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Contents
Is the Roman Catholic Press Trustworthy? 3
A Little on Child Training 6
Don't Be Too Severe 14
Teach the Truth in the Home 15
The New Government 8
"Catholic Europe Predicted" 8
Anecdotes from Belgium 9
New York 11
Anarchy in Brooklyn 11
Mr. Hague Wants a Trip 12
South Africa 13
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford 17
Politics 17
One Million Victims 18
South America 19
Under the Totalitarian Flag 20
State Aid for Religion 20
Surrender to the Pope 21
Knights of Columbus 22
Public Admission of Hypocrisy 23 The Ambushment of the American Republic 24
American Public School System 24
Pastoral Letter on Teaching Democracy 35
Notice the Ineffable Conceit 26
What Is Back of All This! 27
British Comment 28
"Freethinkers" 28
Forestry 31
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Appetizers
Winning Answer
An enterprising Florida newspaper offered a year's subscription for the best answer to this question, "Why is a woman like a newspaper ?" Here are some of the answers : "Because they are thinner now than they used to be."
"Because they are well worth looking over." "Because they carry the news wtferever thev So."
But the one to win the subscription was this : "Because every man should have one of his own and not run after his neighbor's." — Ex.
Troubles with Wives
A Southern editor said that a man out west got himself into trouble by marrying two wives.
A Western editor replied that a good many men in the South have done the same thing by marrying one.
A Northern editor reports that quite a num- ber of his acquaintances found trouble by merely promising to' marry, without going any farther.— Labor.
A Diplomat! A Politician!
Charlie Miller, news editor of the Peru (111.) News-Herald, tells of a man who astonished the want-ad clerk of his newspaper recently by placing an ad offering $50 reward for the return of his wife's pet eat.
"Isn't that a high reward for a eat?" asked the ad taker.
"Not in this case," said the man. "I drowned the cat."— American Guardian.
A Problem
"Daddy," said a little girl, "if a doctor doc- tored another doctor, would the doctor doing the doctoring doctor the other doctor in the way the doctored doctor wanted to be doctored; or would the doctor doing the doctoring doe- tor the other doctor in his own way?" — Labor,
A Long Wait
Doctor, to patients in reception room :"Well, who has been waiting the longest?"
Man, presenting bill: "1 think I have, Doe- tor, I delivered your suit three years ago."
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"And in His name shall the nations hope." — Matthew 12:21, A.R.V.
Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, January 11, 1939 Number 504
Is the Roman Catholic Press, Trustworthy?
A FACT that is frequently overlooked by honest persons, and one that should never be forgotten, is that the Roman Catholic Church, as a church, condones lying (as well as theft and murder) by the casuistry with which it contravenes the Divine law. The fol- lowing extract from one of the most honored "saints"* in the Roman Church, shows that lying has been reduced to a fine art in that iniquitous organization, which is now trying to subject England to its rule by means of Pascistic subterfuges.
If any, either alone or before others, whether asked or of his own accord, or for the purpose of sport, or for any other object, swears that he has not done something else which he has done, or in a different way from that in which he has done it, or any other truth that is added, he does not really lie, nor is he perjured. — Pope Innocent XI.
Another "saint", whose writings are still studied and followed in the Roman Catholic organization, states:
When a crime has been well concealed, the wit- ness and even the criminal, may, and even must, swear that the crime has never been committed.. .. . .»We may be allowed to conceal the truth, or disguise it under ambiguous or equivocal words or signs, for a just cause, and where there is no ne- cessity to confess the truth. — "Saint" Liguori.
Such being the case, it is easy to see how little confidence can be placed in what is stated in Roman Catholic newspapers or periodicals. The excuse of "a just cause" can be so readily advanced. For instance, the advantage of the church itself is always considered a just cause, and,' in any event, the doing of evil that good may come (to the system) is clearly endorsed by such methods as the foregoing quotations not merely suggest, but endorse.
The complete absence of principle or of any stable foundation for an honorable course of action is evident from the quotations pre- sented, which are only a drop in the bucket when compared with the literature that eluci-
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dates such rules and is still current in the Roman Catholic Church.
Being thus instructed, it was not strange that the London Catholic Herald should pro- duce an article such as the following, purport- ing to come from their own correspondent in New York.
Cut Off! America Declines to Hear "Jehovah's" Chief "Witness"
From Our Own Correspondent
New York.
The anti - religious tirade delivered by Judge Rutherford at the London (Kng.) Albert Hall, and broadcast to America, was cut short by Ameri- can radio stations, whose directors then apologised to radio audiences for as much of the speech as had been heard.
Radio spokesmen explained that they had no knowledge of the nature of the speech, but cut it as soon as its anti -religious venom became evident. Complaints against the broadcast have been for- warded to the Federal Communications Commission.
In some places where meetings had been arranged to hear the broadcast, lessees broke contracts and closed their halls to the free-thinking or atheist audiences. In Pittsburgh, Shriners who had leased their hall to the "Jehovah's Witnesses" (Ruther- fordites) explained to the Pittsbtirgh Catholic that tbey would not have leased the hall if they had known the purport of the meeting, and added the assurance that precautions would be .-taken in the future.
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All New Orleans radio stations declined to carry the speech, while stations in Colorado and Okla- homa cut off the speech and apologised to their listeners. In Chicago and New Orleans three-day conventions of the Watch Tower Society, also Ruth- erfordites, were refused permission to use public halls.
In some places American Legionnaires and other patriotic societies protested against the broadcast because of Rutherford's subversive doctrines on saluting the flag and war service.
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The Catholic Press is initiating a protest against the proposal to hold the next Godless Congress in New York City.
Did not the London Catholic Herald realize that intelligent readers would see the contra- diction between the first and fourth para- graphs of their story? and were they not aware that there was not the least connec- tion between the story as a whole and the last- paragraph, which unquestionably was added to convey the idea, at least to the average uncritical Catholic reader, that Jeho- vah's witnesses were a Godless group?
Were they so eager to discredit Judge Ruth- . erford and Jehovah's witnesses generally that they failed to realize that it is generally dif- ficult to write convincing fiction, especially when one is heated up over something and trying to get the other fellow in bad? Have not Catholic editors yet learned that, even if only from considerations of policy, it is best to be honest?
Did the Roman Catholic news service that produced this poor piece of propaganda for- get that many thousands of persons, intelli- gent persons, having heard the lecture, or knowing others who had heard it, and mil- lions more who had the books written by Judge Rutherford, would know they were lying?
Also, had the Roman Catholic news service overlooked the fact that while Jehovah's wit- nesses do not resort to the use of carnal weap- ons, or of the Devil's tactics of lying and boy- cott, they do make effective use of every legal and just means within their reach to defend the truth?
Whatever may have been the cause of the deliberate misrepresentation of truth in evi- dence in the dispatch purporting to represent happenings in another country, the London Catholic Herald stands condemned as an un- trustworthy source of news and a prejudiced and biased interpreter of such news.
The Catholic press in general has not im- pressed the public, not even the professed Roman Catholic public, as being worth while or reliable. It is too obviously an instrument in the hands of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy to further its own interests, and that at the expense of the people and their just rights. The Roman Catholic Press has the right to give a disproportionate amount of space to matters Catholic, but it docs not have the right, in the eyes of honest persons, to mis-
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represent the truth with regard to any mat- ter, regardless of its personal prejudices.
The pope says that the Catholic press is his very own voice; and if that is. true, he must have Ananias backed off the boards. Judge Rutherford and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society have been lied aboiit in the Catholic papers in the past until the Hier- archy made the great mistake of jumping to the conclusion that this could go on indefi- nitely.
The London Catholic Herald, noticing that in past issues of American Catholic papers almost anything against Judge Rutherford and the Society went unpunished, tried the same stunt in London and was promptly sued for $100,000 damages. British courts are not yet as afraid of the Hierarchy as they are in many parts of America, and so the Herald made a front-page apology in its issue of November 25, 1938, and paid the costs and the fees of the London solicitors of the So- ciety. The apology was as follows:
Judge Rutherford's Broadcast
In our issue of October 14 it was reported that the speech by Judge Rutherford delivered at the Albert Hall, London, on September 11, was cut short by American radio stations, whose directors then apologised to radio audiences for as much of the speech as had been heard. It was also stated in our report that all New Orleans radio stations declined to carry the speech.
As a result of subsequent enquiries we have pow ascertained that the speech was treated in this way only by the three circuits, Oklahoma City, Denver and Colorado Springs, whereas 11 S stations on other circuits broadcast the speech in its entirety without interruption. ,
We have also been informed that none of the New Orleans stations were approached, or engaged, to carry the speech, so no question of their declin- ing to do so ever arose.
It has also been represented to us that certain expressions were used in the same report which might appear to convey the imputation that Judge Rutherford is an advocate or preacher of atheistic views. The report was not intended to convey that impression, and we regret any misunderstanding caused by it.
Further details regarding the incident are available in a statement to the British public by the London office of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, under the heading, "Roman Catholics Anxious to Gag Judge Rutherford ; Catholic Herald, London, Published Lying Report; Afraid of the Facts!" Every person who believes in publishing the truth on all
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subjects and punishing those who willfully and maliciously lie, is bound to be interested. The statement follows :
On Sunday, September 11, Judge Rutherford delivered his great speech "Face the Facts" to a vast audience of 10,000 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. This lecture was of such importance that it was transmitted at the same time by radio beam to other audiences in more than 40 cities in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zea- land and Tasmania, as well as relayed by direct wire to an aggregate audience! of 25,000 assembled in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle - on - Tyne and Swansea. Simultaneously it was broadcast by a •transcontinental chain of 118 American radio sta- tions. Over this entire world-wide network, which was one of the greatest in history, Judge Ruther- ford revealed astounding facts which the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is afraid to have the people know. The Catholic Press in America and Britain have openly published falsehoods to further pre- vent the people from gaining the information given in "Face the Facts".
In its issue; of October 14, the Catholic Herald, London, published a report, which ran into about half a column and was printed in bold type, headed "Cut Off! America Decxises to Hear 'Jeho- vah's' Chief 'Witness' " and proceeds to state that the speech (described in the said report as an "anti-religious tirade") "was cut short by Ameri- can radio stations, whose directors then apologised to radio audiences for as much of the speech as had been heard". The report also stated that all New Orleans radio stations declined to carry the speech.
The report clearly implied that all or almost all American radio stations cut off Judge Rutherford's speech as being of a nature unfit and improper for the public to hear, whei'eas, in fact, as has been ascertained in New York, 118 radio stations throughout the United States broadcast the entire speech as relayed from the Royal Albert Hall, London, and without interruption, and in New Orleans not a single radio station was approached or engaged for the broadcast, so that the. state- ment that "all New Orleans stations declined to carry this speech" is entirely untrue.
The said misrepresentations with their obvious implication as above stated were serious enough, bnt there were two further sentences in their report which arc infinitely more objectionable and consti- tuted a serious libel upon Judge Rutherford and a great reproach upon Jehovah's witnesses who compose the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. These statements were, "In some places where meetings had been arranged to hear the broadcast lessees broke contracts and closed their halls to the freethinking or atheist audiences" and "The Cath- olic Press is initiating a protest against the pro- posal to hold the nest Godless Congress in New
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York City". Every honest-minded person knows full well that Judge Rutherford and Jehovah's witnesses are not freethinkers, atheists, or Godless, but are servants of Almighty God and preachers of the Gospel of Jehovah God's Kingdom. Thus Judge Rutherford was seriously defamed in his good name and reputation by the suggestion that he is an advocate of atheism and one who holds or is connected with G exiles s Congresses,
The Catholic Herald were advised by the London solicitors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society that they were prepared to issue proceed- ings against them for libel unless they should pub- lish a retraction and pay for legal costs incurred. The Catholic Herald, knowing their statements were untrue, have published such retraction and have paid the legal costs as demanded. This open admission is a striking comment on what Judge Rutherford had to say at the Royal Albert Hall.
Judge Rutherford pointed out that in opposi- tion to God's Kingdom the Devil has brought forth the corporate state or totalitarian government ruled by visible and arbitrary men with the Roman Cath- olic Hierarchy as its spiritual overlord working hand in glove with such men as Hitler and Mus- solini. The ambition of this crowd is to rule the world. There is now 'a determined effort on the part of this same crowd to grab control of Britain and America and take away all the liberties of the people. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy, there- fore, is in fact a political institution' bent on taking away the liberties of the people and ruling arbi- trarily. This operation they are carrying on under the cl6ak of religion because the people have been led to believe all these years that religion and Christianity are one and the satue. In fact the Cathe>lics call theirs the Christian religion and the Catholic Church TnE Church. Judge Rutherford has no objection to their calling it what they please ; however, the point is this : Putting aside the ques- tion of the differences between those who study the Bible, no institution has any right or privilege to operate under the pretext of being the servants of Goei and use that cloak to destroy the liberties of the people.
A ma jor portion of the public press of Britain and America are aware of the facts herein stated, bnt they are afraid of the Catholic organization and afraid to tell the truth. The Catholic organiza- tion is afraid to come in the open and discuss these matters. Judge Rutherford has openly challenged the Hierarchy for several years to deny what he has stated and do it publicly, and they refuse. And why ? Not because they have not many able men to represent them, but they well know that they have not a leg to stand on when it comes to answering the charge that they are in the game for political reasons.
All honest persems should at once investigate these facts together with the prophecies now being revealed in God's Word, the Bible. To thus aid the people Judge Rutherford's lecture "Face the
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Facts" has been recorded on gramophone discs in its entirety as broadcast from the Eoyal Albert Hall. These lectures are now being reproduced throughout Britain in public halls where a multi- tude of others who failed to hear the first lecture may now hear it and benefit by its information. Provisions have also been made by Jehovah's wit- nesses to reproduce this lecture in your own home without any obligation whatsoever to you.
To the foregoing circular was attached a
coupon by means of which the public could obtain free literature in further refutation of the Herald's falsehoods.
The Catholic Herald incident has once more brought to the fore the fact that the Roman Catholic Press cannot be depended upon and that any statement made with respect to in- dividuals and organizations that disagree with them is certain to be untruthful.
A Little on Child Training
)K THERE are some 800,000,000 boys and girls in the world, each one with some 42 traits all in process of development ; so that makes around 33,600,000,000 problems for discus- sion in this brief article. Don't expect too much.
The training of a child begins before it is born. If the parents love God supremely, and love and appreciate each other in large degree, it will show in the child. The mother has much to do in determining what the child will be. As a mother thinkcth in her heart, so is her child in fact.
If your child is normal, thank God. It is a miracle for which to be grateful forever to the Giver of all life. But if the child is not normal, it is still yours. It may be partially deaf, able to hear you well only by watching your lips. It may have chorea, involuntary twitching of the muscles. It may have a speech handicap, or any of a score of other blemishes, but still have wrapped up in its little frame tremendous possibilities.
When the child is very young, try to avoid having it kissed. One smack on the lips from an old grandmother that smoked a pipe killed one newborn little one. It did not have enough vitality to overcome the nicotine. Many a girl has gone wrong because her parents did not steer her away from too much kissing.
When the child is very young, do not leave within its reach any small objects that are easy for it to put in its mouth. Many fine children have lost their lives on this score. Dress the child sufficiently, but do not bundle it so completely that it is deprived of air and sunshine, and has too much of perspiration and discomfort.
Don't Make Too Much of Clothing
Don't think it iB the clothing they wear that makes your children attractive. It is what they
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say and do, and the way they say it and do it," that counts. Children are made to enjoy wind and snow and rain. Their clothing need not be expensive. A flour sack can be dyed and made into an attractive garment. Nobody should wear clothing that is too tight.
Your child must have a good body; there- fore physical training is all right in its place. But this can be overdone. At present German schools are going to the greatest extremes, be- cause, in the eyes of German officialdom, all children were born to die for Germany.
Children are developed by play. That is a child's business. In play it learns to use its hands, gains balance, learns the meaning of success and failure, learns to concentrate and to use judgment, patience and self-control. In playing together, children involuntarily teach these things to one another.
Chicago children decided to burn their war- like toys. It was a splendid decision. The making of toy pistols and cartridge belts should be ' stopped. The movies have done much to popularize gun-play. A child de- structive of its toys should be given build- ing blocks. A child that hammers furniture should be provided with wood, hammer and nails and shown how to make a box for its toys or some other useful article.
Children should not be jostled, rocked or shaken. They need to be kept quiet and warm. Their toys are their personal property and should be respected as such. They should not be bathed in water too hot or too cold, nor forced into the bath. Floating toys enable them to enjoy what at first they sometimes fear. Cleanliness does not demand powders.
A child of two years should be able to play for two hours at a time all by itself. Children of five years have a sense of touch superior to that of adults, but do not see as well.
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What Parents Wish
Parents wish their children to be depend- able. When they make promises, see that they live up to them. Teach them to avoid borrow- ing. Teach them to speak of the absent as if they were present, Teach them to be silent under injustice. It makes for moral courage. Joseph spared Potiphar, but history did not spare his wife.
Parents wish their children to be something besides manikins. Therefore, they should be early taught to be kind, really kind — not eon- descending — to those less fortunate than them- selves in physical appearance, manners, cloth- ing and education.
Parents wish their children to learn the value of money. The child can be given an allowance, with the distinct understanding that when that is spent there will be no more until the next payday. As the child grows older the budget can be increased, to take in all his personal expenses, as for clothing. He must learn to buy for himself sometime; the sooner, the better.
When a child begins to touch everything, its senses are developing. When it asks hun- dreds of questions, it is learning rapidly. When it talks like a streak, it is learning the use of language. When a child is reading or engaged in some other definite occupation which, at the moment, to the child, seems important, the parent should avoid breaking the spell suddenly, and thus help the child to learn to concentrate.
Some Things to Discourage
If a parent lies to a child, or in the presence of a child, the child will lie to its parents or to other children. It is lots of fun to tell the truth.
A wise mother broke her child of whining by establishing a crying chair in a corner of the sewing room. There the child could go and cry any time, and nobody would pay any attention to it. It brought good results.
Left-handed children should be allowed to develop according to their nature. Forcing them to be right-handed causes stammering, lying and inferiority complex.
Parents who hire their children to work for •them develop selfishness in the little one. The child should be encouraged to do things for the joy of being useful and accomplishing something.
If parents smoke and drink they may ex- pect their little ones to smoke and drink. If
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they curse, they may expect their children to curse.
Parents should teach their children that policemen, teachers, street cleaners and other servants of the public are their protectors and friends. Nobody should ever frighten a little child, or irritate him.
If a parent bullies a child the child will bully some other child. Nobody likes to be bullied.
If a child obviously is overdoing the ques- tion end, the parent may sometimes counter by repeating the question and asking the child to answer it, and oftentimes the result will be intensely interesting.
If there is any show on earth as interest- ing as a child, name it.
Life Is Activity
The excitement of life consists in doing something, A child of three or four years can dress itself, and should. It can spread a bed at 4t, and should. It can brush its own teeth, and should. It can manipulate a washrag, and should. It can wipe the spoons, and should. A little later it can pick up and hang up' the things in the sleeping room, open the windows and air the bedding. A boy can learn to cook as well as a girl, and should learn to do it. A boy can wipe up a kitchen floor as well as his mother, and should. These things can be worked into a boy's life without making of him either a sissy or a slave. It is in dis- tributing life's activities that the parent shows her skill.
By the time a boy has wiped up the kitch- en floor for his mother a few times, he will be a better boy every way and will have learned to appreciate his parents more than one who has not done so. A parent should never let a child see him do, over any task which the child has done and manifestly tried to do right. No children are perfect, even at 70 years of age. A child should not be asked to do things which are beyond his powers or which are of no value to him or to anybody else.
Encourage the children to spend time in the public libraries. It is astonishing how rapidly they learn valuable and' Useful things there, and they can be encouraged to come home and tell what they learn, and should.
Don't shout at a child, or4he will be shout- ing back. Speak kindly, and he will speak kindly: Be orderly, and he will be orderly. (Continued on page 14)
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Peril to Public Safety (?)
