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Vol. XIV - No. 353
March 29, 1933
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Sweat Shops in Connecticut . . . 403
German Jobless Build Own Homes 403
Where Tax Money Goes .... 404
Waterloo Unemployed ’Relief Club 406
Barter in Oklahoma
The Barter Exchanges .... 415
How Steel Company Works Dole . 415
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
Will Hector Charlesworth Drown?
Condensations
In Mecklenburg County, N. C. . . 398
Brief History of Broadcasting . . 398
Negro Low Suicide Rate .... 400
Why Spain Destroyed Churches . 403
Tribute to Andrew W. Mellon . . 408
Baker’s New Station at Laredo . 409
Torture of Negroes in Georgia . . 404
MANUFACTURING AND MINING
Oil-Producing Countries .... 397
Fuel Oil from Coal in Japan . . . 398
The Marion Shovel No. 5560 . . 406
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
19,500 Miles of Lighted Airways . 397
Diesel Locomotive Trains .... 398
Car Ferry Across English Channel 400
Newark Airport.......401
Mercer Trouser Company, Inc. . . 403
French Will Have Biggest Ship . 404
Where the Relief Went- .... 407
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
Fourteen Mendicant States . . . 396
Italian Industry Fully Organized . 401
United States and League of Nations 407
The Dying League......408
AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY
When Britain Buys Wheat . . . 399
A Much More Prolific Cotton . . 402
Gigantic Land Scheme in California 406
Germany Moves Earthward . . . 407
More About Sprayed Apples . . 410
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
The Watsongraph Radio Typewriter 397
Production of Artificial Rain . . 397
New Anesthetic, Avertin .... 398
Commercial Submarine a Sucee.« . 400
Ears of Japan’s Army.....400
Gyroscopic Stabilizer a Success . . 403
Automatic Stool Pigeon .... 404
HOME AND HEALTH
The Scientific Grocer.....405
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
The Dam at Dnieprostroi .... 397
Growth of Jewish Population . . 398
French Rhine Hydro Development 398
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Ahaziah Fell Through Lattice . 396
Only Another Form of Paganism . 400
Church Business in England . . 401
Epistle from Rev. Cotton Mather . 405
Jehovah’s Promise to His Friend 411
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Volume XIV Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, March 29, 1933 Number 353
Will Hector Charlesworth, Canadian Radio Censor, Drown?
TT IS a task for an honest and truthful man to have to say anything about such an individual as Hector Charlesworth, Canada’s Radio Dictator. No self-respecting, decent man could have written such billingsgate as appeared in the Toronto Saturday TSTight of August 6, 1927, at which time he was its editor-in-chief. The paper improved by his leaving it.
KING CANUTE, 1933
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(Courtesy of Winnipeg Free Press Evening Bulletin)
Charlesworth probably wrote the article entitled “Visiting Orators Take Notice”, reproduced in our issue of March 15. The mental level of one who would refer to Jehovah God as “the tribal god of the Bussellites” and W’ho would refer to a man like Judge Rutherford as “a heavy- jowled flannel-mouth, Grand Vizier of the 'Russellites’ ”, a judge “perhaps of cigars, perhaps of fat swine”, a “wandering orator”, “wandering blatherskite”, “professional liar”, “lying demagogue”, speaks for itself. It pains us to notice him at all.
Mr. Charlesworth’s apperceptions are plainly indicated in a sentence which is contained in the article in question. In it he says :
“Never have conditions been so good for the poor; never at any time in the history of mankind was labor so well rewarded, never was so much practical philanthropy practiced for the care of the weak and needy, never was so much capital freely available for the care and comfort of the underprivileged. Only a fool or a liar could deny these facts. ’ ’
Very well! Let them stand. And let all mankind judge who is the fool and the liar, and the human polecat.
But hold! We have something of direct interest on this question of liars. In the first place, truthful men are not selected as censors. It is a dirty job, and only dirty men will take it or do the dirty work that has to be done. It would be inconceivable that a man like Hector
Charlesworth would take a job as radio censor for Canada (and as his very first act, arbitrarily, w i t h o u t any hearings, order off the air the man who has several times had the honor of the very greatest radio broadcasts in history) without being a crass liar, fit only to associate with clergymen—men designated in the Scriptures as “men of corrupt minds", incapable of thinking honestly or truthfully. And such he evidently is.
Who Is the Liar?
As to why Judge Rutherford’s transcriptions were ordered off the air in Canada, the Telegraph Journal of Saint John, N. B., said: “Hector Charlesworth, chairman of the radio commission, stated a dignified complaint had been received from a group of Anglican clergymen in Saint John.” But in a wire to D. R. P. Coats, CJRW, Fleming, Saskatchewan, Charlesworth said, “We have had no complaints of Bible Students’ programs,” denying that the Rutherford transcriptions had been banned “at the instance of the clergy”. Lying comes easy to a man that could write such an article as “Visiting Orators Take Notice”.
It is no wonder to us that Axel Nielsen, in his letter to Charlesworth, dated January 23, 1933, and published in our issue of March 15, 1933, said:
I used to admire you in the way one might admire the Devil for his ingenuity, no matter what I might think otherwise of either you or the Devil, for the hypocritical narratives in Saturday Night written or selected by yourself. They must have been hard to write; for such things do not come from the heart, but rather must they spring from a taskmaster like gold, or the degradingly pleasant feeling of going downstream without effort.
In his delineation of the sheet over which Charlesworth presided before being elevated to the position of Canadian Radio Dictator, Mr. Nielsen described it as:
A weekly whose financial section is dominated by the crowd which is persecuting James Harpel, and the same War Babies who have secured control of Canadian finance, industry and insurance. The editorial portion of this paper, a front page feature, devotes itself zealously to the furtherance of all the forgotten bunk of kings and tyrants, class and privilege. As for the rest, it consists mainly of social chatter, marriages, photos of socially prominent persons, and all the snobs parade of these classes.
