1944 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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1944 YEARBOOK
JEHOVAH’S PEOPLE KEPT FREE
KNOWLEDGE OR IGNORANCE
MANNER OF PREACHING
ORGANIZATION
ORDAINED MINISTERS
ORDAINED MINISTERS
WATCHTOWER BIBLE COLLEGE OF GILEAD
SOCIETY INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION REPORT
SHIPMENTS
SERVICE IN THE FIELD
UNITED STATES FIELD SERVICE
SPECIAL PIONEER PUBLISHERS
GENERAL PIONEER PUBLISHERS
COMPANY PUBLISHERS
EDUCATION
BOOK STUDIES
SERVANTS TO THE BRETHREN
OPPOSITION
OUTSTANDING EVENTS OF THE YEAR
“FREE NATION’S” THEOCRATIC ASSEMBLY
OTHER COUNTRIES REPORTING TO BROOKLYN OFFICE
ARGENTINA
CHILE
PARAGUAY
URUGUAY
AUSTRALASIA
NEW ZEALAND
BRAZIL
BRITAIN
BRITISH GUIANA
CANADA
CENTRAL EUROPE
GERMANY
HUNGARY
SWITZERLAND
CUBA
CYPRUS
HAWAII
INDIA
CEYLON
JAMAICA
MEXICO
NORTHERN EUROPE
DENMARK
FINLAND
SWEDEN
SOUTH AFRICA
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTHERN RHODESIA
NORTHERN RHODESIA
NYASALAND
EAST AFRICA
ST. HELENA
TRINIDAD
BARBADOS
WEST AFRICA
GOLD COAST
NIGERIA
Conventions
SIERRA LEONE
CONCLUSION
Yeartext for 1944
YEARBOOK
of Jehovah’s witnesses
containing report for the service year of 1943
Also daily texts and comments
Corporate Publishers
Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc.
International Bible Students Association
124 Columbia Heights
Brooklyn 2, N. Y., U. S. A.
Branch offices appear on last page
Copyright, 1943, by
Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society
Made in the United States of America
WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY
OFFICERS
N. H. KNORR President
H. C. COVINGTON Vice-President
W. E. VAN AMBURGH Secretary and Treasurer
WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY, INC.
OFFICERS
N. H. KNORR President
H. C. COVINGTON Vice-President
W. E. VAN AMBURGH Secretary and Treasurer
INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS
N. H. KNORR President
JESSE HEMERY Vice-President
E. C. CHITTY Secretary
W. E. VAN AMBURGH
Ass’t Secretary and Treasurer
INDEX OF COUNTRIES
Page
Argentina 88
Australasia 93
Barbados 178
Brazil 99
Britain 106
British Guiana 119
Canada 120
Central Europe 129
Ceylon 145
Chile 91
Cuba 134
Cyprus 136
Denmark 155
East Africa 175
Finland 157
Germany 130
Gold Coast 180
Hawaii 136
Hungary 131
India 139
Jamaica 146
Mexico 148
New Zealand 98
Nigeria 181
Northern Europe 154
Northern Rhodesia 171
Nyasaland 174
Paraguay 91
St. Helena 175
Sierra Leone 184
South Africa 163
Southern Rhodesia 169
Sweden 158
Switzerland 132
Trinidad 176
Union of South Africa 164
United States 45
Uruguay 92
West Africa 178
1944 YEARBOOK
of Jehovah’s witnesses
JEHOVAH is all-powerful and has proved himself to be the Supreme One of the universe. Proof of this has been made known time and time again, and there are myriads of witnesses to testify to this fact. There will be many more witnesses of Jehovah as time goes on, who will witness proof of Jehovah’s supremacy. The report of the work of Jehovah’s witnesses fo’r the service year 1942-1943, which is here submitted, is a present-day proof of His almighty power working through His servants to accomplish His will in face of the oppositions of Satan the Devil. The issue has been forced by the adversary of God: Will a man serve Jehovah for an unselfish purpose? or can a man be free and still have a desire to honor and praise his Maker? A great cloud of witnesses have already answered the above questions in the affirmative, not by merely saying “yes”, but by living a life to prove it. Jehovah’s witnesses today are endeavoring to likewise give an affirmative answer on the issue by exercising their Christian freedom to serve Jehovah God faithfully to the completion of His “strange work” in the earth.
The freest man ever to live upon this earth was the Son of God, Christ Jesus. He is still free, possesses eternal life and can fulfill his desire, which is to honor and praise his Father throughout all eternity. No man can be free hemmed in by the bondage of sin, religion and the Devil. It is Satan the Devil who took away the freedom from man and gave him toil, sickness, sorrow and, finally, death. Man could have had, and was offered, peace, prosperity and life everlastingin a righteous world. He was placed in the garden of Eden, with a companion, and there had full liberty to multiply, fill the earth and subdue the earth. What more freedom could a man ask for? The Devil, deceiver of man, however, turned the first pair, Adam and Eve, away from Jehovah. They chose a creature’s theory rather than God’s true promise, thus showing they had no faith in God. Their choice led them to bondage and death, not to freedom. Because the first pair followed the teachings or traditions of a creature, Satan, every one that lives now has been born in sin and shapen in iniquity, and thus has been subjected to bondage by the Devil. But provision has been made so that creatures can be made free, and many of them have been made free because of accepting Christ Jesus and following him as the Liberator. There is no need for any creature to follow traditions of men; for he can be free to follow the Word of God. Each creature must make his choice, to follow either truth or tradition.
