THE TRIM IJNE

IS
THE HEALTH IJNE
where it is excessive, instmnce has bccn
ARE you overweight? Then Stop! Look!
Listen! there may be danger ahead!
There was a time when being fat was con-
ref used altogether."
So if you arc overweight then Stop! and
sidered an asset or just a joke. And today ponder over the foregoing facts; h k ! at
most folks are concerned about their ex- the statistics (and yourself in a m h r ) ;
cess weight primarily because it detracts and Listen! to the way your beart beats
frorn*their physical charm or interferes after climbing several flights of stairs or
with their enjoyment of pastimes such as after running for that streetcar.
sports or dancing. But more and more the
lgnnring tlte Cause
fact is being brought home to us that the
What is the cause of overweight or obes-
coveted trim line is also the health line.
ity? Tliure was a time when it w a held to
For instance, statistics show that at be duc primarily to glandular irregularity.
thirty years the man of average weight This view has now been rejected by med-
(or less) has three times as good a chance ical science in general, for, as Dr. Bruch
to live to be scventy as does the fat man. of the Collcgc of Physicians and Surgeons,
Further, they show that the degree of over- Columbia University, says, clinical and
weight has a definite relation to longevity. experimental studies "bring little if any
Ten per cent ovenvejght means 20 per ccnt support for thc view that obesity is caused
increase in mortality; 15 to 25 per cent by primary metabolic or endocrine (gland-
overweight mcans an increase of 44 per ular) disturbances". As to the real cause,
cent in mortality; and if you are Inore than h e further states: "There is no doubt lefb
25 per ccnt overweight then your chances that obosity is the result of positive energy
of living the normal average life span are balance; that meals a person becomes fat
cut 74 per cent. Statistics also show that when his caloric intake is greater than
married women weigh 28 per cent more his energy expenditure." From which it
than single women of the same age, that appears that the term "obesc" is a very
50 per cent of a11 women over fifty are fjtting one to describe excessive over-
overweight, and that, all in all, one out of weight, for it comes from a root meaning,
four is sacrificing years of lire because of among other things, "having eaten one's
overweight. self fat."
Obviously, the common scnse thing to
Says a foremost life insurance company :
do, since you have become overweight be-
"Certain diseases such as diabetes and dis- cause of eating more food than you really
eases of the heart and kidneys long have need, is to cut down on your eating. But
been associated with ovrrwcight. So def- you like to eat and so you conclude that
inite has been this association that life in- you will redurc the easy way, via the drug-
surance companies have bccn reluctant to store. Rut watch out! says one authority:
place standard insurance on pcople with "It is dangerous or foolish to usr commer-
more than m o d e r a t e ovcrwcight, and cial obesity cures whicb ~ ~ u a l promise
ly to
 Obviously Spain's chief press agent, al- d r a w of ,$he U.N. ban on Franco. The
though Senator Morse and CoDi&s chose British ambassador to. Spain in 1939-40,
to omit identifying it, is the church that Sir Maurice ~eterson," spoke of ''English
Franco has served so well; severely re- AngIo-Catholics who saw in Franco a sav-
stricting all other forms of worship, and iour of Christendom".
making it the state religion. Anything that Belgium had a Protestant majority in
helps Franco helps his church. Parliament when, in 1946, it proposed the
Do you doubt that a religious organiza- U. N. resolution to withdraw ambassadors
tion would exert such pressure? Then let from Spain, I t had a Catholic majority
Walter Trohan, writing in the Chicago when, in 1950,it voted in favor of Spain
Tribune (February 19,19501, remove that in the U, N.
doubt. He said that particularly during the As to the need of developing Spain's
last ten years political pressure from reli- friendship to gain military bases, ColJier's
gious groups has been felt in Washington. editor commented, "The democratic allies
He explained that in tire early part of 1950 won two wars in Europe without the aid
President Truman grumbled to a Republi- of Spanish arms or Spanish hospitality.
can senator that Catholics and Jews were We cannot believe that victory or defeat
exerting pressure to enforce Their political in another war would hinge on either of
beliefs, and then said, "Recognition of those factors. . . . We cannot forget that
Spain is at present one of the main polit- Franco is the creature and pro@@ of
.
ical a i m of Catholics. . . In recent weeks Mussolini and Hitler and that, as such, he
the State Department has been shifting is the symbl of an evil which some people
toward the Catholic view on Spain." seem to have forgotten."
But let that church convict itself. The In 1940 HitIer said that without Italian
London Gatholic Herald (October 6,1950) and German aid "Franco would not exist
attempted to convince its eaders that the today". Hitler no longer gives that aid.
rebirth of militant Spain "is the one great Will the day come when historians will
positive development of the 20th century", say that without U. S. friendship a d aid
and that, had it not been for Franco's rise "Franco would not exist today"?
to power, Spain would be an integral part Lovers of freedom in Spain now feel
of the Soviet military empire. It claimed that the democracies have deserted them
.
that "the exclusion of Spain . . deprives to fascism. But they should not despair.
