tables and fruit until October, 1919. Then I went to California, the holy land I love so much. I felt a steady improvement physically, but I knew something more was needed. I decided to fast for at least two weeks or die.

I started on February 1st. After having abstained from all food for about forty-eight hours, I took the first inner bath. Later I repeated this once a week. My strict fast lasted not quite three weeks. The first six days I abstained even from taking water, and lost each day from four to five pounds. Every day I took long walks to different places; that afforded change and beautiful scenery. My weight fell from 178 pounds to 148, and never came much lower during the next thirteen days of my fast. I also took all kinds of different jobs, where I had to work steady and hard. For one and one-half days I unloaded a freight car of fertilizer almost by myself, no sack weighing less than seventyfive pounds, most of them from ninety to one hundred pounds. Whenever I worked and felt very thirsty, I placed a slice of lemon on my tongue, and on arriving home took a cup of sage tea or parsley tea. I did lots of wad

ing in streams and climbing mountains whenever I did not work. But the most novel experience I had when on a trip to the mountains, at an altitude of six thousand feet, I walked in snow about four inches deep for eight hours each of the two days the trip lasted. I was breathing deep among the pines; sometimes I grew a little tired and had to fight my desire to eat too much of the freshly fallen snow. But I reached a log cabin, took a hot footbath, and walked home in the early morning. First I jumped on the scales to find out how much I had lost on this strenuous mountain trip, and lo and behold, my weight was exactly the same as when I started out-148 pounds. I continued my fast after this for another week, taking another inner bath, and using this time some permanganate of potash in hot water. I had no difficulties at all in taking the flushings, and compared with what I had ten years ago, this latter work proved a pleasure. Only the flushing with permanganate was more trying, and during the following week I had many evacuations of mucous, sometimes mixed with blood, but without an odor. During this fast I never was sick, and very

seldom uncomfortable, due to the many pleasant changes in this beautiful country and climate.

I broke my fast on hot tomato soup with chopped parsley, made from fresh vegetables. For two or three days I lived on scalded dried prunes and raw peanuts. Regular evacuations with much mucous going off followed this diet. I now work hard, and eat cereals, like bran, rolled oats and rolled wheat, also vegetable salads, milk or cream, and sometimes I use cane sugar with my bill of fare. After two weeks of dieting I have regained almost all of my former weight.

I am a common workingman and feel with the toiler, who gets so little out of what life has to offer. As a rule I have to work harder than my fellowmen because I am always changing positions, and in general work there is hardly anything that I have not done. Did you ever do heavy trucking all day long? How much pleasure do you think the average workingman finds after such a day's toil of nine hours?

I would find much sorrow and little happiness if I had not had the teachings of Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Hanish, the greatest re

former and pioneer of our age. His teach-. ings of time immemorial are such a fountain of wisdom and light that it takes fairly a lifetime to apply such volumes of truth. Jesus found it easier to seal His teachings by giving up life than to live under persecution for years and years. But God will shorten the days for the sake of those who dare to live for this noble Master Thot, and as the great Oriental professor Max Müller, concedes: "Dr. Hanish teaches no more, no less, than the religion that is behind all other religions." Some of us stand by him more ashamed, fearing, like Nicodemus, who went to the Master during the night. Some of us have created a body so strange to all countercreation in the human family that they can't help but persecute, and we must continue, as Ainyahita teaches in her First Pearl, where she protects her own handiwork, fighting counter-creation. More so, we must protect this body till we are worthy of a better one, and keep on, to see Mazda rejoiced and all his associates victorious.

The greatest men of our latter times have applied the good old thot that Mazdaznan presents for all time as a gift of Nature.

They learnt to be happy by applying the ever-active thot of Goethe. Longfellow once said, "Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate, always acting, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait." Lincoln said, "Keep on pegging away." That's what we will have to do.-W. O. Klassen.

"THE WORST IS YET TO COME"

While the country has been rejoicing over the defeat of Compulsory Military Training, Senate has slipped. one over. In the Wadsworth Army Reorganization Bill (S. 3792), which passed the Senate, Section 73 provides that whenever Congress and the President shall declare a “national emergency" to exist, then the draft laws, conscripting all males between the ages of 18 and 45 into military service, shall go automatically into effect.

This Senate has no mandate from the American people to decide whether the "next war" shall be fought by volunteers or by conscripts. That should be left to the people to decide.

If we permit the draft acts to become the permanent foundation of our military policy, then compulsory military training will follow naturally enuf.

The next step after that will be a law depriving the conscripts, as in Europe, of any right to protest against a proposed war. They will be under military control. Furthermore the curious phrasing of the bill suggests using the draft not merely for wars but for civil disturbances as well.

England on March 1 of this year definitely abandoned conscription as a military policy. A. U. A. M.