At this point one would fain close both nostrils with the thumb and finger of the left hand and with the other take the tongs and drop overboard this “King Canute of Canada in 1933” that is illustrated in the cartoon from the Free Press Evening Bulletin of Winnipeg which adorns the first page of this article. But it is a libel against old King Canute to compare him to Charlesworth without saying something in his defense.
We Apologize to the Old Fraud
It is true that old Canute, the first Danish king of England, murdered his own brother-inlaw, but kings are liable to be playful like that. But his kowtowing to the “pope” was because he did not know any better, while Charlesworth’s feigned obeisance to the clergy is merely that of a fawning hypocrite. He knows they are not honest; everybody knows it.
Canute was quite some ruler. He issued the first national coinage of Denmark and published the first written code of Danish law. It is true, however, that he raised the clergy to a separate estate in the Danish realm, thus fastening those bloodsuckers on the necks of the Danish people. Also, he started the Danish nobility, another gang of frauds, and made them into his highest court of justice. He was a crook, all right.
It was not a half-bad concept that likened Charlesworth to King Canute. The old gent, it will be remembered, was so accustomed to ordering everybody around, and insisting that they obey him instanter, that he kept court one day down by the sea, and ordered the waves not to rise around his throne. He would have drowned if somebody with more sense had not dragged him away.
But now, turning for the moment away from the old fraud that has been dead for nine hundred years, we consider what may be the fate of this modern copy of the more noble original. We pass up the fact that radio waves from the United States continue to pour into Canada, laden with the truth as it is stored up in Judge Rutherford’s transcriptions.
What interests us just now is the statement of Jehovah God through the prophet Amos as to what He intends to do with His enemies, and we recognize Hector Charlesworth as one of these. He might repent, if there be anything in him to which to make an appeal, but the man is sunk so low that any such appeal seems useless.
Jehovah God knows what He will do with this man if he does not repent; and while we do not know Charlesworth will be such till the last, yet he is such now, and we have a perfect right here to cite the fate which awaits him if he so continues. Here is what Jehovah has to say about what He will measure out to His enemies.
God Will Drown His Enemies
I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: and though they hide themselves in the top of [Mount] Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them: and though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. And the Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; [Jehovah] is his name.—Amos 9:1-6.
That this is not a literal drowning is at once apparent from the clause which says that “though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them-’. This drowning of the Devil’s organization, and those that go to make it up, is an overwhelming of it.
First it will be overwhelmed with the truth, which water so nicely represents, and then the truth will be backed up with infinite power. ‘The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the glory of God as the waters cover the sea.’ In the midst of that knowledge, while it is all-pervasive in the earth, the Devil and his organization will be destroyed; they will go down to rise no more. They will be “drowned”. “They shall be as though they had not been.” The earth will be purified by their removal from it.
Honest Men Want It Done Now
Honest men want the Devil and his crowd “drowned” now. They pray for that every day when they pray, ‘Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.’ They would not single out Charlesworth and pray that God would put an end to him; nor would they single out the three clerical sons of dogs (Isaiah 56:10,11) who are supposed to have incited him to his recent act of tyranny. It would be asking too much of the Creator to directly invite His attention to such. He knows who His enemies are.
But now’ that we are living in the Judgment Day, honest men cannot help crying out to justice to remove from the scene the human polecats that have so vitiated the atmosphere. A polecat with his collar turned backward knows how to do just one thing, and it is something the rest of us can get along nicely without. “Drowning,” literal or figurative, is good.
So it was from a full heart that William Brown of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, wrote to the Winnipeg Free Press:
To the Editor.— It is my belief that less injury would be done to Canada if the dignified Anglican clergymen who asked for the suppression of the addresses of Judge Rutherford over the radio, and the radio commission members, were drowned, rather than that Rutherford should be suppressed as an “antisocial agitator”. If that act is approved the liberty and freedom of the individual in Canada has been crucified. “I may not believe a word you say, but I will defend with my life, if need be, your right to say it.”
It should not be thought from this that Mr. Brown is savagely wishing to wreak vengeance on anybody. Xot at all. He is probably one of those that pray continually for God’s kingdom to fully come. Quite likely he often ponders, for his own encouragement, the statement that “for this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8) and he is anxious for this part of the Kingdom work to begin in his own day. It is a natural and a proper wish, but, if necessary, we can stand the polecats a while longer, until the time comes to bury them, and fumigate the place where they once were.
Men of Medieval Minds
The true glory of the polecat mind was back in the days of the Holy Office of the Inquisition. Then anybody who questioned the ipse dixits of the clergy was promptly boiled in oil, or burned at the stake, torn apart or cut up, bit by bit. Charlesworth would have been a valuable man in those days. He would have done the dirty work, while Reverends McKim, Martin and Steward would have gladly stood by with stop watches in their hands, to momentarily arrest the work of torture when it should appear that the victim was about to be released from his agonies by death. Gentle souls! A polecat presents one of the meekest appearances of any woodland creature.
The Canadian people, especially the western Canadians, do not relish having their thinking done for them by men like Charlesworth, McKim, Martin and Steward. They would like to do some of it themselves. As the Winnipeg Free Press says: “The best and safest plan for the Commission is to make up its mind that it is dealing with a free people and, therefore, despite any ideas in high places as to what is good for the license holders, will proceed to present as many facets as possible of world opinion.”
A subscriber of the Winnipeg Tribune expresses the matter very well:
“To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir,— Re the lectures by Judge Rutherford. The last three lines of a report in yesterday's issue of the Tribune state, or rather Mr. Charlesworth states, that there has been no complaint as to the electrical transcriptions of Judge Rutherford. Now, the question is, just who is this individual who assumes the responsibility of putting a ban on the lectures of one of the most interesting, also the greatest interpreter of the Scriptures on the continent, if not in the world? lie does not attack any religions, but as his reference to such he quotes only the Bible, book, chapter and verse, let it hurt who it may.