Europe of her chief base, and of the moral They have only proved again the truth of
and spiritual influence of the most Cath- the psalmist's words, "Put not your trust
olic country in Europe". in princes . . . in whom there is no help,"
Putting Spain up as the "one great posi- but, "Happy is he that hath the Cod of
tive development of the 20th century" does Jacob for his he^^; whose hope is in the
not say much for the century! If Spain's LORDhis God." (Psalm 146:3-5) The one
totalitarianism is a "moral and spiritual who has Jehovah for his help does not fret
influence", then the world should shudder over man's political blunders, for he knows
with sheer horror at the thought of an that God's kingdom will soon bring a
imrnora2 influence! righteous government and blessings to
That Franco's p u b l i c i t y agents are the earth. Then no totalitarian govern-
Rome-directed is evident from the general ments of any kind will exist anywhere.
~ath6licattitude. Roman Catholic Latin- Their appression of the people will then
American countries sponsored the with- be a thing of the past.
AWAKE'!
 EASON deserts man
a gone mad. It truth. Well and good, but along comes 3un-
R is the same with a world. Unthought-
of things b e m e obsessions;
co unnatural
ior to ask one short, entirely uninvolved
question with no co4npIications. Said Par-
acts commonplace. Staggered to the knees ents' Magazine in May, 1946,"At the first
by total wars, Aattened by disease and fam- question that shows any sign of interest in
ine, modern society next finds its wounds sex matters, even in young children, many
infected with the death-dealing.gangrene mothers who have 'seen the light' tend to
of sex madness. Forsaken by common burden their children with all the minute
xp,~ and captured by empty mphistica- facts of anatomical sex structureb.of the
tion, man apswers the muItiplging bizarre birth processes and of reproduction so
sex crimes by pulling sex out from every that the children are sometimes over-
dark corner and illuminating it in a blind- whelmed, frequently bewildered and occa-
ing glare. The world is fed sex through sionally bored." At this rate, it will not be
the eyes, ears, nose, throat and veins un- surprising if Junior soon drops his comic
ti1 at last rational persons are fed up. Still, book with a yawn instead of a laugh and,
sex lunacy zooms, crimes spiral upward with a cdd, analytical gleam in his eye,
and man sinks in the mire. decides that "Maggie and Jiggs" are in-
Can this happen to a twentieth-century compatible due to sexuaI maladjustment.
"brain age"? Now that the "brain age" is Listen to Robert Thomas Allen as he is
almost dead because of i t , we only waste reported in Reuder's Digest for April, 1950:
time with such a query. In their zeal to "Uncle Wiggily was coming down the
punish the stork for ever letting the Vie- Old winding Path, Hippity hop! Hjmity
iorians of two generations ago make that hop! T& mn ~8 shining. The birds were
noble and unsuspecting bird a substitute s i y i q . But rromefhing was wrong &th
for normal motherhood, the modems have u,& Wiggiiy. yes, sir! Something
swung the pendulum completely back to wrong! Uncle Wiggily was sexuaIEy ma&'
the frank, free and open era of the Cae- adjusted.
sars. In those "good old days" sex was a ilIhaven't read that yet; but I expect
classical pastime, an indoor sport. Yet at to any day. here's no reason t o suppose
its worst that society was a mere neighbor- that bedtime stories will escape the trend
hood compared with today's global now that sex has found its way into every-
attack of promiscuity. thing else-magazines, newspaper col-
Now the experts have succeeded in con- umns, documentary films, advertisements
vincing many anxious parents that the and door-to-door surveys.
stork is a cad and a scoundrel, and that "Don't get me wrong. I have nothing
they should give their youngsters the but respect for the men and women who
FEBRUARY 22, 1951 5
took sex out of the root cellar. The airing "All sex i s dirty; if you touch anpone, you
is gaod. Let's be frank about sex. Then get a disease." ' Again and again, parents
let's forget it, For one thing, I want to talk of sex delinquents voice shack and sur*
abut something else ... prlse. Their son was always such a good
"We'renot only looking at sex frankly, boy. Why, he had never even been allowed
we're staring at it until we're cross-eyed. to associate wiwith girls."