JEHOVAH’S PEOPLE KEPT FREE
When one reads the accounts in the Bible of the faithful men of old he sees clearly how Jehovah God has kept His people free. Free from what? Free from the Devil’s organization, its oppression, its darkness, its religion, and its sin; free from being a servant of the god of this world, Satan the Devil. Jehovah freed Noah from the “world that then was” by causing it to be overflowed with water, and God brought him through the flood into the present world. He restated to Noah the divine mandate to multiply and fill the earth with a righteous people. This picture of Noah coming from the old world through the flood into the new was a picture of a free nation being delivered from the sin-corruption of the Devil’s world. Noah and his companions were freed from the old world that was destroyed by the flood. The eight survivors who maintained their integrity and continued their worship of God were kept free from the traditions taught prior to the flood and which led to death. Noah and his companions chose the Word of God and lived through the flood. However, immediately after the flood, the present world was overtaken by the Devil in the reorganization of his invisible hosts. Therefore Satan is called “the god of this world”.
Even as Noah and his companions stood free from that old world of wickedness, so today Jehovah’s witnesses and their associates are free from the Satan- dominated world, and they are the only representatives and proclaimers of the New World of righteousness. These people, Jehovah’s witnesses and their companions, represent the free nation and will go through the greatest catastrophe ever to befall man, the battle of Armageddon, into the New World to come, a world without end.
Again Jehovah God freed his people when in bondage in Egypt, and took off them the yoke of Pharaoh. He made them a free people, to stay free, if they so chose. But did they ? In his typical Theocratic arrangement the Israelites time and time again went into bondage of religion, sin and the Devil, and were freed from this condition by their covenant-keeping God; but they had to fight for it, and had to make a stand against the wickedness of the Devil and follow the laws which Jehovah set forth for their direction. The Israelites had the perfect law of God, but they failed to keep it. This law, if kept, would have held them free from the bondage of all the nations round about; and, if followed, would have been a schoolmaster to lead them unto Christ, the Savior and Liberator of humankind. The Israelites as a nation failed to heed the warnings of God and to follow his Word, but chose tradition, religion, and thus received bondage from the Devil’s organization rather than freedom, which was theirs if they had chosen to do the will of God.
Throughout the past sixty centuries Jehovah has always had some free men and women as his witnesses —men and women who were not bound by the traditions of the religious fathers handed down from generation to generation. These men were free to worship Jehovah “in spirit and in truth”, and this they did, regardless of all the oppression, trials and difficulties that were brought upon them so that, if possible, they might be shackled and brought into the bondage of this present evil world.
Then, nineteen hundred years ago, because God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, “that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” That Son of God was Christ Jesus, the Redeemer of the human family. No longer was it necessary for any individual to stay under the bondage of this devilish old world; but full provision was made for them to come out of the old world into the New World which Jehovah loved, a world of righteousness, and there serve God in his organization. Christ Jesus became the mediator between God and man, even as Moses was the mediator of the old covenant between the children of Israel and Jehovah God. The Jews could have remained free, if they had refrained from following after religion and heeding the advice of scribes and Pharisees, religionists of their day; and if they had refrained from associating with the nations of this world and followed the Word of God. Had they done this, they would have recognized Christ Jesus as God’s Son and accepted the freedom that Christ brought them. The apostles did, and other early Christians who trod this earth likewise did so. They accepted the freedom, and now enjoy everlasting life.
Christ Jesus when upon the earth was not held in bondage by the Devil’s organization, nor did he have himself weighted down with fetters and the cares of this world. He was a free man. He was in the world, that was true, but not a part of it. He had no place to lay his head, so he says. Therefore he must have had no cares of this world. He was not burdened down with business, politics, religion, the keeping of some store or the maintaining of a home. He rendered unto Caesar those things that were Caesar’s, such as taxes necessary to be paid. But as a perfect man, the Son of God, possessing full freedom, he had one thing to do and one desire that he wished to fulfill; that was to continue in the proper worship of his heavenly Father and proclaim the message that his Father had sent him to earth to proclaim, as His witness and vindicator.
Christ Jesus had the right to life. He was a perfect man and he spoke words of wisdom which were words of life. That which he spoke to his hearers was words from his heavenly Father; for he was directed to speak the truth. He had no fear of religion or religionists, or the rulers of this world; he had no fear of commercial organizations that existed, for he was no part of them; he had no fear of the politicians or the totalitarian state that then ruled, for he was not a supporter of it. He did not cast his lot in with any organization or scheme of men; he was free from all these bonds. He was born a free man, the Son of God, and he maintained that freedom. Jesus made clear to Pilate why He was in the world. He said: “To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.” (John 18: 37) He was absolutely free to proclaim the message of the Kingdom, and to show the people the way to life and the way out of the wicked organization of the Devil into the New World of righteousness. He, being a free man, could teach others how to be free.
The Master’s own positive statement is that “the truth shall make you free”. (John 8: 32) Throughout his life upon the earth Jesus pursued a course of instructing and teaching his followers. He knew the importance of their receiving true knowledge. By obtaining knowledge of the truth, which is the Word of God, it is possible for creatures to become free. It is essential, therefore, that creatures who want to be free from the Devil’s organization receive knowledge and understanding concerning God’s Word, so that the truth will make them free also.
The obtaining of truth does not come in any easy manner; it comes by hard work and continuous study. There must be a ‘renewing of the mind’ so as to get rid of all the error and corruption of the traditions and religious teachings. These old ideas must be cleared out of the head before it can be filled with truth. Freedom is something, then, that must be worked for. All creatures have been shackled by the Devil with sin and religion. These two, sin and religion, must be gotten rid of, and the one whom we follow must be Christ Jesus, the Righteous Ruler of the New World. The apostle James states it well: “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.” (Jas. 1:25) Anyone who looks into the “perfect law of liberty” and expects to be made free and remain that way must, of necessity, continue to study the law of liberty, which is the truth.