♦ Alfred D. Charles, editorial writer for the Baltimore Evening Sun, discussing the ex- clusion of the Ludke children from the pub- lic schools of Oxon Hill, Maryland, because they conscientiously refused to salute the flag, thinks it would be really funny for the Prince Georges County school board to come into court and try to prove that—
•Slowing six children of tender age to attend public school without sa- luting the flag is a peril to the public1 safety, health or morals, or threatens the properly or personal rights of the Prince Georges County citizenry. That would be something, indeed, for kids 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16 years old to do.
"Catholic Europe Predicted"
♦ Woodworth Mills, a young Jonadab of Trinidad, British West Indies, sends in a clipping having reference to a front-page scarehead in a Vienna paper entitled "Catholic Europe Predicted". Sure enough! Why not? Mills does not like the idea. He says that the modern Philistines are a "bunch of highwaymen in black nightgowns, will be completely destroyed at Armageddon, and Jehovah's name will be completely vin- dicated1". They have trouble in getting any Consolation down there, on account of the foolish ban on Christian literature. He says, "Do not forget those caricatures; they are always appreciated '."
In Case Your Eyes Are Dim
♦ If old age is creeping slowly over .you, and you are not abie»to read the signs on above building, you will first take note that the sign on the hedge is "East Park Road", the first sign on the building is "Leicester company
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of Jehovah's witnesses", and the seeond one reads, "Kingdom Hall Assembly for Bible study of Jehovah's purposes.^ Leicester, Eng- land, one of tin; most enlightened communities in Britain, was the first city in the Fjnglish- speaking world to throw off the superstition that inoculation with cowpox is a blessing to humanity. Anybody who wishes to be vacci- nated in' Leicester may have it done at his own expense, but it is not compulsory for anybody, and the city never has any cases of smallpox. The eity is "so neat and clean and sanitary that it has no fears of a dirt disease transmitted by bedbug bites.
Witnessing in India
♦ On page 9 is an Indian pioneer witnessing to a group of Catho- lics-all of them Cath- olics in a priest-rid- den town! The man standing with the books Knemies and Riches in his hand is editor of a local pa- per whose interest was deepened by a request from some of the local '"goats" to publish an attack against the truth, which ho de- clined to do. The one on the extreme right, sitting, is now- a read- er of Consolation, and
each of the others is showing interest in the message of the Kingdom. Pioneer Daniel is seen standing on the right of the group.
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♦ VanderBeek, my companion in the wit- ness work fin India], "laid down his sword" last month just as the testimony campaign was starting ; he was game to Urn last. Our last years' touring and subsequent work proved a strain on his heart, and when he landed up with pneumonia (which afterward became dou- ble) and also enteric or |yphoid, he was handi- capped in fighting the illness. He died on Thursday (April 14) afternoon. T buried him on Friday morning and kept the Memorial- [of Christ's death]" alone in the evening. It was very poignant. But we do not mourn ; for we have the confidence that he was faith- ful to Jehovah, and 'Jehovah preserves the Aithful', and whether earthly or heavenly,
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Leicester, England, Kingdom hall
he will live again, He was a great fighter, steadfast and reliable, and a true companion in the Lord's work. I mentioned him when writing you from Karachi. — G. B. Garrard, Pioneer.
Anecdotes from Belgium
♦ In the province of Hainaut several people, formerly Catholics, have recently taken their stand for the Lord and His kingdom, accord- ing to a pioneer report ; and the way they threw themselves into the service shows the zeal peculiar to the Lord's house. A farmer with a large holding of fertile acres was crank- ing his car early one morning in preparation for a trip, and just as he got the engine started a woman, one of Jehovah's witnesses, accosted him with a cheery greeting, and dis- played some of the ex- planations of the Bi- ble by Judge Ruther- ford. Being a kindly man and impressed with the enthusiasm and sincerity of the woman, and although in a hurry to depart, he leaned from his car window and contrib- uted for several books. Something in one book impressed him, and, without stopping his motor, he began read- ing. He read on. Then something happened. His motor stopped and he realized his petrol or gasoline had completely burned up while his thoughts had been deep in the book. He had neared the end of the book.
The truth infused him with a fiery energy. He remembered then that he had on two other occasions got books from Jehovah's witnesses, thinking it a good work, but in each ease he had put them in a drawer and never read them. Now he got them out. All the members of a rather large family connection were told of the good news; but all but one brother pre- ferred the "traditions of their fathers", in this ease Catholicism, The farmer and his brother left the place in the midst of harvest season last year to go to the Paris convention. There he received food for the mind and came home refreshed to assist in organizing the service in his little village of La Louviere. The milk- ing and other chores are now changed about
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Witnessing to a Catholic group in India — who all subsequently became interested in the truth
to permit of the more important duty of de- claring the Lord's message.
In the near-by village of La Buissiere a pio- neer called at a woman's door. As soon as she saw a publication she asked if he was from the Watch Tower. When he told that he was, she said, "I have been waiting for you." The pio- neer did not know at first what she meant, as he had never seen the woman before, but she explained that she meant someone from the Watch Tower, and then brought out several worn copies of Watch Tower booklets. She got all the books she could obtain. Since then others have called on her from time to time to assist her in the service, and she has re- lated facts well showing how religionists hate God's Word of Truth. First, her husband, who is the "principal of the flock", and larg- est financial pillar of the Roman Catholic church, forbade her to go out with the books ; her mother turned against her and, em- phasizing her Catho- lic conviction,, threat- ened to expel her from the house if she spoke further about the Bi- ble. She attended a convention later, de- spite all protest. On her returning her hus- band met her at the up and smashed her
door with fists doubled to the floor as soon as she entered. Not defiant- ly, but firmly, she got up from the floor and departed to the village to spend four hours in liousc-to-house service with the King's mes- sage, Thus it is seen that a weak woman with God's power behind her can meet and sur- mount every obstacle.
One day a. man with butcher's apron on en- tered the Brussels office of the Wateh Tower. He assured himself it was the place he wanted, then he threw upon the branch servant's desk 700 francs in small coins, requesting some pub- lications. He left without further comment, but returned a week later in the same 'garb, this time with a cut of meat under his arm. He made the office a gift of the meat and then threw another 700 francs on the desk for more literature. Again he left without further com- ment. Ten days elapsed and then he came in with 1500 francs, mostly in 5-centime pieces
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(one of which coin is worth about one-sixth of an American penny) and announced to the now astonished servant: ''There are fifteen hundred people in the village I live in, and I intend to see that every one in the place receives a copy of one of your booklets and at my expense." He left with a tremendous package of books, beaming in anticipation of doing such an act of good will.
Interest in Montana
♦ Keith got run out yesterday and today. Both times there were two others who took his side and are now coming to the Model Study. Today he went into a garage and got run out. The garageman was so vicious that Keith felt sure he would get a beating, but the other two men stood up for him and the garageman ran them out. They came out in a hurry, got in their car and drove off ; I think they got fired. The people here have the cour- age to stand up for what they think is right, no matter what others think.
Thurman went to a business house and talked to a young man who appeared to be quite in- terested. He said he had no money with him, and invited Thurman up to his house. He told Thurman he and his family were Catholics.
When Thurman got to his door his voice and demeanor were com- pletely transformed and he said in a commanding voice, "Stand right here." Thurman stood there and heard shells going into a gun. His first thought was to run, but he decided it would do no good ; so he stood and wa^ed. The man came to the door with a thirty-thirty rifle, put it in his ribs and told him to move down the road fast. Thurman turned and walked off with the man shouting he would shoot if he efld not hurry. The neighbors wanted to have the man arrested, but Thurman would not consent.*— Ronald E. Pierce, Montana.
•[Thurman should have sworn out a warrant
against him immediately. — Ed.] {To 6(; coTtHnwd)
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Judge Rutherford's platform at Sydney, Australia, convention
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New York
Anarchy in Brooklyn
♦ The anarchy in Brooklyn, involving the theft by Police Lieutenant Behan, and eight accessories, of 7,200 police records from the police headquarters, brings prominently to light the names of Geoghan, Be van, Cassidy and Lynch. After four days of waiting for the spirit to. move him, Patrolman Edward J. Lawlor admitted that he knew it was Police Lieutenant Cuthbert J. Behan who stole the records. He said Behan told him he had to make away with the records, for otherwise, if the threatened inspection occurred, they would all be sent to jail.
Young Forests Curb Floods
♦ In the past seventeen years millions of young trees were planted in New York state, and today great numbers of these are ten to twelve feet high. Excellent results are already visible. The shady ground under these young trees is soaking up moisture and feeding it to the streams gradually. Floods are less dis- astrous. Streams which a few years ago were dry in summer are now running steadily, the water is cooler, the fishing is better, and there are fewer forest fires.
Jobless in New York
♦ In New York city there are more than 400,000 young men and women between the ages of 16 and 24 (almost half the popula- tion in that group) that are roaming the streets vainly looking for work. Is it any wonder that there is such a high percentage of delinquency?
New York Keeps Quite Well
♦ New York keeps quite well. It ought to. Last year it ate 196,448 carloads of fruit and vegetables, 20,000 pounds to the carload. That figures up to 3,928,960,000 pounds of fruit and \-egetables eaten in New York city in one year; and if that would not keep them 'well, what •would ?
One-Fifth Under 17
♦ More than 22 percent of the 941,789 ar- rests by the New York Bolice Department during 1937 were of boys 17 years old or younger. The majority of the boys were first offenders. The arrests were 50 a year for every officer on duty.
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Cure of Child Wanderlust
♦ Thirty times in less than a year Ruth Wheeler, four years of age, of Buffalo, New York, has run away from home, stowed her- self away in buses and wound up in various cities and towns in Canada and western New York. Spankings are as ineffective as coaxing, and the parents and the police admit being stumped by her wanderlust. Last summer the Interborough Rapid Transit Company sup- plied 145,516 free rides to children from the tenement districts of Manhattan and Bronx to enable them to visit various city parks.
Would You Believe It?
♦ A widow who lives in Brooklyn on a $30- a-month federal pension has received two let- ters from the government recently ; one in- forming her that a warship would be named after her husband, Lieutenant Mons Monsson, the other notifying her that her home would be sold at auction because of a mortgage made by the Home Owners Loan Corporation. — The Arbitrator.
Warned Against Lowering Shades
♦ The Albany, N. Y., chief of police warns vacationists against pulling shades all the way down when they leave on their trips, and thus inviting burglars to come in and make them- selves at home. Also, says Chief Smurl, stop deliveries of milk, papers and ice. He did not say how one could put a stop to the delivery of A & P price lists and other similar exhibits.
Poisoning the Minds of Children
♦ In testimony before the House Committee on un-American activities in Washington, Gi- rolamo Valonti, chairman of the Italian Anti- Fascist Committee, produced books marked "Property of the New York Board of Edu- cation", used in parochial schools in New York city, containing pro-Fascist propaganda.
New Varieties of Fruit
♦ Seven new varieties of apple, four new kinds of grape, and one new kind each of pear, cherry and strawberry, have been named recently by the Fruit Testing Association, Geneva, New York. The Jonadabs are going to have a good time in the world that is com- ing around the comer, and don't you doubt it.
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New Jersey
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Mr. Hague Wants a Trip
Unwittingly, Mayor Hague of Jer- sey City has recommended that he be sent by the people of the TJnit- . ed States* to a concentration camp £~tW'~£'a which he proposes to have estab- lished somewhere in Alaska. [Maybe the mayor did not know how to pronounce Alcatraz.— Ed.] To be sure, His Honor did not mean to nominate himself for an excursion to the Far North, but if he insists upon the Federal Cov ernment's following a " " course of procedure which he recommends, he will be ensnared by it.
On the witness stand in the United States District Court at Jersey City last week, Mayor Hague declared :
I believe that anyone who comes here and is discovered unpleused with the methods of our country and our govern- ment and feel it is neces- sary to set themselves up as objectors to the form of government that we enjoy here and that this country is apparent- ly not pleasing to them should be driven back- not go back— be driven back.
Asked what should be done with native
citizens of this country who object to the methods of our government under certain conditions, Mr. Hague blandly replied:
I think that we ought to establish a camp in Alaska and house them there and keep them away from the American people, if they don't believe in our form of government. I think there should bo a remedy for that.
—Fort Wayne News Sentinel.
Haters of Liberty
♦ Mayor Hague, ignorant and candid in his stupidity, brutal and proud of it, the typical poolroom Nazi, is America's first flower of what may become a national pest — the de- nial of civil liberties and constitutional rights.
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Hague is for free speech, all right, but not for free speech about things he dislikes. When he dislikes anything, it is Communism, which he thinks everybody else dislikes. Thus, he be- comes judge and jury and prosecutor all in one, the perfect Nazi storm trooper.
At the other end of the pole is Franklin Roosevelt: erudite, sophisticated, amiable.,' gra- cious and felicitously, suavely but deeply in- tolerant of opposition. He is doing to the sen- ii1 or who opposed him in his court fight what Hague is doing to the Communists. The president is not beat- ing up the senators ; he's not giving them the hum's rush to the Jersey City ferry, not pelting them with eggs. He is merely try- ing to deprive them of their jobs because they spoke their minds. He feels to- ward the recalcitrant senators as Hague feels toward the Com- munists. — William Allen White, in Em- poria Gazette.
Grand Jury
Convicts Itself
♦ An Essex, New Jer- sey, grand jury con- victed itself of incom- petence when, in one breath, it found no
Day Dream No. 174,fi9:j-- The welcoming committee meets the mayor
cause for indictment of the five ex-convicts and others who rotten-egged Norman Thomas at Newark and pulled his platform from un- der him while eleven policemen stood helpless. One reason why the grand jury did nothing but feebly "uphold" free speecli was that the plot to prevent Thomas from speaking was known by it to have been formed in the office of Assistant State Attorney William J. Egan, and it did not wish to offend Mr. Egan or others who, though paid to uphold law and order, are really "against both.
The harm that the officials of New Jersey have done to the cause of liberty in the earth is almost beyond calculation and is a cause of shame to every true American.
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South Africa
Erosion from Overstocking
♦ The irbad lands" are on the march in South Africa. Men still in their prime recall how- arid wastes and deep-cut dongas have taken the place of waving crops. They sec a steady shrinking of the area left for agriculture and pasturage.
One of the primary causes of erosion in South Africa is the general tendency to take too much out of the land. Too many head of stock are grazed on limited areas, with the result that the grass becomes thinner and thin- ner until desert conditions begin to develop.
This is shown simply in a series of experi- ments carried out by a research department of the University of the ;Witw&tersra»d at Frankenwald, outside Johannesburg..' In the same stretch of veld, carrying identical grass- es, there are half a dozen paddocks. The first has been closely grazed for one year, the sec- ond for two years, and so on to the sixth. The results are striking.
The plots grazed only for a year or two show little deterioration. In the plots grazed for five or six years there arc great bald patches where the grass has given up the un- equal struggle and the '-'desert" is starting. This is the result of overgrazing or overstock- ing.—London Sunday Times.
Nazis in South-West Africa
WEST* Ludwig Lore, in the New York ! Jj^fe. ^ost> publishes a letter from a cor- I^UiB^ respondent in South-West Africa, where, so it seems, the decent peo- ple have about given up all hope, aud expect nothing else than a Nazi triumph there shortly. A paragraph from the letter gives one some idea of what the triumph would bring:
What goes on here among German racial com- rades—as they like to Ball themselves — ts unspeak- able. It is a boundless disgrace when one considers the colored native population. During the past seven days our British court had to sit in judg- ment in the following cases: An employee of the firm of Th. & Co., Leipzig (Germany), acknowl- edged agents for the Nazi Party, stabs and kills his wife because after a dance she took a walk with another man. The twenty -four-year-old daugh- ter of tSie Nazi leader, K., impairs the morals of sis: Kaffir boys. A sixty-year-old farmer, former German captain, violates little Negro children. An- other German farmer forces his native faimhands
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to use a British flag in the outhouse. And while the court is about to find a verdict in the above- mentioned ease trucks are parading around plas- tered with Nazi' flags and slogans.
Just imagine: This place has#a population of 400 white people. Every ehild knows everything about everyone, and the Nazi papers which write so much about racial superiority would find ample material here. And we, the decent element, must stand for all this. It is like having mud thrown at you all the time and being unable to do any- thing about it.
Wages of Native Workers
♦ The native has become poor to despera- tion ; the price of everything he buys — blank- ets, shoes, and clothing- — has been driven up nearly 50 percent, while during the same pe- riod, his wages, in spite .of South Africa's spectacular prosperity, have not increased by a penny piece. Mr. Donald Molteno, M.P., has just returned from a tour in his constituency. (Incidentally British Liberals will be cheered by the spectacle of the nephew of Percy Mol- teno giving a great lead to Liberalism in South Africa.) During his tour Mr. Molteno found that agricultural workers on a 60-hour week were getting |d. [one cent) an hour and a few mealies, no land for cultivation, no ra- tions of meat (only "a bit occasionally"). This £d. an hour also gives the master the right to call in the labor of wife and chil- dren. That ^d. ijn hour is £6 [$29.20] a year, out of which the wretched worker has to pay £1 a year poll tax!
The pass laws superimposed upon mass pov- erty have accentuated native discontent; thou- sands of natives are being hustled into prison for pass law offenses which, have not the re- motest connecti ojj either with crime or even with any desire lo commit an offense. At the same time the revenue benefits to the tune of £500,000 per annum. — Sir John Harris, in Manchester Guardian.
Lightning Underground
♦ Jf you were down nearly a mile under- ground you would think yourself quite safe from tiie effects of a thunderstorm on the surface, would you not? Yet, at a Rand mine, Johannesburg, South Africa, lightning struck a wire on the surface of the ground, and went down into the mine and detonated a quantity of dynamite, resulting in the death of eight miners and the injury of two more.
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(Continued from page 7) Don't talk and talk and talk and talk and talk to a child. The child's brain gets weary, and the effect is merely chatter.
If a child shows a penchant for pets, let him have them, feed them, wash them and look after them. The result is excellent for the child and* for the pet. If a child wants a camera, try to provide Mm with one and take an interest in what he does with it. A stamp collection is an interesting thing and need cost nothing but a little work. A garden is a delight. At the right age a bicycle is a gold mine. Tens of thousands of youth travel all over Europe on bicycle, at little cost to their parents, and with great benefit to the riders and to all who ever meet with them then or later.
Don't Be Too Severe
Don't be too severe with children. Don't scold them. Scolding is one of earth's great- est cruelties. Children arc annoying. Maybe you were once, yourself. A questionnaire shows that children have 2,214 ways of annoying their parents. Nobody asked you to be a par- ent. Take your medicine like a man.
Mothers should not try to pass the buck by crying, flying into tantrums or frightening little ones by heart, attacks, real or simulated. Your own mother did not do it. She stood by her guns. Do it yourself. Don't magnify faults: you may have a few yet, yourself.
Parents who wish their children to quarrel among themselves should quarrel with each other in front of them. Don't snub a child. Don't complain that they bother you. Don't be cruel in punishment. Feeble-minded chil- dren are rarely ill-treated by their parents. This speaks well for parents. It shows that in many instances they do not realize their sever- ity. Little folks have to learn, and their long- suffering parents are their natural teachers.
Don't issue military commands. Nobody likes to be bossed. Don't watch children critically while they are trying to do something. It takes time to train the hand and eye to do unusual things. Don't expect little ones to jump at the sound of your voice. Don't teach your children to hate you. *
Don't get a divorce. Your life partner may be as unfitted for society as you are yourself. Why shove off on somebody else a job you undertook! The children that come from broken homes are less truthful, less courte- ous, less qualified for leadership than other
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children. A child with a good home feels that he is connected with a victorious fighting unit that will see its way through to the .finish.
Don't show ingratitude to God and then wonder that your child shows ingratitude to you. Don't lie to your child and expect him to tell you the truth. Don't let the children think that they can get one parent on their side and thus gain a victory over the other.
Don't be crooked and expect your child to be straight.
"Be Ye Perfect"
The Lord's advice is, "Be ye perfect." It is good advice. The only way anybody will ever arrive is to love the Creator with all the heart, mind, soul and strength, and the neigh- bor as oneself. So be perf eet ; but if you can- not be perfect, be as nearly perfect as you can. Live so that when your child is grown to maturity he will know you did the best you could to do right.