There has been so much written on it that The inference is clear: sex crimes occur
a lot of young people are going to get the largely because of improper sex education.
idea that married couples never get out So sex is promptly snatched from cover,
of bed. They do. They have to put out the made pubIic property and strung out over
ashes. They have to go to work and fmget newspapem, billbar&, schoolbooks and
about sex in large stretches." every communication source available, But
The apparent reason for the current em- this argument done simply will not hold
phasis on sex is the mounting of sex water. Surveys by sex education propo-
crimes, which, we are told, are chargeable nents appear to prove that nearly everyone
to the general ignorance of the public con- has received either an improper or an in-
cerning sex matters. A teen-age boy am- complete sex training at home. In Octo-
bushes, criminally attacks and kills an ber, 1948, Time cited a college student's
eleven-year-old girl. Within approximateiy survey revealing that 1OO per cent of a
fifty days, four Los Angeles, California, group of married men interviewed and 83
women are assaulted, beaten and muti- per cent of a group of ex-soldiers had
lated. A high-school girl fights desperate- found their early life sex education in-
ly and narrowly escapes from a knife- adequate. If their figures and their reason-
amed stranger who had offered her a ing matched, one might expect a sex trim-
ride. A sex-mad p a s t o r is convicted of inal on every corner. No, a twisted, pos-
abusing young girls under his charge in a sessed mind and an utter disregard for de-
religious orphanage. Perversion cases mul- cency are the prime moving parts in the
tiply. A Hollywood doctor has advocated machine of sex crimes. These factors in
a "Sex Ananyrnous" club to help movie the most enlightened sex-wise ones wilI
celebrities straighten out their Iove lives produce evil. Authorities are proving there
in the manner that "Alcoholcs Anony- is no set pattern for measuring all sex
mous" has assisted the habitual drunk- offenders.
ards. In 1946,Los Angeles reported twenty- True, proper instruction is vital, as doc-
four sex murders, Chicago, 157 cases of tors can readily &ow. But in thjs sex-
"indecent likrties", and rape was oc- drowned world its source is even more im-
c W g every .forty-five minutes some- portant. Reams of reading material are
where in the United States. available; but much of it is mere idle chat-
ter by someone wishing to keep in vogue
Is Ignorance the Cause? in times when talkiqg sex is smart. Mov-
Coromt magazine reported concerning ing pictures keep doing their bit, sexy
Chicago's youthful sex marauder, William novels have increased in popularity, even
Heirens: "Dr. Foster Kennedy of Bellevue children's comic books have cut the kughs
Hospital, one of a board named by the to accentuate the curves. Advertising has
State of IHinais to investigate the notori- been strangled by the sex octopus. Want
ous case, said: 'His mother gave the boy to make him pop the question or guaran-
his entire sex education in one sentence: tee that she will say 'yes'? Then just
AWAKE!
 Today the danger is far more actuaI learned about sex In the classroom Tn an-
than imaginary that improper sex instruc- swer to the claim that places where organ-
tion Iwks even in the halls of "higher ized sex education Is carried on are lower-
learning". Declaims the "modernist" meth- ing school-age pregnancies, Presbyterian
od of combating sex delinquency: 'If you educator Charles R. Proudfit counters that
can't stop it, approve it.' Admittedly it is instead he is informed the "education" has
a sure "cure", just as all crime might be merely better acquainted the delinquents
snuffed out overnight by simply legalizing with knowledge of effective safeguards and
it! While the numerical majority still re- contraceptives. There is hardly any mis-
sist this madness, they find themselves construing the high-school class in hygiene
writing and talking feverishly to sustain that, given its choice of topics for open
their ranks. discussion, selected, "How to have sexual
The American Social Hygiene Associa- intercourse without risking pregnancy."
tion, meeting in the Hotel New Yorker on
the first of February, 1950, was treated to The True Cause and Right Defense
the spectacle of hearing promiscuity tacit- Do not forget that modem society,which
ly championed by a Yale professor of an- hears more about sex than any previous
thropology, George P. Murdock. Professor generation, is the worst offender by far in
Murdock bluntly predicted that "within immorality. Remember, this world that
three generations" society would condone has for years been thinking sex, eating,
premarital sex freedom and consider it an sleeping, studying and talking it day and
aid in the selection of a proper mate. night is all but dead and buried in it. And
Shocked? Then how do you like to hear there is good reason. Properly taught, sex
that this met with considerable acclaim, education cannot be divorced from godli-
even from some clergymen? True, doctors, ness in general. After all, the most com-
religious men, biologists and educators pelling reason for rnoraIity is its part in
who are honest can present no end of proof Jehovah God's requirements of those men
that physically, morally and mentally there and women who would win his h a 1 ap-
is every advantage to chastity and conti- proval. Flouting his law is nothing new.
nence. But the raw fact remains that they Anciently the heathen worshiped sex and
are all talking and talking loudly these on occasion influenced God's covenant peo-
days in\ an effort to convince a wayward ple Israel to likewise succumb to such
world that what was formerly taken for orgies. Degradation and God's disfavor
granted is really true. The tide is strong fell over the Imd to the ruinous tune of
in the way of ruin. adultery by the matrons, harIotry on the
Other hard-to-face facts reek with evi- part of the daughters and sacrifice by the
dence that the "brain age" of enlighten- men in company with temple prostitutes.
