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 Contents Appetizers
Did Not Get Away with It
Death of the Spanish Republic
E a r t h ' s Most Gifted Liars
s
4 "Hawkins, the cook advises me
Pope Rejoiced to See Ruin
7 that you were badly intoxicated
Double-crossing America and Spain
United States Air Pilot Requirements
8 last night and that you were try-
Other F l y i n g Creatures
10 ing to roll a barrel out of the base-
11 ment. Can this be true?"
The New Government
12
The Magistrate of Umtali
12 "Yes, my lord."
"Most Reverend" Simonds Fibbed
L3 "And where was I during all that time?"
Pioneering in Nigeria i:$
Foods "In the barrel, my lord."
16
Scotch Scones 15
Natural Phenomena 18 The Next Back Call
Counsel by J . F . Rutherford 17 CollectorHello there, young man. Is your
Petition 17
Mexico, Britain, Ethiopia and J a p a n
mother or father home?
18
XL* S. Government vs. A. M. A 19 Little JackieThey are both out and said
Under the Totalitarian F l a g 20 for you to call again Friday.
Shaughnessy's Gun Kicked 20 CollectorH'm! And why on Friday, my
Hierarchical Courtesy 22
The Terror in France;
litt! man?
23
Canada 24 Little JackieThat's what I don't know,
Wild Geese a t James Bay 24 sir. We're moving Thursday,
Fascism in America 25
The Germ Theory of Disease 26 Aviation Problems
Chemical Causes of Disease 27
British Comment 28
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"And in His name shall the nations hope."Matthew 12:21, A.R.V.
Volume X X Brooklyn, N . Y., Wednesday, March 8, 1939 Number 508

Death of the Spanish Republic

A AMBROSE RATTT, generally known as tendencies in Italian Fascism. "The pope condemns
' Pope Pius XI,* head of the Italian Fascism" headline of many English newspapers
Camorra operating out of Vatican this week has caused much annoyance here [in
R o m e ] . I t is an entirely misleading interpretation
City, succeeded before his death in of the Holy F a t h e r ' s words on "the curse of ex-
destroying the Spanish Republic, treme nationalism".
after accomplishing similar work as respects According to Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell,
the republics of Germany, Austria, Czechoslo- of Malaga, Spain:
vakia, and Danzig. To his achievements may
The war in Spain is an attempt on the part of
also be added the destruction of Ethiopia and the people of Spain to defend the decencies of life,
the imminent destruction of China. the possibilities of education and their hope for
Make no mistake, the war in Spain orig- the future, which they have won at an election, from
inated with the pope. It was his war. The a violent and greedy set of Spanish oppressors
men he used to accomplish the ruin of Spain who want to get all their old privileges back again.
were all professed Catholics, as Juan March, And these oppressors arc backed by the might of
Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier, and Franco, or German and Italian armies. To my mind, the Span-
ish people are fighting your battle and my battle
were sympathetic with and in subservience for the freedom of humanity, and in their fight
to the Hierarchy, as is the case with Chamber- their greatest enemy has been the policy of Great
lain and Roosevelt. Britain.
Franco used the Moors, traditional enemies
of Spain, in accomplishing the ruin of the re- Testimony of Catholic Priests
public, and Franco had the pope's "blessing". Ramon Ugarte, Catholic priest,
The pope made it plain on July 29, 1938, pastor of the parochial church of
that there are no serious differences between Santa Maria de San Sebastian,
himself and the Fascist dictators when he said: Spain, stated:
Now there is someone who has affirmed that Our war [of the Spanish Republic
between Catholic Action and the Fascist p a r t y to put down the Franco rebellion] is not a religious
there is an unbridgeable doctrinal divergence. Big war nor an ideological w a r ; it is a monstrous war
words are these, but crazy words. imposed upon the Spanish worker by a bunch of
traitors to their country, which they have sold
A dispatch from Rome, published in the shamefully to preserve their iniquitous privileges
Iyondon Catholic Herald of July 22, 1938, to exploit the people. Traitors and perjurers, vile
stated: assassins, Pharisees whom, if Jesus were to come
The Press in the democratic countries is inclined again to the world, H e would drive away from the
to jump to somewhat exaggerated conclusions when Temple, not a t the crack of the whip, but kicking
the pope speaks out with force against certain them out!

Judge Rutherford did not name Pope Pius X I "The P o p e of Peace" was without compassion for
personally in his address at London, September 1 1 , Basques, Catalonians, Ethiopians, Chinese or the
1938, and hence to his successor now applies the common people of any land, but was interested
warning then given: only in the maintenance of the most ungodly racket
Today you stand before the judgment Beat of Christ, beneath the sun. There has been much palaver about
the great Judge of the world. According to the un- his "saintliness", and his prospects of a place in
disputed facts you are convicted out of your own heaven or " p u r g a t o r y " . H e has none, and the world,
mouth, and the Lord's final judgment has been en-
tered against you and you arc going to d i e (See the though well rid of him, is no better off with his
booklet Face the Facts, page 23.) successor in office.
M A R C H 8, 1939 3
 Another priest, Michael O'Flanagan, of And then the Spanish Republic supplied
Dublin, Ireland, upon his return from that the information that four of the number were
war-racked land, said: being held in officers' quarters in Barcelona,
Tf a totalitarian state is one of the most hateful twenty-two were held in the military barracks
things in the world, a totalitarian church is more in Valencia, and the twenty-seventh had died
hateful still. The Church has often proved itself in a military hospital. The only reason that
to be a very unreliable leader in political affairs. any of the priests were confined was their
Don Jose" Bergamin, director of the Cath- illegal activities against the state.
olic review Cruz y Ray a, summed up the Giving the lie to the oft-repeated stories
Spanish situation as follows: of persecutions of priests in the Spanish Re-
Cast your eyes for one moment on that tragic public, the New York Herald-Tribune carried
pyramid of grotesques: generals, bishops, Moors, a dispatch from Barcelona, the then capital,
Carlists in red beretsthey are like some fantastic that on October 17 priests walked the streets
mumming-show of Death. They entrust the defense in robes and the other funny-looking things
of their Spain to Moors and soldiers of the Foreign they like to wear, while the people in general
Legion, for they have no Spanish hands and bodies
to defend themselves. This is the truth of Spain
tipped their hats and soldiers gave the mili-
in these bloody hours. We are the S p a n i a r d s : they tary salute. But so long as there was any
are a handful of traitors with some thousands of chance of a victory for Franco, the Hierarchy
barbarian mercenaries at their command, with some continued to send out stories of persecution,
weapons of war bought on credit out of the spoils so as to get the public sympathy necessary
to which they would reduce our land. And in these to the continuation of their racket.
they put their trust, or rather their desperation.
By such barbarians some of the dignitaries of our On July 22, 1938, 28 Spanish nuns landed
church seek to defend their imposturesdignitaries in England after being in Madrid and Bar-
of the Church which they have taken from the celona for over two years of the civil war.
people, which they have corrupted, prostituted, They denied that they had suffered any spe-
shamed with avarice and spotted with our blood, cial hardships or ill treatment on account of
the blood of the Spanish people. Listen to this, if being nuns.
you are listening to me, unfaithful shepherds, trai-
tors to Christ! You have placed in the barbarous
It was the intention of the Spanish Republic
hands of Legionaries and Moors the sacred vessels, that, in the event of final success for the Loyal-
the riches and treasure which you never offered to ists, Spain should become a refuge for the op-
your people, the poor, the disinherited, the hungry. pressed of German lands, whether Catholic,
And you either give these things as sacrilegious Protestant or Jewish, and a proclamation to
booty, or to convert them into weapons dealing that effect was issued. What a rebuke this
death to your people and your flock. I know you was to the murderers, liars and traitors that
well, bishops who dabble in politics, who chatter brought about the defeat and destruction of
of polities. Listen well; for this is an accusation the republic and dashed the hopes of the Span-
which I make. You, the dignitaries of the Spanish
church, have betrayed that church, and have robbed
ish people for better conditions to the ground!
the people! The Loyalist government of Spain carefully
In the year 1928 there were 32,004 priests protected Spanish art treasures, many of them
in Spain. In 1936 the "Rebels" asserted that of ecclesiastical significance. Arrangements
17,500 of them had been slain. Later Cardi- were made with the League to hold these in
nal Goma said the number slain was more safekeeping until the conclusion of the war.
than 10,000. In the last pastoral letter of the M Lawrence Fernsworth, American
Spanish bishops they stated that the number newspaper correspondent in Spain,
slain was 6,000, and the facts show that most showed further the good intentions
of these (possibly an actual 3,000) were slain of the government:
while fighting as common soldiers against the This brings us to the religious phase
government, the object of their conspiracy. of the situation here. A great deal of poison has
been spread abroad in an effort to make people
believe that this is an anti-God government having
Earth's Most Gifted Liars as one of its main purposes the crushing of reli-
/V
y-*S.^ The Osservatore Romano, organ gion. Sectarian periodicals have published and re-
+( ) of the Vatican, cheerfully said, peated that "the government has liquidated the
^gL^sFF In Tcruel, twenty-seven of the sixty- priests". I have gone deeply into the factsthey
^ , i i ^ A ^ j j five priests on J a n u a r y sixth [193S] would affect me profoundly if they were true. But
*-^~ JBm were murdered by Communists. I find no evidence to support the charges.
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 In Barcelona today there are living some 2,000 of the Basque country have informed the Vatican
priests, in Madrid some 900, in other cities and that the people remain absent from church as a
towns others in proportion. I know of anarchists protest against-the attitude adopted by the greater
who saved the lives of priests, and 1 know of part of the Hierarchy toward the Spanish civil
atheists who sheltered priests in their homes to w a r ; that there are many, many Mohammedans
guard them from harm. All this contrasts oddly who Franco claims are fighting for the Catholic
with the statements that "not one priest remains religion.
in Madrid", or in Barcelona or some other city, as The New Orleans Tribune of January 21,
the case may be. 1939, carried an article by Roy Mouton, who
I am told by an investigator, himself a Catholic served in Spain as a volunteer, in which he
priest, that not more than 80 priests were killed
in Madrid. That is bad enough, but they are only
says:
a fraction of many others who suffered in those The mast lying kind of propaganda has been
days of turbulence and chaos. Those sworn to up- launched against the Spanish people. I am a Cath-
hold the government and law and order abandoned olic; I went to mass over and over again. There
it, turned traitors, and for some months anarchic is no interference with the church. And all of that
disorder reigned until the government, fighting for cry about "Communism" is a smoke-screen.
its life at Madrid, could establish law and order No attempt will be made here
again, as now it has done. That is the long and to review all the events of the
short of it. Spanish Civil War. Mention is
The government has offered every facility for made only of some of the more
the re-establishment i*f religious worship. Protes- recent engagements.
tant churches have been open for months; Catholic
churches have not opened except for some chapels, During the siege of Madrid not only were
particularly one in Barcelona, which is freely open the 1,300,000 inhabitants supplied with suf-
to the public. ficient food, but 3,000 babies were born. The
The government has gone strictly upon the theory road to Valencia was kept open and supplies
that since there exists a constitutional separation continued to arrive.
of Church and State, it is not for the government Many wonder how the Spanish Republic,
to open churches. Catholics, if they wish their serv- cut in half by Franco's army, could have con-
ices, must open their own churches and the gov- tinued to function as long as it did. Mails
ernment will protect them. But the sad fact must
be recorded that Catholics have not yet opened were carried between the two parts by sub-
churches because of systematic obstruction on the marine. Steamship and air-mail service were
part of the clergy. also maintained. Only the railway and high-
Few, if any, are sympathetic to the government way communications were cut.
even though receiving its protection. Most of them In the assault on Teruel, 400 Fascist air-
are waiting for the arrival of Franco. "They are planes staged the world's greatest air battle.
more interested in-having a pretext for murmuring The German and Italian planes used were
against the government than in accepting its pro- described as new ones, spreading death and
tection and good will," one of the priests loyal to destruction for all the daylight hours, and
the government told me.
dumping 1,500-pound aerial torpedoes on their
These priests still take the view, as manifested
by the bishop of Teruel at the time of his capture, objectives below. The destruction spread to
that this is a "holy war", in which the main issue villages fifteen miles behind the battle front,
is the church. I t has been one of the great mis- A British commission which examined the
fortunes of Spain that the church has insisted city of Alicante after a series of air raids by
upon making itself the main issue. the rebel forces found that eighty bombs had
And Pedro Lecuona, minister counselor, been dropped within a certain time, but not
Spanish embassy, Washington, D. C , stated: one of these fell within a quarter of a mile
It would be interesting to know whether Mgr. of any military objective and that the only
Antoniutti knows that Franco has shot 13 priests, conclusion possible is that the raids were delib-
imprisoned 117, and exiled 135 in the Basque coun- erate attacks upon civilians or else were con-
t r y ; that the bishops in the Rebel zone do not ducted by persons unskilled in air raids, which
raise their arms to bestow benedictions but to make is doubtful.
the Fascist salute; that they celebrate mass on
* ' t a r s in which instead of having a holy image, Spanish Rebel General Yaguc made an ad-
they have the arrows of the Spanish Fascist em- dress at Lerida. Spain, in which he compli-
blem (the veracity of this can be proved with mented the courage of the Spanish Loyalist
photographs); that on the altars of certain churches soldiers and said that the German and Italian
, faan Sebastian and Bilbao there are to be found soldiers in the Rebel ranks conducted them-
large portraits of Franco; that the parish priests selves like birds of prey. He thought that per-
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5
haps some day a reunited Spanish people sons were killed and more than twice that
would fight both the Germans and Italians. many wounded.
Protestants pressed the pope to say some-

y
thing to Franco deploring the bombing of 2,000 Air Raids on Barcelona
civilians in Spain, but it must have been un- During the course of the war
derstood between them that what he then Barcelona was subjected to some
said was to go in one ear and out of the 2,000 air raids, in which tens of
other; for it had not the least effect. thousands of bombs were dropped
on the city. Hundreds of men,
The Massacres of Majorca women and children were killed, and thou-
In a new book by Georges Ber- sands seriously injured. Over a thousand build-
nanos, a French Catholic writer, ings were destroyed.
he tells of his experiences on the After the capture of Barcelona the rebel
island of Majorca: how he greeted conquerors celebrated an outdoor victory mass
the arrival of the first Italian air- in the city.
plane without displeasure, but how, finally, There was great rejoicing at Rome over
his eyes were opened to the horrors of Fas- the Barcelona victory of the "Spanish rebels".
cism as he saw the mass executions, 3,000 in The former king and queen of Spain, whose
a few months, in a small island, with a peace- marriage, after many years of married life,
ful agricultural population who had never was declared void by the pope, were there
had much to do with politics. He declares at a "solemn mass", and so was Vladimir
that all suspects were dragged out of their Ledochowsky, superior general of the Jesuits.
houses at night and massacred; not a sick or Just a "coincidence", of course.
wounded person was spared; sometimes the Jerry J. O'Connell, liberty-loving repre-
massacres took place in the presence of a sentative from Montana, wanted justice done
priest; appearances were carefully preserved; for Spain. Although O'Connell is a Roman
no one was allowed to wear mourning; no Catholic, and even though his meeting was
shops were closed. picketed by Catholics hostile to his stand, he
The New York Times, in its issue of Jan- boldly addressed 6,500 people at Pittsburgh,
uary 19, carried a dispatch in which it is protesting against the Spanish embargo.
stated that refugees, gathered in the main The embargo against the Spanish Republic
square of Santa Coloma de Queralt, were would have been lifted early in May, and the
machine-gunned by Franco's men. The town agreement to do so had already been formed
was subsequently recaptured by the Loyalists by Secretary Hull and his advisers, when
and so the truth got out. word came from Roosevelt, then fishing in
October 7, 1938, to get a good name for the Caribbean, to wait until he got back. It
himself, Franco caused 345,000 packets of seems that the Roman Hierarchy turned the
cigarettes and 250 tons of bread to be dropped heat on him and, as usual, he went along with
on Barcelona and Madrid. He hoped thereby the great enemy of democracy.
to weaken the resistance of these two impor-
tant centers of Loyalist Spain. The day previ- Bringing Hypocrisy into the Open
ous he had dropped 2,500 pounds of high-ex- Bringing the hypocrisy of the
plosive bombs on Palamos and four incendiary so-called "Non-Intervention" pow-
bombs. The Loyalist government reciprocated ers into the open, the prime min-
the bread and cigarette maneuver by drop- ister of Spain, Dr. Negrin, an-
ping tons of stockings, shirts and other wear- nounced at the League of Nations
ing apparel in Burgos. that the Spanish Republican Government had
The Depeche de Toulouse, one of the most ordered the immediate withdrawal of all non-
influential newspapers in France, reported Spanish combatants fighting on the Govern-
that Franco sent enormous quantities of Amer- ment side, and asked for the immediate ap-
ican wheat to Germany in exchange for muni- pointment of an international commission by
tions. The wheat had been contributed by the League of Nations to see that this was
charitable societies. done. The very same paper that announced
In fourteen months Valencia was bombed this courageous stand also announced that
with something more substantial than bread Italy was sending fresh troops to Franco.
460 times, during which bombings 3,000 per- Negrin claims that if the Moors, Italians and
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Germans had been withdrawn from Spain the borers, 2,000 secret police, 1,000 army service
Republicans could have re-established order men, and 60,000 soldiers, making in all about
in three weeks. 91,000 men. [ Condensed from a Barcelona dis-
The United States may send munitions to patch by Herbert L. Matthews in the New
any country that needs them, except Spain. York Times.]
The reason it could not send them to Spain Up to the fall of Barcelona 2,928 out of
was that it would offend the Roman Catholic some 50,000 Italian soldiers in Spain had been
Hierarchy, which is the power behind the killed. Undoubtedly Mussolini expects that his
Franco-Moorish-German-Italian attack. "Mex- investment of men and money in Spain is
ico has no such scruples and recently filled going to yield returns to Italy that will justify
a ship full of munitions for the Spanish Re- the lavish expenditures. The rebel victory un-
public, and followed that with a large order doubtedly increases Italian prestige and power
of munitions for Mexico, placed with makers considerably. British statesmen, however, con-
in the United States. Miss Dorothy Thomp- tinue to hope that they will be able to offset
son, noted columnist, said: Mussolini's influence in Spain by means of
A legitimate, friendly government has the right loans to Franco, who will not be in position
to buy from us in the markets of the world what- to ignore Britain.
ever she needs for her defense against rebellion.
That is a principle of international practice which Pope Rejoiced to See Ruin
the American government has stood for from the Pius XI, foreseeing the ruin of
beginning of her history. Our historic tradition the Spanish Republic when the
has been on the side of not only selling arms to Anglo-Italian deal was made, said,
friendly governments, but of preventing arms' go- "God be praised," when Pacclli told
ing to rebels against which such friendly govern-
ments were struggling. him about it.
The Manchester Guardian, seeing that there
Italian Non(?)-Intervention had been no square deal intended for Spain,
Wf'T^FK General Ambroglio Barlatti, in said:
1
^ II Meditcrranco, explained Italy's It is two years since the foreign invasion of
Spain began. It has taken that time for the Powers
interest in the Spanish Civil War, to produce even a paper scheme that might give
when he said: the Spanish Government not a square deal, for
It is time that the Spanish war be nothing so absurd is contemplated, but a deal less
recognized as a continuation of the Abyssinian crooked than that which has brought it within
campaign. We must impose our influence on the sight of defeat.
Spaniards so that the Mediterranean may become Franco the Butcher discloses the heart of
the Italian lake of which Mussolini has spoken. Fascism (Catholic Action) in his rulings re-
In view of the fact that Italy was officially garding education. His so-called "minister of
at peace with Spain, it was rather interesting education" closed fifty high schools in the ter-
that the Italian government published the in- ritory under his control, giving as a reason
formation that since the war began in Spain the following strictly Papal principle:
Italian fliers shot down 580 airplanes. In The people are better off without education. It
April, 1938, the Italian fliers dropped 291 unflts them for their destiny as peasants and
tons of explosives on their Spanish neighbors; workers.
in May, 431 tons; and in June, 719 tons. The That is rich, for a "minister of education".
Italian government was one of the govern- And it shows what must inevitably happen in
ments on the Non-intervention Committee, any land that comes under Fascist control.
supposed to be struggling to bring about peace There will be a drying-up of all sources of
in Spain. information for the common people. This dry-
When the Spanish Government reported ing-up is actually under way in the United
the return to Italy of 10,000 Italian soldiers States today, when children are driven away
and the immediate replacement of 4,549 sent from the public school because they refuse
to Spain in 16 ships, details of the names of to worship the flag, and when the Roman
the ships and the number of men on each Catholic Hierarchy conspires to keep Judge
ship were given. The Republic estimated that Rutherford off the air, and when the news-
after this exchange the Italians still had in papers and the movies are so polluted with
Spain 900 pilots, 2,000 aviation mechanics, superstitious Roman Catholic rot that they
10,000 chauffeurs, 5,000 engineers, 10,000 la- can hardly be seen without nausea. The
M A R C H 8, 1939
7
prophet saw this day coming when he said, Dr. Pedro Lozano, director of the hospital of
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowl- Durango, to eleven years' penal servitude be-
edge."Hosea 4 : 6. cause he continued to look after the patients
With respect to Franco's tentative govern- when the Loyalist forces were in Durango.
ment setup John V. Hinkel, in the New York
Times of September 5, 1938, says: "The Butcher"
In its setup the government appears to be totali- Franco admits he has a card file
tarian. Freedom of speech and of the press is cur- of some 2.000,000 persons many of
tailed under it; commerce and industry are strictly whom will be put to death and the
supervised; no political oppositionparticularly others sentenced to penal servitude.
from the Leftis countenanced; the people are He announced that he will not
mildly regimented, and there are other earmarks. tolerate any other "Christian religion" in
As perhaps the most influential non-government
personage in Nationalist Spain, Cardinal Goma y Spain than the Catholic religion. He con-
Tomas, head of the Spanish hierarchy, commands cluded a treaty with Hitler.
a great deal of respect and attention. The cardinal Franco will absolutely control the press
told the writer that "the spirit of the laws prom- in Fascist Spain. Orders issued by him reg-
ulgated thus far by the Nationalist government is ulate the number of papers and reporters
in complete harmony with the teachings of the and make the newspaper a department of
church". the government, subject to it in every detaiL
That the traitorous Spanish rebel setup is Cardinal Goma, chief representative of the
backed by the Hierarchy to the limit is indi- Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Spain, fully
cated in The Register, Catholic paper of cen- approves Franco's course of action. He said:
tral California, of August 21, 1938: A regime of perfect accord between the Church
Nearly 900 cardinals, archbishops and bishops and the State must be established, since the former
throughout the world have written letters to Car- must intervene on many issues. I am happy to be
dinal Goma, primate of Spain, which appear in able to tell you that up to now we are in complete
the book being issued at Burgos, showing the sym- agreement with the Nationalist government, which,
pathy of world Catholics with the Nationalist cause. on the other hand, never takes a step without con-
Included are collective letters of sympathy from sulting me and obeying me. The representative of
the Hierarchies of the United States, Canada, Brit- the minister of justice will bear me oat in that.
ain, Mexico, and other countries. With Vatican
approval, the book .is being published as a sequel Jacinte Benavente, Spain's greatest living
to the 1937 Pastoral Letter of the Spanish Hier- writer and Nobel prize winner, points out the
archy. connection between Fascism and the Inqui-
How things will go is shown by the fact sition, and shows that no good may be hoped
that Franco had a formal inauguration of his for with the Hierarchy in control.
regime at Burgos, Spain, December 2, 1937, I have never hesitated. From the very first mo-
in which he was enthroned beneath the old- ment I put myself on the side of the victim against
time arms of King Alphonso's Spain. He was the hangman, and 1 will continue fighting on the
side of the people until the end. Fascism, I am
sworn in with religious rites. The exercises sure, is the bloody child of the Inquisition. It takes
took place in the Roman Catholic church of possession of labor to exploit it; of heroism to
Huelgas. debase it; of glory to soil it; of thought to pros-
The Franco tribunal at Bilbao sentenced titute it.

Double-crossing America and Spain

,*C IN READING your magazine I steadily veered toward the pro-Fascist ele-
have come to the conclusion that ments. But this is not always because of any
it represents one of the greatest desire or ulterior motive. We must realize that
weapons against Fascism in this a publisher is in business for profit. Suppose
nation. Such a weapon is badly for a moment that you are such a publisher.
needed, and should be made as far as pos- You receive, in one week, ten letters uphold-
sible the medium of the freedom-loving Amer- ing democracy and two hundred claiming to,
icans for the expression of their opinions. but really upholding Fascism. You know these
The majority of the nation's press have are pro-Fascist letters, and you refuse to let
8 CONSOLATION
a campaign of this kind bother you. But week men of the faith throughout the world, whose
after week the stream continues, heaping abuse great work has changed a hostile press to a
upon you for not reflecting the true sentiments sympathetic one (yes, they admit it).
of the reading public. You begin to veer. The When this campaign touches on the wound-
apologists for Fascism take heart and redouble ed men returning from Spain it reaches the
their efforts. You keep on veering, until you depths of hatred. We were told of this hatred
reach the stage where you are afraid to let when we left Spain, warned that our every
anyone speak to the contrary, no matter how word would be misquoted and that we would
reasonable the arguments. not be allowed to find here a haven of peace.
That, my friend, is the application of an We knew that we would have to continue liv-
old principle; it was popularized and made ing that war, because we know what Fascism
easy by Hitler. I let Herr Hitler speak for is. The veterans are ridiculed, prevented from
himself (quoted from Mein Kampf) -. "Any speaking at public meetings, charged with
statement, carefully and patiently repeated, being Communists in order to discredit their
becomes a truth. Any people, if subjected to testimony. They are the objects of hatred,
a clever and persistent course of propaganda, prejudice, conniving, conspiracy, slander and
can be made to think that heaven is hell, and libel.
that a life of misery is heaven on earth." Such What the friends of Fascism do not realize
a campaign is now being launched, has in fact is this: The men who fought for the liberty
been launched for some time, in the United of the Spanish people have learned courage
States. Editors are being subjected to propa- and iron discipline. At Jarama they fell in
ganda, largely unseen by the public. Alost of windrows before the attaek of tanks and
the names behind this propaganda have a planes, but those who lived gave Franco his
strangely similar ring: Conwav, Halloran, first great defeat. From Brihuega they re-
Murphy, O'Brien, O'Reilly, O'Connel O'- treated all the way to Guadalajara, then
WhoNotl turned to drive the Italian blackshirts thirty
The similarity in names is in itself an evi- kilometers and capture an entire brigade of
dence of collusion. But this collusion is fur- men. At Caspe they counterattacked without
ther testified by the fact that from week to artillery and with their own troops retreat-
week the arguments are altered, and all of ing on all sides; they were cited as having,
them in precisely the same manner. The argu- in that action, saved the life of the Catalonian
ments, accusations and charges are varied pre- Republic. Those who live are welded into an
cisely as the official publications of the pro- everlasting brotherhood, a brotherhood tried
Fascist groups, are varied. This week you will in fire and pledged to die if necessary in de-
see that the Spanish elections of 1936 were fense of democracy. They are a powerful force
falsified. Next week you will see a special fea- for good, because they have learned the essen-
ture of the villainous "Reds" infiltrating into tial qualities of leadership and intelligent
the now legal government and Paul Revere thinking. They will fight in good faith with
Franco riding to save the honor of 133,000 anyone for the preservation of human rights
officers and 25,000 men, not to mention the and principles.
royal family. Next you see Franco in a thrill- If the readers of your magazine want to
ing serial: in the first part he is a retiring protect their own rights and guarantee free
family man with great responsibility thrust speech to others who want freedom, they can
upon him ; in the second he is suddenly a great do nothing better than to write to their local
leader ruthlessly facing the necessity of kill- newspapers and the national magazines. They
ing (there seems to be part of a reel missing must meet the threat of the pro-Fascist forces
right there) and rallying all the forces of by using the weapon used by those forces. If
good to save Spain; the third part shows him those who love democracy and tolerance will
stemming the tide of "Red" legions, killing only make their presence felt, if they will
285,000 out of an original 30,000 (how the broach the subject freely to the editors and
rubble does multiply!); the fourth part reveals demand a hearing, some of the press will even-
that he planned it all the time, not against tually be open to their point of view. They
the government, but against those who sought must exercise unceasing vigilance against the
to undermine the government; and that he usurping of the freedom of the press through
really would not have stemmed the tide if it clever conspiracy.Norman Hawkins, South
had not been for the kindly efforts of loyal Dakota.
MARCH 8, 1939
 United States Air Pilot Requirements

T? FLYING in the United States is the air traffic rules, meteorology and naviga-
regulated by the new Civil Aero- tion, which examination successfully passed
nautics Authority, and flyers are opens the way for the actual flight test on
^ examined by inspectors of the Bu- aeronautical skill. For this test the applicant
reau. The flyers* law is the "Civil is required to furnish an airworthy ship of
Air Regulations", referred to as CAR, and the type required for the rating or weight
issued by the secretary. These regulations are classification.
exacting and voluminous, covering every phase If the applicant has a solo rating and his
of private and commercial flying activity. flight test meets with the approval of the in-
A written examination on CAR must be spector, he immediately receives a temporary
passed by applicants for pilot ratings before "Certificate of Competency". This is followed
flight tests are given; therefore the regula- sometime later, through the mail, by a per-
tions have to be studied in detail. manent certificate and identification card. On
Pilots receive ratings according to ability, the certificate is specified the weight classifi-
which is governed by the number of hours cation and type, land or sea, single or multi-
spent in the air, at the controls, and by the engine, to which the pilot is limited. The cer-
weight of the aircraft flown. The greater the tificate bears a permanent number and, for
weight, the more skill required, and hence a Private rating, has to be renewed yearly.
the better the rating. Renewal of a certificate is accomplished by
Some pilot ratings are: "Student, Solo, Pri- the pilot's submitting to physical examination
vate, Limited Commercial, Commercial, In- and showing his application for renewal, with
structor, Instrument, Glider and Airline." certified logbook, to a Bureau inspector. This
Types of aircraft are land, sea, single-en- is for the purpose of proving that the pilot
gine and multi-engine, which types are listed has met the yearly requirements, in flying
on a pilot's certificate and to which type the hours, to hold each rating on each type of
pilot is limited. aircraft.
In detail, some of the requirements for a Pilot certificates have been issued to the
"Private" are that the applicant read, write number of more than forty-four thousand.
and speak English, be twenty-one years of Commercial and special ratings are rela-
age, pass satisfactorily a physical examination tively harder to earn than a Private. Private
before a doctor or doctors appointed by the pilot privileges are that he may carry persons
Bureau, which doctors issue a Student certifi- or property; but not for hire. He may also
cate. This physical examination must be sub- earn an Instructor rating after two hundred
mitted to once each year and also after a con- hours flying time at the controls.
fining illness or serious injury. The physical requirements, and especially
A minimum of eight hours of dual flight that of vision, are very rigid, and r must nec-
instruction must be taken before a student essarily be so, due to the responsibility and
is permitted to make his first solo hop. strain of an active pilot's life.
Next, have thirty-five hours of solo time, It is a common practice for student pilots
which must include practice in maneuvers and to rent planes; and average rates for the light
five hours of cross-country flying. In a log- or cheaper type, those under 1,000 pounds,
book the date of flight, time, number of plane, are $10 an hour for instruction and $6 an
type of plane and engine, and a notation of hour for solo time, gas and oil furnished.
any damage, if such should occur, must be Aircraft must be inspected regularly and
recorded. This log must be signed by the pilot carry a "Certificate of Airworthiness".
and attested by a notary public before being Flying is an art; therefore the yearly re-
submitted to an inspector with an application quirements as to time in the air are necessary
for the desired rating, which application must to insure that the pilot's skill is adequate to
also be notarized. his trust. An airman flies by feel; which means
Two identical photographs, showing head that through the relative sensitiveness of the
and shoulders, definitely one and one-half by controls he knows when the plane is, or is
two inches in dimensions, must be provided. not, in a safe attitude of flight.Herbert E.
A written examination is then taken on Jenkins, New York.
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 Other Flying Creatures
Something: About Geese melted suet combined with,, yellow cornmeal
- -= Geese are valuable for their eggs, and bird gravel, and for an occasional treat
' their feathers and down, and their we tie doughnuts in the tree branches.
flesh, 80 percent of which is edible. Each morning, gathered around our porch
Feathers and down are used for with unfailing regularity, are nine of the very
stuffing pillows and mattresses, par- fattest peanut-fed squirrels imaginable and a
ticularly in Europe. Goose feathers are also number of little red squirrels.
used to adorn hats. Geese kept especially for The bird population at this time includes
their plumage are plucked four or five times juncoes, nuthatches, downy and hairy wood-
a year. They probably do not enjoy being peckers, a pair of cardinals, bluejays, chicka-
plucked! dees, an occasional pheasant, three crows (who
Geese sometimes produce two broods of in extremely cold weather overcome their war-
young in a season, there being about ten iness) and, almost unbelievable, a mocking-
young in a brood. They may be eaten three bird. Whence he came no one seems to know.
months after they leave the shell. Considered almost strictly a southern bird
The liver of a fat goose is often very large, and not migratory, his identity puzzled us.
larger, in fact, than all the other viscera or Somewhat darker in color than they usually
"innards". By special feeding the liver can are, we could scarcely believe we had such a
be made abnormally large. When this is done prize until a number of persons who thor-
the object is to use the liver for the making oughly understand the study of birds viewed
of the well-known pate de foie gras for which him and positively identified him as a mock-
Strasbourg, Prance, is famous, although it ingbird, although his powers of ventriloquism
doubtless has other claims to distinction. should have convinced us before.
Farmers in the United States often breed Having been here all winter, through the
the Gray Toulouse goose. These mature late many changes of weather, dependent on us
and are-sometimes called "Christmas" geese. for food, he has become very tame, submit-
They are good egg-layers, though their flesh ting to close scrutiny with binoculars and
is not as good as that of some other geese. calmly concentrating upon his food while peo-
The most profitable geese to keep, from the ple stand within a few feet of the feeding
standpoint of many raisers, are the Gray Afri- station, so certain is he that he has found
can geese, which are long-necked and tall, and sanctuary.
large-headed. They have a large knob on the Thrill of thrills, shortly before last week's
base of their bills and are of a gray color, storm when it was almost as black as night,
which is darkest on their backs. They are ready he burst into as magnificent a song as I have
for market in a shorter time than most other ever heard, thus more surely establishing his
geese, and do not require a great deal of labor identity.
and time to bring to maturity. They are good For greater joy, let's have more sanctuaries
layers and have a fine-flavored flesh. for birds. When the ground is covered with
The so-called "Chinese geese" are good, too. ice and snow, scatter a few crumbs. The re-
They are small and graceful and come in white sults will amply compensate the effort.Mrs.
and brown varieties, lay well, and taste good, W. F . Jackson, in Milwaukee Journal.
when cooked.
Lighthouses Cause Death of Birds
Mockingbird in Milwaukee? The powerful lights of lighthouses along
For ten years we have been feeding birds the New England coast cause the death of
and squirrels, each year receiving new and thousands of birds each year. They fly against
greater thrills. the thick lenses and are killed or fall stunned
A large covered feeding station, well up off into the sea.
the ground, of which two sides are protected
by glass and provided with perches, is the Shamming Death
center of most of our activity. The menu con- The land rail and water rail sham death
sists of sunflower seeds, peanuts, chick feed, when in danger, seeking thereby to avoid de-
bread and cake crumbs, puddings made of tection or interest on the part of their enemy.
MARCH 8, 1939
11
 Convention in Lagos
The Nigerian Daily Times, Lagos, Nigeria,
contains the equivalent of four columns of
news about the convention of over 300 of
Jehovah's witnesses held in that West Afri-
can city. Two of the conventioners traveled
over 500 miles on bicycle to attend. "Sand-
wich boards" were used to advertise the public
meeting. It was a great blessing to the con-
The Magistrate of Umtali ventioners to hear Judge Rutherford's lectures
The magistrate of Umtali, near by phonograph in their own native tongue,
Salisbury, South Africa, must cer- Yoruba. There were 800 at the public lecture;
tainly be anxious to please some- 63 of whom were immersed. Some 3,000 pam-
body. He fined one of Jehovah's phlets in Yoruba were placed in the hands of
witnesses 10, or two months' im- the people, and more 'vould have been put out
prisonment at hard labor, for receiving a except for a heavy downpour characteristic of
contribution of the exact cost of one Riches that part of the world. What a blessing to
book, which book he delivered. When the case see the message of Jehovah's kingdom, man's
got to the High Court Mr. Justice Lewis only hope, being widely spread over all Africa
quashed the conviction and sentence; but one and over all the civilized world!
can but wonder at the first magistrate's cast
of mind that would lead him to do such a Utter Stupidity in Lying
great injustice as he attempted to perform Jehovah's witnesses know that Judge Ruth-
toward witness Chirochino. erford lectured to 25,000 people at Sydney,

Branch office of W A T C H TOWER at Sydney, Australia

12 CONSOLATION
Australia. The Roman Hierarchy tried to Austria, Hungary, and also in Switzerland and
prevent that, but failed. It then printed and Holland where Catholics formed a very large pro-
circulated in The Register (its boilerplate portion of the population complete freedom in edu-
weekly, issued at various places) the lie un- cation and politics was given to the non-Catholie
der the double heading "Rutherford's Visit minority.
to A u s t r a l i a Total The s t a t e m e n t ia
F a i l u r e " . That was most untrue, as Jeho-
bad enough. Then one vah's witnesses have
of the H i e r a r c h y ' s experienced the most
dupes went to one of bigoted intolerance,
J e h o v a h ' s witnesses persecution, arrest
doing business in a and imprisonment in
Pennsylvania city and almost every one of
tried to get him to put the countries named,
in his store window a particularly in Irish
card upon which he Free State, Quebec,
had mounted The Reg- Austria, Hungary
ister's lie. To try to and Switzerland.
put the lie over he
stated that it had been Pioneering
published in the Bos- in Nigeria
ton Free Press. And I am very grateful
inasmuch as it so hap- to Jehovah for the re-
pens that there is no vealing of this won-
paper of that name derful truth, through
in Boston, the triple J e s u s C h r i s t . I am
lie was triply stupid joyfully c a r r y i n g
like the Hierarchy along the Lord's work
every way. in spite of all opposi-
tion of Satan's earth-
ly agents in this part
"Most Reverend" of Northern Province
Simonds Fibbed of Nigeria. I enclose
The "Most .Rever- here a picture of my-
end" J. D. Simonds, self, as I was instruct-
Roman Catholic arch- ed to do by the branch
bishop of Hobart, Tas- Pioneering in Nigeria, West Africa office in Lagos.
mania, made an address in which he set forth This picture was taken while I was wit-
the complete misinformation that nessing to the Kingdom in Jos. At this place
In such predominantly Catholic places as the I was sent for by the commissioner of police,
Irish Free State, Quebec, Malta, Belgium, Poland, who asked me many questions, and, after my

Jehovah's Kingdom publishers and W A T C H TOWER branch office at Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa
MARCH 8. 1939 jg
answering all, he said, "You can go, but don't Kingdom News
run other churches down." Then I told him When Jesus was on earth He taught His
that I will merely tell the people that "hell" disciples to pray, 'Thy kingdom come; thy
and "purgatory 5 ' are not places of punish- will be done on earth as it is done in heav-
ment according to the Bible. en. . . / Indeed, the kingdom of heaven con-
After many days I traveled to Makurdi, stituted the chief theme of Jesus' ministry on
where I was again marched up to the com- earth. It was a strange doctrine to the Jew
missioner of police. He also propounded many religionists whose allegiance belonged to the
questions about the witness work and our Romans. It was an incomprehensible Utopia
method of living. After answering him he where men dwell together in peace and con-
presented me with one shilling and told me tentment; where wars and famine are un-
to continue along.Peter Otudo, Pioneer. known and men love their fellow creatures
even as themselves; where hatred and ill will
A Squawk from Chile are not to be found and God's will is the
T H E JOURNEY* law supreme. A kingdom where men are never
A courageous publication which sick and one need never die. A rule that hon-
cannot and must not keep quiet, ors God and magnifies His illustrious name.
because it cannot lie. Men with faith in Jehovah believed in the
Chafiaral (Chile) October 1, 1938 kingdom of heaven. They fervently prayed
PROPAGANDIST for this glorious time with complete faith in
WARNING t o CATHOLICS every promise concerning it. Not all were so
There has arrived in this port a certain blessed as to live in "that day" when Jeho-
young lady with a German passport, who very vah's King is fully enthroned. This alone
insistently goes about offering books of partly makes the present day most unique! Jeho-
Protestant and partly Atheist propaganda. vah's kingdom has come. It is here: a living
The Investigation Bureau cited her on suspi- reality! Daily the lives of the Lord's people
cion of espionage. She has been left free. are crowded with events that concern the
Catholics are warned that the books offered Kingdom interests. Daily Jehovah's witnesses
by this propagandist are all condemned by bear testimony to the onward march of the
ecclesiastical authority. great King of kings. Even while the enemy's
structure is crumbling in complete disintegra-
October 8, 1938 tion Jehovah exalts His King upon the heights.
PROPAGANDIST Daily the Kingdom is thrown into conflict with
WARNING tO CATHOLICS the remaining members of the Devil's agents
A certain damsel with Israelitish features, in the earth. Daily the kingdom of God is pre-
apparently German, and who refused to give sented to all who accept it. Daily WBBR re-
us her name, appeared in our editorial office joices in the mounting evidences that the King-
to tell us that she felt she had been referred dom is here. This is KINGDOM NEWS. This sort
to in a paragraph appearing in one of our of news is what thrills the hearts of all who
former issues and which bore the same head- have placed their hopes in the kingdom of
ing as this. She told us she is not a propa- heaven.
gandist; she gave a somewhat strange reason, WBBR is pleased to announce that with
to wit, that the books she offered were sold the beginning of the special Watchtower Cam-
for less than it cost to make them, which, nat- paign, January 1, it inaugurated a series of
urally, is not easy to prove to any of us; and, weekly programs devoted to KINGDOM NEWS:
besides, whether she gains or loses does not interesting items gleaned from the field affect-
alter the matter in any way. She also said ing the Kingdom interests throughout the
that she had not been called to the Investi- world as reported to the WATCH TOWER or-
gations Bureau under suspicion of espionage; ganization and which appear in "New Gov-
so the agents had told her. She finally declared ernment" section and elsewhere in every issue
that the books she was propagating were ANTI- of the Consolation magazine: field experiences
RELIGIOUS, that is, are directed against all re-enacted before the microphone; court rec-
religion. ords pertaining to the witness work unfolded
The Catholics knew that already. in living sequence. This is KINGDOM NEWS.
* Translated from the Spanisli. {To be continued)
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 Foods
Scotch Scones Golden Health Bread
One quart buttermilk, 2 teaspoon- Take iy 2 cups wheat flour, % cup oatmeal,
fuls salt, 4 teaspoonfuls soda, 4 tea- 14 cup honey or molasses, V2 tcaspoonful salt,
spoonfuls baking soda, 8 cups wheat H/2 eu PS buttermilk, iy2 teaspoonfuls soda,
flour. Mix the ingredients to a stiff 1 teaspoonful baking powder. Mix dry ingre-
but moist dough. Take a heaping dients; add buttermilk; stir well; then add
tablespoonful of dough on floured hands and honey or molasses. Stir well again and put
roll around until well floured; then pat to in well-greased loaf tin and bake in moder-
not less than 1,4 inch thick, to make about ate oven 1 to I14 hours. Honey makes it gold-
3 inches in diameter, and bake in skillet over en; molasses, dark.Mrs. F . E. Shimer.
fire. It is best not to
grease pan, but bake Homemade
slowly until browned, Breakfast Food
and then turn over 314 c u p s whole-
with spatula or pan- wheat flour, 1 cup
cake t u r n e r . About brown sugar, 1 tea-
five minutes for each spoon salt, 1 teaspoon
side of a p a n f u l is soda, 2 cups butter-
about right. They will milk or s o u r m i l k .
rise while b a k i n g , Bake in m o d e r a t e
oven. Cool. C u t in
making them j u s t strips and dry for a
right to split and eat short time in oven.
with butter or honey. Grind through food
May be eaten hot or c h o p p e r . D r y arid
cold. Baking without crisp in oven. This us-
grease makes them ually takes four hours.
better to digest. Will I t is e v e n b e t t e r
keep a few days. if raw sugar is used.
Mrs. F . E. Shinier, Needs only milk or
California. cream to be ready to
eat.Mrs. John Hill.
Wheat as a
Breakfast Food On Mushrooms
In an o r d i n a r y An e x p e r t on
thermos flask put half mushrooms says that
a cup of wheat grain. if you have any doubt
Pour in a small quan- about your cookery's
tity of hot water; wait Banana plant growing in front of a home including some one of
a few minutes, shake on Temple street, Los Angeles, California the eighty poisonous
the flask gently and v a r i e t i e s , p u t some
pour off the water This serves the double solid silver article into the cooking receptacle.
purpose of cleansing the wheat and warming If the silver stays bright, then the mushrooms
the interior of the flask. As soon as this is are entirely safe; but if it tarnishes the least
done, fill the flask with boiling water and bit, then throw the whole potful out.
stopper it. If this is done just before going Coffee at Two Cents a Pound
to bed, the wheat will be ready to eat in the Pour wheat, peas or barley into a baking
morning. If done properly the grains will be pan, to the depth of half an inch or less. Place
burst open and will have so swollen as to fill this in a hot oven, and when it starts brown-
the flask. The wheat will be still hot, and one ing stir occasionally, so that all the kernels
has only to add sugar and milk to make a tasty will roast uniformly. When all appear roasted
breakfast. For simplicity, economy and nour- to a coffee brown, remove from the oven and
ishment, this preparation is hard to beat. run the kernels through a coffee grinder.
"qjublished by request. Harvey Johnson, Washington.
MARCH 8, 1939
15
 Natural Phenomena
Studying Jupiter's Volcanoes Good Name for New Geyser
Astronomers at Griffith observa- A good name for the new mud-slinging
tory, Los Angeles, on the night of gejrser in the Yellowstone National Park, it
October 12, had an interesting ex- seems, would be "The Felix Windle". In the
perience studying the effects of a single season of 1938 this geyser carved out
huge volcano on the planet Jupiter. a hole 15 feet in diameter and 30 feet deep.
It was in the form of a huge cloud, black as Like "Father" Felix and Mr. Windle, it throws
night, which hung over a considerable portion mud forty feet into the air; but not at Judge
of the planet. There was some discussion among Rutherford. The Yellowstone curiosity deco-
the astronomers as to whether it might be the rated treetops that far above terra firma.
shadow of one of Jupiter's moons; but this
was dismissed. It was manifestly a huge storm, Strides 200 Feet A p a r t
and the explanation that it was the dust of a
tremendous volcanic explosion seems most rea- The strides of lightning average to be about
sonable. 200 feet apart, and careful studies of many
photographs establish that the path from
Man and the Rat heaven to earth is usually opened up by a
Popular Science Monthly claims that the preliminary flash from earth to heaven. Or,
rat population of the United States equals in any event, the flash en route from heaven
the human population and that the annual to earth is met part way.
loss from their depredations is over $1,000,-
000,000, or four times the nation's annual fire Coronado and the Buffalo
loss. Rats have been known to cause the death First mention of the buffalo is made by
of elephants by eating their hoofs, and at least Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish ex-
one miner was killed and eaten by them. Twice plorer. Traveling from the Rio Grande east-
a year every vessel is freed of rats by the use ward he and his men came upon the strange
of poison gas. Under ideal conditions, the prog- animals now known as buffalo, but which he
geny of a single pair of rats would reach the described as "a new kind of oxen, wild and
staggering total of 350,000,000 in three years; fierce, whereof, the first day, they killed four-
but man and other animals interfere. score, which sufficed the army with flesh"

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 had some faith in God and in the blood of
His beloved Son, Christ Jesus, by which man
is redeemed from death. Now they have fallen
away from God and have lost faith in His
Word and in His great arrangement for re-
demption. Under such circumstances, then,
can they hope to "return to God"?
The higher erities among religionists have
taken the lead in repudiating the redemptive
Petition sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and the majority of
ARLY in the year 1938 a company of the religionists have acquiesced in such repu-
E some two hundred clergymen presented
to the president of the United States a paper
diation and have turned to the world for help
and follow a worldly course. What does the
in the form of a petition "for a return to God, Word of God say about such returning to
home and country" and requested the presi- Him? The answer is found in the following
dent to "make any suggestion of ways and text: "For it is impossible for those who were
means by which we and our brethren in the once enlightened, and have tasted of the heav-
ministry can be of the highest value to our enly gift, and were made partakers of the holy
day and generation" about returning to God, spirit, and have tasted the good word of God,
home and country. and the powers of the world to come, if they
It seems strange that anyone who even pre- shall fall away, to renew them again unto
tends to serve God and Christ should appeal repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves
to an outstanding politician as to how he can the Son of God afresh, and put him to an
return to God. Such a course is what the open shame. For the earth which drinketb in
Scriptures designate as 'going down to Egypt the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth
[the world] for help'. Those clergymen, by forth herbs meet for them by whom it is
their petition to the president, plainly show dressed, receiveth blessing from God: but that
that they have forgotten God and ignored which beareth thorns and briers is rejected,
His Word, and the Lord declares woe shall be and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be
their lot. "Woe to them that go down to Egypt burned." (Hebrews 6:4-8) And what will be
[the political ruling power of the world] for the result to those credulous persons who con-
help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots tinue to blindly follow such religious teachers
[horses and chariots symbolically standing for who have substituted tradition for the Word
war equipment and an organization to carry of God and who continue to teach the people
on war], beeausethey are many; and in horse- tradition, and not the Scriptures? Jesus said
men [the men who manipulate the political of such religious leaders: "This people draw-
and commercial warfare], because they are cth nigh unto me with their mouth, and bon-
very strong; but they [the clergymen or reli- oureth me with their lips; but their heart is
gious leaders] look not unto the Holy One of far from me. But in vain they do worship me,
Israel [God's organization], neither seek the teaching for doctrines the commandments of
Lord!" The Lord then declares what He will men." (Matthew 15:8,9) Then turning to
do to such, saying He "will arise against the His disciples and the others who were listen-
house of the evil doers, and against the help ing Jesus said concerning those religionists:
of them that work iniquity". (Isaiah 31:1-3) "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the
By their words addressed to the president as blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both
set forth in their petition those religious lead- shall fall into the ditch."Matthew 15:14.
ers show that they have completely forgotten The only possible way to find God and
God and His Word and that they are floun- Christ Jesus and to walk in God's way of sal-
dering about seeking help from any source. vation is for a person to consecrate himself
Truly they are, as Jesus said, blind guides to Jehovah God, fully and completely trust-
of the blind. What does God say shall be the ing in the merit of Christ Jesus' sacrifice, and
U of those who forget Him and His Word? to study the Word of God and obey His com-
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and mandments. By so doing he follows in the
all the nations that forget God."Psalm 9:17. footsteps of Jesus, the great righteous One
The words of the clergymen's petition clear- and Savior of the world. Jehovah's witnesses
ly imply that those religionists at one time now go about the land from house to bouse
MARCH 8, 1939
17
and call the attention of the people to the the land who love God and Christ and who
Scriptures, which give the very instruction want to walk in righteousness devote them-
they most need. While the religious leaders selves to the Lord and to the careful study
flounder about and try to find help from of His Word, which is their sure and perfect
worldly politicians, let the sincere people of guide.Psalm 119:105.

Mexico, Britain, Ethiopia and Japan

Mexico's Path to Fascism Much comment has followed the unveiling of a
Mexico's path toward Fascism is a huge fresco in a Montreal church, the dominant fig-
peculiar one. The refusal of the oil ure of which is Mussolini, Italian dictator, mounted
on a horse. Among the ecclesiastical and lay fig-
companies to pay adequate wages ures is Badoglio, Ethiopia's conqueror.
caused the Mexican government to
'expropriate the oil properties. The Mikado Descendant of Amaterasu
Mexican people made a crusade out of it.
They are being dunned to pay Great Britain The mikado of Japan is a supposed descend-
and the United States, which still claim to ant of the sun-goddess Amaterasu. Spectators
be democratic countries. That rears a barrier of him must be on a level or below him, and
against democracy. They have to sell their oil, stand with bowed head. If he is ill 10,000
and the nations that want it are Japan, Ger- men may gather before the palace to "pray"
many and Italy. All these arc Fascist nations for his recovery, each holding in the palm
and now Mexico's friends. The pope's clever of one hand oil which feeds a wick that burns
hand was to be seen in all this. Pius XI, by his against the bare flesh. If he dies, many of
representative in Mexico, warmly commended them commit hara-kiri.
the Mexican government for what it has done,
and the "Church" is now on better relations Catholicism in Japan
with the republic to the south than it had been Speaking in Paris the "Reverend Father"
for ten years. Ghika, in a lecture on "Japan and Catholi-
cism", predicted that shortly the three official
The Only Protection religions in Japan would be Buddhism, Shin-
toism and Catholicism. There are only about
We all know that to design a building that 270,000 Catholics in Japan, but as one of the
is proof against enormous bombs is about as parents of the present emperor is a Catholic,
effective as putting an umbrella under Vesu- that religion has the inside track.
vius. The only protection lies in peace. If the
pope had taken a courageous stand the Abys- Japanese Feeling the Boycott
sinian war and the troubles arising out of it
would, I am convinced, never have come to With exports of silk down 27 percent be-
pass. I am afraid he hadn't the heart, and low those of a year ago, the Japanese are com-
ing to feel that maybe it was not so wise after
neither have most of the ministers of the all to push for the conquest of China and get
Church of England. The human machine is the whole world down on her products. More-
not made to withstand modern warfare. Twen- over, the war with China is getting to be a
ty years ago I saw my own friends become real war, and is straining Japanese resources
maniacs under the strain. If a major disaster mightily.
ever happens again I am quite sure we shall
create tens of thousands of lunatics.Fred- Canton's 800 Bombings
erick T. Bush, police architect, Scotland Yard,
in the London Star. The Manchester Guardian, one of the best-
informed papers in the world, claims that the
Japanese bombed the city of Canton, day and
Endorsement of Ethiopian Rape night, more than 800 times in a single year.
The Toronto Star Weekly, June 25, 1938, On e*ach of these occasions many were killed;
has a half-page reproduction of the scene and the life of the city came to a stop, and half
then says editorially: a million people fled.
18 CONSOLATION
 U. S. Government vs. A. M. A.
j&g? GROUP Health Association is a in Washington has resulted in denial to Group

I ( T X S L consumers' co-operative organiza-

f J J tion whose members pay monthly
ijLrm?tt dues; with the funds collected, the
^ T K ^ Association retains a staff of physi-
cians and operates a clinic. The Association
has encountered opposition from the Medical
Health Association's physicians of access to
hospital facilities in the District of Columbia.
Not even in emergency cases are these doctors
allowed to attend their patients. For example,
an Association member earning $1,440 a year
recently telephoned the Association's surgeon
Society of the District of Columbia and from at midnight and reported that her husband
the American Medical Association since its had been taken to a Washington hospital with
formation. ' acute appendicitis, and requested" that the
Even before Group Health Association had surgeon come to the hospital immediately to
begun operation of its clinic, the local Medi- take charge of the case. The hospital declined
cal Society and the American Medical Asso- to permit the Association surgeon to operate,
ciation made public attacks upon the ethics notwithstanding the fact that the member had
of the Association and upon its legality and desired this surgeon's services and had paid
its financial soundness. At the same time the for them through her membership in the Asso-
Medical Society began expulsion proceedings ciation. The member, therefore, was compelled
against the Association's doctors; these pro- to incur heavy surgical and hospital expenses
ceedings were based upon charges of "unethi- that she would not have needed to contract
cal" conduct, although the doctors' only of- for if the Association had been permitted to
fense had been their willingness to serve the carry out, without interference, its agreement
Association. Expulsion of the Association's with her. She also was denied the right to have
doctors was sought not only from the Med- the doctor of her own choice attend to the case.
ical Society of the District of Columbia, but The evidence revealed by the present inves-
also from other medical societies affiliated with tigation appears to warrant submission to a
the American Medical Association in other grand jury for such action as that body may
parts of the nation. The proceedings against determine to be necessary. Such a course is
one of the Association's doctors were carried in line with the ordinary practice of the De-
to a conclusion and the doctor was expelled. partment when it has information indicating
Proceedings against another doctor are still that there have been violations of the crim-
pending. An effort Was also made to secure inal provisions of the law.
the expulsion of a Washington specialist who [The foregoing official statement by the United
bad disregarded the Society's edict by engag- States Government indicates to some degree the
ing in professional relations with a Group disfavor into which the American Medical Asso-
Health Association doctor. ciation has fallen because of its intolerable arro-
A striking example of the restrictions placed gance, selfishness and assumption of an infallibility
upon Group Health Association's doctors in which is on a par with the infallibility of the pope
equally absurdequally irritating.Ed.]
securing consultations with other Washington i i
physicians occurred in the case of a patient
suffering from a serious heart ailment. The High Price for Smoking
consulting specialist was instructed by an offi- Smokers occasionally go blind from the
cer of the Medical Society that he could not effect of the nicotine on the optic nerve. Such
consult with the attending Association phy- a case occurred in Kansas City, Mo., with a
sician. It was, therefore, necessary for the 17-year-old boy. The doctors exhausted their
patient to see the specialist alone and for the ingenuity to find out why this young man
specialist to communicate his conclusions to had lost his sight, but when he lit a cigarette
tlic Group' Health Association'doctor by cor- one of them happened to remember what all
lesjKJiidence. In other instances Group Health should know. The young man was restrained
Association checks have been rejected by from smoking any more cigarettes. In three
Washington consultants because of fear of days there was an improvement in his con-
UMS.Medical Society's attitude. dition, and in a week or so his full sight re-
1 lie close relationship existing between the turned. If you wish to go blind you might try
leuieal Society and the principal hospitals cigarette smoking.
M
A R C H 8, 1939
19
 the station began returning to their warehouses
with more than half the loads refused by grocers
and other retail outlets. Leading advertisers, seeing
the protesters really meant business, took their
programs off Station KOL.
THE
TOTALITARIAN "When the Box Is Full" in Brazil
FLAG /t Millions have the recent WATCH
^ ' ( r? TOWER publication Enemies, which
Shaughnessy's Gun Kicked ' ^ r on pages 142 and 143 gives impor-
Gerald Shaughnessy, alias bishop of p l , tant and interesting information
K Seattle, boasted that he wrote 1,000 on racketeers and their rackets. Re-
t-4l WFd letters to sundry and divers elergy- ligion is the slimiest racket of all; and if there
men and others, trying to get their are some that don't just quite see the point,
aid in a conspiracy to keep Judge well, just listen to this one.
Rutherford from speaking in Seattle. The con- Recently it was my privilege to work with
spiracy was a complete failure, and now here a number of Jehovah's witnesses publishing
is a portion of a pri- His kingdom on a Sat-
vate letter, from one urday afternoon wit-
woman to a n o t h e r , nessing p a r t y (we
showing how two were call them "concentra-
affected by t h i s at- tions" in Portuguese).
t e m p t e d deprivation
of one American of his My territory assign-
r i g h t to speak and ment happened to be
of thousands of other made up of small busi-
A m e r i c a n s of their ness houses and retail
right to listen to the stores completely sur-
s p e a k e r of t h e i r r o u n d i n g a large
choice: Catholic church build-
ing and a p l a z a . I n
Did you know that a
Catholic priest here sent this t e r r i t o r y were
letters to all the Prot- about a dozen stores
estant pastors, as well which deal in religious
as to all priests, when ware exclusively, such
the convention was here, as candles, r o s a r y
demanding that they de- beads, images, cruci-
nounce Jehovah's wit-
nesses from the pulpits ? fixes, etc. I noticed in
and so far as I know, each of these stores a
they did so. My sister very large array of
and I were so wrought waxen objects such as
up over it, and I have human heads, hands,
n o t e n t e r e d a church fingers, noses, eyes,
since. She would not ei- female breasts, legs,
ther if it were not that Advice to the lovelorn
she needs the little in- feet, toes, the torso,
come she gets from it as an organist, but I believe hearts, and, in fact, every imaginable part of
that will not hold out long. You can always tell the anatomy, internal and external. Among
who arc on the right side by the way they arc all these were also figures of horses, cows,
persecuted. mules, chickens, ducks, etc. Having been
brought up a Roman Catholic in the United
Only One Mean Enough States and never having seen the like before,
The Catholic press boasts that when their my curiosity was aroused, and here is the
boycott went into effect in Seattle, answer to my inquiry,very simple and easy
KOL, the station with which the program orig- to follow indeed.
inated and the only local radio outlet carrying
the broadcast despite a warning issued, was hard- Let us suppose that you have contracted
est hit. Trucks carrying products advertised on some serious ailment or disease in any or-
CONSOLATION
20
pan or part of your make-up. You first, of Tried to Carry Too Much
course, seek medical aid and you are informed At Alexandria, Egypt, two Franciscan
that you are in bad shape. Your next move is friars and two nuns tried to carry in 100
what? Why, as easy as pie. Don't be alarmed; pounds of opium and marihuana, but they
just pick out your favorite "saint" and make overhogged it and got caught. The drugs
a promise with the understanding that, if he were in packets attached to their legs, arms
or she cures your affliction, you will present and waists, and they carried so much that it
the said "saint" with an exact duplicate of aroused suspicion. When arrested the holy
the afflicted organ or anatomy. Now head snides at first indignantly refused to be
straight for the nearest one of these shops searched; but it did not do them any good.
and plank down the long green for the waxen
object that resembles the part of your body G r a n t s Gambling Monopoly
that is affected or you think needs fixing. The Ecuador has granted gambling monopolies
amount you pay ranges from 5 or 10 milreis to Roman Catholic church raffles and munici-
($.30 or $.60 U. S. coin) to 20 or 30 milreis pal lotteries; all other gambling concerns must
and upward, according to the particular part fold up and quit, under penalties provided
of your structure. [See 1 Samuel 5 : 1 2 ; 6:5.] for both the gambling operators and their
So far, so good. Now what next? Well, just victims.
carry your "head" or "heart" or whatever ails
you to the nearest "church" and inside you Blessing the Devil
will find a specially constructed box to receive Eager always to bless the Devil, whom
the same. Now go on home and rest easily if they serve, the Roman Hierarchy in Tripoli,
possible and wait until your "saint" gets on Libya, blessed a statue of Mussolini in which
the job. If it happens that your mule or duck he poses as the protector of the Mohammedan
is the victim, make it as comfortable as pos- religion.
sible for it until the "saint" gets around to it.
Where do the priests come in on this racket? Protection in the Amazon Region
Why bring that up? Well, follow closely if
you must know. You see the candle factories r >} i^s In the wilds of Africa man has for
make candles and waxen figures and objects 3 centuries employed devious meth-
aforementioned. The priests buy the stuff ods to combat his natural enemies
in job lots. Is the light beginning to flicker ^4t&l f the jungle. In the Amazon basin
through? No?, The priests then sell in whole- "^ ^w*- n e has been as fully convinced as
sale lots to the shops, who, in turn, retail to his African cousin that the logical thing to
you. You deliver at the "church", and when do in the event he is attacked by the denizens
the box is full the priest ships (?) said box of the forest is to choose either to stand and
to the factory to be melted and made up into fight for his life or to leave some open terri-
other organs or donkeys, etc., whatever the tory between him ;md his aggressor. Suffice
market is in demand for. Simple, is it not? it to say that, being let alone to solve the prob-
How about' the doctor you engaged prior lem of self-preservation, he has managed one
to all this? Why, that is easily explained by way or another to get along all these years
the priest. If you recover from your ailment, fairly well; but along came the racketeers
the "saint" takes the honors. If you don't, well, and everything is O.K. now. No need to fight,
poor old Doc gets the blame. One tiling that no need to run, no need towell, just care-
isn't quite clear is why the Sam Hill the fully study the picture you have before you.
"saints" don't put up a howl, and why per- The wayfarer is suddenly advanced upon
mit the priests to rob them of their collection by a python that doesn't care where he came
of waxen pigs and other things. On the other from and a crocodile that is overly anxious
hand, what they were to do with them after to appease his hunger. Next the wayfarer
they did get them was not explained. "planks" his knees on the ground and does
some "tall" praying. To the right and some-
Who but the Devil himself could conceive what elevated you see his protector in the
such a God-dishonoring thing? and who but figure that is supposed to be the virgin Mary
the gangsters and racketeers of the Roman and the baby Jesus, both heavily crowned.
Catholic Hierarchy would employ such a To the left you see a "church" building al-
racket?Antonio P. Andradc, Brazil. though no "operator" in sight.
MARCH 8, 1939 21
 This picture is one of thousands hung on ish delegation was to speak. The rental of the hall
the walls of as many homes in this country, was paid in advance, tickets were printed and
and is accepted by the masses as bona fide placed on sale and advance publicity and adver-
immunity from danger of wild beasts. Any tising announced the meeting to the public. The
press was generous in its co-operation, and Radio
traveler desiring such protection must shell Station W H B F , owned by the Rock Island Argus,
out at the nearest "church" and be "bene- offered to broadcast without charge three five-min-
fited" and should also see to it that this pic- ute talks on the Spanish situation, and arranged
ture finds a place in his home. an interview over the radio with the delegation.
Now then, one thing that the poor man But on the Sunday following the announcement
fails to see is that the snake and the old croc- of the meeting, the Catholic bishop of Peoria de-
odile are not his enemies, but his friends. How livered a sermon denouncing the meeting and con-
demned the Spanish government as Communistic.
come? Well, they're between him and the Sermons in a similar vein were delivered from
racket shop and trying to impress upon him local Catholic pulpits, and The Catholic Messenger
that the best way out is to "beat it". If he joined in the campaign against the delegation.
does, he'll probably meet up with the book- As an immediate result, the news 1
lets Protection and Uncovered one of these papers closed down on space. Radio
days and therein find out that his worst enemy Station W H B F canceled the remain-
is snooping in the building down the road; ing addresses, explaining that it had to
that the whole setup is just another racket do so because of protests. The contract
worked by the world's biggest racketeers, and for the ballroom of the Harper House was can-
that protection from that gang comes from celed. The citizens' committee then succeeded in
one true and almighty God, whose name alone obtaining the assembly room at the Hotel F o r t
is Jehovah.A. P. Andrade, Brazil. Armstrong, only to have that contract also can-
celed the following day. With but one day left
to get a hall, the committee turned to the Labor
Hierarchical Courtesy Temple. Arrangements were made for the use of
When the controversy over the the Temple through the Rock Island Bank and
arms embargo was at its height. Trust Company, which held a mortgage on the
Archbishop Michael J. Curley, of building. Again the rental was paid in advance.
The following morning, the day of the scheduled
Baltimore, called the Spanish am- meeting, the bank withdrew its consent. I t was
bassador a common, ordinary liar, almost noon before the committee found what
when that gentleman invited Catholic leaders proved to be its last stand an old abandoned
to visit Spain and prove for themselves that church, a small wooden structure in an advanced
the Spanish government was not against the stage of disrepair, far from the center of town.
Catholic religion, but adhered to the funda- It was owned by a Rock Island physician not ame-
mental principles of religious tolerance and nable to Catholic Church pressure. The afternoon
freedom of worship. was devoted to cleaning up the hall and preparing
it for the meeting. At six o'clock the committee
Catholics in Philadelphia (as well as mil- was informed by the chief of police that the meet-
lions elsewhere) were urged to back the em- ing had been forbidden by the mayor. Later, he
bargo, and 750,000 petitions were circulated. revoked the order and the meeting.proceeded. The
Holy Name Societies, Knights of Columbus Spanish delegation, however, declined to attend,
and other Catholics sent upward of 100,000 declaring that they would not make a public a p -
telegrams to Washington in favor of the con- pearance in a community showing such organized
antagonism to the government they represented.
tinuation of the embargo.
The much-touted, Fascistic radio priest, Two hundred and fifty Protestant and Jew-
Coughlin, generally at superficial odds with ish clergymen, including seven bishops, urged
the rest of the Hierarchy, also urged the con- President Roosevelt to lift the embargo, and
tinuation of the arms embargo. His fans sent 250.000 telegrams with a similar request
thousands of telegrams to Congress, also. poured into Washington in the course of
Says Leo II. Lehman in The New Republic: a week. The embargo was not lifted.
A citizens' committee, composed of representa- The Gallup poll showed that public sym-
tives of business, the professions, labor and church- pathy in America was with the Spanish Loy-
es, headed by Arthur Wald, dean of Augustana alists. 76 percent. Of Catholics, 4? percent
College and Theological Seminary, Rock Island, favored the Loyalists; and of Protestants,
Illinois, rented the ballroom of the H a r p e r House 83 percent.
Hotel for a meeting at which a distinguished Span- (To be continued)
22 CONSOLATION
 The Terror in France

IN THE last few weeks Europe has and Jehovah's name vindicated.John Cooke,
been swept by a storm, politically France.
speaking, which was undoubtedly
the greatest crisis since the Great Prospective Butchery of All French
War; so I thought you would be Not until the Germans realize that
interested to receive a few observations from they must engage in an actual and
a pioneer in France. The people in this coun- jfinal conflict with France with the
try were certainly badly frightened; in some most comprehensive intentions, will
parts it was like a return of the war days, it be possible to bring the fruitless
with soldiers thronging the railway stations, struggle to a conclusion; that is, if Germany
while, particularly in eastern France, near the really sees in the extermination of France a
German frontier, the roads were busy with means of providing her people with the neces-
military lorries transporting troops and sup- sary room for expansion. There are 80 million
plies toward the frontier, while civilian cars Germans in Europe today. Our policy will be
retreated in the opposite direction, loaded with recognized as the correct one, when, in less
people and household goods. than one hundred years from now, the conti-
The "big four" who met at Munich received nent of Europe is inhabited by 250 million
a lot of praise and "back-patting" as a re- Germans.
sult of this meeting. To me it seemed like a We want arms again. Yes, to arouse this
lot of bluff; they make it seem as if war were cry in the German people the Treaty of Ver-
inevitable, strike panic into the hearts of the sailles can be used. In the boundlessness of
poor, ignorant people, calmly hand over a its suppression, in the shamelessness of its
chunk of someone else's country to the robber- demands . . . lies the greatest propagandist
in-chief, and then all four stick out the chest weapon for the resurrection of the slumbering
and say, "We've saved the peace." As we know, animal spirits of a nation. To be sure, from the
they have only to go on 'saving the peace' like child's primer to the last newspaper, every
that a little longer and 'sudden destruction theater, every cinema, every kiosk, and every
shall come upon them'. free hoarding, has to be put in the service of
And now there are signs that the Munich this single great vision, till the smallest boy is
quartet is going to strike while the iron is hot. repeating the glowing prayer: "Almighty God,
In France, Premier Daladier, in his speech some day bless our arms. Be as just as you
to the Chambre des Communes, said, "All always were. Judge whether we deserve free-
French people who desire the safety of France dom now. Lord, bless our fight."Adolf Hit-
must now consider themselves in a state of ler, in Mein Kamjyf.
permanent mobilization for the service of peace Frenchmen are not human creatures and
and the country." He also gives a warning must under no circumstances be dealt with
that "everything that arouses hatred, every- as such. If a German nevertheless lowers him-
thing that causes divisions among the French self to treat a Frenchman humanly, he is
people, can now only be considered as treach- doing so only in order not to come down to
ery". the level of the French.-P/orzJtcwner Anzeiger,
There is a brief notice in the French press No. 224, year 1933.
to the effect that Viscount Buchmaster intro-
duced a motion to the House of Lords in Eng- Exchange of Spies
land, saying, "In the light of recent events Four German spies, convicted in France,
this House is of the opinion that a sort of were exchanged for four French spies, con-
military service would be serving the best in- victed in Germany. The exchange took place
terests of the country." at Apach, a little village on the French side
II ere are two signs that what Judge Ruth- of the line, immediately opposite the German
erford said at that marvelous London con- village of Perl. The exchange took place at
V n on aD0Ut
fn totalitarianism's seizing control night, and none of the public were permitted
of Europe is already developing. All the bet- to witness it. None of the spies on either side
cr
^ the sooner the two opposing sides are in were handcuffed, but each was guarded by a
position, the sooner Armageddon will be over plain-clothes man.
MARCH S, 1939
23
 Canada
Wild Geese at J a m e s Bay him so savagely that it took three men to club
You have noticed that Hudson bay. is, him off, and a blood transfusion was neces-
roughly, of the shape of a huge funnel, ter- sary to save the child's life. This is a second
minating in another great body of water, case of this kind in recent years. The Watch-
James bay, at its southern end. This, in turn, tower proves that imprisonment of wild ani-
is only a few hundred miles from Winnipeg mals is unscriptural. The bear was not him-
on its west and Montreal on the south. Down self. If free to roam he would probably never
through this great have a t t a c k e d the
funnel, every fall, fly child. The bear was
thirty percent of all killed.
the wild geese hatched
in the Arctic. In the Gregariousness
f a l l of 1 9 3 8 , f o r of Reindeer
some unknown reason, Reindeer travel in
there were almost no herds, and the herd
y o u n g geese in t h e instinct is so strong
g r e a t flock f l y i n g that it is impossible
south. The reason why
the wild geese breed to s e g r e g a t e fewer
in the Arctic is that than about 800. Such
they can be free from a segregation is now
molestation by their being made from the
cruel enemy, man. great herd of 5,000
Canadian reindeer
(descendants of the
Canadian herd bought in Alaska
Drinking Water eight years ago), and
Probably no coun- the smaller herd will
try on earth has more be put in care of four
or better streams of Eskimo families, to
pure water than has ascertain if the 2,500
Canada, yet last year Eskimo of the "West-
t h e r e were d u m p e d ern A r c t i c can be
into the water which made self-supporting
Canadians d r a n k
4,705 tons of alum, and independent, like
624 tons of chlorine, the Lapps.
610 tons of lime, 800
tons of salt, 202 tons Iron Ore
of soda ash, 100 tons in Labrador
of sulphur dioxide, 13 Looking for a. handout. Met in Glacier National
Park by Charles Ingraham, Montana, en route Canada is heart-
t o n s of c h l o r i d e of home from Calgary convention ened by the fact that
lime, 24 tons of acti- vast deposits of iron
vated carbon, 37 tons of ammonium sulphate, ore have been found in Labrador, and one
and 3 tons of anhydrous ammonia. Still, if the of the three deposits is of high-grade ore. In
Canadians want their drinking water seasoned, the commercial life of today iron is of utmost
peppered and salted with all known and un- importance, and steps are already being taken
known chemical combinations, whose business to develop the Labrador fields.
is it?
Possible Highway to Alaska
Keep Children Away from Bears Serious consideration is being given to a
At Larder Lake, Ontario, the parents of highway from the United States to Alaska,
a two-year-old child allowed him to offer a running through British Columbia and the
piece of bread to a chained bear. The bear Yukon. If built it is expected to cost about
reached out, knocked the child down and bit $13,000,000.
24 CONSOLATION
 Fascism in America
America Already Betrayed could do to prevent interference with free
The outbreak of war will mean the speech in Jersey City, Roosevelt said it was
immediate, inescapable imposition a matter for local police. Asked if there were
of a Fascist dictatorship in the anything he could do as head of the Demo-
United States. cratic party toward ousting Hague as vice-
The national defense act itself, chairman of the national committee, the pres-
already enacted into law, provides for the ident referred correspondents to the nation-
destruction of many of our most cherished al Democratic chairman, Postmaster General
liberties. It authorizes the government to reg- James A. Farley.Cleveland Plain Dealer.
ulate production in all
factories in the utmost President's
detail, and even per- Armored Car
mits the government The p r e s i d e n t ' s
to take over and ad- armored car is bullet-
minister t h e m . T h i s proof, has a space in
and bills ready for in- the r e a r where t h e
stant enactment pro- president may recline
vide also for conscrip- out of range of bul-
tion and manpower, lets, carries tear gas
not merely the youths and firearms, has rein-
who are to fight, but forced running boards
every a b l e - b o d i e d for the secret service
adult. men to stand upon,
When the war de- and its speed can be
partment's plans for stepped up to 95 miles
mobilization are an- an hour.
alyzed, it is evident Strange Language
that our constitution- General Hugh S.
al liberties will termi- Johnson quotes Presi-
n a t e immediately dent Roosevelt as hav-
when we engage in ing said to him some
war. Prices will be years ago:
fixed by government;
Business has bucked
factories will produce me and when industry
at the government's wants to play with me
command; every per- Will Madame have a facial again it will be on its
son over 16 will be to match her fancy bracelets T hands and knees.
obliged to fight or work at the task assigned If he made any such statement, it is surely
to him. strange language for a president to use. At
Workers will lose the right to strike; food the same time the average citizen can but get
will be rationed; wages will be fixed by de- a kick out of Roosevelt's speech over the radio
cree, and businesses will be licensed; and in- wherein he said:
comes will be taxable up to 93 percent, profits Do not let any calamity-howling executive with
to 100 percent. In short, the plans are ready an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning
his
for what Mussolini has called totalitarian war. in orderemployees over to the government relief rolls
to preserve his company's undistributed
What this means for the average citizen is reserves, tell youusing his stockholders' money
clear enoughif he has any imagination at to pay the postage for his personal opinionsthat
fill- It means the sudden appearance of most a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous
of the evils of Fascist dictatorship as it has effect on all American industry.
evolved in Europe.Cincinnati Enquirer. Thus, according to popular belief, the pres-
ident spanked publicly Alfred P. Sloan, chair-
man of General Motors, whose wages of $651,-
Roosevelt's Approval of Fascism 311 a year seem to have affected him with what
Asked if there were anything the president might be called crystallization of the heart.
MARCH S, 1939
25
 The Germ Theory of Disease
WHEN the Germ theorist asserts attending physician sees the case, and the
that pneumonia, tuberculosis, diph- latter is not called until after the disease
theria, typhoid fever and menin- shows itself, when it is usually too late to make
^ gitis are caused by germs, and the a fair test: but a long, careful study of early
K
Biochemic theorist declares that cases, especially in pneumonia, typhoid, and
germs have nothing to do with the causation diphtheria, where the appearance of the germs
of the above-named diseases, then it is time is often delayed, showed that the germ fol-
for citizens to examine the foundation of each lowed the onset of disease, and consequently
theory, and support the one which appeals could not be the cause of it. My own observa-
more strongly to their hard, common sense. tions covered a period of over three years.
The study and classification of germs be- Many other careful observers have investi-
long to the science of bacteriology, and as gated this point, and today there is a mass
this science was placed on a practical basis of evidence that cannot be broken down that
only about the year 1880, it is in age only the germs are the product and not the cause
an infant, with an infant's vagaries and illu- of disease.
sions. Analytical chemistry is a more exact As the Germ theorists strongly opposed this
science than .bacteriology; its history extends pivotal pointclaiming that the germs were
over centuries. present but undiscoveredtheir argument was
The two main points upon which the germ met by destroying all uncertainty and dealing
theory is founded are: (1) the presence of with solid facts they could not deny.
different germs with different diseases; (2) Bearing in mind that germs are the prod-
that disease follows the hypodermic injection ucts of disease, and thus harmless, the Bio-
of germs beneath the skin of small animals. cliernic theorists carried out the following ex-
(Some tests have been made on humans, but periments :
the result was not conclusive.) Typhoid Germs. In testing typhoid germs,
If you ask when germs first appear no an- forty-five experiments were made in which
swer is given. water, milk, bread, cheese, meat, fish, potatoes,
If you ask the Germ theorist to point out headcheese, butter, porridge, etc., were infected
the relation between injecting germs into small with millions of fresh, vigorous typhoid germs;
animals and giving humans the same germs this food containing the germs was used in the
in food or drink, they have to admit that these ordinary way; and, as the Biochemics expect-
are two distinct procedures with practically ed, there was not a single instance of any sign
no relationship. of typhoid. Here we have forty-five facts
If you ask why thousands of men carry not assumptionsto build on.
germs without injury to themselves the replies Pneumonia Germs. In this series of nine-
vary, but all are unsatisfactory. teen experiments, milk, water and food were
If you examine the standard works on bac- infected with millions of pneumonia germs,
teriology you find no positive proofs given, and although no precautions were taken to
that germs, if taken in food or drink, are prevent the disease, no sign of the disease
harmful. developed.
If you point out the cruelties inflicted upon Diphtheria Germs. A total of forty experi-
dumb animals during their experiments the ments were made with germs of diphtheria,
reply is that the end justifies the means. in which not only were they taken in water,
The assumptions that because germs are milk, bread, porridge, potatoes, cheese, butter,
found with disease they are the cause of it, etc., but other millions of germs were swabbed
and that if injected germs will cause disease, in the nose and throat, and every facility given
inhaled or ingested germs will do the same, them to develop, but in spite of all efforts they
is surely a ''foundation of sand". refused to develop, although they would grow
The first point for the Biochemic theorists rapidly on nutrient agar. These tests were
to decide was whether the germs appeared made scientifically, and part of the germs were
before or after the onset of the disease. This grown from stock tubes furnished by one Of
was a rather difficult task, as our professional the best known laboratories in North America.
bacteriologists are not called until after the These are facts, not opinions.
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 Tuberculosis Germs. In this series of tests (bleaching powder) into drinking water; from
nineteen experiments were made; special at- the Biochemic theorist viewpoint that act is
tention was paid to thoroughly infecting milk, maniacal.
water, bread, meat, potatoes, etc., with mil- From the Germ theorist viewpoint it is
lions of germs, fresh and vigorous, but in spite reasonable to forbid milkmen to sell or de-
of every effort to get them to develop they liver natural milk; from the Biochemic theorist
were positively inert The germs used were viewpoint that act is criminal.
human (not bovine) tubercle bacilli germs. From the Germ theorist viewpoint it is ad-
Meningitis Germs. As these are the dreaded visable to quarantine citizens if found carry-
germs supposed by some to cause infantile ing certain germs; from the Biochemic theorist
paralysis, and believed to germinate in the viewpoint it is an unwarranted robbery of our
nasal mucous membrane, special pains were citizens' liberty.
taken to infect the nostrils and throat with Many believe that chlorination protects from
fresh colonics of germs; they were swept over typhoid; but the facts that Toronto, with
the turbinated bones, pushed into sinuses, chlorinated water, has an average death rate
swabbed over the floor of the nostrils, rubbed from typhoid twice that of London, England,
on the tonsils, placed beneath the tongue, taken with natural water, and that in 1916 we had
in milk, water or food; but in spite of coax- three times as many deaths from typhoid as
ing, coddling and urging, they refused to pro- in 1915, show their mistake.
duce a solitary sign of meningitis in the eleven Again, while chlorination does not save us
tests made. from typhoid, being an irritant to the mucous
Ten experiments were made with mixed membrane, it favors nephritis and Bright's
germs, viz., typhoid and pneumonia, typhoid disease. Toronto's record is suggestive: In
and tuberculosis, diphtheria and meningitis, 1912 Toronto lost 164 citizens from nephritis
typhoid and meningitis, diphtheria and pneu- (inflammation of kidneys) and Bright's dis-
monia, etc., but all failed to produce any effect. ease; during 1913-1914 the deaths increased,
and in 1915 Toronto lost 218 persons from
Chemical Causes of Disease these diseases an increase of over thirty
percent.
The experience of ages has shown that many
diseases have a chemical (not bacterial) ori- Many citizens believe that half-cooked, pas-
gin; as example, tainted fish, meat or oysters teurized milk is safe, but the facts that Toron-
contain a chemical poison that will cause ty- to's infantile death rate is twenty-nine percent
phoid; the inhalation of chlorine or bromine higher than in London, England, and twice as
gas will cause bronchitis and pneumoniathe great as in rural Ontario (both of the latter
latter "may also be caused by the chemical ef- using natural milk) ; that the death rate in
fect of exposure to cold; sunstroke, by the Toronto Sick Children's Hospital, in the In-
chemical effect of heat; lead poisoning, by fant's Home on St. Mary street, and in the
working in lead; stone-cutters or miners phthi- R. C. Infant's Home on Power street, increased
sis, by the inhalation of coal or mineral par- when they stopped using natural milk, all show
ticles; Rhus poisoning, by coming in contact clearly that the insane desire to tamper with
with poison ivy ; cirrhosis of the liver, through normal milk has cost Toronto many infantile
abuse of alcoholic liquors; colic, from eating lives.
green apples or unsuitable food; in fact, it is Again, when citizens of whatever country
the violation of chemical laws that causes most realize that they may be quarantined simply
of our intestinal diseases. because they unknowingly carry some harm-
less germs, and thousands do so, it is time for
Summary of Facts them to organize and fight for their personal
rights. It is a battle between principles; a
1. That germs follow the onset of disease. fight between later scientific facts and past
2. That many diseases have a chemical theories; a question that must be fought out.
origin. The Biochemic theory appeals to humane
3. That germs may be inhaled or ingested persons; for, where thousands of small ani-
without harm. mals have suffered death through Germ theo-
Truly a rock foundation. rists' experiments, the experiments here men-
Prom the Germ theorist viewpoint it is per- tioned cost neither life nor health to man or
missible to dump barrels of an irritant poison animal. . . . John B. Fraser, M.D., C.M.
" A R C H 8. 1939
27
 These are giving the witness of His Word,
instructed thereby, to the fact that His day
British Comment is come and that He has set His King upon
His hill of Zion. The failure of religionists
to declare the things of the Scriptures which
By J. Bemery (London) God caused to be recorded for this very time,
and their openly declared rejection of those
prophecies as the Word of God, has brought
their rejection by Him. Like the scribes and
Political Situation Pharisees of Jesus' day they have had the key
How soon a "depression" will come, with of knowledge, but have both refused to enter
the consequent storms, no one knows. Prob- in and kept out those who sought to enter.
ably the Rome talks between the British pre- (See Matthew 23:13 ; Luke 11: 52.) Jehovah's
mier and II Duce have started something. Mr. witnesses know that in this day of judgment
Chamberlain is acting the part of a democratic all the forces of evil are to be destroyed
dictator, so much as his position in the govern- whether they be religious, financial or polit-
ment allows him to do. At present there is ical, and that with the destruction of these
nothings in sight to threaten his leadership, evils there is also that of the invisible forces
and as he undoubtedly believes he has a mis- which under the leadership of the Devil have
sion to save the peace he is likely to take a deceived mankind in all things concerning
place as a dictator. God and His holy Scriptures.
There are many in the Conservative party,
to which the premier owes allegiance, who have Employment
a leaning towards the Fascist form of dictator- "It is an ill wind that blows no one any
ship: they believe that this promises them a good," says the proverb. A special correspond-
safeguard against the encroachments of the ent of the News Chronicle who has made a
working classes, as they choose to call the tour of the shipyards and the near-by cities
manual workers. Liberalism as a political force and towns makes the remark that but for
is almost nonexistent, and the Labor party is Hitler and Mussolini the workers in the ship-
not sufficiently numerous at the polls nor suf- yards would be in a sorry state. No doubt his
ficiently united in itself to dislodge the pres- remark is true to fact; for there is no in-
ent government, nor to take control even if it crease in general trade, and already ships
won a general election. have difficulty in getting paying cargoes. The
That there is in the country a majority of rearmament plans, which are costing the coun-
those who are of the Left in politics is fairly try more than one million pounds sterling a
certain, and if united they could turn out the day, are keeping the shipyards busy, and that
present national government, but which is, in means work is spread through the country in
practice, controlled by the Conservative party; the various forges and industries whose work
but the variety of opinions and the many in- must go to the building of the war ships. In
terests which are to be served would prevent the meantime the communities connected with
them from forming a government satisfactory the shipbuilding industry are fairly prosper-
to the people. In the present unrest there is ous: there is money to spend, and the shops
little doubt, were an election to come, that are busy. Construction of vessels for the carry-
the present form of government would be re- ing-trade services and for transport is poor,
tained, chiefly because of the necessity of keep- as are also the prospects. Some ships for Brit-
ing up with the threatening totalitarian powers ish owners are, in fact, being built in Conti-
in Europe. There are many who believe that nental shipyards, partly because of lower costs,
Chamberlain is no match for the astute and
purposeful dictators, and who fear that his but also, it is said, because this is a way of
policy of appeasement will bring disaster to getting interest on foreign loans which might
Britain and the Empire. otherwise not be got. The exporting of coals
from Newcastle is proverbial knowledge: coal
All these things are watched by Jehovah's is never taken to Newcastle; but the quantity
witnesses with the interest of those who know of its export tonnage is much less than in
that in them all the purposes of Jehovah are pre-war days. In the year 1913 the tonnage
being brought to a conclusion, to the honor of coal from the Tyne was over 21,000,000
and vindication of His great and holy name.
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28
tons, whereas in 1037 the amount was only a tion as the archbishop began the "worship".
little over 13,000,000 tons. Tie c.illed out his piece, and was hustled out
By some Parliament is considered to be of the church. These Kensitites, with their
very lax and slow in action in its attempts Wyeliffe preachers, know the false claims of
to relieve districts where unemployment, both the Papacy and the danger there is to the
of skilled and of unskilled, is prevalent. There liberties of the people, but beyond publishing
are many obstructive interests in the way; books and pamphlets against Roman claims
but the rearmament schemes and works are and efforts to keep the English church free
perforce doing something which brings relief, from its practices they do not go, and they
a costly method and necessarily temporary in have the usual antipathy of all other religion-
character. Social services have to be curtailed, ists to the witness of the Truth. Despite the
and schemes for general improvement shelved, activities of all the religionists, there is no
while this special work is on. The big land- question that Britain is becoming pagan: it
owners, and big business, lack either inclina- is said that in England not more than 20 per-
tion or time to give attention to the general cent of the population pay even lip service to
welfare of the country and its people. There organized religion.
would be a great outcry if a strong govern-
ment in peacetime should set about great "Folden Together as Thorns"
works of permanent benefit to the country, The clergy and the preachers have to get
such as making arterial roads for the great themselves into the news. They have tried to
increase of road traffic, improving the present make the people believe they hold a commis-
roads, making new docks, settling waste lands, sion to establish the kingdom of heaven in
afforestation; but now they must spend the the earth ; and though they have accomplished
money for guns and ammunition, for aero- so little, they must show they are thinking
planes, and an increased army and navy, and about the terrible condition into which the
for hosts of officials. The income tax report world is falling. So whenever a chance comes
at the end of the vear 1938 showed that they hold a conference and get the newspapers
242,000,000 had to be collected during the to publish a statement. The bitter treatment
following three months if a deficit in the of the Jews in Europe gave them such a
year's balance sheet is not to be shown. chance, and the Church of England, Non-
conformists and Roman Catholics joined in
Adoration of the Crib telling how united they are. Then the arch-
9 bishop of Canterbury called a conference of
Guided by the Scriptures through The Protestant parsons, and these unitedly tell
Watchtower Jehovah's witnesses have for some all who will listen how shocked they are at
years past refused to take any part in the the conduct of some (unnamed) harsh rulers.
religious practices of "Christmas", whether Probably these men were stimulated to this
those of organized religion or of the old meeting and pronouncement by the pope's
pagan practices. Everyone knows that the many recent broadcasts. Ignoring the Scrip-
Roman Catholic worship of the "crib" and tures and the great prophecies these men
the high mass on the eve of "Christmas" are reveal that they still cling to their hope in
the high spot of that church's year. The Ro- a League of Nations. They say they are greatly
man Catholic must attend mass three times a concerned about the growing paganism of Ger-
year, on Christmas, Easter and Pentecost, if many, and because of the open declaration that
he would retain the benefits of his church. God must be worshiped through Nazi acknowl-
The so-called "Protestant" sects content them- edgment. They decry the action of any state
selves with making the day like a Sunday, which sets itself up as God's representative.
but tins past Christmas the Church of Eng- These clergy know very well that the Roman
land, seeing the pulling power of the 'adora- church is a political organization, and that
tion of the crib', thought to try to help their its pope is the head of a state; but they are
call to religion by it. The archbishop of Can- no longer protestants, and are well pleased
terbury had one fixed in his cathedral. This, to hide the truth from themselves as well as
to the Kensitites [followers of John Kensit], try to keep it from the people. In his speeches
stalwarts against the practices of Rome in the and writings Judge Rutherford has made all
Church of England, was as a red rag to a bull. this clearly to be seen that the people may
They sent a man down to shout out an objec- know the truth, and thousands are learning
MARCH 8. 1939
29
that religion and all its professions are de- pocket he asked the parson to read it. The
ceptions which must be shunned if light and parson looked at it and in it, and handed it
understanding of the purpose of God is to back; then he reached for his small luggage
be gained, and if one would be saved from and got out of the compartment, seeking an
destruction in the trouble only a little way easier place. In the compartment were two
ahead. Salvation Army officers. The friend asked
Almost up to the year of the Great War them if they were still preaching the old "hell-
the Church of England rested itself in pro- fire" gospel. "Oh," said they, "we dropped
viding opportunities for its worship; it built that twenty years ago." Then, in response,
a church in each parish and found a parson. " I suppose you are now telling the people
The Nonconformists were more aggressive, but you made a mistake and are doing something
they had dropped into comparative case. The to try to correct what you wrongly taught,
social evils, mainly the result of a hard indus- and do not now believeor you do not dare
trial system, and the agitation of the leaders to preach it." No, they were not. He added,
of Labor got some of the parsons on the move. "But what of the blasphemy on the name of
But the Great War had an eruptive effect on God? How do you stand before Him, if you
organized religion, and since then they have have preached so terrible a thing in His name,
found that their professions count for little and know it is not true? Ought you not for
and their creeds and dogmas for less. If they His name's sake tell the people where you
are not to go out of sight altogether they stand in this?" These also found the com-
must show they are alive to world conditions partment uncomfortable, and left it to find
and are not merely local units trying to keep a cooler place.
alive a dying cause. While the so-called "Prot-
estants" hold conferences the Roman Cath- They Think Their Houses Shall Endure
olics have got Catholic Action into activity, So said the psalmist long ago when speak-
and the other religionists have to admit that ing of those who are wise according to the
the Roman Church is the most alive of any. wisdom of men, and of fools and brutish per-
It appeals that the Hierarchy in Rome is keep- sons. Of them he said, "Their inward thought
ing off the League of Nations idea: the League is that their houses shall continue for ever,
of Nations Union in Britain is almost wholly and their dwellingplaces to all generations;
Protestant or non-Roman Catholic, and that they call their lands after their own names."
does not suit Rome, playing its game to be Psalm 49:10,11.
on the top when the crisis in religion shows up.
Hitler says he has settled Germany for a
thousand years. He got very angry when the
A Witnessing Incident British premier said of the recent happenings
One of Jehovah's witnesses tells of his at- in Europe that they brought forth govern-
tempts at conversation with some of his fel- ments which had their day and passed away.
low train travelers. Opposite to him in a The Church of England cathedral which is
compartment was a dean or bishop of the being erected in Liverpool is having a peal
Church of England, designated as such by of bells cast which are to ring for 500 years
his hat strings and gaiters. To get a chance so its principal men say.
of a witness he quite innocently asked the The Roman Catholics in Liverpool go one
"reverend" why there should be 200 varied better: their book of remembrance in which
religions in this country, and how they all the names of donors of 1 are entered is to
stand in relation to Godwere all acceptable be in the cathedral for all time. The cathe-
to Him. "Well," said the gentleman, "except drals will go into disuse ere long; but the
for the church of Rome, which stands apart, bad records of some men will be remembered
there is great tolerance"; and, "Really, does in the judgment a thousand years hence.
it matter very much what one believes, what
dogmas he accepts or refuses, if he is a mem- For Better or Worse
ber of a church?" "But," said the friend, "if A solicitor asked a woman at Tottenham
God has given the Scriptures for the instruc- police court: "Do you wish to withdraw the
tion of those who are acceptable to Him, such allegation you made against your husband?"
differences prove there is something seriously "Yes," she replied; "I've thought of a worse
wrong." Taking a Warning booklet from his one."
30 CONSOLATION
 Steamships
The Queen Elizabeth of the United States, and finally disappeared,
+ The Queen Elizabeth, building at Clyde- in 1890, probably killed in a wreck. The best
bank, Scotland, is the largest commercial ship thing to do with the Brooklyn boy was done;
in the world. It is 1,030 feet in length, 118 i. e., get him a good job on an ocean liner
feet beam, and measures 120 feet in depth and let him stay there. It was his wish.
from the lounge structure to the keel. The
tonnage, 85,000, is about 1,500 over that of Ocean Liners Silent
the Normandie. Experience has shown that O Ocean liners are silent when passing Perce,
these very large and very fast ships are the near the tip of Gaspe" peninsula, Quebec. The
most economical for their owners. Two ships reason is that this has become a bird sanctu-
like the Queen Mary and the Queen Eliza- ary and if the ocean liners blow their whistles
beth, each crossing the ocean in four days, the birds on the top of Perce Rock become
and between them providing a service each frightened and, in their haste to seek safety,
way every week, are less expensive to operate upset hundreds of their eggs or young into
than smaller and slower boats, which would the sea. It is rather a nice thing to know that
require three vessels to do the work of these men are heeding the needs of these little feath-
two mistresses of the deep. ered folks.

Wild Ways of a Boy Aboard the New Sevilla

A New York judge is trying to decide what, Aboard the New Sevilla, whaling vessel,
to do with a 13-year-old boy who has been a seven months in the Antarctic, five men died
stowaway on four wean trips aggregating and five others went insane from the awful
20,000 miles of travel. Memory goes back to job of catching and reducing to oil 1,606
Frank McNair, a fine, intelligent boy, of good whales. The whales ranged in length from
parentage, who made it his business to ride 50 to 115 feet. An average of eight of these
the railways free into every state and city monsters was disposed of daily.

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Milk Problems in Brazil 10 age of 7 when he was promoted to
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A Happy Family 14 it to him with no little pride and satisfaction.
The Keystone State 15
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Counsel by J. F . Rutherford 17 "Now, son," said his father, "this furniture
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"And in His name shall the nations hope."Matthew 12:21, A.R.V.
Volume X X Brooklyn, N. Y Wednesday, April 19, 1939 Number 611

Goyaz, One of Earth's Treasure* Houses

GOYAZ is the central state of forest, where the land is very fertile and pro-
Brazil, being the seventh in area ductive ; and here the majority of the people
among the twenty-one states of the live and raise their crops.
jsi2? republic. It is about three times as Farming is still carried on in a primitive
long as it is wide, running length- manner. The underbrush and vines are cut
wise north to south. Its area is 288,536 square with a blade about two inches wide and seven
miles, and the population is estimated at about or eight in length, with a curved point, fixed
1,000,000, which gives a density of a little more to a handle four feet long; then the large trees
than three inhabitants to the square mile. are felled with the ax. This is done in the dry
The altitude varies from 300 to 1,700 meters season. After two or three months the field is
above sea level; the climate also varies from set on fire and all this mass of leaves, branches,
chilly in the elevated sections to hot and sultry creepers, etc., is burned, leaving a thick layer
in the low places near the rivers. The central of ashes, and only the large trunks remaining;
high plateau forms the principal water divide but these either rot, in a few years, or are re-
of Brazil, where several of the largest rivers duced to ashes by succeeding fires.
have their sources, amidst beautiful wild scen- The day after the "conflagration" the farmer
ery. Some running east are' tributaries of the begins planting his field. With the corner of
Rio S. Francisco, which empties into the At- the hoe he digs a shallow hole, into which a
lantic at Penedo; some run south into the Eio few grains of corn, rice or beans are dropped,
Paranahyba, which empties into the Parana; and covers them with his foot. Generally one
others run west and north into the Araguaya hoeing out is sufficient to keep down the
and the Tocanlins, which empty into the sprouts and weeds until harvest.
Amazon. Some geologists think that the high
plateau of Goyaz was the first dry land that Primitive Methods Still Used
appeared after the great Flood.
In spite of the demonstration stations, main-
tained by the Federal Department of Agricul-
Agricultural Possibilities ture, free advice and valuable assistance given,
Goyaz being high and dry, the climate is even to loaning modern agricultural imple-
very pleasant and in general healthful, ex- ments, very few farmers in this state have
cept along the large water courses, which are availed themselves of this help. So the ma-
malarious during several months of the year, jority of the crops, consisting of rice, corn,
directly after the rainy season and the over- coffee, sugar cane, beans, cotton, potatoes,
flows. But by being careful and taking cer- wheat, mandioca (manihot), are still culti-
tain precautions, one can avoid the malarial vated in this primitive style.
fevers. Strange to say, only a small portion of
The southern portion of this state is com- these products'are shipped out of the state,
posed mainly of vast rolling and level hills, due to high freight rates and lack of trans-
covered with several varieties of coarse na- portation facilities. Indeed this is the great-
tive grasses and, in some places, low, scrubby est hindrance to the development of the vast
trees, forming thickets; in others, open pas- natural resources of this wonderful rich state
ture lands, or "campos", as they are called in of Brazil. Mandioca or maniva is the poor
Brazil. Following the main streams there is man's food supply in this country, as it grows
generally a narrow or wide border of dense on any kind of land.
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 The native squatter plants a small plot of titles of this useful fruit ripen, fall on the
ground near his dwelling, by burying short ground, and rot.
pieces of mandioea branches, and in six months Around Santa Luzia, 15 leagues from the
he can dig out as many roots as are required railroad, quinces grow profusely, and the pro-
for his daily consumption. If roasted in hot duction of "marmclada", or quince preserves,
ashes the tubers take the place of bread; has become an industry there, and the product
boiled with a piece of meat or fish mandioea is sold in all the towns. On an elevated table
is very palatable and nutritious. It is mostly land large quantities of arnica plant can be
made into flour or "farinha", by peeling and gathered, where it grows wild. In some places
grating the roots, then thorougbly drying in the forest vanilla or baunilha grows and
while stirring in wide produces abundantly,
shallow pans over a but no one gathers it,
mild fire of coals. This although it brings a
farinha can be pre- good price.
pared in many ways
for the t a b l e . The Mineral Treasures
stalks and roots may No doubt Goyaz is
be left growing in the one of the richest re-
field for several years j gions in this country
the older, the larger in minerals. Here have
they grow; some have been found rich de-
been measured seven posits of iron, rutilo,
feet in l e n g t h and nickel, gold, dia-
h a v e w e i g h e d 45 monds, mica, kaolin,
pounds. slate, graphite, ocher
of all colors, fine clay
The Fruits for b r i c k , t i l e and
of Paradise china ware, silver,
In the poorly-kept crystal, etc.
orchards on the farms The crystals from
or in the back yards Goyaz have been pro-
of t h e v i l l a g e s a r e nounced of the finest
found all the tropical grade in the world,
fruits: oranges, limes, due to not having the
lemons, mangoes, ma- least t r a c e of iron.
mao or papaya, bana- The nickel mine near
nas, peaches, figs, mul- S. Jose do Tocantins
berries, quinces, aba- extends over a large
ca tes (avocados) or tract of land, and is
alligator pears,. and second only to the fa-
On the slopes of the Andes mous Caledonia mine
grapes which bear two
crops a year in this state. Among the native in quantity and percentage. Lately another
and wild fruits must be! mentioned guavas, large mine of the same ore has been discov-
jaboticabas, mangabas, cajus, maracujas, jacas, ered near the old capital, Goyaz.
genipapos and many others. In some locali- Near Trinidade, for many miles the stag-
ties European fruits can be grown..also. In nant water is covered with a film of oil smell-
the northern section of the state watermelons ing strongly, of petroleum, showing evidence
can be grown all the year round. of a rich oil supply near the surface, await-
The mangabeira, besides producing a very ing to be tapped. Unfortunately only small
sweet^smelluig and tasty fruit, gives latex amounts of these minerals are being mined
Which makes a good quality of rubber. In one and exported "at. present.
district, there are many miles covered only
with wild guaya trees, which produce enor- Washing Out Gold by Hand
mous quantities, but all goes to waste. In an- .Gold, is washed out in a primitive way. The
other region one can travel for leagues through gold-bearing gravel is taken from the bottom
thickets of caju trees. Every year vast quan- of the rivers, or formations near a stream,
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ami washed in a wooden basin by a circular people engaged in making their living by
motion, repeatedly pouring out the dirty wa- washing out gold and diamonds by hand in
ter with the debris, letting in clean water by several places in Goyaz and Matto Grosso.
dipping the "batea" or basin in the stream, The larger number of "garimpeiros!' collect
until only the small flakes of gold arc left wherever the turnout is best. At one place
with the heaviest material. over 5,000 are at work.
To accomplish this
feat advantageously, Trees That
the gold-seeker must Manufactu re Cloth
stand in the stream. In the forests, are
Yet in this primitive found a great" variety
manner is obtained of m e d i c i n a l herbs,
from 15$000 to 20$000 beautiful orchids, y a k
worth of gold per day, liable t i m b e r s a n d
equal to about one curious plants. The
U. S. A. dollar. When bark of one kind of
the "garimpeiro" has trees, can be stripped
consumed the amount off in t h i n l a y e r s
of food and "cachaca" from one to two feet
(gin) he ean purchase wide and as long'as
with t h a t a m o u n t , required; after dry-
then only will he go ing it becomes dark
back to seek for more. brown, very strong,
The same process is and a good imitation
employed to secure of thick cloth. Where
diamonds. these trees grow the
It is claimed that Indians sew two or
during the time of three strips together,
slavery .in Brazil which they use for
many troops of pack blankets.
mules were sent off There are many
loaded with gold from kinds of hollow canes
Goyaz. One of t h e or bamboo, of which
main centers of pro- the Indians and na-
duction was around tives make many use-
the old capital. They ful articles, such as
say that even now af- baskets, mats, sieves,
ter a heavy rain small Goyaz, one of earth's treasure-houses etc.
nuggets are picked up The future home of. uncounted millions; high, . W h e r e t h e r o a d s
by schoolboys from healthful, well-Watered, fertile, productive, a land are not suitable for
the g u t t e r s in the of. all manner of fruits, a land of gold, diamonds, oxcarts, or the people
streets of the old city. silver, fine clays, forests, fibers, great rivers and are too; poor,; to p o ^
At another ancient indescribably beautiful scenery, but cursed by scss them; all trans-
town, Crixa,40 leagues religion. portation Is done on
beyond, t h e r e is a pack mules, the goods
rich gold mine, now abandoned because of the and farm produce being carried in large,
distance and lack of transportation. They say strong baskets made of bamboo; one hung
that in the steeple of the old. church at Crixa to each side of the pack saddle.
there is a bell, about one meter high and nearly The palm family is well represented,in this
a meter wide at the mouth, made of gold and state, as here marty varieties grow promiscu-
silver taken from the mines and cast'there ously; some of them very valuable/ From, thd
about a century ago. leaves of one small palm, the "tucuni'^ i$
After freedom was given to the slaves* in taken a .fiber much stronger 1
than .linen,, of
Brazil, in 1888, most of .the gold mining was which t h e Indians make their ffsh lines, ttets;
abandoned in this as well as in other "sections etc. The graceful "btirity" in great numbers
f the country. Yet at present there are many lends a distinctive mark to the landscape, with
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its large, fan-shaped leaves growing along the of wild Indians are found still wandering over
banks of the streams and swampy lands. It this territory.
bears several bunches a year of dark brown, Waterfalls are plentiful. The most impor-
varnished nuts, about the size and shape of tant are found on the Paranahyba river, which
an egg. Between the outer shell and the kernel marks the boundary between the state of Minas
there is a soft white mass, which can be made Geraes and Goyaz. The beautiful "Cachoeira
into a tasty and nutritious sweetmeat. Some Dourada", or Golden Cataract, deserves spe-
of these bunches weigh 120 pounds. .From cial notice, being estimated to produce electric
the young leaves, torn in strips, strong cords current equal to 400,000 horsepower. There
and hammocks are made. are many others of smaller capacity. Most of
It would require a volume to describe all the principal towns have electric lights and
the different kinds of palms growing wild power.
here, but before passing on special mention I t is almost impossible to de-
should be made of the "Babuassu" palm, the scribe the beautiful scenery on
most important of all. These are encountered the Araguaya river, which divides
in untold numbers, literally covering vast Goyaz from Matto Grosso. Long
tracts of land, in this as well as in other stretches of wide, white, sandy
northern states. It grows everywhere, bears beaches, where great numbers of waterfowl
graceful leaves, some measuring 10 feet wide of many kinds and of gorgeous colors col-
and 25 feet long. There are from 200 to 300 lect in search of food. Both margins of the
cocos in each cluster, from two to six clusters sfcream, which is from a quarter to a half mile
on a tree. Prom the kernels the natives pre- wide, present a dense wall of dark green, the
pare oil for seasoning food and for their lamps. outline of which is so clearly reflected by the
A few years ago it was discovered that ba- sunlight or moonlight, in the gently flowing
buassu oil is a most important industrial prod- waters, while droves of parrots of different
uct, splendid for lubricating purposes, and sizes and bright hues fly overhead, keeping
a good basis for soap manufacture; it pro- up an incessant chatter, from the small green
vides a vegetable butter considered better than parakeet to the large blue-black and yellow-
that from cows' milk; it gives a combustible breasted macaws, or "araras", as they are
oil of first quality for internal-combustion called. Then come the big "tocanos" (toucans),
motors; it is superior to kerosene oil; the with yellow and red bills, eight inches in
shells produce more calories than mineral oil, length, wearing a black coat with bright red
therefore making an excellent combustible for vest; also lovely white cranes, storks, ducks
railway locomotives. If there were navigation and kingfishers. But lack of space will not
facilities available, unlimited quantities of permit a description of all the species of birds
this valuable product of nature could be eas- and game found in this wonderful region.
ily shipped down the Araguaya and Toean- This river is also famous for the quantity
tins rivers to the port of Belem on the and variety of fish that come up every year
Amazon and from there exported to foreign during the overflows to spawn. Then as the
markets where there is a growing demand waters go down tons of fish are caught in the
for it, thereby bringing in large capital, so depressions, where they soon die and decay
much required for developing other natural as the water dries away. Here many wild
resources. animals and birds of prey collect to gorge
themselves. The largest fish found in this
An Unexplored Utopia river is the "Pirarucu", sometimes weighing
The watershed draining towards the north, 150 pounds. When salted and dried the flesh
composing the largest portion of the state, is is more nutritious than codfish. What fine
covered with virgin forests and rough graz- prospects for the establishment of a'cannery!
ing lands, where droves pf wild deer and
ostriches roam at will, most of it unexplored. Earth's Largest Inland Island
The land is very fertile' and productive, and Many go to the Araguaya. to appreciate
only.a few scattered dwellers are found, along the fine and novel scenery. At one place the
the large streams, who subsist mainly "by hunt- river divides into two branches: the smaller,
ing and fishing. Very little is known of the flowing to the east, is called "Braco Menor",
valuable resources to be found in this vast and the larger, to the west, "Brago Maior";
wilderness, lying as nature left it. A few tribes they meet again at the lower end of an island
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300 kilometers [186 miles] long by 50 to 60 capital of this state from the old city of Goyaz,
kilometers [31 to 37 miles] in width. I t is con- which is badly situated and a great distance
sidered the largest inland island in the world. from the railway, to a more central and ac-
It is covered with forests and fine grazing cessible point.
fields for raising cattle, <and is inhabited by After examining several places, finally pref-
two tribes of tame Indians, the Carajas and erence was given to a nice tract of open land
the Javahes, who subsist on what they can with a gradual slope, only 12 leagues from
find in the woods and the river. the present terminus of the railroad, sur-
A Catholic mission post was opened there rounded by forests. The new capital was
some years ago to attempt to catechize them. named Goyania. Here work soon began ac-
A Protestant missionary also opened a branch cording to carefully drawn plans, opening
there and started teaching the Indians and wide streets and avenues, leading off from
Brazilian settlers, but the Catholic bishop, a central circular plaza, like spokes from the
hearing of his activities, and having a strong hub of a wheel. Around this plaza were con-
pull with the state government, succeeded in structed the principal public buildings, both
having the American missionary expelled and state and federal, while the surrounding plots
prohibited from returning to the island dur- were sold to private individuals, who are rap-
ing five years. idly building their modern-style bungalows
So in spite of separation of church and for residence or for rent, besides many stores
state since the advent of the republican gov- and shops. So there is much work, trading
ernment in Brazil, which guarantees equal and traffic going on, and newcomers are ar-
freedom to all creeds, we find the Catholic riving every day. What was only a grass-cov-
organization still holding sway and having ered field a few years ago has now been trans-
their own way in most cases. formed into a thriving center of activity, and
This interesting island called "liha do Ba- it.is anticipated that this infant city will soon
nanal" is considered one of the richest min- become one of the most important in the in-
eral regions in this state, especially in gold terior of Brazil.
and diamonds. Malarial fevers and other trop- All this has been accomplished due to the
ical diseases during six months of the year courage and tenacity of one man, Dr. Pedro
arc the principal drawbacks that hinder the Ludovico, who had to overcome many diffi-
development of the hidden treasures of this culties and fight against much opposition.
region. There are still some hard heads who insist
There are many curious and interesting in- and hope that the capital will be moved back
sects encountered here, which cannot be de- to the old city, which is gradually losing its
scribed for lack 'of space, but, before going importance, and many houses are being va-
on, notice should be given to bees, of which cated. The great' effort and success of this
there are many wild species. They produce enterprise is considered one of the most im-
honey, making their nests in hollow trees. portant achievements in this country.
Although the "Apis Melifera", tame or Euro- On an elevated plateau, where the princi-
pean bees, are very seldom raised by the in- pal rivers have their sources, 1,600 meters
habitants, they are met with everywhere, mak- above sea level, a section many miles square
ing their hives and storing away large stocks has been surveyed and reserved by the Fed-
of honey in hollow trees, also under the ledges eral government, where, to this high, healthful
of rock or in the eaves on the sides of banks spot, it is expected to move, in some future
and cliffs, where the honeycombs reach from time, the capital of the republic from Rio de
the roof to the floor. From one of these caves Janeiro.
full of bees, 18 tins holding 20 liters [about
W4 gallons] each were taken at one time full Motor Roads, but Few Railroads
of honey. Nearly all the towns and cities in this state
are connected by motorcar roads, but most of
A Progressive Interventor them are in bad condition, requiring repairs.
Before November, 1937, the governors of Still a great amount of traffic is carried on
the several states in Brazil were called presi- by truck and motorcars, in spite of the high
dents ; sinee then they are called Federal In- price of gasoline, which is .sold at about ten
jerventors. In 1932 the present "interventor", times the price at which it is delivered in
Ur
- Pedro Ludovico, decided to transfer the Santos. The old solid, wooden wheel oxcarts,
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7
with" fixed axle, loudly screeching, drawn by The Religious Racket
from' three to. seven yoke of oxen,. are .slowly .In/Goyaz, as in other places in
giving way. to modern and more rapid means ty{ J B Brazil where the Catholic priests
of: transport. hold sway, there are several locali-
There is only one railroad in Goyaz, whieh ties where yearly festivals are held,
reached Anapolis, the. present terminus, three dedicated- to some of the many
years ago, about "300 kilometers from the "saints" of their own invention. According
boundary with Minas Geraes. This railroad to the fame and material resources, a larger
(Estrada de Ferro. Goyaz) starts from Ara- or smaller structure is built, erroneously called
guary, the terminus.of the Mogyana Railroad. a "church", where all the images, candles,
Due to being the stopping-point of the railway, crucifixes and other gewgaws are kept*
Annapolis is growing rapidly and is one of the To make the business pay well, pilgrims
busiest towns, as here.a large amount of com- must be attracted; so the rumor is spread
merce is carried on with other districts, and relating the great healing powers attributed
many. traders, agents and tourists are con- to that special "saint" whose name is given
stantly passing by. From S. Paulo to An- to the church and town. Wonderful stories
napolis takes two days' travel by train. are told of persons' arriving there in the last
Besides this, there is another means of stages of some dangerous or incurable dis-
reaching the interior of Goyaz, by taking pas- ease and being suddenly cured by repeating
sage at Belem on the Amazon on one of the a prayer before the image, or by using some
small steamers that make irregular trips up "Agua Benta", that is, water "blessed" by the
the Araguaya river to Leopoldina, the last Catholic priest. So the fame spreads far and
port of navigation on that river; but this wide.
latter route is very seldom used, due to the Before a certain day set for the opening of
time required for the trip. festivities, which sometimes last from eight

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to fifteen days, people begin to arrive from The Biggest Rake-Off
every direction, some taking more than a But the main racket is in the hands of the
month to make the trip. They come on foot, priests, who make themselves conspicuous,
and on horseback, but most of them travel in moving among the crowds, dressed in black
oxcarts, covered with dried raw hides, like gowns, red socks and queer three-cornered
the old-time covered wagons used en route hats, ever ready and waiting to receive the
to the California gold fields before the rail- presents of every description and sums of
roads were built. Some come in simple faith money offered to the "saint", from poor arid
to fulfill a promise made to one of the "saints" rich.
during the year; others, for curiosity; but So between the pickpockets, gamblers, and
most of them come to make money by trading the priests, the poor ignorant people are robbed
and gambling. of their hard-earned sayings during the year;
Temporary sheds covered with palm leaves but the pope's agents generally get the lion's
and tents are set up all round the "church"; share of the rake-off. Naturally the main at-
among these gambling stands are in evidence, traction of the show is the procession. Two
as all kinds of betting is allowed. The people lines of little girls take the.lead, dressed in
require food; so some fix up stands to sell white, with wings on their shoulders to ap-
pear as angels then come several images, each
coffee, bread, sandwiches, hot-dogs, rum, etc. one supported on poles, carried on the shoul-
Temporary barber shops are plentiful; trin- ders of four men; next the chief priest walk-
kets, toys, cosmetics and articles of wear of ing with solemn stride, with his eyes fixed
every description are spread on tables or on on a Uttle'book held in his hand; a silver
the ground, all trying to make the best of crucifix hangs below his waist, suspended by
the opportunity to make their racket pay a cord around his neck; a yellow canopy with
the most. gold embroidery is carried over his head, at-

Ap Fresh milkand-how
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tached to poles held by four lackies walking time all went well, but after a while it was
at his side; then come other priests with se- noticed that, although the pitcher came in
date faces, followed by the brass band playing brimming over with foam, after a few min-
an anthem in a subdued and measured tone; utes the foam was gone and about half a glass
next come two files of men dressed in purple of milk was lacking. Upon close observation
mother-hubbards, carrying lighted candles in it was noted that the goat girl held the pitcher
their hands; then in the rear the people fol- at some distance from the goat's bag, thus
low in a solid mass, all trying to keep as near giving much foam and less milk. When this
as possible to the main actor in the show. had continued for a time, it was called to her
The procession follows a certain route attention that the milk supply was short and
around the church square or through the that there was too much foam. With a serious
streets of the town, all looking as grave as countenance she said: "Ah! that is because
possible. Then as the parade returns and the the black goat is not being milked now. She
images begin entering the church door, the doesn't give so much foam. Please excuse."
bells start ringing, dozens of sky-rockets shoot Maud R. Yuille, Brazil.
up, each one carrying three bombs which ex-
plode high in the air, and at short intervals "Yea, They May Forget, Yet Will Not P
larger bombs fixed to a frame in front of the When they, rebuild the wrecked cities of
church fall as the fire releases them and burst southern Chile there will doubtless be, in
with a loud report equal to a cannon. As the Chilian, a statue of Guillermo Diaz. This 15-
people enter the door each one makes the sign year-old boy was night watchman at the elec-
of the cross. On the last day of the festa an tric power station, and at the first shock he
auction is held, at which most of the presents ran outdoorsas any sensible person would
offered to the "saint" are sold to the highest and reached safety in an open plaza.
bidder. This is a great source of revenue for And then he perceived that the shocks were
the "church". continuing; he reflected that in every house
It is strange to see the variety of articles in Chilian there would be broken wires, and
that are offered: from a yoke of oxen down that if there were still electric current in those
to cakes, bordered cushions and towels, etc. wires every home was likely to become an oven
At one of these heathen feasts held yearly it for its inhabitants. So he went back.
was estimated that about 5,000 oxcarts were Walls were falling all around him; but he
seen at a place called "Agua Suja", that is, got in. He turned off the currentand then
Dirty Water; quite appropriate when consid- the power station crashed in ruins and they
ering the number of dirty lies taught by the found his body the next day, with his hands
crafty Catholic priests.Vergilio Ferguson, still on the switches. It would be impertinent
Brazil. to attempt any comment on the fact: he was
safe, but he went back.New York Times.
Milk Problems in Brazil
German Hops for Sao P a u l o
A picturesque feature of Sao Paulo life
is doomed to pass away with the advance of The Antarctica brewery, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
"civilization". Already an ordinance has been received a shipment of "hops" from Germany.
passed forbidding goats as well as cows to be A ease fell over on its side, burst open, and
driven through the streets and milked at the disclosed a machine gun. Other cases were
doors of the houses. The cows have disap- examined with similar result, and now the
peared, but the patrons of goat milk raised Brazilian government is guarding the Antarc-
such a clamor of protest that the ordinance tica brewery with Federal troops.
has not yet been enforced so far as the goats
are concerned. Disclosing the Same Design
Sometimes the gqat herders are as sharp Disclosing the same design as the Pyra-
bargainers as the venders of other wares. In mids of Egypt, the "Temple of the Sun",
a certain home, agreement was made to fur- built at Pachacamac, Peru, by the pre-Incas,
nish a half liter of milk each morning at a was an enormous pyramid, rectangular in
stipulated price per month. A pitcher with a shape, with steps on the outside leading to a
mark indicating y2 liter [about a pint] was platform at the top on which was erected an
taken out every morning to be filled. For a "linage of the Sun".
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 Hospitality at Lima Welcoming the Prodigal
+ Hospitality at Lima, Peru, was handicapped Germany has been welcoming the prodigal
by the pro-Fascist attitude of the Peruvian home, especially if he had collected a fortune
government. Newspapermen had their desks in the land of his adoption. About 2,000 were
broken into and contents searched by detec- lured back from Brazil, under the impression
tives. They could not go in or out of their that thereafter they would lead lives of case
hotel without running a gauntlet of detectives. and respectability. Not finding everything
Agents provocateurs attempted to involve them rosy, some wished to return to Brazil. They
in local politics. Telephonic communication were allowed to take ten marks (about #2)
was cut by the censor, and finally it was out of the country. One gentleman from Sao
necessary for a correspondent of the New York Paulo got saucy, whereupon his fortune of
Times to go to another country in order to $100,000 was confiscated and he was given
be able to send an uncensored dispatch to his eight months in prison to think it over.
own paper.
Ecuador's Oldest Man
E a r t h ' s Finest Panama Hat
The Office of Identification of the Republic
Earth's finest panama hat weighs only six
ounces, but cost $105, and required the work of Ecuador finds that Garces Castro, Las
of an expert for a total of about 1,000 work- Ramas, high in the Andes, was born in Balzar
ing hours. It is owned by the president of in the year 1808 and is therefore 130 years
Mexico, and was made in Ecuador, whence of age and the oldest man in the republic.
come all the finest hats. He is still in vigorous health.

U. S. Judiciary

Some Juridical Items mer and Schlactka eases (the latter one of
Some juridical items to those that Jehovah's witnesses) unworthy of a judge at
love American institutions are: (1) a kennel show.
Four of the Scottsboro boys have
been freed, despite the lies of the The Appointment of Frankfurter
prosecutrix, Victoria Price, and the The appointment of Felix Frankfurter to
unfairness of the trial judge Callahan. (2) Chi- the United States Supreme Court is generally
cago police preve'n-tcd the showing of films of conceded to have been an excellent one. Born
the Memorial Day massacre, and while in their in Vienna, Professor Frankfurter learned his
care the photographer who attempted to show first English in 1894, at which time he was
them received two broken ribs. (3) At Alcoa, 12 years of age. In eight years he worked his
Tennessee, eight strikers were shot' and an way through the City College of New York.
investigation showed that seven of them were Four years later he graduated from Harvard
shot in the back, Chicago style. (4) I t is now Law School with highest honors. He endeared
illegal in Weehawken, New Jersey, for any- himself to all honest men by opposing the ju-
body to call from house to house. (5) At dicial lynching of the two innocent men Sacco
Tallahassee, Florida, four blocks from the and Vanzetti, and it was he who brought the
capitol two Negroes were taken out of the Mooney case prominently to the front back
county jail without waking the jailer, were in the days of Woodrow Wilson. General Hugh
carried four miles out of town and were shot Johnson described him as "the most influential
to death. It was necessary to open six doors single individual in the United States".
to get at the victims in the jail. (6) No one
has yet been punished for the Tampa flog- Honest Federal Judge Caffey
BUigs and kidnapings, and there is little reason In New York city honest Federal Judge
to expect they ever will. In Florida murder Caffey sent to prison a contractor who paid
s considered merely a harmless pastime. (7) In his workmen on WPA jobs one wage and billed
Chicago Judge Hermes was reprimanded by the government for a larger sum. Looks almost
">* Bar Association for conduct in the Schwim- like the Millennium, doesn't it?
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11
 " W is the Watch Tower Society, pub-
lishers of the booklet, written by Judge
Rutherford."
"Judge Rutherford! To hell with him!"
"Don't you want the booklet?"
"No! Don't you know Judge Rutherford
is a Communist?"
^No; he is not."
"Yes, he is, and his magazine Consolation
The B a t t l e in Jamaica is Communistic!"
The former mayor of Kingston, who caused "No, it is not; I have read it."
Jehovah's witnesses to be taken into court "So have I ! Judge Rutherford is anti-every-
some time ago, is not re-elected. The new thing. He is at the head of a large group of
mayor gave us the privilege of delivering Communists. I know! We have investigated
lectures in the Race Course for three nights. him in New York."
Over 1,500 persons beard the lectures, and "Who's 'we'?"
much interest was shown. There are 105 phono- Door bangs.Donald Kj or lien, Minnesota.
graphs in use in the work in the island; also
7 portable transcription machines and 2 sound- Brief History of WBBR
cars, and, by God's help, we expect to tan the It was on a Sunday, February 24, 1924,
old woman's [Roman Hierarchy's] hide.-P. H. that WBBR sent its first scheduled radio pro-
Davidson, J a m a i c a . gram to a small but
eager a n d excited
N o t in a m e t r o p o l i t a n radio
Gilded Cage audience. We say "a
In Louisiana, where small audience" be-
police with force and cause in those days
arms p r e v e n t e d the radio was young and
holding of meetings to few were the "bugs"
w o r s h i p God, where that expended time on
Courts take dictation this new contraption
from Catholic priests, that within a decade
and where Jehovah's was to revolutionize
w i t n e s s e s are mali- and so vitally affect
ciously charged with '. - * the e d u c a t i o n a l , so-
distributing F a s c i s t cial, entertainment
Not in a gilded cage yes, even political and
literature, the Catho-
lic H i e r a r c h y still economic structure
manifests an insane desire to establish the of the world. Todayonly fifteen years later
Roman inquisition. The annexed cut shows there are ten million radio sets within the
J . Cudunas and F. Papalexis receiving the hearing of WBBR and few people anymore
involuntary hospitality of the police at Klotz- Would think of getting along without a radio
vilte, Louisiana. The case is, still pending, but in the home. Radio has assumed a dominant
the boys do riot seem to be worried. place in the educational and economic life of
the present generation.
*Who's *We'?" Of all the stations in the world, WBBR
Conversation in ritzy portion of stands unique. All God-fearing and honest
Minneapolis: persons" will admit that the most worth-while
"Have you received your copy in fact, the only really worth-whilecause
iof this vitally important Christian to which any radio station can be devoted
message. Cure? If not, this is your is the honoring of Jehovah God and the un-
copy. The contribution cost is one cent, but, selfish service of man. Present greedy and
in any event, we want you to read it. If not selfish world conditions serve but to empha-
convenient to contribute, please accept it as size this point.. At a time when radio in gen-
a gift from the Lord, and read it; will youf' eral has become a commercial problem-child
"Who's <we'?" and is so generally devoted to honoring men
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 Jehovah's Kingdom publishers in Rio Grande do Sul, farthest southern Brazil
rather than God, it is like finding a beautiful they might the better serve people of good
flower in a patch of ugly weeds to come across will with information worth more than all
a station that honors the great God of the the silver and gold? What other radio sta-
universe and unselfishly serves the best inter- tion in the world day after day deals out the
ests of its fellow creatures. This the Watch- life-giving truths from God's Word? Surely
tower station has consistently done since its you will agree that WBBR occupies a posi-
inaugural broadcast. tion unique in radio
W B B R has estab- b r o a d c a s t i n g ! And
lished an enviable who is responsible for
reputation for its con- all this? Certainly no
sistently good music, man. The radio be-
but the really distinc- longs" to God, who
tive and most note- created it. It appears
worthy feature of its to be the Lord's good
history is the message pleasure to maintain,
of hope and comfort in a world that so
from the Scriptures, wantonly misuses all
sent daily to a bewil- of His handiwork for
dered and heart-sick selfish gain, one ra-
public, in the Bible dio station which is
lectures of J u d g e truly devoted to His
Rutherford. serviee and immov-
KINGDOM INSTRUC- The whole group at Rjo Grande do Sul ably stands for the
" O N , by this t h e with their little ones honor of His name.
world's foremost Bi Truly then, even as
hie authority, not only is a well-liked feature many of you in your fan mail attest, WBBR
at WBBR, but is, in fact, the very corner- is more, than just "another radio station". It
stone on which the station rests. What other is part of Jehovah's publicity channel, set
radio station in the world is exclusively de- apart from Satan's commercial organization.
voted to informing the people of God's King- God's manifest blessing on WBBR during the
dom as the only hope of the world? How many past fifteen years is the best commentary on
Nations on your dial ignore the commercial the public interest, convenience and necessity
opportunities of radio broadcasting so that so adequately served by this station.
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A Happy Family it strike to the hearts of "dumb dogs" ? These
yswmiisfl.ii^ll i e rc is a good one; too good to thoughts come to mind in our experience with
keep. My husband is the editor of the phonograph. So many homes have cana-
a daily newspaper with a wide cir- ries, but we do not see them as we enter, and
culation. Yet he goes all over the not till Judge Rutherford's voice begins to
city in the witness work and tells resound through the room telling about God's
the people that "among all the newspapers kingdom of peace and righteousness. Then the
and magazines, Consolation is the only one canaries join with J. R. in a duet, almost
that IS NOT AFRAID TO PUBLISH THE TRUTH,
bursting their throats with the melodious
strains, and when the record is completed
because it carries no advertising and is not they are silent. Are they, we wonder, sing-
controlled by Big Business". ing for joy, looking forward to the time of
All the late Informants have been strongly which J. R. is speaking: the time of their re-
advocating keeping the sound equipment work- lease, when they shall 'be free to join their
ing. We wonder how many others aTe realiz- feathered friends in the beauteous woodland?
ing the joy we are As, from time to
experiencing in hav- time, the dogs slink
ing Judge Rutherford u n d e r the stove
accompany us nearly to h i d e , g r o w l i n g
every place we go and throughout the phono-
give warning and in- graph talk, we won-
struction to the peo- der, Is this a picture
ple concerning Jeho- of the real dumb dogs
vah's purposes. (Isa. 56:10) who real-
We secure all the ly growl when they
neighborhood t e r - hear the message of
ritory on every side, truth pointing to the
and then wc make a time of their utter
Witnessing in Saskatchewan banishment, their
real call on our neigh- Motorcycle equipped for winter travel
bors. They hear the FINAL EXIT,not un-
message and nearly always get it also in print- der the stove, but into oblivion?Mrs. Ben-
ed form, and they invite us back. When we jamin F . Myers, Pennsylvania.
go back, it is with the phonograph and they P.S. My husband had the "Safety" record
know just what to expect. We never take time on at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. McEl-
to visit friends or relatives or attend parties wain in this town. Baby Frances, 18-month-
or other gatherings without the phonograph. old, seemed entranced and stood beside the
If we call on someone in the hospital, we take phonograph, whieh had been placed on a chair,
the phonograph and let all in the ward hear listening in intently all the time. She is not
the message of good cheer. We spend from able to talk much yet, but when the vast audi-
five to ten hours on Sundays working with ence shouted "Aye" the little darling came
the phonograph, and Saturday afternoons and in at the end with her "Aye" so loudly that
nights. We find no better time to work with it almost frightened us all, "A little child
the phonograph than nights; for often all shall lead them." Of course her parents got
the family are home and at leisure and some- the Enemies book.
times guests are being entertained.
Let none think they must have a car to "The Virgins Her Companions"
work thus with a phonograph. We have no The word "companion" is derived from
car, and have walked as far as twelve miles two Latin Cf
words: cum, meaning "with", and
on a Sunday. Each day our joy increases for pants, bread." Literally, therefore, the word
the manifold privileges and blessings Jehovah means 'one who shares bread with another'.
bestows upon us, and, by His grace, we shall How fitting that the people of good will who
never falter or slack our hands in this grand should be styled in theon
now take their stand the side of Jehovah
Scriptures companions
and glorious work. of the bride of Christ! (Psalm 45:14)-James
What charm does Judge Rutherford's voice A. Williams, Lithuania.
hold for little canaries? and what terror does [To be continued)
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 The Keystone State

Benighted Pennsylvania Nice Question for the Wise

Pennsylvania,, the Keystone State, Patent No. 2,101,048, issued to the Textile
which believes in beating and chok- Machine Works, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania,
ing school children, and denying contains 170 pages of drawings and 146 speci-
them education and even medical fications, and is the bulkiest single patent ever
attention unless they perform acts issued. When the machines thus patented are
of idolatry forbidden by the Scriptures, now in operation the pressing of a single electric
adds to its laurels. Because a niece went blind button will produce twenty-six full-fashioned
from vaccination John Marsh served 375 days stocking blanks at a time, with the result that
in jail rather than have his 8-year-old son a single operator will then be able to operate
Eugene vaccinated with pus of uncertain ori- an entire factory. Here is a nice question for
gin. Then the district attorney of his county, the wise. They will now rise up" and explain
acting with the approval of the State Depart- (after they have shown what great profits will
ment of Justice, sought a court warrant with accrue to the owners of the machines) just
the intent of arresting the boy, charging him what will be done with the thousands of ex-
with juvenile delinquency for obeying his pert operators in hosiery mills that will there-
father, and intended to vaccinate him anyway. after not be needed at all. If they were men
The same State Department of Justice should it would be easy: start another war and kill
now demand amnesty for the gentlemen in them off. But they are women, and it is the
charge of Holmesburg, Pennsylvania, prison women, principally, that wear the full-fash-
who baked four prisoners to death. Also, the ioned silk hose; and it is not so clever, after
legislature should send a committee to Ger- all, to kill off all your customers.
many to ascertain the latest achievements in
cussedness and meanness, and after submit-
ting them to Cardinal Dougherty, put them Home Owners Loan Corporation
into effect in the state that was once the state In Pennsylvania, according to the Phila-
of William Pennthe only state in the United delphia Record, the Home Owners Loan Cor-
States where the Indians ever received a square poration makes the unique boast that it gets
deal. America is still behind Germany and its money at 3 percent, but charges 5 percent
Italy, but is coming along fine. to home owners, with the result that of 58,000
Pennsylvanians who have been "helped" by it
7,000 have already lost their homes, 7,000
Another Milton more are involved in foreclosure, and an-
The Pittsburgh Press, one of the very best other 9,000 are so far in arrears with their
newspapers in the United States, chancing to payments that foreclosure is almost certain
note that Hague's new man in the United for them also. That is 40 percent of the total,
States Senate is named John Milton, force- and makes the H.O.L.C. look like a strong
fully calls to attention that other John Milton, cat given the job of caring for the interests
who, arraigned before Parliament for publish- of a group of frightened mice.
ing uncensored literature, said:
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to Making Progress a t Hickory
argue freely according to conscience, above all lib- In grammar class at Hickory, Pa., high
erties! Though all the winds of doctrine were let
loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the school a boy was asked to correct the sentence,
field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibit- "Girls is naturally better looking than boys"
jngt to misdoubt her strength. Let her and false- He corrected it all right, and brought down
hood grapple. Who ever knew truth put to the the house with the revision, "Girls is artifi-
*orsc in a free and open encounter t cially better looking than boys."
To England's Milton, as much perhaps as
to any one man, we owe that first amendment Asleep Between the Rails
j our ConstitutionArticle I of the Bill of Asleep between the rails, an 18-month-old
liights with its guarantees of freedom of child, at Kittanning, Pa., had a 100-car train
speech, of press, of peaceable assembly.Pitts- roar over him, giving him only a slight cut
burgh Press. in the forehead.
Ap
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15
 Italy
Italian Diplomacy ing something new in colonization. She loaded
I think those members who have ever eon- 1,800 families, containing some 20,000. indi-
ducted diplomatic negotiations with Italians viduals, in twenty ships and carried them
know how very well they put their case^ It across the Mediterranean. There the families
is the method of the corkscrew. The tip of the were provided with 1,800 automobiles and
corkscrew is placed gently, charmingly, sweetly taken to neat little homes, made and furnished
on the-top of the cork and nothing happens. at government expense. On arrival at their
The bottle is placed in the right positionit future homes the colonists were given the keys
is called "good relations" or "ending the ven- to their dwellings, as well as to their barns,
detta"and suddenly there is a twist and the and when they entered the latter they found
cork begins to squeak. the agricultural implements and the seeds
They have a perfect' system of inventing which they need to put in their first crops.
something they don't want, of clamoring for Schoolhouses and hospitals and other accou-
it and saying: "We will die if we don't get it," terments of civilization were all completed
and when they get it they ask for something before a colonist arrived.
more. They pretend
that you are menac- Italy Gets Poorer
ing them or that some- and Poorer
thing you want is of Italy gets poorer
vital i m p o r t a n c e to a n d p o o r e r . Only
them. They surrender three-fourths as many
it with a tremendous p e o p l e can afford
gesture and then say: automobiles as seven
"What will you give years ago. Consump-
us in return?" tion of flour, potatoes,
No vitally impor- v e g e t a b l e s , sugar,
tant political treaty meat and fruit has all
has ever been signed dropped per capita in
by Italy which she has that time by a large
not b r o k e n . . . . percentage. It is im-
H a r o l d Nicholson, Naples National Villa possible to stand ten
LabOr M.P., in an ad- minutes in any Ital-
dress in Parliament at London, of recent date. ian city without being importuned several
times for alms. In Palermo there was an im-
When Hitler Visited Mussolini promptu parade supposedly in honor of Fas-
When Hitler visited Mussolini thousands cism and all the men in the parade marched
of detectives were' concentrated in Rome, with their pockets turned inside out, to show
Naples and Florence; each individual house their hatred of the cause they are compelled
along the route he would travel was exam- to profess that they love. It was a risky piece
ined; every garage and boarding house was of business.
required to report in detail on new arrivals;
and thousands of innocent persons were put Where the Money Goes
in concentration campsall so that one of
the world's banner murderers might visit an- Libya Mussolini established a new army corps in
at an expense of $10,000,000 and is-
other one, and together they might gloat over sued regulations that no more wheaten bread
the apparent success of Fascism, with its con- may be served except to invalids. The con-
sequent destruction of human liberties, and nection between the two statements is obvious.
its pure bluff of .nations that could twist the
necks of both of them if they could treat one
another with honor (which they cannot), and Coal in Sardinia
if they set out to do it, which seems unlikely. Italy is delighted, and properly so, with
the discovery of coal in huge quantities in
Something New in Colonization the island of Sardinia, Oarbonia, a new city
One has to hand it to Italy for furnish- of 24,000 homes, is in process of building.
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 gregations and did so at the command of the
Lord. It is absolutely certain that their ordi-
%;fi nances had nothing whatsoever to do with
flag-saluting. The apostle continues, "Whether
it be to the king, as supreme." These words,
"the king, as supreme," have no reference
whatsoever to earthly rulers, but apply to
Jehovah God, who is the King of eternity,
the Supreme One above all. "[Jehovah] is
Misguided the true God, he is the living God, and an
everlasting king/' (Jeremiah 10:10) Contin-
WRITER in the Miami (Fla.) Herald uing, the apostle says in the text first cited,
A says, in substance, that every Christian
should salute the flag when requested to do so;
"or unto governors, as unto them that are
sent by him." This had no reference to the
and in support of that claim she quotes the governors of states or nations of earth, but
words of the apostle, to wit: "Submit your- to the governors of the church of God and
selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's which Christ Jesus by authority of Jehovah
sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; God has provided. Christ Jesus is the Head
or unto governors, as unto them that are sent of THE CHURCH and is the Governor thereof,
by him for the punishment of evil doers, and and He specifically chose the apostles to act
for, the praise of them that do well."1 Peter for Him and in His name. They were the
2:13,14. ones commissioned to promulgate the neces-
sary rules for the guidance of the congrega-
On the surface that scripture may seem to tions on earth. Those apostles were "sent by
support the claim of the Herald writer, but in him [Christ Jesus the Lord] for the punish-
truth and in fact it has no reference whatso- ment of evil doers" in the congregation "and
ever to the officers tliat govern this world or for the praise of them that do well". That
to any earthly laws. Note now that the apostle they exercised that authority, note the account
directs his epistle to the "elect according to at Acts 5:1-6. Paul, by authority from the
the foreknowledge of God the Father". His Lord, delegated both to Timothy and to Titus
admonition is given for the benefit of the to announce certain rules and to act as gov-
church of God, that is to say, for the guid- ernors of the congregations to which they were
ance of those persons on earth who have de- sent. (1 Timothy 5 : 2 0 ; Titus 1:13; 2:15)
voted themselves to God and Christ and who The apostles and their delegated representa-
are diligently striving to walk in the way of tives made and announced "ordinances" which
righteousness. The apostle Paul, addressing were the 'ordinances of man', made under the
Christians, said: "Be ye followers of me, even Lord's direction for the government of men
as 1 also am of Christ. . . . Keep the ordi- who were of the congregation. This is the true
nances, as I delivered them to you." (1 Corin- meaning of the words of the apostle Peter,
thians 11:1,2) Peter and Paul were specifi- which apply exclusively to those men and
cally commissioned by the Lord to make ordi- women on earth forming congregations which
nances or rules for the guidance of the Chris- are devoted to God and His kingdom.
tians, and in doing so they acted upon the
command and commission of the great Theo- Mark how unreasonable, yes, even ridicu-
crat. Por that reason their epistles were writ- lous, it would appear to apply the apostle's
ten for the instruction and guidance of THE words to the ordinances made by school boards,
CHURCH, and such epistles were written under city councils, legislators, or Congress. For
inspiration and the direction of the Lord. They instance, in some jurisdictions it is unlawful
were addressed to none other than the truly to have in possession or sell intoxicating liquor.
consecrated Christians. That was particularly true.for a number of
Having this clear setting in mind, note then years in the United States. In other jurisdic-
the words in the scripture cited first above, tions bordering the United States it was en-
to wit: "Submit yourselves to every ordinance tirely lawful. For instance, between Canada
of man for the Lord's sake." The apostles are and the United States there is an imaginary
the ones referred to in the words 'ordinances line dividing the countries. The ordinances on
* man', because they promulgated such ordi- the points mentioned here were exactly con-
nances or rules for the governing of the con- trary the one to the other. Which should the
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Christian obey! God does not recognize any God will not willingly violate His covenant,
earthly divisions of land by imaginary lines. and therefore one devoted to God and Christ
A man may have part of his possessions in Jesus cannot heil Hitler or any other man,
the United States and part in Canada. He is cannot salute any flag and thereby attribute
in one country one day and in the other the to such man or flag protection and salvation.
next. As a further illustration: The dictator The great difficulty with such as the writer
Hitler demands that every person must give in the Miami Herald is that they are mis-
a certain salute to him and say "Heil Hitler!" guided. They apply the Word of God to organ-
meaning, "Salvation comes from Hitler." Sure- izations that are in opposition to God. They
ly the Lord could not command everyone to 'appear to believe that worldly governments
obey that ordinance of a worldly man, because are established and directed by Almighty
the same is absolutely contrary to God's Word. God, whereas the Scriptures plainly state,
Exodus 20:1-5. that Satan is the invisible god or ruler of
School boards make ordinances command- this world. (2 Corinthians 4:4) Men have
ing every child to salute the flag and sing cer- organized governments with good intentions
tain songs which attribute salvation to what of having a rule for the benefit of the people,
the flag or song represents. The child has been but such rulers, failing to give heed to the
told by its parents to believe in the Word of Word of God and going contrary to God's
God and to obey that Word. The child says, will by giving praise and devotion to crea-
" I cannot salute the flag, for the reason that, tures instead of the Creator, have fallen un-
if I do so, I am violating the commandment der the influence of the Devil and have been
of Jehovah God, because' He has commanded blinded to God's purpose concerning man-
His people not to attribute salvation to any kind. Selfish men who follow this course God
power except Jehovah." Humans can't pro- has permitted to go their own way. (Romans
vide salvation themselves. It is written in the 1:21-24) Christians give their allegiance to
Scriptures, "Salvation belongeth unto Jeho- Jehovah and Christ Jesus, and they obey His
vah." (Psalm 3:8, A.R.V.) To obey worldly laws, and every' law of the land that is in har-
ordinances contrary to God's ordinances means mony with God's law or commandments they
to lose God's favor, and, therefore, to lose obey; but when an ordinance or law com-
everything. mands them to do what Jehovah God's law
In truth and in fact, compulsory flag-salut- plainly forbids, then the Christian will obey
ing is a scheme hatched in recent months by God and not man. The apostles blazed the
Satan and is a subtle means of turning men way in this regard when they stated before
away from God and requires them to give de- worldly courts: "Whether it be right in the
votion to men and is an attempt to cause God's sight of God to hearken unto you more than
covenant people to violate their covenant unto God, judge ye." "We ought to obey God
with Jehovah. One who truly loves Jehovah rather than men."Acts 4 : 1 9 ; 5:29.

The Kentucky WPA Political Machine

JUDGE BRADY M. STEWART, of Ken- are being employed who do no definite work,
tucky, wrote a personal letter to but spend their entire time in political activ-
President Roosevelt containing ten ity. This, if true, is Hitlerism, Mussoliniism,
charges -which include statements Stalinism and Hagueism with a vengeance.
that no one may be placed on Fed-
eral relief except upon advice of the Senator
Barkley campaign managers; that WPA work- One-Third of Cleveland on Relief
ers have been told they must give the contri- At the first of April, 1938, one-third of
the people of Cleveland, Ohio, were being sup-
butions to the Barkley campaign fund which ported by public funds or were soliciting such
are demanded or else lose their jobs; that support.
Republicans have been notified that they must
change their polities and vote for Barkley or Find the Moral
be fired; that instructions have gone out that Because he goes to church, William Kietis,
all records regarding WPA employment and Cleveland, Ohio, got a suspended sentence on
salaries must be kept secret; and that persons charges of stealing a bicycle. Moral is ??
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 Motoring
How to Keep from Growing Old A Fortunate Auto Accident
Always drive fast out of alleys. I t not infrequently occurs that a person
Always race with locomotives to meets with an accident that automatically
crossings. Engineers like it; it does for him what would otherwise require
breaks the monotony of their jobs. the services of an osteopath or chiropractor.
Always pass the car ahead on Such an accident occurred at Elizabeth, New
curves or turns. Don't use your horn: it may Jersey, where Joseph Havelka, Jr., was in-
unnerve the other fellow and cause him to stantly cured of a case of stuttering which
turn out too far. had afflicted him for twelve years. The pa-
Demand half the roadthe middle half. tient was in a wheel chair, when he was acci-
Insist on your rights. dentally struck by an automobile. Too bad
Always speed; it shows people you are a he did not visit someone who could have given
man of pep even though an amateur driver. him a much-needed spinal adjustment twelve
Never stop, look or listen at a railroad years earlier.
crossing. It consumes time.
Always ' lock your brakes when skidding. 13 Summonses in 17 Weeks
It makes the job more artistic. In the 17 weeks between July 20 and No-
Always pass cars on hills. It shows you vember 15 the "Reverend" Panos Consfanti-
have more power and you can turn out if nides, pastor of the Greek Orthodox Church
you meet a car at the top. Never look around of Atlanta, Georgia, received 13 summonses
when you back up. There is never anything for illegal parking, reckless driving, leaving
behind you. the scene of an accident, running past stop
Drive confidently, just as though there were signs, etc. He ignored all but the last, and
not eighteen million other cars in service. then suddenly found he had to stand trial
J. B. Wait, in the Northwest Motor Digest. for the whole thirteen. Such is life. Only a
religious racketeer would have the effrontery
Clutchless, Gearless Car to do a thing of this kind. The whole gang
An Italian scientist, Commendatore Salerni, are a menace to humanity, and a curse.
working with an English scientist, Prof. P. C.
Lea, has produced a new form of power trans- Connecticut's Crooked Police
mission, clutchless and gearless, which bids Connecticut's crooked police are beginning
fair to revolutionize motoring on land, on sea, to attract nation-wide attention. The Com-
or in air. The man at the wheel in an auto- mentator shows that in pursuit of a conspir-
mobile has nothing to think of but to steer acy to fleece nonresident motorists 32 towns
the car and to use the right foot to accelerate in the Nutmeg State had 8,907 arrests in 1937
or reduce speed. The only lever to use is the and that, of these, -local motorists accounted
one that puts the car in reverse. Trials at for less than three percent.
Cambridge, England, seem entirely satisfac-
tory. The car accelerates to 30 miles an hour Almost the Speed of a Bullet
in six seconds from the moment of starting, The automobile speed of Captain George
and has been subjected to 65,000 miles of ac- E. T. Eyston on the Bonneville Salt Flats
tual driving. of Utah, 357.5 miles per hour, or at the rate
of 525 feet per second, is only 175 feet per
Elimination of Auto Horn second less than the muzzle velocity of the
A motorist who drives safely without ever bullet of an ordinary ,45-caliber revolver.
using a horn is in favor of elimination of
auto horn. His suggestion will meet with the Bridge Across Albemarle Sound
approval of most pedestrians daily startled A huge section of North Carolina now finds
unnecessarily by blasts that upset their nerves easier access to northern and eastern markets
without the slightest reason. If a man cannot by means of a new bridge across Albemarle
drive safely without using a horn to deprive sound. The bridge, with its approaches, is
other people of their rights, he should not 13.64 miles in length, while the bridge itself
dr
"'e at all. is 4.5 miles long.
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 rochial school, knows perfectly well that all
persons and corporations are equal in the eyes
of the law. What is legal for one is legal for
another, and what is illegal for one is illegal
for another. The city council of Cincinnati
needs to soak its head.