“As for his attacking governments, he surely does not favor his own country, the U. S. A., and as for Canada, well, we Canadians are glad he is not listening to certain things in our own country. So much for the governments: but Mr. Charlesworth should be informed that Judge Rutherford’s lectures are more eagerly awaited than nine-tenths of the programs broadcast on this continent. And again I question, or rather we question, his authority in holding them up. In the one block in which I live we are all interested in the explanation of the actions of those who assumed the authority of putting a ban on the lectures of Judge Rutherford, not the Bible Society.”
We Repeat from Judge Rutherford
From Judge Rutherford’s gifted pen we herewith repeat some of the statements on this subject which appear in his article entitled “Important Notice”, which constitutes the leading article in our issue of March 1, 1933.
If the official representatives of the seventh world power must first approve what is broadcast by radio, then the people may be assured that those powers will approve nothing that carries to the people the truth concerning the present unhappy condition and what is the remedy.
Since the Anglo-American empire system, or ‘ ‘ Christendom”, is the chief visible part of Satan’s organization on earth, it is certain, according to the Scriptures, that it will suffer the most. Armageddon will be terrible upon all nations, but particularly upon the realm of “Christendom” because within that realm is found the greatest opposition to the message of Jehovah’s truth. Jehovah says concerning that time: “For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts. . . . And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.”—Jeremiah 25: 29-33.
If there is a way of escape from the disaster coming upon humankind, no one could avail himself of that way unless he is first informed as to the means of escape. To keep the people in ignorance of God's Word of truth would mean to prevent them from knowing the way of escape.
Everybody knows that the peoples of the world are now in great distress and perplexity, and there is no earthly power that can pull the nations out of that dilemma. Why then denounce anyone who is merely telling the people why these things have come to pass and what is God's remedy for suffering humanity? The only answer is, Because Satan exercises his subtle influence to keep the people in ignorance in order that he may turn them away from Jehovah and cause their destraction.
Every one will identify himself. As Jehu caused all the Baal worshipers to identify themselves before he slew them, so likewise Christ Jesus, the Greater Jehu, will cause all the Devil’s representatives to identify themselves before He slays them. AU who oppose God and His kingdom message thus identify themselves as being on the Devil’s side.
Members of the Radio Commission of Canada are supposed to be the servants of the people, but they now presumptuously put themselves in a position of dictators by determining what the people shall or shall not hear by radio. If they have the power to censor one speech, they can censor all and keep the people in darkness. Have the people of Canada reached such a state of low intellectuality that they need to have a “wise” radio commission to approve what they shall hear about the Bible? This censorship order bears the earmarks of the clergy, who have assumed to be the spiritual guardians of mankind. Themselves being unable to explain the Bible truths now in the hands of the people, they want to prevent them from hearing more.
The Fight Gets Under Way
The future of the human polecats does not look bright. It is too bad to have to use a good pair of tongs on them, but the tongs can be fumigated.
Most people are so used to being robbed and lied to that they take it all meekly as a matter of course. Some are even grateful to the thieves and liars and prostrate themselves before them, but occasionally there is one that straightway sees the point when a wrong has been done, and once in a great while there is a newspaper that has the courage to speak up.
In a recent issue of the Vancouver Sun there appeared the following letter:
RADIO BAN
Editor, Sun: Sir,— After reading the news item on front page of Sun last Thursday regarding the banning of Judge Rutherford’s usual weekly 15-min-ute Bible lecture from all Canadian broadcasting stations, I became curious to know just why a few dignified divines (D.D.’s) had complained about this “foreign agitator’’ as they were pleased to call him.
So I tuned in on station KJR Seattle at 10: 30 a.m. Sunday and heard this world-famed Bible scholar preach the truth from the Bible.
I understand now why the clergy object to the preaching of the truth. They never did like it.
When Jesus was on earth He didn’t have anything complimentary to say to them or about them. He called them “wolves in sheep’s clothing,’’ “whited sepulchres,” “scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites,”etc., etc., and they tried to stop Him.
They finally crucified Him. The clergy of today are the exact counterpart of this class, and if Jesus Christ was on earth again in the flesh they would crucify Him again.
The people are tired of listening to unscriptural doctrines like the “trinity,” a brimstone “hell,” “immortality of the soul,” etc., etc., consequently the churches arc mostly empty and the clergy are naturally peeved.
Judge Rutherford preaches Bible truths and nothing else, so I will continue to listen in to his message over KJR every Sunday morning at 10: 30. I will also obtain some of his books and I know I will enjoy them.
2043 East 7th Ave. William Forsythe.
Mr. Forsythe sees the issue a great deal more clearly than the editor of the Toronto Mail and Empire. The latter is a paper of great influence in Canada, but without hesitation it threw the entire weight of its voice against justice and reason and liberty, and in favor of tyranny, prejudice and bondage. Their editorial we put into the record, to their’ shame. When will the common people ever learn that among their most potent enemies are the newspapers, the mouthpieces of Big Business? The following is the editorial which appeared in the Mail and Empire of January 20. We reproduce it under our own headline.
Canada Gives Up Her Liberties
The Canadian Radio Commission has prohibited further broadcasting of Judge Rutherford’s speeches by Canadian stations until these are approved by the censor. These speeches have been a feature of the so-called Watch Tower International Broadcast, a service that has been identified with the International Bible Students’ Association.
This action of the Charlesworth Commission recalls a similar one taken by the Mackenzie King Government in 1929. At that time Hon. Mr. Cardin, Minister of Marine, refused a renewal of licenses to four radio stations belonging to this Bible Students’ Association, an organization which used to be on the air early and late, week days and Sundays, mingling Bible quotations with the bitterest attacks upon the churches, the clergy of all denominations and the British Empire. It constantly supplied the unthinking with the most disturbing, revolutionary teachings. In an effort to arouse popular sentiment against the Liberal Government of that day, the association distributed a leaflet entitled “The Messenger.” Assuming the role of Moses on Mount Sinai the organization thundered in the name of “Jehovah God.”