ment has not succeeded where others sup- -Hosea 4: 12-14,An Ammican Trans.
posedly failed. Collier's advertised an arti- Christendom, like Israel, while profess-
cle in November, 1948, by calling attention ing godliness, remains deaf to God's Word
to the fact that 50,000 babies had been and is snared in demonism. Hence, its last
born iIlegitimately to girls of high-school days, as foretoId, are days of vioIence and
age during the previous year. In England, debauchery, egged on by the spirit of driv-
an education official charged that eleven- ing devils. (2 Timothy 3:l-5; Revelation
and twelve-year-old boys and girls were 16:14-16)The blind weaklings motivated
putting into active practice what they by brute passion rather than brains will
8
consume the crop to the fuU. The egotis- Like individuals of sound mhd they will
tical smart alecs will, in their "enlighten- reason that where the mind and thoughts
ment", ride along on the band wagon while are, there the child's heart will be. COh-
giving thanks that they are not like other sequently, there also will his footsteps
men of former generations. And the sim- lead him. God's law states as much, prom-
ple fool will let his children soak'up what ising the devoted parents that their care-
they can where they can for whatever use ful training wiU yield desirable results.
they may wish to make of it. (Deuteronomy 6 :7;Proverbs 22 :6) Wisely,
The reasoning parents motivated by they will remember and follow the advice
true love, particularly those devoted to of the apostle who said:
God and his Word, will leave nothing to "Finally, brothers, whatever things are
chance. Whether or not sex education is true, whatever things are of serious con-
taught in school, they will see to it that cern, whatever things are righteous, what-
the right knowledge is imparted at home. ever things are chaste, whatever things are
Unlike the ~ictorians,they will not decep- lovable, whatever things are well spoken
tively neglect their child's training now, of, whatever virtue there is and whatever
to blame it on the helpless old stork later, praiseworthy thing there is, continue con-
UnIike the modernists, they will not open sidering these things. The things which you
the door for a barrage of sex hormones, learned as well as accepted and heard and
glands and technical terms to rush in, prey saw in connection with me, practice these;
upon their off spring's mind, devour reason and t h e God of peace will be with you."
and reduce natural instincts to animalism. -Philippians 4:8,9, New World T ~ a n s .

communist invasion of this quaint country

has turned the eyes and attention of diplo-
mats,statesmen and people of the world to
"the roof of the world". A land of blighted
superstition, Tibet has ever remained bur-
ied in the depths of antiquity. Tibet of to-
day is almost the same as Tibet of a thou-
sand years ago.
By "Awake!" torrespondeni In India
~eographica~y , Tibet, with its 470,000
square miles in extent, occupies a position

L OST amid the snow-peaked ramparts high above the rest of the world. The lofty
of The Himalayas, almost forgotten by Himalayan mountains, with their steep
the greater portion of the world around cliffs and declivities, inaccessible deserts
her, apparently reposing in calm placidity and quagmire, form an insurmountable
at 16,000 feet above sea level, is the strang- barrier on Tibet's southern border. Access
est land in the world-Tibet. The recent to the countrv is effected from its eastern,
gery'study W o n of the'National M- of the rabbit's drdatoty hadlBeen
tub of Health, announced on October 13 drayned off. The Biochemical -arch
that salt solutions were as effective as Foundation's substitute for blood and phs-
blood plasma fn the emergency treatment ma is based on the needs of tissue culture
of shock from serious burns and other in- for growth. In this respect it seems to dif-
juries. One level teaspoonful of table mlt fer from most other substi-.
and one-half teaspoonfuI of sodium citrate "So far as the record goes nothing was
and another of baking soda in a quart of done with'this gelatln-glucose-salt solution
water are conside~veda b u t right. Lf sodi- of the Biochemical Research Foundation.
um citrate is not avaiIabIe, baking soda The results obtained in burns and hemor-
may be substituted for it. [Such a solution rhages in rabbits were so striking that it
.
is drunk.] . . ought to be given a fair trial in hospitals.
"A quest for a cheap and satisfactory The p r o w of putting up a gelatin sub-
substitute for blood, easy to administer, led stitute for plasma or serum is too bright
the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals in ta be igrlurped."