Good Place to Plead Tolerance

There probably is not a better place in
Took Just One Week the United States to plead for tolerance
I t took just one week for the Roman Cath- than Seattle, particularly since Gerald Bishop
olic Hierarchy to wallop the city of Cincin- Shaughnessy did his" level best to prevent
nati into submission on the Bingo business. Judge Rutherford from speaking there, and
If any particularly dirty business has to be subsequently bluffed and bulldozed the radio
done in the open it seems that it is the chan- stations into apologizing for broadcasting the
cellor that has that end of it. The reason for very things the people need to hear, and
this is that thus the Arch Bish Hop can keep boycotted the radio stations' advertisers, and
his skirts clear and put on that holy air so without a doubt bullyragged the city council
much sought in the pictures that flood the into preventing Judge Rutherford from again
public press. So it was the '"Reverend Father" speaking from the municipal auditorium, and
Monsignor Mr. Sir Matthias Heyker, chan- cheap-skated the Seattle papers into folding
cellor of the archdiocese of Cincinnati, that up like an accordeon and refusing to carry
broke the ice in a column article in the Cin- out their contracts to publish, at a price, news
cinnati Enquirer, November 17, in which he of the utmost importance. Well, Seattle has
stated that while Bingo and other gambling had a fine 'Religious Unity Aim" meeting.
is illegal, yet it is all O.K. with the outfit with This time Shaughnessy discreetly stayed out
which he is connected. That put the heat on of the picture, but he put everybody else in.
the politicians, as it was intended to do, and The governor of the state was there, Rabbi
the Times-Star of just a week later stated that Rosenberg was there, the general secretary of
by a vote of six to three the city council had the Y.M.C.A. was there, and all that Mr.
agreed to let the Roman Catholic Hierarchy Shaughnessy had to do- was to say, after it
go ahead and violate the state law and noth- was all over, "Boys, you did a good job; be-
ing would be done about it unless the courts tween you, you pulled over another good one
interfere. on the people, and after a few more just like
The regulations as finally adopted by the it the people, the poor suckers, will forget
city council are laughable. They stipulate that altogether about the rotten deal given to Jeho-
gambling awards must not exceed $100; that vah's witnesses when they came to this intol-
the prizes must not exceed 25 percent of the erant and narrow-minded bailiwick of our
gross, receipts; that if the gambling racket is lord god the pope?'
held more frequently than once a quarter it
must not be advertised; that the police must Revenue Must Be F a l l i n g Off
be tipped off 24 hours before the gambling
starts (so that they can keep out of the way, $ Junction City, Ohio, fifty miles southeast
or arrest any law-abiding citizen that com- of Columbus, Ohio, feels the heat, or at least
plains that the law is being violated); that "Reverend Father" Eugene Owens, guiding
a,certified statement of attendance, receipts, star of St. Patrick's church, indicates that he
prizes and expenses must be given to the po- does, in The Catholic News. It is quite an in-
lice within 24 hours after the affair is over; teresting paper, four pages all told. The first
arid that the only ones that may thus violate page is given up to the philosophy which in-
the law: must have been in existence not less cludes the aphorism "Ignorance is bliss", and,
than five years. This proposal that a thing being situated right under the pictures of the
that has been decayed five years or more has church and parsonage, seems to be in the right
superior sanctity in the eyes of the law over place.
an institution that is less than five years of Page two is wholly given over to the prop-
age is one of the funniest things ever advanced osition that "God blesses the cheerful givei^',
in legal history. Even the youngest American and lists by name five that dug up $3 each in
child, unless he has been "educated" in a pa- September, eleven that were made to disgorge
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$2 each, three that parted with $1.50 each, on his deathbed. His mind was slipping away
34 that were mulcted out of $1 each, 13 that from him, and so
let loose of 50c each, and one that gave $1.25. My grandfather had been away from the Church
Following the list Is the statement, "Honesty for forty-six years and refused to see a priest.
is the best policy." Too bad that "Reverend" I pinned a Miraculous Medal to his bed clothing
Owens did not think of this before he got those and begged Our Lady's intercession. Within, a short
time he consented to see the priest, made a sin-
poor sinners to turn over $83.25 to him for cere confession, was anointed and received Holy
which they get nothing in return, not a thing. Viaticum. He died that same day.Ohio.
The f o u r t h p a g e
contains a front and Protecting
side view of the par- the Racketeers
sonage; looks like a "Reverend Father"
twelve-room house. P. C. Depew, of Perry-
What on earth could op o 1is, Pennsylvania,
a "celibate" man want is some shepherd of
with all those rooms? the flock, the shearing
But it is the third of which flock is his
page chiefly that is in- life business. He op-
teresting. It is wholly erates certain prop-
devoted to hammering erty tax-free as a
Judge R u t h e r f o r d . charitable institution,
Wonder why. Briefly but all the residents
mentioning The Gold- thereof pay rent, ex-
en^Age [now Conso- cept two blind men
lation], it says suc- who do chores f o r
cinctly: "The latter is t h e i r u p k e e p . One
published in 12 lan- of t h e t e n a n t s w a s
guages. Bile, bigotry, Charles Clary, whose
and insulting cartoons five children just had
fill its pages." Thanks, the measles. He got
"Reverend," thanks. behind in his rent and
the " R e v e r e n d Fa-
"He Died ther" Depew had the
That Same D a y " f a m i l y p u t off t h e
The junk' depart- Bingo p r o p e r t y , and that
ment operated by Car- night they slept on a
dinal Dougherty, of Philadelphia, Pa., under slate dump. Residents of Uniontown talked of
the name of The Central Association of the hanging the "Reverend Father", but at length
Miraculous Medal, Reverend Father Joseph A. decided not to do anything to interfere with
Skelly, CM., Director, 100 East Price street, the holy racket in which he is engaged. The
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., seems to be headlines of the Uniontown paper that car-
doing a good business in so-called sterling sil- ried the story said sympathetically:
ver, nickel silver, silver plate, rolled gold,
brass inlay, brass tips, bronze finish and other Life of Father Depew periled after eviction.
medals, chains, crucifixes, rosaries, pendants, ily from rampant
Feeling at Perryopolis as writ ousts fam-
orphanage for non-payment of rent.
beads and other merchandise of no value to
anybody. Persons who dig up 25c a year for Consider those headlines for a minute and
their friends who are dead either mentally or see if their plain intent is not to draw sym-
physically or both can get this stuff and in pathy to the "Reverend Father" Depew, rather
years to come look at it and think how foolish than to the poor family that he forced in sick-
they were to bite, and to part with their motley ness and in poverty to sleep out in .the open,
to help along the biggest fraud on the foot- in April, in the mountains.of western Penn-
stool. sylvania. How truly the Lord said, "They
Mr. Skelly tells about some of the "favors" bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne,
that come to persons who purchase the junk. and lay them on men's shoulders; but they
Here is one about an old gentleman that was themselves will not move them"!Matt. 23: 4.
A
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A Law-abiding Sheriff! Whew! Mormons, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and
At Buckeye Lake, which is a sum- Congregationalists. At the next big town east
mer resort and amusement park of Salt Lake Judge Rutherford is suing the
in Licking county, Ohio, U. S. A., same crowd for $150,000 for conspiracy against
which county does not permit gam- Jehovah's witnesses, and it was just the right
bling, the Roman Catholic Hier- time for the Hierarchy in Salt Lake to let it
archy had a state-wide assembly of the Cath- be known they are against intolerance. After
olic population. Now the Roman Catholic a bit, with a few more illustrations of the
Hierarchy, being very law-abiding, were only Catholic idea of "tolerance", as they exhibited
going to chance off and gamble away every- it recently in Colorado Springs, New Orleans,
thing except the nuns, tax-free real estate and Ottawa and Connecticut, toward Jehovah's
priests. Everything was being put in shape, witnesses, the common people will know what
wheels of fortune oiled up, and brakes tight- it is all about, and then good-bye Hierarchy.
ened in preparation for fleecing the flock,
when, lo and behold, their own "higher pow- "Didn't Know It W a s a Crime"
ers", the sheriff of Licking county, descended State police seized 50,000 lottery tickets on
upon them like a cloud of gloom and enforced the Indianapolis speedway 500-mile automobile
the law; and is somebody's face red ? Catholics race next Memorial Day in the printing plant
from all over Ohio were there, and are still of the Daily Clintonian . . . and arrested
wondering if gambling is more sacred than Publisher George L. Carey. Police Superin-
the divine right of politicians, and, if so, how tendent Don Stiver said the tickets offered
old is Anne, god's Roman Catholic grand- $500,000 in cash prizes and were designed to
mother. A beautiful hand-engraved mazuza to sell for $1 each. The publisher said the tickets
anybody who sends the right answer. (A ma- had been ordered by a man "by the name of
zuza is a Yiddish piece of holy junk supposed Meyers representing a St. Louis firm". "I
to bring good lucklike a St. Christopher's .didn't know it was a crime to print that kind
medal tacked in an automobile.) of ticket," Carey told reporters. "We printed
thousands of similar ones for the local Cath-
olic Church, without any question."A dis-
"What Is There in It for M e ? " patch from Clinton, Indiana, published in the
Former Governor Curley, of Massachusetts, San Diego (Calif.) Sun.
once labeled "The Only Catholic Governor",
is in the headlines for corruptly accepting and Three Days L a t e
pocketing $30,000 of graft, stolen from the On March 24 the "Reverend Father" Cox
taxpayers while he was mayor of Boston. It and thirteen other crooks were indicted for
seems that he agreed to settle the General fraud in connection with the so-called "Gar-
Equipment Cases for $85,000, and a check of den Stakes" contest of Old St. Patrick's
the city was given for that amount, but be- Church, Pittsburgh. And would you believe
fore the check was paid over Mr. Curley, well it? it was three whole days before the Cath-
taught in the greatest of all rackets, wanted olic organizations of the Pittsburgh diocese
to know, "What is there in it for me?" The began their great campaign against salacious
answer was that there would be $40,000, but literature and indecent and immoral plays.
for some unexplained reason only $30,000 of If the gang cannot co-ordinate their efforts
the graft was counted out into his itching better than this, what will become of them?
palm. Probably some other grafter stole the Slow work, boys and girls; slow work. Three
other $10,000 en route. whole days wasted.
Splendid Example of Tolerance Would J e s u s Gamble?
The Kansas City edition of the Catholic The American Institute of Public Opinion
boiler-plate weekly, known as The Register, made a study of the public's attitude as to
tells of "a splendid example of toleration and gambling. It showed 31 percent as approving
co-operation" in Salt Lake City, engineered gambling, and 69 percent as opposed. Prot-
and sponsored by John J. Galligan, of the estants were 21 percent approving gambling,
Knights of Columbus. Pine business. Theoreti- and 79 percent opposed. Roman Catholics were
cally a protest against treatment of the Jews 58 percent approving gambling, and 42 per-
in Germany, it was a Catholic advertisement cent opposed.
in a Mormon city, generously backed up by (To be continued)
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 Palestine
Tegart's Wall Slick Work
Tegart's Wall, the new marker of The law in Palestine makes the possession
the northern boundary of Palestine, of arms and ammunition subject to the death
is electrified and is of triple thick- penalty. Crimes with deadly weapons continue
ness. Its cost was $450,000. John almost daily, and the Arabs have shown them-
1
McGovern, courageous Independent selves adepts in dodging blame and putting
Labor statesman from Glasgow, cited in Par- the blame on the innocent. In one instance
liament the report that a large number of an Arab used a messenger to send a revolver
wire-cutting implements were found in Pal- to a younger brother with whom he had quar-
estine with German markings. Looks as if reled over an inheritance, and, as soon as he
Britain would have a warm time keeping the knew it had been "planted", reported to the
Wall intact. Edward Parsons, 22 years old, of police, with the result that both were impris-
Roxbury, Massachusetts, back from a trip to oned, the younger for one year, himself for
Palestine, stated that the general impression seven years. There is such a thing as being
in Palestine is that the Italians were back of too slick to be really clever.
the Arab uprisings against the Jews. He did
not see the self-evident truth that the organi- By Bus to Baghdad
zation back of the terrorism there is the or-
ganization which is itself back of both the From Mount Carmel, where Elijah slew
Fascist and the Nazi terrors, blessed their the 850 priests of Baal (which place is now
murders in Spain and did not hesitate to called Haifa, and is a thriving city of 80,000
use the Arabs of northern Morocco to accom- people), there is now a bus service to Bagh-
plish its ends in the re-establishment of com- dad. The bus goes through in 36 hours, over
plete clerical domination of the Spanish pen- a route which required months of travel in
insula. the days of Abraham and Jacob.

Progress in Ten Years Jewish Refugees

When trouble arose between Arabs and Between 1918 and 1937 the Jewish popu-
Jews in a village concerning the use of a well, lation of Palestine increased from 60,000 to
the Military Governor drew attention to the 416,000. So far only about 100,000 acres of
new settlement of the Jews, clothed in lux- land have been irrigated, but it is known that
uriant foliage, a veritable oasis of beauty* in 375,000 more acres could be irrigated, which
a barren environment. Then he asked the would provide room and support for an addi-
Arabs, "How long have you been here ?" "Since tional 1,200,000 persons.
creation," they answered, "at least a thousand
years." "And how long have the Jews been German Jews
here?" he queried, and the Arab villagers re- Since 1933, 42,500- Jews from Germany
plied, "Not more than ten years." "Then why settled in Palestine. About one-fourth of them
haven't you planted a single tree; in a thou- are engaged in agriculture. The first of these
sand years, while the Jews have planted a Jews to debark at the first Jewish port, Tel
forest in ten years t" sharply came the unan- Aviv, landed there April 11, 1938.
swerable question which was an effective reply
to their complaint.Exchange. Two Hundred M u r d e r s a Month
A Half-Million-Dollar Fence Palestine continues to be a hard place to
A half-million-dollar fence will separate live. In the month of July, 1938, there were
Palestine from Syria, to try to keep Syrian more than 200 murders, with as many more
raiders from killing Jewish colonists and injured. There were 148 Arabs killed, and 60
British officials. The fence is triple, six feet Jews,
high, and the interior is filled with entangle-
ments embedded in concrete. All along the Jewish Immigration
fence are concrete pillboxes manned by ma- 300,000 Jews have found homes in Pales-
chine-gun and searchlight crews. It is hoped tine since the year 1920. About 42,500 of
that the line will be impregnable. these came from Germany since 1933.
Ap
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 Is Naturopathy a Crime?
NATUROPATHY, < helping people He seems to agree with the Report of the
to get well without the use of pow- Council of Pharmacy and Chemistry regard-
dered bedbugs, powdered horse ma- ing horse dung allergen Squibb, house dust
nure or other standard drugs, is allergen Squibb, Le Page's glue allergen
legal in some states, but illegal in Squibb, and street dust allergen Squibb,
states where the American Medieal Associa- that
tion, has control of the legislative, executive . . . as the composition of horse dung; house dust;
and judicial departments of the government. glue and street dust is indefinite, it is irrational to
Ih' his" book Am I a Physician or a Crim- test the hypersensitivity of a patient by means of
inalt (253 pages, Wm. M. Schreier, N.D., a stock preparation; instead, an extract should be
507 Fifth Avenue, New York City) written prepared from material which is likely to corre-
while he was awaiting trial on the charge of spond with that to which a patient is sensitive.
(Page 66)
practicing medicine, Dr. Schreier, subsequent-
ly sentenced to four months in jail, furnishes In other words, if you must take horse dung
plenty of reasons why New York physicians as a remedy, it is far better to take an extract
wanted his scalp. The book is in intemperate of it than the real thing in the raw; you might
tone, but was written in twelve days. like it.
He also quotes Dr. William Brady, M.D.,
Dr. Schreier furnishes the reader with the as writing, in the Chicago American, about
interesting observation by Dr. Frank L. Cur- rabies
ran, of Bellevue Hospital, New York, that There is absolutely nothing scientific about the
sixty different drugs commonly prescribed by alleged diagnosis, prevention or treatment of rabies
physicians for many forms of illness also in man. There is nothing scientific about the diag-
cause insanity. Makes one want less such nosis of rabies in animals. It is all a purely em-
drugs. (Page 28) pirical question. {Page 67)
He does not say much derogatory of bromo-
seltzer except that the acetanilid in it is a Dr. Schreier Went to Prison
poisou and the potassium bromide in it is For opposing the practice of medicine,
one of the drugs that cause insanity. Makes though actually charged with practicing it,
one less eager for bromo-seltzer, doesn't it? Dr. Schreier was sent to prison for four
(Page 30) months. He wrote to Consolation from prison,
He quotes the statement of E. M. Perdue, setting forth that;
MJX, that the X ray kills, and that the doc- In spite of an excellent defense that took three
tors know it, and require the patient to pay days, October 10,-11 and 14; in spite of two M.D.'s
forrhis own electrocution process. Makes one testifying in my behalf; in spite of several of my
less eager to have X rays applied to oneself, patients testifying that they wei-e given up to die
doesn't:it? (Page 39) by the M.D.'s (and, ironically, one has a. father
He quotes the opinion of Robert Bell, M.D., and a brother who are M.D.'s); in spite of five
F.R.F.P.S., vice-president of the International M.D.'s signing a petition that I know the healing
arts; and in spite of a one hour and 20 minutes
Cancer Society, president of the Imperial Can- lecture that I gave the judges on the relative value
eer Society of. England, and a famous cancer of the theories and practice of allopathic, homeo-
specialist, that pathic and eclectic medicine, as well as osteopathy,
There-is riot a solitary instance on record where chiropractic, Christian science, hydrotherapy, die-
cancer bas been cured by operation, but, on the tetics, physiotherapy and naturopathy, including
contrary, the operation has made death and aggra- Prof. Bcchamps mierozymian theory of disease that
vated Buffering tnore certain. (Page 43) the body inherently possesses ability to heal itself
(in contradistinction to Pasteur's theory), I was
In common with many others, Dr. Schreier sentenced to serve four months in jail, my present
seems not overimpressed with the wisdom of address. Subsequent to the lecture the chief justice
experimenting : wholesale on humanity.. He (there were three) commented, "The defendant is
quotes the New York Times to the effect too sincere." Is it possible to be too sincere when
that catering to suffering humanity?
A-'study of vaccines for the common, cold, tried Consolation does not feel called upon to
on twenty' thousand-persons, shows that none ~of champion any one of the many healing arts,1
them reduced the number of colds. (Page 50) but does wish a square d e a l for each of them.
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 International Murderers
The Bid for Despotism stampede us into complete abandonment of
As a slogan we are now substituting "the these institutions at home.
more abundant strife" for the "more abun- We are facing a final desperate bid in the
dant life". Military preparedness has now suc- name of patriotism for absolute political power
ceeded economic depression as a basis both for over enterprise, property and political liberty.
further inflationary : Virgil J o r d a n *
stimulation of busi- p r e s i d e n t , National
ness and for its fur- Industrial Conference
ther absorption into Board, in an address
the State. in Philadelphia,
Our i n t e r e s t in
the under - privileged Joy of I n t e r n a -
classes at home has tional M u r d e r e r s
been expanded to con- The joy of Inter-
cern for the oppressed national M u r d e r e r s ,
abroad. In its very Inc., reaches to the
nature, as well as by skies. The w o r l d ' s
force of the actual a r m a m e n t bill for
facts of the foreign 1938 went up to $16,-
situation, the emotion- 000,000,000, . showing
al and financial seduc- a rise of $2,500,000,^
tion of this new theme 000 over 1937...The
song of the Fourth seven terrors of the
New Deal is irresist- world, United States,
ible. Britain, France, Ger-
No political party many, Italy, Russia,
or economic group, and Japan, accounted
certainly not business, for $12,528,000,000 of
can or will refuse to the total. The people
respond to the patri- that make the arms
otic appeal for unity arc delighted to sell
and co-operation^ in Polities, the world's most comical business them to anybody that
preparing for the na- if you have a taste for that kind of low comedy will buy, and even to
tional defense against send d e m o n s t r a t o r s
foreign aggression. In face of it no minority along to show them how to get the greatest
will dare to challenge any demand for fur- results.
ther expansion of State power over private
enterprise and private property, and over the Who Wants W a r ?
natural, human and financial resources of the What gang is it that wants war, and hopes
Nation necessary to safeguard us against for- to get control of the entire country* the mo-
eign danger. ment it breaks out? You know the answer, and
Moreover, as in Germany, our own oppressed know why it is that in the motion-picture
minority, the employers, professional and sab houses, frequently now, the American. Haggis
aricd middle classes, the small property own- suddenly flashed on the scene,the bahdistarte
ers, will be expected to foot the bill to defend to play "The Star Spangled Banner", and
our own brand of authoritarian exploitation some hair-brained usher rushes down the aisle
against danger from the others. commanding all fellow Americans to stand .up.
If this were a joke, it would be a grim one, His spirit in doing that is exactly the .spirit
D
ut I am afraid it isn't. It is a deadly serious of the young German Nazis who murdered;in
and deliberately conceived scheme to capi- the most savage manner the Jewish prisoners
talize a very real and deep public anxiety sent to the concentration camps for safe-keep-
about the defense of free American institu- ing in the nation-wide pogroms following.-the
tions against foreign enemies, in order to vom Rath shooting in Paris.
APRIL 19. 1939
25
 New York's Temple of Religion
THOSE that are in the religious little show to prove that their religion is just
business will tell you right away as good as those of the bombers of women
that what the world needs is more and children.
religion, their reason for that being
that they want to keep their jobs. New York Should Step on. It
The number of sects fluctuates somewhat from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gave $25,000 for
year to year. In 1917 there were 210 listed. this temple, and if he wants to get anything
The TVdrld Almanac for 1919 listed 201. A back on his investment the show ought to be
year later the Federal Council of Churches good. How about getting one of those leopard-
reported 194. The World Almanac for 1938 men from Africa ? Maybe he could be excused
lists the general headquarters of the 64 larg- from prison long enough to show how he
est ones. The other 150, or thereabouts, are donned leopard skin and socked razor-edged
considered small fry. hooks into enemies. Big Business ought to
There is a vague suspicion that all is not be able to learn something from this. The
well with the religious business; so the New leopard-men had a ritual, which was religious,
York World's Fair will have a Temple of of course. Cannibalism was one of the features.
Religion. A few suggestions might be in order; This also ought to appeal to Big Business. The
so here goes: Belgian government put most of the leopard-
Would it not be a good idea to have a port- men behind bars, thereby discouraging reli-
hole in the temple for locating the new moon f gion. New York can correct this and put the
In London there is a church of 30 men and leopard-men back in good odor.
women that worship the moon, and every time There should be a stage for Aimee Scmple
there is a new moon they bow three times McPherson, and if she could just be induced
with their heads to the ground and sing moon to put on her great disappearance act, in all
songs to their hearts' content. its details, as it was carried out with one of
There could be a dungeon in the cellar for her handsome male organists ten years ago,
the Satan-worshipers of Iraq. Maybe a few here is guaranteeing that there would not be
Iraqi might like to come along. So why not enough people left in New York and Brook-
make them welcome? It could be explained lyn to even watch the properties, let alone do
to them that there are millions of Americans business. The trouble with all this religious
who do not believe there is any Devil, or even business in the past has been the cheap-skate
that there is any God. But they shouldn't be way in which it was done.
shut out of the temple; they should have a A big padded cell would be needed to show
run for their money. up properly the details of the great Koreshan
There should be a stable on the thumb-hand cosmic shell. People who think this world
side of the temple in which to keep the sacred is round like the outside of a ball instead
horse Trancelim, a race-horse worshiped in of round and hollow like the inside of an
a section of Brazil. Brazilians could be told orange peel need more religion. Give the
that many Americans worship the Democratic Koresh boys a break. They need it.
jackass, while a few worship the elephant of A platform in front could be set aside for
pre-Hoover days. the holy whirling dervishes. That would draw
' The marriage chapel will be needed. There a crowd, and besides, it is religious. A good
the Turanian couples can come, a priest can religious guy among the whirling dervishes
puncture the arms of bride and groom and can spin like a top for three minutes at a
draw off some blood, and then they can drink stretch and his skirts will stand out from his
some of the blood while the rest of it is burned hips all the time like those of a ballet dancer.
in a bonfire. The Queens Fire Department will Just a soft note here. Wonder if among those
keep an eye on the fire. Or will it? whirlers they could not find a few of the
They might have a fire-walking exhibit in good-looking Moslem females, give them souls
some mystic part of the lawn, made by a (which according to Moslem theology they
steam shovel out of the mud of Flushing lack) and teach them the whole business. This
meadows. If any fire-walkers come over from would whoop up the attendance a lot. Men
India they will naturally want to put on a that wouldn't give a plugged nickel to see a
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man whirl his head off would come from far The Temple of Religion is a clever idea,
and near to see a nice-looking girl whirler. perhaps. The more religions exhibited, the
clearer it will be that Christianity is some-
Bow About Voliva? thing wholly apart.
m m
Times have changed. There was a time when
John Alexander Dowie could blow in $300,000 Welfare Island, Nice Place
in a spectacular scheme to bring religion to The cancer hospital on Welfare island, New
New York, but he lost his wad and now his York city, where the poor are cared for, is a
successor, Wilbur Glenn Voliva, lives in two wooden firetrap seventy-five years old and so
rooms in the old mansion at Zion City, with- infested with ants that the only way to clean
out any servant to attend him. For old times' it is to take it down, burn it, dig a new cellar
sake have a religious side show where Voliva and throw the excavated material into the
could be one of the features. Many would pay ocean. As late as November, 1938, though by
a nickel apiece to see a man who believes the superhuman efforts the kitchen and operating
earth is flat and who claims to be a Christian room were kept free of vermin, a cancer pa-
and at the same time denounces the Lord's tient who had had a breast removed was found
prayer because it is a Kingdom prayer. with hundreds of ants crawling over her, and
A cemetery could be opened and the body in the whole building there were rats, mice,
of Mrs. Cecilia Novarro could be reinterred cockroaches, bedbugs and ants galore.
there. She was buried alive in California by
seven religious persons because she violated Innocent Custodians of Public Safety
some clause in the secret religion to which Newburgh, New York, has some innocent
she belonged. All murderers, including the custodians of public safety. It seems that a
10,000 that escape the penalty every year, girl in the town had a bank account of
as well as all munition makers, should be in- $468,000 two weeks after she was employed.
terested in this religion. Also, one 10,000-gallon whisky still was lo-
cated only 200 yards from the city hall. Just
itlSftfoK A restaurant could be opened for a suggestion here. If it had been operated in
any cannibals that might like to the police headquarters there would have, been
come. The Holmesburg prison at less chance of somebody's squealing. Well, all
Philadelphia might be persuaded good things come to an end; and so, after
to do the cooking. Cannibalism is 44 men and this one woman had gypped the
something religious. Maretu, a Cook Islander state out of $7,500,000 in taxes, and the Gov-
who became a missionary, describes the fat ernment out of $15,000,000, they were caught.
of man as being' delicious, tasting and smell-
ing much better than either fish or hog. Not Benjamin Kotlowitz, 113
sure about this, but religion ought to settle it. Benjamin Kotlowitz, now 113 years of age,
In the restaurant there could be a booth fled to this country in his youth, to escape
for the Swiss lemon eaters, who believe that persecutions in his homeland, Russia. He was
when a person is buried the" coffin should be only 80 when he came over; that was in the
decorated with lemons and plenty of lemons year 1905, or 33 years ago. He has 108 de-
be thrown into the grave. scendants in five generations, and at his birth-
On the other side of the restaurant the day party, the other day, was the life of tHe
Hungarian League of Laughter that believes party. He received congratulatory letters from
it is religious to laugh about everything, no President Roosevelt, Governor Lehman and
matter what it is, would be a sort of offset. Mayor La Guardia. About 400 friends at-
The Penitentes of New Mexico could put tended his party.
on a crucifixion scene more realistic than the
one at Oberammergau, after which it is aped. Millions of Trees Planted
They occasionally kill people at this barbar- In the last five years the 141,000 workers
ism, imported from Europe centuries ago. One in the Civilian Conservation Corps in New
would have to sec this in order to appreciate it. York state, most of whom are lads between
The "Purgatory" and "Hell-Fire" religions the ages of 17 and 23, planted 132,564,000
are too horrible to be exhibited; neverthe- trees, besides improving 40,800 ac*es of forest,
less they will be the principal exhibits at the constructing 187 dams, and controlling insect
Temple of Religion. pests over 2,211,438 acres of land.
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 the non-intervention policy of Britain has been
of equal service,
British Comment
Roman Catholicism and Fascism
By J. Eemery (London) Cardinal Hinsley, archbishop of Westmin-
ster, warns the flock in England against talk-
ing so freely about Fascism as might create
the thought that they are allied. He does not
want the Fascist label put on Roman Catholi-
Political Chessboard cism. That there is a close connection is ap-
Some smart moves arc being made on the parent, and the cardinal can blame the Roman
Devil's chessboard of European politics. The Catholic journals in Britain for his fears. In
Devil, the enemy of God and of the kingdom the Spanish conflict these have been so pro-
of Christ, is stirring up strife in his war to Franco as to cause their readers to assume
prevent the full establishment of that king- that Fascism and the church were together
dom in the earth. (See Revelation 12:12.) fighting for God and the Roman church, a
But his army is a mixed crowd, each lot with fight for religion against Communism. At the
its own interests to serve, and the Devil must moment II Duce and the Hierarchy in Rome
play one section against another in order to have a difference, so important that it made
gain his ends. At the present time there is a the late pope speak out; and the members of
contest between Britain and France, on the one the faith must keep in line with the authority
hand, and Mussolini and Hitler, on the other, in Rome, especially as the Hierarchy is busy
with Franco's friendship as prize. Franco courting the democracies in Britain and Amer-
now sees himself as master of Spain and it ica. Mussolini follows the lead of the main
appears he wants to have Spain under his member of the Berlin-Rome axis: Hitler has
control without the overlordship of Mussolini; determined that if the church is to continue td
he'wants to have Spain at liberty to act for exist in Germany it may do so only if subor-
itself. Mussolini has not caused Italy to shed dinate to the state, and Mussolini wants the
its blood and spend its money for Spain's same, but is not in a position to demand it. The
freedom, nor to see that country once again cardinal is rather late in the day in trying to
under the rule of the pope. Spain under his keep the distinction between the totalitarian
control means all the difference between his church and that of Fascism, but the flock arc
being master of the Mediterranean, holding obedient, and in due time the Hierarchy in
a strong hand against France and. Britain, Rome will find the way to get the best of a
and being weakened in his purpose. Britain bargain with Mussolini.
and France need the friendship of Spain for
similar reasons. A quick move in the game FreethinkersReligious Section
Was made by Britain when, unexpectedly, a Retired dean Inge, one of the lights of the
warship/was sent to Minorca to take off the English church who in.the newspapers broad-
few representatives of republican Spain, leav- cast their unbelief in the Scriptures, has, he
ing the island to Franco's men. The island says, been assailed as a heretic and dishonest
was a particularly desirable portion of Mus- by "one whose orthodoxy is as stiff as a poker,
solini's expectation, for with control of it Italy and sometimes as hot". He docs not like the
cohld prevent France's sea communication charge, and says, "It is unpleasant to be held
Willi. North Africa, and very greatly jeop- as a hypocrite by truculent and furious fanat-
ardize'Britain's route to Palestine, Egypt ics." The dean breaks away from the harsh
arid the Far East. The action vexed Mus- creeds because he cannot support them. That
solini, but greatly helped Franco. It seems is to the good; but he takes the same liberty
that Italy may. not; get nearly as much out with the Scriptures, and treats them as being
of its Spanish venture as was expected. Franco no more than the opinions, and beliefs of men.
will want money for the restoration of the He will not accept the records of the miracles
desolated country, and neither Germany nor of Jesus as historical, nor be bound by the
Italy is iri position to lend what is necessary, prophetic writings. .He will make the Scrip-
and Britain and France are able. If Mussolini tures conform to his philosophy. All the same
should say that it is by Italy's help Franco he wants to be considered as a good church-
has got Spain, it can be said as truly that man, a true upholder and supporter of reli-
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gion as represented by the Church of Eng- dren. The Catholic Herald did not take that
land. At the same time he makes a bid for chance to get a front-page heading by a letter
a standing as one of the world's philosophers. from the pope. The British Catholic papers
He says, "The old arguments from miracles persistently minimize the records of Franco's
and prophecies do not appeal to us at all," bombing of fugitives, and have as consistently
and he has the effrontery to quote the words exaggerated the records of the acts of the gov-
of Jesus in his support, as when Jesus said ernment's forces. The lie factories, and their
in rebuke to the Jews, "Except ye see signs adjuncts given to the perversion of facts, have
and wonders ye will not believe." Says the been working overtime all the time of this
dean, "We do not want to see signs and won- Spanish rebellion.
ders, and are beginning to realize that miracles The duke of Atholl, whose wife, the duchess,
taken as historical records add nothing which has been an active friend of republican Spain;
is of interest to religion." Like so many of makes a statement to Reynolds News on what
his cloth, he docs not believe in the virgin he says is absolutely reliable evidence. In the
birth of Jesus, nor the record of His ascen- Catalonian retreat, he reports, "The planes
sion ; nor does he believe that Jesus descended of Franco dropped pretty little chocolate boxes
into hade3 [the grave] and was raised from and the children ran to pick up what they
the dead by the power of God. He also says, thought to be much-longed-for sweets. As they
"We live in an age dominated by natural opened the boxes the bomb concealed inside
science," and to him natural science is as went off, burning the hands and the faces,
much a revelation of God as the Word of sometimes almost beyond recognition." Says
Godevidently it is more so; for he believes the duke, "As an old British officer I feel it
in science but not in the Scriptures. The dif- my duty to make known this example of civ-
ference between the ordinary freethinker and ilized barbarism as used in modern warfare."
the religious unbelievers is that one will have
nothing to do with the hypocrisy of religion Land Values
and the other is its ardent supporter. Both 9 A writer who has knowledge of the situa-
the bishop of Birmingham and dean Inge tell tion calls attention to the following facts
of their hope through extension of knowledge which he claims reveal a very dangerous sit-
of natural science. Both admit they are in uation in which the country would find itself
the dark concerning the purposes of God. in a time of prolonged war. He calls atten-
The Scriptures say that God is near to all tion to the fact that the land under cultiva-
that call upon Him, and that He is a rewarder tion in Britain is not nearly as much in area
of them that diligently seek Him. These gen- as in 1914, and that there is no intensive cul-
tlemen know these sayings, but they have no tivation to bring the land to its full measure
faith in them, or they refuse the conditions of fertility. With greater risk of cutting.off
of discipleship. of supplies from overseas, Britain is less able
to produce at home; with two and a half mil-
"Gentleman" Franco lion fewer acres in use, there are now nearly
The Catholic Herald makes a splash head- five million more people to feed than in 1913.
ing of a letter it sent to Mr. Chamberlain, His figures are: The total area of Great Brit-
and his reply. Recently Mr. Chamberlain ain, excluding water, is over 56 million acres.
made a request to Franco that he should The total area under cultivation in 1913 was
not allow his army to wreak vengeance on 32 million acres; in 1936, 29 million. Allow-
the city of Barcelona and its inhabitants. To ing an outside figure for towns and villages
the editor this request was a slur on that and roads, there remains unworked and dere-
great Christian gentleman", a man who does lict, used only for grazing a few thousand
not make war after such fashion: it could sheep, and employing almost no capital, the
not be other than that the "gentleman" would appalling figure of 21f million acres. In other
act as a gentleman should! Mr. Chamberlain words, more than one-third of the whole lies
suitably replied, and the Herald got some- waste, while. Britain imports millions of tons
thing for its pages. But it. seems that the of foods which these acres could.be made to
memory of the editor was rather short; for yield, and which would provide homes and
la
st year the pope himself addressed a re- work for thousands who must now queue for
quest to his friend Franco requesting that their share of the "dole". A strong point is
his army should n o t bomb women and chil- made that so much of the land is used for
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sport. It is said that of Scotland's total area the anger of the German state officials by pub-
of over 19 million acres no less than 3 mil- licly praying for peace. It was suggested that
lion are used as deer forest, withdrawn, much he should be held to the charge of high trea-
of it in late years, from cultivation to enable son, which involves the sentence of death, for
a few^ rich people to indulge their love of thus interfering in the affairs of the State.
sport. Not only were crofters and others de- To pray for peace is considered by religion-
prived of their livelihood, but the country was ists as an eminently proper thing to do, but
denuded of the food these acres would have the matter assumes a very different aspect to
provided, and its defenses thereby weakened. the dictator: why should a pastor set his con-
''It is clear," this writer says, "that so far as gregation to pray for peace, when peace is
agriculture has given place to game and sport not the policy of the State? Here is interfer-
this has been a leading cause of diminishing ence with the affairs of State. In any case,
the welfare of 36 million people. The welfare Hitler represents the will of God to Germany
of the people is sacrificed to the pleasure of so he claims.
a few thousand persons." Here is an instance The pastor has no warrant in the Scrip-
where democracy needs taking in hand. The tures for his action: public prayers of this
few hold it for their destructive sport, and nature are an assumption of religionists. Jesus
keep the people from that which is their right. said to His disciples, 'When thou pray est enter
But while the government of the country is into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy
in the hands of the wealthy and the system door pray to thy Father in secret.' (Matthew
under their control there is little probability 6:6) Religionists have taken altogether too
that a change will be effected. much upon themselves. The true follower of
Jesus does not act as they do; he knows that
Unemployment he is not called upon to interfere either pub-
The register of unemployed rose in Janu- licly or privately in the affairs of the State
ary to well over the 2,000,000 mark. Evi- in which he lives. He has the inviolable right
dently the extra work caused by rearma-. and the duty to preach the gospel of the king-
ment is not absorbing the out-of-work men dom of God, and also to deny the right of
and women. This means that trade is poor, the State to interfere with his worship of Jeho-
and, in fact, the export values of last year vah. The late pope, it is reported, died with
were less than in 1929 by 200,000,000. There the word "peace" on his lips, and it is said
will be a terrible slump some day. The York- that the last years of his life were chiefly
shire Agricultural Conference has called the occupied with the preservation of peace in the
attention of the Government to the farming earth. For this men commend himthe peo-
condition of that county of broad acresit is, ples do not want war. His example is con-
of course, by far the largest of the English sidered by religionists to be a good one to fol-
counties, having an acreage of 3,723,724 acres. low, and, in fact, they take upon themselves
I t is said that through lack of policy the Gov- an obligation to pray for the peace of the
ernment is allowing the land to deteriorate, world. The true disciples of Jesus, acquainted
and workers to leave the county. There is with the Scriptures, know there comes a time
much less area under cultivation than in the when peace is taken from the earth, when the
time of the Great War. rider on the red horse goes forth, given power
Also the shipping and engineering unions "to take peace from the earth". (Revelation
call the attention of the Government to the 6:4) Too, the fact that the time is now come
fact that at the present time British shipping when God arises to shake terribly the earth
firms have vessels to the value of 7,000,000 is part of the witness to His word and to
under construction in foreign yards while His name which is now being given by Jeho-
there is a marked absence of orders in Brit- vah's witnesses. Jesus, the Prince of Peace,
ish yards; and further, that nine-tenths of foretold the time when He as Michael should
old ships for breaking up were sold to be stand up and there would be a time of trouble
broken up outside the. British Isles. I t is in the earth such as had never been experi-
clear that money rules. enced. That time is come, and now there will
be no peace on the earth till the final battle
P r a y i n g for Peace has been fought and the enemies of Jeho-
It appears that Pastor Miiller, of Berlin, vah and His kingdom are vanquished and
the successor of Pastor Niemoller, has incurred destroyed.
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 Aviation
Cesar Abadia Estrellose Then the fliers reported to their commanding
Cesar Abadia Estrellose, Colombian avia- officer at El Paso that the six explorers needed
tor, was brave to the point of recklessness, no help.
but he was not obedient. After six months'
suspension for recklessness in flight he was Around the World
doing stunts over a crowd of 20,000. His Howard Hughes' time around the world,
instructions were that he must stay up at 91 hours 10 minutes 8 seconds, was at a rate
least 500 feet. He came down to the 200-foot (208.1 miles an hour) four times as fast as
level, his plane struck the aerial of a radio a fast railway train, and seven times as fast
station and in an instant fell to the ground, as the fastest ocean liner. The record, for sea-
cutting a path through spectators for more planes, is held by Agello. His speed of 441
than fifty feet. Estrellose and 36 others were miles an hour is about half the speed of a
killed, and more than 100 injured; all be- revolver bullet and considered fairly near the
cause he was disobedient. maximum of practical airplane speed. Speeds
of 750 miles an hour in the stratosphere are
Communication with Scientists envisioned, but at present are considered im-
An airplane, searching for an overdue scien- practical.
tific party in the Grand Canyon, located a
group nearly a mile below them and dropped The Flight from Berlin
three notes. The first read: "If you are the
scientific expedition from the University of The German Condor monoplane flew from
Michigan, all persons lie down." All six did. the military airport of Staaken, Berlin, to
The second note read: "If everybody O.K., New York in 24 hours 54 minutes and made
raise your arms to a horizontal position." the return trip in 19 hours 59 minutes. Aver-
All six did. The third note said, "If you need age speed going was 157 miles per hour; re-
food, everybody sit down." Nobody sat down. turning, 196.

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 Contents Appetizers
Fascism in Britain 3
England Aflame with Catholic Anarchy 4
Violence at Glasgow 5
Motives of the Hierarchy 7
Franco the Butcher 8
Why Assault Jehovah's witnesses? 9
Other British Items 11
Trinidad Tears Up the Magna Charta 12
The New Government 13
The Deflation of Justice Hart 13
Texas Boy with a Conscience 14
Tribute from an Honest Heart 15
British Comment 16
Counsel by" J . F . Rutherford 17
Jehovah's witnesses 17
A California Dust Storm -18
All the World WonderingAs Foretold 19
Instruction in Cruelty 22
A Result of Hitler's Jesuit Training 24
Religious Intolerance in South Africa 26
Where the Conspiracy Was Hatched 26
Typical Nazi-Vatican Conduct 28
Hard Going for Hypocrites 28
British Comment (Continued) 29
Communists 30
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"And in His name shall the nations hope."Matthew 12:21, A.R.V.
Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y . t Wednesday, June 28, 1939 Number 516

Fascism in Britain
Let this fact be clearly borne in m i n d : This is n o t a c r y f o r J e h o v a h ' s witnesses.
If they die in t h e p e r f o r m a n c e of duty J e h o v a h will p r e s e r v e their eternal existence.
Whether one lives o r dies is relatively u n i m p o r t a n t , because t h e Devil's agents can
only kill t h e body b u t a r e unable to d e s t r o y t h e r i g h t to life. ( L u k e 12:4) J e h o v a h ' s
witnesses t r u s t in t h e L o r d a n d need nothing from a n y m a n . B u t t h e p u r p o s e h e r e
is to w a r n t h e people of good will t h a t if they continue to uphold a n d s u p p o r t a n or-
ganization t h a t is fighting a g a i n s t God's kingdom they will suffer the consequences
of its destruction.

I N September, 1938,
timely warning
was s o u n d e d from
Dundee
He is likewise thor-
oughly familiar with
world affairs; and,
London, which mes- taking together the
sage was transmitted Divine p r o p h e c i e s
by wire and wireless and the physical facta,
to the English-speak- he pointed out that
ing people throughout this conspiracy is be-
the earth. ing advanced and that
In brief, that warn- the entire conspiracy
ing was this: Vatican is the offspring of the
City, d i r e c t i n g its Devil, and directed
Hierarchy t h r o u g h - by the Devil and his
out the world and wicked angels, the ob-
acting in conjunction ject being to oppose
with F a s c i s t s and Jehovah God and His
Nazis, is in a con- kingdom.
spiracy to grab con- Many t h o u g h t f u l
trol of and rule the people t h o r o u g h l y
world, regiment the agreed, while many
people, and dictate o t h e r s tabooed t h e
arbitrarily to all. idea, and the Catholic
The speaker on that press began a severe
o c c a s i o n is not a o n s l a u g h t and cam-
prophet, he does not paign of c r i t i c i s m
claim to be, and no against thespeaker, re-
one claims for him sorting to all manner
that he is a prophet; Riots against God's kingdom occurred in these towns of lies. Conspicuous in
he is merely one thor- this were the London
oughly familiar with the Scriptures, particu- Catholic Herald and Catholic Universe.
larly with the prophecies written by holy men In recent months the development of the
f old and which are recorded in the Bible. physical facts have shown not only that the
J
UNE 28, 1939
warning was timely, but that the predicted were distributed inviting the public to attend
events are coming to pass much quicker than Everything was in order for an enlightening
many anticipated. The Catholic press and hour for the people when the Catholic-Fascists
Catholic priests have incited and urged the got busy. Had anything in the speech "FASCISM
benighted and ignorant parishioners of that OR FREEDOM" been false these Catholics might
religious-political organization to create a dis- have answered the charges like men and
turbance throughout England. Unable them- Britons; but knowing every word to be true
selves to give any reasonable or Scriptural they were impelled to obstruct freedom of
answer that would offset the warning concern- speech to prevent exposure. As to their meth-
ing the encroachment of the Catholic-Fascist ods, the words of the superintendent of the
conspiracy, the Vatican and the other mem- hall, who under pressure refused the hall to
bers of the Hierarchy have attempted to stir the Christians who had rented it, are signifi-
up strife, and even bloodshed. cant. His statement follows:
On Friday evening the committee met to discuss
England Aflame with Catholic Anarchy your lecture and whether you could hold any fur-
At Glasgow, Clydebank, Oldham, Mon- ther lectures. We decided that we would grant yon
mouthshire, Hebburn on Tyne, Folkestone, one Sunday evening but that wc would not grant
any further lectures, in view of what was contained
Cambcrley, Leicester, Dundee, London and in the leaflet. Following this discussion the Roman
other places throughout Great Britain these Catholic Priest (Rev. Father McDonor) paid me
disturbances have been so marked that the a visit. He suggested that this lecture should not
people of the nation are aroused and they see- be held because it was opposed to the Roman Cath*
the great danger now threatening their gov- olic Church. Also he reminded us that the Roman
ernment. Below we set out some of the facts, Catholic Church were the big supporters of the
and from time to time this magazine will con- Ambulance Brigade. Further that the medical in-
tinue to publish the facts, to the end that the structors of the Brigade were Catholics and it
order-loving people of this land may be more would be a great loss to the Brigade if Catholic
support was withdrawn from us. As a result of this
fully advised. visit we had a committee meeting and decided in
Since the days of Napoleon the Catholics view of these things to cancel your lecture.
have somewhat taken a back seat, until 1929, D. Williams, 73 Springfield, Newbridge.
when Mussolini restored the pope to temporal This is the condition of freedom in New-
power by the Lateran Treaty signed Febru- bridge.
ary 11 of that year, and since then the Vatican In Hebburn on Tyne, a suburb of New
has become more cocky, advocating and en- Castle, with a similar desire to bring vital
couraging a war against Abyssinia, Spain, information to the attention of the people, a
Japan against China, the grabbing of Austria, hall was engaged for the lecture "FASCISM OR
the wrecking of Czechoslovakia, and many FREEDOM". Messrs. Popay, Cooper and Foster,
other misdeeds too numerous to mention here. trustees of the hall and non-Catholics, yielded
All of this unlawful and wicked prosecution to Papal pressure. A verbatim account fol-
of its purpose the Catholic press throughout lows:
the earth has nurtured and forwarded. Recent
events in Australia, the Fiji Islands, Port of After Jehovah's witnesses began to push forward
their advertising campaign in their regular style
Spain, South Africa, and other places, show with information marches, sound-cars and folders,
that a world-wide movement to wreck civiliza- the local Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Witty, got ex-
tion to satisfy the ambition of the Vatican, cited and took steps to stop this meeting. It
the chief instrument of the Devil on earth, evident from reliable source that this reverend
is being vigorously prosecuted, and the Roman gentleman (f) called on the police on the day be-
Catholic Hierarchy and Fascists are working fore the meeting and gave them some kind of an
together. idea that there might be trouble at this meeting.
Shortly after midnight on Saturday the police of
In southern Wales Jehovah's witnesses of Hebburn sent for the secretary of the hall, Mr.
the Abersychan company rented the Celynan Tallack, and told him that he had better keep the
Ambulance Hall at Newbridge, Monmouth- doors locked on the morrow and refuse Jehovah s
shire, for the purpose of giving the people witnesses entrance, as they (the police) could not
give sufficient protection in view of the threatened
thereabouts an opportunity to hear Judge disturbances. This was the first time anything was
Rutherford's speech "FASCISM-OK FREEDOM". heard of a possible disturbance. With this informa-
In preparation for this meeting 3,000 leaflets tion the trustees of the hall decided to break their
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contract and posted a sign on the door of their, the main street there would be about 2,000 all
hall Sunday notifying the public that the meeting together. You can imagine the difficulty of getting
v a s canceled. to the tramcar with such crowds around. The police
It also seems that this same priest on Saturday were throwing the people about like balls trying
evening warned his flock at a service to stop J e h o - to reach the witnesses.
yjh's witnesses and their meeting. On Sunday
morning, when Jehovah's witnesses began to wit- Assault at Garngad Road
ness to the people in the usual way there were Further in regard to the riots in Glasgow,
groups of Catholics standing about the street
corners lying in wait. All during Sunday morning
Henry Carmichael, one of five mobbed at
the publishers of the Kingdom were harassed and Garngad Road, Friday evening, May 19,
ill-treated by these small groups. Stones were makes a statement:
thrown at them and also at their cars. Abusive F i v e of us went to Cobdcn Street. Everything
language was used by women who followed the was peaceful and we were well received. We were
publishers from house to house. They also booed unaware of any trouble in the district. We had
the information marches and stoned the sound-car. finished a close [Scottish apartment house] in
After the notice of the canceling of the meeting Charles Street, when at the foot of the elose sev-
had been posted on the hall Sunday morning, eral women came rushing down, "Tell that man to
groups of Catholics got together shouting "We've get out for his lifethere is trouble. A man and
won, we've won". At the time of the scheduled a woman have been assaulted and taken away in
meeting the witnesses gathered in front of the hall tramcar." I was disturbeddidn't know where
and made appointments to call on all the people to go. Elizabeth Moerkrl (German refugee pioneer)
of good will who had come to hear this important and I decided to go down to Garngad Road. We
lecture. found a huge mob there. I saw two policemen; we
p u t ourselves in their protection. I told the police-
Violence at Glasgow men there had been other assaults. They walked
Report of assaults of May 19, 1939: with us to Bright Street. A huge howl went u p when
the people saw usthe mob surged towards us.
The battle gets hotter every day u p here, and
I never in my life saw such a frenzied mob. The
so I have to report more assaults in the witness
work. Twelve witnesses (mostly pioneers) were scenes at Clydebank were child's play compared
assaulted, including an old man of 70-odd years. with this. Stones and sticks were flung; dung was
pushed down my neck. The policemen were help-
On Friday evening, May 19, there was what has
less in the face of the mobthey were getting
been described to me by outsiders as the biggest
disturbance ever witnessed in the Garngad district stones thrown at them also. The policemen were
of Glasgow. The twelve publishers were distribut- much more afraid of the mob than we were. These
ing the Clydebank leaflet and Face the Facts and policemen took us up Bright Street to Charles
Fascism or Freedom booklets, when almost with- Streetwalked along to Turner Street. There the
out warning several mobs each made up of hun- policemen left us, told us to beat it to Castle Street
dreds strong started molesting and assaulting the and get out of the district. Elizabeth and I went
publishers. along Charles Street, the mob still following, throw-
Some were pushed down stairs or rather flung ing stones, beating and kicking us with their feet,
down, their literature stolen, their head-gear thrown pulling at Elizabeth's coat and trying to tear away
away, pulled along the street by the hair, ham- her bag. That continued all the way along Charles
mered continuously on the head and body, kicked Street, nearly half a mile long. At Castle Street
constantly on the back and legs as they tried to another mob came u p Garngad Road (turned back
reach a point for transport. Stones, bottles and after losing Mrs. Kilpatrick) hundreds strong. At
every other thing within reach were thrown, some first we didn't know what to do. There was no
even having horse manure pushed down their backs. transport, in sight. At last I saw a tram and we
From an outside source (those not J w ' s ) I am tried to get it. Several youths started battering
mformed that some in the crowds had old swords me and punching me as I tried to get to the
nd heavy sticks, to kill if they got the chance. t r a m . Several women attacked Elizabeth at this
Police sent several constables into the district, time, pulling her hair, and trying to knock her on
but these got stoned also, and were unable to do the ground, kicking and punching. The crowd had
ar brought the tram to a standstill. The driver and
ything m the way of arresting anyone. Traffic
** held up as the mobs entirely blocked the roads, conductor and another man came off the car and
t^'as a seething mass of angry humanity, yelling, endeavored to help us; also two policemen were
"ooing and shouting, and not until the drivers and fighting their way through the crowd to reach us.
conductors of the tramcars that had been held u p By this time I bad half got on and pulled Eliza-
c
*me to the rescue of the publishers were they able beth o n ; women were pulling her off, but a man
to
get away. in the tram helped me to pull her on. Then the
1 am told that when the mobs got together in two policemen struggled on and the tram started.
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Statement by Mrs. M. Kilpatrick of the hall was approached by a number of Cath-
Witnesses Ceo. Calder, ITendre Carmichael, J . olics who are frequenters of the saloon. As a re-
Walker, McGee, Kilpatrick, Elizabeth Mocckel, sult, of their attitude and intimidation the proprie-
Robson, Mary Kilpatrick, M. Henderson, Turner, tor decided to cancel the letting. He was also ap-
senior, Jessie Turner, Mattie King, met at Garngad proached by a police constable who enquired the
Road and Castle Street and stalled work in Cobden nature of the proposed meeting and suggested that
Street and Bright Street. trouble was likely to occur. This is another evidence
Soon after we started Jessie Turner came run- of the growing move of the Catholic-Fascist power
ning to me asking nie to get the police, as a mob in this country which is out to bully and intimidate
was assaulting their party. I went straight to a men of other persuasions to do their bidding.
police box, burst the emergency bell and shouted
"Please send police at once to Villers Street. Come Northwich Hall Canceled
at once; Jehovah's witnesses are being assaulted". 15 Minutes Before Meeting
When I turned to come out of the box there was POT a long time the Labor party is said to
a great mob round me, probably three hundred. have stood for principles of fair play and the
I went down Villers Street towards Castle Street
looking for a policeman. All the way the mob kept
right of the freedom of peaceable assembly.
battering me on the head with their lists, kicking But in these days of the growing move of
me and shouting at me in the most dreadful lan- Fascism in Britain, there are signs of Labor
guage. They kept saying, " J u s t see what we'll do also yielding to such pressure.
to you for coming here saying things against the In years gone, by Jehovah's witnessas have
pope." Two young women with babies in their many times 1 the Labor Hall on Tabley
arms, who seemed to be the ringleaders of the mob, Street in Northwich, Cheshire, 25 miles from
threw their babies to two other women and joined Liverpool. This hall had been used for many
the battering and punching. By this time the mob
was from 300 to 500 strong, of men, women and public-Bible lectures by Judge Rutherford
children. (.voi as had been arranged for -Sunday eve-
I came to the tram line and, by entering the ning, Hay 14, when this famous anti-Fascist
front of the tram, managed to get separated from lecture "Fascism or Freedom" was scheduled
the mob. I took the number of the ear, and the to be given by electrical transcription.
conductor said he was willing to be a witness to my Jehovah's witnesses had spent a busy week
assault. The number of the tram car is 633 from prior in thoroughly advertising this important
Crookston to Renfield Street, Route No. 21. I be occasion for the town of Northwich. Over five
lieve the number on the conductor's cap was 685. thousand invitations had been left with, the
Both driver and conductor saw the actual battering people, and several information marches were
which I got. The mob held the car up and two other
cars. This car took DM to Castle Street, where I held in the main center of the town. Then
saw two policemen. I came off and reported the Sunday evening, just fifteen minutes before
assault fully to these policemen. I gave these police- the lecture was to begin, the caretaker of the
men Who Shall Rule the World? Face the Facts, Labor Hall informed. Jehovah's witnesses that
and the Clydebank leaflet, and a small leaflet with their lecture was banned and that their con-
addresses of the Glasgow Kingdom Halls. They tract for the ball was canceled. When pressed
said there was nothing they could do. for reasons the management of the hall and
the secretary, F. Whitty, said they had re-
Catholic Pressure in Dundee ceived letters from various Catholics object-
The Dundee representative of the Watch ing to the meeting. There were also threats of
Tower Bible and Tract Society in eastern trouble. However, Jehovah's witnesses were
Scotland reports Catholic interference and not outdone; they held an open-air meeting
thwarting of an assembly to hear the "Fascism near the Labor Hall and gave the entire
or Freedom" lecture in that fair city on the "Fascism or Freedom" lecture to an appre-
Firth of Tay. He said: ciative audience. Truly every day bears fur-
On Wednesday evening of May 17 the Dundee ther evidence of the growth of Catholic-Fascist
company of Jehovah's witnesses arranged for a actionin Britain. As the Catholic Herald said
public lecture, "Fascism or Freedom," in a billiard on May 12, "There is a growing sense that
saloon which has been used on previous occasions. Catholicity in Great Britain is on the eve of
The threescore witnesses in this very active com- great happenings."
pany conducted information marches, made a wide
distribution of handbills from house to house, and
used their sound-cars to thoroughly inform the peo- Report from Oldham
ple of this important lecture by Judge Rutherford. I BID confident that a work is being accomplished
On the evening prior to the lecture the proprietor by the distribution of UM leaflet, and whilst there
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jre those who are glad for selfish reasons to see any man of the British Isles cherishing the
the Catholic system exposed, yet there are many principles of liberty fought for by English,
others who are glad to see truth made known for Irish and Scotchmen who approves beating
higher reasons. I am confident that we have many
friends and the distribution of the leaflet is bring-
up another simply because he has different
ing them to light. Many are glad that there is an views on the Bible from your own?
organisation bold and courageous enough to ex- Arc not the Roman Catholic priests and
pose a system having such power in the earth. press of Britain who have incited the igno-
At tonight's meeting a stranger came to Kingdom rant to riot guilty of the crime even more so
Hall for a few of the leaflets to give to friends, than the ignorant? Is it the business of a
etc.; he had been asked for them and he said he church leader to organize his flock into a mob
would try to get some. H e too sees the menace of lusting for blood simply to appease Rome's
Catholic-Fascist action and he is glad of the stand desire to keep the people from hearing the
we have taken.
truth? How does one who thus outrages all
decency, whether he wears a black coat or lace
Who Incited the Riots?* ruffles or what have you, differ from any other
There arc still many people suffering under BLOOD-GUILTY criminal? When a man dis-
the delusion that the Roman Catholic Church honors a uniform he should not be permitted
is a fine thing. Hundreds of millions of peo- to hide behind it.
ple have entrusted their spiritual welfare to
the Roman Catholic Church. To such let it "Let the Buyer Beware"
here be stated that your confidence has been It is time past-due for the good people num-
abused and your trust misplaced. If the Cath- bering millions who support the Roman Cath-
olic organization is in reality a good thing olic Church to ask themselves what they are
and at all worthy of the .Lord's name, which buying. Let them propound the questions in
it claims, why does it indulge in the effort thoughtful self-examination: Did 1 examine
to murder Christians simply because they before I purchased? Was the. principle of
have views different from their own? Do the established business code "Let the buyer be-
good Catholics of the earth think it will en- ware" pursued with regard to my religious
hance the merit of the Church or augment its affiliations ? Is it not folly and courting dis-
honor to violently attack people who are striv- aster to accept what man has to say, whether
ing to assist others to understand the Bible, priest or otherwise, simply on his unsupported
in fact doing exactly what they should be word, without the backing of Scriptural au-
doing themselves? Is it not time that some thority or proof, knowing full well that I am
of the honor-loving Catholics come forward thereby aiding one who stoops to attempt to
with the suggestion that the Hierarchy, priests murder? Do I favor the killing of Catholics
and Church leaders would serve the honor of by Catholics in Spain simply because it is de-
the organization better by condemning mob creed by a man? and do I desiie English
violence rather than by inciting it? Is there Catholics to presently fight Nazi Catholics at
the instance of the organization I am support-
*In Noa. 505 and 506 of Consolation, dated re-
ing? Is it the part of wisdom to dismiss the
ipectively January 25, 1939, and February 8, 1939, matter from mind by paying for a few masses
evidence was presented that there is Jesuit influence or prayers as may have been traditional in
in the Cliveden set, which practically controls the my family as a Catholic?
British press and foreign policy; that the dishonor-
able Munich peace was prearranged four years be-
fore it occurred; that the Roman Catholic United Motives of the Hierarchy
States ambassador Kennedy was sent to Britain to
Mp put over the job; that the Roman Catholic Hier- There is scarcely an intelligent man who
archy is all-influential in the British Foreign Office; accepts without critical examination any state-
wat tlie British press and reporters are mostly Irish ment made by another. I t is therefore proper
Roman Catholics; that Roman Catholic influences arc to consider the motive of the Roman Catholic
" virtual control of the British Broadcasting Cor-
poration ; that Roman Catholic leaders are arguing for Hierarchy as well as the facts. Within the
' 'modified freedom of the p r e s s " (no freedom at British Commonwealth of Nations and the
5*0 i that Rome now has a so-called ' ' Apostolic United States are found the greater portion
^ l e g a t e " in England; that the Church of England of the liberty-lovers of the earth. Their alle-
clergy are sympathetic toward Rome. Trends similar
the foregoing are noted in other parts of the giance to flag and country is based upon the
J^unmonweaUli, including Australia, Canada, and New traditional stand that" the Scotch, Irish, Eng-
aland. lish and Americans, all of common forebears,
JUNE 28. 1939
have made for the cherished possession of Do You Want to Live?
liberty. Their land stands for their rights to The consideration of the lives of the Cath-
enjoy life, liberty and the unmolested pursuit olic population is vastly more important, how-
of happiness. Now it is certain that many ever. Does anyone who believes in the true
within those countries where freedom has been God, who promised the people truth without
so greatly loved and dearly bought have not ap- money and without price, who owns the earth,
plied the principle of "Let the buyer beware" would stoop to an arrangement whereby a
to their religion, because the English-speaking few princes of the Catholic church would en-
countries greatly support the Roman Catholic rich themselves at the expense of the others
Church and the Roman Catholic Church is affiliated in some way with the church, and
the enemy of liberty. this God would do in order to persuade him-
This is the fact which the pages of history self to shorten the duration in "purgatory"
painfully corroborate. Let the people afore- of wretched men ? The traditions of men, and
mentioned recall the scourging wrath of not the Scriptures, are the basis for such blas-
Mary T, who strove to convert the kingdom phemous falsehood.
to God and the pope; the horrors perpetrated Four hundred years ago Martin Luther
upon France by the pope's niece Catherine proved that "purgatory* was not taught in the
de Medici; the ravages of the Inquisition, Bible; and today, if any still believe that
which has been reproduced in modern times Catholicism is supported by the Scriptures,
by the Catholics Hitler, Mussolini and Franco; let them read a Bible treatise called 'UN-
and let the free-born man of any country un- COVERED" written by the faithful Bible ex-
der the sun ask himself one question: Has ponent, Judge Rutherford.
Catholicism or any of its sons ever stood for You freedom-loving peoples of earth, you
right and freedom and received the sanction have bought neither bread nor freedom, nor
of the church? Has the church ever favored your lives, by supporting the Roman Catholic
democracy or freedom in any form? Let any church. The nation of Spain has recently
Catholic find some encyclical or pontifical bought a brand-new Catholic system; they
utterance which promoted liberty and was re- paid a dear price: a few hundred thousand
flected in an action for liberty. In fifteen hun- lives, most of whom were Catholics, the gut-
dred years of existence, had this organization ting of their treasury, and every vestige of
any policy of liberty, it would have been ex- freedom.
pressed. Obviously it has none; it is the very The Hierarchy always seems fortunate
antithesis of freedom: a dictatorial and tyran- enough to find just the right man to do any
nical power inimical to every democracy un- zealous bil of murdering that the case seems
der the sun. to call for. Take Franco, for instance. His
Why, then, is it supported by the people of first official act when he captured Barcelona
the democracies? Chiefly because it has built was.the celebration of a public mass; it fol-
up a superstitious aura of influence founded lows, of course, the Fascist army was there,
upon the tradition of men and supported by joining in the ceremony, because General
the Devil to dishonor God's name. You who Franco does not entertain any opinion con-
support the Roman Catholic church, consider trary to the pope's. One of his mottoes is:
what you have boxight, not because such con- "Dead men have no criticism against the
sideration will help Jehovah's witnesses, but Fascist government." And he is delighting the
in order that you may save your good money pope's heart by converting to Catholicism or
and eventually save your lives. Does not every- to death, in either case a victory for Rome.
one attach some importance to his money, and Is it any wonder that the pope thanked his
more to his life? If you are a Catholic and god, the Devil, when Franco took over?
care nothing for your money, the same "can-
not be said for the church which you support. Franco the Butcher
The Reader's Digest points out that in Ger- Note what a thorough-going job Franco is
many alone the church owns twenty billion doing. The New York Time* of May 27, 1939,
dollars' worth of property. If the church had carries this account :
688 Executed by Franco Since March 28;
cared nothing for this money it could have 1,200,000 Accused Are Belna Tried 380 a Day
found plenty of needy Catholics in Spain and By The Associated Press.
elsewhere upon whom to unburden itself. The MADRID, May 26.It was officially announced
cliurch loves money, and boasts of its wealth. tonight that the Isationalists' specially constituted
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8
councils of war and permanent military tribunals Hierarchy to rub their hands in anticipation.
bad sent 688 persons before firing squads since the A Catholic paper of recent date says that
f8H of Madrid on March 28. the Irish, those we have come to respect in
The councils, formed by officers of the Madrid America as the "fighting Irish", are to be
jriny of occupation, condemned 1,000 persons to called on to fill in the gaps in the priesthood
death, but the sentences of 312 of them were corn-
mated to prison terms by Generalissimo Francisco
in ravaged Spain. Have enough Irishmen be-
Franco. come so tainted by their association with the
Officials of the military tribunals said in dis- Roman Catholic Hierarchy that -they are will-
posing the figures that daily trials contributing tp ing to undertake the work of helping Franco
"the total normalization of the life of the nation" kill another million Spaniards? It does not
were "indispensable for initiation of the second sound like a job worthy of the charming peo-
era of empire." ple of the Emerald Isle. And it seems incred-
Tribunals in Madrid have been trying daily 380 ible that the experience of General O'Duffy's
persons accused of assassinations, robberies, burn- Irish Brigade in the Spanish Civil War could
ing and sacking of churches, treason, imprison- have been so quickly and so completely for-
ment of Nationalist sympathizers and otfier activ-
ities during the time when the Republicans domi-
gotten.
nated the city.
The number condemned includes those sentenced Why Assault JehovcJVs witnesses?
by councils of war operating in Toledo, Ciudad To return to the attackers of Jehovah's wit-
Heal and Alban tv in addition to Madrid. A round- nesses. In brief the motives of these agents of
up of suspected criminals in all newly incorporated the Hierarchy arc here impugned: their pur-
zones is continuing under direction of military pose is quite evidently to discredit the words
authorities. of a speaker who is too clearly factual; to
The latest number awaiting trial in Madrid was cloud in the minds of the ignorant or innocent
not announced, but it was officially disclosed less
than a month ago that there were 46,000 scheduled
any exposure of the Hierarchy in true char-
to face the tribunals and 1,200,000 informations acter, that of one who is blood-drunk, who does
filed against suspects in all Spain. not want her evil discovered, so that she may
Showing t h e a b s o l u t e a c c o r d b e t w e e n p o p e ,
continue to drink the blood of innocents and
Fascist a n d Nazi, n o t e this d i s p a t c h i n t h e devour the nations of earth. "Also in thy skirts
same p a p e r : is found the blood of the souls of the poor in-
VIGO, Spain, May 26 (A.P.).The German
nocents ; I have not found it by secret search,
Condor Legion of about 6,000 men who fought in but upon all these."Jeremiah 2:34.
the Spanish civil war sailed for H a m b u r g today What, on the other hand, is the motive for
aboard five German liners. Jehovah's witnesses?* They have nothing to
General J u a n Yague, Jose Solchaga, Miguel gain, no gigantic fabulous wealth that is en-
Aranda and six other Spanish Nationalist military dangered by simple truth, no need for armies
leaders were aboard the steamer Robert Ley, which to destroy the lives of thousands that selfish
led the four other liners out of Vigo harbor, escort- religious rulers might continue in power. Jeho-
ed by more than 100 fishing vessels. The S p a n i a r d s vah's witnesses are commanded to tell the
were invited to Germany to see the Condor Legion
parade before Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Berlin What I like about these fighters in the "Watch
on June 6. Tower [Jehovah's witnesses] is the way they defend
Forty-five officers of the Spanish Nationalist Air Democracy and expose the evils of Fascism. They are
always eternally right when they educate the masses
Force also were aboard for a trip to Germany. regarding the Fascist conspiracies of the Catholic
Franco has no doubt heard of Thomas Tor- Hierarchy in Ethiopia, Italy, Spain and other coun-
quemada, Inquisitor General of Spain during tries of Fascist intrigue. . . . Wherever Catholicism
the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, a time is strong in this country, there you will find the fol-
lowers of Judge Kutherford persecuted. These perse-
when Europeans were just beginning to emi- cutors are the enemies of our free institutions; the
grate to America to escape the Catholic In- persecuted ones are the defenders of our precious
quisition. It is recorded in the Encyclop&dia liberties, our glorious rights of free press, free
thought, free speech and free assemblyrights which
Rritannica that Torquemada killed only 10,000 the Watch Tower Bible Students never fail to sup-
"heretics" by rack, stake and torture chamber port with every legitimate weapon at their command.
in the name of the pope; whereas Franco al- . . . I have never heard a word of aggression from
jj^dy has several hundred thousand start on Judge Rutherford or any of his colleagues. I have
never heard them suggest that men and women should
Torquemada, and, with a million yet to be be bound and gagged because they happened to ex-
tried, it looks as if Franco ought to have up a press unpopular opinions.The Editor of The Amer-
Permanent record. This is real cause for the ican Freeman.
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truth (Isaiah 43) ; and it docs not matter in That much could not be said for any Roman
the least whether anyone listens or not, as far Catholic priest under the sun. Judge Ruther-
as the result to them is concerned. "And speak ford is aiding the people to understand the
unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord Bible, while the Catholic priests are doing all
God; whether they Avill hear, or whether they within their power to throw dust in the eyes
will forbear."Ezekiel 3:11. of the people and to prevent them from know-
Jehovah's witnesses, in obedience to the ing what is in the Bible. For this reason hon-
Most High, are crying out to you honest and est Catholics are rapidly fleeing from the
fair-minded peoples of earth to save your- Catholic domination; and that greatly enrages
selves. If one chooses to believe agents of the the Hierarchy.
Hierarchy, in spite of the facts, he will,'be the Sincere Catholic people see that in the
loser, and not those he condemns; and as the Vatican there is no hope held out for them
Hierarchy gains more power in the earth, be- and seeing the truth, they learn that their
cause the Lord has decreed that she be en- only hope is in God's kingdom. Sincere Cath-
trapped in the fullness of power, the cries of olics have been fleeced of their hard-earned
Jehovah's witnesses will likely be silenced for money by the agents of the Vatican who reg-
a time. Then the people will learn too late ularly go about collecting from laboring men
that these spoke in kindness and in obedience and others their hard-earned money. Jehovah's
to Jehovah of Hosts. In the fullness of power witnesses go from door to door to encourage,
the Hierarchy will be taken and all who give aid and comfort the people to see and to un-
allegiance to her. This is Jehovah's just decree derstand how they may obtain blessings from
against the abomination that desolates Europe the Lord. This they do without compensation
and the whole earth. to themselves. The contrast between Jehovah's
witnesses and the Hierarchy agents is so
Why Libel Judge Rutherford? marked that honest people everywhere are
Unable to answer the Scriptural proof set seeing their privilege of getting away from
forth by Judge Rutherford in his address on the Hierarchy domination. This truly is the
"FACE THE PACTS", and on "FASCISM OK FREE-
time in which the scripture at Matthew
DOM", which are now being distributed 25:31-4G is being fulfilled. Christ Jesus, act-
ing by and through His representatives whom
throughout this country, the Catholic Press He sends throughout the earth, is dividing the
of London has made and continues to make people, putting the "goats" on one side and
many scurrilous, false and libelous charges the "sheep" on the other; and the flock of
against Judge Rutherford. "We are not inter- "goats" is made up of the Hierarchy chiefly,
ested in this. "We are not here defending Judge and those who support them are also "goats".
Rutherford. He needs no defense. Every per- The "sheep" are those who are willing to be
son who knows him is fully convinced that he led and taught the truth, and this regardless
is sincerely devoted to Jehovah God and His of whether they have been Catholics, Church
kingdom. Whether he served a short time or of England Episcopalians, Wesleyan Method-
a long time as circuit judge, or whether he ists, or anybody else.
was a junk dealer, is beside the question. That
throws no light whatsoever upon God's Word. This magazine could take up many pages
Judge Rutherford is bringing to the people in naming and extolling the virtues of Judge
the message of God's Word. It is not a man's Rutherford, who is laying down his life in the
message, but the Lord's message, and every interest of the people; but this is not neces-
honest and sincere person is able to sec the sary. It neither adds any glory to the Lord
truth thereof without the aid of Jesuit priests. nor brings any comfort to the people and he
No one can truly charge Judge Rutherford does not wish this to be done. Forget the man
with doing wrong. That much cannot be truth- and look at the message, and then decide for
fully said about very many Catholic priests. yourself whether you wish to be fleeced by
Judge Rutherford left the law to devote him- these commereial-"purgatory" agents who
self, and is wholly devoting himself and all wrongfully collect money from the people, or
his energies, to the service of Jehovah God Avhether you want to learn the truth and find
and His kingdom, and in aiding the people the way to life everlasting in peace and happi-
to understand the Bible, that they might flee ness. The Catholic organization is a political or-
to the only place-of refuge, safety and life. ganization, determined to rule or ruin the peo-
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pie; and it is certainly ruining them. The prosperity and life, may result to those who
Lord's organization is the only organization in love and serve Him. But have this in mind:
existence that holds out comfort and aid to the that only those who become the servants of
people; and that organization is headed by Jehovah God, who refuse to follow any man
the Lord Jesus Christ, now present, and who or any man-made organization, will be the
is putting in operation His kingdom, and who ones that receive lasting benefit. Shun reli-
\vill soon destroy all opposition, that peace, gion, and serve Christ Jesus the King.

Other British Items

Wages of British Postal Employees Open I d o l a t r y in Britain
The wages of British postal employees have At Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England, is a statue
just been raised, and still seem very meager. cut out of the hillside in pagan times known as
Postmen in Inner London may rise to a maxi- the Cerne giant. Many will be astonished to
mum of 75 shillings a week, which is around learn that in front of this giant statue, com-
$18.25 per week. An American postman at monly called "the love god", British girls have
$175 per month gets around $40 per week, but been worshiping every year for centuries. After
rents and other living expenses are much less darkness they come and pray him to send them
in Britain than here. a sweetheart, and young wives come and plead
for children. This, in England!
Trains Delayed by Seaweed
It is surely an odd circumstance that elec-
tric trains were delayed by seaweed, but it Saved Twelve Lives by Being Late
happened in London. So much seaweed backed At Lount colliery, Leicester, England,
up in the Thames that it choked the water twelve men were about to go down a deep
supply in one of the electric generating sta- shaft when it was discovered that one of the
tions. That reduced the steam supply and twelve was a few moments late. The first trip
made it necessary for 20 minutes to cut down down, therefore, the cage was sent down with
the speed of the trains. mining equipment instead of men. I t broke
away and dropped several hundred feet to the
Cash for Mental Patients bottom. Had the men been aboard all would
Experiments on the Isle of Wight with certainly have been killed.
mental patients on probation shows that they
are much benefited by being entrusted with
small sums of money. The jingling of coins British P o s t Office
in their pockets gives them a sense of inde- The British Post Office is supposed to be
pendence and acts as a mental restorative. making money, even though the country is
The experiment is proving a wonderful success. virtually bankrupt.
The average surplus of the British Post
Fascism in Kendal, E n g l a n d Office for the past five years exceeded 12,-
In Kendal, England, a Fascist chief of 000,000. Wages paid to postal workers are
police ordered that an attendant be posted at low, seldom reaching 5 a week, with most of
the exit of each cinema, so that at the con- them much below that figure.
clusion of each show no one may leave until
the national anthem is played. The rule is
strictly enforced, and thus, little by little, B u r g l a r s of 14
Fascism comes to Britain. It was Mark Twain that said that every
Color B a r in Britain boy should be kept in a barrel and fed through
Britain has few colored persons. Occasion- the bunghole until he is 14 and then the bung-
ally representative visitors vcome from Africa hole should be closed. It seems they must be
and other colonial possession. These are fre- thinking something like that in Britain since
quently treated in such a way as to return to they discovered that of the 9,881 persons
*hcre they came from with less love for the found guilty in 1937 of breaking and enter-
mpire than they had before. ing 39 percent were under 14 years of age.
JUNE. 28, 1939
11
 Trinidad Tears Up the Magna Charta

S OLICITUDE for those who hate the Magna

Chdrta is not amusing or pathetic. I t is
criminal, disgusting, cowardly and contempt-
may still worship their idols, believe what
they like and teach it to others. Is it for the
Mohammedans? No; they may still look for-
ible. In the island of Trinidad, British ward to an eternity spent in the arms of the
West Indies, there are houris, the black-eyed
Hindus, Mohammed- and beautiful nymphs
ans, P r e s b y t e r i a n s , of paradise, and the
Episcopalians, Meth- men, at least, can
odists and R o m a n work for converts as
Catholics. The latter they will. Is it for the
believe and o p e n l y P r e s b y t e r i a n s ? No;
teach that they alone they may still teach
have the right to that they are elect,
teach, and that it is set apart for eternal
right for them, if they mercies, while others
can do so, to suppress are set apart for cli-
by .any means what- mates h o t t e r than
ever those who teach Trinidad. Is it for the
differently. There are Methodists, who be-
also a few Christians, lieve the results will
called Jehovah's wit- be the same as by the
nesses. The latter are Presbyterian system,
singular and peculiar but that the Creator
because they not only does the best He can
profess to believe the to prevent it? No;
Bible, but do believe they still have the
it right to teach what
The government of they wish.
Trinidad is solicitous Ah! there is one
for one of the groups group left. Can it be
above named. Which To the house of fulsome tragedies possible that the poli-
of these groups, do ticians of Trinidad
you imagine, is the object of its paternal care? are. deeply moved for the Roman Catholic
Can it be that it is solicitous for the good Hierarchy because they and their followers
name and fame of the religion of Edward VIII, are few, and, despite the oft-repeated and ex-
married. of late by a clergyman of the travagant claims of what they would do to
Church of England? Of course not. Britain their fellow men if only they had the power,
is the land of the Magna Charta and believes these politicians wish to make sure that no
in free speech and fair play, or at least it did, harm can come to them until they commit
and no politician in any of its colonies would some overt acts? Yes, and no! The solicitude
stoop to defend the Church of England by is for the Hierarchy and its following, but it
underhand methods. is not because they are few, but, according to
But the Government of Trinidad is so deep- the politicians, it is because there arc so many
ly moved for the interests of am of the groups in Trinidad. That is why the Christians, Jeho-
above mentioned that it "devised mischief by vah's witnesses, must, so the politicians say,
a law" which prohibits admission into the be deprived of their privilege of reading or
colony of Bibles if printed by the Watchtower circulating their Bible literature.
Bible and Tract Society, books explaining the How would you like to live in a place where
Bible if printed by the same Society, and song those who at heart are evil and wicked, and
books containing hymns of praise to the Crea- openly confess it in their public statements,
tor if published by the same. are protected by politicians at the expense of
In whose interest, pray, is all this paternal the taxpayers, and Christians are deprived of
care exercised? Is it for the Hindus? No; they their most elementary rights? Such is Trinidad,
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 turbed, interfered with, and was offensive to
her" by "starting to play a phonograph" and
"trying to sell religious leaflets". Thereupon
the officers of the law sallied forth, and in due
course of time Mary Guthrie was brought be-
fore Arthur L. Hart, justice of the peace, and
tried upon the charges stated in Mrs. Dono-
ghue's information.
There was no evidence that the accused one
The Deflation of Justice H a r t had violated any law. It was true that she did
+ Irondequoit is a town in Monroe county, play a phonograph record containing*a Bible
state of New York. Its justice of the peace is lecture. It was true that she did present some
Arthur L. Hart. As such justice he is quite Bible leaflets to Mrs. Donoghue. But it is not
an important personage. He has the power against the law to do those things. Neverthe-
to pass on questions of law and fact, and is less, Justice Hart made full use of the powers
empowered to levy fines and to impose prison given to him by law and found the defendant
s e n t e n c e s against guilty of the offense
those brought before charged. He thereup-
him c h a r g e d with on levied a fine of ten
crime. dollars against her,
Sometimes a little plus a sentence of ten
power has a bad effect days in the Monroe
upon the minds of County Penitentiary.
people. It causes an He suspended the pen-
overestimation of their itentiary s e n tence,
position in relation to however, upon condi-
the rest of the fam- tion that the defend-
ilies of the earth. The ant "stay out of Iron-
story of Justice of the dequoit hereafter".
Peace Hart's overval- Jehovah's Kingdom publishers' information march, That, fellow demo-
uation of himself and Orlando, Florida crats, is some judicial
of its deflation is here told for the delectation pronunclamento. It brings to light and mani-
of Consolation readers. fests the evil effects of that well-known dis-
ease which may be designated "bloating of the
On December 12 last, one of Jehovah's wit- cranium". This local justice seems to be afflict-
nesses, Mary Guthrie, a pioneer publisher, ed with the final stages of that disease, and
visited residents of Irondequoit at their homes. therefore imagines that he is as big a man as
While so engaged she called upon Florence "I-am-the-law" Hague, of Jersey City.
Donoghue. Never mind guessing Mrs. Donog-
hue's church. She announces it for herself. In accordance with Hart's finding and judg-
She listened to a Biblical record played on ment, the defendant, a God-fearing, Christian
Mrs. Guthrie's phonograph, and then em- woman, must stay out of Irondequoit thence-
phatically stated, "I am a Catholic." She there- forth, thereafter and forevermore. She is
upon demonstrated clearly the Catholic mode persona non grata on streets and sidewalks, in
of objecting to Bible lectures by shaking her hotels, restaurants, business places, residences,
fist, storming around, and ordering the pioneer and in all other portions qf the town. She is
publisher off the porch excommunicated, banished and exiled. Ten
Picking up the phonograph, the publisher days in jail await her any time she returns.
departed. The matter should have ended right No judicial precedent is cited as authority for
there. It would have been better -for Mrs. this autocratic, imperious decree. It came from
Donoghue and Justice of the Peace Hart if it the inflated mental recesses of the town's jus-
had. But the shocked condition of Mrs. Dono- tice of the peace, unsupported by statute, ordi-
ghue's Papalistic susceptibilities impelled her nance, edict, rubric or maxim; and undoubted-
to further action. She went to Justice Hart ly it brought great comfort and peace of mind
ai
*d swore to an information in which it was to Florence Donoghue and others of like mind.
barged that Mary Guthrie "annoyed, dis- But their joy was short-lived.
JUNE 28, 1939 13
 Sonic of the thousand listeners to a transcription lecture

Mary Guthrie, through her attorneys, took and respect, and he of theirs. The story
an appeal to the Monroe County court, where, leaked OUt in a letter.
after due argument and the filing of briefs,
the county judge entered a decision reversing The Battle in Jamaica
the judgment of the Honorable Justice of the The former mayor of Kingston, who caused
Peace Arthur L. Hart and setting aside the Jehovah's witnesses to be taken into court
conviction. Thereupon now, henceforth and some time ago, is not re-elected. The new
for evermore Mary Guthrie may walk the mayor gave us the privilege of delivering lec-
streets of Irondequoit unmolested and without tures in the Race Course for three nights.
fear of incarceration; and His Honor, the jus- Over 1.500 persons heard the lectures, and
tice of the peace of the community, will, in much interest was shown. There are 105 phono-
mental structure, decline, abate and subside graphs in use in the work in the island; also
to the usual condition, size and temperature seven portable transcription machines and two
of the normal human person. sound-cars, and, by God's help, we expect to
tan the old woman's [Roman Catholic Hier-
Texas Boy with a Conscience archy's] hide.P. H. Davidson, Jamaica.
The world needs nothing human so much
as it needs boys and girls with consciences J o y s of Kingdom Service
like those of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Several years ago, while in Smithfield, I
Abed-nego. There are many such among the witnessed to one of the nicest persons I have
children of Jehovah's witnesses. Having heard ever met while delivering the message of truth.
the truth all their lives, and seen their parents This woman was very poor. She asked the price
live it, the children want to live it too. of the booklet and I.told her 1 would let her
Texas has many such boys. God bless every have it on a contribution of five cents. She
one of them. Noel is one of them, age 11. lie told me that she had no money, and they were
did not want to sing patriotic songs if there is too good to be given away for nothing. I told
anything about war in them. He would sing her that 1 would let her have it for nothing
the first two verses of one of the songs, but not if she promised to read it. She refused the
the last one. He would not sing a song about offer, so 1 bade her good day. As 1 started to
'his soul taking its flight to God'. His desire is
to live forever on the earth. He did not wish to the next house I noticed some beautiful climb-
participate in Christmas celebrations. He had ing roses in her yard. They were yellow and
read of the origin of Christmas, in this maga- very large. I went back to the house and asked
zine. He would not participate in a song that if she would let me have a few of those roses,
asked God to bless a new school building, its and I in turn would give her a booklet; then
walls, windows, chimneys, doors, etc. He was the book would not be given away for noth-
sure such a song would not be in harmony with ing. This she was very glad to do. I had pretty
the Scriptures. His teachers so far have yellow roses and she had the message of truth.
the point every time, and that shows that, they I never have had a more interesting ana<
are up to the highest standard of the American pleasant experience than this. Patty Mahone,
teaching tradition, and worthy of Noel's love pupil in Gates Kingdom School, Pennsylvania.
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Curtailing Freedom of Speech world except through and by His arrange-
+ Because the Federal Council of Churches ment of things. It is pitiful to witness what
0f Christ in America has remained silent while
methods are being adopted by these satanie
the Roman Hierarchy tried every way to force concerns in order to just stand a little longer.
Judge Rutherford off the air, it is with some But the Light of Truth is gradually shining
interest that note is made of its public and more and more until the dark corners will be
hypocritical statement: rid of all the Cathedral Bats, and they will
In a democracy freedom of speech is a priceless
have to come out in the light and be censured
possession. No administrative government agency by the Word of truth.
is wise enough to be entrusted with power to de- Your criticism of the Hierarchy, measured
termine what people shall hear. Freedom of radio b}T the one Book, is surely commendable and,
is almost, if not quite, as important as freedom of above all, is true. I firmly believe that the
the press. If either is undercover m e t h o d s
curtailed, our political of this organization
and religious liberties have been the founda-
are imperiled. For this
reason we believe any
tion or cause of mil-
attempt to regulate ut- lions of peoples of all
terances over the radio nationalities to under-
by an administrative go great sufferings
government, agency, ex- and depi'ivation.
cept within canons of Keep up the won-
decency, propriety and
public safety clearly de- derful work, and may
fined by statute, is dan- the Lord guide and
gerous and contrary to direct all your efforts
public policy. to the establishment
of a government of
Tribute f r o m a n Transcription setup in P laza Park, Los Angeles Peace and happiness
Honest Heart throughout the suf-
Mr. J. F. Rutherford, fering world, through
Pres. Watch Tower and Tract Society, His Bon, the Redeemer.
Brooklyn, N. Y. Yours respectfully,
Dear Mr. Rutherford Raymond McGhee, Virginia.
I take this opportunity of writing you in
behalf of the organization of Jehovah's wit- Providence Visitor
nesses over which you arc supervisor under The Providence Visitor, advocate of the
the guidance of the Great Jehovah God, highly intelligent (?) philosophy that any-
Creator, for the wonderful message that is body with the cash can bribe Almighty God
being transmitted to the world of mankind. I to let his friends out of a "purgatory" where
am fully assured that you are carrying the they are being "roasted" to a sienna brown,
greatest blessing to the distressed that has is so good as to let its readers know that Jeho-
ever been preached since our Lord trod the vah's witnesses are "walking psychopaths".
paths of tribulation and distress here on earth. But it is sufficiently apprehensive of the fate
It is surely a great work. I have had the of its racket to advise its readers that "com-
opportunity of reading your many, many mon sense tells us not to argue with them".
booklets on different subjects of discussion re- That seems reasonable. Suppose now you had
garding the religious impostor groups that a fool racket, like "purgatory", that had not
call themselves leaders of Christianity, and a single leg to stand on, wouldn't it worry
your conception according to the Bible is you, if the racket was a bear for bringing in
straight, hard facts. I have long lost all re- the coin of the realm, if somebody would go
spect for such bigotry and hypocrisy as is around among your folks and tell them the
demonstrated by the deceitful clergy of all plain truth ? If you were a priest, you would
denominations, and feel that their day is want to keep the cash coming just as long as
doomed through the coming kingdom of Jeho- possible.
Va
God, as there cannot be any hope for the (To be continued)
JUNE 28, 1939 15
 at war. Certainly the relationships of the Eu-
ropean nations, including Britain, are in. a,
British Comment state of war. The guns are not shooting, but
all the nations are under the duress of war
By J. Hemery {London) conditions, and no one knows, probably not
Hitler himself, when he may be moved by nig
"controls" to take an action that will make the
guns in all Europe blaze in action. The con-
General ditions which existed when Chamberlain spoke
Conscription is now a definite factor of the his promise no longer obtain: the tempo is
Government's rearmament policy. Its first quickening and threatens to get to fever pace.
victims are the young men between 20 and Opponents of the policy of the Government
21 years of age. No doubt, in deciding on that say, and probably with truth, that if Chamber-
age the Government considered that the re- lain had taken a different course the present
moval of the 300,000 who are liable to be called serious conditions in which Britain is now
will cause less disturbance in the workshops involved would not have arisen and that there
and to professional occupations than there would have been no need for conscription. An
would be if older men were called up. It is a editorial in Reynolds News, the organ of the
safe prophecy to say that it will not be long Co-operative Societies, puts its statement on
before there is a much wider fling of the con- conscription very bluntly. Under the caption,
scription net, and later a general commandeer- "Conscription: a Step to Fascism," it says:
ing of the human power of the country and of "Mussolini decides who shall fill the post of
all its resources. The voracious maw of the Foreign Secretary [a reference to the dis-
military, naval and air forces will be kept wide missal of Mr. Eden from that office]. Hitler
open; for the troubles which have brought on influences the appointment of the Ministry of
this thing will not be settled by talks and pacts Supply and the trend of British foreign
or by any policy of appeasement. The Labor policy. France and Poland drive us into con-
party is making its voice heard in Parliament scription! This is the fate, under Mr. Cham-
in opposition to the Cabinet's announced de- berlain, of the free democracy of the world's
cision ; but the Government has a majority mightiest empire. . . . he breaks his pledges
which is ready to carry out the calls of the to organized Labour . . . imports alien ideas
Cabinet, and the necessary act to make con- to solve problems precipitated by his own in-
scription a law of the land will be passed. The competence."
opposition of the Labor party, whether in or Consistency in keeping to one's statements
out of Parliament, does not mean that there is not to be expected from a politician, for
will be concerted opposition after conscrip- times and circumstances change ; but it is not
tion is law: the party will not produce a great always easy to understand the attitude of
crop of conscientious objectors. Their posi- these men towards .their former actions and
tion, with which many others agree, is that their very definite pronouncements. The Lon-
the government is not under the necessity of don Star reminds its readers of some words of
compelling men to join the forces; that the Sir John Simon, the chancellor of the ex-
voluntary system is meeting the needs. Many chequer, who is next to the premier in im-
of those who object to the Government's Bill portance of office and is, of course, his sup-
believe that the action of the Government is porter in his policy in conscription. The Star
partly a party move, taking advantage of the says, "Sir John Simon, on January 5, 1916,
present situation to further a policy which after resigning from the Government as a
many have wanted to fasten on the people. Un- protest against conscription during the last
doubtedly there are many supporters of the war, said, 'Do not pay Prussian militarism
Government who are of the Fascist turn of the compliment of imitating the most hateful
mind. of its institutions.'" The country was then
A great cry about Mr. Chamberlain's incon- in the thick of the war, yet he resigned office
sistency is raised. It is only a short time since rather than support this hateful thing, be-
he declared conscription should not be intro- lieving it was not necessary to the support of
duced in peacetime, yet here it is in action. the Government's need. But the Government
His answer is an easy one for a politician. He has entered into commitments with France
avers that in a very real sense the country is (Continued on page S9)
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 Abel to John the Baptist; and a list of such
witnesses is set forth'at Hebrews the eleventh
.jt^fCOUNSEL chapter. With the disciples of Jesus Christ at
111
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v
> %JOJtn,7
Pentecost God began the taking out from the
nations "a people for his name" which people
or persons are commissioned and sent out in
the world to bear testimony to the name and
purpose of the Almighty God and which per-
sons are designated in the Scriptures by the
Jehovah's witnesses name "Jehovah's witnesses". To those faithful
ones devoted to Jehovah and His kingdom
T HERE are those who are properly called
Jehovah's witnesses. They are not reli-
gionists ; for the reason, they do not practice
God specifically says: T e are my witnesses
that 1 am God.' (Isaiah 43:10,12) From the
religion. They do not compose a sect, nor a time of the apostles of Jesus Christ onward
denomination. Jehovah God being all-power- Jehovah had on earth some witnesses, all of
ful and therefore fully able to carry out His whom are properly called Christians because
purpose without assistance, why should He they followed the lead of Christ Jesus, the
have witnesses on the earth at this time? For Chief Witness. In that time many persons
the purpose of declaring His name and noti- have professed to be Christians but instead
fying the people of His purpose, in order that have followed human leaders, relying upon
the people of good will toward Him, and who the teachings of men, instead of relying upon
desire righteousness, may know what to do; the Bible, which contains the Word of God;
also that notice may be served upon Gods hence such persons have followed and prac-
enemies that His purpose is to destroy them at ticed religion. A religionist is not. a witness
Armageddon, which is near at hand. Satan, for Jehovah, for the reason that religion is
the Devil, has at all times taken the lead in against God. The mass of the people who fol-
opposition to Jehovah God. He declared that low religion do so because they have been and
he could turn all men against Jehovah and are deceived by the Devil, the author of re-
that God could not put men on earth who un- ligion. It has been difficult for men to resist
der the test would remain faithful and true the temptation placed before them by the
to the Almighty God. That challenge Jehovah Devil in the form of religion. Unless one fol-
accepted and said to Satan: 'For this cause lows closely {he Word of God he is almost cer-
have I permitted thee to remain, that I might tain to fall into the religious trap of Satan.
show thee my power; and that my name may What persons on earth today are in fact
be declared throughout all the earth.' (Exodus Jehovah's witnesses? Only those who are
9:16, Leeser) Jehovah there expressed His wholly and entirely devoted to Jehovah God
purpose to permit Satan to have full oppor- and His kingdom. All such are Christians be-
tunity to carry out his wicked challenge, and cause Christ Jesus is God's duly anointed King
God furthen stated that He would have His to rule the world; and those who are for His
name declared throughout the earth imme- kingdom, and who follow Christ and proclaim
diately before destruction should come upon the name of God, the great King of Eternity,
Satan and his agents. That prophecy is now are the witnesses to the name of Jehovah. The
in course of fulfillment. time for putting the kingdom of Jehovah in
Who are Jehovah's witnesses? The Lord full control of the world is here. The Devil
Jesus Christ is the chief witness of Jehovah knows this, and he is desperately trying to
God, and He bears the title "The Faithful and turn all persons away from Jehovah, and he
True Witness". (Revelation 3:14) In response uses religion as his chief means of accomplish-
to a question propounded to Him, Jesus an- ing that purpose.
nounced that He was born and came into the All true followers of Christ Jesus must be
world that He might bear witness to the truth and are witnesses to the name and kingdom of
and that the Word of Jehovah God is truth j the Almighty God, Jehovah, and hence are
therefore He is Jehovah's Chief Witness. properly called Jehovah's witnesses. All such
(John 18:37; 17:17) Jehovah had on the must declare the name of Jehovah, which name
earth a few men who acted as His witnesses carries with it the purpose of His kingdom.
and who testified concerning His name Associated with those whom God has taken
throughout the entire period of time from out of the world as a people for His name are
JUNE 28, 1939
17
others who arc designated by the Lord as 'my learned that the only means of salvation is
other sheep', that is to say, persons who are by and through Christ Jesus, the King, and
of good will toward God and His kingdom. that Jehovah God has provided such salvation
These are otherwise mentioned as Jonadabs, for those that turn wholly to Him and His
and will form the great multitude. When such kingdom. They arc; anxious to tell others about
persons of good will hear the message of Jeho- the purpose of Jehovah God, and hence they
vah's kingdom they too join in the proclama- join in giving testimony to His name and to
tion of His name and kingdom. They have His kingdom.

A California Dust Storm

~ \ According to reports, California The flag is but the symbol of religious liberty.
f ^ ^ ^ ^ h a d ( ^ Ust s t o r m ^ recently, which A salute is but the outward allegiance to that
is rather unique for that western fundamental principle, attributing neither salva-
paradise. It also had a dust storm tion nor worship. No legislation can, or will, abro-
gate or interfere with this sacred right.
in Sacramento when the friends Yours very truly,
of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and the Roman J O H N H. O'DOJJNELL
Catholic Hierarchy tried to put through a
Fascist measure and got caught in the act. O'Donnell Works the Bellows
Some alleged details of the origin of this The wind that is to blow liberty out of Cali-
storm in the California legislature are con- fornia, and is to substitute totalitarian mis-
tained in the following letter, but don't take rule in its place, is from the Devil. The bellows
them too seriously. The Roman Hierarchy is is the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. The Elks
too slick to stick its own fingers in the fire. are merely a convenient bellows nozzle. O'Don-
There are always plenty of suckers ready to nell is merely blowing the bellows. He hides
do its bidding. So why not the Elks, if the behind the 'refuge of lies'.Isaiah 28:15.
latter had anything to do with it? Fifteen The Hierarchy having deliberately connived
hundred years of skillful political double- for the destruction of Ethiopia, the German
crossing has taught the Hierarchy to keep out Republic, the Austrian Republic, the Czecho-
of sight when it wants to slip something over. slovakian Republic, the Spanish Republic, and
But here is O'DonnclFs letter, for what it is other centers of liberty, is determined to de-
worth, anyway. It is addressed to Roy Harvey, stroy the liberties of the American Republic,
West Sacramento, and reads: and is embarrassed by the fact that there is
As you may know, there has been a barrage of still in this country a certain amount of states'
correspondence on myself and most other members rights. So the fight must be carried into each
of the Legislature relative to Assembly Bill No. 343. state.
The authors of these thousands of letters are All Mr. O'Donnell needs to do is to look in
uniformly misinformed as to the origin of this bill the glass and say to himself,
known as the " F l a g Salute" bill. Each letter uni-
Here is a man that believes that the Roman
formly asserts that the thought contained in the
Catholic Church is God; that when he thinks of
bill is promulgated by Fascists and the Roman
God and the institutions of his native land, his
Catholic Hierarchy.
god (the god of this world, the Devil) comes first,
I have investigated the matter personally and and if it came to a showdown he would demand
find the bill is sponsored by the Elks Lodge here that (as on United States battleships) the pope's
in Sacramento. I have also interviewed the members flag should fly above the United States flag, and
of the Assembly and can not find where any mem- the poope's will should be done in thus country,
ber has ever received any request by any member of first, last and all the time, regardless of the United
the Catholic Church for the bill. I cannot speak for States Constitution, laws, liberties or anything else.
the Fascists as I am unable to find any such here.
I asked a Catholic priest for his opinion and he
It is impossible for any person to be a real
said that while he could see no objection to the Roman Catholic and an American patriot at
bill, he could sec no particular necessity for it. I the same time. He will say he is a patriot; any-
consulted two school principals who voiced the body can do that; and anybody but a real pa-
same opinion except to add that patriotism could triot can be forced to do it. That is what this
better be taught by education than by law. flag-salute rumpus is all about. Those that
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18
arc not patriots are determined to force some patriotism and to make it a hell for anybody
kind of totalitarian submission down the necks that resists. Look at the newspapers, the
of the real ones, so that they can go ahead and movies and the radio, and see the sickening
turn the entire country over to those that re- slop fed to the American people to try to make
ceive their instruction from Vatican City. them think that their worst enemy is their
Is it possible that Mr. O'Donnell does not best friend. O'Donnell helps.
know that in these flag-salute measures his gang O'Donnell thinks he is fooling Mr. Harvey
have a wonderful chance to pose as patriots and other sensible people of California. The
when they are nothing of the sort? It is not difficulty is that he has fooled them once too
possible. He well knows that similar measures often and got into the legislature and now
are afoot in every corner of the country and thinks he can keep the job up by continuing
of the world. Rome is determined to grab con- to fool all the people all the time. He will
trol of the entire earth, to do it in the name of probably lose out on that job.

All the W o r l d W o n d e r i n g Exactly as Foretold

(In Three PartsPart
"And I saw one of his heads, as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all
the world wondered after the beast.''Revelation 1 3 : 3 .
80,000,000 People in Terror manently threatened, all of us are under con-
Ji ^ IT IS one thing to read about what tinuous observation. At home, the house-
)^ST^y is going <>n in Germany, and it is warden {Blochivart) watches us, and besides
quite another thing to be one of the him there is the air-raid warden, and others
^
80,000,000 people immediately af- we don't even know. They keep an index-card
fected. How would you like to live for each of us, and note how much we give to
in a place where the "government" (?) de- the winter-relief, how much we spend on food
mands to know your innermost thoughts on parcels {Einpfnndpakete), whether we hang
every important subject? All inhabitants of out flags on holidays, how big our flags are,
Germany between the ages of 5 and 71 are whether we make a good show of them. They
being catalogued, so that the State will know know what we eat, who visits us, they note
everything about everybody. Cards of females the make of our wireless sets and observe that
are green, those of males are brown, and those we can get shortwave stations. They censor our
of Jews are stamped with a capital J. post, they know where our relatives are, who
This insane infatuation of snoopery is now are our friends, what our conversation is, and
world-wide. A lady in London increased the even notice in what tone of voice we ask for
wages of her German maid. The maid indis- the 125 grams of butter we are allowed each
creetly told a German friend of her good for- week. I have never been interested in politics,
tune. In no time the maid was told she would I know nothing about political parties, but
have to pay a larger income tax. She refused, suddenly everything has become political,
and was told the excess would be collected everything I say or do, everything I don't say
from her parents in Vienna. In a few days or don't doI want a little peace and quiet
came a telephone call from Berlin. The lady for once, to live for myself, for once to walk
answered the telephone herself and was met with a friend on Sunday in the woods, go out
with a flood of demands for information about in a canoebut how can that be possible?
her German maid. Can you imagine such "And whom can I trust, and when ? I should
beastliness? like to speak out for once, but don't dareand
what things go on during a single day at my
Letter from a German Clerk office! The bookkeeper worries at me, asks me
You think life has become easier for us? dangerous questions, tries to make me contra-
1ou are wrong. Everything is much harder. diet myself, asks me what I think of the
You think that only the wretched Jews need Fiihrers latest speech, if they haven't gone
to be on the watch, to fear every footstep they too far with the Jews, for after all "they are
hear, tremble at every unexpected knock on only men". If I didn't happen to know the
the door? No; for each one of us life is per- man had once broken out in fury because I
JUNE 28, 1939 1>
hadn't fallen into any of his traps I should in danger of being denounced. I may receive
have been taken in by him long ago. Or the a summons, be arrested, imprisoned, disappear
"new man" who joined the staff one day; he and never return. Such things have happened",
was supposed to have been abroad a long time, I may lose my job and they will write on my
talked a lot about how employment card that
they lived there, and The Big Circle Makes It Easy to Vote for Hitler I was dismissed "for
was full of informa- political reasons" and
tion. You might have 6uftetenl>eutf(he (srgan^ungerochl }\xm then it will be impos-
taken him for an hon- roftbeutfchcn SUich&tag sible to get a job or
est opponent of the r e l i e f anywhere. I
regime. A month lat- shall be outlawed. All
er it came out he was SBabkettd that is left is forced
there only to test me. laborGod k n o w s
But it isn't only me fkhtimft $u t
> i
< & 3" unferttn Stirrer where.
they treat like that; Stoolf $itler "You must realize,
they treat everybody this is our daily life,
in the same way, even tern SJefreter bts 6u6<ttntan<s, unfi ajbjt $u Seine that and nothing else.
those they send out as 6hrame (cm IBabloorfdjtag btr The walls, the ceil-
s t o o l - p i g e o n s . One ^GtiomtffoialiftifchenScufthen Srbciterpartci ?
ings, the floors, the
man spies on another doors, have ears. And
and tries to do him tAtJa fiifrrt en fritter 6pifrf federate Slamm auf: the eavesdroppers be-
down. And every spy t. 6>If Shier hind the walls no
has another spy to longer even hear their
2.flonraft$en[eitt own shame spoken of
boss him. Everyone
3. Karl frrnumn Srank among us. We don't
knows he U being
watched all the time, s p e a kwe whisper;
and for everyone such we don't laugh, we
a life is a terrible, un- don't sing, as if we

o
bearable burden. 5lein were evil men who
"But worst of all is have no songs. In the
the loneliness. We are evening, when it is
all so terribly alone. dark and I walk home
If you haven't known from the tube station
someone a long time along the quiet ave-
Thii u tka official bcUol for the vote I H i in mhirk tka Sm-
and very well, you 4*tt* C c n u M mUl u t a w tUrtr w i l < r i to tka German parlia- nue, I am overcome
can trust no one. So
M i l . Tka largo circle u for m " i n " M O , lk imallar am* for
"no." The boilot rttit; "Sudnrn C n u i Sapplemrntary Eloc
and begin to cry, but
tint to the Croat German RrUkrlag. Ballot pa.pt*. Da yam atknemi- no one must see, and
we lie, and sometimes aAae at oar faakrtr Malt HUUr, tha liberator af SmdattnUnU. if I hear footsteps I
don't even know any and do yon fire yamr rota to tha lirt of tka National Sodallat Car-
man Lobar Party? Tka foUomlnf M U M * kaad tka list, I. Aioif hide my face as well
longer if we're lying Uiilrr. 2. tienrad Henlein. X Karl Hermann Frank"
as I can in my coat
or telling the truth. collar, for the man
We talk a language A sample Sudeten ballot might guess why I am
that wasn't taught at (From the New York Herald Tribune) crying. Yet I am not
any school, and must crying for myself. I
be unintelligible to The Spectator.
anyone who doesn't know how we live. They're cry for all of us."-
always writing in the newspapers that we
should 'Hive dangerously"oh yes, we do live A Colossal Failure
dangerously. I swear to you I do nothing -r- "G As a government the Nazi dicta-
against the rSgime. I don't know what I could * torship has the outward appearance
do against it, or how. I won't have anything 1 of a huge success, but is a stupen-
to do with politics and I understand nothing dous failure. The real reason for
about it, and I only see that politics makes men stripping the German Jews of their
bad. But merely because I'd like to be a free, property is seen in the huge increase in the
open man again, because I want to say what German public debt.
I think and do what I like, I have put myself The total public indebtedness for the old
20 CONSOLATION
Germany was 24,300,000,000 marks, at the particle of coffee of any grade on hand Jan-
time Hitler assumed power. At the close of uary 21, 1939. Some stores were still able to
1938 the totaLGerman public debt, including sell as much as one-eighth of a pound at one
municipalities, states and Austria, was put at time, but in other stores customers could
41,000,000,000 marks, with an additional purchase only enough coffee to make three
secret debt of 20,000,000,000 marks for labor cups.
creation and armament bills. In the year 1938 the United States made
Since 1934 the General Motors Opel works more than eight times as many trucks as were
in Germany made a paper profit of $4,000,000, made in Germany, and more than seven times
but not a cent of it as many automobiles,
has been permitted to and the automobiles
leave Germany. The were of a much higher
Germans have invent- type than the baby
ed a system of taking carriages on wheels
m o n e y away from which prevail in Hit-
foreigners that seems ler dom.
to work with the same In his work Defile-
precision as a similar ment of Race, pub-
system worked in Rus- lished at Diisseldorf,
sia when the Com- G e r m a n y , Dietrich
munists c a m e i n t o Hutten gives his coun-
power. Indeed, Com- try a black eye when
munism and Nazism he says that there are
are as alike as two now in that unhappy
peas in a pod. country
If G e r m a n y de- 250,000 mentally ill and
nounces all short-term afflicted .with nerv-
foreign loans, as is ous disorders.
anticipated, p r i v a t e 90,000 idiots (in pub-
foreign banks are due he institutions).
to lose about $200,- 90,000 epileptics.
000,000, and there is 45,000 deaf and dumb.
(Majority of par-
no political trick they ents had syphilis.)
would not perform to 35,000 blind (75 per-
avoid such a loss. cent of parents had
Some idea of the eco- Beat social usage in totalitarian Btates venereal diseases).
nomic pinch in Ger- 370,000 children in fos-
many may be obtained from the fact that in. ter care. (Mostly procreated in a state of
the past ten years the railways have 4,000 drunkenness.)
fewer locomotives and 80,000 fewer cars; but 1,000,000 venereal cases (mostly contracted -when
it must not be forgotten that railroads are on drunk).
the down grade everywhere, and. Germany 1,000,000 tuberculosis eases.
probably has the best motor roads in the world- 300,000 alcoholic addicts.
3,180,0005 percent of - Germany's population
Nevertheless, eighty percent of German [then], to which must be added all the sick
freight still moves by rail, and only two per- persons not included in this statistic!
cent by truck. Eighteen percent is carried by
water. The Young Are Captivated
Housewives in Germany complain that but- The young of Germany are captivated by
ter, oranges and onions are often not to be the way in which Hitler turned the tables on
had. They can seldom get any eggs, but when the Allies. Of the 400 clauses in the Treaty
they do they can usually get but two at a time. of Versailles he has succeeded in scrapping
Foods that are scarce are rationed and must 264; that makes him a real hero in the eyes
be obtained every day or not at all. of some. It cannot be denied that the treaty
Increasing evidence of financial pressure on was cruelly unjust, the work of heartless men.
the Reich is seen in the fact that the largest Only a few months after the United States
coffee dealer in Berlin, Zuntz, was without a Government forbade the export of helium gas
J U N E 28, 1939 21
to Germany, to supply noninflammable lifting man youth as respects their physical, mental
power for her zeppelins, a vast body of natural and moral education outside the home and
gas was discovered on the western frontier school. Compulsory service begins at the age
which is found on analysis to be about two of 10 and from then until death every able-
percent helium. bodied citizen is in the Hitler Youth, the
It is necessary to again enlarge the Kiel ship Labor Service, the Army, the Armed Reserve
canal, connecting the North and Baltic seas. or the Reich Warriors League. In other words,
Over a thousand ships a week now pass he is a slave for life, and compelled to listen
through the canal, their size is greatly in- to Nazi programs and imbibe Nazi philosophies
creased, and the eanal will now be sufficiently as long as he lives. Neglect of the Word of
enlarged so that the largest ocean liners may God brought the German people to this dis-
go in either direction at all times. The length graceful ending of their liberties.
of the canal is slightly over 53 miles. Germany now has government control of
Germany is the first country to definitely wages and hours, can take any man from
stake out a claim (230,000 square miles) in private work and put him on government
Antarctica, and takes the reasonable ground work, and forbids private employers to take
that only actual survey and seriously planned him away by offering better pay or shorter
Utilization of territory constitute a just claim hours.
to it. The territory they claim is marked by
Reich flags to the east, west and south and by Instruction in Cruelty
the ocean on the north. Cape Town, South The German Youth, and all Germans, will
Africa, is the nearest port. be instructed in heartlessness. What this will
The Germans have worked out a scientific mean may be judged from the following story
war-scare business. The Gocbbels machine originally published in the Swiss paper Volks-
starts the scare, the foreign exchange markets t, translated from that and published in
in New York and London drop, the German the French Consolation, and from the French
traders buy, the war scare disappears and the into English by F. R. Freer, of England. A
German traders sell and pocket the differences. man who escaped from the Gestapo in three
It is a smooth scheme and works all O.K. days [he was not one of Jehovah's witnesses,
In America, if you don't like your job you for they are never released now] sets forth the
can go somewhere else j but new laws in force Hitler philosophy in all its hideousness:
in Germany are that if you don't like your I was but three days in the hands of the Gestapo,
job, and that job happens to be in agriculture, but they were days that seemed like years, so great
forestry, chemicals, fabrication of building were my sufferings. Was I still among civilized
materials, iron and steel, and mining other people? Is it possible today that civilization, so
than soft coal mining, you have to stay put. proud of its culture and attainments, can inflict
War whoops, rearmament and grandiose treatment on innocent people that no humane man
public works have put an end to unemploy- could wish an animal to endure T
ment in Germany. Men of seventy are re- I might believe I had been the victim of a terrible
turning to their tasks, employees must have nightmare if my bruised body did not remind me of
my dreadful experiences. I hear again the rough
permission to quit their jobs, and in the stores voice of the officer saying to me, "You understand
one clerk often does the work of two. Many we know how to force you to speak; you know as
German-Americans have returned to their well that we have the right, without any further
native land to secure the steady employment, verdict, to imprison you or send you to a concen-
even though they know in advance that they tration camp. You have white hands, sir. Do you
will have less on the table. The way one man want them covered with blisters? and do you want
put it was, "The only thing you get better to find out how the men in the marshes sweat at
here is eats, and if you have no work you can't their work?" And here my questioner let loose an
eat." It must be admitted that is true; and avalanche of filthy words that would have made
the most hardened criminals blush.
therein lies the strength of the totalitarian
regime: it can and does make work for every- That was only the beginning. Afterwards I was
body, and whether they like the work or not. led to a dark, cold cell. An insensate fear tortured
my brain. I was in too great agony to rest, even
In the month of April 10,000,000 German for a moment. From the room where I had been
boys and girls arbitrarily and eompulsorily beaten, and which was next to my cell, came the
became members of the Hitler Youth, which sound of terrible oaths. But in the end I beCSWM
will have exclusive charge of the entire Ger indifferent to them, and indeed to everything. In
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22
such a case one can breathe freely only when the One morning all the Jews in the camp were called
cell door is closed behind him and he is left alone. up. F r o m experience we could guess what was
But here is a newcomer to my cell. W h a t a pitiful afoot. We knew that such a proceeding had to be
air he has, poor wretch! Blood flows down his fore- connected with some event outside the eamp. So
head. His shirt is ripped. His chest is skinned and wc were not surprised when, this time, the news-
torn. I n spite of his athletic build he lets himself p a p e r we were allowed to read in the eamp after
fall on the cold stone floor trembling. I n my heart censorship reported the shooting of a Nazi leader
I thank God that my treatment has been less cruel. by a Jew.
With my handkerchief I tried to clean up the un- The Jews were divided into a number of small
fortunate man. After taking off his trousers I was gangs, which were put in charge of the toughest
seized with terror. I could not take my eyes off his of the S.S. men. One of these gangs had the task
swollen legs and his broken teeth. W h a t must he of emptying the latrines.
have undergonethis good-looking man of kindly This was done by means of a wagon, which had
mien? He continued to tremble with grief and to be dragged a long distance over the soft soil
fright. of the heath. Hitherto the wagon had been dragged
I learned that night that he was a Bible Student by fourteen men, but now the gang was reduced
[one of Jehovah's witnesses], a mason by trade, to eight. While kicks and blows rained on them,
married and the father of five children. He had the unfortunate men strained at the wagon, which
been arrested by the Gestapo, and taken to the only progressed by inches. They were not allowed
concentration camp at Sustrum, where he had re- to use the p u m p for emptying the latrines, but
mained a year, working in the marshes from sun- pails which had to be passed from hand to hand
rise till evening. Badly fed, he had been subjected and emptied into the wagon. Owing to the furious
to the most tyrannical persecution. In midwinter rate at which work had to proceed, the Jews were
the commander of the camp had made the prison- soon covered from head to foot with filth.
ers turn out in the courtyard in the middle of the Long after we had stopped work, the Jewish
night, completely naked. They had been compelled latrine gang had to continue. One day the first man
to lie down in the snow, to get up and then lie down in the pail gang was knocked into the pit by an
again, and so on until their poor bodies, exhausted S.S. gang leader. Two others had to drag him out.
already by their labors, no longer responded to The S.S. man pretended the poor devil had jumped
their brains, and they lay prostrate. Then the whip into the pit because he wanted to shirk work. The
lash, beating their poor bodies, made them even man, in his terrible state, was made to do knee-
then respond. Finally the order was given to re- bending exercises and to hop with outstretched
turn indoors, and like a flock of frightened sheep arms. Next he was ordered to roll, whereupon he
the naked men, half dead with cold, hurried to the vomited and fainted. The gang leader then set his
narrow entrance of the hall under the lash of the dog at the unconscious man, but the animal merely
pursuing whips. sniffed a t him and moved away. Several S.S. men
I heard later that the commandant of the camp then threw pails of water over the prostrate man.
was condemned to twelve years' hard labor for his When he regained consciousness he was ordered
inhuman treatment (how inadequate the words to accompany the gang leader outside the camp.
seem!) of the prisoners. A few days later, however, Shortly afterwards we heard the report of a re-
the commandant was pardoned, it being stated that volver shot. The sirens hooted, and i the prisoners
he had merely acted under "an excess of national- rushed out of the sheds for the line-up. The com-
ism". mandant informed us that a dirty J e w had attacked
the gang leader and had paid the penalty.
What Is Coming The following day the coffin containing the
corpse of the murdered man was placed in the
You Americans and Britishers middle of the camp. The Jewish prisoners had to
might as well know what is coming stand in a semicircle around the coffin and sing
in America and Britain, as a result Jewish songs. The others had to file past the coffin
of nursing the Roman Catholic and spit on it. The Jews were treated in this way
Hierarchy, coddling it, and prais- for another few weeks, and only dropped into the
ing it to the skies. The New Leader, New York, background upon the arrival of SO "Bible Re-
contains an article by an escaped prisoner of searchers" [Jehovah's witnesses], a sect most hated
one of Germany's concentration camps. This by the Nazis after the Jews.
man had eight ringers crushed by his tormen- It was the usual thing in the eamp to force men
tors, but dared not.go to the*prison physician. imprisoned for religious anti-Fascist propaganda
After narrating how, at midnight, or in the to make fun of their beliefs. Thus once the Cologne
preacher Spieker had to make a farcical speech be-
wee small hours of the morning, the prisoners fore the assembled inmates of the camp. H e de-
were often herded out into the rain or bitter livered the speech as required by the Nazis, and
old, and there told by the warmly clad guards then was given a beating because he bad spoken
to shiver themselves warm, he stated: differently from the pulpit.
JUNE 28, 1939 2:1*
 The "Bible Researchers", however, never yielded tories, and several went insane during the
to such coercion. No torture was capable of forcing night. In Dachau, above described, Jehovah's
them to hold up their religious convictions to ridi- witnesses are listed as included in the "Black
cule. Trials were pending against the Bible Re- Front", which means that they are subjected
searchers, so that they could not be "shot while
trying to escape". But for this fact they would
to the worst treatment of any in the prison.
have been shot down in scores. While in Atlanta penitentiary for daring
Now, however, no form of torture was spared to be a Christian in time of war, Judge Ruther-
them. We other prisoners lived on the most friend- ford and his friends would almost have consid-
ly terms with Hie Bible Researchers. They did not ered it a treat to be taken out, lined up against
take part in our political discussions, but knew all a wall and shot, but they had enough food and
about the clandestine material in our possession. clothing so that they could get along. In
During searches and the following mass punish- Dachau, however, this past winter, many pris-
ments, however, they were as steadfast as anybody oners were compelled to wear linen all winter.
and never gave away a comrade.
Many contracted consumption from cold,
hunger and six hours' drilling a day.
A Result of Uitlcr's Jesuit Training
F o r m e r Chancellor Heinrieh Fiendishness at Sachsenhausen
Broiling of Germany, now a lectur- At Sachsenhausen concentration camp,
er at Harvard University, tells of November 11, 1938, a Berlin police officer and
cells lined with electric lights, so 12 polieemen delivered 62 Jewish lawyers,
that a prisoner feels aa Li dying of doctors, landlords, engineers, businessmen and
thirst, while al the same time he is oompe rabbis. On the way into the prison they were
to listen to recorded speeches of Goering. Very made to run the gauntlet of two lines of black
few can stand this peculiar form of torture guards armed with whips, clubs and spades.
more than three or four months, and after Twelve of the 62 were killed, their skulls hav-
even three days of it many a man's hair turned ing been smashed. The others were all uncon-
snow-white. scious, the eyes of some having been knocked
Dr. John d'elbert, one-time physician to the out and their faces flattened and shapeless.
Beast of Berchtesgaden, on a tour of German The police, unable to bear the cries of the
concentration camps, seeking a relative, saw dying men, turned their backs, but accepted a
places where human creatures were incar- receipt that they had delivered the correct
cerated in cells that were without windows, number of men to the camp. On the same oc-
ventilation, lights or toilets. When he told casion 16,000 men were herded into quarters
Hitler to his face that this is barbarism he was which were formerly occupied by 6,850. Dur-
himself incarcerated and subjected to seven ing the first two days they were not allowed to
unnamed punishments, but escaped through use the toilets. Afterwards one toilet was made
the intervention of an American consul. lie available for each 200 men, but no one was
is now lecturing in America, his family are given facilities to wash.
being persecuted in the land of his birth, and Louis Fulda, 39 years of age, hair made
if lie ever returns to the cesspool of civilization white from two months in a concentration
he will face a firing squad. camp, testified April 13, 1939, before the
In Hitler's living hell at Dachau concentra- American Immigration Bureau's Board of
tion camp a prisoner who made a mild protest Special Inquiry, and supported his testimony
against cruelty was shot down without a mo- with an affidavit, that he was one of 3,000 men
ment's hesitation. Another, too weary to stand thrown into barracks built for 300, that 100
on his feet, was beaten on the head by an S.S. perished the first night, and that he had per-
man on guard so severely that he had been sonally seen many go insane. This at Buchen-
dead about ten minutes before the assault was wald.
stopped. This was considered a great joke The mistreatment of Schuschnigg, former
among the gnanls. On one occasion 400 per- premier of Austria", since his imprisonment is
sons were scientifically crowded into a room so great that the poor man has now lost the
not intended to hold more than 50, and were, power of his legs, and when he is shifted by
many of them, actually compelled to stand on ins torturers from one part of the German
one foot all night because there was not room Madhouse to another they have to carry him
enough to put both feet down. Throughout on a stretcher.
the nighl they were excluded from the lava- It Ls a common thing in Germany for a man
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to be arrested, for no offense whatever, and age were being put into concentration camps
after a few days, or weeks or months, a man in Germany where the chief form of amuse-
calls at his home, asks for his wife, and hands ment is to make them leap over a wire charged
her a package saying, "These are the ashes of with lethal voltage. If they miss, it means
your husband. There will be a charge of three electrocution. Others are made to take their
marks, please." Sixty cents each for murders exercise on a plank over sewage. If this is
seems like a small price. And is it not a little civilization, the poorest dwarf in Africa may
unusual to collect the fee from the murdered well pray to be spared from it.
man's wife?
Carrying Out Hitler's Will
Gestapo Benevolence Hereafter on the doors of German Jewish
fgi Gestapo benevolence was at its physicians they must have sky-blue signs 18
*$A egg height in the expulsion of 15,000 by 15 inches in size. In the upper left corner
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Jews from Germany to Poland. At must be a lemon-yellow circular space three
- *^*- the town of Zbonszyn 5,000 men, inches in diameter, in the middle of which
^** ^& women and children lay huddled in must be a blue David's star two inches high.
rain and cold from ten at night till seven in The doctor's name must carry Israel or Sara
the morning, some of them on a stone floor as a middle name unless the given name is
without coverings, some in pigsties, the men itself Jewish. The sign must contain, under the
weeping as well as their women and children. doctor's name: "Licensed for medical practice
Five died and four became insane under the exclusively on Jews." All prescription blanks
strain; 200 were taken to hospitals. Among and bills carry the blue David's star on a yel-
the sufferers was a woman of 93 and a blind low background.
man of 76 who had not even a pocket handker- New Jewish regulations are that no Jew
chief. It was the Hitler civilization at its best. may have or drive a motor vehicle; there are
A thousand found refuge in a cavalry stable. certain streets upon which no Jew may enter
Four persons died and three went insane except by special permit; Jews will he refused
from their sufferings in No Man's Land on the admission to German hotels; no Jews may
Czechoslovakian border. One woman of 84 was enter Nuremberg or Fiirth except by permit;
blind. One woman who went insane was ad- Jews are compelled to hand over to the Gov-
mitted to a Czechoslovak hospitaL A new ernment all stocks or bonds in their possession ;
baby, born on the roadway, and its mother Jews may not buy, sell or pledge objects of
were also admitted to a hospital. When the gold, silver, platinum or jewelry. The site for
Germans took over the town of Ludenburg the Berlin ghetto has been selected.
all Jewish men were imprisoned and their The Nazi decrees against the Jews in Ger-
women folks were told they must leave for many are so drastic that they not only are
Czechoslovakia within 24 hours. If they did eliminated from financial, wholesale and in-
not leave on time they were ejected by the dustrial undertakings, but are even forbidden
German police, who took their house keys and to engage in forestry and farming.
everything remaining in their homes. The new German census shows exactly how
In Vienna at one time there were 300 inno- many Jews, half-Jews, eighth-Jews and even
cent persons in hospitals suffering from broken sixteenth-Jews there are. Farmers must list
noses. A one-legged man was so beaten that he every head of livestock. No such snooping in-
cannot use the leg he has left. An old man, quisition ever existed previously, except, of
lame for ten years, was so badly beaten that course, at the confessional window of the
he committed suicide because he knew he snooping priests who make it their business
would never walk again. The police look on to know all about the private affairs of every-
while these outrages are perpetrated, and do body, so that when it comes to seizing property
nothing whatever. Elderly men are compelled they will know just how to proceed.
to crawl on their bellies in the street, wearing Tn Germany, most people with brains are
nothing but their pants. Refined women are either in prison or escaped in lime. One who
forced to clean the storm troopers' latrines. escaped surprised a friend by telling of his
The Leicester (England) Mail quotes F . L. intention of going to Ecuador. The friend ex-
Attenborough, principal of Leicester Univer- postulated, "But that is so far away," and got
S1
ty College, as saying that a refugee told him the knockout reply, "Far away from WHAT?"
April 17, 1939, that men over sixty years of (To be continued)
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 R e l i g i o u s I n t o l e r a n c e i n S o u t h Africa
The Banning of the Bible Study Book Riches

H OWEVER the members of the Hier-

archy may differ in receipt of mone-
tary spoils per annum, or however varied
have the Bible study book Riches and several
pamphlets which contain the message of God's
Kingdom, written by Judge Rutherford and
may be the color or yardage of their published by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract
garments or unequal the number of toe- Society, placed on the list of prohibited pub-
lications.
kissers received by these divers princes Religionists on the Board of Censors, hold-
of the church, on one matter they are in ing contrary views on the Bible to those ex-
absolute unity and agreement: I N THEIR pressed in the book Riches, became a party to
BITTER HATRED OF T H E TRUTH OF GOD'S the conspiracy. Questioned later as to what the
WORD. They are, as the Scriptures de- Board had found objectionable in the book,
scribe them, "an evil and adulterous gen- the Secretary of the Board replied, "We re-
eration" who "have consulted together gret that we can give you no information with-
with one consent: they are confederate out the sanction of the Department of the
against [Jehovah's witnesses]", (Mat- Intcriof."
thew 12: 39 and Psalm 83: 5) Concerning
Jehovah's witnesses there is unity of Where the Nazi-Vatican
Catholic action; the individual witnesses Conspiracy Was Hatched
do not worry them, but the exposure Says the Protest:
makes them desperate. ITence, from the The letter from the Department of the In-
British Isles, in which their conduct is terior to the Nazi clergymen and which fur-
elsewhere considered in this issue, to the nishes conclusive proof as to where the plot
most distant outposts of the Empire originated follows:
their obstruction of truth goes on. Let Deutsche Littherischc Synode fuer Sttedafrika
the British view with concern and alarm Bezirkskonfercnz des Ostens der Kap-Provinz
Auf Grand' unserer Eingabe in Vcrfolg der Ver-
their vicious deeds in South Africa and handlungcn unserer letzten Tagung vom 4. Oktober
note that everywhere the Hierarchy to- 1937 zu Macleantown an den Minister des Innern,
gether with the Nazi plague is sweeping ist als Ergebnis einer laengeren Korrespondenz
away the liberties of the people. uunmehr folgcndes Schreiben eingelaufen, das wir
hiennit den Gcmcinden bekanutgeben:
This combine strove to suppress the Secretary for the Interior. No. 27/32.
book Riches, by Judge Rutherford, mani- Union of South Africa
festly because that book exposes the Department of the Interior.
duplicity of the Vatican. The baseness of Pretoria. 28/5/1938.
the methods employed to accomplish this Objectionable LiteratureRutherford Publications
Sir,
are described in the Protest filed with
the government by the South African With further reference to your letter of the 10th
March last, and previous correspondence, I have
representative of the Watch Tower Bible to inform you that, in terms of Section 23 of Act
& Tract Society, excerpts of which are No. 9 of 1913, as amended by Section 6 of Act
set forth below: No. 40 of 1934, the Minister of the Interior has
decided that the "Rutherford Publications" men-
Towards the end of 1937 and early in 1938 tioned hereunder, are all objectionable:
the South African Board of Film Censors
1. Crimes and Calamities: The Cause
were busy with their drive against sex and
The Remedy, by J. P. Rutherford.
crime magazines. Certain Nazi clergymen of 2. Oppression: When Will It End?
the German Lutheran Synod assembled in con- by J. F . Rutherford.
J'lirnce in the Eastern Province of the Cape 3. The Kingdom: The Hope of the World,
saw the opportunity to bring reproach upon by J. P. Rutherford.
the name of Jehovah God. Representations 4. Prosperity Sure, by J. F. Rutherford.
were made to the Minister of the Interior to 5. Riches, by J. F. Rutherford.
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 The publications are being returned to you acknowledged that, the letter had been received
under separate cover. and intimated that it had been sent on to the
I have the honour to be, Sir, Department and that "an adequate reply"
Your Obedient Servant, would be forthcoming in a few days' time.
N.
Secretary for the Interior. After five months a reply came from
Fuer die Richti^keit zeichnet: the Department. It said:
Bezirkskonferenz Ost. With reference to your letter of the 7th De-
Der Vorstand:
i.N.u.A. cember, 1938, addressed to the Honourable the
(Signed) J . CYRUS, P." Minister of the Interior on the subject of the
(Minister of German Lutheran importation of certain books written by
Church at Kingwilliamstown, C.P., J. P. Rutherford, I am directed to inform you
South Africa) that as far as the department is aware the
books in question have not been banned. En-
Silence Regarding the Conspiracy quiries are, however, being made and a further
The w r i t e r of the P r o t e s t a p p a r e n t l y communication will be addressed to you in due
does not think very much of the m a n n e r course.
in which the facts of t h e Nazi-Vatican
conspiracy were brought to the Society's Government Officials Kept in the Dark
attention; for the P r o t e s t c o n t i n u e s : Said the w r i t e r of the P r o t e s t :
The first intimation that the publishers re- It is clear that the writer of that letter could
ceived that the book had been placed on the not believe that South Africa had become so
prohibited list was from an acquaintance on much under the influence of the Nazi-Fascist-
the Reef who had read something about it in Catholic Hierarchy bloc as to ban Bible study
a newspaper. In Jane, 1938, a long list of sex books! It appears that the Censor Board had
and crime magazines which had been pro- to be consulted to check up on the position.
hibited appeared in certain newspapers and A letter to the Department followed request-
sandwiched in between was the book Riches. ing information as to the grounds on which
The publishers' letter of enquiry to the Min- the books had been declared "objectionable"
ister drew his attention pointedlv to the fact and brought forth the response under date of
that- January 30, 1939:
Several years ago the members of the j u r y of
the Paris exhibition of Modern Comfort accorded I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 19th instant, and regret to inform you that
the Society its highest award, namely, the Diplome
the Department is unable to furnish you with the
de Hors Concours, for the work of moral sanita- reasons for the banning of the publication en-
tion being accomplished by the Society's publica- titled "Riches" by J . F . Rutherford.
tions. You will therefore appreciate the fact that it
is impossible for me to understand how such books Wriggling of the Conspirators
could possibly be included in the drive now being
made against crime and sex magazines and other
A further letter was then addressed to
"undesirable" literature. the Minister, reminding him that:
Should there be any foundation in fact to the In a statement you made on October 24 last
rumor, I shall appreciate information as t o : and which was widely reported in the Press
(1) The names of the books written by J u d g e the following day you are reported to have
Rutherford which have been prohibited. said: "I wish to stress the Government's com-
(2) On what grounds this action has been taken. pletely liberal policy on the much discussed
Five Months to Answer a Letter book banning problem. . . . With the excep-
tion of 'Turning Wheels', %I know of no seri-
Politicians hooked in with the Nazi- ously written book which I have banned, no
Vatican conspiracy to d e p r i v e honest, matter whether I have agreed with its views
decent, Christian people of their liberties or not. Take the Left Book Club, for instance.
do not like to put themselves in w r i t i n g . We have never banned a single book issued by
The P r o t e s t goes on t o s a y : that club," etc.
As no acknowledgment or reply came to May I call your attention to the fact that
hand from the Minister's office within a period tin' book Riches is a seriously written book. It
of 10 days the publishers' representative called is in fact a Bible study textbook used by thou-
for an explanation. The Minister's secretary sands of Christian men and women throughout
JUNE 28, 1939 27
the earth, all of whom can testify to the en- reproach brought upon the name of Jehovah
lightenment they have received from it on the and His witnesses by having the book Riches
Word of God. included in the list of the filthy stuff that has
been banned.
Typical Nazi-Vatican Conduct The Nazi clergymen who submitted,the book
W a r m e d by the fires of injustice, t h e to you with the purpose of having it prohibited
P r o t e s t goes o n : do not believe the Bible nor do they believe in
Jehovah God. They have a Hitlerized version
The foregoing letter was acknowledged by of their own, and salvation to them comes not
the Department in the Secretary's letter of from Jehovah by and through Jesus Christ,
February 10 as follows: but through their Fiihrer! They, of course,
I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter can believe what they like in that connection,
dated the 2nd instant, addressed to the Honourable but we also should have the right to worship
the Minister of the Interior, regarding the publi- God according to the dictates of His "Word, our
cation "Riches" which has been declared objection-
able, and shall be glad if you will send me a copy
conscience and our steadfast belief. That is
of this publication for perusal by the Minister. the inalienable right of every Christian and
One could scarcely be blamed if one drew has for long been considered'the right of every
British subject residing in South Africa and
the conclusion from that letter that up to this other parts of the British Commonwealth of
point the Minister had not personally exam- Nations.
ined the book. However, assurance was later
given by the Secretary for the Interior that The charge made in certain quarters that
such was a wrong construction to put on the the message contained in the literature is like-
letter! ly to cause trouble amongst the non-European
The Minister's reply to the Society's letter section of the population is demonstrably
of February 2 was that "the banning order false. Our literature has circulated freely for
in regard to the publication Riches must 30 years and more in this country and nothing
stand". As still no reason was forthcoming, of the kind has happened. That charge is made
an effort was then made to have an interview only by those who do not like the message of
with the Minister and a letter was sent to him God's kingdom. May I remind you that the
requesting one. Founder of Christianity was falsely accused
as a "seditionist" and put to death on the in-
This letter brought forth the reply that the stigation of the scribes and Phariseesthe
Minister could not grant personal interviews clergy of His day.
with publishers whose books have been banned
but "should you wish to see the Secretary for
the Interior regarding the matter my Minis- Bitter Truths to the Unjust
ter would have no objection to your doing so". T h e P r o t e s t a g a i n s t t h e Nazi-Vatican
That interview was granted, but the Secretary conspiracy to deprive S o u t h African peo-
of the Interior would not discuss the merits ple of their r i g h t s should have burned a
of the case and we were referred back to the hole in what, if a n y t h i n g , was left of the
Minister. A final protest was then made to guilty c o n s p i r a t o r s ' consciences. The
the Minister.
Protest continued:
Hard Going for Hypocrites The reply to that letter was to the effect that
the Minister had nothing further to add on
I t is h a r d to be a h y p o c r i t e in these the subject! And thus South Africa, which
days and get a w a y with it. T h e P r o t e s t provided refuge for the Huguenots when they
continued: fled from the Roman Catholic Inquisition 250
Is there anything in Riches which is not in years ago, now sets up an Inquisition of its'
harmony with the plain teaching of the Bible? own inspired by men who, as in the case of
If there is not, then, to be consistent, the Bible the Roman Catholic Inquisition, do not believe
should also be banned in South Africa. the Bible and who would try if possible to
It is clear from facts which have come into prevent the people from receiving its message.
my possession that a few selfish men who are And this action is taken, too, contrary to the
enemies of God and His kingdom of righteous- fact that the highest court of the land has de-
ness have seized the opportunity of the general clared that the book Riches is not seditious.
drive against sex and crime magazines to have The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court
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has not sold its birthright to the Nazis nor to "Every nation has laws, and every citizen of
the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Commenting such nation must obey those laws unless the
on the book Riches and other publications of law is in direct violation or contravention of
the Society the Supreme Court of South God's law."
There are many similar passages to which Mr.
Africa put on record that the Bible truths con- Beadle has referred the Court.
tained in the Society's publications are not My conclusion is therefore that the books are
seditious. We quote from the judgment <is not expressive of an intention to excite disaffection
follows: in the sense above stated by me.
I am therefore of opinion that the word "dis- There is, however, another point which, though
affection" must be construed in section 2 of the not ventilated in the Court below, is raised in this
Rhodesian Act in the sense above suggested, viz., Court by Mr. Hoexter. H e contends that the books
as meaning discontent or dissatisfaction tending are seditious because they disclose an intention to
to, or accompanied by, the use of force, tumult, bring His Majesty in person into hatred and con-
riot, insurrection, or breach of the peace. tempt (Section 2 (a) of the A c t ) . This argument
I come now to . . . whether the publications are need not detain me. I t suffices to say that there is
expressive of an intention to excite disaffection in neither jot nor tittle in the fourteen books reflect-
this sense of the word; in other words, to put it ing on His Majesty in his private, or personal, or
baldly, does the writer intend to incite people to individual, capacity. Mr. Hoexter's contention in
use force against the government, or to revolt, and this behalf must therefore fail, as it seems to me.
to commit breaches of the peace? I may say at I t follows that in my opinion the Court below was
once that in my opinion the writer had no such right in ordering the books to be released and re-
intention, and bis books are not expressive of such turned to the Respondent Kabungo, and that the
an intention. He is . . . burning with the zeal of appeal should be dismissed with costs.
his convictions. He condemns many things in mod-
ern political, ecclesiastical, and commercial life; Summing It All Up
and he quotes extensively from the Bible, mainly Summing it all up, the P r o t e s t s t a t e s
from the prophets. H e may perhaps intend to in-
spire his readers to look with disfavour and disap- it j u s t r i g h t when it Kay.--:
probation on all modern forms of government, but In view of that fair judgment of the highest
nothing could be further from his mind than to court in the land, it will be seen that the action
advocate the use of force against any government. of the Censor Board confirmed by the Depart-
The burden of his teaching is, "Come ye out from ment of the Interior and without explanation
amongst them, for they will be destroyed by J e - from either is nothing less than religious in-
hovah." Mr. Hoexter freely and fairly admits that
the books do not indicate an intention of inciting tolerance and whether they realize it or not
to fight, and rightly so. But, as Mr. Beadle points they are playing into the hands of those sub-
out, the matter goes much further than that, for versive elements who are out to stifle freedom
the author, Rutherford, expressly warns his read- of worship, freedom of speech and freedom
ers not to use force. Thus in the volume Kingdom of the press, which for long have been the
he writes ( p . 1 0 ) : heritage of those living in democratic coun-
"Our faith forbids us to engage in war or any tries.
other enterprise that would work harm to
mankind." I n order to give the m a t t e r t h e p u b -
In Government (p. 247) he states t h a t : licity it deserved, the Watch Tower Bi-
"What is said here against the various forms
of government is not said with a view to pro- ble & T r a c t Society of C a p e Town, S o u t h
voking revolution." Africa, widely circulated complete copies
So again in Supremacy ( p . 51) he writes: of the P r o t e s t t h r o u g h o u t the Union.

British Comment (Continued from page 16) wealth which the Government is thinking
and Poland and other nations, and these lack about are to be left till wartime, and are to
faith in Britain until Britain has an army by be devised only (to be effective in preventing
conscription to back up its pacts. the accumulation of individual fortunes'. The
The Labor party will not oppose the Gov- prime minister claims to be realistic, but there
ernment's conscription after it has become law, is no realism in postponing conscription of
but they will continue to urge that there shall wealth while at the same time you are con-
he some conscription of the wealth of the scripting men." The prime minister announces
moneyed classes. A Labor member says, "Boys that, measures will be taken to prevent those
of 20 are to be conscripted now. Levies on vast accumulations of private fortunes which
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were gained OUl of the country's need during liberties. The premier pursues his way, backed
the Great War; hut those acute makers of by his supporters in Parliament. At the mo-
money who seek their own gains at the coun- ment he seems ready to make some overtures
try's cost will find ways of getting richer than to Hitler. There are those who have begun to
they now are. The Textile correspondent of say the country might as well get into the war
the Manchester Guardian says, "During the and get the suspense over. Those who say that
past two or three months over 20,000,000 do not visualize the inevitable destruction of
yards of cloth have been ordered by the Gov- all who arc involved in such a war as must
ernment through agents instead of direct with follow an outbreak.
the actual makers of the cloth. These orders,
which are for the fighting forces and for Communists
A.R.P. purposes, arc valued at over 1,000,000, The Communists are not numerous, but. they
and as the agents are obtaining 1.J percent. get into the limelight now and again. A section
commission in many instances this means that of the party has followed an obstructionist
the Government has bad to pay 1F>,000 more method of calling attention to the great need
for the cloth than it would have done had the of many of the unemployed. Taking the ex-
orders been placed with manufacturers." He ample of the students of Bombay who some
continues. "A prominent manufacturer told months ago laid themselves in the streets of
me that he had obtained an order through an the city, holding up its traffic, to demonstrate
agent for 2,000.000 yards of Royal Air Force their troubles, some parties of Communists
blue', .costing about one shilling a yard, or have done the same in London and some pro-
100,000 for the whole order. ()n this contract vincial cities. A party of twenty men and
the agent's commission is l i percent, which women suddenly laid themselves in the center
means that he will get 1,500 for merely hand- of Oxford Circus, holding up the traffic for
ing on the Government's order. The manu- about twenty minutes; another party tried to
facturer comments, 'It is high time that a get into the House of Commons carrying a
definite move was made to clean up the whole black coffin. Their cry is, "Work for the un-
question of Government, contracts.'' employed !"
The Government lias now appointed a Min- One of the leaders of the party has issued a
istry of Supply, and no doubt it will bring pamphlet calling on Chamberlain to FACE TriE
about some economies in the huge expenditures FACTSa term which has caught on in Eng-
to which the /country is committed ; but, as land since Judge Rutherford bid Britain and
Reynolds says, the minister who lias been ap- the world to PACK THE FACTS of its danger in
pointed and is chiefly responsible is one who its refusal to heed the message of Jehovah
may be considered acceptable to the foreign from His Word. The Communist pamphlet
influences which throw their weight against Speaks of Chamberlain's recent complaint that
the British Cabinet. many young men refused to lake advantage
The country is placarded with great no- of the Government's arrangement to help
tices " W E MUST B E PREPARED". The touchi- them by its instructional camps. It gives an-
ness of the situation keeps the people on other view of these labor camps, and claims
tension. It cannot be said that a sense of that the work is both hard on the men and
fear is noticeable, but the morning and eve- such as ought to be paid for at ordinary rates
ning newspapers are eagerly scanned to know of wages. Pood and a rough general provision
the latest developments. Everywhere war is are provided for constructional work, but only
the topic of conversation, and. What is Hitler four shillings a week are given. Many of the
going to say? or, What will Mussolini say or men are sent from their homes leaving depend-
do next? and then, What is Chamberlain's ents behind for whom adequate provision is
next word? "Peace in our time," the slogan not made, and it is said that those employed
raised after Munich, died a rather sudden are really doing forced labor and are in a
death, and the hope of averting a general war r condition than before. The pamphlet
is almost a lost hope. rightly calls attention to the false view of the
The Government is undoubtedly making official figures of the Labor Ministry's month-
much progress in its preparation of war ma- in -month statements: men who have been un-
terial, and the huge posters are intended to employed for even ten years are transferred
gei the people into a frame,of mind to accept into the reckoning of the numbers of the 'casu-
the fact of conscription and the limitation of ally unemployed' figures if work for two or
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three days is found for them. This, it is an alliance with Russia, thinking he hates
claimed, is done to hide the ugliness of the Bolshevism too much to allow that to happen.
facts of unemployment. Among these same British haters of the Rus-
sian form of government are to be found ad-
Political mirers of Hitler and of his regimentation of
One of the most important of the political the people. The Roman Catholic newspapers
questions now before the Government is wheth- and journals are throwing their weight into
er or not Britain shall enter into an alliance opposition against any alliance of Britain with
with Russia. There are many who wonder the "anti-God" country of Russia. The Roman
why Chamberlain has had such reluctance as Church has set itself up as the champion of
he has evidenced against making an alliance those who fight Communism, and Russia is the
with a power whose aid seems necessary to his nation above all others which has adopted the
own policy of entering into agreements to re- Communistic form of government. The hier-
sist Nazi further aggression in Europe. Russia archy in Rome knows very well that if Britain,
is by far the greatest military power in Eu- whom at present it flatters, enters into a pact
rope, and has almost unmeasurable possibili- or alliance with Russia its propaganda and
ties in war material and man power to call its activities will receive a setback: it would
on, and if this were available for the help of give a hard blow to Roman Catholic Fascist
Britain and France in case of war between aggression. Events will probably show that
these countries and the "Axis" powers there Chamberlain's reluctance has been caused by
could be little doubt of the issue in any con- representations from the hierarchy in Rome
flict. The immediate objective of the pacts, and local pressure from the hierarchy in
some realized, others in the making, is, of Britain. In the meantime it is to be noted that
course, to have so much force in hand as to the Roman Catholic papers arc as noisy in
preclude the probability of further Nazi or their objection to a pact with Russia as they
Fascist aggression in Europe. were in manifesting their sympathy with
There arc those in Britain who are much Franco. The policy of the Papacy is their
averse to a pact with Russia: as a Bolshevik church first and last: that interest comes be-
nation it is out of their class! They do not fore the welfare of the people or the preserva-
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 Contents Appetizers
All the World WonderingAs Foretold (3) 3 Hoax
Catholic Church in Germany 5
Bluffing the World to a Standstill 7 Fiftieth Birthday.
Definitely Turning Against Jehovah 9 On March 27, Mr. M. Pels, rep-
A Sweet Morsel II resenting the firm of Joseph Weier-
The New Government 12 mann, will celebrate his fiftieth
Re the Letter to Roosevelt 13 birthday.
Witnesses in Action in Dover, N. H. 14 Mr. Pels is well known for his integrity, un-
Monroe County (N. Y.) Penitentiary 16 tiring energy and expert knowledge of the
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford 17
Hate 17 retail shoe trade, and his personal charm has
Ku Klux Klan IS won 1 him many friends. May we express the
Protestantism 19 birthday wish that Mr. Pels will remain in our
Under the Totalitarian Flag 20 midst for many years to come. (From The
Yezidi Devil Worshipers 20 Shoe-Market, German trade paper, March 25)
Reply to a Nun in China 21
Co-operation in India 21
The Hierarchy in the Philippine Islands 22 Fiftieth Birthday of M. Pels.
Hierarchy's Sympathies with Japan 23 In our issue of March 25 we published a
Blaming It on the "Villagers" 21 birthday notice about M. Pels, which was sent
Education 25'
Money or Barter Under Kingdom Rule? 26 to us from a source which we believed reliable.
British Comment 28 We have been the victims of a hoax. M, Pels
Anti-Aggression Pact 2S is a Jew, and we declare the birthday notice
Truth Unpalatable to Some 29 about him to be void. (From The Shoe-Market,
Roman Catholics Angry 29 April 1)
National and Local Debts 30
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Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, July 12, 1939 Number 517

AH the World WonderingExactly as Foretold

(In Three PartsPart 3)

"And I saw one of his heads, as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all
the world wondered after the beast."Revelation 13: 3.

