p. 448 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 28. (7/20/1915)

Earlier text: Bone Formation and Tooth Decay

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UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN

Alabama Tract Society, Room 316, Lyric Building, Birmingham, Ala.

Alberta Tract Society, Lacombe, Alberta, Can.

Arizona Tract Society, 417 West Fifth St., Los Angeles, Cal.

Arkansas Tract Society, 37 E. South St., Fayetteville, Ark.

British Columbia Tract Society, 1708 Maple St., Vancouver, B. C., Canada.

California Bible House, 537 25th St., Oakland, Cal.

California-Nevada Missionary Society, 341 E. Lodi Ave., Lodi, Cal.

California Tract Society, Northwestern, 537 25th St., Oakland, California.

California Tract Society, Southeastern, 417 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, Cal.

California Tract Society, Southern, 417 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, Cal.

Central California Bible House, Box 1304, Fresno, Cal.

Chesapeake Tract Society, 1611 Tenth St., Baltimore, Md.

Colorado Tract Society, Eastern, 1112 Kalamath St., Denver, Colo.

Colorado Tract Society, Western, 122 So. 8th St., Grand Junction, Colo.

Connecticut (See New England, Southern).

Cumberland Tract Society (Eastern Tennessee), Graysville, Tenn.

District of Columbia Tract Society, 708 McLachlen Bldg., Washington, D. C.

Florida Tract Society, Room 11, Yowell-Duckworth Block, Orlando, Fla.

Georgia Tract Society, 169 Bryan St., Atlanta, Ga.

Greater New York Tract Society (See New York).

Hawaiian Tract Society, 767 Kinau St., Honolulu, H. T.

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Idaho Tract Society, Southern, Room 327 Sonna Building, Boise, Idaho.

Illinois Tract Society, Northern, 3645 Ogden Ave., Hawthorne Sta., Chicago, Ill.

Illinois Tract Society, Southern, 304 W. Allen St., Springfield, Ill.

Indiana Tract Society, 521 E. 23d St., Indianapolis, Ind.

Iowa Tract Society, Nevada, Iowa.

Kansas Tract Society, Room 615 Butts Bldg., cor. First St. and Lawrence Ave., Wichita, Kan.

Kentucky Tract Society, Box 398, Nicholasville, Ky.

Louisiana Tract Society, 810 Jackson Ave., New Orleans, La.

Maine Tract Society, 75 Grant St., Portland, Me.

Manitoba Tract Society, 290 Bannerman Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Maritime Tract Society, Can. Pub. Assn., Oshawa, Ont., Canada.

Maryland (See Chesapeake Tract Society).

Massachusetts Tract Society, 607 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass.

Michigan Tract Society, East, 426 Trumbull Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Michigan Tract Society, North, 510 Petoskey St., Petoskey, Mich.

Michigan Tract Society, West, 1214 Madison Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Minnesota Tract Society, 336 East Lake St., Minneapolis, Minn.

Mississippi Tract Society, 932 Union St., Jackson, Miss.

Missouri Tract Society, 203 W. Franklin St., Clinton, Mo.

Montana Tract Society, 411 S. Black Ave., Bozeman, Mont.

Nebraska Bible Supply House, 905 N. California Ave., Hastings, Neb.

Nevada (See California-Nevada Missionary Society).

New England Tract Society, Northern, 136 N. Main St., Concord, N. H.

New England Tract Society, Southern (Rhode Island and Connecticut), 51 Whitmore St., Hartford, Conn.

Newfoundland Tract Society, Box 217, St. Johns, Newfoundland.

New Hampshire (See Northern New England).

New Jersey Tract Society, 200 Columbus Ave., Trenton, N. J.

New Mexico Tract Society, Box 286, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

New York Tract Society (Greater), Room 902, 32 Union Square, New York, N. Y.

New York Tract Society, Eastern, 317 W. Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y.

