The Washington times., 1914-11-23
Movable Type, Income Tax, and
Attempts to Establish Oil
Monopoly All Recorded in Old
Annals.
ArSheoIogist Tells How Recent
Discoveries All Confirm Bible
Record-PauI "SmaIl and
BoW-Legged.'

Did Won knOp that mOpdble type
existed 100 years before Moses
that one Roman emperor lepied an
income tax on all Roman citizens,
that Athens possessed palaces far
more magnificent than any ne hare
today, and that one Roman citizen
tried to establish an oil monopoly ?
These are a fen of the recent
archaeological discoveries, as set
forth by DR.. Camden N. Cobern,
which tend to correct the idea that
ne are living in an age of new
Wonders or unhedrd of inventions.
Take away the applications of
electricity and steam, DR.. Cobern
states, and nothing is left of our
present day civilization which is
not to be found in pariouS stages
of earlier civilizations, sometimes
thousands of years before Christ.
By J. R. HILDEBRAND.
Present-day applications of steam and
electricity may be new, the Rev. Dr.
Camden n. Cobern will grant you that
for the time being, though relics of
some ancient civilization may be dug
up almost any day proving that trolley
cars existed before Moses, and that
moving pictures helped upset the Ro-
man empire.
But scan the list of other inventions,
and if old Rome had a patent office
they would have been indeXed there.
And review modern problems from
the eternal triangle of labor unions and
ground of some other civilization in
some other age.
II is almost Uncanny. for example.
to sit at the feet of one versed in the
language in which the New Testament
was written and have him read you
to his farmer-son. saying: Son can't
you sell Your crops at better profit?
It is wonder TO me that people can't
farm now as they used to when | was
a boy" And that IS far from indicating
the original "back-to-the-farm move
nrent" for the Egyptians and the
Phoenicians and the Hebrews all had
agricultural troubles OF their own.
Parallels of History.
For one hour yesterday an audience
that packed Polls Theater listened TO
Or. Cobern. brought here to address the
opening meeting of the Worlds Bible
Conference. point out these parallels
between this civilization of our own,
and those much like II. that crept to
the surface all along the stream Of
history. only to be submerged again
and crop out centuries later
Take our most ultra-modern political
and soical problems. In the year G
A. D.. the Emperor Of Rome levied a
tax on the incomes of all Roman citi-
Zens having an income of an equivalent
of 400 in our money At one time
there were seventy-six trades unions in
Rome. And another emperor found it
necessary to deal with a prominent
Roman citizen who tried to obtain 4
monopoly in oil.
on last Saturday 1000 people were
crowded into a great stadium at New
Haven. Roman games at the time or
ST Paul, would have been considered
dismal failure had there not been at
least 10000 people in the stands. Anc
in architecture. DR.. Cobern will tell
you. We are amateurs in contrast TO
the pyramid builders Of Egypt, or the
palace builders of Greece. He said:
consider Washington one Of the
most beautiful cities of the West
ern Hemisphere. Yet I think the
Athens Of today is as beautiful as
Wash nston And the Athens or an
cient times was intimately more
beautiful than the Athens OF TODAY,
Beside the palaces of the early