Sometimes a child will unintentionally break something. Maybe the best thing to do at such a time is to do nothing. The child is already punished. Why add to the child's agony? If your child wants to know something and you do not know the answer, tell him so and then help him find the answer. If the Lord has been patient with you in your shortcomings, you can afford to be patient with the little folks that owe their lives to you. You can be reasonable and you can be gentle.
Don't go too high in the air when a child disobeys you, until you find the reason for it. Maybe the reason was adequate. A good mother once made a mistake when she tried to make a child confess he had opened a letter he did not open. She wore out five whips all to no purpose, finally made a critical investigation through the postmaster, found she was wrong, and apologized, and she was forgiven. Rea- sonable punishment is accepted in a right spirit by reasonable children and actually does them good. "Whom the Lord loveth he chastcneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receivoth."
Two children in Lowell, Massachusetts, un- screwed the valve caps of parked cars. They were taken to the police station, given five deflated tires and some little hand pumps and instructed to inflate. At five in the after- noon they had four tires in pretty good shape and were let off. They learned something.
A girl got to coming home later, as she grew older. This was reasonable, but an hour was fixed before which she had to be in. An
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alarm clock was set, and each night, when she comes in, the girl unsets the alarm. The arrangement works fine; The parents' retire at their usual hour.
Children brought up by nursemaids lack the courage to marry. They have been treated so painfully nice that they have been ruined for life. This often happens. No child can stand too much pampering. ,
Gifts from children should be appreciated and suitably acknowledged. Dates with chil- dren should be kept punctiliously. Children's mistakes should be kept from other members of the family, as far as possible, but they should be commended for good deeds, and this may properly be done in the presence of others when occasion arises. Eternal, constant ham- mering is of no benefit to any.
A child should know that his parents are his truest and best friends, and should feel that there is nothing in life, no matter how shameful or confidential, that cannot be safely talked over with father and mother, with the certainty that they will do the best they know to help.
Teach the Truth in the Home
Teach the truth in the home, because it is the truth, and because the honor of God's name, and the proclamation of its coming vin- dication, is the greatest theme that can engage the attention of man.
. Live the truth in the home, and outside the home. Let the children see for themselves that the sendee of the Most High God is the great- est honor that can come to any. If they wish to go out with you in the work, let them go, and have a share, but let it be on their own initiative, and because they wish to honor God's name, and not because of what others may say or may do.
The pith of this article is in its second para- graph and in the two paragraphs next above this one. What is there set forth is clinched by the three contributed articles which follow :
Home Bible Study
About ten years ago the writer visited a lady on a ranch, many miles from town, who was be- moaning the fact that she was unable to send her four children, ranging in age from sis to twelve years, to a Sunday school. We advised her to pur- chase The Harp of God and use it as a textbook, and to buy four eheap Bibles at the teu-cent store, so that each child would have a Bible. These are sold at 20c to 40c in all dime stores.
Then we advised her to read to the children a
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page or two daily from The Harp, and have them find the scriptures quoted. In this way they would become well acquainted with their Bible, and this would suggest to them questions for the mother to answer.
This turned out so satisfactorily in this instance, where The Harp was read through three times, and was so highly pleasing to the mother, that I have advised this system of home Bible study to many others. I know of no better way to get the children interested in the Bible, and I find that they soon learn the location of all the books and where to find every passage, and appear to be delighted to have a part in such a study. — D. M. Gillies, Montana.
True Story of an Honest Girl
Her parents had a knowledge of the truth for years, witnessed to their friends and almost everyone else they met, yet they sent their littje girl to three different Sunday schools, as they thought she ought to go somewhere else to get spiritual training, thinking their own training not sufficient, as they do not profess consecration to the Lord.
At first the little girl went to a Baptist Sunday school, being seven years of age at the time. After a few Sundays she would not go any more, saying they did not tell the truth as her mother and daddy believed and talked. So the parents switched her over to the Congregational church Sunday school.
She did not stay there long either; she did not like their teaching, that when people die, whether they are children or adults, if they belong to some church, they go straight to heaven. She told the teacher, "No, the Bible doesn't say that ; only Jesus and the 'little flock' go to heaven, and all the rest of the people stay on the earth, if they love the Lord; the earth abideth for ever, and God will make it a beautiful place for us to live on, just like the garden of Eden, where Adam lived." The teacher opened her eyes wide and said, "Where did you hear all that, Elva?" and Elva told her it is all in the Bible and her mother taught it to her. The teacher got nervous and said, "Well, chil- dren, we will get back to the lesson." This made Elva peeved, and when she got home she said to her mother, "She wouldn't talk any more about it, Mother, and I don't think she believed what I said, and it is true, and I don't want to go there any more," and she did not.
For the third time, she was sent to still another church, and did not like that one at all, because all they talked about was money, taking up collec- tions for this and that, and the teacher did not like her because she disagreed about the soul. The teacher told the class that when one dies the soul goes right to heaven, and Elva could not let it pass without correction. She said, "Oh no, the Bible does not say that; we do not have sodls; each of us is a soul, and 'the sou! that, siimeth, it shall die'."
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The teacher said, "That will do, Elva ; I am teach- ing this class, and you will get them all mixed up." When Elva got home this time' she said to her mother, "I don't want to go to any more churches; for they don't teach the Bible": and she did not go any more.
Now Elva is in high school, goes out regularly in the service, no matter what the weather, and has taken her stand regarding the flag saluting. When asked by her teacher, and by the principal, why she refused to salute the flag, she said, "I cannot serve two gods," and asked them to read Loyalty, whieh she gave them for the purpose. Now she and another Jonadab, by arrangement with the principal, leave the room ^.quietly, one at a time, just before the flag saluting. When she goes out in the campaigns and in field service her mother is very uneasy until she returns, as she has been arrested twice with others, but she always says, "Don't be alarmed, Mother, for God has, promised to protect us if we faithfully serve Him." — Cornelia Brady.
Child Witnesses in Canal Zone
I have six little children. The eldest is thirteen and the youngest not yet two. I have always prayed to Jehovah to teach me how to instruct them in the right way. My prayers are heard. I always take the second and third child with mc when going out witnessing, and leave the eldest at home to take care of the three smaller ones. Recently the third child said,' "Mother, may I go out to do some wit- ness work?" I replied with the query, "Will you go alone?" She said, "Yes!" but before the con- versation was finished the second said, "I will go with her." Within a few minutes they were ready for service, the boy with the phonograph and the girl with the discs and literature. They spent two hours in the service that day, leaving some litera- ture with the people. Now for some Ave months they have continued in the service with great pleas- ure, spending many hours in it and leaving much literature with the people. The second is a fifth grade scholar in school, and crowded for time, but manages to get in considerable time in the work and is on the job right now. The eldest also- joins us in the glorious work when opportunity affords her, and the fourth one, who is now seven, desires to take up the witness work also. The stand that these children have taken has brought great joy and comfort to my heart. — Mrs. Eldred M. Coke, Canal Zone.
No other way in the world can the study of human nature be carried on to such great advantage as in door-to-door witness work. All kinds of people are met, and. all kinds of experiences are encountered. Blessings are of both kinds: the privilege of suffering some- thing for the honor of God's name, and the great joy of finding here and there truth- hun- gry hearts famishing for just what you have.
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A sweet smile disarms most grouches, and after a while there will be repartees that both parties to the encounter will enjoy. When a girl in Pittsburg, Kansas, was told in one home that the people had their own church and did not. want anything to do with Jehovah, could you blame her for an inward smile? A bit later the same girl had made the reasonable proposal that "Catholics can reason the same as anybody else", and was nearly floored with the reply, "We don't have any reason in our religion; we stick to the oldest 'church'."
When one religionist tried to poke fun at a boy witness by asking him, "What asylum did you come out of?" the boy promptly an- swered, "The one you are still in."
A Concluding Word About Life
Teach your children and teach yourself the sanctity of life, not merely yours and theirs, and those of other humans, "but of the other works of God's hands, objects of His love.
Nothing else ever published on the subject of the unnecessary destruction of fellow crea- tures can begin to compare with the leading article in The Watchtower for December 1, 1938. That article should be studied by every- body. It is Scriptural and reasonable from beginning to end. It will cause everybody, hereafter, to stop and think of their responsi- bility toward God before they take even the life of a sparrow. — Luke 12 : 6.
In this connection many will enjoy and ap- preciate and be profited by the following ex- tract from a letter by Judge Rutherford to an inquirer on this subject. It makes the raising of animals for their pelts look like a pretty dangerous business in which to be engaged.
Answering your inquiry concerning the raising of wild animals unfit for food but used only for commercial purposes by killing them and selling their pelts, also the trapping of wild animals unfit for food by taking them and killing tbem to sell their pelts. The WatcMower of December 1, para- graph 31, answers this question specifically. You must take the responsibility yourself as to how you apply it.
As to pork. This was declared "unclean to you", meaning to the Jews, but, in my opinion, it does not apply generally, since the Jews were under a special covenant. Animals that are never fit for food and are taken merely for the purpose of sell- ing their hides are a different matter entirely. Many people eat rabbits, and yet, to the Jews the rabbit was unclean. But surely no one would eat a polecat. Then why take its life, unless it is destroying your chickens, or doing other damage to your property?
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Politics
THE pope has caused the world to be in- formed by radio from Vatican City that the Hierarchy is not interested in politics. The gullible people are expected to believe that announcement. Those who are awake know that the announcement is far from the truth. It was made with the manifest pur- pose of misleading the people while the Hier- archy moves forward to grab control of Amer- ica. Note some of the faets:
A distinguished member of .the Hierarchy, named Cardinal Mundelein, advises and di- rects the persecution of Jehovah's witnesses in America. Particularly was this recently done in Chicago and New Orleans and other places. Immediately thereafter he paid a visit to Mr. Roosevelt at the White House and rode about with the president, inspecting the war defenses and equipment of the United States while he was being exhibited by the president i.o the public. Of course, there was no politi- cal significance in that. Then the cardinal straightway went off to Vatican City to confer with the pope and with Pacclli. Have in mind that Pacelli visited Mr. Roosevelt just a few days before the presidential election of 1936, and the results showed that Catholics through- out the nation supported Mr. Roosevelt. Of course, there was no political significance in Pacelli's visit to Washington.
Now the public press gives wide publica- tion to the fact that Cardinal Mundelein goes to Vatiean City with the blessing of the presi- dent and that the president- of the United States directs the American ambassador at Rome to meet the cardinal at Naples and show him extraordinary honors and that the ambassador and the admiral of the American Mediterranean fleet, together with other Amer- ican officials in Italy, entertain the cardinal with special honors and then conduct him in state to Rome on a special train. No politics in that, of course, but, this has never been done by any other president of the United States and no other president has ever had the united support of the Vatican.
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Why is the political head of the Democratic Party so directly concerned now about the visit of Cardinal Mundelein to the pope? Is there any political significance in this unusual attention being given by the president to this matter? Remember that when first elected as president of the United States the public press announced that President Roosevelt had stated that an ambassador from the Vatican would be received at Washington as soon as the Ameri- can people eould be brought around to see the propriety of the same. No doubt Mr. Roosevelt now thinks he has induced the American peo- ple to see the necessity of the pope's having a representative lake a scat at the political table at Washington. A United Press dispatch of November 4 from Rome says: "Cardinal Mundelein will diseuss the possibility of re- sumption-of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Vatican with Pope Pius and Cardinal Pacelli, secretary of state." This dispatch further says : "It is not without sig- nificance that President Roosevelt seemed to have shown great personal interest in the car- dinal's visit. The cardinal was a guest at the White House two weeks ago. Informants here said the cardinal was believed to be in a posi- tion to convey the president's ideas regarding early resumption of diplomatic relations with the Vatican and that he will discuss this mat- ter with the pope."
Mr. Roosevelt is an adroit politician. He loudly proclaims the necessity of religious free- dom and states that everyone must be free to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, but at the same time he shows special honors to the worst enemy of Christianity that resides in America. Wonder why he does this, when such is beyond his duties as president of the American people? Is there anv politics in it? Are the political affa irs of America of particular interest to the pope? In this connection the following quotation from the book of an ex- Jesuit, Dr. Barrett, may enlighten some:
"A phase of present-day Catholic Action is the urging of Catholics to throw themselves into politics. Catholic leaders do not advo- cate a separate Catholic party, . . . The church prefers to control legislators rather than par- ties and to avoid the odium and expense of running a distinct organization. But the church wants plenty of high offices for her children. . ... The most sensational use of political power to force a church issue was that of Archbishop Curley when he threatened the present admin-
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istration, and president Roosevelt in particu- lar. When he took it, upon himself to tell the president, what, he should do, and to threaten hirn with political extinction if he did other- wise, then Art-h bishop Curley was acting not merely as an ordinary politician but as a po- litical dictator. ... It seems to be the policy of the church here to maintain intimate rela- tions with politicians, and with state employ- ees. As regards the latter, the police are first ill favor with the church . . . and that having them in their thousands in her tow she can all the more easily command politicians.
"Who can place a limit to the Catholic ob- jective in this country? . . . Never was the Catholic church in any country in the world since Christendom began so rich, so highly organized, so influential, so loyally soldiered by her subjects as she is today in the United States."
The Protestants are sound asleep and do not sense the danger. Will the common people of America awaken to the great, political men- ace of the Hierarchy and express themselves before all liberties guaranteed by the Consti- tution are taken away?
One Million Victims
T1JK statements that' Luajkuv, the Soviet Russian OPU-leader in East Siberia, has given as to the "cleansing out.'"' in Russia are fantastic. They are so exaggerated that they are hardly to be believed. As is well-known, he has, after his escape to Japan, told that, including 10,000 higher miljtary men, more than one million persons have fallen a victim to Stalin's campaign. We are thunderstruck before these figures, says a Swedish country paper, Ostgota-Tidningen, and continues :
''Should these figures be even approximately correct, they will upset all known records of revolution. They show in a flash quite another thing than the paradise that the Socialist state should become! They bear evidence of a hid- eous power, a terrible recklessness, a people in fetters. And one will ask:
"What really does occur in Soviet Russia? "What does occur behind all those cold walls, behind that guise of human organization and human social upbuilding? There must evi- dently be world history in writing; for if one million people have been "cleansed out", such in no wise means that the regime has a firmer seat. Perhaps it does seem so for the moment, but it is not so in the long run. Even before Lusjkov gave his , statement, it was clear that through the immense Russian dominion, with- out any doubt, there is passing a new spirit. Lusjkov's statements do confirm that.
"Have people abroad nothing to say in that matter? Soviet Russia is a sovereign state, and is within its rights to manage its own
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affairs. But when Japan behaves like a mad- man in senseless murdering towards the Chi- nese civil population, and when Italy scat- tered civilization from the sky in the shape of fire bombs and gas shells upon unprotected semi-savages in Africa, then, however, a re- action was perceivable. Is the general opinion abroad quite unaffected in the case of Russia, only, therefore, that the responsible govern- ment behaves like that in its own country? It may seem so. Perhaps the stories from the Soviet are not taken seriously. But so much must be clear, after all the litigation and exe- cuting, that within that vast, country there rules a terrorism that is not less than the international deeds of violence."
So says the dslgbta - Tidningen. Another daily paper (Nerikes Allehanda) reprinting the above adds thereto the following comments of its own :
"It is, as has been said, difficult to get any clearness about what does occur, and what does not oceur, out there. But the intimations are sufficient. What do -nil these organizations of our own country say that are manufactur- ing resolutions as to peace and fraternization of the people? If their official task perhaps does not reach to the Russian conditions of internal affairs, their members- possibly have hard hearts, untouched by the afflictions and sorrows of their fellow men as recorded in the news of the day/'
May they speak out!
— Translated by Karl E. Guston, Sweden.
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South America
Brazil for Brazilians iPiSST^" With considerable wisdom and jus- ^jSfek tice in their reasoning the Brazilians Ka^a^l have taken over private schools op- crated by German, Italian and Pol- ish groups, in certain of the states, on the ground that too much attention was devoted to teaching the languages, customs and history of foreign countries and that chil- dren born in Brazil of immigrant parents are Brazilians and not Germans, Italians or Poles. Brazil wants no German minorities, Italian minorities, etc. The German government no- ticed the changed situation at once. Brazilian police say that a number of daggers found in the homes of members of the Green Shirts organization had the swastika' on the handle.
Coffee and Brazil Nuts Cheaper
♦ Proclamation of a dictatorship in Brazil had immediate effect in reducing the prices of coffee and Brazil nuts in the United States, where great quantities of both are used. The reduction on coffee was 2%c per pound. The program under which 54,200,000 bags of coffee were destroyed in the last six years is now at an end. Brazil is really under military rule, as are also Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. Colombia is the only state in South America where the landlord class do not control the elections or their outcome. The governments of Argentina, Brazil and Chile may properly be described as "benevolent dic- tatorships", with Chile leaning farther to the left than either of the two others. "Commu- nist" scares are used merely for scarecrow purposes.
Another Link in Pan-American Highway
♦ Another link in the Pan-American high- way will be the new 100-mile coastal road about to be built in Peru between the ports of Ancon and Pativilca, through Chaneay, Huacho, Supe and Barranca. The Govern- ment has approved the plans.
Italian Influence in Peru
♦ In Peru Italians own the largest and most influential bank. The Peruvian police are un- der an Italian commission. Italian fliers are training Peruvian army men to fly Italian- made fighting planes. — - John W. White, in New York Times.
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Huge Cotton Crops
♦ The four leading cotton-producing states of South America are Brazil, Peru, Argentina and Paraguay, in the order named. Produc- tion in the last year or so increased enormously. The last figures available show 2,650,912 bales for the four countries in the last crop year. This is more than one-fourth the cotton pro- duction of the United States, and is 11.2 per- cent of the production of the world. Cotton men are wondering how this giant South American cotton harvest will be marketed. Brazil had 2,100,000 baies in the above total and, it is calculated, has enough good cotton lands to produce 21,000,000 bales annually, or more than double that of the United States.
The Highest Waterfall
♦ What is believed to be the highest water- fall in the world has been discovered by an aviator in Venezuela at a point 250 miles southeast of Ciudad Bolivar. The river, which is not large, falls from a plateau of 11,000 feet to one of 6,000 feet in a single jump; then it drops another 1,000 feet, and finally forms a relatively small branch of the Orinoco river. The Sutherland falls, in New Zealand, have a height of 1,904 feet; the Kukenaam falls, in British Guiana, are as high. The fa- mous Victoria falls, of Rhodesia, are 343 feet ; the Niagara falls are 167 feet.
Peru to Have Modern Hotels
♦ In order to attract tourists to its matchless scenery, Peru plans to build comfortable mod- ern- hotels convenient to all the most promi- nent and most easily reached scenic attrac- tions. Seems like an excellent plan to attract favorable notice. Few love scenery so much that they will court serious physical discom- fort in order to see it.
To Offset European Influence
♦ To offset European influence in South Amer- ica, and to show that the United States is still interested in the Monroe Doetrine, Uncle Sam sent five great bombing planes to Buenos Aires to be present at the inauguration of President Roberto M. Ortiz. The five planes made the big hop of 5,000 miles with only one inter- vening landing. How all the nations do love to spread-eagle their power to kill one another and thus disclose the god they worship!
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State Aid for Religion
T N ALL parts of the country are found the X Roman Catholic parochial schools. Their purpose, as stated by the high and mighty ones of the Hierarchy, is to teach Catholic dogmas to the children. The public schools are considered unfit for Catholic children to attend. They have been designated as go^iess, deris, and the branches taught therein 'are said to be the "deadly poison of impiety".
The real reason that the public schools are so described is that the doctrines of supersti- tion cannot there be implanted in the child's mind. If the children of Catholic parents at- tended the public schools, the church would lose hold of its flock. Therefore parochial schools are needed to safeguard the system.