Furthermore, he may not be a forgetful hearer; but he must be a doer of that which he has heard. One cannot just listen to the Word of God as expounded by Christ Jesus or the apostles, or by a present-day witness of Jehovah, and agree and say “That’s right” and expect to receive life or the freedom enjoyed by creatures who have the truth. The apostle James says that if you want to continue in this law of liberty and this freedom you must also be a doer or a worker, not a forgetful hearer. One who retains the truth in his mind, and believes it, will work in its interest. If you are a worker, you will be blessed in your deeds, or in your own doing. Therefore freedom comes with activity, a course of action governed by God’s Word, the “perfect law of liberty”. True knowledge is important. You must make it your own, and then proclaim that knowledge to others. The apostle Paul makes it clear and shows that the freedom we have received through Christ Jesus is for the purpose of proclaiming this freedom to others. His words are: “For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.” (Gal. 5:1, A.R.V.) The freedom from sin’s condemnation that we possess through the ransom sacrifice of Christ Jesus is so that we might be a free people; and it is for freedom’s sake that we have been set free, no longer to go back into the yoke of bondage.
Christ Jesus came to earth not only to redeem the human family, but his principal purpose was far greater than that, namely, the vindication of his Father’s Word and name. It is for this very purpose that Christ Jesus has set us free ; that we too might share in the vindication work of proclaiming the truth and maintaining our integrity above all things. One who maintains his integrity and proclaims the message of truth concerning the Kingdom will be free from sin, religion, and the Devil and his entire organization. Jehovah’s witnesses have not been set free to be bound again by the yoke of bondage of this devilish organization; but, now that they have received freedom, they must stand fast for that freedom and hold high the banner of truth that they have received. Continuing in the truth and proclaiming the same shall keep them free. One who becomes a servant of the Most High, wholly consecrated to the Lord, will never go back into bondage again if he stays close to the truth. If he forsakes the truth and takes on tradition, then it will mean death, everlasting destruction, to that person. An individual can, if he wants to or allows himself to, drift back into the way of the flesh and sin of the Devil’s organization. However, Christ Jesus did not release humankind from bondage to drift back into the chains and fetters of wickedness of this old world. Christians were not made free to be later regimented and taken in by some “happy” scheme of the “new world order” and its leaders, based on what men have learned in times past. How can man learn to do right by practicing wickedness, carrying on war of aggression and destruction, and maintaining totalitarian rule over people? Man does not learn good by doing evil.
The rulers of the world today do not choose to fear the Lord. As it is stated at Proverbs 1:30: “They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.” Mankind can only eat the fruit of its labors of the past six thousand years of sin and sorrow. Men will never be able to produce something better out of an old order. “Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.” (Prov. 1:31-33) Jesus, the great Educator and Teacher, when upon the earth made the statement that “whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock”. (Matt. 7: 24) To have a building or a nation stand, the foundation principles of that nation must be based on the Word of God. Without this it will crumble. God’s righteous Kingdom is built on the principles of truth and righteousness, as it were, upon a solid rock, and it shall stand for ever. It is this Kingdom of Christ Jesus that Christians have been praying for, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.”
The religionists who intend to build up through the nations of this earth a better “new world order” have had the opportunity of hearing the sayings of Christ Jesus, but they have done them not. Therefore the Lord says that they shall be “likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand”. (Matt. 7:26) When the rains descend and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon the house that the Devil’s organization has builded up, and it falls, great shall be the fall of it. The battle of the great day of God Almighty will bring about the collapse of the Devil’s organization because its whole structure is built up on lies, the first lie being perpetrated in the garden of Eden. From then on the whole structure has been built on sand, and that operating up to Noah’s day was washed away in the Flood. The Devil’s reconstructed organization was builded of wood, hay and stubble. While his organization is greater in scope now, it will burn and be destroyed with even greater fury than his world at the time of the Flood. Those who build on truth and righteousness live on a Foundation that cannot be destroyed, but which will last forever; and that is God’s kingdom.
Jehovah’s witnesses, from Abel down to John the Baptist, and from Christ Jesus to the present time, have stood for the truth, and this has made them free. Their only desire is to worship Jehovah God “in spirit and in truth” and to proclaim his message, and to make known the marvelous blessings of God unto their fellow creatures. Those who have the truth fully appreciate that life eternal comes only by a full knowledge of Jehovah God and the Son, Christ Jesus.
KNOWLEDGE OR IGNORANCE
The psalmist David said: “Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God.” (Ps. 143:10) David wanted the freedom that comes only to creatures doing Jehovah’s will. He knew the only way he could receive that freedom was to be delivered out of the hands of the enemy ; for in verse 9 of the 143d Psalm he says, “Deliver me, 0 Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.” Surely anyone in the hands of his enemies, or in fear of his enemies, cannot be free. Seeking the Lord to “teach me to do thy will” shows the proper spirit on the part of the creature; and that is the real spirit of the “faithful and wise servant” class of Jehovah God in the earth today. They are anxious to be taught the will of the Most High; for to have the truth will surely make them free, not only from their enemies visible, but also from those invisible.
Jehovah’s witnesses, even though free, fully appreciate that as long as they are in the world they are going to be persecuted and meet with stiff opposition from the Devil’s organization; for at all times the Devil and his crowd will try to bring them back into the yoke of bondage. In this the Devil will always fail, if the servant keeps his feet in the right path. He must rely upon Jehovah God’s mercy to cut off his enemies and to destroy them. The “faithful and wise servant” today has full trust in Jehovah God that He will cut off all the enemies in His own due time. This cutting off will take place in completion at the battle of Armageddon.
The only free people in the world today are Jehovah’s witnesses, and this is because they have the truth and have been taught the same. People who are ignorant of the truth can never take a stand for freedom, and therefore they must be given knowledge first. Jehovah God forgives ignorance, as he did when dealing with the Israelites of old. In those days he provided an offering for sin of ignorance, as is pointed out in the 15th chapter of Numbers: “Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the Lord, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.” (Num. 15: 24) The priest in this manner made an atonement for the children of Israel, and they were forgiven because of their ignorance. Not only were all the children of Israel forgiven for their ignorance, but also the stranger and sojourner among them was forgiven for his ignorance.