New York Tract Society, Western, 527 Garson Ave., Rochester, N. Y.

North Carolina Tract Society, 234 Summit Ave., Greensboro, N. C.

North Dakota Tract Society, Drawer N, Jamestown, N. Dak.

Ohio Tract Society, Box 8, Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Oklahoma Tract Society, P. O. Box 644, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Ontario Tract Society, Box 308, Oshawa, Ont., Canada.

Oregon Missionary Society, Western, 508 E. Everett St., Portland, Ore.

Oregon Missionary Society, Southern, 1164 Military St., Roseburg, Ore.

Pennsylvania Tract Society, Eastern, 4910 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Pennsylvania Tract Society, Western, 7155 Mt. Vernon St., Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Saskatchewan Tract Society, Box 244, Regina, Sask., Can.

South Carolina Tract Society, 1208 Calhoun St., Columbia, S. C.

South Dakota Tract Society, Drawer R, Redfield, S. Dak.

Tennessee, Eastern (See Cumberland Tract Society).

Tennessee River Tract Society (Western Tennessee), 509 Cole Bldg., Nashville, Tenn.

Texas Tract Society, North, Box 15, Kene, Texas.

Texas Tract Society, South, Box 755, San Antonio, Texas.

Texas Tract Society, West, Amarillo, Texas.

Upper Columbia Tract Society, College Place, Wash.

Utah Tract and Bible Society, 776 E. 6th South, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Vermont (See Northern New England).

Virginia Tract Society, 2705 W. Main St., Richmond, Va.

Washington Missionary Society, Western, 228 S. Brannan St., Auburn, Wash.

West Virginia Tract Society, 124 Marion St., Fairmont, W. Va.

Wisconsin Tract Society, Box 57, Grand Rapids, Wis.

Wyoming Tract Society, Crawford, Neb.

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Russia Can Have Constantinople

G. W. BARRON, president of the company that publishes the Wall Street Journal, recently spent considerable time in Europe studying financial conditions there at first hand. He recently made an address before the Canadian Club of Montreal. Some of his most striking utterances were:

“Russia has the greatest unturned soil in the world. She has more wheat lands stretching out to the Pacific across Asia than we have on this entire continent. Formerly you would look upon Russia as the rival of the British Empire. For long we have heard of the Dardanelles being controlled against Russia; of her strife toward India, etc. But what are we hearing to-day? We are hearing about the Canadian boy and the Russian boy fighting a common enemy; about France and England battering open the Dardanelles to let Russia out. . . .

“What was my astonishment to find in London everybody saying Russia could have all of Constantinople that she wanted, and her fleets would go through the Dardanelles. Russia will not only get from this war the benefit of the Dardanelles, but she will get the benefit of an internationalization of the Kiel Canal. She will have two outlets to the ocean. And the whole British Empire rejoices over this prospect as much as Russia. . . .

“The question of England’s right to develop Egypt is already settled. Mesopotamia you have heard of. Her oil fields have been subject to controversy with the Turks for years. The Bagdad Railway you have also heard of. The Germans are in control of it now, and you know who will own it after the war.

“But you have not heard so much about the Mesopotamia irrigation scheme. Now the valleys of the Euphrates and the Tigris, when irrigated not only by water but by 35,000,000 pounds of British capital, will be like the Imperial Valley of California, where you can raise four crops a year. . . .

“From the whole empire, from India, Africa, Canada, and the islands of the sea, is rising a larger soul life. You will see in the future that while the war may be long and bloody and costly, it will be worth in the end all that it costs and far more. . . . So I say, Do not be alarmed over a long war, a costly war. It will be worth all it cost.”

History is in the making in the struggle around the Dardanelles. And we see, by the utterances of this well informed financial writer and publisher, that the eyes of those nations are not only on the Dardanelles, but on the great territory of the Euphrates. The struggle over the Euphrates Valley and the Dardanelles territory will also involve the Holy Land, which lies quite well between them. And here is where the prophets place some of the mightiest conflicts of the closing days of this world. Whatever may be the outcome of the present war, without any question it will have a bearing on the conditions that will produce the terrific conflict at Armageddon in the neighborhood of Jerusalem.