"Uncle, Please Pay the Bill"
These Catholic schools are expensive. They constitute a serious drain on the Catholic purse. If the states would assume the burden and support them, it would, of course, be a great help to the Hierarchy. The fact that the state is composed of Protestants, Jews, . agnostics and other varieties of religionists would have no bearing upon the Catholic mind. The Hierarchy has steadily and per- sistently worked toward that end. Its lobby- ists and dignitaries have worked upon legis- lative bodies to secure free textbooks, free transportation, state aid, or any form of as- sistance it could from the state. The ultimate purpose is to have the state pay the Hierarchy to teach Catholic tenets to Catholic children, and it subtly proceeds toward that end.
The chief difficulty in accomplishing such ends is the provisions of the state constitutions. Practically every state provides that there may be no use of property, credits or money of the public for the benefit of any school under the direction or control of any religious denomination or in which denominational ten- ets are taught. These provisions constitute a serious bar, but, nevertheless, the Hierarchy presses on with its program.
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New York Legislature Goes Churchy
In 1936 the New York State Legislature succumbed to the blandishments of the organ- ization. It granted the "holy church" the open- ing wedge and made provision for the trans- portation of children to the parochial schools. That such is merely an opening wedge ap- pears admitted and officially declared by the report received and approved by the National Catholic Educational Association, which re- port, inter alia, states as follows:
The superintendents express their sympathy with the efforts being made in various parts of the coun- try to secure a share in the public school funds in behalf of Catholic education, cither through direct subsidies to Catholic children, or through extension . of school bus service, medical care, and the fur- nishing of free textbooks to pupils, following in all instances the judicious discretion of each local bishop. — The Brooklyn Tablet, November 23, 1935.
'Public free school bus service is thus essen- tially a church subsidy demanded and con- trolled by the bishops; and after getting this wedge fully inserted and established, the next step would be to secure free textbooks, free medical care and state aid.
Some public-minded citizens of the Empire State did not approve of this form of chisel- ing in by the Hierarchy. Two of them, to wit, Glenn L. Judd and William O. Volentine, taxpayers and residents of the Town of Hemp- Stead, objected to paying taxes for the in- culcation of Catholic doctrines in children's minds. They consulted a New York City attor- ney, lawyer Major Joseph Wheless. Wheless would rather fight the nefarious tactics of the Hierarchy than eat his meals, and he gladly took up their cause. An action was instituted in the Supreme Court asking for an injunction to restrain the Board of Education of the Union Free School District No. 2 of the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, from furnishing transportation with public funds for pupils to and from any private or parochial school located within or without said district. The lower courts decided against them. But appeals were taken and the case finally reached the Court of Appeals, .the highest court of the State of New York. This court declared the statute unconstitutional by a vote of 4 to 3 of its judges, 2 of the 3 being Roman Catholics, The court stated:
The statute, in so far as it authorizes transporta- tion for pupils to and from any school or institu- tion of learning wholly or in part under the control
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or direction of any religious denomination or in which any denominational tenet or doctrine is taught, is repugnant to our fundamental law, un- constitutional and void.
When this subsidy legislation was passed the Catholic press sent forth great paeans of joy and told of the great mass of money it would save the church. Quotation from The Brooklyn Tablet in that regard :
From reports it appears that Catholic parishes in the State will be saved over $100,000 now ex- pended for transportation services.
When the matter came up in court the story was different. They were faced with the New York consti- tutional provision prohibiting the use of any money or prop- erty for the benefit either directly or in- directly of any pa- rochial school. There- fore the Hierarchy representatives claimed that the bus subsidy was not an aid to the schools, but merely a lift , to the children.
Couldn't Fool Court of Appeals
The Court of Ap- peals saw the fallacy of this argument and answered it as fol- lows :
The argument is' advanced that funiishihg trans- portation to the pupils of private or parochial schools is not in aid or support of the scliools, but rather in aid of their pupils.
This argument not only ignores the spirit, pur- pose and intent of the constitutional provisions, but. as well their exact wording. The wording of the mandate is hroad. Aid or support to the school "directly or indirectly" is proscribed. The two words must have been used with some definite in- tent and purpose; otherwise, why were (hey used at all!
Aid furnished "directly" would be that furnished in a direct tine, Aid furnished "indirectly" clearly embraces any contribution, to whomsoever made, eircaitously, collaterally, disguised or otherwise not in a straight, open and avowed aid of the school, that may be of benefit to the institution or promo-
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tional of its interests and purposes. How could then people have expressed in the fundamental law their purpose in more apt, simple and all-em- bracing language? ,
Free transportation of pupils induces attendance at schools. The purpose of the transportation is none other than to promote the interests of the private school or religious or sectarian institution that controls and directs it.
So once more the courts come between the Hierarchy and its attempts to chisel money from the public chest for its racket.
Blocked by the courts' and the constitutional guarantees, the "holy church" then went to the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York and presented a pro- vision specifying state aid by public taxation up to 50 percent of the maintenance of parochial schools. It is the same old graft. The organization is still on the job, en- deavoring to get the public to pay the Catholic ehureh to teach its blasphemous doctrines to Catholic children and thus in- sure maintenance of tiie racket for the next generation.
The ultimate goal
Surrender to the Pope
♦ By means of Amendments Nos. 1 and 8 the gang was duly voted in as the custodian of the treasury oi' New York State. Amend- ment No. 1 provides free bus service to private schools which are antagonistic to all the prin- ciples that made America free, and Amend- ment No. 8 can be interpreted and will be interpreted to mean that American taxpayers will dip down in their pockets and pay the salaries of priests and nuns to teach things fundamentally contrary to the separation of church and state which is the basis of Ameri- can statecraft.
Support of Sectarian Schools
♦ Parents who send their children to private schools help to support the public schools by
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taxes, although they may never have had a child attend the public school. To compel them to pay additional taxes for the support of schools not public and where their children may never attend seems fundamentally "un- constitutional", even if never written into a Constitution as paramount as a Bill of Rights; We have provided a school system where all may gu, irrespective of race or creed, and those seeking advantages not given by the public school should pay for them. — T. C. J., in New York Times.
Knights of Columbus
♦ Turn to page 1002 of Webster's Interna- tional Dictionary, Fraternal, Society emblems, and see for yourself the truth of what the Knights of Columbus stand for. To those trust- ing souls who are yet confident that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is a Christian organiza- tion, rather than the most diabolical gang of racketeers the world has ever seen, attention is called to the drawing on this page. This drawing is an exact outline of the badge or emblem of the Knights of Columbus, the pope's lay organization, upon whose shoulders is laid the burden and re- sponsibility of aiding the Hierarchy to gain control of practically everything in sight. The relation of the Knights of Columbus to the Hierarchy is as servant to master, private to general, and the word of the Hierarchy is law and god to it.
In considering emblems, bear in mind that an emblem is intended to convey, in semi- pictorial form, the aims, ideals and intentions of a person, group or organization, etc. Says Webster :
Emblem, a visible sign of an idea; a symbol. A picture with a motto, a set ol verses or the like, intended as a moral lesson or a meditation. Specifi- cally, an emblem is a visible object representing another by a natural suggestion, or by a habitual or recognized association ; as, the dove is the emblem of peace.
Examining the Knights of Columbus em- blem, it will be seen that no motto, intention or idea is expressed in so many words. Instead, wc find upon the lower part of the shield, whose background is a double cross (and in
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which is to be found the basic design of the swastika that Hitler borrowed), first a fasces (center), which stands for. Fascism; second, a sword, which stands for war; third, an an- chor, which stands for — but you can see it has two hooks on one end.
Therefore, reading the symbolism upon this emblem correctly, one would have to say the meaning is:
Make the world safe for the Roman
Catholic Hierarchy, by Fascism and war
on land and sea.
Satan loves to perpetuate his emblems, as all these forms antedate the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. The floor plan of a model nunnery is nothing more than a double cross, with some of the sides missing.-J. E. Bolden, Penn- sylvania.
Why AH the Excitement?
Sixty-eight councils of the Knights of Columbus operating on Long Is- land met and organized a so-called •'Legion of Decency". That is good : if they stick to it. There is no rea- son why a member of the Knights of Columbus should not be as decent as anybody else. One purpose* of the new Legion is "to protect the public" against magazines which ''are offensive to the Catholic Church". But why all the ex- citement? Is not the public able to protect itself without some Italian -controlled racket butting in ? If the public dislikes a magazine, that is enough, is it not? The magazine will die. But suppose the public likes a magazine, and suppose the magazine tells the truth about the most tremendous and devastating racket that ever afflicted mankind, what business has the Knights of Columbus to interest itself in the public's affairs? None at all.
Milo Francis McDonald
♦ Milo Francis McDonald, Roman Catholic principal of the Bush wick public high school, Brooklyn, is editor of the new monthly Roman Catholic paper called "The Educational Sign- post". Paid by public funds to help maintain the high standards of Brooklyn public schools; his job as editor will be to show how inferior the schools really are. How is that for a clever scheme? There is nothing under the sun like the nerve of the bunch that think they can compel Almighty God to come down and be sacrificed e#ery time a priest orders Him to do so. No i wonder Milo has a good nerve. (To be continued)
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Protestantism
'Bible Human— Preachers Divine*
Maybe you did not know that 'the Bible is human and the preachers are divine' ! That seems to be the drift of Mr. Lang's letter to Mr. Meredith shown below. There was a death in the family, and Mr. Lang delivered a funeral discourse. Mr. Meredith wrote Mm a kind letter, citing *44 scriptures that have to do with man's past, present and future, so that he might be better prepared to tell the truth if he should ever get another job of preaching a funeral discourse. Kead Mr. Lang's letter and see if you can find in it any indi- cation that the Bible is the Word of God, or that he has half the reverence for its Au- thor that he has for himself.
Public Admission of Hypocrisy
♦ The church today is a minority affair, numerically and mor- ally. It lies in a world which it does not un- derstand, and which does not understand it. The world has little sympathy with its spiritual aims, no respect for its traditions, only contempt for its weakness, and doubt as to its sincerity. For this state of affairs the chnrch is partly, and perhaps largely, to blame.
With notable exceptions it has failed to show a proper appreciation of its peculiar work and witness. Too much concerned about secondary and selfish interests, it hus not al- ways sought first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. In times of crisis she has been too often swayed by counsels df human wisdom and expediency rather than by the spirit of fidelity to her divine call and com- mission. Too frequently her life has lacked the robust display of overflowing health and strength, the sparkle of spiritual vigor. Her steps have been slow and tentative, her speech hesitant, halting, and unconvincing.
Her rebuke of evil has been tardy, partial, petulant, and sometimes petty, railing against wrongdoing in one quarter, remaining unac- countably and unheroically silent in the face of greater evils in other directions, and often
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protesting with evident lack of definite con- viction and unity of purpose, making her pro- test not on purely moral grounds, but because of considerations affecting her own position and prestige in the community. — Hobart Min- isters'Association, Hobart, Tasmania.
Desperation of British Clergy
♦ Signs of the desperation of the British clergy arc the Aliens Restriction (Blasphemy) bill, forbidding aliens to propagate doctrines or engage in activities "calculated to interfere with the established religious institutions of Great Britain", the secret synod of 400 clergy in Rochester Cathedral, which met behind
locked doors, and the expulsion of 600 mem- bers of the Dysart Barony church of Kirkaldy, Scotland, because they show no interest in the work of the church.
Sat in a Chair
at His Funeral
♦ At Kingston, Ten- nessee, a 74 - year - old farmer sat beside his own handmade coffin, and; by request, had his funeral conducted beforehand. That was some months ago, and he is still alive and in good health. It all shows how foolish this whole funeral business is. What the man wanted to hear was the -exordiums and encomiums so generally lavished upon the dead; and he heard them.
Babson Gets an Idea
♦ Roger Babson, statistician and former mod- erator of the Congregational Church, has the idea that ministers should go out as house-to- house canvassers, and deliver their sermons in mimeograph form. One can almost hear him think. But Babson is too late ; and the clergy would never humble themselves to do as he suggests, anyway.
Religion in the House
♦ In the House of Representatives there are 100 Catholics, 76 Methodists, 56 Baptists, 52 Presbyterians, 44 Episcopalians, 22 Lutherans, 8 Jews, and 72 unclassified Protestants.
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The Ambushment of the American Republic
WASHINGTON was not a Catholic; Franklin was not a Catholic; Jefferson was not a Catholic; Lincoln was not a Cath- olic; none of the American presidents were Catholics. This country was not founded hy Catholics. Only one of the signers of the Dec- laration of Independence was a Catholic; the other f>4 were Americans, good and glad to help establish a government of the people, by the people, "and for the people, without interference by the worst enemy of the com- mon people the world has ever known, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.
Now, after 162 years of self-government, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has appointed and elected itself to lei 1 the American people how their liberties are to be disposed of. An Italian, the pope of Rone, will decide how Americans shall Ik? taught democracy. A lot he knows about it, ami a lot he cares aliout it, but see the story in the reproductions here- with, and be advised that the Hierarchy is about to take over the American Government by ambushment.
Glancing at the first and longest reproduc- tion, the pastoral appeal is by Dennis Dough- erty, of Philadelphia, whoso demand to Gim- bel Brothers, radio station WIP, Philadelphia, that they refuse to sell time to Jehovah's wit- nesses for the broadcast in': of Bible lectures by Judge Rutherford, resulted in two lawsuits for $100,000 damages each, one of which suits is still pending. Mr. Dougherty, calling him- self Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, manifestly does not believe in freedom of speech, which is the very cornerstone of democracy. He is a fine one to issue a pattern] on the teaching of democracy. There can be no such thing as a democracy except where the people are free to learn the truth on all subjects, and to then decide for themselves — not have their deci- sions made for them by priests, popes or cardinals.
The next clause enclosed in lines reminds one strongly of how faithfully Judge Ruth- erford and all of Jehovah's witnesses have "inquiring minds" which "confidently move truthward and expose error, however subtle or insidious". Mr. Dougherty ostensibly wants that very course pursued, but only if you re- main silent about the errors of the Hierarchy. It was because Judge Rutherford exposes the subtle and insidious errors of the Hierarchy
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that Mr. Dougherty wanted him silenced over WIP and actually wants him silenced alto- gether.
American Public School System
The American public school system taught all the presidents that graced the executive of- fice at Washington, and almost all the men in public life. James Aloysius Farley, the most prominent Catholic in American political life, was not. educated in a Roman parochial school, but in the public school. The Roman Catholic. Hierarchy hates and despises the American public school system, but look at the next box, in column one of the larger cut. Sec how clev- erly Dougherty makes it appear that the gen- erally admired American public school system is that of the sectarian parochial schools.
The next column, in the box toward the bottom, shows that Dougherty's pastoral letter is in obedience to instructions from Rome. It may be also shrewdly suspected that Dough- erty was elected to write the letter to lift the odium resting upon him for his action regard- ing WIP.
From the third column it appears again that it is by mandate from the pope that Mr. Dougherty has written his pastoral. It seems, for some strange reason, that, better than any other living person, the pope knows that the world has entered upon a period of unrest, and questioning, and disorientation and conflict that make it a turning point in history.
What do you suppose is the reason why the pope knows that better than anybody else? Is it that he is so much more brilliant? Is it because of his boasted skill as the ablest diplomat in the world today? Or is it because he is determined to make a success of his putsch while he lives? That is it. He intends to force the whole world into totalitarianism, and to do it while he lives, and he knows, better than any other man, that Judge Rutherford, and Jehovah's witnesses, are exposing his plans and methods, and revealing them to the world al- most before they have left the precincts of his bedchamber.
What Are the Proclamations?
. The column goes on to say that there are today "proclamations and programs which, if translated into action, would destroy all that
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is just and ennobling in liberty-loving Amer- ica". Do yon suppose, as he penned those lines, that Mr. Dougherty had the same thing in mind as when he wrote to WIP?
Judge Rutherford has no program, but he knows of somebody that does have a program, and one sure to be carried out to the last jot and tittle. Christ Jesus, Jehovah's Vindicator, is entrusted with the program of making this earth a fit place for Jehovah's feet to rest. Judge Kutherford has, indeed, had the great
honor, the great privilege, of putting forth the proclamations and programs of the King of kings arid Lord of lords. Mr. Dougherty professes to he devoted to the same objective, but he expects to gain his objective by the ris- ing to complete power of the Roman Hier- archy, while Judge Rutherford expects to see the Hierarchy completely destroyed, because it has destroyed and corrupted all the earth.
In the last paragraph of column three, it is again urged that this program enunciated in
Pastoral Letter on the Teaching of Democracy
aprla' to Tire Nt* Tome Tun, WASHINGTON. Nov. 24-
'/olXovting is the test of the pas- toral- Ifittf.T oj Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishops and Bishops to the Catholics of the United States announcing a plan for t)\4 study of democracy hy Catholic schools:
Ta the priests and faithful of the United states:
On the acc&aion ot the golden Jubilee year of the CAtbotie Uni- versity of America, Ilia Holiness, Pope Fin* ~Xl. h*5 addressed to lis a pontifical 'xUr-e Of gravo im- pr *D r hutch Br:<3 nation.
The Ho\y rather, .alarmed hy I he rrtvoh.itlotiaiy condltinns pre- iraLMrifr In Tr.ca.t cOUtlti ies, rhargea us in a. special manner to prepare for what may 'be a fJ truing point In the history of the world. Wt must face the fact that the dan- grrS of which ilib Hoi tineas 'ape nk a threaten our own demo™ critic Institutions^ The Fope ^itiphat JCftlly rails upon us "to aasu.T.c still greater and mora nioincn'.O-.ia responsibilities than Jn. the past."
CAte Bewrd of Influence Whan fifty years ago the Bishops of America, with great foresight and rD'jretge, besought Tops Lro XIII io establish a Catholic uni- versity with a pontlficial charter at the rapital of the nation, they proposed to make it a citadel of fc-ilE.' n *n<* Chrlatlnn culture, [where" "inci^TTririlf mJnda COulJ confid sntl y mOVO truthward and expose error, however subtle or Insidious
The history of the Catholic Uni- versity during a half century re- cords the effort*, and sacrifices of liishops, rectors, profeaaOrs, priests and reilgioua communi- ties end the nOOle generosity of
an appreciative laity.
^"ITtoe Catholic world looks with approval upon our school system aa thn mn it ex.tsn.alva and beat organired to_ he found anywhere^
;(t»"rhe.asVo Pf credit la due to the Catholic Univirajty. Thla Organisation has not been effected without layinjr a heavy financial burden upon the. shoulders of the laity.
The aacrlficea of th« founders, promoters and teachers of our grammar echool*. high schools and colleges in our respective dio- ceses can never he adequately de- acrihed. But the contribution rib ilc by the university to tbie school ayatcm is not widely known nut si rig educational cir-
cles. We, however, who are fa- mjliftr with the university realize how effective haV^ been its in- spiration and work In hulMlnjr Up Catholic education in the dlc-ccaes of our country.
Called EesentJ&l to System
Concerns d as we naturally are Wt1h the educational needs of our own dioceses, the CalhoUc Uni- versity may flcem. remote fttut, eor.aCiUentJy, its Influence on dio- cesan education may he under- eatimatetf, even overlooked.
We must regard it, however, ad an element essential to tile Com- pletion of our educational eyMftm, and one which requires our un- failing and generou.i support. The Catholic University must he sustained by unanimous CatfcnMc public opinion in order to flsaLma its rightful supremacy In the field of Cathode * ducat La n .
We must not think ol the Catb- olio University as an Isolated unlti Jit prcs^ress wilt benefit all of us. Under its guidance our diocesan institution* ca.n p;o forward, strengthened! by Cbrl-iMan princi- ples and standards and assnred of timely M'arnine; apair.*t the dan- ger* of secularliirrt in. education.
The work of the university proper during fifty yeni's has prO- ffreaiicd as steadily as its resonrcei permi'.Lcd. These resources, in comparison with thoaa of Other univeraltiea and ]n consi deration of the vast possibilities in ihfl field of higher Catholic education, hava been sadly inadentJata dciplta the Kftoeroua ^ifts of many LatfiOlicJ and the annual university collec- tion taken up by order of tha Jioly Sec.