G ERMANY'S so-called "higher powers"

are expending $30,000,000 a year in the
United States to accomplish here what was
11. The Fuehrer and his Commissioners will take
immediate steps to eliminate all unemployed per-
sons and others liable to endanger the security of
accomplished in the last six years in Ger- the American Reich. Those are to be brought, as
many and Austria. The edicts, as soon as they required, into concentration camps until such time
as plans ;ire completed for their disposal. Anyone
can be put across, will be in effect as follows: evading such transportation will be punished with
1. The Constitution of the United States and the death.
Constitutions of the 48 States arc hereby repealed. 12. All banks, commodity exchanges, and amuse-
2. The State and Federal authority, the right to ment places are closed until further notice. [From
enact laws, the public execution of laws, the entire 'Dcr Fuehrer Speaks']
administration and military command throughout In the preliminary carving up of
the United States, and within the forty-eight states Czechoslovakia not a particle of
and adjacent territories arc transferred in full to
The Fuehrer of the Volksbund and his designated attention was paid to justice or
Commissioners. <^ft2SS| truth. In the town of Hodslovice,
3. The Congress of the former United States of **"*** in 1930, there were 1,943 Czechs
America and the legislative bodies of the forty- and one German, but the Germans took it.
eight states are dissolved. Any person participating The town of Strarnbul was 90 percent Czech
in the work of such an institution henceforth will and 10 percent German, but it had a Port-
be punished with death. land cement and lime works which the Ger-
4. Dismissed officials may no longer, on pain of mans wanted, so they took the town over.
death, take any part in public affairs. Koprivnice, at the census of 1930, had 3,968
5. Every American man and woman between the Czechs and 622 Germans, but it had an auto-
ages of 16 and 50 is liable to public labor service. mobile works and a wagon factory, so the
6. Every American man and woman between Germans took it. Trebovice had a big Czech
18 and 45 years of age is liable to auxiliary public majority, but it had a new power station which
service. the Germans wanted, so they took the town.
7. Freedom of the press is forthwith abolished. Svinov also had a large Czech majority, but
All newspaper undertakings and printing works it is a railroad junction and has a broadcast-
will he closed and their equipment seized in behalf ing station, so the Germans took it. The same
of The Bund. Any published statement damaging spirit was shown by Poland. Finally, Hitler
to The Bund or the American Reich will render .its completely destroyed Czechoslovakia.
publishers liable to punishment and expropriation.
8. Every organization of employes and employ-
e s is dissolved, as is also every party and political Escaping from Hitler
organization. Their property is seized. Relatively few people escaped from Czecho-
9. Lock-outs, strikes and expressions of dissatis- slovakia when one of the prize liars of hu-
faction are punishable by death. manity seized the last of that unhappy coun-
10. All real and negotiable property belonging try. Among the last to go were 1,000 aviators,
to dissenters and Jews is liable to seizure. who seized as many war planes and made their
JULY 12, 1939
3
way into Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia and crowd may be seen in the fact that one woman
Russia. These men also made away with formu- was arrested for saying that German army-
las for cement mixture, steel alloys and auto- uniforms looked sloppy, and a man for mak.
matic riile design which the Germans had ex- ing the facetious remark that the Germans
pected to get. They also drained oil tanks into would now improve Prague, as they had im-
the earth and showed in every way their proved Berlin, by tearing up the streets. A
hatred of the fiend that now has the world further hint is afforded by the fact that 150
frightened out of its wits. persons were installed in telephone exchanges
Some idea of the terrible plight of refugees so that they might serve as spies on all con-
from Czechoslovakia seeking refuge in Britain versations of suspected Czechs. All corre-
may be gathered from the fact that in some in- spondents agree that hatred of the invaders
stances, on the last day of March, persons by the Czechs is ill concealed. A newspaper
flew back and forth from the Netherlands to A-Z, was suspended for three days for re-
Britain five times in a single day and some producing a photograph of Hitler that did
were so desperate that the pilots refused to not suit the vanity of the new master of Cen-
take them, fearing that they would jump out tral Europe.
en route. Heart-rending scenes were enacted Wanting to stay free, Iceland refused per-
at the railroad stations on the Netherlands- mission of the German Lufthansa to open air
Germany border, where hundreds were turned service between Germany and Iceland, but
back who did not have British permits. either the granting or the refusal of a German
The merry work of mopping up the last of request today is equivalent to an undeclared
Protestantism in Central Europe goes stead- war with the Central European monstrosity;
ily forward. Ever since ,lohn Huss, rector of and the war could have but one result, sur-
the University of Prague, was burned at the render. Iceland has no army. This is well
stake for condemning some of the unseriptural known to Germany.
doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic. For months past a German warship, the
Hierarchy, in 1415, there has been a vigorous Meteor, has been stationed off Iceland measur-
stand for honesty, truth and liberty in what ing depths of the fiords. German soldiers and
was recently Czechoslovakia. mariners march through the streets of Rey.
Now all that is passing, being suppressed kjavik in military order. A brother of Marshal
by the tools of the Papacy operating out of Goering, of Germany, is making frequent
Berlin. The diplomatic correspondent of the trips between Iceland and Germany, and Ger-
Manchester Guardian tells of the shameless man "scientists" have crossed and recrossed
methods being used, in the following dispatch: the island in all directions, measuring plains
Under pressure from Berlin the Czechs are com- and heights, and photographing practically
pelled to revise the history of their nation. For the whole surface.
example, the Husitc tradition, which was deeply
imbedded in the. Czech national consciousness, is How About Religion?
being replaced by a Wenceslaus traditionWen-
ceslaus, the "good king", being regarded (quite Save your tears. Hitler declares
wrongly) as a Germanic Bohemian hero by the that the churches are receiving
Germans, who regard Jan Hus as a purely Czech over -500,000,000 marks a year
national hero and leader of an anti-German reli- from taxation and own landed and
gious reformation. * forest property worth 10,000,000,-
This is the more repcllant in view of the fact 000 marks.
that the King Wenceslaus referred to is desig- The Register, boilerplate organ of the Ro-
nated in history as <fWenceslaus the Worth- man Catholic Hierarchy in the United States,
less" because he was a total loss as a ruler, in its Central California edition boasts that
representing only the Devil, whose servant he though the number of Protestant theological
was. He died fifteen years before Huss. students in Germany is decreasing remark-
ably every year, yet the number of young men
Gestapo Arrests in Czechia studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood
With the seizure of Czechia by Hitler the shows a remarkable increase. Thus, in recog-
infamous Gestapo (secret police) got under nized seminaries in Germany, excluding Aus-
way at once and within a few hours had placed tria and Czechoslovakia, where there were
18,000 persons in concentration camps. A hint 4,632 such students in the year 1932-33, there
of the brutality and severity of the Nazi were over 6,000 in the year 1938-39.
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Religionists All O.K. with Hitler Attendances in the Catholic churches are
+ In his speech of January 30, 1939, Hitler larger, both in Berlin and in Munich, than
ghowed that it is not the religionists, but only they were before Hitler came into power.
their opposites, the
yeal Christians, that Great Increase
need to f e a r him, in Convents
when he said: Commenting on the
They say abroad that enormous increase in
we are an anti-religious convents in Germany
movement. Against this since Hitler came to
I declare, firstly, that
no one has been perse- power, Das Schwarze
cuted in this country be- Korps, official organ
cause of their religion, of the German Secret
and no one 'will he. State Police (Gesta-
To be consistent po), explained in its
Hitler should have issue of September 1,
explained that thou- 1938, that, whereas in
sands of Jehovah's the years from 1920
witnesses in Germany to 1932 the number
are in concentration of convents in Ger-
camps, and that the many increased from
only reason is that 6,091 to 7,787, or at
they love God and are the rate of a new cage
ohedient to Him. Like for the blackbirds ev-
the Lord Jesus Christ, ery 2.59 days for the
they have no religion: thirteen - year period,
they are merely Chris- yet since the deal be-
tians. tween Hitler and the
pope put Hitler in su-
Special Privileges preme control, in but
of the Hierarchy Earth's greatest racket
three years, the num-
In the Concordat ber increased from 7,787 to 8,651. This is at
with the Reich various privileges before other the rate of a new convent every 1.27 days;
members of the people are granted to the Cath- and if the statement is .even half true it shows
olic clergy (exemption of clergymen and stu- what an enormous and useless burden is being
dents of theology from the universal military piled upon the backs of the German people
service, from acceptance of public offices and in the happy days for the Hierarchy when
the obligations connected therewith that ac- one of their favored sons came into control
cording to canonical law are allegedly incon- of what was once a Protestant country. The
sistent with ecclesiastical dignity), and various ideal of the Hierarchy is that every man should
exclusive rights before other churches are con- be a priest, every woman a nun, and every
ceded to the Catholic church (diplomatic rep- infant allowed to live a foundling.
resentation at the government of the Reich,
special safeguard for Catholic associations Roman Catholic bishops are expected to
and parochial schools, etc.).Translated from visit Rome and confer with the pope every
Eos Schwarze Korps (official organ of Hitler's four years, but not oftener unless something
secret police) of February 17, 1938. special is in the wind. It is noteworthy, there-
fore, that eleven German bishops repeatedly
Catholic Church in Germany visited the pope since the surrender at Munich.
1932 1935 Incr'se Without the least doubt, these are all being
jk Catholic parishes 11,540 11,702 162 tipped off as to how to co-operate with Hitler
No. Catholic priests 16,729 17,164 435 in the next putsch.
Catholic theology students 4,632 5,277 645 Judge Gilbert O. Nations, Ph.D., LL.D.,
Clerical order houses 510 525 15. draws attention in The Monitor to the fact
Clerical order members 10,839 13^60 2,521 that on July 22, 1937, "Reverend Father"
Catholic nuns 15,000 Mayer, Jesuit, was found guilty of treason
JULY 12, 1 9 3 9
5
and was sentenced to only six months' im- tim as his own. Goebbels is Jesuit-trained. In
prisonment for what commonly brings the one of his latest effusions he placed the Fuhrer
death sentence; and as soon as he had been next to the Creator by saying:
sentenced the sentence was suspended. Germany need not be concerned about her fn.
ture if the Lord Almighty preserves the Fuehrer's
No Persecution of Catholics in Austria strength and health for many more years.
Joseph Buerckel, plebiscite director on Aus- Silly American ' newspapers and equally
tria's union with Germany, explained the ac- silly press associations continue to publish
cord between the Nazis and the pope in the stories of persecutions of the Roman Hier-
following statement: archy in Germany. It has not come yet. Karl
If there are disagreements here and there be- Kreisler, of Evanston, Illinois, in a letter to
tween the church and the party it does not mean the Chicago Tribune dated February 7, 1939
one side or the other is to blame. I am pleased snid:
to say that the bishops next Sunday will issue
a pastoral letter supporting Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. I have beard much about religious persecutions
The United Press cabled from Vienna that in Germany, but I would like to know just where
in Germany these so-called persecutions are taking
it is not true that there was a general confis- place. I returned from a trip to Europe less than
cation of Roman Catholic church property in .seven weeks ago, and I, being a Catholic and proud
Austria. The basis for the inaccurate report of it, was never molested while attending my church
is that the property of the Saint Lamprecht in Germany. Many times I have seen Nazis dressed
monastery was taken over by the government in full uniform attending church, and also receiv-
because the priests there used the religious ing communion.
funds to support their girl friends. This in- I t is not as easy to lie to Catholic people as
formation was afterwards confirmed by The it used to be: there are so many tens of
International News Service. millions of booklets about, such as Uncovered,
Just before the seizure of Austria by Hitler Face the Facts, and Fascism or Freedom.
there were discoveries of arms in the cellars Edward Walters, London Catholic, wrote to
of monasteries in Linz, Aigen, St. Fionas the London Catholic Herald protesting the
and Moedling. lying reports Catholics and others are expect-
France has thirteen fortified churches and ed to believe about Catholic conditions in Ger-
one fortified cathedral, that of Palavas-des- m;iny. He said, very truthfully and modestly,
Flots, in the Herault Department, on the "We have yet to hear evidence of anything
Mediterranean. that approaches persecution in the major sense
of the word," and gave a number of good
Coming After the Congress reasons why the Catholic papers should tell
Everywhere throughout Hungary it was the truth on the subject. He does not realize,
whispered by the Nazis, "After the Congress poor man, how very much they prefer to lie,
we are coming," showing clearly that the so- thus proving that they are of their father, the
called "Eucharistic Congress" at Budapest had Devil, who is a liar, and the father of it and
a political objective. And, sure enough, as of their "church".
soon as the Congress was over, and the little Not without good.reason for doing it, the
piece of bread had been worshiped, a vigor- Catholic Herald Citizen of Milwaukee boasts
ous campaign to turn the country Nazi got that more than half the population of Greater
under way, and is now spreading rapidly. Germany are now Catholics, and next to Italy
and France the Nazi realm has more cardinals
Adolf Hitler "Christian" (?) within its borders than any other nation.
At an address in Chicago Fritz The London Catholic Herald claims that the
Kuhn, Nazi leader in the United Roman Catholic Church's influence on Italians
States, reported "Reverend Fa- is stronger than it has been in seventy years;
ther" Coughlin, of Detroit, as say- also that when Hitler was invited to interfere
ing, "Adolf Hitler is the only real in the Protestant Church dispute in Germany
Christian leader in the world today." This he excused himself, declaring that he is a
statement brought terrific applause from the Catholic.
pleased audience, and looks of "I told you so",
as reported in the Chicago Daily Times. Jesuit Control of Czechoslovakia
Coughlin could hardly fail to admire Goebbels. One of the early evidences that everything
He has used Goebbel's stuff literatim et seria- in Czechoslovakia was falling into the hands
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of the Jesuits was afforded in the case of the wonders whether he will be as popular after the
"Reverend Father" Joseph Tiso, premier of Slovaks he betrayed have had a taste of the Nazi
the central portion of the country, called medicine.
Slovakia. When he planned to throw every- As for all those cardinals and priests who play
thing into Hitler's hands by proclaiming leading roles in the subversive activities of "Cath-
olic Action", without a doubt these would all re-
Slovakia's independence from Czechia (the sign from their posts tomorrow if only they were
Protestant section of the country), his treach- not so popular!
ery was discovered and he was ordered to go Still, no one should be astonished at any lies pub-
to a Jesuit monastery and remain there until lished by a body whose leader, the pope, in the
further orders. course of the recent orgy of creature-worship that
The Czechs did not dare to actually im- marked his "coronation", is reported to have ut-
tered repeatedly the words, "Lord, I am not
prison him, for they knew, as appeared from worthy."
later developments, that he was working un- Woe unto you hypocrites!
der instructions from Vatican City and Ber-
lin. He was out of his job as premier only five Field Marshal Goering
days, when Hitler smashed what was left of Field Marshal Herman William Goering,
Czechoslovakia into smithereens and the de- upon whom the mantle of German leadership
sire of the pope to see Protestantism complete- might fall with the death of the present im-
ly crushed in Central Europe was fulfilled. potent madman, is a morphine addict and
Norris Willatt, of London, writes on the was at one time an inmate in the Langbro
same subject, as follows: Asylum in Sweden. When he appealed to the
Masters of the subtle art of propa- Swedish courts for the guardianship of his
ganda, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy first wife's son by another marriage, it was
knows well that one of the best ways refused on the ground that he was not a fit
of making a man appear a hero is to person to act as a guardian. Yet he holds the
represent him as following the path fate of 80,000,000 people in his hands.
of duty when it is contrary to that of inclination. A correspondent draws attention to a World
It is therefore easy to see the hand of that War news item* that since 1914 the inter-
CamorTa behind a statement published in the
London Daily Telegraph on March 17. national Jesuit headquarters have been at San
Remo, Italy, and accompanies this informa-
Referring to "Father" Volosin, prime minister
of Ruthcnia (before Hungary took it over), who, tion with a clipping from the London Daily
after assisting in the break-up of the Czecho- Express wherein occurs the interesting infor-
slovak State by agitating for the autonomy of the mation that after spending some time at this
slice of it governed by him, scuttled to Rumania resort Field Marshal Goering and his wife
as Boon as his devilish work was done, the writer and private secretary left suddenly for Berlin.
says: This is merely one of the many straws show-
A simple country priest, he dislikes politics and ing Jesuit interest in the affairs and fate of
confesses they are his weak point. His position was Germany; for it was on the same evening
thrust upon him against his will by his popularity. that the "Reverend Father" Tiso, betrayer of
Disregarding the question of whether one who Slovakia, was summoned to Berlin to receive
'confesses politics arc his weak point' was justified his final instructions as to the part he was
under any circumstances in undertaking the leader- to play, and did play, in the complete anni-
ship of a state, all Christians who read their Bibles hilation of Czechoslovakia, and the very next
know that Jesus instructed His followers to keep day Hitler was in Prague. Immediately after
themselves separate from the world. the seizures of Czechoslovakia and Memel,
As a self-styled Christian, however great his Goering returned to San Remo.
popularity (Jesus said n i s followers would be
wed by the world), "Father" Volosin's duty un-
der the circumstances was perfectly clear. His ac- Bluffing the World to a Standstill
tion shows him (and all political priests, inciden- D. W. Tomlinson, of the TWA, back from
tally) up i n his true light. a sojourn in Germany, claims that German
No doubt the Hierarchy would represent it that
Tather" Tiso, who obligingly delivered up Slo- * This cannot now be confirmed. Reports of an
vakia lock, stock and barrel to the total itari an s, as investigator are that San Herno is apparently
"'s fellow Jesuit did Ruthcnia, was likewise led merely a fashionable watering place on the Italian
w accept the premiership of the state against his Riviera, but as such would make an ideal center
own inclination "because of his popularity". One for international intrigue.
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factories are capable of turning out 3,000 to ically, economically and militarily, to the
5,000 airplanes a month. The factories, of Hitler regime, immediately after the complete
which there are many, are self-contained. shattering of Czechoslovakia, is admitted to
Many of the workers are boys of 14 or 15 serv- be without precedent in modern history. As
ing a four-year apprentice course, at the end a result of this so-called "trade agreement"
of which time they become very skillful. The Germany arms Rumania, develops her natural
airport at Tempelhof he describes as 4,200 wealth of oil, wheat, timber and minerals, will
feet long, with buildings six stories high, the furnish her with all her agricultural and
tops of which can seat 70,000 people. Never- other machinery, will receive free ports on
theless, Germany has no gasoline. What a the Danube and on the Black sea, will over-
bluff! haul the Rumanian railway system, and will
International Murderers, British and Amer- furnish all the equipment for the Rumanian
ican, supplied Germany and Italy with the army, navy and military aviation, without
gasoline to make possible the destruction of asking any odds of Britain, France or Russia,
Ethiopia and Spain, and Germany could not now being definitely dragged behind the Hit-
fight a big war without the support of these ler chariot.
birds of prey.
Pulling Out the Pope's Chestnuts
When Hitler pulls off one of his periodic
war scares it is a fine thing for business; also Explaining why he allowed the German
for politicians. Just before he blasted the air people to pull the pope's chestnuts out of the
with his two-hour-and-scventcen-minute speech fire in Spain, Hitler in his reply to Roosevelt
to Roosevelt, Germany called oiit 500,000 men. said that he did it
It was expensive, but it helped business. It for the salvation of European civilization; for if
was calculated that in April in Europe there the sub-human forces of Bolshevism had proved
victorious in Spain they might easily have spread
were 8,000,000 men under arms or notified to across the whole of Europe.
hold themselves ready for an immediate call.
Hitler can puff out his chest and claim much This regard for "civilization" on the part
of the glory of all this; also for causing con- of a man that has set the clock of civilization
scription in England, and providing Roosevelt back at least four hundred years by placing
with an opportunity to keep in the limelight. Jehovah's witnesses in concentration camps is
a good illustration of the hypocrisy of poli-
ticians.
"Mein Kampf"a Gangster's Primer But even that piece of hypocrisy fades when
The book Mein Kampf, supposed to compared with the following words of blas-
be the struggle of a poor man's rise phemy contained in the same address:
to a position of honor and useful- I can give vent to my deepest feelings only in
ness to his fellow men, is merely a the form of humble thanks to Providence who called
" gangster's primer, as will be ap- upon meonce an unknown soldier of the great
parent to any thoughtful person from a con- warto rise and be leader of my dearly loved
sideration of the following paragraph, from people. Providence called me to find a way to free
chapter 27. Jesuitry, the spirit of the Devil, our people from its deepest misery without any
breathes from every line. shedding of blood and lead it upward once more,
and Providence has granted that I might fulfill
A shrewd victor will, whenever it is possible, my life's taskto raise my German people out of
impose his demands upon the vanquished only in the depths of defeat and liberate it from the bonds
installments. The victor thus gradually weakens of the most infamous dictate of all times. I should
the character of the vanquished, making sure that have sinned against my call by Providence had
no one demand is sufficient in itself to cause the I failed in my own endeavor to lead my native
vanquished to resort to arms in defiance. The more country and my German people of Ostmark back
extortions that arc accepted, the more unjustifiable to the Reich and thus to a community of German
violent defense seems to the victims, for no single people.
outrage seems to warrant a struggle after so many
outrages have been passed by in silence.
Religion Backs Up Hitler
Without striking a blow, Hitler has bullied It is worth while noting that on Sunday,
into submission and absorbed, for all prac- March 19, 1939, when Hitler returned from
tical purposes, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hun- his seizure of all that was left of Czechoslo-
gary, Rumania and Lithuania, and the end vakia, all the church bells in Berlin rang with
is not yet. The surrender of Rumania, polit- joy that the murderer had accomplished his
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purpose. It is also of interest that the much- Marshal Goering presenting the new village of
battered Goebbels was back on his job of prop- Fassberg, near Luneburg, with what is called
aganda minister, too. a Simultankirche, i.e., a church which is to be
r&w"^3 "^ wireless dispatch from Berlin used by both Catholic and Protestant congre-
f5u*lJ-3 states that General Franco, in a gations. There are several such, as in Wetzlar,
{ljL*"3 personal letter to Adolf Hitler, as- Altenberg, and Bautzen.
n g ^ y ? ^ sure<l that person that the new As the head of the council of the
gfgi^Wii Spain, under his control and man- German Evangelical Church, Fried-
agement, will definitely go along with and rich Werner sent out the follow-
support the policies of Germany, Italy and ing blasphemous prayer, to be
their backers. What else would he do? I t is prayed in all churches on Hitler's
all part of a definite plan to make the whole fiftieth birthday:
world totalitarian. Hitler, Mussolini and Almighty God, we thank Thee that Thou hast
Franco are all Roman Catholics. permitted our Fuehrer and Reich's Chancellor to
One of the very first to congratulate Pope complete in health and strength his fiftieth year.
Pius X I I on his election was Adolf Hitler. We thank Thee for having sent to our German
people through him a change of fortune from
The very first ambassador Pope Pius X I I re- slavery and disgrace, misery and degeneration to
ceived was the German ambassador. The Ger- freedom and honor, prosperity and renewed life.
man Government was expecting to be repre- We pray Thee from our hearts that Thou may-
sented at the coronation of the new pope, and est also in the future keep our Fuehrer in Thy
to view with satisfaction the act of the German faithful care; preserve him in health and joyous
and other cardinals kissing Pacelli's ring, strength and permit him to complete his work as
and the German and other bishops kissing his Thou hast hitherto visibly furthered its execution.
foot. Business is coming along fine. Through Thy mercy grant that his whole nation
may surround him evermore, I hat our armies, on
In a cireular to school authorities Nazi edu- land, on the water and in the air, may ever gladly
cation minister, Bernhard Rust, declared that serve him and victoriously protect our Fatherland
religious education is as much a Nazi service in the hour of need and danger and that we may
as any other branch of instruction. As a mat- all, each in his own place, further his work accord-
ter of fact 85 percent of the Protestant teach- ing to Thy will.
ers of Germany still teach religious classes. Contrast this with the following from The
Because they proclaim God's kingdom as American Guardian, and decide now where
the only possible hope of the world most of you would rather be, if in Germany: in a con-
Jehovah's witnesses who are alive in Germany centration camp or in the ranks of the Evan-
are in concentration camps, but a bishop of gelical "ministry" to the Devil:
the Methodist Episcopal Church having juris- The Nazis are all a-jitter over a sect of religion-
diction in Germany and Austria boasted that ists known as the International Bible Students
his church has no trouble with the Nazi pow- Association (called Jehovah's witnesses in the U. S.
ers. One would think he would be ashamed to and vigilantly prosecuted in many places, particu-
make the claim. larly where Catholics control political machinery).
They are accused by Hitler's police of becoming
The latest news about Pastor NiembTler, a "Red menace", just as all movements not wor-
ex-U-boat commander, about whom Protes- shipful of the gangster regime are called "Commu-
tants have had so much to say, is that he is nistic". What worries German business men and
studying Catholic theology. That is the way bankers and militarists most is that they cite Bib-
for him to get out of prisonjust abandon lieal verses "to prove" the imminent downfall of
Hitler, and that these straws of hope are eagerly
the Scriptures entirely and give himself over grasped by many Germans. They also fear that the
wholly ta the pet religion of the Devil. organization is furnishing a rallying point for the
harassed millions who hate Fascism and fight to
Definitely Turning Against Jehovah overthrow it.
All religionists in Germany are definitely
turning against Jehovah God, the great Crea- Jehovah, the Great Creator
tor, and against those who stand for the honor The name of Jehovah, the great Creator,
f His name, His witnesses in the earth. The occurs in the Scriptures, alone or in combina-
accord between Catholicism and Protestantism tion with other words, more than 6,000 times.
*n Germany is so substantial that nobody The Bible is Jehovah's Word, not the word of
thought anything strange of the act of Field any man or men. Jesus Christ is claimed by
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9
Him to have been llis Son, and .Jesus always and children fleeing in order to escape being
acknowledged that Jehovah is His Father. taken as hostages for the menfolk, the object
Would you think that any would dare speak being to overcome the resistance of the latter
lightly of Jehovah? Yet the following are by ill-treatment of the former; women and
headlines of various newspapers, of the dates girls struck heavy blows with a stick on the
named (all 1938) : hinder parts; torture post bristling with nails-
New York Herald Tribune (Nov. 13) : and finally murder itself. The family of a
"Goering to Make Jewry Pay for Rath's murdered man are not even allowed to say a
Death by Cession of Fourth of Its Wealth to prayer at the graveside of their beloved dead
the Nation. Theaters, Concerts, Arc Closed to on the day of the funeral. The subordinate
Them. Victims Must Repair Riot Havoc at officials lay the blame for these atrocities on
Own Expense; Hitler's Paper Calls It 'Jeho- the authorities, who are conversant with
vah's bankruptcy'." everything that goes on.
New York World-Telegram (Nov. 19): "The same infamous acts are committed in
"Nazis Outlaw Jehovah's Name." the territory of Danzig. Those who refuse to
Newark, N. J., Ledger (Nov. 19): "Expul- give the Hitler salute in the so-called 'Free
sion of Jehovah." State' arc dismissed from their work and per-
Milwaukee Journal (Nov. 19): "Must Erase secuted. The officials of that state, controlled
'Jehovah', Reich's Churches Told." by the League of Nations, even go to the
New York Times (Nov. 20): "Name of length of giving up the Danzig Bible Students
'Jehova' Banned in North Reich Churches." (Jehovah's witnesses) to the German author-
New York Sunday News (Nov. 2 0 ) : "Nazis ities. Protests addressed to the League are
Censor Bible; Eliminate Jehovah." - useless. Europe closes its eyes and shuts its
Regina, Sask., Leader Post (Nov. 2 1 ) : "God ears. It is a shame that the good name of
of Israel and Prophets Must Be Erased." Switzerland should be compromised by one
Washington, D.C., Evening Star (Nov. 19) : of its citizens, the present commissioner of
"Jehovah's Name Ordered Out of Reich the League of Nations.
Churches; Erasure Decreed on Threats to "Crusade Against Christianity is addressed
Burn Edifices." to men of good will. The author evidently
New York Sunday Mirror (Nov. 20) : thinks that some still remain. But ought not
"Hitler Pushes Drive, Erases Name Jehovah." the very stones themselves to cry out against
San Francisco Chronicle (Nov. 2 0 ) : " ' J e - these iniquities?
hovah' Banned, Property Seized." "In Switzerland Jehovah's witnesses have
Richmond, Va., Item (Nov. 25) : "Hitler been refused permission to give public lec-
Bans Jehovah." tures intended to expose the crusade of the
Boston Sunday Advertiser (Nov. 2 7 ) : "Je- Swastika against Christianity. The pretext
hovah Banished." advanced for this refusal is the Hitler fahle
The world of Noah's day was destroyed for that they are Communists.
parallel cause, and the people of Nirieveh were "Is Roman Catholicism envious of Jehovah's
mild and justifiable by comparison. This gen- witnesses? Possibly so, because of their heroic
eration is going to be destroyed, and deserves martyrs. Certainly it hates these "heretical
it well. It has no thought of love or reverence laymen' who venture to explain the Bible
for the Creator. Millions of them have been without Papal authority.
taught that He does not exist. "The author of this recent publication dis-
penses with all Scriptural explanations. He
Treatment of Jehovah's witnesses ought to be a glad man and to esteem it an
"The reports from the concentra- honor to have thus pleaded the cause of those
tion camps confirm and prove the Christians who suffer persecution and death
anguish endured by all interned for their faith and in defense of the cause of
there. The vile treatment meted righteousness. If statesmen and politicians
out to the prisoners continues to had but even a small portion of the courage
this day. Here are some of the forms that that imbues Jehovah's witnesses the numerous
treatment takes: blows with cudgels and beat- crimes perpetrated by the present demons in
ings with horsewhips; ends of the fingers office would have been impossible."From the
crushed in a linen-drying machine; women French Consolation of October, 1938.
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 A Sweet M o r s e l

SUGAK is a comparatively modern Sugar cannot be produced artificially. Car-

commodity. For thousands of years bon, hydrogen and oxygen are combined in
honey was the only sweetening sub- sugar, but just how, nobody has been able to
stance known. A hundred years ago discover. Chemists say that sunshine is neces-
sugar was such an expensive article sary in the combination of these three ele-
that the average person consumed about ten ments, and sunshine is something which the
pounds per annum, as against ten times that scientists of today have not as yet been able
amount today. to manufacture.
Most authorities agree that sugar-making Among the products of the sugar cane is
originated in India and other parts of the molasses, or black treacle as it is known in
Orient. The modern word sugar comes from England. This is said to be an excellent remedy
the Sanscrit "ehakara", similar to the Persian for constipation, although top much is liable
"shakar". No doubt the Crusaders of the Mid- to have a bad effect on the heart and also on
dle Ages brought back supplies of sugar with the delicate lining of the stomach. This may
them and thus started the trade in that com- not be noticed for some years, however. Other
modity between the West and the East. The by-products are blackstrap, or inedible mo-
royal palaces at Madrid and Toledo were built lasses, used largely in manufacture of cattle
with the profits of the sugar trade. feed, industrial alcohol and yeast. Insulating
At that time sugar was used chiefly as a wallboards are made from the ground cane,
medicine, and so valuable was it that explora- reduced to pulp. The pulp is also used for fuel.
tions were made in various parts of the world Sugar is also used in the sweetening of
to find new sources of supply. It is said that tobacco, and the manufacture of soap and high
Christopher Columbus had the discovery of explosives, while housewives know the part
sugar as one of his objectives when he started it plays in canning and preserving as well as
his memorable journey across The Atlantic. in baking and confectionery.J. A. Williams.
With the advent of tea and coffee, however,
sugar began to be used for sweetening pur-
poses generally and became more or less one The Butter Yellow Dye
of life's necessities. The butter yellow dye, used to give a nice
Until the time of Napoleon the sugar cane color to that mysterious and questionable com-
was the source of the sugar supplies of the pound called "oleomargarine", causes skin
world. The wars in Europe caused France to disease when a strap colored with it is worn
be cut off from her supplies, and so scientists next to the wrist. Maybe you are more par-
began to seek some other means of manufactur- ticular in what you have on the outside of your
ing the article. Apples, pears, plums, and even wrist than in what you have on the inside of
walnuts and chestnuts, were tried, but with your stomach. Encourage your undertaker by
little success. The first factory for the manu- eating oleo dyed yellow.
facture of sugar from the beet was erected by
a German chemist in the year 1802. The New Method of Cleaning Turkeys
French soon learned of this, and less than ten In the new method of cleaning turkeys the
years later a Frenchman, Benjamin Delessert, larger tail and wing feathers are removed by
produced some well-crystallized beet sugar. hand. Then the bird is dried and dipped in
As soon as the news reached the ears of Napo- wax. Then it is sprayed with cold water to
leon, he dropped all other business and rushed harden the wax. Then the wax is removed and
off to the sugar factory, where, in his delight, with it come all the rest of the feathers. The
he pinned the Cross of the Legion of Honor, wax is recovered centrifugally.
which he had been wearing, onto the breast
of the astonished chemist. For some time sugar Fuzzlcss Peaches
roade from beets was not popular, but the pub- Fuzzless peaches do not grow that way, but
lie soon began to realize that sugar was sugar, are made that way by a high-speed defurring
from whatever source it was produced, and machine which revolves them against brushes
since that time the sugar beet has been a seri- with just enough pressure to make them more
ous rival of the sugar cane. attractive and palatable.
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11
 learning, the school board is learning, th
teachers are learning, the children are learn,
ing, and before you know it Vineo is going to
be a fairly nice place to live.

Not F i g u r i n g Cost of Books

Some people say the spreading of the mes-
sage of God's kingdom is a money-making
scheme. Very well! Jehovah's people put in
"Fear of Man Bringeth a S n a r e " approximately 13,905,000 hours a year in the
A witness here who came out of fleshly service, counting time coming and going. Rate
Israel told me recently that after attending their time as worth 50 cents an hour; the
the Memorial he reached home to find that his value would be $6,952,500. Allow one gallon
wife and relatives were just winding up the of gas a day for each worker and there would
Passover service there. The conclusion of that be another $1,800,000 ; total outlay, $8,752,500.
service is a priestly imposition, as follows: Total received for books and booklets, not
A goblet of wine is placed on the table and counting one cent for paper, covers, printing,
the outside door is opened. He arrived just binding or transportation from factory to
after the door had been opened, and because worker, $1,060,683.15. How rich would you
every one was in the next room, when they feel, reader, if you were engaged in an enter-
heard him enter they called out, "Who is prise in which you annually made $1,060,683.15
there?" Being a wit he answered, "The angel (assuming that your books cost nothing what-
of death." Being utterly superstitious con- ever) and lost $7,691,816.85? And what would
cerning death they got hysterical, that is, the you think of a nut that would think you were
females did. Then he said, "What is this? Why making millions out of what you were doing,
do you put the wine on the table and open the even when you offered to give him literature
door?" They answered, "That is to let the for nothing, provided he would promise to
Gentiles know that we are not drinking the read it?C. O. Shoemaker, Washington.
blood of a Gentile baby."
Herman said, "Is not this an abomination "God Must Have a Permit"
to Jehovah, that you should show fear of men ? The Reading (Pa.!) Graphic, reporting
If Jehovah is really your God and you trust interference with the work of one of Jeho-
Him, what should you care what the Gentiles vah's witnesses in proclaiming the Kingdom
think? n o w do you think that Jehovah could as the hope of the world, mentioned that the
have His name declared in all the earth if young woman in question was ordered to stop
you never mention it?"Contributed. and proceed to the city hall for a permit, and
put the whole story under the startling but
Learning Things at Vinco pointed headline, "Even God must have a per-
Everybody at Vineo, Pennsylvania, is learn- mit," thus going direct to the absurdity at
ing things. Loyalty booklets were put in every the heart of the whole matter. Here and there
home. The five members of the school board is still an honest and courageous and caustic
did not know of the decision of Federal Judge spokesman for the public.
Maris that children cannot be compelled to
salute the flag, and when they learned it they Odd Happening at Lykens
were mad; they said, Federal decision or no At Lykens, Pennsylvania, where one of
Federal decision, they had given instructions
to the teachers to lick all the children each Jehovah's witnesses was arrested for proclaim-
morning until they salute; also all Jehovah's ing the good news of God's kingdom, an odd
witnesses ought to be murdered, to the accom- thing happened recently. The "Reverend"
paniment of profanity. Then the teachers were H. B. Rittenhouse had just completed his
visited, and being used to using their brains sermon on the text, "He shall baptize thee with
(differing from the school board in this re- fire," when his church, the Transfiguration
spect), they decided there would be no more Baptist, caught fire and burned to the ground-
flag saluting for those who did not wish to do On the next evening the local firemen were to
it, and the result was that nearly one-half re- have attended in a body a meeting especially
fused to salute any more. The citizens are intended for them.
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Re the Letter to Roosevelt United States for preaching the gospel? Not
Jfr. Robert F . Graham, one. But two thousand of Jehovah's witnesses
825-C Bath St., have been arrested for that so-called "offense"
Santa Barbara, Calif. at the instance of Catholic clergy.
Sir: Furthermore, with reference to the sub-
This is in reply to your letter of April 6. mission of proof, I would like to ask you a
I note that you run quite true to form. You question. Do you deny the fifteen points set
use the very distinctive Roman Catholic meth- out in my letter as to the relation between
od of answering argu- Fascism and Roman
ments. You do not set Catholicism? Do you
forth any facts or an- deny that the pope
swering allegations, recognizes and sup-
but resort to abuse by ports Franco and did
saying that my letter support him through
is "the ravings of a all of his murderous
depraved mind" and attacks upon children
that it is "a libelous and others in Spain?
insult to the Catholic Do you deny that the
religion" and that I pope has diplomatic
"must have at some relations with dicta-
time suffered a severe tors, including Hitler
head injury". and Mussolini? Do
It's very easy to you deny that Father
call names and to em- Coughlin's activities
ploy abuse of that are Fascist? Do you
sort, but to present deny that the Catho-
facts is another mat- lic Church is the main
ter. Catholic news- support of totalitar-
p a p e r s , periodicals ianism in Q u e b e c ?
and books use the Do you deny that the
same method. Not one Catholic organization
of them comes forth s upports Mayor
with any facts to an- Hague in his totali-
swer the allegations tarian rule in Jersey
and statements which City?
have b e e n m a d e If you h o n e s t l y
against that church. think those allega-
J u d g e Rutherford tions are not true,
has published and cir- Doorstep method of witnessing please say so, and we
culated many books in many languages, from will give you some proof.
one part of the country to the other, in which In addition to those allegations, in my letter
facts proving fraudulent practices of the to President Roosevelt I submitted nine specific
Catholic Church have been set forth. No at- instances where the Catholics have infringed
tempt has been made to answer them, but upon freedom of speech, freedom of the press
there has been a great torrent of vilification and freedom >of assembly. Do you deny that
and abuse poured out upon him. It seems that those statements are true? Please answer.
you use the same method; and apparently it In my letter to the president I also stated
Pomes from the head of the Catholic organi- that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy carries on
zation. a racket by frightening people into paying
. We can give you plenty of proof, but from large sums of money for protection and re-
the tone of your letter I do not think proof lease from a mythical place of future punish-
would mean anything to you. The fact that ment labeled "purgatory". Do you deny that
two thousand Christian people have been ar- Catholics pay money to priests for release
rested in this country at the instigation of the from "purgatory"? Do you claim that there
Cathojic clergy is one line of proof. How is any such place as "purgatory"? Can you
^any Catholics have been arrested in the give any proof in support of it?
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13
 We can furnish plenty of proof that the Witnesses in Action in Dover, N . H.
"purgatory" racket is conducted by Catholic After caretaker Brooks had given
priests for financial reasons only. If your us assurance Saturday morning
mind is open to any degree at all we can give ^ that the arrangement made two
you the evidence and the proof. weeks previous still stood good for
If'you want to discuss these matters on the renting the Grange Hall for that
basis of reason and evidence, I shall be glad night and all day Sunday, and an advertise-
to go into them with you further. But if your ment of the Sunday public meeting there was
only method is to resort to the calling of names inserted in the Dover Democrat, the Grangers
and insinuating that any person who criti- hall committee, George Kay, chairman, sent
cizes the Catiiolic church is unbalanced mental- notice that due to complaints they must deny
ly, then, of course, there is no further need for Jehovah's witnesses the hall, and locked the
discussion. I would doors.
like to hear from you S u n d a y morning
further. our regional servant
Yours very truly, and zone servant to-
OLIN R. MOYLE. gether willed at Kay's
home, who claimed he
Baptist Preacher was not at liberty to
in Birmingham tell who or what was
S p e c i a l pioneers back of this interfer-
called the other day ence with our use of
on a Baptist preach- Grange Hall. He and
er's wife in Birming- committeeman Morri-
ham who has loved son pretended igno-
the truth for a quar- rance of Brooks' ar-
ter of a century. Her rangement (even that
husband bitterly op- J e h o v a h ' s witnesses
posed it and her be- had met in their hall
cause of it, from the b e f o r e ) , and disa-
first. At times he be- vowed all Catholic in-
came violent, burned "Down in o Id Yirginny" stigation. No Catho-
her books time and Ninety-eight years young and eager to hear and read lic Action, eh? Well,
again, and a year or about God's kingdom
note what followed:
so ago went so far as to break her arm. Mem- Immediately after Kay's unfair action, by
bers of his church took his wife's part and he scurrying around other halls were hired, (1)
apologized before the deacons. His son pro- the G.A.R. hall in Dover for the 7 o'clock
tected his mother at the time of the assault, meeting that night of the local and out-of-town
and the neighbors encouraged him to do so, servants of companies and for the Sunday
protesting that his mother is a good woman, night lecture on "Fascism or Freedom"; and
as indeed she is. (2) the Eagles hall in Somersworth, five miles
The husband endeavored to force his wife distant, for the zone-assembly meetings Sun-
to leave her home, but she does her part in day forenoon and afternoon. About 6 p.m.
making and keeping it, and the Domestic Re- Saturday the out-of-town witnesses began ar-
lations Court has instructed her to stay right riving at Grange Hall, so an information march
where she is, and report to them if her hus- was organized. For an hour they marched,
band further molests her. However, he does nil seventeen of them, using the signs advertising
possible to keep her from getting out in the Grange Hall. Some soft vegetables were
work which is so dear to her heart. Also, as thrown at them by anonymous Aetionists.
the head of the home, he compels his son, still Also our Saturday newspaper advertisement,
a minor, to attend his church. Through it all parallel with a religious church advertisement,
the wife remains true and faithful to the Lord, on the front page, announced our public meet-
receives many rich blessings at His hands and ing as at Grange Hall. Thousands of the hand-
knows that the time of the great deliverance bill announcements, with the Grange Hall ad-
draws on apace.Ola D. Richardson, Ala- dress, were distributed both Saturday and
bama. Sunday.
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 Sunday noon another information march, would happen in New York in June. Only
with nineteen marchers, braved the "Palm twenty minutes late the meeting opened, the
Sunday" winds, rain and snow slush, still lecture proceeded (two phonographs being
using Grange Hall announcement signs. No used, thus safeguarding a costlier transcrip-
word of any change of hall was given, lest tion machine), and the audience of 71 listened.
Catholic Action again get busy and break up Fearing under police surveillance to carry
our new arrangements. Toward 4 o'clock that further their vicious designs, the sign-bearing
afternoon a thick, heavy snowfall set in, and rowdies could stand no more of the heat of the
it looked like a black-out for the 7 p.m. public lecture and went out, leaving behind their
lecture. Only 28 of the witnesses were able signs on the floorand eggs too! in the hall-
to remain in Dover to assist. As soon as possi- way and on the stairs. As the ringleader
ble the majority of these went over and took Turgcon (a French Catholic) passed Police
possession of the G.A.R. hall, forestalling any Officer Allen he sarcastically remarked:
surprise enemy action to have the doors locked "Thanks for all your assistance!" (which they
in our face, with us had not got. They
on the outside. They were deliberately sent
would now have to there by the priest,
evict us. Witnesses without a doubt.)
were stationed at the Despite all this the
locked Grange Hall meeting was a grand
to redirect all stran- s u c c e s s . All chairs
gers to the new hall. were filled, some peo-
A large notice read: ple were standing,
"Grange Hall can- and if the weather
celed. Inquire here had been even fair
for information" con- we could never have
cerning new hall." taken care of the peo-
Twenty minutes to ple in the G.A.R. hall.
7 p.m. an enemy sign After the gangsters
parade marched to Kesult of a back-call at Shepherd, Mich.20 Jonadaba left, 16 when Part 2
Grange Hall, to picket of the lecture began,
the place and scare and 5 more after Part
away the public. The youths carried signs (on 6, there were 50 that heard the speech all
backs of movie picture display cards) in poor through. Of these, 22 showed remarkable in-
lettering: "Follow God and Be Happy"; terest and asked where we met regularly.
"Don't Get Hooked"; "Religious Fanatics Be Witnesses took some home, and others left
Careful" ; "Hail Americanism" ; "Religion for their names. Booklets (24) and one Bible were
America and Americans"; "Don't Go I n ! " ; placed, and several persons lingered around
"Hail God and Country"; "Hitler, Mussolini till after 9 p.m. because of interest.
and Judge Rutherford Maybe?"; "They Are Various business places, including Dia-
Traitors to Our Flag"; "Be a Patriot Stay mond's barber shop, and several other places,
Out." They began shouting for information, which people arc interested and were seen in
trying to involve the witnesses there in strife. the meeting hall, have been denounced by the
"Why are you against us?" they demanded. priest Rene Constanti, who wrote in to the
(Who's "us"?) The timely appearance of po- Society for those two free booklets. He told
lice patrolman Allen (not Catholic) cut short people that they would no longer be served
an attempt at violence. One significant thing communion in the church, and threatened
they said was: "Just wait until you have your these other places of business with boycott.
convention in New York in June." (How did What? No Catholic Action behind that
they find that out?) Grange Hall shutout? Wake up, Grange Hall
Finally learning with chagrin that we had committeemen Kay and Morrison and Cobb,
gotten a new hall, cursing they stomped over if you are "Protestants" and Americans!
there and climbed up to G.A.R. Hall, and F. W. Franz, Bethel.
a
cted riotously. Police Officer Allen was called [The threats against the publie meeting in New
to intervene, and forced them to quiet down. York in June above recorded are plain evidence
Several times they remarked about what of conspiracy.Ed.]
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 Jehovah's Kingdom publishers at EEsader, Iowa An information march at Mounds, 111.
Monroe County (N. Y.) Penitentiary The warden seemed a changed man, evi-
During the summer months of 1937, we dently fearing that he might lose his political
asked the officials of the Monroe County Peni- job. A few months later we learned that all
tentiary if they would like to have us set up the booklets left with the guards and inmates
educational programs for the prisoners, which had been gathered and burned, and a drastic
programs have to do with the establishment order had been issued that whoever failed to
of God's kingdom on earth. The warden surrender any WATCHTOWER literature in his
thought it a good idea to help the prisoners possession would be confined in solitary con-
and inmates and consented. He invited us to finement on bread and water for one week.
come on the following Sunday morning, be- About 500 booklets were thus seized and de-
cause it was the free Sunday of the month, the stroyed.A. Mulley, New York.
other Sundays being engaged by the Catholic
priest and the Protestant minister. We were Feeling the Pinch
to have one-hour programs. Feeling the pinch of the truth, "Reverend
The following Sunday the sound-car was Father" Peter M. H. Wynhoven, whose illegal
driven into the prison yard and the prisoners and subversive acts in the State of Louisiana
were marched out of their cells and made to have from time to time been noticed in these
sit on the grass surrounding the car. First we columns, makes the squawk in The Catholic
put on a musical record. This aroused the in- Digest that The Watchtower and this publica-
terest of inmates, guards and all others. Then tion combined have a larger circulation than
followed the lecture records, Judge Ruther- all the Catholic weeklies put together.
ford speaking. At the end all looked at the
ear in wonder and amazement. We had been What the People Got
told not to have any kind of discussion; there- One day recently, while in the service, I
fore we announced free booklets for those who came across a boy by the name of John Doyle,
desired them. Ninety-four were left with about ten years of age, selling chances for the
guards and prisoners. priest of his church. The winners were sup-
The warden thought this very good and in- posed to win a statue of "St. John the Divine".
vited the car to come one Sunday per month He asked me if I wanted to buy a chance from
with similar programs. Each month the car him. I told him No, because I would throw the
visited the penitentiary it was received with statue out if I won it, anyway. John started
shouts of joy by the men. Each time we left to laugh and said, "Well, seeing as you will
booklets with those who desired them. This not buy a chance, I might as well tell you. I
kept on for five or six months, when one Sun- get fifty cents per book of chances, and when
day we were told that we must discontinue I sell a whole book I turn the money over to
our programs. Asking the reason, we were the priest and throw the addresses away. The
told that "Reverend" Eug. Golding and "Rev- people don't know it, but they do not win any-
erend Father" William Hollock were in charge way, because the priest gets all the money.
of the religious affairs there and that they had Then the priest raffles off the statue to us
ordered the programs stopped without giving kid.s."Paul Sherwood, New York.
any reason therefor. (To be continued)
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16
 such as the doctrines of "purgatory", "eternal
torment," of the "infallibility of the pope",
and the 'power of men to hear and give abso-
lution for sins'. I t is the duty of all who love
God to tell the truth; and the truth fully ex-
poses the falsity of religion, and particularly
that of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Be-
cause men practice such a false religion is no
excuse or justification to hate the individuals.
Hate No doubt most of the Catholics known as the
"Catholic population" have been overreached

T HE public press of the Roman Catholic

Hierarchy repeatedly charges that Jeho-
vah's witnesses are carrying forward a cam-
by the adversary and hold to their religious
belief because they do not know anything
better. It is the duty of Christians to point
paign of hate against Catholics and against out to all who will hear the truth that Jeho-
all others who are religionists. That charge is vah is the only true God, and to Him alone
without foundation in truth. Hate means to belongs salvation. (Psalm 3:8) Christians
have and to manifest aversion against a per- must tell others that God has provided salva-
son or tiling. Jehovah's witnesses are Chris- tion through Christ Jesus and that there is
tians, and they do not hate any person because no other means of obtaining salvation. (Acts
he is a Catholic, nor do they hate anyone be- 4 : 1 2 ; Romans 6: 23) They must declare that
cause he is a Jew or a Protestant or became the wages of sin is death and that the doc-
of his race or color. A sane person, who serves trines of "purgatory" and "torment" are in-
God, does not hate another person because ventions of the Devil, brought into action to
that person is suffering from a deadly disease. defame God's name and turn the people away
Oh the contrary, he has pity for the person from the Most High. They must inform the
so suffering. He docs hate the loathsome dis- people that God, through Christ Jesus, for-
ease and would be glad to relieve the suffer- gives sins, and that no man, whether he is a
ing person therefrom. Religion is a deadly priest or not, has any authority or power to
disease because it is the invention of Satan, receive confessions, forgive sins, or to relieve
is the" enemy of man, and leads men into cer- men from their sins. (1 John 1:9; Ephesians
tain and complete destruction. Because a 1:7) The Roman Catholic Hierarchy teaches
person is under religious influence is no cause that the pope is a successor of Peter and that
to hate that person, but rather a reason to Peter is the foundation of God's church. Such
have pity on that person, with a keen desire a doctrine is a defamation of God's name be-
to relieve him from religious delusions and cause Christ Jesus is the foundation Stone,
help him to see the truth. Jehovah's witnesses upon whom God builds His church, and there
hate that which is false and try to help the is none other. The Hierarchy teaches the peo-
people to see the truth. But they do not hate ple that the Roman Catholic organization
the persons who are laboring under the de- should have a controlling voice in the polit-
lusion of falsehoods. ical affairs of the world, and therefore should
Jehovah God and Christ Jesus hate hypoc- indulge in politics, all of Which is contrary to
risy. Religion is hypocritical and produces the proper course of a Christian.James 4 : 4 .
hypocrites. Therefore God and Christ hate Jehovah's witnesses, in obedience to God's
religion. (Proverbs 6:16; Matthew 15:1-9) command, declare the truth as the truth is set
Those who serve God are instructed in these forth in the Bible; and this they do in order
words: "These are the things that ye shall do: that good may be done to others. The Roman
Speak ye every man the truth to his neigh- Catholic Hierarchy have ever tried to keep
bour; execute the judgment of truth and peace the people in ignorance of what is contained
in your gates; and let none of you imagine in the Bible, and when the truth is told to
evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and the people the Hierarchy become angry and
love no false oath; for all these are things resort to vicious slander and other wicked
that I hate, saith the Lord."Zeehariah action against Jehovah's witnesses. The Hier-
3:16,17. archy are the ones who manifest hate toward
individuals who are the witnesses of the
The Catholic religion defames the name of Almighty God.
the Almighty God Jehovah in many things,
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 Jehovah's witnesses follow the rule laid unto that person, whether he is a Catholic, a
down in the Scriptures which says: "As we Protestant, or of no religion whatsoever. Sa-
have therefore opportunity, let us do good tan is the enemy of all men, and especially of
unto all men, especially unto them who are those who desire to do right, and his policy
of the household of faith." (Galatians 6:10) is to withhold the truth from the people; and
A witness for Jehovah would do no harm to therefore the peoples of earth are in bondage
any person because that person holds to any to the Devil. The truth opens the way to free-
dom and to life; and therefore those who tell
certain belief or practice in form of religion. others of the truth of God's Word are doing
By pointing out to that person the truth, as them good and pointing them to the way of
set forth in the Word of God, good is rendered deliverance and life.John 8: 32.

Ku Klux Klan

A T THE jamboree in Atlanta when Hiram

W. Evans, imperial wizard of the gangster
organization known as the Ku Klux Klan, was
property without a permit, and illegally de-
nied others that privilege. They appointed one
of their own number a traffic cop. One of their
special guest of the Roman Catholic Hier- cars sideswiped another car, but did not stop.
archy, on the occasion of the dedication of a There were no arrests. They were members of
cathedral on what had been the site of Ku the illegal, un-American organization the Ku
Klux Klan headquarters, "Right Reverend" Klux Klan, one of the principal tools of the
Gerald O'Hara, bishop of the diocese, made Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Dixieland.
the prophecy that he was sure much good
would come of it. And if it would not be a
good thing for two gangsters to get together, Three Years for Practicing Slavery
what would ? Of course, it would not be good Seemingly never having learned of the
for the public, but it would be good for the Civil War of 1861-1865, or what it was all
gangsters. One hand could be used to wash about, Joseph Shelly Decker, Mississippi
another; and that is what O'Hara meant. planter, got a three-year prison sentence for
Miami's anarchists, childishly covering their chaining Ethel Davis to a bed at night and
heads with hoods so that nobody could see working her in the fields by day, to pay off a
their cowardly features, rode through the debt owed by her common-law husband J. W.
Colored section of Miami with the license Wiggins. Wiggins was also chained for a time,
plates of their automobiles covered, in viola- but made his escape, brought the sheriff to the
tion of the law, and set up and burned more place, and when he arrived the sheriff found
than 25 of their helplessly idiotic fiery crosses, the woman in chains. Decker admitted the
all with the intention of preventing Colored charges, which could not be denied, but said
citizens from voting. The next day a full thou- he was still minus the $175 he had expected
sand of the Negroes voted, and, to the credit the couple to work out.
of Miami's police, none of whom could be
found when the crosses were burning, 'they Will Give God a Chance
were protected in their rights. Seven pictures By a vote of 151 to 130 the General Assembly
of the Ku Klux anarchists in the Miami of the Presbyterian Church in the United
Herald, showing the hangman's noose and States of America, meeting at Meridian, Mis-
other features representing their contempt of sissippi, decided to omit the following sections
the law, made the Negroes determined to exer- from the church code, thus showing their dis-
cise their rights, so that the Kluxers really de- position to give God a chance (which is right
feated their own cowardly objectives. funny when you come to think of i t ) :
By the decree of God, for the manifestation of
On a Monday night, 66 automobiles were His glory, some men and angels are predestined
driven in Miami with their license plates cov- unto everlasting life and others foreordained to
ered, in violation of the state and city laws. everlasting death. And their number is so certain
They were driven through red lights, in viola- and definite that it can not be either increased or
tion of the law. They parked on city-owned diminished.
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 P r o t e s t a n t i s ni
500 Representative Ministers Voting on Jehovah
,A survey of 500 representative ministers in Alarmed because the Creator himself stated
the Baptist, Congregational, Episcopal, Evan- that His personal name is Jehovah, a group
gelical, Lutheran and Methodist churches in Los Angeles advertised in the church no-
showed that 48 percent did not believe the tices their opposition to dropping His' name
Scriptural account of from the Bible and
creation, 38 percent ^s^- wished the readers of
do not believe in spe- the papers to vote on
cial revelation, 28 per- ..p**,.* this question, and also
cent reject prophecy, ****: e to state whether they
55 percent hold that s^^p| believe '"Jehovah" is
the Bible contains f u n c t i o n i n g today.
myths and legends, 19 What a strange no-
percent do not believe tion, and. when one
in the virgin birth of ;$** comes to think of it,
Christ, 24 percent do bow supremely im-
not believe in the pudent, that any per-
atonement, and 27 son should presume to
percent do not believe vote on the status of
in the second advent. the One who holds the
of the Lord. These ClfltHSct!6Dl*5J5 4" earth in the palm of
figures were supplied His hand, and to
by R e v e r e n d Dr. whom even the stars
Clarence E. Macart- of heaven are a very
ney, former modera-
tor of the Presbyte- little thing. The fact
rian church in the <*!* US BfllKSB. is that this generation
United States. has gone nuts and
Amm seam m'' does not even realize
}Kacf KE3 any more how abso-
What to Wear .-<-. lutely foolish it is in
The girls are often * the eyes of God.
b o t h e r e d to know .s.iQi.'i&

what they shall wear.

Not sure if this in- More Religion
formation will be of for Philadelphia
any value, but it $ The more religion,
ought to help some. the less Christianity.
It is taken from a Cautiously, so as not
church paper styled to attract too much
Trinity Church Ad- unfavorable attention,
vent Bulletin: though eager to get
The stole is the nar-
just enough of the
row, colored band, usu- Strange reasoning at Rosedalc, Pennsylvania right attention, the
ally silk, worn over the Newtown Presbytei'i-
shoulders of the clergy, and pendent on each side an church has done what it could to make its
nearly to the floor. It is properly worn during the interior look like a Roman Catholic church.
holy communion, and commonly worn during the The communion table now occupies the place
other services. The colors change with the season. usually occupied by an altar, is called an
The tippet is a black band worn as a stole, hut altar, has a cross at least two feet high on it,
^vider than the latter. I t is used on occasions which and the church is open daily for "prayer"
do not require a stole. The cincture is a girdle worn
found the waist outside the cassock. The hood is
which Jesus said should be done in the privacy
the ornamental fold of silk, usually brightly colored, of one's own closet, with the door shut. But of
hanging from the shoulders down the back of the what avail to quote Jesus to modern-day reli-
Priest. gious racketeers? They heed Him not.
J
U L Y 12, 1939
19
 "church" claim that the "sufferings of purga-
tory" can be alleviated for a consideration so
the priests of the Yezidis teach that, by placat-
UNDE1 ing Satan with gifts of money and jewelry
THE now, his worshipers will be in his good books
when Satan is restored to favor.
TOTALITARIAN Another similarity in the religion of the
gj) FLAG Yezidis and the Roman Catholic brand is seen
in the fact that the reading of two books, care-
Yezidi Devil Worshipers fully hidden and said to contain the creed of
Basing their ideas on a miscon- the worshipers of Satan, is unlawful except
ception of the meaning of the word for the priests. For this reason it is difficult
love, some who profess to have to obtain correct information regarding them.
come to a knowledge of Jehovah's The high priests of this religion are also like
purposes maintain that Satan, the their counterparts in the Roman Catholic
archrebel, will be ultimately forgiven and brand during the Dark Ages (for which they,
brought into harmony with God. This teach- of course, were responsible) ; for the seven
ing is one of the main doctrines taught by a predecessors to the present Mir, as the high
sect who actually worship "Shaitan", or Sa- priest is called, were murdered by their suc-
tan, although they never mention his name, cessors.
such is their great reverence for him. They Health and fortune are assured (?), not by
call him "Melek Taus", or the Pcaeoek AngcL kissing somebody's big toe, but by kissing a
There can be no doubt in the minds of the brass peacock, after a sum satisfying to the
majority of the readers of Consolation as to attendants, known as Qowwals, has been hand-
the whereabouts of the chief representatives ed over. There are said to be two of these birds,
on this earth of the prince of darkness, al- one on the east side of the Tigris and the other
though such representatives do not acknowl- on the west. According to the Yezidis, when
edge the one they serve. There is, however, a the eastern bird crosses the river the world
priesthood openly claiming to serve the Devil will come to an end.
and priding themselves in the possession of Another method of making contributions is
the "holy" (unholy) place where he can be to throw the offering down a crevice in the
worshiped. The place is the shrine of the Sinjar mountains. Some years ago, a Yezidi,
Shaikh Adi, and the people who are the ac- probably starting to think for himself, at-
knowledged worshipers of Satan are the tached some sticky pitch to a long piece of
Yezidis .of Iraq. rope and, letting this down the crevice, was
Shaikh Adi is claimed as the founder of this able to enjoy some lucrative fishing. Lucky
sect and is said by some to have been a Ma- in his first attempt, he decided to repeat the
gian. Others maintain that he was a Chris- process, but his neighbors began to remark
tian (?) bishop who lies buried on the spot his greatly improved circumstances. His move-
where the temple now stands, and that he died ments were watched, and when he was dis-
before the Yezidi faith started. Knowing some- covered fishing in the "sacred" crevice, there
thing of bishops, past and present, who claim was but one remedy. Satan had to be avenged,
or have claimed to be Christian, it is not diffi- and so the unfortunate angler was stoned to
cult to believe that one was responsible for death.
the foundation of the sect in question. In the eyes of "civilized" religionists, the
The religion itself is, like another and better- practices of these people must seem an abomi-
known brand, a mixture of several religions. nation, as they are. But the practices of reli-
Among other things, the Yezidis believe that gion are just as great an abomination in the
Satan was expelled from heaven for a few eyes of those who have come to a knowledge
thousand years only, and given power on earth of what the Bible really teaches. What is more
during the time of his expulsion, and that later important, religion of every brand is an abom-
he is to be elevated to the position of highest ination in the eyes of Jehovah. It is, in fact,
favor; and that, of course, explains the Yezi- devil worship, under whatever name it ap-
dis' religion. Like other religions, it exploits peal's. It must rejoice the hearts of all lovers
the selfish instincts and desires of its devotees. of righteousness that this abomination is soon
Just as the clergy of the Roman Catholic to be destroyed.- -J. A. Williams, Lithuania.
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20
Reply to a Nun in China you make your so-called "perpetual vows".
You state in your letter you want You describe your panels and linen scarfs
me to collect money for you from and tell me how they cost $3.00 to $5.00 in
all the people I can and then send American money. And then you state that
it to you, and you will try to repay you can send them like magazines, so people
me by praying for me. I'm sorry, will not have to pay any duty on them, be-
Agnes, but I cannot do this, because it is cause you already sent them to England, and
against God and Christ to support the organi- they received them there without paying duty
zation you represent. In fact, the Bible shows on them. Since you have signed your letter
that Jehovah God, through Christ Jesus, will "Yours in Christ", showing that you claim to
soon destroy all religion, and mainly the Ro- be in Christ, do you think Christ would ap-
man Catholic organization, which is the most prove of such methods ? You sent me a leaflet
wicked of them all. You say you are sure God with ten spaces for names of dead or living,
will bless me and my family for whatever I each number costing twenty cents, and for
do for you and your organization. God has life one dollar, which is supposed to be for
blessed me and my family already by giving masses. The Bible plainly says, "The living
me an understanding of this great truth, that know that they shall die, but the dead know
the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is the Devil's not any thing." (Ecclcsiastes 9 : 5 ) Jesus says
organization and He will destroy it soon at in John 5: 28, 29, that the dead shall be resur-
Armageddon. rected in God's due time. Do you think Christ
approves of collecting money on the pretense
You say that your mission is engaged in of helping people who are dead and know
converting souls and baptizing them into nothing?Mrs. Lucy Scala, Connecticut.
Christians, and you did this to more than
eighty of them on Christmas Eve. First of
all, the Bible shows that there is a distinct Co-operation in India
difference between a Christian and a religion- Co-operation in India has the same enemies
ist and that before one can become a Chris- and the same difficulties to contend with as
tian he must abandon religion, because it is elsewhere. The Times of India tells about some
from the wicked one the Devil. The apostle of these enemies and the efforts they make
Paul did this very tiling. He was a religionist there (as everywhere else) to hog it and to get
before he became a Christian. Second, God did everything in their own hands, no matter who
not commission anyone to do any converting, suffers in the process:
but the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is only CALCUTTA, J a n u a r y 20.
converting them as prisoners to support their " I t is difficult to find words for the attitude of
own wicked, selfish organization. Third, even a man, and not merely a man, but a priest, who,
Christmas is not Scriptural. Christ was not with opportunities all round him of valuable con-
born on the 25th of December; and nowhere structive work, has preferred to attack and de-
in the Bible is it mentioned that we should ever stroy what has been built by others." With these
celebrate His birth. This is another racket remarks Mr. L. H . Lethbridge, District and Ses-
and falsehood that the Catholic organization sions Judge of Alipore, dismissed the appeal filed
has invented. by Father Mesaric, a Catholic priest, and five oth-
ers against an order of the magistrate of Alipore
You may think this all strange because you binding them down to keep the peace for one
think you are a Christian; but God's "strange year, following their activities in the estate of
work" is now going on in the earth showing Sir Daniel Hamilton a t Gosaba.
the difference between religion and Chris- Discussing the appeal the judge remarked that
tianity. it had been proved that F a t h e r Mesaric had lent
money on mortgages to Gosaba tenants and in
You say you are now in the convent about various ways had tried to aequire lands in it.
nine years and you were going to make your Mr. Lethbridge characterized Sir Daniel's en-
perpetual vows but couldn't because of war deavors in rural uplift a t Gosaba as a great experi-
in China and in Spain. Now, Agnes, I cannot ment and said that his experiment had achieved
believe that after nine years of convent life so great a measure of success and held out such
hopes for the future that the attempt made by
you haven't seen many things going on in your Father Mesaric to destroy it by attacking the co-
religion, and behind convent walls, which you operative institutions which were, so to speak, its
must know are deliberately wrong and against vital organs could be described as an act of wanton
God and against Christ. Think it over, before sabotage.Associated Press.
JULY 12, 1939 21
Catholic Untouchables in South, India I myself even saw the priest going from
The Lucknow (India) Pioneer, referring to one place to another collecting money for the
the Catholic untouchables of South India, ex- church from the people from all walks of life
pressed deep regret I don't see how the pope could stoop so low in"
that while leading Hindus, men and women, were collecting money under false pretenses and
devoting the best part of their life to the removal yet continue to wear such a "saintly" look on
of the curse of untouchability, the caste Catholics his face as he greets the populace at mass. The
persisted in their mistaken conception of superi- pope and his priests will have to answer to
ority of birth. The Catholic Church, by recognizing Jehovah for false kingdoms that they have
this distinction, was encouraging a system which set up and for calling themselves holy.
was sapping the roots of society. It is, perhaps,
known to few in northern India that conversion to The Catholic Hierarchy has established in
Christianity has not solved the problem of the de- the Orient the finest cathedrals that I have
pressed classes of the South. ever seen, while all over I saw the conditions
of how some of the natives were living in
The Hierarchy in the Philippine Islands Manila under the towers of these costly
For some time now I have been reading churches. Native women and children in groups
articles in various publications of The Watch- were begging on the streets for a few cents.
tower and Consolation. I might say that I have It seems impossible that such conditions could
enjoyed reading these magazines very much, be found in sueh a great city as Manila; but
as I am fond of reading the Bible and uphold it is like that the world over.
the teaching of Christ and His disciples. VI In back of restaurants and cafes I found
have also read Judge Rutherford's two books little children digging down into garbage cans
Riches and Enemies and have heard some of looking for a morsel that would sustain the
his sermons on phonograph records. I have en- spark of life in their tiny bodies. Not once did
joyed reading his books and hearing him talk I see or hear that the Hierarchy was taking
against the Hierarchy. care of hungry little souls that ran begging on
In 1931 I went to the Philippine Islands the streets of Manila. But I do not blame these
and lived there two years and six months. I children for not seeking the shelter of the
liked it very much over there, as the climate church. I myself would refuse to do so in any
agreed with me and I was never sick a day case that I might be down and out. I would
while I was there. It was there that I learned take out my Bible and read the words of Jeho-
some tilings about the Roman Catholic church vah and pray to the Lord to keep me from
that I never knew before. The Catholic church falling into the hands of the reproachers of
has its hold on the people there as anywhere Jehovah.Orville T. Rediger, Kansas.
else in all other countries. They collect taxes
from their followers, and they even own the Church Pressure in Philippines
cemeteries all over the country where they Always, in every place in the earth, the
bury the dead. All living relatives of the de- Roman Catholic Hierarchy is a strife-breeder
ceased must pay rent or taxes to be able to and trouble-maker, and so was practicing its
keep them on the ground allotted by the usual avocation in the new Philippine govern-
church. If the rent or taxes are not kept up to ment when it introduced a bill providing for
date, they dig up the remains and throw them the teaching of the Roman Catholic religion
into some dump and rent the cubicle to some- in the public schools of the country. In press-
one else that can pay the pope his price for ing for passage of the bill the Hierarchy even
housing the deceased. had the audacity to warn legislators and the
In another instance I had just attended a president and vice-president that they would
sale where one of the natives had sold a pig. oppose it at their peril. Nevertheless, though
I asked for what price he had sold the pig, the Philippines are a Catholic country, both
and he said three-fourths of the money be- the president and the vice-president stood their
longs to the church. He told me that anything grounds, insisting that they would not dis-
a member of the church sold, a part of it be- honor their oaths of office by betraying the
longs to the Roman Catholic church. Constitution, and when the bill was finally
I can readily understand why Judge passed, the president, Manuel Quezon, won
Rutherford is against the Vaticai. racket in the lasting respect of liberty-lovers by giving
every country in which the church is a power. it a veto.
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After Being Well Drenched The Filipinos Blew Up
After being well drenched in a soaking rain The Filipinos (Australia) was a
at the Eucharistic Show at Manila, the "Right magazine that told you how to in-
Reverend" Silvcstre Saneho, rector of the uni- vest in votive lamps that would
versity of Santo Tomas in Manila, asked _ insure easy delivery, better jobs,
r
Catholics of the world to pray for the success -"~ ' "~ saig 0 f ] a n d j c u r e 0 f a ii kinds of
of the Spanish insurgents. The Devil, to whom physical ills, rain, overcoming of bad habits,
they prayed, answered these prayers in the etc., as previously set forth in these columns.
affirmative. It was a good racket while it lasted, but at
the last the racket petered out. People would
Free Speech in Malaya not come across with the long green; and in
Under the title "The Thin End of the spite of all their votive lamps (which they
Wedge" the Malacca Guardian comments on could have burned for themselves in a pinch),
a proposed revision of the penal code of the the magazine died. The people that bought
Federated Malay States which would punish the last lot of votive lamps must wonder what
by fine or imprisonment up to two years, or they got for their money if the lamps would
both not do one thing for the people that owned
whoever by words, either spoken or written or them in. the first place.
by signs or visible representations, or otherwise,
promotes or attempts to promote feelings of enmity From Tsining, China
or hatred between different classes 01 the public.
The Roman Catholic compound was not in-
The Guardian thinks it an insult to the jured at all. No missionaries were injured.
country, where a handful of Japanese live in . . . We are daily hearing from authentic
perfect safety in the midst of a swarming sources of many atrocities committed by the
Chinese population, that such legislation Japanese. No girl and no woman, married,
should have been proposed, and draws atten- single, or widow up to 70, is safe if the Japa-
tion once more to the fact: nese can get at them. Rape is still being com-
Freedom of speech and civil liberty are two of mitted by them, and it is reported that in the
the greatest prized possessions under British rule,
but strange as it may seem it looks as if the early days of the occupation anyonehusband,
Colonial Government has followed Berlin and mother, childrenwho attempted to interfere
Rome, instead of London, in bringing this measure. was killed by the Japanese. It is even reported
The Guardian seems not to know the influ- that they beheaded one old woman of 70 who
ences that now enmesh British foreign policy attempted to interfere. Do all you can to get
in all parts of the world, and which definitely your women and girls inside your compound
look forward to the suppression of popular walls before the enemy reaches your place.
liberties in exchange for the new and accursed We cannot tell the worst in this letter. When
form of government, or rather misgovern- the enemy entered our city many, many
ment, propagated from Vatican City and ex- Chinese were shot down, homes and stores
emplified in Berlin, Vienna, Rome and Burgos. entered and occupied. Nobody nor any prop-
erty was safe in those days. Conditions are a
Hierarchy's Sympathies with Japan little better now.Manchester Guardian.
As every well-informed person knows, one
of the Roman Hierarchy's chief weapons is To Keep Out Terrorists
the boycott, which weapon they did not hesi- To keep terrorists and munitions from en-
tate to use to force Judge Rutherford off the tering Palestine from the north, the British
air at radio stations in St. Louis and else- Government built a "Chinese Wall" of barbed
where. It is therefore interesting to note that wire around the entire northern border. The
"Reverend Father" Curran, president of the Arab terrorists, sensing a coming repression
Catholic Truth Society, deplored the rising of their activities, were highly indignant when
boycott of Japanese goods as sentimental and their pay-off man, "Reverend Father" Mario
Communist-inspired. The truth is that the Rossini, Roman Catholic priest, stopped buy-
Hierarchy's sympathies are with Japan in its ing them food and khaki uniforms, at Jaffa,
rape of China, the same as with Italy in its and waylaid him and beat him to death. While
'"ape of Ethiopia and Albania, and with Ger- the business of Fascism (Catholic Action)
many, Italy and the Moors in their destruc- progresses satisfactorily, yet it has its little
tion of the Spanish republic. setbacks, too.
J
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23
Blaming I t on the "Villagers" The Universe cries out in large print that the
Mexican laws against political ac- church is attacked. This is perhaps their best
tivities of the Hierarchy, limitation cry, for nothing is better calculated to arouse
)f the number of priests, etc., are the passions of their ignorant supporters, so
Snow entirely ignored and things in readily stirred. A word from the Scriptures
Mexico are getting back where they used altogether wrongly, as is common with
were. At the village of Portezuelo the villagers that system, that is, Jesus^ saying of the church
had taken things in their own hands while He would build, "the gates of hell shall not
the laws were in force, but with the return of prevail against it," is put into the mouth of
the priests to power they are represented as every Roman Catholic with the instruction
lynching their church leader "to the accom- that the Lord meant the Roman Catholic
paniment of tolling bells, blaring bands and church with the pope at its head. But the Cath-
exploding fire-crackers". That it was merely olics are very touchy about their church: they
a priest-instigated murder is clear from the do not leave its defense to Christ, the Lord.
newspaper account itself which gives the en- The Universe, backed no doubt by the local
tire thing dead away in the following lan- hierarchy, thinks it is time they bestirred
guage: themselves. It may be taken for granted there
At midday Tuesday, church bolls were rung [by will be no attempt to refute the challenge
whom?] to convoke a meeting of the faithful [to Judge Rutherford has made of their falsifying
what? to whom?| in the village square. A group the Scriptures, or of his challenge to them to
seized the 'Bishop' [newspaper derision], and after bring forward their best man for a broadcast
whipping him publicly in the church portico [at debate in which the truth or falsity of the
whose request?], executed him with shotguns. The claims could be manifest to all.J. Hemery.
village presented the appearance of a fair day
during the lynching. Portezuelo authorities did
nothing about the killing. [Brackets supplied] Seizures by d e m o n s
When the demons, fallen spirits imperson-
P u t t i n g I t Up to Thomas ating the dead, seize the mind and body of
The Parish Bulletin, put out by "Reverend Therese Neumann, Konnersreuth, Germany,
Father" Edward de la Peza, S.J., pastor of every Thursday night at midnight, continu-
the Church of our Lady of Guadalupe of the ing until 1:30 the next afternoon, not only
Peace, Mexico City, explains how the Catholic do open wounds appear in her hands and
Church got the "evidence" that Mary the on her brow and under her heart, but during
mother of Jesus was translated bodily to that period she is helpless and speaks in
heaven: Aramaic (the language of the Savior), Latin
When Our Blessed Lady died, all the Apostles and Hebrew, of which languages, in her nat-
were present, except St. Thomas who got there too ural state, she knows nothing. She is barely
late. But he wanted to sec where they had laid her able to read and write.
to rest. This is how they found that her body had
gone to heaven: for when the tomb was opened Eleven A r r e s t s in Nine Years
there were roses where they had laid her.
The state of Vatican City has an area of
Every person familiar with the Scriptures about 107 acres, if memory serves correctly,
will see instantly how this story was made up. and about 600 citizens. Not all of these have
The narrative of John 20:24-29 is made to do been eaught, as there have been but eleven
double duty. arrests in the last nine years. The latest crook
to get nabbed is the administrator of the
Roman Catholics Crying Out Vatican library. He thought he could follow
Judge Rutherford's world lecture spoken the example of the higher-ups, misappropriate
in the Royal Albert Hall in London and broad- funds and get away with it, but he got eaught
cast to the world at the time of the Munich
crisis last September has affected both London
and the country. Since then a general distri- In Self-Protection
bution of the lecture in printed form has been In self-protection Turkey banned instruc-
made, and the lecture has been reproduced in tion in the Roman Catholic religion from all
thousands of homes throughout the land. The her state schools, and forbids the wearing of
Roman Catholic newspapers have woken up religious garb in public.
to the fact, and now they are getting busy. (To bt. continued)
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 Education
Censorship jungle scenes, build a man-sized rowboat, and,
Censorship will conduce to the discourage- after a visit to a railroad terminal, to develop
ment of all learning and the stop of truth, not a transportation project. Gradually their in-
only by disexercising and blunting our abili- terest was captured and now they are back
ties in what we know already, but by hinder- at their books and the system of dealing with
ing and cropping the discovery that might them is pronounced a huge success.
yet be further made both in religious and civil
wisdom. If the waters of truth flow not in per- Rebuilding a Farmhouse
petual progression, they sicken into a muddy Near Netcong, N. J., twenty-five boys and
pool of conformity and girls spent their vaca-
t r a d i t i o n.Milton's tion r e b u i l d i n g an
Areopagitica, d a t e d abandonedfarmhouse,
1644. patching leaky roofs,
mending broken win-
The Wisdom dow sills, whitewash-
of a Censor ing ceilings, and oth-
No censor is so wise erwise m a k i n g the
that he can tell what h o u s e livable. The
the people ought to cost to the students
know. No censor, in was $100 apiece for
fact, is wiser than the
people; for while it e i g h t w e e k s . The
is sadly true that the house was made al-
people are not always most as good as new
wise, it is even more and will be occupied
sadly true that the by two families. The
censor is always a work was done under
fool.Baltimore Eve- the guidance of five
ning Sun. teachers.
Exams
Morning The Bray of a Dead Jackass
I thank God, there are no free schools nor
Silently then broke the dawn printing, and I hope we shall not have these
Across the quiet slumbering dale,
Twilight shadows
hundred years; for learning has brought diso-
Die and fade away bedience, and heresy, and sects into the world,
As the stars begin to pale. and printing has divulged them, and libels
against the best government. God keep us from
It warned the moth, unweary of his flight; them both.Sir William Berkley, governor
It touched the dewy petals of Virginia, in 1619.
Of a solitary rose,
Its tear drop melted by a passing ray. T h e Value of Liberty
Then burst the morn in all its glory The .rise and progress of Europe, indeed,
As the sun then rose on high; of Western civilization, has been 'based in the
A lark sang praise last resort on the inviolability o i t h e human
From a joyous heart personality and the person's practical free-
To His Maker in the sky. dom and security in the reign of law.Gen-
Murray Estep, pupil in Gates Kingdom eral Jan Christian Smuts.
School, Pennsylvania. Contemporary Art Denounced
Dr. Sorokin, Harvard University, in an ad-
Six Hundred T r u a n t Boys dress at Washington, D.C., denounced con-
Six hundred truant boys, taken in hand in temporary art as sick mentally and morally,
New York city by a real educator, are develop- living and operating mainly in the region of
ing into fine students. Starting with park social sewers, debasing itself and preparing its
trips, the boys were taught to reproduce own downfall as a great cultural value.
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 Money or Barter Under Kingdom Ride?
THE International Labor Office of whereas they lived innocently and generously
Geneva published some time ago while they knew nothing of such arts, he
details of a scries of movements changed the world into cunning craftiness."
in different parts of the world for After the flood of Noah's day Nimrod fol-
the exchange of goods and services lowed in the footsteps of Cain and, setting
by barter. up a dictatorship, promulgated his teachings.
Russia, United States, Canada and the Scan- The people were cornered into cities, private
dinavian countries have been the prime mov- ownership was introduced, and money en-
ers, but, apart from Russia, where the move- slaved the people to an economic system of
ment is national, it has spread more rapidly value.
in the United States, where the unemployed Josephus clearly associates cunning crafti-
have been bartering their labor for food. ness with weights and measures and indicates
Teachers, doctors, barbers and others have that money as a measure of value was the
also offered their services for the surplus medium for bringing men into bondage.
produce of the farms. [Not much in evi-
dence in Canada or U. S. A. now for the past It is quite reasonable to suppose that the
six years.Ed.] theories of value were unknown in the high
It is strange in these days of high finance development of barter, and that, each and all
that men are seeking what is termed the were supplied with the things needful and
"primitive" system of barter to overcome their this without distinction. That some equal serv-
modern difficulties and to satisfy their wants. ice on the part of all, doubtless, was neces-
If barter is fit only for primitive societies sary, but it would be voluntarily given and
(backward people), how do wc account for without reward except a share in the fruits
this retrogressive movement? Is America back- of labor.
ward, or Scandinavia primitive? Man in his original state recognized the
On what ground are we to suppose that bar- products of the earth for all and practiced
ter is an inheritance of the cave men, or of the principle of centralization of all produce
the barbarians? There is, in truth, no ground to enable justice to be done in distribution.
except that of the evolutionist, who, in his Joseph carried this principle into effect dur-
endeavor to inculcate his monkey tricks, foists' ing the days of the Egyptian famine.
this theory on the people, planting it in text- The indiscriminate bartering exemplified by
books and teaching it in the colleges. economists is but a shadow of the real. These
Barter is much more in keeping with the individual efforts commendable in themselves
minds and hearts of men than Ls money. Its fell far short of the ideal, which the kingdom
generous principles do not give occasion for of Christ alone will inaugurate.
graft, sharp dealing or oppression. Far from Primitive societies of degenerate peoples
being a relic of prehistoric times, it is the are offshoots of migrations from the civiliza-
most legitimate form of trading and is gov- tions of the pastBabylon, Egypt and Eome.
erned by the highest and best principles. All these world powers used money, yet no
Who gave us money? Consider the trail sooner are the peoples released from civilized
of woe that it has produced and you answer: power than they fall into that simple (though
The Devil.' In money itself there is no in- sometimes crude) form of exchange which
trinsic value, but as a measure of value it has Josephus describes as generous.
been a frightful weapon in the hands of the Economists are fond of the theory that gold
oppressor. How it has fed man's desires, cor- came to be chosen because of its qualities after
rupted his motives, and caused him to con- long and varied experiments with baser met-
jure the adage, "Every man has his price"! als. It is not intended to dispute the qualities
Josephus, in his "Antiquities", sheds much of gold, but to contest the assumption that
light on this question of money and barter. through baser metals man at last found gold
In "Antiquities", chapter 2, we read to be the best medium. Gold was earmarked
"Cain introduced a change in that way of in Eden as a precious metal, and is ranked
simplicity wherein men lived before and was with precious stones. It is this divine indi-
the author of measures and weights. And cation that induced men to seek after it, and
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from then until now it has been important Davis has sued the -Ford company for $100,000
in the eyes of mankind. for being beat up.
Today the money system has failed to sat-
isfy the needs of the people, and men, in their Big Idol at World's Fair
efforts to escape its evils (the love of money The New York World's Fair, Inc., in a
being the root of all evil), break the bands five-page story, announced it would have on
that encircle them and resort to that simplic- exhibition a 60-foot image of Almighty God
ity which instinct rightly dictates. (now called a "tree of life"), made for it by a
Barter in its truest sense was an open, sculptor at South Windsor, Connecticut. That
simple and generous business. There was noth- this is an idol pure and simple is perfectly
ing to hide, no hoarding was necessary, no clear to anybody who has a knowledge of
accumulation of a store of value, for this would God's Word. In the story this was disguised by
have meant class distinction. the statement that "Lawrence Tenny Stevens
When the Kingdom is fully under way the is carving an image of the Old Testament
earth will yield her increase, want of money God". The God thus described in such a pa-
will not mean starvation, nor the accumula- tronizing way is the only God there is, and
tion of wealth mean power. Money, if it is is the same One who said:
used at all, will be only as a medium of ex-
change. As a commodity of value it will have Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,
passed away.Frank L. Brown, London. or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down
Whitney, Raskob and Du Pont thyself to them, nor serve them.Exodus 20: 4,5.
After Whitney, ex-monarch of the New Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image,
York Stock Exchange, the world is now being neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall
treated to illustrations of the high morality ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow
of the Du Ponts and Raskobs. Du Pont, chair- down unto it: for 1 am [Jehovah] your God.
Leviticus 26:1.
man of the Du Pont Company, made so many Take yc therefore good heed unto yourselves,
millions out of the sale of munitions during (for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that
the World War that he does not know what [Jehovah] spake unto you in Horeb out of the
to do with them; so on his 1929 income he midst of the fire,) lest ye corrupt yourselves, and
defrauded the government out of $600,000, so make you a graven image.Deuteronomy 4 *. 15,16.
says the government itself. Raskob, his close To whom then will ye liken God? or what like-
business associate, and one-time head of the ness will ye compare unto him ?Isaiah 40:18.
Democratic National Committee, tried to make
it a cool million. The men had a slick scheme. The Nobility Racket
Each sold to the other more than $4,000,000 The duke of Northumberland is vacating
of stock at the deflated prices, so that they
could show losses on their income tax sheets. Alnwick castle; he is removing to a 20-room
Then they bought back the original holdings, house on the estate. The heavy taxes will not
showing plainly that the original sales were allow him to continue to live in the castle,
just what the government now designates he says. I t has 200 rooms and employs 100
them, "pretended." servants in its upkeep. Death duties, paid
twice in twelve years, have lowered the family
Who Should Pay the Bill? coffer. But the money taken by the tax has
It seems that Roy Davis, of the C.I.O., gone to the upkeep of the government, and
thought the Ford plant should be unionized, at least a part of it is spent in the social
but the Ford service men thought it should services of the community; which is all to
not be, and the result was that Roy had to the good, since the money was not earned
go to the Henry Ford hospital to recuperate by the duke's forebears.
from the beating those apostles of liberty gave
him. Finally he got well and was turned loose, Money for Smoking
but the hospital kept his false teeth to make The Imperial Tobacco Company of Great
sure he would pay the bill. lie refused, and Britain and Ireland made trading profits of
at length got back his teeth. Now the hospital 10,695,000 in the year ending October 31,
wants to know who will pay the bill, Roy, 1938. The concern paid a dividend for the
Henry, the service men or the city. Meantime year of 25 percent tax free.
JULY 12, 1939 27
 compelled to take action against further ag-
gression. To many there is an apparent danger
British Comment of the destruction of liberty and of serfdom
of the peoples; and though they hate war
By J. Hemery {London) they are giving support to the Government in
its policy of trying to circumvent further
aggression and of curbing the evident desire
of becoming the masters of Europe.
I t seems that such a pact of mutual co-
Anti-Aggression Pact operation, and agreement of defensive or even
The jostling for position in the political of offensive action against the disturbers, will
war now being waged in Europe keeps all the be effected. Such pact may hinder schemes
nations, large and small, in a continual state already formulated, but that the evil day of a
of agitation, even to anxious fear. The two general disruption of the nations which is
nations which have set Europe in a turmoil feared can be avoided is impossible. For many
and have forced the others, some to ally them- years Judge Rutherford has voiced the mes-
selves with the dictators, and the others to seek sage which Jehovah's witnesses carry to the
mutual protection, have been well compared ends of the earth, telling the peoples of earth
with the gangsters who nowadays make ruth- that Jehovah's Day is come, the "Day of the
less and murderous attacks on persons. The Lord" He himself caused His prophets to
nations have no police force on which they foretell, in which He will judge the nations,
may call, and they seem compelled to join and in which He will pour out upon them His
together for mutual protection. The two dic- .indignation. That day commenced in 1914 and
tators are loud in their protestations against will continue till all His work in the establish-
this; both of them cry out to the world that ment of the kingdom of righteousness is fully
they are men who love peace, and wish to see accomplished. It culminates in the battle of
it established. They are as clamant in this as the great day of God Almighty, towards which
the pope, who tells the world that there is the nations are moving, and that no matter
nothing he wishes for more than the peace of what form of government they may have or
the world. Of course; all three of them are enjoy; for all alike are opponents of the King
alike in this, that peace can be got at their He has set on His holy hill of Zion.Psalm 2.
price. The majority of the people in Britain see
Britain has become the leader in a policy that this scheme of a pact against the aggres-
which in itself is like that of the League of sive nations cannot be really effective if Rus-
Nations, now defunct. Formality as well as sia is not included in it. A minority is op-
general policy forbids Britain and its allies to posed to the inclusion of Russia, for varying
tell the dictator nations that they must be reasons; but the Roman Catholics are definite-
treated as gangsters, and that they are com- ly opposed to Russia's inclusion, as already
pelled to consider them outlaw nations who reported. Some are going so far as to say they
have no regard for the amenities or the rights will not fight if called on if that country, so
of the peoples of the earth. But action must definitely anti-God, is to be an ally. The ap-
be taken, if merely on the ground of self- parent reluctance of the British premier to
preservation. This is dividing the peoples. make a pact with Russia has probably been
Hitler cries out that this alliance is intended caused by pressure from the Hierarchy in
as a menace, with the ulterior motive of in- Rome. The pope will not associate himself with
juring Germanyhis motives are "so pure" the British lead for a pact of the non-aggres-
that he professes to believe otherwise. sive nations; partly, of course, because of Rus-
No one is foolish enough to think that sia, partly on general policy, and chiefly be-
Britain and the nations which are and may cause the time of the Hierarchy at Rome has
be so combined are actuated by more than a not yet come. But the pope has interested him-
selfish desire to preserve their individual in- self in the German-Polish dispute, professedly
terests, though the cry of saving the world over Danzig: he is anxious that there shall not
from domination by ruthless governors is be war between these nations, for the reason
raised by some, and it will be the one which that the Reich has now a Catholic population
will be raised as a war cry if war should break of 30,000,000 and the Poles are a Catholic
out between the dictator nations and those people. Were there war, then Catholics would
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be fighting and killing Catholics; hence the versions of the Scriptures; it discloses that
pope's readiness to try to get settlement be- they have no right to the position of being
tween Germany and Poland. His representativesthat this assumption on
The ships of the states arc in very troubled their part is absolutely contrary to the Scrip-
waters, and the churches and their representa- tures, and is a deception, harmful to men and
tives who would be pilots are being tossed blasphemous in the sight of God.
about, and will be, till at last they sink in the
wild storms; for there will be no cessation of Roman Catholics Angry
the storm which has now arisen till it has The Roman Catholies are particularly angry
done its work in the destruction of every force about the witness. For long centuries they
that tries to withstand the kingdom of God have stood before the world with the claim to
whose King is now set upon God's holy hill of be the representatives of God and to have the
Zion. same right to speak for God as Jesus himself
had when He claimed it to the Jews. Millions
Truth Unpalatable to Some of people have blindly accepted the claim and
The message of witness for Jehovah which have submitted themselves, and numbers of
is going through the earth is unpalatable to rulers, great and small, have submitted them-
all men except those of good will toward God. selves to the Papacy. The Roman Catholic
It is obnoxious to most of those who have population of today is said to be over 300,000,-
money or power over their fellow men. These 000, and these believe, and the children are
resent the witness that they are in a false posi- being taught, that only full submission to the
tion toward their fellows and toward God, who pope can get them favor with the Creator.
has not given to any man the right to rule Now, by hundreds of millions of books and
his fellows and to hold them in slavery wheth- pamphlets the blasphemous claim is being ex-
er by purchase or by the compelling force of posed ; its falsity proved from the Scriptures,
what is called "commercial enterprise". But and the publication of the truth and its ac-
the messsagc is particularly obnoxious to the ceptance by thousands is shaking that reli-
leaders of the religionists, and these manifest gious system to its foundations.
their hatred of the message and Jehovah's wit- No other religious system has made such
nesses. These religious leaders have a kingdom arrogant claims, but all have the same spirit,
of their own, and they have the same spirit and almost every "priest" or ordained min-
as the kings of finance and of political power. ister or leader expects to receive homage from
Many of them are personally very rich, or those to whom he ministers (as they say) "in
their church organizations allow them to live holy things". The spirit which moves the reli-
as rich, and they take their places with the gious ramp is in essence the same as that of
rich and powerful of the world. Like those, the totalitarian rulers: it is the claim to dom-
they also exercise rule over their fellow men: ination and submission. It is claimed that
they are sharers in the evil system of oppres- thesewhether Roman Catholies or so-called
sion of man over man. "Protestants" are the kingdom of heaven, and
The witness of the kingdom of Christ now they act or want to act as rulers of that king-
dom.
established by Jehovah God is a hateful thing
to these leaders of religion for another reason. The message of truth which Jehovah's wit-
Big Business and big politicians get the notice nesses carry is not of itself one of discussion
of the near end of their liberty to rule men of the various doctrines of the religious sys-
and God's earth, and if they take any notice tems: it certainly exposes the falsity of reli-
of it they look upon it as a challenge to their gion, but it is the message of the Scriptures
positionand their liberty. But religionists which Jehovah purposed to have spoken for
see in the witness not only a notice of the end Him in this His day. It is the declaration that
of their privileges and of their dominion, but the time is come for the establishment of that
that by it they are exposed as hypocrites and kingdom foretold by Jehovah by His prophets.
liars in the sight of God and men. They have Religionists declare that they and their sys-
assumed to speak for God, have claimed the tems represent the kingdom of God on earth;
right to stand between God and men. The but the Bible shows that that kingdom is set
witness does not merely call attention to the up only when the King comes to His kingdom.
fact that their doctrines are based upon per- That the faithful followers of Jesus Christ
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 have been and now are members of the King- 000,000, and the total local government ex-
dom is clear, but there could be no Kingdom penditure on revenue and capital is 567,000 -
till Jehovah's day and His King set on His 000. That is a grand total of 1,833,000,000
throne with the authority to call all men to for the year.
'kiss the Son, while yet his anger is kindled As was to be expected, the Government's
but a little'. Religionists perceive that this rearmament spending is bringing down the
declaration of the truth takes their kingdom number of the unemployed; the last published
from them, and leaves them naked, and dis- figures show a substantial reduction. This is
credited, and they hate the message and the of course, to the good of the working class-
messengers. Like the rulers of other kingdoms, to use a common but not very happy descrip-
they will fight for theirs, and this they do with tion of those whose means of supporting life
malice and with poisoned weapons. depends upon employment by others, and of
The plain fact is that these men do not be- wThom many must use more brain power in
lieve that Jesus comes to establish a kingdom their work than those who "employ" them.
as lie said He would. They do not want that It is also good in the general interests of trade,
He should do so, and they take the same posi- whatever effect it may have on the general
tion towards the truth and its messengers as prosperity of the country. The chancellor
that of the rulers of the Jews who said of of the exchequer, in his budget, made provi-
Jesus, 'This is the heir; come let us kill him, sion for the expending during the year of no
that the inheritance may be ours.' (Matthew less than 1,250.000.000, and'for borrowing a
21: 38) Nor do the peoples of earth desire the further 300,000,000. The circulation of all
kingdom of righteousness. Many have a dis- this money must create business and trade,
gust begotten of the religious, sickly senti- and to that extent give a semblance of pros-
mentality shown by the clergy class, and the perity. The social services of the country took
childish worshiping of old bones and bits of nearly 30 percent of the previous budget of
wood, and the expected adulation of men; but over 900,000,000;' the other part was taken
though they turn from religion they do not up by the cost of "defense" of the country and
wish to be turned to obedience to the will of by the expenses of running this great business
God. They prefer the rule of evil so long as concern. It seems probable that there will be
they may retain the use of their selfish ways. an endeavor to lessen the cost of the social
They are apathetic or rebellious towards the services, while that of the civil service will
true worship of Jehovah. But these, although increase with the need for employing a still
they eare nothing for religion nor trouble greater army of government employees to
themselves about the woeful conditions ob- keep pace with the rapidly increasing Govern-
taining in the earth, will yet be found taking ment departments. Britain in theory is a
rank against God's King when the great day democratic nation, and it is that in so far as
of battle comes: they will be found numbered any Government can be turned out of office
amongst the enemies of God and Christ. by the votes of the people. In actual fact it is
governed by the Cabinet, and, as at the pres-
But thousands of men of good will are see- ent, by the ideas and purpose of its chief rep-
ing the light and are accepting the truth and resentative, the prime minister; also in its
are taking their place as active co-operators
with Jehovah's witnesses. executive it is in submission to the bureau-
cratic ministries which Parliament in its
wisdom has set up, and which act with the
National and Local Debts authority of Parliament, and act, it is often
In the House of Commons a member called complained, in a very arbitrary manner. The
attention to the very heavy weight of debts whole tendency of the government of Britain
in which Britain is already involved. He said is towards the Fascist form, and it is evident
that on March 31, 1938, the net total of dead- that there are many persons who have wealth
weight National Debt was 8,026,000,000 and and position who favor it, and who would
in the last year for which figures are available, make Parliament the servant of the Govern-
that is, 1935-36, the gross loan debt of local ment, merely to confirm what has already been
authorities was 1,451,000,000. So we have in decided. In the ordinary way there would he
many a rumpus before this could happen; but
round figures a combined national and local circumstances lead toward it, and the Devil
government debt of 9,500,000,000. The total drives, and Britain is surely in for bondage.
national expenditure of the country is 1,266,-
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 United States of America
Offices Cluttered with Relatives is perhaps one of President Roosevelt's best
Ten Republicans and 21 Democrats appointments. Douglas was in turn newsboy,
__ in Congress have clerks in their farm hand, junk dealer, janitor, tutor, laun-
3 offices at "Washington that bear the dryman for himself and others at college, and
same names as themselves. Take a landed in New York from the west with $6
look at the names, so you can sec in his pocket. He tutored his way through
which "statesmen" clutter their offices with Columbia Law Sehool, finishing second in his
relatives; Allen, Bulwinkle, Casey, Crosser, class, and at the time of entering political life
Crowther, Dickstcin, Fernandez, Fulmer, Guy- at Washington was Sterling Professor of Law
er, Grant, Hawks, Jarman, Johnson, Kee, at Yale University. He is the youngest man
McAndrews, McKeough, Mason, May, Mur- to sit on the Supreme Court tribunal in more
dock, Pierce, Plumley, Rabaut, Rankin, Rout- than a hundred years.
zohn, Schafer, Schwert, Simpson, Smith, Tar-
ver, Tolan, and Williams. In the above list Edna Spread It On Too Thick
Representative Fernandez, of Louisiana, was Edna Wallace Hopper wanted to sell her
so well pleased with his name that his two cold cream; so she advertised, "I am past
clerks bear the same name as himself. His sixty, yet boys, scarcely above college age,
clerk John D. Fernandez gets $350.56 per often try to flirt with me." Thereupon the
month, which is the most paid to any clerk in Federal Trade Commission, which is always
the lot, while his clerk Viola Fernandez gets taking the joy out of life for somebody, de-
$100 a month. clared that the statement is untrue. That leaves
Edna with people believing her statements
Associate Justice Douglas about her age and not believing her state-
The appointment of William 0 . Douglas to ments about her cold cream. Edna's mamma
become an associate justice of the Supreme should have taught her better, seems to be the
Court of the United States, at the age of 40, lesson.
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Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, July 26, 1939 Number 618

Sadism U b e r Alles
Women in Nazi Germany

H O W m a n y do know t h a t t h e r e to the same camp as I was destined. The air

a r e women's c o n c e n t r a t i o n in this small prison railroad-compartment,
camps in Nazi G e r m a n y ! which was designed to hold but one person,
Yes . . . indeed they a r e t h e r e was terrible. We were treated as if we were
the worst sort of criminals. All of us were
and the writer met a recent handcuffed. When we finally arrived in Lich-
arrival from Nazi Germany, a woman, tenburg we had become a group of eight
who had spent no fewer than eleven women gathered from all parts of Germany.
months in such a camp in addition to be- Lichtenburg is a medieval castle, occupied
ing confined three months in v a r i o u s at one time by King Henry the Strong. The
Nazi p r i s o n s . room to which we were assigned formed part
The veracity of her story is confirmed of this castle. It was far too large to be heated,
by documents issued by the German gov- and during the ensuing winter months many
ernment a t t e s t i n g to her confinement a n d of us women suffered seriously from the severe
final dismissal for lack of evidence. cold. It housed Jewish prisoners only.
P a r t of the experiences which this There was a shortage of prison outfits. We
ladyshe is above middle age and a had to wear our own clothes during the first
grandmotherhas detailed in a l e n g t h y months. As all the work in the camp had to be
essay r e a d as follows: done by us, these clothes were torn to shreds
within a few weeks. One of the prisoners had
I was arrested after my return from Hol- been arrested in a sun-bath and had come into
land by the Gestapo police. They accused me the camp dressed in nothing but a bathing
of having smuggled German currency out of suit. The few rags.she wore had been given her
the country and of carrying on an atrocity by the fellow prisoners. All the menial labor,
Campaign while staying there with my Dutch such as the cleaning of toilets of the camp, was
relatives. assigned to the Jewish prisoners.
There was, of course, not the slightest evi-
dence to support this accusation, nor was there
1 0 0 0 INMATES
any reason why 1 should be so foolish as to
speak against Germany when I had to return All together there were at the time about
there. 1000 women in the camp . . . 150 Jewish
Yet I was kept for three months in solitary prisoners, about 300 members of the Society
confinement in the Ett-strasse and the Stadel- of Serious Bible Students, about 200 political
taim prison in Munich before the authorities gentile prisoners and several hundred criminal
decided to send me to the concentration camp prisoners who, after serving their prison sen-
of I-iiehtenburg, Saxony. The trip there took a tences, were ordered to do additional time for
week. I was locked in with two other women the -purpose of "re-education". We Jewish
Prisoners, one of whom was a member of the prisoners were not beaten, though the women
Society of Serious Bible Students [Jehovah's camp-guards seemed to take a sadistic delight
witnesses]. They do not believe in giving the in heaping abuse and insults on our group.
Hitler salute. She had already served six The age of prisoners ranged from fifteen years
Months in a prison and was now on her way up to seventy.
J
ULY 25, 1939
 SERIOUS BIBLE STUDENTS of a bag of straw. Only every fourth day ^ag
Terrible was the lot of the Serious Bible daylight permitted to penetrate into these cells.
Students. However, they were a brave people, This is bestial when one considers that these
who bore their fate patiently. Though the individuals really had committed no crime
gentile prisoners were forbidden to talk to us, whatsoever and were anything but criminals.
these women never observed this regulation. The cries of these women when they were
They prayed for us as if we belonged to their beaten up in their cells were horrifying and
family, and begged us to hold out fortitudin- shall forever remain in my memory.
ously and asserted that God would not desert What made us feel more depressed was that
us. there was nothing that we could do for them
and writing to the outside world was out of
When Hitler made two speeches during the the question, of course.
fall all camp prisoners with the exception of None of these women prisoners will ever
the Jews had to gather in the prison-yard and emerge from camp alive, unless they desist in
listen in. Among them was this group of Bible their attitude.
Students. Yet, when it came to lift up their During the winter, ice formed on the damp
hands in salute and to sing the Horst Wessel stone walls of our dormitory. None of the
song they refused to do so. For this they were windows in the room would shut, and as a
beaten with rubber truncheons and after- consequence many of the women suffered from
wards sprayed with water issuing from a fire- frost bite.
hose, . . . at a time when bitter cold weather
prevailed. In addition they were blinded by An epidemic of dysentery swept the camp
huge searchlights. For two weeks they were at one time, caused by impure water and
not permitted to do any handicraft work, while mildewed bread.
general work was denied to them for even a At another time influenza broke out among
longer period. Besides this punishment they the prisoners.
were detailed to special arrest, which meant The entire castle was fortified by a netting
that for three days a week they received but of barbed wire charged with a high voltage
one meal a day . . . consisting of "Ersatz" of electricity.
coffee and a piece of bread in the morning. The women guards were canailles of the
Only every fourth day they were given two lowest order. Four of them were dismissed on
additional meals, and allowed to enjoy a walk charges of Lesbianism and drunkenness.
in the prison yard. One of the most sadistic ones, who delighted
in telling us Jewish women that we should all
be lined up in front of a prison wall and shot,
DARK CELLS was caught stealing money from the prison
Several were put into so-called "dark cells". till, while another one was accused of sending
These were dungeons from which all light information to France.Reprinted from June,
could be shut off. The "bed" there consisted 1939, issue of The Idealist (New York).

The Pogrom of November 1 0 , 1 9 3 8

"BERLIN: The whole campaign carrying arms or not. It is fairly obvious that
had been prepared by the authori- this action was intended to prevent any re-
ties three to four weeks beforehand. sistance to the destruction and pillage which
All Jews had been ordered to appear was planned for the future. The decree of
on certain days at the police sta- Himmler asking all Jews to hand over their
tions according to the alphabetical order of weapons was issued only after the pogrom had
their names. They were to bring with them any started. It was publicly announced shortly
weapons they might still possess. In those days afterwards that many weapons had been con-
you could see long rows of Jews standing in fiscated from the Jews.
the police stations in order to hand over all "A further measure in preparation for the
firearms, fencing weapons, swords, etc. The events which were to follow was that all Jew-
arms had to be handed over irrespective of ish shops were marked months before, whilst
whether the owners possessed a license for previously it was sufficient for Aryan shops
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t0 be distinguished by exhibiting the posters burning, troops of 4 or 6 SS men marched to
of the Labor Front. The new regulation de- Jewish firms, first to the glass works and then
pended that every second shop window of a to the large porcelain works of Eisners which
Jewish shop was to have the full first names were destroyed. Usually two SS men went to-
of the owners in oil-color and in letters which gether with a policeman to the private flat of
^cre to be at least 20 centimeters large and the owner to ask for the key of the shop. Then
painted on the windows at eye level. In some the shop was 'finished off' and afterwards the
districts where the measures were carried private dwelling had a turn. All reports say
through with particular strictness, for in- that as a rule not a single article remained
stance in the Schoenhauser Allee, the Jewish unbroken. Carpets and clothes, mattresses and
first names of Israel or Sara had to be added blankets were torn into pieces and cut up. In
to the other first names under all circum- other words, everything was destroyed and de-
stances. molished. Thus the work of destruction went
en and street after street was worked through.
In Hindenburg About 40 different departments of the SS were
"In Hindenburg the SA did not take part probably engaged in this action.
in the pogrom; SS men only were responsible "Only one clothing shop, owned by Himmel-
for carrying it out. The SA is not reliable faerb, did not fall into the hands of the bar-
enough. Its members have stolen too much barians, because when handing over the keys
when they drove the Polish Jews across the the owner declared he would give his whole
frontier. The signal for the pogrom was given business to the Winter Relief Fund. A short
at 11 o'clock at night and the police were told time afterwards a lorry arrived from a large
at the same time not to interfere except to keep foundry to fetch the clothes, which had a value
away the 'curious public'. About 4 o'clock of about 85,000 marks, for the winter relief
in the morning the inhabitants were awakened center. In the Dorotheenstrassc at Hindenburg
by a forceful detonation near the synagogue, some SS men entered the house of an old Jew-
and shortly after the synagogue was on fire. ess of 83 years of age and took away from her
SS troops came on scene, police and fire- the last 10 marks she had in her possession.
brigades turned up as well. The fire-brigade They also demolished her furniture in room
restricted its activity to protecting the build- and kitchen, leaving nothing unbroken.
ings in the neighborhood. Shortly after the "Third Report: We have learnt from reli-
flames burst out of the buildingthat was on able sources that 114 people had to appear
November 9 at about 5 o'clock in the morn- before the Hindenburg police on November 9
ingdistrict leader Jonas came along to tell and 10, charged with having criticized the
the police that no one was to be admitted to pogroms.
the place of the fire. The police thereupon
drove all spectators away who had assembled In Daniig
outside the burning building and arrested a "Danzig: In Danzig-Langfuhr six people in-
few people who had passed critical remarks. vaded the synagogue' in the afternoon of No-
In the meantime fiats and shops belonging to vember 10. Four of them were in SA or Hitler
Jews had also been demolished. At about Youth uniform. All the six of them carried
8 o'clock in the morning prisoners under the axes, hatchets, and other tools with them. They
charge of their wardens appeared on the place left the doors wide open.; Outside the syna-
where the synagogue had been burnt down. gogue a policeman stood on guard. The six
Carriages belonging to the magistrates were men started to evacuate the place first. Gowns
also there. The work of clearing up was started were seized and prayer books thrown onto
at once. The walls of the synagogue which were the streets. Then they started cutting the
still standing were pulled down by the mem- pew with their axes. Soon spectators assem-
bers of the Hitler Youth by means of hand bled, especially children, many in Hitler
grenades and dynamite. A convoy of Jewish Youth uniforms, who began to play football
toys and gi r i s w a s then brought to the place, with the prayer books, to tear them in pieces
who had to sort out the metal from dirt and or to take them away. From the ranks of the
ashes and walls and to clean it. Then it was adult public there were cries of protest against.
loaded onto a police car which was waiting the action of the children, and critical re-
to take it away. marks about the whole pogrom followed.
'Whilst the Hindenburg synagogue was still "Thereupon the policeman who was appar-
JU
L Y 26. 1939
ently embarrassed himself asked the people to of vom Rath (which slaughter the Paris police
go away. To the six Nazi bandits he said in insist was arranged by the Nazis themselves)
a loud voice: 'Now hurry up, get the thing $15,000 goes for a fund to help other Jew
done.' Then he closed the door to the syna- get out of the country, and of the $40 000
gogue and left the Nazis to their work of de- remaining the Jew gets only 8 pfennige* on
struction. Shortly afterwards another and the mark, or. $3,200, and must take that in
larger troop of Nazis arrived and rushed into German goods.
the synagogue, shouting and howling. You
could hear that things were becoming more Foresight and Efficiency
lively inside. Ten minutes later the men came German foresight and efficiency
out again. Some of them carried large, heavy [were remarkably manifest in the
sacks on their backs, whilst others had chande- great pogrom. Not only did the
liers, goblets and silver articles in their hands. government know beforehand what
The organ was carried away on a big hand- would be done, but police and
cart. On the market place in Langfuhr, a short firemen were officially notified not to interfere.
distance away from the synagogue, the Horst At Dachau concentration camp uniforms had
Wessel song and the Deutschland song were been prepared long before the slaying of vom
played on the organ. When the Nazis had fin- Rath, with the certainty that they would be
ished and moved away in the direction of the needed. One of the achievements was the raid-
market four police officials arrived on the spot ing of a Jewish tuberculosis hospital at mid-
who asked the people who stood about to move night, when the weather was down nearly to
on. The synagogue in Langfuhr was not set zero, and the driving of the patients out into
on fire."English issue of the Deutschland- the cold and dark with nowhere to go. Sledge-
Berichte. hammers and crowbars were used to break
In Cardinal Paulhaber's city, Munich, X-ray machines and oculist apparatus. Driven
which, so it happens, is the place where the from their homes in a village, two elderly
four "statesmen" (?) ruined Czechoslovakia, women walked twenty-four hours to find a
there was one week in November Avhen a Jew place of refuge. It was a great triumph for
could not legally buy anything at all. After- Hitler, the Impotent.
wards, Jews could purchase, but only from The world's most brazen burglar, on Febru-
Jews. In Nuremberg, the same week, all the ary 23, ordered all German or stateless Jews
Jews in the city were rounded up and com- to hand over all their silver knives, forks and
pelled to turn their property over to the spoons, gold, platinum, diamonds, pearls and
"Labor Front". other precious stones within two weeks. In
The way in which political gangsters plan this instance the hold-up man threatened fines
murders is shown by an article in the Schwarze or imprisonment with hard labor up to ten
Korps, official newspaper of the Nazi Black- years for failure to fork over the loot within
shirts. Therein the plan is announced of mak- the specified time. Moreover, Jews of German
ing the wealthy German Jews support the poor citizenship outside of Germany were included
until all become destitute. No means of a live- in the demand.
lihood is to be provided for them, and thus
they will be forced to become criminals, and An unexampled meanness is that of the
as criminals they will be exterminated. German government which condoned or, at
To avoid concentration camps the Jews of any rate, could not suppress the wholesale
Danzig were compelled to meet in convention looting and damage to Jewish property in
and solemnly propose their own removal from Germany after the vom Rath murder in Paris,
a city where they have lived for six hundred and then compelled the Jewish people them-
years. If they would thus, apparently of their selves to pay for the damage doneto save
own choice and volition, seek expulsion from the insurance companies. The gangster meth-
their homes and businesses they would be ods used to terrorize and exterminate the Jews
allowed to take a portion of their savings would be used against any and every other
with them, $20 at the most. people that might come within the orbit of
Suppose a Jew in Germany has a fortune the Nazi party's influence. Mein Kampf tells
of $100,000, and wishes to leave the country. all about it, and six years of history have
$25,000 goes as a flight tax, $20,000 toward illustrated the success of the devilish methods
payment of the fine levied for the slaughter advocated by this beastly ruffian.
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 World-wide Convention Centering in New Y o r k
HE world-wide convention of Jehovah's the one immediately behind the speaker, was
T witnesses centering in New York city
June 23-25, 1939, one of the most important
not opened to the public until long after all
the rest of the building was filled and the
assemblies ever held, had three principal fea- speaker had begun his address.
tures: (a) Judge Rutherford's address on Among these last-comers there were some
"Victory", open to all, broadcast over the innocent colored people of good will, but there
planet; (b) the public address on "Govern- were also about 500 followers of the "Reverend
ment and Peace" to an audience that packed Father" Charles E. Coughlin who had boasted
the great Madison Square Garden to the roof elsewhere that they would break up this meet-
tfith 18,000 listeners, also broadcast to all ing. These, along with two priests, came into
parts of the world; (c) the first presentation this area almost at one time.
of the book Salvation, guide to truth and life There was no smoking elsewhere in the audi-
for the Jonadabs, who hope to escape Arma- torium, but eighteen minutes after the dis-
geddon. Both addresses were gentle, powerful, course began one man to the left front in this
wise, Scriptural, convincing and unanswer- crowd lit a cigarette, and then another to the
able. The book Salvation is a marvel. right front lit one; then the electric lights in
The first sessions were held in Manhattan this section only were blinked, and then in this
Center; its seating capacity of 9,000 was fully one section only there were booings, screams
taken up at the first session; thereafter con- and catcalls. The disturbers were soon ejected.
ventioners had to come early to find seats. The police sometimes have 2,000 of the force
The entire program went through without a to preserve order at a prize fight, but told
hitch, reports in the Rome-controlled press to Jehovah's witnesses they would have to pre-
the contrary notwithstanding. There are no serve order themselves; they did. Rotten eggs
other people as peaceable as the followers of were brought in to throw at the speaker. One
the Prince of Peacewhose business was His of them hit the platform, but did no damage.
Father's business as much on the day when
He cleansed the temple as on the day when He "Newspapers" Do Their Worst
preached the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus was Newspapers and radio commentators vied
a man, not a sissy. with one another to see who could tell the big-
Jehovah's people filled Madison Square gest lies, so as to stand in with the Hierarchy,
Garden without expending one cent for news- and roast Jehovah's witnesses. The Buffalo
paper advertising, yet the Roman Catholic Courier Express had the following beauties:
Hierarchy only half filled it when they made Many hundreds of screaming men and women
their drive against the Spanish Republic. Very struck and pulled at one another as rioting swept
likely many such hoped that the Garden a crowd of 18,000 in Madison Square Garden. . . .
The trouble started in the top balcony and quickly
would be half empty for the big meeting of spread throughout the'great crowd.
Jehovah's witnesses. They counted wrong.
Every one of the 18,000 persons present
Prom June 10 to June 24 thousands upon knows these statements are lies.
thousands of Jehovah's witnesses engaged in A subscriber for the ancient and one-time
information marches in Greater New York. respectable New York Herald-Tribune wrote,
All business centers were visited repeatedly, in substance, to the editor of that paper that
so that all New Yorkers, besides countless if its reporter of the Madison Square Garden
thousands of visitors to the metropolis, knew meeting is working for the Hierarchy he
of their privilege to visit Madison Square should have his wages raised, but if he is work-
Garden at 4:00 P.M. Sunday, June 25, and ing for the Herald-Tribune he should be fired.
hear Judge Rutherford lecture on "Govern- Cablegrams from Brazil, Canada, Denmark,
ment and Peace". England, India, Ireland, Latvia, Honolulu,
Lithuania, New South Wales, Norway, Scot-
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It seems clear that there was a definite plot Switzerland, Trinidad, and West Australia, as
to stop the lecture. This writer, along with well as telegrams from all over the United
thousands of other persons, could not fail to States, showed excellent reception and tre-
note that one of the top sections of the balcony, mendous interest everywhere.
JlJ
L Y 26, 1939
 New England

The Salute Business they could stand up, put on their hats and
We have a big Statue of Liberty down in walk out all in one operation. It is a peculiar
New York harbor to weep at when we come thing about saluting the flag, that some flags
back from a tour of Europe. The American get saluted and some don't. On patriotic holi-
flag is supposed to be an emblem of liberty. days, with the streets decorated with flags, it
If the American people are sitting down when is important to remember this.
they see the American flag they bound up into Any person that went along the street sa-
the air as if stabbed in the seat with a pin. luting all of the flags would be hauled in by
If they are standing up when they see the flag the police and tested for drunkenness or in-
they raise their hats, being unable to go up sanity. Unfortunately, there is no rule to
into the air in any other way. Just who told show which flag to salute and which one to
the American people to do this, we do not ignore.
know, as nothing was said about it in the The safest thing to do is to watch the fellow
Declaration of Independence or the Consti- next to you, out of the corner of your eye, and
tution of the United States. if he salutes, you salute. That is to make sure
Our best guess is that the whole business was he doesn't knock your hat off or punch the
started by some emigrant that just came over back of your neck. If you are going to be a
from some country where he had to salute, patriot you might as well be a safe one.
salaam or kowtow to some dictator. If this As we said in the beginning, the American
surmise is correct, it is lucky for the American flag is the emblem of liberty. Liberty is any-
people that the fellow didn't stand on his head. thing you can do without getting a license or
being put in jail. Now, you have to get a license
Up in Danbury, Conn., ever since we can to practice medicine, drive a car, fix the sink,
remember, a picture of the American flag has cut hair, build a house, sell real estate, prune
been shown in the theaters at the beginning trees, keep boarders, sell rum, run a store, re-
of each performance. The audience bounds up pair automobiles, catch fish, go hunting, keep
into the air with a groan, at the sight of it, a dog, and so forth. The final salute to liberty
and subsides with a gulp when it disappears. will come just before you have to get a license
What would happen if they had to stand on to breathe. After that you will salute the fel-
their heads 1. It would be a calamity in close low that can holler the loudest.EL J. Wiley,
quarters like that. Ey_on the business of stand- in the Bridgeport Post.
ing up causes aucfible groans from people
afflicted with rheumatism, falling arches, corns Why Must H i t l e r Be Aped?
or a hard day's work in the factories. What To the manager of the Strand Theater,
these people say doesn't sound as much like Waterbury, Conn.: Have been attending at the
an ovation as it does like a curse, when it isn't Strand for many years in peace and comfort,
drowned out by the roar of falling whiskey but, to my surprise, the other day the Amer-
flasks and contents of ladies' handbags. ican flag in pretty colors was flashed on the
Wouldn't it be possible to change this sa- screen and all patrons jumped to their feet. I
lute to the flag to some movement less strenu- almost thought I was in a foreign country and
ous and still show our patriotism! Let us say expected hands to be extended in salutation.
we would limit the movement to merely raising Has our country come to this, that we must
the eyebrows or sticking out the tongue. A, imitate countries that are run by dictators l i t
citizen would certainly feel more patriotic seems a shame.Anonymous Patron.
sticking out his tongue at the flag than he
would by standing on his fallen arches. 1,640 Miles of L u m b e r
As it is, we think the theaters make a big If the timber blown down in. the New
mistake showing the flag at the beginning, England hurricane could all be sawn into
instead of at the end of the performance. Most lumber it would make a train 1,640 miles long.
of the older people attend theaters to relax, The attempt to salvage this timber is one of
rest or sleep after a hard day's work. If the the biggest sawmill jobs ever undertaken, -and
flag raising were held at the end of the. per- means busy times in New England through-
formance, these people would be rested and out the present year.
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8
 New Jersey

Why the T r u s t Company Failed Want to Get Beaten Up?

The New Jersey Title Guarantee Want to get beaten up? Go to Hoboken,
& Trust Company failed because N. J., realm of Boss McFeely, and get a police
f$%% of the depression in Jersey City permit to exercise the right of free speech.
*l^3{ real estate values, owing to the mis- Then say something uncomplimentary about
-^"~J=-~" " management of Frank Hague. Dur- the McFeely gang. At this point you get
ing his dictatorship the Jersey City tax rate beaten'up, while the police wait until the
tripled, assessments doubled, the city budget beaters-up have done a good job. Then the
went up 450 percent, the city debt 500 percent, police arrest you, not the beaters-up, and be-
and the debt service charges 725 percent: fore Judge Frank Romano the police admit
Borrowers on real estate could not pay their they made no effort to arrest the beaters-up.
interest, the Trust Company had to take over Then Romano convicts you of what you are
their real estate holdings, and nobody today supposed to be guilty of, that is, of being
wants to buy real estate in a city run by Frank beaten up for exercising your right of free
Hague, the most expensively-run city of its speech, and all is well. This happened to Her-
size in the whole world. man Matson, and might happen to you or any
other law-abiding citizen in Hoboken.
Scientific Kidding of the Jitterbug
The poison apparently is earried to all Free Speech in Hoboken
parts of the body by the bloodstream and Further details in the Herman Matson case
seems to affect certain of the endocrine glands, indicate that he was beaten up by eight ff brave"
notably the adrenal and parathyroid. men, none of whom the Hoboken police
The stimulation of the adrenals results in thought it worth while to arrest, but they ar-
unusual strength, daring and endurance, char- rested Matson. Matson's wife was also beaten
acteristic of the symptoms of this malady. The up and suffered a miscarriage. The police were
stimulation of the parathyroid gland results not interested in that. Judge Romano held
in excessive nervous activity, as is shown by Matson under $5,000 bail and refused to take
the jittery convulsions and paroxysms of the bedside testimony from Mrs. Matson. Some
body. This condition bears some resemblance dump, some police, some judge. The Supreme
to the advanced stages of the disease common- Court has now decided that New Jersey is
ly known as St. Vitus's Dance. still subject to the Constitution, a hard blow
One hopeful observation I have made is that to Hague and his Hierarchy backers.
the disease is rarely fatal. Most victims seem
able gradually.to throw off the poison, al-
though this may take several years. Jersey City Police Rebuked
During the height of the disturbances, how- Jersey City police were rebuked by a court
ever, the effects generally are detrimental. order for interfering in lahor matters. They
Most afflicted individuals seem entirely un- entered a plant and escorted out of it. a work-
able to concentrate for any appreciable length er, previously employed there, who returned
of time on their studies. As a result, these to work during a strike. The court said:
folks grow to maturity with pitifully undevel- It is not the business of the police to settle a
oped mentalities. Peculiarly enough, the bod- strike, but to remain impartial and to see to it that
ily, development seems none the worse for this there is no rioting or breach of the peace.
toxic condition. On the contrary, the muscles,
especially in the back, legs and arms, usually A Good Place to Start
are firm and well developed. The Hudson Dispatch, published at Union
The agonizing contortions and unintelligible City, N. J., just across the street from Jersey
exclamations, the latter being evidently City, says of perjury in the United States,
secondary effects, produce a heart-rending and of New Jersey:
effect upon the victims' parents and elderly Lying under oath has become a terrible fester
relatives.Prof. Clifford U. Coles, head of the in the. make-up of the people of this country. Truth
Science department at Bergen (N.J.) Junior has taken a seat so far in the background that, in
College. ever so many eases, it is not even considered.
JULY 26, 1939
9
 Palestine
The Dimensions of Hell The Conference on Palestine
Pahed J. Asfour, Palestine, writes Probably few conferences on international
that one of the journals there pub- affairs were ever conducted under more diffi-
lished the information, attributed cult conditions than the five-cornered confer-
to Archbishop Germanieus Parahat, ences on Palestine, held in London in early
that hell is a dark place in the 1939. First there were the Jews, who still
bowels of the earth, full of fire, sulphur, devils, think Britain should adhere to the Balfour
sinners and atheists, with dimensions 200 miles Declaration, "which pledged to the Jewish
each way, length, width and height, and that people the establishment of the Jewish na-
this interesting spot is sunk 3,000 miles be- tional homeland," and who are convinced, in
neath the surface of the earth. Then Salim the words of Churchill, that "it is essential
EfTendi Sarkis wrote Amin Effendi Sarkis, that the Jewish people should know that it is
prominent Precmason, and the "Reverend in Palestine as of right and not on sufferance".
Father" Shekho, Catholic priest, to know if The Jews point out that the British pledge
the dimensions are reliable, and Shekho says brought 400,000 men and women and over
the dimensions are not adequate; the place half a billion dollars to the Holy Land and
must be bigger, to hold all the persons the that they do not regard the promises made to
church has damned and excommunicated. them as a political joke.
Asfour writes now and wants the facts. All Then there are two kinds of Arabs, the
right, Pahed, here they are. The ordinary Husseini (ex-Mufti) and the Nashashibi, that
grave is usually dug about four feet wide, will not even sit at the same conference table
eight feet long and six feet deep. And that is with each other, much less with any Jew.
hell. Hell is the grave and the grave is hell. Then there are the partitionists, who want
If you have a Bible with marginal readings, Palestine split between the Jews and Arabs,
look up the translations and the marginal to which neither the Jews nor any of the
comments of the following Scriptures and you Arabs will agree. Then there is the League
will see that the translators acknowledge this of Nations, that awarded the Palestine man-
to be the truth: Psalms 4 9 : 1 5 ; 5 5 : 1 5 ; 86:13 ; date to Britain; and then there is Uncle Sam,
Isaiah 14:9; Jonah 2 : 2 ; 1 Corinthians who demands that there be no change in the
15:55; Revelation 20:13. terms of the mandate without consulting him;
and finally there is Britain, which does not
Palestine the Only Land now want the mandate, but does not want any-
Palestine is the only land to which some body else to exercise it. Meantime murders in
5,000,000 or 6,000,000 Jews can now look in Palestine move along at a steady rate of about
which to escape death, misery or humiliation, 4 a day, and Italy and Germany are cheerfully
and even that has its drawbacks. The Arabs doing all they can to make all the trouble
have slain more than 170 Jewish immigrants, possible. It is a fine situation for a real states-
and the mandatory power, Great Britain, is man to meet, and there do not seem to be
stifling further immigration ; so the Jews have any of them around. Moreover, the old meth-
a hard outlook. Only 10,536 Jews were regis- ods of lying, evasion, trickery and deceit do
tered as immigrants into Palestine in 1937, not seem to work any more.
one-third of them from Germany.
Settlements Built in a Day
Intolerable Conditions in Palestine In Palestine agricultural settlements are
Despite the fact that the British Govern- now built in a single day. The site having been
ment has given Palestine the best rule it has previously selected, and the parts made ready
had for eenturies, and the Arab citizens have for assembly, the lorries leave for it. at 6:00
had the greatest prosperity they have ever ex- a.m. At 10:00 a.m. three sides of the bullet-
perienced, their rebellion caused 2,458 casual- proof wall around the settlement are in posi-
ties in the last four months of 1938, and makes tion. At noon the skeleton watch tower is up;
it seem as if the only good Arab is a dead Arab. at 2:00 the entire city wall is finished; t
In two years preceding this last outburst there 5 : 00 the buildings are in place and the settlers
were 2,047 more casualties. enjoy a meal cooked in their new home.
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10
 Doctors - Drugs - Tobacco

^s to Liver Extract Public Health in the United States

At the meeting of the Southern It has been well said that a nation's greatest
Medical Association, held in Okla- asset is the health of its people. And yet, in
homa City, it was gravely discussed a country as great and as wealthy as the
that while liver extract seems to be United States, we have almost incredible med-
a good thing in certain forms of ical conditions prevailing among millions of
anemia, skin diseases and liver troubles, yet, our citizens. We have 2,500,000 persons sick
out of something like 100 substances found in daily, with fully 500,000 of them never call-
the liver, nobody knows as yet which is what ing on physicians for expert care. We have
and who is who. Seems like sowing a handful the unbelievable situation of four out of every
of seeds of a hundred kinds and then hoping ten American doctors failing to keep up with
for a crop. If you want to continue to live, so .scientific advances in their own fields, and we
you ean pay rent or taxes, and patronize the have a gross illness and death cost of ten
5- and 10-cent stores, and put on the feed bag billion dollars annuallya staggering figure
regularly, it looks at this distance as if it would that resolves itself down to $330 for every
be a good idea to dodge the liver extracts un- family in the country. In short, in America
til enough other people have been killed or today, doctors, patients and the practice of
restored to health, so you will know what it medicine are all in a mess.Dr. Kingsley
is all about. Roberts, New York surgeon and medical di-
rector of the Bureau of Co-operative Medicine,
Corpses at $250 Each in the New York Daily News.
Forget the exact figures, but around 60
persons died from taking elixir of sulfanilam- The Tobacco Slavers
ide put up by the Massengill Manufacturing The tobacco slavers, miners of America's
Company, of Bristol, Virginia. The head of the boys and girls, pay next to nothing to their
concern was recently fined $16,000 for the job. workers, but pay themselves profits unthink-
No jail sentence was imposed. Don't be in too able. In Virginia and North Carolina the av-
big a hurry to put something down your neck erage earnings of families with members em-
merely because some doctor advises you to do ployed in the cigarette factories is pitifully
it. You might want to use your neck there- small, but the four big cigarette manufac-
after and be out of luck because you did not turers themselves cleaned up profits of $83,-
have any to use, like Dr. MassengilPs patients. 449,000 in 1935. Out of every dollar collected
by the cigarette manufacturers in 1935 about
Snite's New Lung 2 cents went to pay the makers of the ac-
Frederick B. Snite, Jr., stricken with in- cursed things they manufacture.
fantile paralysis in China in 1936, and who It is not a pleasant item of news, but a
thereafter traveled to his home in Chicago in new subscriber for The Watchtower told the
an iron lung which weighed 900 pounds, is now editor that in one of the largest cigarette
provided with a new form of lung made of plants he had often seen the workers spit
aluminum and which weighs only 9 pounds. in tlie stream of tobacco as it moved along
With the new device he is able to feed him- in the trough toward the wrappers.
self, read a book or recline at almost any angle
desired. It covers only his chest. Marihuana Cigarette Curse
Cannabis sativa, hemp, hashish, marihuana,
Want Cancer of the Lung? reefers, grifas, grettas, muggles, migglers, In-
A new and popular disease is cancer of the dian hay, joy smoke and love weed are all
lung. It is obtained by smoking and inhaling names for the same curse now rolling over
the smoke. If you want it, you know how to America, introduced from Mexico. The user
get it. You will appreciate this disease a whole loses all control over his behavior, may com-
lot more if you get it by using some of the mit the most fiendish crime and have no mem-
costlier tobaccos, or some that are more widely ory of it, thinks nothing impossible, loses all
advertised. They satisfy. Yours for more sense of time and space, becomes sex-crazy,
pleasure. and finally develops insanity.
JULY 26, 1939
11
 This raid was undoubtedly carried out in
harmony with the Provisions of the Padlock
Act of the Province of Quebec, and thus it ha3
become manifest that the terms of this Act
can be made the basis for religious persecution.
In this Province many of the old landmarks
in-a legal sense have been removed, and hew
ones have been substituted for them. In this
The Padlock Infamy Province Christian people, whose sole work
To the Attorney General of the Province is to magnify the name of Almighty God, pro-
of Quebec. claim His kingdom under Christ, warn the
Honored Sir: people of the imminence of Armageddon, and
I am taking this opportunity to bring some point out the sins of the religionists and the
important facts to your attention. On the people, and tell them to amend their ways
4th inst., I wrote a and t h e i r doings
kindly letter to you, (Jeremiah 7:2-8), are
protesting against the persecuted and their
s e n t e n c i n g to six home raided by the
months' imprisonment order of the office of
of two C h r i s t i a n the attorney-general
gentlemen, Mr. J. A. of this P r o v i n c e .
Dufour and Mr. F. True, such things have
Laeasse, at St. Je- been done before in
rome, P.Q., for dis- the world's history. A
tributing tracts ex- p r o p h e t i c Biblical
plaining their belief illustration of this is
in the Bible. When a Smir given in the 5th chap-
m ing warriors
good man hears the ' ter of Daniel. While
cry of an animal in distress, he will go to its King Cyrus the Persian was besieging the
aid and do what he can for it. Surely a man capital city of the Chaldeans, Belshazzar the
is of more value than an animal. king inside the city was having a great feast
Yet instead of hearkening to the Protest, During the feast the king called for the golden
your answer was to give orders to the Provin- and silver vessels belonging to Jehovah's tem-
cial Police to raid the home of some of Jeho- ple, to drink wine in them, and they were
vah's witnesses and seize their literature. As brought to him. While so doing the fingers of
a matter of record, I herewith quote from the a man's hand appeared on the wall and wrote
Montreal Daily Star, for Saturday, March 25, the fateful words, "Thou art weighed in the
1939, as follows: "Papers of Sect Seized by balances, and art found wanting." The mean-
Police." "Acting under orders from the office ing of that prophetic picture is this: The
of the Attorney-General of the Province, Pro- golden vessels of the temple are Seripturally
vincial Police last evening raided a dwelling shown to represent the "precious sons of Zion,
at 4560 Hutchison Street and seized a quantity comparable to fine gold" (Lamentations 4:2),
of literature used in promoting the Witness that is, those who are true Christians and "who
of Jehovah movement. The seized material in- have in them the spirit of God. These the
cluded 3,000 books, .10 phonographs, 150 world rulers in many lands are now profaning
phonograph records, and a large number of and persecuting, but at the same time the
letters and circulars, . . . all dealing with the record of God's Word is that those who thus
Witness of Jehovah movement. No arrests were persecute God's people are 'weighed in the
made, but eight persons present at the time of balances, and are found wanting'. They are
the raid may be summoned . . . to appear in wanting in Christian love, wanting in justice,
court in a few days. The raid was carried out wanting in mercy, and to such Christ says,
by Inspector Henry Beauregard and Detec- "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of-the
tive Edgar Mondore of the Provincial Police, least of these my brethren,, ye have done it
who were accompanied by Captain Griffith unto me. . . . Depart from me, ye cursed,
and Detective Goulet of the Outremorit Police into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil
Force." and his angels."Matthew 25:40-46.
12 CONSOLATION
 Abimelech was a son of Gideon, and a half as I have done to Shiloh. And I will east you
brother to the other sons of Gideon. He per- out of my sight,"Jeremiah 7 : 8-16.
suaded the people to make him king, and then Sincerely, one of Jehovah's witnesses,
he went and slew all his brethren, except the GERALD BARRY.
youngest, who escaped. Jotham, the youngest,
then called to his brother and said that if he "Joy of the Lord" in Montreal
had done right in slaying his brethren, then I am so happy this morning about the way
let him rejoice in his kingdom, and let the the work of Jehovah's kingdom is progressing
people rejoice in him: but if not, then let fire here in Montreal. Last night I was at a service
come out and devour him and the people. meeting, and our hall, where we formerly had
(Judges 9) The curse but a few, was packed
of Jotham came true like a convention, be-
upon Abimelech. cause our F r e n c h
Those who claim to brethren had met with
be Christians are at us to discuss the work.
least half brothers to It is so encouraging
the true Christians. If to see the way the
such act unjustly to French Catholic peo-
the true Christians, ple arc grasping the
will not such be re- truth. B i b l e classes
quired of them by are being started all
God? It would be around.
much better to re- One French family
member the advice of. on the outskirts of the
Gamaliel: "Refrain city opened a study
from these men, and meeting in their home.
let them alone: for if Last F r i d a y night
this counsel or this they had 40 in attend-
work be of men, it ance. One young man
will come to nought: said, "I hear the Com-
but if it be of God, munists arc holding
ye cannot overthrow meetings over at So-
it; lest haply ye be and-so's." "Oh, no,"
found even to fight came the reply, "those
against God."A c t s are Jehovah's witness-
5:38,39. es; they learn about
In conclusion, I call Food for thought, eh, Uncle. Jehovah over there."
attention to the words So o v e r he w e n t .
of God's prophet Jeremiah: "Thus saith the Knowing a boy of the family, he called for
Lord of hosts . . . Amend your ways and him to come "out on the street and talk to him,
your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in saying, "I want to know about Jehovah."
this place. Trust ye not in lying words, say- "All right," said the lad, "Come in"} so in he
ing, The temple of the Lord, The temple of went. They talked until midnight that night.
the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these. He promised to be back to the study on Friday
For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and night, and was there O.K. He obtained alBible
your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judg- and some books, and, putting them under his
ment between a man and his neighbour; if ye arm, remarked on going home, "Now I am
oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and ready for the battle." Sure enough, the battle
the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this started. In a day or so his wife, who had been
place, neither walk after other gods to your on a visit to her mother in the country, re-
hurt; then will I cause you to dwell in this turned. When she heard where her hubby had
place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, been, and saw the Bible, she took the books
for ever and ever." (Jeremiah 7:3-7) To those straight to the priest, and the result was a
who fail to amend their ways, God says, frame-up for hubby. He was arrested and
'Therefore will I do unto this house, which given one week in jail on the charge of hitting
s called by my name, wherein ye trust, . . . his wife. When the time was up he secured a
J U L Y 26, 1939
13
bag of books, borrowed a phonograph, and Hierarchy was pointed out on page 15 of Face
since then has been witnessing right in his the Facts.
own neighborhood. All this happened in the McKinnon had had enough, and seemed to
last six weeks. realize how foolishly he had acted.
Another French witness was a bank manag-
er. After he secured the literature the priest A Gamaliel in Montreal
made him so much trouble because he no The writer who defended "free speech for
longer went to church that he ended up by all" is to be admired. "It's only the truth that
getting into the pioneer work. Though arrested hurts." So the Jehovah witnesses may be fill,
many times, he has proved faithful. At length, ing a real need. The too-common policy of
after his case had been put off time and again, Christians in Church and State to be pleasant
with another witness he was given six months on the surface and conceal their real thoughts
in jail. After his incarceration he wrote that has greatly aided the enemy of truth. The
he was being kindly treated by the governor, Jehovah witnesses have this mark to their
and that he and his comrade were also taking credit: "If you do not make a stand for truth
s u b s c r i p t i o n s . Hur- s t r o n g e n o u g h to
rah! The "great mul- a r o u s e opposition,
titude" have started you do not make a
to come. And are we strong stand." May
h a p p y ? M a r y E. their n u m b e r s in-
Warren, Montreal. crease, if they are fol-
lowing His guidance.
In the Informal, C. H. Bliss, in the
Breezy West Montreal Daily Star.
In the country, not
far from Cloverdale, No Censorship
B.C., a special pioneer of the Broadcasts
called at a house and The national ad-
was allowed to enter Jehovah's Kingdom publishers at Rambouillet, France, visory council of the
after saying, "This is 30 miles from Paris Canadian Broadcast-
a message of such ing corporation will
vital importance that everybody is entitled to have two Catholics, two Episcopalians, two
hear it. Please listen to this for a few min- Presbyterians, two United Church, and one
utes." Just before the broadcast would have Baptist, and the announcement is made that
begun the man of the house said, "Hold on "there will be no censorship of the broadcasts
there, is that Judge Rutherford?" "Yes, it and no costs to the religious bodies". It may
is; shall I play it?" "I should say not. Shut be added that all that will be insisted on is
up that machine and get out of that door be- that no truth on vital issues shall be broadcast
fore I lose my temper; anyone who goes from and hence Jehovah's witnesses must be kept
door to door pilfering the public by making off the air.
a racket of religion deserves the worst he gets."
"Yes, the priests certainly do that all right." Interesting and Significant
With that, the man, whom his neighbors called It is an interesting and significant thing
Frank McKinnon, slapped the pioneer's left that at a recent convention of Jehovah's wit-
cheek. nesses in Rangoon, Burma, every seat in the
"Are you a priest?" he was asked. No, but large
ff
to
city hall was filled by those who wished
hear a reproduction of the lecture Judge
I am a good Roman Catholic," was the answer. Rutherford gave in Australia, and many were
It was explained that this message is not turned away because the auditorium was over-
against the poor Catholic population, who are filled.
deceived by the "Purgatory" racket, but ex-
poses the likes of Hitler, Franco, and Musso- Now, Mabel!
lini, the biggest murderers in history, and yet Mabel writes in to change her address and
having the blessing of the pope. The pioneer then says, "I agree with Charles Piot, the
showed him we are not Communists, as he name should be Consternation instead of Con-
claimed, but Communist co-operation with the solation." Such a business!
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14
 Jehovah's Kingdom publishers -broadcasting Jehovah 's Kingdom -publishers broadcasting
In the desert near Mt. Lebanon near a city in Mount Lebanon
Kingdom Service in Mount Lebanon The town, having a population of about 4,000,
Consolation acknowledges with thanks the is situated on a hill rising from a valley. The houses
receipt of an interesting and detailed descrip- are built upon the hill like the seats of a stadium,
one rising higher than the other. After spreading
tion of Kingdom activities in-the republic of through the. town, leaving many messages of the
Lebanon by the little band of Jehovah's wit- Kingdom in printed form, we took the sound-car
nesses there engaged in broadcasting the truth to the position shown in the picture and began
in Arabic to the Maronite Catholic population broadcasting. Loud and clear the message sound-
of this little but fertile land to the northwest ed, and hundreds of the people came streaming
of Palestine. This is the land where David, toward us. Many listened from the roofs of houses,
Solomon and Zerubbabel obtained "cedars^of and we probably had over 1,000 listeners a t this
Lebanon" for their building operations. Some setup. While the message was being broadcast two
of these beautiful trees still stand. . horsemen galloped toward us at full speed. On
arriving they were armed to the teeth, but each
The Maronite Catholics are inclined toward took three booklets, contributed for them, and in a
beating and otherwise bodily injuring those moment disappeared into the desert again.
who teach contrary to their religion. However,
many of the people and some of the many Facing- the Facts in the Bible
priests listen attentively, though the clergy I bought a book at the door from a lady a
here, as elsewhere, have little regard for God's little time ago for a penny, called Face the
Word. The teaching of the resurrection com- Facts. It is very interesting, as one can look
mands great attention from all who listen. the verses up easily in the Bible. I am enclos-
An interesting feature of a convocation in ing six pence for six more books, as I wish to
Mount Lebanon is the custom of a host of send a few to my friends, and two pennies in
passing among the guests with a movable metal stamps for postage. Could you please tell me
fireplace, upon which is a brass coffee pot if this last great war will happen this year?
boiling with Turkish coffee, peculiar to the G. H., Britain.
orientals. The coffee is passed from one to an-
other in a small cup containing one sip. Then Finding the Way to Safety
it is refilled and passed to another. Your booklet Fascism or Freedom was des-
One of the scenes shown herewith was taken tined to reach me (a disgusted and ashamed
in the desert near Horns, and, says witness ex-Catholic) ashamed of hypocrisy of religion
Besheer: of which I have been a part. I am not brave
We took the sound-car to a strategic position out- enough to renounce to my friends Catholicism,
aide this village of 3,000 population, and before we but perhaps further understanding will con-
had finished broadcasting it was a sight to see the quer this. Please find enclosed one shilling for
people coming from every section of the town, the books Enemies and Warning.E. A. M.,
streaming toward the car like ants. Among the
number was a priest, who said: " W e do not w a n t London.
you in this town: your preaching is not desired;
nd if you question this declaration there are fifteen Catholic Action a t Grimsby and Oldham
other black beards like me in this town who will On April 1 a committee of eight anarchists
*oice the same opinion." of the Roman Catholic cult, headed by the
The other view shown is just outside the local priest, called on the manager of the Plaza
village of Sealibya. Besheer says of this par- cinema, at Grimsby, England, where Jeho-
ticular stand: vah's witnesses were to have a public lecture
J
U L Y 26, 1939 15
 Jehovah's Kingdom publishers at Luton, England
on "Fascism or Freedom". This delegation hall, headed by an alderman named Shannon,
tried to force the manager to break his con- started to sing Catholic songs. The police put
tract, but he refused to give in to them. As this gang out, including Shannon. He was
usual, they threatened violence, so the police hustled out, threatening as he went.
were invited. Nothing happened, and the audi- The police also advised taking action against
ence of 300 greatly enjoyed the program. The Shannon for disturbing a peaceable assembly,
audience were told of the efforts to stop the and this is being done and will certainly cause
meeting, and this increased everybody's en- a big witness to be given in that area. Shannon
thusiasm. was mayor of Oldham three years ago, and the
At Oldham, population 144,000, just on the police remember him well but not favorably.
north outskirts of Manchester, on the same This adds to the entertainment. The police
day as the meeting was held at Grimsby, Jeho- sergeant asked to have a call made at his home
vah's Kingdom publishers were gathered in a so that he might hear the lecture.
large hall, with 500 attending the public meet- Members of the Catholic cult have had a
ing to hear the same lecture, "Fascism or Free- meeting in Manchester to consider what fur-
dom." On this occasion also several groups of ther they can do to prevent Jehovah's witness-
anarchists of the same Italian sect were scat- es' exercising their rights, but, as the. police
tered all over the hall and began to disturb have promised every protection, the gangsters
the meeting after it had been started about excite only ridicule and contempt. This refers
ten minutes. especially to the jackasses in the black night-
The publishers put out three of the disturb- gowns that are trying to bolster up their
ers and called the police, who put ten officers racket in Britain. It is not so easy in a coun-
on guard. A gang of 25 roughs, sent by the try that has once had the good, healthy smell
' priest, tried to gain entrance, but were put of liberty.
out by the police. Then a gang of 25 inside the (To be continued)
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16
 caught. They continue to say, "We must have
more religion," and to further say, "To Rome
the mecca"; and there the political ruler goes.
In this manner the Papacy keeps in touch with
all the political affairs of the nations of earth
and forms a part of the world, ruling as the
spiritual adviser.
The habit of men in seeking a religious ad-
viser is nothing new or confined to modern
Rome ihe Mecca days. In all times of emergency the Devil has
used religion to ensnare men who fail to put
N THESE days of world peril it is an in-
I disputable fact that the rulers turn toward
Rome and go to the Vatican and there visit
any trust in Jehovah God. A striking exam-
ple is that of Saul, the king of the Israelites.
Saul became rebellious, and God withdrew his
and consult the pope. The dictator Mussolini favor from Saul, completely 7*ejecting him.
is said to frequently visit the pope. Hitler and (1 Samuel 15:23) The Philistines were the
his principal men make pilgrimages to Rome enemies of Israel, and they came up to make
and visit the pope. The prime minister of the war against Saul and the people. The battle
British Empire appears to receive consolation of Gilboa was near. "And when Saul saw the
by consulting the pope. The president of the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his
United States entertains a confidential friend, heart greatly trembled." (1 Samuel 28:5)
who is a special representative of the pope, Saul had forsaken God, and God had rejected
and he gets that friend to carry messages to him. Saul was filled witli great fear. In the
the pope, and he receives messages from the hour of his fear and distress Saul turned to
pope. Why should the political rulers be so religion and walked right into the Devil's
anxious to consult the head of the Roman snare. He visited the witch of Endor, a spirit
Catholic Hierarchy? The answer is easy to medium, who had a place where secret opera-
find when the relationship between the Papacy tions were carried on. God's law given to the
and the political rulers is understood. The Israelites expressly forbade the communica-
political rulers are confronted with many per- tion with spirit mediums, called "witches"
plexing problems in these days of great peril. (Exodus 22:18) because the witches are spirit
The prophecy of Christ Jesus, relating to the mediums. They practice religion at the in-
present time, is: 'There shall be distress of na- stance of the Devil and are employed by the
tions, with perplexity; men's hearts failing Devil and other wicked spirits as a means of
them for fear of what they see coming upon communication to men on earth. Spiritism is
the earth.' The key to the matter is fear. The one of the religious methods employed by the
political rulers fear for themselves, for their enemy at all times to turn men away from
tenure of rule, fear disasters about to fall up- God. Saul was completely enmeshed in the
on them, fear an uprising of the people, and Devil's snare, and he and his army suffered
fear one another. Concerning such fear it is destruction at the battle of Gilboa. What hap-
written in the Scriptures: "The fear of man pened to Saul indicates what is coming to
"Christendom".
bringeth a snare; but whoso putteth his trust
in the Lord shall be safe."Proverbs 29:25. The political rulers of "Christendom" today
A snare is laid by Satan, and into that snare fail to look to Almighty God for consolation.
fearful men fall and are there securely They have no faith in God, but they seek the
trapped. The fearful ruler seeks counsel and aid and comfort of religionists, and particular-
consolation, hoping to find a way for self- ly the pope. The battie of the great day.of
preservation. He turns to religion, hoping God Almighty is near, of which the battle of
there to find the desired consolation. The Gilboa was a type. The rulers have heard much
Papacy is the leading religion now practiced about the approaching battle of Armageddon.
in "Christendom". The political rulers look to Like Saul they are greatly distressed, in fear,
the head of that religious system for aid. These and in perplexity. As the Devil led Saul into
political leaders are doubtless unaware of the a trap, so he is leading all the rulers of "Chris-
fact that religion is the invention of the Devil, tendom" into a snare, and this particularly
and is the Devil's snare in which men are by the means of religion, and there they will
JULY 2S, 1939
17
suffer destruction. All who hold to and prac- written: "Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord
tice religion are easily made afraid, and the shall be safe."Proverbs 29: 25.
end of such will come at the battle of Arma- Today there is no other place of safety.
geddon. God's time is at hand to take final accounting
Do Christians fear men? No, not at all. A with the Devil and all his agents. All who hold
follower of Christ Jesus loves Jehovah God to religion, arid religious leaders, are certain
and Christ, and concerning such it is written: to suffer defeat and destruction. Rome is the
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love mecca now, but soon Rome and all in connec-
casteth out fear; because fear hath torment. tion with it, and the Vatican, will pass away
He that feareth is not made perfect in love." and will be forgotten. The kingdom of God
(1 John 4:18) The Christian puts his trust under Christ will prevail and will rule forever
in the Lord God, and concerning him it is in peace, to the glory of the Most High.

