uses for Glass Bricks ..... 559 Forrest City, Arkansas .... 559 Galion’s Municipal Plant 560 HOME AND HEALT MORE Wtt0LE WHEAT RECIPES , 553 SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL CANE? GIRLS AFFORD TO SMOK . 554 NOT TO BLAME FOR THESE .... 556 A SYMPOSIUM ON MEDICINE . 561 2,000 Kidnapings in Two Years . 558 Twelve Safety Commandments . 560 TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY KINGDOM MESSAGE IN BRITISH EAST FINANCE---COMMERCE---TRANSPORTATION ON AFRICA ......... 5t7 Who Got the 168 Pounds? 57 An Industrious Bank-robbing Steamship Fares Reduced 558 Firm ....... 557 Panamawn Canal Tolls Away Do 558 CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA ...... 569 Westinghouse Loss $3,655,659 558 Increasing Use of Airways 559 RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY Fast Trains to Chicago 559 WHY CLERGY ARE silent .... 556 Air Transportation in 1931 550 Pope Was Grateful ..... 557 Railroads Gradually Slipping 560 PLACING OBEDIENCE ABOVE LOVE STENGALL AND FEDERAL RESERVE 7,75 OF KINDRED ....... 570 Published every other Wednesday at 117 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., U. S. A., by WOODWORTH, KNORR & MARTIN Copartners and Proprietors Address: 117 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., U. S. A. CLAYTON J. WOODWORTH.. Editor ROBERT J. MARTIN.. 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Y., Wednesday, June 8, 1932 Number 332 The KingdomMessage in British East Africa By HE territory 1low known as British East is available at cost price at all the post offices T Africa includes towns with a history dating in East Africa. back three thousand years, and others which A topee, or sun helmet, is essential during the have sprung up in places unvisited by the day, when it is dangerous to allow the head to be white man one hundred years ago. The island exposed to the sun for even a few minutes. of Zanzibar has for centuries been the greatest Much has been done of late years to improve of all centers of the slave trade; while the town health conditions, and if the above precautions of’ Mombasa, on 1he mainland, has witnessed are taken, no danger may be anticipated. many battles and much bloodshed since the be- Towards the end of August of last year, two ginning of history. The towns inland in Kenya of Jehovah’s witnesses arrived at Dar es Sa- colony, Uganda, and Tanganyika have for the laam, the capital of Tanganyika, complete with most part been developed in the present century. a generous supply of "ammunition" in the ship’s Climatic conditions vary much according to cargo. The testimony work began without de- altitude and, according to the East African year lay, and in a fortnight nearly a thousand books Book, can conveniently be divided into two por- and booklets had been distributed. This, of tions, i.e., the Highlands and the Lowlands. course, raised the ire of the clergy, and a no- "The Lowlands" describes that territory be- tice was placed on the Catholic church notice low 4,500 feet and includes both the seacoast board calling the attention of all parishioners area and a large tract surrounding Lake Vic- of Dar es Salaam to No. 1399 of the Canon Law toria in the interior. In these parts Europeans strictly prohibiting to buy, to read, or even only are advised to exercise care in order to maintain to keep such books in a Catholic home. normal health and must go away for periodical Many of the books were left with Europeans, changes. Conditions are unsuitable for the rear- but a goodly number were put in the hands of ing of children. educated Indians, and also a class of Indians The Highlands are situated between the known as Goans, who seemed particularly in- above-mentioned areas, and conditions there terested. are muchless tropical and are generally healthy. Our next port of call was Zanzibar, situated The risk of malaria is ever3avhere; but it is on the island of the same name, twenty miles preventable and curable. The only certain way from 1he mainland. Zanzibar has been for cen- to prevent malaria is to see that the liver and turies the largest town in East Africa and has kidneys are kept in good order and that any nearly a quarter of a million inhabitants. Only constipation be immediately corrected and three hundred of those are Europeans, but they health maintained generally. It is essential to are the rulers. The great majority are Swahills, sleep under mosquito-proof nets and, last but and there are 45,000 Indians and Arabs. The not least, to take not less than five grains of town is laid out without any plan, and hence the quinine every evening, Malaria fever is caused streets twist and turn in every way, so that a by the bite from a mosquito carrying the ma- stranger soon altogether loses his sense of di- laria germ. If a sufficiency of quinine is circu- rection. So narrow are the streets that motor lating in the blood at the time of the injection cars can pass only along the main roads, and tim malaria germ is at once destroyed. On the even then pedestrians must look out for a shop advice of the Society, the writer took five grains door or some other refuge when one approaches. and sometimes ten grains of quinine daily and The buildings are, in the main, of Arab de- felt no ill effects whatever. Governmentquinine sign; and the hotel at which we stayed, with its The GOLDENAGE BROOKLYN, N. Y. heavily studded doors and thick walls, looked brought to a standstill, and then a number of more like a prison than anything else. natives went immediately in front of the loco- Zanzibarld supplies practically the whole wor motive and swept away the locusts as the wheels with cloves, and the aroma of these is present approached. After a good shaking the top of in most parts of the town. the hill was reached, and in a short time the Our work hero was mainly among the Indians train ran out of the swarm. It was indeed for- tunate that these locusts did not have stings. and Europeans, and it was among the former that the great majority of the books were placed. We arrived at our destination in good time It was indeed a privilege to take the message of and obtained very favorable terms at an inn. true freedom to this town which has for long Here we were in the midst of a farming district years traded in slaves. The slave trade is now and enjoyed the very best of food obtainable. almost at an end, but a far greater freedom Fine fresh vegetables, fruit and dairy products awaits not only the natives of Zanzibar, but the in abundance were included in our fare, and our peoples of earth. meals were such as could not be obtained in After a stay of ten days we again boarded a central London at any price. ship, this time bound for Mombasaen route for The witness work continued, sometimes maid the Highlands of Kenya. Our three weeks’ work great swarms of locusts. One farmer told us on the coast had been carried out under very that his usual milk supply had been reduced hot conditions and we were looking forward to from 120 gallons to 25 gallons a day because the work in a more temperate climate. locusts had eaten up his cattle’s grazing, tits At Mombasawe boarded a train in the eve- neighboring farmer is in the same plight, but ning, expecting to reach our destination the next each of (heal purchased a set of nine of Judge evening. The East African trains are very well Rutherford’s books, a set of eleven booklets, as equipped for tropical travel.