"Freaalna; TTe«d1r r« Strcsaed
Tha process of establishing a great earner of learning; and cul- tura in our day and in. our country la a alow one— too slow, Indeed, in view of the pressing need of auch an educational center. I^et us, th art to re, frankly acknowledge ihat a/'.er fifty yeara wr are stili building a C&*hotlo University,
It la, then. With £ sense of our jrave pastoral raapotiaihillty that •wc has bEI our people to be mind- ful of the urgent needs of the Catholic University and to heed iha plea of our Holy Father to make the jubilee year an occasion not only of retrospect and coro- memoration but also and chiefly of prospect an«j dedication
T5 Ibat prospect and dedication" we, the ahepherds of aoula, can- not but realin our need in these crucial days or outstanding lead- ers among the clergy and, laity. Our seminaries and collagea a.rs doing excellent work is laying
solid found ftilona for this leader- Ship. It 1s upon IhCiifl founda- tions that ihc\ Catholic Univtirfiity, through graduate Jitudias, would build with living stones the city Of tVUlh and Chriatlan cull Mrs.
Signal success has been achieved by Catholic unlvcriillcs in Coun- tries small in extnnt end nicOffcr in reeourcee. Shall we. hlcS-ied in a vast country wi:h more abutidsnt resources and freedom to hearlen us, do leas for our
T ' ilojy Father in bis jjhilce letter lays special cm phis is upon the a u hll me mission of the uni- versity in guarding the social heritage of man In the ratural and supernatural order.
Quoit* Vope on Wnrld's Trrll
Pont Plus XL knows belter than any other living pCLSOn how that heritage la endaiLjrtred to- day. r,^he world hits entered/' be saya, J,upon one Df thoae peri- ods of unrest, of questioning, nT disorientation, and nf conrllcl. which have been well described
Hi rni n g poLn ts at history.
"~ " "Cb ri'st Lan doctrine and! CE'ria- tlan morality are under attack rrotn aeveral quarters; dangerou* theories which a few years ago Wtre hut whispered in the aeoret oonventiclea of discontent Are to- day preached from the hoUafc-. topfi, and are even ffndilng their way into action] private I in mor- ality and public aubversion have In many places raised thu banner Of revolt against the Croaa of _Ch rtsjj ' '
\Ve Bishops, shepharda of souts, whose duty it ia to guard the pbeep of Christ and. to aCCk other sheep not Of his fold, are aeri- ously alarmed by tha spread of subversive teaching and hy the audacity of subversive action In our country. W# arc witnesses today of proclamations and. pro- grams which, if translated into action, would destroy all that Is Juet and ennobling In liberty- loving America.
^ben, therefore" Pope Plus XI saya that tha Catholic University "muat, because of tha exigencies of the present age, glvn special attantlon to tha sciences of civics, sociology, and- economic*/ J His Holiness calls uq to the defense nf enjr democratic government, framed In a Constitution that safe- guards the inalienable rlghta of man. The Pope explicitly instructs the Catholic University to "evolve a. con struct Ive program of social action, filled in its details to local needs, which will command tha admiration and acceptance of aJ] rlghMh Inking men."
This charge solemnly approves the American hierarchy'* trftdi- ilnnai position of untwerviilg a!- leRience to our free American institutions,
To carry out tha injunction of ihe Holy Father It la necessary 1hat our people, from childhood to m ft lure age, be ever better in- slructetl in the true nature of Cbrisliari democracy. A precise rf-ifinition must be given to them both of democracy In the light of Catr-oilc truth and tradition and nf the rights and duties of citi- zens in a reprGseniatlvo Republic such as our own. They must be held Id the convir.Mort that love nf country La a virtue and that dis- Jpyp.r.y la a sjn.f ■
To fo.itei thTs Chrintian concept of ritixeiahlp the Bishops )n their S nnual*meetlr.g have charged th* Catholic University of America to compile at once a more com- prcbenstve series of graded texts for all educatlcnal levels. On the foundation of rcligtoua traininsr. which la the distinctive charac- teristic of our echuoln, thesA texts will build an enlightened, con-* scientintis American ^Itlxor.shlp.
We, therefore, entreat all 1ha faithful of every walk in lite to unite in this Catholic crusade for better citlssnshlp, which will bring; to every individual wider oppDrtunittea for sound social education.
rie* for JTublI*e CilfC
Through its own pr up e r agencies, the Catholic r.:nfv«raity will put before the people its financial plea, which we earnestly endorse Wa trust that all wiit respond generously to the appeal Ot the Holy Father, and thus en- able our university to render to our country the priceless service of a more enlightened an4 vigor- ous Catholic citizenship.
During tha Jubilee Year we en* treat all commuted to our pas- toral care to join with us in mak- ing it posalbEs for the Catholic; University to render a greater measure of service to education and to relijrion. We ask for th* university from all the children of our schools, from the com- munities of our sisterhoods and brotherhoods, and from th* faithful the gift of a daSly prayer, and from our priest* a, dally memearto In Holy Mass.
May the Dlvin* Teacher deign to make our Catholic center of learning at Washington a provi- dential exponent of the principles) of a Christian social order which will command the acceptance, ot «LI right-think tng American citt-
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the dispatch from Washington is by order of the pope, and it is really comical that in his purpose to destroy the American republic, and replace it by government from Vatican City, the pope should be credited with admitting that in the American democratic government, and in its Constitution, with the formation of either of which the Hierarchy had nothing to do, there are safeguards to the inalienable rights of man. What the pope is after, and Mr. Dougherty too, is to remove those safe-
TCTERAHS TO FIGHT UN-AMERICAN ACTS
Drive to Amend Naturalization trnf Postal Law* and Curb Propaganda Planned
faONAHAN GIVES PROGRAM
Bartan, at Meeting Here, Ssm Hitler Regime Doomed— Calls for Strong Defense
Tltrea a * Hon at vefatana' ornanl- rsUwie anon sell! biffin a cam pa Is n t.a amend the postal ana aaturall" a*t Ion la** «5d abtaln pan Afro lo- yally of uniform statutes la combat lha propaganda arid araanl?«ttar.jO net (Title a at un-AhWloan grroupa, it waa disclosed la« alffbt b» Bay P. ttonnaan, hast sammshder af the UMehlstt War Vetera** at America ami chairman at lha Ita American- ism Committee, who" hsshscn active In tha prosecution artha German- American fiund.
Bpeeklns to K» persons, at a ♦Tltena. Ood tor America" meetlnff bald under tba auspices at U>o Jewleh War Veteran, at Mount (tebah Temple. UO Weat eeventjr- ninth Street, Mr. Mnnahan eeia that "Ihle time veterans *r« Mk- InaJ law* an'y Uiemeelvea but fdr all Americana."
row York Time a i K
Leaders Brick: Froffiam The pi "He of the commiliae which, tie hearts have hoen approved, be eald, In letter* ie<r«lv«d hem Ste- phen Chart wick, notional com ma nd- er el the American l-eajon.end Eu- gene Van Antwerp, nation el com- mander ef me Vet crane or Foreign Ware. Mr. Men ah an adder; that he expeeted in confer with iheee men on joint erilcn "within a week or to." end forecast that instructions to mcrcbrre of ihe three orgeniia- tlonc from their national command* v/oma c« forthcoming "ai.m-Uvi
the field oi national le«late- tlcn. Mr. Uonahan eald ha hoped to brlnf about emend went of the postal lawe ro that the eendlnr of "mldeedinff matter tendir-f to In- cite religious Intolerance or race prejudice" through the matte will fait under a acction of the Criminal
Porte. f" lie wl
will work for en amendment to the naturalisation lawe, ha con- tinued, pi-ovldlne: Mat pn rue i nation In a eubversive or conization with In five yeaie after obtain Lmjt eecond nntliralliaiion p ap are wl 11 . c en" ti- tntc "prima ttf.it" evidence that a flHscn "acted lii had Jaliri when he look the oath of nllearance."
"There le j««h a thine a a revoc- able oltteenr-hip," Mr. Monahen aald, and urged that certain per- sona "be put on probation to oce if they behave like Americana,"
Tha three vetnana' ■roupa, ac- cord mr, ta Mr, Monahen, alto will work /or the passage. i:f uniform local lows which would rctiuire all organ tee tlons "net eatabliehcd ae believe ic tit or eharl table in pur- pete" to mkit* public .the roster of their member, and their o&tho of
aiteeianca it any. ovosnber 20 a l^SS
guards and make America a land of slavery to the Hierarchy rather than a land of free- dom where every man may seek instruction on any subject under the sun, and then do as he thinks best.
Notice the Ineffable Conceit
Notice the ineffable conoeit at the top of column four. After 162 years of selt-govern- ment, Americans arc now to be taught what is democracy and what is loyalty, and their
CATHOLICS ASKED TO AID DEMOCRACK
Only Through Church Can the Formula, Be Maintained, Mgr. Corrigan Says
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The catholic Church is the only power capable o( demanding end main lain Ins: the democratic for- mula. Mgr. Joseph M. corrigan, rector of Catholic Unlverelty, Waats- loalon, said in a sermon at solemn man in -St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday. He eaked for funde to
promote a new program undertaken It caproeeee ltaei f 1 1, th« thick emokc by the unlversllv for oduc.tlon in ^T^J^^^
[ 4 a "> o crary . neaa , propag and a and gov or i
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Jprovttf tha h.cr»rohy, la AH *Jl- Amgika Ch\\*& H0P» of Worlj^
• dciivor In mt* » ettl»BT.Bhip found j .ln Am*i lea, which, ^VlkiiSly
clinic fotm-jk it one which «*!**« to tv vivtuoua prori)
A lly" traa Inat lh« AmfMlCala
rTitrnt mar» cloSply spt>rOaCht*<i . r th»t of the ehurch (h*h any cHr-<:
Mgr. OorrtViin aaid lhnf. ni l.d $1-
Won to MUbliKhini? the chmrh'* ld«h(Lly In America, such ctliicalion «OU]d go far toward prcvpiitalnc th« "Wjj&IpaKla JntaUcCWal kidrllipplng practk«d (n Germany and Jlti <•»•.&," In tho trand away from rel.gion, Mgr. Corrigan found a braahdovfn In the civic and aoclml orders
"TB» tpirlt ot B«cu)ari«n tstypj- /led in tha complacent acceptance: ot* wild tloenie In Marriage, 'divorce ! and birth control," be aatd. "II alsJito the jtrBel-i in hrulat muriisr
- civic and political aenae [cauae it Is Bound tn Us rclixloua i baa la," Mgr. CorHfan aald. "We I havA seen tha Catholic populstlcna tit European nationa, when the rJthteae might seized governmental power*, rentTered BUSpcct of their* loyalty to their nation heca.-jaB they ci'Vild rsot. In conscience, accept athcieatla concepts of government. pueliieM ol tho Church "It II the bWlneaa Of ehUTBh I Ifr-ML In America ta vec to U that our rati* Jfi£' hf^^ ^I'^^^L^ lion, of nertlng cltJiem b« gfovii.it- t J"u'r» ^'^sl0 th* .^^^V •d in t!ii prUiclpln* o( right ec^: HRy« wobld b. a rnemorla! build- I ernr,ent and ,n a knDwierJg" of both j ln* 011 lht ■>< «t>tvaraUy,
thslr duttee and .rlebia In ihla Ae-j 1 " 1 "
apeak ing, le a til] the hope Ot the ■world, wfl cathotloe cannot re f nee the providential natut* cf tha eonr miaalar. handad to US. While thar« ara ml 11 Lone of upright eitiMna nut- aide tha Catholic fold tftrnest tn their faith In God «nd eager for the triumph of juetloe, we cannot shirk the fact tha* Out tide the Catholic group there ij r.ot :o be found that Salldartty of Ur.liet! action which can bring to bear across the
Hew York Tinea, November 25, 1938
CATHOUCSWILLGPEN
Uaders ftespond To Pope's Call To Defend Democracy
MAKE DISLOYALTY A SIN
faps Plus XI for defense <rf deijto* | hedatve texte to praatnt tho prlu- oratic govern v# en t, announced to* | * J pies of ieaiOMftcy and clttaehittlp day an edutnUor-M program, in v«adr 1 to tho Cathotld acboo) chiitfraa ot ad to train more than 3,000,000 J Amer/ca, the pastoral letter de- Catbctio pupils tn "enlightened, ; dared:
comcientloue Am ar teas dUatn* < "Our pec-plo ■ ■ * (httsc be •hip." I held to tha carivlrtfoB that love of
la g paetoral latter maae publlo : coubtry is a vtrtue and that dlttoy- h*re. Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, ; *t ,fl rT|?t'.' — . Arehblihop of Fhllodelphig, and the J (JKl^4^t,J?^V.l*^^^
! responding \a the recent call off slty wotlld compile mors conipra- 1 cently of ; ravolutlontty force* at v " ' "' J work In O. e wwtd aho of "prlv ate
Irr.JT.OffilUy aft J public nutevef^rm" having 'ra($ed the bursar of revolt
aflsinet the Croti at Christ."
Tho Pope «».Jed aped^flctilly fCf dcvflopraent ot a VecVructlvi pro-
Sram of soctai action" and sold aUibUc University must jrlve ape* elal ottentloa to tha gclehCe of civ* lei. loclology eft4 flCOaOJtilCi,
An StiiiOllhceiiftent is-om Cethollc TJnlvera.tr aa!d the project would of feet ultima t pupils who attend npurly 15,1)00 Pfir.sH gride and high schools, as well as utilltfc!, acad- emies and other higher Institutions, in addition lo the anient, sludent
body, estimated at more than 3,000,* 000, K Was said the. t Baching isrv- lcfta ot d«,?00 retJglcua artd jay in- structor! Iti «lGm«ittAry nchuoli -.nd SO.CW profsssora and 1m true tor* In higher InstUutlbng would >a In* vo.ved,
orehbtahops and bishops who tsnded the annual meetinff hers In October said they ware "seriously alarmed by the spread ol subver- sive teAchinn end by the gudaclty , _ , of subvorslvs act!6a In oor ooun- Pro£tm Intended T© Trwn try."
&OOQ0OO iHipilg In fialight-i Mot* CompeehsnslTs lc»te
living-Hop. Kovo ^
rm"^m^»^'^^-. i * ^v™**** lliat fatoeiie Pahrsf\ PW» haa'warae* i»e Clwrco /*
Mbllcetloa at the letter, the Mofi Rev, Edward Mooney Ar(Tli)i^hop ot Or troll, esM that elthtrugh the proarem mi ot Ce'.hclrt origio he hoped It woold not be eooaiaerei an eaeltt,tvt Cathoilc undertalilh*. Muealieti la freedom The At. Jtev. MonslBnor Joaeph M. Corrigan, rector si Catholic University, viewed the project a>
ed'jcaLJon In "the flindarricntaiii r?f •trie CJitr
e prtitnral litter slRnea ?y rxr- Olhal Doufrjerty related that Pope
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instruction is to come from Italy. When they have been fully taught what the pope has in mind they will have neither the democracy nor the loyalty.
Now for the other exhibits. Mr. Monahan, lecturing Jewish "War Veterans (whose repre- sentatives tried to get Jehovah's witnesses put out of a hall in Columbus where these wore holding Bible lectures), states that his group (the Disabled War Veterans) and his hearers and the American Legion, will try to bring about an amendment of the postal laws so that the sending of "misleading matter" through the mails would fall under the Criminal Code, Who is to decide whether a thing is mislead- ing or not? Will Mr. Monahan? Or will his priest? You know the answer,
The next exhibit informs a weary world that the only power that can maintain a de- mocracy is the Catholic Church. How was the American democracy founded without its help"? It was Mr. Corrigan, rector of the Cath- olic University at Washington, that put forth that brilliant idea, and if that is a sample of what they teach at said university, the tighter they keep it locked, so that nobody can get either in or out, the better.
In the concluding exhibit Mr. Corrigan takes the position that the projected and prospective program of making it disloyalty, and a sin, to be an American without being tarred with the Catholic stick, is very dear to the pope's heart, and he hopes, and so does Mr. Mooney, archbishop of Detroit, that though this new educational move is entirely of Catholic origin, all the rest of America will go along with if.
What Is Back of All This?
What is back of all this ? It is all very sim- ple. All you have to do is to buy any of the Catholic papers and you will find that they are filled with the most bitter attacks that poisoned pens can write against Judge Ruth- erford, There is no uflte trying to enumerate these attacks. One Catholic paper and mag- azine after another vies with the last in think- ing up and recording the most vicious and impossible lies that it is in the power of man to make.
Why do they do it ? What is disturbing Mr. Dougherty, Mr. Monahan, Mr. Cerrigan, Mr. Mooney, et al. ? They have been reading Judge Rutherford's books, Riches, Enemies, and the booklets Curt, Uncovered, Warning, and oth-
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ers ; and they have been hearing his broadcasts from Seattle, London, and New York (par- ticularly the last, published as the leading article iu'Conaolation No. 499, issue of Novem- ber 2, 1938, under the caption "Fascism or Freedom").
In these books and booklets, and notably in this address, the unimpeachable proof has been brought to the attention of the people by Judge Rutherford, showing beyond all doubt that the Vatican is working* together and in conjunction with Fascism, Nazism and other totalitarian advocates to control the United States and make it "a Fascist nation. They will succeed in this vicious undertak- ing, only to be for ever destroyed shortLy thereafter, and it will be the Almighty God, through the power of Christ Jesus, that will put an end to these, His enemies, and the enemies of humanity as well,
In a single paragraph in that address Judge Rutherford asked .the American people to con- sider that Catholic priests have boldly declared that the government of the United States shall be seized in 1940 ; threaten to compel the United States Supreme Court to obey the de- mands of the Hierarchy; threaten to amend or destroy the Constitution to suit the Hier- archy, and threaten Protestants with violence who dare oppose the Hierarchy.
The Hierarchy has become frightened at Judge Rutherford's exposures of its scheme, and, in order to. cover up its wrongful pur- pose, has announced this inconsistent program of teaching patriotism to Americans. The Hier- archy, as its history shows, has no sympathy with any republican or democratic form of government, or, indeed, with any form of gov- ernment at all except one that does its bid- ding in detail and puts everything into its hands. It could not and would not help Amer- icans to improve the American government. Its real motive is to seize it for its own en- richment.
But the announcement will deceive many gullible Catholics and some other persons. However, Americans who arc accustomed to use their brains, and who have any informa- tion about the past history of the Hierarchy, will well know that the announced program is insincere and intended as a blind to deceive the people while the Hierarchy-Fascist com- bine grabs control of the United States to nfake it a totalitarian government.
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British Comment
lit) J. Ilcmcnj (London)
"Freethinkers'*
• Tin- professed Freethinkers hate the truth whirl. Cod has revealed, and whieh Jesus brought to light, with a positive hatred. Free- thinkers do not seek for Truth, hut arc it.s declared opponents. They arc not as free as they would have others helicvc, and arc as much tied to their purpose of opposition as religionists arc lied to and hound with their dogmas. Their set purpose is to destroy faith in Cod and Christ .Jesus and the Scriptures of truth. Hating the Scriptures, they make its records the subjects of their derision and pro- fessed contempt. Also they hate the witness to the truth and speak derogativcly of its messengers. As to the measure of doubt veiled by their rather blatant blasphemy, each must speak for himself: that they know their re- fusal to believe in the Creator, and of the com- munion which He has made with men who have been faithful to His expressed will, is contrary' to reason must be admitted. Their unbelief in "Christ ianity" as it is demonstrated by the so-called -'Christian" religious systems and by religionists is undoubtedly their main asset : it ma v be said to be their "religion", for the word means to bind, and these have surely bound themselves in their dogmas of unbelief. They are, however, saved from the hypocrisy of practiced religion, and so far as thev assert themselves against it they aid the truth. But professed frecthought is a negative thing. However actively the freethinker may engage in his mission, he cannot get beyond a mere negation. There is no life in his dec- laration : nothing to help a man. So far as reli- gion is concerned, he is a remover of rubbish, a housebreaker; but he has nothing wherewith to build.