This forgiveness of ignorance applied not only to the nation of Israel, but also to individuals. “And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the Lord, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.” (Num. 15:27, 28) This law also applied to the stranger that sojourned among them, as well as the Israelite. However, if the person is not ignorant he is responsible. It must be assumed that, after they erred once and offered this offering unto the Lord, they were undoubtedly told the proper course to take. Thus they received knowledge and understanding and then responsibility was placed upon them, as is set forth in Numbers 15:30: “But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.” In other words, if one is not ignorant, but goes ahead high-handedly and does as he pleases, not recognizing the Lord’s command or judgment in the matter, then he is wholly responsible. This would apply to spiritual Israel, as well as to the “stranger”, the “other sheep”, within the gates of the Lord’s organization today. Thus it is seen that ignorance is forgiven when one repents and takes steps to correct the error. Proper education in and knowledge of the right course are brought to an individual by the Lord’s servants and thereafter the hearer is responsible before the Lord.
When Paul was on Mars’ hill he told the Athenians that they were too superstitious. These Athenians had an altar with the inscription on it, “To the Unknown God.” Paul said they ignorantly worshiped that unknown God. Paul showed that the unknown God was the God that made the world and all things that were in it, the heavens, the earth, and that He did not dwell in temples made with hands. He further told them that God “winked at” their ignorance for a time; but now the command goes forth to all men everywhere to repent. “Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.” (Acts 17:31) It appears from Paul’s argument that he was telling the Athenians that they were not being held responsible for their worship in times past, but now they were no longer ignorant of these things, as the matter was made clear. Now having knowledge, the truth, they had to make a stand for righteousness, change their worship, because the day of judgment of the world in righteousness was sure to come.
There is no reason for people to be ignorant of the truth all their lives. People in “Christendom” know something about God, the Creator, but they do not know how to worship him “in spirit and in truth”. However, God sees to it that they are informed at the proper time. Because they have been held in ignorance by the Devil’s organization is no reason why they should remain that way. Now the time has come when they must have opportunity to learn the truth, because they are living in the last days. The obligation therefore falls upon Jehovah’s witnesses to remove this ignorance, the same as Paul removed the ignorance of the Athenians, and as Moses did that of the Jews, and tell them the truth regardless of how and where these people live.
The apostle Peter in speaking to the Jews at the temple showed how they had killed the “Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead”, and that they were witnesses of this faet. He said: “And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.” (Acts 3:17-19, A.R.V.) It was through ignorance and following the leadership of the scribes and Pharisees that these Jews killed Jesus, or desired to see him killed. But now the opportunity came for Peter to give them knowledge, and for them to hear, and therefore they would be responsible, being no longer ignorant. This truth they heard would free them from religion and the oppression under which they had been held. Knowledge, therefore, brings responsibility; proper care of this responsibility brings life.
The apostle Paul was very desirous of seeing his fellow Israelites saved. He knew that they were held in bondage, and what they needed was knowledge and understanding. His argument at Romans 10:1-3 is: “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.” The Jews had the zeal all right, but they were not zealous according to the proper knowledge of God’s Word; they did not have the truth. That they must be told, as Peter did so and which is recorded at Acts 3.
There are many religious people who have zeal to build up their organization, but they do not understand the truth or the Lord’s righteous Government. Rather, they are trying to establish their own schemes; and thus they remain in bondage. They cling to an organization of man, believing that will save them. When Christ Jesus was upon the earth he joined up with no organization, not even with the scribes and Pharisees, the priests of his day; but he kept separate from religion and the world, and thus remained a free man. He maintained the free worship of Jehovah.
Those who walk in the footsteps of Christ Jesus today, the remnant, and the “other sheep”, are free people because they hold to the truth; and it is the truth that has made them free. They have full faith in God’s Word and trust in Him to guide and direct them in the proper path. They lean on no earthly organization built up by men. Being Jehovah’s witnesses they know the need of dispensing knowledge to the peoples of all nations, kindreds and tongues. Every effort is put forth by them to inform people freely of the truth contained in the Word of God, so that they may repent, change their course of action, and walk in the way of life. Their problem is the same as Paul’s; and they know that “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report ? So then faith eometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”.—Rom. 10:13-17.
The apostle’s argument here is that a person must hear the truth; but how can he hear if someone is not sent to him, so that he might hear, whether he be Jew or Greek, heathen or religionist ? How can the peoples of the world be made free, if they have not heard the truth that shall make them free? It is necessary, therefore, to send forth a preacher; not one, but thousands, in all the world to give the witness. This is the work that Jehovah’s witnesses are doing in the earth today.
Clearly do Jehovah’s witnesses see that the gospel of the Kingdom must be preached in all the world for a witness; and that the truth is God’s Word, and the greatest textbook ever given to man is the Bible. It is the information contained therein, the knowledge of God’s Word, that is essential for all creatures to obtain. By the Lord’s grace, and under the direction of His great universal organization, Jehovah’s witnesses now go forth unto all parts of the world to proclaim the message of the Kingdom; for they know that knowledge is essential, and with knowledge of God’s Word the people shall be free.
The wise man says, “The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.” (Prov. 15:7) Again, he stated that “a wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength”. (Prov. 24:5) Knowledge of God’s Word is finer than choice gold. Wisdom and instruction are something to be desired by all creatures. The world of mankind has been held in darkness. Darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people. However, among all these people there are many who love righteousness, many who are of good-will, and the light of God’s Word is sown for these righteous ones. Jehovah’s witnesses have the obligation to “disperse knowledge” and go into all the world to teach and preach, even as the Lord Jesus commanded: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.” This work Jehovah’s witnesses have been carrying on against great opposition.
In the past decade the work of Jehovah’s witnesses has been banned in many countries. However, these ministers of the gospel did not stop preaching the message of the Kingdom; they continued, because they are a free people, representing a new Government of righteousness, and obligated to preach because of a covenant made with Jehovah by them. Their God has made them free to proclaim the message of the truth and to worship Him according to his Word. Government officials, religionists, gangsters or mobs might kill a creature, or a group of witnesses, but they can never silence the truth. God will raise up others to see that the message of truth is proclaimed. He declared that the very stones would cry out the message of the Kingdom if the servants of God failed to do this. But God’s servants are anxious and willing, and delight to sing forth his praises at the present time, and will continue to do so despite all persecution.