New York city to experiment with sodium
salts in treating burns. Dr. Charles I. Mago Clinic Research
Fox, Jr., who has been conducting the ex- The orthodox conservative medical at-
periments, says that 'we have treated titude toward blood substitutes xewived
severe cases of burns with isotonic soh- quite a jolt recently from none other than
tiom of sodium salts, or solutions in the Dr. John S.Lundy, who is the anesthesiol-
same proportion as those of the body ogy chief at the Mayo clinic, one of the
A d d s , without the use of blood or plasma, country's top anesthesioIogists and "who
and clinical trials to date have been satis- introducd U I w n pentothd, now one of
factory'. the world's most widely used anesthetics
"Dr.Fox's work has involved more than (in smaller quantities, it's known as 'trtrth
100 cases treated with t h e exclusive use serum')". He believes, according to the
of sodium salt solution, without blood or Minneapolis M m f n g Tribune, Novem-
plasma." ber 4,1950, that there are three blood sub-
After giving a history of the efforts to stitutes that can "be backed as vaIuable
utilize gelatin and the result:, obtained and even life-saving agents:
therefrom, Kaempffert further repom " D m m - A sugar Industryby-Wuct
"Under the d i r e c t i o n of Dr. Ellice first used in Sweden, still regularly used
McDonald, the Biochemical Foundation of there and tested successfully here by Dr.
Newark,Delaware, also experimented with tundy.
a gelatin plasma substitute. The subjects "PERISTON-A chemical developed in
..
were rabbits which had . s-ered great Germany during World War D.
" G E L A T I N ~ animal ~ ~ ~&a-
C ~ ~ bctne ~
dqmage from shock.' Drs. J. 0.Ely and
A. W. Angulo of the Biochemical Founda- tin, but of medical purity."
tion's staff gave the shocked rabbits a After telling that "there is still no wide
.
. . gelatin-glucose-saltsolution [which] agreement in the United States that in
proved to be as effective as blood serum dextran, periston and gelatin effective aib-
in combating the increased concentration stances have finally h e n found", the arti-
of red cells when serum was lost and blood cle lists the advantages that Dr. Ltindy
thickened, and ih restoring blood volume sees in using such s u b s t i t u t ~ dfor
after as much as 60 per cent of the blood whole blood:
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L e r t to right: F r o n t row: U r e t t , S . . -\rne!v. ('., Stoove, S , I,arke, J., El*, P . , blarsh, I<., Smith, RI., Hcmmig, I t . , J e n s e n , M., Albrecht, M.
Second r o w : Rolve, J., T h o ~ n ~ ) s o nAI.. r , Ueavor, A , , l17illiams, F., TVood, I)., Stoove, AT.. H a r p , RI., P a j a s a l m i , A.
, I)riscoll, A , , S u n l ~ ~ . v i l l J.,
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H:lrts:ang, I':.. Vervz~et, A. Fourth r o w : IIardg, F..I%:ll.tlc).. J., 1:eavor. G . , Agnew, E., H a r d y , Rl., T u r n e r , O., Dedesky, &I., I-lyde, .J.,
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 The Big Schmidt Toleacope L o c a h h t r d angle camera. It can cover 44 square de-
s h i e s for study by Z O O ~ X ~ Giant
C ~ ye grees of the heavens in each photograph.
In comparison the Glant Eye is limited t o
J" LY 1949 marked the beginning of a one-fourth of a square degree or 15 minutes
gigantic project, the mapping of all the of an arc in each photograph, To under-
skies visible from the Palomar Observatory stand this dimension, we are told that the
in California. Is the 200-inch mirror te1e- moon is one-half a degree or 30 minutes
scope, famous for its range into space eight of an arc in diameter. On a moonlit evening
times greater than any other telescope, to the queen of the night looms large, but if
chart the heavens? No, because thp "Big you hold a pea at arm's length you can
Eye", in reality a colossal camera, photo- black out her silvery face. Even less area
graphs deeply hut narrowly; a mere "peep- than this is pinpointed by the Big Eye. But
hole" of sky can be concentrated under its the Schmidt covers an area hundreds of
gaze. To perform such a prodigiom*task times as large and one-third as deep.
it would require 5,000 years! But the sky In the total heavens, or celestial sphere,
atJas is expected to be finishedinf o ~ yrm~~ s there are 41,259degrees. Of this, three-
by another instrument almost as remark- fourths is visible from Palomar, the other
able, the Big Schmidt telescope. one-fourth lying beneath the range of this
Designed as a "perfect complement" to observatory, in Southern Hemisphere skies.
the longer range 200-incher, the 48-inch With less than a thousand plates the
Schmidt took aImost as much time t o Schmidt will'chart 75 per cent of the dome
that has hung above man since his crea-
one-quarter of a mile tion. Actually the Big Schmidt survey will
reflector. Purposed to constitute an unparalleled exploration into
the unknown. WhiIe in a few places the
oncentrate on, the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson has
Schmidt is often penetrated the sky somewhat deeper than
the Schmidt, this reflector is subject to the
ing in some high- same limitations a s the 200-inch. The result
teresting perform- is that only about one per cent of the sky
s of its own. Prob- has been explored to the C~stan'c, reaches
o u t 300,000,000
of 300,000,000 light-years. (To translate
years into space,
this colossal figure into miles multiply by
6 trillion.) Discoveries which the Scout is
making almost daiIy astound the men of
science.