“No longer can Canada boast of being a land of religious freedom. The fact that the Government now controls the air and uses its influence to the end that only such clergymen shall broadcast their sermons as will, hypocritically in the name of the Lord, serve up a mixture of meaningless nonsense which has the approval of the powers that be and which ignores the Word of God, is but another proof that freedom of thought is done. It is also evidence that the end is near. No nation can continue to ignore God and continue to exist. The selfish predatory powers have the people by the throat and oppress them without mercy. Unfaithful to God, the clergy ally themselves with that unrighteous influence, aiding in the oppression of the people and in keeping them in ignorance of God’s provision for their welfare. God has promised to hear the cries of the people in due time. Their cries have reached unto His ears. The end of oppression is near at hand. It will be the most terrible day of reckoning that the world has ever known. God declares He will justly and fully recompense the oppressors by completely breaking them to pieces.”
Some members of the Conservative Opposition made the mistake of championing the Bible Students, but Mr. Cardin and the Mackenzie King Government were urged to take courage and stand their ground against a species of propaganda originating in the United States, which often expressed views hostile to established institutions both in the United States and in this country. The issue has once more arisen in a somewhat different form. Prohibited from owningstations in this country, the organization has been using a number of Canadian stations. We think that the general feeling throughout Canada will support the decree just issued by the Canadian Radio Commission, which henceforth subjects all Watch Tower broadcasts to a strict censorship. The Commission may not be able to exclude these broadcasts altogether if the organization is able to employ powerful United States stations to reach Canadian listeners. But at least the Canadian Commission will not be placing the mark of its approval upon propaganda which it regards as injurious to the general public.
Charlesworth Jumpy and Nervous
For a censor, 1933 model, Charlesworth is jumpy and nervous. Polecats are like that, or seem to be. Thus, when the Calgary (Alberta) station CFCN wired him: “With reference to your wire re Judge Rutherford transcriptions: local organization now desire to put on local speaker for these periods. Please advise us your wishes re such arrangements,” he wired back “The International Bible Students are at liberty to put on local speaker so long as he refrains from offensive comments on doctrines and clergy of other denominations and from abuse of public men and institutions in Canada. Watch this continuity carefully and cut off if these conditions are broken.”
Now what is there about Canadian doctrines, and Canadian clergy, Canadian public men and Canadian institutions that is so sacrosanct that they must not be mentioned ? Are the men that are lined squarely up on the side of the Devil so thin-skinned that they deny their parentage? If Charlesworth had been present when Jesus told the scribes and Pharisees “Ye are of your father the devil”, he would have said something to Him like what he said about Judge Rutherford in Saturday Night. A polecat hates to have anything said reflecting on him or his fellow polecats.
Two Liberty-Loving Editors
The periodical Hush goes after Charlesworth in its issue of February 4 with a good deal more courage and manliness than was shown by the Mail and Empire. The editor does not relish giving up all his rights to a polecat.
“Let There be Light’’
What Winnipeg Influence Caused Hector Charlesworth to Ban Judge Rutherford’s Orations on
Radio? — Were They Afraid of More Light on the Stubbs Charges ? — Why Do the Clergy Tremble ? — Truth Must Prevail
That old Saturday Night-Big Interest sweetheart, Hector Charlesworth, now playing the role of Chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, issued instructions last week to all radio stations to discontinue the Judge Rutherford Bible student broadcasts pending their censorship by the Commission as being not abusive of other religious or governmental institutions. Who is dictating to Hector Charlesworth now? Is somebody or some government faction afraid of the TRUTH being broadcast? Mr. Charlesworth denies that the ban is the result of interference by the clergy of Canada. If this is true, then who is responsible for this extraordinary action? It is safe to say that 75 per cent of radio listeners desire to hear what Judge Rutherford has to say about modern institutions.
The United States Government has never considered such steps necessary. It is common knowledge that the super-sensitive Canadian clergy are afraid of Judge Rutherford’s pundits of TRUTH. It is significant that the first move to break this ban was taken in Winnipeg, where the citizens are, more than ever, crying for the Light amidst a fog of charges and counter charges of graft, theft, corruption, judicial irregularities, suppression of free speech and what not. If the public of Canada were not universally trained by the Big Interest suborned press to believe in any hypocrite who carried a Bible in his hands, with a lie on his lips at the same time to hide his criminal acts, blind faith would not have been placed for so long in “Honest John” Machray who fun-dumblcd, foneyfugled and hoodwinked the silly people of Winnipeg for so many years, during which he contrived to convert criminally over $1,000,000 of sacred trust funds.
Perhaps some kind soul in Winnipeg thought Judge Rutherford might comment on the Stubbs affair, because it is known that Rutherford, like Stubbs, is an exponent of the TRUTH? Hector Charlesworth has ever lived in a world of literary dreams, save when listening with intent submission to the “Master’s Voice”. He has now received the Master’s reward— he is a little silver cog in the System’s wheel. God bless and keep Hector Charlesworth in his servility!
Two weeks after the foregoing appeared in Hush, the periodical Justice (Halifax, Nova Scotia) published the following, which is of real value to the cause of truth in the earth at this critical time:
TORY WAR-MONGERS
The following will give you an idea why the Tory war-mongers ruled Judge Rutherford off the air:
Over a recent national chain of radio stations, Judge Rutherford startled millions of listeners with his emphatic pronouncement that within a short time the people will witness the complete destruction of the American government. Never before in the history of this nation had the people heard such statements of stinging rebuke and indictment against the rulers of this land, Big Business and its allies and abettors in crime, the politicians and professional clergymen. He quoted ample Bible proofs and cited physical facts and documentary evidence for every charge against the cruel and oppressive rulers of the American people. Judge Rutherford does not take sides in politics, nor does he indulge in personalities. His only motive is to point out to the people from the Scriptures that their only hope for relief from the terrible suffering, distress and unrighteousness now prevailing on the earth is God’s Kingdom which, the prophecies disclose, will soon displace all present governments.