Jehovah’s witnesses are not a sect or a cult, opposed to present governments; nor are they fanatics who have some peculiar ideas about government, and who want to force them upon other people. Jehovah’s witnesses are just plain, ordinary people from every walk of life. They have one thing in common, and that is their love for truth and righteousness; and they have faith in Jehovah God and his Kingdom. Their belief and acceptance of the Son, Christ Jesus, as King of the New World cannot be shaken. Their will to follow in his footsteps cannot be changed. Their guide is God’s Word, the Bible, and in it is expressed the will of God concerning them. It is from there that they receive their instruction, and they follow the commands of the Almighty. Jehovah’s witnesses will obey all laws of men and nations if these are in full accord with Jehovah’s Word, as set out in the Holy Scriptures. Because they preach the Word of God, and this alone, they are persecuted, browbeaten, jailed, tor-tured, and even killed. All manner of evil is brought to bear against them. They do not shun these sufferings and persecutions, because they know that their Master, Christ Jesus, had to go through the same kind of suffering; and ‘the servant is no greater than the master’.
Jehovah’s witnesses are not located in only one locality or country, but are to be found world-wide. Jehovah has had on earth since the time of Abel some men before the Flood and thousands since the Flood who have represented Him. These have maintained their integrity, and always proclaimed His truths to the people of their time. Jehovah’s witnesses at all times, past and present, have been a free people because of their knowledge of God and their obedience to the truth which has made them free; and as long as they hold to the truth they will be free. “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world,” said Jesus concerning his servants. — John 17:16.
The remnant on earth, who represent the free nation, having been brought together into one group or operating body to worship God, must remain that way. The reason they have been brought together is that Jehovah “draws them”. “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.” (John 6:44) What is it that draws or attracts the creature? The truth!! Jehovah’s witnesses are brought together unto Christ Jesus by God’s truth; for the truth will draw all righteous ones to the right place. “Light is sown for the righteous.” (Ps. 97:11) No one cometh to the Father, except by Christ Jesus, because Christ Jesus is the way, and the truth, and the life. Jehovah’s witnesses therefore recognize no man as leader; but Christ Jesus is the King, set upon his throne by the Father in heaven, and it is the King that they follow in service and in proclamation of the final warning to be given at this time, prior to Armageddon.
MANNER OF PREACHING
Primarily Jehovah’s witnesses carry on their work as did Christ Jesus when he was upon the earth, that is, from house to house. After the Lord had made his consecration to serve his Father in heaven he devoted all his time to preaching the gospel of the Kingdom, presenting the truth to the people, which would make them free from the bondage of this evil world. Due to the modern means of conveying information to other persons, Jehovah’s witnesses have advantages that Christ Jesus and the apostles did not have in their day. The printed page has been a real asset and is used very extensively by the Lord’s servants in their activity. These Christian people use Bibles, books, booklets, magazines, pamphlets, tracts, and other documents necessary to convey the truth of God’s Word to the people, in all principal languages. Jehovah’s witnesses are not book distributors, but are educators, and their purpose is to teach other people the same as Jesus did. In order that the people may get the very best out of the publications placed with them, Jehovah’s witnesses arrange to call back on these interested persons so that studies may be started in their homes. This work is identical with that done by Christ Jesus and the apostles, and it is carried on for the very purpose of teaching all persons the truth, which truth will lead to life eternal.
The work is not a selfish one, but is done solely in the interests of the people of good-will. Realizing the great need for free education among the people who love righteousness, these Christians press on, proclaiming the gospel of the Kingdom even though opposed by the leaders of this world, particularly the religionists.
All of Jehovah’s witnesses who have made a careful study of the Lord’s Word are qualified to teach and conduct studies of the Bible in the homes of the people. Being ordained ministers, and having consecrated their lives to serve the Almighty God, and receiving their ordination from Jehovah, as set forth at Isaiah 61:1, 2, they must of necessity do this work of preaching. They arrange for all the home Bible-study meetings that they can take care of. Yes, this takes time and energy, and great patience; but, with the aid of the books and question booklets provided, and various versions of the Bible, this work is making great progress and is receiving the Lord’s rich blessing.
Other instruments are used to convey the truth to the people, such as phonograph recordings. These lectures are reproduced by electrical transcription machines, radio, and portable phonograph. In fact, any means that will convey thought or ideas to the downtrodden peoples of the earth Jehovah’s witnesses use, so that the people may be enlightened and then follow in the proper way that leads to life and away from the bondage and regimentation of this world.
This Yearbook of Jehovah's witnesses brings to the attention of its readers the work that has been accomplished by these servants of the Lord as reported by their legal agents, the various corporations or branches that Jehovah’s witnesses use in different lands. This report will be of real interest to all the servants of the Most High and those who are seeking after truth and righteousness. You will see here a people separate from the world (though in it), who are unselfishly devoting their time, energy, money and strength in the interests of the people of good-will. At the same time you will see the greatest opposition brought against these people by the rulers, and those that set themselves in high places, particularly the religionists and their dupes.
ORGANIZATION
The work of preaching the gospel of God’s kingdom in all the world for a witness is well organized and directed through two corporations (Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, of Pennsylvania; and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., of New York) from their principal offices used by Jehovah’s witnesses. These offices are located in New York city.