Pennsylvania
Roasted Alive? The teacher was arrested. The physician
Pennsylvania is establishing a repu- who' treated the boy refused to comment on
tation as the state having the worst the arrest; and he too should be arrested, be-
prisons in the country. The Holmes- cause the county coroner, who should have
burg prison, where four inmates viewed the body, knew nothing about it until
were roasted alive, and where 21 it had been buried. The doctor should have told
others were" brought to unconsciousness and him, but was trying to shield the murderer.
within one hour of death, is foremost in the
ranks of bad prisons. The roasting was done Nice Little Business Upset
with steam in an enclosed part of the prison Two women and a man in Philadelphia had
from which the victims could not escape, when worked up a nice little business of insuring
it was 80 degrees outside. When one humane their husbands and brothers and poisoning
guard turned the heat off, one of the regular them for their insurance, when the police up-
variety, such as they prefer at Holmesburg, set it all, and in Philadelphia, no less. They
turned it back on. Fourteen persons, includ- dug up several of the deceased policyholders
ing the superintendent, deputy warden, guard and found arsenic had taken them off. When
captain, two prison physicians and nine Ferdinand Alfonsi was dying he accused his
guards, didn't see anything wrong with roast- wife of poisoning him, and when they cut
ing prisoners. him open the arsenic was found, as he had pre-
dicted. Now the business doesn't look as good
Robbed the Poor Box as it did, and they didn't even give Mrs.
According to his own confession, made to Alfonsi the $3,000 she had expected to get.
Judge Michael P. McDonald, of Wilkes-Barre,
Emil Goglio robbed the poor box of the Sacred Public Ownership of Anthracite
Heart Church at Duryea, so that he could One of the reasons why many desire the
educate his son for the religious racket. He public ownership of anthracite coal is that,
was given five to ten years. The Associated after the United States Supreme Court had
Press carefully stated that this was "so he ordered the railroads to divorce themselves
could educate his son for the clergy" (guess from coal holdings (the spirit of which order
what kind of clergy) and put the words into was never obeyed, as everybody in the coal
Goglio's mouth that he wanted his son "to be regions knows full well to be the truth), those
a minister''. How considerate 1 holdings, actually worth $123,000,000, were
written up on the books at $456,000,000; and
Nice Teacher in Pennsylvania then the companies set up a reserve of $171,-
000,000 for depreciation and depletion, which
At Sligo grammar school, near Clarion, was $48,000,000 more than the property is
Pa., a ten-year-old boy is alleged to have worth. Now the benefits go to the Big Business
thrown some jelly beans. He won't dp so any crowd. If the Government takes over the mines
more. The teacher beat him with a piece of the benefits will go to the big politicians in-
flooring, and the little fellow died in six days. stead.
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 Motoring

A $5,000 Home on Wheels WPA Road Builders

^ g For $5,000 one may now obtain a In four months of 1938 the WPA road-
29-foot home on wheels, stream- builders improved 30,000 miles of roads, com-
lined, with big easy chairs that can pleted more than 4,000 new bridges and 52,000
be made into twin beds. It will new culverts, laid 1,500 miles of sidewalks and
have Air-conditioning, a shower paths, and constructed or improved more than
bath, a full-sized clothes closet, a stainless 10,000 miles of roadside drainage ditches.
stove, and a living room. It will accommodate These men have done useful and valuable
five persons. When such a trailer hotel arrives work. If they had been provided with ade-
at a place where the occupants wish to stop, quate steam shovels, road-making machines
all they have to do is to drive in, hook up the and other equipment, they could have done
water and lights and telephone, jack up the much, very much more, factories would have
trailer on four corners, and in twenty minutes been busier, and the general results to the
start housekeeping in the new location. It is country would have been better. And the cost
claimed that two persons can live in a trailer, would have been no greater than by the putter-
mov-ing when they wish (and at sixty miles ing methods actually employed.
an hour) and remaining where they desire, at
an average cost of about $2.10 a day, including The World on Wheels
gasoline. There are de luxe 40-foot trailers on The United States has 29,211,651 .automo-
the road that eost as much as $20,000. biles in use; Britain has 2,542,294; France,
2,259,000; G e r m a n y , 1,707,496; C a n a d a ,
Suitcase Houses 1,381,103; Australia, 799,750; Russia, 677,997;
For $500 a house may be purchased small Italy, 399,375; South Africa,,339,084; Argen-
enough to pack in the family auto. This house tina, 279,267; New Zealand, 265,028; Belgium,
has one room, bath, kitchenette and closet, in- 226,907; India, 178,124; Japan, 140,000. Other
sulated against the weather, and carrying its interesting figures in this connection are 60
own oil-heating system, and in one hour can cars in Bermuda (of which 57 are government-
be unpacked and set up ready for housekeep- owned), 125 in Liberia, and 2,400 in Afghani-
ing. The panels of which it is composed, stan, which latter is quite a surprise, and not
measuring 5 feet by 7 feet, can be fitted to at all a bad showing.
form 52 styles of houses, including a four-
room one costing up to $1,750 which has di- Ohio's Youngest Motorist
mensions of 20 by 24 feet, with living room, Ohio's youngest motorist, Larry Jefferis,
two bedrooms, kitchen, bath and three closets. Germantown, Ohio, drives without a license.
The larger houscnecds half a day for unpack- At least he did. His father left him in the car
ing and setting up. The houses are made at while ho' unloaded a truck. Larry got busy,
Dearborn, Michigan. meshed the gears, turned the switch, pushed
the starter button, and started out to see the
500 Cars to the Scrap Heap town. He crossed the busiest intersection in
Police Judge Ackerman, Cleveland, Ohio, town and was making good headway down the
worked out a policy of sending to the junk pile main street when the car jumped the curb and
the cars of 500 drunken drivers. The plari struck a house. Larry let out a yell and quit
seems to work, and the impression is gradually motoring until he gets a license. His age at
gaining ground in northern Ohio that if you the time of his first solo trip was 2 years.
are "full" you had better keep out of Cleve- Larry picked the wrong business. Several kids
land. You might have to walk back home. of only a few times his age have gone into the
religious racket and made a go of it.
Uncle Sam on Wheels
In proportion to the population there are To Prevent Headlight Glare
four cars in the United States to one in Britain To prevent headlight glare, a new form of
or France, ten cars to one in Germany, twenty- spectacles has the upper half shaded green.
two cars to one in Italy, and seventy-one cars A tilt of the head screens oncoming lights but
to one in Russia. leaves the roadway visible.
J U L Y 26, 1939
19
 in the past, only because it does not now have
the power. But the machinery for its exercise
is ever kept in readiness. Within the clear
UNDE1 memory of every observer, the present head
THE of the church and of its hierarchy was recently
TOTALITARIAN crowned as "universal rector, Vicar of Christ,
father of princes and kings, ruler of the
*0 FLAG world".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, a standard au-
The "Holy Church" Needs Power thoritative work, states as follows:
It is difficult for many sincere Catholic Toleration came in only when Faith -went out;
persons to believe that the Roman Catholic lenient measures were resorted to only where the
Church is a totalitarian organization; that it power to apply more severe measures was wanting.
has political purposes and aspirations, and Volume 7, page 262.
that in its creedal philosophy it emphatically In similar strain, eminent spokesmen of the
opposes civic liberties which have been a vital Hierarchy have expressed its aims and de-
possession of the people of the United States scribed methods usable to achieve those aims.
for many years. For example, the superior-general (John B.
To the ordinary Catholic the Harney) of the Hierarchy's religious society
church is merely a religious organ- of "Missionary Jesuits" (designated also
izationthe ONLY religious organ- "Paulist Fathers"), recently stated:
ization. In his mind's eye he sees I do not doubt, if they were strong enough, that
the church as a place where the the Catholic people would hinder, t>ven by death
pariah priest piously busies himself with if necessary, the spread of such errors ["perverting
masses and other religious ceremonies. He sees the truth" of "the Roman Catholic Church"]
the'church as a place where images, crucifixes, through the people. And I say rightly so.-In a
holy water, incense, candles, solemn and sacred public address by John B. Harney, as reported
and carefully verified by the New York Herald,
music, social gatherings, card and bingo par- May 7, 1901.
ties, and suchlike affairs occupy the attention
of the communicants. He doesn't see the polit- In further support of the contention here
ical activities of the church. He doesn't see made, notice the statement of Pope Pius IX,
its totalitarian purpose in action. When he who, on December 8, 1864, in "Syllabus of
hears or reads of such aims as being part and Errors", declared as follows:
parcel of his church he thinks of them as The state has not the right to leave every man
wholly false and that any who impute such free to profess and embrace whatever religion he
conduct to the "holy" and eminent leaders of shall deem true.
the church are simply persecuting her. She [the Roman Catholic Church] has the right
to require the state not to leave every man free to
The inquisition of medieval days was an profess his own religion.
exhibition of the cruel use of power by the She has the right to require.that the Catholic
Roman Catholic Hierarchy. The church then religion shall be the only religion of the state, to
had power. Emperors, kings, princes, peoples the exclusion of all others.
and nations bowed to its will. That power was These statements conclusively
used to force conformity from all people. prove that the church still main-
Those who did not conform were tortured and tains that criticism must be stopped.
killed. It still alleges that dissenters must
Some Catholic apologists claim that the in- be silent or silenced. It tolerates
quisition was a thing solely of the past, when criticism, free speech, free declaration of Bib-
all people used cruel, inhuman and barbarous lical truths and reasonable opinions only
methods. They claim that the church does not when it does not have the power to apply
and would not now use such. This claim is con- repressive measures.
tradicted by jjresent-day occurrences. Even Modern-day Catholic practices in some areas
today the church publicly asserts the right to are in perfect accord with these astounding
impose physical punishment upon heretics. It declarations. In some portions of the United
still asserts that all publications and state- States there is the stopping of mouths of its
ments objectionable to it should be suppressed. critics. Two thousand arrests of Jehovah's
It does not exercise that right, universally, as witnesses in three years abundantly testify to
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this modern-day inquisition. The Catholic edge. It was not' abusive or harsh in its terms.
Church does not have the power to suppress I t did not mention any religious or political
all criticism of it throughout the United organization by name. The paragraph that is
States, for the Bill of Rights is still in force strongest in its terms and the most likely to
in this country, and the higher courts .still give offense is the following:
stand by the Federal Constitution. But one does Satan the great enemy of man has induced the
not have to go far to find places where the teaching of false doctrines to the people. The reason
medieval style of persecution and interdict- there is so much ignorance amongst the people
ment of the Bible is still in force.' Just across concerning the Scriptures is that Satan the enemy
the border from this country is the totalitarian of man and of God has interfered with the peo-
province of Quebec. There the Roman Church, ple's understanding the truth. Satan through his
agencies killed many of the men who faithfully per-
has power, and there the inquisition nourishes formed their work in connection with the Bible,
today. but not until their work was done. Thousands of
The union of church and state in Quebec is copies of the Bible were destroyed by those same
well symbolized by the large crucifixes dis- evil agencies, but Satan, with all his efforts, could
played there on the walls of courtrooms. The not stop the progress of God's unfolding purposes
Hierarchy's cardinal who resides at Montreal and the revelation of himself to the people through
is the real ruler of the province. He dictates His Word. Being unable to stop the publication
of the Bible, the Devil has sought through his rep-
laws, supervises the administration, and uses resentatives, the clergy, to corrupt the meaning
the government as the police power of the thereof and to p u t into the minds of the people
church to suppress any and all opposition. an improper understanding of the text. l i e has
The so-called "padlock" law was passed under used every power at his command to turn the minds
the dictation of this religious-political boss. of the people away from Jehovah and from His
This law authorizes officials of the province to pure Word of truth. "He has made them believe
lock the doors and bar entrance to any house that the dead are not dead, but in " p u r g a t o r y " or
in the province where it is suspected that eternal torment. These horrible doctrines have
"Communistic" teachings have been promul- turned many honest men away from God. I t is a
real comfort to know that your dead friends are
gated. There is no definition of "Communism" not in eternal torment, nor in "purgatory". The
in the law, and it is administered to include Scriptures plainly teach that the dead are uncon-
anything and everything that is offensive to scious, out of existence, know not anything, and are
the Roman Church. therefore not undergoing suffering. In view of these
In addition to this gag measure, the pre- true and emphatic statements of God's W o r d there
rogative writs, such as injunction, habeas is no necessity whatsoever for masses and prayers
corpus, mandamus, and other equitable meas- for dead people, nor any excuse for extorting from
the people large sums of money for funeral serv-
ures which have been a source of protection ices. Jesus paid the price for one and all, and in
to the common people from the days of the due time all will come forth from their graves.
Magna Charta, have been abolished in Quebec. F o r centuries many of these wonderful truths were
With these safeguards removed, the Roman obscure and taken away from the people. I n God's
Catholic Hierarchy has tremendous power in due time these pure doctrines have been restored
that part of the British dominions; and on to the honest seekers after truth.
account of that power the right to present This paragraph certainly contains no libel.
Bible teachings to the people has been circum- There is no seditious utterance in it. There is
scribed and even utterly denied. One striking ho cause given for any legitimate offense by
illustration is here presented.
reason of its public circulation. Yet these two
On September 24, 1937, two of Jehovah's men were thrown into jail and brought before
witnesses, to wit, Amedee Dufour and Felix the court because they presented copies of this
Lacasse, were arrested in the District of St. document to the people.
Jerome. They were at that time distributing
a Bible tract entitled "The People's Greatest ,? After the arrest the authorities
Need". This pamphlet set forth briefly that the tA had some difficulty in determining
people need knowledge concerning the pur- what charge to present against
poses of Almighty God. It stated that the them. This on its fact; proves that
people need the wisdom which comes from the proceedings did not constitute
above, and told how to get such knowledge a legitimate step for enforcement of law and
and wisdom. It pointed out some of the hin- prevention of crime. It shows that there was
drances in the way of securing such knowl- some other motive for the action taken. They
JULY 26, 1939 21
were first charged with distributing circulars Catholic Church is the same today as it was
without a license, and with corrupting the during the Dark Ages. I t is true that in those
morals of the people. Later a charge of libel days opponents were silenced by the sword
against the Catholic Church was entered, fire and stake, the strangulation cord, stoning,
which charge was again changed to that of and* other violent measures. Todajt, in this
defamatory libel. Finally, after much distress country, is now presented the spectacle of
of mind, the charge of seditious conspiracy medieval-minded editors pouring forth col-
was entered against these men, and they were umns of vituperative abuse upon any and all
brought to trial upon that charge. Seditious who dare to" speak unfavorably of the Roman
conspiracy means the combining together in Church. In their judgment, every public
action and purpose with the intent to stir up speaker and writer ought to regard the
riotous disturbance against the government "Church" as something holy, untouchable, a
and to bring about the overthrow of the gov- "sacred cow". Coercion and boycott are freely
ernment. There is not the slightest evidence used to prevent Bible truths' being broadcast
of anything seditious about the pamphlet en- by radio. Jail sentences are invoked where and
titled "The People's Greatest Need". There when possible. Stronger measures are not used
was no evidence presented that these defend- yet; only because the times are not propitious
ants had any seditious purpose. Nevertheless for such Catholic action.
they were'found guilty5 by a French Canadian These statements are not intended to hurt
jury and were sentenced to six months in jail. the feelings of any Catholic person, nor to
An appeal was affirmed against them. They hold up such persons to scorn and contempt.
are still behind the bars, purely because they Fair-minded Catholics will admit that such
presented to the people Bible truths in accord- brutal conduct toward fellow human creatures
ance with the mandate given by Jehovah God is far from Godlike or Christlike, even though
in His Word, the Bible. practiced by or at the direction of a richly-
This action did not end the matter. Jeho- robed bishop or other Roman clergyman.
vah's witnesses wrote the story of this perse- These facts are mentioned here for the benefit
cution and sent fourteen thousand copies of all people, including Catholics. Millions of
through the mails to prominent citizens of honest Catholic and non-Catholic persons have
Quebec. The llicrarchy then woke up to the been deceived by subtle means used by emi-
fact that here was another avenue of dissemi- nent leaders who compose the rulers of the
nating ideas which had been overlooked. This Roman Catholic Church, or Hierarchy. Such
must be plugged up, and consequently a bill honest, God-fearing persons should awake, in-
was presented in the Quebec legislature peti- vestigate, and free themselves from the clutch-
tioning the federal government of Canada to es of the foreign sovereignty.0. R. Moyle.
close the mails to any so-called "Communist
propaganda". Crusade for Pope in Government
This is a concrete case, proving that where The "Right Reverend" Joseph Cor-
the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has the power rigan, of the Catholic University
all criticism of and dissent from its creed must at Washington, has announced a
and will be silenced. In the Catholic totalita- crusade for a bigger share by the
rian state no one is permitted to tell people the pope in the government of the
truth about "purgatory". Why notf That cuts United States. This was to be expected. The
in on the profits of the "holy" organization, way the newspapers put it, it was to be a
and any person so offending will be found "Crusade for God in Government"; but the
'guilty of sedition against the government'. meaning is the same. Corrigan thinks the
In Quebec it is impossible to tell the people Catholic Church is "God". Oddly enough he
about the blessings which will come to all God- is nearly right, if one is careful to designate
fearing persons through the complete estab- that it Ls most closely identified with "the god
lishment of the kingdom of Almighty God un- of this world", the Devil. But how the Devil
der His Son Jesus Christ. To bring such facts could have a larger share in earth's affairs, in
to the people constitutes "sedition" and will view of the Scriptural declaration that 'the
bring about a jail sentence. whole world lieth in the wicked one, and they
The case is just one of many actual in- are taken captive by him at his will', is not
stances presenting a complete line of evidence so clear. Still, it must be admitted that the
proving that the Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church is getting constantly more
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and more influence with Roosevelt and many speed with which Nazis and Fascists adopt
others at Washington, and so Corrigan is not Communist tactics to further their purposes.
so far wrong after all. Incidentally, Roosevelt Behind the world-wide organization of these
and Pacelli are good personal friends, and belligerent forces lies the sinister rumor of
that ought to boost things for the Hierarchy an understanding between Moscow and Berlin
regardless of whether Roosevelt or Farley is and Rome. Presently it sounds inconceivable
the next president. that such an arrangement could exist, and yet
from time to time reputable observers point
Major Moseley Applauded to the similarity in method, the amiable trad-
Major General George Van Horn Moseley ing agreements and the lack of actual violence
is said to have been roundly applauded by the between forces supposed to hate each other as
New York Board of Trade when he referred evidence of an underlying current of under-
to certain "Christian patriotic groups" that standing hidden from the common people.
are demanding immediate action in this coun- The old adage of "divide and conquer"
try that something be done to exterminate their should be remembered in these days. When the
enemies. The Nation quotes him as saying: propagandists have driven into opposing
Once these patriots go to battle they will cure camps all who feel they must be part of some
the disease definitely and make those massacres militant organization sponsored from a
now recorded in history look like peaceful ehurch foreign land, then the plight of the true lover
parades. I n fact, if both New York and Washington of country and of freedom will be poor in-
were burned down tonight it would not cause a deed if Communist, Nazi and Fascist suddenly
ripple in the America that I am talking about. agree they will make better progress co-operat-
One can almost hear Moseley think, and any- ing than fighting.Regina Daily Star.
body can see that the thoughts he does think
are the same as are thought by Oswald Mosley, Dominance of Boy Scouts
of Britain. It is interesting to note that the Boy Scouts
of America's report to Congress indicates that
Hierarchy Sympathies with Fascism the growth in Catholic Scouting has been so
Note the following effort of The Catholic great in the last year throughout the United
Telegraph-Register (Cincinnati) to discour- States that there is only one other church or-
age opposition to Fascism: ganization that has more troops under its
The questions which arise in the minds of auspices than does the Catholic Church. We
thoughtful men a r e : Why the sudden need for a are now second in the list and there is every
tremendously enlarged n a v y t Who is the potential indication that we shall 'soon be first. The
foe ? W h o are the groups of men in back of all the agreement between the Hierarchy and the Boy
war propaganda we read in the press and on the Scouts of America is proving very satisfac-
movie screens? What vested interests arc being tory in practice. We are enjoying every benefit
served by the propaganda? Why must the demo- offered by the program and yet maintain the
cratic nations, England, Prance, and the United autonomy and direction necessary for Cath-
States, and, believe it or not, Russia, be aligned
against the so-called Fascist nations to uphold olic Action.The Catholic Review.
the sanctity of international obligations? Since
when have nations suddenly become interested in Nice Work in Walnuts
sanctity and obligations? Heretofore, those religious businesses that
The Observer should like to see a nation-wide like to refer to themselves as "charitable in-
protest against the war propaganda that is being stitutions" have had their unpaid labor pre-
disseminated today,. The plea for peace by insist- pare walnut meats for market, and the meats
ing on the sanctity of international obligations
sounds too much like "Making the World Safe
have sold for very low prices. Now a little
for Democracy''^ We should refuse to go to war item in the news states that the courts have
at any time to serve the interests of big business ruled that the surplus of the Pacific Coast
or to protect the foreign investments of Wall walnut crop may be given to charitable in-
street or to safe-guard the interests of the British stitutions. Fine! Now with nuts free, and
empire. labor free, and not allowed to eat any of the
meats, what is to hinder a "charitable insti-
Mutual Love of Monstrosities tution" from underselling everybody else in
The U. S. committee on un-American activ- the nut meat business? And, don't you doubt
ities made note, in its report yesterday, of the it, that they will!
J U L Y 26, 1939 23
Stuffed with Cotton trimmings. For $5 they would light six candles
America is stuffed with cotton; in fact, on the altar instead of two, and the priest
she has a year's supply on hand that nobody wore a little snappier costume, in brighter
wants. When she began limiting exports and colors. For $10 all the candles on the altar
boosting prices other countries, and especially were lighted and there was organ music, 'with
Brazil, saw a chance to make money raising two singers from the choir. For $25, solemn
cotton and went to it. This reduced American high mass, everything in the church was lit
cotton markets, and now Uncle Sam and the up, the organ went full blast, there were three
cotton growers are worried and have reason priests instead of one saying the mass, and
to be worried. A suggestion in one of the New there were ten or twelve altar boys, or as many
York papers is that Uncle Sam work the cotton as they could muster (we never got anything
up into stockings, shirts, sheets, overalls, dress- for it, anyway), incense blowing, Latin hymns,
es and suits and give them to everybody in one priest answering another with Latin
this fair land that can prove they could use hymns as if on a metropolitan opera stage,
them. That's everybody. Also, that's Fascism; kneeling and genuflecting before statues which
for does anybody think the politicians are ran rampant throughout the building, leaving
going to clothe everybody (and feed them too the attending congregation awe-stricken as if
for that is just as logical) and not have more in a state of coma, throughout all the proceed-
and more to say about what they shall heil ings. After the mass, while still in the stupor,
and salute and root fort Fascism is in the the people would say to one another, "Was
bag, and those that have been trained to "Hail it not wonderful! Why, I felt as if I were in
Maiy" will be in on the front end of the pro- heaven." After the spell was over they were
cession. It comes perfectly natural to them to still as empty-headed and heavy-hearted as be-
heil and salute: they are trained to it. fore, with no "strong meat in due season"
such as we get in the WATCHTOWER publica-
tionswhich are full of nourishment
One Man More I m p o r t a n t than 130,000,000
They allowed so many hundreds of days'
In the eyes of the Congress of the United indulgences for masses said, which graduate
States one man, and a dead one at that, is from 100 days to 10,000 days, depending on
more important than the interests of the the kind of masses said. But the purchaser of
130,000,000 Americans that pay them $10,000 masses is never told definitely when the de-
a year salary (and mileage and relative per- parted is entirely out of "purgatory". The
quisites) to look after their interests. The first purchaser is kept guessing, so that he will keep
time the Congress adjourned for a day because buying masses continually. He is kept reach-
of the death of a Roman Catholic pope was ing for the moon, and never gets it.Sam
February 13, 1939, and it should be the last. Amato, Michigan.
If Congress adjourns every time the head of
some sect dies it could stay adjourned. It may European Monstrosity Items
come to that yet, but in the meantime it should
attend to the business for which it was hired. In their general elections the Swiss failed
to kowtow to the pope on the outlawry of
Masonry. He wanted Masonry put under the
Memories of an A l t a r Boy same ban in Switzerland as in Italy, Germany
They used to tell us, ffWash your and Spain, but when the matter was put to
ISM hand in holy water if you even a nation-wide referendum only 233,000 votes
I touch with your finger tips a piece were cast for his program, while 508,000 were
of non-Catholic literature"; also, cast against it. The Swiss do not like the idea
l"Be sure to tell everything when of the pope's running their affairs, either di-
you go to confession, because if you leave out rectly or through Hitler.
one single thing your confession is void, and The Roman Hierarchy continues to make
if you die in such a state you will go direct progress in Denmark, A mass was recently
to hell." I now know that confession is part broadcast over Denmark's official radio broad-
of the spy system, and that is why such great casting station, for the first time in its his-
emphasis is placed upon it. tory, and the king of Denmark contributed
The prices of masses, when I was an altar to the building of a shrine in Rome for Dan-
boy, were: $1 for low mass. A low mass is just ish Catholics, and boasted of it,
a plain, ordinary, everyday mass without the (To he continued)
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24
 Red Herring Statesmanship

A Crash T h a t Startled the World The Fascist Missionaries

That was a crash that startled the world The Fascist missionaries now have decks
when one of America's latest bombing planes of armor plate 10 inches thick, equivalent to
fell to the earth, killing its American pilot, more than %\ feet of wrought iron, and, it is
at Los Angeles, February 4, 1939, and his believed, would be able to take any kind of
mysterious passenger riding under an assumed punishment that could be offered by any kind
name was found to be a French army officer. of weapon now in use. Britain, America, Italy
The president of the United States was em- and Germany are all interested in these
barrassed when the secretary of the treasury new battleships.
testified that this was
done because the pres- Six Tons of
ident asked it. Narcotics
Would the presi- So fearful are the
dent have asked simi- nations of another
lar privileges for the World War, and so
representatives of the certain that it will
Spanish R e p u b l i c , come, that in 1936 the
which at that time various governments
was still in existence? a c c u m u l a t e d and
He would not. The stored six additional
United States could tons of morphine, to
sell war supplies to be ready for the hu-
Germany and Italy, man pain that wars
with which the gang- cause.
sters operating those
countries could blow Drawing a
the Spanish Republi- Red Herring
cans to smithereens, By its own oft-pub-
but it could not sell lished admissions the
m u n i t i o n s to the. Roman Catholic Hier-
Spanish R e p u b l i c , archy is the greatest
fighting for its life. enemy of freedom of
That would never do. speech and of the
The Spanish Embargo press that ever exist-
must be maintained! ed on earth. In Amer-
But when it is too Red herring are now in Beason ica it is put in the
late to save the Span- position of trying to
ish democracy, or the Austrian democracy, or appear as a friend of that which it desperately
the Czechoslovakian democracy, the president hates. Read the following gibberish put forth
suddenly seems to sense the truth that it may by Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, of the Catholic
shortly be too late to save any democracy at University at Washington, and see if you can
all. Hence the apparent desire that France,
at least, should have a chance to survive. All arrive at any other opinion of his real mean-
the talk in the world cannot change the fact ing than that he believes in freedom for the
that the French wanted planes to call the Hierarchy and for nobody else:
bluff of Italy, and the president wanted France What needs discipline in this country is our con-
to have them so that that bluff could be called cept of freedom. Freedom does not mean the right
before it is for ever too late. to say, do or act as we please. Freedom of speech,
for example, is being carried too far and we may
And, incidentally, there are some who think not be able to pull it back again. You may not
an order for $65,000,000 worth, of airplanes a invoke a right to destroy it. I have no right to use
matter to which the president could properly my freedom of speech to destroy yours. Those
give some personal attention, even though forces which are clamoring hardest for their free
things like that lead a nation into war. speech will eventually do away with ours.
JULY 26, 1939 25
 A Fleeting Glimpse at Science

I T WOULD be delightful to take time off

to inquire about the millions of things
that have emerged from the Creator's bands.
In Communication and Transportation
No need to say anything about radio; the
sets are everywhere. Television is available for
But Consolation docs not have space for t h a t ; those who can afford it. The wire systems have
there is too much of more immediate impor- not been asleep. It is now possible to transmit
tance. So the best that can be done is to take a ninety-six messages simultaneously over a
fleeting glimpse, now and then, at the wonders single wire. This is done by the scrambling and
that continually come to light in spite of the unscrambling of electrical sounds. There are
turbulence of current events. tone channels; just so far apart; tone detectors
One may consider for a moment the giant at the receiving end do the unscrambling
microscope which magnifies up to 50,000 di- automatically.
ameters. Used in the mining business it photo- Maybe you noticed that almost everybody
graphs particles of soft gold so small that it in the United States rides around in a fine
would take 400,000,000,000 of them to make a automobile, but maybe you did not know that
coin of the value of a dime. For practical work one automobile worker in 1929 was doing as
this instrument seldom magnifies anything much work as 14 such workers did 25 years
more than 6,000 times. Such a magnification previously and that now he is doing still more.
would cause the head of a pin one-sixteenth Automobile bodies are produced in almost
of an inch in diameter to appear to be a disc manless shops.
over thirty feet across. Private airplanes are not yet as popular
At the other end one may consider the giant as private automobiles, but the helicopter may
telescopes which, without taking into account make them so. At an exhibition in Berlin one
the largest one of all, now being installed at of them flew inside of the Deutschland hall,
Palomar Mountain, California, have yet meas- over a floor space of only 100 feet by 250 feet,
ured for humanity a single star cluster, or up and down, backward, forward, and side-
Milky Way, if you prefer that name, the wise. These machines can land anywhere; they
Mela galactic cloud, 100,000,000 light-years can travel 120 miles per hour; and in case of
distant from the earth, and which is itself motor trouble aloft the wings or blades rotate
50,000,000 light-years long and 20,000,000 automatically and the machine descends slow-
light-years wide. A light-year is the distance ly, like an autogyro.
light travels in a year, while maintaining a You probably know something about the
continuous speed of 186,300 miles per second. new mechanical eye which can see a light-
A single light-year is about 5,875,156,800,000 house 22 miles away when a lookout on a ship
miles, so that the Metagalactic cloud is some can see it only half a mile off. It is foolproof,
587,515,680,000,000,000,000 miles away from too. All the operator has to do to see obstacles
the imaginary king of heaven, earth and hell ahead of him is to watch the swing of a needle
at Vatican City. before his eyes; the distance of the obstruc-
tion is thus shown.
Man knows nothing when he is born, and if The uses of the electric eye are countless.
he has a religious cast of mind that is as far as It matches colors of papers and inks, counts
he ever gets. logs, controls the thickness of paper, detects
Scientists are still trying to find out some- breaks in the rolls of paper going into print-
thing about things, and are slowly making ing presses and instantly stops the machines,
headway in spite of the specters in black automatically causes doors to open to wait-
nightgowns and lace pants whose pictures resses, customers, automobiles or what not;
adorn the "funny sheets" known as "news- it turns on parking lights and turns them out
papers". Gold has been changed into mercury and puts factory and office lights on and off
by a 2,500,000-volt-ray machine. Minute dia- as needed.
monds have been made. By a combination of
dynamite explosions and recording apparatus New Industries
it is possible to locate accurately underlying New industries are constantly being brought
Strata of rock 40,000 .feet below the surface. into existence as the possibilities of the great
This helps to locate oil deposits. storehouse become better known. There was a
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time when red, blue and purple, obtained beautiful pearl necklace never saw an oyster, and
respectively from madder, indigo and shell- her delicate perfume did not come from flowers.
fish, were the only dyes in general use. Re- Who among us would be willing to give up the
cently a. French silk manufacturer displayed yellow of his butter, the< red of his frankfurters,
eighty-six shades of the color green. The num- the green of his pistachio ice cream, or the coal tar
icing that makes a lemon cake look like its flavor?
ber of colors obtained from coal tar is around [Ouch!]
200,000, and the end is not yet.
The sweet potato is a storehouse in itself of Something new is always coming out. The
some hundreds of extremely valuable things; mysterious "echo spot" in Statuary Hall in
among them fine-quality adhesives, starches for the United States Capitol, Washington, was
laundries and for sizing and glazing papers definitely located between two panels whose
and yarns, and pulp for stock feed. Great elliptical surfaces gathered slight sounds and
things are expected of this humble food prod- reflected them with greater intensity. A great
uct shortly. mystery of long standing was thus solved.
Difficulties in the manufacture of firebrick Occasionally a waterspout deposits frogs
were overcome when it was found that all that and fish on the dry land, but in one instance
was needed was to grind the fire clay more a reported rain of frogs was traced to a torren-
finely. It seems like a little thing to ascertain, tial rain that washed away a muddy layer of
but it took thirty years to find it out. earth and exposed a vast number of frogs that
Berlin is using sewer gas to cook with; had lain buried in the ooze. This added some-
sounds strange, does it not? But it isn't. In thing to human knowledge. Yellow rain has
the treatment of sewage the same kind of gas been traced to pine tree pollen; "bloody"
is given off as that with which beer is charged. rain, to red dust from the Sahara.
It is high in heating value. In one Berlin plant In England the dried mud on a criminal's
194,000 cubic feet of this gas are collected and shoes was compared with the soil of a coppice
sold each 24 hours. where his crime took place. His guilt was
A dispatch from Atlanta says: proved when the soils were compared and
The smartly dressed woman you see walking seeds of a species of plant which grew only in
down the street is probably dressed in wooden the coppice were found in the turn-ups of
clothes, gayly colored without vegetable dyes. Her his trousers.

New York
Big Strike in Brooklyn petition, his mother gave in, and now 88 Am-
There was a big strike in Brooklyn. boy street, Brooklyn, will be headquarters for
A seventeen-year-old boy brought fox terriersplural, maybe.
home a two-week-old female fox
I H terrier. He had an idea his twelve- 4,139 Women for 12 Jobs
year-old brother would like it, and New York City advertised for twelve wom-
maybe his three-year-old sister would. It never en to "act as laboratory helpers, at $960 a
occurred to him that his mother might not be year. How many do you suppose applied? One
a convert to the cause. She stuck it out five of the city armories received the applicants.
weeks and then announced a lockout. The They began to come at midnight, so as to be
twelve-year-old had a bright idea. He pre- sure to be on time. At that hour 230 were
pared sandwich signs, for himself and his seated; ten patrolwomen watched over them,
three-year-old sister. The signs, fore and aft, and a detail of patrolmen. By six o'clock in
read "I am on strike because my mother wants the morning there were 392. At eight-thirty in
to throw out my dog." The dog also wore signs the morning the doors were closed: there were
reading, "I don't want to go away." Then the 4,139 women waiting for the twelve jobs. A
twelve-year-old circulated a petition reading, city commissioner, looking out over the sea
"My dear Mrs. Fishner: This petition is made of expectant faces, said to reporters, "I wish
because you refuse to let a poor boy, your son, to God we could place them all." What a
have a dog. This is why you see the signatures world! 344 of the women had to go away with
below." When the boy had 42 signers to his aching hearts, to every one that got a job.
J U L Y 26, 1939 27
 popes have used is impossible, as any person
who reads his epistles "can readily see.
British Comment A Canterbury religionist asserts that a
statement made by one of the local company
By J. Hemery (London) of Jehovah's witnesses that there was no pope
till the fifth century A.D. is untrue; he says
there is an unbroken record of 47 popes be-
fore the date mentioned (A.D. 460). This is
the common claim of Catholics whether of the
Rome and Its Popes Roman or Anglican variety. It may be allowed
The Catholic church is loud and insistent that names of members of the Christian com-
in its claim that a pope has held office and pany in Rome can be obtained from early
ruled in the Roman Catholic church from the writings and that a regular sequence may be
days of the apostles. The claim is necessary shown. But to say that any person in the days
to their institution: they cannot afford to of the little company of true Christians in
allow that a time lapsed between the days of Rome was given or assumed the title of pope,
the apostles and the making of Papacy. Peter or that in the years when false teachers began
was fixed upon out of the number of the twelve their destructive influence there was such a
because of the words of Jesus when, speaking, title, is to assert a direct untruth. The Papacy
to the twelve and mentioning Peter, he gave was established as the opportunities for ag-
Peter the privilege of using the keys of the gression presented themselves, and in direct
kingdom to open the doors for the entrance of violation of Christ's word, when, denouncing
those who should become the faithful follow- religionists, He said, "Call no man your father
ers of Jesus. At Pentecost a key was used upon the earth."Matthew 23: 9.
the words of Peter by the holy spiritand
great numbers of Jews were added to the Religious Humbug
church. The other was used at the home of
Cornelius, the Roman centurion; for there A "reverend" gentleman who is "professor
while Peter was speaking about Jesus the holy of Christian worship" at King's college ad-
spirit came upon that little company as it had. mits that superstition is still prevalent in
done in Jerusalem. (Acts 11:15) No other church members. On the Sunday preceding
such occasion arose: none was necessary; for his remark two vicars in Norfolk walked
the opening was accomplished. The Scriptures through some fields with his parishioners to
know nothing of a successor to Peter. There pray that God would remove from the fields
was none; but when, in the course of years, some ancient curses which (it is said) have
the chiefs of the professed Christians in Rome rested on the fields, even since Tudor times.
began to assume priority of position, claims Either the vicars have been slow to move or
never heard of before were made and, their predecessors have been negligent, if the
amongst other assumptions, the Roman church lifting of the curses has depended upon so
forged a link between themselves and Peter easy, a performance. The incident would hard-
so that it could hold the 'right to give entrance ly be worth mention except for the fact that
to the kingdom of heaven', or refuse it to those it illustrates the humbugging of the people by
who refused its claims. With this came the the parsons. If these vicars know anything at
claim and assumption that the chief of the all of the ways and the works of God they
Roman church was the head of all who pro- know that this performance cannot make the
fessed to be followers or believers in Christ, slightest difference to the nonfertility of the
and the title of pope, or father, was taken. fields. It is a move to keep the ignorant in their
Every member of the Roman Catholic church belief in the church's efficacy to clear the par-
is caused to believe that Peter was the first ish of demons. I t was to frighten away the
pope of Rome and that an unbroken series of demons that ugly gargoyles were built in the
successors has had Peter's privilegeit was walls of the church buildings, and the ringing
never authority in the sense used by Rome of the bells at the time of worship had orig-
ever since. That Peter was ever in Rome can- inally the same purpose. And this is partly
not be proved; that he was ever resident there true of the use of incense in their churches
and wrought as an apostle is altogether unlike- professedly as following the use of incense in
ly; that he ever used such authority as the the tabernacle of the wilderness, it serves to
28 CONSOLATION
give a dullness to the senses, but is also sup- lows of this day), "He that rejecteth mc, and
posed to drive away all that is evil. receiveth not my words, hath'onc that judgeth
him: the word that I have spoken, the same
The Parsons Are Lining Up shall judge him in the last day."John
It was to be expected that whenever the 12:48,49.
military call should come the parsons and This Scots parson docs not believe that
clergy would line up. Representatives of the Jesus always spoke the words of God, the
Prince of Peace as they profess to be, they Father, according to the spirit of God which
know where their immediate interests are best was in Him. To "prove" that Jesus changed
served, Isaiah said, "The ox knoweth his own- His mind and disposition because of opposi-
er, and the ass his master's crib," and these tion and disappointment he quotes Jesus as
men certainly know their feeding places. Some speaking utterly opposite things. Early in His
parsons declare themselves as determined ministry Jesus had said to His disciples, "Re-
"pacifists",, and continue to proclaim both sist not evil"; but says the parson, 'because
their abhorence of war and that it is contrary He lost His faith in the responsiveness of hu-
to the teachings of Jesus, and it may be that man nature to every higher appeal, and when
some of them will carry their declarations into He knew He had failed, and had learned the
refusal to take part in war, should it come. shamelessness of the nonresistance idea and
Time will prove; but that as a class the clergy the hardness of heart which yields to nothing
will do as they did in the last war, that is, both but compulsion,' He changed, and indicated
take a place as officers, for that is what they His change by saying, "Those mine enemies
expect, and also become recruiting agents. who would not that I should rule over them,
During the Great War some parsons were very bring hither, and slay them before me." This
actively engaged in such service and were paid unbelieving parson says Jesus seems to have
by the State for the service. gone on this principlewhen idealism fails
then common sense must be listened to; the
implication being that Jesus began His work
A Perth Parson lacking common sense, or, with common sense
The "Reverend" J. W. Henderson, preach- "changed his mind under the pressure of stern
ing the gospel (!) in Kinnoull church, is re- facts". The parson does not believe what is
ported by the local press as preaching directly recorded by the spirit of God, that Jesus al-
to " 'crawling pacifists' who counsel us to take ways knew what was in man. (John 2:25)
every crime and outrage lying down, and to According to this false disciple Jesus grew up
sacrifice Empire, honor and life for the sake in the backwaters of Nazareth, and he has the
of Christ". So far as we are concerned he may boldness to say of. Him, "Indeed the code of
call his fellow parsons all the names he likes conduct laid down in the sermon on the mount
to use to back up his position; but this "rev- might be described as a villager's religion:
erend" professed representative of Jesus pro- the Lord had the idea that friendliness among
ceeded to bring his Master down to his own all the members of the community was the
level, and proved himself as a false disciple. keynote to village life and welfare." Jesus had
As may be expected, he shows himself an un- a self-imposed mission, says this false teacher,
believer in Jesus as the representative of God: and He had to learn many, many things when
he does not believe Jesus' own words always He saw His doctrine of nonresistance to evil
were the words of His Father by Him, nor failing Him. It is to be supposed that the mem-
does he believe the actions of Jesus were al- bers of this preacher's flock who support him
ways according to the will and mind of God. and the church organization he represents get
To .the Jews, the prototypes of the clergy of what they want to buy.
our days, Jesus declared that the words He There is, of course, no contradiction in the
spoke were always of His Father: "As my words of Jesus: it is impossible that there
Father hath taught me, I speak these things." could be. His last words were no more cer-
(John.8:28) "When His work was nearly ac- tainly expressions of his Father's will than His
complished He said, "I have not spoken of first. Jesus learned while He ministered, but
myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave it was the lesson of full obedience: "He
me a commandment, what I should say, and learned obedience by the things which he
what I should speak"; and at the same time suffered" (Hebrews 5 : 8 ) ; a lesson which the
He said to those unbelievers (and to their fel- disobedient clergy class will not learn. The
J U L Y 26, 1939 29
context of Jesus' word, *But 1 say unto .you, nate Abyssinians were being overwhelmed by
Resist not evil/ shows that He was controvert- poison gas there were triumphant masses
ing the teaching of the religionists, the Jews' throughout Italy, and the holding of these
clergy, who advocated retaliation for evil, de- masses was not condemned by the then pope
manding an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. or by his cardinal secretary of state, who is
As has been shown, Jesus never spoke against now enthroned at the Vatican." The arch-
self-defense. His words, "Bring hither mine bishop expressed a hope that the words of the
enemies," tell of the time of judgment which bishop of Birmingham would not be reported,
should come with His return, and when all and most of the newspapers refrained, but
those who oppose Him, whether declared ene- some had the courage to print them.
mies or professed friends, using His name,
should be destroyed in His presence. Prayers
Both then, when the truth was spoken by Here is another use for prayer! A team of
Him in person, and now, when it is carried to Mormon baseball plaj'ers finding their York-
the people by His disciples, it is objectionable shire opponents rather too good for them held
to those who have made a place for themselves. a short prayer meeting in the grounds. The
History is being repeated by the clergy class, fact only is reported; whether or not they
true children of the rejectors of Jesus and His won the games is not stated. The spectators
words from God. and the non-prayers will hardly consider this
as "playing the game".
The Religionists' Peace Movement
Started by the archbishop of Canterbury Money for Betting
from his place in Parliament, some progress has It is reliably calculated that a million pounds
been made. Whitsunday, the orthodox church- per year is expended in betting in Britain
es' set day for the anniversary of the first about half of the amount on horse and dog
Pentecost, provided a good starting point for racing, and nearly as much through the bet-
the Church of England, and special prayers ting pools of football games, though this latter
were provided for the occasion. Since the arch- is not called betting.
bishop first mentioned his idea great attempts
have been made to rally all the churches into
a Christian peace movement. The Scottish Half Million Street Accidents
Presbyterians, the English Free churches, the More than 500,000 people were killed or
Swedish protestants, and the archpatriarch injured on the streets of London in the last
who represents the Eastern churches (another ten years. About one-third of these accidents
form of Papacy) are in agreement. But the were caused by automobiles. There were 60,958
pope and his church will not join. The signa- accidents in London streets in the year 1934.
tories to the Canterbury call have to report, One may account for the numerous accidents
"The pope has already issued to his flock a by the fact that London was not built with the
call for a crusade of prayer for peace among requirements of modern traffic in mind. The
all nations, and they are glad to think of their streets are frequently narrow and tortuous.
own call as associated with his." The pope's
time for joining with the non-Catholics will Other Items
have come when they go to Rome acknowledg- The British Broadcasting Company's in-
ing the claims of the Roman church and its come for the year 1938 was 3,800,000. It is
pope. expected that an additional 500,000 will
Before that time comes there will be some shortly be required to keep up the estab-
ructions in the various sections of the religion- lishment.
ists. In a convocation assembly of the Church The financial accounts for the year 1936-37
of England Dr. Barnes, bishop of Birming- reveal that 539 persons were reckoned as
ham, well known as an outspoken critic of the millionaires. One is so accounted if his in-
Bible, spoke out against the phrase "his holi- come amounts to 40,000 a year. At the end
ness" being used of the pope. His words are of the Great War there were 794 such; after
worth repeating: he said, "No man is holy, the lean years 1932-34 the number dropped
though some may be gracious. Many will not to 428, and now the number has risen again.
be able to forget the action of the Papacy dur- It seems that even poor or bad' times allow
ing the civil war in Spain. When the unfortu- some to thrive.
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 Switzerland and France
German Penetration of Swiss Universities Got a Kick in the Neck
W/Q ^ i German penetration of Swiss uni- In Paris two men that thought they were
f ^ ^ ^ V versities is skillfully planned. Sub- clever pretended to be detectives and under-
^yS. sidies are offered in Germany for took to kidnap a wealthy man under pretext
k j ^ J ^ i those who carry out the work of un- that they were taking him to the police station
B ^ . -^n dermining democracy in the little in a spy case. The" man that was being given
republic next door. The German students make the free ride noticed that his new-found
a eareful study of the personality of each friends were taking him somewhere else, so
professor, and how best to overthrow his in- he kicked the driver in the neck, and the car
fluence. The students are divided into groups became involved in a eollison. The kidnaped
to work as spies on fellow students. All Ger- man escaped unhurt and one of his captors
man students wear the Nazi badge of dishonor, was arrested.
and their course is directed in detail from
Germany. At the Geneva University one of Swiss Desire Independence
the professors of the Faculty of Law began an The Swiss loudly proclaim their desire and
address with a denunciation of the recent determination to maintain their independence,
German decrees which break with every prin- but the outlook is dark, if for no other reason
ciple of justice and morality, whereupon, after than that 72 percent of the population speak
an interruption by one of the German stu- the German language, and the Nazi theory is
dents, every student in the room got up and that every body who speaks German must come
left. into the Third Reich. If and when France goes
down, and regardless of whether from without
or from within, Switzerland is sure to go also
France Has the Best Roads and Belgium too.
France has the best roads in Europe; that
is, in France there are 120 kilometers of road Fourteen Miles in t h e D a r k
for every 100 square kilometers of surface, To get out of Italy into Switzerland, Jules
whereas England has 95, Germany 45, and Bender dodged the guards and hiked through
Italy 25 kilometers. the Simplon tunnel in the darkness.

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A M i g h t y C a t h o l i c i l l t h e " P i t " (In Three PartsPart 1)

TUNE 3, 1939, marked the end of a judicial HIGH IN RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL CIRCLES
t) career. On that date Martin T. Manton, During his years on the bench Judge Manton
ex-U.S. judge, "described by the press as "the has become well known in social and religious cir-
highest ranking judicial officer of this country cles. In July, 1924, he represented the Catholic
next to the nine Justices of the Supreme laymen of the United States in the International
Court", 'the 10th old man,' and a Catholic Eucharistic Congress in Amsterdam, and he has
been president of both the Catholic Cluh and the
pre-eminent in church affairs, .was found Catholic Association for International Peace.
guilty of selling his judicial decisions for His distinguished legal record has brought him
monetary consideration. honorary degrees from such institutions as Ford-
What follows may seem stranger than fic- ham University, Manhattan College, New York
tion, yet true, and in its preparation I was re- University and the University of Vermont. [All
minded of the words of the Lord Jesus: "And of which are Catholic]
whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased"; This silence on the part of the Catholic press
and of the further words of the psalmist: "Oh is even more amazing to those who take seri-
let the -wickedness of the wicked come to an ously their patriotic fervor and flag-waving.
end; . . . he made a pit, and digged it, and Though allowing the extravagant plenitude
is fallen into the ditch which he made." Thus of news columns to howling about the dangers
is foretold in Holy Writ the end of all who to the country of Christian children who
presume to plot the downfall of the righteous; choose to serve God rather than give obeisance
and of that the more abundant proof later. to a man-made flag; and while blatantly rav-
About the crash of Manton, convicted, it is ing about Judge Rutherford as a violator of
believed, on the first ballot, of "selling justice the Espionage Law which he did not violate;
for cash", the Catholic press are completely and honoring Manton with all encomium and
silent. It is amazing that such heralds of praise as a great Catholic American who kept
Manton's praise when he held, simultaneously eight 'pernicious Russell ites' in prison by
with judicial honors, the Papal "creation" of denying them the bail which the court has
"Knight of St. Gregory"; appointment as generously allowed to Manton himself;.while
delegate to the International Eucharistic in this the Catholic Church papers of America
Congress at Amsterdam in 1924; positions as have spared neither space nor vicious epithet,
president of the Catholic Club of New York, they have overlooked an unusual opportunity
president of the Catholic Club for Interna- to praise the carriage of justice. They blandly
pass up a marvelous chance to wave the flag
tional Peace, leader of the Knights of Colum- in approval at the conviction of a criminal
bus, and contributor of note to. various law and who dishonored every principle of law and be-
Catholic periodicals, are, at this the convic- trayed in vilest manner the trust of the Amer-
tion of the most honored judge of New York, ican nation. Now, when the Hierarchy's press
found wanting in any Catholic comment what- might come forth with salvos for such square
soever. and honest Americans as Attorney General
Not so reticent as the Hierarchy's combined Murphy and "his hard-hitting young prose-
news agencies, the New York Journal and cutor, U.S. Attorney John T. Cahill", and
Ainerican, issue of June 4, 1939, furnishes the really strike a blow for honesty in office by an
following biographical notes on the career of editorial decrying the abuses of which Manton
Manton: was convicted, no Catholic comment is made
AUGUST 9, 1939
on this important matter. When by plain cutor Cahill, and Intelligence Officer Edgar
statement they might place the Catholic press Hoover, for their excellent public service in
among the patriotic Americans who have a bringing an arch criminal to justice. Why?
definite preference against their judges' ac- As long as Manton accepted bribery and de-
cepting bribes and doing business in black- frauded and dishonored the American nation,
mail, their silence is conspicuously noticeable. thus smirching the flag he had sworn to up-
Can it be that they do not consider it unpa- hold, and divided the spoils with the Catholic
triotic on the part of a Federal judge or any church, all was well. Now that Manton has
other judge to peddle his decisions and traffic been exposed and found guilty, his partners
in blackmail when he is a prominent Catholic? in Catholic Action have nothing to say about
Does it not appear from their noncommittal the triumph of justice; they are as silent"as
that, in Catholic usage, "unpatriotic" means all other gangsters when one of the mob is
simply "critical"' of the Roman Catholic sentenced to "stir" (which gangster expression
Church and is never applied to a loyal son means to be incarcerated in the jail).
of Romanism, be he perjurer, briber, or thief? It seems that there is nothing too despicable
As no adequate answers will ever come from or mean for a man to do when he has the pope's
the foremost 'professional patriotccrs of Amer- promise to give him absolution before he com-
ica, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and her mits a crime. It is so simple to decide to do any
publicity agents, other sources will be pre- base action when all you have to do is pay over
sented to show the opinion of America gener- a few dollars to the pope and he will make a
ally as regards Manton's shockingly infamous conspiracy with God, and you can go right on
conduct on the bench. In editorial comment in further wicked work, repeating and repeat-
the New York Post, issue of June 5, 1939, ing as long as the "holy father" gets his share.
states under the title "The Mighty Fall": What follows is a highlight on what Manton
Guilty!of selling judicial decisions. thought should be done with anyone who com-
That verdict, convicting Martin T. Manton, re- mitted a misdemeanor without the pope's O.K.;
signed senior Justice of the United States Circuit I n one case, the record shows, Judge Manton
Court of Appeals, is one of the most important sentenced a man to the Federal penitentiary for a
events of our times . . . year after he was found guilty of selling one-half
No one knows precisely how many decisions pint of whiskey to some, soldiers.New York
Manton sold from the Federal bench, in exchange Journal and American J u n e 4,1939.
for money in the form of "loans". But the sums
run into hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the Here are some further highlights quoted
trail of intertwined cash and favorable court orders from the same issue which express the opinion
is long and intricate. of the judge, and prosecutors:
. . . Manton is the highest ranking judicial Judge Chesnut: "This is a case of supreme im-
officer ever to stand trial in the United States on port both to the Government and the defendants.
criminal charges . . . The confidence of the public in the integrity of the
Preparation of this case by Murphy's depart- courts must not be impaired. . . . Believe 1 ballot
ment, with the help of J . Edgar Hoover, was a convicted Manton. The impression gathered after-
magnificent joband a job almost unbelievably wards was that the jurors had required only one
difficult. I f Manton hadn't become careless in his ballot to reach their decision as to Manton, and
later dealings it is possible that a case never could that any delay had been caused by a question as
have been proved against him. . . . Perhaps we to Specter's guilt."
need also to get back to the old belief that a seat Cahill :""One of the most monstrous plots to buy
on the bench is a great honor conferredand not. and sell justice, in this very Temple of Justice,
an opportunity for hitch-hikers on the path of self- was born and hatched within .the very four walls of
aggrandisement. this court house. I t was turned into a counting
The sincerity of a man's words is measured, house, where justice and decisions were bought
and sold. We must drive the money changers from
not by the volume of his speech, but by his the temple. . . . Any judge who accepts gifts or
action when called upon to test out his state- other consideration is not carrying out that oath
ments. One of the leading Catholic periodicals he swore to. Our citizens would no longer have
has this slogan: "We recommend patriotism faith in our courts. . . . There was no more honor
and have favored it constantly in our press." among Manton's group than there would be in a
This same periodical, in conformity with all group of common thieves. Manton did not hesitate
other press agencies of the pope, has nothing to peddle and prostitute the duties of his high
to say about the fine and patriotic work of court."
Dewey, Attorney General Murphy, U. S. Prose- D i s t r i c t A t t o r n e y D e w e y , J . E d g a r Hoovers
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chief of the G-men, Attorney General Murphy, threat of a financial depression. He violated the
and "hard-hitting" Prosecutor Cahill deserved most fundamental feature of judicial officeabso-
and received high commendation and praise. lute impartiality. He agreed to use the power and
Did the Roman Catholic press add their plau- influence of his great position to acquire large sums
dits to these men for excellent service? THEY of money to bolster up his failing fortune.
DID NOT! Evidently cleaning up the foulest " I t is abhorrent to our conception of public office
sort of corruption that could possibly soil and that a judge should be influenced for the purpose
of profit. . . .
degrade American courts of justice is not
"This case has shocked the public, generally, but
considered patriotic in the Catholic sense. it has shocked even more the bench and the bar. . . .
One who is bred in the Catholic school of "There has been no such conspicuous parallel
bribery never changes his spots. On June 20, since Francis Bacon, who was Chancellor of Eng-
and just before Judge Chesnut gave Manton land 300 years ago, was deprived of his office un-
the m a x i m u m sen- der similar circumstanc-
tence, it is recorded in es. My sentence is that
the New York World- the defendant Manton
Telegram that shall be remitted to the
custody of the Attorney
For more than an General for imprison-
hour Manton pleaded ment for two years and
ineffectively for the set- for a fine of $10,000."
ting aside of the jury's
verdict, declaring that Manton's slimy trail
he had not had a fair stained by the trans-
trial, that witnesses actions of bartered
against him were per- justice earned him
sons without honor, and the title of "commer-
that his career had been cial judge". Ilis deal-
spotless. . . . Manton ings in blackmail in-
winced when he later volved many wealthy
heard the court's opin- corporations. Of the
ion of his long plea. . . .
Judge Chesnut said: "I many shady deals and
have not heard . this openly thieving deals,
morning any new points in which Manton act-
that had not heretofore ed as chief conspira-
been considered. They tor, he was actually
should be considered, convicted of receiving
but do not go to the real $186,000 for six deci-
merit of the case on the sions. As. a gangster
facts." Catholic Manton was
Judge Chesnut con- A Knight of St. Gregory due for really in the big mon-
tinned: "What I feel I another gorgeous uniformequally meritorious ey. Note this expla-
should say in this case nation of the situa-
is intended to be purely impersonal. The charge tion as quoted from the N. Y. Times of June 5,
which the verdict of a jury has found to.be true 1939:
is obstructing justice and defrauding the United
States of an important governmental function. The methods Judge Manton was charged with
The maximum penalty is a fine of $10,000 and 2 using were almost incredibly brazen. His prose-
years imprisonment. In view of the nature of the cutor, while not excusing the litigants who made
case the maximum sentence may seem to the public payments to him, points out that many of them
inadequate. The indictment is not based on the were themselves the victims of blackmail. They
federal statute to punish judicial bribery, which were told they would have to pay or, if they did
provides a penalty of $20,000 and fifteen years in not, collections would be made from the other side.
prison. Possibly the government may have elected "Blackmail was emanating from the Federal court
to try this case on the conspiracy statute because house."
of the greater latitude possible in the submission In other words, selling decisions was in it-
of evidence.' self a little too slow for Manton, so he had a
"Viewing the evidence as a whole, my interpreta- bag man go out and threaten and blackmail
tion is this: Here we have a defendant of high
personal position and great personal fortune. He the litigants in order to get them in the bag.
found it invested in equities which came under the Here was not the case of a judge who fell
A U G U S T 9, 1939
from/ a course of strict honesty through the committed was this:/They acted to uphold the
importunities of a litigant who desired to pay laws of Jehovah by preaching the Bible truths
voluntarily for a favorable decision; here was- that God's law forbids Christians, wholly de-
a highway robber on the bench who created voted to God, from killing men in unright-
his -opportunity and solicited by foulest eousness. As the religionists of America and
threats, lowering himself beneath the custom their clerical leaders were deeply involved in
of a prostitute who pimps for her hire. the bloodshed of the World War by advocat-
One of the chief parties to these felonious ing the war from their pulpits, the unanswer-
transactions, namely, the Roman Catholic able statements from the Bible greatly angered
Hierarchy, is for once absent from the flag- them. So the plot was devised to stop the ex-
wavers, her comment being nil. It seems rather posure by "getting" Rutherford and others
a pity, too, as here would be a rare opportu- considered leaders in spreading the gospel of
nity to demonstrate altruistic patriotism. The God's kingdom. In this work the Roman Cath-
Catholic press might come forward even with olic Hierarchy took the lead, and, following
the suggestion that, since the "church" has their usual custom, advanced the "Protestant"
been one of the chief beneficiaries of Manton's churches and clerics as their pawn while stay-
bountiful gifts, she might at least pay the ing behind the scenes, represented, however,
$10,000 fine to the government and reimburse by such tools as Manton and others of like ilk.
some of the litigants whom he held up and The insidious results are not simply another
robbed. Perhaps the Catholic press might take miserable chapter of judicial prejudice on the
this into consideration and see what could be part of Manton. The eight Christians above
done. mentioned were tried in the District Court of
However villainous were Manton's acts in Eastern New York (the details of which mis-
polluting the courts of justice by reducing trial appear later), and convicted of violation
them to a blackmail mart, he was a chief actor of the Espionage Law, and seven of the de-
in another and worse conspiracy, not against fendants sentenced to eighty (!) years in the
powerful corporations nor individuals of Federal penitentiary. Unlike the generosity
wealth, but against Christian men standing allowed Manton by his own trial judge, bail
for principle; and his action in this regard, was refused these men pending hearing on
it seems, had much more to do with his present their appeal; and this refusal was made once
degradation. Manton's recent exposure and by Manton himself without assigned reason.
downfall is an amazing example of the re- These Christians spent nine months in the
tributive justice the Scriptures emphasize as Atlanta penitentiary as a result of this in-
certain to overtake those who fight against famous conspiracy, and when the case came at
God's servants. last before Manton, Rogers and Ward, justices
of the Appellate Court, and was reversed by
This earlier act occurred before many of the prevailing opinion, Manton dissented.
the readers of Consolation were born. But the
Lord has not forgotten, nor until Manton and
all of like stripe have been wiped out will the Why are the details of this conspiracy
record be marked "Satisfied" on the books of so vital for the people of America to know
Heaven. In the stormy years of the World now? Because at the present time the
War, when prejudice and passion were at clergy of the Catholic system, having no
fever pitch, a group of conspirators took ad- excuse to offer for carrying on their rack-
vantage of the times to carry into operation et, attempt to divert attention from them-
a conspiracy to rid the "religious world" of selves by abusing Judge Rutherford, call-
an organization, namely, the WATCII TOWER jng him an ex-convict, well knowing that
BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY, which was then and
the reversal of the judgment of the lower
still is devoted to telling the people of God's court proved him innocent and that he
kingdom. The plot was aimed at Judge Ruther- never was a convict. The clergy caused
ford and seven other officials of the WATCH him to be falsely charged, and now try to
TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY as the best
take advantage of their own wrongdoing
means of wiping out the publication of Scrip- by pointing to his trial in order to shield
tural truths which interfered too much with themselves from exposure.
"religious practices". In this conspiracy the Because they have done this, and not to
Hierarchy's Manton was a leading actor. vindicate Judge Rutherford, who needs no
The "wrong" that these eight Christians vindication before his God, Consolation has
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asked him in an interview to give the people [This remarkable statement of facts will a p p e a r
the facts. This amazing disclosure is now pre- in the next issue of Consolation. Preserve, this copy
sented.Elton Groves. and read, both issues together.]

John Bull and Uncle Sam

THE occasion of the recent visit England is, in fact, legislating for usover the
of King George VI and Queen heads of our own people and their representatives
Elizabeth to America, and particu- in Congress, just as she did with Ireland.
larly their side trip into the United England is treating the United States very much
States, is expected to strengthen the as it did Ireland. It seeks to legislate our industries,
opposition to isolation in Congress. Obviously as it did those of Ireland, out of existence.
the tendency of the visit would be to bind the England at least encountered the opposition of
the courageous Irish, while our supine politicians
two English-speaking peoples more closely to- co-operate with England's attack on our industry
gether. That's why Britain's statesmen ar- and labor, our wealth and our welfare.
ranged the visit. They co-operate by the unconstitutional dele-
England, always looking for the main gation of powers.
chance, is not averse to using the United The Constitution of the United States says that
States as a good thing; and while Uncle Sam "all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the
cannot be said to be moved always by altru- House of Representatives".
istic and irreproachable motives, yet in the Not only did the American-British-Canadian
field of diplomacy John Bull is a past master, tariff pact originate outside of the House of Rep-
resentatives, but very little of it even originated
while Uncle Sam is a novice at best. in America.
The recent trade treaty between the United I t originated in England.
States, Canada and England illustrates very I t was not ratified by the Senate, as the Con-
well that it is comparatively simple to take stitution commands that all treaties shall be.
things away from a junior, in which class I t was ratified by Secretary Hull- British Am-
Uncle Sam, despite his adult sobriquet, still bassador Sir Ronald Lindsay and Canadian Prime
finds himself. It all goes to show that in the Minister Mackenzie King, sitting in conference..
coming Armageddon, the United States will Nothing touches our workers, industrialists and
not escape the general line-up. While appar- taxpayers closer than tariff dutiesbut they not
ently guileless in matters diplomatic, the only never voted on this Hull-British pact, but they
United States, as much as other nations, is had no say in its preparation.
controlled by Mammon. Meanwhile, in the in- No! England had all the say.
ternational game of monopoly, England for The Constitution further says that Congress (not
the moment seems to have some interesting ad- England nor the secretary of state) .shall "have
vantages. power to regulate commerce with foreign nations".
Under this administration Congress regulates
In this connection the following comment on nothing.
the Trade Treaty with England, in the San It has delegated nearly all of its powers to offi-
Francisco Examiner, is worthy of note: cials who draw up measures in secret and then
either mark them 'MUST* for Congressional rubber-
THE TRADK TREATY WITH ENGLAND stamping or they are, a la Hitler, proclaimed to be
The Hull trade treaty between the United States, law by fiatby and with the consent of England,
England and Canada simply comes to this: which is the case in this recent Hull "treaty".
We have delegated our tariff-making power to When the late Justice Cardozo said in the de-
cision of the Supreme Court annulling the N R A
England.
"this is delegation run riot!" he did not dream that
England now holds in the hollow of her hand the delegation would run to England.
industrial well-being of America.
It is high time that the Supreme Court took u p
England's whole economic aim for 150 years has the matter of the constitutionality of all of Mr.
been to achieve free trade with the United States. Hull's 19 trade pacts, seeing that the Congress of
With Secretary Hull's assistance she has at last the United States has abdicated in favor of secret
gained her end. cabals ruled from London.
A U G U S T 9, 1939
 America's Menial AilmentFear
I THE attitude of mind most in evi- afraid that she might be a widow any hour
dence in the United States today of the day.
- i s one of fear. Particularly fear The small businessman (and often the big
of the future. one) is afraid of the racketeer, and hence sub-
In the last seven years the term mits to blackmail; and the gangster is afraid
'lack of confidence" in the business world has of his fellow gangsters. That is why they shoot
been printed billions of times in the press. It each other in the back.
is assumed that confidence is a cause of busi- The political economist in college and uni-
ness instead of being an effect of business. If versity is afraid to lay the actual facts of
confidence is the cause of business, why did the economic science before his students because
businessmen of this country lose confidence he is afraid of the regents, and the regents are
when once they possessed it f As they did in afraid to tell the truth or permit it to be
1929 after they had overflowed with it? Isn't taught for fear of the effects upon the pros-
the answer to be found in the fact that is born pective donations.
of uncertainty and economic helplessness, plus Fear as the chronic mental ailment of the
ignorance? American people is here to stay for "a long,
The worker is afraid of the foreman, the long time". Its most dreadful form is the fear
foreman is afraid of the superintendent, the of poverty, which now is a continuous night-
"supe" is afraid of the general manager, who mare to millions of people who never knew its
likewise is afraid of the boss, the owner, or the meaning seven years ago. Like Banquo's ghost,
board of directors. it will not down, and this generation may not
The latter, in turn, in tens of thousands of see it end. Never in our history have so many
cases, arc afraid of the banker, and the bank- power plants, machine shops, huge factories
ers are afraid of each other. Fear is the dom- and industrial establishments dotted the land;
inant note of American business. never so much skill, never so much economic
The small grocery keeper is afraid of the power, not half of it in use. Never, for the
chain store, and the chain store is afraid of average worker, has life been so difficult since
adverse legislation. The whole nation is afraid we left the frontier behind.
of its towering,* mounting debts and does not Fear is the modern Simon Legree, with his
know what else to do except to go in deeper. long, cruel whip. The average citizen is sorely
The super-patriots are afraid that the Con- confused as to the source of his misfortunes.
stitution is being violated, and the editors are The pulpit, press, radio, and all of the chan-
all afraid of the Communists. The little busi- nels through which accurate economic infor-
nessman is afraid of "big business", and big mation might possibly reach him are choked
business is afraid of any ideas except those that and barred. He cannot get the facts from any
they are accustomed to. Fear is universal in this of the popular channels of communication, and
land of the free and the home of the brave'. the men who control these channels are afraid
The rugged individualist is afraid to say to discuss the causes of our national misfor-
what he thinks, and the thoughtful citizen is tunes because any thorough-going discussion
afraid that he doesn't think at all, and as a of this matter will involve the question of legal
rule that is true. The great railroad magnates privilege. They are afraid of the issue.
are afraid of receiverships and bankruptcy If this civilization vanishes from the earth,
and also of other forms of transit. The average as it may (and if present tendencies are not
worker is afraid of being laid off, and the man arrested it will), its disappearance will be due
past 40 is afraid of old age. to one disgraceful fact more than any other.
The conservative is afraid of the growth of It is the fact of sheer moral cowardice. "What
radicalism, and the radical is afraid of what an inglorious finish is the realization that the
he calls the stupidity of the conservative. The epitaph that will be written on civilization's
rich citizen is afraid of the kidnaper, and in gravestone will read like this:
many cases afraid of his life; hence a body- '"Here litis civilization, a victim of suicide;
guard. The upper world is afraid of the under- dead, because too cowardly to live."Henry
world, and the underworld is afraid of the H. Hardinge, in "Independent Food Busi-
police, and the average policeman's wife is ness". St. Louis Star Times.
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 Aviation
Airplane Travel a t $1 an H o u r Too Many Crocodiles
Railway travel at $1 an hour is The Imperial Airways flying boat Ceres
quite common. The train travels landed on Lake Dugari, India, because of bad
50 miles an hour, at 2c a mile; and weather, and chanced to find too many croco-
there you are. But airplane travel diles for comfort. The captain shot two that
at the same rate per hour, and go- were too inquisitive and too hungry, and then
ing twice as fast, is something new. But it was he and 24 natives towed the boat to deep water
done. John M. Jones made a nonstop flight and it got away safely without harm to any-
from Los Angeles to New York in 30 hours body. It was a remarkable experience, and
and 37 minutes at a carefully calculated cost Captain Gurney seemed to live up to the best
of $30.91. The plane weighed only 650 pounds traditions of British pluck in the hour of
empty, and there were but four cylinders in danger. The plane was in Lake Dugari eight
the ship. It was the longest trip ever made days.
in .so light a plane.
Berlin to New York and Return
How Would You Explain It? It is some satisfaction to Americans to know
Howard Hughes and his companions were that the engines of the German plane that
absent from New York city slightly less than flew from Berlin to New York in 24 hours
four days in their flight around the world. 57 minutes and returned in 19 hours 55 min-
They were flying so fast towards the sun that utes were Pratt and Whitney engines, even
each of their days was but nineteen hours long. though they were actually built in Bavaria
They saw the sun rise five times in the four under license by the American company.
days they were away. Now, were they four
days or five days making the flight? Did they
add a day to their lives by flying around the Practical Use for Autogiro
world? What is your answer? What is a day, The autogiro, which has the ability to go
anyway ? straight up and come straight down, as well
as to travel horizontally, is now used to trans-
Top Speeds for Airplanes port air mail between the big airport at Cam-
Top speeds for airplanes are probably in- den, N.J., and the post offiee in Philadelphia.
dicated by the speed of sound. Sound travels The planes land on the 360-foot roof of the
725 miles per hour at zero, or 850 miles per Philadelphia post office.
hour at 60 degrees. When the sound waves
tangle the propeller, faster speeds are unlike- 700,000 Air W a r r i o r s
ly.. Meantime the aviators complain of loss of It is claimed that by the end of the year
consciousness, hemorrhages and partial or 1939 there will be in Europe 700,000 young
complete loss of muscular control at speeds men, pilots, reserve pilots, mechanics, radio
of even 400 miles an hour. technicians, etc., qualified to go out and blow
their fellow men into smithereens in the most
Copping's P u r e Pluck approved style.
At Seattle, Washington, George Copping
had both legs amputated below the knee, and The New Bakelite Planes
at the time of the amputation asked and was
told that his most difficult line of endeavor It is claimed that the new bakelite planes
thereafter would be to operate an airplane. can be built twenty to thirty times as fast as
He thereupon began to study and train for those made of other materials, and that the
that work, and is now an aviator. perfect molding of the parts enables the jdane
to travel at 35 miles an hour greater speed.
Trans-Canadian Air Mails
Canada now has through air-mail service Strength of Air Forces
from Montreal to Vancouver, via Ottawa, Russia has 4,000 first-line planes, Ger-
Toronto, North Bay, Winnipeg, Regina and many 3,500, Prance 2,500, Great Britain 2,000,
Lethbridge, in 20 hours. Italy 2,000, and Poland 550.
AUGUST 9, 1939
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 Denizens of Air and Water and Insect Land

Bird Banding Condor Flying Ability

In order to learn as much as pos- The condor keeps its young in its nest for
sible of the life and habits of a full year. They do not fly until they are a
birds, aluminum bands with cer- year old. But the mature condor is a marvel-
tain markings are placed on the ous flyer.. Its power over the air is greater
legs of many of them. When such than that of the eagle. Its ability to remain
birds are found, usually many miles from the motionless in mid-air or to circle about without
place where they were banded, the informa- the flicker of a wing is unequaled. Its wing-
tion, and the band, may be sent to Biological spread is between 8 and 11 feet.
Survey, United States Department of Agri-
culture, Washington, D.C., to be registered. This Whale Got Lost
The Department of the -Interior at Ottawa, A 3^-ton whale got lost off the coast of
Canada, also co-operates in this effort. Records England recently and made the mistake of
indicate that few birds besides sparrows live swimming up the river Trent. He managed
more than six years. to get along fifty miles from the coast when he
got stuck on a sand bank, and then some of
The Female Phalaropes those things called "men" came out and shot
Canada has three varieties of phalaropes, him sixteen times and towed his body ashore.
or shore birds, all expert swimmers, and in
each instance the females are larger, hand- Crows Not Wholly Bad
somer and wear brighter plumage than the It must be admitted that crows eat grain
males. In courtship the female phalarope and other things not intended for them; but
makes the first advances toward her shy and they also devour large numbers of insects, and
modest prospective mate. After the poor devil so serve a useful purpose. However, large
has yielded to her blandishments, and she has flocks of them may do considerable damage,
laid her eggs, she makes the poor son-of-a-gun and at such times farmers cannot be blamed
sit on the eggs until they are hatched. The for warring on them.
male phalaropes just shouldn't stand for this
kind of deal j and here is hoping if any of them
read Consolation they will be men enough to Odd Accident in Tuna Fishing
arise and assert themselves. Off Freeport, N.Y., in July, Professor Wm.
McTavish, of New York University, caught
40,000 Miles to the Pound two large tuna fish on one line. There was a
50-pounder on the hook, and as the line was
It does not take so long for a robust, hard- being drawn in a 63-pounder was caught by
working man to cat a pound of honey. Next the tail in a tangle in the line, and both were
time you do it you might take a moment to brought into the boat at one time.
think that the bees flew 40,000 miles to take
that nectar out of the heart of flowers, and
that if the Creator had not made the flowers, Ant Funeral Processions
and made the bees, and taught the bees how Ants are known to have funeral processions
to gather the nectar and store it for you, you and to bury their dead in an orderly fashion.
would not have had the honey. Every pound Two ants carry the body of the deceased to
of honey represents millions of flowers; for the burial ground, and all the mourners take
the bee's load is only about one one-thousandth a hand in digging the grave and covering the
of an ounce of nectar on each trip. body.

Haddock Circumnavigate Globe On the Lookout for Insects

Haddock with metal tabs attached to their On the lookout for dangerous insect pests,
fins have been known to circumnavigate the Government inspectors apprehend 1,339 rec-
globe, though taking twenty years to do it. ognized species, coming in by plane, ship and
Other fish, like the whiting, never wander rail. About 100,000 specimens are collected
far from home. annually.
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 Education
Gellermann and the Legion In One Thousand Languages
*-v. jg& The American Legion is not an ex- The Bible (or portions of it) is now to be
' ^ ^ i r t ^ P r e s S i n f democratic, but rather had in 1,000 languages. The one-thousandth
an expression of entrenched busi- language was Sakata, one of the 500 African
ness and military interests which tongues. Translations in thirteen more lan-
attempt to hide their true purposes guages were under way when the Gospel ac-
under democratic guise. It is dominated by a cording to John was printed in Sakata. The
small group of reactionary leaders too power- British and Foreign Bible Society has 900
ful to be unseated. It is encouraging to observe colporteurs, and carries on its work in all lands
that the average ex-service man is not now and except Russia and Afghanistan. The annual
never has been a member of the American bill is around 250,000 a year for translating,
Legion. Through use of stereotypes accept- revising, binding, transporting and distribut-
able to the American middle-class mind, it ing. The work is directly under the supervision
seeks to prevent democratic change. In the of the Church of England.
promotion of war and Fascism the American
Legion has done more than its share.Wil- Tonsils May S t a y In
liam Gellermann, associate professor of Edu- Thousands of boys and girls are moldering
cation., Northwestern University. into dust because they had their tonsils re-
moved and died from the effects of the opera-
Making Himself Ridiculous tion. Now the British Board of Education has
Making himself ridiculous, Colonel James decided that inasmuch as physicians have only
A. Moss, president general of the United hazy ideas as to what the tonsils are for, these
States Flag Association, published the infor- works of the Creator's hand will now be per-
mation that when anybody in the house turns
on the radio and the persons in the house hear mitted to stay in place unless they are dis-
the strains of the "Star Spangled Banner" eased, and even then their removal will not be
everybody in the house should stand and un- insisted on. The mania for chopping out parts
cover. Exceptions stated are that they need of the human organism and thus 'healing all
not do this if they are eating, telephoning, ailments' is gradually passing.
cooking, playing cards or bathing. So, now, the
next time you are pruning your corns, or Ballyhooing Patriotism
doctoring a sore toe, or attending to sundry "American Way" opened recently and "The
other items of care of your anatomy, if you Star Spangled Banner" is played in the last
fail to rise on your toes, throw off the bed scene. Why do they have to stuff patriotism
covers or what not and remain in an awe- down our throats that way? Isn't it possible
struck attitude until the skit is finished, off to that in ballyhooing patriotism with much the
the hoosegow with you. Oh, yes, another way same formula that they ballyhoo Hollywood's
would be to shut off the radio. Still another beauties, some of the dignity of the emotion
way would be to take the axe and smash the is lpst? Your love for your country is akin to
blooming thing, anyway. Or you could write to your love of life itself. And you don't have
Mr. Moss and tell him he gives you a pain in to be taught about that, once you've developed
the neck. Or you could have the pain in the the capacity to think at all.Newark Ledger.
neck and not say anything about it to anybody.
Maybe that would be the best way. National Broadcasting Company
In the year 1937, gave gratis 22 presidential
Boys Brotherhood Republic broadcasts, 18 to James Farley, 118 to New
The Boys Brotherhood Republic of New Deal congressmen, 149 to New Deal senators,
York has its own mayor, city council, district 29 to Henry Wallace, and 203 to an assortment
attorney, police and health departments,, and of other politicians whose favor it wishes to
many committees. In the discharge of the retain. It gives free time not only to political
duties of these various positions the boys self-seekers, but also to the Roman Catholic
learn how to deal with the civic problems that Hierarchy racket, the Federal Council of
arise in actual life. It is manifestly the best Churches of Christ in America, the established
way to teach civics. Jewish hocus-pocus, and a few others.
A U G U S T 9, 1939 11
 T/MGHTEOUS bassador of Greece and entrusted to his care
RULER
the examination of the patriarch. He in turn
insulted the patriarch severely, even calling
him "goat priest" because he had exposed to
ridicule the whole nation on account of his
shameful deed. The same night he was found
dead in his bath tub, and the rumor went out
that he was self-poisoned.
A Use for Tiaras After All Just before this uncovering of the patriarch
I will infringe upon your time to tell you announcement was made in the Greek and
why the patriarch Nicolas V did not put a the French press that a united effort of all
profane hand upon the Lord's work by de- denominations would be put forth to stop all
stroying Jehovah's witnesses once for all as religious propaganda and that this work would
they stated in their tracts and announcements be taken up by the government.
that they would do. It seems that there is yet a great work ahead
It seems that this patriarch long ago was of Jehovah's Kingdom publishers, so that the
enticed by another more lucrative business joyful message may be brought to the other
and, not being contented with his salary of 120 sheep, and they may find food and safety.
pounds a month and with gifts worth double L. Psaroudis, Egypt.
his salary, he associated himself with a metro- Persecution of Witnesses in Greece
politan bishop and an archimandrite and In the pest three years many of Jehovah's
with three others of the principal of his flock, people were before the courts in Greece. When
and all together on a great scale engaged them- released by the magistrates they were rear-
selves in the smuggling of opium. Their busi- rested and exiled. Five were exiled from Crete,
ness prospered because the merchandise was and one sister was imprisoned three months
hid in the high caps or tiaras of the priests because she brought a Bible to her brother in
and in the crown of the patriarch. So they the prisonheld there for Jehovah's name.
were full of joy and In a village near
as good religionists Cavala four witnesses
they were spreading were arrested and ex-
their drug to poison iled to the island of
their fellow men. The Folegrandos. This was
short trips of the pa- done at the instiga-
triarch and Co. were tion of the clergy and
to first find the mer- one of the "evil serv-
chandise and then to ant" class. When the
dispose of it among wife of one of these
the p e o p l e . Lately exiles asked the gov-
Alexandria and Cairo ernor to give her an
had been flooded with affidavit of poverty,
narcotics. that her h u s b a n d
But the time came might get 10 drach-
and the authorities JehovaJi's Kingdom publishers at Rangoon, Burma mas (13 cents) a day
caught the three of them and, through them for his support, as they were poor, the gover-
and others who were not paid enough in the nor not only refused to grant her request, but
disposing of the drug, discovered the others, slapped her hard on the face and afterwards
A good many kilograms were found inside the boasted of it to a high clergyman,
tiara of the representative of the Greek Ortho- Many witnesses were arrested and sentenced
dox church and under the clothes of his to prison for failure to comply with the law
retinue. The patriarch said that it did not be- that all books must be stamped with the seal
long to him but was put there by his com- of the church authorities of Athens. Books
panion in travel. These were unhindered in have been seized and destroyed, mail is being
their dirty work: the law forbids anyone to take watched, and meetings of God's people must
off their high caps or to search their baggage, be held clandestinely, if at all.Aristodemos
The Egyptian Government called the am- Frudarakis.
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 course, is of the most poorly paid kind, mem-
bers of their own parish. One man-with a very
large family spied some potatoes in the cellar
of a house they were dismantling, to make
way for the new church. He asked the priest
if he might have them, and what do you think
they did?threw all the debris from the ex-
cavations over them. That was his answer. The
pioneers say the whole community is in an
uproar about it, and other incidents.
One pioneer says he was playing French
records in a French Catholic home; a woman
came downstairswith a Cure booklet held high
in her hand, and called out, "This is what I
believe from now on."Janet Home.

Kingdom IIat the dock, Quebec Showing Lancashire How to Do It

A Doer a s Well a s a Reader Kingdom House, Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng-
I am writing to you to ask if you received land, is the first pioneer home outside London
my letter about three weeks ago subscribing to be organized in the British Isles. It is situ-
for the Consolation magazine. In case it has ated in an area in which there is a population
not been received by you, I have had one or of more than two million. There are also ten
two lent to me; and I am thankful to Jehovah. companies of Jehovah's witnesses closely
1 am for them, and according to the one I have packed together in this area.
now it would be possible for me to take part The home was completed and commenced
in spreading the Kingdom message by the offer work on January 1, 1939, its establishment
made on the back coyer of Consolation. En- having been announced the previous October
closed find five shillings for 40 Face the Facts, at the zone No. 23 assembly at Leeds. It is
2 Enemies and 1 Riches. large enough to comfortably accommodate
My present occupation takes me among thirteen pioneers. These pioneers devote their
many people, and I have always done my best time to calling upon the people in this area,
when the chance arose, and it has many times, and working up back-calls among the interest-
to help, by God's grace, to tell them the good ed. Their combined field service report for the
news of the Kingdom and the battle of God months of January, February and March is
Almighty so near, whereby they may find pro- as follows:
tection.M. M., Britain. Books, 274; booklets, 8,870; peak of pub-
lishers, 12; hours, 3,608; average hours, 112.5;
A Note from Ottawa attendance, 5,232; back-calls, 263.
We put in two hours last night doing the The sound attendance was achieved entirely
Chinese laundries and restaurants. All togeth- by the use of the phonograph, no transcription
er, we placed fifteen Chinese Riches, and found machine having been used.
the.proprietors very nice to witness to. Some
had the book, well used and marked. Their
favorite expression was "Good book !"
For the past two weeks the special pioneers
have been working in Eastview, the section
whence came the hoodlums to disrupt our con-
vention at the Coliseum' last September. As a
result of those disorders, the pioneers placed
more literature arid had more phonograph
setups than in any other part of the city. The
people are enraged at the tactics displayed
by their "church".
The "White Fathers" bought 65 acres of
the best land there and are building one of the
finest churches in Canada. The labor,- of Kingdom IIout in the river, Quebec
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 The witnesses all rise at 7: 00 a.m., and leave in a heap of ruins, as a testimony to Jeho-
the house for field service at 8:45. The home vah's wrath against devil religion.A. C.
is cleaned and kept in order by them, differ- Attwood, England.
ent ones being scheduled to perform different
duties each week. On Monday night there is a Echoes of the Storm at Oldham
Watchtower study, and on Thursday they "If you have more leaflets than you require
attend the service meetings of the neighboring concerning the Oldham Interference we should
companies. be pleased to receive a supply, as we have prac-
These pioneers often cycle ten miles to their tically exhausted ours and a real good time
territory before commencing work, in order to we have had with them. We have had many
visit some of the outlying-territory. cases where the people have refused the book-
This arrangement has proved to be a great lets but after reading the leaflets the husbands
help and stimulus to the work in this area. have sent their wives running after us for
On April 23, an as- books to get to know
sembly of Jehovah's more about it. One
witnesses living in lady waited half an
zone No. 23 was held. hour on the pavement
York is one of the last Saturday for me
principal seats of re- to return and asked
ligion in this country. for more information
The enormous cathe- concerning the leaflet.
dral, known as York T heard tell of one old
Minster, is one of the man taking the leaflet
best known in this to work and reading
country, the present it out to his fellow
buildings being traced workers and saying it
back to the beginning must be true because
of the thirteenth cen- the actual names and
tury. It was consid- Part of l i mile march of Jehovah's Kingdom addresses of people
ered fitting that a publishers encircling York Minster, were on it. We have
m a s s demonstration headquarters of archbishop of York had other cases of
against religion should be made by Jehovah's people waiting for us to come back their way
people on this occasion. Following the after- and also running after us returning the leaf-
noon session of the assembly, and at about the let, even throwing it at us, shouting, 'A pack
time of the close of the afternoon service - at of lies, and you'll get into trouble over this
the Minster, three hundred of Jehovah's wit- lot.' But this course of action has only ex-
nesses, wearing placards announcing "Reli- cited the curiosity of onlookers and given us
gion is a snare and a racket", marched in a an opportunity to prove the true statement of
procession more than a mile and a half long facts on the leaflet. Another man said, 'Well,
to the Minster. The marchers completely sur- it's true; I agree wholeheartedlybut my
rounded the building, while the people were word, I'm afraid there'll be trouble over it,
coming out, filing slowly past the entrance. and I hope you're prepared for the worst;
Clergymen seemed to be in evidence every- for you can't escape.'"W. Kay.
where, and the expressions on their faces A retailers' association in Oldham wrote
showed that they were sorely shocked. for a supply of leaflets to assist in their dis-
When half the column had made a complete tribution. The large Blind Institute had its
circuit, the gates were locked on us, and the secretary write for a good supply so that they
remaining half was compelled to double back. also could distribute them. From Glasgow the
This proved even more effective, as it resulted Orange Lodge wrote in for 800 copies of the
in a double line passing the main entrance for Clydebank leaflet to distribute to all the
the second time. Orange Lodges in the country. The Glasgow
The disgust, wrath and indignation of the Protestant Defense League also wrote in for
religionists was clearly shown, one, a canon, a large supply and have been accommodated.
angrily approaching one of the marchers. We [The way Jehovah's Kingdom interests in Britain
look forward to the time when this- building, arc now being looked after by His publishers there
together with all others of its kind, will lie is inspiring to all.Ed.]
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Jehovah's Witnesses Persecuted night, therefore, I ealled at the vicarage and
In a card sent through the mails to a Con- was met by the vicar's wife, who frostily in-
solation subscriber, Albert Mitchell, known as formed me that he was across at the church.
"The Answer Man" of Radio Station-WOK, Going there, I was escorted to the front by
1440 Broadway, New York, makes the follow- "His Reverence", and then the vicar said to
ing statement of the conditions now confront- me, "I will give you a quarter of an hour to
ing Christian people in the land of their birth address the congregation; if the bishop knew,
unless they become pagans like those who heil I should get the sack."
Hitler: Then I saw it all. I had been mistaken. I
Educationally it might possibly be said that was not to speak to his mother, but to the
Jehovah's witnesses are persecuted. Since they, in mothers' meeting and their friends, men in-
their religion, refuse to salute any object other than cluded. Imagine my feelings; for I had never
God, and since certain school laws require that all spoken in public before. Then I remembered
students salute the American flag, there have been the scripture, "I have put my words in thy
instances in which children have been removed
from school, have been punished, and made to stay mouth." So, standing up, I said, "Friends, I
after school; have, in other words, been persecuted am more used to speaking to you at your doors
because they, firm in their belief, have refused to concerning God's kingdom"; and that helped
salute the American flag. We have had instances me. For fifteen minutes I told them of the
of this before in this country, but as a nation we truth, of the unfaithfulness of the clergy, and
have always solved the problem, allowing to each of the unscriptural doctrines taught by men.
the freedom of his beliefs and adjusting our rules Meantime the vicar's wife was looking daggers
of behavior, liberalizing them so that he may stand at me. When I had finished, the vicar said,
firm in the faith of his religion and yet remain a
good American citizen. The best example of this
"Well, our speaker evidently means that we
is in the case of the Quakers, who, because of their should get back to the Bible; and I must say
religion, cannot swear to anything; and so, today, I agree with her."As told by a witness to
it is possible for a president of the U. S. not to F. R Freer, England.
swear in taking office, but merely to affirm.-
Albert Mitchell.
An Austrian Priest Miscalculates
Unique Experience with a Vicar The events here set forth took place before
Did you know that I took the Lenten serv- the Anschluss (Austria's union with Ger-
ice at the parish church at H the other many).
"Wednesday evening? It came about in this In an Austrian village lived a young mar-
way. In the course of the witness work I called ried couple and their little boy. The parents
at the vicarage and was asked in by the vicar. were zealous witnesses of Jehovah. The villag-
We had a long talk, and in the end he took ers, incited by the local priest, manifested con-
some literature. Then he said to me, "Would tinual hatred towards these preachers of right-
you have a talk with my mother next Wednes- eousness, treating them as enemies and infi-
day on these things?" Of course I readily dels. Then a sudden blow befell the young
agreed to do so. The following Wednesday couple: their little two-year-old son died.

Kingdom House, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, pioneers and transportation outfits

A U G U S T 9, 1939 15
 Instead of showing sympathy to the be- The great joy these messengers of the .Most
reaved parents, this sad loss merely provided High experience in thus enlightening their
the clergy with a further opportunity to fellow men consoles them in momentarily hav-
show their ill-will. They declared that the ing lost their child, whose death has indirectly
child was a little heathen, and denied the, par- served to bear witness to the glory of the Lord.
ents the right to bury their baby in their so- This little story demonstrates once again
called "consecrated Christian cemetery". The how the clergy, in their desire to hurt the
funeral undertakers, at the instigation of the Lord's people, often overreach themselves.
clergy, also refused their assistance, so that the 'The Lord disappointeth the devices of the
parents had to carry their dead infant from crafy, and taketh the wise in their own crafti-
their home to the cemetery, an hour's journey, ness.'From the French Consolation.
and then had to bury him themselves outside [There are more ways of preaching the gospel
the cemetery wall. than standing u p in a box under a steeple, wailing
Shortly after, the grave was ornamented like a pup with a sore ear and then making another
with a large headstone on which the father, an yelp for more money.Ed.]
arfist of some skill, had painted a beautiful
sunny landscape. In the foreground of the The Dark Age in Montreal
scene, bathed in sunlight, was his little boy "Sir,Last week police raided the meeting
in the middle of a flower-spangled meadow, house of Jehovah's witnesses on Hutchinson
and underneath were the following words: Street. As I read this in the Star my mind
Death is the great enemy of the human race. went back to Lewes, Sussex, England, near
The dread it inspires would hasten our end, were where I was born. Where the poor deluded
we unaware that Christ died to redeem mankind Spanish queen burnt men and women who did
from the tomb. Behold the time is coming when not bow down to her religion. Where the
those who are in the grave shall hear the voice of Frenchman Simon De Montfort fought and
the Savior, and shall return to the earth as human defeated the English king at the battle of
creatures, and enjoy God's glorious sunshine. He
who has given this promise is faithful. He will lay
Lewes, and afterwards instituted what we
the foundations of a new earth wherein -shall dwell know as the British institution the Mother of
righteousness. You also, our little Pridolin, will Parliaments, and with it free speech. On Sep-
come back* and we will sing together songs of tember 11 of last year Judge Rutherford,
praise to Jehovah, the great Life-giver. president of the Watchtower Bible and Tract
And now the grave of the little child, once Society, now known also as Jehovah's wit-
despised as a heathen, has become an attrac- nesses, spoke to an audience of nearly 11,000
tion. From far and near people come to look in the Royal Albert Hall, London, England.
at the beautiful picture, and to read the mov- Several days before the lecture, the president
ing epitaph, the language of which, all can see, of the British branch of Jehovah's witnesses
is far from that of an ungodly man. Numerous whose headquarters is 34 Craven Terrace,
are the inquirers who then go and ask the par- W.2., received information that Oswald Mos-
ents of little Fridolin the precise meaning of ley, friend of Hitler, intended to lead his black
those remarkable resurrection promises en- shirts to the Albert Hall and stop the meet-
graved on their little one's tombstone. ing. Scotland Yard was informed, who sent
And so the parents have the joy of explain- the following reply to the British president:
ing to these inquiring souls, hungering and 'Sir, in reply to your letter of the 29th August,
thirsting for truth, the precious Scriptural I am directed by the Commissioner of Police of
promises, and of showing from the Bible that the metropolis to inform you that the necessary
before long Christ will destroy religion and re- police arrangements will be made Sunday 11th
September, in connection with the meeting to be
ligious practitioners, and will reign over the held by your Society in the Royal Albert flail.
earth, instead of the Devil, giving life to the 1 am your obedient servant,
righteous.
* A voice was heard in Raman, lamentation, and "In the heart of the British Empire, where
bitter weeping} Rahel weeping for her children re-
fused to be comforted for her children, because they once upon a time a bishop of London burnt
were not. Thus saith the Lord, Refrain thy voice from Tyndale's Bibles, people's hearts throb with
weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall the joy of-free speech. In Quebec men are mice.
be rewarded, aaith the Lord; and they shall come
again from the land of the enemy.Jeremiah Anti-humbug." (Montreal)
31: 15 r 16; Matthew 2: 1618. {To be continued)
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16
 In the United States, at one time the boasted
land of freedom, the ruling powers are now
moving along the same course of European
dictators. This is due to the religious influence
particularly exercised from the Vatican. Free-
dom of worship is denied the people. Laws are
enacted compelling the observance of certain
religious .formalism and which practice is in
violation of God's law. When the question is
State vs. Jehovah raised that the law under consideration is in
violation of God's law, judges of the courts
hold, contrary to what judicial decisions
T H E early settlers of America sincerely
trusted in Jehovah God. The rulers of
European countries under the influence of the
formerly held and decided, that the people
must yield to the state. They make no distinc-
Devil made it impossible for the people to free- tion between religion and Christianity, and
ly worship God, and the result was that the since religious leaders follow and obey the
sincere men who could escape fled to the wilds state in preference to the Lord God, both the
of America and there founded a nation where politicians and the leading religionists put
they might worship God in freedom and ac- the state above or superior ta the Almighty
cording to their own conscience and without God,
fear or hindrance. The principles of freedom Centuries ago Jehovah gave to his devoted
of worship were embodied in the fundamental people his law to safeguard them from the
law of the new land of America. For years Devil influence, and therefore commanded that
thereafter the legislative and judicial depart- they should not bow down to or worship any
ments of the government put Almighty God thing or creature, because the same would be
and His Word above the state, and when a idolatry and against God. The covenant people
law was proposed or was enacted which was of Jehovah, the Israelites, were later carried
contrary to the Word of Almighty God, that away to foreign lands, and there were required
law was declared by the courts to be void and t6 salute and bow down to and give obeisance
of none effect. to a thing created by the state. Some of those
Since 1918, which date marks the end of the faithful Jews refused to obey that law of the
World War, the woes upon the nations, includ- state, and were cast into a fiery furnace, as a
ing America, have greatly increased, and such punishment, but the power of Almighty God
is exactly as foretold by the Lord concerning protected them and they came forth from the
this time, and the reason therefor is given in furnace without harm. (Daniel 3:1-28) That
these words: "Woe to the inhabiters of the was a striking example of how God protects
earth, and of the sea! for the devil is come those that trust in Him and refuse to yield to
down unto you, having great wrath, because the devil religion.
he knoweth that he hath-but a short time." In America, where Fascism or totalitarian
Revelation 12:12. rule is rapidly coming to the fore, fanatical
The nations of Europe, which have pro- religionists attempt to compel school children
fessed to serve God, have fallen entirely away who believe in God and in Christ to salute the
from God. Cruel and arbitrary dictators have flag and sing so-called "patriotic songs" and
taken over the control of Europe. Freedom of thus give worship to a thing and obeisance to
worship of Almighty God is denied the people a creature or thing. Such is a violation of
by such dictators. All of such totalitarian gov- God's law; and when the nation insists that
ernments put the State, or government, above such law of the land must be obeyed regard-
Jehovah God and command all the people to less of one's faith in God, that nation is put-
obey the state even though obedience to the ting the state above Jehovah God. Beyond any
state laws requires them to violate God's law. question of doubt the practice of compulsory
It is Satan, the god of this wicked world, who flag-saluting shows that many of the states of
has instilled in the minds of such dictators America, and the nations, are now putting the
the demand to put the state above Jehovah state above Jehovah God. Thus America takes
God. Satan knows that his time is short, and her place amongst those nations which have
he is determined to plunge all the nations into forgotten God. And what shall be the result?
destruction. "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all
A U G U S T 9, 1939 17
the nations that forget God."Psalm 9:17. faithful men of old and the early apostles:
Those who believe in Jehovah God and trust 'We will obey God rather than men.' (Acts
implicitly in 11 im know what will be the final 5:29) 'The God whom we serve is able to de-
result. When confronted with the law of the liver us.' (Daniel 3:17) The practice of put-
state the obedience to which would compel* one ting the state above Jehovah is another evi-
to violate God's law, Christians who truly dence of the fulfillment of prophecy, showing
follow the Lord Jesus Christ say, as did the that the day of Armageddon is just at hand.

Germany
Great Victory for Hitler The Horrors of Buchenwald
Great rejoicing in the ranks of the The horrors of Buchenwald are told by a
Nazis: a tremendous victory for copyrighted article in the Manchester (Eng-
Hitler. Hitler will go down in his- land) Daily Dispatch, from the pen of Hans-
tory as the great man of blood and jurgen Koehler, Gestapo agent, sent there as a
iron, the wonder of the twentieth prisoner, to obtain information regarding cer-
century. Late, last fall his brave troops tain papers. What he saw finished his interest
chased 5,000 Jewish refugees into Poland, in the Reich and its devilish ruler. Men were
where at the end of the year, at Zbonszyn, one compelled to run up hill with logs and blocks
child was frozen to death and twenty-seven of stone so heavy that it required several other
others lost limbs owing to frost-bite. As a re- men to lift their burdens upon their shoulders.
sult of the hero's massive intellect, 2,000 fel- If he could not keep the pace he was "shot
low men were crowded into an old stable with while trying to escape". In four weeks 80 out
only one stove to keep them warm at 30 de- of 2,000 new prisoners died. It was considered
grees below zero Centigrade. Five hundred a good joke by the guards to get a prisoner to
were living in an old mill with no heating fa- go near enough to the danger line that he could
cilities whatever. be machine-gunned in his tracks.

Life Under a Dictator Unpleasant Pleasantries of der Fuehrer

What life under a dictator is like may be Some time last year the American Govern-
judged from the fact that a Berlin court sen- ment seized $10,500 worth of German goods
tenced an employer to a fine of $400 because for violation of customs regulations. A few
he increased the pay of his staff without con- weeks later an American shipmaster was about
sulting the authorities, and the threat made to sail from a German port, with a cargo of
to a girl w^o was forced to take a government wood pulp for the United States, when he
job. The girl stated that she did not wish to was arrested for a series of alleged violation
accept the job, because she was to be married of Nazi laws, fined exactly $10,500, and when
in three weeks; whereupon she was told that he could not pay it, as all the property he had
her reluctance to obey orders made her liable in the world was his ship, the ship was seized,
to a sentence of six months in prison, and the cargo and all; and thus der Fiihrer gained one
confiscation of her labor book, which would more of the victories that make him loved by
render it impossible for her to obtain a new all decent men. Itaus mit ihml
job.
Tourists in Danzig
Greatest Display of Might It is singular that within a few days al-
What is declared to have been the greatest most a thousand young men from Bast Prus-
display of might ever shown took place in sia concluded they would like to visit Danzig.
Berlin on Hitler's fiftieth birthday when the Some wore Storm Troopers' uniforms, and it
Via Triumphalis was the scene of a great auto- was remarked that a similar flood of tourists
mobile parade, four cars wide, six men to a visited Sudetenland just before the Czecho-
car, all ready for war, and the cars as close slovakian republic was carved up. Polish pa-
together as they could move. This style of pers claimed that the population of Danzig
parade replaces the old one of marching men, was increased by 30,000 Germans, most of
which always resulted in many casualties. them Storm Troopers.
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18
 Home and Hygiene
Not a Health Magazine Universal Medical Examination
Do not make the error of think- The danger of such universal- medical ex-
ing that Consolation is a health amination as the health commissioner pleads
magazine. It has no such aspira- for is that it would transform innumerable
tions. If you overload your system happy and to all intents and purposes healthy
with starches and with meat, use persons into melancholy watchers of their own
tobacco, drink liquor, tea and coffee, speak and symptoms, who would never again dare to ex-
think evil, avoid hard work and the drinking ert themselves hopefully and eagerly in the
of pure water, and are careless about your business of life. So far from prolonging life,
bowel habits, you would do well to subscribe imparting such dire knowledge of themselves
for some health magazine; you are in a fair to people would be the means of shortening
way to get some one of the 1,170 "diseases" their term and of limiting their happiness and
and to realize your need of a "cure". their usefulness. A healthy mental attitude is
Glancing over a big pile of articles on how the greatest of all helps in preserving physical
to cure this or that, one comes across a few sanity. Break down a healthy mental attitude
ideas that seem to have some common sense and the baleful germs that are in all of us
to them. Here they are: will riot uncontrolled. . . . Virtually all of
Some people wear themselves out talking us go through life with engines that are more
(when a phonograph would do it better). or less imperfect, but that do their work satis-
When a man speaks he uses eighteen muscles factorily enough so long as we do not watch
and thirty-three nerves and deposits much them, tinker over them and fuss with them.
carbon-dioxide and other waste products into A compulsory universal medical examination
his blood stream, in the exertion of talking. would probably result in widespread depres-
To eliminate the waste caused by ten minutes' sion and despair.Youth's Companion.
talk forty-five minutes of normal quiet life is
needed. Flexible Boards
Don't expect too much of drugs. A pre- Flexible boards, four feet wide, ten feet
scription for hydrophobia recommended by long, and one-eighth of an inch thick, can now
the New York legislature in 1819 was de- be had, and can be curved with the grain to
scribed as, follows: form a column as small as six inches diameter.
One ounce of jawbone of a dog burned and Improvements in wood-working machinery
pulverized to a fine dust, the false tongue of a have resulted in new types of floors and walls,
newly foaled colt, also dried and pulverized, and very attractive.
measures of verdigris, which is raised on old copper.
Don't be too alarmed about the soft yeast- An Overworked Thyroid
like growth which may appear on your tongue. The press carried pictures of a lad at
This rises and falls with the state of the di- Morgantown, Kentucky, who, due to an over-
gestive system. Maybe all you need is plenty worked thyroid gland, weighed 70 pounds at
of fruit, plenty of water and plenty of work. 13 months of age, and was still gaining at
In Puerto Rico the houses have no windows four pounds a month.
and rickets is almost unknown; the natural Bathtub Monarchs of Mankind
result is that what children who have rickets
need is plenty of sun. John J, Downey, director of the National
Association of Master Plumbers for New Eng-
Emotional states affect the juices of the land, in an address in Portland, Maine, de-
stomach and bowels; so don't eat when you clared that Americans own 95 percent of all
are distressed or excited. Calm yourself; the the bathtubs in the world.
world will be here after your troubles are for
ever over. Cellar Walls Wet?
Wounds exposed to sunshine heal rapidly. Somebody says that if your cellar walls
Don't get disturbed because you sweat. are wet paint them with aluminum paint
Sweating is not injurious; it is beneficial. and you will get a metallic sheet between
Powder to stop sweating is injurious. the wall and the interior that will be mois-
That's all for now. ture proof. It might be worth trying.
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19
 floor of the sedia gestatoria. On his head was a
silver miter studded with jewels. His hands were
covered with white gloves and on the third finger
of the right hand the Fisherman's Ring, emblem of
THE P a p a l authority, could be seen.
Before the papal court came six mace-bearers in
TOTALITARIAN black doublet and hose with white lace at their
If FLAG wrists, violet capes and rapiers hanging from
their belts. On either side was a single row of Swiss
Pagan Nonsense at Vatican City Guardsrepresenting the Catholic Cantons of
Switzerlandcarrying long serpentine swords with
Stripped of its symbolism a crown, after heavy hilts resting on their shoulders and the points
all, is merely a hat, and so it seems a little sticking straight u p .
silly that it took four hours for Pope Pius X I I With them walked the commander of the Swiss
,to get his hat on straight. All the rest of it, Guard, Colonel de Sury d'Aspremont, resplendent
from start to finish, was absolute folly. Some with shining breastplate and plumed helmet, and
of the stories of the attendance at that four- officers of the Noble Guard in scarlet tunics with
hour exhibition of foolishness stated that golden epaulets, burnished helmets with long black
500,000 persons witnessed the ceremony (the horsehair plumes and black and white egrets, buck-
Washington Post made it 350,000), and then skin breeches and top boots.
some intelligent newspaperman (and there are The procession advanced by twos in the follow-
a few such, after all) made geometrical and ing order: Two masters of ceremonies in clerical
garb, flanked by two Swiss Guards; the Apostolic
arithmetical calculations which proved that at Preacher and Confessor of the Apostolic Family,
three persons to the square yard, and counting also in clerical g a r b ; the procurators general of
5,000 people in the windows, not more than various religious orders, among whom were notice-
125,000 persons could by any possibility have able the black tunics and hoods of the Benedictines,
seen it at all. Many fainted, and one woman white tunics and hoods of the Dominicans, brown
died while the four-hour show was on. Some tunics, cord belts and sandals of the Franciscans,
of the main features of the exhibition of idola- brown tunics and white mantles of the Carmelites
try and vanity are given in the New York and black gowns of the J e s u i t s ; a dozen bussolanti
Times as follows. A good joke on somebody in red frock coats, knee breeches and shoes of the
same color; the jeweler of the apostolic palaces in
is the statement that Teter, the first Pope, doublet and hose carrying upon a cushion the pre-
suffered under Pharaoh'. The Times is out of cious" triregnum with which Pope Pius I X was
whack on its history only a trifle of some crowned, flanked by two Swiss Guards j a number
1,500-odd years. But why worry about a little of chaplains in red cassocks and ermine capes
thing like that! The important thing is to see carrying the Pope's precious miters on cushions;
what the girls wore and who and what they two apostolic cursors in black breeches and violet
kissed. capes carrying silver maces; a number of chaplains,
privy clerics and privy chaplains in red robes arid
Out of eight columns of piffle ermine capes; a group, of consistorial advocates in
about that pagan ceremony, which purple capes and ermine; a number of ecclesiastical
columns did not once mention the officials in surplices and rochets; two privy cham-
Scriptures, the following are select- berlains in red robes and ermine capes carrying the
ed as the most outstanding items Pope's usual miters; Prince Alessaadro Ruspoli,
of public interest: Master of the Holy Tlospice, in medieval costume,
and the Auditor of the Tribunal of Rota ; carrying
The Swiss Guards were in orange and yellow, a crucifix mounted on a silver wand.
the Gold Noble Guards in red tunics and white
knee breeches, the choristers in Violet, the Mon- After the preliminary p a r t of the. procession
signori in purple, the Cardinals in vermilion and- came the penitentiaries of St. Peter's i n ohasubles
ermine, the friars in brown and the priests in black. of white damask and white birett&s, carrying
On either side of and slightly above the Pope's long silver wands rising from bouquets symboliz-
head were two semicircular ostrich feather fans. ing punishment and clemency. Then came a score
These, perhaps, recalled to many minds that similar of mitered Abbots in white cloaks decorated with
fans used to be carried in the procession of the gold, wearing miters of white cloth, and a.full
Pharaoh under whose reign St. Peter, the first hundred Bishops with cloaks of silver lame dec-
Pope, suffered martyrdom. orated with gold and wearing miters of white cloth.
The Pope wore his full pontifical vestments, but Mingling with the Pope's ecclesiastical privy
they were completely hidden from sight by his chamberlains, with the two principal masters of
enormous cope, richly embroidered in gold, which ceremonies in violet cassocks, surplices .and rochets,
was so long and ample that it covered most of the and with the three Cardinals, who were to assist
20 CONSOLATION
the:Pope to celebrate the mass, in cloaks of silver y^ars. Give the others a break, equally good,
latiifi over vermilion robes, were gentlemen of the and ; each one of this first lot-will be cooked
princely houses of Rome who occupy the highest through and ready for' the table in 624,999
posts of' honor in the Vatiean court: times 1,900 years. That totals up to 1,187,498,-
The Cardinals, after prostrating themselves be- 100 years. There are plenty of people who, if
fore him, kissed his foot and hand and received
the double embrace in return. The Patriarch Arch- they had cooked that long, would forget what
bishops and Bishops kissed his foot and knee and it was all about, and would not care to see
the mitered Abbots kissed only his foot. the head. cook, no matter where he lived.
;
Leave having been granted, the Pope's foot was
kissed again by MgT. Nardone and then by the How Far Would He Get?
c a n o n s , beneficiaries, Sane man enters
choristers and clerics of insane asylum, hope-
the basilica, as well by less ward. First in-
students of the Vatican mate greets him and
Seminary.
says, " I am glad you
came to see me. I am
Those Who George Washington,
Can Figure and everybody should
Some people can come and greet the
not figure at all; some father of his country."-
people love to figure; Sane man r e p l i e s ,
and then there are " P a r d o n me, m y
people in between, friend, but you are
called proofreaders. twisted on your ped-
I t has never yet been estal. George has been
o f f i c i a l l y decided dead 139 years." Sec-
whether they k n o w ond inmate says, " I
how to figure or not. am Napoleon. You
But here are some h a v e d o n e w e l l in
facts. There are sup- coming in to honor
posed to be 300,000,- the greatest military
000 Catholics in the man that ever lived."
world. The Catholic Sane man r e p l i e s ,
Church claims Peter "You? N a p o l e o n ?
was the first pope and Kind sir, you will
got away to a good pardon me, but you
start. Very well, be have bats in your bel-
Had 'em bug-eyed fry. The real Napo-
generous: say that the
Catholic Church has been in existence 19 cen- leon, the incarnation of force and murder, is
turies ; that the' average number in existence buried over in Paris, and I am glad he is."
continuously was 150,000,000, and that there Third inmate says, "I am Jesus Christ. All
were 57 generations in the 19 centuries. The should be glad to bow at my feet. Get down
total number of Catholics that have lived, and do your stuff. Kiss my big toe." Sane man
would therefore amount to 8,550,000,000. replies, "Not on your tintype. I have more im-
Pope Pius X I made a record as a pope. He portant business than kissing the toes or rings
"beatified" 42 and "sanctified" 30 in 10 years' of people that have gone nuts." How far
time..72 in 10 years would mean 13,680 Roman would the sane man get down the corridor?
Catholic "saints" in 1900 years i.e., if each The moral to this little tale is that Satan's
Of the other popes had been as generous in organization is insane. All its devoteas are
making "saints" as he was. All O.K. That is insane, and that includes Mr. Pacelli, who now
one "saint" out of each 625,000 Catholics in thinks, or tries to think, that he is the Vicar
19 centuries. What about the other 624,999 of Jesus Christ. Today the only sane in the
Catholics that have lived and died along with entire world are the Christians, of whom there
their "sainted" brother or sister? They are are but few. To the insane, these sane persons
still "cooking in purgatory". When will they seem peculiar and hateful, and worthy of death,
get out? Well, one of them got out in 1,900 because they refuse to do all the insane things
A U G U S T 9, 1939 21
that others love to do, and because they are Back to the Old Spain
engaged in a strange work of proclaiming the Pius X I I wants Spain to be guid-
coming end of the insane asylum. ed back to the old ideals, where
the biggest share of all the prop-
A Problem in Mathematics erty was in the possession of the
The Washington Post contained two col- Catholie church and a few petted
umns of drivel about the Papal coronation. nobles, while the common people had practi-
Following the usual newspaper style of piffle cally nothing. Looks as if he were going to get
it stated that "500,000 souls had dropped on what he has wanted for a time. The Spanish
their knees" in a space that more careful people fought to prevent that very thing.
newspapermen had figured only 125,000 could
stand in, and then eight paragraphs farther on Vienna's Religion Tax
it stated that "from 300,000 throats rose the Up until 1939 persons not having the Cath-
roar of acclamation". Here is a problem for the olic religion in Vienna had to pay a religion
mathematicians which may be expressed some- tax, which was used to help pay the wages of
what as follows: "If 500,000 souls drop on Roman Catholic priests, but Catholics them-
their knees in a space where only 125,000 can selves did not have to pay this tax. The priests
stand, and are so affected that only 300,000 of held them up in the regular manner, as in the
their 125,000 could roar, what were the 375,- United States and Britain, for all they could
000 doing that led them to fall on their knees get out of them, for "services" performed at
in a place where they had no room to stand, weddings, christenings, funerals, masses and
and why was it that 200,000 of them that did other rackets. As cash is low in the new Ger-
not get into the 125,000 space never so much many, it was announced some time ago that
as gave a squawk, let alone a roar, when their hereafter Catholics would also have to chip
comrades, 175,000, who also could not get into in on the religion tax, but later reports are
the space, gave that roar?" That ought to be that this is put off until 1940; which shows
plain. What is the answer? the close relation between the Hierarchy and
the Nazi authorities.
News Chronicle Bit
The London News Chronicle is away above Which Country Is It?
the average newspaper, but it also got bit on Which country is it that makes its national
the story from Rome when it said in a head- bank unconditionally subject to the state?
line, "More than 500,000 people saw Pope Which country is it that makes the officer
Pius X I I crowned in Rome today." It was a corps of the army merely an arm of the single
real. reporter that figured out only 125,000 legal party ? Which country is it that handles
people could possibly be crowded into the its exports and imports by a single govern-
space where the "more than 500,000" are al- ment agency ? Which country is it that toler-
leged to have witnessed the four-hour cere- ates no strike or other interruption of national
mony. The Leicester Mail got stung only a production? Is it Russia or is it Germany?
little less badly; for it prophesied in a head- I t is both.
line that "500,000 will see Pope's coronation".
Even the Manchester Guardian got burned, Statue to Pavlik
its expression being "More than half a million A bronze statue 13 feet tall has been erected
people, packed in the square below and be- in Moscow in honor of Pavlik Morozoff, a Rus-
tween there and the Tiber, on Sunday saw sian-boy who betrayed his father to the Bol-
Pope Pius X I I being crowned Pope on the shevik authorities. The boy's father killed
outside balcony of St. Peter's". Pavlik, and then the boy's father and his
friends were slain. The whole thing is reminis-
Swastika on Catholic Churches cent of the days of the Inquisition and shows
On Hitler's fiftieth birthday all the church- what may be expected in any land under to-
es in Berlin, including the Catholic churches, talitarian rule.
flew the swastika, yet it was only a year or so
prior to that time that Pope Pius XI had much Earth's Most Military State
to say about the heathen swastika cross flying Earth's most military state is Vatican City,
in the face of what he called "the Christian where two-thirds of the entire population are
Cross", in Rome. in its army.
22 CONSOLATION
The Study of E a r t h q u a k e s Cowardly Nations in Nightshirts
The Jesuit Bulletin, on the last page of its Under the international Ku Klux kode, a
April (1939) issue, asks the question, "Why country can be invaded merely because it is
should the Jesuits give themselves to the study 'discourteous' or entertains thoughts that are
of earthquakes!" On page 5 of the same issue distasteful to the aggressor. Countries may be
it gives several answers, and it seems as if the overrun, territory taken, property destroyed
real answer may be found in the last clause and people killed by the hundreds of thou-
of the following summary: sands in the name of civilization or religion,
Finally, much that is now known about the struc- with never a declaration of war uttered. Legal-
ture of the interior of the earth has been learned istically speaking, the world may be at peace
from the records of these disturbances, with the while helpless populations are put to the
result that the methods of seismology are being sword. The kleaglcs and the klokards now ride
used with great success in discovering oil and bombers, tanks, battleships and submarines
mineral deposits. over a field of operations that is international.
The raids of the nightshirt nations constitute
Mary's DayMother's Day the greatest threat to civilization since the
Mary's Day and Mother's Day democratic principle became established.
have the same origin. Both are in- Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, in
tended to glorify creatures. Mary an address at the annual meeting of the Amer-
- was a creature, the same as other ican Civil Liberties Union.
mothers. In no sense was she either
the "Mother of God" or the "Mother of Man-
kind". She was honored and blessed by being Liberty with J a w s Clamped Shut
the earthly means by which Jesus of Nazareth Liberty with her jaws clamped shut. Lib-
was born of the flesh. A suggestion of Cath- erty knocked senseless if she dares open her
olic theologians is that Catholics, once a year, head to tell the truth. Liberty strangled and
make an "offering in Mary's name, equal at buried if she has the hardihood to uncover the
least in value to that presented to mother on Italian racket operating out of Vatican City.
Mother's Day". It is merely one more of the That is the Papal standard. That is what the
countless methods used to try to wring money pope meant when he sent word to the convo-
from the workers to maintain the racket. cation of Catholic gangsters at Washington
that Catholics necessarily are defenders of
Rain W a t e r Sins Are Forgiven "true human liberties". He did not dare leave
Some idea of the pure punk peddled in the out the word "true". It is his alibi. When the
name of religion is obtainable from the collec- showdown comes he will say, as always, that
tion of ecclesiastical nonsense known as The true human liberties arc the liberties of the
Register. A person wrote in, asking, "If a Catholic Hierarchy to perpetuate their blas-
person, while walking to church, swallows a phemies and lies. No other liberties are true,
drop or two of rain water, may he receive and hence no other liberties may be or should
communion ?" The satellite of the Roman Hier- be defended. It is all so simple. Just like that.
archy running The Register came back with
this, "If a person unintentionally swallows a Uncle Sam in H a r d Luck
few drops of water together with saliva, he Uncle Sam is in for hard luck. On the same
is not considered to be breaking his fast." day the newspapers contained the information
that plans were being considered at the head-
The Rotten Totalitarian States quarters of the Italian Camorra in Vatican
There is little choice between things that City to put the army and navy of the United
are rotten, and any and every totalitarian States (so far as possible) under the control
state is just that. In Russia, for example, the of a full-time bishop, the same as is done in
G.P.U. awakened a ten-year-old boy at mid- Germany, Italy, France and other countries
night and as a result of its "processes he 'con- under Papal control, they also reported that
fessed', "I was a member of a counter-revolu- Joseph P. Kennedy, Roman Catholic ambas-
tionary, Fascist organization." If Russia can sador to Britain (but on Uncle Sam's pay
get confessions like that out of kids that are roll), would be the official representative of
only ten years old, the next logical step is to the president (not the people) of the United
try it out on those half that age, or as soon as States at the coronation of Pius XII. (That
they can talk plain. is when the "crown of heaven, earth and hell"
A U G U S T 9, 1939
23
was placed on Pacelli's head, making him what of Caesar, which the Romans said was not a
he is today.) Kennedy is the only Roman Cath- religious ceremony.V. H, Lukens, New Jer-
olic to have the post at the Court of St. .James's, sey, in the New York Ilerald Tribune,
and it is the first time a president of the United
States was ever "officially" represented at such Forget Flag Ordinance
an affair. A third item was that Pius X I I offi- Tacoma's city council has gone about far
cially "blessed" the United States (whether enough with the proposed flag ordinance. Now
they wanted to be blessed or not, less than one- would be a good time to lay it on the table and
sixth being Roman Catholics). Inasmuch as forget it. Forget it, not because it was con-
history shows that the Papal "blessing" usu- sidered by some an invasion of civil liberties.
ally works out to the reverse, it looks like hard Forget it, not because some elements of union
luck ahead for Uncle Sam, officially. labor feared it would be used against pickets
during strike. Forget it, not because good citi-
Saluting the Stars and Stripes zens or three persons in a street corner argu-
In Russia, we understand, it is obligatory ment might be inconvenienced. But sidetrack
to make the motions and mouth the sentiments it now because its purpose is not clear to all
prescribed by stern authority for showing loy- and because it represents a prohibition impos-
alty to the revolution and Soviet Communism. sible of practical enforcement. Grant that the
The same is true concerning the forms for women who first proposed its passage were
showing abject submission to Fascism in Italy, women inspired by patriotic intent, the ordi-
to Nazism in Germany. In fact, it is distinctly nance is unsound in that it cannot legislate the
dangerous in those states to omit, even inad- state of persons' minds. Patriotism, love of
vertently, the slightest of the required cere- country and of its flag, is a thing of the mind.
monials. Mere waving of a flag or display of it by
But the United States is not totalitarian groups in public places, in meetings and pa-
not yet, at least. The Stars and Stripes si ill rades will not instill patriotism in a mind that
stands for the "sweet land of liberty", still does not sense patriotism in the natural order
waves over the land of the free and the home of affairs. If there is a place where men and
of the brave. So let's forego trying to force women congregate to plot sedition and treason
persons to make formal salutes of the flag and overthrow of American government by
which stands primarily for freedom. Let's for- force and violence, then that is no place for
bear jailing them or putting them out of the Stars and Stripesand there are state and
schools and societies because of their idiosyn- federal laws to deal with them. The city coun-
crasies in the name of conscience, no matter cil has a wild bear by the tail and should let
what vagaries their acts may seem to others of go.Taeorna (Wash.) News Tribune.
us to be. Let's even desist from knocking hats
off goofs with their hands in their pockets and Let's Get It Settled
gawking at parades in which the flag passes by. For consistency's sakeif no other reason
The Portland Oregonian. we wish the courts of the land would get
together on whether'a public school pupil can
Compulsory Flag Salutes be compelled to salute the flag against con-
I have long thought that the cases are not scientious scruples.
different from the "shrine" cases in Korea, The courts differwhat is right in Jersey is
which are matters of supreme concern to every wrong in Florida and California. Most Amer-
board of foreign missions; the subject of much icans will think that belief a flag salute is
discussion in the American church, Roman idolatry is silly. Perhaps it is. But the contra-
Catholic and Protestant, and are beginning to dictory opinions of the courts on so simple a
result in violent action by the Japanese and in question are equally as silly.
martyrdom by the Koreans. The Japanese say Why not let the children believe what they
that there is no religious significance in the want? Their love of country has not been
ceremony at the shrine of the emperor; the otherwise questioned. Perhaps they love what
Korean Christians say that it is a religious the flag stands for as much as some who salute
ceremony. So the Romans said to Polycarp in it but do not hesitate to violate the laws and
A.D. 155 before they executed him because he traditions for which it stands.Miami Herald.
refused to engage in the ceremony at the bust (2'o be continued)
24 CONSOLATION
 New Y o r k
Free Speech in America Loving Parents at Ithaca
gdB The Fascist-Nazi idea of free speech At Ithaca, New York, Mr. and Mrs. James
is that everybody should be priv- R. Kearney (guess their "church") took six-
ileged to express himself freely teen chickens out of the barn in zero weather,
j|iP|| provided he says only that with because they thought they might be injured
"which the totalitarian regime is in by the cold, but they took their five-year-old
agreement. The anti-totalitarian is not per- daughter, alleged to have stolen food from the
mitted to speak at all in totalitarian lands like family larder, burned her tongue with a hot
Germany, Russia, Italy or Spain, but, note poker, whipped her with a belt that had rivets
the contrast, in New York city 20,000 Nazi in it, and finally locked the scantily clad child
sympathizers were allowed to meet in Madi- in the barn from which the chickens had been
son Square Garden, and when Tsadore Green- rescuedwhere she froze to death. Now, no
baum attempted to assault one of the speakers doubt, h*ar loving parents believe she is roast-
for anti-Semitic invectives, he had his trou- ing in "purgatory" and thus, at least, has some
sers pulled off and was sentenced to ten days of the heat they denied her in her last moments.
in the cooler. It is not surprising that people who believe in
a god that would eternally torment his crea-
A Library That Really Circulates tures should try to emulate their idol.
You heard about circulating libraries all
your lives. The idea is that the books circulate Thefts of $1,500 per Day
from one to another. New York city has one Thefts of $1,500 per day, $50 daily from
in which not only the books circulate but the each of thirty subway stations, were discov-
library itself does. The Queens Borough Public ered in New York city. The thefts had been
Library carries 1,000 books to twenty com- going on for three years. They totaled $1,200,-
munities in Queens at least once every week. 000, but the chairman of the Board of Trans-
Three librarians and a driver constitute the portation, John H. Delaney, when called be-
staff. Heaters are provided in winter, and fore the district attorney, stated that the total
fans in summer. The stops are at the public losses were estimated at only $1,000. At each
schools, and are at the curb, so that children of the thirty stations two turnstile checking
cam borrow and return books in safety. meters were turned back 500 fares each day.
The station agents, in cahoots with the turn-
Pronounced Dead stile men, altered their records to correspond.
Pronounced dead, as a result of a violent
attack of asthma, Mrs. Bella Futterman, of Coughlin Cheered at Nazi Rally
New York, had no pulse, .no heart action, was Dorothy Thompson, famous newspaper-
absolutely cold, mouth was drawn, and there woman, calls attention to the fact that the day
was every appearance of death. However, she before the Nazi meeting in Madison Square
was resuscitated* and her only impression was Garden, New York, there was a meeting of
that she had had a quiet, peaceful and happy Coughlin's followers in a New York armory
sleep; and that is all there was to it, and all at which Bund literature and tickets to the
there is to it. Death is death, unconsciousness, Madison Square Garden meeting were dis-
just as the Scriptures declare. tributed. Moreover, when Coughlin's name was
mentioned, it was given the biggest hand.
Noise Came from Gas Works
On a day recently a section of Brooklyn Paralytics Open Public Letter Office
was treated to a roaring sound that created Fourteen young men, infantile paralysis
much discomfort and intense interest,. It final- cripples from the 1916 epidemic, well edu-
ly developed that the roar was from the chim- cated, but unable to obtain jobs, merged their
ney of a gas works. The sound waves hit forces and opened a public letter system in
against an atmospheric sound 'shell in the New York city. Three that could walk went
heavens and were largely focused at one point out for orders, and the others will run the
a mile away, where the people almost thought mimeographs and addressing machines and
the world was coming to an end, literally. take in the money.
A U G U S T 9, 1939 25
 Social
Bounties on Babies Gaston Means Dead
Nice fresh babies, 79c a pound! Head sleuth of the Ohio Gang in the days
Several of the leading nations have of President Harding, and one of the clever-
put bounties on babies. They are est crooks that ever lived, Gaston Means, is
not hypocritical or evasive about dead. He was one of .the old-style detectives
the reason behind this golden im- that considered it perfectly proper to commit
petus to breeding. They want more babies now a crime in attaining whatever objective he had
for bigger armies later, babies to be fattened in view. It was he that helped Mrs. Harding to
up for sixteen or seventeen years, then de- place in the president's hands the love letters
livered on the hoof for slaughter! So breed, which the president wrote while in office to
Mother, breed for the glory of your heroic the laundry worker who, it is alleged, in that
Leaders. Take good care of that cuddly baby, time became the mother of his daughter. In
Mother, so he'll grow up big and strong and the days of the Lindbergh kidnaping ex-
the butchers will be pleased with him. And be citement Means persuaded Mrs. McLean, of
thankful, Mother, for your great privilege of Washington, to give him $104,000 with which
producing a son whose destiny it is to be blown to pay off the kidnapers. Not a cent of that
to hell!World - Peaceways, New York. money was ever recovered, and for helping
himself to it Means died in prison. The world
D.A.R. Had a Fit is certainly better off with him out of it. How
On finding out that Francis Scott Key's he escaped being head of the New York Stock
original star spangled banner is stitched to Exchange or some other kindred enterprise
canvas the wrong way round (with the stars is hard to understand.
to the right instead of to the left) the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution visiting the When Men Become Puppets
Smithsonian Institution almost had a fit. They Men value their freedom, their liberties,
know just how the flag ought to be exhibited, their opinions. But when the cost of holding
but what it all stands for is a great mystery forbidden opinions is the concentration camp
to the self-elected American aristocracy, en- (as in Germany), castor oil. (as in Italy) or
gaged in the business of purveying patriotism "sudden disappearance" (as in Russia), men
to their fellow citizens. do give up these rights. When the cost is harm
to friends and relatives, when one never knows
"He" Holly and "She" Holly if husband or wife will be safely home or in
Maybe you know why holly is used at some unnamed jail the next hour, men do yield
"Christmas" time, and that there are "he" and become less than men.New York Post.
holly (or "holy") trees and "she" holly (or
"holy") trees. It is a superstition taken over Americans Are Americans
from old Pagan Rome. The "he" holly trees, Americans are Americans, no matter wheth-
the ones with the prickly leaves, were used in er they are red, white, black or*speckled, seems
divination, fortune telling. The girl who want- to be the gist of the decision of the United
ed to know her fortune counted the prickles, States Supreme Court that if a state provides
one after the other, to see if she would be the legal education for any it must provide equal
wife of a rich man, poor man, beggar man or opportunity for all; and it seems that justice
thief. could make no other decision. The State of
Missouri nnist now admit a Negro to the law
Distribution of Refugees school of the University of Missouri.
Since the World War Greece absorbed
1,250,000 refugees from Bulgaria, Russia and Compulsory Fingerprinting
Asia Minor; France has 40,000 Italian refu- Compulsory fingerprinting is a first step
gees; Russia took 500,000 Armenians ; Turkey in the destruction of liberty. The second step
has been taking 30,000 a year from Rumania; will be that everybody must carry a card show-
and the world in general has taken a million ing he has been registered. The third is that
white Russians, with 100,000 of them going he must show the card whenever called upon
to France. to.do so. After that, "Siberia."
26 CONSOLATION
 U. S. Treasury

Uncle Sam Buying I t All This table shows that each one of the ap-
Last year the world produced new gold of proximately 30,000,000 families in the United
the value of $1,284,500,000; and Uncle Sam States lost more than $25,000 worth of goods
bought gold of the value of $1,750,000,000, to and services during the past ten years from
put away in the Kentucky hole in the ground unused natural resources, unused machine
at Fort Knox. This clever work of buying equipment and unused labor power, an aver-
every year more gold than is mined in the age loss to every family of $2,500 worth of
whole world is made possible by the fact that goods and services each and every year. Such
Uncle Sam shoved up the price from $20.83 is tlic price we have paid and are still paying
an ounce to $35. Now, if some bright states- for our scarcity system.Oscar Ameringer,
man would only think of offering, say, a dollar in The American Guardian.
apiece for watermelons, Uncle Sam could just
get billions of them. Wouldn't that be some- 5,000,000 Postal Cards Daily
thing 1 Meantime, before the watermelon In the huge printing plant at Washington
statesmen arise to the occasion, it may be re- Uncle Sam has three rotary web printing
marked in passing that in 1935 Uncle Sam presses that print, cut, deliver and band postal
gladly paid 77c an ounce for silver when the cards in packs of fifty, at the rate of 6,400
world market price was 64c. Twelve silver- per minute. The total annual output runs to
producing countries hurried up and sent to nearly 2,000,000,000 cards, or in excess of
America all the silver they could spare at the 5,000,000 daily. The Government printing
premium offered. plant, by the way, keeps 5,500 employees busy
on its 22 acres of floor space, operating 406
Regulated Scarcity typesetting machines to keep its presses full
There has been no trustworthy of work. It is far and away the largest print-
survey of the potential production ing plant in the world.
capacity of the United States for
later than 1929 In 1933 the
$UvV - Survey One-Fifth on Relief
wrwrm o f P o t e n t i a l production Capacity Take note! During the year 1938, about
of the United States conducted under the aus- 5,600,000 American households received pub-
pices of the government by a group of about lic aid. At four persons to the household, that
70 competent engineers, economists and statis- represents a total of 22,400,000 individuals,
ticians revealed that the United States could or about one-fifth of the nation. The distribu-
have produced $135,000,000,000 worth of tion of public funds to these millions affords
goods and services in 1929. The difference be- opportunities for religious and political rack-
tween the potential and the actual production eteers never before presented.
in the United States for the ten years 1929 to
1938 inclusive has been at least as follows Eagerness for Tax-free Securities
(stated in millions of dollars):
Eagerness for tax-free securities is so great
Loss because that when the government a while back wanted
of lack of a little item of $700,000,000, the boys that have
Potential Actual Purchasing
Year Production Production Power the custody of the nation's bank deposits
1929 $135,000 $80,800 $54,200 offered nearly one-fifth of them for the pur-
1930 135,000 68,000 67,000 pose, in some cases using the names of dead
1931 135,000 53,500 81,500 men to get on the lists. So says the Treasury.
1932 135,000 39,500 95,500
1933 135,000 41,800 93,200 300,000 a t Consular Offices
1934 135,000 49,000 86,000 In Europe 300,000 people are besieging the
1935 135,000 55,000 80,000 United States consulates, hoping to find a way
1936 135,000 63,800 71,200 of getting out of the various lands of horror
1937 135,000 60,000 75,000 and getting into a country of peace where
1938 135,000 60,000 75,000 they can have hope for themselves and their
children of living a decent life without having
$778,600 to heil some tyrant and murderer.
AUGUST 9, 1939 27
 from their victories in Spain. When ques-
tioned in Parliament about the well-known
British Comment fact of the presence of German soldiers fight-
ing in Franco's rebellion the Government
By J. Hemery {London) pleaded either that they had no official knowl-
edge of the troops or that the German Govern-
ment denied their troops were in Spain. Prob-
ably the duplicity of the German Government
was in telling their British inquirers that it
General Conditions might be that some Germans had gone to Spain
War preparation activity has brought some as volunteers, and their willing "dupes" in
advantages: there is much less unemployment London accepted the statement as the way out;
and consequently a considerable increase in for Germany was a member of the non-inter-
domestic business. The latest published figures vention committee, and Britain wanted to
of unemployment show a drop of nearly avoid a quarrel with Hitler. There were 20,000
500,000, reducing the number of unemployed Germans in Franco's army. However, the re-
to about one and a half million persons. I t is turn was not camouflaged: the soldiers were
said by experts that even in good business received with the honors of a victorious army,
times it is to be expected that almost a million and the British statesmen could think about
persons will be unable to obtain constant work the matter as they pleased. The game must
and must at least temporarily seek assistance have been as well known to the British politi-
from the insurance funds. The call to military cians. It all serves as an illustration of the
service is also affecting the general conditions, game of politics, much of it played with lies
and that apart from the 200,000 young men and deceit.
who are being conscripted. There is a general
sense of activity abroad, and talk of a trade Ministry of Information
boom is being encouraged by the newspapers. As one of the war preparations the Govern-
In the meantime the Government is spending ment has set up a Ministry of Information: to
the accumulated resources of the country at gather it and to spread it in the form of propa-
a great rate. The recent war scare and a reali- ganda. Naturally what is gathered will be
zation that the two dictators who have shown sorted and sifted, and as much as is for use
that they will take every chance to achieve at home and abroad will be arranged to suit
their set purposeopenly declared by Hitler certain purposes. Goebbels is angry and loud-
in his "bible", and less openly by Mussolini ly shouts out that this is another proof of an
have silenced criticism of the Government's attempt to encircle Germany. The minister in
spending. It is no exaggeration to say that charge of the department is the earl of Perth,
the majority of the people do not give them- long known as Sir Eric Drummond, last used
selves much concern about the future, but are as British representative in Rome; was before
content to live from day to day, getting as that secretary of the League of Nations, and
much enjoyment out of their circumstances, is a Roman Catholic.
poor or rich, as may be possible. Official report
of the ordered registration of the 200,000 Stung Priests Are Angry
young men of 20-21 years shows that only The constant service which the witnesses
about 3,000 registered a conscientious objec- of Jehovah render to Him to the honor and
tion to military service. The Conscription Act the vindication of His holy name, and which
gives-no freedom to objectors: it has provision of necessity exposes the Roman Catholic
for tribunals to consider whether or not these church system as false to the Scriptures and
may be freed from active military service or absolutely without divine authority, is sting-
be put into other service under the control of ing the Roman priests. For many years they
the Government. have attempted to stop the witness in such
ways as were open to them, as Consolation has
Diplomatic Duplicity shown. They had some sueeess in the radio
The British Cabinet might be considered as broadcasts by Judge Rutherford, because they
having got a damaging exposure of its fear or were able to put pressure on some broadcast-
attempted duplicity when Hitler gave a great ing stations, which through fear of the action
welcome in Hamburg to his troops returned of the priests ceased to give facilities for the
28 CONSOLATION
broadcasting of truth to the people. They have being expositions of the words of God and
had some success in some British colonies by Christ the King, always urge obedience to the
persuading the local authorities that the truth laws of the countries, except when by evil men
carried by Jehovah's witnesses unsettled the laws are enacted which would prevent a dis-
native populations. The challenge by Judge ciple and follower of Christ from fulfilling
Rutherford for open public discussion they his obligation to God. On the other hand, the
will not meet, preferring their usual Catholic Hierarchy are now active in trying to get
Action methods of working secretly and owners of halls to break their contracts where
through fear and intimidation. The message they learn that Jehovah's witnesses purpose
contained in the millions of booklets and of to hold meetings. In various places, as Conso-
leaflets distributed in Britain, especially those lation has stated, the priests have brought a
following Judge Rutherford's exposure in the mob, and at least indirectly, if not actually,
world broadcast speech in the Royal Albert the inciters have caused physical violence to
Hall, London, when he showed that the Jehovah's witnesses. Their angry outbursts
Papacy and Fascism are in agreement, and are having the result of telling many of those
that Catholic Action should be known as who have been duped that there is a witness
Fascist-Catholic Action, has stung the priests. against the doctrines and the claims of the
They are angry. The Roman Catholic church priests and their church, and many Catholics
has had many attacks made on it: on its false have become active workers with Jehovah's
claims and false teachings, forged by perver- witnesses.
sions of the Scriptures and by making the
writings and pronouncements of men as of C a n t e r b u r y ' s Failures
equal authority with the Word of God. But The call to religion made by the archbishop
it has never been exposed to the truth as it is of Canterbury fell on dull ears. Though not
now exposed; nor could it be so exposed till officially buried, it is now a dead thing. His
the day of Jehovah's judgments should come. more recent endeavor to get some life into
The Papacy sees in the witness to the truth religion by a prayer league for peace which
that which God purposes it should see: it sees all outside the church of Rome might join
the warning of its destruction by Him whom seems going the same way. It was not expected
they hypocritically profess to serve. If the that the Roman Catholics would join in, but
Hierarchy were as sure of themselves and it was hoped that "his holiness" the pope might
their place before God according to their give his co-operation, by allowing himself to be
claims they would not be perturbed. But they considered the leader of the league. The Hier-
are angry, and they show their anger by archy in Rome is not to be caught, neither by
stirring up their dupes to make malicious per- a peace nor by a prayer movement, so as to
sonal attacks on those who carry the truth to admit that the many other churches shall be
the people. Judge Rutherford is the subject accounted as acceptable to its communion or
of their malice in a special way, for the.reason co-operation. There is no advertising of any
that in the good pleasure of God he is spokes- success resulting from the prayers which the
man of Jehovah's witnesses in bringing the sections .of religionists have said. Franco had
truth to the people. With malice a Jesuit got his war over before they began their pray-
priest, who is given prominence in a London ers, but Hitler has been all the time scheming
Catholic newspaper, says of the message of for his next move. Probably the Japanese war
truth, "It seeks to pull everything down on China was forgotten.
churches, governments and social usages"; and
of the witnesses he declares "they are ail-but Those who are instructed in the Scriptures
avowed apostles of revolution and anarchy to and who understand the things written know
come". This priest claims to have a long-time that such prayers as have been uttered by re-
knowledge of the publications of the Watch- ligious organizations are not according to the
tower Bible and Tract Society, and to be will of God. He docs not hear them. When
intimate with them. This being so, he knows Jesus taught His disciples to pray and what
that he lied when he wrote the above-quoted to pray for, saying, "After this manner pray
words. There is not a line to be found in them ye," the first petition is, "Thy kingdom come."
possible of interpretation as leading to agita- But that is the last thing religionists will pray
tion against governments, nor to anarchy or for. They do not believe that Jesus comes
revolution. The publications of the Society, while evil.rules, in order to establish' the king-
dom of heaven. They have set themselves to
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believe that it is the business of the churches Catholics and Politics
to bring about the kingdom of heaven on earth, At the time of writing, the proposed pact
and they will not pray in Jesus' words as lie between Britain and Russia from which
meant to be understood, nor seek that God Britain expects so much for the preservation
would again send His Son that the Kingdom of peace is still undetermined. How much Rus-
should be established, and evil destroyed from sia desires the pact does not appear; Britain
the face of the earth. The peace of the earth and France are the seekers. Naturally enough
has never been the responsibility of the church Russia will safeguard its interests and seek
of Jesus Christ, not even in the matter of some advantage from the bargaining. It has
prayer. The kingdom of God, its righteousness, already been suggested that the hierarchy in
and the honor and vindication of His name, Rome is using its influence in London to pre-
are the things to seek and pray for. vent such agreement between Britain and Rus-
sia. What it is doing will not come to light,
Some Preachers Uneasy but that the proposal is particularly obnoxious
The Protestant clergy have wrought havoc to the Roman Hierarchy is apparent, as their
with the faith,of their flocks. They have got newspapers disclose. Britain is one of the chief
them to believe that the writings of Moses and hopes of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and
the prophets are not the word of God. Now Russia is a detestation. Russia is an anti-God
some of the less reckless among the parsons country, and has no use at all for the Roman
are beginning to see that in this show of learn- Catholic church, but considers it as one of the
ing and of being wise in the eyes of men they chief obstacles to human progress, particularly
have done damage to their own cause, the in- the Soviet brand. Russia has already shown
terests of religion. The dogma of the Trinity, what it would do to the Roman church system
which states that the Living God is not one if it had the opportunity: it would sweep it
God, but three Gods which yet make only one, away as it swept Czardom into destruction.
is the foundation of "Christian religion" alike For Britain to enter into a pact with that
in Protestantism as in the Roman Catholic country would be a heavy blow to the Hier-
church. But all have to admit that it is not archy, busied as it is in telling the world that its
taught by Jesus and the apostles. The Roman greatest danger is Communism as seen in Rus-
church states the dogma declares a fact, and sia. The popes, it is claimed, do not interfere
that is the end of the matter for its members, in politics. The late pope, when denying a
Scripture proof or not; but Protestants, who
have no such pronouncement, seek Bible sup- charge of political interference, cried out,
port, and go to the writings they denounce. "It is a lie." The "holy church" wishes that it
But those who perceive what has been done should be known as a religious power. But
will not raise their voices against the propa- when the British-Russian pact was mooted the
ganda of unbelief: the interests of religion and present pope immediately got busy with the
of their own particular church system will five greater nations of Europe, excluding Rus-
prevent that. This absurd dogma, so contrary sia, to get them into a peace pact. Britain,
to the Scriptures, so derogatory to the honor France, Germany, Italy and Poland in peace,
and glory of the Living God, has been accepted and the conditions in Europe would resume
by all the churches, and they are bound by their normal life. The effort is suspect. It is
it so tightly as will prevent them from getting the politics of the Hierarchy in active opera-
free. I t may be said to be the Devil's master- tion for the benefit of the Roman Catholic
piece of deception. No one who tries to believe church. The main desire is not to seek peace
the Father and the Son are really one and the in Europe; it cannot be said that the Papacy
same can understand what God has revealed shows itself active in the cause of peace: it
of himself, nor see what is revealed of Christ, has quite recently shown that it will give sup-
and the provision God has made for those who port to war if the interests of the Roman
come to Him through Christ. To have a church are to gain, as witness its share in the
mystery in their religion suits religionists: Italian war on Abyssinia and its aid to Franco
it is preferred to the knowledge of the Word in Spain. Britain is not yet under the bondage
of God. The atmosphere of a mystery is the of the Roman Hierarchy, and undoubtedly
stronghold of religion, and in this it takes a the people of Britain prefer an arrangement
place with that of the soothsayers and witch- which will keep the aggressive dictators in
doctors. bounds, as a pact with Russia promises to do.
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 South Africa

For Flogging a Native to Death neither pro-Jew nor anti-Jew, but that he was
In Bethlehem, South Africa, two just pro-humanity and pro-Christian. In the
men held a Negro down while the heat of debate he said:
third flogged him to death, and If Christ came to South Africa today he would
the three of them got off with a fine be hounded out by the Nationalist Party which
sheltered four ministers of religionDr. Malan,
of 400. They well deserve to be the Rev. C. W. M. du Toit, Dr. van dcr Merwe,
hanged, all three of them. and a missionary to the heathen, Lieut.-Col.
Booysen. If Christianity is represented by those
Bechuanaland - Basutoland - Swaziland four gentlemen, then I will have nothing to do with
The native in the protectorates sees his Christianity. I would prefer to be a pagan through
fellows across the border debarred from skilled and through.
labor, deprived of the vote in the only province
where they had it, driven from the towns ex- Discovery May E n d Refrigeration
cept where their labor is wanted, prevented Dr. II. J. Jay, Durban, South Africa, is
from acquiring land and inadequately sup- the announced discoverer of a new method
plied with reserves, reduced in rural areas to for keeping fruits fresh, without any change
the condition of labor tenants, and everywhere in size, color or flavor, for periods of nine
subject to repressive pass laws which are harsh tp twelve months, and at slight expense. One
and arbitrary in their administration.Man- and one-half ounces of a new chemical com-
chester Guardian. pound, which gives off a colorless gas, will
preserve five tons of fruit for a year at a
Steenkamp P a n s the Dominies cost of five shillings, is the claim. The only
Dr. W. P. Steenkamp, Calvinia, South attention needed is the opening of a valve to
African Republic, speaking on a motion be- let gas out or air in, so as to maintain a con-
fore the Assembly at Cape Town, said he was stant pressure.

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Volume X X B r o o k l y n , N. Y . , Wednesday, August 23, 1939 Number 520

A M i g h t y C a t h o l i c i n t h e " P i t " (In Three Parts-Part 2)

In the issue of this magazine next preceding this number were published the
facts relative to the wickedness of a high judicial official who was tried and unan-
imously convicted of selling his high office for money; also a promise to submit
an interview from one against whom that high official and other high Catholics con-
spired. This writer asked Judge Rutherford certain questions, which questions,
and his answers thereto, are set out below and speak for themselves.

T H E slimy trail of the Hierarchy is as

devious as a twisting serpent. They
falsely charge men with crimes which
olic usage. Can an anti-Catholic be pa-
triotic? Can a criminal be unpatriotic if
he is a distinguished Catholic? Keep this
were never committed, and then point to issue and the ones preceding and follow-
such malicious and unfounded charges as ing of Consolation and read this search-
evidence against the ones framed. Read ing exposure of Catholic conspiracy and
in this and in the succeeding issue of intrigue in which convict Manton had a
Consolation how the agents of Rome rail- prominent part.
roaded Judge Rutherford and seven
other Christians to jail on trumped-up INTERVIEW FOE CONSOLATION
accusations; how they now point to such QUESTION: May the public have from you
wicked imprisonment of the righteous a statement of the facts relating to the con-
which they maneuvered and howl vocif- spiracy of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and
erously about their own* patriotism. At other religionists to destroy you and the work
the same time their presses are UNIVER- of Jehovah's witnesses during the World War?
SALLY AND CONSPICUOUSLY SILENT about ANSWER: That would require a lengthy
statement, but I will give you a brief review
the fine patriotic service rendered by the of the salient facts. At the outbreak of the
Departments of Investigation and J u s - World War, in 1914, I was in Europe, and
tice in convicting MARTIN T-. MANTON, remained there for about two months on a lec-
and thus RIDDING THE BENCH OF A CRIMINAL ture tour throughout Scandinavia and Eng-
the like of which has not been known in land. The clergy of England were supporting
the 150 years of America's existence! If the war, and from their pulpits the following
you know the Hierarchy you know why phrase was often used by a preacher, ad-
their presses are silent about this con- dressed
<f
to the young men of the vicinity:
viction, and you arG right! MARTIN T. You must go to war; out marry and breed
MANTON is a high official in the ROMAN
before you go 1"
CATHOLIC CnuRcn ORGANIZATION. When I returned to America I found that
most of the clergymen were urging the United
Learn from this series of articles how States to get into the war. Contrary to their
the Roman Catholic Hierarchy praises to course of action, William Jennings Bryan,
the heights felons like Manton while con- who was at that time Secretary of State under
demning the innocent who tell the truth. President Wilson, was making a tour of the
Learn what "patriotism" means in Cath- country urging the United States to stay out
A U G U S T 23, 1939 3
of the war. Mr: Bryan resigned as Secretary My lectures along this .line greatly angered
of State when the United States entered the the clergymen. In Canada and in the United
war. States the clergymen organized a campaign
During the years 1915 and 1916 and sub- of abuse against me and against our Society.
sequently I gave many public addresses I challenged them to an open discussion of the
throughout the United States and Canada matter, that the people might hear the facts.
stressing the prophecy uttered by Jesus con- Finally the clergymen of southern California
cerning the end of the world. (Matthew the signed a paper agreeing to select a man to
24th chapter) I pointed out that the events represent them in a debate with me. The de-
then coming to pass showed that the end of bate was held in Los Angeles upon four suc-
Satan-s uninterrupted rule over' the nations cessive evenings. That fanned the fires of
of earth came in 1914 and that the war and hatred of the clergymen against me more than
things accompanying it were strong evidence ever.
in fulfillment of the prophecy uttered by Jesus. In 1917 the United States went into war.
I cited many scriptures to prove that the world The clergymen were advocating that the Unit-
war, as stated by Jesus, was "the beginning ed States go to war: Congress passed the con-
of sorrows" upon the nations of earth and that scription act, or what is better known as the
those sorrows would continue until the final Selective Draft Act, which provided that men
end at Armageddon. I stressed the command who because of religious beliefs could not con-
of the Lord Jesus, that the time had arrived scientiously engage in war might be exempted.
when "this gospel of the kingdom shall be T was asked by many young men in the
preached in all the world for a witness unto all country as to what course they should take in
nations".Matthew 24:14. this regard. In every instance my advice was
A few clergymen in England, early in 1918, to this effect, given to young men who re-
had issued a manifesto calling attention to quested it, to wit: 'If you cannot conscien-
the fact that the World War and accompany- tiously engage in war, Section 3 of the Selec-
ing events were in fulfillment of the prophecy tive Draft Act makes provision for you to file
of Jesus above quoted, concerning the end of application for exemption. You should register
the world. There were no Catholic clergymen and file your application for exemption, set-
and no other religionists in America obeying ting forth the reason, and the draft board will
the commandment of the Lord by calling at- pass on your application.' I never did more
tention to this important prophecy. than to advise them to take advantage of the
On the contrary, the clergymen of the act of Congress. I always insisted .that every
United States and of Canada were preaching citizen should obey the law of the land as long
the same old stuff they had been telling the as that law was not in conflict with God's law.
people for years, and adding thereto that now On many of the draft boards a clergyman
the nations must go to war, to "make the world sat as a member of the board, and the appli-
safe for democracy". cations of these young men setting forth their
I emphasized this fact: that if clergymen claims to believe in God and Christ's kingdom
believed the Lord Jesus Christ and did rep- and that they could not conscientiously engage
resent Him they should obey His command- in war greatly angered the clergy, and the
ment; and obeying it they must be telling the fire of hatred continued to increase against
people what the war meant and that this was our Society.
evidence of the end of Satan's organization Then a definite conspiracy came; to light;
and that soon Armageddon would follow; and and the purpose of that conspiracy was .to
that they should tell the people that God's devise ways and means to destroy our work of
kingdom is the only hope of the world and proclaiming the truth of God's Word through-
urge them to prepare for the final end. out the land, because the truth exposed the
I further emphasized the fact that if these duplicity and hypocrisy of the clergymen and
men could not preach the truth as commanded showed that they were not representing: God
by the Lord JesUB Christ, then they should and Christ's kingdom.
cease claiming themselves to be representatives In furthering that conspiracy a large num-
of God and Christ on earth, and take a posi- ber of clergymen held a conference in Phila-
tion squarely on the other side, so that the delphia, Pa., in 1917, and at that conference
people would not be deceived by their conduct appointed a committee to visit Washington
and by their words. and insist on a revision of the Selective Draft
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A<"t and the Espionage Law. That committee Amburgh and myself, repeated to me the fact
called on the Department of Justice. At that of the conference of the many clergymen
time John Lord O'Brian, of Buffalo, was a which was held at Philadelphia and which1 I
member of the Department of Justice at Wash- have just mentioned.
ington, and at the instance of the clergymen He then told me more about that conference
he was selected to pTepare an amendment to than I had learned before. He told me that
the Espionage Law and have it introduced in the clergymen had selected John Lord O'Brian
the Senate. The amendment provided that all to present the matter to the Senate; that'this
offenses committed in violation of the Espion- resulted in the introduction of a bill "to have
age Law should be tried by a military court all cases against the Espionage Law tried be-
and the penalty inflicted should be death: That fore a court martial, a military court, and the
bill did not pass, for reasons hereinafter punishment death. The bill, when it came to
stated. the attention of President Wilson, was
General Bell was in command of an army stopped, because Wilson would not permit it
encamped on Long Island, New York. He was to be passed.
a real diplomat, as many will testify who knew The general at that time showed consider-
the general, lie came to visit at my office and able heat. Before him on his desk lay a pack-
spent several hours with me. At that time a age of papers, and with his index finger he
number of men connected with the WATCH tapped these and, directing his speech to me,
TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY had been called with real feeling said: "That bill did not pass,
for military service and were then at the camp because Wilson prevented it; but we know how
under the command of General Bell. All of to get you, and we are going to do it!" To that
these were conscientious objectors and had statement I replied: "General, you will know
asked to be exempted from military service. where to find me."
On the occasion mentioned General Bell At this time I call attention to the fact that
used his most persuasive methods in his effort Pastor Russell in his lifetime had written
to induce me to give these young men instruc- much about Revelation and Ezekiel's proph-
tions to take whatever service he might assign ecy. After his death, George Fisher and C. J.
them to take, whether across the sea or other- Woodworth were selected to compile those
wise. My answer to the general was this, in writings and put them in the form of a book,
substance: "Every man must decide for him- which was called "The Seventh Volume". They
self what he. will do; the responsibility is on did this work; I did not write anything what-
him, and him alone; he knows what his con- soever in that book, and the only thing I had
science dictates to" him, and it would be very to do with it was that I signed a contract on
wrong for me to attempt to induce any young behalf of the Society to have it published.
man to violate his conscience; I cannot, there- That book, also called "The Finished Mystery",
fore, tell these young men what they must do." was issued on the 17th of July, 1917, and had
The general stated to me that he needed a a very wide circulation in different parts of
letter -from me, and insisted that I write a the country. In February, 1918, that book was
letter to those young men that he could take banned in Canada, and this action was taken
to them and read, telling them what to do. I by the Canadian government at the instance
declined to do this; Then he said: "Well, can*t of the clergymen, as the press reports at that
you give me some kind of a letter V Finally I" time showed.
wrote abetter stating, in substance, this-to On February 12,1918, the public1 press con-
these young men," to: wit: "Each one of you tained the" following dispatch frdm Ottawa,
must decide for himself whether he wishes to" Canada: "The Secretary of State, under the
engage in active military service or not. Do press eensorship regulations^ has issued war-
what you consider to be your duty and what is rants forbidding the possession in Canada of
right i n the sight of Almighty. God." a m u m b e r o f publications, amongst which is
That letter was not satisfactory to-the'gen- the book published by the International Bible
eral-, but really piqued him very much. A few Students. Association, entitled 'Studies in the>
days ^afterwards W; E. Van Amburgh and ScripturesThe "Finished Mystery', generally
myself visited General Bell at his camp on known as the posthumous publication of Pas-
Long Island. His aide-de-camp was prasent in torRusselL"
his office/and on that occasion the general, The very next day after that order forbid-
in the presence of his officer, Brother Van ding the circulation of The Finished Mystery
A U G U S T 23, 1939 5
was issued, the books of account of the WATCH others, in a public address at Atlanta, Ga.,
TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY, at 17 Hicks which is quoted by the Atlanta Constitution
St., Brooklyn, were seized by the department of Monday, April 8, 1918, I pointed out the
of secret service at Washington and carried cause of this determined effort to get us out
away for examination. The circumstances of the way, and said: "Unable to answer the
show that action was being taken by the Cana- convincing argument that the world has ended
dian and the United States government at the and that millions now on earth will never die,
same time and the clergymen were backing it and that wonderful blessings will follow to
up, really urging it to be done. The secular the people after the war, and moved by the
press .throughout the country called especial spirit of jealousy, the clergy have instituted
attention to what had been done in Canada a systematic persecution of us. We have been
and in America. charged with circulating 'Hun propaganda'
Winnipeg papers had previously announced and being disloyal to the government of the
that certain clergymen had denounced these United States. Such charges are base and foul,
publications from their pulpits and stated that without a semblance of truth. . . . We are not
the attention of the Attorney General had against the war. I have never uttered a sen-
been called to the matter. Later, the Winnipeg tence to the discredit of the government. I
Tribune, after mentioning the order issued by have always held that the government has the
the public censor, said, "The banned publica- authority to declare war and to draft its citi-
tions are alleged to contain seditious and anti- zens, and I have only gone to the extent of
war statements. Excerpts from one of the re- giving legal advice as to the right of Chris-
cent issues of the 'Bible Students Monthly' tians or conscientious objectors to claim ex-
were denounced from the pulpit a few weeks emption or classification under Section 3 of
ago by Rev. Charles G. Patterson, Pastor of the Selective Draft Act."
St. Stephen's Church. Afterward Attorney Returning now to the seizure of the publi-
General Johnson sent to Rev. Patterson for a cations. Some time was spent in examining all
copy of the publication. The censor's order is the books and papers seized, and nothing det-
believed to be the direct result." rimental was found. Everything we had done
As further evidence of the nature of this here was. open and aboveboard. However, some
conspiracy, and who the backers of it were, things were seized upon as an excuse to charge
note the following press dispatch of March 5, us with wrongdoing. Within a short time
1919, which reviewed the case long after and thereafter a member of the secret service de-
was widely published throughout the nation: partment known as the Intelligence Bureau,
"Unduly harsh sentences imposed on a num- a man named Converse, began a systematic
ber of persons convicted during the war emer- visit to my office. He would call and ask a few
gency for violating the espionage act. . . . questions, then retire, and return the next day
Acted on today, officials of the department of and do the same thing. Converse time and
justice said prisoners had been victims of again intimated that the government was after
war-time passion or prejudice. . . ." me. I was certain that there was a real motive
back of these daily visits and that it was to
"ASK CLEMENCY FOR EIGHT entrap me if possible.
"Thousands of letters have been received To flee the country when likely to be charged
by the department of justice, asking executive with a crime is always evidence of guilt that
clemency for J. F . Rutherford, head of the may be offered to prove guilt. I am certain that
International Bible Students Association, and the secret service bureau was endeavoring to
seven associates now serving sentences in the frighten me in order to induce me to flee, thus
Atlanta federal prison on charges of disloyalty to secure.evidence to put before a jury and
growing # out of publication of the 'Finished to secure, if possible, my conviction.
Mystery', a Bible handbook. These cases were Converse continued to hammer away with
appealed by the convicted men from the fed- this undeniable purpose. On the last occasion
eral district court in Brooklyn, and are pend- of his visit he asked me this question: "The
ing in the appellate court. Officials indicated government wants to know where you are go-
that no action would be taken in their cases ing to be the next two weeks." I replied: "If
until the appellate court had rendered a de- I were to come into your office and put that
cision." question to you, you would tell me to go some-
Before the imprisonment of myself and the where, wouldn't you?" He responded with
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feeling: "Then you want me to tell the govern- always murder in its every form is forbidden;
ment to go to hell." I answered: "I did not say and yet, under the guise of Patriotism the civil
that, but if you wish to construe my language governments of earth demand of peace-loving
that way, why, take it that way." men the sacrifice of themselves and their loved
Then he put this question to me: "The gov- ones and the butchery of their fellows, and
ernment wants to know what is your itinerary hail it as a duty demanded by the laws of
for the next two weeks." I replied: "My itin- heaven."
erary is published in The Watch Tower." He We appeared in court, entered our plea of
requested a copy, and 1 said: "No, I can't give "not guilty", and our counsel filed a motion in
you a copy; you can have one for five cents if the case covering some legal points. The at-
you go down to 17 Hicks St. and buy it." torneys of the case went into chambers with
Further addressing Mr. Converse, I added: Judge Howe, who had been selected to try
"Converse, I am getting tired of your visits the case, and on that occasion Howe briefly
here. There is no reason for you to come. 1 announced: "I propose to give these men all
have answered all your questions. Now you that is coming to them."
leave this office, and don't you ever show your The United States assistant district attorney
face in here again unless you come with a war- Butler, a dyed-in-the-wool Catholic, was as-
rant for my arrest. And if you do come with- signed to prosecute us. Assisting him was
out that I'll .throw you out on your face. Judge Oeland, hired as special counsel, and
GET OUT." He left. no doubt hired by the conspirators, even
A few days thereafter, agreeable to my itin- though the government paid the bill. The trial
erary, I was in Washington, D.C., to deliver began, and lasted over a period of days, and
a lecture on the "subject, " T H E WORLD H A S during that time I frequently saw in company
ENDED." SO far as our office had been informed, with Judge Oeland and the assistant district
no one knew at what hotel I was going to stop. attorney Catholic priests conferring with them
I went to the Raleigh hotel. Evidently I was and advising them what to do. How they knew
being shadowed, because I had not been in my about what should be done was strange to me;
room five minutes when my telephone rang for they were not acquainted with any of us.
and a gentleman announced that he wished That is to say, it might seem strange; but I
to sec me. On inquiry as to who he was he said: knew the purpose was to carry out their con-
"I am Judge Harris of Oklahoma." I said: spiracy to destroy us if possible.
"All right, come up, Judge." Our trial progressed and divers and numer-
He came to my room, and after a brief con- ous prejudicial errors were committed. I re-
versation he gave me some information which call one thing in particular. A note written
apparently he had from some other source. by Jack London concerning war had been pub-
I had never seen him before, and knew of no lished some time before the United States got
reason why he should have any interest in me. into war, and with that publication I had not
He said to me this: "You are going to be the slightest bit to do; yet that was admitted
arrested in a few days, and I just want to give in evidence as my sentiments and the senti-
you a tip." I construed that as another effort ments of my fellow defendants. Time and
to frighten me and get me to flee. I went to the again the trial judge showed his heat and con-
opera house and delivered the speech that I viction of our "guilt", and thus influenced the
had been advertised to deliver and took the j u r y ; and this is further shown by the final
next train for New York. instructions of the court.
In a few days thereafter the United States The ease was tried during great excitement;
marshal appeared at my office with a warrant the German army was advancing on Paris,
for my arrest and also that of seven or eight and the papers carried full accounts thereof;
Others named in the warrant as to be arrested, bands were in the streets, marching about the
charged with a violation of the Espionage courthouse where we were being tried; and
Law. The indictment was based chiefly upon great crowds were in the streets. Under this
a publication of one paragraph of The Fin- setting and in the excitement it was easy to
ished Mystery, not one letter of which T ever prejudice the people in general against us.
wrote or had anything to do with. That para- Notwithstanding all this, however, the jury
graph is, to wit: "Nowhere in the New Testa- hesitated a long while before rendering a ver-
ment is Patriotism (a narrow-minded hatred dict. Finally Judge Howe sent word in to
of other peoples) encouraged. Everywhere and them that they must bring in a verdict of
A U C U S T 23. 1939
"Guilty?, . as ; one. of the jurors afterwards There are many other interesting points
stated to us. They did bring in a verdict of that I might call attention to, but these ar
"Guilty", and a sentence of 80 years was im- the principal ones, and you can get other facts
posed upon us. We were denied bail, and im- from the court record and other parties.
mediately put in prison. Note the following from the files of the
We were incarcerated in the Raymond Clerk of Court dated July 12, 1918:
Street jail, Brooklyn, where we remained for
seven days, and then removed to Long'Island UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS
-City, where we were kept in jail until we were Second Circuit
taken to the Federal Penitentiary. Joseph F . Rutherford, et al. [and others]
In the meantime our attorneys made appli- v.
cation before the United States Court of Ap- United States,
peals for bail. Martin T. Man ton, the chief Defendant in Error
justice, assigned the hearing of this bail appli- A motion having been made before the under-
cation to himself, although the application had signed as a judge of this court for an order ad-
been made to Judge Ward. Upon hearing the mitting the defendants to bail pending the writ of
application Manton denied bail without as- error herein;
signing any reason whatsoever. Upon consideration thereof it is
ORDERED that said motion be and hereby is
When we reached the Atlanta penitentiary denied.
it was quite evident that the officers had been [signed] MANTON, C. J.
advised as to what kind of men we were, be-
cause they seemed to know all about us. We Thereafter application was made by attor-
were warned that we were not to do any neys for defendants to the United States Su-
preaching while in the prison. A short time preme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis. Upon
after this, however, a Sunday school was or- his order another application was made to the
ganized at. the instance of the deputy warden, Circuit Court of Appeals of New York. After
and each one of the prisoners was free to at- nine months from the time of incarceration
tend or not, as he liked. in prison the defendants were admitted to bail,
Our little party of eight attended and start- ten thousand dollars each. This order was
ed a class of our own, and within a short time made March 21, 1919. On March 29, 1919, the
almost all the-Sunday school attendants joined defendants were released from prison. A short
our class, to the number of about one hundred time thereafter the case was heard on appeal,
in all, and they heard the truth while we were and the judgment was reversed, defendants
in the prison. discharged, and in due time the case was dis-
missed entirely by the United States District
Referring now to our conviction: You will Attorney upon order of the Attorney General,
note the press reports that the clergy felicitat- and all the defendants were therefore auto-
ed one another and patted one another on the matically fully . restored to citizenship and
backhand said to one another, after the verdict were never at any time convicts within the
of "guilty" was brought in and the sentence meaning of the law.
imposed: "Now we are through with that
pestiferous crowd of Russell ites." They soon A l t h o u g h the C o u r t E e c o r d s show
had to change their tune. After the case had these facts, the Catholic p r e s s for more
been heard on appeal, and reversed, I went t h a n t w e n t y y e a r s has maliciously, delib-
to every city in the United States of any con- erately, dubbed J u d g e R u t h e r f o r d a s an
sequence and put an advertisement in the lead- ex-convict, knowing a t the time t h a t they
ing papers covering an entire page to this a r e lying. A t t h e same time they have
effect: "SENTENCED TO 80 YEARS IN PRISON' AT
THE INSTANCE OK THE CLERGY. COME, AND
c a r r i e d on a campaign of vilification
HEAR THE REASON W H Y . " And my lectures a g a i n s t h i m and have failed to answer
oyer a period of two years thereafter burned a n y t h i n g charged against them with ref-
them u p ; and their anger has increased ever erence to t h e i r religious racket. Contrast
since. t h a t with t h e fact t h a t the highest man
Manton, acting with the other Catholic con- on the U n i t e d S t a t e s Court of Appeals
spirators, did his best to keep us in prison, as is convicted of a most malicious and
the court record will show. wicked crime and the same Catholic press
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is ABSOLUTELY SILENT a b o u t it even t o t h i s be keenly interested in the a p p e a l of t h i s
day. case, the h e a r i n g of it, a n d the-opinion
I n view of this malicious effort on t h e r e n d e r e d by the Court, a n d p a r t i c u l a r l y
p a r t of the clergy to convict a n d incar- in t h e fact t h a t a m a j o r i t y of t h e j u d g e s
cerate in prison and d e s t r o y men of en- found t h a t t h e defendants were n o t
t i r e innocence, and because those men g u i l t y as convicted a n d Manton s t i l l i n -
were p r e a c h i n g the gospel of God's king- sisted t h a t t h e y should be k e p t in p r i s o n .
dom, the t r u t h , which exposes t h e du- T h i s will a p p e a r in the n e x t issue.
plicity of the clergymen, t h e r e a d e r s will E l t o n Groves.