reader lrarns of that little crcatui>e'sphe- no mcans governs all actions of the body.
nomenal instinct, ingenious resourc~ful- When bchcadcd, the b ~ ccan still move
ness, superb craftsmanship and praise- about for a t i m ~If, disgorged of its abdo-
provoking industry. men, the upper part wiIl continue to take
To mect the entire bee following would in food. Behind the head is the thorax, its
be quite a chore involving about five thou- "motor room", in which hard-shelled mid-
sand spccirs broken do'lt.11 into fourteen dle body r'epose the mighty muscles for op-
families. For closc study is the most eratin2 thc wings arld 1c.g~. In flight these
well-known and ~lppl-ecia trd honrybee, amazing wings, two larye ones in front and
originally an immigrant frorn Europe. two smaller ones in back, make possible
Asidr from the honey j l produrrs, Ihis the bee's transport of loads heavier than
bee's home lifp provides an int~nselyin- itsclf. Thry beat 11,400 timcs a minute.
teresting study in numerous ways. In fact,
the home itself is a good slarting point. A " W o m a ~ i sWorld"
The citizcrls of the city-to-be clustrr to- Attached to the rrar tip of the abdomen
gether' in a great living roncl for from is t h e bee's most fumiliar accessory, the
eighteen to twenty-four hour's. At'tcr- this, intcrnntionally renohi ned sting. Stinging,
the heat they have generated assisls in however, really does hurt thc bre more
producing a secretion a t a dtrct in their than it does Illr. victim. The stirtg is barbed
abdomens. Thcll, onr by on(., starting at and cannot be withdrawn from toqgh hu-
the apex of the cone, the bees contribute man flesh. To loose it, the bcc must
their individual bits lo thr formation of ivrrnch away part of its abdomen, thus as-
what evcntuall y forrr~sa glisturling wax suring that death will yuirkly follow. Thjs
cone to ruplace the livin:: one. IYithin the appIies to Ihr ~~~~~~~~~s otlly, however, and
cone, thousands of virtually pclrfect hcxag- their. life span usually avuyages only seven
onaI wlls are nest preparrd to provide or' eight if-ceks il born in t h e summer, or
cradles for the yorrng and storage vats for six o r seven montlls at most if born in the
honey. autumn. Wit11 their excess encrgy and the
Close up, thr bee gives tht. appearance pruss of work, they literally work them-
of making a very good museum piece. sclvcs to drath. Quecns have smooth,
The c r e a t u r ~should set! wtlll: .it has livc scimitar-curvrd stings pasily withdrawn,
eyes, thrce simpit. or1r.s and two of complex but they sting only other queens, seldom
organism. TII cud1 of the complex eyes the having access to humans and never sting-
worker bet! has six thousand lenses, Ihe ing them. D r o ~ c s alortg
, with inn~mlerable
 Busy, grown man i s divided by "iron cur- - Many moderns, with a view of communlst
tains", torn by strife, and nervously and fran- aggression tactics in mind, will be quick to
tically arming to the teeth for the claimed criticize the feasibility of this plan. However,
purpose of preserving peace. Meanwhile, "cold it is well, too, to remember the obvious short-
wars," " w a r n wars" and "police actions" mul- comings of the broken-down efforts o f haughty
tiply and peace fades. Sometimes it seems that men. With a mind to their meekness and teach-
the older man becomes in this world, the less able nature, Jesus said, "Suffer little children,
reason he displays. Some four years ago, a and forbid them not, to come unto me: f o r of
plan for peace was presented to the Unitetl such is the kingdom of heaven."-Matthew
Nations through a letter to the Security Coun- 19 :14.
cil's chief United States delegate, Warren R. Additional investigaticln of Biblical logic
Austin. The letter came from the kindergarten shows it to run parallel to that of the children
of Publie School NInety in Mew York city's and farther away from the schemes of would-
borough of Queens. Mr. Austin sent a kindly be adult world builders. Says Micah 4: 3 of the
reply, but it is apparent that neither he nor time earnestly sought by all true peace seek-
the United Nations has heeded the children's ers: "And he shall judge among many people,
proposal. Its touching logic, however, remains and rebuke strong nations afar o f f ; and they
o f interest. Here i s the message, as given in shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
the.New York Times of March 19,1947: their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall
& "War is fighting. People hate and take peo- not lift up a sword against nation, neither
ple's clothes away. They should think not to shall they learn war any more!'
make a war. They shonldn't have guns. B e assured that in the glorious new w r l d
"In Sunday School they say: 'Thou shalt of Jehovah God's making and under the rule
not kill.' People have to be good. The thing i s of his "Prince of Peace", there will be no "iron
to make them very klnd by giving them good curtains", armament races o r wars. Man fails,
training in this world. W h y don't they love but Jehovah and Christ are certain of success
one another and help everybody? And make as the great peacemakers. Think of the joys
some buildings for families to have more cows before parents and children now while learn-
and horses and lambs? And apple trees and ing of life in that peaceful world. The evidence
war t r e e s and peach trees? And train the peo- of a chilct's quick mind toward true wisdom
ple to make things: to be a barber, and things should encourage all parents to do th& part
like that. Please ask God kindly to make the in supplying it. Jesus knew what he was talk-
children across the pcean, and the Americans ing about when he quoted the psalmist to his
to-very little boy and girl in every country opposers: "Out of the mouth of babes and
-to make them better." sucklings thou hast perfected graise."