Consequently, however free he may be from the grosser things of life and may have freed himself from the hypocrisy of religious prac- tices, he leaves himself open to other sins against his fellows and against Cod. The evil of evil-x|>eaking is on a par with hypocrisy, both in its objective and in its subjective re- sults. Mercy, it is said, blesses both him that
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gives and him that receives, but evil-speaking damages both. When Judge Rutherford had addressed the great audience in the Royal Albert Hall, in London, on Sunday, Septem- ber 11, a woman walked towards the platform to voice a complaint about her conditions in life. Requested to desist and return to her place, and refusing, she was asked to go out of the hall, so that the audience could listen to what Judge Rutherford had yet to say. As she persisted in calling out, it was necessary to help her out of the hall. The Freethinker tries to make some kudos for itself out of the incident. Saying that the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society must have an enormous amount of "mugs' money" to spend, it says, "The Christian stewards of the Lord's rich vineyard led the woman out of the holy as- sembly," and concludes its notes by saying, "The Truth game isn't cricket— or rather, we should say, isn't religion." Nor is the Free- thinker writer playing the straight game, as he would have his readers believe. Of the 10,000 persons estimated to be in the hall there were about 8,000 of the public, and it is only in the search for a sneer that such a .public meeting is called a "holy assembly". What, one wonders, would have happened in the Freethinkers' congress meetings — held at the same time in a small auditorium in Lon- don-if a similar incident had occurred. Would the audience have risen each with his hand in his pocket to give the disturber some ready help, and request the chairman to hold up the meeting till the woman had got satisfaction? It pleases this straight-bat Frecthinking crick- eter to call Jehovah's witnesses "mugs". That does not hurt them, but it is a foolish thing to do. These are men and women freed from religion who arc giving the witness to the kingdom of Cod now set up, and which will soon bring about the destruction of everything that is in opposition to righteousness and of all opposers of the righteous rule of God's anointed King, Christ Jesus. The denier of God and the rejector of His Word will find himself classed with the hypocrites he pro- fesses to despise. Any honest person who has got caught in the toils of so-called "Free- thought" should free himself, both from it and from religion, and, taking the Word of God, should seek that wisdom which is from above, and of which the first step is "the fear of the Lord".— Proverbs 1:7; Psalm 111 : 10.
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Religious Freethinkers
P A not unreasonable question is, What is the difference between those who style themselves "freethinkers" and the clergy of all the Prot- estant sections of organized religion who re- ject the Scriptures as the Word of God ? The plain answer is, There is no difference: they are unbelievers. But both parties make a dif- ference: the "freethinker' will have nothing to do with the freethinking parson and his reli- gion, and the clergy class regard the professed freethinkers as outsiders who should be avoid- ed. The clergy in all Protestantism have an understanding amongst themselves which al- lows them to retain their place m their sect- manufactured "Christianity" though they are as definitely rejectors of the Scriptures as were Tom Paine and Voltaire and Tngersoll. Of course, there is a distinction to be made : those men were not religious. Their notoriety came as with Bible in hand 'they derided its statements and its claim. The Clergy cannot afford to deride the Scriptures ; for the Bible is an absolute essential to organized religion ; so the unbelieving parson places a Bible be- fore him and his congregation, and his destruc- tive sermon notes on it. and proceeds to ex- plain its "mistakes", all 'for the good of the people'. The freethinker who declares himself as such has his measure taken by his hearers, and though he does injury to many a one,, to those who want to put God out of their thoughts, he does not get a great number of adherents to his cause. But the clergy have been trusted by the people, and by them mul- titudes have been led into non-belief in the Scriptures. Their unbelief and their hypocriti- cal action is, however, returning upon them. They are being "found out" and they see that if the general attitude of the people towards them does not speedily change they and their institutions will be wiped out. That will be so in any case ; for the day of Jehovah's judg- ment is come. They stand before Christ the King as the Pharisees and scribes stood before Jesus "in the days of his flesh".
"The Lady of Kingdoms"
• Otherwise known as "the harlot" and "mother of harlots", "the lady of kingdoms" says, "I shall be a lady for ever." (Isaiah 47:5,7) The Papacy expects to continue to exist, and, of course, to become dominant, the one religious organization, and the mistress of the kingdoms. Certainly the Hierarchy looks ahead in the matter of providing "saints" for
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the future increase of its church. The bigger the church, the more "saints" will he neces- sary, Both for candles and supplication. A cor- rupting corpse has just been exhumed from a London cemetery, and with great ceremony the dead received final absolution, and was carried away to be reinterred in a special place. This is the first stage in the making of a "saint". In course of time (!) the pope will beatify the deceased, and later on, when some "miracles" have been arranged to be wrought by his bones, carefully preserved, an- other pope will canonize him; that is, he will fix him up in "heaven" as a "saint" to whom supplication may be made. Rome carries on; they have done this thing for long centuries and expect to continue to do it in the future. They-are willingly ignorant qf the declara- tions of the Scriptures, and they seek eagerly to repress the witness now given against them by Jehovah's witnesses and their companions in the service of God and Christ.
The, Pope Says "It Is a Lie"
• Recently the pope showed some agitation when addressing a company admitted to his presence. lie was vindicating his church and himself from the statement made (and com- monly accepted) that the Papacy interferes in the political affairs of the nations. "It is a lie, a lie, a lie," he cried out. How he would square the facts of current interference, and the past centuries since Rome set out for the mastery of the earth, is best known to himself and the other members of the hierarchy in Rome. In one of the current London Roman Catholic newspapers an interesting side light appears. A German friend of the paper says, "Hitler is not attacking religion, Mass, Sacra- ments, Catholic schools, as such ; he is out to destroy the Church in Germany as a foreign political body in his totalitarian State." He added. "The persecution is political . . . Hitler is absolutely dominant. There is as yet no hope of political opposition. Yet Catholics must keep the Faith alive, and later on organize a politi- cal opposition to the Nazi totalitarian state's aims." What is actually passing between the Hierarchy and Hitler and his fellows is yet underground. It will come out for air in time.
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• Evidently a serious matter. The bit of wafer which the Roman Catholic priest by cabalistic words and action "turns into the actual body of Christ", and therefore to a bit of God, must
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be taken fasting. It would be derogatory to take it into a stomach laden with food ; be- sides, in such a case it would have no effect as a sacrament. Now the question is raised, Does a spoonful of liquid paraffin taken on rising affect the fast? It is admitted that a cup of tea does. The matter is to go to Rome for the Hierarchy's decision. Ugh!
"Scare" Costs
• Apart from local costs the cost to the coun- try of the recent war scare is £40,000,000. A big amount in these days of heavy taxati'on and when money is needed for the social serv- ices. There is but little offset : experience has been gained, and some profiteers raked in a bit extra for themselves. There is another side : the scare revealed what was indeed said by critics, both friendly and hostile, namely, that the Government had been very, lax in what was expected of it and according to its own declarations. That the air raid protection ar- rangements were altogether inadequate, and badly conducted, is now frankly admitted, and that is also true of the anti-aircraft guns. It is admitted that of the guns placed in posi- tion in the London area fifty percent were useless. However, the Government is to shake itself and get down to some real business. Then Herr Hitler will say, "That is unfriendly action on your part" ; and, as already there is indication, he will be telling Britain where it should go and what it should do. The London Daily Herald states that the shares of ten armament firms have risen in value by £20,- 000,000 since the Munich agreement. It adds, "This is one way investors have of saying what they think is the prospect of real steps to con- trol the profit in arms : they just do not think there is any such prospect." Probably the Herald is right. Money is greedy, ever hun- gry, and must be fed.
A Sequel of the Great War
• The Minister of Pensions says, "Twenty years after the great war there are still 420,000 pensioners and 500,000 dependents on the books. I am still paying out £39,000,000 a year, and the total amount paid on war pensions from 1914 to March 1938 amount h to £1,275,000,000, or double the amount of the National Debt before the war. I wish that some of those who glibly demand stronger measures could see for themselves some of the 2,000 wrecks, patients in the war hospitals, the result of the war."
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World's Fastest Fighters
^ Britain's single-seat fighters, mak- ing 360 miles per hour, are the fast- est fighting planes yet built. The * operator has 20 dials in front of him. With a twist of the wrist he can put 160 bullets into anything he sees for but one second. He can c3imb 15,000 feet in six minutes, and go eight miles up if necessary. Every fifth bullet from his eight machine guns leaves a trail of gray smoke in the air so, that he can see if he hits what he shoots at.
Spice %
• A sharer in a somewhat pleasantly spiced incident says, "Our suburb still keeps up some of the social amenities. A number of us were waiting for a bus, lined up in a queue, when along comes a parson with a lady companion. Instead of taking his place in the queue he stood at its head, apart. Comes the bus, and the parson is first on the footboard, and quite expectant that his collar and his cloth would give him the preference he looked for. But the conductor, seeing his scheme, bars his way, and in perfect Oxford accent says, 'No! No! my dear sir; your congregation gets into heaven before you.' The parson and his lady hurriedly depart showing their chagrin." Just a little puff of wind, but it shows where" the direction lies. These men are arrogantly self- ish ; but the religious barometer is falling, and the storm which will whirl away both them and their systems is showing on the horizon. To stop both such as these and other selfish persons who crash into the waiting numbers at bus stops the London County Council have a by-law to come into operation soon. Two months hence, if the parson shall have for- gotten his lesson and tries to crowd others out of turn he can be held up and be fined £2.
The parsons do "ask for it" sometimes. A few days ago one of Jehovah's witnesses in a country town parked his car near a church. But the car carried a boldly printed slogan, "Religion is a snare and a kacket," and when the parson saw it he was offended and required the removal of 'the car. Met with a refusal, he went away. But the slogan was to him like the proverbial red rag to a hull, and he re- turned demanding the car's removal. His an- noyance and anger caused a small crowd to gather, and they showed their enjoyment of the parson's anger and discomfiture. He served to give a good, pointer to the witness of the slogan.
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Forestry
The Disappearing Forests
♦ The annua! production of lumber in the United States is from twenty to twenty-five billion board feet annually. -The For cist Serv- ice report showed that thirty-one states con- sumed more softwoods than their own states provided, in 1936. Another thirty-one slates, some different from these, consumed more hardwood than they provided. Some states otfco large producers of lumber are now prac- tically dependent on outside sources for their ' supplies.
Of all the timber cut from the United Slates forests, 51 percent is for lumber, other im- portant uses being fuel, pulp wood for paper- making, hewed railroad ties, fence posts, logs used for making veneer, mine timbers, shin- gles, woodenware, logs and bolls for making barrels and other wooden articles made from the log and not from lumber. Much of this comes from timber too small to be used for lumber.
About four-fifths of the worth-while forest land in tin: United States is privately owned, and more than ninety percent of the lumber comes from these privately owned lands.
Measures are now under consideration which will put a stop to the cuttins down of for-
ests without an eye to the future. "Sustained yield" practices are advocated, by which for- ests will be replaced as they arc cut down, provision being made for new growths on publicly owned national forests. Private com- panies, interested in profits, are slow to fol- low' the example. Government regulation of timber-cutting on privately owned lands ap- pears to be necessary to conserve lumber pro- duction in the United States.
Hares Thin Out the Evergreens
♦ Hares are of great value in thinning out the young forests of cut-over timber lands. They destroy euough of the new trees so that the others have a chance to grow. As the thick underbrush is cut by their sharp teeth they have less place to hide from the sharp eyes of hawks and owls, and so seek fresh pastures. The thing works automatically for the good" of the forests.
Australia Planting Pines
♦ There are now about 80,000 acres of pines planted in South Australia; and as the rate of planting is about ten times the rate of cut- ting, a future timber supply is being built up. Climatic conditions also will be greatly im- proved.
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Appetizers
Jesuitized Albion (Part 1) 3
The Peace of Munich 4
Behind the Scenes 4
Putting On the Pressure 5
New Government 9
10,000 Miles on a Bicycle 9
Por Free Speech 11
Whited Sepulcbers of Radio 12
NBC Embarrassed with Questions- 12
Never Put Up a Cent 15
Animal Husbandry 16
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford 17
Soul * 17
Reply to Ananias 18
Under the Totalitarian Flag 20
Pope and Emperor vs. Martin Luther 20
Bloodshed in the Name of Religion 21
South Atlantic States 23 Treasury Department — U. S. Government . 24
Australia 25
Why Be Inconsistent, Mr. Tholen? 25
British Comment 28
Tendency to Fascism 28
Panaceas _ 28
Totalitarianism in Trade 29
"Modern Evangelism" 30
The Roman Catholics 30
Railroads 31
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Schoolboy Howlers
Julius Caesar wasrenowned for his great strength. He-threw a bridge across the Rhine.
A grass widow is the wife of a dead vegetarian,
An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet;
A pedestrian is a man whose wife has taken the car.
The Mediterranean and the Bed sea are joined together by the Sewage Canal.
A zebra is a sort of cream-colored donkey with black stripes, from which they make stove
polish.
Politics are a deadly form of insect life. A spectre is a man who cheers a football
team.
The Royal Mint is what the king puts oh his roast lamb.
A man who lives to be a hundred is called a centipede.
Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
A buttress is a female goat. •
In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers crossed the ocean. This is known as the "Pilgrim's Prog- ress".
A brunette is a young bear.
Courting disaster means to get engaged.
A cataract is a cat that catches rats.
Celibacy is the name of a great man.
Pompeii was destroyed by an overflow of saliva from the Vatican.
A Christian is allowed to have only one wife. This is called monotony.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in America while his parents were traveling on the continent.
A census-taker is the man who goes from house to house increasing the population.
Up to Lin!
Rastus and Liza were married but a short time when he came home with a big washtub, a washboard and a three-foot mirror.
Liza — Whut's all de truck you brung?
Rastus — Not all, but yo' kin take yo' pick. Yo' kin take de tub an' washboard an' go to work, or yo' kin take de mirror an' set down an' watch yo's'e'f starve. — Labor.
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"And in His name shall the nations hope."— Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
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Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y„ Wednesday, January 23, 1939 Number 505
Jesuitized Albion
THE French police, when seeking ^BjrJ>) to solve a particularly puzzling lW~r^jk crime, proceed upon the assump- , jB ^on ^ere *s somewhere, some- " ' how, a woman involved, and that if they can locate the woman they will be able to solve the mystery. Hence the phrase, "Find the woman."
In international affairs, where the various factors that enter into a given situation are particularly mystifying, the presumption that somewhere in the background there is a Jesuit, or Jesuit influence, will often lead to surpris- ing discoveries.
The influence of the Jesuit organization in • the Roman Catholic system has long been rec- ognized. The head of the Jesuit order is often referred to as the "Black Pope". In his book Wkile Peter Sleeps, E. Boyd Barrett, an ex- Jeanit, shows how the Blaek Pope can and does dictate to the regular pope, who is, by way of distinction, referred to as the "White Pope".
The influence of the Jesuit system in Eng- land cannot be doubted, although its work- ings are hidden from the public eye. But straws show the way the wind is blowing in Albion. It is further in order to utilize these straws to find some solution to the "Munich Plot" which has so perplexed the observer of international trends.
At the outset it is of interest to reveal the Jesuit in the Cliveden woodpile, than which it is difficult to find a more imposing and voluminous woodpile in Britain.
The Cliveden Set
Considered one of the most influential groups in Britain, the Cliveden set is suspected of be- ing pro-Nazi and of having forced favors to Hitler at the expense of Britain. The Cliveden set practically controls the British press. The set includes Lord Lothian, educated in a Jesuit
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(In Two Parts—Part 1)
school, but ostensibly converted to Christian Science. He makes frequent visits to Hitler. Lord Londonderry, another member of the set, is a close friend of Goerhig. Major John Jacob Astor, owner of the London Times, Geoffrey Dawson, its editor, and Barrington Ward, as- sistant editor, Sir Neville Henderson, ambas- sador to Berlin, Montagu Norman, head of the Bank of England, and Lord Halifax, the Foreign minister, are also identified with the set. Lady Astor, formerly Nancy Langhorne of Greenwood, Va., entertains the Cliveden set at her home every week-end, and it is there that most of their planning and plotting is done. Sir Stafford Cripps, of the Labor party! referring to the Cliveden set, stated, "People do not fancy the future of this country as does the gang of Lady Astor, as being that of a junior partner in a Fascist Internationale." Lord and Lady Astor both deny that there is such a thing as the Cliveden set. That, how- ever, is not significant. The Jesuits, and their pupils and sympathizers, are adepts at plain and fancy subterfuges.
Prosperity, as well as adversity, makes strange bedfellows, and the Jesuits are pleased to co-operate with anyone who will further their schemes for world-domination. One may be a "Christian Scientist" or "Anglo- Catholic" or what have you. That is of secondary con- sequence. The main requirement is a certain pliability and agreeableness with an eye to the main ehanee.
The "Fuehrer" 'Principle'
The London Times has suggested that "the 'Fuehrer' principle (dictator idea) can exist within the framework of Parliamentary insti- tutions". That is just another way of telling England they will have a dictator one of these days. Chamberlain's sympathies are undoubt- edly in that .direction.
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His trip to Berehtesgaden ia be- ^ lieved to have been planned long ago by the folks that meet at the i home of Lord and Lady Astor, al- i ready referred to. With reference to this, Robert Briffault, British scientist and author, in an address at St. Louis, remarked :
Chamberlain's spectacular flights to Germany .lor conferences with Hitler were not the result of a sudden inspiration! It is known in diplomatic cir- cles that the trips weTe planned weeks in advance and that an airplane was held in readiness for the prime minister. As a matter of fact, the first sug- gestion was that the king himself should .go see Hitler.
The war tension that followed was terrific, but never once did the government heads expect to fight. The fear instilled in the people was delib- erately planned. There were elaborate measures taken for protection from air raids, bomb shelters were dug in Hyde Park and sand was sprinkled in attics to prevent damage, in some unexplained manner, from incendiary bombs.
The whole thing was planned to make the peace with the Fascist powers seem more sweet. It ia strange how little people understand diplomacy and how greatly they can become stirred by war.
The Peace of Munich
By no means all Britishers arc satisfied with the "peace" that was won at Munich. The "appeasement" of Hitler seems to many to have been gained at the sacrifice of honor and principle. A few illustrations of the re- action of these are here given:
The Manchester Guardian, of September 23, observed editorially :
If Mr, Chamberlain now reads his papers he will see no trace of admiration for his part as the head of a great democracy, no trust that he can save any shred of principle from the wreck, no belief even that he can recover his country's honor. England and France have known some humiliations in the last few yeans, but none so great as this. Our name is mud in the United States and in the Dominions; the smaller Kuropcan 3tat.es have thrown up all faith in the saving of the European order and are scrambling to declare their neutrality or to seek safety in agreement with (Herman y.
A statement by Messrs. Ecedman, Guenault, Sumner and Davis, of the University of Wit- water sr and, .Johannesburg, South Africa, ap- pearing in the October 14 issue of the same, said :
There is more than a suspicion that the war scare was partly artificial and was used to avert the gaze of the democratic peoples ' from the,, fundamental
issues while the one remaining liberal State ia Cen- tral Europe was reduced to impotence.
We do not believe that even at Munich the alter- native to giving Hitler his full demands was war. Mr. Chamberlain went to Munich with two very good cards in his hand — the fear of war even in Germany (out of which Mr. Chamberlain made much political capital) and the unreadiness of tho German High Command to lose another world war. Yet Mr. Chamberlain deliberately threw those two cards away. It is doubtful whether any group of politicians in history have had such a pernicious influence on Kuropcan politics as the present so- called inner British Cabinet. I'laeb has been con- cerned with major events in recent years which have brought shame on the people of Britain : Sir John Sun on and Manchuria, Sir Samuel Hoare and Abyssinia, Lord Halifax and Austria, and now Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Czechoslovakia. They have so long forsaken any guiding moral principle that they are apparently incapable of distinguishing be- tween right and wrong.
The tears which Duff Cooper, First Lord of the Admiralty, shed in the House of Commons when he learned of the ignominious peace dic- tated by Hitler at Munich were not crocodile tears. He honestly believed that Britain's sur- render to Germany means the end of the Brit- ish Commonwealth of Nations.
It is an odd circumstance that on the eve of the meeting of the four men at Munich to carve up Czechoslovakia the so-called^ 'eternal light' burning over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc dc Triomphe, Paris, flickered and went out, and remained extin- guished until the return of the premier.