We quote a few statements Judge Rutherford made:
Today there is no true patriotism among the rulers of the nation. It is now impossible for the people to elect men to public office and to expect them to enact just laws and to administer the affairs of the government for the general welfare.
Big Business has no regard for the rights of the common people.
It controls the two major political parties of America, and names and elects at will the public men to office who will best serve their selfish interests. Big Business controls the army and the navy, the guns and the ammunition and the police power of the nation.
Satan has used commerce, politics and religion that he might get complete control of the human race and defame the name and Word of Jehovah God. For this reason, it is written in the Bible (1 John 5: 19), ‘The whole world is now under the wicked one.’
The rulers have been duly informed and duly warned that Jehovah God’s kingdom is here. They have refused to give heed. They disregard the Word of God and go on with their imperfect schemes, and will continue to try one after another, all of which shall fail.
The greatest crisis of the ages is now upon the world, and this includes the American government.
If Jesus were to walk into Washington today and mingle with the suffering veterans in their camp He would be denounced by the clergymen as a man of low civilization. It is this same class of clergymen and political lobbyists that recently adopted a resolution, which appears in the Washington Herald under date of June 10, 1932, declaring that Christ Jesus belongs to a lower civilization.
The clergy, while claiming to represent God, in fact represent the Devil and his organization. In order that the people might hear the truth and determine this matter for themselves recently I challenged the combined clergy of America to select their best man to debate this question by radio. Charged with misrepresenting God and serving Satan these gentlemen should either come forward and prove the falsity of the charge or, failing in that, should cease to hold themselves out as teachers of the Word of God. Jehovah foretold the outcome of such a challenge and the attitude that would be assumed by the preachers, when He caused His prophet Jeremiah to write, at chapter fifty-one, verse thirty: “The mighty men of Babylon [Satan’s organization] have forborn to fight; they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed.” Let the people take note of this fact.
In 1917 Big Business, for ultraselfish reasons, needlessly and wantonly forced the American nation into the World War which resulted in the greatly increased wealth and power of a few men and made serfs and paupers of many millions of people.
With grasping arms like the tentacles of a mighty octopus, Big Business has laid hold upon practically all of the visible wealth of the nation.
The American government has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. It cannot endure. Together with all other nations, it soon shall fall. Such fall will be in spite of everything Big Business, politicians and clergymen, the military and the “strong-arm squad,” and the Devil and all of his hosts can do to hold together the oppressive rule. It must and will fall because Jehovah God’s kingdom is here. Hasten now to take shelter under Jehovah’s kingdom.
The same selfish interests own and control the professional clergymen, and these men make merchandise of the Word of God in order to keep the people in ignorance and in subjection to the ruling powers. Thus it is plainly seen that the power of the government is centralized in the hands of a very few.
Within a short time Jehovah God will destroy the Devil and his entire organization.
Jehovah made this earth for man to live upon in peace and plenty, health and happiness; and under the reign of Christ, He declares, the earth shall yield her increase, and God shall bless the people, and all in the earth shall know Him.
Canadian Troops in Action
The Devil always gets off to a flying start. Charlesworth and his fellow polecats were in high feather on January 16, when they let loose. It takes the Lord’s people time to get under way with the fumigating and cleansing process now commanding attention.
On February 18 the “Important Notice”, which was our leading article in Number 351, began to be placed in every home in Canada. Straightway the Devil’s crowd began to evidence pain. Protests appeared in several papers, but it is like protesting against a snowstorm after the storm has begun. A particularly amusing squawk is the following, which appeared in the Toronto Star for February 23:
A REMONSTRANCE
To the Editor of the Star:
Sir: Toronto, if not Canada at large, has been flooded during the last few days with a four-page important notice from Judge Rutherford, the head of tho Russellite or International Bible Student Movement, protesting against the action of Mr. Charlesworth, the chairman of the Canadian Radio Commission, in suppressing or censoring the broadcasting of his speeches.
Canadians generally will doubtlessly be intelligent enough to valuate for themselves the main content of the appeal, which is, like much of their teaching, a curious compound of truth and error. He quotes a great deal of Scripture, but Scripture can be strangely perverted, and texts can be torn bleeding from their context.
But there is a postscript, to which special attention is called as a challenge to the clergy. He takes the names of three honored clergymen of the Anglican church, Canon McKim, the Rev. Mr. Steward and the Rev. Mr. Martin, rectors of churches in St. John, N. B., men of the highest reputation for probity, piety and practical Christianity. And says: “These reverend gentlemen pose before the people as the representatives of God and Christ and His kingdom. I charge that they in fact represent Satan the Devil.” And then he adds a wider challenge that “the clergymen of the Anglican church, contrary to their claim, do not in fact represent Jehovah God and Christ Jesus and His kingdom, but that they do represent and serve Satan the Devil and that thereby the people are deceived.” I simply want to point out, as a remonstrance against such assertions, that these men, two of whom I know intimately, are truly consecrated men of God and that Judge Rutherford’s widely disseminated diatribe against the Anglican church as a whole wrould in itself warrant the Radio Commission of Canada in refusing the Russellites the use of existing facilities for broadcasting without first submitting the same to the broadcasting commission.
Toronto. (Rev.) Dyson Hague
Reverend Hague, in his grief over the charge that McKim, Steward and Martin represent Satan the Devil, and that the clergymen of the Anglican church, all of them, are in the same boat, seems to have overlooked the fact that the remedy is in their own hands. All they have to do is get together and arrange the radio debate that Judge Rutherford has invited.
