(My humble TV as an evidence)"In the Wilderness..."
Yesterday around 11:30 p.m., a miracle happened on my TV.
A few years ago when North Korea had blasted its humble nuclear bomb, my TV also malfunctioned on the very day or the very hour, believe it or not, though I continued to use it by hitting and punching the TV set for almost three months. Then, I purchased a flat TV, replacing the old CRT TV, almost two years ago.
But, this time, the TV set itself was OK and only images were lost on the screen as I could hear voices of newscasters. And, this morning the problem was well fixed, so that I can fully view and hear TV programs now.
However, the fact is that the God stopped me watching TV after 11:30 p.m. last night.
Now, I am seriously thinking about why.
SECTION I: Herbert C. Hoover (in office: 1929 - 1933)
I simply respect President Herbert C. Hoover, since he looks like having been very American.
When he was 16 years old, he started to California from Oregon by bicycle with only two suits of clothes in a bag and 160 dollars in his pocket.
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Hoover was born in on August 10, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa. He was the first President to be born west of the Mississippi River. His father, Jesse, was a blacksmith and farm implement store owner, of German (Pfautz, Wehmeyer) and German-Swiss (Huber, Burkhart) descent. His mother, Hulda (Minthorn) Hoover, was of English and Irish (probably Scots-Irish) descent. Both were Quakers. His father died in 1880, and his mother in 1884, leaving Hoover an orphan at the age of 9. After a brief stay with one of his grandmothers in Kingsley, Iowa, Herbert lived for the next 18 months with his uncle Allen Hoover in West Branch. In November 1885, he went to live in Newberg, Oregon with his uncle John Minthorn, whose own son had died the year before. For two and a half years, Herbert attended Friends Pacific Academy (now George Fox University), then subsequently worked as office boy in his uncle's real estate office in Salem. Though he did not attend high school, the young Hoover attended night school and learned bookkeeping, typing, and math.
Hoover entered Stanford University in 1891, the first year of the new California college. None of the first students were required to pay tuition….
Hoover married his Stanford sweetheart, Lou Henry, in 1899. Next they went to China, where Hoover worked for a private corporation as China's leading engineer. Hoover and his wife picked up Mandarin Chinese while he worked in China and used it during his tenure at the White House when they didn't want to be overheard.[7] The Boxer Rebellion trapped the Hoovers in Tianjin in June 1900. For almost a month the settlement was under heavy fire….
Hoover died at the age of 90 in New York City at 11:35 a.m. on October 20, 1964, 31 years and seven months after leaving office. He had outlived by 20 years his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, who had died in 1944…
Hoover was honored with a state funeral, the last of three in a span of 12 months, coming as it did just after the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and General Douglas MacArthur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover
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After WWII, ex-President Hoover visited Japan and urged the U.S. Government to offer more aid and support to improve food situations of Japan, then a war-ravaged poor country.
Anyway, it is a big surprise that ex-President Hoover was still alive when JFK was assassinated, looking back from today.
SECTION II: The Depression Era
The Gross National Product of the U.S. dropped by 44%.
The unemployment rate reached 25%, all due to the Great Depression that started in 1929.
It was just after WWII that the U.S. fully recovered and put an end to the Depression Era. It is because the Second World War needed full industrial capacity and operation of the U.S.
Conversely, the Great Depression was caused by imbalance of the level between industrial productive capacity and consumer demands. It is an excess of productive power in relation to purchasing power.
Domestically, farmers could not buy any more; factory workers could not buy any more; and rich people would not like to buy more, since they lost huge financial assets.
Internationally, Latin America and East Asia were yet to grow up as a big market for the powerful American industry.
Consequently, business, namely buying and selling goods and commodities, got into a slump. No one could change or improve the situation.
The era looks like as if having been waiting for a big purchase order from the Federal Government inclining to making a great war with Nazi Germany as well as the Empire of Japan without knowing Japan's military capability of producing 10,000 Zero fighter planes and the world mightiest war ships.
Conversely, without the Great Depression, the U.S. Government might not have been so eager to proceed so determinedly to the war.
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That is all for today.
(But, why wouldn't a certain Tokyo TV station distribute the same news program to its terrestrial link, a broadcasting satellite channel, and a communication satellite data broadcasting channel while they have three or four such broadcasting methods to consumers around Tokyo?
Anyway, watch your step when a strong wind is blowing.
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/gs/kazeganaiteiru.html )
Mar 1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.