Railroads and Steamships

Want a Job on the Railroad? Close Spacing of F a s t Trains

There was a time when any young A television device now makes possible the
man could get a job on a railroad close spacing of swift trains. The transmitter
and confidently look forward to broadcasts an electrical wave down one rail
promotion. That time is past. Today of the track. If there is a train ahead, the
the railroads are employing fewer wave travels up one of its wheels on the same
men than they did twenty years ago, and soon rail of the track, then through the axle, and
they will be employing fewer still. Moreover, finally returns through the other rail to the
the fast trains have been speeded up until transmitting train where a pencil beam of
there are fewer Pullman jobs. Buses and air- electrons moving across a scale makes visible
planes have cut the heart out of the railroad figures corresponding to the distance and
business. speed of the train ahead.
Acoustics Save the N o r m a n d i e Steam-Electric Locomotive
The claim is made that an expert on acous- Two years were spent by the General Elec-
tics saved the $50,000,000 steamer Normandie tric Company and the Union Pacific Railroad
from the junk heap. The vessel vibrated so Company in designing and building a steam-
that it made the passengers sick and the boat electric engine which will be expected to haul
became unpopular. The expert, S. K. Wolf, a 12-car Pullman train between Chicago and
made five trips across, testing every part of the Pacific Coast without asking ior a pusher
the ship, and finally found that by increasing anywhere. The grades are up to 2.2 percent,
the-blades from four to five in the ship's pro- and the temperatures vary from 40 degrees
pellers 80 percent of the vibration was stopped. below zero to 115 degrees above, on the U. E.
lines.
Ten Fruitless Trips Around the World
."In the autumn of 1938 the Finnish owner
of ..ten sailing vessels sent them all the way F a s t Time in the West
io Australia to get cargoes of wheat for the The Santa Fe makes the 789.3 miles be-
European market, only to find the market so tween Chicago and Dodge City, Kansas, in
shrunk that it was expected the vessels would 725 minutes, .which figures out at 65.3 miles
either have to return to Europe empty or lie per hour. The Union Pacific makes- the 893
over for a full year to obtain a cargo. miles from Chicago to Sidney, Nebraska, in
745 minutes, or 71.92 miles per hour.
Queen M a r y I s Queen Indeed
The Queen Mary is queen indeed of the
Atlantic, having covered the 2,938 miles from F i n s of the New M a u r e t a n i a ..'
Ambrose to Bishops Light in 3 days 20 hours The new Mauretania, built for comfort and
42 minutes, and now holding the record in economy, not for speed, carries two long anti-
both directions. Westward record, 66 minutes rolling fins stretching almost from bow to
longer. stern.
A U G U S T 23. 1939 9
 Rocky Mountain States

False Patriotism More About Cotton Picking

^->> -5* Arizona wishes to teach its chil- I have been in the cotton belt the most of
(^Vi A -, ^ r e n t 0 De patriotic. Therefore al- my life (am now past 70) and have seen the
legedly patriotic groups in the state time I could pick 500 pounds per day. It is
arrange for the passage of a law a very poor picker that cannot get as much
which denies any education to any as 150 pounds, and there are many that can
child who refuses to salute the American flag. pick 400 pounds to 600 pounds per day. The
Eecently four Arizona children whose parents price for picking here this year has been 75c
belong to a religious sect which bans such per 100 pounds; so you see the wages are not
salutes were expelled from an Arizona school so bad.
on the basis of this law. Sometimes the hands swell for the first three
We submit that this is not patriotic and is or four days and 'then quit. If the fingers
certainly not education for patriotism. crack we protect them with adhesive tape and
No evidence has appeared that these chil- they soon get well. As to the back, of course
dren are not patriotic. There is, however, it aches. So do one's legs, when not used to
ample evidence that these children and all it; the same with any other part of the body
Arizona children are being carefully trained at first.
in a false idea of what constitutes patriotism. You have this advantage in picking cotton
It would appear that Arizona children are which you do not have at some other jobs: you
being taught that forms and gestures con- can get on your knees and rest your back and
stitute patriotism. pick just as much and sometimes more that
way. Men, women and children all pick dur-
It appears that these children who have ing the season and make good money doing so.
been thrown out of school have been told in A. H. Austin, Arizona.
actions which speak far louder than words
that patriotism is a vicious, coercive and anti- Lake Mead
religious doctrine which denies them their Lake Mead, created by Boulder Dam, is
democratic rights to individual freedom. the greatest man-made lake on earth. It con-
It is not by making people outcasts that we tains sufficient water to provide 5,000 gallons
can create patriots. If this country is not big for every man, woman and child on the globe.
enough and strong enough and fine enough to It would cover the whole state of New York
inspire, that love which comes from the heart, to the depth of a foot. The dam itself is 660
if the only patriotism on which this nation can feet thick at the base, and 45 feet thick at the
depend is the lip service which is forced from top. It is in a gorge so narrow that its crest
unwilling citizens by fear of punishment, then is only 1,282 feet long. It is the largest struc-
there is no patriotism and can be no patriotism ture on earth. When you visit the dam you are
in America. Let us root out the idea that the first taken down 44 stories in. an elevator.
country should adopt the practice of tyrants Then you walk through the dam itself and
and dictators who demand the form at the come out at the top of the powerhouses, which
point of a bayonet and who forget the sub- are themselves 20 stories high. The dam itself
stance which wc in America have always is 727 feet high. It was completed in eleven
cherished and should continue to cherish. days less than five years.
The Arizona Daily Star.
Mr. Hayes and the D.A.R.
Denver Has Plenty of W a t e r Frank J. Hayes, lieutenant governor of
After a fifty-year fight Denver at last has Colorado, described the Daughters of the
plenty of water. The needed additional sup- American Revolution-as "old battle-axes, bar-
ply is brought through the Rocky Mountains nacles and scarecrows", "spoiled daughters of
6.3 miles in a tunnel under James Peak, and fortune" who had forgotten that they were
thence down South Boulder Canyon. The proj- just four generations removed from poor,
ect cost approximately $11,000,000. The Gov- hardworking farmers, small tradesmen and
ernment assisted. The use of public funds for workers; and then the D.A.R. got good and
such things is proper and beneficial all round. mad at him. You bad Frank Hayes.
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10
 Public Utilities
City of Holland, Michigan The Patriotic A. T. & T s
Public Ownership of Public Utili- Ijobor says that the patriotic American
ties mentions that Holland, Michi- Telephone and Telegraph Company maintains
gan, has water and electric public an anti-union policy, fighting all progressive
utilities worth $2,087,713, all paid legislation, state or national; put 200,000
for and free of debt, contributes to workers on the street during the depression,
the city an average of $70,709 per year, sets but kept on paying its president $200,000 a
aside $61,525 a year for depreciation, con- year, with many other huge salaries; at the
tributed $183,970 towards the construction of same time paid 9 percent dividends and piled
the Holland Hospital, and reduced rates for up a reserve fund of $800,000,000; protects
domestic or residential lighting from 8$ cents underworld racketeers in the dissemination of
per kilowatt-hour to 4^ cents. In twenty years racing and gambling information; has exor-
in the electric plant the amount of coal neces- bitant rates and a lobby and propaganda or-
sary to produce a kilowatt-hour of electricity ganization reaching out through banks, news-
was reduced from 6.51 pounds to 1.94 pounds, papers, corporations, schools, colleges and
and the people of Holland, not some group of chambers of commerce. And all of this was ad-
New York bankers, received the benefit of the mitted on the witness stand by A. T. & T. men
economies effected. themselves.

Electricity in Tacoma Phone Reconstruction in New England

Tacoma, Washington, is proud of the fact Almost before the hurricane had passed,
that in that fair city an electric light can be experienced long-distance operators had left
burned for nearly seventeen hours at a cost by airplane from Buffalo, Cleveland, Phila-
of one cent; an electric clock can run for a delphia and Washington for Boston, Hartford
month at a cost of 1^ cents; a radio will en- and Providence. About the same time 596 fully
tertain the average family for about 8 cents equipped trucks, with their complements of
a month. An electric iron will use up 4 cents' four linemen apiece, were loaded on flat cars
worth of electricity. The home refrigerator and rushed into New England from all states
will run a month for 20 to 40 cents. An elec- east of the Rocky mountains. At Chicopee
tric dishwasher will cost only 3 cents a month. Falls the main cable across the stream was
The Tacoma Sunday Ledger wants easterners broken. A new one was shot across by the
to read these facts and perspire. They do. Coast Guardsmen.
The World's Greatest Transmission Line l c per Kilowatt-Hour in Ottawa
The world's greatest electric light and pow- The average rate j>aid for electric current
er transmission line stretches from Boulder in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is less than
Dam to Los Angeles, 266 miles. This life line, lc per kilowatt-hour, and the cheapest in the
carrying 287,500 volts, is draped over a series world. Despite this low rate, the city's hydro-
of 2,700 steel towers, each one of which is electric commission made a profit of $11,390
visited by a watchman every day in the year. in the year 1938, and turned it over to the
Thirty-four patrolmen are needed to make the city to help pay the general running expenses
inspections; their trips are made by auto- of the municipality. What rate do you pay in
mobile, along a road specially built for the your city? 5c? 10c?
purpose.
No December Lighting Bills
Public Power in Tennessee There were no December lighting bills sent
The first state in the United States to have out by the municipally owned electric light-
public ownership of power is Tennessee. This ing plants at Martin's Perry, Ohio; Bloom-
should make it speedily one of the busiest, field, Iowa; Vinton, Iowa; Denison, Iowa;
most prosperous parts of the country; for it Cedar Palls, Iowa; Taunton, Illinois; Metrop-
is hard to exaggerate the importance of cheap olis, Illinois; Tecumseh, Nebraska; Sandus-
power, and there is no reason why it should ky, Ohio; Painesville, Ohio; and Pitcairn,
not be cheap everywhere. Pennsylvania.
A U G U S T 23. 1939 11
 After playing the two discs "Jehovah" and
"Riches", I presented the literature, but seem-
ingly did not stir up enough interest in her-
so I left a booklet free and prepared to depart!
At this point the lady said t o m e : - 1 have a
sick father here in the house who is bedridden
at this time. He is more interested than I in
these matters. Being that he has been so de-
spondent today, would you be so kind as to
Nine Witnesses in One Family play a disc for him in his presence?" I replied
On this page see Fred Bleich and family that it would be a real pleasure to do so. I
andithe Kingdom School at Lutz, Fla. Of the accompanied her to her father's bedroom
twelve children of the family (ranging in age which was purposely dimly lighted. After the
from 2 to 20 years) the five youngest are the preliminaries, salutations, etc., I received a
only ones not in Kingdom service. See the half-hearted consent to play one disc. I se-
eight phonographs. The nine who are publish- lected "Jehovah", playing that through with-
ers average better than 38 hours each, monthly. out any comment from the old gentleman, and
quickly putting on
A t . Eventide the disc "Riches" and
The Last House continuing. E v e r y -
There are many ex- thing went on quietly
periences in the daily until the part was
life of a publisher of r e a c h e d announcing
J e h o v a h ' s kingdom. the book Riches. As
Going - a b o u t from if shocked by an elec-
house to bouse, a true tric current, the old
followerof Christ Je- man sat upright in
sus meets with anger bed and barely whis-
and s-milcs, hatred pered: "Is it true?
and love, interest and Can it be true ? Rich-
indifference, but when es! Has Jehovah an-
the day is. over he will swered me?" Settling
find that day spent Nine witnesses in one family back on his pillow he
in.the service of the s e a r c h e d me with
Most High replete with joy, the kind of joy eager eyes until the disc, was finished. Imme-
only the Lord's own can and do have. One diately it was over he began to question me
such experience was my privilege to have, one with a quivering voice. "Tell me, who are you?
that brought tears to my eyes, and I am sure Did Jehovah send you ? He must have, as only
that all who love Jehovah will likewise share today, yes, this morning, I prayed that He
with me in praising the name of the One who might send me that book. Have you it with
knows how to make His own happy. you? Tell me, man. Speak!" Something chok-
After working my territory for fully five ing-like was in my throat, and tears welling
lours on a hot and sultry day with no re- rapidly in my eyes. I managed somehow to
sponse but opposition and indifference, I final- speak, asking him to explain as to his knowl-
ly approached the last house in the block, edge of the existence of the book Riches. His
preparatory to moving on to another "milder" reply was that fully a year had passed since he
zone. A young g i n answered the bell and, was presented with a radio folder describing
after reading the "testimony card, firmly re- the book. That was in Paran&, a state adjacent
fused to call her mother to the door. After a to Sao Paulo. He was unable at the time: to: con-
minute of friendly coaxing which got us no- tribute for a eopy, and later lost the folder,
where,; her mother, noting her delay at the and consequently the branch office address.
door, presented herself and demanded an ex- Prom that time on he was constantly on the
planation of my mission there. Immediately lookout for one of Jehovah's witnesses and
I. presented the phonograph, offering to play praying to Jehovah daily that he might pro-
a.disc in explanation. The offer was accepted cure a copy. That very morning he had stated
and. I was invited in. to his daughter: "If only I had that book
12 CONSOLATION
 ;im*rirww%

mart > i r p

Mwwriw. 4

Carenero, La., priest and officials greet Carenero religionists do it again, and the
and jail Jehovah's Kingdom publishers. decent people of town try to find out why.
Riches, I would be satisfied." Well, he has it. Rutherford should be refuted. We'd be much
He's happy, I'm happy, and all who love Jeho-" wiser to devote our time to answering the argu-
vah, His King and His Kingdom that read ments. Deprive your enemies of free speech,*and
this will be happy, too.-A. P. Andrade, Brazil. your enemies will some day deprive you of your
rights. Certainly Rutherford is making capital of
The J a c k a s s of Carenero Catholic attempts to have him silenced. Fortunately
we seem to have given up our misguided efforts
Most readers of Consolation are along those lines, but there is still a bitter after-
also readers of The Watchtower, taste from the previous mistakes. We can prove
quite probably, and such will have our claims as supporters of liberty only by helping
seen the story "Phonograph Plays protect the liberty even of those with whom we
in Youngsville (La.) Court" which disagree.
appears on the last page of the issue of Au- Bishop Noll should bestow his labors on the
gust 15,1939. That story concludes as follows: priestly jackass of Carenero, and do it right
' In just one little town, away, before the story
Carenero, we were put gets out of how he fell
in jail three times. They down on his Inquisi-
took everything away tion job. But maybe
from us, even our Bible. t h e b i s h o p is de-
And then the priest had pressed by the fact
all. OUT windows board- that the word Caren-
ed up so that we could ero' means a place
not witness to the peo-
ple .through the bars. where buzzards as-
semble, and he may
America, still has sometime have seen
lawSj l a w y e r s and and smelled buzzards
judges, and so it took feeding on the body
but a little while for Carenero priest orders police to shut off light of a dead jackass. A
Attorney Herman L. and air, true Inquisition style, as shown, sniff of the original
Midlo to get the pris- but habeas corpus proceedings make his Carenero diet is Very
oners out on a writ jackass collar set him off perfectly. thought-provoking.
of habeas corpus, and
to exhibit the priest to his community as the The Birth of a Company
perfect jackass which his collar proclaims him Three months ago our group of five pub-
to-be. In-"some other places the jackass fra :
ternity is awakening, or at least stirring slight- lishers arrived in Douglas, Arizona, to bring
ly in its sleep. Thus, in its issue of June 25, the Kingdom message to the people of .this
1939, Our Sunday Visitor, organ of the Ro- town of 10,000 population. There was no good-
man. Catholic bishop, J. Noll, admitted on its will interest on the file, and no company or-
front page the self-evident truth that ganization. We parked our trailers at the edge
A U G U S T 23, 1939 13
of town and began witnessing. We wrote down have you done to get this before the public I
the street and number of houses where no one It is truth! Next time you come back I will
was at home, and later called again to insure have all my friends from the Baptist church
a thorough witness. Witnessing first in the here, the preacher, and the elders, and the
residence district, we were soon spending our deacons." When we came back, his friends
evenings making back-calls on people of. good were not there; and he was a different man.
will. New subscriptions were obtained, and we Confronted with choosing between the truth
found people who were hungry for the truth. and his friends, this man chose his "friends".
Next the business district received the witness, "Protestant".clergy chimed in with the opposi-
literature was placed, and new subscriptions tion and became opposers. "When thou sawest
obtained here. The virgin territory was all a thjef, then thou consentedst with him, and
gone, all having been visited at least once. hast been partaker with adulterers. Thou
At this point oppo- givest thy mouth to
sition showed up. " I evil, and thy tongue
cannot take any of f r a m e t h deceit."
those books," replied (Psalm 50:18,19) As
one woman, 'because a result, some of the
I have taken an oath common people were
giving my word of led to believe that Je-
h o n o rand I never hovah's w i t n e s s e s
break my wordthat were undesirable and
I would not read any had left towndes-
of those books. Our tination u n k n o w n .
priest asked us to take Some said, "I hear
this oath and I have that they have been
done so. I wish you kicked out of town."
good luck, though." Apparently the oppo-
M. F . McCue, secre- sition had succeeded
tary of the Chamber in driving out Jeho-
of Commerce (guess vah's witnesses, and
his c h u r c h ) , s e n t the opponents were
s t a t e m e n t s to the jubilant. Perhaps it
Douglas Daily Dis- added to their joys to
patch and a number know that Arizona
of "news" items were Twelve listeners to the Kingdom message in Dixie has a swastika-sign on
p r i n t e d . (Clippings all state h i g h w a y
enclosed) Branded as "Public Nuisance No. 1 markers,.and this year is celebrating the 400th
in this city" we were falsely accused of being anniversary of the arrival of Fray Marcos de
"specially obnoxious, almost forcing their way Niza, a Catholic priest who it is claimed was
into the homes and remaining for hours", the first white man to tread Arizona's soil;
Other false statements were made and we were who in 1539 came to Arizona, "for the glory
charged with being "pests" and "religious of God and the King of Spain."
fanatics". As a sample of how "true" these However much to the dislike of opponents,
"news" items were, note this: It was not until the story docs not end here. A key meeting was
we were through witnessing in the town that held under the direction of the zone servant.
the items were published, and it was stated Counter-activities were planned. Some of the
that then "the secretary of the Chamber of people of good will of the town who did not
Commerce is receiving dozens of phone calls approve such highhanded actions wrote letters
daily". Copper cards were then printed, and to the local paper, and they were published.
issued to householders, warning peddlers not 'Fascism or Freedom" was the subject of a
to knock unless they had a permit in writing public meeting held in the Odd Fellows hall
from the Chamber of Commerce. in Douglas. On Saturday evening the day be-
One man, a Baptist, heard the speeches fore the meeting an information march was
"Warning" and "Face the Facts" in his home, held. The chief of police said that he is for
was well pleased with them, and said, "What freedom and is opposed to Fascism, and he
14 CONSOLATION
Peddler Nuisance Peddler Nuisance
the Doturut* Chamber
ipprovlng his
approving
C of Commerce
nil rsropogltlon gueh offered his co-operation. A
letters, according to the present
temper of the chamber and live
police escort accompanied
Is Not Abated; Grows Serious As community will be to "acarot aa
hen's teeth,-
the march down the main
Douglas, A r i z . , Dls-- streets of the town. Follow-
Problem Studied Action Demanded Datoh, Jan. 13, 1939 ing the police car, a sound-
M r McCur, K O t W i of the U. T. J-trCiK 0. tbe d u m b e r of Utter* To Tbt * car gave announcements;
chamber of eorcuneTce. report! the c o m m o e t n M yatotrtUy aMvr tfr**-
Uc itcps *p-ii4 be Ulu-n to rial Doui- Editor
next followed 11 marchers
nrrd lor drastic action of a m i (art
to hill the aggravation' of peddler* b n i X t h t nuisanre treated Xrj ped> carrying "Fascism or Free-
disturbing l b * IrenirultHy of both
thr residence dtrtrtct and the buu-
o i e n Aid reHHcar, nusaUa wno
are diinnc rest den : aJaiort fnuiLIc
Oeneral Delivery, dom" signs, and conclud-
Douglas. Aria.
D S > district. He state* he' U re. by c&lltnc *' their. homes and ftn-
tiitlng on entexini and be.ng he&rd.
Jan. la. 1. ing the march were four
crlnng d o w i s ol phone a l l s dally Ttie Douglas Dally DtsPauA.
m m resident* compUinlni about UcCue wi'l the volume or call* Douglas Arte. cars also with signs. The
of cooipiitot to the ensmtrer' ot Deaf Editor:
the p t M l a i that come to UJI
doors.
rcmmerDf *a* ir>cre>ulnf so rapidly In your Hauea of Jartuory a. , and newspaper carried a dis-
and wtrt m U v he had been 10, you published articles descrlbinj
Th* chamber ur- having copper loroKl to appeal n or-ly to Chief a group camped ol the 13th street play ad, and the local radio
cards printed to be 'dutnbuted to at Police Percy Bowden. but to Clry
the householders to or placed >t DM Sanitarian TheddOrt Ryan lor aid.
perk 'members of a fanatical re-
ligious group acme of which have station carried two 100-
doors varolii* peddlers not to knoet
unices they have been approved by
The dttLBiber ncreUry smld he hAd
InJonna-Uon at leaat o e e froup of
active ubercojoast. and who force
their way Into Use homes and re- word announcements tell-
Uie chamber of commerce. Doug-
las h u a dry ordinance aimed at
the "Jit might rery reasonaoji
be termed heaJch mn*Ce du? to
main for hours" The above state-
m e n u ere untrue. They convey s ing of this timely subject.
beting this nuisance ID t h t t U
provide* a peddler must tenure a
Uvftlr hv\nt conditions i n d ' t h e phy-
akoal eaDdltion of ***.> of th* yrouji.
false tmnreeslon to the people of
Douglas. Bo In the interests ol Then on Sunday morning
license from the police If be sella
and deliver* merchandise. Those
He la>d thl* fccUon of the cane be-
fore .GAiittarl&D Ryan tn the hope
truth you will kindly publish Ihti
letter 22 publishers arrived and
simply taking orders lor merchan-
dise to be delivered later escape IbU
he could act.
There are * good many legal an-
I em a retired businessman and
for the pert few years have spent
began calling from house to
license fee which I* high enough to
-discourage the average peddler. gles to the alittatlorL A peddle/ must
have a facrnse from the city if he
all my time and much of my money
In preachttuj m e gospel of teiod's
house, personally inviting
A new outcropping of this nub-
snrr has been the cause of Utter
will- and deJlrezv at the tame time.
Chief of Forte* Bawdrn asks the
+**f**rr as commanded by tne Lord.
( I ess deeply concerned about the
the people to hear. The
cumpUtnt recently. Both tram the
residence district and /ram business
co-operauon of the reaideata 4Sd ] welfare of my feUoermen and I came
I here to spend e vacation and t o tall
sound-car combed the town,
protniaea if aome of Uvc-e- who ha.e
houses have com: complaints chat
representatives of what Is described
been harrmaaed by the peddlera will I the good people here about O o d l inviting the people to at-
Just buy aornethtnc from one erf I kingdom.
as a "ore religion" have been call- ' 1 rrsent tne statement that I tend. The public meeting
ing and have been specially ob-
noxious, almost forcing their way i them and then appear and testify
ag-ainst the aellet, tn*t parttcuUx
SnulMhce can he ehmtnated qulcaty.
[ forced my way Into ^anynoes. .home
because e reel Christian would not was conducted as sched-
into homes and rr marring lor do so. That statement is outre Un-
boors.
Chief of Police Percy Bowdra a
I Regsvrdlng the reUglOU* CulUkU.
I object* of aome of the most bitter true. Jesus says In Malt. H d t ' uled. Those attending were
"This gospel' of the kingdom meet
making .every effort to co-operate
ulth thr chamber of commerce and
| complaints, the officers take the
I stand the eonsUtuUoti guarantees be preached in all the 'world aa * given free copies of Face
witness unto eD the nations and
A is pointed out' any resident has
* frttdom ol religron and they c*n
I do nothlni It L> potStad out, tlOV- then shall the end come." In Isaiah the Facts; and this final
thr lull backing f the law In re- 1 1 1 . and 2, the commandment Is
fusing to permit anyone to enter
e*T, that the conatllutkra guaran-
i Uea the aaoctJtj 01 the horat ajI "Preach good tidings unto the big w i t n e s s completely
the home. The warning card* will meek." In laalan 4 M 0 - U Ust
be distributed very shortly -after
the right of the reddent tn bar hat
doors to anyon* be does not c u e to statement It ~Tc are my alluuent cowed the enemy and they
which. It Is Indicated s a y additional
measures that may be necessary
entertain. ProaeniUon for treapada
might be resorted to In case* where
(bat I am 0 0 0 . " Tne apostle Paul
went -from boose to houseV as is were silent!
win be aider-taken. the door-to-door aanrassen are aa stated 10 Acta : .
Douglas, Ariz., Dis- persistent and. rude as they ha--e
beta decUrod to be to some of the
I have not got tiraerculcats and
neither has any ca eat group. -I
Now an active company
patch, J a n . 5,.1939. wonder where you cot your authority
fft%piss\isTits| coming to the chamber
of cununtToe. to say we had. I think tn* cllmau
of Jehovah's witnesses is
Douglaa, Ariz., Dls-.
e Is fine. This la th,-s*oond win-
ter I have anent to this vtdrflty.
organized and set up in
Sanitarian Acts patch, Jen. 10, 1939 and I expect t o com* hack inwny
time* more. The message wench
Douglas, is working under
Jehovah'* witnesses are brtrujtrii t o Jehovah's Theocratic Gov-
To Remove Group Warning Notices the people Is not tli* product of %ny
Ban. but Is Use message of the AT* ernment, is under the care
mighty Cod as asated m eOs word,
After Complaint To Halt Nuisance t h e Binla. The secretary of the of the zone servant; and
chamber vf ewrunere* tn hi* efforts
to make this town took Hk* a l o n - now, instead of there being
don log would do wefl to take note
Secretary H T. McCue of tne Are Being Issued that he la not isgnttng ageinat map
but aca-rsft Ood a* stated In 3
no interest and no com-
chamber of commerce was Jubilant
yesterday over' the success of at
Copper colored notices to he tack-
chron. : l i , T h * battle It Oodn." pany, those who were once
your* truly,
least a part of the drive to rtd th*
rlty of hmsse-to-bouse canvassers. ed on entrances both to residences OTTO fCKWUIXM. hungry and starving for
and busmen MtambshBients to wam
branded as public nuisance Ma. 1
m Wis cy. war the peddlers and magaaor Douglas. Ark- the truth are becoming the
sunscrtptlcn ssHdtora. were being
l**t vrek UeCue conferred with
C<ty Sanitarian T. FL Ryan about lsewrd to an who called far there
To The Editor of
Jan. 1, i n * .
The Douglae
Lrord's "other sheep" and are
mi Use Otamber of commerce yes-
Use possible health menace'of on*
xotrp. caM to be ralurtous fanatics. terdsy. The signs were devised in . 'Dispatch
Israr Sir: I've been reading the
feeding at Jehovah's table.
an effort to' reduce {he public
by doaens of yswsdeerta This group nuisance of Ires-cling salesmen of artlclea In Th* Dtspatch about some
people of a religious cult that are
Otto Kjorlein, pioneer.
lass ween Urlrsf la bouse trailers tn ewery variety. Complaints against
these door-to-door peddlers hare buthMinf lb* people
the Fifteenth street park camp dome good Christian peoriie
j grown extreme?/ bitter tn recent
ground. At least one Of their num-
ber was suffering from avcUre tuber- 'weeks. called at my home but they were
very polite end I Invited them Vn-
Their Only Argument
IgwMswX siy wife went around with them
The city sanHarUn made an ]n-
The wording on Die signs Is "All
requests for donations, edvrrttsinii- aa Interpreter, and she says they "You folks think you are
ri-estla-silon' with ' the m u l t the wwre very polite everywhere tUey
party has departed for an unknown
eubacrlptlone, order* toy merchan-
dise, must be referred to and ap- vrent- going to hear Judge Ruth-
destination. Mccue said yesterday Tbey would knock on a door, and
he would carry forward the drive
proved m writing by the Douglas
Chamber of Commerce and Mines if they ere asked In. very good. U erford deliver a lecture next
for scene legal method of dlscdurag-'
tr-r ' peddlers and solicitors imul
before any consideration will be
given Please eevc your time and
they were not aaked In. they went
on to tne next door. Sunday, but you won't, for
something definite baa been accom-
plished to abate the nuisance fur-
ours by crMWerattng *
The thought behind Ulas little at
aurh people are always welcome
my home he will be beaten to a pulp,"
card la that If the householder or
the merchant will tack it up at the
Your* retpectfuily.
r. A. BAixiKasra. so said a tool of the pope
IXiuglas, A r i z . , Lla- door Use peddler can have no I*-
gnlmate excuse for attempting to Dowglaa, A r i z . , Dis- to a witness the week of the
j a t c h , J a n . 7 , 1939. sell unless he has a letter from p a t c h , Jan. 1 9 , 1939 Seattle Convention.
AUGUST 23, 1939 15
Common-sense Teacher witnesses have the truth on their side when
Our two little boys, 7 and 9 years, in the they see in flag salutes, oaths of loyalty, and
second grade, have never saluted the flag. military service even for the objectors a dan-
Nothing was said about it for a long time. gerous idolatry which threatens the true wor-
Then came the day (patriotic week, I think) ship of God. We should labor to maintain a
when their teacher called the principal of constant vigilance for a free church. It is our
their, school in to see about it. He questioned legacy as Americans and our only hope of a
them as to why they refused to salute. victory for democracy and religious freedom.
. Glenn Paul, who is 7, answered like this: Reverend Stephen Fritchman, Bangor,
"Saluting the flag is loving the flag more than Maine, in an address at Orono University.
Jehovah, and if we love anything more than
Jehovah we can not live in the Kingdom, and Paley's Sickening Hypocrisy
we want to live in the Kingdom." Floyd, who William S. Paley, president of the Colum-
is 9, added: "And if you. don't believe that is bia Broadcasting System, is out with a state-
true, we can bring you a book to prove it to ment urging that every person should "have
you." the right to use the microphone within the
The teacher asked for the book, took limits of decency and the laws of libel", and
Loyalty, contributed the penny, and the next yet flatly refused to sell time to Jehovah's
day said to Floyd, "Well, Floyd, you were witnesses to broadcast the good news of God's
right after all." They still have the flag sa- kingdom as the hope of the world. Indeed all
lute, but our little boys stand and say the who fawn before the Roman Catholic Hier-
pledge, but are not required to salute. On one archy are quick to ape its sickening hypocrisy,
occasion there was a school play in which there which in the same breath proclaims that it is
was a flag drill. Glenn Paul did not wish to be the great spokesman for human liberty and
in the flag drill, and the teacher said she demands the right to murder "heretics", that
would find some other place for him. I thought is, persons disagreeing with its teachings.
this was very considerate of her.Mrs. M.
Ethleen Masters, Nebraska.
Knockers and Boosters
At Napoleonville, Louisiana I am a pioneer and on the roof of my car
At Napoleonville, Louisiana, in the trial have a large sign mounted which reads: "Re-
of two of Jehovah's witnesses, a gentleman ligion is a snare and a racket; Serve God and
testified that he had learned more about God Christ the King. Jehovah's witnesses/' One
and His kingdom in six weeks from the day while witnessing in the city I had the car
WATCHTOWER publications than he had
parked outside a school and the children were
learned in 48 years with the Catholic church. just coming out when three boys, 12 to 13
This man is now taking the phonograph years of age, stopped to read. The first said,
around, playing it for his friends, and telling "That guy in that car is nuts." The second
them that if they want everlasting life they said, "I think it takes guts to sit in it"; and
should abandon religion and learn the Bible. the third said, "Well, he has more nerve than
At the same little village the teachers told the I have." Every knock is a boost.J. James,
children to inform their parents that if any Canada.
persons had any WATCHTOWER literature they
should report to the Napoleonville courthouse. Jehovah's witnesses Amused
They had no more right or reason to do this Jehovah's witnesses are amused when they
than to require them to bring in all their read that 5,200,000 copies of Mein Kampf
underwear and socks. were sold, and brought $3,536,000 in royalties
to Hitler. The same papers that mention this
Restrictions of Conscience huge output of books somehow never find
The restriction of conscience apparent in room for a line that more than fifty times as
the adverse decisions of the Supreme Court many of Judge Rutherford's books have been
in the Macintosh and Sehwimmer cases should placed in the hands of the people, that they
cause real alarm to thoughtful citizens in this are a million times better books, and that the
country. If the state can conscript the con- people get them at much less per volume than
science of its people it has progressed far in 10 percent of the charge made for Mein
the direction of totalitarianism. Jehovah's Kampf.
16 CONSOLATION
(mm Catholic combine. The further fact that Fas-
cist Italy prosecuted a war of conquest against
Abyssinia, in which many harmless persons
were killed, and that the pope endorsed that
war and placed his blessing upon it, directly
contradicts his "desire" for peace. The totalitar-
ian government that rules Germany and has
recently grabbed Austria, and wrecked Czecho-
slovakia, and other European countries, and
Peace threatens to plunge all Europe into war, has
had the full endorsement of both the late and
T H E RANK AND F I L E of the conserva-
tive people of all nations desire peace.
Relying upon worldly religious leaders such
the present pope. The present pope is a shrewd
politician, who is playing the game of polities
that will lead the nations into war. Incon-
people are often victims of deception. If they sistency, hypocrisy, is stamped indelibly upon
have confidence in their religious leaders, they the acts of the late pope, as well as those of
are almost certain to be deceived at the pres- the present pope. Their supposed advocacy of
ent time by such professed supporters of peace peace has deceived and is deceiving many gul-
but who, in fact, are against peace. A hypo- lible or credulous persons who really desire
crite is a deceiver. Hypocrisy is the practice peace.
of that which results in deceiving others. The
following definitions are taken from the stand- The present-day situation is exactly a ful-
ard lexicographers: fillment of prophecy recorded centuries ago
in the Scriptures. Jerusalem was typical of
HYPOCRITE: One who plays a. part for the "Christendom". Jerusalem had forgotten her
purpose of winning approbation or favor, or obligation to God. In "Christendom", where
feigns to be other and better than he is; a the Papacy, political-religious combine takes
false pretender. the lead, these claim to serve God, but serve
HYPOCRISY: Act or practice of feigning to the Devil. The words of Jehovah's prophet
be what one is not; .false form or appearance Jeremiah apply primarily to Jerusalem, but
of virtue or religion. apply with greater force today to the religious
The newspapers published by the Roman leaders, and particularly to the Papacy, to
Catholic Hierarchy reporting the death of the wit: "For from the least of them even unto
late pope Pius emphasize the statement that the greatest of them every one is given to
the last word uttered by him, upon his death- covctousness j and from the prophet even un-
bed was, "Peace." When the present pope, to the priest every one dealeth falsely. They
Pacelli, was elected, the same papers published have healed also the hurt of the daughter of
the statement that his first word as pope was, my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace;
"Peace." It is exceedingly doubtful whether when there is no peace."Jeremiah 6:13,14.
there is any truth in the published statements. The Papacy covets that which does not be-
Doubtless the pope on his deathbed said noth- long to her, namely, to rule the earth. The
ing about peace and the same is true with ref- Papacy tries to deceive the people_ in order
erence to the incoming pope; but such publi- to gain complete control of them, and to allay
cation was for the purpose of deceiving the the fears of the people the Papacy pretends
people. The acts of the late pope and the acts to be for peace and cries out, "Peace, peace";
of the present pope directly and emphatically "when there is no peace."
contradict advocacy or desire for peace. The There will be no peace on earth.until after
undisputed facts are these: The cruel war Armageddon, which is the battle of the great
prosecuted by Franco, the Catholic, against day of God Almighty, and in which Satan's
Spain, in which many harmless persons were organization, including the religious institu-
murdered, was fully approved by the pope. tions, shall be completely destroycd.-Then the
The pope not only advocated and supported Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus, will rule the
such war, but he pronounced his blessings world in peace and righteousness. Those who
upon it. When Franco entered Barcelona his trust in the Lord and obey Him will be the
iirst act was to perform mass at the instance only ones who will find the place of safety from
of the pope. The real purpose of that war was> that terrible disaster and who will thereafter
to put Spain under the control of the Fascist- dwell in peace.
A U G U S T 23, 1939 17
 Russia
Ready for War Learns to Read
Ten years ago or more the Soviet Before the Russian revolution 70 percent
Union signed a convention abolish- of the Russian people could neither read nor
ing .the use of poison gas and bac- write and there were large areas in what is
teriological warfare. To that we now the Soviet Republic where fully 95 per-
still adhere, butbut if our enemies cent were illiterate. The change that has taken
use such methods against us, I tell you what, place in twenty years is most remarkable; for
we are preparedand fully preparedto use it is claimed that there are now only 7 percent
them also and to use them against aggressors of illiterates in the whole of the territory oc-
on their own soil. cupied by the Soviet; there are great numbers
We are not blind to the lessons of the wars of public libraries, and they are well patron-
in Spain and China. We do not.want war. ized ; and though the literature available is,
We hate war. But if they force war upon us for the most part, propaganda material of the
we shall not hesitate to fight them with every Soviet, yet, as education increases, the de-
weapon at our command and fight them ten- mands of the people for other mental food are
fold on their own ground. bound to increase and be gratified.
The navy does not rank with the highest,
but it is already adequate to defend Soviet Did Not Want to Be Murdered
shores. Our tanks are good enough. Because he did not wish to be murdered by
Our aviation is as good as anyif not bet- the insane dictator of Russia, Alexander Bar-
ter. Our artillery has shown in practice what mine, nineteen years in the service of the
it (ran do in war..Our infantry is not only well Soviet Government, fled from his post as Rus-
trained, equipped and disciplined, but every sian minister to Greece. He fully expects to
man in the ranks knows what he is fighting for share the same fate as was meted out to the
and why. ambassadors to Germany, Poland, Turkey,
The U.S.S.R. wants peace, not war. I t has Latvia, Lithuania, and to hundreds of other
no aggressive designs or intentions, but let its enthusiastic socialists who have been executed
enemies realize that that is not a sign of weak- at the behest of the red murderer Stalin.
ness. If they attack, the U.S.S.R. will not only
defend itself, but will strike back with all its Those Orgies with the Nuns
force.Russian War Commissar Voroshiloff, Dispatches from Warsaw say that the 65-
in an address to military officers in Moscow. year-old head of the Old Orthodox Church,
Sergei Krutitsky, when arrested, was sur-
Child Brides of Czarist Russia rounded by naked nuns. Thirty-two of the
Czarist Russia was not such a paradise for nuns were arrested, alorig with three priests
women as some imagine. What do you think that had assisted the Very Most Altogether
of a child of eleven being sold to a man of 65 Reverend Krutitsky in his religious exercises.
who already had three wives? Or a child of 9
being sold to a man of 55 for two horses, a Phosphates from Kirovsk
cow and 500 rubles of silver? Or women of Kirovsk, Russia, north of the Arctic Circle,
14 or 15 years of age who were sent to a stable has become an important source of phosphate
or to the woods to give birth to their babies rock, used in the manufacture of fertilizers.
alone? It is one of the prides of Soviet Russia In eight years the population grew from 200
that many of these former child brides of to 35,000, and in 1936 some 2,000,000 tons of
Czarist days are now serving as lawyers, the apatite or phosphate ore was mined.
engineers, teachers, aviators, and editors.
Rare Find for Numismatists
The Drink of the Proletariat A rare find was that at Lake Ladoga, near
More than 5,000,000 bottles of champagne Leningrad, Russia. A treasure of 11,000 coins,
were produced in Soviet Russia in 1937. It Saxon, Danish, Czech and Italian, some of
has been decided to build two more factories, them bearing dates of the 11th century, was
one in Tiflis and the other in Moscow.J. W. brought to light. The coins were found in a
Williams, Lithuania. copper kettle.
18 CONSOLATION
 The Press
The Case of Daisy Waller When the Atlas vertebra was replaced correctly
A graphic illustration of how news nature began its normal course of healing and the
child who was to become a statue grew into a
of sensational cures by chiropractic 12-year-old girl with roses in her cheeks.The
is withheld from the public is the Health Clarion.
story of little Daisy Waller. All
over the land, in 1937, newspapers British and American Press
carried the story of this eight-year-old Atlan- Compared with the scanty, intermittent,
ta, Ga., girl, over whose beautiful face a mask and haphazard snippets which in the popular
of stone was slowly forming and whose body press of this country do service for American
was gradually turning to rock. The news- news (you will understand that this has no
papers kept the public in touch with this' reference to the Manchester Guardian), the
petrifying child, then suddenly she was no detailed, regular, and impartial reporting of
longer news. Why? Because she had been the American, foreign correspondent usually
cured by a chiropractor! Since the medicos provokes the English visitor to surprised ad-
couldn't afford to have the newspapers print miration. Furthermore, the proof of this may
the truth that this medically doomed girl was be found in the wide-spread awareness which
cured by chiropractic, silence was the policy the American public displays of the move-
adopted by the Medical Trust. But: ment of events here and on the Continent.
The stone mask that four years ago crept over There is everywhere among intelligent Amer-
the lovely features of little Daisy Waller, eight, icans the greatest interest in and acquaintance
victim of the rare malady, sclerodermia, slowly with European affairs. That the conclusions
but surely turning her to stone, today is gone. The the American draws from his observation of
lethargy has liftedleaving no trace. the European gangrene may differ from our
The child who once was doomed to death because own is not a sufficient reason for concluding
the tissues of her body were petrifying, now is them to be erroneous.H. G. Nicholas (Eng-
playing in her front yard on South Candler Road, lishman, but for two years resident in the
apparently the picture of health. She said yester-
day : "I feel good now, just as though I had never United States), in a letter to the Manchester
been sick. I can play baseball all day long if I Guardian.
want to and ride my bicycle and I ean eat any-
thing I want." Colliers' New Plan
"My teacher sent me home," she had told her The new plan of publication of Colliers'
mother, who immediately put the child to bed. For Weekly takes advantage of air-mail service
weeks the malady progressed with alarming speed. to get out 21 foreign editions simultaneously
She was gradually losing use of her limbs and a with the American one. Page proofs are mailed
strange hardening- process of the tissues became from the central plant in Springfield, Ohio,
apparent to the touch. The muscles began to lose to every important foreign capital. There the
their resiliency.
pages are photographed, transferred in nega-
After a number of consultations the child's con-
dition was said to be hopeless. Her father and tive to zinc plates so sensitized that only
mother, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Waller, and her six printed parts of the original will take ink on
sisters and two brothers watched her condition with the reproduction, and put on offset presses.
a feeling of despair. Newspapermen in each of these cities write
Then the family lawyer recommended an Atlanta the editorials for local readers. 150,000 foreign
chiropractor with the bope that the child could be copies are printed in this manner.
brought to recovery. Eight weeks after the be-
ginning of the disease Daisy was X-rayed and The E n d of Scribner's
treatment began. Following the adjustment made Scribner's Magazine lasted 52 years, and
three days following the X-ray the child began to passed out recently, after a brilliant business-
respond, and in three weeks a marked change was man prophesied that he would raise the circu-
noted.
lation to 350,000. First he fired alb the old
Her condition resulted from a misplacement of editors that knew anything about their work.
the Atlas vertebra, or the top vertebra, which
caused a deposit of mineral salts in the body due He put on specialists that knew everything
to the fact that nature was unable to control the about everything, except running a magazine.
manufacture and elimination of the lime and phos- Finally, after running out of cash and out of
phate salts, it was explained. ideas, the whole enterprise went kerplunk.
A U G U S T 23, 1939 19
 less, sincere Americans seem to be unaware of
the underground work carried on by the Vati-
can in the United States and regard tales of
such as harmless, European figments. This
indifference will some time prove their un-
doing. .
As recently as 1936, the Vatican, in the
person of Cardinal Pacelli, secretary of state
The Catholic International made a trip to prospect this most promising"
The Vatican knows every tiling about the client: a rough estimate of the money avail-
nations of the world and they know nothing able from American Catholics being six billion
about i t : therein lies its power. A tide of francs. He was feted hy the president, met
varied documents flows into Rome every day all the important clergy, bankers and business
from all points of the globe in which Catholics men. It was^even said that Mussolini had ad-
live. These are read carefully, then catalogued vised the cardinal to do some tempting favors
in the secret archives which form an incom- for Fascist financiers in the United States.
parable documentary source, but which are While at the present time diplomatic relations
closed to the laymen. between the U. S. and the Vatican do not exist,
It was Gregory the Seventh who appointed be sure they will come in time. . . .
the first ecclesiastical legates to sovereigns. In Germany at the time of the advent of
The novelty was not to the taste of them all, Hitler, about one-third of the population were
and William the Conqueror is reported to have Catholic adherents. Since then, with the water-
informed the pope: "I am a dutiful son of the tight treaty negotiated by Von Papen, a Jesuit
Church, but if your legate sets foot in my agent, with the Vatican, a minor war has
Duchy of Normandy, I warn you that he will broken out between the Nazis and the Church:
find himself strung up to the highest oak in over the young people and their education.
my forests." Catholic periodicals and organizations were
Thereupon the Papacy abandoned this sys- suppressed, to which the Vatican replied but
tem, entrusting its intelligence service to feebly, leaving its clergy and faithful in the
monks established in the country, hidden in lurch.
monasteries, or to wandering friars, who Similarly, the Jesuits got control in muti-
traveled about all the time. Later, the Jesuits lated Austria after the war. Socialist Austria
took charge of espionage. And eventually the was abandoned by her war-time allies but was
17th century saw brilliantly clever ambassa- given a loan, the control of which was in the
dors appointed. They were usually laymen of hands of Mgr. Seipel, former treasurer of
parts who had been raised to the nobility for the Company of Jesus [Society of Jesuits].
this very purpose. The last step was taken, The sole program was to defeat socialism and
though, when the Papacy created a corps of prepare a diplomatic combination in favor of
ecclesiastical diplomats who are educated in the return of the Hapsburgs, also agents of
the Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles. This the Vatican. Dollfuss has been seen to wipe
system is in force today. out the Austrian workers. (He was a pupil of
The majority of countries at the present the Jesuits.) Since then [written prior to
time maintain relations with the Vatican. March, 1938Ed.], Schusschnigg is prepar-
Examples of the roles, diverging from limited ing the ground by organizing the Christian
positions to those of privilege, played by the state on a corporative basis, a method planned
Roman Catholic Church in many countries by the Company of Jesus. He is suppressing
are to be found in United States, Belgium, universal suffrage, organizing legitimatist
Italy, Germany and the Far East. manifestations with the aid of the army, para-
In the United States the expansion of Ro- military formations and the clergy.
manism was hindered by the division of the History and contemporary events have
Catholic faithful into German, Irish, French shown the Church's actions to be governed by
and Italian sections, and by the ferociously circumstances. I n the event of war, she will
individualistic "American spirit" which was flatter the victor and sympathize with the
hostile to all foreign supervision. The Vatican vanquished. And if there are undeveloped
really failed to understand the American countries (such as China, Japan and Asia
mentality and made many mistakes. Neverthe- -generally) she is omnipresent, supporting the
20 CONSOLATION
nationals or the foreign oppressors after an Church. In this respect the statement of Count
examination of their respective merits. Alexander Feftitich, who attempted to bring
For instance, with the -downfall of the Rus- about agrarian reform in Hungary and tried
sian tsars, the Vatican was gleefully envisag- to help the peasantry by breaking up church
ing itself as assuming the mantle of the de- holdings in that country, is significant. He has
parted masters. So it showered the Soviet Re- stated that the Catholic Clergy of Hungary
public with attentions. But the latter were possessed 1,325,000 acres of church reserves
suspicious. Catholic missionaries of charity and that "one-third of the national riches in
were sent into Rus- Spain is represented
sia, but accomplished in property and goods
nothing. The present possessed by Roman
pope was a c t u a l l y C a t h o l i c congrega-
nunzio at Warsaw, tions The Chemins
Poland, at the time of de Fer du Nord, the
the Russian advance T r a n s a t l a n t i c Com-
on that city; he rep- pany, t h e o r a n g e
resented the diplo- groves of Andalusia,
matic corps and con- the m i n e s of the
cluded an agreement Basque p r o v i n c e
with the Soviet au- and the Riff, several
thorities should the factories in Barcelo-
Poles be defeated. The na, are under the con-
opportunity, however, trol of religious pow-
t o tfarry o u t t h e ers " In addition,
scheme did not ma- in many c o u n t r i e s
terialize. Catholic organizati on s
While the Holy See have grouped num-
is always observed to bers of peasants into
tie up with other con- buying and selling co-
fessions in time of war, operatives, aided by
revolutionandinternal auxiliary banks which
distresses, Big Busi- are n a t u r a l l y con-
ness is really the very trolled by the big
marrow of Catholi- Catholic banks.
cism,, and this is the No, no, Eugene; that's not the kind of fan-dance After the advent of
case despite the dis- America loves Fascism, the Banco
parity between this fact and the early teach- di Roma, the bank of the Catholic nobility, of
ings of the Church Fathers. . . . "All those the Vatican and religious orders, almost went
who were possessed of lands or houses sold bankrupt. An appeal was made and Mussolini
them," brought the prices thereof and placed softened to the tune of 700,000,000 lira, which
them at the feet of the apostles; and they were saved the bank. The Lateran Treaty was in
distributed to each according to his need," process of preparation.
says the Acts of the Apostles, 4:36, which The failure of economic sanctions during
Saint Ambrose in Be Officiis: I seconds thus: the Abyssinian war and the favorable atti-
'^Nature has engendered common rights; it is tude of the Vatican is easily explained. When
their, usurpation which makes for the law of the sanctionist countries suppressed the trans-
privilege/' fer of funds and "Peter's Pence" which were
. B u t ; in feudal times such subversive doc- represented in foreign and Italian banks,
trines were stopped. Saint Augustine was the money could not reach Rome. So the "frozen
first to realize that the Christian doctrine assets" of the Vatican were transferred in-
would never be acceptable in its pure state to geniously to the credit of the Italian state
men of position, and began to speak of "Hu- which thus effected purchases abroad, while the
man right" and "Divine Right." Thus the Italian treasury credited the Vatican with an
Christian doctrine was modified to keep it equivalent sum in lira at Rome.
from disappearing. In the matter of social welfare, the Church
No one knows the actual riches of the took a stand only after a century of hesita-
A U G U S T 23, 1939
21
tion, when the class struggle was making the A. Dior. Condensed from Crapouillot, Paris
outlook dangerous to the bourgeois order. Ac- by Magazine Digest, Pickering, Ont.
tually it has always been the custom of the
church to intervene only in time to steal to Division of School Money in Ottawa
the side of the victor. She never compromises Ottawa has a 50 percent Roman Catholic
herself; Therefore, in issuing the Quadragesi- population, and 56 percent of the school en-
mo Anno Encyclical on social conditions, the rollment is in the Separate Schools. (P.S
Vatican simply slipped its calling card under 10,861, S.S. 11,459)
the door of the oppressed but abstained from In 1935 the Public Schools received in Gov-
giving them the means to free themselves. ernment grants $8,264,55, and the Roman
Despite one of the tenets of the church, Catholic schools $17,341.29, or more than twice
"All men are brothers," diplomatic history of as much.
the Vatican shows that the Holy See has un- In 1936 the Public Schools received $8,611.20
ceasingly fomented wars or taken part in and the Roman Catholic schools $18,530.55.
them as a sovereign power. But these acts had, The above figures are from the Government
of course, to be justified in the eyes of "Chris- Public Accounts.
tendom". Thus, in a pastoral letter from Car- This year (1938) the Government an-
dinal Goma, primate of Spain, as recently as nounced a new schedule of grants, and a press
February 10, 1937, the Church explains: report from Ottawa estimates that the Public
"Every creature has the right to wage war Schools in that city will receive an additional
against another when the latter is warring $2,500, and the Roman Catholic schools an
against God. War is the daughter of the abuse additional $19,250; which means that with
man has made of liberty: she is the daughter 56 percent of the school enrollment, the Ro-
of sin. We must accept if God test a nation man Catholic Separate Schools in Ottawa will
in war as a punishment for its prevarications receive $37,780 as against $11,111 for the
and as a stimulant in case of decadence of the Public Schools.Protestant Action, Toronto.
moral order. . . . "
This is very suggestive in view of the fact Fighting for the Pope
that the attitude of the Vatican has been vio- Italy's only excuse for being in the war in
lently criticized during the war in all coun- Spain is that she was fighting for the Hier-
tries and especially by the Entente nations. archy's "right" to get back on the necks of
In the first place, when war broke out, the the Spanish people, but in that conflict the
world waited in vain for a protest from the Italian government (which never declared war
Vatican concerning the invasion of Belgium on the Spanish Republic) now. boasts that it
(a staunch Catholic country). shot down 943 planes of this nation with which
it was theoretically at peace, and sank 162
The pope . . . was caught between two merchantmen and 5 war vessels. This morn-
fires: his diplomatic corps were pro-German ing's paper says Mussolini is near death. He
and at the same time he needed to defend his could not do a better thing for his suffering
political interests and see to the expansion-of fellow men than to go ahead and croak. And
the Church. Only the victory of the Central can you name a reason why the Creator or
Powers would favor his plans. others would ever wish to see him again?
So the most impartial of the prelates could
do no more than weigh the respective chances "Despite Vatican Denials"
of both sides to see which would win out. The r 5 s% The United Press says that "despite
balance not having been weighed in favor of I wgaft Vatican denials" that the pope had
the Allies till August, 1918, it was then under- 'J&fcb called or thought of calling a five-
stood why the Vatican had waited throughout power conference to try to estab-
the war before taking a clear stand. But it lish European peace, yet "the idea
was too late to save face and pretend to a role of such a conference was originally advanced",
of arbitration . . . the Allies had saved them- which is a nice way of saying that the pope
selves. As a result the Holy Sec was put out lied. The same story suggests that the pope
of the peace negotiations, the League of Na- made a big mistake in not inviting Russia to
tions, and excluded from all diplomatic ac- the conference. This might be true, for both
tivity, which injured it throughout the world. England and France feel the need of Russian
It was a humiliating defeat.By Raymond support.
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How They Can Lie! "With the Greatest Respect"
qX m^M Anybody who has $5 to spare can When a eouple of cronies have robbed a
purchase a copy of the Official henroost together, and divided the spoils fair-
Catholic Directory showing the. full ly, it is but natural that when they have an-
names and addresses of the 30,000 other similar job in view they should approach
Catholic priests in the United States. one another with feelings of mutual regard.
That is all there are, and they never all leave The pope invited the prime ministers and
town at once. Somebody has to stay behind to foreign ministers of Britain, France, Ger-
rake in the shekels. In face of these facts', just many, Italy and Poland to meet together at
what would you think of the value of the As- the Vatican to discuss the carving up of Po-
sociated Press dispatch from Quebec that, land, the understanding being that at the last
on June 26, "one hundred thousand priests minute he would come into the picture as the
participated in the final procession," etc. great and wise statesman of the latest Munich
Probably there were more than one thousand fiasco. This would not be so hard, because Po-
priests, but the Catholic reporter on the job land is already completely under his thumb,
thought he would make it look as big as pos- and it would be a very easy matter for him to
sible. And he did, and jackasscd his job. The make a deal on the side with der Fiihrer and
Toronto Star reported 4,000 clergymen in the give him what he wants. In view of this setup,
procession. The story in the Star said that is it any wonder that the dispatches telling
"newspapermen knelt and prayed with the about this offer set forth the interesting ob-
crowd". servation that
Chancellor Adolf Hitler received the Papal
Always Eager to Lie nuncio, who brought him this proposal, with the
Always eager to lie, even when it would be greatest respect.
better every way to tell the truth, the Osser-
vatore Romano, official organ of the pope, pub- Roman Catholic Sympathy with Hitler
lished on April 8 the statement, "It is not the Roman Catholic sympathy with Hitler is
intention of the Italian government to make seen in the dispatches from Dublin that not
an attack on the independence and integrity only would De Valera and the Roman Catholic
of Albania"; but Mussolini had seized the Hierarchy not do anything to prevent Hitler
country, and its king was in flight before the from overrunning the British Isles, but they
Osservatore Romano could get its papers off would and did use all their influence to pre-
the press. vent conscription even in Protestant Ulster.
In another World War the Roman Catholic
Hierarchy would stand just whore it stood
Jesuit Oratory before, that is, against the democracies and for
At the Spanish Casino, Mexico City, "Rev- their opposites, the autarchies.
erend Father" Julio Vertiz, noted Jesuit ora-
tor, made the open attack on democracy which Pickings for Mussolini
is at the heart of every Jesuit. He stated to
his Spanish audience that Uncle Sam would The war business is a lot better than black-
boil when he found all the Latin-American smithing. Mussolini has a large interest in the
countries uniting in support of Franco. News Montecatini Chemical Trust, which supplied
of the address leaked out and a crowd in the most of the explosives for the war ,in Spain.
In four years the concern made a profit of
streets broke the windows of the Casino as high $380,000,000, and Mussolini is now a million-
as the third story. Mexicans had plenty of aire, like his friend and enemy Hitler.
Fascism in the past, and are sick of it.
F r a n c o Not Now So Busy
How They Love I t !
Franco the Butcher, not being as busy now
The Catholic Times contains a picture of in decapitating and poisoning women and
Monsignor Orsenigo, Papal nuncio, leaving the babies as he was a few months back, could and
chancellery, after conveying his greetings to did take time off to cable the pope his "im-
der Fiihrer on the latter's birthday. It gave mense gratitude" for the pope's "apostolic
another chance for more publicity; and how blessing, which has been received with reli-
they love it! gious fervor". No doubt. No doubt.
A U G U S T 23, 1939 23
B a r Association for F r e e S p e e c h H o w to S h e a r the S h e e p
-A The American B a r Association S t a r t a paper like Our Sunday Visitor.
^ Jnfifr C a m e out in defense of t h e right Get u p a Contest of 50 questions, two in each
of free speech. I t is time i t did. issue of your paper. Get your subscribers to
The Association s a i d : answer these questions, issue by issue as they
No truth has been more strongly en- appear. Make them send you a dime each time.
forced by the history of recent years than that the B y t h a t means you can g e t $2.50 apiece from
suppression of discussion leads directly to tyranny the poor, deluded, blinded sheep, and at the
and the loss of all other civil rights. same time steep them a little more fully in. the
The fixed policy of the Roman Catholic absolute foolishness styled "Catholic T r u t h " .
Hierarchy is that it can a n d should break u p The contestants stand a chance for an automo-
any meeting of which it disapproves by threats bile or cash awards of varying amounts, for
of starting a riot. This has been done time a n d which, as is readily apparent, they p u t u p all
again by the Hierarchy as respects Jehovah's the cash. I n other words, it is simply another
witnesses. The Bar Association does not men- way of running a lottery, of which the methods
tion the Hierarchy, but does s a y : now a r e legion.
A small number of lawless men by passing the
word around that they intend to start a riot could
prevent any kind of meeting. Slick Work in P r o m o t i n g I g n o r a n c e
On any such theory, a gathering which expressed The London Catholic Herald contains a
the sentiment of law-abiding citizens would be for- reproduction of a slick piece of work for keep-
bidden merely because a small gang of hoodlums ing the Eskimos in ignorance. I t is an altar-
threatened to break up the meeting.
piece for use in a church at Aklavik, on the
The only proper remedy for such situations, small
or serious, is the police protection to which citizens Arctic ocean, and the scenes are supposed to
are entitled in public places, whether they are there be those at the birth of the Savior. M a r y is
singly or in groups. It is the duty of the officials dressed in furs, and so is Jesus. The Magi
to prevent or suppress the threatened disorder with come with reindeers and Arctic dogs, and their
a firm hand instead of timidly yielding to threats. gifts are of walrus tusks, etc. Everything
The outdoor meeting is especially well adapted possible is done to keep the poor natives in
to the promotion of unpopular causes, since such ignorance, so that they will pay well to keep
causes are likely to command little financial sup- the racket in operation.
port and therefore must often be promoted by
persons who do not have the financial means to
"hire a hall" or purchase time on the radio.The T o o H u m a n e for the Racket
American Guardian, December 30, 1938.
The Roman Catholic racket is after the
Nice Time in China h a r d cash, first, last and all t h e t i m e ; and
The Long Beach (California) Press-Tele- therefore the parish priest of Fontenelle,
gram carried a picture of "Bight Reverend" Gaspe province, Quebec, was fired because he
James E. Walsh, and under it a nice long refused to collect a 10-cent tax levied on the
story entitled "China W a r Bombing Tales congregation when 75 percent of them were
F l a y e d ; Missionary Declares Stories About out of work. In this instance the congregation
Orient Conflict Exaggerated". E x p l a i n i n g the went out with the priest and they all floeked
benefits accruing from the spread of t h e totali- into the Presbyterian church of Canada.
tarian .scheme over Asia, Walsh reportedly
said: P r a i s i n g the Baby-Killer
The greatest benefits of the war are apparent in Praising, the baby-killer, P o p e P i u s X I I
the unification of China and the resulting speeding designated Franco the Butcher the "illustrious
up of a modernization and development program chief", of Spain, stated that he had given
which otherwise might have taken many years.
"unequivocal proofs" of his "supreme reli*
Gannon the Foolish gious" interest and extended his "paternal
Gannon the Foolish is reported to have congratulations" to those who by their hypoc-
stood up before the California State Assembly risy and treachery overthrew the Spanish
and to have earned his title by the following: Republic. Franco is greatly admired by Cough?
In these days of dictators we should use the iron lin the chameleon, who, spilling the Hierarchy
fist to teach patriotism. Children should be taught beans as usual, says he would like to do or have
to respect the flag, with whippings if necessary. done in America what Franco did in Spain.
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24
 The War Industry
"Reverend** ScholFs Benediction War Supplies to Far East
They had just completed a new armory United States' manufacturers of airplanes
in Seattle. General O'Ryan had spoken, and and other war munitions last year shipped
the 3,000 present were all looking forward to $12,559,741 of war supplies to China and
a hypocritical benediction when "Reverend" $7,664,413 to Japan. Most of the goods for
Louis E. Scholl, Congregational, jumped to China went in through the British port of
the microphone and surprised everybody by Hong Kong.
saying:
We thank Thee for the wisdom of the speaker When Mobilization Day Conies
(General O'Ryan) who Every person from
said war is the most the age of sixteen up-
relentless and insidious I W I L L SAVE Y O U F R O M ward' will be at the
enemy of m a n k i n d . THE CRUEL ARMS O F T H E
command of the gov-
Therefore we t h a n k A G G R E S S O R , M Y PET t
Thee that C h r i s t i a n ernment; the price of
ministers and workers every article and com-
of this city have invited modity will be fixed
the people to come from by the government;
their worship to give factories will produce
their blessings to the only what the govern-
doctrine of war and vio- ment o r d e r s ; labor
lence as represented by will be deprived f, of
this armory. Lord, we the right to strike;
thank Thee for the bat- food, and all other
tleships and bombs, the necessities of life, will
airplanes and the poison
gas. We thank Thee that be rationed; incomes
Thou didst say: 'Suffer may be taxed up to
little children to come 93 percent, and prof-
unto me that I might its, up to 100 percent;
drop bombs-upon them all wages will be fixed
and blow them into king- by presidential proc-
dom come.' We thank lamation ; all business
Thee that Thou didst die will be licensed; or-
upon the cross, not with thodox laws of eco-
a crown of thorns on nomics will be out-
Thy head; but with a lawed, civic rights
gas mask on Thy face violated, the press,
and a soldier's boots on Doesn't make sense, somehow
Thy feet! radio and movies cen-
If r. Scholl was not on the program, but was sored, and personal liberty destroyed.Amer-
the biggest hit of the occasion. ican Mercury.
[Americans may see from this by how small a
Relative Strength of Seven Dangers thread their liberties remain suspendedEd.]
I n the. following table each " n " represents
1,000 airplanes, each 'V* represents a quarter Retrogression of a Quarter Century
of a million tons of naval strength, and each The world has spent 2,400,000,000 on ar-
"o" represents a half million trained soldiers: maments tiiis year (1937), and has trebled the
Russia" nnnnnnn oooooooooooooo expenditure of the pre-war period, The in-
oooooooooooooo crease over last year does not include money
. ooooboooooo spent on works of a semi-military character.
Germany nnnnnnn w ooooooo Europe's share of the money is 63.4 percent,
Britain nnnnn wvvvvv oo or 1,520,000,000. The permanent armed forc-
Italy nnnnn m oooooooooooooo
D. S. nnnn wwv o es of the world are now 8,500,000, compared
France' nnn wy oooooooooooo with 6,000,000 in 1913, the year before the
Japan nnn vvv Great War began.Melbourne Argus.
A U G U S T 23, 1939 25
 Protestantism

Arrived a t Destination All O.K. He taught on the sunny hillsides of Galilee.

"Reverend" Dr. Robert W. Searle, execu- His contributions went for the relief of suffer-
tive secretary of the Greater New York Fed- ing and hunger.
eration of Churches, indicates that his early He didn't urge the building of bigger taber-
education in churehianity was not altogether nacles with more costly adornments. He urged
wasted, when he said, recently: repentance and changed lives as well as
The Christian message is the only changed living conditions.
way of escape, not from the hell-fires The church is not supposed to be a fancy
of another world, but from the bestial club or art institute, nor a dimly lit chamber
hell that is this world. For 2,000 years of fear and goose pimples. Clergymen who
we have had Christianity. [That _ is must rely on such artificial devices to influence
what he thinks.] We have planted churches among an audience are simply poor public speakers.
all people, given the message of the gospel [ t] to Christ could preach effectively in the sun-
countless millions, ye*t we have gone around the light and win converts when Christianity
corner, not to the promised land, but to hell. It is
difficult to imagine [a more appalling world than meant death by martyrdom. Modern preachers
we have today. Each day brings us news of new should guard against leaning on the crutches
forms of horror. Men whose souls are possessed of of dim lights and religious bric-a-brac.Dr.
the demons of hate rule millions and poison the George W. Crane, of Northwestern University.
minds of the young. We are amazed that each day
brings forth more terrible horrors than the day Waiting for Armageddon
before. All human idols are down. Waiting for Armageddon, and not realizing
Don't be too hasty, "Reverend." You "ain't that it will treat him worse than he treated
seen nothin' yet". What you mistake for hell Judge Rutherford's books, the "Reverend"
is only the lobby where you take off your R. R. Ohaver, pastor of the Hillside Christian
wraps. The real show is yet to come. Church, Indianapolis, Indiana, wrote to one
of Jehovah's people who had withdrawn from
Honest Students in Georgia his cage:
The manufacture of hypocrites occasionally I must state here that I am perfectly aware of
runs into a snag, because the young are not your position and I fully appreciate your attitude
naturally dishonest. They have to learn it from toward "the denominations". I have made a study
the previous generation. At Mercer Univer- of your movement from its very beginning; I have
followed it through the various guises; and noted
sity, a Baptist college in Macon, Georgia, thir- with intense interest the various names which it
teen students of theology sent out letters to has borne. Indeed, I have read many of your books,
1,000 Baptist ministers charging that their and have literally burned libraries of your volumes.
professors, five of them, teach that the Bible Not that it will be of the least interest or
is not inspired,, that Adam and Eve were profit for this gent, but for the sake of others,
myths, that the Bible is contradictory, "that the information is conveyed that the heavenly
it was not necessary for Christ to die," and Father, Jehovah God, the "great Creator, saw
that "it is unnecessary to believe in Jesus fit in His Word to designate Christ Jesus by
Christ to be saved". Without a doubt these over one hundred various titles or other means
courageous young men have told the truth. of identification.
The only thing for them to do is to quit the
religious business altogether. They cannot Talk About Hard Luck
bring soundness to something that is rotten to
the core. Let them turn to Jehovah and His Talk about hard luck! In 1925 the Chris-
Word, serve God and Christ, and let the theo- tian church at Griffin, Iowa, was destroyed by
logical professors go where they will go any- a tornado. At a cost of $4,000 the congregation
way, and where they already are, into the built another and planned a celebration in
hands of the Devil, whom they serve. February, 1939, to mark the burning of the
last note. Just as the note was -about to be
burned the building took fire from an over-
The Religious Racket heated flue and burned to the ground. Maybe
Christ didn't need dim lights and hocus- somebody in the community will get the truth,
pocus conditions in order to do his preaching. now that the religious business is so poor.
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 South America

Happy Indians near George VI Falls Bolivia Tied Up to Germany

In an exploration trip in British The Fascist state of Bolivia is now well tied
Guiana Dr. Paul A. Zahl and party up to Germany; its Congress was dissolved,
discovered a fall some 1,500 feet its constitution was suspended, and the for-
high in the Uitshi river. This they mer leaders of the Opposition were confined in
named the George VI falls. But a concentration camp on an island in Lake
they discovered something else of interest. Titicaea. Four million marks' worth of miner-
About three miles away they came on an als, hides and petroleum were bartered for
Indian village that had never before been German manufactured goods, and Germany
visited by white men. The human relations of will figure on building pipe lines to bring Bo-
these happy Indians were described as prac- livian oil to the scacoast. Germany needs the
tically perfect. There was not a sign of anger, oil for the planes. The American Department
only laughter and general happiness, a condi- of State always seems well pleased when an-
tion as different from that of Indians who other state goes Fascist,
have been brought into contact with so-called
"missions" as it is possible to imagine. Totalitarian Rule in Bolivia
All totalitarians, Fascists, Nazis and eccle-
Private Prisons in South America siastics will be glad to know that Bolivia has
The London News Chronicle claims that gone totalitarian, with the resultant concomi-
some South American farmers (country not tants of abolition of courts and existing legal
stated) have as many as a thousand peons on codes. This destruction of democracy in Bo-
their vast estates. These peons are virtual livia follows the usual pattern, showing that
slaves of the landowner or moneylender, they the conspiracy is world-wide.
have no recourse to the authorities, and if they Depths of Devilish Meanness
try to escape they are usually arrested and
sent back by the police to be locked up in pri- To entrap little girls deprived of their
vate prisons on the farms. It would be inter- parents into lives as white slaves, cases arose
esting to know what happens in those private in the earthquake disaster in Chile where
prisons. Anybody who looks eagerly forward agents of white slave rings actually posed as
to a "hell" for some of his fellow men de- married couples desiring to adopt children, so
serves at least a few days as a guest in one that they could gain possession of the bodies
of these institutions. of these poor little things just orphaned. Does
anybody believe that such persons, when they
die, are worthy of any favors at the hands of
Nazi Penetration the Creator?
The Nazis have made far greater inroads
in South America than anyone up here sus- Chile's Great Task
pects. Italian army officers have organized Chile's great task of building barracks for
the police in Bolivia and Peru. The Brazilian the 700,000 persons made homeless by the
army chief was invited to command the entire earthquake in January, 1939, was far pro-
Nazi army maneuvers in Germany. Italian gressed three months later. It was not be-
munitions have been practically given to lieved that permanent structures to replace
Ecuador, Nicaragua and Paraguay. Students those ruined could be completed in less than
from every country get free tuition in Ger- ten years. But the people must live in the
many.Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, meantime, and winter begins about the middle
in Philadelphia Record. of J u n e ; so barracks seemed the only way out.
Free Land in Bolivia Two Earthquakes a Day
The offer of free land in Bolivia attracted Chile, stretching for more than 4,000 miles
many Americans, but some can still remember along the western slope of the Andes moun-
the rush of Americans to the same land in tains, is subject to about two earthquakes per
1920 and that most of those who went were day. One of the recent ones stretched for a
glad to come back. The lands offered are re- distance of sixteen hundred miles, injuring
mote from the frontiers. and destroying many important centers.
A U G U S T 23, 1939 27
 fast becoming one of the failing industries.
It does seem that those who complain of the
British Comment Government's failure to make a real endeavor
to adjust the situation and restore the indus-
By J. Hemcry (London) try have good cause for what they say. The
war and the political game since 1918 have
destroyed Britain's foreign market for her-
ring. Before the war came in 1914, millions of
Big Business barrels of the herring were shipped, uneured,
Recently the Government of Britain, to Germany and to Russia; now neither of
through its appointed minister, advised the those countries is purchasing' from Britain.
people to get a moderate store of such foods The newspapers tell of sales of ore to Ger-
as can safely be kept for a few weeks, in readi- many by France: ore that goes immediately
ness for the emergency of an outbreak of war. to the production of war armaments; and of
Of course, when war comes, as is generally heavy shipments of wheat to Germany by
believed it will come, it will be suddenly, and Canada, stores for Germany in time of the war
every service in the country will be dislocated they say they know must come, 'because their
for a time. Then the Government would put enemies are bent upon attacking them/ Big
all food supplies under control and food- Business is very patriotic when talking pa-
hoarding would be made an offense, as in the triotism pays, but "Business first" is its motto.
Great War. Some provision for food in war-
time has been made by the authorities: it is Isolation
said that large supplies of cereals have been The apostle Paul said: "God that made the
acquired, particularly wheat; but purchased world, and all things therein, seeing that he
in such a way as not to disturb the usual chan- is Lord of heaven and earth, . . . hath made
nels of trade. But the chance of making money of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell
is not being missed by Big Business. A Labor on all the face of the earth; and hath deter-
representative raised a case in Parliament, mined . . . t h e bounds of their habitation."
calling attention to the action of a combina- (Acts 17: 24-26) It is common knowledge that
tion of London firms. Backed by their money men give little heed to the Creator and to His
resources these men entered into an agreement goodness, also stated by Paul: "Nevertheless
with merchants in Japan for the purchase of he left not himself without witness, in that
huge surplus supplies of tinned salmon, the he did good, and gave us rain from heaven,
price involving millions of pounds sterling. and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with
Perhaps the salmon taken from the waters of food and gladness." (Acts 14:17) The great
Japan arc as wholesome and worth as much as among men give no heed, and therefore no
food as Canadian salmon, which so largely add thanks, to the Giver of all good; and the
to the food of Britain. And it may be that Can- learned according to the wisdom of this world
ada is unable to supply the amount which these (which includes the college-trained clergy
merchants were contracting for. The point class) deny in words or effect these words of
of the Labor member's question is the readi- Paul and which are, of' course, taken from
ness of these men to trade with a nation which, God's own statement of His work. (See Gen-
in its political actions is acting as an enemy esis chapters 1-3.) Politicians in the nations
qf the country, and that the food of British want isolation. Some politicians or would-be
people should be stored from enemy sources. politicians in Britain want to have the varied
Also, it wras pointed out that the Government nations inside the "British Empire" welded
does little or nothing to put the fishing in- into an isolation group. Hitler has gone one
dustry of Britain into such order and on such better: he is determined to isolate his German
a basis as would prevent the great waste of the subjects into a nation of one blood, and set
herring season. Millions of herrings are them on the pinnacle of the nations. Even if
thrown back into the sea because there is no a-.disruptive war should not break out,, the
profitable market, and the once lively fishing idea could not succeed, since God did not'will
industry, which provided the country for both it from the first. The nations are finding out
trade and in war with a hardy race of men by sheer necessity- that they cannot be isolar
for its navy, and gave employment to a very tionists: nations nor men can live apart. The
considerable number of men and women, is great idea of each nation's being self-sustain-
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28
ing and independent of other nations has the emperor Hadrian built a wall across the
brought about the barriers of trade protection north of England to keep the Scots out, but,
and the curse of passports, to the hurt of each though it still exists, it has never been much
of them. One newspaper proprietor with a big of a barrier: the Scots still come south and
chance of thrusting his isolationist views oh are ever welcome; nor did it keep Edward the
millions of readers and who made himself Second from raiding Scotland, and ultimately
a crusader for the cause has had to admit getting a severe thrashing at Bannockburn.
France into his limited British- Empire Nothing but the absolute breaking down of the
scheme; for in the face of European dangers nations and the destruction of all their poli-
Britain cannot continue without association cies, imperial or isolationist, will free those
with France, as France cannot apart from who are ready to give God the honor due to
Britain. Also facts show that the nations His name, and this He purposes to bring about
which agree with Britain in calling the king in the destruction of Armageddon, when every
of England their king love themselves better evil thing will be destroyed, and those who
than they love the "mother" country. They seek Him will serve Him as He first purposed.
are as children grown up each with his family One of the domestic problems of England
responsibility and only a family relationship arises from the fact that there is a very con-
to the parent. It is not love, but money, and siderable movement of industrial activity from
also fear, that binds the "empire" into unity. the north of England to the London area.
Incidentally a letter in the press from the It is said that while employment in the north
president of the Bureau of Imports, Auck- has increased of late by only 4 percent, in the
land, N.Z., points out that the Labor govern- London area it has increased by 40 percent.
ment of New Zealand is damaging importers 5 The heavy industries connected with eotton
interests by prohibiting bringing into New and wool cannot be transferred, of course,
Zealand "a host of goods" from Britain. I t and the coal and iron are located in the north
is the settled policy of the Labor government and the midlands and their connected indus-
of New Zealand to limit the amount of Brit- tries must locate where they are. Lancashire
ish imports, which seems a rather one-sided has suffered greatly through the loss of its
matter when it is on record that Britain pur- overseas trade: the foreign cotton markets
chases 85 percent of the product of New are practically closed to its products. Changed
Zealand, buying annually to almost 50,000,- conditions obtain. Japan is a strenuous com-
000, and being able to export only a little more petitor, and owing to the very low wages paid
than half that value of goods. to the workers it can and does place its goods
Both of the two warlike dictators Hitler in the Far East at prices which are impossible
and Mussolini are aggressive isolationists, to Lancashire. India also is producing for it-
even though at present neither can do with- self. Lancashire employs at present 500,000
out the other. Germany cries out to the world fewer persons in the cotton industry than be-
that its people need living room, but it im- fore the war. The present war preparation is
ports scores of thousands of Italians to enable giving some stimulus to the iron and con-
it to carry on with its needs. These two men nected works, but comparatively httle, as the
are both obsessed with a revival of the old above-mentioned percentage shows. Lanca-
Roman empire, each for himself. Hitler has shire once assumed that the demand for its
got some of its relics from Austria, and Mus- goods would always expand, and its money
solini is on the spot in Rome with a grip on men were as free to make machinery for the
Mediterranean lands. It is the idea of power spinning and weaving of cotton and sell to
and authority and military strength that India and Japan as others were to sell their
possesses them. But there is a great difference manufactures. Now Lancashire is isolated.
between the liberty of Rome in its days Of The past generation lived for their day, and
world .dominion and that which these grasp- tlie present suffers accordingly.
ers for power give to their subjects. The
bounds of the Roman empire stretched from Hesitating Parsons
these western Islands of Britain to Babylonia The Church of England is not a close cor-
in the far east, and no passport was needed poration like that of the Roman Catholic
inside that wide stretch of lands. Rome's rule church as seen in its hierarchy, and there is a
was military, but was benevolent towards the liberty of speech which Rome would never
various peoples in its empire. It is true that allow to anyone who has taken its orders.
A U G U S T 23, 1939
29
 Ohio and Kentucky
Opulent Martin's Ferry miles of caverns beneath the carboniferous
Mast Ohio towns are hard u p ; but not limestone of Kentucky, so the Department of
Martin's Ferry. That burg of 15,000 people the Interior reports.
has enough money in the treasury to make
a gift of $33.60 to every citizen in town. The Cheerful News from Harlan County. -
city has operated its own municipal light plant There is cheerful news from Harlan county,
for 43 years and has accumulated a nice cash Kentucky. The ex-deputy sheriffs have greatly
balance of $500,978 in .its treasury. Once a improved the moral tone of the community
year it gives a month's power free to its cus- by shooting each other. To save his hide one
tomers. Rates are low, ranging from. 4 cents of the gunmen would squeal to the Depart-
for the first 40 kilowatt-hours down to 1\ cents ment of Justice prosecutors. Then two would
for all over 100 kilowatt-hours. Moreover, there get together and shoot a third one to keep
is a 10-percent cash discount for the prompt him from squealing. Then one survivor would
payment of bills. shoot the other survivor to keep him from
telling. And so the good work goes on, to the
Multiple Myeloma general benefit of all decent men.
A man in Akron, Ohio, is dying from mul-
tiple myeloma, a disease in which the bones Raw Deal for Negroes
decay and disappear. His physicians state In Cincinnati the suicide rate of Negroes
that he has but three years to live. Medical is three times that of whites, and more than
history records but 483 cases of the malady. twice as many go insane as among an equal
number of whites. Negroes receive the poorest
100,000 Miles of Caverns in Kentucky pay of any class; they are the first to be laid
Though Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is off and the last to receive financial aid from
the largest of the lot, there are over 100,000 the politicians.

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SALVAT N
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TWILIGHT IN THE CANYON

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Judge Wanton's Religion 4 When the boys of the 90th Division were
Latin America and West Indies in France, some were in a French barbershop
Wisconsin^Miehigan, Illinois 9 teaching the barber to greet his American
From Rangoon, Burma 10 customers politely in their own language.
Another South Sea Paradise 11 After drilling him over several times, they
The New Government assured him that he was perfect in his lesson.
Two West African Pioneers 12 The boys then stepped outside to hear their
God's Glories in the Smoky Mountains 13
Belated Convention News 15 student recite his lesson.
Northern Europe 16 About thirty minutes later the captain of
Counsel by J. IV Rutherford the company came in and hung up his cap.
Unpardonable 17 The barber, standing by the chair with his
Animal Husbandry 18 towel in one hand, bowed politely and said to
Crops and Soils 19 the captain:
Under the Totalitarian Flag "All right, you bone-headed cootie chaser,
Some Pagan Ceremonies 20 you are next."Labor.
Idolatry in New Orleans 22
Lying About the Almighty 23 A Business Day
All Things Considered 26 (As outlined by secretary over telephone)
British Comment A.M. "Lie hasn't come in yet."
War Conditions 28 "I expect him in any minute."
Roman Catholic Militiamen 29
The Bomb Outrages 29 "He just sent word in he'd be a little late."
"Upon the Earth Distress of Nations" 29 "He's been in; but he went out again."
On the Briny Deep 31 "He's gone to lunch."
Last Deeds of a Tiger 31 P.M. "I expect him in any minute."
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Vjolum* X X Drooklyn, N . Y . , Wednesday, September 6, 1939 Number 621
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A M i g h t y C a t h o l i c i l l t h e " P i t " (In Three Parts-Part*)

I N THIS two preceding.issues of Consola-

tion the. infamy of Martin T. Manton
which resulted in his ^ conviction and sentence
Hierarchy used Manton to keep these men
WRONGFULLY in prison for nine months, and
to this day they denounce Judge Rutherford
to prison June 1939 for "selling justice", as an "ex-convict", which he was NOT; yet
and his earlier conspiracy to keep eight inno- their presses are now silent at the conviction
cent men in prison during the stormy years of Manton, "KNIGHT OF ST. GREGORY THE
of 1918-19, was reviewed. Those who know GREAT," who reduced the appellate bench to
Manton's career as revealed in his trial and a court of blackmail. With this amazing op-
conviction for accepting $186,000 in bribes portunity before them the Roman Catholic
for six decisions were not surprised to learn press might come forward with an editorial
how he conspired with other high Catholics decrying the abuses of this honored member
to keep Judge Rutherford and seven other of the church, but they do not. The American
Christians in the Atlanta penitentiary for people are thus left to the assumption that the
nine months by refusing them bail. Romanists do not approve the punishment
Manton gave no reason for refusing them of a Catholic, be he blackmailer, briber or
bail. When the case finally came before him- thief. What say YOU, Hierarchy of Rome?
self, Ward and Rogers, justices of the United The Hierarchy claim infallibility in matters
States Circuit Court of Appeals, and the judg- of jurisdiction, and, no doubt, had Manton
ment was reversed by the prevailing opinion been tried in their courts he would have been
of Ward and Rogers, Manton dissented. Al- acquitted and made a KNIGHT of some other
though not required to do so, he also submitted THE-GREAT. However, Consolation submits the
an opinion. The readers will be interested in only infallible rule of injunctions to judges,
this.opinion; which is reproduced:in detail in that found in God's Word of truth, the Bible,
this issue, showing how more than twenty as evidence that the American Constitution,
years ago the "commercial judge" was de- and not church authority, approximates the
termined to do the will of the Roman Catholic Lord's commands as touching judiciary con-
Hierarchy! duct. Some of those who figured prominently
Nor is this merely one past chapter in the in Manton's conviction, Attorney General
misdeeds of a criminal. In passing it might be Murphy, U. S. Prosecutor John T. Cahill,
noted, and this without criticism of the offi- Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, and Chief of
ciating judge,* that while Manton is now by "G-Men", Edgar Hoover, even though they
continuance of .his bail permitted to enjoy his are not commended by the .Catholic church,
Long Island home of luxurious comfort and their course of action is , approved by the
spend the thousands he extorted from other GREAT KING OF JUSTICE ; and this is shown by
Americans whom he blackmailed, when Man- the scriptures which follow.
ton himself was confronted by innocent Chris- "Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor
tians seeking bail he consigned them to the in his cause. Keep thee far from a false matter;
rigors of prison. But even this inequality of and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for
justice is not the important thing. I will not justify the wicked. And thou shalt take
no gift;'Tor the gift blindeth the wise, and pervert-
. .. . > eth the words of the righteous."Exodus 2 3 : 6-8.
Manton a Mere Stooge "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all
The significant -fact for Americans, both thy gates, which [Jehovah] thy God giveth thee,
Protestant and Catholic, to note is this: The throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the
S E P T E M B E R 6, 1939
people with just judgment. Thou shalt not wrest which has spawned Catherine de Medici,
judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither "Bloody" Mary, Al Caponi, Franco "The
take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the Butcher", Hitler and Mussolini, to mention
wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. That only a few of the most "illustrious". Far from
which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou condemning his conduct, one of the agents of
mayest live."Deuteronomy 16:18-20. the Hierarchy, a priest, was the first person
"Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life
with bloody men; in whose hands is mischief, and to call on the "commercial judge" after he had
their right hand is'full of bribes."Psalm 26: 9,10. been arrested. And one of Manton's last acts
"He that walketh righteously, and speaketh up- in office was to receive in his chambers "Rev-
rightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, erend Father" William E. Cashin, of the near-
that shakcth his bands from holding of bribes, thai by St. Andrews Roman Catholic Church,
stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shut- where Red Mass for the Judiciary is held an-
teth his eyes from seeing evil; he shall dwell on nually. Is not the "Church" which thus ap-
high."Isaiah 33:15,16. proves him, as well as Manton himself,
"For I know your manifold transgressions and weighed in the balance and found wanting!
your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a When an INNOCENT man who had criticized
bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from the "Church" was WRONGFULLY condemned,
their right."Amos 5:12..
0 Hierarchy, your merciless and fiendish
The Canon Law of the Catholic Church laughs were heard from pole to pole. Now,
assumes "an authority much higher than the when the product of your teachings, the ideal
mere Word of God just quoted. The tradition of Papal training, has been sentenced as a
of men, and not the Bible, is their authority FELON, what say YOU, Hierarchy of Rome ?
for Canon 2341, which provides that anyone
who sues a bishop or cardinal is automatically
excommunicated. Canon 120 provides that the Manton Makes a Pile
clergy may be tried only in ecclesiastical In his position as the tenth ranking judge
courts; no judgment can be rendered against of the United States (next to the nine on the
the Canon Law (paragraph 461); jurors are Supreme Court) Manton made at one time
bound to absolve the defendants in such cases, over a million dollars. He should have been
and are to affirm that the crime of the cleric content with his salary of $12,500 a year, as
is not proved. Penalties to the clergy must be set out in the code of ethics of the American
benignant. (Canon 2219) The judge cannot Bar Association, Canons 4, 24, 26 and 32. On
increase the prescribed penalty. (Canon 2223) this point President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Suspended sentences are prescribed, even once said:
where penalties are designated. (Canon 2233) It is repugnant to our sense of the proper ad-
Jesus condemns the traditions of men con- ministration of justice that judges should be per-
trary to the law of God", according to Matthew mitted to engage in business during their terms of
15: 3 ; nor is it possible to find a more glaring office. This principle admits of no doubt and should
example of following the tradition of men be applied throughout the State.
than by rendering partial judgments in favor Business was good at first, and Manton at
of the persons of clerics or other men. one time considered himself worth over
Even as the "Church" profited in Manton's $1,000,000. Then things began to slip, and on
ill-gotten wealth, so IT must share in the two consecutive days in July, 1938, complaints
ignominy of his disgrace. For an organization came in to the New York World-Telegram
that approves a system of obtaining money office that Manton was sitting in cases that
under FALSE PRETENSES, such as that involved involved lawyers or litigants from whom the
in "purgatory prayers", must of necessity judge or his associates had obtained financial
share the condemnation of a son who models benefits such as loans. This evidence came into
his court practices on the teachings of the the hands of District Attorney Thomas E.
Catholic Church of Rome. Dewey. He made an investigation, and found
that six of the loans totaled $439,481.44, which
Judge Manton's Religion is considerable change for a Federal judge to
The high honors bestowed upon Manton by take in on the side. In all, it is reported that
the Roman Catholic Church were never modi- Manton had twenty-five corporations on the
fied by a word of censure upon his villainous string, among them the American Tobaceo Co.
conduct. Nor is it to be expected of the church and Warner Brothers.
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After Twenty-one Years these stories do you believe? The Hierarchy's
For twenty-one years the Roman Catholic REAL, charge against Judge Rutherford they
press has raved approval of Manton's refusal DARE NOT MAKE : that he is a Christian and
to grant bail to Judge Rutherford and his therefore, as a true follower of Jesus Christ,
companions, which refusal he twice executed uncompromisingly opposed to their hypocrisy
by order, July 1 and July 12, 1918. As a con- and wickedness.
sequence these men spent nine months in the For many years Consolation has been sav-
Atlanta penitentiary. When admitted to bail ing a page for the answer of the Hierarchy to
by order of the Supreme Court of the United these charges. This page is still blank, but the
States they were released and acquitted. This paper is becoming somewhat yellow from age.
incarceration which Manton forced upon these What says the gentle reader, shall we throw
Christians pending their new trial and acquit- it away?
tal is the basis upon which the Roman Catholic
Church has libelously called Judge' Ruther- The Leopard's Whelp
ford an "ex-convict" for twenty-one years. When a Catholic is elevated to the distin-
Even the flagrance of this injustice is not the guished position of "Knight of St. Gregory
most important thing. But when an organiza- the Great" he must have overcome all weak-
tion lauds a felon and persecutes a Christian ness that might lead him to prefer principle
and at the same time claims.to be the repre- to the interests of 'the Catholic Church. He
sentative of Christ the people should be told must be a" true whelp of the leopard, with all
that their claims are false, and their lie is the spots and never a flaw. Such a man was
open for all men to see. What say you, Hier- found in Manton, but he must be tested.
archy of Rome f The Hierarchy noted with gleeful approval
In times past anybody who offended the that he twice refused bail to the eight Chris-
Papal organization was branded "heretic", a tians they were determined to destroy. But
term which in Catholic usage has meaning in the spring of 1919, and even before, seven
similar to the word "unpatriotic", namely, a hundred thousand letters were flooding Wash-
critic of Romanism. Their fertility in coining ington and the trial judge, Howe, had wired
false and inconsistent charges and hurling his recommendation for "commutation", hop-
them at an opponent is amazing. For instance, ing thus to cast off some of the ignominy of
most of the Protestant martyrs were burned his prejudiced conduct of the trial; eminent
for disputing the authority of the pope, and lawyers and officials, such as Governor Selzer,
this was claimed to be punishment for attack- of New York, Senator Hiram Johnson, and
ing God's representative. But the lechery and Senator Tom Watson, were offering their serv-
bestiality of these same popes was never for ices free to correct this odious miscarriage of
a moment questioned, just as today the felony justice. The appeal was certain to come before
of Manton is tacitly approved. Rogers, Ward and Manton because the Su-
In their efforts to dispose of Judge Ruther- preme Court of the United States had ordered
ford their inconsistency has had no bounds. bail. What would the leopard's whelp do NOW?
During the war he was accused of having It was not until some time thereafter that
"Hun" sympathies; at this day he is de- Manton was created '"Knight of St. Gregory
nounced as an anti-German Nazi; on occasion the Great" by Papal decree. But he established
in Switzerland he was reported by agents of his record for wicked prejudice in his DISSENT-
Rome to have been the trial judge in the ING opinion which affirmed judgment in a trial
famous conviction of the Communists Sacco with 125 errors. The spawn of the LEOPARD
and Vanzetti, and he narrowly escaped death never changes its spots! His vote was nullified
from a rioting band of Communists; an article by the prevailing opinion of Judges Rogers
in the Hierarchy's Brooklyn Tablet says his and Ward reversing the judgment, but MAN-
speeches are "Communism in another dress"; TON had distinguished himself for the HIER-
in Madrid he was very nearly murdered by a ARCHY. The record of this appeal and Man-
mob who said he was a "Jesuit" (this rumor ton's amazing opinion, which has on occasions
was undoubtedly circulated by a Jesuit); in since been produced as evidence to prejudice
Germany the cry was "Kill that Jew"; in against Judge Rutherford, is set forth below.
Lisbon, "Shoot that anti-Communist." If you
are a Catholic and accept without examination Action of the Court of Appeals
whatever is told you by a priest, which of When bail had finally been allowed, after
S E P T E M B E R 6, 1939 5
their imprisonment for nine months because Martin, Fred H. Robinson, George H. Fisher, Clayton
Manton refused to grant bail (in great con- J. Woodworth, Giovanni t>e Cecca, A. Hugh Macmil-
Ian. They were all defendant* in same case in Eastern
trast to the manner in which J u d g e W . Calvin District of New York. My position is to be generous
Chesnut, of Catholic Baltimore, continued now that the war is over. They did much damage by
Manton's own bail even after conviction), the preaching and publishing their religious doctrines."
case came before Judges W a r d , Rogers and The severe sentence of twenty years was imposed
Manton. This appeal is described in detail in upon each of the defendants except De Cecea. His
was ten years. My principal purpose was to make
Rutherford et al. v. U.S., Circuit Court of an example, as a warning to others, and I believed
Appeals, Second Circuit. May 14, 1919. that the President would release them after the
Federal Reporter, Vol. 258, Criminal Law war was over. As I said in my telegram, they did
657, Trial No. 239. The decision of the lower much damage, and it may well be claimed that they
court was reversed in the majority opinion by ought not to be set at liberty so soon, but as they
Justices Rogers and Ward. From t h a t opinion Cannot do any more harm now, 1 am in favor of
the following is quoted: being as lenient as I was severe in imposing sen-
In error to the District Court of the U. S. for tence. I believe most of them were sincere, if not
the Eastern District of N. Y. all, and I am not in favor of keeping such persons
Joseph F. Rutherford and others were convicted in confinement after their opportunity for making
of violating the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, trouble is past. Their case has not yet been heard
Tit. 1, g.g. 3,4, and they-bring error. Reversed and in the Circuit Court of Appeals.
remanded for trial. Respectfully,
[Signed] HARLAND B. HOWE,
OPINION OF WARD, CIRCUIT JUDGE United States District Judge.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of convic- Also referring to some of this harshness
tion of the defendants, eight in number, indicted where even the department of justice "said
for violation of section 3 and 4, title 1, of the prisoners had been victims of war-time pas-
Espionage Act of June 15,1917. . . . Seven of the sion or prejudice", a dispatch widely pub-
defendants were sentenced to terms of twenty years lished throughout the nation on March 5,
[on each of four counts of the indictment, the sen-
tence to commence and run concurrently, and "that 1919, s t a t e d :
they stand committed until the sentence is com-
plied with", a total of eighty years each!] and ASK CLEMENCY FOR EIGHT
the eighth to a term of ten years in the federal Thousands of letters have been received by the
penitentiary of Atlanta. department of justice asking executive clemency
for J . F . Rutherford, head of the International
J u d g e W a r d recounted some of the prejudi- Bible Students Association, and seven associates
cial actions of the trial court, many examples now serving sentences in the Atlanta federal prison
of which appear in the record. A n actual on charges of disloyalty growing out of publication
count discloses 125 different errors committed of the " F I N I S H E D MYSTERY", a Bible handbook.
in t h e trial court. These cases were appealed by the convicted men
H e concluded his opinion with these words: from the federal district court in Brooklyn, and
"The defendants in this case did not have the are pending in the appellate court. Officials in-
temperate and impartial trial to which they were dicated that no action would be taken in their cases
until the appellate court had rendered a decision.
entitled and for that reason the judgment was
reversed." Likewise a petition bearing 700,000 names
Before taking u p the dissenting opinion of had been presented a t Washington. I t will
Manton, which had no effect on the reversal thus be seen that the rehearing of this case and
of judgment, was unnecessary and quite evi- the subsequent reversal of judgment hardly
dently spiteful, it is interesting to note that came as a voluntary desire on the p a r t of the
even Howe, the trial judge, had already ad- officials to amend an error of justice, as they
mitted his harshness and lack of judicial tem- had all previously refused to allow bail. I t
perance in a letter set out below dated a t came as a result of much public agitation of
Burlington, Vermont, March 3, 1919: the subject, a n d it was doubtless fear of this
publicity t h a t prompted the above-quoted let-
The Honorable Attorney General, ter and telegram of Harland B . Howe, who
Washington, D. C. had originally tried the case.
Sir: The w a r was over. Nothing had been done
Answering your telegram of the 1st inst., I wired by Rutherford and his fellow Christians to
you last evening as follows:
"Recommend immediate commutation for Joseph i n t e r r u p t the war. They had only aided their
P. Rutherford, William E. Van Amburgh, Robert J. brethren in filing application for exemption
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under the Selective Draft Act. All the fore- stake, which is worth the life of one blue-jacket on
the sea or one khaki-coat in the trenches." Page 251.
going facts were before Mahton and without At about this stage, the fertile mind of the read-
any reason he filed a dissenting opinion in- er .would be very much interested, if sanctimonious
sisting that the defendants should be kept in at all. At this stage, he is supplied this food of
prison for the whole term of 80 years because poison for his patriotism and loyalty to his coun-
of the publication of The Finished Mystery, try. Under the mockery of religion or religious
Which book was written before the w a r began, teaching, I can conceive of no worse thrust at
and no p a r t of it being written by Rutherford. America and at America's needs, at the time of the
A book written by President Wilson before publication of this book, than that which was pub-
the w a r contained much stronger language lished in this book by the defendants. We in Amer-
ica all accord to men of all religious faiths the
than The Finished Mystery. The salient p a r t right to an honest and faithful belief in their creed
of Man ton's Opinion follows: and the practice of it accordingly, but that the de-
MANTON, Circuit Judge. I dissent. fendants' efforts were intentional and for the de-
The offenses charged were committed between sired purpose is apparent from a mere recital of
June 16, 1917, and May 6, 1918. The corporations, some of the happenings during this period.
acting through their officers and employes, who I see no error warranting a reversal of this con-
were indicted, between June 30, 1917, and March, viction in the conduct of the trial judge, and in
1918, caused to be published 850,000 copies of a my opinion the judgment should be affirmed.
book called "The Finished Mystery". These copies Manton's patriotic fervor as expressed in
were distributed in large numbers in the army this opinion gives further light on the mean-
camps of the United States, and many hundreds of ing of the word "patriotic" as used by distin-
thousands of copies were distributed throughout guished Catholics. He found great dangers to
the United States and Canada. The book purported
to be an interpretation of the Book of Revelations t h e nation in the actions of true Christians.
and the Book of Ezekiel. The book has taken the A n d he found no objection in his own case to
shape of a small bible or prayer book. The first selling his judicial decisions for lucre.
half is devoted to many quotation, with interpre- H e r e is a clear example of how eminent
tations, from the Scriptures. Then, in about the Catholics consider they should be immune to
center of the book, are found writings, placed there all restrictions as is decreed by Catholic canon
in a very insinuativc manner, of which the follow- law for their clerics. As no criticism has yet
ing extracts are a type: come from the Catholic press for Manton's
''Standing opposite to'- those Satan has placed
three great untruths, human immortality, tha Anti- treacherous conduct, it must be assumed t h a t
christ and a certain delusion which is best described these self-constituted guards of "patriotism"
by the. word Patriotism, but which is in reality mur- m u s t approve his action. Of course, the laws
der, the spirit of the very DeviL . . . Under the guise of a country do not apply to an honored Cath-
of Patriotism the civil governments of earth demand
of peace-loving men the sacrifice of themselves and olic who takes his orders from Rome.
their loved ones and the butchery of their fellowB, T h u s it appears that in 1919 Manton was
and hail'it as a duty demanded by the laws of already warped in the Jesuit school of bribery.
heaven.1' Page 247. A leopard never changes its spots. Thus
" I f you- aay that thia war is a last resort in a
situation which' every other method, patiently tried, stamping on honor, justice, and t r u t h Manton
has failed to meet, I must answer that this is not true acted as the ideal servant of the Hierarchy
that other wayB and means of action, tried by ex- a n d has their tacit approval to this day. The
perience and justified by success, have been laid be- spots will never change, but perhaps a striped
fore the administration and willfully rejected.
" I n its ultimate causes, this war is the natural uniform will shortly in Manton's case form a n
product of our unchristian civilization. . . . There Is appropriate "mark of distinction".Elton
not a question raised, an issue involved, a cause at Groves.

It Could Have Been Worse

I N T H E Windsor (Ont.) Daily Star, the

writer of the "Now" column gleefully boast-
ed of the fact that while some of Jehovah's wit-
happens to be an almost wholly Roman Cath-
olic community."
Oh well, t h a t was pretty bad. But just think
nesses visited Paincourt, telling of God's king- what could have happened if the editor of the
dom, certain persons filled the luggage carrier " N o w " column had been as small of stature
with "the most fragrant fertilizers known to as he is of intellect and he himself had been
Kent County farmers". He adds, " P a i n c o u r t p u t in the carrier.
SEPTEMBER . 1939
 Latin America and West Indies

Another Devilish Invention The Treasures of Silver Bank

Another devilish invention is that of an Thirty-five miles off the coast of San Do-
acid which, when mixed with salt water, mingo lie sixteen galleons which went down
forms a solution under the water that eats in a hurricane in 1632, loaded with $70,000,000
into any kind of metal. Drums of this acid, of treasure, some $3,500,000 of which has been
made in Germany, were brought to a point salvaged. The wrecks, under 65 feet of water,
off Mexico by the German freighter Edna. are completely covered with coral formations.
There they were transferred to the Japanese The waters thereabout are particularly dan-
fishing boat Flying Cloud, and landed at En- gerous, being exposed to hurricanes, and ar-
senada, ninety miles from San Diego, in June, mies of man-eating sharks and barracudas, as
1937. Though watched day and night, one of well as treacherous undersea currents.
these drums was obtained three months after
they landed. The acid drums are twice as large The Avalanches in St. Lucia
as gasoline drums, and arc lined with rubber. The avalanches in the island of St. Lucia,
in the Windward islands, and which avalaneh-.
"Little Devil" in Mexico es resulted in the death of about a hundred
The Mexican Light and Power Company persons, came so swiftly that few had time to
estimates that 25 percent of its power is stolen escape from the path, and in some instances
by using the so-called "little devil" to carry legs and arms were severed from bodies by
the electricity around the meter. In Scranton, the rush of the debris. The region is volcanic.
Pennsylvania, some years ago a clever elec- The landslides were caused by continuous
trician tapped the electric wires in such a rains, causing mountains and hills to split
manner as to cause the family of a widow, wide open.
living in the same apartment house, to pay
for the current he and his family consumed. An Honor to Costa Rica
It's a wonderful world. The constitution of Costa Rica provides
that the president may serve four years, and
Panama No Spaghett* no more, and is not eligible for re-election.
Panama should shame itself. The Italian The present president, Leon Castro Cortes,
flagship called on a good-will tour, and the urged by politicians to-declare himself a can-
people of Panama rotten-egged the show, also didate for re-election, declined to violate the
freely distributing dead cats, antique vege- constitution, and thereby showed, if he was
tables and other tokens, until the officials in sincere, that he is an honor to the country he
the automobile had to return to ship and now serves.
change uniforms, before they could complete
their calls. Government Lottery in Puerto Rico
The United States mails cannot be legally
Japanese Airport in Costa Rica used for sending lottery tickets or distributing
The Japanese airport in Costa Rica, 250 lottery news, yet in Puerto Rico there is a
miles, or about one hour's flight, from the government lottery which in five years col-
Panama canal, is said to be ideal for the pur- lected nearly $12,000,000 from the poor peo-
poses. Bought and still operated as a cotton ple of that land. Meantime 750,000 Puerto
field, the prices paid for the field, and the lo- Ricans are without means of subsistence.
cation, make its use as a landing field in time
of war almost certain. Torture Colony at Santiago
A torture colony for monkeys was estab-
Fickle Sea Gulls lished at the island of Santiago, a tract of
In 1937 sea gulls destroyed millions of land 35 acres in extent lying a half mile
locusts in Nicaragua, but when 1938 came from San Juan, Puerto Rico. A colony of 500
around and the same pests destroyed the bean was brought from the jungles of India and
crop, Nicaragua's chief food, those gulls just will be used for vivisection purposes. Vivi-
would not show up. What is the reason? You section is bad for the animals used; worse for
explain it. the ones who practice it.
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 Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois
Lawbreakers in Milwaukee "Oh, 'Tis Love, and Love Alone"
JNB ^ Because gambling is contrary to The value of love was shown in a Chicago
i ~ y ~ ^ ^ the state law of Wisconsin, the po- experiment. Thirteen mentally retarded ba-
lice of Milwaukee requested war- bies were put in the care of an equal number
rants for the arrest of certain of feeble-minded young women, with the re-
racketeers operating under the sult that twelve of the children speedily be-
name of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, came normal and seven were adopted and
Catholic Order of Foresters, St. Paul's Cath- found good homes; and the explanation is that
olic Church, Post 2963 of Veterans of Foreign the young women loved them and love is the
Wars, Germania Mutual Life Society, and greatest remedy in all the world. "God so
Aurora Lodge 145 of LO.O.F. The warrants loved the world that He gave everybody a
were refused, although the city and district chance to meet His reasonable requirements
attorneys admit that they would be willing and gain life. Those who respond to God's
to proceed against common prostitutes or per- love become sane, normal and happy.
sons selling booze to minors. But they have not
the nerve to proceed against racketeers who Robert Wadlow, of Alton
have an ambition to run the country. Robert Wadlow of Alton, Illinois, has the
misfortune of having a pituitary gland that
What Do You P a y for Milk? is overactive, with the result that he is now,
G. H. Lowe, Neillsville, Wisconsin, writ- at 20 years of age, 8 feet 8$ inches tall and
ing in the Milwaukee Journal, explains that weighs 465 pounds. His growth is expected
he delivered 2,163 pounds of milk (1,082 to continue at a reduced rate for two or three
quarts) with 3.6 percent butterfat test for years more. Last year he grew only 1 inches.
lc a pound (2c a quart).-Mr. Lowe could not His shoes cost $75. His chair seat is 10 inches
understand why anybody in Milwaukee higher than the scat of other chairs. Most
should be paying more than 5c a quart for homes have ceilings 8 feet above the floor.
milk for which the farmers were getting but Wadlow cannot stand erect in such a room.
2c. If .5c would be a fair price in Milwaukee,
why do they charge 14c in Seranton? It is Common Sense in Michigan
gravely to be suspected that farmers in the The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that a
east get but little more than they do in Wis- policeman who accepts membership in an ille-
consin, and that the public are paying more gal gang like the Black Legion is permanently
than twice a fair price for the milk they con- disqualified from serving as a law-enforce-
sume. ment officer. That was common sense j and
the same rule should be followed with regard
to any policeman who puts his loyalty to a
2>/2 Tons of Cheese foreign power above his loyalty to the United
On the ground that there are about 50,000 States. Many Irish Catholic policemen would
tons of cheese in storage in American ware- not arrest a bishop even if they knew he had
houses, Louis A. Hartly, Marshfield, Wiscon- committed every crime on the calendar.
sin, gave each school child a present of two
pounds of good cheese; and as there were Hermes H a d a T h o u g h t
2,683 of the little folks, it made an immediate Judge Joseph B. Hermes, of Chicago, the
market for more than 2 tons. same gentleman who fined Mrs. Schlorchetka
$200 for refusal to worship the flag, has had a
The Sale of Sewage thought. Hooray! He had just sentenced a
Milwaukee sells 50,000 tons of fertilizer a man to the house of: correction to work out a
year, made from its sewage.- The profits have fine of $50 for stealing coal. The man had
run as high as $850,000 ^a year, while the an- claimed he had neither fuel nor food in his
nual cost does not exceed $1,250,000. This home. After sentencing the man,- Hermes had
seems better sense than pouring the sewage his thought. An examination of the man's
all over the water supplies, or the beaches, as home was made and his wife was found
is commonly done elsewhere. starved to death.
S E P T E M B E R 6, 1939
 Asia
From Rangoon, Burma What yet may happen we can't say. Day by
day it appears clearly that the Devil is gather-
S INCE July, 1938, we have had very un-
settled conditions throughout Burma.
First we had communal riotsthe Buddhists
ing the nations to Armageddon.
A road just constructed connects Burma
with the Mohammedansover a book which a with China. Goods and ammunition are being
Mohammedan published about ten years ago sent now to China via this route. I t is remark-
putting forth several points to prove the su- able that since the opening of this road all the
periority of the Moslem religion over the Bud- aforesaid disturbances in Burma began. An
dhism. This only now seems to have upset "the attempt was made at causing a general strike,
religious susceptibilities" of the Burmese; but which so far has failed, and particularly the
that is an excuse. The real cause is political railway service has been regular. It is now
agitation. proposed to link India with Burma by rail.
After that the University students went on That would be useful in time of war but also
a strike and started picketing all the other will help trade during peace. The cost of con-
schools. They were petty enough to smash a struction is estimated at a crore of rupees.
number of the street lights, with the result Contributed.
that many sections of Rangoon have been in
pitch darkness. Little children are now in- The World's L a r g e s t City
duced by irresponsible leaders and "jobless This record is now held by Zamboanga,
politicians" to go on a hunger strike. previously a small town at the southern ex-
A number of cultivators have marched to tremity of the Philippines archipelago. The
Rangoon from far country places and are en- town has recently been given a charter by
camped at the slopes of the Shwe Dagon which it possesses a total area of 1,059 square
Pagoda (the largest Buddhist cathedral in miles. The record was previously held by
Burma), which is become the center of Hooli- Tokyo, with 833 square miles, followed by
ganism and politics. The monks are taking London, with just under 700. The next in
active lead in civil disobedience and occasional order are Los Angeles, 443.5; Berlin, 348;
violence, such as caning old women and as- and New York, 310. From the standpoint of
saulting isolated people. Hooliganism reignoth population, however, Zamboanga is not even
in the land! the largest city in the Philippines; for it
Burma was given her own government about boasts only 101,048 inhabitants.James A.
two years ago. There are many politicians who Williams, Lithuania,
are anxious to get into office, and the disturb- -
ances are aimed at overthrowing the present Today's Pilgrims to Mecca
ministry. They claim also that even if they Today's pilgrims to Mecca go in motorcars,
have to be under some power, they had rather many of them. They go on roads that are free
be under any other than Britain. In this, how- from bandits. They lodge in villages where
ever, they show their ignorance of conditions they are not overcharged. They are not over-
obtaining in countries such as Germany, Italy taxed. When they arrive at Mecca they find a
or Japan. The people of Burma enjoy -more good water supply, camping facilities and po-
freedom than any other people in the world, lice supervision-Few of them die by the road-
but they don't appreciate it. Instead the local side en route. Egypt's money and influence
press often publishes a lot of falsehoods or has done most of this.
deliberate lies, just to excite the populace,
mainly the ignorant ones. Britain has given Filling the Gap in the Bagdad Railway
them a free hand to try to manage the affairs The gap of 290 miles in the Bagdad rail-
of their country, but they are making a mess way is now being filled, and before long it will
of things. be possible to board a train in London and not
The employees of nearly all the leading leave it until it reaches the port of Fao, 475
corporations were forced to go on strike, some miles southeast of Bagdad on the Persian
even being kept in custody in the pagoda Gulf. The railway negotiates 55 tunnels in
grounds. Foreign influence has a good deal to the Taurus mountains, one of them three miles
do with these disturbances, undoubtedly. in length.
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10
 Australasia

Another South Sea Paradise refreshment in the form of food and drink,
THERE recently appeared in Con- and other household commodities. Tropical
solation an article dealing with the fruits and vegetables grow in abundance, and
little-known island of Bali. Proba- the only meat eaten is that provided by pigs
bly less known are the Tongan is- and fowls. I t is said that the Tongans sing .as
lands, sometimes called the Friend- naturally as most other people speak. They
ly islands, the queen of which recently cele- play no instruments, but blend their voices in
brated her fiftieth jubilee. beautiful harmony*
Treacherous reefs surrounding the islands, A tortoise, presented to the chiefs of Tonga-
and particularly the main one of the group, tabu in 1777 is still alive in the grounds of the
help to keep visitors away. This is possibly royal palace, and is reputed to be over 200
advantageous to the Tongans, for "civilized" years old. It bears the title of Chief of the
visitors frequently spoil the world's natural district of Malila and gets the respect due to
beauty spots. such a rank!
Tonga is the last of the Pacific kingdoms, Besides the queen, there is a privy council
and a happy and beautiful kingdom it is. and parliament, the latter holding an annual
Poverty and want are unknown. The air is meeting which lasts one month. All the mem-
wonderfully pure, the rain gentle and sweet, bers of the government are full-blooded
and, as in Bali, life is natural and free. Tongans, with the exception of the treasurer
One hundred and fifty-nine islands, scat- and the chief justice, who are Europeans.
tered over an area of two hundred and sixty- Every Tongan-born male subject receives
nine square miles, comprise the group. The eight and a quarter acres of land, fully plant-
Inhabitants, pure Polynesians, numbered ed with cocoanuts, on reaching the age of six-
slightly over 31,000 a year ago. A further re- teen. Education is being developed on sound
semblance to Bali is seen in the physique of lines, agriculture and technical training being
the Tongans. They have fine, brown bodies; looked upon as more important than academic
the young men are stalwart, and the girls real- knowledge.
ly beautiful. The climate of the islands is not In these days, when the governments of
as good as that of Bali; for Tonga suffers from "civilized" lands are 'reeling to and fro and
severe humidity and hurricanes. staggering like drunken men', when millions
Not many of the so-called amenities of upon millions of dollars are being spent every
civilization are to be had on the islands. There year on weapons of destruction and when
is no electric light, and there are no news- fear rules in the hearts of the majority, it is
papers. In these days of a prostituted press, refreshing to know that there are one or two
the absence of the latter is perhaps a blessing. places on this earth as yet so little affected by
What appeals to the visitor most of all is the the blight of religion, politics and commerce.
natural warm-heartedness of the Tongans
themselves. Soon after one's arrival gifts in Public Health Service of Tasmania
token of welcome and friendship are present- Tasmania has ten health districts the doc-
ed, and the dignity and courtesy of the people tors of which are paid by the States 800 a
is immediately apparent. year, with housing allowance, a month's holi-
A small steamer from New Zealand visits day and a month's research work on pay, and
the main island about once a month, but the six months' leave every five years to study
sea is generally so rough that letters have to abroad. On top of this the doctor receives from
be tied in oiled paper and attached to sticks, the patients double the cost of his automobile
which are carried by native swimmers to the mileage, with heavier charges for night work,
Steamer. Inward mail is put into a sealed tin Sundays and holidays. How the taxpayers can
and thrown over the ship's side, to be picked stand this load is a mystery.Sydney Labor
up by the swimmers. This is the "Tin-Can Daily Condensation.
Mail" well known to travelers in those parts. [It seems as if the doctor racket runs a close
Cocoanut trees form the basis of the wealth second to the religious racket, from which it
of the inhabitants, providing copra for export traces its descent. In fact, the terms doctor
as well as building material for the houses, and cure are common to both.)
S E P T E M B E R 6, 1939 11
 ,/tfGHTEOUS Leaving us for Lagos, he left many cartons
of books and booklets for us, encouraging us
to keep on moving.
The picture shows one of the methods we
used in Minna township in advertising the
King and His kingdom and which method
curiously arrested the attention of the public
to get the booklets Face ihe Facts- and Fascism
or Freedom. In this very method our speak-
Two West African Pioneers ing trumpet has been a great help to us in this
To Jehovah, the great Theoerat, we give all part, because when it is sounded, all heads
praise for the privilege granted us to serve can be seen through the windows peeping, we
Him at this hour of great distress amongst approach them, and in this way we can place
the peoples of earth. In Jehovah's service, we more books and booklets.
are now ten months on tour in the Northern In one village where we called it was ob-
Provinces, where we have been able, by Jeho- served at the first sounding of our speaking
vah's grace, to carry the message of God's trumpet that all the villagers were jumping
Kingdom in printed form to the hungry and into the bush and some were seen locking
thirsty, souls in the following places, to wit: their doors, and when we asked them the
Idah, Lokoja, Loco, Makurdi, Kafanchan, reason for their running, they said they heard
Bukuru, .Jos, Bauchi, Potiskum, Maiduguri, that war was coming. We then gathered the
Zaria, Sokoto, Kano, Kaduna, Minna, and people and explained.to them about God's
Zungeru, the former capital of the Provinces. kingdom, the only hope of the world, and also
By Jehovah's grace we succeeded in plac- about the war, how it would be fought and
ing 100 bound books and 2,724 booklets for those that would be saved. In the circum-
the period of four months, January to April, stances, they gladly obtained booklets in their
1939, in which we rejoice greatly because this (Hausa) language.Thomas Ozurumbah and
is a good report compared with our reports Benson N. Ogbonnah, pioneers.
submitted to the Branch office, Lagos, in the
previous campaigns. Blessings in La Grange, Georgia
At Lokoja we were arrested and charged I . made a back-call on a party who had
with the offense of hawking in the Township taken a booklet from me and who showed in-
without permit, and the next day we were terest ; I found the party had read the booklet
tried by the Commissioner of Police, who pro- through three times and gladly took more. At
pounded many questions to us; and having another home, which I visited with the phono-
received satisfactory answers backed up with graph, the lady of the house would not listen,
scriptures, he concluded with,""May,God bless because, she said, she had heard the phono-
your work." At Sokoto we were again arrested graph a few weeks before. I smiled and told
and the same charge was repeated. On this her we had a new record. She listened to
occasion the trial was conducted by the Dis- "Miracles" and' "Instruction" and was so im-
trict Officer, who, after we had given answers pressed that she subscribed for The Watch-
to his questions, received the booklets Face tower.
the Facts, Protection, and Where Are the I (railed at another home with the phono-
Dead? in the Hausa language. There were graph, and the man of the house told me that
arrests of similar kinds which are not worth if I was calling as a Christian I could play the
mentioning, and we had pleasure in them all phonograph, but that he wanted nothing to
because the arrests afforded us full chance..to do with Jehovah's witnesses. He seemed sin-
deliver good testimony to the authorities of cere, that he really thought Jehovah's wit-
the Provinces, and thus we rejoice as partak- nesses were a bad group of people, so I went
ers of the afflictions of the Gospel according ahead and played the records "Miracles" and
to the power of God. (2 Timothy 1:8) "Instruction". About half way through the
Our zeal was tripled when unexpectedly we first record he discovered I am one of Jeho-
saw the WATCH TOWER representative, who vah's witnesses, but remarked to his wife that
drove his sound-car from Lagos to Zaria, a he saw nothing wrong with the recorded mes-
distance of over G17 miles, where he met us. sage. After listening to the other side he told
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me he saw where he had been wrong about his outlined against the sky; and as we drive on
belief regarding Jehovah's people, that what the blue changes to emerald green, and we are
he had heard was not true, and that he would in the Smokies! Here we begin to climb, and
not be against us any more. the road circles round and round, up, up, UP;
Witnessing on another street, I found a wonderful engineering, showing what even
man who had a goat-like disposition. He said imperfect man can do when his thoughts are
he was goihg to call the police, and he did not on war. ;We are "at the top of one of the
follow me down the street, going into the crests and look downa sheer drop of thou-
homes I had just left. It became so noticeable sands of feet belowto cabins nestled in fer-
that. I asked at one home who this man was. tile valleys, with rivers and creeks winding
When the goat arrived at this home, and found in and out. Faintly we catch the tinkle of a
I had closely inquired concerning him, he be- cowbell, and the rushing of waters as they
came very fearful and withdrew from sight. dash over natural dams of stone and rock.
I called at a home with the phonograph and By the way, many of the farmers make their
the wife called her husband out of the garden own electricity by means of water-wheels.
to listen. At first he did not seem much in- Looking at these great hills, one would
terested, but listened, said he enjoyed the rec- never dream that farming could be carried on
ord and .would subscribe for The Watchtower. so efficiently; but there are very fertile farms
I visited him later with a set of records, and even at the tops of these mountains. Some-
he is now greatly interested in the truth and times the fields being cultivated are so steep
came to the study Sunday night. and slanting that, looking from one hill to
I called on Mayor O'Neal and Chief of Po- another, it seems as if the farmer and his ani-
lice Matthews. Both were still somewhat em- mal must come tumbling down, and makes one
bittered, but the most of the people receive us feel that "thar ain't no law of gravity". I said
kindly in their homes and appreciate the mes- "animal" advisedly, for these farmers use
sage which we bring to them by means of the horses, mules, oxen with the old-fashioned
phonograph.Odie De Berry, Georgia. yokes, Ferdinand the bull, and even the family
milch cow!
God's Glories in the Smoky Mountains Many of these farms are miles off the roads,
and one must walk up the steep mountain-
How beautiful the earth is even in its un- sides, cross rushing creeks over logs thrown
finished condition and marred as it is by from bank to bank, and, panting and winded,
unsightly billboards, each advertising its own stumble to the cabin door to be greeted by the
particular brand of death in the form of whole family; for, as you may imagine, it is
tobacco! Babylonish steeples rising in the sky a great event to have a stranger drop " u p " to
are usually the first things one sees when en- see them. Everything has to be "toted" to these
tering picturesque little towns, as well as com- places either by muleback or man power. The
mercial signs pointing out the special wonders mountains are too steep for even a wagon.
and beauties to be seen, at a price! All of these We visited one farm on a river bank which
things remind a Jehovah's witness how com- had no road on the side the farm was on, and
pletely Satan has commercialized his world; the only means of getting across was by a
and even the wonders of nature bring in a swinging footbridge or by boat. The farmer
steady stream of gold to his organization. had to wait until the river was low enough to
Much has been said and written about the ford, in the fall, before he could take any crops
great beauties and wonders of creation, which out or bring heavy supplies in.
fill the Lord's people with awe and reverence
and a greater love for their great Creator. These valleys and farm communities are
Come with me now to western North Carolina, called "coves", and take their names usually
where the great Smoky mountains raise their from the rivers and creeks on which they are
mighty heads, rugged and lofty, tier upon tier, situated. There are hundreds of these creeks
all clothed in verdant green. This is one of and coves, and many of them arc thickly in-
the most beautiful sights it is possible to habited. The mountainsides are covered with
imagine, and beggars description. No poetry wonderful apple orchards; for this is a famous
or painting could express its loveliness. apple country.
As we drive into this section from Georgia We have seen several thunderstorms lately,
the mountains lie ahead of us in a hazy blue, and it is a wonderful sight to witness the lofty
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heights outlined against the inky blackness of ligion V Then she began thinking, "Only eight
the clouds, with the lightning splitting the went through at the time of Noah, and when
blackness, and the deep rumble of thunders. Jesus Christ was on the earth there were only
We try to picture what these mountains will a very few; so why wouldn't it be the same
be like when the might and power of Jehovah now?"
is manifested at Armageddon. She went down in the basement and brought
As we drive on evening falls, and dusky up the books and booklets she had obtained
night begins to cover the landscape. We now from witnesses before, mostly, she said, to get
see these great mountains silhouetted against rid of the caller.
the sky and are reminded of Jehovah's watch- I have made arrangements for her to re-
care over His own, as expressed in Psalm ceive the Informant, and believe that very
125:1,2. Twinkling lights appear in little shortly she will become a "laborer" with us.
cabins scattered over the hills, and from the N. Shafer, Canada.
hedgerows comes the most delicate scent of
honeysuckle, which literally covers the road-
side, and blossoms all summer long. Town Clerk of Ephesus Example
Now darkness completely covers the earth, Sir Alexander Maxwell, Permanent Under-
and, as if at a signal, thousands of fireflies Secretary of the British Home Office, listened
appear and flit around us, turning on and off to deputations of clergymen demanding sup-
their phosphorescent light. I cannot begin to pression of demonstrations and processions.
describe this last loveliness of the day, and He told them, "I wonder what would have
can only say with the psalmist, " 0 Jehovah, happened if the town clerk of Ephesus had
how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast suppressed Paul and his companions, who
thou made them all: the earth is full of thy were attacking the established church of the
riches."Mrs. G. E. Fiske, Pioneer. place and its industry [business]." He sur-
mised that the clerk, prompted by the chief
Kingdom Blessings in Saskatchewan constable, took the stand that there should be
no interference with the propagation of Paul's
On January 1, I began the "Watchtower message.
Campaign", anxious to have a part in it, but
with very little hope of finding anyone inter-
ested enough to take a subscription. New Market for Telescopes
I called on a lady who had been witnessed In the town of Calway, California,
to many times before by myself and other a c l e r g y m a n of the so-called
publishers. She always allowed us to play the "Church of God" chased the wit-
record, but had never seemed to take any in- ness away from the porch. After he
terest, and, in fact, would interrupt the record left another witness chanced to see
to talk about other things. I was very happily the elergyman behind some bushes with a spy-
surprised, therefore, when she told me she had glass in hand, evidently very curious to know
been waiting for a Jehovah's witness to call. what really is the "Cure", but not sufficiently
Her husband had subscribed for Consolation courageous to come across with a copper cent
about six months ago and she found it very to find out. The correspondent who sent in
interesting. She had put $2.00 away for this item astutely remarks that all clergymen
"Christmas" presents, but after reading the should now be furnished with telescopes.
advertisement on the back of the Consolation
magazine offering The Watchtower she decid- "Up Behind the Door"
ed she would like to obtain it.
At Kendal, England, a Catholic youth said
She remarked to me that we did not believe to his Protestant uncle, when he saw The Har-p
in "Christmas". I explained to her and showed of God and other of Judge Rutherford's books
her, in Jeremiah 10, what the heathen do. in the tatter's bookcase, "I cannot read any of
I had made arrangements for a back-call them, because they are up behind the door."
and called the following week. She asked nu- This puzzled the uncle, and on inquiry he
merous questions, one being "What is a Jona- found that the lad referred to a list of books
d a b f She told us that when we had called pinned up behind their church door, contain-
before she had thought, "What right have they ing the names of various books which Catho-
to come and try to change people to their re- lics may not read, lest they learn something.
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 Belated Convention News

S IX witnesses, three of them ladies, drove

from Oklahoma to the New York Conven-
tion. Arrived in Brooklyn, the ladies had not
doing it, laid out the assailant on the sidewalk.
A crowd gathered, and it looked as if a fight was
inevitable, when proffered assistance was unex-
had time to get out of the car when three men pectedly received from one of the onlookers. A
came up in pompous manner and their spokes- well-known prize-fighter called out to the wit-
man wearing a Knights of Columbus button ness, asking, "Do you need any help, Dick?"
ordered them to remove from their car the ban- The fight was all off. The Lord has His own
ner advertising Judge Rutherford's public ad- way of taking care of His people. It may be
dress. The Oklahoma men were not impressed. added that six well-known boxers, one from
The Knights of Columbus spokesman swung at Texas, famous throughout the West, and one
one of the Oklahoma citizens, when the smallest from the Pacific Coast fleet, famous in the seven
man among theni all knocked two of the Brook- seas, were at that convention and well prepared
lynites flat upon the pavement. Then another to defend American liberties in Western style.
Oklahoma man, with his knee in the back of Sometimes those who look for trouble are sur-
one of the Brooklyn parties, and his strong Tight prised when they really find i t
arm pulling back on his collar, wiped his face At the Oklahoma convention the assistant
on the sidewalk. He rose, tried it a second time, chairman, Julius Johnson, was 7 feet 1 inch
was treated to a second wiping on the sidewalk, tall, while A. H. Macmillan, of Brooklyn, who
and gave it up. A good time was had by all. came to preside at the meeting, is only 6 feet
Westerners are very informal. 1 inch.
At one unknown Convention point a hostile At Portland, Oregon, numerous signs adver-
person picked up a brick, intending to heave it tising the convention were destroyed, and im-
through the side of one of Jehovah's witnesses' mediately after the convention a witness who,
sound-cars. A husky colored witness struck him by permission, was visiting the boats in Port-
so hard under the clrin that he dropped the brick land Harbor was violently assaulted by a Cath-
and took an involuntary rest on the flat of his olic seaman. The Catholic was arrested and fined,
back. and will have to work out the fine.
One individual, with less sense than reckless- Declarations
ness, attacked a marcher, and broke the stick
which bore aloft the sign "Religion is a snare A witness from Montreal narrated how, at a
and a racket" "Serve God and Christ the meeting in the French section, officers of the
King". The witness peacefully restrained him law, obeying Cardinal Villeneuve, entered and
fTom doing further damage by causing him to seized all books, phonographs and records. The
recline upon the sidewalk, somewhat suddenly, chairman said he did not mind so much the
and went on holding in his raised hand the sign, loss of all these, but sorrowed over the loss of
"Serve God and Christ the King." This hap- his grip, containing all the hard-bought back-
pened near Madison Square Garden, New York. call slips. Suddenly a small piping voice of a
child of seven spoke up, saying, "No, they're
In Brooklyn one husky witness received a not gone. I dropped your case out of the back
glancing blow from some passing Fascistic fist. window, because I knew what was inside." Babes
He returned it on the jaw; and while the trou- and sucklings! O thou great and good God of
blemaker was gathering himself up from the thy people!
pavement, two passers-by jumped into the line A witness at the convention, visiting the
of march, and cried, "We are with you." They World's Fair, was asked if he would like to
begged the privilege of carrying a sign, and re- say something over the radio to the American
ceived it. They gladly continued to the end of people. He responded by inviting his listeners
the march, leaving the witness two hands for to hear Judge Rutherford's address on "GOV-
distributing circulars, having no further need ERNMENT AND PEACE" ; and as his host chanced
of them for defense. to be an usher of the Temple of Religion, form
At Denver a crowd of gangsters, sympathetic your own mental picture of the embarrassing
with one "Reverend Father" McMenamin (guess situation. Christianity has come to the hour of
his "church"), grabbed some of the information its triumph; and "Religion", to the hour of
march placards. An athletic witness recovered first its shame and then its doom.
the placards and, when struck on the head for (To be continued)
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 Northern Europe
Refugee Children from Germany Irish F i r s t in Iceland
Yesterday the ship that brought 800 Jew- Thor Thors, Icelandic commissioner to the
ish children in from Germany docked right New York World's Fair, in a carefully pre-
alongside of us. , . . It was the pitifullest pared statement for the New York Times;
sight I've ever seen in my life. states that the Irish were living in Iceland be-
Any man that was halfway human could fore A.D. 795} and an account of their so-
not have helped but have his blood boil to have journ there is available to scholars in the writ-
seen the way those small children from four ings of Diculi, an Irish monk living in Franee
to twelve years old were beat up. There was thirty years later. The Scandinavians first
not a one who did not have bruises. visited Iceland in 850, and in 900 Greenland
Four died in two days' time while getting was seen, and can still be seen from the west-
here. They had black eyes, blood dried in their ern mountains of Iceland on a clear day.
hair . . . some with broken legs . . . at least There were 50,000 persons living in Iceland
two dozen with broken arms. in A.D. 930.
The ship that brought them was Dutch and
did not have a doctor on board. They did not Room for One More
have enough splints to use or bandages for A Dutchman was dining in the restaurant
them and they had torn open packing eases for car of a German train. The waiter approached
splints and sheets for bandages and then they with the usual "Heil Hitler!" The Dutchman
only had enough for the worse cases. made no reply. The waiter was annoyed.
This town is wild, but they are afraid to "Every time I say TTeil Hitler' to you," he
say anything about it or even publish it in the snapped, "you must say 'Heil Hitler' to me."
papers, as they say that they cannot depend "Hitler? He doesn't mean a thing to us in
on France or England any more for protec- Holland," remarked the Dutchman. "Maybe
tion from a powerful nation.An American not," said the waiter, "but one day you'll get
seaman, writing from Rotterdam, December 4, our Fuehrer in Holland, too.""Perhaps so,"
1938. smiled the Dutchman. "We already have your
Kaiser."Ludwig Lore, in N. Y. Post.
Why Sweden Is a Good Place to Live
Members of the Swedish Congress get $5 Women's Rights in Sweden
a day for every day they work, but may not From July 1,1939, no Swedish woman who
work more than 200 days a year. No one can has been employed two years at the time of
buy liquor without a liquor book, which they her marriage can be dismissed from her job
cannot get unless they paid their taxes for owing to marriage, the birth of a child or con-
three years previous, and which they lose if finement. She will be allowed twelve weeks'
they get drunk. Anybody that gets sick can absence during confinement, and no signing
go to a hospital and receive the best of care, away of her rights will be recognized by law.
including operations if necessary, at 50c a day It has always seemed rather unfair that
for the first 30 days and 25c a day thereafter. when a woman takes on the responsibility of
For every tree cut down a tree must be plant- supporting a husband she should be dismissed
ed. All schools are state controlled, and there from her work. It ain't right, nowheres.
are no tuition charges to attend any of them,
anywhere. When a man is unemployed he re- Icelanders Co-operate
ceives his unemployment pay check at the Icelanders believe in co-operation, and
same window where he once received his wages. practice it, too. The Federation of Iceland
Co-operative Societies serves more than half
H a r d on the Live Stock of the 120,000 people of the country. The co-
Travelers entering Sweden from Denmark operatives handle 90 percent of all the meat
are now required to wash their beards with exported from Iceland, 80 percent of all the
disinfectant, have their shoes disinfected and wool, and 85 percent of all the skins. They
their clothing dry-cleaned. This is done in an operate the most modern dairies, bakeries and
effort to control the hoof and mouth disease tanneries, and engage in a large way in the
spreading north from Germany. manufacture of soap, shoes and clothing.
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 Devil. To them Jesus said: "But if I cast out
devils by the spirit of God, then the kingdom
of God is come unto you. . . . And whosoever
speaketh a word against the Son. of man, it
shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh
against the holy [spirit], it shall not be for-
given him, neither in this world, neither in the
world to come. . . . 0 generation of vipers!
how can ye, being evil, speak good things?"
Unpardonable (Matthew 12:22-34) Designating them as the
offspring or seed of the Serpent, the Devil,
M UCH has been written about the so-called
"unpardonable sin". The Scriptural
meaning of the term follows. "The wages of
Jesus said: "Ye serpents, -ye generation of
vipers! how can ye escape the damnation of
sin is death." (Romans 6:23) All mankind hell [(Greek) Gehenna; destruction]?"
today, being sinners by inheritance, are there- Matthew 23:33.
fore dying, and other billions have already Now bringing the question down to our day:
died. Those thereof that have not committed One who willfully rejects the Lord and His
or do not commit the "unpardonable sin" are kingdom and persecutes those who advertise
in line for an awakening from the dead unto a God's kingdom is certainly sinning against the
resurrection, because Jehovah God has pro- light, because it is the spirit of God that causes
vided for the salvation of humankind by the the light to shine out that men may see the
Redeemer, Christ Jesus. (John 5:28,29) way to salvation. Such conduct, therefore, is
Those that have committed the "unpardonable sinning against the spirit of God. Jesus said:
sin" will never have a resurrection. They have 'He who speaks against the holy spirit, it shall
committed the "sin unto death", that it, the not be forgiven him, neither in this world nor
"second death", meaning destruction from in the world to come.' Also the inspired apos-
which there is no return.See 1 John 5:16,17 ; tle adds: "For if we sin wilfully after that we
Revelation 20:14; 21: 8. have received the knowledge of the truth,
Specific cases of the unpardonable sin are there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins."
Adam, Judas Iscariot, and the scribes and (Hebrews 10:26) This latter scripture an-
Pharisees that conspired to have Jesus mur- nounces a rule that applies to all, in harmony
with the words Jesus addresses to the "goats"
dered. Jehovah God gave Adam a choice of in the parable of the sheep and goats: "Depart
obedience and life or of lawlessness and death, from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire [de-
with no promise of redemption and resurrec- struction], prepared for the devil and his
tion. Adam chose the latter eourse, and died, angels." "And these shall go away into ever-
and must remain in that condition. Christ lasting punishment "[(Greek) kolasin; cutting-
Jesus died, not for Adam, who was sentenced off]." (Matthew 25:41,46) These words ap-
to destruction because of rebellion, but for ply at the end of Satan's world, where we now
Adam's offspring, that those thereof exercising are.
faith and obedience might gain life. Judas,
chosen as an apostle and a witness of Jesus' Without a question of doubt there are many
miracles and personally with. Jesus for about among the clergy of "Christendom" that pro-
three years, betrayed Him for filthy lucre. The fess to be the servants of God and Christ and
unpardonableness of Judas' crime is proved have the Bible and claim to teach it, and that
by Jesus' words calling Judas "lost" and "the see, from the evidence that the Lord has
son of perdition". (John 17:12) To His apos- brought to their attention, that the Kingdom
tles Jesus said concerning Judas: "Have not is now here, operating in the midst of God's
I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a enemies. And yet those churchmen, moved by
devil?" (John 6:70) Judas therefore experi- Pharisaical selfishness, spurn the Kingdom
ences the Devil's fate, eternal destruction. and the Kingdom message that Jehovah's wit-
nesses bear, and persecute those who bring the
The holy spirit is the invisible power of Je- message to the people. They also use all their
hovah God, whose name is Holy, and it oper- power and influence to prevent the people
ated and manifested itself through the words from hearing the truth of and concerning the
and deeds and miracles of Christ Jesus. The Kingdom. Certainly they are not ignorant.
wicked Pharisees accused Him of serving the Their opposing the kingdom of God is not be-
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cause of ignorance, but they are doing so will- to God's Word, by which they have led nu-
fully. They are far better informed than the merous persons into Satan's snare, but they
Pharisees of old, and of necessity the Lord's have also willfully caused millions of others
announced rule as against the Pharisees ap- to be ensnared by the Devil by preventing
plies with equal strength to those modern-day them from hearing the truth. There is a great
clergymen. Concerning suchlike the Lord Je- crowd of persons who willfully support the
sus said: "But woe unto you, scribes and religious leaders and join with those leaders
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the king- in the present-day opposition to the Kingdom
dom of heaven against men: for ye neither go of God under Christ, which Kingdom the
in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that, are spirit of God is now causing to be proclaimed
entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and by His witnesses on earth. If those support-
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and ers of the religious opposers should die in that
land to make one proselyte; and when he is condition, is there hope for them in the resur-
made, ye make him twofold more the child of rection period? If they were to be awakened
hell than yourselves. Ye serpents, ye genera- during the thousand-year reign of Christ, is
tion of vipers! how can ye escape the damna- there any reason why they would avail them-
tion of hell?" (Matthew 23:13,15,33) Is selves of His ransom sacrifice aftd obey the
there any further t)enefit to be received by divine law then? It does not appear that they
such willful, deliberate opposers of the King- would. God's Word does not hold out any hope
dom from the ransom sacrifice of Jesus? The of salvation to those religious leaders who will-
Scriptural answer is No. God caused His ingly oppose His kingdom and His King and
words concerning such willful sinners to be thus commit the unpardonable sin, nor does it
written at Hebrews 10: 28, 29. hold out hope for the adherents of those re-
Not only have such willful sinners indulged ligious systems who likewise willfully oppose
in religious teachings and practices contrary the Kingdom. Read Luke 17:26-30.