The Moncton (N. B.) Daily Times of February 27 contained the following, which is true in the words which we have reproduced in italics. The rest of it is false. That is something of a record, 6 true words out of 59. We assume, because of its untruthfulness, that it was written by some clergyman, some man of corrupt mind, some polecat. The headline is ours:
ALL OVER CANADA
The blasphemous Rutherford leaflets recently distributed from door to door in Moncton were circulated generally all over Canada. In Toronto some school children were engaged in the work, probably not knowing the character of the leaflet but,out to make a few dimes. Again it is pertinent to enquire whence the source of the money available for this work.
Afraid to Face the Issue
Not only are the clergy afraid to face the issue, but the newspapers betray the same anxiety not to let this matter come before the people in its true light. If Judge Rutherford’s charges are true, as we firmly believe them to be, then it is of the utmost importance that the people know the truth, so that they can range themselves on the side of the God whom they elect to serve.
The newspapers should aid them in this, but the Toronto Star, though publishing Reverend Hague’s remonstrance, tries to pass over the matter lightly in its accompanying editorial herewith reproduced. This editorial is of no value, because it helps the people not at all. Most people who read it, instead of seeing the great issues at stake, will be misled by the attempted facetiousness of the editor into thinking that it makes no difference whether Judge Rutherford is right or wrong. In point of fact, it actually makes all the difference between life and death.
MR. CHARLESWORTH IN THE LIGHT OF PROPHECY
When Hector Charlesworth was made chairman of the Radio Commission we said that, on looking back, it seemed to us that all his life he had been in training for this post. Today we are not so sure of it. Mr. Charlesworth is up against something now for which we cannot see that he has had any training. Judge Rutherford is after him with Biblical prophecies of great omen. A four-page folder is being distributed from house to house in Toronto conveying an Important Notice, beginning in this way:
About the 18th of January, 1933, the following telegram was sent by the Canadian Radio Commission to radio stations throughout that country:
“Speeches of one Judge Rutherford, foreign anti-social agitator, must not be broadcast by Canadian stations until the continuity or records of same are submitted to the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission for approval.
“Signed,
“Hector Charlesworth,
“Chairman.”
Judge Rutherford, who deals with prophecies over the air, had not predicted this order. So out comes his four-page folder. Mr. Charlesworth has probably read more literature about the Battle of Waterloo than about the Battle of Armageddon. He has probably studied Shakespeare and other dramatists, ancient and modern, English and foreign, more than he has the prophecies of the Holy Scriptures. We may bo doing him an injustice in saying this, but, at least, we are justified in saying that Mr. Charlesworth has written in the press more about Eugene O’Neill than about the Prophet Ezekiel.
Judge Rutherford tells us in his four-page folder that the “great Battle of Armageddon is approaching, at which time the final conflict between the forces of Satan and those of Jehovah will take place.” Rumor had it that Satan had lost out long ago, but we have at times had reason to suspect that certain persons we do not care to name were working for him either directly or indirectly. We had no idea, however, after glimpsing Milton and Dante that Lucifer was still in a position to fight to a show-down. Judge Rutherford has not a doubt. The great fight comes.
The British Empire is the seventh Empire. Seven is a mystic number; why should there be more than seven Empires? Of course by leaving out an Empire here and there the British Empire could be called the sixth or by adding an Empire or two it could be shown to be the ninth or the eleventh, but in order that it may conform to expectant prophecy let us call it the seventh and await the millennium. Here is where Mr. Charlesworth ought to consult his lawyer. Judge Rutherford writes:
“The Scriptures show that the chief officer of Satan in leading his wicked forces is called Gog and who formulates and leads in a conspiracy against Jehovah’s witnesses and against His kingdom, and that such conspiracy will begin and be prosecuted within the realms of the seventh world power above mentioned. Satan’s effort is to keep the people in ignorance of what is about to come to pass.”
While we wish to occupy an entirely impartial position in this discussion we feel compelled to say that Judge Rutherford pretty clearly indicates that he identifies Mr. Charlesworth as Gog, the chief Canadian agent of Satan. This, we feel sure, was not an office which Mr. Charlesworth knowingly accepted at the request of Prime Minister Bennett, who merely asked him to take charge of radio.
In concluding his four-page folder Judge Rutherford challenges the clergy to meet him in debate—the clergy who represent Satan while he, alone on earth evidently, represents God—but we would suggest that the argument is shifted and that Judge Rutherford should challenge Mr. Hector Charlesworth to meet him in debate in Massey Hall on some date agreeable to both parties. What a night!
“Saturday Night” on a Higher Plane
We have before indicated our appreciation of the fact that Saturday Night was improved by Hector Charlesworth’s connection with it being severed. We do not see how it could have been otherwise. His withdrawal from anything would automatically cleanse and purify it. From the issue of February 25 we quote the following not half bad front page item. It shines by contrast with the supine editorial in the Mail and Empire and the colorless one in the Star.
SATAN AND THE RADIO SYSTEM
WE LEARN from a circular signed by the eminent Judge Rutherford, who further subscribes himself “one of the servants of Jehovah”, that it is his contention that the clergymen of the Anglican Church “do represent and serve Satan the Devil and that thereby the people are deceived”. He desires to debate this contention over a national radio chain with one of the three Anglican clergymen of Saint John whose protest recently led to his being excluded from the Canadian radio stations. The contention, which, it should be borne in mind, would have had the support of quite a large number of Christian Canadians in the more violent theological days of the Family Compact, strikes us as an interesting one about which we should like to hear more, although the probability of our being converted to a thorough-going belief in it is extremely small. Since, however, the judge is not likely to be permitted to rejoin the gracious company of educators who are now engaged in improving the minds of the Canadian people with the aid of the wave systems discovered by Marconi, we presume we shall have to rely upon his printed literature, which is not yet being suppressed when printed in Canada.