The corporate body owning the property where these offices are operating is known as the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., formerly Peoples Pulpit Association. This corporation was organized in the State of New York in 1909. Its charter provides, in part:
The purposes for which it is to be formed are, the moral and mental improvement of men and women, the dissemination of Bible Truths in various languages by means of the publication of tracts, pamphlets, papers and other religious documents, and by the use of all other lawful means which its board of directors, duly constituted, shall deem expedient for the purposes stated, and for religious missionary work . . . “its corporate purposes are, Charitable, benevolent, scientific, historical, literary and Religious purposes, and for the purpose of maintaining and conducting classes for the gratuitous Instruction of men and women, on the premises or by mail, in the Bible, Bible literature and Bible history, and for the gratuitous teaching, training and preparing of men and women as teachers, and as lecturers on the Bible and preachers of the Gospel, and to provide and maintain a home, place, building or buildings for the gratuitous housing, sheltering and boarding of such students, lecturers, teachers and ministers, and to gratuitously furnish to such students, lecturers, teachers and ministers suitable meals and lodging, and to prepare, support, maintain and send out to the various parts of the world religious missionaries, teachers and instructors in the Bible and Bible literature, and for public religious worship, and for the purpose of the publication and distribution of Bibles and Bible and religious literature . . . The operation of a radio broadcasting station ... to carry out the present purposes and powers of the corporation.”
The president’s office and the office of the secretarytreasurer, and one of the Society’s homes for “gratuitous teaching, training and preparing of men and women as teachers ... on the Bible and . . . gratuitous housing, sheltering and boarding of such students”, are located at 124 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn 2, N. Y. The general offices of this corporation, and its printing plant, are located at 117 Adams Street. It is from this place that all its magazines, books and tracts are shipped. Its college, which does “maintain and send out to various parts of the world . . . missionaries, teachers and instructors in the Bible and Bible literature”, is located at South Lansing, New York state. Its broadcasting station is located on Staten Island, New York.
The New York corporation, known as the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., is not the subsidiary of any legal corporation, but is an agent used by Jehovah’s witnesses to carry on the work of preaching the gospel of the Kingdom, primarily in New York state and, generally, throughout all of the United States.
For Jehovah’s witnesses the New York corporation prints Bibles, magazines, books, booklets, tracts; it has manufactured phonographs, records, and does generally all the work and business necessary as a corporation and for Jehovah’s witnesses. It purchases all materials for printing and publishing of literature. It makes shipments to all companies, pioneers and others desiring the Society’s literature. This corporation sends out servants to the brethren (these being traveling ordained ministers) throughout the country to aid in the organization of the companies and to assist generally Jehovah’s witnesses in advancing the preaching of God’s kingdom.
The contributions that Jehovah’s witnesses receive in their house-to-house work for literature distributed are sent to the New York corporation so that this corporation can print more of such literature for other persons of good-will; but these contributions do not cover all the cost of operating the Society. The difference is made up each year by donations to the Society by Jehovah’s witnesses. The New York corporation is a non-profit organization and was organized in 1909 to carry on its benevolent purposes and charitable work, and has done so since that date; and all of the funds it receives are used to this end.
It maintains a home at 124 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn 2, N. Y. This home houses all the workers that take care of the corporation’s activities in the city of New York. The men and women living at 124 Columbia Heights, known as the Bethel home, all being Jehovah’s witnesses and ordained ministers, have volunteered their services freely to aid in the advancing of the Kingdom interests. All, including the officers and directors, receive the same allowance each month, namely, $10, for clothing and incidental expenses. All other things are provided for them, such as room and board. No officer or director receives any profit from the operation of the Society, and their services are voluntarily contributed to the cause of preaching the gospel. Some of them work at the Bethel home; others in the printing plant, located at 117 Adams Street, where the manufacture of books, booklets and magazines is carried on, and shipment of the same made. Many also spend their time in' the office, taking care of the correspondence and work necessary in the organization and activity of Jehovah’s witnesses. The use of the properties owned by the Society is exclusively for chartered purposes and for the carrying on of its philanthropic work.
The New York corporation also has property on Staten Island where is located the radio station, WBBR, which broadcasts no commercial announcements, no money ever being received by this station for programs broadcast. Its sole purpose for existence is the preaching of the gospel, that is, in the public interest, convenience and necessity, which is benevolent. On this same location at Staten Island there is a truck garden. The food raised at this place is immediately used on the table of the Bethel home, or is canned for use in the winter. No products raised on this farm are sold to anyone, but are used by the corporation exclusively for the care of the family at Bethel. No one profits from the operation of this farm, but the food produced therefrom enables the Society to operate the Bethel home at a much smaller cost than it would require if all food were bought from outside producers or dealers. Thus the greatest amount of work can be done at the lowest cost and thus more money can be used in directly preaching the gospel of God’s kingdom among the poor and people of goodwill. All persons performing services to produce the food are members of the Bethel family and they receive no profit for producing the same. Each is a minister of the gospel and does ministerial work, as does every member of the family.
The charter of the New York corporation provides that it may establish schools for ministers, missionaries, traveling evangelists and teachers. To this end the New York corporation has established the Watchtower Bible College of Gilead, at South Lansing, N. Y., where further training in Bible study is given to ordained ministers brought in from all parts of the United States. At this same location it maintains a farm that provides food for the college and Bethel home, and which is not operated in any way for pecuniary gain.
The work of this corporation carried on at any of its properties is wholly educational, benevolent, nonprofit, and its activities are in the interests of all persons of good-will.
The New York corporation, being one of the legal agents used by Jehovah’s witnesses, would naturally work in co-operation and full accord with other corporations established by Jehovah’s witnesses, carrying out a like purpose. To this end the New York corporation co-operates fully with the Pennsylvania corporation and supplies this corporation with all literature needed in its work of further spreading the gospel of the Kingdom.
The Pennsylvania corporation, known as the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, was formed in 1884. This corporation was the first organization or legal agent used by Jehovah’s witnesses, and it sets the general policy and plans for the world-wide work of Jehovah’s witnesses, which work it carries on. The Pennsylvania corporation operates in the State of Pennsylvania and has the right to direct preaching activity of its ministers in other states. It has a "registered” office located in Pennsylvania. It also has established branches of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society (Pennsylvania corporation) in all parts of the world and sends to these other countries evangelists or missionaries to care for the work of preaching the gospel in these other lands.