Animal Husbandry

MangeWarm Oil and Sulphur wre killed by the proud owners of high-
Two valuable dogs, suffering terribly from powered rifles. Other achievements of those
mange; hair off back and neck; skin raw and who enjoy life themselves, but are distressed
covered with lumps; dogs constantly scratch- because four-footed creatures enjoy the same
ing themselves and manifestly in abject mis- blessings, were 1,637 deer, 29 moose and 29
ery. On recommendation by a dog-lover each bear, and 5 mountain sheep.
dog was bathed with three quarts of warm
crank case oil in which a handful of sulphur Beavers as Dam Builders
had been dissolved. Eesult: Both dogs are well
and happy, and growing beautiful, glossy Beavers have been known to build dams 450
coats of hair, soft as a puppy's. feet long. So skilled are they in felling trees,
which they cut with their sharp front teeth,
that the trunks fall just where they are want-
Bottle-roared Lion No Good ed. The object in building the dams is so that
Leo, bottle-fed lion of the Crafts, Califor- the beavers may swim below the ice in winter,
nia, circus, was too gentle for the show busi- and so get at the food which, in summer, they
ness, and as it cost $2 a day to feed him, and cache where they will need it later.
he would not work, the proprietors did not
know what to do with him, but at last he was
given a home for life in the animal haven of A Free-wheeling Sheep
George Williamson, near Ripon. There he may At Murrayville, Illinois, a sheep had its
roam to his heart's content. hind legs crushed when a colt stepped on them,
but the farmer who owns it got around the
Joy Among the Bloodthirsty difficulty by making harness and a pair of
There is great joy among the bloodthirsty, wheels by which,the sheep can get about its
to know that in the year 1938, in the state of grazing business with almost as much ease as
Wyoming, 3,959 beautiful and inoffensive elk before it was hurt.
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 Crops and Soils
Reflections of a Cotton Grower How Much Poison Can You Carry?
I hate cotton because of what it does to the The secretary of agriculture decided that
children: it keeps them out of school so they apples are O.K. if they carry not more than
may pick cotton, and they grow up in igno- .02 grain of fluorine residue per pound of
rance. We should change the school year, in fruit. This doubles the possible fluorine con-
the cotton-growing sections. School should run tent. The same wise and great man increased
from January 1 to July 31, and the vacation the tolerance for lead residue from .018 grain
season from August 1 to December 31. per pound of fruit to .025 grain. He forgot
Much cotton is produced by share-croppers to teH everybody that the lead you eat with
because it does not, and cannot, pay a living your apples stays with you. Eat one apple and
wage. Share-croppers generally till from you are carrying around .025 grain of lead;
twenty to thirty acres, quarter of which us- eat 100, and you are navigating around with
ually is planted to com and three-quarters 2.5 grains in you, and pretty soon you can be
to cotton; the average production is slightly melted down and made into bullets or a lead
under 200 pounds an acre, so the average casket for somebody.
cropper raises between six and nine bales
or between three and four and a half bales The Power of Tomato Roots
for himself. It has been demonstrated that "orphan"
When, as now, cotton brings under $45 a tomato roots generate sufficient power to send
bale, his share is worth between $150 (with sap up to a height of 200 feet, or about twenty-
seed) and $225. That is for a whole family, five times as high as the average tomato plant
which means six or seven people or more. grows. The entire theory of plant life has been
Nations that do not raise cotton seem to be recently changed by this discovery, and for
better off than the cotton-producing ones. the first time scientists understand that it is
Granville T. Chapman. root force that enables trees to Bend their sap
350 feet up into the air. The power of a plant
Protection Against Plenty is now believed to lie in its roots and not in
America this year is being blessedbeg its leaves. This may be the right idea, but it
pardon, cursedwith plenty. The wheat crop is best not to be too dogmatic. Scientists also
this year is estimated at 967,412,000 bushels, are human and prone to err.
the largest since 1915, and with the exception
of that year the largest on record. And there Trees in the Shelter Belt
are bumper crops all along the line. Corn, The trees that are to keep the dust bowl
oats, barley, rye, rice, hay, beans, potatoes, from spreading are taking root, and a total of
tobacco, sugar beets, hops, peaches, pears, 6,870 miles of trees suitable to the belt have
grapesall of them will exceed the average been planted^ The ones that have thrived best
crop of the ten years from 1927 to 1936. Prices are sumach, lilac, honeysuckle, chokecherry,
will be low enough, because of this plenty, so and honey locust. Other trees that survived
that more people can buy more of everything fairly well are the wild plum, American elm,
to eat What disaster! Cottonwood, hackberry, red cedar, Chinese
elm, Kentucky coffee tree, and apricot.
Sterilization of Soils
There are now three methods of sterilizing Seedless Watermelons -
soils, i.e., freeing them from weeds: one is Michigan State College reports the devel-
by live steam, another by direct application opment, after long research, of a seedless
of flame, and the third is by putting the soil watermelon, and with the flavor unimpaired.
to be sterilized into a large box and drilling The discovery is the work of a Chinese grad-
several holes in the earth. Into these holes are uate of the institution.
put a few drops of tear gas. The whole is
covered with a canvass, and in two days the Blossoming Can Be Delayed
soil is entirely free from weed contamination Blossoming of fruit trees and sprouting of
and can be uaed for any purpose such as potatoes can be delayed one week by spraying
greenhouses, lawns, golf courses, etc. with potassium naphthalene nitrate.
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19
 ments as "Ishtar". This means Astarte or
Easter, which, as we have already pointed out,
was one of the titles of Beltis, the "queen of
UNDE1 heaven". (Even the "Beltane Queens" crowned
THE these days take their title from "Ishtar" or
TOTALITARIAN "Astarte".) The word "Easter" is foreign to
Scripture. True, it is found in Acts 12,^verse 4
0 FLAG but it has no right to be there. The word in
the original Greek is not a word that means
Some Pagan Ceremonies the day on which Christ was raised from the
LENT.Today, as for centuries past, Lent dead. The word "Easter" is a mistranslation
is a "Feast" of the Roman Catholic Church. of the original. The Greek word is Pascha,
Forty days prior to "Easter" Romanists ab- meaning Passover. The word is used by Paul
stain from meat. Originally Lent was observed in 1 Corinthians 5:7, where he says, "Christ
by the Babylonians, long before the birth of our passover [pascha] is sacrificed for us."
Christ, in honor of the Babylonian goddess Let the reader read Acts 12 from verse 1, and
whose name was Astarte, one of the titles of can he conceive Herod, an enemy of the Chris-
Beltis, tiie "queen of heaven". Lent is observed tian faith, honoring the observance of Easter,
today, forty days of it, in the spring of the if Easter were then a Christian institution?
year by the Yezidis, or Pagan-Devil-worshjp- Why should Herod, who was not a Christian,
ers of Koordistan, who have inherited it from hold Peter till after the due celebration of
their early masters, the Babylonians. The what is claimed to be a Christian festival?
Pagan Mexicans, before the Church of Rome The very suggestion is an insult to every in-
"converted" them to Popery, also held their telligent person. And what about the Easter
forty days Lent. eggs? Where do they come in? What connec-
HOLY WEEK.This is the week prior to tion can an egg have with the resurrection of
"Easter" and observed by Papists as some- Jesus Christ? Again we find paganism to the
thing very special. There is no Scriptural au- forefront. An egg was one of the symbols of
thority for its observance. Every week is holy Astarte, or Easter, the Babylonian "queen of
to true Christians. This Holy Week humbug heaven". Here is the story of the Easter egg.
business was swept away at the Reformation. 'An egg of wondrous size fell from heaven into
PALM SUNDAY.The Papists on this day the Euphrates river. Fishes rolled it to the
take sprigs of trees and hedges to their church- bank; doves settled on it and hatched it, and
es and the priest "blesses" them. Their posses- out came the Syrian goddess Astarte, or
sion "keeps away the Devil and remits sin". Easter.' -Hence the Easter egg of today, as
This is another superstitious abomination that pagan as Easter Day itself.
has crept into the Church of Scotland. CHRISTMAS.Here we have more pagan-
GOOD FRIDAY.This is also of Pagan origin, ism! No person knows the date of Christ's
as it was on the Friday before "Easter", the birth, and it is sheer presumption and irrev-
day of the pagan goddess, Astarte (from erence for any person to tell us that Jesus
which the word Easter is taken), that "buns" Christ was born on the 25th of December.
were made and used in the worship of the The Scriptures are silent on the date of
Chaldean goddess. Do Protestants ever ask Christ's birth, and they are silent for a pur-
themselves as to the origin of the Hot-Cross pose, that purpose being that we should not
Bun? The Bun, or "Boun", was the "sacred as Christians observe Christ's birth. Every
bread" offered to the gods under the rites of intelligent student of -history believes that
Chaldean worship 1500 years before the Chris- Christ was not born in the depths of winter.
tian era. This "Boun" is referred to as a thing It was not till 400 years after Christ's ascen-
of idolatrous worship in Jeremiah 7:18. In sion to heaven that His birth was observed,
the olden times the Bun was "offered" in and with the other "festivals" which we are
pagan worship on the festival of Easter, or considering, "Christmas" is purely of pagan
Astarte, but good Presbyterians and others origin. "Christmas" means "Christ's Mass", a
today eat the Bun, and this on the date of a Roman Catholic observance of Roman Cath-
PAGAN festival! olic origin. But the name "Christmas" also
EASTER.Its Chaldean name condemns it! means "Yuleday", and here we find its pagan
The name is found today on Assyrian monu- origin. "Yule" is the Chaldee for "infant", or
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"little child", and the 24th of December was Religious Building at San Francisco
observed as "Yule-day" or "Child's Day" by There are not enough buildings everywhere
our pagan Anglo-Saxon ancestors long be- to house all the religious rackets, and so the
fore the Christian era. Our ancestors also San Francisco World s Fair will have a spe-
celebrated what we term- Christmas Eve as cial Tower of Religion to commemorate the
"Mother Night", and this long before the time present world peace in Ethiopia, Czechoslova-
of Christ. Further, in Egypt, the "son of the kia, Spain and China; freedom of religion, as
queen of heaven" was said to have been born in Sydney, Australia, where the Hierarchy
on the 25th of December. Christmas in its en- was afraid to have Judge Rutherford land be-
tirety is wholly pagan, and the sooner Prot- cause he would teach the people something
estants of all denominations come to appre- about the Bible; freedom of the press, as wit-
ciate the danger of celebrating these things nessed in Seattle, where the newspapers re-
of paganism, the better it will be for Protes- fused to print what they admitted was the
tantism.Alexander Ratcliffe, Scotland. truth; freedom of speech, as in New Orleans,
where policeman Mc-
Treat All Con- Namara cut the wires
fidence Mer Alike leading Judge Ruther-
To place American ford's London speech
citizens, who desire to to a Christian assem-
enter the Purgatory bly, and told his men
game, on an equal' to shoot to kill, if any-
footing with the Ro- body interfered; and
man boys, I think it freedom of assembly,
would be advisable to broken up in the same
license all Purgatory city by the same man
Purgers and require on the same occasion.
everyone engaged in It seems fitting.
the business to exhib-
it a sign in front of The Statue in
his or her establish- San Francisco Bay
ment, reading: "Li-
censed by the U.S. The statue of Saint
Government to pray Francis of Assisi, to
souls out of Purga- be erected in San
tory." It would also Francisco bay, will
be well to provide a be five feet higher
statute of limitations than the Statue of
on the industry, and Liberty in New York
I suggest ten years. bay. It will be built
If a sojourner can't as a F e d e r a l Art
be moved out in that The tattooed lady
Project of the WPA,
length of time, it should be declared a wild whieh has allotted $50,000 for the purpose.
goose chase and given up as a bad job. The city of San Francisco will collect $22,000
This measure when enacted would not inter- from its taxpayers toward the cost of mate-
fere with the free exercise of religion. Passage rials. Concerning the original design for this
of laws to guarantee bank deposits, stop fake monstrosity, or tombstone-cutter's nightmare,
stock sales, prohibit faro, roulette, loaded dice, as he called it, Westbrook Pegler said:
three shell games, one-armed slot machine
bandits, Shultz and Hines numbers, etc., only It is a figure with the conventionalized head of
makes the Purgatory racket more profitable. the 1910 model of family doctor, with a pointed
Operators of the non-religious rackets have beard, inclosed in an aviator's helmet and having,
to pay part of the "take" over to the Govern- beneath the chin, a sort of bib or drool cloth. The
hiiruls are upraised in the standard posture of the
ment in income and various other forms of guest of honor at a stickup and the figure then
taxes. Why should not all "confidence" men declines, round, rigid as a concrete pipe and in-
be treated alike?Frank C. Hughes, in the nocent of fold or human line, to the waist, where it
San Diego Broom. disappears into a barrel extending to the base.
S E P T E M B E R 6. 1939 21
Idolatry in New Orleans had threatened to blow out the brains of
V j&k"P The idolatry in New Orleans was Christians who desired to hear a Bible dis-
fittingly introduced by McNamara's course broadcast from London. Connolly con-
orders to shoot to kill Jehovah's veniently shuts his eyes to the fact that the
witnesses if they dared receive a greatest persecutors of Christians for a thou-
Bible lecture broadcast all over the sand years or more have come from the very
world. Next step was to decorate the city lamp institution he is so eager to perpetuate, the
posts with 5-foot candles and set up the larg- Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Another speaker
est amplifying system ever known so that the at the same function, Bishop John B. Morris,
whole city could listen to the Italian broad- of Little Rock, Arkansas, said, "We [Cath-
casting gibberish from Vatican City. Then the olics, but not Jehovah's witnesses] are per-
general manager of the Hearst newspapers mitted in this country to serve God accord*
made a fervent plea against all forms of in- ing to the dictates of our consciences."
tolerance. Fine! Then Parley said, "In God
we trust," but he really meant "God" and Not All Priests Are Alike
McNamara, mostly McNamara. Meantime
Cardinal Mundelein sat on his throne. Don't In the city of Yorkton, Saskatchewan, a
overlook that. Suppose he had sat on a milk Ukrainian man lay ill in the hospital and was
stool. Think how it would have balled every- reading some of Judge Rutherford's books.
thing up. It is important to know what he sat Another man near him, also Ukrainian, was
on. Now, for instancebut why go into that? dying of cancer. In sympathy the .first pa-
Fifty thousand got soaked to the skin. Five tient asked the nurse to take the cancer pa-
hundred fainted. Somebody got a broken leg. tient some of the booklets to read, to pass the
Priests went to bat, 100 at a clip, each with a time and comfort him.
missal, chalice veil, burse, pall, wine and As the cancer patient was reading a priest
water cruets. Every priest must have his wine came to call on these men, and on observing
every morning. Archbishop Glennon spoke in what the cancer patient was reading he be-
favor of rugged individualism, by which he came very indignant, and denounced these
meant, of course, such acts as those of his booklets and reproved the one who was read-
co-religionist McNamara in offering to kill ing them. The poor man answered that he
Jehovah's witnesses for exercising their rights. could find nothing wrong in them, but thought
Bishop Morris said "the Catholic Church has they were for the purpose of teaching him
become an asset to the Nation for morality" something. After this the priest did not call
of the McNamara kind. Farley struck at state further to see this man, and he became wor-
interference with religion, but he thought ried, thinking he had committed a great sin.
McNamara did the right thing, because Jeho- Later another priest came to the hospital
vahis witnesses are not religionists, but merely and came to visit these men. They inquired if
Christians, which is the exact opposite. Cicog- they had done wrong to read these booklets,
nani said, "God is here." You bet. For details and asked why the other priest had failed to
see 2 Corinthians 4 : 4 . Of the original audi- visit them. This priest replied that so long
ence of 65,000, about 15,000 adults skipped as the books contained food for the soul it
for shelter when it started to rain. Of the was all right to read them. It seems that even
50,000 that remained, 35,000 were school chil- some of the priests are confused.Mrs. J.
dren that had to stay and take it; so the adults Walters, Canada.
were split fifty-fifty on going and staying. A
few adults fainted, and more than 500 little The Answer Is, No, Not a T h i n g
folks, worn out by the intolerable and in-
sufferable ceremonies. I want you to know that I -appreciate your
publication very much. Is there any concerted
effort made to stop the horrible propaganda
Good Place to S t a r t in our moving pictures? This has no bearing
In an address at the Catholic blowout in on your fine efforts. You surely do your share
New Orleans Joseph V. Connolly, general against the insidious efforts of the Roman
manager of Ilearst newspapers, asked for a Catholic Hierarchy. I usually keep away from
world-wide movement in "defense of all those the worst movies. The other day I went to see
who suffer persecution". He did this just a few "Jesse James". It was a fright.L. S. Walker,
days after a fellow Catholic in the same city California.
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Religion "Hits" Baseball Lying About the Almighty
Baseball fans know that the New The Catholic Lay Apostle Guild^ Room 906,
I York Yankees are strong favorites 154 Nassau street, New York, circulated a
' to win the 1939 American League leaflet marked with the Imprimatur of Patrick
pennant. But it wasn't until a re- Cardinal Hayes in which occur the following
cent disclosure by Jimmy Powers, false statements:
a prominent New York sports writer, that Suppose you visit the Presidentand he refers
they found out the world champions now have you and the object of your visit to his secretary.
the additional "distinct advantage" of the You may not like this, but you have no recourse.
prayers of the nuns and priests of the missions So it is with confession of sins to a priest. We may
refer to go direct to God Himself; however, He
scattered throughout the whole world. With
the newly discovered patron saint of "baseball, E as referred us to His representatives on earth,
and whether we lite it or not, we must go to them.
St. Antony, getting them out of their infre-
quent batting slumps, and with red, white, Maybe you already know that prayers may
and blue candles being burned in front of Our be offered to Jehovah God, the great Creator,
Lady's altar each morning for them, what direct, but you might like to have a few scrip-
chance have the Red Sox or any other team tures, His own word, on the subject, so here
to overhaul them! With the nuns becoming are "just a few:
baseball-minded, seeing that now the Yank "Pray to thy Father which is in secret."Mat-
box scores are posted in monasteries and con- thew 6:6.
vents from coast to coast, the next step is to "Let your requests be made known unto God."
inaugurate '"nun day"- and thus give all the Philippians 4: 6.
fair ladies seats in the grandstand. Further, "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name,
he will give it you."John 16:23.
Jimmy Powers points out that the next time "Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to
you see a team's star hitter over in some cor- you."James 4: 8.
ner murmuring to himself you can assume, if
his batting percentages have fallen, he is say- The approach to God is in His appointed
ing something like this: way, through 'the only name given under
heaven or among men'. (Acts 4:12) Prayers
"St. Antony, St. Antony, offered through priests, Marys, "saints" and
Come around. other persons are not heard at all and are
Something's been lost, worse than wasted breath.
And cannot be found."
On the Very Day
I Ate Meat on F r i d a y On the very day when the pope announced
I was raised a Catholic and was taught in he had made J. Pierpont Morgan and Thomas
the convent that if I ate meat on Friday I W. Lamont Knights of St. Gregory the Great,
would die. I believed that implicitly. One day the brokerage firm of Richard Whitney & Com-
I became very angry at my mother and de- pany (Whitney's brother is a member of the
cided that I wanted to die, and then she would Morgan firm) was suspended from the New
be sorry. I ate a lot of meat on Friday; noth- York Stock Exchange and promptly went
ing happened, and I knew from that day, into bankruptcy. Has all the earmarks of a
though I still continued to attend church, that Papal blessing.
the whole thing is a racket. Since then I came
in contact with the truth, and am' rejoicing The Paulist F a t h e r s
in it.Pennsylvania, Zone 6. They (the Paulist Fathers) have not sought
to make the Church American, but they have
Who Owns Mobile? striven with might and main to make America
You ask wlio owns Mobile? I reply, the Catholic.Archbishop Edward J. Hanna, in
Catholic population owns fully two-thirds of a sermon in San Francisco.
it. When I was a little girl an old Catholic
man said in the presence of my father that Catholic Cadets a t West Point
he would rejoice on the day when he saw the Of the 1,960 cadets in training at West
streets of Mobile flooded with Protestant Point 413 are Roman Catholics. This is 21 per-
blood. If that spirit existed then, certainly it cent, and is about the proportion of Catholics
is worse now; for that was more than fifty to the whole population of the country; a little
years ago.Mrs. J. L. McDaniel, Mississippi. more, but not greatly different.
SEPTEMBER 6, 1939 23
Thirteen Bottles of Liquor Yes.Mayor Houde, of Montreal, Canada, in
La Presse, Montreal, contains a picture of an address to the Y.M.C.A. of that city.
thirteen dignitaries of the Church of Rome,
each with a bottle of liquor in front of him. Rosenberg Denies Persecution
One of the thirteen, T h e n Fernand Rinfret, Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideological
secretaire d'Etat," has the discolored proboscis leader, in an address in Berlin
and closed eyes that indicate he had already said the Roman Church enjoys
had one bottle and was well stewed. The oc- more freedom in Germany than in
casion of the hilarity of the thirteen gentle- many other states and that it is as
men was "Aux fetes Jubilaires de Saint-Jean- Bismarck expressed i t :
Baptistc". So far, so good. But the editor of When these gentlemen cannot rule they begin
La Presse is a clever wag; for, without say- crying immediately about persecution.
ing why he did it, next to this four-column
cut was a four-column story entitled "Lettre "America Is So Pious"
Pastorale Collective. De Son Eminence le The London Catholic Herald quotes the
Cardinal Archevequc de Quebec et de Lcurs new pope as saying, "America is so Catholic,
Excellences les Archeveques et Eveques de la so pious" (like Frank Hague, Raskob, Martin
province civile de Quebec: Sur la Temper- T. Manton, et al. ad infinitum), and then the
ance". The pastoral letter is a stirring appeal wag who sent the clipping on from London
to the people of Quebec against intemperance. added "O yeah". He had probably been read-
In the statistics it shows that in the fifteen ing this magazine and learned something of
years from 1922 to 1937 the bill of the prov- just how pious America is. However, the half
ince of Quebec for liquor was $700,000,000. was never told; so if he wants to learn all, he
must keep on reading.
French Canadians and Fascism
You appear to be surprised when 1 say the Bingo Religious Swindle
sympathies of the French-Canadian would be The reason why Bingo is such a favorite
with Italy in the event of a war between that with the religious swindlers is that the takings
country and England. I would ask you to re- are so good. At almost any other gambling
member that the great majority of French- game the customer has a chance of making
Canadians are Roman Catholics, and that the something, but in Bingo the crooks that run
pope is in Rome . . . the outfit always carry away a big profit.
The French-Canadians don't want to go to
war . . . If war happensand the possibility I Wonder
it may seems more probable every dayand I wonder, if Jehovah's people took a tabu-
Italy is on one side and England on the other, lation of the number of ex-Catholics, if the
the sympathy of the French-Canadians in quantity numbered might encourage those
Quebec will be on the side of Italy. prisoners who, because of false fear, are re-
We French-Canadians are not Latins, but luctant to leave their [religious] "prison
Normans, but we have become Latinized over houses" and fearful of searching in another
a long period of years. The French-Canadians direction.Fern Baker, California.
are Fascists by blood but not by name.
Now, the French-Canadians have always Religious Business Looking Up
been under dictators. When they came over The Altoona Register (boiler-plate issue of
to this country they were under the power of the American Hierarchy) boasts that the arch-
Louis X I I I . Then came Cardinal Richelieu bishop of Munich, Cardinal Faulhaber, has in
a dictator and a cardinal at the same time, his seminary at Freising more candidates for
which made him an absolute dictator with full the Roman Catholic priesthood than ever be-
authority over the Communists of that time. fore.
And then came the seigniors, and finally the
parish prhists. But
Take the padlock law, which has A Catholic priest from Clovis, California,
the backing of the clergy. Do the told one of the neighbors that he had two hun-
English in'the province of Quebec dred church members, but only three families
or in Montreal city want it? No. attend church.D. Davidian, California.
Do the French-Canadians want it? {To be continued)
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24
 Illinois
All T h i n g s Considered as akin to idol worship, and he won't be al-
The Supreme Court has now decided that lowed in a school.
the lower courts were correct when they The thing is so mixed up that not even a
said that school boards had the right to ex- decision of the Supreme Court can quite
pel pupils who refused to salute the national clarify it.
flag when state laws required such a salute. It is all very well to say that laws must be
So here, I think, we have a situation worthy obeyed, and if the law,* as it does in New York
of Gilbert and Sullivan's attention. and elsewhere, says that school children must
The law says that salute the flag, then
I, as a small boy, must salute it they must.
go to school. If I re- But what about the
fuse'to go to school preservation of reli-
the law sends officers gious liberty? It may
after me, and after be argued that to re-
trial for truancy I quire a member of
can be forcibly com- Jehovah's witnesses
mitted to a school for to salute the flag is
truants. just as much an abro-
There is no legal or gation of religious
social doubt about freedom as to require
this. E d u c a t i o n is a Roman Catholic to
compulsory through- eat meat on Friday.
out our l a n d , and It would be simpler
boys and girls must if these objectors to
go to school whether flag saluting had any
they like it or not. If objections to the so-
they try to stay away cial and political sys-
from school, and their tem that the flag sym-
parents connive with bolizes. Unfortunate-
them in their truancy, ly, they h a v e not.
the parents can be They are perfectly
punished for contrib- good Americans, just
uting to the delin- as patriotic as any-
quency, of their off- body, and, in a pinch,
spring. Courage, men ( 1 ) ; we'll save America yet probably m o r e de-
The theory behind pendable than most.
this is that an uneducated person is a liability Their hostility is limited to a ritual that, for
to the state. We cannot afford to have people reasons understood only by themselves, they
grow up without having been to school. This consider at variance with their creed.
theory has been so widely accepted that the In their efforts to find a punishment to fit
rare objector to it is considered quite definite- the crime, the courts have got themselves into
ly crazy. a worse muddle than the one from which they
Now, however, there arises a situation that tried to emerge.
the founders of compulsory education cer- It should be said that this is one of the un-
tainly never considered. Children appear solved problems of democracy. It is easy to
who, because of an unpremeditated tangle of say that democracy guarantees liberty of con-
laws, are not only not required to attend science. Many of those who first peopled this
school but are forbidden to do so. In my boy- continent came here in search of that very
hood, anyone who wanted to go fishing in- liberty. But has that liberty no limits? How
stead of spending the day on a hardwood far can conscience go before the state over-
bench, doing read in', writin' 'n' 'rithmetic, rules it?
had to have a note from his mother. Today, In the last war we did not have many con-
all he has to do is join Jehovah's witnesses or scientious objectors, but even the few we did
some other sect which considers saluting a flag have constituted a problem that we handled
S E P T E M B E R 6, 1939 25
in a way not altogether pleasant to remember. Radium Poisoning
As a matter of fact, wc didn't handle it at all Twenty-four women received their death-
in accordance with democratic theory. We blow working for the Radium Watch Dial
handled it precisely as any totalitarian state Company in Illinois. Nine are already dead,
would handle it. That is to say, when it came and fifteen more are about to die. The most
to the question of military service, we didn't that any of these unfortunate women can re-
merely limit the rights of conscience; we ceive for work that has ruined their lives is
abolished them. an equal share of the proceeds of a $10,000
In the period since, war has been subjected bond that the Watch Dial Company left with
to more detailed criticism than it was ever the Illinois Industrial Commission when it
subjected to before. As a result, there is prob- moved to New York.
ably a much larger number of potential con-
scientious objectors than there were in 1917. Attaboy, C u r t i s !
Should there be another war, the problem of At Abraham Lincoln center, Chicago, .Illi-
individual dissent would almost certainly be nois, the "Reverend" Curtis -W. Reese paid a
an acute one. fine of $200 for his son, Curtis, Jr., so that
That, perhaps, is one of the reasons why one the boy might not have to attend church every
may be optimistic about the future. No ruler Sunday for a year. Tally one for the old man's
in the world, not even Hitler or Mussolini, common sense and paternal love, even though
can be quite sure how many of his people the judge on the bench was not exercising
would prefer martyrdom to military service, decent judicial discretion.
or, having made a choice of arms, would stick
to it.Howard Vincent O'Brien, in the Chica- S t a t e in a Muddle
go Daily News. Copyright, 1939, by The Illinois is in a financial muddle, the total
Chicago Daily News, Inc. uncollected taxes from 1928 to 1937 running
to nearly $420,000,000, while a total of some
H e a r s t Still Shriveling 850,000 persons are on relief. Even the poli-
fP* /A A Chicago dispatch shows that in ticians now admit that they do not know what
jflfe one week William Randolph Hearst to do to bring the state back to normal in-
<%< l**3pP recently discharged 138 employees dustry and frugality in expenditures.
** v(|Pp\ of his two Chicago papers. The
American people are sick of his Robbed in t h e Cathedral
particular brand of patriotism, and may well Mrs. Elizabeth Foelders was robbed at six
be. dollars while she knelt in prayer in the Holy
Name Cathedral of Chicago- to give thanks
Sleeps with Eyes Wide Open because she got a job. How much better it
As a result of an attack of measles Mary would have been if she had followed the Lord's
Ellen Reardon, a beautiful little two-year-old instructions to do her praying in her own
child in Chicago, has slept for more than two apartment! And how much safer!
months with her eyes wide open. She has the
appearance of being wide awake, but is sound A Dispatch from Chicago
asleep. A dispatch from Chicago showed in two
sentences the condition of things in this world
How Did I t Happen? when it said:
How did it happen that of the 12,000 per- Extremely favorable wheat crop conditions pre-
sons arrested in Chicago in 1937 for gambling, vail in North America. The shadow of the ap-
2 of them were fined 1 Illinois has a state law proaching harvest had a depressing effect on the
against gambling and the other 11,998 are market last week.
no doubt equally guilty.
D a r e Not Let the T r u t h Be Shown
Best Kind of Celebration On the pretext that it would provoke
At Waukegan, Illinois, the president of the hatred and bitterness toward Germany if a
National Office Supply Company celebrated film showing Hitler's concentration camps
his twenty-fifth anniversary with the com- were exhibited in Chicago, the police of that
pany by sending each of the 120 employees city forbade the showing of the moving pic-
a $100 bill. ture entitled "Concentration Camp".
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 South Atlantic States

What a Contrast! Degenerate Descendants

What a great difference in a few Jan Sibellius, Finnish composer, and Artu-
hundred miles. In New York trac- ro Toscanini, conductor of an orchestra of in-
tors are seen-everywhere. On arriv- ternational fame, regard Marian Anderson,
ing in Beaufort, S.C., it is quite Negro contralto, of Philadelphia, as one of the
common to see a steer or a bull trot- world's greatest singers. But because she was
ting along pulling a wagon. Most of the plow- born with a skin slightly different in color
ing is done with oxen and bulls. This being a (though probably finer in texture) than that
group of islands, many strange sights greet of the D. A. R. that collection of supposed
the eye. "Whoopa," a colored boy yells, and descendants of Revolutionists refused to let
if you investigate he is probably selling raw her sing in their auditorium in Washington,
shrimp at 10c a quart. Strange fishing craft, and the Washington school board, equally
both sail and motor, are to be seen. As those mean and foolish, refused permission for her
too high to go under the bridge come near, to sing in a school auditorium. The Secretary
men turn a windlass; round and round they of the Interior finally gave permission for
walk, and a drawbridge opens. Most people Miss Anderson to sing from the steps of the
from elsewhere get quite fidgety as they wait Lincoln Memorial, a fitting place. Mrs. Roose-
in line. Why go to Europe?L. C. Ross. velt resigned from the D. A. R., with all real
Americans cheering her from the benches-
Hitlerian and Hierarchical Idiots Then rebel Americans with more sense than
It is the idiots that are constantly stirring the defunct D. A. R. Issued a call for the or-
up mob fury; but it is of prime importance ganization of a new group that would have the
that the idiots shall be protected, for if an same initials but, it is hoped, a different men-
idiot can be gagged, so can anybody. Human tality. In America, of all places, mere descent
ingenuity has'never been able to devise a sys- from this or that hero of the past means noth-
tem of guaranteeing freedom to the wise and ing.
honest except by guaranteeing freedom to all ;
and freedom for the wise is so supremely im- Virginia
portant that it is worth the price of making The Catholic Information Society takes
the silly free too.Gerald W. Johnson, in notice of the modern trend in religion, accord-
Baltimore Evening Sun. ing to an advertisement in the Richmond
Times-Dispatch:
Tackled the Wrong Farmer A St. Christopher medal in a car can do a lot
At Glenville, West Virginia, a bull tackled of good. Indirectly it can stop skids, blow-outs, or
William Powell, a 66-year-old farmer, knocked any other calamity, if one has faith in the prayers
him down, and started to gore him to death. of a saint and appreciation of the fact that God
Powell did not see dying by that route, so he can do anything He wants to.American Mercury,
grabbed one horn and locked his .legs around
the bull's neck. With his loose hand he reached Military Training Causes Hysteria
in his pocket, took out his knife and opened After military training at the New Han-
the big blade with his teeth. Then he severed over high school, Wilmington, N. C , more
the bull's windpipe, and the next day he and than a hundred students were treated for
his family had fresh meat. swooning and nervous hysteria. Five boys and
60 girls were made so ill from the combined
Poltergeist in Virginia heat and drill that they had to be sent home
A nine-year-old girl in St. Charles, Vir- for the day.
ginia, invited spirits to give her a big shake,
and for thirty-five nights in a row she was Phosphates in North Carolina
shaken so that she was sore all over. Uncon- In the midst of disappointments about soil
vinced investigators claim that the child erosion, it comes as good news that a large
brought about the peculiar movements by deposit of phosphate rock has been discovered
ability to make muscular contractions not ten miles east of Clinton, North Carolina; and
generally found. that means smiling fields for many.
SEPTEMBER 6. 1939 27
 been under mutual consideration for three
months did not mature. Russia wanted to
British Comment make certain of its own interests, and there
are many persons in the high places of pol-
By J. Hemery {London) itics in Britain wTho are adverse to any such
arrangement with Russia, and who did what
they could to prevent -a military agreement
it is hinted that some in the very highest
War Conditions places do not want a British-Russian pact.
The feeling of ease from a great fear of Also it is certain that aversion to such agree-
war which followed the Munich settlement last ment is so positive a feature of the Roman
September soon passed away. Since then there Catholic Hierarchy as to make it as certain
has been a realization that peace in Europe that the Hierarchy was a controlling factor in
and in Britain is impossible while Hitler and the delay. Perhaps its influence is strongest
Mussolini are in control of Germany and of all.
Italy. The British premier got a heavy blow That there are many Roman Catholics in
when he realized that Hitler had humbugged Government offices in Whitehall is common
himas many well understood was fhe case. knowledge, and some are in important places
After that came a swift change in Britain's in the Foreign Office. These, it is said, do not
policy towards the dangers which threatened disguise their opinion that Britain should not
the existence of Britain as a free country, and make an alliance with Russia. Cavalcade re-
the disruption of what is called the British cently said, "Weight carried by Roman Cath-
Empire. If war came it was plain that Britain olic opinion in the Foreign Office was proved
would get severely wounded before it could during the Spanish civil war: members of the
defend itself, and there was a great cry for Cabinet found themselves up a department
defensive preparation. A state of war really brick wall of Catholic sympathy, and there is
began to obtain. Money was freely spent. Then no doubt that during the present world trouble
began a more active set of moves in the polit- diplomats have at least partly interpreted
ical game: pacts and agreements with Euro- policy from a religious standpoint." Hence
pean countries were sought and entered into. the ten-year non-aggression pact between
This meant preparation for offensive war, to Hitler and Stalin came as a great shock.
go to the aid of those with whom pacts were Then there is a war of words, with the pur-
made. More money; more preparation for war, pose of getting the democracies (Britain
and less of the idea of the self-defense of chiefly) into a "state of nerves". Dr. Joseph
Britain. Hitler and his men then began the Goebbels, loudspeaker for Hitler, gets himself
cry that Britain and France were trying to reported in the British newspapers, though
encircle Germany, and the cry has evidently his efforts do not create the "nervous state"
been effective in Germany, setting the peoples intended. No doubt, he is an annoyance, but
of Germany in anger against Britain, and his measure is taken, and his words are passed
agitating for a war spirit, nation against na- by with yesterday's news. But no one knows
tion. As all the world knows, Britain has been where next Hitler will throw his weight, with
trying to get a pact with the mighty Russia, the result that a constant watchfulness is
and a majority of the people of Britain see maintained, which may be illustrated by the
in that combination the only way of keeping fact that the anti-aircraft guns to protect
Hitler and his war leaders from throwing London are manned and in readiness every
Europe into the misery of a destructive gen- minute of the twenty-four hours of the day.
eral war and such as would make the last It cannot be said that the people of Britain
horror mild in comparison botli in its suffer- are in any way fearful, but they readily sub-
ings and in its consequences. War preparation mit to conditions which in time past could and
goes on apace. Britain is now spending at the would be agreed to only under actual war.
rate of 2,000,000 a day in extra expenditure, Recruiting for the forces is considered satis-
or, including its ordinary costs, is spending factory, and at present there are no indica-
at the rate of 4,000,000 a day, to compare tions of further conscription: the 200,000
with the 7,000,000 a day, the peak expendi- young men of the age of 20 years are regis-
ture during the Great War. tered. There is as yet no outcry among the
The pact desired with Russia and which has "patriots" about conscientious objectors,
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though it is certain there would be were con- from pacifists and conscientious objectors.
scription more generally made law. Liberty such as is represented by these words
is not allowed in the Roman Catholic system;
Big Business but the Hierarchy will see that its students,
In the meantime Big Business is getting as obligated to it by vows, will be placed in such
much as it can out of the situation. The Gov* positions as will make for the increase of its
ernment has announced its purpose to control interests.
profits in armaments and Government con-
tracts ; but apparently there are loopholes The Bomb Outrages
through which much profit can slip without The dastardly acts of the Irish Republican
coming under the Government's control. These army which have caused much destruction to
huge sums of money which are being spent property and some loss of life in England
by the various governments mean much trad- have at last compelled the Roman Catholic
ing, and some are going to get what they can Hierarchy in England to declare its abhor-
out of the trade. Moral and patriotic consider- rence of the wicked and wanton acts. Most
ations are not supposed to enter into business of the perpetrators are members of the Cath-
transactions: what is legal is right. A note was olic church, and faithful attenders at mass.
made recently about a very large quantity of For a time it appeared as if the Hierarchy
Japanese salmon which British merchants intended to keep silent; but the association
were contracting for. When-the matter was with the church was so openly known it had
raised in Parliament the responsible minister perforce to do something to save its face.
said the Government was not involved in the After much destruction of property in Eng-
purchaseit would not do any such thing as land, openly avowed as the work of the Irish
buy Japanese salmon for food storage: But, Republican army, the Government of Eire
it is said, the transaction has been completed. decreed the organization to be illegal in Ire-
Moreover, another -lot of 250,000 value is land, and the Hierarchy in England told its
purchased and landed in Liverpool. The whole priests to tell the worshipers that the church
amount of over 2,000,000 will give the Japs must not be considered as associated with the
so much British currency to enable.them to aims of these ruthless men. It might have done
carry on their "incident" with China, and to more to stop the outrages than appears to have
heap indignities on British subjects in the been done. Many of the makers and planters
East, as well as to compete with the trade of of bombs and incendiary "toys" have been
Britain. It is said that the democracies of caught and sentenced to long terms of impris-
Britain and the Empire, the Dutch and Amer- onment ; but there is an army yet at large,
ica are supplying almost all the war necessities thought by some to be in the pay of Germany,
of Japan. Russia is the only nation that stands but which they deny.
outside this trade; but Russian trade is under
the control of its government, and Big Busi- "Upon the E a r t h Distress of Nations"
ness has no chance there. It is said that the
Japs label or print their tins so as to make That the time and the events of which Jesus
them look like Canadian packing. This is art- spoke are now come upon the earth is a thing
ful of the Japs, but it suits the British im- well known to and understood by those who
porter very well; for what does he care if the are "taught of the Lord", is part of their com-
purchasers are deceived, thinking they are mon knowledge, and is shared by those who
buying Canadian packed fish. are associated with the faithful disciples of
Jesus, the Jonadab brethren, the "other
sheep" of whom Jesus spoke. By His favor
Roman Catholic Militiamen they readily read the "signs of the times"
The Roman Catholic Universe "understands which God has given for their guidance. The
that all Catholic seminary students in Britain signs are such as can be read in some measure
of military age have registered for service". by all who have some knowledge of the words
Of course, and, naturally, it adds, "and that of Jesus: they are God's warning to all who
Bishop Matthew, nominated by the cardinal make profession of being Christians. But re-
archbishop, is now negotiating on behalf of the ligionists are like the Jews of Jesus' day: they
Hierarchy with the war office to decide the de- deride the message of the truth as the Jews
tails of the students' service." Cardinal llins- derided Jesus, and they despise the messen-
ley has emphatically dissociated Catholics gers, the witnesses, as the Jews despised the
S E P T E M B E R 6. 1939 29
disciples of Jesus. They are the modern scribes The so-called "Protestant" churches are Ro-
and Pharisees. Jesus agreed that those scribes man Catholic in this teaching as they are in
and Pharisees had some wisdom; they could, the "orthodox" dogmas they hold.
he said, read the day's weather signs, written By this idea, set, and persistently kept to
in the heavens, plain to all who took notice. the fore, the churches have made a place for
But there were other signs, signs of th6 times, themselves in the earth, and have claimed that
which ought to have been observed, could be they and their rule are the kingdom of heaven
read as readily, but to which they gave no on earth. They have deceived the peoples who
heed. These were the signs which accompanied trust them and have given them support and
His presence, and which told plainly that the obedience, and by this the leaders of the
prophecies had begun to be fulfilled. Those churches are counted amongst the world's
leaders of the people made a great show of wise and great men. The Roman Catholic
their religious fidelity to the sacred writings, church, under the control of its Hierarchy,
but, said Jesus, they only proved that they through its hold on the minds and bodies of
were the sons of their fathers who killed the men, is become the greatest force in the earth.
prophets of God. They were as blind as their All this was clearly before the eyes of the
fathers and as stupid as they in their refusal Lord Jesus when He spoke of His return. All
to heed the words of warning and instruction His words relative thereto, and also those of
which their God sent to them. The scribes and the apostles who taught the church the mind
Pharisees who rejected the signs of the minis- of the Lord through the holy spirit, disclose
try of Jesus were blinded to plain facts, made that at His return there would be great pro-
blind by reason of the fact that they had dug fession of allegiance but such a lack of faith
themselves into a position which brought them and reality that He would say to the many,
honor among men. The honor and the service " I never knew you" (Matthew 7 : 2 3 ) ; and
of God were sought and served only in lip- He said, "When the Son of man cometh, shall
service and vain show. he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8) At
The saying, "History repeats itself," is com- the present time Rome holds itself aloof from
mon, but there is a particular fulfillment in all other religious organizations. It has its set
the repetition of the circumstances of the policy to pursue. It expects to ride the storms
presence of Jesus at the first advent and those which threaten the disruption of the world.
of His 'second coming'. The leaders and teach- Its doctrines and dogmas are set and no criti-
ers of the "churches", wrongly and falsely so cisms are allowed to its members. Other sec-
called, have agreed to accept and to teach tions of the religious "world" are in uncer-
things concerning the purposes of God which tainty, and much doubt. But none gives heed
are absolutely contrary to the words of Jesus. to the signs of the times; the most important
Jesus very clearly and definitely told that He to them is the witness which Jehovah God is
would come a second time: so plainly is this giving through His witnesses to the fact that
stated that no. professed Christian has an the Lord Jesus is now set on Jehovah's holy
alternative but must accept the fact of a hill of Zion, and that the time of which He
second coming. But the churches have deter- spoke and the corresponding events in the
mined for themselves a coming very different earth are here present.
in character and purpose, and foreign to any- The great outward sign for all to read is
thing that JesUs said of it, and His words are marked by Jesus' word, "upon the earth dis-
made void by them. In the. early days of tress of nations," and 'men's hearts failing
churches the Devil, the great enemy, began them for the things coming on the earth'.
sowing his tares, and setting false teachers in (Luke 21:25,26) There are great multitudes of
the communities, and part of his sowing was persons who pay no attention to what the clergy
to get the belief set that the second coming and the parsons say, but the 250 millions (and
of the Lord would not be till the church had more) of the writings of Judge Rutherford,
taught all the world the doctrines of Christ carried throughout the earth by Jehovah's
and had got the whole world into some sort of witnesses, and the millions who have heard
willing subjection under the direction of his his voice by radio have had a witness given
representatives, the leaders of the churches. that they might read the signs of the times,
As the false church of Rome grew in power take warning thereby, and save themselves
and influence this false teaching got fixed, and from those things which must inevitably fall
has completely dominated all the churches. upon the false professors and the heedless.
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 On the Briny D e e p

Last Deeds of a Tiger Sardines, Epsom Salts and Bibles

^i/CK3 Bound for a European zoo a tiger Two years ago, when a ship called at the
J ^ $ G broke out of his cage on- a liner loneliest spot on earth, Tristan da Cunha
' from the Netherlands East Indies. island, 1,400 miles west of Cape Town and
He smelled food in the kitchen, 1,320 miles south of Saint Helena, the 150
went there, and clawed a Chinese residents sent word to the captain of the ship
cook to death. Crew and passengers started that they still had plenty ofsardines, Epsom
shooting at him, and he dived from the prow salts and Bibles, but would welcome anything
of the ship into the briny deep and disap- else he had to spare. The islands are being
peared from view. visited in 1939, and the inhabitants will be
treated to a banquet aboard the Carinthia, and
supplied with food and clothing.
New Fleet in the Making
Uncle Sam has a new merchant marine Ship Deliberately Sunk
fleet in the making, and that the new vessels
have some possible use other than for mer- For humanitarian reasons it was necessary
to sink the London freighter Silverash at her
chandise is suggested by the fact that the Brooklyn pier January 24, 1939. The ship
Government contributed $10,000,000 to help caught fire, and as it had 6,000 drums of
build them. American shipyards are busier cyanide in the hold, and a terrific explosion,
now than at any other time since the World followed by the spread of poison gas, was im-
War, at which time Uncle Sam built immense minent, holes were burned in her sides with
numbers of ships with the distinct understand- acetylene torches and she slowly sank to the
ing that they would never be of the least use bottom. The fire had burned twelve hours and
as merchant vessels. was beyond control.

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 Contents Appetizers
Smoke-Screen (Part 1) 3 Answer
Hierarchy Admits Fascist Alliance e The prim spinster was dining out,
Hitler Reveals Order 7 and while the waiter was standing
Fight "in Franco's Way"Coughlin 8 by the tabic she asked him to find
British Comment out the title of the piece the or-
Sir Oswald Mosley 13 chestra was playing.
Growth of Fascism 13 Other duties claimed the waiter for a time,
Bureaucratic Rule in Britain 13
Jews in Britain 14 and when he returned the spinster had for-
Irish Terrorists 15 gotten her request. To her confusion the
Counsel by J . F . Rutherford waiter bent towards her and whispered:
The Snare 16 "What Can I Do to Make You Love Me?"
Manton's Trail of Human Wreckage 19 Answers magazine.
Under the Totalitarian Flag
Crucial Point 20 Freer's Fearful Phrases
Heil Chester Gannon! 20
Patriotism by Force 20 If you think you can speak your native
Bowing Before the Hierarchy 21 language well, just read the following words,
Typical Quebec Hypocrisy 21 commit them to memory, and then say them
Where Goes New Zealand? 24 aloud three times in quick succession :
New Government A school coal-scuttle: a seuttle of school
Hierarchy in Southern Rhodesia 2A coal.
To the Jesuitizcd Hitlerites 27 He sniffs shop snuff. They sniff shop snuff.
Kingdom News From France 28 A bloke's back brake-block broke.
Jehovah's witnesses in Quebec 29 Are you copper-bottoming them? No, I'm
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S m o k e - S c r e e n (/n Two Parts-Part 1)

T H E smoke-screen has been very effective

in modern warfare. Many successful of-
fensives have been executed under baffling
record in this art of many centuries standing,
namely, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. I t
follows, therefore, that in a study of this more
clouds of vapor produced both on land and or less modern use of deception, the champion
on sea to hide or camouflage the objective. The liars should be considered first, and this in
logic behind the use of this device or maneuver connection with the American and other press
is simple, yet deadly: If you do not know systems.
where to shoot, defense is impossible. Of A few examples will perhaps clarify the
course, in the practices of war only partial usage of the term "smoke-screen" as applied
deception by the smoke-screen was generally to press accounts or the news. It has been
accomplished. But history furnishes abundant circulated and repeated enough now to have
evidence that in many instances this gave vic- wide credence in America that the Nazis are
tory to the offensive. viciously persecuting the Catholics in Ger-
What is here given consideration is not the many and Austria.* Without even considering
smoke barrage of military usage, but its the evidence these reports can be readily dis-
counterpart in the news. Here its usage is credited by observing the absolute harmony
similar, and often more deadly than bullets. between Franco, "the savior of the faith,"
Briefly, the purpose of what is termed the Hitler, Mussolini and the pope. When the evi-
"smoke-screen" in the propagandized press is dence is added to the examination, note that
to cover up or conceal the real objectives of an Catholic writers who have visited Germany
organization or a movement. Its most devastat- and even Hitler himself, who is a devout Cath-
ing effect comes from its use in publications olic, testify to the.exact contrary. A photo-
or newspapers considered by the public to be graph reproduced in Consolation No. 515
impartial; here it is a weapon of terrible shows the German dictator coming out of a
viciousness, incalculable in its power to shield Catholic church, head bowed and hat in hand.
from view the. group who employ it. Just as in But here lies the devastating effect of this
its use in military strategy, before opponents type of smoke-screen: The people have already
have found exactly where to focus the counter- accepted the LIE that Catholics are persecuted
attack much of the damage has already been in Germany, their minds are made up, with
done. the result that denials of this absurdity re-
ceive scant consideration.
Production of such newspaper fog for de-
ceitful purposes has become a fine art on the Here the Catholic Hierarchy's forces of
part of certain propagandists of the world. propaganda have achieved a signal success.
The first requisite is the ability and willing- * This lie is still repeated to this day although known
ness to lie ; and the second is a medium accred- to be a deliberate falsehood. Herbert Thurston, writ-
ited by the public which is to be bamboozled, ing in the Jesuit organ, The Catholic Mind, issue of
a medium or news agency which is not likely August 8, 1939, states: "Could anything be more pre-
posterous than the idea that Hitler, for example, is
to poke its nose where it ought not or make a acting in subservience to the Jesuitst He has sup-
genuine endeavor to uncover the facts. For pressed their colleges, submitted their publications
the latter the American press answers the con- to a drastic censorship and is gradually driving them
ditions admirably for the propagandist. As out of the Keich.''Ed. Could anything be more
preposterous than the idea that Hitler the Catholic,
for the first requisite, mastery of lying, there and the ally of the pope, could be the enemy of the
is one institution which has a pre-eminent pope's secret service?
S E P T E M B E R 20, 1939 3
By similar methods they have prevented gen- At the time of this denial the mayor had
eral exposure of the Papal alliances with the been endeavoring to ignore the circulation of
European totalitarian governments and Ja- a million Kingdom News by Jehovah's wit-
pan and the Papal responsibility for the Span- nesses which contained a letter to himself call-
ish, Ethiopian and Chinese carnage. Because ing his attention to the laxity of the police
of this SMOKE-SCREEN very few of those who in permitting an attempt to break up their
are enemies of Fascism have ever directed Madison Square Garden assembly of June 25.
their attack upon the chief malefactor, who It was noted in this issue of Kingdom News
resides at Vatican City, the PONTIFF of the that when a Coughlinite attacked law-abiding
ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY. The enemy did ushers at this Garden the action of the police
not know where to shoot! was to arrest the ushers, three of whom, while
Another use of the smoke-screen is the Hier- endeavoring to preserve order, were arrested
archy's production of what might be called and are now under indictment, while all the
"vaporings" against Cough 1 in. In order to Coughlinite disturbers are free. Hence there
bamboozle the people Cardinal Mundelein has are many people now who find this mere de-
uttered condemnations of Coughlin and his nial by La Guardia slightly insufficient. But
"rabble-rousing" anti-Semitism; The Voice, to others it acts as further fog in the smoke-
Catholic oracle of the diocese of Brooklyn, screen hiding the fact that the HIERARCHY is
headlines a rebuke of race hatred and anti- backing up and promoting Coughlin's "rabble-
Semitism; "Art Kuhl," writing in two Cath- rousing".
olic papers, the Detroit Sunday Visitor and A little reflection on the history of the Ro-
the Huntington (Ind.) Visitor, dated June 18 man Catholic Hierarchy furnishes more light
and June 25, declares that Catholics are OH the subject. First, as a general rule and
wrong to interfere with freedom of speech, for many centuries they have constantly per-
the last article appearing on the very day the secuted the Jews. This sudden change as noted
Coughlinites raided the great assembly at in their attitude towards Coughlin and anti-
Madison Square Garden. All of this is very Semitism is at once open to suspicion. As for
confusing to the people. They do not know for favoring freedom of speech, this brings a
sure whether the Catholic Church is for or harsh laugh from any student of the Papacy.
against "the Coughlin terror". Neither the Letters received from Coughlinites claim that
leaders of the liberty-loving Americans nor Archbishop Spellman is solidly behind the
of the Jews realize that the DANGER lies not in movement, and this is corroborated by the
Coughlin the man, but in the mighty organi- fact that the Coughlin movement is recruited
zation of Catholic Action, whose slogan, ac- almost entirely from the Catholic population.
cording to Priest O'Brien, is "We are ready Coughlin's printed address bears the impri-
prepared for 1940!" matur of the archbishop of Detroit. It is there-
Perhaps these charges demand a little fur- fore at once CLEAR that the purpose of anti-
ther proof. In The Nation, New York City, Coughlin pronouncements by Catholic prel-
issue of July 22, 1939, appears an illuminat- ates is to cloud the issue, to furnish a SMOKE-
ing expose of what is entitled "The Coughlin SCREEN to hide their promotion of Coughlin,
Terror". This article is recommended to all In small things this fact is easily disclosed.
who love America as "the land of the free and The press dispatches have generally referred
the home of the brave". Therein is charged to the Madison Square Garden disturbance as
that in the New York police force has been caused by references to "Coughlin and the
developed and promoted by organizers a Catholic Church". The recording of the speech
strong membership of Coughlin agents whose shows otherwise. No reference was made to
number is variously estimated up to 6,000; "Father" Coughlin in the hour's-length speech
that these police fraternize with the Social anywhere. The concerted booing came at the
Justice salesmen and other Coughlinites and flash of lights just when reference was made
protect them in their assaults against oppos- to Hitler and Franco and their "robbing
ing groups and individuals. Mayor La Guardia Jews", and this booing was accompanied by
was so stung by this article and an editorial cries of "Heil Hitler", "Viva Franco," and
in the same issue ealling for action on the part "Kill Rutherford". Many shook crucifixes.
of "La Guardia's Police" that he answered by Both from letters complaining of mistreat-
an angry denial carried in the Times of ment of Catholics at the Garden and because
July 21. of the close alliance between Hitler, Franco
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and the supreme pontiff of the Catholics it is ganger as the HIERARCHY'S Coughlin doing
clear that the Coughlinites are merely special the will of Rome!
agents of Rome. And it is equally clear that
their sympathies are not with the American Communism
Democracy even though they carried Ameri- Another bogey used to scare the unintelli-
can flags; that they do not favor free speech, gent and at the same time have excuse to per-
which has been their excuse for picketing secute and kill anti-Catholics is the slogan
WMCA and from which they had just de- "Save the world from Communism". Franco
parted to go "break up the Garden lecture"; killed hyndreds of thousands of Catholics in
and that their real sympathies are with the Spain "saving Spain from Communism", and,
pope and his allies of course, incidentally
Hitler and Franco. r e - e s t a b l i s h i n g the
Suppose, for the Hierarchy church in
sake of argument, despotic power, that
that Coughlin and his t y r a n n i c a l power
organization are not which had impover-
the agent of the pope. ished the c o m m o n
That would mean that people for generations
Coughlin is acting and kept the Catholic
contrary to the pope's grandees in the sad-
orders. Is this reason- dle. Franco is still,
able? Does anyone according to press ac-
who knows the power counts, "saving Spain
of the H i e r a r c h y from Communism" by
think for a moment means of an average
that their chief execu- of one murderous exe-
tive could not stop cution e v e r y nine
one of their lieuten- minutes.
ants who was insub- G. E. R. Gedye
ordinate? Does the states in his book
general have to plead Fallen Bastions that
with the corporal? Communism had no
Does a single Catho- power in Germany
lic or a n y o n e else w h e n H i t l e r took
imagine that the "Su- over; no resistance at
preme Pontiff", who all was offered to the
dictates the policies Nazi rule. As a corre-
of Europe and whose Helping them over the rough spots spondent for many
power has unnerved years in Austria he
the American Press and radio, could not pre- demonstrates that the Socialist party of that
vent a mere priest from attacking the Jews country was a small factor and very peace-
or anybody else, if he WISHED to do so? An loving. Pierre van Paassen, in his disclosures
organization which has been accustomed to concerning European events, entitled "Days
use rack and torture chamber and which now of Our Years", shows that there was no danger
uses the concentration camp and the firing from Communism in Spain and that the Loyal-
squad over most of Europe is not likely to ist party was the electorate of the people, an
dismiss an opponent with mere reprimand, essentially Catholic people, determined to re-
especially a priest who could be so easily dealt lieve the misery of the masses by confiscation
with. of the vast estates of the Catholic Church and
Therefore criticism of Coughlin within the of the nobility generally known as "grandees".
Church, by his colleagues is another use of the McGovern, Catholic member of Parliament
smoke-screen to conceal his direct connection from Glasgow, corroborated these facts by a
with the Vatican. To have, then, the right personal visit to Spain; and when, in the in-
picture in mind one must not think of a lone terests of Spanish Catholics, he publicly pro-
demagogue inciting a wretched element of the tested the soliciting of funds in England and
populace; but it is necessary to see this or- Scotland for the rebel Franco, he was ostra-
S E P T E M B E R 20, 1939 5
cized from the Catholic church. Two days be- Hierarchy. Coughlin is only against Commu-
fore the Franco rebellion Mussolini, according nists, and therefore all those to be destroyed
to Van Paassen, was dropping bombs on must be labeled "Communist"!
Spanish soil. From whom did he receive his Curran is president of "Catholic Truth".
orders? The POPE, of course. He favors Catholic freedom of speech, and
The "Communism" bogey is used world- when he says that Coughlin favors freedom
wide as excuse to subdue opponents of the of speech he must not be misunderstood to
HIERARCHY. The padlock law of Canada is an mean "freedom of speech for all" which the
example. This law, designed, it is clajmed, to constitution guarantees. He had no criticism
prevent Communist meetings by padlocking to offer about the action of Coughlin's follow-
the homes of avowed Communists, is a power- ers for marching en masse from picketing
ful weapon to reduce the Hierarchy's oppo- WMCA in protest for free speech direct to
nents to submission. Where there has not been Madison Square Garden with orders from
enough Communism to furnish excuse for such the leader to break up the meeting as they
highhanded methods the Hierarchy has or- have done in so many other cases. It could
ganized the "Communist" smoke-screen. A hardly be expected that Curran would disap-
press dispatch quoted around the world on prove, though, as he spent a good deal of his
September 11, 1938, and never denied by the best energies a few years ago in an effort to
Roman Catholic Hierarchy, describes an open have the license of radio station WBBR re-
gesture of friendship between the pope and the voked because its facilities were used to ex-
Communist party. Of course, an effort was pose the Catholic religious racket. WBBR is
made to limit the publication to such European owned by the WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT
countries where it might not spoil the effect of SOCIETY, of which Judge Rutherford, the
the BOGEY in America and elsewhere. speaker at the Garden, is president. Now the
Now, with true Hitlerian strategy, the honored Curran Js words can be understood:
Coughlin Nazi party in America lumps Jews, Freedom of speech only for those who say
Jehovah's witnesses and all others who stand what the honored Curran wishes to be said,
in the way of Catholic Action in America to- which is what the Hierarchy wishes to be said.
gether as Communists. It has been suggested All others are "Communists".
by the Brooklyn Tablet, Coughlin organ, that Instructions to Coughlin picketers favor
the speech of Judge Rutherford which has the carrying of the American flag. In their
been referred to in connection with the Garden demonstrations on Broadway the picture of
disturbance, and which was devoted exclusive- their leader is often followed by the American
ly to Bible prophecy and its present-day ful- flag. Several of the ruffians at Madison Square
fillment, is "Communism in another dress". Garden on the 25th of June carried small
Not daring to make this statement directly, flags. At first it seems strange that hoodlums
they published it in the form of a letter sup- shrieking for Hitler and Franco and while
posedly written to the paper, but more prob- engaged in an attempt to break up a lawful
ably devised in their composing room. assembly should apparently display such
The brilliant but hypocritical Edward fervent patriotism. But remember that no lie
Lodge Curran, president of the "International or deception is too mean for use in the smoke-
Catholic Truth Society", speaking for Cough- screen which attempts to hide the most un-
lin on July 23 over radio network, stated American of treacheries, the selling of Amer-
that Coughlin was not anti-Semitic and that ica to a Nazi priest who recognizes no head
he was merely anti-Communistic, and praised except the Vatican!
Coughlin's stand for freedom of speech and
Americanism. On July 9, as reported by many Hierarchy Admits Fascist Alliance
who heard his speech, but which statements Now that the Hierarchy considers that it
lie carefully left out of his manuscript, has a throttle grip on the governments of the
"Father" Coughlin stated that Jehovah's wit- world, it brazenly declares Its alliance with
nesses were against everything, and if Amer- Fascists and totalitarian powers. The smoke-
icans would awake they could destroy them screen has about accomplished its results. Why
in a day. No doubt just prior to the proposed keep up the deception? If any doubt, let this
slaughter all Jehovah's witnesses would be doubt be dispelled by the plain statements
put in the Communist pen with Jews and any from their own press. The Bellarmine Society,
others who had displeased the Roman Catholic Heythrop College, England, in a publication
6 CONSOLATION
entitled "Judge Rutherford and the Witnesses the proposed purpose. Writes Van P a a s s e n * :
of Jehovah", released in April, 1939, made the There should have been no surprise, therefore,
significant admission: "Many non-Catholics when the Vatican took the side of Franco in the
would agree with Rutherford on a number of civil war in Spain. Franco attacked the emerging
points, and even some Catholics who have suc- democratic regime with the aid of the Fascists of
cumbed to Left-wing propaganda, will agree Germany and Italy and with the intention of turn-
ing Spain into a totalitarian state with a totalitar-
that he [Judge Rutherford] is not far wrong ian religion. F o r today Rome considers the Fascists
in saying'that the Church is in alliance with regime the nearest to its dogmas and interests.
Fascism. Criticisms of Rutherford, therefore, Coughlin is in full accord with this view.
have to be so expressed that no handle is given And why not? The policies of the corporate
to Communists, etc. For Communists would or totalitarian states emanate from and are
be quite ready to ignore, for the moment, the dictated by Rome. ITer objective is world
fact that Rutherford regards Communism it- rulership. The Scriptures disclose that in this
self as a child of the Devil. . . . However, if she will succeed for a time.
these difficulties are kept well in mind, good A press dispatch of June 7, 1939, throws
work can be done by showing up Rutherford's considerable light on the use of the smoke-
fundamental opposition to religion arid con- screen and the utter faithlessness of the prop-
stituted authority." agandist, and this in connection with Bol-
This quotation is a plain admission that shevism or Communism. This was Hitler's
they have lied in calling Jehovah's witnesses "victory parade speech" celebrating the return
Communists and that they have lied in deny- of the Condor Legion of 15,000 Germans who
ing their affiliation with the totalitarian gov- had their share in the Franco butchery. The
ernments. Note further statements from the New York Times carried this account under
Catholic Herald, London: the headlines: "Hitler Hails Deeds of His Men
Hope for Fascism. Here we have a new move- in Spain as Lesson to Foes"; "Admits He Sent
ment still in process of development and amenable Troops"; "'Christian Democracies,5 not Bol-
to friendly contacts, with a social programme al- shevism, Are Targets in Victory Parade
ready containing so many reforms advocated by
the social encyclicals (of the popes) that its plat-
Speech." Now that Spain lay prostrate in its
form may be said to consist very largely of Cath- own blood, disguise was no longer necessary.
olic planks. . . . British-Fascism stands for the A few quotations further elucidate how the
Corporate State, the social-economic system fa- world was fooled:
voured by Catholic Austria, Catholic Italy, Catholic BERLIN, J u n e 6.Simultaneously with her ally,
Portugal and Catholic Spain. . . . Furthermore, Italy, Greater Germany today formally celebrated
through a reformed upper house, British Fascism the conclusion of her successful intervention in
invites the official co-operation of the Catholic Spain, when the Condor Legion, some 15,000
Church to the end that the government may have strong, held its victory parade before Chancellor
guidance in this very matter. Adolf Hitler. . . .
Also we quote from the Catholic Herald of Dispatched secretly to fight under the camouflage
May 12, 1939: of Spanish uniforms, and long publicly denied by
its own government, the legion was at last able
Action! Action! Action! There is a growing
today to pass openly in pride of victory under the
sense that Catholicity in Great Britain is on the
eyes of its own Fuehrer. . . .
eve of great happenings.
HITLER REVEALS ORDER
In this connection it is interesting to note In his speech H e r r Hitler publicly proclaimed
that Franz von Papen, German statesman and what for three years the whole German propaganda
the Catholic instrumental in both the signing apparatus had vehemently denied, namely, that he
of the Concordat between Hitler and the pope himself had given the order sending the legion to
and manipulating the later rape of Austria, Spain.
stated in Der Volkischer Beobachter, Janu- [Declaring that Generalissimo Francisco Franco
ary 14, 1934: " w a s facing a conspiracy that was fed from all parts
of the world", Herr Hitler, according to The Asso-
The Third Reich is the first power which not ciated Press, added: " I n July, 1936, I decided imme-
only recognizes, but which puts in practice the diately to fulfill an appeal for help that this man ad-
high principles of the Papacy. * Days of Our Tears, page 465. A footnote on this
Fascism is the instrument for Papal aggres- page states: "Bernanos relates that in the Balearic
sions. Why? One interesting explanation of Islands the clergy, with the help of the insurgent mili-
tary, forced backsliders into the confessionals on pain
this Papal method is contained in this sum- of death.'' These islands are Mediterranean possessions
mary of Rome's alliance with Franco and of Spain.
S E P T E M B E R 20, 1939
dressed to me to such an extent and for just as long as homes were destroyed by howitzers or trench
the rest of the world gave its support to the internal mortars while they were packed with men
enemies of Spain. " J
But whereas the legion was assembled and dis- women and children. It was not time to speak
patched under the slogan, " W a r against Bolshe- of peace while Ethiopia and China were being
vism," it now learns from H e r r Hitler's speech on desolated by his allies. Nor could he afford to
its return that Bolshevism is no longer mentioned prevent Franco from his work of "Defender
as the enemy, but rather the "Christian democra- of the Faith", whose conversions to Catholi-
cies" generally, and Great Britain particularly. cism were achieved by the machine gun. How
fittingly descriptive of the Papal pronounce-
Fight "in Franco's Way"Coughlin ment are the words of Jeremiah 6:14: "Say-
Coughlin has the absolute backing of the ing, Peace, peace: when there is no peace."
Vatican. When America's liberties lie under
the heel of Rome, together with the corpses "Franco's Way"
of those who have opposed the Hierarchy, no
doubt the pope will thank Coughlin as he has Outside of destroying the lives of hundreds
recently thanked Franco, and, the carnage of thousands of Catholics and others, what did
having accomplished its results, he will again Franco achieve? Was it the freedom which
declare himself unalterably in favor of peace. Coughlin demands? Certainly not. The most
That is how the smoke-screen worked in uninformed know that he brought back the
Spain's case, and America is the next sheep official Catholic religion to the prostrate coun-
headed for the ax. The signs are unmistakable. try and wiped out all freedom under a dicta-
So, when Coughlin stated in his speech of torship sponsored by the pope. Note the def-
July 30 that his "Christian Front" was ready inition of Fascism by G. E. R. Gedye in his
to fight Communism "in Franco's way if excellent commentary on European condi-
necessary", he meant this: "The pope and all tions: "FALLEN BASTIONS": "FASCLSM is the
the totalitarian countries are with us. Ameri- international form which reactionary capital-
ca hasn't got a chance, and we are going to ism [in Spain the Roman Catholic Church
take it and make it subject to the Vatican by and the Catholic nobility were the great capi-
killing everyliody that gets in our way, just talists] has employed everywhere when it
as Franco did. We will be the judges just as proved impossible to deprive the masses, by
Franco was as to how many thousands need other means, of power which they legally ob-
to be killed. All those we kill we will call Com- tained at parliamentary elections." Here is an
munists." Instead of being an exaggeration, Englishman writing in Austria who exactly
this is really an understatement of what corroborates the words of a Dutchman writing
Franco did; and, according to Coughlin, that in Spain. One paragraph by Pierre van Paas-
is exactly the pope's design for these United sen in his heart-rending description of the
States of America. poverty which the Government attempted to
alleviate and in which attempt they were
"Pope of Peace1' countered by Franco's Papal rebellion is un-
forgettable* :
Some amazing examples of lying in official
circles have hitherto been examined. But for I have seen religious processions in 1931, one
barefaced, shameless hypocrisy the following in Seville and one in Saragossa, still another in
Associated Press dispatch from the "Supreme Caceres, a small town where there were thirty-
Pontiff" should be given a superior position: eight monasteries, the one standing next to the other
in an endless row like the cathedrals in the Krem-
VATICAN C I T Y , March 17 [1939]. Pope Pius X I I lin of Moscow, processions carrying a golden-
adopted his court of arms today. The seal bears diademed statue of the Virgin which was literally
the traditional tiara and crossed keys under which buried under jewels, diamonds, rubies, smaragds
is a dove hearing an olive branch, imposed on a and other precious stones, including decorations
background of sky, earth and water. The meaning and stars of the kind worn by victorious generals
is peace on land, sea and in the air. and diplomats on their gala uniforms. Priests in
Even Catholics who take this falsehood to golden vestments walked under baldachins [can-
be. infallible truth must agree that, with great opies] of purple and damask, swinging censers of
opportunities, the pope has not achieved any silver and filigree, preceded by banners of silk and
tangible results for peace. He was silent when jewel-studded croziers, surrounded by lace-wearing
acolytes [attendants], train bearers and boys in
the Clerico-Fascists, the pope's party in Aus- violet soutanes [robes] carrying glittering boxes
tria before the Nazis took over, were destroy-
ing workers' homes in February, 1934. These * Days of Our Tears, page 425.
8 CONSOLATION
containing relics, followed by a monstrance [re- adults were illiterate. I heard there the story of two
ceptacle for displaying the host] of a value of three Socialist doctors, the only medical men in fifty
million pesetas [more than half a million dollars] years to have come to settle and practice in an
that burst upon the eye like a cluster of diamonds. area of more than a hundred square miles inhab-
And looking on, pouring from the putrid alleys of ited by half a million people. These two medical
the Triana quarter in Seville, and saluting the practitioners had been driven out by the Civil
Real Presence by dropping on their knees, I have Guards upon a denunciation by the [Catholic]
seen hollow-cheeked, ragged, barefooted Magda- clergy that they were advocating birth control.
lenes, the disheveled women, the unkempt hungry They probably were, considering the fact that in
children, the very flesh and blood of Jesus. spite of the injunction to be fruitful and multi-
Tourists' agencies did not lead their clientele to ply it was difficult to see how the people of Las
the Triana, to the so-called "Chinese City" in Bar- Hordas could be driven still deeper into shame and
celona, or to the even more evil slums of Madrid, human degradation by having more children. These
Murcia and Granada. people literally possessed nothing except a pro-
found respect for what General Franco was to call
Consider his further descriptions of con- the "traditional morality". For although the seig-
ditions in the rurals which were owned in neurial estates which could have given them bread
feudal tyranny by the Hierarchy's church and were not even exploited agriculturally, but merely
grandees or Catholic nobility. The great kept as hunting domains, these starvelings would
citrus-growing of Spain was in complete con- humbly apply for work to the major-domos, who
trol of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy's church. had been left in charge. They were refused. Even
Says Van Paassen*: the great hunting parties at which the peasants
were engaged as beaters had been suspended in
I visited orange plantations in May, 1936, in 1934. "The seigneurs were in Paris, in Fontaine-
Andalusia where pickers received four pesetas bleau, where Victoria Ena had set up her court,
[about 50 cents] a day for sixteen hours' work. or in Deauville and Biarritz following Alfonso
On one property a strike was in progress because around the cocktail bars. No work of any kind was
a quarter peseta was being deducted from the daily to be provided as long as a "Red" government (the
wage for the water taken at mealtime from the agrarian-Fascist government of Gil Robles) re-
owner's well. Yet in Seville, the directors of the mained in power in Madrid.
Citrus trust, of which the [Catholic] Church was
the richest and most influential member, cried out It was in this section, relatively close to the
that "the Bolsheviks" were filling the heads of the nation's capital, that Alfonso, the year before
people with outrageous ideas. The civil guard shot his abdication, found the people living on
down the strikers as if they were cattle. roots and herbs.
Van Paassen's description of conditions on
the landed estates reminds one of feudal and Popular Front
medieval history**: This was before 1936. In that year the Re-
The peasants were not allowed on these rich public elected the Popular Front to office.
estates. Armed guards were posted all along the And here lies the real cause of Franco's re-
roads and in the woods, ready to spring into action bellion. The Popular Front applied "the only
if the hungry and poverty-stricken masses should measure that could have brought alleviation:
make an attempt to occupy the seigneurial farms. confiscation of the feudal estates and their
Even the gathering of chestnuts and acorns on
the properties of the nobles and abbots was for- division amongst the peasants". As the priests
bidden, as it had been since time immemorial. still supported the feudal regime and were a
Caught in the act of snaring a rabbit or a squirrel part of this regime which the people had voted
or picking off a crow, the "poachers" were shot out, some few of them felt the people's ire
down without mercy. This had been the law of the when they attempted to stop the process of
land for ages. The Republic [which has now been liberation. In Robledillo the estate of a gran-
crushed by Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and the pope dee was seized and the major-domo met the
while the rest of Europe hid under the bed in ter- people who had a right to it with a salvo of
ror] could not change this overnight. For the bullets. Several peasants were killed, but that
seigneurs still had too many friends in the Cortes
of 1934, dominated as it was by Lerroux and night the chateau was burned, and the defend-
Gil Robles. ers, including the village priest, were disem-
boweled with pitchforks.
There were no schools in Las Ilordas [near
Madrid], except a room adjoining the village In another instance a corporal of the Popu-
churches [Catholic] where children were taught lar Front desired a civil wedding, which the
prayers and catechism. Ninety percent of the law provided for but which was never the cus-
* Days of Our Years, page 428. tom in the rurals, the priests always officiat-
* Same, page 42(5. ing. His friends and relatives tried to dis-
S E P T E M B E R 20, 1939 9
suade him, but at last the ceremony was ar- The Pope's Coughlin
ranged for. On the day of the wedding the It seems appropriate now to consider the
priest appeared at the town hall and said that Hierarchy's American agent, "Father" Cough-
the young man's prospective bride would be lin, since he has declared his intention to fight
the same as a prostitute if "she married with- in "Franco's way". The following press dis-
out the rites of the church". The corporal beat patch carried by the Cincinnati Enquirer has
up the priest, but was imprisoned. The people this to say about the priest's July 30 broadcast:
set him free and burned up the vicarage and
the ehurch. Many in a battle that followed lost Monday, July 31, 1939.
their lives, on both sides.* COUGHLIN SAYS U. S. GROUP READY
"The government of the Frente Popular, To PiGnT 'FRANCO W A Y '
which had come to power in a legitimate con- WARNS UNITS BEING FORMED
stitutional manner, as the results of elections TO COMBAT COMMUNISM
held under the auspices of the preceding re- By the United Press.
actionary government of Senor Gil Robles, DETROIT, July 31.The Rev. Charles E. Cough-
represented the very opposite of a dictator- lin in his regular Sunday address warned that a
ship/'** Christian front in the United States is ready to
Now this meant that the people by their combat Communism "in Franco's way if necessary".
vote had duly kicked out the church and the Father Coughlin said it was the Christian front
nobles as property owners and this had been that composed the Nationalist forces of Gen.
done by an essentially Catholic nation. Now Francisco Franco in the Spanish war.
was the time when the Roman Catholic Hier- Addressing the "popular front," Father Cough-
archy must needs use Fascism to reverse the lin asked:
"Do you want history to repeat itself in Amer-
adverse judgment which the "Church" had ica or are you ready to retreat and admit that you
received at the polls. Note that Fascism is the and your breed have no place beneath the Stars
tyrannical opposite of freedom, "the interna- and Stripes?
tional form which reactionary capitalism" "If you persist in carrying on your fight by
customarily uses when it is unable to control denying us liberty of speech, liberty of press and,
the masses otherwise. Fascism is also the consequently, liberty in polities, we will fight you
pope's weapon; and realizing that rich invest- in Franco's way if necessary."
ments were to be lost in a country which the It is also reported by this paper that Cough-
"Church" had impoverished for centuries, the lin, on September 24, 1936, used these words
Franco rebellion was plotted and carried out. in an address at Crosley Field before National
Hitler and Mussolini were commanded to give Union for Social Justice supporters:
aid, and other countries, by adroit diplomacy, "When the time comes in 1940, when there is
were kept hands off. The result is that Spain one party and a dictatorship, I shall be the first to
has been returned to the Catholic Hierarchy ask you to put aside your ballots and use bullets."
serfdom which the Popular Front valiantly Der Tog (The Day) as being in 1940 was
resisted. Spain is a shambles, and the Inquisi- some time ago spoken of by Priest O'Brien as
tion is drinking Spanish blood at the rate of reported in the Philadelphia L'Aurora. In
one "lieretie" killed every nine minutes. "The Coughlin Terror", an article above re-
In the nature of things most of those slain ferred to, of the July 22, 1939, issue of The
in Franco's tribunals are Catholics, but they Nation,,a. New York policeman said the Chris-
are Catholics whom the pope does not like. tian Front" was waiting for the Day. It is no
They were Popular Frontists who preferred doubt the same Day which the Gold Shirts,
that the Church of Rome be deprived of some Mexican Fascists under the schismatic pope of
of her riches that their friends, the masses Mexico, Eduardo I, is plotting as reported by
and the peasants, might not starve to death. Neiu Masses, issue of August 1, 1939. Ameri-
So Fascism was invoked so that these "Bol- cans may smile complacently at the thought
sheviks" could be eliminated and Catholic of America becoming Fascist, but in this they
Action beat another republic into submission err. The Hierarchy is desperately determined
at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. to control the world, and the submission of
That is Franco's way, which is the pope's way. the United States is required.
* These incidents arc paraphrased from Days of Our Mind you, now, what Coughlin demands:
Tears, pages 430, 431. freedom political and religious, privileges that
* Same, page 431. the democracy has accorded him in abundance;
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yet he froths at the mouth demanding more, him from ever becoming president: be was" not
that he might wreck these privileges as Franco born in the United States, and there is doubt about
has done in Spain. Here is the spectacle of a his citizenship. Lack of citizenship didn't prevent
Canadian priest, in the employ of the most Adolf Hitler from becoming ruler of Germany,
however. Adolf simply tore u p the German Con-
undemocratic institution under the sun, which stitution, and wrote another more to his liking."
is headed by an Italian dictator, howling for
more freedom in the United States that he The same article revealed tbat while Cough-
might destroy the nation which has been his lin was denouncing Wall Street as the "inter-
benefactor. He demands freedom for his national banker" he was himself a speculator
party, that he might destroy this for others. in the stock market; and while calling for the
He charges that the "popular front" is Com- "restoration of silver" as a "Christian con-
munistic, which is exactly in line with Franco's cern" he held through his secretary more sil-
attack on the Frente Popular except that in ver than anyone else in Michigan, a half mil-
America there is neither "popular front" nor lion ounces.
Communism. HLs purpose is to convince the
people that there is an enemy in their midst, Russian Bear Fable
then start shooting; and if, when the bodies Other themes may vary, but Coughlin's
are picked up and are found to be all anti- constant cry is against Communism. In this
Papists, what matter? The victory will be he follows the orders of Rome. If the Hier-
achieved. It will only be necessary then to archy were really sincere in their desire to
have the pope congratulate and honor him as stamp out Communism, why shouldn't they
a "defender of the faith", have the Inquisition cease bothering with the little sputterings in
invoked, and the Franco cycle is complete. America and elsewhere direct their attack on
Here is plain evidence that the priesthood Russia? It appears reasonable that the place
warps the mind so that no inequality or to fight this "menace" would be at its acknowl-
tyranny seems unreasonable. Let the nation edged source. With the Rome-Berlin axis
take warning that when an agent of the Vati- solidly behind the pope, Japan squeezing from
can demands more freedom in order to build Russia's Mongolian frontier, France and Eng-
up a party to reduce to ashes all the hard- land apathetic, no trouble could have been
earned liberties bought by the blood of our caused Papal armies in taking over the U.S.S.R.
forefathers he should be treated as a common Hitler, next door, never bothers about the
enemy. Neither the Roman Catholic Hierarchy "menace" of the Soviet. He is too busy shout-
nor any of its representatives has any business ing about the abuse of Germans in some coun-
in a democracy; and every self-governing re- try he intends to steal for the Hierarchy. As
public that has nurtured or even tolerated stated before, the pontiff addressed words of
them has had ample cause to regret. Of this comfort to the Communists in 1938; while
the pages of history, some but recently writ- Molotoff, premier-foreign minister of Russia,
ten, as in Spain, record bloody and abundant rejected an Anglo-French alliance publicly,
proof. May 31, 1939, and, later, signed a non-aggres-
sion pact with Germany. Russia is plainly lined
Coughlin the Gangster up witli the other totalitarians. Nor can Rome
afford to destroy Russia as long as the Com-
The following estimate of Coughlin's char- munist "boogerman" story is to be used. All
acter is furnished by Propaganda Analysis, enemies that are to be destroyed must be made
June 1 (1939) issue, in an article entitled to appear to be "Reds" nurtured by the men-
"Father Coughlin: Priest and Politician": ace of "Red Russia". How can they do this if
Does Father Coughlin aspire to become "the there "ain't no" Red Russia? They are about
American Hitler"? Nobody but Father Coughlin
himself can say. Certainly the man is ambitious.
as much afraid of the big bad bear as a fish
He admits that. He is likewise ruthless. " I f I threw is of drowning. But the fable is not a bedtime
away and renounced my faith, I would surround story. It covers up some of the bloodiest treach-
myself with the most adroit highjackers, learn ery since the Huguenot Massacre by the Cath-
every trick of the highest bank and stock manipu- olic De Medici.
lations, avail myself of the laws under which to
hide my own crimes, create a smoke-screen to throw
into the eyes of men, andbelieve meI would The Conflagration Ahead
become the world's champion crook," he once The erics of "Heil Hitler" and "Viva
wrote. The Constitution of the United States bars Franco" by the hoodlums of Coughlin who at-
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tempted to break up a lawful assembly at preferred the chains of her illicit lover, Big
Madison Square Garden betoken ill for Amer- Business, even at the cost of thousands of lives
ica. Franco has already enough friends in of the best Catholics of the Republic. "Sixty-
official circles to obtain a $15,000,000 loan from nine thousand of the most ardent Catholics
the United States Treasury for Fascist Spain, in the world were slain in the one month of
according to The Nation, issue of July 22, April, 1937, in Euzkadi. But Hitler got the
1939. Perhaps the Franco-Coughlin group, or mines."* Many more died by Franco's execu-
"Christian Front", has not yet reached revolu- tion squad, often kissing the crucifix before
tionary strength, but THE AY is set, and being led to death. One of the Nationalist di-
judging from the exploits of their hero, visions was called the Loyola division in honor
Franco, it will be a bloody day. They are of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit
urged to acts of savagery by an artful order, and now in the obscurity which comes
haranguer who knows how to tap the beastly from Fascist censorship Coughlin and Franco
venom of prejudice and malice which has tell the world the fight was Christianity
spread enormously in these wicked years. against Communism. It was not to make Cath-
Behind the fire-builder is the powerful and olics that the "Church" backed Franco. It was
merciless Rome. Her smoke-screen obscures the greed of dispossessed capitalists avari-
the blaze until it finally breaks through cover, ciously and wickedly directing a bloody as-
a devouring conflagration, and the terror is sault to obtain by wholesale murder and lar-
upon the land. The kindling is always the ceny their lost riches.
same. In Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, and It was not for converts, but for gold, that
now America, the same cry is raised: "DOWN Rome employed a common murderer to de-
WITH COMMUNISM !" stroy the finest Catholic blood of the realm.
Van Paassen writes under the chapter head- And it had been done before. Van Paassen,
ing "The Infamy" - : the Dutchman, re:alls other days:
"Hitler's declaration of war on Communism is a What Franco was doing in Spain, the Duke of
masterpiece of Machiavellian diplomacy. In rais- Alva and the Cardinal de Granvellc had tried to do
ing the hue and cry against Moscow the Fuehrer in the seventeenth century in Holland and Flan-
has frightened the bourgeoisie of every country of ders, and Catherine de Medici [niece of the pope]
which he desires the disintegration into looking and the Duo de Guise in the savage night of St.
toward himself as the champion of the established Bartholomew's in Prance: Franco and his cohorts
order and as the savior of E u r o p e . " desired to slip the collar of servitude back on the
necks of the Spanish people who had just thrown
The same writer gives an amazing Catholic it off."
authority to show that the Frente Popular, I do not hesitate to say, as do those Catholics
the "Popular Front" which first Franco and De Semprun Gurrea, Maritatn, Mounier, Berna-
now Coughlin denounce as Communist, was nos and Bergamin, that the cause of the long-
really the voice of a free Catholic people**: suffering and patient Spanish people, so inhuman-
Exterminating Bolshevism! ly exploited for ages by their worldly and spiritual
"If the Frente Popular is victorious," said overlords [the Roman Catholic Hierarchy] and so
Senor de Semprun Gurrea, perhaps the most au- hideously reviled in their tight for freedom, did
thoritative of the Spanish Catholic intellectuals, and does represent today the cause of Christ.
"the Church will have absolute freedom. A great Let honest people of every creed note that
freedom, a terrible .freedom! May it please God this is Franco's accomplishment: Liberty
that she is not tempted to abuse that freedom!
From the reawakening and the liberation of the ground under the bloody heel of Tyranny.
people, the Church has nothing to fear. On the This is Franco's way, the way Coughlin craves
contrary, she will be freed herself, delivered from to copy.
the chains that bind her to big business. She will
find back her virtue, which is to love and serve Responsibility
and not to command." Two of the writers quoted herein were news-
Thus writes a Catholic Loyalist, a member paper correspondents sending their copy from
of the Popular Front which Franco has now the scene of the events. Mr. Gedye represent-
almost completely exterminated. He is nOw, ed the London Times, the New York Times,
no doubt, either dead by Franco's firing squad and the English Daily Express; Mr. Van
or a very disillusioned man; for the "Church" {Continued on page 18)
* Days of Our Years, page 478. * Days of Our Fears, page -160.
*" Same, page 461. ** Same, pages 466, 4l7.
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 it is too revolutionary for them, and for that
reason it may well be considered that there is
British Comment little probability that he will become leader of
a large following, much less of his becoming
Britain's accepted dictator. In an interview
By J. Eemery {London) with the editor of one of the Roman Catholic
newspapers he said that his party had in it
more Roman Catholics than of other religions.
He would make friends with the Catholics as
Sir Oswald Mosley he would with Hitler and Mussolini. But he
Mosley is a would-be savior of Britain. He hates the Jews and apparently everything
has a remedy for the evils of its social system, Jewish, believing, he says, that the Jew by his
and, if he got power, would set up a govern- intrigues and his money is the cause of much
ment which would enforce his ideas on the of the world's present troubles.
people. He admits he is revolutionary in his
proposals, which may be said to be a blend of Growth of Fascism
Nazism and Mussolini's Fascism, with some How much Mosley may ultimately accom-
ideas of his own. When he made his first bid plish in his purpose cannot, of course, be told ;
to form a party he made free use of the term but it may be taken as certain that his propa-
Fascist in describing it and his proposals. ganda will do something to further the idea
He copied Mussolini in wearing a black shirt, of Fascism, though dictatorial rule towards
and those who became his followers did the which Britain is tending will come from other
same. A uniform was worn, and army drill sources. Differences of opinion in the many
and parades were part of his propaganda. The political parties in democratic countries are
Government decided that this thing was like- playing into the hands of the Fascists. An
ly to become a danger to peace and order, and illustration is seen at the present time in
it got an Act passed which made such wearing Holland, where the queen has had difficulty
of uniforms illegal. Men appear to like being in getting a cabinet formed for the govern-
dressed up in uniform and parading, and ment of the country. It is said that the heavy
when they could no longer parade Mosley lost cost of Holland's rearmament program is the
his party. Persistent, he carried on a propa- cause of the difficulty; for Holland, like all
ganda, and now after some years he has made other European countries, is compelled to a
another bid for a leader's position. He has heavy expenditure for its defense, and, as is
dropped the term Fascist as describing his common to all, this makes advanced social and
proposals, and now styles his movement Brit- domestic legislation impossible. I t is said that
ish Union. He made a new bid for notice by in Holland there are 400,000 persons unem-
means of a big meeting held in London's new- ployed, or more than 25 percent of its workers.
est and largest auditorium. Before the meet- Roman Catholicism is strong in Holland, and.
ing took place it was announced that Mosley busies itself in the Cabinet and Parliament
would address the world's biggest meeting. in the interests of that system. Always the
It was held, and carried through after Hitler's interests of "the church" are the main con-
manner, with banners and parades, and he, sideration to a Roman Catholic. Because of
the speaker, framed on a forty-foot-high plat- its troubles it is said that the queen may dis-
form and alone. He got a salute a la Hitler, pense with Parliament and rule the country
and was acclaimed the Leader by many in the through orders in Council, and that would be
audience. It is said that about 20,000 were the application of Fascism. In the confused
present, of whom perhaps 10,000 were asso- conditions which obtain in Britain there are
ciated with his propaganda. His too previous many who are already ready to accept such
declaration of addressing the world's biggest rule, and certainly now that war has come that
audience was not realized, for Judge Ruther- form of government would seem inevitable,
ford a few weeks before had an audience of at under the style of a national council.
least 22,000 listening to him in Madison
Square Garden auditorium, New York city.
Mosley's brand of Fascism is not the same as Bureaucratic Rule in Britain
that favored by many in the high places of A government which cannot be absolved
polities and power in Britain. As he admits,
from the suspicion of Fascist leanings and
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sympathies has during the past few years set milk retailed shall contain not less than 3 per-
up several ministries for the better regula- cent of butter fat; but cows of ordinary good
tion of the agricultural industries. Thus there feeding give more than that. The great com-
is a Pig Board, which controls the producing, bines pasturize the milk, and it seems they
the importing and the marketing of pigs and take care to pass on to the consumer just such
bacon. There is a Potato Board, with full amount of butter fat as will keep them within
executive powers to say how many acres shall the law. As they do not break the law, who
be allocated to potato growing. A farmer must has a right to complain?
have a license to grow potatoes, and must pay No doubt there are advantages to be seen
for it at the rate of 5 per acre, and may not in this bureaucratic form of government. Un-
increase his acreage except by license. The doubtedly the agricultural interests have been
Board fixes the merchants who may deal with very badly neglected, and there is now some
the crops; it regulates the size and weight of co-ordination between the production of the
the potatoes which may be offered for human land and its distribution. There has been much
consumption. Then there is a Milk Board, to criticism of the manner of accomplishing what
regulate the production and sale of milk, and all agreed needed doing, and many members
which fixes the prices throughout the land. of Parliament roundly declared that chiefs
Manj' of these regulations are considered irk- were posted to high positions though they
some, and to an observer some seem strange lacked the essential qualifications of actual
and even ridiculous: certainly those under experience in the matters they were to regu-
them consider and find some rules very irk- late and control. It is plain that there has been
some. For example, a farmer producer must much multiplication of offices and of officials.
sell his milk to a registered retailer, or to a The various ministers have almost absolute
certain wholesale concern. He may not sell powers as executives: Parliament delegated
even a pint of his milk to a neighbor, not even these offices to the Government's control, and
if the neighbor has a sick child, and the need what is done cannot be debated by Parliament.
is urgent; he may not sell a glass of milk to All this means that by one means or other,
a passing stranger for his refreshment. In- apparently by policy or by complexity of legis-
fringement of regulations may cost him dearly lation, Fascismof which these boards have
in fines, or even worse. Correspondingly the a formis ever coming nearer. Nazism, the
retailer may not give a glass of milk to a pass- reducing of all things under one head, is not
ing beggar. The various boards have many welcome to those who have money and power,
inspectors always alert for transgressions of but Fascism is seductive to many.
its regulations. The Milk Board fixes the prices
of the trade whether wholesale or retail. Much
milk is sold to firms in the chocolate manu- Jews in Britain
factures, and for such milk the farmer will In Britain Jews have for a long time en-
get about 6d per gallon; if he also has a re- joyed equal rights with its nationals, but that
tail purchaser the consumer must pay at the a measure of anti-Semitism is present is ap-
rate of 2/- or 2/4 per gallon. A member of parent, and Mosley's followers will increase
Parliament, voicing some of the criticisms of it. No doubt feeling has arisen by reason of
the Board's regulations, gave his own expe- the fact that though the Jew takes fullest ad-
riences as a small producer in Devon. He vantage of the liberties he enjoys he neverthe-
owns a small farm, he said, and told Parlia- less considers first himself and his kind, and
ment, "Last month I received 7.3 pence a the general interests last. A noted Jew, aged
gallon for my milk. In London they sell it to Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis,
the consumer at 28 pence a gallon. Who gets as he is sometimes styled, has found refuge in
the difference?" The cost of distribution in the England, driven out of Austria because he is
large cities is necessarily heavy; but the mar- a Jew. Telling of his gratitude for what kind-
gin is a wide one. The member went on to re- ly English friends have done for him, he says,
mark that which any observer may notice and "I have found the kindliest welcome in beauti-
confirm, namely, that there is in London a ful, free, generous England. Here I live as a
very considerable difference in the amount of welcome guest and happy that I can speak
cream between the London delivered milk and and write, and think as I want to, or have to/'
that which may be found in any milk of or- Freud takes immediate advantage of his free-
dinary good quality. The law demands that dom by publishing a book in which he seeks
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14
to destroy the truthfulness of the Scriptures, land, be other than as ordinary citizens, free
lie has no,use for the Scriptures as the reve- to come and go.
lation of God and His will. In fact, he is an The Roman Catholic press, while voicing its
atheist, whether or not he would so declare "abhorrence" of the outrages, takes full ad-
himself. His present endeavor is to give ex- vantage of the occasion to point out that the
pression to his unbelief in the Scriptures' Ulster [Northern Ireland] Parliament has
record of Jehovah's dealings with Moses and had a secret powers Act in operation for some
Israel, and of the declaration of, His will to years, and that there are many persons held
Moses. His book has received a good deal of in confinement in Ulster who have not been
attention; for all the intelligentsia must take brought to trial. The professed object of the
note of what such a noted man says. The I.R.A. is the dissolution of the Ulster Parlia-
parsons through their newspapers do not ac- ment and to get all Ireland under the rule of
claim him as a champion of their own unbelief Dublin. That would, in effect, mean that the
in the Hebrew Scriptures, but have little to Roman Catholic Hierarchy would be once
say, for the simple reason many of them agree again in control of all Ireland. The Ulster
with this aged unbeliever, but dare not speak Government refused to be intimidated by the
just so plainly as he feels himself at liberty bombs which these men of the I.R.A. caused
to do. Freud says he may now, in England, to explode in Belfast; they rounded up all
speak "as I have to". Undoubtedly he has to, suspects, with the result that the "Army" sent
in that he is under the influence of demons. its men into England to terrorize the British
His psychoanalysis practice is one of the Parliament into submission to their demands.
Devil's attempts to turn man to himself for For a time the Roman Catholic newspapers
salvation from his troublesa dogma and and the priests had little to say about the out-
practice readily accepted by a generation that rages, probably because they also badly want
does not want the rule of the Creator. to have all Ireland under the control of Dublin
and with their church in virtual control of
Irish Terrorists the country. But to have continued to keep
The dastardly acts of the Irish Republican silent would have so reflected upon the Hier-
Army have at last moved the Government to archy's position as to cause belief that it was
swift action. It is said that property of the in sympathy with these ruthless men. It is re-
value of over a million pounds has been de- ported that the Roman Catholic priest in the
stroyed, and the explosions have caused the Dartmoor jail where some of the men are now
death of several persons and injury to about imprisoned has refused some the benefits of
one hundred. Some of the perpetrators and the church's sacrament, and already this has
raised a cry in Dublin where, evidently, it is
many of their associates have been caught and thought that these men are only to be con-
sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. The sidered devotees of a cause and to have done
Government came into possession of some nothing that should cause excommunication
secret papers; the secretary for Home affairs from the church. It seems that some Roman
disclosed in Parliament there was not only Catholic priests and others can take much the
evidence of intention to continue and widen same view of the actions of these terrorists
the scope of their destructive acts regardless as they take of Franco's acts in Spain, where
of life, but also evidence that these men have yet terrible things are credibly reportedit
been supplied with funds by aliens. The Bill is said that at least 100,000 murders have been
was introduced in Parliament to give the Gov- committed in Madrid since it fell into Franco's
ernment special powers to deal with this ter- hands.
ror, was speedily made into law, helped for-
ward by bomb explosions which caused death
and much injury and damage at the time the
Bill was under discussion. The passing of the
Act into law has resulted in the flight to Ire- A War Certain to Be Lost
land of many hundreds of Irishmen. The Eire The quickest road to universal Fascism
Government recently made the I.R.A. an ille- would be a war against Fascism; for, to win
gal organization, but there is no reason for it, every democratic nation would go Fascist
thinking that the suspects deported under the or the equivalent of Fascist.Glenn Frank,
British law will, when they are back in Ire- in the New Haven Register.
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 those who are devoted to Him, and who there-
fore worship Him in spirit and in truth, to go
UNSEL among the people and bear testimony to the
name and to the authority of Jehovah, the
Supreme One. (Isaiah 43:8-12) This He does
for the people's well-being and protection.
God points out in His Word that the nations
will be ensnared and are ensnared by religion,
and He commands His witnesses to tell the
The Snare people what is God's Word of truth, and which
shows the clear distinction between religion
I N RECENT months Jehovah's witnesses
have exhibited banners bearing the words,
to wit, "RELIGION IS A SNAEE AND A RACKET,"
and Christianity. Since the Scriptures clearly
show that religion is a snare and a means by
and, "SERVE GOD AND CHRIST THE KING." which a racket is carried on, no one can be a
These facts they advertise by marching along true and faithful witness of Jehovah God un-
the streets and exhibiting the banners bearing less that one tells the people of their danger
the foregoing expressions before the people. of being ensnared by religion.
Many become angry because of the exhibition If the people are kept in ignorance of the
of such signs. Is this exhibition of banners origin and purpose of religion, then it would
above mentioned done to ridicule others and not be possible for them to avoid the snares
to provoke the people to wrath? Most em- thereof. A brief statement of the origin and
phatically not. Nothing good could come from development of religion follows: Satan the
doing something merely to ridicule others. If Devil caused the original man and woman to
the truth provokes one to wrath, that is the violate God's law, which resulted in their
misfortune of those who become angry. These death. (Genesis 3:3-17) Satan then declared
banners are exhibited to inform the people openly and rebelliously against God that he,
and to warn them of the great danger that the Devil, could induce all men to turn against
results from the practice of religion, and and curse God to His face, and hence that God
points out that the only means of safety for could not put men on earth that would remain
the people is to serve God and Christ Jesus faithful to Jehovah. (Job 2:5) Satan intro-
His King. The kingdom of God is the hope of duced amongst men the practice of religion for
the world, and everything against God's king- the very purpose of carrying out his wicked
dom by Christ Jesus is against the interest of challenge.
those who desire to live. This information is Religion, therefore, had its origin with Sa-
given to the people because God has com- tan. Following the Flood religion was or-
manded that it must be given and that the ganized and practiced at the instance of the
people must be warned from Him.Ezekiel Devil, who put Nimrod forward as a leader
3 3 : 7 ; Exodus 9:16. amongst men, and the people were taught to
The Word of God, as written and published adore and worship Nirnrod in defiance of
in the Bible, is the only safe guide for men; God's law. The original inhabitants of the
and hence the man of God prays: "Thy word land of Canaan were the practitioners of re-
is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my ligion. They worshiped men and wicked spir-
path." (Psalm 119:105) "All scripture is its. God selected the Israelites and brought
given by inspiration of God, and is profitable them out of Egypt and sent them to inhabit
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for the land of Canaan, and before reaching that
instruction in righteousness; that the man of land God warned them against religion and
God may be perfect, throughly furnished un- commanded that they should have nothing
to all good works."2 Timothy 3:16,17. whatsoever to do with the worship of any
The man who follows religion necessarily creatures, men or devils, but that they must
ignores the Bible instruction, because reli- worship God alone as their Creator and Pro-
gious teachings are in fact the teachings of tector. His command to the Israelites con-
the tradition of men. The present is the time cerning religion informed them that if they
of great peril, as everyone observes. What the turned to religion they would be led into the
people need above everything else is a knowl- snare of the Devil and would suffer destruc-
edge of God's Word, that they may be guided tion. God caused Moses, as His mouthpiece,
in the right way. Jehovah God commands all to declare these words to His chosen people,
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the Israelites: "Neither shalt thou serve their of Christ Jesus. He was taken before King
[religious] gods; for that will be a snare unto Agrippa and in his own defense he there said:
thee." (Deuteronomy 7:4-16) Again He gave 'Those who knew me from the beginning, if
commandment to His covenant people, in they would testify to the truth, would know
these words: "And ye shall make no covenant and say that after the most straightest sect
with the inhabitants of this land. . . . Their of our [Jews'] religion, I lived a Pharisee/
gods shall be a snare unto you." (Judges (Acts 26:5) When he became a Christian,
2 : 2 , 3 , AM.V.) Instead of giving heed to Paul plainly stated, no longer did he follow
God's commandment the Israelites indulged the teachings or traditions of men, but fol-
in the practice of religion. They worshiped lowed Christ Jesus and proclaimed His Word
idols and images, and thus they became en- of truth, the gospel He said: 'If I please men
snared and fell away and, as a nation, suffered I should not be the servant of Christ; for I
destruction. "And they served their idols; neither received the gospel from men, nor
whieh were a snare unto them." (Psalm was I taught by men, but by the revelation of
106:36) All the nations round about Pales- Jesus Christ/Galatians 1: 8-12.
tine practiced religion, that is to say, the wor- Today there are many religions practiced
ship of idols, demons, wicked spirits, and the by the people, and all of whieh tend to turn
Devil himself, all of which are called 'mighty the people away from the true Almighty God
ones' or "gods", and it was-into that snare and from the plain instruction of His Word.
that the nation of Israel fell. Because religion is wrong does not mean that
When Jesus came to the nation of Israel all the people who are under its influence are
He was confronted with the fact that the lead- bad. Many are deceived even as Paul was de-
ers amongst that people had adopted and were ceived. As an illustration: One political party
practicing religion, and doing so in the name advocates certain principles, and another po-
of Jehovah God, and this they did in the place litical party opposes those principles. That
and stead of worshiping God. Jesus pointed does not mean that all in one party or all in
out to them that by so doing they had made both parties are bad. The fact that many peo-
God's Word of none effect and had prevented ple arc the followers of one religious organi-
the common people from hearing the truth zation or another does not mean that all are
that would lead them into the way of life. bad; but because some amongst them are of
Those Jewish clergymen called Pharisees had good will toward God He commands that the
induced the common people to thus be en- truth shall be declared before them as a warn-
snared, and Jesus told them in plain words ing, so that they may flee from religion and
that they were serving the Devil. (Matthew obey the Word of God. And this is the reason
15:1-9 ; John 8:42, 44) That the people of that Jehovah's witnesses, at His command,
Israel had been ensnared is further testified carry the message of truth to the people and
to by Saul of Tarsus. Saul was a prominent do so by exhibiting before them banners bear-
member of the supreme court of Palestine. As ing the inscriptions above mentioned. The ban-
a practitioner of religion he cruelly persecut- ners call the attention to the snares, and it is
ed the true followers of Christ Jesus, who were thereby hoped to induce the people to study
prpperly called Christians. Saul had been God's Word and gain a further knowledge,
caught in the snare of religion. He being of an that they may escape such snares.
honest desire, the Lord Jesus Christ opened I t is well known that religion is a racket,
Saul's eyes to the truth and he became a fol- because it has long been used and is used to
lower of Christ, hence a Christian, and there- extract money from the people upon the
after instead of being called Saul he was called theory and claim that the paying over of
and known as Paul the apostle of Jesus Christ. money to a priest will enable the one paying
Under inspiration of the spirit of Almighty it to receive for himself, or for some loved one
God Paul the Christian wrote these words to who is dead,- consideration and shorten his
his fellow Christians: 'For ye have heard of punishment and insure his salvation. Surely
my course of life in times past, in the Jews' Almighty God could not be a party to grant-
religion; how that beyond measure I perse- ing favors to any creature upon a money con-
cuted the church of God, and wasted it/ sideration. Thus it is seen that men use re-
(Galatians 1:13) Paul was then persecuted ligion to carry on a racket and wrongfully
by the practitioners of religion and was ar- obtain money from others. A small number of
rested and charged with preaching the gospel men calling themselves priests or clergymen
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extract money from the great masses of peo- tween religion and Christianity, and this
ple who ignorantly pay out their money and they do in order to aid sincere persons to
receive nothing in return. Surely that is ob- choose the right way. By religion men pre-
taining money under false pretenses and is tend to worship God with their mouths, but,
one of the worst kinds of racket. as Jesus and other prophets declare, their de-
Christianity means to follow exactly in the votion is not to God. Those who practice Chris-
footsteps of Christ Jesus by believing, teach- tianity worship God in spirit and in truth.
ing and following and obeying the Word of The distinction is this: Religion leads men to
God, which Word of God, as shown by the destruction; Christianity leads men to salva-
foregoing scriptures, is given for the instruc- tion and to life everlasting. In the next article
tion of the man who desires to walk in right- following, the facts will be pointed out show-
eousness. Jehovah's witnesses publish books ing how completely commercial men have been
and distribute them amongst the people, call- ensnared by religion and of the great peril
ing their attention to the clear distinction be- in which they have placed themselves.

Smoke-Screen (Continued from page 12)

Paassen, The Federated Press of America, injury at the hands of the Coughlinites was
Canadian Central Press, and Seven Arts Fea- sent on vacation, and could not be inter-
ture Syndicate. It is a fair deduction, there- viewed, WThy was. the force in such a hurry
fore, that not only were these newspapers to send the captain away? Perha}>s the mayor
acquainted with the advance move of the Hier- and the commissioner of police ean answer
archy, but that all the great press systems of this. In this connection an interesting letter
the world are fully informed on this matter. is here inserted:
Why, then, do not the newspapers at least Brooklyn, August 14, 1939
of the Democratic countries publish these Consolation Magazine
facts for the safety of the countries they are Brooklyn, New York
supposed to serve? The answer is. FEAR. They Gentlemen:
fear the wrath of the Hierarchy. And fearing, This is Mrs. Moritz writing you. I am an honest
they have refused to use the only weapon that Catholic and believe in the truth and tell the truth.
might have availed, namely, exposure. When This man Coughlin making all the trouble in
the Hierarchy is in full control the press sys- Brooklyn and in New York; I see from the Times
tems will become entirely servile propaganda that they beat u p the police and the Times called
machines and must shoulder a large share of them "Christian Mobilizers". I called up the Times
the responsibility for this calamity. "The fear Editor and he admits that they lied about it, that
of man bringeth a snare." (Proverbs 29:25) they really are Coughlinites, but they feared to
A recent example of this fear of the Hier- call them Coughlinites for fear of a damage suit.
This city is getting to be a terrible place. Even the
archy is noted in the issue of the New York Times, which d a i m s to publish all the truth that is
Times of August 14, 19,39. A description of worth publishing, admits that they publish lies.
another Coughlin outrage is described under What are we coming to anyhow? Faith, and I am
the title "Crowd Battles Police in Bronx". tired of the whole thing.
Neither the name Christian Front nor Cough- I am respectfully an honest Catholic
lin was used in the account. When an inter- Mrs. Mary Moritz of
ested party inquired if the group were the Brooklyn, New York.
Coughlin group he was told by the Times that
they were but that the Times feared to tell Outcome
this fact, claiming that they would be sued for The Scriptures foretold this very use of a
damages. The account states that two officers smoke-screen and also the final result to the
of the law, a captain and a sergeant, were beat unchristian organization who hide behind His
up by the crowd after they had attempted to name. How fittingly is the whole Catholic fog
stop a fight between some of the members. of deception described in the words of the
When the attackers were arrested a thousand prophet Isaiah!
of this group paraded to the police station in "Because ye have said, We have made a cove-
protest. MORE FEAR. The captain who was in- nant with death, and with hell are we at agree-
ment; when the overflowing scourge shall pass
jured, on the day immediately following his through, it shall not come unto us; for we have
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made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have overflow the hiding place."Isa. 28:15,16,17.
we hid ourselves. Therefore thus saith the Lord Only the Lord can and will destroy the
God, . . . Judgment also will I lay to the line, and Catholic Hierarchy, the arch criminal doing
righteousness to the plummet; and the hail shall the will of Satan the Devil, and this He will
sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall do at Armageddon.Elton Groves.

Manlon's Trail of Human Wreckage

I N Consolation, issues Nos. 519, 520 and 521,

Manton's betrayal of trust was recounted.
His first vicious act was committed soon after
Manton's conviction for accepting bribes the
more conspicuous.
Manton has injured many others, and two
his appointment to the Appellate bench in years in prison will not settle the account be-
March, 1918, and this was not perpetrated fore the Lord. "The wicked will he destroy."
upon wealthy litigants. In that year he set How shocking it is to think of a jurist sitting
the stage for the Hierarchy's present abuse in judgment, sardonically hearing the earnest
of a Christian. Eight men, officials of the and honorable efforts of lawyers to defend
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, who their clients; knowing that the decision was
had been wrongfully convicted, on trumped- stacked against them, already settled by this
up and fraudulent charges of violating the colossal traitor for the lucre which the Cath-
Espionage Act, were refused bail by Manton olic Hierarchy loves so well and who doubtless
pending their application for new trial. After got a nice cut of the swag! Says Official De-
spending nine months in the Atlanta peniten- tective Stories, issue of August, 1939:
tiary their case came up for hearing in Man- Meantime the public was blissfully unaware of
ton's court, the United States Court of Ap- the Jekyll-TTyde nature of this highly respected
peals. The majority of the court reversed the man who sat in all his official dignity upon the
decision of the trial court (even the trial bench as honest lawyers pleaded brilliant fights
judge admitted his prejudice), but Manton in vain. What thoughts must have been going
through his mind as laboring attorneys for certain
dissented and still insisted that they should be litigants reduced to words in his courtroom the
kept in jail. On the basis of these wrongful result of long all-night hours of work, when the
and outrageous acts, the Roman Catholic Hier- case they were arguing was already decided
archy, who backed their son Manton in this against themwith the dough for the decision al-
conspiracy, have continued to charge Judge ready tucked away in that black safe in the arch-
Rutherford, who was one of the eight defend- crook's office!
ants, as being an ex-eonvict. From their Manton's rascality was of long standing, and
known complicity in the plot to destroy the it took a bad turn 'way back in 1918, when he
work of God's kingdom then and now this did the bidding of the Hierarchy against men
false charge is scon as a deliberate libel. It whose only fault was to teach the gospel of
was not the bribe of $250,000 Manton accepted God's kingdom. His career ended in court, un-
by circuitous route from the American Tobac- successfully defended by two lawyers both of
co Co. in 1932 that first demonstrated his con- whom bad defended eminent Catholics before.
tempt for truth and justice. His fate of de- One of Manton'9 lawyers had defended Dutch
struction was sealed on the books of Heaven Schultz, the other Al Capone. Neither Schultz
when he sold these eight Christians to the Ro- nor Capone had been Knights of St. Gregory
man Catholic Hierarchy, who have persecuted the Great as was Manton, but their careers as
these and all real Christians ever since and Catholics had been exceptional and it was
used this damnable outrage of their own plot- certainly in the eternal fitness of things that
ting to the hurt of the innocent. One would the three should have a final bond.
rather like to know how many years the Hier-
archy took from Manton's "purgatory" visit Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt
for this frame-up. At any rate their press was not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a
loud in approval of Manton's patriotism for gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and per-
keeping "the Bible Students'* in prison in vert the words of the righteous.Deuteron-
1918-19; which makes their silence now at omy.16: 19.
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 hysteria that sweeps through Washington that
does the damage to the whole country. Balti-
more Sun.
Heil Chester Gannon!
Chauvinist Gannon has a fine model for
his system of patriotism in the European
method. Adolf Hitler gets plenty of salutes
and "heils" by making it mighty uncomfort-
Crucial Point able for any of his loving countrymen to omit
Attorney General Murphy was right when "Heil Hitler" as a greeting or to fail to give
he told the mayors in New York the other day the Nazi salute at the proper time. That's
that "the first battleground of civil liberties why Hitler is so widely respected and liked
is the local communities". It is unquestionably in the United States. Oh, it will be a fine, glo-
a thing that the mayors should keep in mind, rious day when our little school children
for theirs is the first responsibility for protec- goose-step onto the school grounds, obediently
tion of those rights that make the American raise their right hands and salute not because
system almost unique among the governments they love the flag, but because they have to.
of the earth, and that make it worth defending. Heil the Star Spangled Banner. Heil Chester
However, it should not be forgotten that Gannon.Redding (Calif.) Record.
the local communities are the first, and not
the last, battleground of civil liberties. Amer- Patriotism by Force
ican freedom will never be lost in a local com- Patriotism must come from the heart. It
munity. A Hague can suppress freedom in cannot be bought; it cannot he compelled.
Jersey City without shaking it as Yet its compulsion has just been made a statu-
_fc? regards the rest of the country. tory law in California. Last week in Sacra-
&J . W' A Big Bill Thompson can make
\^C\/C. Chicago a laughingstock without
mento Assemblyman Chester Gannon of Sacra-
mento and Seth Millington of Gridley intro-
^ l ^ - & 5 doing perceptible damage to Balti- duced a bill proposing that all teachers require
more. A tyrannical mayor is a petty tyrant. their pupils to "salute the flag at least once
He may justly incur the contempt of the a week", or elsebe expelled from school.
country, but he is not likely to become a men- Legislation of this kind can lead to no good
ace of national proportions. end. It has all the earmarks of hysteria or
The last battleground of civil liberties is not hypocrisy, and as such can find no roots in the
any local community, but the city of Wash- hearts of the American people. But when the
ington. Attorney General Murphy referred author of the bill deliberately states, "I be-
eloquently to the Quakers and Mennonites, lieve that Mussolini has the right formula
and defended their right to worship as they for training children," as Mr. Gannon stated
see fit. At the moment, however, nobody is in offering the bill, then to accept it without
attacking the Quakers or the Mennonites. challenge is to open the way for other legisla-
Why didn't he say something about Jehovah's tion of a regimented character which may lead
witnesses, the people whose children are being us to the same depths of degradation as that
thrown out of public schools all over the coun- under which the people of Italy and Germany
try for refusing, on religious grounds, to sa- are forced to exist today.The Desert Trail,
lute the flag? California.
The first denial of these people's civil rights
was made in local communities, to be sure, but Can't Mix Force and Patriotism
where they have finally lost is in the Supreme Compulsory patriotism, compulsory reli-
Court of the United States. It is true, the issue gion, compulsory anything wherein there is a
has not been drawn squarely in any case be- wide difference of opinion, is wrong. And
fore that court; but the difficultyto date, when our legislators attempt to foree children
the impossibilityof getting the issue before to salute the flag they are showing childish-
the court has operated against them as effec- ness and a mistaken idea of true patriotism.
tively as an adverse decision. Mayors ought, They would carry this silly idea to the point
indeed, to stop every attack on American free- where they would condemn children to igno-
dom in their own cities; but it is the wave of rance or to disobey parental orders. Patriotism
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is built upon filial duty, reverence to God, love Special Prayers for Hitler
of mankindnot upon a gesture of the arm A National Catholic dispatch from Amster-
and a few quoted words from the lips. The dam, and published in the Catholic Universe
deepest-dyed murderer can swear to an oath Bulletin, states that special prayers for the
upon the Bible, a hypocrite can sign an agree- velfare of Chancellor Adolf Hitler-were said
ment, a Hitler or Mussolini can give verbal in churches of the Catholic diocese of Bavaria,
promises; and what do they all mean? So a the Rhineland and Baden, Germany, on his
pledge to a flag can mean nothing. And why fiftieth birthday. Now how about offering up
attempt to force a a few prayers for the
silly idea of patriot- Devil himself?
ism upon children?
The Banner and So- Bowing Before
noraNews, California. the Hierarchy
The London Catholic
Enforced Herald boasted that a
Patriotism m e a s u r e forbidding
If the 1 i b e r t i e 8 the participation by
g u a r a n t e e d by the Poles in Freemasonry
United States to its had been put before
subjects, if the gov- the Polish parliament,
ernment created and and that there was a
conducted under the big drive on in the
Constitution by the Polish ( C a t h o l i c )
people themselves are press against Free-
such poor weapons of masonry. Two days
offense a g a i n s t the later the A11 o o n a
i s m s and d o g m a s (Pa.) Register (Cath-
which seek to destroy olic) boasted that two
us, then any law to Masonic lodges had
e n f o r c e patriotism i n v i t e d the "Most
and its open manifes- R e v e r e n d " Shaugh-
tation by a salute to nessy, bishop of Seat-
the flag are meaning- tle, to address them.
less things. Shaughnessy is the
Far better for the man who tried to pre-
U n i t e d S t a t e s of Some traitors are called Benedict Arnolds, but vent Judge Ruther-
America to s p r e a d others answer to the titles of Cardinal, Archbishop, ford from speaking in
patriotism through a Bishop, Monsignor or just plain Jesuit. Seattle, and, when he
fair administration of did speak, tried to
just laws, observing the rights of every individ- make it appear that Jehovah's witnesses had
ual and an adjustment of our differences and been riotous when Catholics distributed their
difficulties through honorable means, than to literature at the auditorium. Shaughnessy is
create hatreds through compulsion and misun- responsible for the hostile attitude of the Seat-
derstanding.-Santa Rosa (Calif.) Independent. tle press toward Judge Rutherford, respon-
Legislation Bottom Up sible for the boycotting of radio stations that
Our country is supposed to be ruled from carried the lecture, responsible for the old
the bottom up rather than from the top down. women with pretentious titles that bulldozed
If people in the rank and file don't like the the city council into passing an ordinance for-
way things are done, they have the right to bidding the use of the auditorium for the pur-
change them. In the proposed law. compelling poses for which it was constructed, and re-
salute for the flag the rule would be from the sponsible for the flood of lies which went out
top down. And besides, what thrill is there in from Seattle into all Catholic papers in the
saluting a flag when one is compelled to do it? country, misrepresenting the facts of what
The new law would take away a privilege and actually occurred at Seattle. But Shaughnessy
substitute a compulsion.Oroville (Calif.) is a religionist, and the Masons want more re-
Mercury. ligion ; so let them have what they want, until
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21
they get a bellyful of it and America is in The Hierarchy and the Women's League
ashes as a result of their foolishness. It has Readers of the booklet Fascism or
been suspected that the Masonic organization Freedom will remember Judge
has been made ineffectual by the workings of rffif!&>& Rutherford's showdown of the
Jesuits in their midst. It looks like it. mooted co-operation between the
Roman Catholic Hierarchy on the
Typical Quebec Hypocrisy one hand and Communism on the other. They
We have just witnessed some typ- will also recall his illuminating disclosure of
ical Quebec hypocrisy, at the visit the pope's words through Cardinal Verdier
of our king and queen here: First- on the point.
ly, our Cardinal Villeneuve (who It now appears that Cardinal Verdier has
practically advises the Quebec gov- been letting the Hierarchy's cat out of the bag
ernment what they should and should not do) again, and, oddly enough, this was done in the
sitting on the king's right hand at the banquet Palais de la Mutualite, the hall used for the
given at the Windsor hotel, of course chock- international convention of Jehovah's witness-
full of a sudden overnight loyalty to the es in 1937, the very hall in which Judge
Crown, which was quite unnoticeable before Rutherford gave his great speech on "Com-
the event; again, our mayor, who at political fort" to the*people of Paris. The French Con-
meetings told various audiences, "We French solation gives the details of the cardinal's lat-
Canadians can, in the event of war between est effusion, and reveals the Papacy's un-
Catholic Italy and England, take sides with limited ambitions.
the Italians, and extend our sympathies to The convention of the Feminine League of
the Latin race." That is the man who greeted French Catholic Action has just taken place, under
his majesty last Thursday on his arrival in the presidency of Cardinal Verdier, at the Palais
Montreal, with the glad hand and all kinds de la Mutualite. There was a large audience present
of welcoming stuff. Truly the double-faced at the -final session yesterday. After others had
hypocrisy that can be launched in Quebec spoken Cardinal Verdier concluded with the ob-
servation that Catholicism is establishing itself in
province is unbeatable. They tell you there is every country, that it is the only force capable of
justice, when judges can sit on benches and saving the world, that the church is now in the
ruthlessly send men to jail for six months act of conquering the world through its various
because they do not believe in the Roman doc- organizations and that of these the Women's
trines; that is, as the witnesses of Jehovah League is the most important.
do not. I cite the instance of a case at St.
Jerome; and now another is arrested, Arthur Angling for Suckers
Titley, while Catholic rags called newspapers jMjJL y Angling for suckers the "Reverend"
advertise the lies, "We have free speech and ( %&?J, Benedict Quigley, S.A., St. Paul's
religion in Quebec"! Wgj&J/// Church, Cordova street, Vancouver,
In other words, gentlemen, one here can W^ ~%t B-C, has a five-inch advertisement
write or state anything he likes re Protestant *******$& the Winnipeg (Canada) North-
churches and their beliefs; but dare do so west Review in which he has the hardihood to
against the self-created I AM of. Italy, and paint his racket in the following glowing
you will be arrested and even sentenced. Who terms:
makes and enacts such hideous laws here, and Rock-of-Peter annuity bonds; best investment
this a British Dominion? The Roman Church, for time and eternity; large dividends to you while
and no other. Enclosed are further newspaper you live; after your death still larger dividends,
items showing further inside life of Quebec, payable at the Bank of Heaven.
and the abominable amount of vicious crime Would you suppose anybody would dare tell
committed by the Province's own native ele- such terrible lies?
ment, and in some instances the crude way
justice is meted out with extreme leniency to What Else Would You Expect?
favored ones upon big charges (none of them The following are quoted as coming from
Protestant). For instance: "Time in jail" for Gerald Shaughnessy, so-called "bishop of
counterfeiting; Five months for theft of Seattle". Read them and see if they are not
$12,000-odd; Six months to two Jehovah wit- just such words as you would expect from one
nesses for preaching Christianity.C. E. B., who tried to keep Judge Rutherford from
Montreal. speaking in Seattle, and who actually bullied
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several radio stations into apologizing for the 1938 more than forty stamps were issued de-
exercise of their sovereign American rights: picting Catholic personages or events, and the
I f we are asked to fight side by side with "demo- Jesuits came into possession of 400 acres of
cratic" Prance against the dictators of the world, the finest scenic lands in the Berkshire hills.
let us remember that France has, in preparation All O.K., boys; go to it while you can, for
for the conflict, distinctly, categorically and actual- your everlasting destruction at Armageddon
ly named its real ruler as dictator and granted him impends.
those powers that it decries in other rulers. And
finally, if we arc asked to save again the great
British "democracy", let us first analyze how that The Rector of Fontarrabia
democracy works throughout the immense posses- The Swedish newspaper Arbeterbladet of
sions that it has gathered unto itself and upon March 27, 1939, contains an article that
which it boasts the sun never sets. Let us ask the reflects light on the blessings poured out on
hill tribes of India what brand of democracy is Franco the Butcher by both Ambrose Ratti,
meted out to them. Let us ask the gold and diamond Pope Pius XI, and Eugenio Pacelli, Pope
workers of South Africa to tell us the story of the Pius XII. The account, interpreted in Eng-
blessings of democracy that they enjoy. Let us
ask the Irish of the six counties to come forward
lish by a reader in the Santa Barbara (Calif.)
and proclaim the inestimable blessings of democ- News Press, reads as follows:
racy bestowed upon them by the. crushing British The rector of a church in Fontarrabia, a Spanish
government. In a word, my dearly beloved breth- village by the French border, and who has been
ren, if you will but match nation and nation, you in the service of Franco during the whole time of
will find that for the most part the so-called "dem- the civil war. As this rector could no longer stand
ocratic nations" that call to us for help are but the terrorism of Franco he finally escaped to
wolves in sheep's clothing. France. Here is one of the reasons why he could
not endure the goings on there. He relates that as
soon as the soldiers and refugees who had escaped
Religion Crying, You Bet into France returned to Spain, thinking they would
The Roman Hierarchy is feeling not be harmed, Franco's army would line these
the heat of the truth, enough so poor unfortunates against a wall iii the church-
that a gent who would in more hon- yard and they would be shot down by machine
est times be laying cement side- guns without first receiving a hearing of any kind.
walks or plaster work, but is now A large hole was dug where the bodies were
in the Cardinal racket, has taken occasion to dumped in. Some were only wounded but were
thrown into the hole just the same and buried
stick his neck out. This time it is Mr. P. Card. while still alive.
Pumasoni-Biondi, Prefect of the S. Congre-
gation "de Propagandi Fide". In a note to
"Reverend Father" Felix, O.S.B., he said: Pope Was Right on the J o b
Allow me to congratulate you on the splendid
The pope was right on the job in the war
work you are doing to counteract the hostile anti- against the Spanish Republic, as was revealed
Christian propaganda, now being carried on so when the five troopships came back from
methodically by the followers of " J u d g e " Ruther- Spain to Germany, after their arduous "Non-
ford. Religious instruction is the crying need of intervention" duties. It seems that German
the hour. planes began transporting heathen Moors to
Of course, that wasn't nice of Tony to say Spain on July 20, 1936, and the revolt of
that Judge Rutherford was putting out anti- Franco the Butcher had then been under way
Christian propaganda, because when Tony only three days. In other words, it is perfectly
said that he lied. But he was right when he apparent that the pope, Franco and Hitler
said something about religion crying. The had it all fixed up beforehand.
more it is compared with Christianity, the
worse it looks; and from present indications A Mighty Sick P a r r o t
Biondi had better take a little time off and Father Coughlin's office denies he ever saw
learn something about cement. the Goebbels speech. But it does not explain
how Father Coughlin and Goebbels came to
Making Rapid Progress write hundreds of words in virtually identical
The religious business is corning along fine. sequence. Word for word, for hundreds of
The Congressional Record published the words, the signed article by Father Coughlin
pope's address of May 7; the Post Office de- parrots the speech of Goebbels.Philadelphia
partment proudly boasts that from 1893 to Record.
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Invincible Bloc Where Goes New Zealand?
:On the occasion of the signing of That the success of the Labor regime in
I the military alliance between Ger- New Zealand has merited and gained the
,many and Italy, Foreign Minister world's attention is proved by a glance at the
|Von Ribbentrop said, "Germany world's great daily newspapers. The Man-
and Italy, together with their pow- chester Guardian, probably the most influen-
erful and trusted friends throughout the tial of British newspapers, has this to say:
world, form a mighty and invincible bloc of New Zealand's experiment in moderate Social-
300,000,000 people." That is equal to the num- ism has been far from wanting in influence. Many
ber of subjects claimed by the Roman Cath- of its successes are a lesson, even a rebuke, to our
olic Hierarchy. S( own democracy. The attack on unemployment and
the Social Security Act provide two sides of so-
cial legislation in which England should be in-
Better Feeling Between Gangsters terested.
The Rome correspondent of La Croix re- New Zealand pursues an ideal of environment
marks on the increased friendliness between equality. It is an ideal every just man hopes to
the Vatican and the Nazis since the new pope see achieved even though we live among the hard
came into power. The Catholic Church par- and disappointed peoples of Europe.
ticipated to the full in the celebration of the When Mr. Savage invites Britishers to eome to
Fiihrer's fiftieth birthday, and the pope him- live and work in New Zealand it is not to an
self sent his best wishes to Hitler through antipodean wilderness he calls them, but to an en-
Mgr. Orsenigo, Papal nuncio in Berlin. lightened and prosperous country in the middle
of a great social adventure.
C.T.P.S. News from Berlin All this is very good about New Zealand.
The Washington Times contained a C.T.P.S. The only sad and bad thing about the country
dispatch from its Berlin correspondent con- is that, according to the definite statement of
taining the statement: a member of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy,
Archbishop O'Shea, of Wellington, the New
Hitler sent his own airplane to Berlin to fly Zealand Government has allied itself to Cath-
Msgr. Cesare Orsenigo, Papal Nuneio, to Berchtes-
gaden yesterday. olic Action. On his way to Rome to convey this
good news to Pope Ratti, Thomas O'Shea made
This news, sponsored by Sigrid Schultz, is the matter quite clear this way: "The rela-
of special interest at a time when New York tions between the church and the present
papers strive, with scare headlines occupying Labor Government in New Zealand are par-
an entire front page, to convince the great ticularly good. The Government takes the
American sucker that the Nazis in Germany keenest interest in Catholic Action." Yes,
are fairly eating the Roman Hierarchy alive. those are his very words as reported in the
No doubt many of them wish to, but it is not New Zealand press. Whether New Zealanders
practical politics. in general, and its political rulers in particu-
lar, know it or not, when Catholic Action gets
Germany P a y s the Church Well a grip on the reins of government it never
Germany pays the "church" well to help lets go until the words liberty and freedom are
maintain the joint racket from which both mere idle verbiage.Consolation, Australa-
breeds of politicians profit. In the Alt Reich sian Edition.
(Germany as it was before Austria was added
to it) the Roman Catholic Church alone is Vatican-Japanese Policy in China
paid 63,000,000 reiehsmarks annually. From The Vatican-Japanese policy of mutual
this it is apparent, that there is as yet no finan- assistance in China is working well. Dispatches
cial persecution of the Roman cult in Ger- from Shanghai arc that the Japanese author-
many. If the Fiihrer wished to financially hurt ities are well pleased with the activities of
the church of his birth and of his choice, all Roman Catholic missionaries, whether Ger-
he would have to do would be to choke off this man, Italian or French, but have served no-
63,000,000 marks. The Hierarchy and the dic- tice on the Protestant missionaries, whether
tators are playing their hands with poker British or American, that if in any way they
faces, and while there is no doubt an occas- encourage the Chinese to defend their posses-
sional slip, on the whole they are making out sions they must either pack up and go home
pretty much as they hopedbut that is only or transfer their activities elsewhere.
for the time being. Just wait. (To be continued)
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24
 .v/tfGHTEOTJS tion based on the original story and the Min-
RULER ister's reply were given prominence in certain
newspapers.
It must now be clear to thousands of people
in this country that the person or persons who
began this agitation and who concocted the
original newspaper story did so with the ob-
ject of bringing reproach upon the name of
the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society and
Hierarchy in Southern Rhodesia its activities under suspicion. What are the
9th March, 1939. facts?
To the Press of South Africa, and The Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society is
Copies to:
a non-stock corporation owned and controlled
The Honourable The Minister of Justice,
President of the Chamber of Mines, by a body of Christian men and women, known
The Commissioner of Police, as Jehovah's witnesses, and is used by them
H. A. Tothill, Esq., M. L. A. for carrying forward their work of preaching
Dear Sirs: the gospel or good news of God's Kingdom in
On the 4th instant the Press of this country an orderly way. Its officers are all Europeans
g a v e considerable and the work is car-
prominence to a news ried forward in this
i t e m originating hr country under Euro-
Johannesburg and to pean supervision. I t
the effect that a secret is not political in any
society had been dis- sense of the word, nor
c o v e r e d operating is it a secret society
throughout the coun- nor a native move-
try and particularly ment. On the other
on t h e R a n d a n d hand these Christian
which society was dis- men and women have
seminating inflamma- engaged in their work
tory pamphlets to the throughout the past
natives. It was "sus- Witness Ross in prison in Alexandria, La., 60 years openly (too
pected that the or- for being a Christian in a Catholic town openly for those who
ganization was being have engineered this
run by foreign natives, several of whom are Reef story) by means of radio, public lectures,
prohibited from entering the country", etc., sound equipment, [information marches] and
etc. The general impression that the average literature. With the exception of the distribu-
reader would gain from the story was that tion of the Bible, the Society's literature is
some mysterious and sinister movement was the most widely distributed of any in the
stealthily at work having as its objective the world today. I t circulates freely amongst
causing of mischief among natives and sow- every section of the people. The full name and
ing discord between the European and native address of the publishers appears on every
population. Apparently the movement was book and pamphlet distributed. The name of
so mysterious that its name was unknown or Judge Rutherford, author of the majority of
could not be discovered! the publications, is known the world over.
In response to a question put by a Johannes- The books are not harmful to natives nor
burg M.L.A. in the House of Assembly on the to any lover of righteousness. They are harm-
7th instant the Hon. The Minister of Justice ful only to those who oppose God's kingdom
stated that he had not received a report about and who wish to keep the good message con-
a "secret society", etc., but he added, accord- cerning that kingdom of righteousness away
ing to the press report, "it is suspected that from the people. The literature docs not pro-
literature of the Watch Tower movement is voke unrest, nor does it set race against race,
being distributed in some mine compounds. nor one class against another. The books point
The matter is being investigated by the police out clearly from the Scriptures that God's
in co-operation with mine officials." The ques- kingdom is the only remedy for the ills of
S E P T E M B E R 20, 1939 25
mankind and exhort all to refrain from vio- resentation. It would appear that the Mine
lence and patiently await the full establish- authorities have already succumbed to this agi-
ment of that kingdom at the hands of Christ tation, and it is reported that a circular has
Jesus, God's anointed King and the rightful been issued to the effect that any one of Jeho-
Ruler of the world. They have been distributed vah's witnesses found distributing literature
for many years now to all sections of the popu- in a mine compound is to be immediately
lation in the Union of South Africa, and there arrested and that any native found in posses-
is no evidence that they have caused unrest sion of the Society's literature is to be dis-
or disturbance in any part of the land. That missed. If there is any truth in such report,
fact is even admitted by those who are now will the Minister of Justice permit such perse-
trying to besmirch the name of the Society. cution and victimization of Christians in this
Who, then, could sink to such depths of iniq- country?
uity as to concoct the malicious misrepresenta- The Reef story and agitation is but part of
tions in the newspaper story 11t will doubtless a world-wide campaign being carried forward
be remembered that "certain bodies of the by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and other
churches" in Southern Rhodesia brought pres- political religionists. The Hierarchy, working
sure to bear on the politicians in that land in co-operation with the various totalitarian
and induced them to frame a sedition bill with states, is now bent on seizing control of every
the purpose of sup- nation on earth and
pressing the Society's ruling them by arbi-
l i t e r a t u r e because trary dictators. As
they did not like it. each democracy falls
The High Court in the liberties of the
S o u t h e r n Rhodesia people and freedom
ruled that the So- to worship God ac-
ciety's literature was cording to the dic-
not seditious, and this tates of one's con-
decision was upheld science a r e t a k e n
by the highest court away. And even in
in the Union, namely, the few democratic
the Appellate Divi- countries that are left
sion of the Supreme they try to suppress
Court. Furthermore, On the warpath the truth by misrep-
Sir Etienne dc Vil- resentation. In North-
liers in his judgment called attention to the ern Rhodesia, four years ago, it was the Roman
fact that the author expressly warned his Catholic Awemba who instigated and who
readers not to use force, and to obey the laws were the ringleaders in the Copper Belt riots.
of his nation unless they were in direct con- At that time it was immediately "suspected
travention of God's law. One would have that agitators connected with the Watch Tow-
thought that such rebuff would have been a er movement were responsible". Now we are
lasting lesson to those who are fighting against having a repetition of the same performance
the message of God's kingdom. But not so! in the Union.
Again they endeavor to get the ear of Caesar
in the same insidious fashion by suggesting The Sunday Times of Johannesburg in its
that there is a plot to stir up trouble amongst issue of 5th February gave details of the Nazi
the natives, although they are careful to add propaganda on the Rand Mines. The report
on this occasion that there is no question of states that there are approximately 400 Ger-
sedition or other crime! man-born Nazis working underground on the
mines and that such men arc carrying on an
The Society's literature calls attention to intensive campaign to create disaffection
the difference between Christianity and reli- among the natives. Such campaign has as its
gion, and in setting forth the teaching of the object the discrediting of "British Imperial-
Bible the truth necessarily exposes the false ism and capitalist exploitation". Should the
doctrines of "certain bodies of the churches". Roman Catholic-Fascist-Nazi campaign result
When men cannot refute the truth they fre- in causing 'unrest or disturbance, then the
quently resort to the Devil's weapon of misrep- same crowd will immediately come forward
26 CONSOLATION
and say that it is the Watch Tower literature To the Jesuitized Hitlerites
that must be responsible, just as they did in 2700 S. Del Mar Avenue
Rhodesia. Wilmar, California
Judge Rutherford has called attention to January 7, 1939
the Scriptures which prove that the doctrines To the Principal of the Rosemeade School,
of the Roman Catholic church are false, and The Members of the Rosemeade School Board,
has challenged the Hierarchy to put up its The John Guess Post, American Legion,
best man to debate such doctrines with him and Citizens of the Public School
over the radio for the enlightenment of the Systems of California.
people. That challenge, made several years Ladies and Gentlemen:
ago, has not been accepted, but instead we I would suggest that all of you read the
have this world-wide campaign of slander and Constitution of the United States; perhaps
misrepresentation. The police of this country, you have forgotten that it grants religious
instead of keeping a close watch on humble freedom to all people.
Christian men and women who are earnestly When Mr. La Berge, superintendent of the
and faithfully carry- Rosemeade S c h o o l ,
ing out the commands found that Alfred
of Almighty God to Grimmett, a twelve-
spread His Kingdom year-old boy, refused
message to "all na- to salute the flag be-
tions, kindreds and cause he had con-
tongues", would be scientious objections,
spending their time as far as I am able to
more profitably check- learn,the school board
ing up on the activ- passed a law making
ities of the emissaries it possible for the boy
of that foreign power to be expelled from
whose headquarters school. Such acts of
are at Vatican City, the s u p e r i n t e n d e n t
Rome, and which is and s c h o o l board
out to grab control of Jehovah's Kingdom publishers (pioneers) at would deprive the lad
South Africa and. all Lochness, Inverness-shirc, Scotland of the liberty the
other parts of the Constitution g r a n t s
earth. him and they would compel him to become a
If you have published the Reef story and hypocrite and salute the flag, rather than pro-
the Minister's reply you must know that many tect the freedom the flag has always stood for.
people who do not know the Society or the Psalm 5
94:20 says, 'They frame mischief by
work in which it is engaged would get a false law.
impression. We invite you to publish the truth Exodus 2 0 : 3 says, "Thou shalt have no
so that lovers of righteousness may be in- other gods before me." Apparently the John
formed. If you have not the courage to pub- Guess Post, American Legion, the Rosemeade
lish the facts, then, at least, you have been School Board, and the*principal of the Rose-
informed, and if at a later date you share in meade School have placed the flag and the
the conspiracy to crush an innocent people American nation above God, although the
and to suppress the message of God's king- courts of America recognize God's law as su-
dom it will be a willful matter, so far as you preme and the laws of America as subject to
are concerned. God's law.
Respectfully submitted, Today the prophecy of Daniel 2:44 is be-
ing fulfilled when it says, 'In the days of these
For WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY, kings shall the God of heaven set up a king-
(Signed) G. R. PHILLIPS, dom . . . and it shall break in pieces and con-
South African representative. sume all these other kingdoms.' Now Jehovah
God is having the gospel message of the King-
[In every part of the world the rulers fear to dom preached to all nations* as a witness, and
"face the facts" about the Hierarchy.Ed.] shortly in the battle of Armageddon He will
S E P T E M B E R 20, 1939 27
destroy all these present kingdoms and set Shanghai, China, having been driven out of Cen-
up the kingdom of Christ in completeness. tral Europe. By the way, I see that Consolation
Jehovah's witnesses have pledged their alle- of May 3, which I have just received through our
P a r i s office, carries a photograph of Jehovah's
giance to Jehovah and His kingdom; they can- witnesses a t Shanghai.
not be faithful and compromise hy pledging F r o m what the three witnesses told us it appears
allegiance to any kingdom other than that of that the witness of the Kingdom has been well
Christ the King; they are a group of loyal, given in the Balkans. And what stories they re-
law-abiding people, wholly obedient to all laws counted concerning all they had undergone in those
that do not conflict with God's law. half-civilized countries! I t was as interesting as a
The methods of coercion and threat used by novel. But, oh, what painful experiences they had
Hitler and Mussolini have no place in Amer- to endure in performing the work. They have now
ica, There is no difference between compulsory set off again and it will be a month before their
boat puts in at Shanghai. On the eve of their
flag-saluting and compulsory heil Hitler. The departure we wished them bon voyage at the home
course of action followed by Alfred was one of a witness here in Marseilles.
requiring courage, but at the same time did I have now been joined by two young Jonadabs
not in any way interfere with the rights of the who go out regularly with me in the work. I t is
other children to comply with the flag-saluting very encouraging. Last Monday I spent the after-
exercise. noon in the town of Aix, about 25 miles from here.
Is there one among you who would dare be I was looking for a meeting room; for there are
as loyal to your convictions as Alfred Grim- some interested ones in that town. I found a fine
mett was to his, when that loyalty means to room, but at the moment certain difficulties pre-
vent us from beginning. Perhaps a door will open
be denied an education and companionship of later on.
friends ?
Compulsory flag-saluting has no place in And here is extract number two, from the
the lives of the American people; is not upheld Paris letter:
by the Constitution, and such dictatorship is Some of us, myself included, have been working
for a month at redecorating our new meeting hall.
neither condoned by the public press nor the The Society's representatives at the Paris office
people. had been searching every corner of Paris for
A copy of this letter is being sent to Mr. months before finding it. When we took it over it
La Berge, superintendent of the Rosemcade was in a terrible state, and its appearance was far
School, Roy W. Young, Florence Osier Foote, from attractive, but it has been completely trans-
Aimer Nelsen, members of the Rosemeade formed, and is now a superb Jiall. W e hope that,
by the Lord's grace, the vacant places will soon
School Board, and the John Guess Post, Amer- be occupied by ncwly-intcrestcd ones; for this hall
ican Legion, and all the newspapers in south- is much larger than the one we have just left. The
ern California with the request to please print. latter had become altogether too small for us, and
Respectfully, twenty to thirty people had to remain standing
MRS. BEULAH JACKSON. every Sunday. Incidentally, this serves to indicate
the growth of Jehovah's work and how H i s name
is being increasingly proclaimed.
Kingdom News from France
In France we arc not escaping the attentions
The following interesting information came of that monstrosity which is growing everywhere.
in two letters recently received from France. The Fascist movement is here, and we are at the
The first one was from a British pioneer in mercy of the new decree laws, which will soon be
the big Mediterranean port of Marseilles; the applied and may forbid the circulation of our pub-
second, from an old warrior in the Lord's lications. Tlje battle will then become arduous and
army at Paris. They well illustrate the spread we shall have to openly manifest our zeal and
of the Kingdom message in France, and also fidelity. We joyfully remember our.year text,. "But
reveal the spirit of faith and courage that they shall not prevail against thee." Our strength
is in Jehovah.
animates the Lord's people today in every
land. Here is extract number one: F. W. Freer, England.
^
Three German publishers recently passed through Jehovah's witnesses in Quebec
Marseilles. They remained with us two days while
waiting for their boat. All three are young. They
Witnessing in Quebec is like playing a
have been engaged in the witness work in the game of checkers. The enemy watches our
Balkans. One of them told us he had been in pris- moves and endeavors to block us. For some
on in various Balkan countries no less than 27 years we won our court cases in the city of
times. They are going to take u p the work now in Montreal on "selling" and "peddling" charges,
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28
as Montreal has an exemption for religious vah's witnesses was, *No! Full steam ahead!'
work. Since Cure and Enemies were published and which is being done to this day.
and we exposed "religion" as a racket, the
tables were turned and the city registered "Padlock Law" Hits Jehovah's witnesses
convictions continuously, based on certain Four raids have been made at the homes
plain statements in said publications. I t took of Jehovah's witnesses by the Provincial Po-
some time for these hailstones of truth to sink lice, acting under the Duplessis-Villeneuve
into the m i n d s of Padlock Law. Ville-
those who sit on the neuve, who happens
bench; but eventually to be the archbishop
it registered, and in of Quebec, was, i t is
the last two months alleged, the instigator
we won our cases on of the law, and which
"selling", even if the was lauded by the
books used as exhibits press at the time, but
did say "religion is a which he later denied.
r a c k e t " . Evidently All books, phono-
they now see the dis- graphs and records
tinction between reli- were seized in each
gion and Christianity. raid, as well as per-
Primarily our thanks sonal letters, papers,
are to Jehovah for Watchtowers and
this victory, but we Consolations. T h e r e
must, in all fairness, seems to be no come-
recognize the fairness back, as this infamous
and justice manifest law is part of the
by Recorder Semple, Statutes of Quebec,
who gave the first and as yet there is no
favorable j u d g m e n t redress.
in the R e c o r d e r ' s
Court since Cure and
Enemies, etc., were Sequence to Raids
released for distribu- Charges of "being
tion. Mr. Semple is a parties to a seditious
Catholic, but he is one conspiracy" were laid
who knows his own against eight witness-
mind and is not com- es who were in the
pletely dominated by house. (Incidentally,
Rome. Two" other re- this was a pioneer
corders rendered sim- camp.) Four others
ilar decisions, based Automobile and sound equipment of two pioneers escaped the dragnet,
on Semple's decision. in Nigeria, West Africa as they were out on
back-calls. The others
were preparing to go on back-calls, but had
Framing Mischief by Law not yet left. One pioneer, who had been away
Following the decision given by Recorder for three months, had just returned and
Semple in the city of Montreal, stating that walked into the house right into the arms of
Jehovah's witnesses had the right to carry on the strong-arm squad.
their work in the city without taking out a
license, the city now purposes amending their Canadian Postal Service
by-law so as to prohibit the work of Jehovah's Canadian postal service, unexcelled any-
witnesses. We purpose being present when the where in the world, handles 1,230,000,000
discussion comes up before the city council, pieces of mail a year, through more than
so! as to counteract this move if possible. 12,000 post offices and over almost 4,500 rural
/While.the cases were pending before the routes, to approximately 250,000 widely scat-
Recorder's .Court the city wanted us to cease tered country mailboxes.
activities, but the reply given them by Jeho- (To be continued)
S E P T E M B E R 20, 1939 29
 Index to Volume XX of Consolation
N o . 497 - October 6, 1938 No. 503 - December 28, 1938 N o . 509 - March 22, 1939
Tuberculin Testing of Cows ... 3 Burma and the Burmese -.3 America Being Jesuitized (Part 1) 3
Tobaceo, Aspirin, Aluminum 6 Kingdom Privileges in Burma ...... 8 Favors to Catholics _ e
Making a Monkey of tbe League 9 Witnessing to Albanian Princesses 8 Will Teach "Democracy", How ! 8
Bethel Publisher Aboard Ship 12 If Your Name Were Maloney .10 Some Canadian Sound Units ;.. 12
Kingdom Privileges in Near E a s t 14 Popularizing a Murderer 14 Nostrum Cures or Nature Cures? 15
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford Counsel by J. F. Rutherford Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Unspotted from the World 17 Catholic Action 17 The Christian's Defense 17
W o r l d s Greatest Convention . .... 18 Great Religionists: Hierarchy's Disappointing Botch 20
The Pope as a Man of War 20 Catherine cle Medici 20 In the Land of the Enemy 21
Autumn Flowers 25 President of the U.S.A _ . - 23 The Smoking Habit, How to Quit 23
Britain and British Comment 2G-30 A Sled Ride , . 27 The Breath of Life 20
BedtimeCover Design _... 31 South SeaCover Design ., .31 Popes Plus IX and Pius X I I ,31
N o . 498 . October 19, 1938 No. 504 - January 11, 1939 No. 510 - April 5, 1939
Threats of the Totalitarian Is the Catholic Press Trustworthy? 3 America Being Jesuitized (Part 2) 3
Monstrosity 3 A Little on Child Training .. 0 A Dangerous System 9
Democracy of the Democracies .. 3 Anecdotes from Belgium 9 Promoter of What? 10
The League Dances ._ _ 8 New Jersey Haters of Liberty" 12 Priestly Inquisition Established 11
Rules of Machiavelll 10 True Story of an Honest Girl IS As to the Burning of Books 12
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford Counsel by J. V. Rutherford Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Religious Service 17 Politics _ 17 Church Democracy 17
Could D o What Franco Did ( ? ) . . 2 1 One Million Victims 18 Does a Cripple Have Rictus? 20
October Night _ 2;t State Aid for Religion 20 Who May Read the Scriptures? 21
Story of the Market-House 26 Surrender to the Pope 21 How Hague Rallies Support 23
British Comment 2K Ambushment of American Republic 24 Polarized Light 26
Spring GreenCover Design 31 "Freethinkers" 28 British Comment 28
N o . 499 - N o v e m b e r 2, 1938 N o . 505 - January 25, 1939 No. 511 - April 19, 1939
Fascism or Freedom 3 Jesuitizea Albion ( P a r t i ) 3 Govaz. A Treasure-Home 3
Keller's Reply to Hierarchy Tool 13 The Cliveden Set 3 An Unexplored Utopia (1
Bethel Publisher Aboard Shin ( I I ) JG Concessions to Rome S Brief History of WBBR 12
"Fascism Comes to Quebec"' 20 10,000 Miles on a Bicycle 9 Counsel by J. K. Rutherford
Bloodstained Warriors 20 Whited Sepulcbers of Radio 12 Misguided 17
Hijacking Souls in "Purgatory" - 2 1 NBC Embarrassed by Questions 12 Good Place to Plead Tolerance .... 20
Lawless Policeman of Jersey City 21 Never Put Up a Cent 15 Is Naturopathy a Crime? ...24
A Stranger 23 Counsel by J. F. RutherfordSoul 17 The Bid for Despotism 25
Seattle Convention Echoes 24 Reply to Ananias 18 New York's Temple of Religion .... 20
Mussolini's British Friends 2S Great Religionists : Pope and Political Chessboard 28
The British Broadcasting Corp. 29 Emperor vs. Martin Luther 20 "Gentleman" Franco . 29
Hudson ViewCover Design 2 Why Be Inconsistent, Mr. Tholen? 25 Praying for Peace 30
No. 500 - N o v e m b e r 16, 1938 N o . 506 - February 8, 1939 N o . 512 - May 3, 1939
Catholic Fascism in Connecticut .. 3 Jesuitized Albion (Part 2) .... 3 Southern Rhodesia 3
Effects of Military Training 6 Spiritism . 11 The W o r l d s Richest Industry 8
Sharing the Wealth w i t h Foreigners 7 Many Catholic Prelates Sued ...... 12 A Boy's Letter to an Editor 10
Serum Racketeers? _., . . 9 If Franco Had Known 15 'Devouring Widows' Houses' 12
"This Flag-Salutin' Business" 11 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford A Manly Editorial 13
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford "Good Neighbor" 17 Good Advice from Police 15
Correspondence with K T H S 17 Moose, Caribou and Deer ... 19 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Great Religionists : Torquemada .. 20 Where Fascism Originates 20 Dictators 17
Among t h e Centenarians 2G Franco Reinstated Jesuits 21 "Sandwich Signs" Are Lezal * 18
"Comet" _ 27 Impositions on the Movie Public 20 The Mighty Manton Falleth 19
British Comment 28 Movie Squeeze 27 "Mary Mother of God" _ . . 20
Jehovah's BountyCover Design .. 31 British Comment 28 Religion and War _ _.... 26
No. 501 - N o v e m b e r 30, 1938 No. 507 - February 22, 1939 N o . 613 - May 17, 1939
Jesuitized Germany ( P a r t 1) 3 The Sandstrom Case Publicity 3 Supreme Court Denies Freedom
Cardinal lnnitxer Endorses Hitler 9 World's Four Million Wanderers .. 5 of Conscience 3
Swedish Sinuosities ;_ 12 Peonage in Georgia 8 Compulsory Flag Salutes 7
Counsel by J. F . Rutherford Does the Government Liberty of Conscience 9
"Revival of Spirit of Religion" 17 Encourage Illness? 10 America's New Idol . 15
Free Counsel for A'AH Neicn Review 18 Business Under Present Conditions 12 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Mourners' Bench (Time Letters) 21 Rely on Whose Arm? ... 13 Who Tells the Truth? 17
Adventure of T w o Little Rabbits 22 Among the Vagrants .. 14 Ethics ! 'Not Ordinarily" 18
The Innocent Harlot 24 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford "Let the People Know the Truth" 19
Selling Out the United S t a t e s 27 Education 17 Pope to Control All Radio _... 21
British Comment WantedA Gagged Press .- 20 Interesting Information About
Judge Rutherford's Speech ... .. 28 The Trouble with Quebec 20 AgricultureMany New Crops 24
Freethinkers' Congress 29 Reserved unto Fire _.. 23 The Poverty of India .. 27
The DeerCover Design 31 British Comment - 28 The Pope's Triple Crown 29
No. 502 - D e c e m b e r 14, 1938 No. 508 - March 8, 1939 No. 514 - May 31, 1939
Jesuitized Germany (Part 2 ) . . . , . 3 Death of the Spanish Republic 3 The Crime of Vaccination 3
Sublime Courage of Witnesses _ 11 Pope Rejoiced to See Ruin 7 Increasing Vaccine Sales ... 5
Turning on the Heat _. 14 Double-crossing America and Spain 8 Witness Assaulted at Glasgow . 12
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford United States Air Pilot Laws 10 Catholic Violence In Britain _ 12
"Speaking with Tongues" 17 The Magistrates of Umtall 12 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Great Religionists : Mary I 20 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford Religion Rejects Jehovah 17
Chamberlain's Sympathies 20 Petition ..._ 17 Netherlands Reductio ad Absurdum 19
More Blood, and Money for Rome 23 U. S. Government vs. A. M. A 19 France and the Hierarchy 20
Perpetuation of Christmas Lie .... 24 Shaughnessy's Gun Kicked 2(1 "If There Should Ever Be a War" 23
A Builder 27 Hierarchical Courtesy 22 Kingdom Warfare in Britain 26
British Comment The Terror in France 23 Nazi Tactics in Clydebank 27
The Political Situation 28 Fascism in America 25 Employer-Fostered Lawlessness .... 27
Infidel Parsons 30 The Germ Theory of Disease 23 Roman Catholicism and Criminals 28
Natural BridgeCover Design 31 British Comment _.- 28 E x a l t i n g the Pope 30

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 No. 615 June 14, 1939 No. 618 . July 26, 1939 No. 520 August 23, 1939
All the World Wondering Sadism Ueber AUes 3 A Mighty Catholic in the "Pit"
Exactly AS Foretold (Part 1) 3 Women In Nazi Germany 3 (Part 2) _ 8
MassachusettsThere She Cringes 12 False Patriotism 10
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford Thp Pogrom of November 10, 1938 4 At EventideThe Last House _ . 12
Localized Wickedness 17 World-wide Convention "Peddlei Nuisance" at Douglas lfi
Earth's Most Successful Racket .... 20 Centering in New York 7 Counsel by J. F. RutherfordPeace 17
On Marrow Bones Before Papacy 21 "Newspapers" Do Their Worst ..7 The Caae of Daisy Waller . 19
Some Itetna About Deer 23 The Salute Business 8 The Catholic International 20
Destruction of Scotland Under Way 27 Doctors.DrugsTobacco 11 Division of School Money In Ottawa 22
British Comment"Peace" 23 The Padlock Infamy ..._ _ . . 12 British Comment ..: . . 28
"By Their Fruits Ye Shall "Joy of the Lord" in Montreal 13 Hesitating Parsons .... 29
Know Them" 29 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford Blasphemy and Begging 30
Rome the Mecca 17
No. 516 - June 28, 1939 The "Holy Church" Needs Power 20 No. 521 September 6, 1939
Fascism in Britain 3 Crusade for Pope in Government .. 22 A Mighty Catholic in the "Pit"
Aflame with Catholic Anarchy .. 4 Memories of an Altar Bov 24 (Part 3) ... .. 3
Who Incited the Riots? 7 A Crash That Startled the World 2S From Rangoon, Burma 10
Trinidad Tears Up Magna Charta 12 A Fleeting Glimpse at Science .... 20 Another South Sea Paradise ... 11
The Deflation of Justice Hart .. 13 British Comment _ 28 Two West African Pioneers 12
British Commenl^General 16 Rome and Its Popes . 28 Blessings In .La Grange, Ga. 12
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford Religious Humbug 2S God's Glory in Smoky Mountains 13
Jehovah's witnesses 17 Parsons Lining Up 29 Belated Convention News IB
A California Dust Storm 18 A Perth Parson _ 20 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
All the World Wondering (Part 2) 19 Religionists' Peace Movement .. 30 Unpardonable . 17
Religious Intolerance in South Money for Betting 30 Some Pagan Ceremonies 20
Africa, The Banning of Richex 2(> Half Million Street Accidents .... 30 British Comment 28
No. 517 July 12, 1939 No. 619 - August 9, 1939 No. 522 - September 20, 1939
All the World Wondering (Part 3) 3 A Mighty Catholic in the "Pit" Smoke-Screen (Part 1) 3
Pulling Out the Pope's Chestnuts 8 (Part 1) 3 Fight "In Franco's Way"
A Sweet Morsel 11 John Bull and. Uncle Sam 7 Couphlln 8
"Fear of Man Brlngeth a Snare" 12 America's Mental AilmentFear .S British Comment _ 13
Wi messes in Action In Dover, N.H. 14 A Use for Tiaras After All 12 Sir Oswald Mosley 13
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford Persecution of Witnesses in Greece 12 Bureaucratic Rule in Britain .. 13
Hate 17 Ottawa, Lancashire. Oldham 13-14 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Ku Klui Klan - 18 Counsel by J. F. Rutherford The Snare ..... 16
Yezidi Devil Worshipers .-.. 20 State vs. Jehovah _ 17 Patriotism by Force ...,_ 20
Replv to a Nun In China ..... 21 Not a Health Magazine 19 Bowing Before the Hierarchy 21
The Hierarchy in the Philippines 22 Pagan Nonsense at Vatican City 20 Typical Quebec Hypocrisy 22
Money or Barter Under Kingdom? 26 Compulsory Flag Salutes 24 Religion Crying..*%
You Bet 23
British Comment 28 British Comment _.., 28 Hierarchy in Southern Rhodesia _. 25
Anti-Aggression Pact .. 2 General Conditions _... 28 To the Jesnltized Hitlerites .27
Roman Catholics Angry 29 Canterbury's Failures ... 20 Kingdom News from France ..28
National and Local Debts 30 Some Preachers Uneasy 30 Jehovah's witnesses in Quebec ..29

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in the history of America commercial men

insist that only religion can save the nation
fOUNSEL from disaster. In August, 1939, the Chamber
of Commerce of the State of New York re-
by leased to the public press their report, and
the following is quoted from the public press,
and the report, to wTit:
" N E W YORK, Aug. 13That religion should
be an integral part of public education in the
Victims of the Snare state's schools is the first recommendation
made by a special committee of the New York
I N THE preceding issue of this magazine
the Scriptural proof was submitted that
"religion is a snare" set by the Devil to catch
Slate Chamber of Commerce, appointed in
February, 1938, to inquire into the efficiency
fearful men. It is written in God's Word: and economy of the educational system of the
"The fear of man bringeth a snare; but whoso state. The committee warned that if the na-
putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be safe." tion does not uphold its religious foundation
(Proverbs 29:25, A.R.V.) The Bible, the Word its whole structure will fail."THE PRESS.
of God, long ago foretold the present time as The report of the committee says: "At this
'times of peril, days of evil*. (2 Timothy 3:1) time the state and nation find themselves in
Satan, knowing that his time is short before different conditions and with different needs
the final battle at Armageddon, has brought from those which our country has ever here-
great woes upon the peoples of earth, and tofore known, and our educational system
these woes have Constantly increased since must be adjusted to meet these present-day
1918. (Revelation 12:12) These are the days needs. This committee is convinced that the
of which Jesus prophetically spoke when He great lack in our- homes and in our national
said: 'Men's hearts failing them for fear and life, is the lack of true, simple religion.
for looking after the things coming upon the "In these work-a-day, warring, strenuous
earth,' (Luke 21:26) Dictatorial rule in many times, we have been paying less and less atten-
of the nations has put fear in the hearts of the tion to our religious convictions and feelings.
people of every nation, and they are looking Those convictions and feelings still exist, they
for some way to safeguard their interests. Sa- are more important today than they ever
tan has taken advantage of his own wicked- were, and it is vital that in our education they
ness and, through his earthly agents, is great- be honored and promulgated rather than sub-
ly increasing the fear of men. ordinated or excluded. If this nation does not
Economic conditiona that have come in the maintain its religious foundation, its whole
past few years have brought great fear upon structure will fail.
the commercial men of the world. They fear "When we say religious, we do not mean
that they cannot hold the power over men any particular church or sect. We do not want
which commerce has given them. More recent- church differences mixed up in our schools;
ly their fear has increased by reason of the but we do want our scholars to appreciate and
activities of the radical element, which threat- understand the importance of their following
en to destroy commerce and profiteering in and making the most of the faith with which
the land. That fear of men or what men might they are identified. Wc want them to know
bring to pass has led the commercial men right and to live by the basic rules of life which
into the snare of the Devil, and their words each will find in his own religion.. Integrity,
now fully admit that fact. For the first time kindly human understanding and true morals
OCTOBER 4, 1939
are found in each, and those our scholars must ists, and His true followers today likewise are
know and follow all through their lives if theypersecuted.
would build high characters and play the part The early settlers of America fled Europe
we need them to play in the future of this because of religious persecution and settled
nation. in America, where they might worship God
"The United States cannot have or main- according to the dictates of their own con-
tain a right system unless it is based on true science. The men who founded the United
religious principles, and, therefore, in spite States government embodied in the funda-
of the fact that some hesitate to include re- mental law the provision guaranteeing the
ligion in our educational program, we place freedom of worship. The Roman Catholic re-
it first." ligious institution has always fought against
If that committee had advised the study of that part of the American Constitution. "When
the Bible, and the faithful service of Jehovah Christians assemble peaceably to teach the
God, and Christ Jesus, it would have done Bible, and to worship God in spirit and in
well. Contrary thereto the report completely truth, the religionists of the Hierarchy make
ignores the Bible and no mention is made of a desperate attempt to break up such a meet-
Jehovah God or Christ Jesus. Religion alone ing of Christians and to prevent the study and
is stressed as the savior of the nation. teaching of the Bible. That kind of religion
could never instill in the minds of American
There are more than 200 religions practiced youth integrity, morality or respect for the
in America, and not one of those religions law.
teaches or advocates God's announced remedy The report of the aforesaid committee of the
for the ill effeets upon the peoples of earth. Chamber of Commerce discloses that the mem-
Many of the religions are under the direct bers of that committee are either ignorant of
control of demons and honor the Devil him- the Bible or purposely ignoring it, and for the
self openly. In fact, all religion is based upon
Bible teachings they substitute religion. The
the worship of demons or things pertaining Bible is the Word of Almighty God and is
to demons. In the face of the plain statement absolutely opposed to religion, assigning as
to this effect in the Bible, the aforesaid com- the reason therefor that religion originated
mittee reports that religion is the hope of thewith the Devil. Christianity means to obey
nation. \The Roman Catholic Hierarchy reli- God's command, as set forth in the Bible. The
gious institution takes the lead in religious Bible contains the word of God, and concern-
matters, and yet that institution has been dili-ing it the Christian, Christ Jesus, said: "Thy
gent to keep the people in ignorance of the word is truth." (John 17:17) It is by the
Bible, and that institution also continuously Word of God that the right principles. of
persecutes those who teach the Bible to the honesty, integrity and morality can be taught.
people. The Hierarchy publishes the fact that The Bible is the only safe guide for man;
its principal doctrines are based upon, the "Thy word Ls a lamp unto my feet, and a
traditions of men and not upon the Seriptures. light unto my path." (Psalm 119:105) It was
That institution has been in operation for written and given to man that those who love
more than 1500 years and it has completely righteousness might be guided in the right
failed to instill in the people integrity and way and learn true morality, honesty, and
morality; and this every honest and sincere integrity, and that they might worship Jeho-;
person knows. Adolf Hitler is a Catholic and vah in spirit and in truth.
a practitioner of religion, and his regime for
several years has had the support of the Ro- The clergymen, who are the religious, lead-
man Catholic religious institution. It is well ers, have not taught the people to have proper
known that Hitler constantly consults the respect for the Word of God. They have sub?
wicked spirits, and certainly Hitler and his stituted the teachings of men for that which
religion are not teaching and cannot teach the is contained in the Bible, God's Word. The
youth morality, integrity, or even common Lord Jesus Christ instructs all His followers
decency. to pray to Jehovah God: 'Thy kingdom come.;
thy will be done, .on earth as in heaven.' (Mat-
Religion has always been the institution of thew 6:10) There is no religious institution
persecution and crime. Jesus Christ was cru- or organization in America that teaches the
cified by religionists, and all His disciples people that God's kingdom is the only Jiope
suffered persecution at the hands of religion- of the human race. The committee of the
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Chamber of Commerce now urges the people made commercial men the chief ones in their
to choose ANY kind of religion and teach it, flocks. The commercial men were induced to
and ignores the Bible. The word of God, as embrace religion; and they feared to refuse
set forth in the Bible, makes it clear that re- to support it, because it might militate against
ligion is a snare of Satan and his associated their interest to do so. The clergymen and the
demons. (Deuteronomy 7:16) Jesus empha- principal of their flock, the political and com-
sizes the fact that religion is of the Devil. mercial members, even as God foretold through
(Matthew 15: 1-9; John 8:42-44) The apostle His prophet, draw near to the Lord only by
Paul likewise denounced religion. (Galatiahs the words of their mouth, while their hearts
1:1-16; Acts 26:3-20) The apostle makes are far removed from Him; and thus they are
known how God rescued him from religion, caught in the snare of religion. (Isaiah
the Devil's snare. He told the Athenians, who 29:10-13) The love of money and the power
were practicing religion, that they were in that money would bring was an added induce-
fact worshiping demons: "Then Paul stood in ment for the commercial men to embrace re-
the midst of Mars' Hill, and said, Ye men of ligion and to associate themselves with the
Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are clergymen. In this connection mark the words
too superstitious." (Acts 17:22) Note other written in the Bible relating to such: "But
translations of this same text: "Men of Athens, they that will be rich fall into temptation, and
I perceive that you are in every respect re- a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful
markably religious." (Weymouth) "Paul, lusts, which drown men in destruction and
standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said, perdition. For the love of money is the root
Athenians, I perceive that in all things you of all evil; which while some coveted after,
are extremely devoted to the worship of de- they have erred from the faith, and pierced
mons." (Emphatic Diaglott) "Ye men of themselves through with many sorrows."
Athens! in every way, how unusually reverent 1 Timothy 6:9,10.
of the demons ye are, I perceive."Rother- It was an easy matter for men represent-
hdm. ing the commercial interests to be led into the
Do the good people of America, who believe religious snare. It is manifest that if they ever
in honesty, integrity, and morality, desire to knew anything about the "Word of God they
have their children taught religion, which is have turned away from it, as the Scriptures
the worship of Satan and other demons, and further state concerning the charge, which
which is against God and His kingdom by the apostle gave to Timothy: "Charge them
Christ Jesus? Is the committee aforemen- that are rich in this world, that they be not
tioned wholly ignorant of the teachings of highminded, n o r ' t r u s t in uncertain riches,
God's Word, or have they willingly ignored but in the living God, who giveth us richly
God's Word to draw the people into the snare all things to enjoy."1 Timothy 6:17.
of the Devil? Mark this: that the report of the Chamber
Prom the beginning of America this was of Commerce committee aforesaid has com-
considered a Christian nation. The Supreme pletely ignored God and His Word.
Court of the United States long ago so held. Now in this hour of stress upon the world,
Now-it appears that the clergymen, or reli- when all men aside from Christians are filled
gious leaders, have turned the people away with fear, the Chamber of Commerce by its
from God and Christ, and have substituted committee. urges upon the people that they
religion entirely for the Scriptures. The teach in their sehools ANY kind of religion.
clergymen, fearing that by preaching Christ Thus it is seen that the Devil is leading the
and Him crucified they might not receive the nation into his snare.
honor:which they desired, adopted religion '. Will the teaching of religion save the na-
instead of Christianity. They soon induced tion? Far from i t ! There is one God Almighty,
themselves to tielievc and led others to believe whose name is Jehovah. He is the Creator of
that religion and Christianity are the same heaven and arth7 and n e alone is the foun-
thing; yet the Bible shows that religion is tain of life. (Psalm 2 4 : 1 ; 36:9) He gives
directly opposed to Christianity. The clergy- special warning to those who pretend to serve
men/desiring to increase their own power and Him and who forget God and turn away from
influence and to enlarge their fields, solicited Him, and His warning "is couched in these
political and commercial men to join their plain words: "The wicked shall be turned into
institutions, and as an inducement they have heU, and all the nations that forget God."
OCTOBER 4, 1939
 (Psalm 9:17) If the advice of the Chamber tions. And in his name shall the nations hope "
of Commerce committee is followed the whole Matthew 12:18, 21, A.R.V., margin.
nation will be taught to forget God and His The report of the gommittee of the Chamber
Word. of Commerce discloses the fact that the mem-
Let the people keep in mind that Jesus' bers thereof are victims of the snare. They
Christ emphasized the importance of God's are blind to the Word of God and are follow*
kingdom as the only hope of humankind. ing their blind leaders, the clergymen of the
There is no other hope. The people must now religious institutions; and concerning this the
choose between the instruction given in the Lord Jesus, directing His advice to the multi-
Bible and the advice given by religionists. In- tude, said that they should avoid the blind
stead of religion's planting any hope in the clergymen; 'for the blind lead the blind, and
minds of men, and making any provision for both shall fall into the ditch.'-Matthew 15:14.
their salvation, exactly the contrary is the The American people, as well as the people
result. of Other nations, must now make their choice
Jehovah God plainly directs the people to between religion and the kingdom of God by
the only means of salvation and the only thing Christ Jesus. Instead of following religion,
in which they can hope, and in this record which leads into the snare of the Devil, let
He says: "Behold, my servant [Christ Jesus] the people devote themselves to Christianity,
whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my which means learning and obeying the Word
soul is well pleased; I will put my spirit upon of God and worshiping Almighty God in spirit
him, and he shall declare judgment to the na- and in truth.