Behind the Scenes
Ladislas Parago, in Ken, Novem- ber 3 (1938) issue, adduces reasons why he thinks that the September war scare was artificial, stating: that the Munich four-power confer- ence was arranged in the private office of Mon- tagu Norman, head of the Bank of England, four years before it occurred (and names those present) ; that, in 1934 English armament firms placed huge advertisements in German papers offering for sale tanks and guns prohibited by the Versailles treaty; that Chamberlain has 833 shares of preferred stock in Imperial Chemical Industries, and 5,414 shares of ordi- nary stock, while his son is on the sales staff at the main office in Birmingham; that in June. 1937, Norman had laid out the plan that Hitler was to annex Austria and dis- member Czechoslovakia, with the subsequent return to Germany of some of her colonies;
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that Blum's government was overturned be- cause he would not go along with this ultra- Fascist program, and, finally, that Eunciman, who was sent to Prague to becloud the issues, was himself the man who in 1934 authorized the first export of aero engines to Germany in open violation of the Versailles treaty. The article thus lays bare the fact that Britain is really Fascist, and indicates that Hitler has all along been staging theatricals for propa- ganda purposes, well knowing that he had nothing whatever to fear from the British Government, which take's its orders from the head of the Bank of England.
Further unfavor- able reactions to the Chamberlain "ap- peasement" policy, so unpopular among liberty-loving British- ers, are registered abroad, particularly in the United States. Some of these follow.
Putting On
the Pressure ♦ Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen say interestingly, in the Philadelphia Record, British bankers had bet money on the de- mise of Czechoslovakia by advancing money to German industrialists, who in turn were work- ing with eertain big Czech hankers. These
Czech bankers put the pressure on Benes, the Brit- ish put the pressure on Chamberlain, and Hitler put the pressure on both. The British bankers won. . ► .
Hey wood Broun's observations in the Octo- ber issue of The Arbitrator are even more ar- resting :.
I think that in the next general election Neville Chamberlain should describe to the voters the na- ture of the day- which might impel him to say "Enough is enough". The suggestion is offered that while he might candidly admit that circumstances might make it necessary to cede England, Scot- land and Wales for the sake of peace, he purposes to argue that London should remain as a free city in a canton setup. And if Hitler will not agree to that Sir Neville should insist on retaining the upper
JANUARY 25, 1»39
Democracy goes to Munich
floor of 20 Downing Street as a private apartment so that there may be some spot which shall be for- ever.'England. It's a long way to Tipperary anil , a short hop. to Bcrchtesgadcn. Geneva is no more. The World Court is out of the picture and the League is dead. Instead there stands Adolph Hit- ler's summer cottage, and to it the democratic leaders may go by appointment to ascertain the will and pleasure of Der Fuehrer,
The opinion of the New York World-Tele- gram's special correspondent, John T. Flynn, is equally incisive. He says :
If anyone in this country now has the hardi- hood to raise his voice in support of the prop- osition that we should go to war to save the de- mocracy of England, I assume that the proposal would be greeted with a horse laugh. What is at stake in England is not democracy, but her eco- nomic empire. What she is interested in protect- ing is that economic em- pire-— those vast posses- sions which are, in fact, merely markets for her. What England saw threatened by a war was that empire. What she wants us to help her pro- tect is that empire. To protect it she has de- stroyed the last home of r e p u b liean government east of the Rhine.
■An ex-soldier, in the Toronto Star of October 8, lamented as follows:
Everything we thought we were fighting for in the great war, freedom, justice, international honor and democracy, have been thrown on the junk pile. Czechoslovakia follows Ethiopia and China into bondage.
In Spain, short of sending British troops to as- sist the rebels, Mr. Chamberlain has done every- thing he possibly could to ensure a victory for Franco. He calls all this a policy of "appeasement". To a good many people it looks more like the policy of making the world safe for Fascism.
A little more of the Chamberlain appeasement policy and this world will he turned into a Fascist slave camp, which, after all, is, perhaps, what cer- tain Britishers really want. — Ex-Private 160607.
Communism the Alternative?
A bitter paragraph appearing in Reynolds
News of October 16 indicates how the Jesuit tactic9 of the Fascists are driving men to sym- pathy with Communism, accepting what to them seems to be less odious than hypocritical religion, and failing to see that God's way is neither that of the religionists nor that of the Communist. The latter, in the estimation of such perplexed minds, appears to manifest qualities of candor and consistency which the Pharisaical religious systems lack. The item follows :
Russia has no aims menacing to Great Britain, breathes no' fire against Democracy anywhere. Un- der the gangster code of morals now governing international relations, there is no reason why Min- isters of the. Crown should be polite to her. And Russia has been guilty of two unforgivable crimes. She has succeeded in creating a form of Socialist economy over one-sixth of the globe; and while "democratic", statesmen have been tearing up treat- ies and breaking their bonds, she has stood firm by her solemn obligations and the principle of Col-, lective Peace.
Many Britishers see clearly that the trend of British politics, so adroitly played, is in the direction of Fascist- Nazism and away from the democratic traditions and poli- cies of the last few centuries. Nor are they blind to the fact that the tools of the Roman Hierarchy everywhere contribute their efforts to that er.d.*
In a speech in London U. S. Ambassador Kennedy showed his Roman Catholic training by saying it has long been a theory of his that dictator and democratic countries should get along together without emphasizing their dif- ferences and that there is no sense in letting these differences grow into unrelenting antag- onisms. In other words, in his heart Kennedy is for Fascism and, as such, is not a fit man to represent a democratic country. He knows that Fascism hates and detests democracy; if he were nn his job as a representative of Amer- ica he would let the whole world know that America hates and detests Fascism even mors.
Boake Carter called attention to the stage- play by Chamberlain and Daladier, that nei- ther of these men expected war, and certainly neither Germany nor Italy expected war. Ger- man tourist agencies invited tourist travel, and a German naval cadet ship made a peaceful visit to Bermuda while the excitement was at its height, and the Italians never withdrew a single vessel from the trans- Atlantic service.
* "British Comment," in this issue, gives some addi- ■ tional facte. 6
The United Press story from Rome is that Hitler intended to invade Czechoslovakia at ,2:00 p.m., September 28, with 3,000 planes and 60 divisions of troops, but Mussolini was told by the British ambassador at 11 : 30 of the same day that if the invasion occurred Britain would not remain neutral. Mussolini called Hitler at noon and arranged for the Munich conference and thus staved off the invasion and Jhe world war which, allegedly, would have followed.
Money Flees
ITTpr^l While patting Chamberlain on the ba<* for the Munich "victor/', gjW "■— .« wealthy Britishers are not taking 4g¥ chances with their money, and are
* investing it elsewhere without wait- ing to see the results of the "appeasement" tactics.
Britain's national debt as of March 31, 1938, was £8,026,143,422, the same being the largest in its history. The public debt of the United States, as of June 30, 1938', was also the largest in its history, standing at $37,165,000,000, or about $2,294,226,963 less than Britain's. The population of Britain is only about one-third that of the Uniied States; so the per capita debt there *is much greater. Recent rearma- ment expenditures, in the greatest, maddest armament race in history, caused tremendous increases in both debts, but especially Brit- ain's.
^ nation that is financially ham- ' ' stringed is not likely to be in posi-
tion to evade the toils of a system that has the experience and finan- cial resources possessed by the Ro- man Hierarchy. That system appears to have made extraordinary progress during the pe- riod of the world's perplexity. Aided and sup- ported (or, let us say, aided and abetted) by the unscrupulous Jesuit organization, the Ro- man Hierarchy *has an evil advantage that even the great British Empire appears power- less to resist.
The author, G. T. Garratt, in his Mussolini's Roman Empire, at page 240, remarks appre- hensively :
On most subjects the average Englishman is pre- pared to recognize the complete authority of the priest over his flock. Many, including the writer, would have Rented any attempt to penalize Cath- olic orders in the manngr that has occurred in France, and have looked upon the existence of Catholics in England as lending a variety and in- terest to our national life. During the last two
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years they have found repeated cause to modify this view. If the priest comes down to the Market- place as a politician, and from inexperience shows himself more reckless and bigoted than the ordi- nary layman in public life, then common sense revolts at treating him as a privileged person.
If the pope takes sides on political questions about which many Englishmen feel deeply — as, for example, Italian aggression in Ethiopia and Spain — then again the English Protestant feels justified in examining the reasons which may have caused him to take this attitude, and will refuse to recog- nize such political pronouncements as being ex cathedra statements which any of his fallow coun- trymen should accept without question. If they accept as unquestionable, declarations condoning repeated breaches of treaties, of international law, and of the ordinary rules of civilized warfare, then the non- Catholic Englishman is entitled to ask whether Catholics any more than Communists are fit persons to be entrusted with the charge of Eng- lish interests abroad. We find, on examination, that a large proportion of the Foreign Office are drawn from wealthy Catholic families, and that the general atmosphere is extremely friendly to Fascism.
Their [number of] supporters in each political camp gives them a voice in Parliament far greater than their numbers would .justify. They have at their command immense wealth, for the Church has age-long experience in accumulating property.
Some of the lukewarm Protestants are also beginning to wake up, but they will have to protest a good deal more loudly, and with a better understanding of the Scriptures, be- fore they merit "persecution for righteous- ness' sake", as do Jehovah's witnesses in Ger- many and elsewhere.
John P. Macqueen, London, appears to be cutting his eyetceth. In an address at the Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church at Inverness, Scotland, he observed:
The Press and the reporters are largely under the control of the Jesuits. In 1912 between 70 and 80 percent of the editors and newspaper reporters of Britain were not only Roman Catholic, but Irish Roman Catholics ; and if they were that in 1912, what must they be nowt
(gT^YjJrJl John's clerical brethren, however, 1*1// seem t° be slipping in the opposite direction, and John will do well to MW protest so loudly that they will ex- — 11—1 communicate him — and he will stand a good chance of "laying up treasure in. heaven". Prayers for the dead, the east- ward posture in prayer, and crosses are now to be found in various churches of what was once Presbyterian Scotland. Others, too, are becoming suspicious of the
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Jesuitical manner in which Kome is gaining ground in England.
British Broadcasting Control
Sir John Rcith, former director general of the British Broadcasting Company, resigned his £7,000-per-year job with that company to take a £10,000 job as chairman of Imperial Airways. His deputy, when he left the Broad- casting Company, was C. G. Graves, a Roman Catholic, and probably is his successor. The Protestant papers of Britain were filled with terror at this situation, the Protestant Refor- mation Society saying in its annual report:
Protestants have viewed with increasing alarm the increasing interpenetration of the British Broad- casting Corporation by Roman Catholic influences in such key positions as deputy director and editor of the Badio Times.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh, and mock when their fear eometh. (Psalm 2:4; Proverbs 1:26) When Jehovah's wit- nesses tried to tell them these things in ad- vance they were only scorned.
The American ambassador to London, who seems to be somewhat confused as to what are his duties as the representative of the Ameri- can people at the Court of St. James's, is lending a band. Said ambassador, Joseph P. Kennedy, whose sympathies with totalitarian- ism have already been referred to, at the behest of the British government, interposed in the production of a moving picture relat- ing to the German-Czech crisis. He says all he did was to communicate with "a member of the Hays organization". The name of the member is not mentioned, but since Jos. t. Breen is a member of the Hays organization as well as a subject of the Hierarchy, and since he is the main censor of moving pic- tures in the United States, mention of the name is not necessary. Suffice it to say that the picture was 'properly censored' and Amer- icans saw only what tlie Jesuitized section of Britain wanted them to see. Talk about Jesuit efficiency. Breen does the censoring, the "Hays organization" is "credited"!
These two instances are examples of the manner in which the Jesuits indirectly have sufficient control of radio and movies to fur- ther their ends. All that seems to be needful is a watchful eye.
Censorship of the Press
The press still plays an important part in the business of keeping the public informed,
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and its prestige has been only slightly less- ened by the advent of the movies and the radio. Hence censorship of the press is a vital matter with the Jesuits and their Fascist-Nazi buddies. Note the following examples, observ- ing that the Jesuit method does not always attain its ends at one bound. Sometimes those who should be subject to its demands appear to be working at cross purposes. But that out- ward appearance also serves a purpose. It eon- fuses the public and covers the tracks of the conspirators against liberty.
Alfred Noyes, English poet and biographer, became a Roman Cath- olie eleven years ago, and three V^-^^* years a£" published a life of Vol- ./QPi^ taire, widely praised at the time by Catholics and even run as a serial in a Catholic paper, the Tablet. In May, 1938, the Italians running the camorra at Vatican City condemned the book and demanded its sup- pression and then Cardinal Hinsley, the prin- cipal Catholic authority in England, wrote to the London Times that he had read the book, admired it and could not speak of it too highly. Noyes got mad ; and who can blame him? He objects that the Italians who are trying to run his conscience and boss him around like a child give him no explanation of their condemnation and no date when they will explain their course, so he has sought another publisher and gone on with his book.
The type of "freedom of the press" which Rome (and therefore the Jesuits) favors ap- pears to have been defined by De Valera, prime minister of Eire (formerly a part of the Brit- ish Empire) when he recommended "modified freedom of the press". This "modified free- dom" would, of course, mean no freedom at all ; for every th ing would be censored in ad- vance ; and don't think for a minute the cen-. sor would escape Jesuit control.
The Blasphemy Bill
T. E. Harvey, Independent, English Uni- versities, is hereby awarded the title of "Free Speech Harvey" for his courageous and intel- ligent resistance to the so-called "Blasphemy Act" before the British House of Commons in the summer of 1938. He reminded the mem- bers that Christ was for free speech, He was against the attempt to root out the tares from among the wheat ; he told them that the early Christians were regarded as enemies of man- kind, and having, in the actual language of the proposed act, "activities calculated to in-
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terfere with the established religious institu- tions of the country." He reminded his hear- ers that truth is its own best weapon and he did not think the House of Commons added any to its glory the day when, 300 years ago, a Puritan House condemned a Quaker for blasphemy, branded his forehead and bored his tongue with a red-hot iron. He wished that the British House of Commons should stand by the principles of John Milton : "Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience."' His address was roundly applauded.
The Glasgow Herald and Catholic Observer reported joint Catholic approval of the bill which Mr. Harvey so effectively opposed.
In due time it could be called blasphemy to refer to facts such as the following : In the first four months of 1938 there were no fewer than 37 crooked clergymen under the sur- veillance of the London police. They make most of their money by swindling women, collecting money for bogus missions of one kind or another.
Concessions to Rome
The pope, for the first time since the fifteenth century, has a person- al representative in England who has direct access to tfie foreign of- fice, a definite concession already largely Catholic. The new so-called "Apostolic Delegate" is Monsignor William Godfrey, for- merly rector of the English College in Rome.
The sending of an "apostolic delegate" to a country not having diplomatic relations with the Vatican may be considered by some to be a piece of Papal effrontery. It is a little of that, and also somewhat of a deception. Ac- tually an apostolic delegate has nothing to do with the country to which he is sent, but is merely a representative from the pope to the Catholic church in that country. Undoubtedly the delegate makes use of his position to do what he can toward intluencing political de- velopments so as to be favorable to the Hier- archy. This business of sending delegates and diplomatic representatives is an aping of earthly governments, at which monkey-busi- ness the Hierarchy has always been an adept.
The presence of an apostolic delegate also serves to put a check on ecclesiastical person- ages inclined to exercise a little too much lib- erty. Hinsley may need a little supervision, as his approval of Noyes' book indicates. (To be continued)
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Bicycle Trailer in the Ozarks
♦ As an illustration of what can be done by a heart desirous to do something to the praise Of Jehovah's name, take a look at this trailer. Merwin Boen, who operates this combination in the Ozark mountains of southwestern Mis- souri, says by way of explanation:
,1 am a young man not fortunate enough to have a ear for the service, so I use a bicycle, and thus carry on. Territory for witnessing became scarce in the county where I usually witness, so I built this trailer for my hicyclc and go long distances from homo, camping some- times for many days at a stretch.
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on a Bicycle ♦ I am an Australian pioneer, and work alone, using only a push-bike in my work. By that means I have more than 10.000 miles.
Bicycle trailer in the Ozarks
covered considerably My method is to go to a main town on my assignment of territory, rent a room, or stay with friends, and from there work all the territory for 40 or 50 or sometimes for 100 miles around.
The phonograph I carry on my back ; the literature, 40 books and 100 booklets, on racks; my towel, soap, shaving kit. a clean collar and a pound of dates are in a leather bag. This equipment usually lasts me ten days, but I keep going until all the literature is placed or until 1 run out of territory, when 1 return to my room and load up for another trip. I stay wherever night overtakes me, eat where I can, and in all my travels in the Australian bush I have never yet been without a meal or a bed, though sometimes 1 have had to keep witnessing until 9 : 00 or 10 : 00 at night before someone would be kind enough to give me a shakedown.
One cold winter night in Queensland it was necessary fur me to get over some bad country
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that if rained on would not be passable for a week or more, and as rain was working tip1! left Barrington station at sundown to follow an 18-mile mail route to where I could pick up a good road. All I had to follow was a horse track used once a week.
After an hour's walking it got dark, and in the hills, with heavy timber about, the night was black as pitch, and it was not long before I was off the route altogether and was plain bushed. When I realized this fact 1 was at a creek with a steep bank on either side and a small trickle of water in the bottom. I knew this was not the track, because a horse- man would not cross at such a point.
It was like this for a mile on either side. After I had tried every method of bushcraft that 1 knew, to pick up the track, I finally found a place where I could cross, and set off in the direction that I thought was the right: way. After walking an hour I came to a fence with a gate in it. I went through it; still no tracks. The gate hud not been used for weeks. I went on in the same direction and, after another hour, came to another fence ; right at the gate each time, and still no track.
This time I stopped, lit a fire at my bike, so I could find it again, walked to the top of the nearest hill, and was found: for there, down in the valley, was a tiny light shining, and when t let out a cooee the dogs began to bark. 11 was not long before I was knock- ing at the door, at 1 : 30 a.m.
What a surprise that chap got to see me at his door ! After a short conversation as to where I had come from, where I w7as going, and why I was out so late, he asked me what I was doing, and I let him read my testimony card, lie then said, "Judge Rutherford ! I of- ten hear him on the radio, and would very much like to get: some of his books. Where can I get them 1" 1 laid them on his table, and he said, "Well, if a young man like you will do all this, and travel through this rough country, and get lost, to bring this message to me, there must, be something in it worth while." He made me a meal and put me to
bed in his spare room. In the morning I left two" Bibles and took his order for the full set of 16 bo:md books, which I sent him when I got back home. Such things have happened many times. Through it all God's name is ex- tolled and a good witness is given.
Trailer camp at Sydney convention
I have had marvelous experiences with the phonograph. After listening to the record 'Why the clergy oppose the truth' one woman saii, "Now I know why our parson warns us not to have anything to do with Judge Ruth- erford's books." In one instance, on request, I played records at a telephone exchange so that all subscribers on the line might hear, and one of them telephoned in an order for books.
At present I am tied up with rain in a coun- try where the soil is black mud and when it rains everything sticks like wet dough. But I am not idle. I chance to be at a sheep-shearing camp, quartered with forty men. Every night I play .records for the men, and though some are goats there are enough sheep to make the goats keep still, so they can listen to the mes- sage of the great King whose name we delight to honor. — H. A. Bell, Australia.
In the Turks and Caicos Islands
4k One of Jehovah's witnesses recently visited the Turks and Caicos islands, 450 miles north- east of Jamaica, bringing there, for the first time, the message that Jehovah's kingdom has come. Though the witness is a British- subject, and had every right to make the trip, and was well supplied with funds and complete identification papers, every possible obstacle was put in his way, to prevent his landing (after a seven-day trip in a sailing vessel).
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The influence of the Anglican and Methodist clergy was used to try to keep the people in darkness.
After all the illegal activities of the harbor master and immigration commissioner in be- half of the clergy had been overcome (at some considerable expense for cablegrams), the cler- gy then went among the people to still try to prevent, if possible, any truth's leaking out as to their fraudulent racket, But they did not succeed. They even tqjd them that if they dared obtain any of the literature they would come to their homes, collect it and burn it.