The New York corporation has an account with the Pennsylvania corporation and prints all the necessary publications that the Pennsylvania corporation uses in the foreign countries. The Pennsylvania corporation has no printing plant of its own in the United States. Therefore the New York corporation, also an agent of Jehovah’s witnesses, does such printing of books, booklets, magazines, etc., as is required by the Pennsylvania corporation. Both corporations are doing the same work, but in different localities.
When the Pennsylvania corporation was originally established, in 1884, whatever printing was necessary to be done was contracted for with commercial concerns. In 1909 it was found that the work generally could be carried on better from New York city on behalf of Jehovah’s witnesses, and therefore the main offices and operating headquarters were moved to Brooklyn, and the Peoples Pulpit Association, now the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., was organized. Eventually the Watchtower Bible and Tract
Society, Inc., established its own printing plant. Their purposes being parallel, and both being agents of Jehovah’s witnesses, it is only natural now that this New York corporation should be printing supplies required by the Pennsylvania corporation, all of which is done at no profit to the New York corporation or the Pennsylvania corporation. The Pennsylvania corporation still operates in Pennsylvania and has its home and registered office in Pittsburgh, Allegheny county. Because the president of the New York corporation and the president of the Pennsylvania corporation are the same individual, and for convenience of its officers, and for other reasons, it uses offices at 124 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn 2, N. Y., to direct its corporate activities.
The Pennsylvania corporation, operating branches in foreign lands, has in several instances set up its own printing plants in other countries. In some countries where branches operated it was found necessary to establish a local corporation to take care of the operation of property and to care for certain legal matters within that country. To this end the International Bible Students Association was organized, in 1914, at London, England, and is another legal agent used by Jehovah’s witnesses to further the interests of the Kingdom. A corporation by the same name (International Bible Students Association, Ltd.) was organized in Canada, it being part of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
These legal agents—the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society (Pennsylvania), the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc. (New York), the International Bible Students Association (United Kingdom), and any other “agents”—all do the same work and are organized for the same purpose, and are used by Jehovah’s witnesses in whatever locality they are legally recognized to further advance their activities of preaching and teaching God’s Word.
Because the principal officers of all three corporations are practically the same in identity, especially as to the office of president, the president has an office in New York and from that place directs the affairs of all three corporations, the Pennsylvania, the New York, and the British corporation. All corporations are, however, separate and distinct one from the other and were organized legally at different times and at different places, but all for the purpose of increasing the interests of the Kingdom and advancing the witness work. Each corporation has its separate set of books and records. Each corporation has its own board of directors and each board of directors holds regular meetings to decide the business necessary in connection with that particular corporation. Sometimes there are joint meetings of the boards of directors, because the policies affecting one corporation would of necessity affect the others; for all the corporations are agents for Jehovah’s witnesses. Jehovah’s witnesses in themselves are not a corporate body, nor can they as such own or operate factories, homes or any kind of institution and thus carry on a legal business under the name “Jehovah’s witnesses”. It is clearly to be seen then that, while Jehovah’s witnesses’ work is a worldwide activity of preaching God’s Word, they must use certain agents or corporations so that they can, as far as this world is concerned, have legal recognition in the preaching of the gospel of the Kingdom. They have full right, because Jehovah God has given them that right, to proclaim the message of the Kingdom throughout all the world. But, so that they might carry on their business legally and according to the laws of the various lands, they have organized corporations for convenience and effective operation. No corporations are ever formed by Jehovah’s witnesses in any state or country unless it is found to be expedient, and then only with the consent of the president of the Pennsylvania and New York corporations above mentioned.
Summing up the matter, then, Jehovah’s witnesses are now using the Pennsylvania corporation, namely, the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, to carry on its chartered work in the State of Pennsylvania and the United States, as well as to operate branches throughout all the world. The literature this corporation uses it obtains from a New York corporation of a similar name. In some foreign lands it has established its own printing plants to further its chartered purposes. Contributions by people throughout all the world are made to the Pennsylvania corporation to enable it to carry on its work. This includes wills and estates left to “Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society”, a Pennsylvania corporation. The monies it receives by this means go into a “Good Hopes” fund and, at the direction of the board of directors of this corporation, are expended for the preaching of the gospel of the Kingdom in any part of the world that it seems advisable and in the best interests of the people of goodwill.
The New York corporation was organized in 1909 for the purpose of carrying on the work in New York state, when it took on the primary responsibility for the activities of Jehovah’s witnesses throughout the United States. This corporation could, if it so desired, establish branches throughout all the world ; but, since this work has already been done by the Pennsylvania corporation, there is no need for such a step, and therefore these activities are still handled by the Pennsylvania corporation.
So that the work of Jehovah’s witnesses might be carried on efficiently, these various corporations have been formed in such places as deemed necessary and thus the work has been carried on systematically, orderly and to comply with proper state and governmental laws or regulations.
All the corporations are non-profit, benevolent, educational, Christian, and philanthropic organizations. None of the officers receive any pecuniary gain, but they serve because they have consecrated their lives to this benevolent work. Monies received by Jehovah’s witnesses in the distribution of literature are returned to the New York corporation, or, in other countries, to the branches of the Pennsylvania corporation, and this makes possible further publication of books, magazines and printed matter. “Good Hopes” contributions sent to the Pennsylvania corporation are used for missionary service in the United States, or any other nation or field where funds are required. All monies expended are spent at the direction of the officers of the corporation controlling these funds, who act as trustees and stewards of Almighty God and always in the best interests of the Kingdom.