Catholic Manton Uncensured by Rome

W H E R E are the patriotic flag-wav- divides his spoil with the Hierarchy. Martin
ers of the Catholic Press! Why not T. Manton has not been either excommunicat-
a few salvos for Hoover, Cahill and ed or even publicly censured. The people are
Murphy for ridding the bench of left to surmise that the Catholic Church finds
the greatest criminal and traitor of nothing blamable in defrauding and betraying
modern times? Martin T. Manton, Knight of the United States Government. What is the
St. Gregory the Great, of the Roman Catholic reply to this from Rome's American flag-
Church, WaB convicted in June, 1939, of ac- wavers? (See "A Mighty Catholic in the
cepting the sum of $186,000 for only six de- Tit'," in Consolation Nos. 519, 520, 521.)
cisions handed down in the second highest
court of the land, the United States Court of Recipe for Making a Bishop
Appeals. There were a good many other cases Details from Rochester, N. Y., show that it
which undoubtedly could have been used by takes two hours forty minutes of standing
the prosecutor, but six seemed enough to prove up and sitting down and all kinds of religious
the crime. It was a difficult job to bring to things like that to make a first-class, or A
justice such an arch-eriminal, and, no doubt, No. I, bishop of the Roman Catholic church.
had the investigators made any slips, Manton The one that was made over was the "Most
would have been on them like a tiger. But Reverend" Walter A. Foery. The ones that
the work is accomplished; the courts of jus- made him over were the "Most Reverend"
tice are cleansed of an influence more deadly Emmet Walsh and the "Most Reverend**
than Communism. Now wThere are the profes- Francis Keogh. They did a good job, which
sional patrioteers that are always lathering was helped along by the presence of four arch-
forth about little children who conscientiously bishops, 14 bishops, 500 monsignori and
refuse to salute a flag, and the self-consti- priests, a pack of dogs and two cats. The re-
tuted saviors who arc advocating "Franco's sult, according to the dispatch, was that:
way" to save the country from the "Red
Terror"? Speak up, Catholic Press, or for- He emerged at the end of a two hour aad:.40-
ever after admit your hypocrisy. minute Ceremony 4* a spiritual descendant Of the
Original apostles through, the invocation of the Holy
It certainly takes a lot to cause a distin- Ghost, the ministrations of his episcopal conse-
guished Catholic to be excommunicated if he crators, and his own prayers and pledges.
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 Smoke-Screen (In Two PartsPart 2)
W I T H Armageddon almost within the Brooklyn Tablet, openly support him. Other
reach it is inevitable that the totali- prominent Catholic churchmen covertly give aid
t a r i a n monstrosity should begin to and comfort to him. The few scattered Catholics
make its appearance in America, who have disavowed him have been like voices lost
and many are wondering if Cough- in the wilderness. When Cardinal Mundelein de-
clared that Coughlin did not speak for his church,
lin is the peculiar combination of Catholicism, Father Coughlin in reply virtually told the Cardi-
craftiness, conceit, inconsistency and inflam- nal to go to biases. Despite the fact that the Detroit
matory oratorical power necessary to p u t it priest is propagating a savage race-hatred, which
over. will finally culminate in rivers of blood running
One of the interesting features of the recent through our streets, the priesthood, by its silence
convention of Jehovah's witnesses in New and concealed assistance, gives assent to his ac-
York city was the reading of the following tivities.
letter to the conventioners. The letter, signed Of approximately 140 million people in the
by Dr. Herbert M. Lauring, optometrist, of United States, 115 million are Protestants, 21 mil-
707 West 171st St., New York, was addressed lion Catholics, and 4 million Jews. The great Prot-
estant majority and the Jews believe in a parlia-
to J u d g e Rutherford, principal speaker a t the mentary representative form of government and
convention, and was dated J u n e 23, the open- the Bill of Rights. The Catholic Hierarchy desires
ing day of the assembly. It said: an authoritarian state, such as the Dollfuss-Catholic
It waa with great interest that I read the posters dictatorship in Austria, prior to Hitler.
in the subway announcing the mass-meeting in Although the Jews arc the target of Catholic
Madison Square Garden on June 25 at which anti-Semitism at this moment, they cannot very
you are to speak on "Government and Peace". well lead an anti-Catholic campaign because of
No doubt you are familiar with the scries of their small numbers, and because the enemy would
articles on "The Catholic Church in Politics" by then howl that the Jews are attacking Christianity.
L. Lehmann, published a few months ago in The The audacity of the Catholic Church in presuming
New Republic, in which the author described the to speak for all Christianity is something which
attempts of the Roman Church to deny religious should enrage all Protestants. It is therefore the
liberty to Jehovah's witnesses, the denomination duty of the Protestant Church, of which your
of which you are the spiritual leader. denomination is a branch, to assume the leadership
Let me say right now, that I am a Jew, and a of a great movement to shed light upon Catholic
firm believer in freedom Of speech, religion, press, intrigues to subvert our government, and to make
assembly and thought; therefore, when I read of itself the state religion of our country. Once you
the vile machinations of the priests to suppress give the lead, the Jews will follow.
your church, I became aroused to anger. I really Again may I emphasize that at Madison Square
am unfamiliar with your political and economic Garden, on Sunday, you will have a wonderful
views, and am totally unaware of the nature of the opportunity to fire the opening gun in a battle to
remarks you will make in Madison Square Garden. preserve our institutions. I assure yOu that my
I do not know whether you will be pro or anti- friends and I will be present to hear you speak.
administratiOn. However, you will have an ex-
cellent Opportunity at this great meeting to expose Well Chosen Words
to the whole world the Catholic plot to undermine
our democratic and representative form of gov- Dr. Laurbig's words, above set forth, Were
ernment, and set up in this country a Papal-Fascist well chosen, as those to whom it was read were
dictatorship to.be ruled from Rome. mostly well aware, and as t h e readers of this
The leader Of this insidious movement is Father magazine also well know. I t is good to know
Charles E, Coughlin, who is at this moment dis- t h a t men of his intelligence are waking u p to
seminating a wild and bestial anti-Semitism, hav- what is coming; for come it surely will.
ing had wide success among certain Catholics. In Coughlin is a menace to A m e r i c a a n d to man-
Germany Father Coughlin is now a great hero, and kind.
at the recent meeting of Frit2 Kuhn's German- Coughlin has occasionally been mentioned
American Bund in Madison Square Garden, his in these columns, but not at any considerable
name was cheered to the echo.
length, because heretofore the space could be
If Father Coughlin were speaking only for him-
self, and not for his church, then it is quite appar- u s e d ' t o better purpose, but there is a reason
ent the priesthood should repudiate him from every a t this time for giving this man some of the
Catholic/pulpit in the nation. Yet what do we findf publicity he craves. I t should be said a t the
Certain official organs of the Catholic Church, like outset that, like every Catholic priest, Cough-
OCTOBER 4, 1939
lin has been taught to disregard the Holy to him should be used for direct relief of pov-
Scriptures. Thus, in a sixteen-page lecture erty.! He does not seem to have thought of that.
entitled "Following the Christ-child" there He is for Coughlin first, last and all the time
was not one Scripture citation. Holding the It would be hard to find anywhere a more
Scriptures themselves in light esteem, Cough- thoroughly selfish man than this so-called
lin and all other Roman Catholic priests hold "Christian priest". The way the Yiddish news-
in even less esteem those who place their sole paper of New York put it as respects his
reliance in the Word of God and not in the followers and Jehovah's witnesses in Der Tog
words of men. (The Day) of June 27, 1939, is translated as
I t was thtis a natural outlet for Coughlin's follows:
energies that in 1927 he used his then con- Give the Coughlinites liberty and they will know
siderable influence with radio station WJR, how to appreciate it. They went to a convention
Detroit, to prevent, and he did prevent, the of Christians, a group that is opposed to the pope,
broadcasting at that time of Judge Ruther- and caused a riot. At the meetings of Coughlinites
ford's address on "Freedom for the Peoples" no one is permitted to contradict by the use of a
over that station. That address, originating in single word, but the Coughlinites themselves are
not similarly particular concerning liberty of
Toronto, Canada, was taken for the largest speech: they intruded into the convention of an-
number of radio stations assembled in a wire- other organization and started a riot. The followers
connected chain up to that time, 53 stations. of Hitler used exactly the same methods during
But for Coughlin it would have been 54. He their-first years in Germany.
will be fully rewarded for that service when I have not yet heard him (Judge Rutherford)
destroyed in Armageddon, but is entitled to speak a single unkind word against Catholics,
some temporary compensation in advance. neither against those in this country nor in gen-
This is it. eral. His "lectures, therefore, truly come in the
category of free speech. What is here involved are
In 1937, ten years later, in a letter to a cor- ideas, and freedom of speech is the basis of our
respondent in -Massachusetts, he referred to democracy. You ought to see the list of persecu-
the message of God's kingdom, issuing from tions which Jehovah's witnesses are suffering in the
the pen of Judge Rutherford, in the following various cities and towns of Ameriea. They are re-
language: fused halls in which to hold their meetings, and,
The literature which you enclosed is only a very when they hold meetings, are assaulted; their chil-
small part of the vicious material being circulated dren are expelled from schools; they have been
by Judge Rutherford and Ms followers, who for tarred and feathered. This has been done by Cath-
years have been notorious for their opposition to olics against the witnesses because they have de-
the Catholic Church. nounced, not Catholics, nor even the pope, but the
Papacy.
In the same letter he did his best to defend
the doctrine of "Purgatory", which anybody
who has read the booklet Uncovered (probably Norman Thomas Inquires
referred to in the foregoing) knows has not a There is no use in inquiring of a gangster why
leg to stand upon. he does what he does, but it is sometimes done,
merely to get him on record, or to show that he
Hurts Coughlin'6 Business dare not speak up like a man and tell what his mo-
tives are. Norman Thomas wrote Coughlin as late-
The circulation of the truth on any Scrip- ly as June 23, 1939, calling his attention to the
tural subject hurts Coughlin's business, and fact that Coughlin asserts his own right to pro-
that accounts for his hatred of Judge Ruther- claim his ideas in the press and on the air but that
ford and of Jehovah's witnesses in general. He his professed followers are leaders in denying or
has a racket for enrolling, for the small sum trying to deny those rights to others. He cited the
of $1 each, the departed ones of Catholics, civil liberties rally in Jersey City, not disturbed
Protestants and Jews. If one is enrolled it is in any way by any except Coughlin's followers,
$ 1 : if two, it is $2: if three, it is $3: if four, one of whom actually had the brass to loudly an-
it is $4: if five, it is $5. It is making money nounce that he had the right to break up the meet-
just like that. What do the people get for their ing (so. another account states). Thomas went on
$1, $2, $3, $4 or $51 They get stung. That is to say to Coughlin :
the total return.
Now this Jersey City experience was not unique.
The suggestion has been delicately advanced Groups professing to be your followers have vio-
by some of the priest's critics that some of the lently broken up outdoor meetings, I am reliably
hundreds of thousands of dollars flowing in informed, in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Philadelphia
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and elsewhere, quite in European black- and brown- been noted by many. The source of Hitler's
shirt style. I myself witnessed the amazing ex- wealth was his royalties on the book Hein
hibition of your followers at a hearing before the Kampf. A part of Coughlin's income is derived
board of education in New York city in favor of from his biography and addresses, bound in
closing the schoolhouses to discussions of "contro- one book and marketed for $3. Twelve of
versial issues". Yet the same crowd pickets radio
stations very noisily in your behalf, and does it in Judge Rutherford's wonderful books can be
the name of free speech! These things are bad had for that money, and any one of them Ls
enough in themselves. They are worse in the light worth a million times more to any person who
of their parallel to the rise of totalitarian dictators wants to live through Armageddon than all
in Kurooe. the things Hitler and Coughlin have ever writ-
Coughlin's followers picketed ra- ten or said or done in their whole lives, or
dio station WMCA because that than they will ever do.
station refuses to carry his address- Coughlin has his critics. The editor of The
es. That was their right. But did Churchman, a Protestant Episcopal publica-
they have a right, after their tion, recently said of him that he Ls engaged
twenty-third picketing, to pick a fight with in 'dropping a torch into a world filled with
those selling publications exposing Coughlin ? high explosives'. Dr. E. Boyd Barrett, author
Certainly not. But they did pick it, and it took of Rome Stoops to Conquer, said of him:
125 policemen to restore order on Broadway "He is anti-labor, anti-Communist, and pro-
between Forty-eighth and Fiftieth streets on Fascist in the manner of his master, Pius XI.
Sunday afternoon, May 21, 1939, because of Like Pius, he is in an indirect way anti-
that fact. Semitic. . . . Father Coughlin has thus made
But when it came to Jehovah's witnesses' himself the incomparable spokesman and
own convention in Madison Square Garden, sounding-board of the Holy Father." Senator
June* 25, 1939, and the Coughlinites had Bailey, of North Carolina, said of him :
boasted beforehand that they would break up There is nothing more sinister in our life right
the convention, and marched on it with that now than that Coughlin from the radio of the
end in view, Jehovah's witnesses were most Shrine of the Little Flower . . . That voice stirs
mightily and immediately and definitely in- the depths of hate throughout the land of liberty,
terested. This is not the place to tell the story; matches class against class, foments the fires of
it has appeared elsewhere. But the Coughlin- revolution, to crucify the American people upon
ites completely failed of their objective. They his damnable ambition. Coughlin! Not "Father
were put out as disturbers; and that is just Coughlin" . . . When . . . a minister of a church
what should be done in every assembly where comes down into the political arena and goes out
with his radio incendiarism to stir up the fountains
they try to take away from others the rights of hate in a distressed land amongst a suffering
which they claim for themselves, and which people, I take it nothing amiss, and I make no
America so freely grants to them. apologies, but 1 will snatch the halo from his brow
and throw it into the nearest spittoon, and then
Brief Historical Sketch throw the spittoon into the gutter.
Coughlin's great-grandfather helped dig the
Erie Canal; his grandfather was a Buffalo Coughlin's Relation to the Church
carpenter; his father was a church sexton; In his letter to Judge Rutherford about
and-Charles E. Coughlin was born in Hamil- Coughlin, it will be recalled that Dr. Lauring
ton, Ontario, October 25,1891. He was educat- said: "The few scattered Catholics who have
ed in a parochial school, graduated in Toronto disavowed him have been like voices lost- in
University, and, in 1926, was sent to Royal the wilderness." Al Smith called him a crack-
Oak,. Michigan, to act as priest for twenty pot and Cardinal Mundelein said he is not a
families. A natural orator with a fine voice, spokesman for the Catholic Church and his
and Catholic training in all the arts of rheto- remarks should be considered only those of an
ric, he made a radio hit from the first with individual. And "Reverend Father" James R.
those who are weak in the head. One attack on Cox of Pittsburgh (perhaps to shine up his
Hoover brought him in 1,200,000 letters, and own badly spattered escutcheon since he was
an attack on a big business group brought in arrested for misuse of the mails), referring to
600,000, As-a rabble-rouser he is in the same Coughlin, said: "A Catholic priest should be
class; with Hitler. the last man to encourage rabble-rousing mob
The resemblance to Hitler's methods has vengeance and mass hysteria."
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 There is also a curious story dating back to Detroit. He ought to know, and his name, Lew
the days when Merlin Aylesworth, then presi- Pitzpatriek, suggests that he is of the same
dent of National Broadcasting Company, was church. When the question was put direct to
one day reported as testifying that it was a Mooney he gave a typical Hierarchy strad-
Catholic group that vetoed the application of dling answer by explaining that "Catholic
Coughlin to speak over his network. The next Church authorities, in passing on writings or
day the transcript of the official record did not utterances, make" a clear distinction between
show that he had said what the reporters the permission and approval". The effect of such
day previous had said that he said. The moral equivocations is to make honest, straightfor-
here seems to be that the transcript had been ward persons certain that the Catholic Church
fixed to suit the exigencies of the case. Ayles- is back of Fascism, body and soul, but doesn't
worth probably said it, but the Hierarchy did want the name of it until after the game is
not wish to have it in the record that one of in the bag.
their greatest 'heroes' was not acceptable to One of Coughlin's stooge organizations is
them. the so-called "Committee for the Defense of
Probably Coughlin knows better how he American Constitutional Rights". You can
stands with the Roman Hierarchy than does judge of about how much value it would be in
anybody else. He talks personally with Rome preserving American rights when you know
by radiophone, and his bishop is solidly be- that at one of its meetings the 6,000 persons
hind him. The Vatican has never disavowed present made the sign of the cross and were
him. Coughlin has said publicly that Bishop led in it by the "Reverend Father" Edward
Gallagher (now dead) and the pope were back J. Higgins. He and they believe it right to
of him. Gallagher said that the voice of Cough- murder persons teaching independently of
lin is the voice of God. His words were: the Roman Catholic church organization.
I pronounce Father Coughlin sound in doctrine,
able in its application and interpretation. Freely Converted to Fascism
I give him my imprimatur on his written word Coughlin never stays converted to anything
and freely I give my approval on the spoken word. very long. What he really wants is dictatorial
. Throughout the pages of his paper occur power, no matter how he gets it. A year or
again and again the words "Reverend Charles more ago he proposed the abandonment of the
E. Coughlin, LL.D. (by permission of his American form of government, and a Fascist
Ecclesiastical Superior)". Does this show any system of representation in which the members
indication that the Hierarchy disapproves of of the House of Representatives would be
this man? elected according to class, as in Italy and Rus-
When in June, 1938, there was issued from sia. Thus cotton farmers, steel workers, coal
Royal Oak the statement over Coughlin's sig- miners, doctors, industrialists in each branch
nature, "I regret to state that on specific in- of industry, and all other classes, would in-
structions from my superiors I am advised to corporate and choose their own representa-
withdraw from all public appearances until tives. People are easier to control "k la chess-
next November," Coughlin claimed that the board". Divide the country up into such classes
statement was sent out by one of his secretar- (as it was in the Dark Ages, with its various
ies. Whatever the facts, it is certain that the guilds), and all that is necessary is to secretly
Hierarchy is in close touch with the whole control the leaders. Can you guess who would
situation and very generally endorsing every- do the controlling? See Italy, Germany, Spain.
thing Coughlin does. His magazine said last fall that the only un-
When he resumed broadcasts January 10, biased source of truth is "Father" Coughlin.
1938, after fourteen months off the air, Cough- Do you remember the Italian statement, "Mus-
lin said, "I understand that my radio teaching solini is always right" ? Do you know that that
is subject to the supervision of my immediate is the way the German people speak of Hitler ?
superior, the Archbishop of Detroit": also, During the Ethiopian war Coughlin was all
"I deplore the confusing agitation which has for Mussolini. That tells where his heart is.
been fostered by Social Service." Take out of Mussolini reciprocates: the Italian newspaper
these statements what you see fit. Regime Fascista praised him to the skies %h\s
The manager of radio station WJR, Detroit, very year, saying, "It is impossible for Italians
has declared that Coughlin's sermons have the not to express their sympathy with this apos-
approval of Archbishop Edward Mooney, of tle of Christianity."
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 AB Coughlin's sympathies are with Musso- Dr. Harry F. Ward, of New York, chairman
lini and with Franco the Butcher, so they are of the American League for Peace and Democ-
also with the German outfit run by the man racy, said of him, "He is constantly slipping
who murdered his best friend. The New York over subtle defenses for Hitler and equally
Post printed, in parallel columns, extracts subtle suggestions that democracy is not work-
from Coughlin's talks and those of Gocbbels, ing over here and that Fascism is working
Hitler's Jesuit-trained propaganda minister, better over there" and that his goal is "a con-
showing their similarities. At the Nazi German trolled totalitarian state in which the church
American Bund meeting held at Madison is the ruling force".
Square Garden, New York, February 20,1939, When Coughlin made his 14-month retires
the mention of Coughlin's name was followed ment from the air, in October, 1937, the New
by the greatest ovation of the night. And York Post said of him, "The more he said, the
Coughlin is alleged to have said of Hitler that more clearly he was revealing himself as a
he is the best Christian in the world. sanctimonious stooge for special interests, a
reactionary with more than a streak of Faseist
Converted to Nazism ideas."
Not only are whole sections of Coughlin's It is well known in New York that there is
talks mere translations of Goebbel's preach- an open alliance between Coughlin and the
ments to the German people, but he follows German Bund. On the day before the Bund
Hitler's methods and principles, or lack of meeting there was a Coughlin meeting in New
them. Thus he has learned that hate is a more York, and at that meeting literature and tick-
powerful motive than love and works it to the ets for the Bund meeting were distributed.
limit. He has also learned the force that comes At the Bund meeting itself Coughlin was the
from the hammering reiteration of a few nar- hero of the day.
row ideas.
The Catholic magazine The Commonweal His Anti-Semitic Campaign
courageously referred to "his cavalier disre- No man in public life ever told
gard for pertinent historical testimony, his more lies or got caught at them
insensitiveness to the consequences of his acts more quickly than Coughlin did
on German and Italian Jews [arid] his all too when he started his lying campaign
pious acceptance of propaganda from a party against the Jews, and that right in
whose Fuehrer proudly boasts his machine is the midst of their horrible sufferings in Ger*
based in huge lies". many. He published the so-called "Protocols
The Review of Reviews said: ."It has not of Zion", which all now know to be forgeries.
escaped the notice of observers that the gen- He charged that wealthy American Jews
eral contour of his doctrine is oddly similar financed the Russian revolution; but Keren-
to that of National Socialism (Hitlerism). sky, one-time premier of Russia, immediately
Although the Nazi dictator has abandoned declared that there was not a single Jew in
virtually the whole of the program which he the first government established by the revo-
sold to the German people in 1930, the fact lution.
remains that it was excellent political copy." He claimed that the American Secret Serv-
The St. Paul Pioneer Press said of him, ice had provided the above information, and
"There is no longer any doubt as to what that it was included in the unabridged British
Father Coughlin is up to. This man, who burns white paper which he had. Then the chief of
with an unpriestly ambition for worldly pow- the United States Secret Serviee, Frank J .
er, has observed how Hitler arose out of the Wilson, denied that any such report had ever
flames of prejudice; and he does not scruple been made, and the British Government, both
to belie his sacred office by attempting here in London and in New York, produced copies
in America to arouse a race hatred against the of the original white paper and showed that
Jews as a means of achieving his purpose. His no such statement had ever been made; and
unctuous disavowals of this purpose, while he Coughlin had to admit that he did not have
utters falsehoods and misrepresentations, do the paper, and had never seen it.
not conceal his meaning, but bring it out more Professor Johan Smeretenko convinced radio
clearly. His technique is to retail Nazi propa- station WMCA that Coughlin had been broad-
ganda, and then squirm out of responsibility casting untruths, and they announced over
by professing to deplore it." the air that he had "unfortunately uttered cer-
OCTOBER 4, 1939
11
tain mistakes of factf'a nice way of telling Coughlin was moving into his million-dollar
the world what he is. silo where he now holds forth.
He mentioned Kuhn, Loeb & Co. as having Coughlin says the laborer is on the side of
had a share in fomenting the Russian revolu- the angels, but when he built his new shrine he
tion; and that concern announced that it had refused to have anything to do with union
never had any relations, financial or otherwise, labor, and the wages he paid were 25 percent
with any government in Russia, Czarist, to 40 percent below trade union rates.
Kerensky or Communist. Then he supposedly The New Republic stated that "the two most
quoted from a Jewish magazine to back up prominent purveyors of lies in the United
one of his statements; and it was seen that he States at present are Representative Dies and
misquoted the article. r* Father Coughlin". Wonder why they said that.
Then he charged that present economic dis- In November, 1935, Coughlin stated: "At
tress is due to the international Jewish bank- no time has it been or will it be our desire to
ers; and figures were produced showing that establish a so-called 'third party*." He estab-
only one Jewish banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb & lished such a party within a year thereafter.
Company, had participated in the loans to He is flexible in his convictions, having been
which he referred and their share was 2.88 a New Dealer three times. A friend of Roose-
percent of the total. In other words, Cough- velt, he called the president a liar and a scab.
lin's charge was 97.12 percent false and he is A Hover of labor', he denounced the CIO; and
not a 100-percent liar. Neither is Hitler; it is John W. Edelrnan, of that organization, said
not scientific. of him, "We recognize Father Coughlin as-an
Eddie Cantor, motion picture comedian, unscrupulous man." Nothing worse could he
said of Coughlin, "Father Coughlin is a great said of anybody.
orator, but I doubt that he has a sincere atom He is conceited beyond the power of lan-
in his entire system." guage; he has suggested bullets instead of
ballots, to put his changing ideas across. .
A Friend of Big Business He said, "We Christians with a united front
No person has panned Big Business harder could go forth and do in one year in the United
than Coughlin, but he is a personal friend of States what Franco accomplished in Spain."
W.. R. Hearst, champion of Fascism in the His gang tried some of it, on a mild scale, in
United States. When he begs over the radio Madison Square Garden, June 25, 1939.
he gets results. When he talks, the people pay As showing that this person imagines he is
for it and are glad to do it. When he lectured America's future Hitler, he said in his broad-
in Madison Square Garden the crowd paid cast of January 1, 1939: "Let those who are
from 50 cents to $2 a head to hear his what with us reap the rewards; let those who oppose
some have called "poisonous and inflammatory us by their silence or their action suffer, the
economic and social nonsense"; yet his gang consequences." That is a typical Hitler threat.
were not willing that Jehovah's witnesses
should have Judge Rutherford lecture to the See the Exhibits
public FREE, but had to try to break up the Under the engaging title "Charles E.
meeting. . Coughlin: Priest, Gambler, Hypocrite" the
At the very time Coughlin was blowing Freethinkers of America, in their February
about stock market chicanery over the radio, (1939) Bulletin, published some reproduc-
his secretary, without his knowledge, so he tions, from the Detroit Free Press showing
says, invested $20,000 of his surplus funds in some of this man's financial transactions.
such a way as to rake in $100,000 net on the These will be found on pages 18-19, and are
deal. It is a good thing Coughlin did not know well worth examination by anyone who is in-
about it, or he would have-put in ten times as terested in the peculiar phenomenon holding
much. forth at Royal Oak, Michigan. The fact that
. He is a good cardplayer; sometimes plays there are millions of Americans fallen so low
until 12:30 a.m. as to pay any attention to a man of this type
His first church burned at exactly the right shows the desperately low moral and intellec-
time. How odd! Catholic. institutions that tual estate of vast numbers of the American
have served their time have a habit of burning people and their need of God's government of
just when the insurance funds would come in peace, truth, honor and justice and love,-^-
best. This $30,000 shack: went up just as Elton Groves.
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 the items may have a relation to one another,
there come reports from Washington that the
Army is to be "vitalized" by removing 2,300
UNDEP high-ranking officers from their jobs, and put-
THE ting younger men in their places. One wonders
if the complexion of the Army is to be altered
TNJ^TOTALITARIAN to suit the ambitions of the Hierarchy.
T f ^ FLAG
Gradually Caving In Meat on St. Patrick's t)ay
Gradually caving in, the New York board St. Patrick, it seems, was not a Roman
of. regents finally yielded what they hitherto Catholic, but is nevertheless the patron "saint"
refused, and now the clique that is out to con- of the cathedral and archdiocese of New York.
trol the schools and everything else in the For that reason, on St. Patrick's day,
state can arrange for the children to be ex- March 17, 1939, Roman Catholics in New
cused from one of the precious thirty hours York were permitted to eat meat, despite the
per week of schooling, so that they may re- fact that the day came on Friday. More reli-
ceive religious instruction that "Mary is the gious foolishness, of no possible benefit to any-
mother of God", and that God is so sore at body except the dealers in meat.
humanity that unless somebody pays his
priests well most of them will have to cook Rachel McDowell Again
for eternity. But if the money is forthcoming ;j3- Rachel McDowell, "religious" edi-
to the right bagman, then the poor apes can r^-J-j- tor of the New York Times, writer
get to heaven, where they can enjoy the com- "of weepy stories about Pope Pius
pany of the Torquemadas, the Bloody Marys XI's tenderness, etc., has broken
and the Borgias who succeeded in crashing loose again. This time she expati-
the gate in ages gone. ated on the fact that the Roman Catholic Hier-
archy, which hates American public schools
Who Was to Get Worthless Stock? worse than anything else, would stage an an-
A story in the New York Daily News is nual communion breakfast of a so-called
incomplete. It sets forth that a lawyer ar- "Board of Education's Bureau of Attendance
ranged with Monsignor John M. Kiely to dis- Catholic League" at which 2,000 guests would
pose of "some worthless stock held by the be present. While the principal speakers would
priest". The priest gave the lawyer $500 com- be members of the Hierarchy, yet the presi-
mission for putting through the deal, and dent of the board of education of New York
the lawyer gave the priest his check for city was expected to be there in all his glory,
$2,600, the price of the stock. Something went to give apparent sanction to this un-American
wrong. Probably the lawyer could not find organization's activities.
any sucker that would pay $2,600 for the
"worthless stock held by the priest". Anyway, Religious Excitement in Buffalo
the $2,600 check bounced back and the priest Big religious excitement in Buffalo. First,
mourns his $500 paid to the lawyer, and at the "Reverend Father" John J. Nash said that
last reports was trying to get it back. The "there are certain enemies of religion today
missing part of the story is a description of who are carrying on their propaganda in these
the stock, and who was to pay out $2,600 for United States against religion", and, "These
what the Ntws says was "worthless". enemies are not outside the walls clamoring
to get in; they are within our gates" and they
New York's Police Force "avowedly tell us that religion is an antidote,
The London Universe carries the interest- a soporific, invented by the priestcraft to quiet
ing information that of the 18,000 persons on the people and prevent them from thinking",
New York's police force 12,000 are Roman and that these tactics are "only a prelude to a
Catholics; also that the chaplain of these campaign of violence designed to destroy reli-
12,000, the ffReverend Father" Joseph A. gion and the things that spring from it", and
McCaffrey, has been made a lieutenant colonel that "they're here on the plea of free speech",
in the United States Army. Is it the fashion and "I maintain that we must take action to
now for city chaplains to be made officers in halt this situation, or avow ourselves foolish
the United States Army ? Why? Also, and before the whole civilized world". Nash says
OCTOBER 4, 1939 13
that "every American is in favor of free ing more money, he. received another notice
speech". He does not say who are these per- to purchase tickets, stating that "this is the
sons who now have free speech, but who should second request". Then he received an invita-
have it taken away, nor does he say who tion to a dinner at $1.50 a plate; this was also
should do the taking. ignored. Then a committee called the physi-
There was more excitement when, at the cian's nurse and told her to remind the doctor
same meeting, the "Most Reverend" John A. that he had not ordered his tickets, and that
Duffy made the mistake,of saying that Exodus if he found it impossible to attend the dinner,
20: 7 is the second commandment. To be sure, to please send the money or a subscription
it is the second commandment according to anyway, and lastly the same request was made
his religion, but not according to the Bible, as by mail. The physician's wife wants to know
you can see for yourself if you refer to Exodus If all outside of the Catholic church are Com-
20:4, where anybody may see that the second munists, Reds and heathen, why do they accept or
c o m m a n d m e n t is, even want the money
"Thou shalt not make which non-Catholics
unto thee any graven hayef
image," i n s t e a d of
"Thou shalt not take "Shall Our Hearts
the name of Jehovah Remain Cold?"
thy God in vain". The Scripture dec-
Bishop Duffy should laration is that "the
throw his religion in- dead know not any
to the ash can. I t is t h i n g " (Ecclesiastes
of no good. He should 9 : 5 ) , and that when
accept Christianity in- a person dies "his
stead. Oh, oh, this is t h o u g h t s perish"
talking against reli- (Psalm 14n : 4),which
fully explains why
gion, and Nash does people working the
not like things like worst of all rackets
that. Now isn't that "Mary the Mother of God" and "Baby Jesus" hon- do all possible to dis-
just too b a d ! ored at Newburgh, N.Y., July 16,1939, and God dis-
honored by public idolatry, on Mount Carmel day. courage the common
people from possess-
Hierarchy Sore on Spanish Veterans ing the Scriptures, or using them. Martin
When the 149 members of the Abraham J. Blake, CM., Our Lady of Angels Novena,
Lincoln Brigade of the Spanish Republic re- Niagara University, N. Y., writes as follows,
turned from Spain they wanted to place a and you can either believe what he says or
wreath on what is called the Eternal Light believe the Scriptures. Take your choice. It
in Madison Square Park, but the Hierarchy is a free country, and if you wish to believe
was sore at the idea, and so Lieutenant Charles something that is not true, and that will never
Maura of the New York police department, do you or anybody else the least bit of good
and Terrence Cusick, one of the employees here or hereafter, just go right ahead and
of the New York City Department of Parks, support the racket:
forbade them to do it. In order not to offend Hopefully and expectantly the Souls in Purga-
the Hierarchy, the wreath, bearing the title tory look to us for help. Because we do not see
"In memory of those who died for democracy, them suffer, shall our hearts remain cold? Because
was placed outside the railing surrounding we do not hear them plead, shall our ears remain
the base. Another great victory for Franco, deaft
the pope and the Devil. The big idea is to come across with a dollar.
You can imagine who gets the dollar, and how
Enlarged Gall Bladder much good it will do to people that are asleep
A certain physician received a series of re- in death.
quests to donate money to the building of a
new Catholic hospital. At length he gave up Monks Find Their Tongues
$100. Then he received a request to purchase The monks of the Trappist Monastery of
tickets at $10 a ticket. Becoming shy of send- Mount St. Bernard, England, do not gener-
14 CONSOLATION
ally indulge~in talking. Only witb permission Skillful Publicity Work
and on special occasions do they engage in No matter how much honest people may
conversation. Such a special occasion arose hold its lack of principle in utter contempt,
when their new church was on show and many there are few who, if they knew the facts,
visitors came to look it over, including nu- could withhold a measure of admiration (Rev.
merous girls (wearing trousers, slacks and 17:6) at the skillful manner in which the
shorts) who wandered all over the monastery Roman Hierarchy used the pictures of vic-
grounds. The monks generally consider con- tims slain by Franco's hordes to obtain money
versation a sin (and maybe it is in their case), for Franco's cause. Sailing under a name as
but on this occasion the salutary association misleading as its cause, and by the use of
with normal people made things all right. 3,000 passes, the so-called "American Com-
The monks could talk to the ladies without mittee for Spanish Relief" managed to get
sinning. 12,000 people to attend their pageant in
Madison Square Garden. They had previously
Best They Could Do advertised widely that 20,000 would be there.
The Roman Hierarchy is often embarrassed Is America's capacity for propaganda shrink-
in its attempts to place its own men in the key ing?
positions of the world, and so compromise is
frequently necessary. It is therefore of inter- Reporters Embarrassed
est that the new British ambassador to the Reporters were embarrassed when sudden-
United States is not an out-and-out Roman ly, on an evening in midsummer, 200 boys
Catholic, as is the American ambassador to at the New York Catholic Protectory, 1900
Britain. The most that can be said, in his case, East Tremont Avenue, Bronx, began shouting
is that his father was a Roman Catholic. He and smashing windows, declaring that they
is, however, an admirer of Hitler and will be were whipped frequently and denied the free-
very useful to both the Hierarchy and Hitler dom to which they were entitled. It seems that
in his new position. He thinks Britain should somebody sent for the police and the reporters
pay the U. S. what it has borrowed, and is could not understand why Deputy Inspector
not at all wrong in his view that this would John S. Burke refused to give them any in-
put Britain in a mighty lot better standing in formation about the affair.
this country than it now occupies. One of the boys tossed out a note reading as
follows:
A Mere Oversight At 5:30 a boy got hit for nothing he do so we
An ad soliciting funds for the building of took matters into our own hands this place is worse
the Liverpool Metropolitian Cathedral (Cath- than singsing the brothers dogs eat better stuff than
olic) states that those who donate 1 will have us so please print this we got a week in the cell
their names subscribed in a book of remem- full of rats eat hard bread and water.
brance. It quotes Malachi 3:16, but examina-
tion of the verse fails to reveal any mention New Form of Ouija Board
of the money consideration. A mere oversight, A new form of ouija board, called a lie-
perhaps. The ad further states that "for all detector, may soon come into use. It is the
time this book will remain within the pre- invention of the "Reverend Father" Summers
cincts of a Glorious Temple". In these days of of the Roman Catholic Fordham University,
bombs and air raids it is best not to be too New York, and was written up at length by
sure of that. John McClain in the New York Journal and
American. The machine is supposed to be able
Noyes* Book Now Approved to distinguish between different kinds of fear.
Noyes* book Voltaire has been condemned Its evidence has already t)een accepted in one
by the Vatican, but as they gave no explana- of the New York courts. The record is that
tion of their condemnation, he went ahead "the defendant was declared not guilty almost
with its publication anyway. Seeing they solely because of the mute testimony of the
could not bluff him, the Hierarchy compro- device". If it can make a guilty man innocent,
mised, and a preface explaining the "diffi- it ean do the reverse, and opens up fine pros-
culty" makes the book acceptable. It wouldn't pects of a new line of torture for those who
do to antagonize the British reading public seek to maintain their integrity in this evil
at this juncture. day.
O C T O B E R 4, 1939 15
Must Study Geography The Pro-Fascist Catholic Press
There is nothing like getting your geog- The Catholic press makes no effort to con-
raphy lesson right if you wish to shorten your ceal that it is pro-Fascist It well knows that
days in "Purgatory" or some other place like it is the heart and soul of the whole totalitarian
it that does not exist. That seems to be the scheme of government. The London Catholic
drift of Cardinal Mundelein's order that Ro- Herald ran a feature article by J. L. Bene-
man Catholics of his diocese might eat all venisti (probably a priest) in which the
the meat they wished on Friday, December 31, theme, set in an artistic box in the center of
1937, but only if they stayed within the dio- the story, was the catch-phrase:
cese. On one side of the diocese border roast Totalitarian governments are carrying out meas-
ham was O.K.; on the other side it was fish ures which, democracies carefully avoid suggest-
or "Purgatory". If the man was just on the ing, could be utilized all over the world.
line when he ate, then it all depended on which
side of him or which end of him was on the
diocese side of the line. Suppose his head was Smearing It On
in the diocese and the rest of his body outside, How they love to smear on the big figures.
he could eat ham; but if his head was over the The London Catholic Herald said of the four-
line and his body in the diocese, he must eat hour ceremony of the pope putting on his
fish. It would make a big difference to God. three-story hat that "it is estimated that
And it helps lots in studying geography. 500,000,000 people were listening". The next
inquiry is, Who made the estimate? and the
Mother Cabrini of the Nobility answer is that it must have been somebody
The business of making a "saint" out of that is insane; for no person of sound sense
Mother Cabrini progresses. It will cost lots would imagine it for a minute. That is more
of money; it always does. Back in the days than one-fourth of all the people in the world,
of the apostles anybody could be a saint, but and they speak 3,500 languages.
the apostles were simple persons. They never
even thought of the possibilities of graft in Vatican Piggery Plundered by the Pigs!
the saint business. I t is not denied that Mother
Cabrini founded seven convents; nobody has In Pierre van Paassen's Days of Our Years,
to be a saint to do that. And she was of the concerning conditions as he saw them in Spain,
Lombard nobility, and that doesn't make a occurs (on page 425) the following para-
saint out of anybody, nor does even her resi- graph :
dence in Chicago. What will make her a I had seen religious processions in 1931, one in
"saint", and the only thing that will do it, is Seville and one in Saragossa, still another in Ca-
that enough persons come across with the coin ceres, a small town where there Were thirty-eight
to make the performance worth while. A show monasteries, the one standing next to the other in
can't be run for nothing. an endless row like the cathedrals in the Kremlin
of Moscow, processions carrying a golden-diademed
"Reverend" H a y e s Decently Married statue of the. Virgin which was literally buried
On his death it was brought to light that under jewels, diamonds, rubies, smaragds and oth-
er precious stones, including decorations and stars
the "Reverend Father" William R. Hayes, of the kind worn by victorious generals and diplo-
pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, mats on their gala uniforms. Priests in golden vest-
Newburgh, N. Y., had been decently married ments walked under baldachins of. purple and
for two years before his death. The facts came damask, swinging eensers of silver and filigree,
out when it was learned that all but $1 of this preceded by banners of silk and jewel-studded
$80,000 estate was left to his wife. The natives eroziers, surrounded by lace-wearing acolytes, train
of Virginia Beach, Va., did not know that he bearers and boys in violet soutanes carrying glit-
was a Roman Catholic priest, and the Roman tering boxes containing relics, followed by a mon-
strance of a value of three million pesetas that
Catholics of Newburgh, N. Y., did not know burst upon the eye. like a cluster of diamonds. And
he was married, and so he managed to get looking on, pouring from the putrid alleys of.the
along. As he left nothing for the repose of his Triana quarter in Seville, and saluting the Real
soul in "purgatory", it is likely that he was Presence by dropping on their knees, I had seen
familiar with the Bible truth that the dead the hollow-cheeked, ragged, barefooted Magdalenes,
are dead and that there is no such place as the disheveled women, the unkempt hungry chil-
"purgatory". dren, the very flesh and blood of Jesus-.
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16
 To the extent of the Vatican pig's ability BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY), states that for
conditions like these prevail or have prevailed each year, over a period of years prior to the
throughout "Christendom", and it is the pig's smashing of the Hierarchy there, the poor peo-
desire and intent to establish them every- ple of Mexico contributed 30 million dollars
where, including Britain and America. in gold to the Vatican. If poor Mexico did that,
A book, written, by a judge of, one of the what do rich United States, Canada and other
courts of Mexico (which book is now in posses- countries do?
sion of the. president of the WATCHTOWER T h e c a r t o o n i s t s p e a k s in s y m b o l :

S C E N E O N E : . H i t l e r , Mussolini and Franco have expect to use for further conquest of territory.
all the political aid they can get out of the old sow, The sow's dream is gone, and she weeps bitterly.
and; they begin to look for more fertile fields. S C E N E F O U R : The spoil is divided, and they get
SCENE T W O : Stalin joins the other three. To- into.'a row because the division is not equal, and
g e t h e r they have cleaned up the Jews. They look they fight it out among themselves, destroying each
inquiringly at each other and Stalin points to the other. This follows the desolation of the "old
Vatican; a n d away they go. w h o r e " ; "for God hath put [it] in their hearts to
S C E N E T H R E E : The rooting progresses, and the fulfill his will."Revelation 1 7 : 1 7 .
gold treasure is uncovered which the totalitarian^ (To be continued)
O C T O B E R 4, 1939 17
 'His Torch of Greed to the Edifice of Our Prosperity' Time and again in his radio addresses.
Father Charles E. Coughlin has thun-
(ticrrft lm Ttktr CtUi*'i XW<* Aiimt / Suuitj) dered in the tones of a prophet of doom
XUflLTOBOtCO about "throwing t i e money changers cot
ihvr.miM of the temple* and using inch colorful
Vsr WJKUJ vta>
and poetic phrases about people and poli-
cies he didn't like as "seeking the flcsb-
p o u of Egypt." "a crap game played with
other people's money," "his torch of greed
to the edifice of our prosperity,"" etc, e t c
T o the simple minded, his denunciations
made them believe that kt must be
epitome of virtue, self-denial with DO
interest save that of suffering, enslaved
humanity.

Bat other humble people who, how-

ever, knew their Shakespeare well be-
came a little soipicious of all this noise
"methinks the mail doth protest too
much." They started a little 'investiga-
tion of the good father'snot private life
but private bank accounts. The remits
were more startling than they could have
imagined.

KICOLTORD S. COT This hypocritical priest who was s o

IKVT-.T>MHT vitriolic against stock-market gamblers,
-J^T DONDS
bankers and others in that category was
playing the stock-market himself. The
nickels, dimes and dollar bills that be
collected from his gullible listeners, os-
tensibly for the Shrine of the Little
f> MBMIO 10* itiKa J 1/7 1WS0 ,IH ISM i s t w Flower, were tossed as so much rhtfftt"
J 7/ feed in the greedy jaws of the stock-
market exchange and as <raickly de-
1 ^ voured.
Above are presented photostatic copies of ihree sales invoices, through which Father Cough-
lin, the radio priest, disposed of stock purchased through the National Bank of Commerce, On this page we reprint from the De-
later absorbed by the Guardian Detroit Union Group, Inc., and operated as a branch of the troit Free Press of March 29, 1933, some
Guardian National Bank o f Commerce. Invokes show the sales made through Nicol-Ford & photostatic copies of Coughtin's bank and
Co-, brokers. stock-market accounts which show ir-
refutably his gambling activities.

'A Crap Game Played with Other People's Money*

Un~P fnm l*k*r C(U~-| J . . tii,m W UU.,1

$atnt, W&tKbev & Company N.A2ii80

100 PENOBSCOT BUILDING
DETROIT. MICH.

Far n a - i 2~g>g5>
r-OUGKT far ynut wnrjnt mni roll mocatOkx W the ratet eJ the Boston. New YoA tl Oiicafo Stock ExchUJ
Here is a photostatic DISCWIPTION NCT AMOUNT
copy of the purchase
order for 500 shares of
stock in the Kelsey-Hayes
Wheel Corp, executed by
the National Bank of J00 KEISCY MAY6S VKCL 60 30000 oo 67 50
Commerce ( n o w the
Guardian National Bank
of Commerce), for Fath-
b
er Charles E. Coughlin.
The stock was later told .! 3 Tl'
through the Nicol-Ford
brokerage bouse, and in
the transaction the radio 7/ ill'
priest lost in excess of
$13,000.

What Coughlin S t a n d s F o r Social justice has specified principles. [Don't

ask who specified them.] First, it is Christian
The initials "S.J." stand for "Society of [anti-Jewish]. Second, it is social [devoted to
Jesus (Jesuits)" and for Social Justice, the gambling on a colossal scale with the money en-
organ of "Father" Coughlin. Probably the one trusted to it by America's.biggest and most trust-
"S.J." furnishes the copy for the other. ing bunch of suckers J. Thirdly, it is active [as
"Father" Coughlin tells of the alleged aims shown by the disorders and threats that have ac-
of his paper. He says: companied its spread in New York city]. And
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18
 'Seeking the Flesh Pots of Egypt'
(Excerpt from Father Coughlm's Radio Address of Sunday')

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'Smart Money'
(Excerpt From Father Cougklm's Radio Address of Suiiday)
The discount liability ledger sheet of,father Cough-
lin's brokerage account with the National Bank of
Commerce (now the Guardian National). It covers /IJ3C
transactions in Kclsey-Hayes and Packard stocks cov- Comflilln. Chat. I.
ering a period of more than a year. Funds deposited
to the credit of the League of the Little Flower account '"Da
were transferred to meet payments upon some of these
stock transactions.
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pages are taken from 8 0 0.0 0 - JUN 5 " 6, S 5 4 ^ 4 r^
The Detroit Free Press 2.6 4 6.0 0 - MM U * 4,0 1 8.6 4 * ^
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Here appears a photo- W U N 75 5 7 MM lis 32.030^420
static copy of Father 6.654-5C MM 45C 38.66^.92*
Charles . Coughlin's 6,654.50- MM 32.030.42*
daily balances in the Na- 2 3 , 4 8 5.76 JUN 1 0 W 53,51620*
tional Bank of Commerce, 8,092.29- JIM iOV) 27.4 2 3 ^ 1 #
succeeded by the Guard- J.OOOJCOI JWL U l o 1 5.4 2 3 . 9 1
ian National Bank of 5.0 0H 0.0 0 WV l 10,4?3^t
1 C 11 l 2 32 34 0CC S I N 10,6 5 62 5
Commerce, for the period
indicated. On March 19, 50,000:00 JMH 2 1 1 1 40.65625*
1931, he withdrew $40,- 0.0 8 4.0 4 - IWM 1 1 i 5 7 2 2 1 *
084.04. In the photostatic AIM U N 6 4 . !1 UN U N 6 5 6.4 2 *
copy the initial numeral DEC 1 IN 9a I 1 I IN 6626
"4" does not appear in the JUK 1 IN 9, >9 im
left-band column, thinl 67625*
figure from the bottom, 666.26- JUN 4 T J 9.9 9 *
9.99- JJM *<St .00*
which erroneously reads
"O.084.04."

fourthly, it is militant [eager to pick a fight on surround myself with the most adroit highjackers,
peaceable and decent people engaged in minding learn every trick of the highest bank and stock
their own affairs, as was attempted at Madison manipulations, avail myself of the laws under
Square Garden on June 25, 1939], which to hide my own crimes, create a smoke-screen
Coughlin prophesies of himself thusly : to throw into the eyes of men, andbelieve me
If I threw away and renounced my faith I would I would become the world's champion erook.
O C T O B E R 4, 1939 19
 Could Never Do It
The Northwest Review (Catholic) is very
much mistaken in thinking it can get Catholic
people to do what Jehovah's witnesses are do-
ing. It cannot be done. Only an overwhelming
love for the Creator and a determination to
do His will at all costs would ever persuade
any to do what the Review contemplates when
it says:
Witnessing to Prisoners
We are having grand privileges of witness- weIfcan Jehovah's witnesses can push their campaign
he just as aggi-essive. They are not satisfied
ing to prisoners in a prison here in the moun- to stand outside the door of the home. They go in
tains where 70 percent of the prisoners are to the family and teach their doctrines to children
Catholics. When we asked for a permit we and adults. They send teachers and missionaries
were sent to the Protestant chaplain, which into schools, colleges, factories, lumber camps and
we considered evi- into every nook and
dence of the Lord's corner of society.
leading. We have now
had the sound-car At the County Seat
w i t h i n the w a l l s At the county seat
twice, and have run of this county the
the lectures "Fascism leading citizen of im-
or F r e e d o m" and portance in industry-
"Fill the Earth". was called upon. Our
Many of the prisoners mission was explained,
came up after the lec- but not without a bar-
tures, to get some lit- rage of questions:
erature, and we gave "This costs a lot of
out some 150 pieces, money; who is paying
and put 10 b o u n d you? Are you Com-
books in the prison munists?" We ex-
library. Pupils at Kingdom School, Westgate-on-Kent, plained that we are
One of the prison- England not, but are exposing
ers approached the car and said: Fascism in this country; whereupon the gen-
I want to congratulate you people for having tleman exploded with the statement, "The
the courage to do and say the things you have done Fascists are doing a better job in Europe than
and said here today, and not only here, but every- we are here. I would rather see Fascism in
where. I have never seen anything like it else- this country than to have things as they are
where. Wherever you people are located, you al- now." This man owns half the town; together
ways boldly express your belief without fear. That with the cotton mills. Fascism would be a con-
takes courage. The others don't have it. I guess venient way for him to settle his labor troubles.
you are the only people in the world that have the
courage to declare your doctrines fearlessly. The postmaster was visited, but after wc
left his office he stepped out and called us
Another peculiarly interesting thing was back. He said, "I see here something about
the conduct of a man who seemed to us at the Catholic Church. Would you give me your
first to be showing an uncanny interest in name and address ?" Why, certainly, we would;
what we were doing. We thought he might be but just why did he want such information?
intending mischief among his fellows, but He explained in brief that it was a regulation
were pleasantly surprised, when the lecture that whenever someone left literature he was
was over, to find that he knows something to get their, names. We remarked that this
of the Scriptures, and was bearing up the had all the earmarks of Fascism, and wished
standard of truth to his comrades. to know by whom and why such an orderbad
We are thankful to Jehovah for the priv- been given. He became very flustered and said
ilege of carrying the message of freedom and that the information was for his own knowl-
life to the men inside these walls.L. M, edge, thus contradicting himself in less than
Feaster, zone servant. half a minute.
20 CONSOLATION
 One of the leading lawyers was visited. ter she answered: " I do not want to salute the
Having found out who we are he became very flag." The teacher had her sit down, and later
friendly, and, even though his office was full, called her into another room, asking why she
gave us every attention, saying, "I know your did not wish to salute the flag. Tr an-
work: you are doing the best work in the swered, "I do not want to be on the Devil's
world; keep it up." Later we were told that side, because God is going to destroy all that
this same lawyer, speaking to a clergyman, are on the Devil's side. If I salute the flag I'll
asked him who was going to take care of hell be on the Devil's side." The teacher asked,
after the Devil is destroyed. The clergyman "What church does your mother go to?"
was unable to answer, but was quickly in- Tr answered, "She doesn't go to church;
structed by our lawyer friend that the clergy she goes to a class where she studies the Bible
would get the job.A. G. Hill, pioneer. so she'll know how to be on God's side. And
my Aunt B plays records for people so
A Thrill in Montana they can be on God's side, too." The teacher
The other day Alice came back to the car kissed her and told her to just stand still but
and said: not to say anything
Remember the lady then.
who wrote to Consola- Several days later
tion about the canaries
and dogs, and how they Tr took Protec-
b e h a v e d on hearing tion to the teacher,
Judge Rutherford's asking her to read it
speech? Well, I just had all and look up the
two deer come out on scriptures, too. At
the edge of the clearing this point I entered.
by the log cabin, and
stand and listen. The The t e a c h e r said:
owner said they were "Tr was j u s t
wild deer. showing me her little
We are working al- book. You know the
A sign of the times in Tennessee funniest thing hap-
most entirely in rural
territory, with lots of pened the other day
driving on steep, narrow mountain roads, and during flag salute, etc. What religion do you
many poor people. There are very few towns, belong to?" I then explained that we did not
and what there are are very small, yet the in- belong to a religion; that there was a vast
crease in the "great multitude" seems to ap- difference between religion and Christianity.
pear. In this rural, mountain territory we I told her that the booklet Protection explains
have encouraged the people to secure the the difference between religion and Christian-
Model Study ,booklet, with Uncovered and ity, and asked if she wished to read it. She
Protection, so as to continue their studying answered: " I should like to very much." I
when we are gone. This is a very poor country, told her that I would have to hurry on, as I
but Alice and I are doing pretty well. After had left my aunt playing a series of records,
all, our main object is to advertise the King- and must pick her up. The teacher then said:
dom, and we are doing that. "Oh yes, Tr was telling me about them.
We have been living in bunkhouses on Just what are they?" I then explained and
ranches, in boxcar-houses, tourist camps. Hope asked her if she wished to hear them. She said :
to get a little trailer-house soon. "Yes, as soon as I have read the booklet I'll
We have come in contact with a movement, let you know when 1 can hear them."A
f
Mankind United," which claims to be work- mother in Kansas.
ing with the Watchtowcr. (No connection
with the work here.Ed.]Jean Barnes. Humphrey Believes in Freedom of Speech
Henry Humphrey, general manager, Tcx-
"Out of the Mouth of Babes" arkana Gazette, believes in freedom of speech
My little girl is five years old, and attends for the Catholic Hierarchy, but not for Jeho-
the .kindergarten. A few days ago the teacher vah's witnesses. In his paper he says, in an
had the class stand for flag salute. Tr editorial in which he makes a bold stand for
began to cry. When asked what was the mat- equal rights of all to the protection of the
OCTOBER 4, 1939 21
government: "All the people, and not a single influence to alleviate the situation, but finally
group," should receive the government's pro- had to sell out. The partnership in boycott bc-
tection in their rights. And then, as the man- twecn the Jews and Catholics accomplished its
ager of radio station KCMC, he refused to purpose. Now I have work in another line
allow Jehovah's witnesses to broadcast the with shorter hours, and am able to put in more
"Exposed" scries of lectures, subsequently run time in the Kingdom work, for which I am
in this magazine. In other words, the Hierarchy grateful to the Giver of every good and per-
has rights which must be recognized and re- fect gift.Joseph La Plaea.
spected, but Jehovah's witnesses have no rights
whatever. Consistency, thou art a jewel. Lo! the Poor Indian!
I am an Indian, living on one of the Indian
Jew-Catholic Boycott of a Barber reservations. As a follower of Jehovah God
For ten years I was a popular and well- I feel that I ought to express my feelings. I
liked barber in a wholesale shoe district. Hav- have read a good many of Judge Rutherford's
ing my own shop, at books; the one called
141 W. Broadway, Enemies caught my
New York city, I was eye. God gave me un-
glad to advertise the derstanding of what
Kingdom and made I read. I used to be a
mention of it when- Catholic, when I was
ever opportunity pre- a young girl, but God
sented itself. During saved me from that
the Cure booklet cam- awful delusion. I have
paign a Jewish rela- been out several times
tive of one of the shoe with the books among
concerns (Mr. Lapi- my people, and left
dus, of the A. S. Beck the book Enemies
Shoe Co.) mentioned with the chief. A Bi-
that one of Jehovah's ble study is held at
witnesses had called Information marchers, Sao Paulo, Brazil, my home every Fri-
upon him and placed ready for action day evening, and I
the book Enemies am making progress
with him. At that time he seemed very pleased in the knowledge of the truth.Mrs. Helen
to have obtained it, but a week later came in, Carpenter, New York.
hot and bothered, complaining of the state-
ment on page 281 which partly reads, In a St. George R e s t a u r a n t
"Amongst her instruments that she uses are In a St. George, Staten Island, restaurant,
ultraseLfish men called Jews who only look for one day in spring, a.young woman was dining
selfish gain, and who therefore readily yield next to a table at which were four men. One
to and join with the Hierarchy in any un- of the men wanted the work of Jehovah's wit-
righteous schemes." nesses stopped. Another protested, "I would
I endeavored to explain, but he would not not want to have a hand in stopping them.
have it so, said he would have some one else If what they say is true, just think of what
to read it, and just then there "happened" to will happen to anyone who tries to silence
come in a Catholic associate, an executive in them."
the same shoe concern. He read the para- At this point a priest walked in. All got up
graphs, became even more infuriated, slammed and greeted him respectfully and then one
the book down, and said he would not patron- mentioned the above conversation. He looked
ize a place that supported such sentiments. annoyed, and dismissed it with the expression,
That same day the workers of the shoe con- "Oh, that stuff!"
cern were called together, and told to boycott The conversation turned to politics. One of
my shop. Not content with cutting off my the men said, "But the Church is prominent
trade from their own employees, they sent out in politics." With a lordly gesture the priest
to surrounding shoe jobbers, asking them and this time said, "Of course. It is the duty of
their workers to boycott me. I tried to stick the Church to lead the poor misguided people
it out, and called on some parties to use their in all things."
22 CONSOLATION
 The conversation turned again to the orig- Why this fear of and inane desire to coerce
inal topic, and the priest this time said, "In a these children of Jehovah's witnesses f It can never
little while, you won't hear a peep out of these be said they are Communists, Reds, etc., because
Jehovah's witnesses." in every instance upon investigation it has been
found their parents are thoroughly law-abiding,
This was too much for the young woman, God-fearing people. Investigation has disclosed
now through with her meal. She got up, bowed also they place God above and before everything
politely and said, "Gentlemen, that's what else. Hence, their refusal to salute the flag, not
you think," and walked out. because they disrespect the flag, but rather because
Tableau vivant. they fear to disrespect Got]. Surely parents of that
sort are not likely to raise incorrigible, dangerous
When Dictators Become Funny children. Then why the persecution f
If anything is funnier than a dictator try-
ing to defend his illegal actions, what is it? What Would Happen?
Take Frank Hague, illegal boss of Jersey City. You wonder what would happen to the
Defending his course of lawlessness, and draw- nation in time of war if all Americans refused
ing upon his imagina- to salute. If every
tion for reasons that American refused to
would help him to salute for the same
limp still farther in reason that Jehovah's
his crooked way, he w i t n e s s e s refuse,
p u b l i c l y accused namely, because of
Abraham J. Isserman, complete devotion to
attorney of Newark, Jehovah, and obedi-
N. J., of having Com- ence to His Word,
munistic leanings and then no nation nor
set down as one rea- combination of na-
son that he had been tions, however strong,
guilty of could prevail against
defending two school America, for it would
children who were oust- then be a Christian
ed from school for re- Sound-car at Sao Paulo, Brazil nation, and the Bible
fusing to salute the says, "Blessed is that
American flag on religious grounds. nation whose God is the Lord." Psalm 33,12.
Everybody knows that if there is anything Douay (Catholic) version, Psalm 32, 12.
anathema to Communists it is the Word of This blessedness and safety would belong
God; they have as'little use for it as has Frank to any nation which truly served the Lord.
Hague. What Isserman was "guilty" of was His witnesses are in every country on the
defending two little children in their educa- earth, and do not salute any flag in any land.
tional rights because they love God and rever- The Scriptures state that no nation on earth
ence His Word. Just to have the record clear today is worthy to endure, because each has
it should be explained that these little folks broken the everlasting covenant of Jehovah
were simply Christians, and not "religious" concerning the sanctity of human life. This
in the sense of having any connection with is all explained in the twenty-fourth chapter
scribes, Pharisees, priests, ministers, or other of Isaiah. War has shed the blood of many
hypocrites, like Hague himself. Hague is reli- innocents, and in the battle of Armageddon,
gious, but not a Christian. He gave $75,000 at which rapidly approaches, Jehovah God him-
one time to one of the "religious" outfits of self will take vengeance on the nations because
Newark, and did it out of a $6,000 a year of their wholesale slaughter of human lives.
salary at that. But that was easy for Hague, The people of God on earth will take no part
Jersey City's ex-patrolman. in that day of vengeance; they now merely
proclaim its approach, warning the people to
Why the Persecution? take their stand on the side of the Lord, loving
S. K. Bryson, in the Baltimore Evening Sun, Him and trusting Him for preservation when
is just not able to see why anybody should be His destruction of the wicked in the earth be-
persecuted for being conscientious in the mat- gins.Ernest Genske, in the Post Gazette.
ter of worshiping Almighty God. He asks: {To be continued)
O C T O B E R 4, 1939 23
 D e n i z e n s of Sea a n d Air

How Passenger Pigeons Were Destroyed themselves are in great danger from their own
Ornithologists and many others lament the kind. If one of them happens to fall and in-
complete destruction of passenger pigeons by jure its legs, it is immediately eaten up by the
ruthless and cruel man. The way this was ac- horde.
complished was, largely, to catch a live pigeon, This is their nuptial march, and when they
sew his eyes shut with silk thread, and place reach the sea they immediately plunge into
him on a stool in the woods. When a flock of the water to bathe and lay their eggs. The
pigeons came in sight he was jerked off his eggs wash ashore and in due time are hatehed.
stool. His comrades from the skies came to see When the young crabs come out every tree
what was wrong with him and flew about him root for miles around is densely covered with
in short circles. Crafty man dropped over the them. They remain near the seashore until
group a huge net previously arranged, and old enough to travel, then they move inland
hundreds more were caught, either to be slain from one to three miles and dig holes in the
or themselves used as "stool pigeons"whence hills. In these holes they live until the next
the name given to informers. May, when again it is time for another frantic
march to the sea.Wesley A. Grout, in Our
Marching to the Sea Dumb Animals.
Just as sure as day follows night do we
know that precisely on a certain day next Fish Objects to His Prison
May millions of crabs are going to rise up-out In the New York aquarium an eight-pound
of their holes on Crab island and march to the weakfish, in the same tank with 99 others,
sea. Why every single one of these millions concluded he would prefer the open sea. He
upon millions of crustaceans should, simul- made a good jump, went through two plates
taneously, feel this irrepressible urge to strike of glass each one-eighth of an inch thick, and
out for the sea on the same day every year, is headed off toward Sandy Hook; but he was
one of Nature's most baffling mysteries. And not built for aviation, and so, with a badly
the wonder of it is, they never miscalculate! hammered snout, he landed on the aquarium
The power that governs this movement is as floor seven feet below and was ignominiously
undeviating as that which rules the planets caught and placed back in his glass prison.
of the universe. And when this urge over-
takes them, nothing can stop them; Plenty of Herring
houses, cliffsnothing; for the There seems to be plenty of food for man.
West Indian land crabs march On one day the fishers at Yarmouth landed
straight as an arrow to their des- 12,000,000 herring. This abundant catch near-
tination. ly ruined the herring industry, although only
When this frantic march is on they climb a member of the Devil's organization could
over any obstacle that happens to be in their explain why an abundant supply should ruin
way. Even at the peril of their own lives they anything.
will clamber over cliffs and hedges rather than
go around them. Houses are not even consid- Unexpected Movement of Fish
ered mild obstacles to these marching crusta- In the summer of 1938 the British fleet
ceans. They creep in at the windows, climb visited the Adriatic sea and, as usual, threw
over the beds and furniture, and emerge on the refuse food overboard. The result, quite
the other side. unexpected, was that schools of tunny fish
Their movement looks as if the whole sur- followed the fleet and the catches off the Dal-
face of the ground were in motion. The earth matian coast were the largest in history.
is so thickly blanketed with them that it is a
physical impossibility to walk without tread- The Smallest Eel
ing upon them. And the noise they make has What is probably the world's smallest eel
often been likened to the din of cavalry troops was recently discovered off Cuba. It has a
in action. When these crabs are on the march, body tapering off to the size of the smallest
all animals beat a hasty retreat, for no living thread, and a head only a little larger. A
creature is safe in their path. Even the crabs similar eel is found in New Guinea.
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24
 United States Government
Confuses Religion and Christianity ised Alsace Lorraine, Poland had been prom-
Of course, the president was confused ised parts of Austria and Germany, and the
when he said in his message to Congress (and determination had been made to create a new
it was the only time such a thing was ever nation out of what became Czechoslovakia, but
said by any American president) that religion was formerly Germany and Austria. All the
and democracy are linked together as one and treaty of Versailles accomplished was to rati-
the same thing, and worth righting for with fy deals made before Uncle Sam was enticed
all the national power. Christianity is the into the fight. After he was in he was told
will of God, as ex- what he must agree to.
pressed in His Word,
and is indeed a prop- Cordell Hull
er objective for any Denounces Fascism
people. But religion We know that in
originated with the much of the world
Devil, and consists trust in any form of
merely in compliance agreement has com-
with the forms and pletely vanished: that
ceremonies and prac- might has stated that
tices of tradition, and it would have its way,
is actually against recognizing no equal
God. At the time of except m i g h t . We
the World War the know that ordinary
German kaiser ends of living are be-
(though certainly not ing subordinated to
a Christianfor no an effort to c r e a t e
militarist is that) was vast, terrifying mili-
one of the most reli- tary machines, whose
gious persons in the first purpose might be
world. He was then, to create terror and
and perhaps still is, whose only final use
an ordained minister could be to cause the
of the official German ruin of the world.
L u t h e r a n Church. Such is the world we
Did that make him have to deal with.
d e m o c r a t i c ? Wash- Cordell null, U . S .
ington newspaper cor- Let us give thanks that we live in a day of homely secretary of state, at
respondents took note honesty and forthright dealings between nations Lima Conference.
of the fact that Roose-
velt's discovery that religion and democracy
are one and the same thing followed a week The Kellogg Peace Pact
in which he was extremely engaged with the Since the world powers agreed ten years
clergy, from Mundelein down. The clergy ago that war Ls illegal and unjustifiable some
know why they are just now very much con- 1,500,000 humans were slain in Spain, 1,000,-
cerned about this matter of religion, and so 000 in China, 100,000 in the Chaco, and 55,000
do Jehovah's witnesses, who have been circu- in Ethiopia, and at least $10,000,000,000 of
lating Face the Facts. human savings were worse than wasted.

Not in the Fleet

Uncle Sam Did Not Know At the navy yard a visitor is alleged to
Uncle Sam did not know when he sallied have asked, "Can you direct me to the U.S.S.
forth in 1917 to "make the world safe for Satan*" Assured that there is no such ship
democracy" that Italy had been promised part he replied: "That's odd. The paper said this
of Austria, Rumania had been promised part morning that the chaplain of the Pennsyl-
of Hungary, Serbia had been promised part vania would speak on 'Satan the great de-
of Austro-Hungary, France had been prom- stroyer'."
OCTOBER 4, 1939 25
 Types of Unfair Competition
SOME of the duties of the Federal closing the sources of supply and sale to non-
Trade Commission are to issue members through such co-operative means as con-
orders to cease and desist from the trolling solicitation of business, allocation of cus-
following practices, and when you tomers and channels of distribution; fixing and
maintaining uniform prices, terms and conditions,
~* ^ ^ ' read the list and realize that in a and exchanging information regarding contem-
single year 296 such cease and desist orders plated price changes. The commodities involved in
were issued against that many American con- such agreements were: pin tickets, women's Wear,
cerns, you realize how corrupt this genera- surgical instruments, uniform caps, electric cable,
tion is: turbine generators and condensers, butter tube,
1. Use of false and misleading advertising, false grbcery products, furniture, rubber heels and soles
branding and labeling of products, for example: and water gate valves and hydrants.
(a) Misrepresenting flavoring extracts to be 3. Misrepresenting the advantage to prospective
imported when they are in fact domestic-made. customers in dealing with the seller by
(b) Misrepresenting merchandise as having (a) Asserting that the seller is a manufacturer
been procured from sales of refused, salvaged or of the products he offers for sale, thereby im-
surplus Army and Navy supplies. plying to purchasers that the middle-men's prof-
(e) Misrepresenting the processes employed its are eliminated.
in preparing salt offered for use in the curing of (b) Alleging that the seller is a wholesaler
meats. and is offering his goods at wholesale prices.
(d) Mislabeling radios with well-known and (c) Misrepresenting the size and importance
long recognized brand names of nationally adver- of the seller's business by use of illustrations of
tised radios, simulating the brand names of such fictitious buildings, or by exaggeration of the
nationally advertised radios and passing off such space occupied by Ihe seller's business, or of the
products as and for such nationally advertised extent and value of his equipment.
radios.
(e) Misrepresenting the quality, character and 4. Misrepresenting the necessity for, or advan-
viscosity of motor oils, and the quality, character tage in using, various devices claimed to be bene-
and octane rating of gasolines. ficial in curing, treating or relieving such condi-
tions as prostatic gland troubles or deficiencies,
(f) Misrepresenting western pondcrosa pine
foot and leg abnormalities, obesity and hair de-
as white pine.
ficiencies.
(g) Misrepresenting that upright pianos are
grand pianos. 5. Use of books or pamphlets claiming: (1) to
(h) Misrepresenting as camel's hair certain reveal all of the essentials to health and alleging
textile fabrics which do not contain camel's hair that all illness is caused by neglect of one or more
or camel's wool. of such essentials; and (2) claiming to conquer
(i) Misrepresenting as whitefish a certain salt bashfulness, nervousness and other psychological
water fish known as cusk. abnormalities.
(j) Misrepresenting cigars made in the Unit- 6. Misrepresenting the necessity for, Or advan-
ed States from domestic tobacco as being made tage in using, various medicinal preparations
from Cuban tobacco and as being H a v a n a cigars. claimed to be beneGcial in curing, treating or re-
(k) Misrepresenting tombstones and monu- lieving such conditions as nutritional deficiencies;
ments made from granite chips mixed with diseases and ailments of the skin, stomach, kidney,
cement as being granite. bladder and digestive organs; glandular disturb-
(1) Misrepresenting photographic enlarge- ances; asthma and hay fever; women's diseases;
ments as being original drawings or paintings. rheumatism, arthritis, neuritis and related ailments;
(m) Misrepresenting stock size men's suits as metabolic disorders, vitamin and mineral deficien-
being tailor-made or madc-to-order. cies; weakness, irritation and diseases of the eyes
(n) Misrepresenting the results to be obtained and ears.
upon using various motor compounds and fluids, 7. Misrepresenting the advantages in using cer-
cleaning fluids, animal t r a p s and other products. tain hair tonic, eyewash, facial cream, depilatory,
(o) Misrepresenting that various miscellane- eyelash grower and dentifrice, claimed to be bene-
ous products, such as incandescent lamps, stump ficial, respectively, in relieving eye strain, promot-
socks for use on artificial limb appliances, and ing growth of hair, penetrating the skin below the
imitation and simulated diamonds, have a merit epidermis so as to reach and beneficially affect the
far in excess of that actually possessed. underlying muscles, tissues and glands, restoring
2. Combining, agreeing and co-operating for the gray hair permanently to its former color without
purpose, and with the effect, of suppressing com- dyeing, removing tartar on teeth and destroying
petition among members of the combination and mouth germs and bacteria.
26 CONSOLATION
 8. Misrepresenting in the sale of encyclopedias and well-known and registered trade marks such
and reference works that purchasers will receive as "Ethyl" and "Gulf".
all or a portion of the books free upon subscribing 16. Use of false and disparaging statements in
to additional research or extension services; that respect to products sold by competitors, such prod-
the purchasers are on preferred lists to receive the ucts being oilcloth, window shades, pianos, pipes,
books free and without cost; that old and unrevised pipe filters, beer taps and candy.
encyclopedias and reference works have been re- 17. Misrepresenting, through use of fictitious
vised, enlarged and brought down to date; and that prices, that the usual and ordinary sale price is
leaders in various professional fields are contribu- higher than the price at which the goods are ac-
tors to, or associate editors of, such encyclopedias tually sold, when such is not a fact.
and reference works, when they are not. 18. Misrepresenting, in advertising for house-
9. Use of misrepresentations by correspondence to-house convassers or sales agente, the nature of
schools importing that they have some connection their employment, the prospective profits, the usual
with, or are a branch or bureau of, the United retail prices of the products which they are to sell
States Government or of the Civil Service Coin- and the demand therefor.
mission; that there are many openings for various 19. Use of demonstrations and scientific tests
positions in the classified Civil Service and that in such a way as to misrepresent the circumstances
examinations to fill such vacancies are held at fre- surrounding the tests or the results thereof.
quent intervals; that upon completion of the courses 20. Misrepresenting in the sale of dental plates
of instruction, successful students will be placed in that from impressions made by customers from
Government or other positions; that students have their own teeth and gums the seller can make arti-
been selected on account of scholastic grades, or ficial teeth that fit as well and are as satisfactory
otherwise, to receive the courses at reduced rates; as those made by members of the dental profession.
and that the respondents conduct, or are connected 21. Misrepresenting the geographic location of
with, a university or an extension division of a the place of manufacture of a product by specify-
university. ing the name of a place famous for such products.
10. Misrepresenting through use of the words
"Laboratory", "Manufacturer," "Mill," "Factory,"
and "Distiller" that the seller is the manufacturer The Burning of the Paris
of the products which he offers for sale, implying
that middlemen's profits are eliminated and other Forty-eight hours before the arson oc-
advantages obtained because of the purchasers' curred, the French police warned the captain
ability to deal direct with the manufacturer. of the French steamship Paris that a fire was
11. Misrepresenting the character and quality to be expected. Within the appointed time the
of the raw materials used in manufacturing finished third largest liner of the French merchant
products, for example, misstating the amount and fleet was burned to the water's edge at Havre,
quality of the wool content of fabrics and other France,
products; misrepresenting the amount and qual-
ity of silk in fabrics; misrepresenting split leather Eshelman Was Rattled
as being genuine cowhide, genuine leather, or Charles Eshleman, of Cleveland, was rat-
chamois; misrepresenting the proportion or quan-
tity of pure fruit juices or other food products in tled when he heard a continuous, or at least
jams, preserves and other food stuffs. a frequent, rattling in the rear of his car.
12. Use of puzzle contests with the representa- When he opened the trunk a live rattlesnake
tion that the mere solution of the puzzle entitles made a lunge at him; but Eshelman killed it
the successful contestant to a prize, when, in fact, with an umbrella,
Other services and performances are imposed upon
the contestant before he is entitled to receive a A Whopper
prize. "Mother, may I be excused ! " and Ida
13. Using a method of sale involving an element clambered down from her high chair at the
of chance or lottery, or preparing goods so that
such a method of sale may be used. dinner table. "Did you have enough dinner?"
14. Misrepresenting the character of the process asked her grandfather. "Tell grandfather that
used in producing gasoline and misrepresenting you have had an elegant sufficiency," said
that gasoline to which tetracthyl lead has been added mother. "Yes, grandfather," said Ida, "Fve
is narcotic in effect, "doped up," poisonous, un- got an elephant and a fish in me."By Aunt
safe and dangerous to the life and health of persons Maud.
using such gasoline for motor fuel.
A Misfit Somewhere
15. Simulation of the containers in which mer-
chandise of competitors is customarily packed and Teacher: "If you had $10 in one pocket and
displayed, simulation of well-known accounting $15 in the other, what would you have?"
systems and imitation of names of trade papers Johnny: "Someone else's pants."
OCTOBER 4, 1939 27
 enumerators has been enrolled and local au-
thorities have been supplied with identity
British Comment cards, to be issued when the Government gives
the word. The registration will take the same
By J. Remery {London) form as the fuller census enumeration pre-
pared for 1940, but with further questionings.
Chaplains
Holiday Freedom The various sections of religionists are get-
ting ready for the time when they will be
[Written before the war] called on to take their part in the military
The fear of war has not prevented, nor machine of this so-called "Christian" nation.
apparently affected, the usual enjoyment of The anti-God army of Russia, the greatest
the summer holidays. True there has been, military power in Europe and therefore in all
and is, the feeling that the holidays may be the earth, does not find chaplains a necessity ;
rudely interrupted; for no one knows what nor do some other (ungodly!) nations use
surprise Hitler may spring, nor when it is them; but where religion is part of the State
likely to come. The Bank of England returns machine, as here in Britain, formal religion
show that more moneypaper which is sup- may not be left out of the national services,
posed to represent goldis in circulation than whether in peace or in war. The parsons see
at any previous time; in other words the rec- to it that they get a share in the service; and
ord is broken. The amount in circulation is who is there to look to the spiritual needs of
close to 522,000,000. The holiday season is the men if the parson is not there, or help the
responsible for some increase, helped by the stricken man to safety "on the other side" if
new law which gives employees two'weeks holi- there is no parson near?
day with pay, and the increased employment The humbug in all this is rather nauseating.
through the war preparation is a contributory As a man joins the army he must have a reli-
cause. The travel agencies report that book- gious tab. If he does not profess to be of the
ings to the continent are much less than usual: church of England, or of Rome, or a Method-
very few Britishers arc traveling to Germany, ist, he is made to parade with the Church of
but more are going to France, and Italy is England and to its services he must go. A
getting a fair share of the tourist traffic. writer of a letter to a newspaper says well,
Holiday camps are increasing in number "Now that militarism is debunked and shown
and in capacity and general conveniences. up as the vile, murderous commercialized
Some are now settled on a rather elaborate traffic in human life we all know it to be,'it
basis. From a rough collection of huts and is time that all connection with religion should
tents many of the camps have grown into per- cease. A man can be doing bayonet drill or
manent structures: in one case the L.M.S. bombing one day, and the next, as another
railway has joined with T. Cook and Son and part of his military duties, be attending serv-
they have built a camp on the North Wales ice in a Christian churcha degradation and
coast where rooms and conveniences can be an insult to the Founder of Christianity."
rented at a rate that suits the manual worker One parson is very angry at such suggestions
who has not a great deal to spare for his sum- and says, "It is high time that the churches
mer vacation. As yet there is no record that refused to marry or bury civilians who ex-
any of the religionists want a church built pect the consolations of religion without its
for them, but undoubtedly they will soon be obligations." He would compel every unit in
crying out that they are needed. The parsons the regiment to attend a "service" to listen to
are complaining that their people do not go to such as he. There is compulsion to join the
church when on holidays; no doubt getting army, and then compulsion to become a reli-
away from the parson is part of the enjoyment. gionist at the time of the church services.

National Register The Vatican and Franco

All the necessary machinery is ready for The Manchester Guardian says, " I t is be-
this, and in an emergency the work of com- lieved in Rome that General Franco has been
piling a national register can be started at a keeping the Vatican specially informed on the
day's notice. It is said that a complete staff of details of the new Constitution of SpaiiL The
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Vatican has been closely following the internal time He would be manifested as its ruler.
reorganization of Spain, in so far as this af- That the arrogant rulers in Jewry perceived
fects the Church and Christian principles. the situation is clear from Jesus' words in His
The pope is understood to have submitted the parable; for He said of them that they said
details of the new constitution to specialists one to another, 'This is the heir; Jet us kill
in ecclesiastical law, requesting them to draw him/ This they did, and perished by its doing.
up a report on the way the constitution har- The fact of the return of the Lord for the
monizes with Catholic doctrine. It is believed full establishment of His kingdom and of its
that these observations have already been for- setting up, according to His word, is now pro-
warded by the pope to General Franco." claimed, and now, as then, the same class are
Franco may claim that he has won Spain from found in deadly opposition to the message and
the Red Terror,, but the Hierarchy will see to its witnesses. I t pleases the Roman Catholic
it that it gets the bigger share of the "vic- Hierarchy to have its "fathers" speak evil of
tory?; The late pope got very disturbed and Judge Rutherford, who in a special way rep-
seemingly excited when it was said heand resents the message and the witnesses of Jeho-
the Papacyinterfered in politics; but the vah, and if they could they would undoubted-
hierarchy in Rome pursues the game openly ly crush him and the truth. In the pages of
as well as secretly. Consolation Judge Rutherford has shown that
religionists of all kinds are enemies of the
Roman Catholics and Nazism kingdom of God. They have set for themselves
In the House of Lords, Lord Marley, a the task of bringing the world under the rule
member of the Labor party, in a discussion of religion, professing that in seeking to get
of Colonial matters, said, speaking particu- men to agree with them they are following the
larly of the Rhodesias (Northern and South- command Jesus gave to His disciples, that of
ern), "In a school for native teachers I found preaching the gospel (of the Kingdom) to
books containing pictures of Berlin, and every creature. Their perversion of the words
swastikas, and 'Heil Hitler', and the various of Jesus has resulted in the same effect being
insignia of aggressiveness." These, he said, produced as that of which Jesus said to the
"came from a German Catholic mission." The Phariseestheir converts were made two-fold
Roman Catholic missions in native Africa, more children of Gehenna than they them-
like all other of their institutions, are under selves. The monstrous doctrines and practices
the direction of the Hierarchy, and this re- of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy have pro-
port by Lord Marley is another proof of the duced some of the human monsters of history,
Hierarchy's association with Nazism and with and still fulfill the words of Jesus. The Hier-
Hitler, and of its pushing the propaganda of archy and its representatives realize the force
the Nazis. of the proclamation of the kingdom of Christ;
hence their vicious words against Judge Ruth-
erford and their evil speaking against the
Enemies of the Kingdom proclamation.
Religionists, particularly the Roman Cath-
olic section, are very angry that the kingdom
of God is being proclaimed by Jehovah's wit- Infidel Parsons
nesses. The whole claim of religionists is chal- That almost all the parsons and clergy of
lenged by the truth; for they claim they are Protestant sects are non-believers in the Scrip-
the Kingdom. Perverting the words of Jesus tures is one of the facts of the racket of reli-
and of the apostles they claim that their gion. One of their number who bemoans this
church systems represent and are the kingdom infidelity, but who does not see that his only
of God of which Jesus spoke and the apostles course for his safety is to come out from the
wrote and spoke. These take the same position unbelieving crowd and become a witness for
as that taken by the Jews of Jesus' day. His the Kingdom, has got a cross-section inquiry
words were as an axe to the trees under which showing what proportion of the preachers do
they ruled as in kingdom power; he destroyed not believe. His inquiry was of 500 representa-
their foundations. They assumed the right to tives in the Baptist, Congregational, Meth-
rule as sitting in the seat of Moses, whom God odist and English sections. He reports 46 per-
appointed,-and of David, whom God raised to cent do not believe in the Scriptural account
be His. ruler in Israel. Jesus proclaimed the of creation; 38 percent do not believe in the
kingdom of God came with Him, and in God's Revelation; 19 percent do not believe in the
O C T O B E R 4. 1939 29
virgin birth of Jesus; 27 percent do not be- make a carload. A priest will head a procession
lieve in the second advent of the Lord; 55 per- which carries a skull or a bone, or even a
cent believe the Bible contains myths and piece of the bone of a man or woman whom a
legends. These are some of those who reject pope has beatified or made a "saint", but the
the warning message now being given by Jeho- priest who would put his own money in the
vah through His witnesses. relic business is far to seek: he knows better!

Roman Catholic Absurdities Nun's Cruelty to a Boy

A Roman Catholic "father in God" in Lon- The Bristol magistrates have dealt with a
don announced a date on which, after morn- case of shocking cruelty by a nun in a "Naza-
ing mass, / he would give his blessing on the reth" home. The case was brought before the
dogs of the attendcrs at his service. Women, court, by the Society for the Prevention of
some from hundreds of miles distant, brought Cruelty to Children. The evidence showed
their pets, and the priest, outside the building, that the boy having angered her the nun
sprinkled them with water, which he called banged his head against a door, beat him
"holy water"; and he "blessed" the dogs, first severely, put him in a cold bath, threw five
in Latin, and then in English. One of the dogs, pails of cold water on him, then beat him
an Aberdeen terrier, howled disconsolately: it again. The boy escaped and went to a relative.
was said the dog had been "blessed" once be- A doctor reported 29 weals on his back and
fore. As the women would be certain to "bless" chest and arms, and that he was in an under-
their dogs afterwards, it may be presumed nourished condition. As there was no chance
that on the whole they did not have a bad of rebutting the evidence, the nun pleaded
time. The Catholics have a "saint" "in heaven" guilty, and a lenient court bound her over to
"St." Rochewhose particular business it be of good behavior for twelve months. Judg-
is to see to the dogs of Catholics, and the day ing from other cases the preventive Society
of this "service" was the "saint's day" in their brings before the courts it might have been
calendar. The Roman Catholics in England expected that a sentence of imprisonment
have not taken the use of the "saint" for some would be given.
hundreds of years, but the dogs have missed It would not, of course, be proper to judge
nothing by the negligence of the "fathers". every "Nazareth" or "St. Joseph" Roman
Religionists of all sections badly want a re- Catholic home for children as if this one were
vival of religion; for things go badly with typical, nor every sister as being like this con-
them. The various noncomforming sections are victed nun, but it is fair comment to say that
free from much of the foolishness of the larger these homes for children ought to be open for
sections, but it is apparent that the biggest inspection by competent and impartial per-
section, the Roman Catholic, will engage in sons in authority; and it would be a good thing
absurdities in order to advertise their church. if the representatives of the Society for pre-
A woman member of that section, who says vention of cruelty should have access to them
she is a practicing Catholic, lets it be known for inspection. This care of children is one of
that she has for sale a genuine bit of the true the set policies of the great Hierarchy, and
cross, and will let it go for 100. She has a one may comment that it is policy rather than
splinter of wood one-eighth inch long, care- kindness and care that directs the homes; but
fully kept as a gem is kept, and with some the parades of the children under the guid-
proof that for some hundreds of years it has ance of sisters and nuns serves well for pub-
been considered authentic. If one did not know licity.
better it would be a natural expectation that In Britain children are one of the chief
the very rich "church", which sets so much hopes for the extension of the Roman Catholic
store on its relies, would give the small sum church. It does not make many converts
to the woman rather than let a bit of the not nearly enough to balance its losses. The
"cross" they so much revere get passed about Hierarchy, no doubt, grows in influence in the
as an ordinary salable thing. "Will a priest buy high places of power: its system of scheming
it? Not he! All of them know that there arc in official places, and of pulling political wires,
multitudes of splinters and pieces of wood in gives them an advantage which they use
the church's care, all held sacred or worshiped successfully, always in the interests of the
as parts of the true "cross", and sufficient to "church".
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 Extracts f r o m " D e a t h in Cellophane"
I More cigarettes are now sold every smokers. This means an increase of 11,500
'week than were sold in the entire beats a day, which is a heavy strain upon the
year of 1900, in which year some heart and may be the cause in later life of
^ t w o billion were manufactured; heart failure.Dr. Reed O. Brigham, Toledo,
'now more than two billion, six hun- Ohio.
dred thousand are sold every week, or more Tobacco is a slow-acting insidious poison.
than one hundred and thirty-eight billion a The smoker does not realize the danger he is
year. in till the habit gets a grip on him and quit-
Out of 300 boys brought before me charged ting is practically hopeless.W. S. Hall, M.D.
with various crimes, 295 were cigarette smok- As a physician of forty years' practice, I
ers, charged with offenses all the way from give my decided opinion that tobacco has
shooting craps to burglary. Those who do not killed ten men where whisky has killed one.
smoke seldom appear before me.Magistrate Dr. Hammon, Baltimore.
Lcroy B. Crane, New York City.
Personally I have found every one of the We positively know that tobacco causes
many boy smokers I have talked to, a liar, an heart disease, diseases of the nerves and mu-
admitted liar. The whole tendency of the cous membrane, and that it diminishes the
cigarette nicotine poison in youth is to arrest possibility of recovery from any disease.
development. It is fatal to all normal func- Dr. Matthew Woods, Philadelphia.
tions. It blights and blasts both health and We refuse to receive tobacco users in our
morals. The moral depravity which follows institution, because it is our experience in
the cigarette is something frightful. Lying, teaching more than five hundred thousand
cheating, impurity, loss of moral courage and young people that cigarettes bring shattered
manhood, are its general results.Judge Ben nerves, mental weakness, stunted growth and
Lindsay. general physical and moral degeneracy.
The effect of tobacco upon the heart of some Spencerian Business College.
100 medical students showed the average heart -.Selections from "Death in Cellophane";
rate to be increased 8 beats per minute in Charles L. Van Noppen, N.C.

GOVERNMENT AND PEACE

A New Booklet by Judge Rutherford
THE SPTRIT OF INDEPENDENCE from hypocrisy. In your interest he warns of lurk-
a foreign power still lives! A few men, im- ing danger and boldly points out the stealthy
bued with liberty, honesty, plain speech, and enemy and their methods and activities which
genuine public interest, still have the courage would deprive you at last of life, liberty,
to stand forth and display that spirit which property and happiness. Judge Rutherford
proves himself such a friend to you. With
has kept democratic countries, until recently, benefit you will prove it by reading his speech.
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Any who on June 25, 1939, heard directly York city. By beam and telephone line con-
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be honest with himself, have to admit Judge Canada, Hawaii, Australia, India and America
Rutherford is, in deed and utterance, a type heard it together.
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TESTIMONY PERIOD
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j "HE greatest privilege ever extended to a creature is that of
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\ Being of the universe, is the head of the Theocracy. Those
, _ , . - - < , ~-~j

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and regulations of Jehovah's kingdom under the direction of
Christ Jesus, His Son, and share in the magnifying of Jeho-
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People of good will today are putting forth an earnest
effort to make known throughout the entire earth the only
hope for the world, and that hope is God's kingdom. I t is very
fitting, therefore, that the month of October is set aside and
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during this period the book Salvation and the booklet Govern-
ment and Peace, which have much to say on the subject of
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If you believe that this "strange work" now being carried
on by a few people who love righteousness is right and proper,
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There is no better time than right now to have a share in com-
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many people of good will who need the comforting message
contained in Government and Peace, which will be released
for the first time world-wide.
The thing to do is to become associated with one of the
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October 18, 1939

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 Contents Appetizers
The Pope's Responsibility for the Definitions
New W a r ( P a r t 1) 3 Socialism: If you own two cows,
The Desire to Be Umpire 4 you give one to your neighbor.
Hundreds of Thousands of Prisoners 4 Communism: You give both cows
"The Sufferings Left Behind" 5
Witness Continues Despite Opposition 5
to the government and government
Hitler Guided by Demons 6
gives you back some of the milk.
Could a Whole People Worship a L i a r ? 6 Fascism: You keep the cows, but give the
Inordinate Vanity and Cowardice 7 milk to the government, which sells some of it
Bedtime Stories of Persreution 8 back to you.
"More Food for Apes" 9 New Deal ism: You shoot one cow, milk the
Vain Boasts of Patriotism 10 other, and then pour the milk down the sink.
The Rearming of Germany 10 Oregon Merchants.
Preparations for Big Putsch in Britain 12
America to Go Down Also 13 T o o Bad He Lisped
Gasparri to P u t I t Over 13
"The Qoughlin Terror" 14 "Sad about the disappearance of Prof.
F i g h t i n g for Liberty in Hubbard, Ohio 15 Hill," said James, polishing his brassie. "He
Counsel by J . F . Rutherford was a profound thinker."
The American Legion 16 "Yesalways thinking, no matter where he
Italy"Marc Nostrum"; Loves to Kill 20 was," replied another clubman. "Fancy, the
The New Government last time I saw him we were bathing, and he
Pioneering in Old Kentucky 25 suddenly called out, 'I'm thinking! I'm think-
Dog-Collar Religion in Iowa 25 in-!'" *
Pioneer Experiences 26
Sbintoism in J a p a n and in Korea 27
"You idiot!" roared James. "The professor
British Comment 28
lisped."Kansas City Star,
Checking Up on a Jesuit 31
One Way to Find Out
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"And in His name shall the nations hope."Matthew 12:21, A.R.V.
Volume XXI Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, October 18, 1939 Number 524

The Pope's Responsibility for the New War

(In Three PartsPart 1)

T H E ease and
frequency with
which the "blessings"
ed. Now the world is
again in tumult, as a
result of the activi-
of the "church" have ties of the "Practical
been showered upon Catholic", Adolf Hit-
Mussolini, Hitler and ler. This time the pope
Franco for their sep- will succeed in estab-
arate or joint cam- lishing peace, but his
paigns in Ethiopia, price will be the con-
Albania, the Saar, the trol of the whole
Rhineland, A u s t r i a , world. On this point,
Czechoslovakia, Me- at page 292 of the
rael, D a n z i g , and book Enemies, Judge
Spain, and fifteen Rutherford said:
centuries of Europe-
an history, prove that The prophecy of the
Lord shows that modern
the Roman Catholic Tyre, the Catholic or-
H i e r a r c h y is the ganization, commits for-
g r e a t e s t mischief- nication with all the na-
maker on the planet. tions and gains her de-
While it is not sire. When the Hier-
averse to ruling di- archy has gained com-
rectly, as, for exam- plete temporal power of
ple, at the r a c k e t the earth, that will in
headquarters at Vati- her mind fully establish
can City, yet it gets the conclusion that her
desire has been fully ac-
better results when it complished, and then
has its faithful sons she will say "Peace and
in positions of respon- safety" (1 Thessaloni-
sibility as kings, dic- ans 5 : 3 ) ; and then the
tators or presidents, "ten horns", that is, all
where they can be the ruling powers of the
played one against nations, "receive power
the other to suit the . . . with the beast,"
circumstances of the Ilitler in St. Iledwig's Cathedral, Berlin the League of Nations
hour. Satan's world combine being in fact a
is always in disorder, and it is in this disorder league of Fascism or
that the Vatican lias its greatest, opportunity. combined Fascist governments, dominated by the
Roman Catholic Hierarchy. "And the woman
In the last World War the pope tried to [Devil's visible religious organization, the harlot]
bring about a peace, described at the time as which thou sawest is that great city [the Hierarchy
"pro-Roman", which would have been of great organization], which rcigneth over [combined Fas-
benefit to his establishment. It was not accept- cism,] the kings of the earth."-Revelation 17:12,18.
OCTOBER 18, 1939 3
The Desire to Be Umpire wear black uniforms, with,a.skull and.crossboues
The desire to be umpire of earth's affairs is on their hideous helmets.
always in the mind of every pope. Consolation Germany, in man power, in money and in raw
for August 23, 1939, calls attention to pro- materials, is today less able than in 1914 to conduct
posals for a peace conference that the pope a war with England and France on the other side.
The arrogant dictators know that the so-called
called or suggested calling prior to the out- "democratic" and chiefly Protestant nations are
break of hostilities between Germany and readily bluffed by the Catholic-Fascist-Nazi com-
Poland. bine.
In his series of collection envelopes on the There is sufficient evidence that neither the Ger-
one for the third week of September, 1939, mans nor the- Austrians nor the Czechoslovakia's
Andrew J. Brennan, bishop of Richmond, Va., ever had the opportunity of a free and uncon-
is made to say, "Responsibility to bring about trolled ballot. It is now history that Hitler was
and maintain a lasting peace rests primarily greatly aided in his apparently miraculous rise'to
upon the shoulders of Catholics in all nations." power by the Catholic element. His first success
The philosophy of this is that General Franco was in Bavaria, the most Catholic part of Germany.
is a Catholic; if he had kept the peace in Hitler speaks only behind bullet-proof glass, and
Spain, then Spain would not have been torn for public demonstrations generally uses a double.
asunder by civil war. Mussolini is a Catholic; Recently one such double, who was called" bis
chauffeur, was shot and killed.
if he had kept the peace in Ethiopia, the lives of
thousands of innocents would have been saved. My estimate is that forty percent of the people,
the young who were greatly benefited by the Hitler
Hitler is a Catholic; if he had kept the peace regime, support the present Nazi government; a
in Czechoslovakia and Poland, thousands further forty percent arc frightened into subjec-
would now be in comfort who today are either tion; and only about twenty percent are engaged.in
dead or in utter wretchedness. Japan is un- more or less active opposition.
der Catholic influence, which partly accounts The economic crisis is world-wide; and being a
for, the fact that there is no peace in Asia. result of the World War, it can not be charged to
John T. Archbishop McNicholas, of Cincin- any one government. But imported goods, particu-
nati, wants all Catholics in his realm to pray larly . foodstuffs, are scarce in Germany. There .is
to Christ to grant peace to the whole world. a marked shortage of coffee, butter, eggs, pork,
good flour, sugar, onions and fruits; also of silks
If they thus pray they will be wasting their and woolen goods.
breath. The greatest war of all time, Arma-
geddon, is ahead. The only survivors of that
Hundreds of: Thousands of Prisoners
time will be those who are firmly on the Lord's
side, on the side of true Christianity,.and Dr. Crone and other officials of the so-called
"Department 1 of Justice" of Germany have freely
against the Devil's religion, which is its exact admitted the ever more difficult problem of dealing
opposite, and of which the Roman Hierarchy with the many hundreds of thousands of prisoners
is chief spokesman. created by the Hitler regime. Recently I bad: the
A message from Vatican City stated that pleasure,of meeting a.former German Minister jdf
President Roosevelt had sent a personal mes- Justice, Dr. Breitscheidt. He declared that he great-
sage to the pope inviting him to call on him ly respects. the Bible Students, or witnesses .^f
for assistance in connection with any inter- Jehovah, 6,000 of whom are imprisoned -in Ger-
national political scheme for "peace" he might many; because they are the only group of Chris*
tiahs suffering martyrdom for their faith and'lby?
have oh hand. The message was conveyed, not alty to God and. to His Word. These are the only
in a-state paper, but by word of'mouthy ones who refuse to accept the Totalitarian religion,
through President Roosevelt's close personal which places the .State above God; and they 'refuse
friend, Monsignor Amleto Giovanni Cicogna- to- honor or "worship the human Fuehrer as God.
ni, apostolic delegate to Washington. The treatment of prisoners is not the same in
all-parts of-Germany, iand those actually in prison
Conditions in Europe are less cruelly treated than those in concentration
Says Martin Harbeck: camps. But the crimes committed by the Niazi-
As far back as 1923 and 1924 Catholic gangsters" with the official approval of the present
priests and writers in Bavaria advo- German government, cry to heaven; and if only
cated a crusade against Jews, Com- a portion of them were known and believed-by the
munists, - Pacifists and others, - and honest people of the world, that knowledge would
preached the superiority of the Aryan certainly cause air the good people, in tho^wprtd
race. The storm troopers are nearly all very young to turn.away-from such barbarians in disgust and
men, taken chiefly from Catholic families. They abhorrence.
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 A truthful report of-hundreds of such cases of persecution in Germany. The witness work is in-
ill-treatment of Jehovah's witnesses in Germany creasing particularly in France, Belgium, Nether-
was-recently published by the E u r o p a Publishers, lands and Switzerland. Thousands of people of
at Zurich, Switzerland, in the German language, good will are gladly hearing the message of the
and now by the Presses Universitaires, in Paris, truth and are then leaving the Devil's organization.
in the French language. The title of that book is Where formerly were small companies for Bible
"Crusade Against Christianity". Having read this study there are now larger assemblies and increased
book, a number of well-known writers, professional activities. I n Germany, Jews, Communists, Social-
men and foremost journalists in Europe have ists and other groups are silenced to a large extent
expressed their deepest sympathy with ' these by the. terror of the blackshirts, but not so Jeho-
suffering and persecuted Christians. F o r example, vah's witnesses. I t is often reported how they con-
Dr. Thomas Mann, the bearer of the Noble prize tinue to -speak of their faith, and they are even
for literature, wrote concerning Jehovah's wit- heard to sing joyfully in prison cells and concentra-
nesses: tion camps.
The following is from a Swiss newspaper, "The
"The Sufferings Left Behind" St. Gall D a i l y " :
I have read your book and its terrible documenta- The French journalist, Jean Fontenoy, recently ob-
tion with deepest emotion. I cannot describe the mixed tained permission to observe with hiB own eyea the
feeling of abhorrence and loathing which has filled life in the concentration camp Oranienburg. The
my heart while perusing these records of human deg- commander of the camp, a general, personally took
radation and abominable cruelty. Human speech fails the journalist through the camp. A lengthy report has
in the presence of the unspeakable perversity revealed appeared in t h e . ' ' J o u r n a l ' ' regarding this inspection.
in these pages, on which are recorded the awful suf- We give herewith an abbreviated but faithful report
ferings of. innocent men and women who firmly hold concerning what the commander thinks of' the Bible
fast to their faith. In viewing Huch indescribable con- StudentsJehovah's -witnessesand how ho "tries to
ditions the voice would fain be silent, but to keep solve the problem they create for him.
quiet would serve only the moral- indifference of the
world, and further the despicable non-interference " T h e Bible Students," grumbled the general. '<I
policy, and make for a guilty conscience. Will it be have erected Bpecial barracks for them, where they
possible to shock the world even for a moment by your are isolated behind barbed wire which is electrically
presentation of these disgusting facts? One hardly charged, in order that they may not get in contact
dares to hope for it. At any rate you have done your with the other inmates. I t is forbidden for others to
duty in publishing this book and bringing these facts come closer than seven yards to the barracks of the
to light. I t Beems to me that there is no greater ap- Bible Students. But nothing avails. If I forbid them
peal to the world's conscience. to smoke, they Bay they don't smoke at all. If I per-
mit them to write only one letter every third month,
Pastor T. Bruppacher, a thoughtful and noble- they do not even write that one letter. It is really
minded Protestant minister, wrote: distracting. Recently the wife of such a Bible Student
came and begged for her husband 'a release. I had the
While the German church controversy enjoys the man brought, but he looked at his wife as if he did
favorable interest of official Christendom, we here not know her. She cried and pleaded, saying, ' W e
have an unobserved company, standing and suffering have nothing to eat and I have no one. to. help us.'
in the foremost posts. While men who call themselves The Bible Student answered, ' Ton have Jehovah.
Christians have failed in the decisive tests, these un- The woman: ' I plead with you to sign the pledge and
known witnesses of Jehovah, as Christian martyrs, return to us.' The man: ' Go and pray more earnestly
are maintaining unshakable opposition against coer- to Jehovah.' V
cion of conscience and heathen idolatry. The future
historian must some day acknowledge that not the The general engaged in a dialogue between himself
great-churches, but these slandered and scoffed-at and Johann Huber, 27 years of age. He asked, " W h y
people, were the ones who stood up first against the
are.you in the concentration carnpT" "BecauBe I
rage of the Nazi demon, and who dared to make have worshiped the.Lord." " W h i c h . L o r d ? " " J e h o -
opposition according to the faith. They suffer and v a h . " " B o you acknowledge our Fuehrer as your
bleed, because, as Jehovah's witnesses and candidates
head or s u p e r i o r ! " " I do not know of whom you
for ."the Kingdom of Christ, they refuse the worship
speak; my superior or head is Jehovah." " W h o am
of Hitler and the Swastika. These peculiar Christians
I ! ' * . ' ' Y o u are one of. Jehovah's creatures." -"Am
are accounted worthy to suffer for His name's sake,I your superior or n o t T " " Y o u are a creature of
and they have humbly proved that they really know Jehovah." " D o yon have to obey me or n o t ? " " I
how to defend their high titlethat of Jehovah's have to obey Jehovah."
witnesses. Whoever permits these documents to speak
to him in all their sincerity will begin to see the The general turned to me with a bitter smile and
maligned Bible Students in a new light. He will notsaid, " Y o u cannot do a thing with them, neither
again judge them in his own self-righteousness. with mildness nor with harshness; it is all "of" no
avail.'' This dialogue hadr been listened-to with vis-
ible pleasure by about, fifty other prisoners near by.
Witness. Continues Despite Opposition The commander a s k e d , ' ' Did. you obserye;these others f
The work of Jehovah's witnesses, of informing Do you understand now;why I keep the Bible Students
the.^peopie of good will about Jehovah's kingdom, apart from the others fT/hey would; ptart a small revo-
and: announcing the destruction of the wicked at lution within a few hours;; they are-the wor&t .=of
Armageddon, progresses.despite the opposition and: them a l l . "
O C T O B E R 18, 1939
 This discussion had caused me to think might ruin his life's work, and that Eden and
and later, at noon, 1 referred again to Halifax tried to reason with him. The demons
this theme of the Bible Students and
said, " Y o u have here 450 Bible Student* are out to wreck the world, and only God's
in this camp, but do they really belong almighty hand can frustrate their design. Hu-
*" here? Most of them must be good and man wisdom will be unavailing.
harmless people; they seem to me to be somewhat like
saints, at any rate really harmless." Nothing that the man says can be believed.
A Berlin official accompanying the party through He is probably the world's most shameless liar.
the camp stated it is hard to find the secret places in Somebody noticed that the letters in A H-I-T-
Germany where the Bible Students' literature is still L-E-R and T-H-E L-I-A-R are the same.
being printed; no one carries names or addresses and
no one betrays another. When 250 were arrested at Early in 1937 laws were passed in Germany
Hamburg and their papers and press were confiscated, prohibiting Germans from participating in
and it was thought that this would stop the circula- the war in Spain. At that very time the Ger-
tion of a certain magazine, within two weeks after the man troops were pouring in, and it was Ger-
raid the paper reappeared as before and the police
had not heen able since then to discover the place man transport planes, in the very first hours
where printed, nor any of the distributors. of the conspiracy, that carried thousands of
This firmness of faith and unparalleled courage heathen Moors into Spain to there fight the
causes many who witness the terrible persecutions pope's battles. Said Thomas Mann, German
to inquire as to the source of such steadfastness. author, in an address at Princeton University:
A number of cases are known where prison guards Germany fell into the hands of leaders so de-
and other prisoners have forsaken all else to p u t praved that perhaps in all history there has been
themselves on the Lord's side while yet there is time. recorded no second case of such dishonor to spirit
A righteous indignation against the instigators and intellect, justice, truth and freedom. Their
of the persecutions of Jehovah's witnesses, namely, reign of violence has made it impossible for any-
the Catholic-Fascist combine, wells up in the heart one who has some feeling for human dignity and
of every real Christian. This persecution of Chris- moral responsibility to breathe the air of that
tians is a fulfillment of Divine prophecy. Other country.New York World-Telegram.
prophecies show that the day of accounting for the On Monday, September 4, only the next day
great bloodguilt which the present generation has after Britain declared that a state of war pre-
heaped upon itself is a t hand. vailed as between it and Germany, the British
Government bombarded the people of the
Hitler Guided by Demons Reich with 6,000,000 leaflets containing assur-
The statement that Hitler is a close student ance that the war is not against the German
of astrology, and that he maps his course by people but against this colossal liar, Hitler,
the stars, is only another way of saying that trained by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and
he is guided by demons. The teaching that any by the Devil for the work he is now doing.
man is guided in his course by any star or any The broadcast leaflets contained in German
combination of stars is a denial of every truth these statements:
contained in the Scriptures. That does not " H e [Hitler] gave his word that he would re-
mean that the demons are ignorant of what is spect the Locarno T r e a t y ; he broke it.
going on in the world, and it docs not mean " H e gave his word that he neither wished nor
they cannot twist together plausible state- intended to annex Austria; he broke it.
ments supposedly but not actually in harmony " H e declared he would not incorporate the
with the movements of the stars. So it is not Czechs in the Reich; he did so.
without interest that in her dispatch to the " H e gave his word after Munich that he had no
Chicago Tribune, from Berlin, on July 13, further territorial demands in E u r o p e ; he broke it.
Sigrid Schultz, who familiarized herself with " H e gave his word he wanted no Polish prov-
the teachings of Hitler's astrologers, reports inces; he broke it.
one of them as saying: " H e has sworn to you for years he was the mortal
enemy of Bolshevism; he is now its ally.
Russia and Germany together will settle the "Can you wonder that for us his word is not
Polish problem. The world will be astounded by worth the p a p e r it is written on!"New York
the developments of the next few weeks. When Post, September 4, 1939.
Russia and Germany co-operate the British empire
will automatically fall asunder. Could a Whole People Worship a Liar?
Hitler is guided by "voices" (which are the Oddly enough, the answer to the question,
voices of wicked spirits), and it is all in vain "Could a whole people worship a liar?" is
that Churchill appealed to him to consider a most emphatic Yes. The world as a whole
the consequences of a single rash act which has done that very thing from the time of
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Lucifer's lie in the garden of Eden until this 5) (A P a r t y member from Berlin) " I left the
very moment. The Devil, using religion and Church with the firm conviction that the Christian
religionists as his vehicles of expression, has religion was a man-made faith professing to be the
will of God, but having nothing in common with
so thoroughly established in the minds of the that power which we call God. I believe the fellow-
people that they live on after they are dead ship of blood and race is a fellowship much more
that "the whole world lieth in the wieked one" desired by God" than all the religious fellowships
and there are few that believe the statement built up by man. I frequently ponder, could I face
of the Creator himself that "the dead know my Leader and Father, Adolf Hitler, if be knew
not any thing". my thoughts and my work. My religious observance
Below is set out some of the evidence that is a daily hour of quiet thought. . . . And then an
many of the German people have actually inner glow comes upon me, an indescribable feeling
of satisfaction, if after mature consideration, I
made this Jesuit-trained man, Hitler, into a come to the conclusion that my father, Adolf Hit-
"god" (as Moses was made a god in Pharaoh's ler, would bless this or that action of mine."
eyes). In its Celebration Number, in answer
to the question, "What does The Fuehrer mean 6) (Another P a r t y member) "F>very flower that
blooms, blooms in gratitude to him; every apple
to you?" the Sckwarzc Korps published the that ripens, ripens in gratitude to him."
following. President Roosevelt, who wants the 7) (A H a m b u r g woman) " I should like to say
people to have more religion, and the New once for all, that the lofty teaching of my Fuehrer
York Chamber of Commerce, that wants the is now my religion, the German religion, and I can
people to have more religion, and all the other think of nothing finer."
panjandrums that recommend religion as a 8) (A Reader from F r a n k f u r t ) " W h a t misuse
cure-all, would do well to ponder deeply. is made by men of the word 'Fuehrer'. This word
1) (A Viennese) "My Fuehrer gave me not only should only be applied to Adolf Hitler himself and
a political 'Weltanschauung' but also a religion. we should impregnate our people from youth up
H e gave me a faith, which even as a child I had with reverence for this word as the Christian
never possessed. This faith is a faith in ourselves, Church reveres the name of God."
in our strength and our greatness, in the mysterious 9) (A Mother in Unterammcrgau) "My children
power of Blood, our Soil and the German na- know the Fuehrer as a man, who orders all things,
tion. . . . " rules all things, who built the world. The Fuehrer
2) (An S.S. Man.) "Even to attempt to put into is for my children that visible Being, which we as
words what I feel for my Fuehrer appears to me children were taught to recognize as God. . . ."
profane. . . . I t makes my heart heavy to think These people worship Hitlerj Hitler wor-
that the Fuehrer today belongs to so many, whereas ships the Roman Catholic system in which he
during the time of our early struggle, he belonged was trainedit is his god; and the Roman
only to us, a comparatively few. I am jealous of
every person with whom I must share him. May I
Catholic Hierarchy worships and serves the
be forgiven for this sacred egoism." Devil, manifests his spirit and is his most de-
3) (A P a r t y member in Berlin) "Formerly we voted and most honored child. The chain is
were brought u p to be religious, trained in a faith complete. The German people that worship
divorced from reality, which seemed impersonal, Hitler are worshiping the Devil, whether they
abstract and un-German. This outlook did not im- know it or not.
prove man, hardly strengthened him, but rather
deprived him of courage and initiative. . . . Faith Inordinate Vanity and Cowardice
in the Fuehrer and his work have given me strength The German people in all lands have done
to force my life to higher things. In this godless,
mammon-worshiping world, torn with hate and
all they could to make a fool of Hitler, and
murder, this world of insanity and chaos, a temple he has cheerfully gone them one better every
of light has arisen, throwing its rays afar and time. The golden crown presented to him at
pointing to a future far more beautiful than our the middle of June is said to have been paid
past." for by Nazis in 61 countries. Those at Buenos
4) (A lawyer from Dortmund) " W e know that Aires alone contributed 31,455 pesos ($7,700)
we are in the g r i p of a feeling whose essence and of the amount, so says the newspaper Critica
depth we can scarcely determine and which renders of that city.
us dumb. Reverence, love, loyalty, gratitude, self- It is admitted by all who have listened to
abnegationall make u p this feeling which yet
surpasses them all. But the most revered father,
him that Hitler has the power to produce mass
the most deeply loved mother, the most loyal wife hypnotism of his audiences. Mass hypnotism
and the most trusted friend rouse in our hearts is mass demonism; but the demons are no
music far less exalted than the song our souls sing fools. They have had centuries of experience,
to the Fuehrer." and so they select for their work some man
OCTOBER 18, 1939
who can. he used to "put it across". Hitler is many. There is fresh evidence for this issue,
such .a man. The following from Mein Kampf and here it is, from Catholic sources:
shows that even he himself does not fully real- Little by little the truth gradually leaks
ize-that the power working through him is not out on all subjects, for the reason that the
himself, but that of WEOMt Lord himself has stated that "there is nothing
Meetings at which I talked about the covered but shall be revealed". In view, there-
peace treaties seemed never to end, for fore, of the oft-repeated yarns in the kept
I considered this a vital subject and press about mistreatment of the Catholic
repeated my speech of denunciation Church in Germany, it is with some interest
again and again in endless repetition; that the following statements are taken from
I gradually p u t it in better form until a t last I a column by the Catholic writer Bertram de
was driving a powerful message into the heart Colonna, published in the London Catholic
of the people. This constant practice in addressing Herald:
meetings slowly but surely made me clever in the
use of the pathos and the gestures needed to sway While it is true that there have been differences
audiences of thousands. between some Catholics and officials in Germany,
there has never been any prohibition of church
I began to talkand kept on talking for around
services, nor have any churches been burned and
two and one-half-hoursand I at once felt that
sacked, or priests Untreated or murdered in Ger-
the meeting was to be a great success. Immediately
many.
I was in contact with the audience. After an hour
applause broke out more and more often, in great Anyone who takes the trouble to visit a Catholic
outbursts, and then ebbed away after two hours, p a r t of Germany will see that priests and lay
until I finished in that solemn silence which will brothers go about their business untroubled. Lay
never be forgotten by a soul who was there, and brothers serve in the beer rooms attached to mon-
which I afterwards experienced so many times in asteries in many parts, and groups of excursion-
this room. Almost nothing but the soft breathing ists, largely wearing badges of the National Social-
of the mass could be heard, and suddenly when I ist P a r t y , drop in there.
had finished applause rose like thunder, and then The London Catholic Universe states that
release was found in fervent singing of "Deutsch- on Hitler's birthday Cardinal Innitzer ordered
land ueber Alles". all Austrian churches to ring bells, fly the
Every dictator is a personal coward, and Swastika flag and say special prayers for the
has to be; for his life is constantly at stake, Fuehrer. Does that look like persecution?
because of the wrongs of which he is guilty. Mosley, Britain's would-be Hitler, in a
The claim is now made that Hitler has a speech at North London, said of religious per-
private tunnel twelve miles long, between his secution in Germany:
hideout at Berchtesgaden and the city of I think the clash between State and Church in
Salzburg, enough to give him a good start if Germany will soon end. There has, after all, been
it ever becomes necessary for him to make a friction between the temporal and spiritual power
in Germany for centuries, on and off. At present
quick getaway. more money is paid by the State to the Church
His plane is of sufficient capacity to fly than ever before a n d more people attend church
non-stop from Berlin to New York, and it has than ever before.In London Catholic Herald.
been fitted with every comfort and safety Disposing now of a couple of widely publi-
gadget known to man. It.has four engines and cized claims of "persecution", here are the
a speed of '220 miles an hour. It is not a bad facts, and facts are all anyone should desire.
investment for him, and he may need it yet. Read them and judge for yourself. Hereafter,
New York city would find an empty apart- in what was once Austria, there will be joint
ment for him and he would hold the headlines control of promotions in the Roman Catholic's
for three days, maybe four, before he shriveled clergy. There are to be no changes in person-
to his true size and passed out of public notice. nel except such as meet Nazi approval. The
Nazis will also decide who are to study for the
Bedtime Stories of Persecution priesthood. The New York Daily News do-
In order to put over its seizure of the worM voted its entire front page to the idea that the
the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is bound to Nazis had stormed the archbishop's palace at
pretend that it is suffering persecution, even Salzburg, whereas the simple facts are that the
while its. faithful sons are breaking every law building belonged to the Government sinee
known to man. These columns have contained 1802, and the latter part of April notice had
inany pages of evidence that there is no perse- been served on the archbishop to look for other
cution of the Roman Catholic Church in Ger- quarters. He neglected to do so and, after a
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 Hitler thugs, gunmen and plain assassins as.worthy
rulers for their own protection he is dealing in a
brand of bunkum that won't go far in this country.
The editor of the Post Tribune is no fool.
He knows that the <rReverend Father" Tiso
betrayed what was left of his country into the
hands of Hitler, and did it to crush Protes-
tants throughout the republic. Earlier in the
editorial he said:
month's delay, one time when he came back Who is this Reverend Kochis, and what is his
he found the landlord in control and himself purpose in this country? Was he sent over here
dispossessed. Subsequently the archbishop by the German-controlled government of Dr. Tiso
Sigismund Waitz was offered the free use of to pull the wool over the eyes of Slovaks living in
several rooms in the palace, but he thought the America?
Hierarchy would gain more by maintaining
its pretense of "persecution", so he took up his "More Food for Apes"
residence in one of the man)' monasteries with The London Catholic Herald contained a
which the neighborhood is cursed, instead. five-column interview with Sir Oswald Mosley
entitled "Mosley Discusses Need Church and
In Austria and Czechoslovakia State Clash", in which Mosley made it dear
. The basis for stories of persecution of the that his outfit, if it gains control of Britain,
Catholic Church in Austria seems to arise will "always treat the spiritual and moral
from the fact that up to September 1, 1939, authority of the Vatican in international
each Koman Catholic priest received from the affairs with the utmost respect". In the next
government an allowance of 120 marks month- issue the Herald seemed to be referring to its
ly, but after that date Catholics, like other own readers when it used the headline which
persons, would be taxed to maintain their introduces this paragraph. Mosley admits that
churches and priests. Hitherto, because theirs he has more Catholics in his outfit than their
was the State church, Catholics did not pay proportion in the country would warrant. It
any religious tax. is all as plain as day.
Having conspired with Hitler to destroy the Our Sunday Visitor takes gleeful note that
Republic of Czechoslovakia, and his own the Rome-directed Germany-Italy-Japan axis
priests having been in the forefront in the could, in a few years, crush the democracies
betrayal of that country, once the center of by birth rates alone. It mentions that while,
Protestantism in Europe, the pope now tells in England, other schools are forced to close
the Slovak premier that he will need "much because of decreased attendance, yet Oatholie
perspicacity and prudence, a great deal of schools in that country have actually increased
brotherly feeling", etc., etc., to get along with in number, even though there has been a slight
the present situation (in which everything of decrease in- attendance.
any value in the country is being lugged off Speaking of conditions in France, Our Sun-
to Germany and the Czechoslovakian people day Visitor of July 16, 1939, also said:
are being turned into slaves). The older ones-among our readers will recall ^hat,
Under the title "Who Sent Reverend Kochis nearly forty years -ago, the then President of
to Make Speeches Here?" the Gary (Ind.j France dissolved the Concordat which France-had
Post Tribune quoted the '^Reverend Father* had with; the Holy See, and not only forced all
John Kochis as lauding the German govern- Religious Orders to give up the work of teaching
ment to the skies and saying that the people in school, but forbade them to wear their religious
garb. Such a change has come over France in re-
of Slovakia are perfectly satisfied with it. The cent years that-these: laws have been disregarded,
Post Tribune, knows perfectly well who sent but because they are still on the Statute Books,
the '^Reverend Father" Kochis to-Gary. It also there is now. a movement in Parliament itself to
knows that if it mentioned the Roman Cath- repeal the hostile legislation. In fact, a bill is ready
olic Hierarchy in that connection it wonid for presentation to Parliament, already backed by
lose most of its advertisers and subscribers. more than 200 Deputies, to repeal the law against
But, viewed from a distance, it is a Safe bet Religious Orders.
that it will be disciplined for its editorial It is hardto choose-between murderers, and
which winds up with this -paragraph: say which is the more shameless, Hitler with
When Reverend Kochis attempts to present the his rapes of Austria and Czechoslovakia, or
OCTOBER 18, 1939 9
Mussolini with his rapes of Ethiopia and Al- an intelligent, well-read man. He can hardly
bania, or both of them in their rape of Spain. be ignorant of the more than 2,000 cases of
The pope has just now "blessed" Mussolini, persecution of Jehovah's witnesses, in almost
publicly asking God's blessing on his head. every state in the United States, their arrest,
Now he should do the same for Hitler, and imprisonment, beating, choking, tarring and
then for Al Capone, "Father" Coughlin and feathering, and other abuse, mainly by agents
Judge Man ton. of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. How, then,
Within the past few years three prominent is it that he could say, in his address to the
persons have been made Knights of the Order United Spanish War Veterans:
of the Annunciation. The first was Emperor This country was founded by pioneers who came
Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, the second was here to escape political or religious persecution.
King Zog of Albania, and the third was von Since; then millions of others have followed them.
Ribbentrop, the German Foreign minister. They have found happy homes in the New World.
When they sailed from their homes in the Old
Vain Boasts of Patriotism World they left behind the enmities which divide
n c v e r v anc nation ..from nation, race from race, creed from
f^K 1& ^ l * *" e Roman Catholic creed, class from class. The spirit of democratic
f ^ ^ ^ Hierarchy trains its spokesmen to America will not tolerate such hatreds and divisions
boast of their patriotism. It is a here.In New York Times.
settled policy of the "church", and The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is not being
is policy only. It is perfectly will- persecuted in South Africa. Far from it. It is
ing to have millions of Catholics killed on each doing its best to align the natives on the side
side in any war, if only the interests of the of Hitler and the totalitarian states with which
racket operating out of Vatican City are taken he is associated. Under the headline "Nyasa-
care of. land and Northern Rhodesia" the London
In an address in New York city, as reported Daily Telegraph of August 1, 1939, contained
in the Baltimore Sun, the "Most Reverend" a report of a discussion in the British House
James E. Kearney, bishop of Salt Lake, made of Lords on the possible amalgamation of the
the statement, two colonies. One of the speakers was Lord
"There is only one flag for our children and that Marley. In one of these two countries (he did
is the American flag. The children are taught to not say which) he said:
salute it under penalty of disrespect to Almighty In a school for native teachers I found books
God." containing pictures of Berlin, swastikas and "Heil
The bishop could use the same argument to Hitler" and the various insignia of aggressiveness.
Hitler regarding saluting the swastika and These came from a German Catholic mission.
it would be just as true. Indeed, Catholic Afraid the people will learn some of the
bishops in Austria and Germany have repeat- truths of history, the representatives of the
edly urged their flocks to vote for Hitler and Roman Catholic Hierarchy in South Africa
to support him in every way in the work of hollered "Bloody murder!" because one of the
the Devil in which he is engaged. postage stamps in honor of the 250th anni-
The Commonweal, a Catholic magazine, versary of the Huguenots showed a sun rising
seems to hit the nail on the head when it says over dark clouds. The Roman Catholic Church
of "Reverend Father" Coughlin that he is was not mentioned in any way, but, for reasons
given to "all too pious acceptance of propa- best known to the squawkers and to every
ganda from a party whose Fuehrer proudly student of history, it is believed by the Hier-
boasts his machine is based on huge lies". That archy that the dark clouds represent earth's
is an ingenious way of calling both Hitler and greatest curse, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy,
Coughlin liars in a single sentence. And it and its teachings and practices.
diverts attention from the wicked Hierarchy
itself. The Rearming of Germany
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is not be- In the year 1938 the following
ing persecuted in the United States, but it democracies did what they could
is persecuting others for the very same reason to rearm Germany and prepare
that it is now sympathetic with the idea of her for the Munich peace which
another huge war. It hopes to stop the mouths ensued. Opposite the name of each
of Jehovah's witnesses. democracy is set the number of tons of scrap
Governor Lehman, of New York State, is iron and steel which each such democracy
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sold to their avowed and prospective enemy: that has something in it besides words. The
Tacoma Times and the Santa Barbara News
United States 462,782 Netherlands 93,679 Press recently carried a column well worth
Belgium 244,842 France 82,560 reading, which the Times labeled "Perdix
Great Britain 117,818 Luxemburg 58,219 Points to Pope; Sees Practiced Hand of Vati-
For the past fifteen can Behind Political
years Germany has Moves of Europe's
been buying the en- Powers". This ' col-
tire output of a Swed- umn, published June
ish arsenic mine, and 21, drew attention to
s t o r i n g it, 100,000 "the published inti-
tons at a time. At the mation that His Holi-
I. G. works at Essen ness the Pope would
are 28,000 workers en- look with apprehen-
gaged in m a k i n g sion upon a tripartite
b o m b s which have Anglo-French-Soviet
this arsenic as a base. pact" (because that
When the bombs fall would hinder the loy-
there is no gas mask al C a t h o l i c Hitler
that can withstand from overrunning the
the smoke that issues world), and contained
f o r t h from t h e s e the following para-
bombs. As the odor graph which, for rea-
penetrates the mask sons best known to
the wearer becomes t h e m s e l v e s , other
deathly sick, yanks newspapermen avoid
off the mask and dies. mentioning.
Persons in this day Economic experts be-
would be hard put to lieve the church's hold-
it to imagine a worse ings in Greater Ger-
hell than has been many, which (excluding
developed right here Czechoslovakia) are re-
on terra firma. The liably e s t i m a t e d at
clergy are ready to equivalent to about $20,-
bless any part of this 000,000,000, may have
hell, for a considera- been a determining fac-
tor. Also, the Vatican's
tion. All they ask is conviction that German
that the big Devil expansion into the east
whom they love and into p r e d o m i n a n t
whom they serve will C a t h o l i c areasis a
make it hot for those f o r e g o n e conclusion;
who are e x p o s i n g hence, that a modus
their racket through- vivendi with the reich
out " C h r i s t e n d o m " . is not only desirable,
but imperative. High
None of this has Catholic circles, inci-
been done without dentally, are convinced
the knowledge of the Cologne (Germany) Cathedral flying swastika that a growing number
pope, and none of it without his approval. of Catholics among German population will in
Plenty of newspapermen know this, but fear therefore time be a moderating influence per se, and should
be cultivated. That Vatiean influence has
to tell it, and cannot get the newspapers to been steadily rising in England in the last two
put their stories in type even if they do tell it. years is an open secret.
The exceptions are few and far between, and
they have to be mighty careful what they say. As is well known, the rearming of Germany
"Perdix" is one of the exceptions. was both physical and mental. H i t l e r is a past
"Perdix," noted foreign affairs expert, con- master in the a r t of rabble-rousing, feebly
tributes a column to various western papers imitated in the United States by " F a t h e r "
OCTOBER 18, 1939 11
Ooughlinboth trained in the same devilish whom he will. It was a Roman Catholic achieve-
school, and, to date, both abject followers of ment throughout and typical of the history of
arid worshipers of the Roman Catholic sys- earth's most diabolical system of rackets.
tem. Respecting Hitler's achievements over No sooner had Britain begun to take refu-
the radio (worked out largely by Goebbels, gees from Czechoslovakia than the dreaded
his propaganda manager) Edgar Weir, in the Gestapo of Germany began to come in, in the
London News Chronicle of April 11, 1939, guise of refugees themselves, and they had no
wrote: sooner than landed when they began the works
Radio propaganda is like the fascinating eye of of intimidation of GeTman servant girls and
a serpent that attempts to hypnotize its victim other German workers as only the Gestapo
until it allows itself to be swallowed without re- could or would do.
sistance. A sad note, since Britain entered the war,
Germany has recently developed an entirely new is that the new gas masks for babies were
system of expansion. After a period of "build-up" made in gay and attractive colors so that their
to win the confidence of foreign listeners, they are
gradually treated to more and more propaganda mothers could teach the little things to play
describing the beauties of Germany and how with them. What a travesty this so-called
smoothly everything works there. Then they are "civilization" has become!
told of the terrible conditions in other countries, One of the principal vehicles that the Hier-
including their own. They are taught to be dis- archy uses at a time like this, or at any time,
contented with their own governments. They arc to carry on its work of promoting the rise of
promised mountains of gold and good things. Final- the totalitarian states at the expense of the
ly, the broadcasts take on an aggreaUTStone. They people is the confessional. Speaking of this
become less truthful. What the Germans call
"Hetzpropaganda" and "Atrocity Propaganda", diabolical system of snooping into the public
and of which they accuse the foreign Press and and private affairs of everybody, Sydney
radio, is used with great effect by their own stations. Morrell, writing in the Glasgow Scottish Daily
Express, lauds the pope to the skies, exagger-
When the Titanic was finished and started ates the number of his followers and spills the
on its maiden trip it was announced that it beans when he says of the espionage branch
was unsirikable. It never got across even once. of the racket:
I t ran into an iceberg and, after being sliced
from end to end, went down off Newfoundland, Pius the Twelfth is the head of 375,000,000 Ro-
man Catholics and the Vatican is the best informed
to rise no more. More recently the Fuehrer of all Governments, which is to say that it is best
completed, at a cost of hundreds of millions informed on the ways and thoughts of millions of
of dollars and with the aid of 300,000 slaves, men and women who build up nations. The arch-
a 400-mile line of; forts from Switzerland to bishops and cardinals who send their regular re-
the Netherlands. Hitler pronounced the com- ports to. JEtome obtain their material from the
pleted line as invincible and impregnable, and pastors and parish priests who are intimately in
within a week the Rhine rose to an unwonted touch with their flocks.
height and swamped machine-gun nests and
would have drowned their occupants except America to Go Down Also
that they could and did flee to higher ground. America is part of the "Seventh World
The story came from France. The Germans Power", and is scheduled to go down also.be-
say it is not true. fore the totalitarian monstrosity which has its
real headquarters at Vatican City. I t will be
Preparations for Big Putsch in Britain grabbed peacefully, if possible, and politi-
W^jSfK M a J o r Hugh B. C. Pollard, English cians, preachers and plutocrats will be used to
^ Catholic, has the unique distinction put it over, but the Hierarchy is not taking
of being responsible for the death any chances and intends to silence Jehovah's
of 2,000,000 of his. fellow men. It witnesses, law or no.law, and utterly regard-
was .he who, under instructions less of what may be the desires or even the
from higher-ups in ; his "faith", illegally, flew knowledge or intentions of the American peo-
a plane to Franco the Butcher, then in exile ple. To do this they have to have the aid of
in the Canary islands. He occupied a seat of the Press, and that they have, for they control
so-called "honor" in the victory parade in it absolutely. No American newspaper dares
Madrid, because without his treachery the buck the Hierarchy. To do so is to lose all its
2,000,000 would never have been slain and advertisers and many of its subscribers, and
Franco would not now be privileged to murder t h u s t o PAIL.
12 CONSOLATION
 Says.Boy Goodrich, on this subject of the ballots" and the impaling of law-abiding citizens
Press, and the weak-kneed public officials who on red-hot spikes ? Why are such wicked and whole-
do nothing even when the evidence is in front sale crimes camouflaged and countenanced as "con-
of them constantly: stitutional liberties" by an emasculated press and
The Saturday Evening Post of May 27, 1939, by a supine and cringing officialdom? To real pa-
features an article entitled "Star-Spangled Fas- triotic, law-abiding Americans such as Jehovah's
cists", under a large photograph of a nocturnal witnesses, the strong-arm squad makes answer with
conclave of such, in which the American flag occu- a cuff and a curse: " S t o p telling on them! Shut
pies a prominent place. To the average American u p ! ! Salute the flag, and be patriotic like they
reader, blindfolded and unwary, this article puts a r e ! ! ! Come on with us for a ride!!!" Democracy?
across with power the Catholic Action? Look
idea t h a t A m e r i c a n in the WATCHTOWER
democracy is both help- publications, u n w a r y
leas a n d hopeless before r e a d e r , and lift the
a J e w un-American u p - blindfold!
starts whose background
is dark, whose organi- Gasparri to Put
zations are secret, and
whose mysterious financ- It Over
es1 "come in over the Cardinal Gasparri
transom". This article left Rome, so Rome
is cited a t random as a dispatches to the New
fair s a m p l e of that York Times say, for
which is supposedly and the express job of do-
a l l e g e d l y "best" in ing his part in bring-
A m e r i c a n journalism.
Sueb journalism is sup-
ing about the open-
posedly and allegedly ing of diplomatic re-
"imcensbred" and"free", lations between the
and is confessedly 100- United States Gov-
percent (or more) "pa- ernment and the pope
triotic". at Vatican City. He
W h y , in such pub- is "to work out a legal
lished articles, is not the framework" for the
darkness of the average job, and is sure to
unwary reader enlight- have Jehovah's wit-
ened w i t h a reminder nesses in mind.
t h a t d e m o c r a c y has
plenty- "of old, gray- The New Y o r k
headetflaws on the sub- Times has a headline
jects of sedition and Pope's gift to America entitled " C a t h o l i c
treason? W h y is not the A i r m e n Gather".
public awakened to know that the mass, of pub- What is strange about that * A lot is strange.
lished and admitted facts prove, beyond all doubt Suppose the Methodists had been parties to
t h a t there are many Fascist and Nazi seditionists the destruction of the governments of Ethio-
and traitors a t work in this country, and that the pia, Albania, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and
laws have teeth in them for such? W h y is real
IDO-percent democratic action, that is, patriotic
Spain, and had outspokenly proclaimed their
law enforcement, not even mentioned, much less intention to seize the United States, and in-
advocated ? W h y ? The plain answer may be summed cidentally to .murder everybody who teaches
u p in two words, namely, "Catholic Action"; but differently: from the Methodists, and you
from t h e sepulcher of a free and patriotic journal- should see a. headline "Methodist Airmen
ism? domes only the resounding echo, " W h y ? " Gather". Would it make you think? It surely
T .;AbV:national, state and city officials have, taken would, if youhave anything above your neck.
patriotic oaths to promote the. general, welfare of Somebody's cat came near getting out of the
the-people who p a y them by. justly a n d diligently bag at Los Angeles when "authorities couldn't
upholding and enforcingthe Constitution, and laws
of. America. Where are.these officials while Amer-
:lDeai anyone who would admit. owning
ican'liberties are sacked-and exported to" Rome? $70,000 worth of artillery shells and hand
W h y is no traitor even "out" on : bail"? : Why do .grenades, stored in a Los Angeles warehouse".
seditionists roam at large with unlimited- freedom Probably the.-trail got too hot. After America
of press and radio to advocate "bullets ihstead<i>f has been, grabbed, as it will be, a lot of the
O C T O B E R 18. 1939
13
"authorities" will poke one another in the it, Smulin was arrested, not Maloney, and
ribs and laugh at the close calls they had Magistrate Burke (guess his "church") added
while the conspiracy was on, and how only the "malicious mischief" to the charge of simple
co-operation of the Rome-controlled press assault and held him in $2,000 bail.
enabled them to get away with it. When a public-school teacher started to
argue with one of the "Social Justice" sales-
"The Coughtin Terror" men she was called vile names and jostled,
Under the title "The Coughlin Ter- and when a near-by storekeeper went to her
ror", James Wechslcr, in The Na- rescue he was arrested. The salesmen of "So-
tion for July 22, 1939, has over five cial Justice" have developed the lying tech-
pages of exceedingly interesting nique of punctuating their cries of the name
information regarding the peculiar of their paper with expressions such as "A
conduct of many of the 12,000 Irish Catholic big Jew hit me" or "The Jew spit on her".
policemen in New York in Coughlin's so-called And this method works.
"Christian Front". One of their number At Rockaway Park, where "Social Justice"
boasted that 6,000 of the police are members has been sold on the streets for months, when
of the "Front" itself. a man undertook to sell "Equality", telling the
Mr. Wechsler mentions the repeated stab- other side of the story, his papers were thrown
bings, street fights and neighborhood tensions to the ground, and as he stooped to pick them
that have come to pass, and how, because of up he was kicked in the head; and while he
fear of the Catholic Church, the reporters of lay sprawled on the ground one of the two
the New York Times take their stories to the idle policemen standing by fractured his skull
executive offices, not to the composing room, by a blow with his club. Fine officers of the
and the antique Herald Tribune follows suit. law!
A young girl hears one of the Coughlinites On the other hand, at Union Square, Wil-
making attacks on parties designated only by liam Frank, previously arrested for raping
the word "they". She timidly asks the speaker a minor and for burglary, accosted a young
who is meant. Immediately a hundred Cath- girl, calling her a "red whore", but because he
olics are kicking and pushing and pummeling, was selling "Social Justice" his sentence was
and two men grab her and throw her down. deferred. In the court of Magistrate Michael
She is rescued by two policemen, but no ar- A. Ford, Miss Florence Nash, another abusive
rests are made. salesman of "Social Justice", was given a sus-
Samuel Applebaum, for saying to a husky pended sentence of thirty days in the work-
Irish Catholic gangster in Union Square, "We house. All she had to do was to weep a little.
Jews also fought in the World War," was The magistrate did say to her, "He who in-
attacked and stabbed and at last accounts the stills such ideas in your head, be he a priest
case had been postponed four times. or anyone else, does not belong in this coun-
Coughlin's followers sell his paper "Social try." Coughlin can take that or leave it; and
Justice" all over New York, but when a gentle- he will probably leave it.
man who believes in fair play was handing
out reprints from the New York Post showing Of course, it is enough of a disgrace to be
where Coughlin had been repeating the very a Coughlinite. That of itself is bad enough.
words of Goebbels, John Dugan (guess his It is well known that Allen Zoll was chairman
"church") walked over and without warning of the meeting, addressed by numerous Cath-
knocked the man senseless on the ground. olic priests, which resulted in the picketing
Dugan offered no defense, was praised for his of radio station WMCA because it would not
frankness, was told, to count thirty before do- broadcast Coughlin's addresses. It seems that
ing it again, and sentence was suspended. At five days after the Coughlinites tried to break
his trial one of the judges on the bench ad- up the meeting of Jehovah's witnesses in
monished witnesses to disobey the command of Madison Square Garden, Zoll thought the time
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and to refer to had come to cash in, so, as alleged, he offered,
Coughlin as "Father" Coughlin. for the sum of $7,000, to have the picketing
By contrast, when Thomas Maloney called of WMCA cease and was paid $200 in marked
a girl who was passing by a "Jew bastard", money, cash in hand. Then he was arrested
and Nathan Smulin, also a passer-by, seized and jailed.
one of Maloney's papers and slapped him with {To be continued)
14 CONSOLATION
 Fighting for Liberty in Hubbard, Ohio

H UBBARD, Ohio, is only a small village of

about 2,500 inhabitants. Yet, in the more
recent past, it has assumed the position of
Six hundred people arrived. A loud-speaker
equipment was installed on the premises and
outlets were arranged for on the grounds sur-
censoring other people's activities. It has gone rounding the building, which were under lease
on record "against God's kingdom". by Jehovah's witnesses. As the speaker pro-
In the following I shall relate a remarkable gressed, about ten minutes, Marshal Greer
story of chicanery on the side of Hubbard, and appeared and insisted the loud-speaker be dis-
of faithfulness on the side of Jehovah's wit- connected. Jehovah's witnesses refused to
nesses. yield. Finally, Greer, heroically, pulled his
Some months ago a company of Jehovah's gun, and tore down the equipment, and thus
witnesses was organized, a hall was rented in broke up a peaceable assembly of Americans
Hubbard, and from the very small beginning without a warrant of search and seizure.
of 8 publishers this company rapidly flourished Jehovah's witnesses did not take that lying
all the way up to 28 publishers. The enemy down. On the following Saturday, June 10,
did not like that. 85 walked into Hubbard featuring signs.
Like all companies, this company began Thirty-four were picked up by the police,
walking on the sidewalks of Hubbard, adver- among them 18 children, and, without due
tising their public meetings. The religionists process of law, were incarcerated for two to
there, led by one "Rev." Brcnnan, Catholic two and a quarter hours and then released
priest, objected strenuously to the sign "Reli- without filing charges. Jehovah's witnesses
gion is a Snare and a Racket" and caused the immediately countered with twenty damage
police to remonstrate with the witnesses. suits against the officials of Hubbard for
$5,000 each, for false arrests, and for defama-
On May 13, a Saturday, the witnesses tion of character. Then a definite plan of re-
walked up and down Hubbard streets. They sistance was put into action, a slow war of
were stopped by the marshal. He told them attrition began.
they had to get a permit. The witness went
on, heedless of this marshal's warning. On 1. Fifty thousand pamphlets, telling the
May 15, the very next legal business day, the story of Hubbard persecution, were printed
council of the village scurried together, which and widely distributed.
meeting resulted in the concoction of "An 2. On all highways leading into Hubbard
Ordinance of Emergency" ostensibly directed land was leased, and huge signs "HUBBARD IS
against Jehovah's witnesses. Ordinarily, here- UNFAIR; HUBBARD IS UN-AMERICAN" were
about, it takes three readings to make an or- erected, and these picket posts were manned
dinance lawful. In this case it was done over- by faithful witnesses, and for eight weeks now
night. This ordinance made the securement of a this has gone on uninterrupted, the witnesses
permit mandatory. The speed with which this distributing specially arranged handbills, pub-
ordinance was enacted, the language in which lished once every fortnight, and placing thou-
it was couched, and the extraordinary power sands of booklets. The total of placements up
it grants the executive, form only a thinly to the present, on these "picket-posts", has
veiled attempt at coercion and intimidation. been 22,500. A truly remarkable witness.
Thus they hoped to stop the work of Jeho- From far and wide, cars have stopped and re-
vah's witnesses. But Jehovah's witnesses do ceived this information, from everywhere.
not scare. On May 27, Hubbard police picked This has made great inroads on Hubbard,
up two men, and charged them with violating and their reputation is nil at the .present. In
this ordinance. A trial was set. The arrests an editorial the editor of the Hubbard News
took place at 6 p.m. on Saturday, and only writes thus:
fourteen hours later Jehovah's witnesses re- WHAT ABOUT OUR REPUTATION?
taliated with a blast of publicity. Fifteen . . . The supposedly filed suit in federal court,
thousand folders entitled "Two Christians the more than 30 suits in the county court of com-
Arrested in Hubbard" were spread all over the mon pleas, the publicity which this group has suc-
Mahoning Valley, inviting the people to come ceeded in getting, might eventually give Hubbard
to a Protest meeting to be held at the hall of a reputation it possibly does not merit. The ques-
Jehovah's witnesses at Hubbard at 3 p.m. {Continued on page 17)
OCTOBER 18, 1939 15
 would :put the law of the State as supreme and
above the law of: Almighty God, and is there-
UNSEL fore against the principles of the. American
Constitution. Long ago the Supreme Court
of the United States ruled that the United
States is a Christian nation, which means that
the law of God is supreme and must be obeyed
rather than the law of man. Good citizens of
The American Legion the United States for 150 years have obeyed
the law of the land without being compelled
A N ARDENT member of the American
Legion, who is also an enthusiastic sup-
porter of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy or-
to violate the law of God. But the Vatican and
the Legion would coerce the people into dis-
ganization, recently stated to me the follow- regarding God's law and obeying man's law.
ing: "The American Legion stands for every- Another bill way introduced and pressed in
thing that is American." Tf that statement the Legislature, making it a crime to publish,
were literally true no American citizen could print, write or multigraph any book, speech,
find fault with the Legion. It is not true. The article, statement, circular or pamphlet, or for
so-called "American Legion" stands for many any person to have in his possession such lit-
tilings that are not American. The real brains erature, that in any way or in any part there-
of the organization, the men who conceived of might tend to promote hostility to a reli-
the idea of the organization and the building gious organization. Manifestly that bill orig-
of it up in the United States for selfish pur- inated with the Roman Catholic Hierarchy
poses, are men of the Roman Catholic Hier- and the purpose was to prevent anyone from
archy, who proceed under the immediate di- publishing anything that exposes the duplicity
rection of Vatican City. That organization, of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and their
of course, is foreign to America and is against wrongful efforts to grab control of the Amer-
the foundation principles of the American ican government.
government. No doubt many sincere Ameri- Governor Olsonj who is a broad-minded
cans, because they were in the World War, American and who believes in the principles
have been induced to join this Legion upon the of the American Constitution, was against
representation that it is for the purpose of said bills. Because thereof the Catholic Press
protecting American interests. I n this they and the American Legion have abused the
have been deceived, as all the facts show. The governor and referred to him as a supporter
Roman Catholic Hierarchy and the Fascists of Communism, well knowing that such pub-
are working together to gain control of Amer- lication is false.
ica, and they proceed always in a subtle man- Everywhere in the earth the Roman Cath-
ner so as to conceal their real purpose. olic Hierarchy brands all opponents of the
The American Constitution guarantees free- Catholic system as.Communists. From their
dom of speech, freedom of assembly, and free- viewpoint everyone in America who does not
dom of worship of Almighty God. The agree with the efforts of the Vatican to gain
American Legion is against all of these funda- control of America is branded as a Communist.;
mental principles. It is well known that the Vatican and Fas-
At the instance of the Roman Catholic Hier- cism and Nazism work hand in glove together.
archy and the Legion, and a similar organiza- Since the beginning of war by Hitler against
tion called the "Americanization Assembly", England and France a representative of-Hit-
two bills were introduced in the Legislature ler, at a Build meeting in Philadelphia, boldly
of California during the year, which bills if announced that Hitler could whip the whole
they had been enacted into law would destroy world. There was no effort on the part of the
the liberties guaranteed by the American Con- Legion or the Roman Catholie organization
stitution. One of those bills would compel the to stop t h a t meeting or to even criticize'the
school children to salute the flag, even though speaker. Certainly the spreading of propa-
such children have been taught and believe ganda by such men as Kuhn is against Amer-
that the law of Almighty God is supreme and ican principles. The Legion winks at 'such with
it is : their duty to obey God's law, which law evident approval.
of God forbids any Christian to bow down to Recently the Legion and the Roman Cath-
or salute any flag, image or person. That bill olie Hierarchy joined in an effort to prevent
16 CONSOLATION
Christians in the city of San Antonio, Texas, Hierarchy and the so-called "American Le-
from; advertising their meeting to study the gion" indulging in that which is wholly con-
Bible. Shortly thereafter the Ameriean Legion trary to the principles guaranteed by the
and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy organized American Constitution.
a mob against a Communist meeting, and in When an organization, such as the so-called
the same city. It is true that American citizens "American Legion", brings before the people
are not. in favor of Communism,: but the jnay.or accusations against a high-minded Ameriean
of the city held that in harmony with, the Con- citizen like Governor Olson they should come
stitution they had a right to meet. The Ameri- with clean hands. Their hands are anything
can-Legion, and the Roman Catholic organic but clean, and their criticism of Governor
zation,.led by a Catholic priest, broke up: that Olson will not be endorsed by any American
meeting and assaulted the police, and were citizens who love righteousness and hate iniq-
guilty of .many acts of open violence. Cer- uity^
tainly that conduct could not be classed as The American people are not all being de-
Americanism! ceived by the garb worn by men who claim to
Recently the Ameriean Legion and the Ro- be safeguarding American interests. It will be
man Catholic Hierarchy have attempted to found upon investigation that the Roman
break up meetings of Christian people as- Catholic Hierarchy is instigating all such
sembled in Seattle, Washington, in Portland, movements to tear down the morale of Amer-
Oregon, in New Orleans, in Oklahoma, and in ica and to turn the people away from a demo-
many other parts of the United States. The cratic form of government, and, above all, to
same combination in Hubbard, Ohio, has turn them away from the worship of Almighty
caused a reign of terror in that part of the God and the support of His kingdom under
state in the past few weeks in their efforts to Christ. The American Legion is another reli-
prevent Christian people from assembling and gious institution. Tt puts fear into the minds
peaeeably worshiping Almighty God. Much of men, and the result is to draw them into
more evidence can be furnished, of course, the Devil's snare: "The fear of man bringeth
showing the un-American conduct of the com- a snare; but whoso putteth his trust in the
bination of Fascists, Nazis, Roman Catholic Lord shall be safe."Proverbs 29:25.

Fighting for Liberty in Hubbard, Ohio (Continued from page 15)

tion is, do wc deserve the reputation we are getting and at instigating mob-violence, they are stooping
or are we less astute in the sense of pnblieity and to conquer the world, and, wherever mob-action
less anxious to make our town look stupid than and threats of boycott are used against the free
some persons who enjoy the facilities of the town exercise of speech and discussion, you can always
to promote their religious beliefs? . . . Others detect the slimy hands of that wicked politico-
feel that if the group had been permitted to go religious foreign power, especially when in such
about its activities of parading, even without a mob-action you notice the use of rotten fruits,
permit passing literature, conducting mass meet- vegetables, and eggs. Docs not the Lord say: "By
ings, unmolested, there would have been no trouble. their fruits yc shall know them"? . . .
Regardless of what, might have been, the truth 4. A suit was filed in Warren, county seat
now .is that Hubbard is attracting unfavorable at-
tention all over this region. What are we going to of Trumbull county, asking a restrainer.
do'about it? We wish we knew.. . . Then, a temporary injunction was granted,
3. Then on the following Saturday, in July, the first of its kind in our work! On Saturday
there suddenly appeared over Hubbard..a afternoon the witnesses walked, and the police
green airplane and 5,000 folders entitled had to let them do it. They were supposed to
"Catholic Action at Work" fluttered down to protect us, but they didn't do a thing. Rotten
the consternation of Hubbard residents who tomatoes and eggs spoiled many a suit and
eagerly picked up the folders. Excerpts from dress, but the -witnesses went on. One witness
this :folder are: was; attacked by eight hoodlums, who robbed
Forged by the late Ambrose Ratti, Catholic him of his camera and valuable papers. (A
Action is rapidly becoming the prong up6n which suit against the police for $5,000 is pending.)
the Hierarchy intends to impale all who dare differ The police refused to arrest the culprits and
with her teachings and her- political ambitions. to make an attempt to retrieve the camera.
Pasfriliasters in the use of force,"threats, coercion', Another witness was-set on fire. Others were
OCTOBER 18, 1939
17
 FREEDOM OF WORSHIP
Hubbard, 0. is Unfair; BANNED IN HUBBARD!
Hubbard, 0. is Un-American! Incidents of the Past Three Weeks!
BOWERS LURKING IN TUB
Ac-KliR4H7NT>;
DEI-OKT ATION,
Amarlcan dtLeacs, cocnlnf; to Huhbard
AFRAID TO COME UUT IS THE OFKN to worabip God after the dictate* of
Lairfcinr In the background, anooptnf thetr asm "cocadence" find themselves

The Story of Persecution amidst tbe moo. Bowers, tha nemesis of

Hubbard, plays his nefarious role. Ha
prefer* to welt bi bla office, tear **m*
<irr people and otherwise mal-traaL then*.
plched op - against therr will p from tha
streets on an American City and without
tr.iifJv furthar ado actually kidnapped al
finally earned out by force to tha city
To Earl ftmgv, East Liverpool, one of limits Of Huhbard and thara dumped out

in Hubbard, Ohio. Jehovah's wltneaae*,. whan arrested by

African *rf Hubbard, this fine spacam*r,
of a peace officer said, " (lifUns; his fist)
1 jthnulii Bka to ram this down you*
throat." Fine talk for Ilia chief executive
bke *> much cattl*. Tfcia la KTDKAP-
PTWQ and vrlll be proeeevted as rarfc

r6trTrrK TEAR OU> QTKL HURT t

Tha fhrbl of Jehovah'* Sine* this objective tku not
aiainst petty tyranny and rivk Jawlwaa- materialized, leaving JVvarr* and Graar of a Village. The Villa** of Hubbard Drlvlnf from the assembly at Hub-
M M In tbe villas^ of Hubbard la & flj;ht an a limb, deserted by their relljrlGRlst should nans; Its head In shame. The In- aam.lv aximmpanylne; her mother, little
for UM maintenance of Amtricu rlber- habitants of tbe VUIac* of Hubbard are Colaen Winrkxnan, 14. finds herself mob-
Hae and ono*ma ell American*, E ffft*d cohorts who alwiyv wwk behind] the to be prtiedl _ _ bad and Is Injured with * stone, hlttlnr;
em by relJeloaiFU, Hower* UH! Greer scenes. In the dark they find Uitimclns her sqoarely oa her forv-beodL, 11 searaa
btjM their PWI csjn pal*, u. itfliiUt tha Instigators of rluts, mob-violence CRP-r-rA VALIANT DEED. impcAslbbe h> assemble peaeeahly la Hub-
Jehovah** w H a w w In lb* hope of rtnrsh- and Ma Crver, raady Id ratirUiy b u t On Saturday. Awe " t h . Ed Hall, an bard. Kvary U M Jahorah's witnesses
lujt Jiiwmh'i wttnrssrs within a few iap Innocent men and women. InBooant bystander watching1 from Ibe cather for worabip, a fauca hcetlla crowd
Oppoetle aide tna 'maaElng erf JaliOvah'l r.aliiera oupeslte their haJL and loud,
witaesses at Hubbard, found hia-^arf booe* enaue andt rotten tomatoas and

Lawlessness in Hubbard ronfrnntad with a mob of hoodlums wno

upon leanunr that he was one of Jean
avab'a wltjiesses, began to beat htnv
Greer, Instead of herptrtf him. used bis
ecejs- are thrown at tha waranlppers.
dLKrufittnf thaar asaamhllea. The fullca
stand Idry by. They make no aftbft to
dlxperae tha hnndlums.