There is one thing about it, and that is that his exclusion from the radio system can have caused no surprise to so earnest a Bible student as Judge Rutherford, who may be well aware that one of Satan’s most important titles is that of ‘ ‘ prince of the powers of the air”.
The Zeal of the Neophyte
The day before Jehovah’s witnesses went into action to put the “Important Notice” regarding the radio censorship into the hands of the Canadian people, Charlesworth wired station CKOK, Detroit-Windsor, as follows:
“Our rules in connection with the Watch Tower Society are that they may go on the air provided they refrain from abuse of the doctrines and clergy of other churches and from attacks on public institutions of this country. It is necessary to watch this continuity carefully, as transgressions have occurred at several stations where the Watch Tower people have been allowed to go on the air. ’ ’
After the “Notice” campaign got under way, and the people began to get and read the folders, by the millions, he suddenly came to realize that he had grabbed a bull by the tail. In sudden fright he wired all stations in Canada as follows :
“No broadcasts containing Judge Rutherford’s speeches, letters or publications are to be carried out by any Canadian broadcasting station until continuity and records have been submitted to and approved by Canadian Radio Commission.”
That is going some. One man will do all the thinking for the people of Canada. They shall have nothing to say about it. If he thinks it is good for them to hear, they may hear it. If he thinks it best, for any reason whatever, that they should not hear it, then, in his mind, if Jesus Christ himself, or even Jehovah the Almighty God, wishes to present a message to the people of Canada, it cannot go on the air.
We recognize that spirit. It is the spirit of the one who said, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the Most High.”—Isaiah 14:13,14.
It is the spirit of the same one who said: “My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself” (Ezekiel 29:3), and of the one who said to Jesus: “All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou, therefore, wilt worship me, all shall be thine.” —Luke 4:6,7.
Charlesworth Censorship Illegal
It would hardly seem necessary to call the attention of the liberty-loving people of Canada to the fact that the Charlesworth censorship is illegal, lawless, a usurpation of authority, yet we patiently do even that, knowing that the time of reckoning draws on apace in which all injustices will receive their due recompense of reward.
Judge Rutherford authorizes us to say that he has recently taken the opinion of a well-known firm of lawyers in Canada and the following is a quotation from their opinion:
“The Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Charlesworth, gives as his authority for the control of broadcasting Sections 8,9 and 10 of the Act. As yet no by-laws or regulations have been promulgated. It is our view that the telegram from the chairman to the broadcasting stations forbidding the broadcast of Judge Rutherford’s speeches in the manner that the telegram was worded, was entirely unauthorized and we do not think either the chairman or the Commission had any authority so to act until by-laws or resolutions or regulations respecting such censorship had first been passed and approved by counsel.”
We expect to have more to say, in a later issue, on this subject of robbing the people of their rights, under the specious plea of public interest, but at this point conclude to terminate this article with a quotation from the Scriptures which fits the conditions very well:
Now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. Then they that feared [Jehovah] spake often one to another; and [Jehovah] hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared [Jehovah], and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith [Jehovah] of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith [Jehovah] of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.—Malachi 3:15-17; 4: 1.
The complete overwhelming, annihilation of the enemies of God, referred to by the prophet Amos as a “flood-’, is here mentioned under the symbolism of a “fire”. The event is the same, and the conclusion is the same: the complete destruction of those that oppose Jehovah’s will.
Judge Rutherford, with the most important message that ever came to the sons of men, temporarily deprived of his rights in Canada, is yet in a happy place, “the secret place of the Most High,” while Hector Charlesworth, accepting the Devil’s offer, and doing his illegal bidding, is in for justly merited shame in the present, and has yet to answer at the bar of Jehovah God for the injustice and illegality he has practiced upon one of His meek and obedient servants.
Ahaziah Fell Through the Lattice
ON A CERTAIN occasion Ahaziah, king of Israel, fell through the lattice and got considerably smashed up. Thereupon he sent to Baal-zebub (the Devil) to inquire if he would get well. Elijah’s opinion was not asked or desired, but he chanced to meet the courier and told him he need proceed no further, but could go back and tell the one who sent him that he was not going to get well, but would die; and he did.
And that reminds us of what has happened to financialdom. It is sick with its last sickness. It has fallen through the lattice. The Standard Statistics Company reports that in the first nine months of 1932 the net income of 390 important corporations showed a decline of 79.8 percent from the corresponding period of 1931, itself an extremely bad year. The profits of industrial companies dropped 99.4 percent. Sixty railroads showed a net deficit of $133,135,000 against an aggregate profit last year of $67,070,000.
Viewing the matter entirely from the standpoint of the Scriptures, Judge Rutherford has expressed the opinion that, bad as the world’s financial matters now are, they will get still worse, and there will be no recovery. The antitypical Ahaziah is uneasy and fears the worst, and rightly so. Vindication Two shows that the funeral cannot be far off. “Zion heard, and was glad.”
Fourteen Mendicant States
THE Chicago Daily Tribune points out that Congressman Beek of Pennsylvania has declared that in the fiscal year 1931 fourteen states took more out of the federal treasury than they paid in internal revenue. Idaho drew out five times as much as it put in; North Dakota, six times as much; New Mexico, seven times; Wyoming, six; South Carolina, three.
Condensations
Gangsters Kill 33 Police in 2 Years
IN THE last two years gangsters have slain 33 New York policemen, and have made 33 others hopeless cripples.
Prussian Police Encouraged to Shoot
BY AN official proclamation the Prussian police have been encouraged to shoot Communists engaged in acts of violence, but are warned to cooperate with Nazi storm troops and the Stahlheim of the Nationalist parties in action.
Many Jobless Women Go Insane
IN NEW YORK city it has been found that about 18 percent of the 30,000 women applying for aid at the Central Relief Bureau for the Registration of the Homeless are suffering from mental disorders caused by unemployment.