A glance at Russian communism reveals as all-out an example o f creature

worship as can be found anywhere on earth today. The November 17, issue
of the Soviet Communist party's paper Pravdu, saw At to plaster references to the
Red religion's "messiah", Premier Stalin, over one of its pages no less than I01
times. A Yugoslav provincial paper noted that the name appeared in these forms:
Josef Vissarionovich StaIin, thlrty-Ave times; Comrade Stalin, thirty-three times;
great leader, ten times; dear and beloved Stalin, seven times, and great Stalin,
six times. The Zagreb daily, Nap-ijed, was also quoted on the matter by the offi.
cia1 Yugoslav news agency, Tanyug, as follows: "Other variations were 'Stalin
the genius', 'great leader of entire mankind,' 'great chief of all workers; 'protag-
onist of our victories,' 'great fighter for peace,' 'Stalin the hope of fighting f u r
peace,' 'faithful fighter for the cause of peace,' etc."
 him in the temple. Reprovingly his mother sucked!" In reply, did Jesus say, "Right
said to him: "Child, why did you treat us you are, my mother is the most blessed of
this way? Here your father and I in men- all women that ever lived1*?Far from it!
tal distress have been laoking for you." On the contrary he said: "No, rather,
Did the lad Jesus apologize and say: "Oh, Happy are those hearing the word of God
mother dear, I'm so sorry that I caused and keeping it!"-Luke ll:27,28,New
you such mental distress! PIease forgive Wwld Trans.
mi$'? Not at all. Though only twelve years Again he was preaching to the crowds
old he gave his mother a rebuke, gentle, and someone told him: "Look! your moth-
but nevertheless explicit: "Why did you er and your brothers are standing outside
have to go looking for me? Did you not seeking to speak to you." Did Jesus an-
know that I must be in the house of my swer: "Whom did you say? My mother?
F a t h e r ? " (Luke 2:41-50,NewW o r l d Excuse me while I go at once to see what
Tram.) Even a t the tender age of twelve, she wants"? No, but again: "Who is m y
Jesus did not adore his mother. mother?" Yes, if you please, 'Who is Mary,
Shortly after Jesus began his ministry anyhow?' "And extending his hand toward
we find where he again found it necessary his disciples he said: 'Look! my mother
to give a rebuke to his mother Mary. Re and my brothers! For whoever does the
had been invited to a wedding feast, and will of my Father who is in heaven, the
the wine ran out, Mary, in typical maternal same is my brother, and sister, and MOTH-
fashion, still thinking that Jesus was tied ER.'" ( M a t t h e w 12:46-50,New WorU
to her apron strings, tried to direct Jesus. Trans.) As far as Jesus was concerned, any
How did Jesus respond? Did he say, "Moth- woman faithfully serving his Father was
er dear, what would you have me to do?" on the same footing as his mother.
Even though one Roman Catholic version No doubt Jesus helped provide for his
would have us believe that such was the mother and sisters and brothers while a
tenor of his reply to her, the very next carpenter at Nazareth, m d he thought-
words show up its flagrant dishonesty, for fully made provision for his mother as he
they state: "My hour is not yet come." hung on the torture stake. There, before
Clearly those words only make sense if we him, stood his mother, certain other wom-
admit that the previous ones were of a re- en and his beloved disciple John. In en-
pelling nature. His very salutation "Wom- trusting his mother to that disciple note
an" is likewise indicative of the tone of his matter-of-fact language to her : "Wom-
voice he must have used at that time. an, see! your son!" and to John: "See! your
Note therefore the way his words have mother!" And so "from that hour on the
variously been rendered: "What have I to disciple took her to his own horne".Tohn
do with you, woman?" (New World Trans.) 19:26,27, New World ll~ans.