Presages The blank-Jack on the man and others, police-

omcere. rava Mr. Hail a mefrllea* bnat-
big- aerfl then threw bflm Into a filthy
ceLL refUainx bhn medk^l attantlLA.
What axouid these same police do If a
ftoup of Jahovah's witneaaea would f a -
ther in front of tbe "CaUullc Church' and
bakia; a few window* In. and otherwlaa

Advent of Fascism! Hall was left there an nlffht, Meedhis;

prnTwaaly. lnalcmd at balpUij; a Ualt In.
dlstresa, attacked by a mob, Greer, the
'fc.ipliL|;iil of Hubbmrd, turns on Iha mob-
make themselves obncochxis? Tat, Ihey
have permitted th* larf a window In tha
hall of Jehovah "a witnesses' to be bash-
ed la!
bed one, Jotna the mob. and doe* Us dirty Th*y would dlapwrne its o/.ilcklj and
Bcual* of amok* ara war the Mahon- 11 political life la the** United Htatea, work. That man nan the auunltJcatad that rbrbtry ao. On the other hsso, Jan-
tut Vailay. Ordinarily, UM amok* come* and now Is poised to lake control of our fall |o cat) himself in Amartraa paace etvah a wRjiaaaaS would nnt rather Eke
from the aUcka of the mill- makinr ftovuraromt and to rata* Up a Cathollc- oaVanar. Ht Is unfit to hold any office that, belle w i f as they do. that everybody
at**l Unrest and strife, dtanrptlns; nor- Faaclflt dictatorship. nd we hope that the day will o n w sewn. has a rirhl to tha axpraaainn of b i s m
mal ralailona between tnAvwaaJ* end. RM-JUM Anaerlnvna haw far ao long wratB this petty saoopliur tyrsjmt cets belief, and that even Includes th* Cath-
NfcHorv., has tndually dtminlehed tna enjoyed th* sweet taste of unhampered bis just due. olic faith, politic*! thmurh It b.
m k la these mini, and that type of freedom and liberty* have enjoyed the
*moke over tna hUnonbur. V.llay. T.t, absence of patty tyranny, of snooplne;
there itin la icwkt, squalid ar>d black, officialdom, of Tertrldinc pesterinx re- 17 TEAS OU> Cm!, HAS ItOeVTIOLEWCR LM4URX8 TWO!
Wmr to Che eyes, forbodlnc **t1 *lm giiliHnni. they have,, tor gotten that such M rJCVtH.iS HMMKlMmM Chartes fihakely and WUHam Davbh
t* earns, for there la fire In Hubbard, thinjr* exist and In their present apathy, Another vlctlcm of Hubbard police war* tha victlma of a foul -attack of
where American liberties are betns; ara easily falling prey to an avalanche of hruLaiity. UtGa Dolaraa 4 U L a faith- faiixYtera upon tha hall of Jahavah*
burnt erlap and dlluti-d Into btlndlttf law* and ordinance* slowly Bapplne the ful witness for Jehovah, while bn the wttnawsa*. Thia nob, lad by a VCadf ST>
moke! free flow of precious freedom and liberty. hast Of health, inarrhad or walkad taa tha ous and belhcouse maron, atlamptad io
Under the cuiee of ratrtotiam and Amer- streete of Hubbard, peaceably, sdverti*- lynch atama of Jahovmha weeaaaaaaa Vbr
Tbe heritage of our forebear*, tamed icanism, statutes are Impressed into our tnft tha maednci of bar rreaip. Attacked weeka tha* men ha* been bracflns; that
thru luibchcvsahls haxdihJpa, la being Uwn, whkh slowly are foriinc the chaJos hy the pollre. drarxed to the Ttatloo. aftie he wlB r*t sum* of Jahnvah'a w l t n i n
aojaaaeered and destroyed by a t of of thraidoia. Covetnoua eyas ara east found herself treated HXs a criminal, all The police-know about It. yet, he appear*,
Hal*, bajckod by a. powerful kn our direction. Predatory Powers, with of which was a profound shock to (he to be irnwaia^a Both Shahely and Darts
n orranlxstion - which In an burld- a complete sat of rules, are prapalruut a poor ftrl who now as a result, suffers were Injured In this foray. Hoboard
loua toon for power - baa parmtaled glean a Mivtit breakdown. poUce stood Idly by. -.Some police!

pelted, everywhere. A pamphlet, "Our Griev- make obeisance to it, does not mean that we
ances Against Hubbard," was printed and don't stand for what it stands for!
widely distributed. Then for the trial in Warren. For a whole
A protest meeting took place the next day, day we presented witnesses. The outcome, a
at which a thousand people appeared. Sawed- decision which has not been understood by
off shotguns and tear-gas guns and other either side up to this very day. The fight
weapons were in evidence as the sheriff's force goes on.
took over Hubbard. The following week we walked once more
The next day, while we were gathering at the in Hubbard. The publishers were picked up,
hall, a number of rowdies gathered, with the taken to the police station and there had their
intent to make us "kiss the flag". A whisper- property stolen from them and then were re-
ing campaign had been conducted against leased.
Jehovah's witnesses with the intent to make All the time the newspapers of the Valley
people believe that we are against the flag. featured big headlined articles in our favor.
When the writer observed the gathering of a Many front-page stories appeared, and the
huge ugly mob, he ordered that four huge people began to be really interested, making
flags be put across the outside windows of our this a big issue.
hall. The effect was instantaneous. The mob The writer has received many threats. Three
dispersed and didn't know what to think of it. attempts to murder him have been made up
Our reasoning is, Jehovah's witnesses are to date. Letters are in his possession. He was
about the only people that truly stand for buttonholed in broad daylight on a main
what the American flag stands for. We believe street in Youngstown and warned "The finger
in the principles for which it stands. Just be- is on you".
cause we will not take off our hats to it, or Then, on that Saturday, a mob gathered,
18 CONSOLATION
 PROTEST MEETING! Learn about Jehovah's
Thousands of Americans agree that Hubbard
persecution of Christians must end1. Provisions!
Resolution Adopted PICKETS
All along tha highways leading- Into
Hubbard, yosj will find man and woanan
devoting' much of their time, to enlighten
Ewnpsa about these Un-American tactic*
WE. who are cllisens of th* United
BtM\a md cf UM state of Ohio end of
WE warn the American people * *
conspiracy now In swawMasl and being- of tha Hubbard offlclala. These men.
Bowers and Greer, are a blot oo tha Ka-
READ
UM State or Pt*myl4inli, being iww 'carried t throughout tha aarth and
diy uMmbMI at Yourigstoww, OWn,
* wju day of Augwt. AJ>. IMS-, for
which cxmsptracy was Incubated and.
hatched at Vatican City, Roma, by tha
hoonng VaUey. Unfit to hoed office, they
should be bnpeached and It Is our prayer,
that tha Lord of Hosts, may soon rtae up
"SALVATION"
-the purpose of worshipping Almlfihty Roinan Catholic Hierarchy and which A book, especially written for the
Ood m apirit and lfl t rialh. do HOW make haa sprwl thjoujtfiout th# natlcins; that and etlmtnaU all tha wicked from the
said conspiracy has already deatroysd aarth. people of good will, has Just been ralaas-
this public decUrarJon. U wit:
th fraadom of denweracias in Hhirop* *d. Ito content* ax* OUad to th* brim
WE fully support the fundamental and Is now attampting; to destroy tha with life-giving water, so badly needed
pctodplw of th* Amvricu govemtrwnt demiaeracy of Amenca and to talca away KINGDOM for the tnUghtenment of those of food
m d the Laws of th* hand WfcjlJl puaren- all the UberUes of tha people. " Jehovah's kingdom I* at hand. W e
tc* frvvedoen of assembly, freedom of now mtn tha place of safety, will Wrtta Jahovah's wttnesaa*. 135 w.
Wii Uiani ji'e sotenuily protest kgalnat
worship, and Insist that all persons Communism/ Naebinx. FascUin. the Ro- about the truth, and take your stand Rnardman. Yocmgvlown. O and obtain a
Should ob*y tlvt L* of the land that man 1'j.ihclic Hierarchy, the ao-caued en the aid* of Jehovah Cod. "Religion. copy *f this book; In order ta defray the
i n la harmony with Aimigbty God. "CjasAssssBl Front" and athar radical which for so long ha* neld a place of
ataata In yourH minds. Is. only a "Snare expense of [Minting, you may caaitrlbuu'

J
HKCENTLY la wl^aa person* In HuV orrantxatkwia that are using the nasna 25 cents. Get your Serration how!
of religion In America aa a cloak or and n Racket. Have twUalng to do
bard, Ohio. and In that Vicinity have' with I t Turn unto Cod's word tha
openly miid flagrantly d wWully vio- Bhleld. i-*s!-.:i which unlawful acts are
perform id with the purpna* erf daatny- snaes and ditch the doctrine* of man.
lated tha b M of the Und "end parUcu-
eriy with the right of worship of AJ. ing lha tibartlas of the American people.
mighty Cod as cuuinUMl by the Consti- WE call upon all brniast and sincere
tution and the right of fraedorn of speech
aid the right of freedom erf aseemhly.
THAT many fanatical persons h*V*
paraona, ha they Catholics, Jews, Christ-
fans, non-beU*vers and ot>*ra, to stand
liitnly for what Is light ss enunciated
Hubbard, O., is Unfair:
Veen Ind jced and faidtad by powts of th*
Roman Catholic Hierarchy tn Indulge In
unlawfully IdatatOfl with public **-
cmbUct of Christians, and wilfully And
by tha Constitution of tha United Stataa.
WE point, to the further fact that the
kingdom of Almighty God by Christ
Jesus la* the only means of protection
Hubbard is Un-American
unlawfully attempted to break, up lawful, and aahratlca and, therefor*, * tnvlta
peeceeMe w u m U I t i erf men end wnnim all persons, regardiaaa' of bebef. In study
who hive assembled to worship God. and
have otherwise wilfully and deUherataly
tha Word, of Cod which skm* aaplalna
the 'dBsturhed eoMtttlcai ansongst the
Help us regain our rights, so ruthlessly trampled on by
Interfered with ctttsv-ts erf ihla State and natloaa of aarth today and which potnla
out the oompVsta ramady fee such
the administrative officials of Hubbard. The editor of
J-iaUoa worshipping Ahnlghty God-
WE vigorously protest against auch
Condi UanS. the "Hubbard Neus" is worried about Hubbard's repU'
UwLaaanessand call upon at) oader-lortng
WE hc*d It U antlraly wrong to per*
aeeutn any people because of rsce, reM- tdtion. Write him, since he wants to know what he and
Ood fearing dlun* to take their aland
nrmry aftd unequivocally against aU such
glon, or color: we smkj that all man are
bora with the Inalienable and equal
other decent citizens of Hubbard can do! Address such
l i i h name on th* part of the Roman
Catholic Hierarchy, Fascia**. Naata and
rights of exerciBlng freedom of aaaamhty, letters to "Editor of Hubbard News, Hubbard, O." Help
freedom of speach, and freedom of wor-
other radlcili who a n ammpting by
unlawf ul m a n ] to gain control of the
ship, so long sa the sama doe* hot *- usl By writing to "President of the Hubbard Village
cUngtr th* public: wrb^ra. Council, Hubbard, O. and telling him u'hat you think
American governnnenl.
WE point to the clear distlnctlca bt-
WE bold that all persons' *r antlUad twmn ribglutt and Chilstianity. Religion of the crimes perpetrated by Hubbard officials. Ash
to believe and practice their bettef con- Is merely a f onnaBam baaed on tha trad-
cerning religion or other BsaEIsr* aad t;jri(ia and taachlngs of men and carried Hubbard to rid itself of these Un American officials.
that WI<1M:UL Interference, bet we Insist out for selfish purpoeea, whereas ChrUt-
that UM Roman Catholic llhrarcby and lanlty m#uu tHa true and faithful obad' Write, also, to Mr. R. C. Bowers, Mayor of Hubbard,
It* elbaa, Fascists. Nazis, or others; have
no right to snterfere with ritinraa who
lenca td the law* of Almighty Ood fo-
lowing In tha footsteps of Christ Jeaue
O., protesting his and Greer's action and asking him to
tnMt tngwrhar to study Cod"i Word or
to worship God or to otherwise lawfully
our Lord and Redeanssr. We urge all
nrdar-lovlag people to study tha Scrip-
resign, since he can not vp hold American principles.
assemble aad c a n y on their meetlngs- tures and Let Gods Word be their gadde.
Thank You! Jehovah's witnesses,
SkOwB AMZBICAN'B A1KHTT3J TH1H KESOL'LXION WITH A sslGafTY^ATXr*

and when they glimpsed the writer they began beaten, and then thrown into jail, where he
rioting and attacked with the attempt to was refused medical attention, -
although he
lynch. Stones and bricks flew and a real battle was bleeding profusely. He was booked for
raged, Jehovah's witnesses defending them- "disturbing the peace and resisting an officer".
selves valiantly. Two of Jehovah's witnesses They 'released him on $500 bail, next day.
were injured. The police refused to stop the Another witness was attacked by the mayor,
who threatened to "ram the fist down his
riot, and then refused to arrest the instigators. neck". Another witness, a girl, was so mal-
The district attorney in Warren refused to treated that she has had a nervous breakdown,
swear out warrants. We countered with three and still another was hit between the eyes with
suits of $5,000 each, suing the county com- a stone. The witnesses gathering on our Hub-
missioners. bard premises were attacked with all kinds
Then, on the following Saturday, Judge of missiles. The police stood idly by.
Kutherford authorized Zone No. 2 to aid us. The next day all of Hubbard was covered,
A large hall was rented in near-by Youngs- and 84 names of people were obtained who
town. We marched once more in Hubbard. A desired us to make back-calls. Not all are
huge protest meeting was held in the heart of against the Kingdom. That is why we shall
Hubbard. Thus detracting the attention of continue, regardless of opposition.
the hoodlums, and the police, we had other Then, for the Protest meeting in the after-
groups, unknown to the brethren assembled at noon. Pour thousand five hundred people
the heart of the city, walk with placards all * This man, a Jonadab, while bleeding throughout
over the city. When the police found out, they the night, wrote with his own blood the significant
beeame enraged. One witness was attacked statement "Religion is a snare and a racket".
by them, knocked unconscious, and severely (Concluded on page 24)
OCTOBER 18, 1939
19
 Italy
"Mare N o s t r u m " arrived he was angry at the relatively peace-
Mussolini calls the Mediterranean sea "Mare ful conditions, and scarcely had an enemy
Nostrum", meaning "Our Sea", but it is hard- soldier lit a match in the evening than he
ly that. The British have advantageous posi- threw a hand grenade in his direction, killing
tions at Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus, all two men." His captain asked, "Why did you
fortified. France also has an interest in the do that? They had done you no harm and
sea, and, of course, so have Spain, Turkey and were perhaps just taking a smoke and talking
Greece. As a matter of fact, the Netherlands about their families. You have no heart." But
also has an interest in it, for it is a way to Mussolini was greatly pleased the next day to
her East Indian col- learn that his one
onies, and therefore grenade had - killed
as much a "life-line two men and injured
of empire" to her as five; and from that
to the British, Just time onward there
now the Mediterrane- were no more truces
an is a nest of cruis- between the Italians
ers, battleships, de- and Austrians in that
stroyers, t o r p e d o sector, and revictual-
boats and submarines. ing of the troops was
Italy and Germany effected only at the
have -273 of these cost of daily losses of
peaceable c o n t r a p - men.
t i o n s there, while
France and England, Mind Wanders
just to be safe, have S i g n o r Gayda's
151 of them handy. mind wanders when
G r e a t B r i t a i n is he condemns America
seeking the aid of for criticizing Italian
Turkey to keep peace occupation of Alba-
in the eastern Medi- nia. The particular
terranean, and is also p o i n t at which it
trying to line up wanders is when Gay-
Egypt, Persia, Iraq, da said that America
Arabia and Afghani- is not protected by
stan on the side of the distance. Maybe so;
Anglo-French peace maybe so; but what
front, also called the 'Mare Nostrum"
about the cops? I t
anti-aggression alignment. But it is one thing would be just too bad for Italy to.: start "to
to get them lined up and another to keep them invade the United States and have the whole
that way. The Mediterranean, around which thing break.up because somebody got nervous
most of these peoples live, is a natural danger and called up the police headquarters! That
zone, and is called the graveyard of brave men. actually happened in Staten Island in- the
early days of Fascism.
Mussolini Loves to Kill
Writing in the French journal La Lumiere I n Less than F o u r Y e a r s
the. Italian writer G. A. Borgese tells of Mus- In less than four years from the.time ; Mus-
solini's entry into the World War. It was at solini said that, the independence of. Austria
a quiet sector, and a certain understanding was ft principle that Italy would strenuously
had been reached by the belligerents, who defend, he explained why Italy did not help
were entrenched but a short distance from Austria maintain its independence by saying
each other. Rifle-firing and grenade-throwing that Italy had never assumed any obligation
were exchanged only at certain periods When to do so,- either direct or indirect, either1" oral
Mussolini, then editor of the Popolo d'Italia, or written. How-that boy can lie!
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20
Mussolini's Appeal to Force Pegler's Description of Gayda
We desire that nothing more shall be heard Mussolini has made a public figure and
of brotherhood, of sisterhood, of cousinhood, lower-case dignitary of a hack who otherwise
or other bastard relations, because the rela- might never have risen above the mass of
tions between States are relations of force, crummy mooehers, typical of Italian journal-
and these relations of force are the determin- ism, who sit around marble tables in sloppy
ing elements of our policy. The order of the overcoats with grease on their collars, gnaw-
day is thismore guns, more ships, more ing horse-meat sausage and chirping for their
aeroplanes, at whatever cost and by whatever supper. They arc, as a tribe, the most con-
means, even if we have to wipe out completely temptible menials of the whole breed of
what is called civilian life. When you are Fascist parasites who live by the nod.New
strong you become dear to your friends and York World-Telegram.
you are feared by your enemies.Prom Mus-
solini's address on the twentieth anniversary More About the Libyan F a r m s
of his sleeping-car ride to Rome. Further details about the Libyan farms
are that there is an artesian well on each farm
Hitler's Policy in Italy and the settlers on arriving find food in the
Italy pursuing Hitler's policy, publishers house, tools in the sheds, two horses and eight
in that country may still print books writ- to twelve cattle in the stables, chickens and
ten by Italian Jews but may not sell them pigs. At first the farmers receive a subsidy
through booksellers. If they sell them at all from the government. This is gradually re-
they must sell them themselves. Without prov- duced, then rent is paid for a time, and after-
ocation on his part the Rome correspondent wards the farms become the property of the
of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, who had settlers.
been stationed in Rome for the past fourteen
years, was notified that he must leave Italy Italian Munition Factories
within eight days. No specific reasons were In his address to the Italian senate Musso-
given. He and his Italian wife (he himself is lini drew attention to the fact that Italy has
from Poland) had a four-month-old child. 30,000 airmen, 876 factories turning out war
material, and 580,033 hands working unin-
Expulsion of J e w s from I t a l y terruptedly in them. This was said at a time
Aping Germany Mussolini, some days prior when Italy was technically at peace with
to March 11, 1939, expelled hundreds of Jews Spain and was one of the powers guarantee-
from Italy. The poor creatures, including ing non-intervention, but was using all its
women, children and old men, spent several powers to destroy another government.
days in the mountains, nearly dying of hunger
and cold. Some lost their shoes in the snow, Mussolini "Hit and Ran"
200 finally were given hospital care in Men- Cornelius Vanderbilt told of a ride he took
tone, France, while 150 were admitted to with Mussolini, with the Duce himself at the
hospitals in Monte Carlo. Thousands were re- wheel. Tearing through the countryside the
ported within sight of France, knee-deep in car knocked down a child. Vanderbilt turned
the snow in the passes, denied admittance to to see what had happened, but the Duce only
France and unable to turn back to Italy. stepped on the gas the harder, remarking,
"Never look back, my friend, always for-
A Few Mad Italians ward." Could any attitude toward his fellow
Uneasy lies Goliath's head on his shoulders. man possibly be more cruel or selfish ?
Two Italians in a single month recently made
attempts to kill Mussolini, but the Devil In Thirteen Days
spared his life, for he has much yet to do, no On March 23, in an address in Rome,
doubt. A more serious matter was when a King Victor Emmanuel declared that the re-
group . of Italian veteran foot-racers from lations of the Italian Government with the
Brihuega, Spain, wrecked the headquarters of kingdom of Albania were happily most cor-
the Fascist Union in Naples, because, after dial. Albania passed out of existence thirteen
being tricked into fighting (or running away days afterward, and probably its destruction
from it} in Spain, they got back to Italy and had been fully decided upon many weeks be-
found themselves with no jobs. fore.
OCTOBER 18, 1939
21
Mussolini to the Italian Senate instructions to Italian Journalists
In his address to the Italian senate September 19: In describing events in
Mussolini declared that Italy can Palestine refrain from using the terms
muster 9,000,000 troops, 4,000,000 "bands", "terrorists," "attempts at assassina-
of them front-line fighters; that tion," and use instead (in headlines and in the
Italy has the most powerful sub- texts) the following terms: "insurgents," "in-
marine fleet in the world; that Italy has sev- surrection," "bravery of insurgents," and
eral thousand planes which have proved their "Arab combatants".
prowess in Spain; that when war comes the Show no optimism regarding the interna-
Italians must desert their great cities and flee tional situation.
to the country places, and that Italian war- September 24: Publish nothing of the visit
fare will be conducted through the skies in of the Duce to the ballet at Belluno.
such a way as to sap the morale of opponents. September 28: Stress that from all corners
I t was the speech of a fiend. of the world appeals have been addressed to
the Duce to settle the present situation.
Demons Ruining Mussolini October 3 : Newspapers may accept for pay-
According to information from Rome in ment obituary notices of the Jews.
the English News Review, January 13, 1939, Give prominence to that part of Chamber-
the health of Mussolini during the last months lain's speecli in which he acknowledges the
has been shaken to an alarming point. Accord- role of the Duce.
ing to the same information II Duce suffers October 10: Do not reproduce from Messa-
from periodical manifestations of a very gero the report about the loss of weight
strong neurotic exhaustion, being obsessed [physical or moral?] by Chamberlain.
also by mystic musings. It was noted also that October 13: It is categorically prohibited to
the orders given by him arc contradicting print anything of the exchange of foreign
each other. prisoners in Spain.Secret Instructions of
It is said that the condition of II Duce is Italian Ministry of Culture.
preoccupying particularly the royal circles.
The king, Victor Emmanuel, began in these The Secret Promise to Italy
last times to show particular interest in the The secret treaty with Italy, made in Lon-
acts of Mussolini; and the crown prince, don in 1915 (see Judge Rutherford's book
Umberto, is giving close attention to all the Enemies, top of page 269) by Italy on the one
affairs of the country, that he might be ready hand and by France, Great Britain and Rus-
in a given time to take personal control of the sia on the other, to give Italy possession of
country.Kathemerine. the South Tyrol of Austria, Trieste (Austria's
busiest port), certain islands in the Adriatic
Bernstein Snubs Mussolini sea, the Dodecanese islands, and possessions in
In 1923 Mussolini personally decorated Eritrea, Somaliland and Libya in Africa, was
Philip Henry Bernstein, a 62-year-old dramat- never intended to be kept, but constituted a
ic author of French birth and Jewish ancestry, bribe to Italy to forsake its German-Austrian
with the insignia of the Order of Saint Mau- alliance. I t is these old promises, made but
rice and Lazarc. Mr. Bernstein recently re- never kept, that have much to do with Italy's
turned the rosette and told the one-time black- present claims and warlike attitude toward
smith he did not consider it any honor to wear the nations that made the promises. Those
it since Mussolini aped Hitler in persecuting familiar with the news in 1915 well remember
the tiny army of Jews within Italian borders. that at that time Italy was for sale to the
highest bidder.
Losses in Italian W a r s Little Coffee for Italians
Italy acknowledges that in her unprovoked All good Italian Fascists have been in-
war against Ethiopia she lost 2,313 native structed to cut down their coffee drinking to
Italians, and that in her equally unprovoked the minimum, or leave it out altogether. The
war against the Spanish Republic 3,327 more object is to put pressure on coffee-producing
were killed or died of disease. The number countries that are not disposed to barter it
crippled was 11,227. All this was done so that for Italian manufactured goods. The Ethio-
Mussolini could continue to sell himself to the pian crop is still very inadequate for Italian
Italian people. needs.
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Serves Imredy Right Commandment N u m b e r Ten
Bela Imredy, after the fashion of Hitler Mussolini issued a new "ten command-
and Mussolini, cliampioned measures calcu- ments" to his soldiers, all in general accord
lated to put the Jews of Hungary under the with the last one of the number, which suc-
same disabilities that they suffer in Germany cinctly said, "Mussolini is always right." Just
and Italy. Then the historians got to work and take a moment to compare that spirit with the
discovered that Imredy's own great-grand- one who modestly said:
father, and also his own grandmother, on his "Why callest thou me good? there is none good
mother's side, were Jews. So Imredy resigned but one, that is, God."Matthew 19:17.
as premier of Hungary. Now if some histo-
rian would discover that both Hitler and Mus- Use of Electricity
solini had Jewish forebears, what a joke it
would be! Anyway, it served Imredy right. In the use of electricity Italy is one of the
The new premier of Hungary, Count Teleki, most up-to-the-minute countries in the world.
is a Roman Catholic, of course. And he might One may go the whole length of Italy, 905
be part Jew, also. miles (the distance from New York to Chicago
by the Pennsylvania lines) by electric train,
and at speeds up to 72 miles an hour. By the
All I t a l i a n s in Uniform use of hydroelectric power resources Italy
Italy is in process of putting its entire saves 1,300,000 tons of coal annually.
population in uniform. This already applies
to the civil servants, whose summer and winter
uniforms, designed by the state, must be worn How About This?
when at work. The theory is that all are serv- A quondam friend writes that the emblem
ants of the state and must dress like servants. of Fascism is a bundle of rods enclosing an
axe; that anybody who does not line up is
Lottery Advertising first beaten with the rods and is then finished
It is illegal for advertisements of lotteries with the axe. He wants to know if that is right.
to pass through the United States mails, yet Yes, that is right, that is, if anything as wrong
the Italian government now sends mail into as that can be right, and be left to tell it.
the U.S.A. the cancellation stamps of which
bear the legend, in Italian, "Invest in the Mussolini Crying a t Night
Italian lottery and become a millionaire." Dr. Solomon Goldman, head of the Zionist
movement in America, returned to New York
Looking for Trouble reporting that after sixteen years of dictator-
Looking for trouble, and sure to get it, ship Mussolini is now crying at night through
Italy is building the largest submarine fleet jealousy of Hitler, and because of regret at
ever under one flag, and the most heavily the murder of thousands of defenseless Ethio-
armed, some of them having 14 tubes. The pians, and Italian defeats in Spain.
new submarines will be able to cross and re-
cross the Atlantic without refueling. Highway 330 Feet Wide
Huge Reduction in Wages The new highway from Rome to the sea
Italian workmen employed to build roads will be 330 feet wide. In the center will be an
in Ethiopia (where they are in constant automobile track 66 feet wide; on either side
danger of being killed by Ethiopians) found, of it a 12-foot-wide strip for bicycles; outside
when the time came to renew their contracts, the bicycle strips roads for slow-moving trolley
that instead of the 39 lire per day first paid buses; and outside of that wide pavements for
their new wages will be only 15 lire. pedestrians.

Capital Levy in Italy Modern Child Slaves

Mussolini is having a hard time paying his Aping Germany and Italy, in Rumania
bills and, in November last, levied a capital the boys and girls are now liable to be called
tax of 1\ percent on all partnerships and to national service in case of war, from the
private companies with gross earnings of age of 7 years and up. At the age of 18 all
$526.50 annually. Looks like small pickings, Rumanian youths are conscripted for two
does it not? years of military training.
OCTOBER 18, 1939
23
Italian Parliament Suicides Hobbling After Hitler
After an existence of ninety years the Hobbling along after Hitler, textbooks by
Italian parliament suicided, turning every- 114 Jewish authors were banned in Italian
thing in the way of government over to the schools and a circular was issued by the Min-
Chamber of Fasces and Corporations, which is istry of Education listing the books and the
merely another name for Mussolini. authors of whom Italy is now afraid.

Fighting for Liberty in Hubbard, Ohio {Continued from page 19)

came. Enthusiastically they adopted a reso- throughout northeastern Ohio. The truth, and
lution, prepared by the president of the So- the valiant fight of the Lord's people in Hub^
ciety, shown in cut on page 19. A mighty bard, have become the talk of all, young and
shout of " A Y E " made known their affirmation. old. The Lord's name has been exalted far and
The battle rages on, without letup or com- wide, and that fact has imbued all the friends
promise. The pickets are intact, and another here to high pitch of enthusiasm and joy.
folder, which is shown in facsimile on pages It is only nine months since 384 publishers
18 and 19, has been printed, and 120,000 covered this entire zone. But August, when
copies are being distributed all over the zone. we actually had the most of our trouble in
Forty-two lawsuits are pending. Hubbard, revealed the publishers truly in-
And yesterday our petition to the governor spired by the Lord of hosts and they exerted
of this state in impeachment proceedings themselves in an unbelievable manner.
against the mayor and the marshal of Hub- The report, to prove that this fight has done
bard was filed, and thus this fight will come much for the various local units around here,
before the highest authority of the state, where for the month of August was: 1,780 books,
it is expected a great witness will be given. 19,481 booklets; the number of publishers shot
In' our latest pamphlet we requested the all the way up to 938; these publishers put
people \ to write to three j>ersons in Hubbard in 22,092 hours; the entire zone averaged
letters of protest. Although this pamphlet is 23.5 hours. What a glorious bout! Praise be
out only since last Sunday, we are informed to the Lord, who turns the darts of the enemy
that thousands have already been received in into mighty boomerangs, smiting the enemy
Hubbard. with blasts of truth.
Laconically, the wires of the United Press One could go on with details, wonderful
brought the-following message to Youugstown, details, wonderful incidents, experiences of
Ohio, this afternoon: "Pearl Loveless peti- one and a hundred, from all parts of the zone,
tions Governor Bricker to remove R. C. Bow- but it all amounts to one inevitable conclu-
ers, mayor of Hubbard, and Marshal Earl sion : "The battle is' God's." Thrilling conclu-
Greer, Hubbard, from office on the charges sion!
of mal-feasance, non-feasance and mis-feasance The investigators report the receipt of 3,459
in office" letters up to this afternoon by Hubbard offi-
Thus begins a battle in the highest place in cials. It's only the fourth day since the appeal
Ohio. During the interim we have not been folder distribution began, and 45,000. have
idle, but have worked day and night, to get been distributed up to now; the other 65,000
all points involved backed up by fact. We are just coming off the press.
have several investigators at work. Am going All of this is creating quite a witness.
to take an active part in the preparation and Our folder distribution has served one im-
in the conduct of both trials, with one single
intent, to give the biggest witness possible and portant end: it has prevented other towns,
to:-exalt throughout these trials the name of which had a mind to, from starting similar
our great God JEHOVAH. Am going to watch trouble.
that angle more than anything else, for this Jehovah's witnesses will not let u p ; they
must come before kings and governors. will fight to the last ditch always, to enhance
One fact is already outstanding beyond the glory of Jehovah's great name.-W. J.
doubt. A tremendous witness has been given Sehnell, Ohio.
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 plied that they were good Catholics, and lis-
tened to their priest on Sunday and did not
intend to listen to Judge Rutherford on Tues-
day. Then those nice brave men began to
rotten-egg the car, the personnel of which
consisted of two women and one 80-year-old
man, an old sea captain, who had been all over
the world, and had many interesting experi-
ences but said he had never seen anything in
Pioneering in Old Kentucky his whole life like his experience with these
J. W. Sherman, pioneering in old Ken- dogs.
tucky, reports finding two Negro women, one It was a hot evening, the windows were
98 and the other reputed to be 125, both of open, and in no time we were a mess. We tele-
whom love the truth, and both of whom re- phoned the police for protection. This was at
member when they were slaves. One was sold 7:20 and the police arrived at 11:30. The
on the auction block. Of another interesting next day it took three of us four hours to clean
incident Sherman says; the car, and for a long time after that, on a
Wade Nave, Poor Town, Kentucky, crawled back hot day it smelled like a chicken coop. The
up the cliff unscratched while his Model T Ford original dog was out of town that night, but
lay in pieces 550 feet below, and the engine block the younger pups from the same litter did
50 feet nearer the river. the dirty work as well as he could have done
As the car struck the it himself.Martha Holmes, Iowa.
s e c o n d ledge W a d e
g r a b b e d some stout
bushes and hung . on
through the open door,
as the car toppled on
over to destruction, hit-
ting ledge after iedge
on the way down.

Dog-Collar Reli-
gion in Iowa
In the little town
of E l k h a r t , Iowa,
Home window display some time ago we
were r u n n i n g the
"Exposed" series of lectures by Judge Ruther-
ford when a certain man with his collar in
reverse (to show that he is what the Scrip-
tures style himIsaiah 56:10,11) came along
and said peremptorily, "Turn that thing off."
I said, "Who are you, to give me orders! I
am taking no orders from you, but if you lis-
ten you may learn something." He reiterated,
"I told you to turn that off," and was then
invited to be on his way, as there were others
who were interested. He went away, threat-
ening.
Come Tuesday, we arrived on time, started
the lectures, and after about ten minutes four
saints of the "dog's" flock came up and de-
manded that the thing be turned off. Each was
asked to give his name, which, with true Ro-
man Catholic cowardice, was - refused. They
were then told that if they would listen quiet-
ly they would learn something, but one re- Publishers (5 and 7) at Carteret, N.J.
OCTOBER 18, 1939 25
 North London pioneer group. Note signs on phonographs and attache eases.
Pioneer Experiences
A pioneer at New York Convention had
embroidered on the back of his white linen
coat the words: "Serve Jehovah God and
Christ the King. Hear Judge Rutherford."
Asked, "Why do you wear that garb ? You are
not on strike" the pioneer replied, "Oh, yes,
I am. I am on strike against the Roman Cath-
olic Hierarchy."
A pioneer from Oregon, 65 years of age,
started for the convention the middle of April.
Having no cash to pay for fare, she washed
dishes for necessary food and bed, thumbing
her way from point to point.
A Montreal-pioneer was sent to jail for five
days. On entering she was met by nuns who
told her she must get down on her knees and
confess. She refused, saying she confessed to
Jehovah alone. She therefore received special
punishment from the ones in charge of the
Bug "Warren where she was incarcerated.
When she emerged she had been almost lit-
erally eaten alive by bugs.
A blind pioneer from North Carolina has
been working among the businessmen for nine
years. On occasion he has put in 140 hours a
month. He has never gone hungry.
A pioneer and his seventeen-year-old daugh-
ter hitchhiked from Prince Edward Island in
the Gulf of St. Lawrence to New York and That apron is a hag for carrying The Watchtower
return, traveling," all together, 2,253 miles. and Consolation. Oakland, Calif., company gives
Turned back at the international border at the little folks this Kingdom work to do.
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26
one point, they got through at another. They employed?" His friend answered, "These are
had a thrilling experience, but the Lord pro- Jehovah's witnesses, the busiest people on
vided them with all their necessities. earth, advertising the lecture 'Government
A bystander, as he watched the information and Peace', and not government and pieces, as
march of Jehovah's witnesses in Saskatoon, we have it today."
inquired, "Who are these people? The un- (To be continued)

Japan, Korea and.China

Shintoism in J a p a n and in Korea ments that they would not oppose Shinto-
Up until 1882 the Japanese gov- worship, and forcibly prevented them from
ernment regarded all religion ' as speaking against it, by actually sitting on the
useless, but then began to revive platform, so that they could control every
Shinto shrine worship, though de- Statement made. Here is an illustration of
claring it not religious. In October, Simon-pure idolatrythe totalitarian State
1901, the Japanese Supreme Court rendered worshiping itself and demanding that every-
a decision that State Shinto is religious. Of body else comply with its decrees. Korean
late the government has outlined the prayers Christians arc up against it, and no mistake;
that are to be offered at such shrines. They and the idolatry they are fighting will spread
are: For a year without storms or floods; that to earth's remotest bounds, finding expression
the crops may be good; that the country may in one land in one way, and in another land in
be prosperous; that the evil spirits may be yet another way. Take your stand on God's
kept from the priests. With the spread of the side now. In Armageddon it will be too late.
determination of the Japanese military au-
thorities to dominate the entire world, Shinto Bringing Civilization to China
worship was extended to such countries as The peculiar methods used to bring civili-
have already been conquered, with the result zation to China resulted in 25,000 women and
that in Korea, at the Presbyterian General children in Hong Kong living solely by vice.
Assembly, the Japanese police ordered every Of this number, 4,000 are girls between the
delegate not to oppose Shinto worship, pre- ages of 12 and 16, and meantime, every week,
vented known anti-Shinto-worshipers from scores of new girl children are bought from
attending, ordered missionaries to sign state- their wretched parents by white slave agents.

Central Europe
The 'Sudetenland' of Hungary reason the district has been deficient in bird
Lord Rothermere, called "one of Germany's life, and this is now being overcome by build-
closest friends in Britain", has called atten- ing artificial nests to induce them to come.
tion to that Hungarian territory now part of The towers in which the nests are being built
Rumania that was formerly Hungary's for are ornamental and attractive.
over a thousand years. He says, "I am sure
today, that if the Hungarian 'Sudetenland' Fascism Triumphant in Yugoslavia
problem is not settled European statesmen in At the December elections in Yugoslavia
a year or two will be confronted with the same the Fascist forces in control for the past three
emergency that they had to deal with at years were re-elected under conditions which
Munich." He advocates handing this territory give them another four years of control of the
back to Hungary. country.
Enticing Birds to H u n g a r y
The wide and treeless plain of Hortobagy, Omit Sandusky
Hungary, is a pasture for the best Hungarian Omit Sandusky, Ohio, from last item on
cattle, but they suffer severely from the flies page 11 of Consolation No. .520, Issue of
and mosquitoes which breed there. For some August 23.
OCTOBER 18, 1939 27
 "Reverend" Alex. Burnett of the Old Manse,
the local representative of the church of Scot-
British Comment land (Presbyterian), writes to the local paper
saying it is his duty to warn the public against
By J. Hemery {London) the literature placed by the witnesses of Jeho-
vah, and hopes that some evidence of what he
styles its "pernicious character" which he re-
lates will keep his people from reading what
"Vipers" in the Orkneys they have got and others from taking any.
Two sisters, enthused with the desire to His evidence is the same vicious perversions
spread the knowledge of the present establish- which have had to serve these men for so long
ment of the kingdom of God, and earnestly a time, except that he professes to add a per-
desiring to obey the commandment to preach sonal experience, to give weight. His own bit
the gospel of the Kingdom, went from the is a reference to the South African trouble
mainland of Scotland to the Orkney islands. raised by natives in an endeavor to get back
Their zeal in visiting the people in their homes their freedom from "white" bondage. Part of
resulted in placing with them a very consider- the agitation which troubled the authorities
able number of books and booklets which en- was of a religious cast in which the name
able readers to read the Scriptures with under- "Watch Tower" was used. That movement Was
standing without need of a preacher, who entirely unrelated to the Watch Tower Bible
would only tell them what his church says is & Tract Society's work in South Africa; but
to be believed. The religionists in the islands the likeness in the name- served the clergy
are verjr vexed that the people should be able missionaries in their endeavor to brand the
to get an understanding of the truth about the Society as an evil influence, and its literature
kingdom of God in this way, especially as their as seditious. "Reverend" Burnett says he can
dogmas and the whole system of organized add his testimony, claiming to speak, from
religion, under whatever name it is known, personal knowledge. He cannot have knowl-
are shown to be contrary to the words and edge of any association of the representatives
spirit of the teaching of Christ and the apos- of Jehovah's witnesses, who carry the writ-
tles. The religionists got busy with letters in ings, the warnings and exposition of the Bible
the local newspaper, warning the islanders by judge Rutherford, and the native move-
against the women and their books and the ment, for there was no connection. "Reverend"
"dangerous" teaching. The Plymouth Breth- Burnett's church, the church of Scotland,
ren, who reckon to separate themselves from managed to get one of their foremost mission-
organized religion, had a try at putting tip a aries on the Royal Commission sent out to
barrage, and the 'reverend' representative of inquire into the labor troubles in the copper
the church of Scotland shot some of his dog- mines in North Rhodesia, and a great en-
matic ammunition and, having gathered some deavor was made by this biased mind to link
mud from his church's st*n*s, endeavored to Judge Rutherford's writings with the labor
hinder the message of truth by besmirching agitation. It could not be done. Later this same
the life of C. T. Russell, and the sincerity of missionary agitation resulted in a case being
Judge Rutherford in his service to the honor tried in the High Court of South Africa, tak-
of God's holy name. en there by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract
Society, and that court declared after exam-
The Plymouth Brethren have ever been bitter ination that there was not the slightest ground
opponents of the truth and of those whom God for the charge of sedition, but that the publi-
pleased to use in its service. They got light cations were expositions of the Scriptures and
from the Scriptures to discern that the church conformed thereto: If the "reverend" gentle-
organizations were entirely wrong; but they man is as conversant with these things as he
retained the defiling doctrines of the churches. professes to be, he knows that he hides or per-
They are very orthodox, being believers in the verts the facts.
"Trinity" doctrine, and the unscriptural doc-
trine of "the immortality of the soul", and But this preacher of the gospel according
they have hugged to themselves the blasphe- to-the church of Scotland's dogma got aid in
mous dogma of "eternal torment". Through his reviling. The Home Board of the church'of
their publishing houses they have issued ven- Scotland, stung by the truth which goes to
omous attacks and continue to do so. the homes'of the people in all Scotland as else-
28 CONSOLATION
where, has published a folder for the use of continuation of that which was begun by the
such as "reverend" Burnett, and hopes there- Lord and His apostles, and is that of which
by to counteract the work of Jehovah's wit- He spoke in His prophecy of "the end of the
nesses; The folder is a scurrilous thing. They world", and the religionists are acting towards
have joined the Roman Catholics and the this preaching of the gospel of the Kingdom
Plymouth Brethren in their methods of vilifica- as the Jews acted then. The words of Jesus as
tion. Headed in bold red letters "Riches from recorded at Matthew 12:34 is still a living
Religion" the folder has about 26 paragraphs word.
intended:to expose the fraudulent men and
methods (as they say) of the "new religion" Like a Hammer
now represented by Judge Rutherford. It ends 'Is not my word like a hammer that break-
with its computation that Judge Rutherford's eth the rock in pieces % saith Jehovah.'Jere-
writing "must have brought in one year the miah 23:29, A.R.V.
comfortable income of 180,000". In nearly all The religionists of Jeremiah's day had so
of the paragraphs there is a direct lie; all of hardened themselves against any opposition
them are perversions, and the whole is a scan- to the place in the nation which they had made
dalous thing for a church with so much pride for themselves, and were so self-righteous, that
of righteousness as the church of Scotland to when God, whom they professed to adore, sent
allow its home board to publish. Jeremiah to warn them of the impending de-
But Presbyterian parsons have long been struction, He told His servant that these peo-
bitter opponents of the witness to the estab- ple were as a rock, but that His word by Jere-
lishment of the Kingdom, and of its messen- miah would be a hammer by which the rock
gers, now universally known as Jehovah's would be broken. Jehovah broke in pieces that
witnesses. It was the Presbyterians of Canada, religious rock, by His word, and by sending
emigrants and the children of emigrants from Nebuchadnezzar to waste Jerusalem. The re-
Scotland, who were instigators of the opposi- ligionists lost the glory and power they had
tion to Pastor Russell, and were so afraid of made and taken for themselves, and their
the truth that they got their government to lives also, in that destruction. For a long time
forbid his entrance into Canada to preach the thereafter the worship of God was free from
gospel-It was they that tried to get the offi- the hypocrisy, formalities and pretenses which
cials in East Africa to ban the publications had caused Jehovah to sweep His land clean.
which carried the truth and to expel its mes- But the people again allowed this priestly,
sengers. Modern Presbytcrianism gives its clergy class to fasten themselves in authority
ministers a good deal of latitude, apparently and power, and in the days of Jesus this sin
asking little more than general conformation against God came to its worst, and He was
to the authority of its General Assemblies, and killed by them, because He spoke the truth.
always with the maintenance of the church But the word of God by Jeremiah remains
system. Its ministers are unbelievers in the a word for this day, when that which was seen
Scriptures as the word of God, and, in fact, in Israel in Jeremiah's day, and in Jewry in
they have been in the van of rejectors of their the days of Jesus, is now manifested in all
inspiration. "Christendom" and in all the sections of re-
Opposition to the truth which exposes the ligionists. Religionists hide their head behind
religious systems of "Christendom" is.to he the shadow of their own infidelity: they refuse
expected; for it threatens their inheritance. to believe that God has spoken in this day by
It-is not a cause for astonishment that they His prophets. The Roman Catholic church
act as they do: they are not honest to their professes to accept the Scriptures and to be
own ordination vows, and can hardly be ex- their custodian; but it will not allow any mes-
pected to.be honest towards the truth. Let it sage to come from the Word of God, and as
be said once again that, so far from being a church it pays no attention to the prophets,
money-makers out of their service for God, except to use a word taken here or there which
Pastor Russell died a poor man in the most is made to support their institution. Most of
literal sense, and Judge Rutherford does Jiot the other sections of religion are frank in their
gain a penny piece for himself out of the mil- rejection of the words of the prophets as be-
lions-,af hooks which are placed by Jehovah's ing the word of God. But all of them are set
witnesses- with the people, This work of in their place and purpose to maintain what
preaching the gospel of the Kingdom is the they have; and again the word is true, 'Is not
OCTOBER 18. 1939 29
my word like a hammer that breaketh in partner in that purpose has made a bargain
pieces? saith the Lord/ with the enemy. Franco, too, must have pulled
Religionists set themselves against anything a wry face when his former aide in delivering
that is unorthodox, whether as to doctrine or Catholic Spain from the terrible "reds" went
what is not of their many and varied sections. over to the enemy. One may comment that
One and all are agreed against the witness neither the pope nor Hitler is burdened with
which God is giving and for some years has any particular care about Communism, as
given against religion and to the fact of the such: both have ulterior purposes in mind;
establishment of His kingdom in this the day both seek mainly after power, and take the
of His judgment. The books and booklets means to advance their interests as circum-
which Jehovah has caused to be written are stances give the opportunity.
carried abroad through the earth by His wit- The Bank of England moved much of its
nesses. They convey the message of the proph- business into the country, and the Bankers'
ets, and proclaim the gospel of the kingdom of Clearing House, and other institutions are
God, aB well as the warning of the impending doing the same. Public buildings are protected
destruction both of religion and of everything against air raids, with heavy sandbag covering
else that is opposed to God and His kingdom. for the walls in case of near-by explosions,
They are as God's hammer to break the rock. and in every way, as far as seems possible,
Judge Rutherford, whom God has used to His there is preparation for the dreaded breaking
purpose in this, is as hated by some as was out of the terrible thing which will mean the
Jeremiah, and for the same reason. destruction of life and property and, it may
confidently be predicted, of all that men hold
The War dear. One thing is certain, namely, that there
For some time the dark war clouds hung will be no settlement in the world till the time
very low. Whether the lightning and the of trouble has done its full work and Jesus'
thunder of bombs and guns would break from great prophecy as recorded in Matthew 24
them, or there would be some wind of peace has been fulfilled.
to carry them away for a time, depended upon
the perverseness of Hitler's mind, or on how Kendal, Westmorland
he was impelled by the evil spirits which move A recent issue of Consolation carried a
it. It cannot be said that though the dreaded paragraph which said that the chief constable
thing was apparently so near as to be almost of Kendal had instructed the managers of the
impossible it should pass that the people were local cinemas to keep the doors of the cinemas
in anywise panicky. The Government got its closed at the end of the shows so as to ensure
Emergency Powers Bill through Parliament, that the audience should not disperse while
and, now that war has come, it takes the con- the few bars of the national anthem were
trol of the national resources, and acts, as it played. The report was sent direct to the
must, like the dictator rulers. What has editor in Brooklyn by a local correspondent.
emerged in a clearer manner than ever before I t was incorrect, as inquiry reveals; was based
is that duplicity and lying go hand in band on rumor and imagination. The police gave
with what are called "power politics". It does no such instruction, and the chief constable
seem that the world is hastening fast to the was in no way involved. We regret any incon-
condition of the days before the Flood, of venience that may have been caused to the
which it is said "the earth was filled with chief constable.
violence".Genesis 6:11.
The Vatican has been very busy in Euro- Commonwealth S t a n d s by Britain
pean politics, but the pope must have had a A single dispatch from London tells that
rather bad shock when the news of the pact Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Austra-
between Hitler and Stalin was published. lia, Palestine, India, Tanganyika, Northern
(This is not a pact between the German and Rhodesia, Soxithern Rhodesia, Jamaica, Ba-
Russian peoplesthey are but pawns in the hamas, Bermuda, British Guiana, Falklands,
political game.) The pope has apparently Sierra Leone, Malta, Tonga and Basutoland
wrought hard to keep Communist Russia be- unqualifiedly took their stand with Britain
hind its own borders, hoping that Catholic in the war against Hitler. The only exceptions
Poland would prove a strong barrier against were Southern Ireland and an ineffective re-
the Catholic's bogy, Communism; but his chief sistance in Quebec.
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 Checking Up on a Jesuit
Checking Up on a Jesuit Tranchese replied, "It was Maury Maverick
It's all right being a Jesuit, and and the Junior Chamber of Commerce." This
telling any kind of whopper, until statement was and is the truth, and this is
some courageous and inquisitive well known to everybody in San Antonio.
* person checks up, and then there is And now about the rescue from famine.
trouble. The Catholic Telegraph The attorney investigated this and discovered
Register had a nice column story entitled that
"Jesuit's Work Removes Black Hole of Death". the only depot established by Tranchese in the
In pathetic and eloquent phrase it told how district was at his church house, and then he dished
"a kind-hearted Jesuit priest" couldn't stand out only bread, stale bread, and thin soup and
it to see the awful slums in which San An- poor coffee, and this was only to his parishioners
tonio's Spanish-American people live, how he and did not approach to the smallest or slightest
had taken the matter up with city authorities degree in reaching the mass of the pecan workers;
and then with Washington, and as a result of that this was the only depot that he had anything
to do with.
bis efforts $10,000,000 would be expended in
a slum-clearing and better-housing project. Query: Who is it that is so anxious to put
Also, the story, which bore a San Antonio date the work of this Jesuit priest in San Antonio
line, contained this convincing statement: in such a brilliant light before the readers of
The situation was desperate. Father Tranches*; the Telegraph Register? And would you not
set u p the Catholic Relief organization, opened think that even the shameless Telegraph Regis-
food depots throughout the district, fought star- ter would know better than to publish such a
vation with hread and other food. lot of lying drivel without investigation ? One
It all sounded so good for the Jesuits that paragraph in the story reads as follows:
the matter was referred to a San Antonio at- Father Tranchese is a hard man to frighten. At
torney for the facts. He interviewed "Father" last his detractors threatened him with death and
Tranchese himself, and asked him the direct then with worse. One man wrote: " I could start a
question, "Who was responsible for getting story that there is a priest who writes love letters
that housing authority down here; was it the to young girls and gives jewels to women of his
Junior Chamber of Commerce?" and "Father" congregation."

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 Contents Appetizers
A Critical Review of Mein Kampf 3 The Men and the Hats
Not Mere Lunacy, but Demonization 5 Those things called '"hats" the
The Timid Sponsors 7 ladies wear are enough to make
The Results of Catholic Tutelage 9
Kxeuse for Wrecking Protestantism 9 men swear. Tt's not the costlet's
Railroads 11 get it straightthat makes the
Palestine 12 male heart palpitate and strangers
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The New Government linery plan enough to know what is in style
Object Lesson for God's Opposers 20 when hats parade alono the aisle. To him the
Russia 25 wearing of a wimple is only to adorn a dimple;
Science 26 and whether black or green or pink, or
Protestantism trimmed with tools from the kitchen sink, a
An Ideal Candidate 27 woman's hat is a work of art. to which there
British. Comment is no counterpart.
Contrasts 28
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Evacuation 28 this or whether that, few men would dare to
All Europe on the Trek 29 be so bold as to criticize or scold. Let "em wear
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"And in His name shall the nations hope."Matthew 12:21, A.R.V.
Volume X X I Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, November 29, 1939 Number 527

A Critical Review of "Mein Kampf"

ATTENTION is here drawn to an Nazism by placing in their hands categorical
edition of Mein Kampf copyrighted information calculated to defeat the Nazi idea
1939 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., in this country. If they have failed to do this,
bearing the warning. then the book remains an effort not only of
"AH rights reserved, including the doubtful value, but one that can place in the
right to reproduce this book or parts thereof in hands of unscrupulous men the tools where-
any form. Copyright 192o by Verlag Frz. Eher with to destroy democracy.
Nachf, G.M.G.li.; copyright 1927 by Verlag Prz.
Eher Nachf, G.M.G.H.; this edition is published Failure to Expose
by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company, That they have failed to touch or expose
Boston, Mass." "Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, com-
plete and unabridged, fully annotated; editorial the one force J hat enables Hitler to destroy
sponsors: John Chamberlain, Sidney B. Fay, John democracy in other lands in favor of the
Gtirilher, Carlton J. H. Hayes, Graham Hutton, totalitarian idea is the pathetic truth that
Alvin Johnson, William F. Sanger, Walter Mills, promises well for Hitler and his cause. It must
Raoul do Roussvde Sales, George N. Shuster; be concluded that fear and a childish haste to
Reynal E. Hitchcock, 1939, New York." "The fol- accept newspaper reports of questionable value
lowing individuals as a committee sponsor the thus cheats a waiting nation of its righteous
publication of this annotated and uuexpurgated cause. That this expose would shock the reli-
edition of Mein Kampf: Pearl Buck, Dorothy gious susceptibilities of some is no excuse, and
Canfield, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ida Tarbell,
Cyrus Adler, Charles A. Beard, Nicholas Murray the committee has refused to investigate plain
Butler, Theodore Dreiser, Albert Einstein, Morris and easily proved clues to the reason for the
Ernst, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rev. John power of the Nazis in countries other than
Haynes Holmes, James M. Landis, Thomas Mann, Germany.
Bishop William T. Manning, Eugene O'Nicl, Theo- The facts brought to light in the events
dore Roosevelt. Jr.. Monsignor John A. Ryan, surrounding the destruction of Czechoslo-
Norman Thomas, Walter White, William Alien vakia, and the grabbing of Austria, plainly
White, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise." indicate that within the boundaries of every
It is no doubt due to the presence on the country Hitler has a nucleus of Nazi-minded
sponsor's committee of a monsignor and sev- men who labor unceasingly in his interest.
eral reverends that the real world significance That nucleus is a political-religious organiza-
of Nazism as set out in Mein Kampf is so sad- tion of world-wide dimensions and is known
ly neglected in the annotations supplied by the as the Roman Catholic Church and its dupes.
editorial sponsors, and while the editorial Had these editorial sponsors been true to
sponsors no doubt labored to produce a re- their professed ideal of sounding the alarm
liable set of complementary notes in the efforts against a foreign foe, whose avowed aim is
to unmask or refute Hitler, the real power be- the destruction of democracy, they would have
hind him and the Nazis remains unchallenged uncovered the fact of Roman Catholic domi-
and untouched. nance in Germany; the destruction of a repub-
The whole intent and self-confessed motive lican government in Spain, at the pope's be-
behind this translation is one of attack against hest, and with the aid of his strong-arm squad
a devilish system now endangering the entire under Mussolini and Hitler; the part Cath-
civilization of this globe. This motive is in- olic priests played in the dismemberment of
spired by a desire to arm the opponents of Czechoslovakia; the blessing of the pope on
NOVEMBER 29, 1939
Mussolini's Ethiopian rapacity; the betrayal Afraid to Speak Up
of Austria by the pope and Hierarchy by the That these spon-^rs could have uncovered
person of Cardinal InniUer; the Faseistic such things as would guard against Papalizing
ranting and Jew-baiting of Charles Coughlin; America seems to be proved by the appraisal
the P'ascistic regime of Cardinal Villeneuve of Mein Kampf by Dorothy Thompson, in-
in Quebec; and the whale train of under- serted as a foreword in the book. She goes so
ground conspiracy now easily discernible in far as to say that Hitler is "completely me-
every nation on earth. diaeval", but neglects to add that the medieval
Had they been true to their task, they is strictly Catholic, and that Catholicism is
would have warned the nation that every still strictly medieval. She further cot -
Catholic church is a hotbed of the totalitarian herself and readers by referring to Hitler as
idea, that, by lies, prejudice and fear, these a renegade Catholic because he
churches have brought their people to a unit church's professed doctrine of Universality.
in support of such an idea; that this foreign Dorothy deplores Hitler's igoori . - -ton-,
power either controls Hitler or he controls but here she is guilty herself, en a
IT ; and that it is the duty of every true Amer- cursory glance through Wells' OutIi>
ican to set his face against Catholic dominance History could convince her that this pro:
in America. doctrine of Universality lias always been con-
ditioned on political expediency and j
Trivialities Magnified politics. Such a doctrine, though proic-
s n Inconsistently, the editorial com- has mive.r been adhered to by the popes and
I g p T j V mittee carefully traces Hitler's Hierarchy, and was used only to >
F ^J^EM early beginnings and endeavors to moments when it could be most useful. Peace
^ ^ . * I H discover the kind of fare that made has never been the desire of th rob",
\ j . m his warped mentality what it is, but unrest and wars are the bulwarks of her
and ignores the most important clue of all; power. A degraded human race can be ruled;
to wit, Hitler's youth as a Roman Catholic, a peaceful thinking one nei ;>ts domi-
his study of politics in Roman Catholic Aus- nance from the priesthood.
tria, and the very Roman Catholic nature of
his aims, ideals and actions to which he The Nucleus of Nazism
abundantly testifies in his hook. The following quotations from the body of
That he is a Roman Catholic of unimpeach- the text, and also from the annotations
able tutelage is proved by the perfect accord indicate by complementary that the
between his ideas and the political dogmas of Hierarchy is indeed the nueleus
the Vatican. For instance, the Vatican, as the and Fascism, and that the esteemed editorial
author of the "divine right of kings'", is really sponsors have turned traitor to their pro-
opposed to democracy, if only for the reason fessed duty and have betrayed their country
that the Catholic church cannot become the and their fellow men. In examining these notes
state church in nations that have democracy. it should be remembered that Mein Kampf
Hitler is fanatical on the 'divinity of rulers' was written before Hitler's rise to power, and.
and hates democracy with equal fervor. illustrates the mental conclusions he had
The works of Hitler speak louder than the reached as to his future eours
smoke-screen used to conceal his position as (1) The boy Hitler, a serious Catholic,
the head of the new Catholic Inquisition in acknowledges his debt to the church in regard
Germany. As examples, the destruction of the to Jews.
Protestant church as a unit in Germany and It was only when I was fourteen or fifteen thai
his signing of a Concordat with Pacelli (and I came upon the word Jew more frequently, partly
no one ever heard of that church's signing in connection with political d lions. 1 felt a
such a document unless she gained a distinct slight dislike and could not ward off a disagreeable
advantage from it) are glaring truths, togeth- sensation which seized me whenever confessional
er with the fact that before Hitler's rise to differences took place in my presence. [Page 40J
power tile Protestants and Catholics were fo- (2) It was the Roman Catholic von Papen
menting a little religious war of their own, that paved the way for Hitler's rise to power.
and that Hitler took the side of Catholicism But with ninden burg's re-elrction in 1831 Ihc
as against Protestantism, arc truths of deep prestige of the Nasi party began to fade, only to
and unarguable implications. be revived agam when Chancellor Bruening was
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dismissed and the government entrusted to Fran?, " T r a u m l a l l e r " (one who speaks oracularly in his
von P a p e n against the will of the Reichstag. P a p e n dreams) is George Schott'a phrase. Gottfried
thereupon systematically undermined the Republic, Feder, author of the p a r t y p r o g r a m , once described
so that it was virtually defenseless when in 1933 the Fuehrer as follows:
H i t l e r was entrusted with the government. Had it He must, have a somnambulist's feeling of cer-
not been for this sudden change in the German tainty in the pursuit of bis goal: he must not shrink
leadership. Hitler might eventually have been com- from bloodshed or even war.
pelled to seek a status as a normal political leader Addressing Nazi confreres, he has frequently
and try his hand at the parliamentarian game. stressed his ability to wait until what is in the folk
[ P a g e 131, footnote] soul dictates the course he
is to pursue. H e s a i d :
(3) That Jew-bait- I believe I am today
ing is a Catholic dog- acting in the service ol
ma history win accu- the Almighty Creator, By
r a t e l y demonstrate, warding off the Jews, I
and that she concurs am fighting for the
Lord's work.
in Hitler's Jewish
persecution is proved T h i s demonizaiion
by her C o n c o r d a t of a man and a whole
with him, in compari- nation is not contra-
son with the Protes- dictory to Papal pol-
tant church's refusal icy, as history can
to concur in such me- show a continued la-
dievalism. bor of diabolical con-
T h u s Protestantism spiracies, murders, in-
will always interest it- quisitions and betray-
self in the promotion of als down through the
all things German as centuries on the part
such, wherever it is a of the Papacy. That
m a t t e r of inner purity Hitler believes he is a
or increasing national
sentiment, the defense Messiah is character-
of German life, the istic of the Catholic
German language and doctrine of the "di-
German liberty, as all vine right of kings".
this is also rooted firm- It might be recalled
ly in P r o t e s t a n t i s m ; but that the Jesuits so
it wiH immediately and corrupted Louis XIV
s h a r p l y fight every at- Aerown-.jewel-eolleetor from the Kremlin
t e m p t at saving the na- meets a new prospect
in this respect that he
tion from the g r i p of considered as his due
its most deadly enemy, as its attitude towards the title Son of the Universe".
J u d a i s m is fixed more or less by dogma. [ P a g e 145 ]
Not Mere Lunacy, but DemonizaHon Hitler Wedded to His Church
That Hitler is domonized can be That Hitler early in his career arrived at
demonstrated, although Dorothy the point where he deemed it wise and expe-
Thompson confiiies her comments dient to wed his cause to Roman Catholic
to charges of just plain lunacy. ambitions is testified to in the following (pages
She calls him queer". Yes! lie is 147-149) :
'doing God's will', is god, too, and writes his There is one question which the p a n - G e r m a n
scriptures with the same banality and hallu- movement in Austria ought to have asked itself.
cination characteristic of another god-person, Is the preservation of the German nation in Aus-
t r i a possible u n d e r a Catholic faith"? I f it is pos-
Mary Baker Eddy, in her "Key to the Scrip- sible, then t i e pelitical p a r t y had no right to oc-
tures". cupy itself with religious or even denominational
In this respect let us consider the meaning affairs; if not, however, then a religious reforma-
of the word ''Fuehrer" set out in a footnote tion had to set in, and not a political p a r t y . H e
on page ,117. who believes he may arrive at a religious reforma-
The Fuehrer is a man who gives expression to tion by the round-about way of political organiza-
the divinity that is enshrined in his people, a tion only shows t h a t he really has not the slightest
NOVEMBER 29, 1933
idea of the way in which religious conceptions or ler's private views of the religious situation. One
even dogmas originate and their effect on the of these ma;; he cited in part: Hitler said concern-
church. Here one really cannot serve two masters. ing Catholic opposition, especially in Bavaria, that
In this, I consider the foundation or destruction of its fomentors were wasting their time; they might
a religion essentially more important than the for- as well stop pipe-dreaming; he would not follow
mation or destruction of a state, let alone a party. the example of Bismarck: he was a Catholic.
Providence had arranged that. Bismarck had failed
(4) Tin; footnote to this material is mis- because he had been a Protestant, and Protestants
leading a n d seems to draw attention away have no conception of what the Catholic church is.
from the fact that Hitler's excuse for demolish- The important thing was to sense what people felt
ing Protestantism was because it failed to in religious matters and what endeared the church
acquiesce, as the Papacy did, in Jew-baiting, to them. If the clerical caste would not disappear
but proves that Ludendorff had a good slant voluntarily he would direct against
on the matter. the church until people would be unable to hide
These words seem to define Hitler's point of view their disgust when the church was mentioned. Why,
ai the time this book was written, and doubtless it was only necessary to make church history popu-
reflect the situation in which he found himself in lar. He would have films made. Looking at them
Bavaria of IG'i^i. The statements here made aroused the German people would see how the clergy had
General Ludendorff, already then a violent oppo- exploited them, lived off them; how they had sucked
nent of Kome and the Jesuits, and were dealt with the money out of the country; how they had worked
in a magazine article in which the General accused hand in glove with the .Tews; how they had prac-
Hitler of having "sold out" to Rome. The Fuehrer ticed immoral vice; how they had spread lies. These
was at the time uncertain of what the future might films would be so interesting that everybody would
bring, and is known to have interviewed leaders itch to see them. He would make the clergy- ridicu-
of the Bavarian People's Party (Catholic) concern- lous. He would expose all the tangled mass of
ing the terms under which he might be admitted corruption, selfishness and deceit of which they
to that organisation. Ileiden puts the matter some- had been guilty. He would make the bourgeoisie
what differently, suggesting that Hitler had merely tear their hair. He would have the youth and the
been trying to get permission to reorganize the people on bis side. He would guarantee that if he
party. In addition, one of the hest friends the Nazis set his mind to it he could destroy the church in a
had in Ihe Bavarian regular army wa.s Genera] few years. The whole institution was just a hollow
Franz von Epp, a Catholic who would have shell. One good kick and it would tumble together
frowned on anything smacking of religious war- in a heap. [Pages 145-148J
fare.
Praise of the Hierarchy
Change in Attitude (5) As a further strain on the gullible,
Perhapsit is not possible as yet to Hitler goes on in praise of the Hierarchy one
substantiate the statement in full pasre farther on.
the change in Hitler's personal atti- But also in another direction it would be unjust
tude is attributable primarily to the to make religion as such or even the Church respon-
conversion of Cardinal Fanlhaber. sible for the mistakes of various individuals. One
archbishop of Munich, from Monarchist Reforma- should compare the visible greatness of the organi-
tionism to Democracy and Pacifism. The Cardinal zation which one has before oneself with the aver-
proclaimed this new attitude in a sensational open age faultincss of meii in general, and one will have
letter which implied criticism of the Nazis. In addi- to admit that the proportion between good and bad
tion Hitler had come more under the influence of is here perhaps better than anywhere else. Kven
Alfred Rosenberg, whose ideas on racialism and among the priests there are certainly such to whom
religion have since been standard party fare. At their sacred office is only the instrument for the
any rate the Catholic Church took up in earnest gratification of their political ambition, and who,
the fight against the Nazi creed after the triumphal in the political fight, forget in a more than de-
elections of 1930. A number of pastoral letters plorable manner that they should be the guardians
denounced the errors contained in the party's pro- of a higher truth and not the promoters of lies
gram and in the books of important leaders; and and calumnies, but such an unworthy individual
late in 1930 the Ordinary of the diocese of Mayence is outweighed on the other hand, by a thousand
refused to grant Catholic burial to a Nazi. After more honest pastors, most faithfully devoted to
Hitler came to power all this was changed. The their mission, who stand out like little islands in a
Bishops revised their attitude: a Concordat was communal swamp in our mendacious and demoral-
signed with the Holy See. Even more recently some ized time. [Page 149]
Catholic leaders have professed to believe that a (6) Hitler realized the futility of trying to
Slodus Vivendi with Hitler might be reached. fight Rome while building up a political ma-
We possess authentic records of Chancellor Hit- chine, but sees use for it in that structure.
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lie of an Austrian party which mixed consist of philosophers, and it is just for them that
Jew-baiting and anti-clericalism: faith is frequently the sole basis of a moral view
of life. The various substitutes have not proved
The practical result of the Austrian Kultur- so useful in their success that one would be able
kampf was equal to nil. However one succeeded in to see in them a useful exchange for the former
tearing away from the church almost one hundred religious creeds. Bui if religious doctrine and faith
thousand members, but she did not suffer any are really meant to seize the great masses, then the
particular loss because of this. She really did not absolute authority of the contents of this faith is
have to shed any tears for the lost lambs, for the the basis of all effectiveness. What, then, the cus-
Church lost only what for a long time had not fully tomary style of living is for general life, without
belonged to her internally. This was the difference which certainly hundreds of thousands of well-bred
between the new reformation and the old one: that people would live sensibly and wisely, but millions
once many of the best of the church turned away of others certainly would not, the organic laws are
from it because of their inner religious conviction, for the State and dogma is for religion. Only by
while now only those went who were not only luke- this is the wavering and infinitely interpretable,
warm, but for a consideration of a political nature. purely spiritual idea definitely limited and brought
But even from the political point of view, the re- into a shape without which it could never become
sult was just as ridiculous and yet again saddening. faith. In the other case, the idea would never grow
Once more a political movement promising success beyond a metaphysical conception; in short, be-
and salvation to the German nation had perished yond a philosophical opinion. The attack upon the
because it had not been led with the necessary dogma in itself resembles, therefore, very strongly
ruthless sobriety, and lost itself in directions that also the fight against the general legal fundamen-
were hound to lead to disunion. [Page 151] tals of the State, and just as the latter would find
its end in a complete anarchy of the state, thus the
After the Money of the Jews other is a worthless religious nihilism. [Pages
t f / c * (7) The Jesuits no doubt joined 3C5-366]
T ^ ^ ^ ^ Hitler in his Jew-baiting and were
v )C delighted to find a means of elimi- The Timid Sponsors
fc^c!)^! nating -lews rather than baptizing (9) The above is certainly not anti-Catho-
" - - ^ them as was done in the glorious lic. Even the editorial sponsors could see it,
days of the Inquisition. (Quote from footnote) but frittered the whole away in the following
Traditional anti-Semitism had in Germany footnote:
always been based on confessional differences. Any This is the reverse of "Religion is the opium of
other motivation was forbidden by the church; and the people." Rausehning (of. his Eevolution des
in all pogroms of the Middle Ages Jews were able Nihilismus) has pointed out Hitler's deep respect
to escape the rigor of persecution by accepting for the Catholic Church, and in particular for the
baptism. Surprisingly few availed themselves of Society of Jesus. In this he resembles Auguste
that opportunity; and on the Christian side Saint Comte, who once proposed a liaison between Pos-
Bernard had pointed out that the worst possible itivism and Rome. Both sundered their admiration
way to attempt conversions was to inflict torture from a.ny kind of belief. Hitler praises the ability
and death on the recalcitrant. Therefore, racial (as he sees it) of the church to keep on resolutely
anti-Semitism as an integral part of a program of proclaiming an article of faith, however powerful
a political action remain* Hitler'? Copernican dis- the arguments arrayed against it may be. If the
covery; for now there is no escape for the victim nation can build dogmas about its new "myth" and
no escape even for his Jewish grandmother, by propagate them as stubbornly, it may (so it is
reason of w-hom he is a pariah under the Nazi laws. thought) give Germany a new faith, which the
[Page 155] masses will cherish as tenaciously as they have
(8) Hitler's recognition of the Roman Hier- until lately cherished Christianity. [Page 365]
archy as an aid and abettor of his political (10) Although the trail is now getting hot,
aims is confessed where he rcognizes that the editorial sponsors keep cool, nor give way
a weakening of the authority of the church by to emotion as they insert this footnote on
an attack on her dogmas is a weakening of her page 371, quoted in p a r t :
usefulness as an ally, and rejects it. Jehovah's It was the annexation of Austria that first tipped
witnesses and all true Protestants will under- the scales in Hitler's favor. Almost immediately
stand the implications of this passage. there appeared in various parts of the diplomatic
Remarkable also is the more violent fight begun world a 'memorandum' purporting to be a plan
for a. 'Catholic group' of states in Central Europe,
against the dogmatic fundamentals of the various running from Italy through Croatia and Hungary
churches, without which, however, the practical to Slovakia and Poland.
existence of a religious faith is unthinkable in this
world of man. The great masses of a people do not It is a pity we are not told who circulated
NOVEMBER 29, 1939
the memorandum, b u t further on it says t h a t Admiration of the Religious Racket
the swastika became a popular symbol among (13) Once more Hitler cannot control his
the peasants of Slovakia and H u n g a r y . admiration for "purgatories", candles, masses,
etc., nor can be escape the conclusion that the
Who Financed Hitler? church has a glorious future before it, a n d
(11) After seeing Hitler a gives off as follows:
staunch supporter of the Papacy, Here, too, one can learn from the Catholic
and dead set against what he calls Church. Although its structure of doctrines collides
religious nihilism, a..d footnoting in many instances quite unnecessarily with exact
that Hitler a n d the P a p a c y are in science and research, yet if is unwilling to sacrifice
a Concordat, the next step was to make a guess even one little syllable of its dogmas. It has right-
as to what source Hitler's financial aid came ly recognized that its resistibility does not lie in
from. But, of course, that would better re- a more or less great adjustment to the scientific
results of the moment, which in reality are always
main a mystery. Certainly the organization changing, but rather in a strict adherence to the
that has for centuries swindled the human dogmas once laid down which alone give the entire
race out of their gold and silver would not structure the character of creed. Today, therefore,
have a cent to give to a demonized eunuch the Catholic Church stands firmer than ever. One
who would seat her in power and destroy her can prophesy that in the same measure in which
enemies. the appearances flee, the ehur us the vot-
Therewith the question as to how the Nazi party ing pole in the flight of appearances, will give more
was financed had been raised, but no satisfactory and more blind adherence. [Page I - .
answer lias ever been given. During its early years, (14) Hitler's articles of faith or political
funds were obtained from Munich friends, from p r o g r a m cannot be gone into, but one point
the Keiehwehr and probably from White Russians, catches the eye, in article 19 :
who had aeccss to foreign money. Whence came the
stream of gold (hat poured through White Russian Roman law must be abrogated and replaced by
fingers is indeed one of the unsolved mysteries of German law. [Page 690]
post-war history. [Footnote] Here was a wonderful opportunity for facts
(12) It was time for the editorial sponsors and analysis. The editorial sponsors flopped
to be watchful, because the facts were slowly again. The facts will show that what really
emerging, but instead they inserted at this has taken place is, the abrogation of German
place a footnote, a statement in regard to con- law and its replacement by Papal laws. These
fessional schools. But first we will quote from might be indicated as below: _
Hitler himself: (a) The resurrection of the old Papal laws in
restraint of the Jewreinstitution of the ghetto,
Here the Catholic church can be looked upon as peculiar dress and systematic robbery.
a model example. In the celibacy of its priests roots
the compulsion to draw the future generation of (b) Destruction of freedom of speech, press
the clergy, instead of from its own ranks, again and assembly as in the days of Torquemada and
and again from the broad masses of the people. the Duke of Alva, in harmony with Papal encycli-
But this particular significance of celibacy is not cals on such freedom.
recognized by most people, [t is the origin of the (c) Doctrine of divine right of rulers, including
incredibly vigorous power that inhabits this age- Hitler, of course, invented by the Hierarchy so
old institution. This gigantic host of clerical dig- she could have an excuse, as representing divinity,
nitaries, by uninterruptedly supplementing itself to do the crowning.
from the lowest layers of the nations, preserves (d) Throttling of Protestantism even as in the
not only its distinctive bond with the peoples' world days of Charles V and Lather,
of sentiment, but it also assures itself of a sum of (e) Courts modeled on old Inquisitional forms,
energy and active force which in such a form will where the prisoners' defense eoonsel is only a
forever be present only in the broad masses of the formalism, and where the accused testifies against
people. From this results the astounding youth- himself and is judged without appeal.
fulness of this giant organism and its steel-like
power. [Pages 643-644] (f) Merciless torture of "hei id "Jews";
among the former, Niemoeller and Jehovah's wit-
Of course, t h a t mysterious bond between the nesses
Catholic church and the masses could not be 1/g) Gestapo, modem refinement on spies of In-
a result of knowing everybody's business quisition, who listened for the damning words from
through the confessional! Or because the Cath- the unsuspecting.
olic church shaped the mind and temper of (h) Death of every democratic principle inim-
the victim! ical to the Catholic church's eventual despotism,
8 CONSOLATION
The Results of Catholic Tutelage His Excuse for Wrecking Protestantism
(15) Hitler now reveals the T h a t he thus found a good excuse
depths to which his Catholic tute- to wreck Protestantism a n d favor
lage has led him, H e discovers that Catholicism can be demonstrated.
night is the best time for the d i r t y His surrender to the Catholic
work of converting and inciting Church was symbolized, one may
men to deeds of violence, injustice and crime. say, by his efforts to appease and control the
It seems that in the morning, and even during Bavarian People's P a r t y (Roman Catholic).
the day, men's will power revolts with highest en- Proof of this adherence to Catholicism before
ergy against an attempt at being forced under an-
other's will and another's opinion. In the evening, his rise to power, at which later time he de-
however, they succumb more easily to the dominat- bauched Lutheranism, is found in the follow-
ing force of a stronger will. For truly every such ing footnote, but, of course, the editorial
meeting presents a wrestling match between two sponsors were really snoring when they wrote
opposed forces. The superior oratorical talent of it, and so they failed to draw any conclusions.
a domineering apostolic nature will now succeed The ultramontane* question was raised by
more easily in winning for the new will people who Ludendorff. After Hitler's release from prison, he
themselves have in turn experienced a weakening of saw that without the tacit consent of the Bavarian
their force of resistance in the most natural way, People's Party any resumption of his activities in
than people who still have full command of the Bavaria was out of the question. Therefore, he
energies of their minds and their will power. The publicly disavowed any interest in religious war-
same purpose serves also the artificially created fare, though other Nazis might keep up a fairly
and yet. mysterious dusk of the Catholic churches, steady fire on the church from behind their desks
the burning candles, incense, censers, etc. [Pages in the Vorfhixcher Beobachter offices. Besides, Mus-
710-711] solini had reached a kind of armistice with the
Catholic church (though real peace did not come
You see he should have been a priest. until 1929) the dramatic value of which made it-
(16) A footnote on page 143 shows how self felt even north of the Alps. Ludendorff, whose
Hitler has corrupted Lutheran Protestant- second wife had instilled into him a loathing for
ism. the Jesuits in particular, received this profession
Lutheran teaching on the subject of baptism, of religious neutrality, even of benevolence to reli-
which is regarded as the greatest sacrament, is that gion, if one prefers, with unconcealed antipathy.
through baptism equality of status before God and North German writers, Count Reventlow in partic-
in the church is conferred on man. Differences of ular, also took exception to Hitler's stand. No
race and environment may and do subsist, but. they sooner had the party come to power, however, than
are not of essential importance. Moreover, the essays to which Ludendorff might have subscribed
sacred ministry is open to all who have been bap- with gusto appeared on all kiosks. The preface to
tized and are called. Therewith Lutheranism denies a brochure concerning the Jesuit, by Herbert Herr-
the priority of race. When Hitler came to power manns, said in part:
he immediately tried to place the governance of This essay makes no pretense at being objective,
the Lutheran church in the hands of men who were since- that would mean merely adding another to the
willing- to alter the traditional teaching. A large enormously swollen tide of hooks and writings of that
group of German Christians who subscribed to kind. It is offered, rather, as a clear-cut attack. Pots-
dam in the Mav moon of the first year of the National
Hitler's views were recruited and their representa- Socialist Revolution. Page 823.
tive, Pastor Ludwig Mueller, was named archbishop
at the command of the government. The majority You perceive, then, how easy it is for the
of German theologians refused, however, to accept editorial sponsors to get off the subject and
so drastic a tampering with their ereed. Gradually wind u p with an insinuation t h a t Hitler was
they formed the Confessional Synod, and this has anti-Catholic, and t h a t the criticism of Jesuits
until now, despite nil pressure and suffering, clung by Ludendorff was inspired by a woman, and
resolutely to the orthodox point of view. The best-
known spokesman for this point of view is Pastor one cannot escape the thoughta question-
Martin Niemoeller, who was imprisoned by com- able one. And now n i t l e r reveals t h a t Protes-
mand of Hitler and is still held in virtually solitary tants d a r e not he Protestants, t h a t is, protest
confinement, but there are hundreds of clergymen against a n y t h i n g :
who have learned, too, the meaning of opposition.
More than twelve hundred of their number have * From Webster: Ultramontane. 1, Beyond the
gone to prison; some are dead. The crisis through mountains, esp. the Alps, 2. Specif., one who lives
which Lutheranism is passing is unquestionably south of the Alps; a supporter (orig, one of the
Italian party in the Roman Catholic" Church) of
the gravest.in history. papal supremacy, rather than national churches.
N O V E M B E R 29, 1939
 For example, in all these three countries a strug- by press or radio, the prospect that the church
gle against clericalism or Ultramontanism can be of Rome and Hitler will realize their ambition
preached without running the risk that through this to rule the world is very good indeed.
a: l cm pi "lie French, Spanish or Italian nation as
such will fall apart. But this may not he done in
Germany, since here Protestantism, too, of course, The Champion of the Hierarchy
would join in suefc ex initiative. Consequently, |To return to the sponsors: It is
however, the defense, which elsewhere would be n regrettable that they failed to see
solely by Catholics against political encroachments n Hitler's destruction of labor
of their own prelates, would here immediately take
on the nature of an attack by Protestantism against y - ^ t r unions, in ! "Hon of frce-
Catholicism. [Page S2S] ^!l dom of conscience. :id speech,
in his medieval brutalitj ism, in bis
Protecting the Singing Harlot merciless persecution of innocent men and
You see that would not do: the Catholic women and children, in his bloody intolerance
Church cannot take it, and so she must be of any faith not Roman, in his trances and
protected. It is no doubt passages such as these tremors, the pure, unadulterated and devoted
that endeared Hitler to the Vatican, And then, champion of the II h i . sing the
after taking sides against Protestants, and "Church", and being used by her. to regain
perceiving the refusal of Lutheranism to join for her the lost power and prestige of the
him in Jewish blood-letting, because of con- Dark Ages.
science, he has the gall to lie about it and, say, It is too much, of <.-.. - xpe i these
sponsors of great reputation to sec or under-
The most believing Protestant eould stand in
the ranks of our movement, next to the most be- stand the signs of the times; since in an earlier
lieving Catholic, Without ever having to come into day an Augustus Caesar did not understand
slightest conflict of conscience with his religious his time, nor the great and noble Pontius Pi-
convictions. [Page 829] late. And for that reason the following foot-
That is how Rome uses her natural enemies note can scarcely be held them, al-
to overcome one anotherdivide and rule. though their attempt to pos- .. s a perse-
By now it should be plain to the reader that, cutor of Catholics, and their willful and cruel
had one of those Jesuits so beloved of Hitler ignoring of the terrible plight of Jehovah's
set out to debauch Hie German race, be would witnesses in Germany, will some day be count-
have chosen the identical methods resorted to ed against them by Him Quoting
by the madman of Bcrchtcsgadcn. from page 247:
It may be said that, in a greater sense, the The nationalization of the great masses can never
Catholicism and orthodoxy of Adolf Hitler take place by way of half measures, by a weak
displays itself most abundantly in his hatred emphasis upon a so-called objective viewpoint, but
by a ruthless and fanatics d orientation
of democracy, and Mcin Kampf is the most as to the goal to be aimed at . ns. there-
colossal tirade against democratic institutions fore, one cannot make a n " in the
that has ever been written. Tn this he is now meaning of our present ''bourgeoisie'', that is, with
ably supported (since he can no longer rave so-and-so restrictions, but only nationalistic with
against Marxism in Germany) by the Roman tile entire vehemence which is harbored in the ex-
Catholic clergy, in every country on earth, by treme.
their pot-shooting and ambushing of every
free, liberal and democratic institution. Demonization of the Masses
It is hardly necessary to point out that since The footnote to this statement follows, and
the New Deal has been sworn to be the polit- further illustrates the he snesa of the
ical expression of the late pope's encyclicals, worldly-wise in the face of the greatest calam-
the resulting circumscribing of freedom, and ity of all time about to befall humankind,
demoralization of the masses, is a natural con- just as Christ Jesus foretold.
sequence. It might be remarked in passing that
the United States and Great Britain have This hysteria was an important discovery. It
never been subjected to so great a barrage of was created by a kind of hypnotic influence, seem-
ingly exerted by the Party assemblies on the people
meddling, criticizing, and greed for power on undoubtedly not wholly normal as a result of
the part of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy as privations through which they had passed. Extraor-
afflicts them now ; and since these matters dare dinary phenomena of a similar kind were numer-
not be openly presented to the public, either ous during the post-war years, e.g., the curious
10 CONSOLATION
 i Hamburg, Haeuser, who was followed is, that he could bring himself to be en rapport
i nse crowds; the Bibelforseher (Bible Stu- with what was said.
who raised tides of adventistic emotion in This self-evident demonization of entire
a and elsewhere; Rudolph Steiner, the anthro- masses of people could not possibly be no-
_:-f, who built houses resembling trees, etc. ticed by the sponsors, nor by the learned edi-
who heard Hitler during those years are torial committee.
unanimous in saying that he engendered a kind
f emotional trance with methods quite his own. To conclude (and space and time forbid the
Party guards moved continuously around the place analysis the book demands), Mein Kampf is
. Bsembly, and usually some interloper was found a handbook tor all the Totalitarian-minded, in
eould be dramatically shaken and bounced. whatever country or state they be. Having
Then there was a pause. Had anything gone once read it, it is not hard to divine the signif-
g ? Then Hitler appeared, looking as if he icance of much of the hogwasli published in
had run the final two hundred yards in record time, daily papers, books and magazines; nor can
D unleash a torrent of words, w-orking himself one thereafter fail to mark the men who by
into a frenzy of half-somnambulistic energy that their utterances and public speeches testify
for hours, and reveling in climaxes that were
more like motif's in Wagnerian drama than like that they have learned the diabolical lessons
any kind of discourse. Perhaps he would suddenly it has to teach, and are endeavoring to put in
break into a sort of weeping, pause, and shout practice those same lessons, hoping thereby to
"Deutschland, Deutschland, Ueutschland". However gain an end entirely selfish and despicable:
the foreigner might react, even quite normal Ger- an end that will prove unutterably tragic for
mans were swept off their feet. Hitler's very ex- the human race. And to this end the sponsors
tremes had effected an emotional release. Then his have contributed their share.Jos. E. Bol-
oratory wrung every listener dry, provided, that den, Pennsylvania.

Railroads
A Ticket Calls for a Seat Highwaymen in Wisconsin
Philip Davis, New York lawyer, Two highwaymen in Wisconsin, one 3
sued the New York Central Rail- years of age and the other 4, stood between
road Company because, after it had the rails of the Chicago and Northwestern
sold him a ticket to Albany, for the Railway at Crandon, Wisconsin, and brought
sum of $2.80, he had to stand for a train to a screeching standstill ten feet away.
the three-hour ride between the two cities. He They had a toy gun with them with which they
won his fight and received $232.89 in cash, the figuratively shot the fireman who came to put
same being a return of the cost of his ticket them off the track. And in the end the only
and legal costs and interest on the same to the reward of their holdup was that they got
day of settlement. A ticket, calls for a seat, spanked by their mother. As a matter of fact,
and if a railroad company sells the ticket, and however, it was the father and mother that de-
a coach is overcrowded, it is its business to served the punishment. It was they that placed
see that the passenger is accommodated in a the weapons in the babies' hands.
Pullman if there is any space available in
such cars. 134 Miles an Hour
A new streamlined train letween Berlin
Aluminum Cars in Subways and Hamburg made the record time of 134
miles an hour. The locomotive is Diesel-driven.
Aluminum cars introduced in the subways A record of 125 miles an hour has been made
of New York weigh only half as much as in Britain, on the London and Northeastern
steel, cause less wear and tear on rails, reduce Railway, between London and Edinburgh.
the noise, and are popular.
Fast Time in Belgium
Buses Killing Railroads A new train makes the 57.7 mile run be-
Complaint comes from Costa Rica that tween Brussels and Bruges. Belgium, in 46
buses are killing the railroads. The same situa- minutes, or at the rate of 75.3 miles per hour,
tion is developing all over the world. start-to-stop.
N O V E M B E R 29, 1939
11
 Palestine
Britain's Pipe Line disgraceful ending of the Balfour declaration
A tremendous pipe line carrying in turning control of Palestine over into the
| oil from Kirkuk in Iraq to the hands of the Arabs, as now proposed in the
eoastal cities of Haifa and Tripoli British Government's white paper on the sub-
is of considerable importance to the ject. In its unprincipled yielding to the
British and their navy. Like the Mussolini-inspired troublemakers of Palestine,
well-known British life line, it runs through the British Government shows the same per-
Arab territory. Hence Britain's desire to keep fidious selfishness as it did when it put Czecho-
peace with the Arabs, even at the seeming ex- slovakia in the hands of Hitler. To all intents
pense of the Jews in Palestine. Both the Arabs and purposes the present rulers of Britain are
and the Jews have rights of long standing in Fascists, because they play direetly into the
that ancient country, but the Arabs have the hands of the opponents of democracy. The
important "nine points" of possession. Judge Jews invested $500,000,000 in a barren land,
Rutherford, in his study of the prophecies, ami made it bloom, because they trusted Brit-
has stated that never again will the Jews gain ish statesmen. Now their investment is worth
possession of Palestine. And it is beginning to nothing, and in the worst hour of their history
look like it in actual fact. Jew religionists Britain slams the door in their faces. At
continue to reject Messiah. They can hardly Munich Britain sacrificed democracy and
look for Jehovah's favor as long as they con- Protestantism in central Europe and now sac-
tinue in that course. rifices honor and the Jews in Asia.

Rats Used to Burn Crops Homeless J e w s Fling Away Passports

For some time Jewish farmers in Palestine Jews who have been and are being expelled
suffered from strange fires in their standing from European countries, and put on the high
grain, until finally a policeman caught an seas tu Palestine, are resorting to the trick of
Arab, lurking near a field, carrying in a bag throwing away their passports when refused
five oil-soaked rats. He had been following the admittance to Palestine, and then the author-
practice of lighting the poor creatures and ities do not know what to do with them. They
then setting them adrift to burn the crops of might as well, and they cannot be blamed.
those he regarded as his enemies. This affords
an interesting contrast to the following ac- J e w s in Palestine
count found in the Holy Scriptures: At the end of the year 1938 there were
And Samson went and [took in snares | three 437,000 Jews in Palestine, and they then con-
hundred foxes, and took firebrands and turned stituted about 31.3 percent of the total settled
tail lo tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between population of the country. The culture of
two tails. And when he had set the brands on fire, citrus fruits has continued to expand, and the
he let them go into the standing corn of (he Philis- export of oranges and grapefruit has readied
tines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the record dimensions.
standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
J udges 15: 4, 5.
The War in Palestine
Brandeis on Zionism The undeclared war in Palestine was so
Former Supreme Court. Justice Louis D. serious that in a single month 67S were killed
Brandeis is quoted as thinking and saying and wounded : 404 Arabs, 262 Jews, and the
thai since the Jews have nowhere else to go, others British soldiers and constables. During
and Palestine can absorb 100,000 of them an- the same month seven Arabs were executed
nually, they will find a way to reach that desr after conviction in the military courts.
rinatiolx, regardless of attempted obliteration
of their rights for the private advantage of Jewish TJse of Swastika
others. He did not come right out and say that Discovery was recently made for the use of
Britain is afraid of the Moslems and also the swastika in the floor design of a Jewish
afraid of the deviltry done in Moslem lands synagogue near llama, northern Syria, show-
by German and Italian propaganda, but mani- ing that the Nazi symbol was in use 1,500 years
festly he could not be in sympathy with tlie ago. Hitler hates the Jews, but mimics them,
12 CONSOLATION
 Let America Mind Its Own Business
And lastly, a country that only twenty
A C OUNTRY capable of producing an an-
nual income of five thousand dollars per
mily, but permitting one-third of them to go
short years ago permitted a parcel of greedy
hogs, shallow-patod politicians, flag-waving
underfed and another third to rot m idleness, nitwits, golden-calf parsons, and "boughten"
: warrant from on high to pose as arbiter scribes to bamboozle it into the World War,
of the world. three thousand miles from home, at the cost
A country in which man is pitted against of one hundred billion dollars, fifty thousand
man. group against group, class against class, dead, and three hundred thousand permanent-
and all operating on ly maimed boys, with
the principle of every no other result than
iw for himself and preparing the witch
may the Devil take broth that is about to
the hindmost, should boil over, over there,
be the last one to would, with better
hanker for the job of grace, weep over its
universal peace angel. own folly than han-
A country possess- ker after the job of
ing one billion acres savior of the world.
of fertile land, yet I am not afraid to
tolerating a condition suffer for my convic-
in which one-half its tions. I proved it
farmersthat is, the when I faced the
hand that feeds the blood-drunken min-
lationare already ions of D i c t a t o r
andless,and the other- Woodrow Wilson in
half on the way, and the m i d s t of the
of them bled white World War. I faced
by as lousy a gang of his white-livered, yel-
gamblers, speculators, low-streaked h o m e
hijackers and cut- guard when I ran for
throats as ever walked Congress in the third
in shoe leather, should district of Wisconsin
modestly refrain on a 100-percent anti- <
rom telling other war p l a t f o r m and
people how to run with 80 years of Port
their affairs. John gets ull the fatts at last, thanks be to a whole Leavenworth hanging
A country sporting boatload of kind and true friends over my bloody but
the highest crime rate unbowed head. And
in the world, registering more homicide in any that, too, was DURING the World War, not
ild county than the whole of England, is in after, nor before it.Oscar Ameringer, in
10 position to tell others to be good. The American Guardian.
A country which allows millions of acres of
its best farm and grazing land to blow into Hard-hearted Uncle Sara
the Atlantic and wash into the Gulf has not
enough patriotism in its make-up to tell others Hard-hearted Uncle Sam loaned $3,000,-
low to love their fatherland. 000,000 to 1,000.000 home owners but quite
some time ago had foreclosed on 80,000 homes
A country that lets millions of its children the old skin-flint, or Shylock, as British
for fruit and bread and milk and meat call him.
rhile taxing milk bottles, bread baskets, fruit
jars and the rest of the pantry, to pay honest Two-Thirds of World's Gold
lushandmcn for plowing under food, burying Uncle Sam now has possession of two-
pigs and murdering heifer calves, has neither thirds of the world's gold. The amount now
brain nor heart enough to still the bitter cry- stored is in the immediate neighborhood of
ing of the children of other lands. $15,000,000,000.
NOVEMBXR 29. 1939
13
 Pennsylvania
Justice in Pennsylvania tence from time to time, with the practical
A large number of citizens feel result that the defendants served time in jail,
that it is easier to have a case but in another case the deferred sentence was
"fixed" than to go to trial regu- used to keep a defendant out of jail, as he was
larly, and their expressed attitude allowed freedom on bail, while his sentence
"does not reflect a proper respect was indefinitely postponed.
for our system of criminal justice". In some eases the court does not have the
In one ease, at least, a witness before the complete criminal record of the defendant be-
commission was so disgusted with the way the fore passing sentence, with the result that fre-
case was handled and the obvious manner in quent offenders receive light sentences, many
which it was "bounced out", that he stated criminals are acquitted or discharged due,
that if ever again he witnessed a crime being frequently, to lack of preparation by the dis-
committed he would turn his head away trict attorney, the improper presentation of
rather than take a chance of being subpoenaed evidence, or the failure to have the proper
to attend court time after time and then see- witnesses on hand: that in some cases impor-
ing the whole matter obviously "fixed". tant witnesses essentia] to a complete case
The commission has found that reconsidera- were not subpoenaed: that no permanent rec-
tions and modifications of sentences have been ord is kept of all subpoenas that are issued;
made by the courts after the term has expired; that in a number of cases where a defendant
that such matters have been handled privately who is out on bail fails ppear and the bail
in chambers instead of in open court; that de- is forfeited such bail is not sued out, no judg-
fendants after entering pleas of nolo conten- ment taken, and no collection made.
dere have been found not guilty by the court; Investigation has disclosed the practice of
that provisions of the probation act are postponing trials time after time until the case
ignored in that probations have been granted comes up before a particular judge who is
to defendants convicted of crimes for which known to be generally lenient or even friendly
the act provides that there shall be no pro- to the defendnnt; that in many cases fines
bation. were imposed and were never paid and no
Paroles have been granted in many cases effort has been made to collect them.
without a formal petition being filed ; without Criminal court records in Philadelphia
required notice being given to the district count}' are often kept in a careless manner;
attorney's office; without including in the in many eases reconsiderations, probations,
petition any statement of the prisoner's crim- and other orders of the court are written out
inal record; without a hearing in open court by a clerk of the court and not signed by the
or two judges being present; and in some court; in some eases reputable defendants
cases without any of the requirements being have testified before the commission that they
met, as in one case where the parole was grant- paid their fines and forgot all about the mat-
ed by mail and the judge instructed someone ter, whereas the court record indicates that
else that he could sign his name to the order; these fines were remitted, with no indication
that paroles are refused by the court when that, the fine was ever paid; that in many cases
formal petitions are presented by attorneys, fines have been remitted at the request of a
but are granted shortly thereafter upon the politician.
request of a politician or favored lawyer. Investigation has disclosed that there is
The commission has also found that in nu- considerable jury tampering in many parts
merous eases courts have required defendants of the state; that the present method of select-
acquitted by a regular trial jury to furnish ing juries in many counties is a direct invita-
excessive bail to 'keep the peace' and upon tion to embracery; that there were many eases
failure to furnish said bail the defendants of substituting of jurors in Philadelphia coun-
have been committed to jail. This has been ty ; that jurors were, in numerous cases, in-
done without any formal charge being filed or fluenced by the conduct of the court itself;
legal hearing heid. that in one case a judge threatened a juror
In several cases in which the penalty for the with contempt if 'he did not go along with the
offense was only a fine, the court deferred sen- rest of the jury', and that the court instructed
14 CONSOLATION
 clerk to see to it that certain jurors were minimum of $300 plus a 10-pereent cut of all
lwn as foremen on certain juries. insurance above $1,000 for a case. One of the
Abuses of authority by magistrates have features of the business was that, once the
shown to exist in that defendants are gang had managed to make a woman an
leased from jail by sentencing magistrates arsenic widow, they kept her busy thereafter,
before they have served their terms in prison, whether she wanted to or not. Whenever they
lthotigh a magistrate has no authority to wanted to finish off a man they used all their
parole or modify a sentence; that there was skill to get her to marry him; the rest was easy.
.nalile abuse in the matter of release on
'copies of the charge'. Pennsylvania F a r m e r s Wondering
The commission has further found that in Pennsylvania farmers are wondering how
the majority of cases the business of profes- and wThy they have to sell their milk at 6 to
sional bondsmen borders on a racket; that 10 cents a gallon and the consumer has to pay
they employ numerous straw men to put up 44 to 48 cents a gallon for it. They need not
bonds; that they overcharge in many cases; wonder. It is merely legalized high-handed
they have connections in police stations robbery, and the robbers have themselves so
and with certain clerks of courts and attor- well protected by legislation and by contracts
which lend themselves to the easy fixing that if a farmer dares sell a pint of milk from
of cases. one of his own cows to a neighbor he is in
The commission has found that some "third danger of going to jail. For two generations
_. ee" methods and the confinement of pris- the farmers have known they were being
s in "cold storage" are still used by police, robbed by the milk pirates but have nut known
and that gun permits are granted to persons bowT to help themselves throw oil the yoke.
with criminal records and bad reputations.
Report of joint legislative commission to in- Good Joke on a H u n t e r
vestigate the administration of criminal jus- Near Erie, Pa., a careful hunter cloaked
tice in Pennsylvania, in Altoona Mirror. (Al- his automobile radiator in a brown blanket.
though this commission held 135 hearings and The only luck he had was at the close of the
took the testimony of 1,152 witnesses, only day. Approaching the neighborhood of his
five of the nine members of the commission had car on the edge of dusk he blazed away with
the manhood to sign the report. Four were both barrels as he saw the flapping of the
afraid to do so.) blanket he had placed over his radiator. He
thought he had punctured a deer, but found
The Murder Business in Philadelphia afterwards he had only riddled his blanket
Philadelphia has a way of keeping in the and the automobile radiator.
limelight. First there was the old Bible-
burning tub that scared Gimbel Brothers into
a fit. This eminent Jewish concern did not Medical Care to Persons on Relief
want to run the risk of losing a couple of Pennsylvania extends medical care to per-
dollars, so it bowed to the power of the Hier- sons on relief, the state paying the bill and
archy and closed WIP as an outlet for the the doctors and everybody else satisfied. Doc-
message of the Kingdom. The next time Phila- tors get $1 for office calls, $2 for home calls,
delphia stirred uneasily in her sleep was when and $25 for confinement cases, and have no
the Holmesburg prison authorities tried bak- reason to complain, for their money is sure.
ing 24 guests, but only four of them were Dentists get $2 for the first tooth extraction
really ready to serve at mealtime. And now, and $1 for each additional tooth extracted at
there being not much other business in the the same time.
city, the staid old burg by the Delaware looms
up as the center of the retail murder business. The World's Largest Bearing
More than 100 people are now known to have The world's largest bearing, weighing
been put out of this life by arsenic, antimony, 317,000 pounds, has been completed at East
drowning, automobile "accidents", or other Pittsburgh, Pa. This bearing will carry the
as known to the trade. There were branch million-pound load of the big telescope atop
managers, to cover particular areas, there was Mount Palomar, California, with which
a physician to help furnish prospects, and astronomers hope to peer 1,000,000,000 light
there were agents to do the bumping off at a years into space. (See details on page 26.)
NOVEMBER 29. 1939 15
 U.S.A. Judiciary
Manton's Mill for Selling Justice to jail would do well to avail themselves of
On October 27, bench robber Manton, Consolation issues Nos. 519, 520, and 521.
blackmail trafficker, and the outstanding dis-
grace of the judiciary, than which history Manton's Sentence
finds. no greater among the annals of the If the sentence of two years in prison and
English race, "faced the bench where he once $10,000 fine imposed upon former United
sat as the nation's tenth ranking judge, and States Circuit Court Justice Martin T. Man-
heard himself called a 'liar and a swindler'." ton is, as dispatches say, the maximum per-
(Daily Mirror, October 28) Cahill, who earned mitted by law, it would seem that the Federal
fame in his hard-hitting prosecution of Man- statutes need some amendment. A judge who
ton, lashed him again as the hearing for ap- takes bribes pollutes justice itself.
peal went before a panel of three judges ap- If Manton is guilty, as the judgment of
pointed by Chief Justice Hughes. When the court finds, the sentence is obviously
reversal of Manton's conviction was asked by wholly inadequate; such a man ought never
his lawyer, Cahill's reply was biting: to breathe free air again; no extenuation,
"This was a mill for the sale of justice. palliation or mitigation can be considered. It
This man Fallon [the 'bag' man for the 'com- is not possible to say that Manton did not
mercial judge'] and Judge Manton were open know what he was doing, or did not realize the
to take money from anybody who desired consequences of his offense.
something they were selling. . . . Manton That this is the first case of the kind in 150
lied about his financial condition. . . . In the years of American history is a matter for gen-
sale of judicial decisions these two always eral congratulation. That such a situation was
wyorked together."' Cahill described Manton as almost inconceivable probably accounts for
a ''liar and a swindler". "Cahill did not look there being no adequate penalty provided by
at him while denouncing him before the tribu- law. But when a postoffiee robber or a counter-
nal." feiter can get up to 25 years in prison, a mere
two years for a bribe-taking judge is obviously
No such denunciation has come, however, out of proportion. Congress should act swift-
from the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, with ly to correct this discrepancy.Los Angeles
whom as a highly honored figure of the church Times,
he held such standing as to be "created"
Knight of St. Gregory the Great by the pope.
His crimes have not in any way disqualified What Parks Are For
bim in these church honors; for, if they, had, "Wherever the title of streets and parks
would not the Catholic press have lauded the may rest, they have, immemorially, been held
work of Cahill, Hoover and their own son in trust for the use of the public and, time out
Murphy in bringing this vile rascal to justice? of mind, have been used for purposes of as-
This same Catholic press finds great dangers sembly, communicating thoughts between citi-
to the nation in Communism, and from little zens, and discussing public questions.
children who conscientiously refuse to salute "Such use of the streets and public places
any flag, and from Judge Rutherford, whom has, from ancient times, been a part of the
Manton "patriotically" kept in prison, but it privileges, immunities, rights and liberties of
evidently finds nothing wrong in peddling citizens.
justice. Is not this sufficient evidence for any "'1 hj privilege of a citizen of the United
honest person that their howl about patriotism States to use the streets and parks for com-
is only a smoke-screen behind which to betray munication of views on national questions may
the country to Rome? Here in the court also be regulated in the interest of all; it is not
is abundant evidence when viewed in the light absolute, but relative, and must be exercised
of Catholic press silence that the law profes- in- subordination to the general comfort and
sion bent on clearing the bench of such treach- convenience and in consonance with peace and
ery is far more honorable than the clergy. good order; but it must not, in the guise of
Anyone interested in the details of the con- regulation, be abridged or denied."United
spiracy between the Hierarchy and Manton States Supreme Court Ruling. (Labor, Wash-
which resulted in sending seven Christians ington, D.C.)
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 All persons who survive that great destruc-
tion must serve and worship the only true
God, Jehovah, and the Lord Jesus Christ the
King. The Theocratic rulers will be forever
invisible to human eyes, but that government
will have visible representatives amongst men
on earth to carry out God's commandments;
and the orders enforced will be righteous.
(Isaiah 32:1) Such is the kingdom which
Hope for the Jew Jehovah God promised to Abraham that He
would set up on earth in due time and con-
T TTE Israelites, or Jews, as a nation violated
the law covenant which God made with
them. They were cast away from the Lord's
cerning which all the holy prophets of God
prophesied. It is the kingdom for which Jesus
favor and, as a nation, destroyed. The Israel- commanded His followers to pray: "Thy king-
ites were the typical people, and formed a dom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is
typical nation, which God used for His pur- in heaven."Matt. 6:10.
poses to make pictures or types of greater There is no national distinction amongst
things to follow. As a nation they have ceased those who will compose the members of the
to exist, and there is no reason to expect that Theocratic government; and in support of this
nation to ever be restored; and this conclu- it is written: "There is neither Jew nor Creek,
sion is supported by at least two reasons, to there is neither bond nor free, there is neither
wit: (1) As the typical people or nation of male nor female; for yc are all one in Christ
God they performed the types or pictures and Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye
their work came to an end and all the types Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the
ended ; (2) under the rule of the Messiah there promise." (Galatians 3 : 28, 29) There is like-
will he no national divisions, but all people wise no national distinction between those
will be of one nation under Christ, the Mes- who live under that righteous government.
siah, tiu' Kino- of Righteousness, and the King Now the Lord is gathering to himself his
of Peace. Only those persons who take their "other sheep". (John 10:16) These people
stand on the side of and fully support and are likened unto sheep because they are obe-
obey the Theocratic Government of God by dient to the Lord. Such flock or people will
Christ Jesus will survive. There will be no dis- constitute the great multitude of persons that
tinction between the natural descendants of shall survive the battle of Armageddon and,
Israel and the descendants of others. All %vho being obedient to the Lord, they will live for-
live must be gathered into one fold or nation ever and populate the earth with a perfect
under Christ Jesus the King. and righteous race. These "other sheep" are
The Theocratic Government is Jehovah's now coming to the Lord from every nation,
government, the government of the Almighty people and tongue on earth. (Revelation 7:9)
God. by Christ Jesus TTis King. It is written There is no national distinction and no nation
concerning Christ the Messiah: "The govern- is favored above another. It is an individual
ment shall be upon his shoulder; and his name matter with each one who comes. All who come
shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, The to God and Christ under the terms named by
mighty God. The everlasting Father, The the Lord shall be impartially favored with the
Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his gov- blessings of life.
ernment and peace there shall be no end, upon I t therefore follows and the Scriptures con-
the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, clusively prove that the nation of Israel or
to order it. and to establish it with judgment Jews will never be restored as a nation, but
and with justice, from henceforth even for that all individuals, whether Jews or non-
ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will per- Jews, may now have the opportunity of tak-
form this.''Isaiah 9 : 6, 7. ing their stand on the side of the Theocratic
That will be the government of righteous- government and receive its blessings. The pur-
ness, and only those who do right shall be per- pose of Jehovah God must be accomplished;
mitted to live under it. Armageddon, which as it is written: "I have spoken it, I will also
will be the battle of the great day of God bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also
Almighty, will result in the destruction of all do it."Isaiah 46:11.
nations, which constitute Satan's organization. Note, therefore, it is written: "God . . .
N O V E M B E R 29, 1939 17
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hath made of one blood all nations of men, for forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before
to dwell on all the face of the earth." (Acts the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you,
17: 26) Since God made the earth for man before the day of the Lord's anger come upon
and made all men of one blood, to dwell upon you. Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the
the earth, it follows that His purpose carried earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek
into operation will wipe out all national lines righteousness, seek meekness; it may be ye
and all persons will come under one rule.
Every person who survives Armageddon must shall be hid in the day of the Lord's auger."
be an obedient subject of the Theocratic gov- Zcph. 2:1-3.
ernment under Christ Jesus the King. Regardless of his nationality, the man who
It follows, therefore, that hope for the Jews, tries to do right has the desire for life; and to
as well as others, is faith and obedience to the all such these words should be a comfort, to
great Theocracy. They must turn to Jehovah wit: ''This is life eternal, that they might
God and learn of Him aud obey Him; and know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ,
doing so, they will find there everlasting peace whom thou hast sent.-'-'John 17: 3.
and life for ever on the earth. That means that The Jew and the Gentile, the bond, the op-
they and all others must forsake all religion pressed, all, must now abandon religion, and
and worship Almighty God in spirit and in turn to God and His King and kingdom. 'Sal-
truth. It means that each one who receives the vation belongeth unto Jehovah." (Psalm 3 : 8 ,
blessings of Almighty God must individually A.R.V.) 'He is the fountain of life.' (Psalm
agree to do the will of God, take his stand 36:9) He gives life to those who obey Him.
firmly on the side of God and His King, and (Romans 6:23) Let all sincere Jews bear in
obey the laws of the Theocratic government. mind the words of Jehovah's prophet, written
These must be gathered unto the Lord before for the benefit of those who love righteousness,
Armageddon. to wit: "In that, day shall this song be sung
All persons who love and serve God are in the land of Judah: We have a strong city;
hated by the Devil, and certainly none such salvation will God appoint for walls and bul-
are desired by those who have the Devil's warks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous
spirit. God's prophetic Word written long ago nation [The Theocratic Government] which
applies to all persons, regardless of birth or keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep
nationality, who seek the Lord and serve Him; him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
and concerning such the Lord says: "Gather thee; because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in
yourselves together, yea, gather together, 0 the Lord for ever; for in the Lord JEHOVAH
nation not desired: before the decree bring is everlasting strength."Isaiah 26:1-4.

Public Utilities
Electricity in the Home on candy and $28 on radio and spend a little
In Public Ownership of Public more than the present $23.08 on electrical
Utilities, Mrs. R. E. McDonnell, appliances.
who is in position to be unusually
well informed on her subject, ex- Caution of Union Electric Company
plains that in urban homes in the The Union Electric Company of Missouri
United States only 35 percent of the women is a cautious company. When the people of
are sweeping, 27 percent washing and 10 per- St. Charles, Missouri, became much interested
cent cooking electrically, while in the subur- in public ownership of the public utilities in
ban homes only 28 percent have light, 7 per- that city the electric company was so careful
cent pump water into the home, 9 percent that it paid the salary of Leslie B. Harrison
sweep, and mix dough, 20 percent iron, 4 per- while he was on the staff of the St. Charles
cent cook, 3 percent separate milk and cream, Cosmos-Monitor, and it gave the paper $1.40
2 percent sew and 1 percent churn and wash per inch for Union Electric advertising, which
electrically. She thinks it would pay the av- was more than five times the usual rate. You
erage American family to spend a little less don't suppose the Union Electric Company of
than $420 a year on automobiles, $68 on gaso- Missouri would resort to out-and-out bribery,
line, $100 on tobacco, $50 on ice cream, $48 do you ? Or do you ?
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18
 In the "Rockies" of the U.S.A.
Bequests Rift in the Mormon Lute
% &\~^ Until his death in an automobile Maybe the title of this skit should be "Rift
S / ^ V accident three weeks ago, 44-year- in the Mormon Loot;' instead; for it seems
&/. old Dr. Arthur J. McLean, of Port- some of the Mormon saints are not just satis-
'$} land, Oregon, was commonly re- fied with statements and practices of the head
" * garded aa the most brilliant brain of the church. In a circular bearing the signif-
surgeon in the northwest. Some of his friends icant title "Temple Block Sold" M. Peterson,
considered him eccentric; wealthy, he drove
Alonzo Cole and Clyde Neilson aver that
an old car and carried his instruments in a
battered brief ease. Also. Dr. McLean was In no sense did the authorities tell the truth
prematurely aged. Last week his fellow doc- when they said, at the April, 1936, Conference,
tors could guess the reason why. "The [Mormon] Church has Dot Bold or mortgaged
any of its property." The official comity records
In a Portland court, Dr. McLean's will had plainly show that TTeher J, Grant has sold Church
been filed for legal approval. From its eon- properties, and said properties in turn were used
tents it was fairly evident that, like many by him as pawn for debts incurred by borrowing
gifted persons. Dr. McLean was dissatisfied Bullions I'runt the Chase National and other bunks.
with himself. It might have been guessed that (Ileber J. Grant nor the apostles are the Church.
he was disgusted with patients who did not The Church is the whole congregation. The selling
pay bills, and deeply troubled by members of of the properties in question literally amounts to
grand embezzlement from the saints.)
his profession whose competence did not meas-
ure up to their fees. The dealings of the Corporation of the President
Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
After willing his +100,000 estate to his according to county records, plainly indicate that
wife. Dr. .McLean made these remarkable be- this corporation is a commercial corporation which
quests: ''To my name, oblivion . . . To Port- deals in property, mortgages, debts, securities, etc.
land's thieving patients . . . haphazard care If what we say is true, then Hebei J. Grant has
. . . To 94 percent of Portland's medical committed an act of sacrilege. The Tabernacle and
practitioners and their ethics and the whole the Temple, which at one time were dedicated and
local organized medical profession, a lusty, presented to the Lord in heaven as gifts to Him
rousing belch."We Pathfinder. from the people, he has a old to a mercenary cor-
poration of his own innovation, and then pat these
properties belonging to the Lord in pawn to the
A Glimmer of S a n i t y Chase National Bank, guaranteeing to that insti-
A glimmer of sanity occurred at Shelton, tution certain profits which you and I are bled for.
Washington, when the school board tumbled The Temple should be returned to the Church and
to the fact that the flag salute with arm out- again dedicated to the Lord.
stretched is a gesture of Fascism, and ordered The thing for these poor souls to do is to
that the regular military salute be substituted. forsake religion and flee to the Lord, flee to
But why try to make every little kid a po- Christianity, which is the exact opposite of all
tential militarist? Why ape Germany and religion, including the Mormon variety.
Italy a1 all? Why not be liberty-loving Amer-
icans as before this salute craze drove the chil- Three-Hundred-Mile Crack
dren, the parents, the teachers, the legislators It is interesting that at the same time that
and the citizens nuts? an Idaho farm started to sink toward sub-
terranean regions a mountain in Oregon, three
Earth's Biggest Structure hundred miles away, in the Molalia valley,
The Grand Coulee dam, on the Columbia started to split and at last accounts the rift
river, Upon which 7,000 men are at work, and in the mountain was 100 feet long and 80 feet.
which will be completed in 1941, is four times deep. The presumption may be indulged that
the size of the Great Pyramid and will irrigate the two phenomena are connected by an un-
rich farm lands fifty miles square. The spill- derground Assure, and if a crack can extend
way is twice the height of Niagara Falls. The 300 miles, what is to hinder it from spreading
two power bouses are each twenty-four stories until it extends 3,000 miles. I n Armageddon,
high, and together can furnish enough power the Scriptures suggest., the earth will be split
to light most of the United States. wide open, to man's utter dismay.
NOVEMBER 29, 1939 19
 The cases of the three ushers which were
so widely publicized by the newspapers, which
ushers had acted at the Madison Square Gar-
den to maintain order, and not to engage in a
brawl as the newspapers would lead their
readers to believe, finally came before three
judges of the Special Sessions Court of the
City of New York on the 23d and 24th days
of October last. In order that persons of good
Object Lesson for God's Opposers will might observe that no partiality for the
T HE LORD clearly foretold His purpose Lord's cause was to be expected it is here
to vindicate His name. Many of the news stated that two of these justices are member's
sheets of today, such as the Daily News oi" of the foremost religious organization in the
New York city, fail to realize that by casting world, and the third, who presided, is a He-
aspersions and slander upon Jehovah's wit- brew. Thus we see that to vindicate these
nesses they put themselves squarely in the ushers before sueh a judiciary would mean
path of the Executioner of Jehovah, who will that there was \ery Little doubt in the nftiids
a.ct to annihilate all of such ilk. of the members of that court.
On June 26, 3939, Briefly, the facts
t h e Daily Ne WS, anion g are these, as present-
some s e v e n ! y-five ed in this trial:
newspapers in the The three ushers
United States, carried need not be named,
an account of how. exeepi to say that one
the day before, at was described in the
New York's Madison News as the secretary
Square Garden a to the president of the
"riot" had occurred, Watehtower B i b l e
which they described and Tract Society.
as a "riot over reli- The other two were
gion", and claimed assigned as ushers in
that some in the audi- the Garden.
ence became incensed True to their cus-
at what the speaker tom, as has been dis-
had said regarding closed in these pages
the Roman Catholic and in the pages of
Church. As a sensa- Immersion of Jehovah's witnesses at The Nation, a part of
tional n e w s p a p e r, Los Angeles, California Khe t e c h n i q u e of
they played it up in
big headlines, showed pictures of several of those who described
the ushers (who are Jehovah's witnesses) be- themselves as '-for Father Coughlin" and as
ing taken to the lockup, charged with feloni- 'members of the Christian Front' or "Chris-
ous assault. They made much sport of Jeho- tian Mobilizers", who are definitely associated
vah's name, by endeavoring to cast reflection with the Nazi "Bund" and other totalitarian
on His servants. This same procedure would radicals, and who act specifically under the
be expected from the Devil's organization and command of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy,
was carried on throughout the whole United has been street righting. It is not the ordinary
States. type of fighting, where two men become angry
and have an altercation and fight, but the
This present article is to give some of these custom is that which was introduced in Nasi
newspapers an opportunity to get out of the Germany and especially used in the pogroms
line of the march of Jehovah's Executioner, or riots against the Jews. The system is to
Christ Jesus, by clearing up some of their hit somebody or to cry out as though the
lying accusations. It is to be hoped that some offender himself had been hurt; to call up a
might save their lives, because the Lord says sympathetic policeman and charge the actual
that He takes no pleasure in the death of the victim with assault,
wicked.Ezekiel 18:23; 33:11. Such is the most villainous sort of bearing
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 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H ^ & K S I M H H H B

Trailer camp at Bristol, England

false witness, as denounced in the Bible book as Couglilinites, resisting all peaceable efforts
of Deuteronomy. In New York city the so- to get them out.
called "Couglilinites", according to circum- Jehovah's witnesses were not having a po-
stantial evidence set forth in many publica- litical meeting in the Garden. Neither was it
tions, have definitely been using this technique an assembly of labor factions. Here was a
on -Jews for several months past. A refinement meeting planned with an international radio
of the same system was planned for Madison hookup, so that the ST^eech was received in
Square Garden. Witnesses at the trial of the London, Australia and other places; and it
three ushers above mentioned plainly present- was a. message from Jehovah of hosts. Jeho-
ed the facts to the court, that a group of sev- vah's witnesses had a responsibility before the
eral hundred Couglilinites walked from radio Lord to deliver His Word at this time, that
station WMCA, after they had finished picket- the people might find safety. Their respon-
ing that station for refusing to broadcast sibility was to see that this meeting went over,
Coughlin's speeches, and entered the (Harden, if it meant throwing their bodies into the gap.
all seatintr themselves in the rear top balcony, Much expense, infinite details and work had
jasd bel ind the speaker's platform. gone into this great climax of an international
It was testified (without proving who did convention.
it | that at a given signal by the flashing of On the part of those who had authority,
- in the Garden, which hundreds of wit- great concern was felt; for their responsi-
r, a concerted disturbance began in bility was not merely to see that a few thou-
this balcony. Besides loud booing, there were sand people heard a lecture. Their responsi-
shouts of "Heil Hitler" and "We arc for Hit- bility was to earry out the Lord's purpose,
ler ; to hell with everybody that is against, and for any neglect they would answer to Him.
him" and "We will kill these Jew-lovers". Now let it be borne in mind that the people
Many witnesses testified that this maraud- who came there to break up this meeting
ing group brought along with them copies of might have been deluded by some silver-
magazine and shook them in tongued demagogue or some other type of
the faces of the ushers, saying, '"'This is what rabble-rouser, and that they themselves may
you will get." not have been fully informed as to what they
This conspiracy was carried into effect with were doing. But the fact remains that they
such precision and planning that the speaker were there setting themselves in the path of
was not heard in the upper rear balcony dur- Jehovah's onward march, in the way of the
irm the few moments of the actual attempt to present progressive "increase" of His Govern-
disrupt the whole meeting. The whole of this ment, and it was the duty of His servants to
particular section of that vast assembly of act at their full strength, that His message
some twenty thousand persons was turned into might go forth.
a riot of major proportions, with the maraud- Not all of these facts could, of course, be
ing group, who plainly identified themselves brought out in the trial in the New York
NOVEMBER 29, 1939
21
 court, which limits testimony, and its judges friend inside for the cop of coffee?" Answer:
are desirous of grinding out case after ease, "About ten minutes." Then the court con-
since they have a great volume of eases to try. tinued: "You just stated you had never sold
But it was shown that the ushers who were Social Justice?" Answer: "I held the maga-
on trial for "assault." went deliberately into zine up but I didn't sell any."
this section where the disturbance broke out, Court: "Why did you hold it up ?"
made every effort to remove the disturbers, Witness: "Well, he told me to hold it up."
and when the ushers themselves were attacked Court: "If some one asked for a copy would
by some of these lawless ones they resisted you sell it ?"
and demeaned themselves like men. The case Witness: "Yes, but I am not selling Social
of the prosecution against the ushers (handled Justice."
by the district attorney's office) on the com- Then the court returned the picture to him,
plaint of some of this radical group who had asking, "Did you say anything while you were
been dealt with firmly by the ushers, was a holding the magazine?"
tissue of lies. It was the same old technique Answer: "No."
again, of whining that they had been hurt, of Court: "Was it a hot day when the picture
making a complaint that some one had hit was taken?"
them, when in reality such was an entirely Answer: "I don't think so."
false charge and those only were hurt who had Court: "Well, why is your mouth open as
violently and wrongfully attempted to carry the picture shows?''
out their wicked purpose to break up that Answer: "Why, I had to say Social Jus-
peaceful assembly. tice."
Before the judges of the Special Sessions Court: "You mean to say you were hollering
Court all of these facts were plainly brought 'Social Justice' and were not selling it?"
out, and it was indisputably shown that the Answer: "No."
complaints of the fanatical disturbers MM Court: "Did you ever relieve another friend
groundless and their sworn testimony in sup- while he went to get a cup of coffee ?"
port thereof was perjured. Answer: "About twice."
Perhaps the most dramatic episode in the Court: "What do you mean, 'About twice'?"
affair occurred during the testimony of a man Answer: "I am not ashamed to sell Social
who appeared on behalf of the disturbers. He Justice."
testified that he had witnessed an assault made Court: "Certainly not; but are you sure you
by one of the ushers on two people. Poring didn't sell Social Justice several other times?
his story of the event he located it first as hav- Suppose these people present another picture
ing happened on the top landing, then on the of you selling Social Justice somewhere else ?"
middle landing, and finally somewhere on the Another witness testified that he had gone
bottom steps. Since it had been established, to Madison Square Garden on June 25 because
during the course of the trial, that the dis- he saw it was a free lecture, and that he did
turbing group was made up entirely of the not know that Judge Rutherford would speak.
Coughlin admirers, this witness was asked When confronted with one of the leaflets ad-
whether he was a seller of Social Justice mag- vertising the meeting and which showed a pic-
azine. He replied, "1 never have sold Social ture of the speaker he claimed that it was a
Justice in my life." Thereupon defendants' sound truck which had interested him in going
attorney brought, forth a photograph of that to the Garden. When confronted with an ad-
witness with a copy of Social Justice being vertisement which was carried by the sound
held by himself above his own head. The wit- truck with a likeness thereon of Judge Ruther-
ness looked at the picture and admitted that ford, this witness almost curled up. But when
it was a likeness of himself, and then he said, another witness not connected with Jehovah's
"Yes, one time I was up on Lexington Avenue organization said that he had seen this same
and a friend of mine was selling Social Justice person up in The Bronx delivering speeches for
and he wanted to go in and get a cup of coffee, the "Christian Front", the face of the witness
so I held his magazine for him." At this point thus described fell. He knew the finger of
the court took over the examination of this ignominy was pointed at him as a member of
witness and the assistant district attorney the notorious bunch of gangsters, and that he
felt like crawling into a hole. was thus tied in with the effort to break up the
The court asked, "How long was your Garden meeting.
22 CONSOLATION
Jehovah's warriors, 126 strong, relaxing after the At Montreal Kingdom Hall, answering the question
battles of Mansora, Bun kin and Marksville, La. "How many ex-Catholics are in the audience?"
A 90-percent showing of hands
One not familiar wth the procedure in New
York courts, or not having an appreciation the acquittal of those who were maligned.
of the rasl number of casus which must be These same agencies who think they have a
disposed of in those courts, can hardly under- comer on all wisdom will be shocked when
stand the difficulty of getting in all this testi- called to account by the Lord himself for their
mony in a case of" simple assault. Be it said wickedness. It will come as a jolt to the "all-
for the judges, that although impatient with knowing" press that their course of action
defendants' attorney when lie plainly showed against THE THEOCUACY was foretold by the
them why consideration ought to be given to Lord several thousand years ago and that the
the type of the meeting, and to what plans period to their history was set to end next
had been made to provide for the public and following. Perhaps when they learn that the
assure their safety, those judges consented to Hierarchy has been kidding them about fur-
listen to the evidence for nearly two days. In- nishing fire insurance against the punishment
leed. these ushers were in the lions' den, as they deserve, these propaganda systems will
was Daniel, because this court is one which see the simple truth that it did not pay to
customarily convicts. But the Lord having lie about the Lord's people at the cost of their
promised that He will deliver those who put own eternal destruction. Perhaps this is too
their trust in Him, and since ITis name was simple for the "arbiters of wisdom" to com-
involved in the great proclamation that issued prehend.
from Madison Square Garden, the three ushers The point is that the distorted press ac-
left the courtroom praising the Lord for hav- counts which defamed Jehovah's witnesses in
ing had a part in honoring His name and act- reality defamed the name of the Most High
ing tor its vindication. Two of the three ushers God. If any such offender's wish to square
were wholly acquitted, and the third one, themselves with the Lord before the catastro-
whose accuser tailed to appear in court, was phe of Armageddon is upon them, they will
unconditionally dismissed by the court. do well to clear up their former misstatements.
Let it be said for the attorneys who handled They had best act quickly to disabuse the
the ease for the ushers that they had a deep minds of the readers who were deceived. If
concern in discharging their duties and in ac- they merely made an error they should be
complishing the acquittal of their clients, and glad to make what amends they can and cor-
they did a skillful and commendable job. But rect through their publications the libelous
above all. they had received the blessing of the insinuation that the Lord's organization is
Lord, and for this they should be very grate- one of brawlers. Let the discomfiture of the
ful. "Blessed is the nation whose God is ''Coughlinites" who failed in their vicious
Jehovah." attempt to block Jehovah's great proclamation
Now, a month since the trial, only one of the of June 25, and got "busted heads" for their
seventy-odd newspapers of the United States pains, remain as an object lesson* to all who
which blared forth evil and false reports about oppose the King. The news scribblers who pre-
the Lord's servants has carried an account of sumed to slander the name of Jehovah Avould
NOVEMBER 29, 1939 23
well take into consideration the sore pates of witnesses were acting WITHIN THEIK RIGHTS.
these deluded fellows. If they do not they will U' the Press does not choose to clear the mat-
be ground to powder by the onrushing army ter up in the public interest, it will profitably
of Jehovah's invisible hosts led by His Exe- observe an object lesson: Several individuals
cutioner. whose sore heads and other parts remind them
The time of those who fight against Jeho- that they received JUSTICE which was not so
vah God is becoming shorter and shorter. The SOCIAL, as the result of FIGHTING, AGAINST GOD.
Devil and his hordes know that they have but
a little while to carry on their wickedness. Nervousness and Protection
They strive desperately to turn every person A good little woman in Ohio, living in a
against God. These demons enter into in- secluded spot, was attacked by two men on the
dividuals, possess their minds, and force such way home, late at night. Unable to recall, in
willing subjects to do their bidding. Even in her nervousness, much of the text of Psalm
the courtroom, when the complaining wit- 91: 4, but having in mind the spirit of it. she
nesses (Coughiinites) began to see that the shouted with all her might, -Feathers and
case was going against them, several hollered wings, feathers and wings."' The men were
out, "Lies," another emitted a superstitious much surprised, and one said to the other,
oath, whereupon they were ejected by the "Oh, she is crazy; let her go," and home she
Court attendant. These people were obviously went, securely trusting in the promise indicat-
possessed by evil forces. ed.Mrs. Carrie Tobias, Ohio.
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Jehovah's Kingdom Hall. Glasgow Immersion scene at Montreal, Quebec

Now let the responsible parties of the news Spokesmen for Two Governments
sheets that tr k sides with the enemies of An Ohio witness heard an admirer of Presi-
Jehovah call to mind that it is plainly stated dent Roosevelt express his keen apprecia-
in His Word that the wicked He will destroy. tion of the great address he had heard "the
(Psalm 145: 20) Among those wicked are the president" give from Madison Square Garden
perjurers and false witnesses. (Proverbs on the afternoon of June 25, 1939. He thought
6:16-19; Deuteronomy 19:16-19) If they it eminently fitting that "the president"
wish to do right they can explain to their should publicly take his stand by the Scrip-
readers they formerly deceived that Jehovah's
witnesses did not provoke a brawl at the Gar- tures: that it was the most wonderful lecture
den, nor did Judge Rutherford make one he had ever heard in his life. When his atten-
single aspersion on the Catholic Church which tion was drawn to the fact that he had been
caused the outbreak, but that the whole dis- listening to Judge Rutherford, and not to
turbance was prearranged by conspiracy; and Mr. Roosevelt, he stated, "I would not have
that the action of the ushers was to resist law- listened if I had known it was that Rutherford
breakers and defend the responsibility Jeho- fellow, but it was a grand speech even if he
vah had imposed on them. A Court of two did give it."
Catholics and a Jew found that Jehovah's (To be continued)
24 CONSOLATION
 Russia
One Night's Torture Moscow to Have Tallest Building
Not a person in the world outside At a cost of $20,000,000 Moscow is building
of Russia believes that all the men what it is claimed will be the tallest structure
that started the Russian revolution in the world. Details are lacking, but at the
had proved false to its aims and base will be two immense auditoriums, one
that only Stalin the Murderer had of which will have a dome thirty stories high
been faithful. One after another the heads of and will cover two acres. Two acres of seats
great departments were arrested and, after due can be removed by pressing a button. By press-
preparation, Russian style, came out in court ing other buttons a swimming pool, a skating
and ''confessed" the crimes with which they rink, a circus arena, a revolving stage and a
were charged, and were then butchered like so moving picture screen can be produced. The
many sheep. In the latest batch of twenty-one, entire vast structure, of unknown height, will
one man, Nikolai Krestinsky, nine years Rus- be surmounted by the largest statue ever
sian ambassador to Germany, denied bis guilt, sculptured by man, a figure of Lenin. This
hut after one more night of torture in Lubian- will make all these other statue builders, that
ka prison he was ready to die and the next day, are so eager to chisel out the biggest foolish-
in a weak voice, made the expected "confes- ness, feel like thirty cents in pennies. The
sion"' which could only be followed by death. Lenin statue will be 300 feet high. Russia is
Mussolini said, according to Popolo d'ftalin, today one of the most highly religious coun-
-Stalin had turned Fascist. lie ought to be tries on earth. It worships Lenin and Stalin,
ashamed of his convert, though it takes a great atheism, and its own belly.
stretch of the imagination to think of Musso-
lini as being ashamed of anything. In each What Did Sergei Do With It?
of his mass murders, miscalled "trials", Stalin If, as alleged by the newspapers of Russia,
spared two or three, and it was in the hope of the metropolitan Sergei, acting patriarch and
. one of the spared ones that all complied supreme head of the Orthodox church in Rus-
with the grotesque demands of the torturers sia, expended $250 a day on champagne, he
that they "confess" whatever they were sup- must have had lots of company, and there may
posed to confess. be something to the claim that he was but one
of a big flock of priests and nuns dancing and
Russia's Maginot Line drinking in one of the underground convents
Following the general example of France that his particular church considered a nat-
and Germany, Russia is now building a new ural perquisite of their religion.
Maginot line from the Baltic to the Blaek Sea.
Forests are being removed, populations are The World's Best Atlas
being transferred, and transportation arteries, George B. Crcssey, famous geographer of
including bridges, are being mined, in antici- Syracuse University, claims that the new
pation of the day when Hitler proceeds to Soviet atlas, in three volumes, at $40 per
carry out his idea to seize the Ukraine, with volume, is far and away the best atlas in the
its vast stores of wheat, coal, iron, manganese world. The sheets have been printed by the
and <ither metals and swim in the wealth which offset method, with as many as twenty colors
he believes awaits him. on some maps. The colors are harmonious
and the registration perfect. Unfortunately,
Ten Admirals Bumped Off the language throughout is Russian.
The Maniac at Moscow continues to cany
on his program of eliminating everybody he "Assignment in Utopia"
does not like. Within the past year he caused A socialism that offers to fill the bellies of
to be put to death the ten most prominent its people but retains the privilege of slitting
admirals of the Russian navy, with hosts of those bellies at will is reactionary: it cancels
other naval men. The official excuse is that out ages of struggle and costly victory in the
the men slain had as their objective a defen- domain of the human spirit.Eugene Lyons,
sive navy, whereas the Soviet wants an offen- in his work, Assignment in UtopiaSoviet
sive one, able to go anywhere and do as it likes. Russia.
NOVEMBER 29, 1939 25
 'Cience
The Secret of Burning Coal Vitamin A Relieves Eyes,
The secret of burning coal econom- Improves Color Matching
ically is to add the fresh fuel in a MANSFIELD, OhioHow Vitamin A can
rather thin layer all over the burn- improve color matching efficiency, relieve eye
ing fuel, or, better, to put it on the fatigue and improve the general health of
burning fuel in strips or patches, certain types of industrial workers is revealed
so that one-half of the burning eoal is left ex- by two eye specialists here.
posed and thus the flame remains intact and Observations on a group of inspectors
can burn off the volatile matter given off or matching colors on a production line con-
distilled off by the fresh fuel when applied. vinced the experimenters that the men were
If you give the furnace too much air, you not regenerating their "visual purple" fast
waste heat up the chimney, because the excess enough. (Visual puiple is a substance in the
air has to be heated. And if you give the fur- retina of the eye closely connected with the
nace too little air, you waste heat in the fuel process of seeing, particularly colors.) Know-
residues in the form of unburned carbon in ing that the body's process of producing
the ash and smoke in the stack. The conclu- visual purple requires the presence of Vita-
sion is that the furnace should he operated min A, the doctors prescribed three 10,000-
with the correct ratio between coal and air. nuit capsules of carotene-in-oil daily.
The International Engineer. At the end of seven months the specialists
reported an increase in the regeneration of
Job Ahead for Jonadabs visual purple from 50 to 100 percent; more
Prof. Walter Hallstein, University of Ros- than 75 percent improvement in color match-
tock, Germany, figures it out scientifically ing efficiency, and an appreciable improve-
that the earth will maintain 12.000,000.000 ment in health, particularly where fatigue,
people. To be sure, the Creator could so ar- headache and eyestrain formerly were chronic.
range matters that it would sustain several Solvent Ncivs.
times that number. The Jonadabs, the faithful
people of good will, in fulfilling the divine Dirty Trick on Rats
mandate to ''fill the earth", will undoubtedly Newspapers entitle a story of how a pro-
be able eventually to count their descendants fessor drove rats crazy, "Dirty Trick on
by the thousands. It is the plain intent of the Bats''; and it seems to be all of that. He fixed
Creator that the vindication of His name, up a contrivance by which rats were forced
which will lake place shortly, at Armageddon, to jump towrard one or another of two cards.
shall be told to these forever and forever. They finally came to learn that when they
jumped to the left the card fell down and they
Makes Glass Invisible found themselves in peace and safety. Then
At the General Electric laboratories in he switched the cards and when the rat
Schenectady, Dr. Katherine B. Blodgett, fa- jumped he got his nose bumped and no food
mous scientist, discovered that by dipping at all. After a while he refused to jump at
glass forty-four times in a new chemical com- all or even to eat; and his opinion of the
bination a film is produced about four-mil- scientist is the same as yours. But the scientist
lionths of an inch thick. This film is just thick got $1,000 reward for his dirty trick.
enough to counteract all reflected light, with
the result that the glass is entirely invisible. Mountings for the Big Telescope
About 100 tons of the mountings for the
Samples from Seven Miles Down big telescope at Mount Palomar. California,
A tapered steel rope, constructed of the were shipped by steamer from Philadelphia.
finest quality of steel obtainable, is now used The largest single piece was 48 feet long, 10
to bring to the surface samples of materials feet wide and 12 feet high, and weighed 45
which lie seven miles below the surface of the tons. The complete telescope structure will
ocean. It is found that as the waters increase weigh about 1.000,000 pounds and be so deli-
in depth the soils at the ocean bottom become cately balanced that a ^-horsepower motor
much more concentrated in radium content. will operate it.
26 CONSOLATION
 Protestantism
An Ideal Candidate of England which I had so belittled. Hitler
Religions seminaries are, as is well was responsible for the final stage in my
known, establishments where young evolution."
men are taught higher criticism, If the "Church of England" is hard up for
hypocrisy and all the humbug of recruits, and it seems that it is, it might do
religion; in short, incubators pro- well to get pros pec live candidates to listen to
ducing atheists and dyed-in-the-wool children Hitler and to distribute copies of Moin Kampf.
of the Devil. It is not often, however, that an On the contrary, the best thing that can be
avowed atheist and iniidcl suddenly expresses done if the same organization is to lose mem-
the desire to become a country parson. bers is for the people to learn of the Kingdom
in the year 1929 John Middlelon Murry, of Jehovah and to become acquainted with the
one of the leaders of the "advanced intellec- Bible and literature explaining the Bible.
tuals" in Great Britain, wrote a book entitled Without passing judgment on the sincerity
"Cod", in which he declared that, as far as he of Murry, it is safe to state that if he is honest
was concerned, Cod did not exist; thus prov- he will see through the sham and humbug of
ing himself foolish. (]Jsalm 53 :1) Among other the Church of England and religion generally.
things, his book contained the following re- If he is not, he will share the fate of all reli-
marks: "God does not exist." "There is no gionists in Armageddon, when Satan's brood
place for God in the universe." "There have will be destroyed for ever.J. A. Williams,
been moments in my life when I would have Lithuania.
given my very soul lo have had a God to pray
to; when I sought him in loneliness and bitter- Preached on Nephew
t ess and despair, 1 could not find him then. I The papers do not say that the "Reverend"
do not need him now." "The day of religion is S. Fraser Langford, pastor of the First Bap-
tist church of Ocean Park, California,
Although he did not realize the fact, the last preached on a cockfight or a tussle for mastery
statement is the only true one. between a couple of bulldogs. No, it was on
Murry has now entered a theological college nothing unspiritual like that. What he
and intends to become a country parson ; for, preached on, the Bible having lost interest for
among other mistaken ideas, he thinks it neces- him and for his flock because of him, was his
sary to perpetuate English village life, and to own nephew, Douglas Corrigan, aviator, the
do that it is, according to him, necessary to same young man that allegedly read his com-
hold the young people together by means of pass upside down and so landed in Ireland
religion. instead of California. The pews were full of
people and the pulpit was full of prunes. The
His "conversion", he has stated, is due to a show was worth a couple of shirt buttons.
hal red of Hitler, and not, as em? might expect,
to repentance for the blasphemous book of A Kick from the Butler
which he is author, and to a desire to serve
the Creator, ii* he has reached the point where In his church paper the "Reverend"
he believes in the latter's existence. Probably Leonard Spiller, of St. Martin's church, West
the theological college will succeed in remov- Acton, London, expostulated as follows:
ing all traces of such a belief if it docs exist. We should be grateful if communicants would
take only a tiny sip from the chalice. Three times
Hurry heard Hitler speak on the night after recently it has been necessary to reconsecrate wine,
the "'purge" of June, 1934, when so many of althongh plenty of wine was put in the chalice at
Hitler's friends and comrades were butchered. first. One of the first communicants practically
In his s; eech Hitler said, "I only incarnate drained the chalice.
law and justice." and implied that no trial
had been necessary. "I felt just blank despair Biblical Illiterates
when I heard that," Murry said in an inter- Dr. Charles Arbuckle, professor of homi-
view. "You may think me fantastic, but 1 said letics at Andover Newton theological school,
to myself; This is what the Bible meant by declares that the present crop of theological
Anti-Christ. I was immediately forced back students are Biblical illiterates, with an as-
to traditional Christian belief, to the Church tonishing lack of Biblical knowledge.
NOVEMBER 29, 1939 27
 vvrongness of the scheme the whole business
was thrown into confusion. It does seem that
British Comment there was something wrong when, as reported,
fish caught in English waters, or landed in an
tori English port, was sent to the north of Scot-
By J. Hemery {London) land to be marketed, and then to be sent back
to England to be retailed. Billingsgate, Lon-
don's fish market, was closed : if. was subjected
Contrasts to a general evacuation idea, a scheme which
One outstanding difference between Nazi "emptied" London of many of the banks'
totalitarianism and the democratic kind undei offices, insurance offices, and also government
which Britain is now governed is the liberty offices, as well as hundreds of thousands of
of the subject to say what be thinks, and un- young children. A fish center was set going in
der ordinary circumstances to do as he wishes, some unannounced place in the southern coun-
always excepting in matters that are treason- ties : but the scheme was a failure, and
able, or openly or suspected as detrimental Billingsgate is once more itself. Other failures
to the State. He is free to express his criticism might be noted; but on the other hand there
openly, and his newspapers have the same is no possible question that the nation's sup-
liberty. He is not afraid of a spy listening to plies are being handled to general benefit.
what he has to say; he is free to turn his radio Those who are responsible are undoubtedly
set Lo listen to any foreign speaker denounce laboring hard to make the very best service
his country and its politicians, whereas in Ger- available; but undoubtedly there are many
many and under Nazi rule listening in to officials clothed with a hit of extra authority
broadcasts from Britain is not only forbidden and who have not learned to use it for the
but has heavy and drastic punishments for public good.
those who are caught listening. This inherit-
ance of a free people is a most treasured pos- Evacuation
session, and it is not a matter for surprise that The evacuation of the children from Lon-
there are watchful eyes turned towards any don and most of the large cities and towns
action that even appears as if officialdom were was effected with success; but the settling
acting aggressively. down has brought many problems, some of
them difficult. Many of the children and their
Great Efforts and Great Problems mothers, transplanted abruptly into condi-
In its preparations for taking over the con- tions of life in country villages, have given
cerns and the care of a big family of 45,000,000 much trouble to the local authorities into
persons the Government has taken on an whose care they were put. Some parents have
enormously heavy job. In its wisdom. Parlia- refused to stay, and some mothers whose chil-
ment, all parties agreeing, has given the vari- dren were taken away have gone for them
ous tasks to several ministries each of which and brought them back. Schooling in the vil-
has authority to make orders which have the lage s, and for those now in the towns, is one
force of an act of Parliament itself. Penal- of the problems. In the towns the schools are
ties are set for refusal to obey, or for neglect closed, and it is said that in Manchester there
to eomform to the orders of these ministries, are at least 95,000 children who are in the
and the ordinary means of appeal are not homes and the streets having no schooling.
available. The ministries got busy, and the And the fitting in in the homes of the people
whole of the country is flooded with rules has brought troubles and sorrows to many.
and regulations. It must, be presumed that the But there is a great advantage to a very large
intentions of Parliament are wholly for the number of children : they are out of the streets
good and the welfare of the people, and the and perhaps slums and into the open fresh
same will be granted for those who are re- air of the country, and will without question
sponsible for tlie management of the various get the advantage which life in the open gives.
ministries; but the urgency of the work and Stories both pathetic and humorous are
its magnitude have perhaps unavoidably led told. A woman helper, relating some of her
to some confusion and even to failure. The experiences, tells how she gave a youngster a
fish supply of the country was controlled, but shilling, bidding him go to the local grocery
cither because of management o.r the inherent for a half pound of butter. The nipper put
28 CONSOLATION
the money on the table, saying, ''I shan't need wants power over his fellows, and who is aided
that, lidy: I always lift it for mother, and I'll and abetted by a gang of ruthless men who
do it for you." Another tells of putting two use his ambition for their own selfish ends,
young tilings to bed, but going into the room 'there are other reasons. Judge Rutherford,
later to see them, and finding them under the as spokesman for Jehovah's witnesses, has now
bed. When roused and gotten from under it, been heard throughout the world declaring the
they said that at home their father and mother main fact in the case which lies deeper than
slept in their bed and they slept under it! the ambitions or disputes of men and nations.
Others tell of the affection of the children in He has declared to the whole world that, the
response to care to which apparently they time is now come which God by His prophets
not accustomed. The costs of this evacua- foretold, and of which Jesus spoke: the time
tion have been, and must continue to be very when He -null bring to pass His purpose to
heavy, and certainly if the war should la.st bring the whole earth into judgment, prepara-
? years the problem is a great one. tory to the full establishment of His kingdom
Another evacuation, under compulsion, has in the earth. One of the factors in that prep-
brought much discomfort to a class used to aration is the conflict between that wicked
comfort and ease, and loss and great incon- spirit, the Devil, and God's King, Jesus, the
- .'ice to those who provided it. Hundreds conflict told of in The Revelation the 12th
of large boarding houses and hotels have been chapter, and about which, as the immediate
commandeered by various Government offi- effect in the earth, it is said, ""Woe to the in-
t'or the accommodation of staffs, either habitcrs of the earth . . . for the devil is come
military or civil servants whose work has been down unto you, having great wrath, because
removed from London to places less likely to he knoweth that he hath but a short time."
be bombed when that feature of the war starts (Verse 12) By His prophet Zephaniah (chap-
in earn ter three, verse 8), God said that the day
For a few weeks after the declaration that would come when He would gather the na-
> of war existed the Ministry of Infor- tions that He might pour out on them His
mat: d to be an office for withholding indignation; and Jesus spoke of that day as
information ; but lately, under some pressure, the time of the world's greatest trouble, and
the authorities have allowed some newspaper as fulfilling the prophecy which God had
the war activities, both at home and spoken by Daniel, a prophet whose visions are
overseas. The people were beginning to show utterly refused by the so well "educated"
i puzzled to know both what the Protestant clergy. For some years the witness
mmciit is doing and what its intentions, to the fact that Jehovah's time is come has
now something of the enormous extent of been r
given by the hand of faithful men and
material preparation for a severe and pro- w omen, carrying it from house to house, from
longed conflict has been revealed. village to village, and from city to city, the
world over; it has been broadcast through the
All Europe on the Trek earth by radio, and by public meetings. But
In Britain children, and their mothers, though thousands have heard, and been
counted by the million, have been moved and warned thereby, and have accepted both the
businesses have been transferred from the word 7of truth and the obligation to take up
- In the war zones in Germany's western the w ork of witnessing which follows, both
and southern borders whole towns have been the rulers of the people and the people them-
cleared of the inhabitants; in the smaller selves have refused to heed, ignoring the warn-
s of central and southeastern Europe ing given them. Religion and religionists have
hundreds of thousands of persons have been the chief responsibility for this. The leaders
torn arbitrarily from their homes, compelled of religion, led by the main body, the Roman
k what they could in a far-away land; Catholic section, have taken active opposition,
in the northeastern Baltic States there is the and have been ruthless in manner of trying
- upheaval of the peoples ; Poland has had to crush both the message and the messengers
iU people destroyed or they have fled from of Jehovah. In their ignorance of the Scrip-
theii and in far-away Finland there tures the people have taken religionists at
is hasty removal of the people from.the cities. their own estimation of themselves, and have
accepted their claim to be the only ones who
It would be easy to say that all this has come could understand the Scriptures, and ha,ve the
about through the mad ambition of a man who
NOVEMBER 29, 1939 29
right to say what these shall mean, and to rep- hopes that out of the turmoil of the war and
resent God and Christ in the earth. the nations' disputes there may come in Eu-
The people do not understand that in the rope a federation of the States from which
main the Protestant clergy are unbelievers in war and the threat of war shall be banished;
the Scriptures, that they use them deceitfully. a Europe in which a. man may freely practice
Those written before the time of Jesus when his religion, where he could he sure of justice,
He was on earth, commonly known as the Old where trade should be controlled for the com-
Testament, they put aside, except to make use mon good, and where the peoples of different
of its expressions and stories to illustrate some races, traditions and opinions could live side
point they wish to emphasize; the Greek Scrip- by side in friendship. The dean thinks all this
tures, the New Testament, as it is familiarly is practicable, and says, "All these dreams,"
called, they use mainly to support their vari- whether such as he dreamt or that Europe
ous dogmas or their forms of church govern- should form itself into such a federation of
ment.. The Roman church claims to take the States as is seen in the United States of Amer-
whole of the Scriptures, and claims to have ica, "arc infinitely less great than the dream
the sole right to say what they mean; it also of a catholic church which the apostle Paul
claims the right to add to them and to give told to the Ephesians 2,000 years ago." Dr.
equal authority, writings of uninspired men Alington is a well-educated man, knows what
both before the days of Jesus, and those oT his church stands for, and is liberally minded,
the "fathers" of the church of Rome, and thus and tolerant towards those with whom he dif-
comes under the condemnation of the words fers in theologythe "science" of religion !
which are almost the last in the Word of God, But when he speaks of what Paul said about
- "If any man shall take away from the words the church of God, the church of Jcstis Christ,
of the book of this prophecy, God shall take and calls it a dream, he reveals how deeply he
away his part out of the book of life . . . " is immersed in the darkness of religion. Paul
(see Revelation 22:19). Also the previous was no dreamer. Taught of the Lord himself,
verse says, "If any man shall add unto these as he so definitely says, at Galatians chapter
tilings, God shall add unto him the plagues one. verses 11 and 12, "The gospel which was
that are written in this book." preached of me is not after wan ; for I neither
received it of man, neither was I taught it,
it is clear that this day of Jehovah's judg- but by the revelation of Jesus Christ," and
ment brings into light and into judgment under the guidance of and instruction of the
every evil power and work: the Devil, who holy spirit, he knew that the church of Christ
has deceived the whole world, the religionists 1 never be a catholic church in the sense
and their works which have both deceived men that word is used by religionists. The church
and stood in the way of the truth, and all who of Christ never had a great earthly future
have refuasd to heed the warning, that they before ii. Bora out oi' the death of Jesus as
might find a place of safety. Why Satan has redeemer, and who was raised out of the dead
been allowed to have rule in the earth as the by the power of God, the church began its
"god of this world", as Paul named him, or work of witnessing on the day it was anointed
"the prince of this world"', as Jesus spoke of by the holy spirit, represented in the little
him, and for so long a time, and how and company gathered in the upper room, waiting
when that rule comes to an end with the judg- for the power from on high. Those who had
ment and the vengeance of God against every been with the Lord had beard him tell of the
evil system and on its supporters, and those hatred they should experience from the world
who willingly allow themselves to be deceived BS they witnessed the things they had heard
all these things are fully explained in the of him. and of the things they should be told
literature of Jehovah's witnesses. by him through the spirit. They knew they
must ever be a company apart, and must work
Dreams of a Dean and wait till He should again return from
The dean of Durham cathedral, Dr. C. A. heaven; they knew that they must endure in
Alington, told his hearers of his desire to he faith and hope till that time, and that though
counted among the dreamers who look for- they woidd' fall asleep those who followed
ward to a federal union of the democratic them in the footsteps of Jesus would find ac-
countries of the world"all the countries ceptance in that day of the Lord's return, only
which share Britain's belief in freedom." He as they endured to the end. There was no
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thought of a great church which should dom- himself) is the establishment of His kingdom,
inate the earth or even permeate its forms of set up by His own direct action in the earth.
life: but rather that at the end the church of After the church of Christ, the faithful wit-
Jesus woidd be saved only by His interven- nesses and disciples of Jesus, have done their
tion. Religionists began to dream of a great. work, meeting such as the Herods and Pilates
place in the earth, and they set about imple- as there arc in this day, the time will come for
menting their dreams; and to the extent which the church to be united to the Lord, and then
history past and present records, ihey have in power with Him fulfill the purposes of God,
made a name and a place i'or themselves in the a royal nation taken out from among men.
earth. Neither the dean's dream nor any of But the leaders of religion persist in trying
those of good men who want to see peace in to hold up their systems rather than turn in
the earth will ever be realised by what men simplicity and humility to the Word of God.
or churches can do: the only hope (and it is Their houses as well as their dreams wall fail
a sure one because spoken by God, the Creator them.

Natural Phenomena
Curious Lake Ronkonkoma Long Island sound; and this may be the
Lake Ronkonkoma, on Long Island, New true explanation.
York, is about a mile across, with neither in-
The Antarctic Icecap
lets nor outlets, but it has a strange disposition.
The Antarctic icecap, seven thousand feet
On one occasion, July '22, 1918," the lake fell thick and flowing down on all sides to the sea
three feet in three hours, and in two days, at the rate of 46 jTards a year, is so huge that
early in March, 1939, it rose eight feet. The if it, were suddenly to melt the excess water
Indians had a legend that the lake is fed by would cause a flood almost equal to that of
a river from New England that runs under Noah's day.

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If you haven't, here are several reasons ligion", explaining in its entirety the
why you should : It brings to you the truth prophecy of Joel. You couldn't, read any-
as set forth in God's Word, the Bible. All thing belter. Another article that you
persons who are lovers of righteousness should have read is entitled "Neutrality'",
and desire to do the Lord's will must of and another "Snares". The next issue
which is the December 1, contains an
necessity read The WATCHTOWER, article entitled "The Theocracy". Why
because it brings to you, as the apostle not start your subscription with "The
Matthew puts it, "meat in due season." Theocracy""? The. WATCHTOWER is one
For example, during the past several magazine that proves from the Bible what
months a series of articles appeared in it has to say. Tf you believe the Bible, read
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"WAR OF VINDICATION
HAT is the title of the next testimony period for Jehovah's wit-

T nesses. The motith of December has been set aside by Jehovah's

witnesses throughout the world to make known the name of JEHO-
VAH and His THEOCRATIC .ORGANIZATION. If you are really interested in
and want to know what the "WAR OF VINDICATION" means and is, you should
read the booklet that is to be widely distributed during this testimony period,
namely, Government and Peace, written by Judge Rutherford. This booklet
contains the lecture by Judge Rutherford which lie delivered June 25 at
Madison Square Garden and which lecture the religionists, through their
gangster methods, tried to stop. They failed.
There are two ways of getting the information on Government and
Peace: (1) Obtain the booklet on a contribution of five cents; or (2) write
the Watchtower and ask to have someone call at your home and reproduce
for you, without obligation or cost, the entire lecture as actually given
-lane 25 by Judge Rutherford in Madison Square Garden. Simultaneously
with the delivery of II 'h a recording was made. Not only will you
hear the most thrilling lecture of your life, but you will hear the religionists
try to break up the assembly of Christian people. Yes, things like that are
happening in the United States, and if you want to know about it, write
ihe Watchtower.

WATCHTOWER, 1 1 7 A d a m s St., B r o o k l y n , N. Y.
Please send ine the booklet Government and Peace, containing Judge Rutherford's
Madison Square Garden speech. Enclosed find for copies [one copy
on 5c contributionj for the advancement of the Kingdom work.
Please have one of Jehovah's witnesses call at my home and reproduce, at no
expense to me, the lecture "Government and Peace", exactly as given in Madison
Square Garden. I understand the person calling will bring his afro phonograph.

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