Farm Tax Sales Doubled
IN FIVE years last past, 9y2 percent of all the farms in the United States changed hands through forced sales. The number of forced sales in 1932 was 41.7 per thousand as against 26.1 the year before.
America Visited in 1482
Dr. Jaime Cortesao, Portuguese historian, lecturing in Seville, Spain, declares that he has found historical records proving that Pedro Vasquez de laFrontera, of Palos, visited America in 1482, ten years before Columbus made his first voyage.
The Watsongraph Radio Typewriter
THE Watsongraph radio typewriter, successfully tested out in New York, enables the operator to be in one place and his typewriter several miles away. The system is expected to provide absolute secrecy and to be of great use in the navy, in large manufacturing plants, in news gatherings, in forestry, in train dispatching, and in police work.
The Dam at Dnieprostroi
THE dam at Dnieprostroi, Russia, is completed and inaugurates the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world. It required the services of 30,000 workers for five years. A whole new town of 120,000 people has sprung up. The building of the dam has raised the level of the upper part of the Dnieper river by 130 feet, and it is now navigable for its entire length of 1,300 miles.
19,500 Miles of Lighted Airways
COHERE are now in the United States 19,500 miles of lighted airways. Plans have been made to increase this to 25,000 miles. Beacons are placed at 10-mile to 15-mile intervals; landing fields, at 40-mile to 50-mile intervals.
Russian War on Illiteracy
SOVIET RUSSIA has declared war on illiteracy, and expects within the next five years to have wiped it out for all persons then under 50. Today three times as many persons can read and write as could do so in the days of the czar.
Production of Artificial Rain
GOOD results have come from putting into effect in Russia the producing of artificial rain, which problem was solved in the Norwegian Institute. The apparatus used has the power to ionize the atmosphere to a distance of half a mile.
Oil-Producing Countries
THE United States last year produced 595,
000,000 barrels of oil; Soviet Union 120,000,000 barrels; Venezuela, 88,000,000; Rumania, 37,000,000; Persia, 36,000,000; and Mexico, 25,000,000. In the Soviet Union the production and marketing of oil is a government monopoly.
Federal Loans to Arkansas Farmers
OUT of the fewer than 200,000 farmers in the state of Arkansas it is stated that 46,835 have borrowed some $4,000,000 for production purposes. It thus appears that about a quarter of the farmers in the state have had to borrow from Uncle Sam to keep going.
Reverend Clayton Wilkin
Reverend Clayton Wilkin, of Hornell, N. Y., is organizing a new church based on the platform “The Bible is not true. There never was a Christ.” Now if the Reverend Satan the Devil hears of this he will have one more pearl to add to the string he already has.
I Matilda Jones of Beaumont
Matilda Jones of Beaumont, Texas, was 13 . years old when Napoleon died, and was in L slavery for 37 years. She is a full-blooded InI dian, but at the age of 15 was stolen from her i tribe and sold into slavery. She is still in good health at 124 years of age.
New Anesthetic, Avertin
THE new anesthetic, avertin, given in the form of an enema, is said to furnish a quiet and peaceful sleep, without gagging, coughing, retching or vomiting, and in many instances the patient feels so little pain that morphine need not be given after the operation is finished.
Diesel Locomotive Trains for Argentina THE Diesel locomotive trains that have proved J- such a huge success in Germany will be used in Argentina. Four have been made in Britain. It is claimed that the use of these engines in Britain would save the railways of that country £22,000,000 per annum.
Diesel Locomotives on Branch Lines
FOR some time it has been known that it is economy for the railroads to operate their branch lines with gasoline engines. It is now found that Diesel oil-burning engines are still more economical, rendering the same service for two-thirds the gasoline-engine expense.
Talkie Tells Time in Paris
AT ANY hour of the day or night, by ringing up a given number, any telephone subscriber within reach of Paris may call up the Paris Observatory and a talkie machine will reply, giving the time in hours, minutes and seconds. The entire arrangement is automatic.
“Up Goes the British Flag”
THE following is said to be a genuine extract from an essay written by a Bristol schoolboy : “Africa is a British colony. I will now tell you how England makes her colonies. First, a missionary is sent out. When he has found a nice, fertile country, he assembles all the natives, and says, ‘Let us pray’; and while they have their eyes shut, up goes the British flag.”
In Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
IN THE Mecklenburg County torture chamber the prisoners are chained to the wall. The feet are held together by ankle irons, and the connecting chain is locked to the wall near the floor. Wrists are handcuffed and chained to a bar over the prisoner’s head and the prisoner sometimes remains in that position night and day for as long as two nights at a time. On release they often faint from weakness, but, after being given a small meal, are put to work.
Vehicular Tunnel in the Catskills
"^TEW YORK state has just completed a 600--L ’ foot vehicular tunnel under Breakneck mountain, near Cold Spring. The opening of the tunnel eliminates two dangerous grade crossings over the main line of the New York Central railway. The tunnel is electric-lighted. The portals are faced with granite.
Growth of Jewish Population
TN SPITE of 2,000 massacres in the past fifty years, in which it is estimated that 100,000 Jews were murdered, the Jewish population of the world has in the past one hundred years grown from 3,000,000 to 16,000,000. This rate of growth is almost double that of the rest of the world in that time.
Brief History of Broadcasting
SOME say that the first regular radio broadcasting was begun at Montreal in December, 1919. Since then 34,500,000 radio sets have been placed in the homes of the people, about half of them in the United States. In Germany alone there are now 65 different wireless journals, with a total of 2,500,000 weekly subscribers.
Fuel Oil from Coal in Japan
rpiIE Japanese are obtaining one ton of good -J- fuel oil from two tons of bituminous coal mined in their new province of Manchukuo, formerly called Manchuria. The distillation at low temperatures is said to be extremely successful. It is expected that this discovery will revolutionize the Japanese navy.
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