"Do not try to direct me." (An A m r . In view of the foregoing, which gives
Tram.) "Leave it to me." (Weymouth) every reference of Jesus to his mother,
"Mother, this is not your business." (Basic what basis is there in the Scriptures for
E ~ g l s h )"Nay, woman, why dost thou anyone to adore his own mother or the
trouble me with that?" { M M g ~ oHEOX,
r mother of Jesus, or to hail Mary as the
Roman Catholic)-John 2 :2-4. "Mother of God", and to pray to her? Ab-
One day as Jesus was preaching a wom- solutely none whatever. Mary had a great
an said to him: "Happy is the womb that privilege, and she appreciated that fact.
carried you and the breasts that you (Luke 1:26-38)But a t best she, in corn-
have been made in Spain for ment. Numerous court deci- were falsely advertised, aad to
increased Roman Catholic can- sions Rave granted the colored order that they are not ta be
trol over motion p i c t u r & s the right to attend regular advertised as being "supedor"
(which already must be ap- universities and schools, and to other brands in "the amount
proved by an ecclesiasticaI Truman has made many ene- of nfcotine, acid and throat
board), and it shows the ex- mies in the south wer his irritants" they contain. Simi-
tent to which that church has proposed r a c ia 1 legislation. lar to a foxmer order against
gone in countries where it Ms Philip Willhie, Indiana legis- false Old Gold advertising
authority to restrict the rights lator and son of WendeU Will. (Old Gold now says, 'we're
of others who, while respect- kie, said in Georgia (6/27): tobacco men, not medicine
ing the Catholic's right to wbr- "Segregation has given US a men'1, the commission's order
ship and receive information, background of prejudice, ha- specifically banned the claim
would like to receive the same tred and sham. It is a national that Lucky Strike is less irri.
conslderatim from Catkolic disgrace, marked by hostility tating, easy on the throat,
authorities. in the South and apathy in the provides protection a g a I n s t
North." The racial problem is coughing, or is p r e f e r r e d
IUcM Opprearrldn Discussed diWcult, but all persons of "2 to 1" by independent tobac.
@ In many lands relations be- honest heart, of all races, ran co experts. Concerning testi-
tween white and colored pre- look for an entirely satisfac- monials, out of 440 that were
sent a serious problem, whlk tory solution under the bless- checked, about 50 did not
in other countries little or no ings of God's kingdom whit-h smoke cigarettes, more than
attention is paid to racial will soon end all injustices. 100 did not s m o k e Lucky
background. Less than half Strikes exclusively, and a
number smoked other brands
the world's p o p u l a t i o n fs Tobmoo Claims Exparred exclusiveIy, the commission
white, but generally the whites @ It took the Federal Trade reported. The tobacca company
control. In the U. S. the col- Commission more than seven plans to appeal to the courts,
ored race has been gaining years (since 1943) to decide but the commission was upheld
somewhat mare liberal treat- that Lucky Strike cigarettes in Old Gold's similar a ~ ~ a k

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Volume X X X l l Brooklyn, N. Y., October 22, 1961 Number 20

Government Force in Medical Treatment

he t8llowlng 1. an artlcls t h a t appmartd In the June 27, 795% Colorado Spring.
(Colorado) "Gazette Telegraph". Ltr clear-cut v ~ a l o nI n this vital lssua ir rofraah-
ing t o thoas who champlon clvll rlahta.

w H E W do the rights of parents in re-

gard to their children end and the
rights of the state to take over guardian-
mental powers over the individual is that
of religious freedom. We are guaranted
freedom of worship by the Constitution of
ship of childrep begin? the United States, but do we still have that
Maybe you haven't given much thought freedom?
to that question, although it is one of tre- There is still another question that should
mendous importance to every father and have deep thought on the part of all of us,
mother in the land. It is becoming even parents and nonparents. This question in-
more important these days, so far as cludes both of those already mentioned
Americans are concerned, because of the and deals with the authority of doctors to
swiftly growing powers of the state over prescribe treatment and administer it over
the lives of the citizens. the objections of parents.
Even in the days of our greatest individ- We bring up these questions because of
ual freedom the state had powers over our a recent court case in Chicago in which
individual lives which it should not have the three issues were involved. This was
had. But in recent years these powers have the case in which a six-day-old infant
increased enormously and are continuing figured.
to increase. Laws which enable the govern- A dwtor ordered a blood transfusion for
ment to initiate force against parents to the infant. The parents, members of Jeho-
compel them to send their children to vah's witnesses, believe that a blocd tram-
schools which are under the dictation of fusion Is a violation of God's law, and ob-
government are tyrannicaI laws. They en- jected. The state went to court in Chicago
able the state to take over a measure of in order that the doctors might give the
guardianship of children, thus invading child a transfusi~nover the parents' ob-
the rights of parents over their children. jections. The issue was further compli-
There are other laws which make it pos- cat* later by the denial of the famiIy'~
sible for government to make children
regular doctor that the baby needed a
wards of the state, the conscription law,
for instance. And the so-called child labor transfusion.
Iaws. The tendency is toward more and So here were invoIved the three points
more of this sort of thing. we've brought up, the rights of parents,
Another question that calk for deep d e right of free worship and the power
thought in these days of growing govern- of the medical profession to dictate treat-
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