In passing, would it not be proper to observe that our civilization has not yet reached such lofty ideals as we would fondly have ourselves believe? When we can place in the scales on one side the millions of men that are killed, and the millions of women and children that are left destitute and in the throes of indescribable anguish, and on the other the advantages of irrigation schemes, commercial projects, and shipping facilities, and say that this war will be worth all it costs, our ideals are not so much above those of the medieval Huns and Vandals after all.

An Improved Submarine

MR. W. B. VANDERLIP, an inventor, explorer, and member of the Institute of American Mining Engineers, has perfected plans for a new submarine, which is said to be engaging the attention of at least three leading nations at the present time.

What Mr. Vanderlip proposes is to build a submarine that would overtake and easily destroy any warship that floats. A contrast between the present submarine and what he proposes, so far as the main features are concerned, is the following:

The reserve buoyancy of present submarine, eight hundred pounds; the proposed Vanderlip submarine, thirty tons. Height of present periscope, fourteen feet; the new submarine, forty feet. Limit of submerged run of present vessel, five hundred miles; the proposed one, five thousand miles. The highest submarine speed at present, fourteen knots; the proposed new vessel, thirty to forty knots. The power of the present submarine while submerged is batteries only; the proposed power for the new submarine is the Diesel engine, with an ingenious device that will enable it to exhaust under water. The present submarine has to carry large tanks in order to dive; the new one will have no tanks. This latter feature is one of Mr. Vanderlip's principal secrets. The present vessel can carry six torpedoes; the proposed one, principally through doing away with the submerging tanks, will carry fifty torpedoes.

We used to consider such propositions as nothing more than the wild fancies of partially insane persons. But these proposed improvements in the submarine are no further in advance of present achievements than improvements that have been made during recent years in battleships, guns, and similar fighting paraphernalia. Indeed, the submarine itself was invented only a few years ago; and the “internal combustion engine,” of which the Diesel is one of the highest achievements in certain lines, is among the modern miracles of invention that make it possible to sail under the water and to fly through the air. Men still in middle life can well remember when we had no such thing as a gasoline engine, and it is a shame that this convenient means of developing power is used so much in the devices of destruction.

The instruments of wholesale slaughter and ruin that men are devising in these times are enough to strike terror into any heart; and many are earnestly asking the question, “What will be the end of it?” And as the magicians and astrologers of old Babylon were forced to acknowledge before King Nebuchadnezzar, “There is none other that can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

Amending the Ten Commandments

IN Mr. W. J. Bryan's speech in San Francisco, he said, “It is the attempt to amend the Ten Commandments that has led to the most of our international difficulties.”

Mr. Bryan did not make a literal application of his remark; but it is nevertheless a fact that men have attempted to amend the Ten Commandments. The principal amendment they have proposed is to strike out the fourth commandment, which requires the observance of the seventh day as the memorial of God's creative power, and substitute in its stead the observance of Sunday, which should carry with it, in the minds of those who are well informed, all the memories of sun worship from the days of the remotest antiquity. And furthermore, this attempt at amending the Sabbath commandment will cause the fiercest conflict that either the church or the world has ever seen, and that conflict will come erelong. In that mighty struggle, those who propose to stand by the clear teachings of God's word will have a great opportunity to show their loyalty.

Has Returned and Will Write

By Editor

After a journey of more than 40,000 miles, and an absence of over a year, Elder A. G. Daniels, president of the World's Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, arrived in San Francisco early in June.

He collected a great volume of first-hand information through observation and from the lips of missionaries. He saw the marvelous growth Christianity has made. With the aid of a fine camera, scores of beautiful, clear-cut photographs were secured.

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