Every home was visited, 450 bound books, 22 Bibles, 1,700 booklets, 1 Watchtower and 2 Consolation subscriptions were placed, and three small companies were organized. The message was presented by phonograph. One woman, when she heard the truth for the first time, exclaimed, with tears flowing down her face, "Today is salvation come into my house." Another said, "It is God that sent you here; for we are in darkness," Another: "This is the true message of God, and we never heard it before." During a study meeting one young man wept aloud, saying, "What have I done, to merit such favor from Jehovah?" — C. R. Launy, Jamaica,
If AH Were as Orderly
♦ Proving that the Devil is an unmitigated liar, one of the policemen at the Seattle con- vention of Jehovah's witnesses was heard to say to another, "If they were all as orderly as this crowd, we might just as well go homo and go to bed."
Sound-Car Echoes
♦ Just a year ago I received my sound-car equipment No. 3 and helped to have it in- stalled. There is an ordinance here in this city against sound cars; so I went to the mayor and gave him witness and explained the work of the sound car. He took some books and told me to go right on, as it's a splendid work. So I told him of trouble in other cities, and why. He said, "Go right on ; and if you have any trouble, come and see me." Also went to the chief of police, and he was favorable and nice, too. He took, the book Riches,
The first evening out with the lectures, after all was over and I was two blocks away, police drove up with flashlights and said, "No more of this or we will take you in." So I told them what the mayor had said, and the chief of police ; but they said, "If you put it on again
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we will take you to jail." So I said, "You won't need to take me; come and go down with me now." They said no. So I went down, and the night lieutenant said, "I told these fellows to let you alone." So I said, "Well, then, Fll go right on," and did so, on the street in front of the post office, where there are numbers of men loafing. Went there many evenings, placing over 200 pieces of literature.
All went well until in my own driveway three weeks later. I put on lectures for about fifteen guests, when up came motorcycle cops (I was already all through with the lectures). They said, "You can't do this." I asked why. They said, "You had it too loud." I asked, "Did you hear it?" They said no, but had a complaint.
Asked who made the complaint, they said they did not know, but it was a white house six doors down. And you can guess who lived there — "the Christian preacher." I told the cops what the mayor had said, and the chief. They asked if I had it in writing; and if not, I'd better have it, so they would not have to take me in. This was on Sunday after- noon. So on Monday, at 8 a.m., I was in the mayor's office, waiting till 9 a.m. to see him. I told him what had happened. He said, "I guess you'd better bring this before the city council meeting on Thursday. So I did ; and after explaining the work to the council the mayor made a motion that this work be con- tinued, preaching the Gospel by sound car, and not be hindered. The streets commissioner seconded the motion (as I had also gone to him before and he took Riches, when I wa^ working in the business district; he said his wife spent the holiday reading it). Motion carried — only one objection ; guess his religion. So the Devil's bluff did not work ; and here we are out every day and evening with the sound ear, and with marvelous experiences — too many to relate, but we thought you would like to know a city ordinance against sound cars does not stop the message by sound car in some places. — Martha Holmes, Iowa.
For Free Speech
♦ Repercussions of Judge' Rutherford's ad- dress "Fascism or Freedom", broadcast by radio station WBBR on October 2, have been plentiful and varied. Letters received by the radio office have been numerous, with opinions forcefully expressed pro and con. Consolation here reproduces one of these letters, chosen
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as most representative of the American ideol- ogy of freedom of speech.
203 E. 14th Street Now York City Oct. 2, 1938.
Radio station WBBR Brooklyn, New York. Gentlemen :
I wish to congratulate you for the broadcasting of the Watehtowcr program.
Altho I do not believe in Jehovah or any one of the other gods offered to us by the hundreds of existing religions, I do believe in freedom of creeds ; freedom of thought ; freedom of speech ; freedom of the press ; freedom of the radio ; free- dom of assembly and freedom of eelf-determination.
I have noticed from personal observation that the Catholic Hierarchy in the E.E.U.U. is carry- ing on today the most vicious campaign against all the above rights guaranteed to all our citizens irrespective of creed, color or religion.
Unfortunately it is true, that the Catholic Church in America is bending all efforts to mix itself in national politics and is making perilous inroads into the educational institutions and is trying to establish in Ameriea the same old policy of uniting the church and the state, which has proved a thou- sand times to be against the best interest of the state and of the people as a whole.
Only by chance I heard this program, and I like it so much that I'm going to buy a brand-new radio so as to h'ave better reception next time your program is on the air.
I extend my congratulations to the courageous citizen who spoke from the Watehtower program. Please send me a copy of his address. Very truly yours,
[Signed] Joseph V. Rogers.
Limitation of space prohibits the publication of other equally interesting expressions from citizens who still recognize their American rights of free speech and believe in them.
Jehovah's Kingdom publishers (Spanish and English) at Harlingen, Texas (To be continued)
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Whited Sepulchers of Radio
IN EUROPE the dictators barefacedly glory in the removal of fundamental rights of freedom of speech, press and worship. They have been so, bold and so brazen in their de- nial of the people's liberties that it has aroused a spirit of revulsion and protest throughout the entire United States. In America it is not popular to publicly expound a belief in the destruction of freedom of speech or press. The big business representatives and the prom- inent religionists all publicly state their de- votion to the liberties of the people, but their actions are quite different from their public utterances.
The National Broadcasting Company likes to glorify itself and parade before the people as an organization upholding the fundamental principles of freedom of the air. Its president, Lenox Riley Lohr, went to Buffalo recently and delivered an address before an outfit des- ignated the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. He expounded to them some excellent and beautiful phrases on free- dom of the air, telling them the policy of the National Broadcasting Company is to give the greatest freedom even for controversial subjects. The following paragraphs are quoted from Press reports of his address:
Freedom of the air does not give every citizen the right to express his opinion over the radio — there are not hours enough in the day to allow that. It is a freedom to broadcast a centroversial subject. By controversial subject I mean that on whieh a substantial group of citizens — large in number and important in influence — has a differ- ent opinion from another substantial group of citizens, and on the outcome of their discussion a third substantial group would be affected. The Supreme Court reorganization plan was such a subject.
This is NBC's policy. On any controversial sub- ject we will give equal opportunity without charge to both sides to express their attitude before the public. There must be speakers of equal conse- quence, equal in number, speaking at equally de- sirable times on an equal number of stations. Of course, that cannot be achieved absolutely, But that is the standard, and we try to follow it as closely as possible.
NBC Embarrassed with Questions
In the meantime, however, some interesting letters were being sent back and forth between A. L. Ashby, vice-president and general coun- sel of the National Broadcasting Company, 12
and Judge Rutherford. This correspondence proves the action and policy of the NBC to- ward Judge Rutherford's lectures and the Watch Tower programs to be vastly different from the public utterances of the corpora- tion's president.
For many years the company has declined to broadcast Judge Rutherford's lectures. The public reason given by them is that the lec- tures are controversial and that Judge Ruth- erford "attacks other religions". The seal reason, however, is different. The fact is that the foreign power known as the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has taken upon itself to censor ar\d interdict Judge Rutherford's lec- tures. Hierarchy subjects have brought pres- sure and have intimated to the broadcasting corporation that if it does present such lec- tures, even though they be true, it would be just too bad for the corporation: it would lose Catholic trade and suffer greatly finan- cially.
Consolation presents herewith some of this recent correspondence.
Letter No. 1 is an epistle of Vice-President Ashby to Judge Rutherford.
Letter No. 2 is Judge Rutherford's answer.
No. 3 is what Mr. Ashby hopes closes the matter.
[Letter No. 1]' National Broadcasting Company, Inc. RCA Building - Radio City _ New York, N. Y.
"A. L. Ashby Vice President and General Counsel
November 16, 1938.
Mr. Joseph F. Rutherford, 124 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y. Dear Sir:
Several times during' the past few months Mr. Sidney Weiss of the Acorn Agency applied to us on your behalf to sell time to broadcast your reli- gious speeches or to take the programs on a sus- taining basis. You cannot be unaware of the rea- sons we gave for declining to. broadcast those, p ro- gTasis, yet in your letter of 'October 31at you ask why we refuse to broadcast what you character- ized as truths about eertain religious and political organizations,
We repeat what undoubtedly you already know. The National Broadcasting Company does not sell
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time to anyone to discuss religious matters and it will not permit its facilities tcM)e used upon any basis to attack or reflect upon any religious faith or denomination. No deviation from that rule will be countenanced. Concretely applied, this means that our facilities are not open to others to attack your religious philosophies or principles and by the same token they are not available to you to attack religious organizations with which you are not in sympathy.
Faithfully yours,
[Signed} A. L. Ashby.
[Letter No. 2]
November 26, 1938 National Broadcasting Company, Inc. A. L. Ashby, Vice President EC A Buiiding, Radio City New York," N. Y. Dear Sir:
- This is to acknowledge yours of the 16th. You entirely sidestep the issue, Mr, Weiss of the Aeorn Agency made application for your facilities for me to address the public on the subject of "Fas- cism or Freedom", There was nothing religious about it. You state that your facilities are "not open to others to attack your religious philosophies or principles". Permit me to say, my dear sir, that 1 have no religious philosophies or principles. I am not a religionist. I am a Christian who bases bis conclusions entirely upon the Word of Almighty God. As to my speech on "Fascism or Freedom", it' set forth the indisputable evidence that the Ro- man Catholic Hierarchy, operated- from Vatican City and which is inimical to the American prin- ciples of government, is carrying forward a cam- paign in America to turn the nation over to the Fascists. You decline to permit the people to have these truths broadcast. That is not religions, but it is an organization acting under a religious name to accomplish a wrongful political purpose.
Will you he so kind, my dear sir, as to answer the following questions:
1. Are the facilities of the National Broadcast- ing Company, Inc., open to use for the purpose of informing the American people against an ene- my of American principles, regardless of the name of the enemy?
2. Does the fact that an organization operates under a religious name afford for such an organi- zation a complete shield from being exposed by your facilities as to action that is against the fun- damental principles of the American government?
3. Is it your purpose to shield and protect any and all organizations by denying the use of your facilities to expose them, which organizations op- erate under a religious name and cloak?
4. Are all organizations operating under a reli- gious name immune from public exposure by the
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facilities of your corporation when that exposure is based upon absolute and provable facts?
I will thank you very kindly to let me have your answers to these questions.
Very sincerely,
[Signed] J. F. Rutherfobd.
[Letter No. 3]
December 5, 1938
Mr. J. F. Rutherford, 124 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y. Dear Sir:
We have patiently endeavored to fully and fairly acquaint you and your representatives with our broadcasting policies. In view of this, you have all the information necessary to answer the questions contained in your letter of November 26th. Faithfully yours,
[Signed] A. L. Ashby.
Why Ashby Stands Mute
It would seem that any person having due regard for his honor and integrity, and hav- ing any consideration for American principles of liberty, would have been glad to answer the questions propounded by Judge Ruther- ford. But the officers of the National Broad- easting Company readily see that these ques- tions are too ticklish for them to handle.
Take, for instance, question No. 1, which is as follows : "Are the facilities of the National Broad- casting Company, Inc., open to use for the purpose of informing the American people against an enemy of American principles, regardless of the name of the enemy?"
In line with the public utterance of Presi- dent Lohr, this question ought to be answered "Yes". But a "Yes" answer comes into conflict with their concealed policy of subservience to the Catholic Hierarchy's dictum. To comply with the Hierarchy's demands they would have to answer "No", and that would be exceed- ingly embarrassing because it would expose their cringing to the demands of an enemy of American principles. Of course, it would not -do for them to publicly admit that an organization operating under a religious name is completely shielded by them from exposure as to action against fundamental principles of the American form of government. There- fore, in line with their public policy, it would be necessary far them to answer question No. 2 "No". But this would likewise involve them
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in conflict with the organization operating under a religious name and to which they have prostrated themselves. It wouldn't do to answer it "Yes", and they are afraid to answer it "No". Therefore they become as one blind and dumb.
The same reasoning applies to questions No. 3 and No. 4. It would not do to admit that organizations operating under a reli- gious name are immune from public expo- sure through their facilities. They cannot pub- licly admit that it is their purpose to shield and protect such organizations through denial of NBC broadcasting facilities. At the same time they dare not publicly state that NBC facilities are open to expose such organiza- tions operating under a religious name and cloak. The Hierarchy says "No, no", and the NBC obsequiously complies with the Hier- archy's bidding.
Thus you have the picture of the National Broadcasting Company. On the' outside it ap- pears pure and undcfiled. Its public utterances hold it forth as one loyal to American prin- ciples of freedom. Its actual policy, however,
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"Even so ye also outwardly appear right- eous unto men, but within ye are full of hypoc- risy and iniquity." — Matthew 23 : 28.
—0. R. Moyle.
Reflections on Hypocrisy
The contribution just preceding covers all the ground, and covers it well, but a few re- flections on the art of public hypocrisy, now one of the greatest and most shameless in- dustries or occupations of earth, may be in order.
In previous generations it was considered unfortunate if a man in public life showed no evidences of manhood, no ability to face the facts, no courage. But those days have largely passed, and things in trousers parade as men that their forefathers would be ashamed to own as such.
A case in Germany comes to mind.
Prior to the Munich triumph of German arrogance, the Protestant (Confessional) churches of Germany had agreed to offer the following public prayer:
Lord God, we confess our sins and the sins of our people before Thee. May God forgive us and avert His wrath. But if, according to His inscru- table decision, He punish us with war, we shall seek comfort .in His promise of salvation.
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it dishonors Almighty God and makes. Him the author of wars and all other hedevilmcnt afflicting mankind ; hut it was not because of this that the Nazi Government objected to it. Three bishops, Mahrarens, Wurm and Meiser, were dragged before the Nazi minister of Church Affairs £md were told that the pro- posed prayer was treason to the German state ; and they were saps enough, and cowards enough, to sign a declaration against the prayer, under threat of being confined in a concentration camp.
But America need not boast. Manhood in the United States is down to the German level; and that means that in this country, too, are many in high positions that are be- neath contempt. What is more unmanly than public professions of courage and fairness and honesty in the public interest, and private
acknowledgment, by silence or otherwise, that none of their public statements are to be be- lieved?
Many of the readers of Consolation sus- pected long ago that the management of the National Broadcasting Company is hypocriti- cal, cowardly and unfair, and is, at heart, a traitor to American interests. So, because it is a matter of interest, readers will be amused to see the cuts shown herewith. Compare the sig- nature to the letter of November 16 with the one to that of December 5.
Those three German bishops, Mahrarens, Wurm and Meiser, should haste to chuck their jobs, and get out of Germany if they can, and while Qiey can, and should apply to the National Broadcasting Company for jobs. They would make 'courageous and intelligent addi- tions' to its present staff.
Never Put Up a Cent
About 155,000,000 acres of public land have been granted to rail- roads and actually passed into rail- road possession, This equals 242,000 square miles; four times the area of New England, more than the combined area of France, Belgium and the Nether- lands, not quite twice the area of the Brit- ish Isles.
To build the Northern Pacific, the Ameri- can people invested 41,875,924 acres, or 65,431 square miles; about the area of the states of New York, Vermont and New Hampshire.
To build the Union Pacific and Central Pacific, the American people invested, besides bonds and cash, 29,533,922 acres, or 46,131 square miles; about the area of the states of Pennsylvania and Delaware.
To build the Santa Pe, the American peo- ple invested 19,406,740 acres, or 30,323 square miles ; about the area of the state of South Carolina.
To build the Southern Pacific, the Ameri- can people invested 10,807,786 acres, or 16,887 square miles ; not much less than the area of the states of Maryland and New Jersey.
The investment of public lands in other railroads were heavy enough to astound Eu- rope. Thus the Texas Pacific got 11,280 square miles ; about the area of Belgium. The Interna- tional-Great Northern got 10,050 square miles
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— a quarter the area of Ohio. The Missouri- Kansas- Texas, better known as the "Katy", drew a prize of 4,888 square miles— a little more than Massachusetts. Even when dealing with lines not generally reckoned as land grant railroads, the public investment of acres is huge. One may get a grip on it in this way.
The State of Connecticut contains 3,084,800 acres. But the American people, through state and national governments, granted 3,816,785 acres to the roads now included in the Sea- board Air Line ; 3,766,994 acres to the roads now included in the Louisville & Nashville; 3,760,980 aeres to the roads now included in the Illinois Central ; 3,631,177 acres to the roads no'w included in the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha ; 3,402,885 acres to the roads now included in the Burlington ; 3,236,- 720 to the roads now included in the Great Northern, and 3,113,146 acres to the roads now included in the Chicago & Northwestern.
All told, as previously stated, the govern- ment of the U. S. and those of the states pre- sented the railroad promoters with 150,000,000 acres of land, including timber and mineral resources; and figuring only $10 per acre, that represents the generous gift of $15,000,- Q00,000, or considerably more than the present net value of all the railroads of the United States! — Oscar Ameringer, in The American Guardian.
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Animal Husbandry
Humans Could Learn from a Dog
Humans that betray their parents, friends and benefactors could learn something from the Birmingham, Alabama, dog that, when the house caught fire during the night, de- serted her six puppies, then only three weeks old, that she might arouse the household and so bring about the rescue of the two boys and one girl of the home that are her constant companions. As a re- sult of her faithful- ness all hands were rescued, including the six puppies. Once i» a great while, in this world, something works out all right.
The Poultroeutor
♦ The poultroeutor, invented by a Massa- chusetts man, electro- cutes poultry intend- ed for the market. The feathers do not set, and are more easily removed. When the bulk of them have been taken off, clean hot wax is allowed to cool on Jhe body, and when the wax is pulled off in a single motion all the pin feathers are swept clean. It is claimed by the inventor that the use of this unscriptural strangulation method cuts the cost of poultry raising by one-fourth.
Giving the Beavers a Tip
♦ Giving the beavers a tip on where to build their dams CCC workers in Idaho build tem- porary dams to give the beavers a start and then turn loose about twenty trained beavers, which go ahead and finish the job in ten days. At present the government is using some 800 beavers in Idaho alone, and it is calculated that each one of these busy little workers does about $300 worth of work a year in prevent- ing soil erosion and improving watering facili- ties and forage crop conditions on Federal
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grazing lands. It costs about $5 to catch and train a beaver.
Trained Seeing Eye Dogs
♦ The World War led to a great increase in the number of the blind, and a great increase in the number of dogs trained to lead them about. A dog so trained guides his master safely even where it is dangerous for those who have full use of their eyes, is disobedient when necessary, looks after handkerchiefs and
purses accidentally dropped, leads his master around over- head obstructions and side obstructions and picks out the safest and best place for him to sit when in a res- taurant.
Buddy Is Dead
♦ Buddy, first of the Seeing Eye dogs of • America, is dead, at 11£ years, and her owner, Morris S. Prank, blinded in a boxing match in his youth, feels blind again. Buddy saved his life once in Chi- cago when she dug her claws into a ho- tel carpet and refused to budge. This pre- vented her owner from walking into an open elevator shaft and falling fourteen stories. Someone had left the shaft door open. The other day, in New' York, a man who sees walked into such a shaft and fell fourteen floors. He caught the cable, and is alive, but terribly crippled land maimed.
Some of the Casein Products
♦ Some of the tilings made from casein, after the milk is processed in the creameries, and this valuable residue is left, are synthetic mar- ble, billiard balls, buttons, coating for shiny paper, paint, celluloid, dishes, transparent wrappings, glue, imitation jade and amber jewelry and coatings for leather and linoleum. All these things you eat when you eat cheese.
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Soul"
DURING the year (1938) the Indian Science Congress held its assembly at Calcutta. In that Congress a professor of Edinburgh University made this statement: "Nothing in brain surgery supports the reli- gious belief that the soul [some invisible something leaves the body at the moment of death." That statement is absolutely true, and undoubtedly many scientists will say that the professor .mentioned and other scientists are entitled to credit for this ''wonderful* dis- covery". It is one of the weaknesses of man to attribute to human wisdom that which be- longs alone to the Almighty God.
Had the scientists accepted and believed the Bible to be the Word of Jehovah God they would have reached that conclusion long ago, that the soul does not leave the body at death. Had the religionists believed the Bible they would never have advanced the theory that the soul is some invisible thing that leaves the body at the moment of death. When men rely upon human wisdom they always get themselves into trouble. Jehovah God provided