ORDAINED MINISTERS
Any individual of sound mind and mature in years, who has a knowledge of God’s Word and appreciates His commands, and who then makes a full consecration unto God to do His will, is ordained of God to be His servant, for ever, if he maintains his covenant. When Christ Jesus was upon the earth he consecrated his life to the service of his Father in heaven, and he symbolized his consecration by water baptism in the river Jordan. All his apostles followed the same course. Everyone who properly claims to be a Christian or one of Jehovah’s witnesses now will do likewise. One who has consecrated his life to the service of the Most High will preach the gospel of the Kingdom as he has opportunity, and really puts forth every effort to do that. One does not go to a theological seminary or school to be an ordained minister of the gospel. To go there would mean that he was ordained of men to preach God’s Word; whereas the only One who can give the real authority to preach the Word of God is Jehovah himself, even as He gave it unto his Son. (Isa. 61:1,2) One having consecrated himself and having received the ordination from Jehovah God will put forth every effort possible to preach the gospel of the Kingdom by going from house to house visiting the people of good-will, comforting those that mourn, calling back on the interested persons and conducting book studies to show them the importance of God’s Word and why one must follow its instruction.
Throughout all the world, where there are a large number or a few of Jehovah’s witnesses located in one city or town, they assemble together for the study of God’s Word. These recognize The Theocracy, God’s Government, and request the Society to appoint a servant who will direct the general affairs of the local organization, so that they may get on at unity. This servant is known as a company servant. He does not receive his position by election of those in the company, but, because of his good works and ability, and willingness to serve his brethren, is appointed by the head office or branch office of one of the corporations. These corporations are the servants of all of Jehovah’s witnesses, and those in responsible positions of the corporations look well to the interests of the Kingdom everywhere. Those brethren appointed as company servants, or as any other servant in the company, must first be wholly devoted to the Lord and must show that they will assume the responsibilities placed upon them as a servant. While all of Jehovah’s witnesses are ministers of the gospel and receive their ordination from Jehovah, these appointed servants hold special positions of responsibility among their congregations, to lead in the work of preaching the gospel of the Kingdom and conducting studies, and to arrange the assembling together of Jehovah’s witnesses for worship.
In addition to these servants of congregations, the Society has thousands of evangelists or missionaries who travel from place to place in territories where there are no organizations of Jehovah’s witnesses. These brethren are known as pioneer publishers.
Then there are other servants specially appointed to represent the Society, such as seiwants to the brethren. These are traveling evangelists or ministers who go from company to company for the purpose of aiding them in clearly seeing their privileges as Jehovah’s witnesses. Others are special evangelists or missionaries in foreign fields. Others are selected to work at institutions of the Society, such as the Bethel home, Society’s college, or at branches. This special list of servants, all ordained ministers, the Society publishes in its Yearbook. But this list by no means represents all the ordained ministers of Jehovah’s witnesses.
The individuals whose names appear on the list that follows are servants selected by the Society, specially equipped to look after ministerial duties at the headquarters of the Society and its various institutions and branches, or as traveling evangelists.
ORDAINED MINISTERS
Abbuhl, David; Abrahamson, Richard E.; Akashi, R. L.; Akin, Walter Barton; Alias, Joseph; Alspach, Russell William; Anderson, Arvand A.; Anderson, Fred August; Anderson, Henry Alexander; Anderson, John Henry; Anderson, Julian Errol; Anderson, Richard M. (Jr.); Arnold, Edward L.; Astle, Robert Louis; Attwood, Anthony Cecil; Avey, Arthur William; Babcock, Earle; Babiash, Joseph; Baecht, Albert; Baeuerlein, John Adam; Baker, Glenn Seymour; Ballard, Ernest W.; Banks, Thomas Edgar; Barber, Carey W.; Barnes, George Quincy; Barr, James Erskine; Barr, John Edwin; Barrett, G.; Bates, William Madison; Bausch, Lawrence Richard; Baxter, W. H.; Beasley, Eugene Willis; Becker, Edward William; Beckett, David A.; Behannan, Harry Capton; Behm, Leonard T.; Belcon, Nicholas; Bennett, Ernest Solomon; Bennett, Harvey Calvin; Benson, Joe Ricketts; Black, Harry Berne William; Bogard, John; Booth, John Charles; Bottorff, Paul; Bourgeois, John Louis; Bourne, Reginald Armor; Bradshaw, Raymond; Brame, Earle Leathers; Brehmer, John Otto; Broadwater, Lloyd; Brown, Henry Tolbert; Brown, Robert DeArcy; Brown, William Roland; Buczek, Leo; Buehler, Arthur Victor; Buenger, Philip; Bullock, Wilmar Charles; Bumphrey, Francis Eugene; Burczyk, Benno Oskar; Burkhard, Donald Wilson; Burmester, Werner; Burrell, Lloyd Byron; Butrus, Peter; Byriel, Andrew; Calendine, Lionel Edwin; Cantwell, Henry Albert; Cantwell, Jesse Lee; Cantwell, Russell David; Caron, Steven Louis; Casola, Peter A.; Chapman, Percy; Chen, Frank; Chitty, Eward Charles; Chunn, Percy Charles; Claus, Arthur L.; Clay, Edgar Allan; Coingcold, Alfred; Coller, Homer; Comstock, Eli Hall; Comuntzis, Thomas P.; Connor, Andre Francis; Conover, Albert L.; Conrow, Harvey Rockwell; Cooke, Harry Hubert; Cornelius, Eric Gustaf; Cornelius, Russell Stewart; Correnti, Joe; Coultroy, Charles Russell; Coup, Garrison Leffew; Coville, Allan Stanley; Covington, Hayden Cooper; Crabb, Roy; Craford, Thomas Jefferson; Culley, Elbert Franklin; Cummins, Albert E.; Cutforth, C. W.; Cutforth, John Ashlin; Danley, J. A.; Davis, James E.; DeBeer, Adrian; DeCecca, Giovanni; DeFehr, John; Derderian, Dickran P.; Devan, Frank; Dey, William Robert; Dickman, William Robert; Dixon, Henry M. Stanley (Sr.); Dixon, Henry M. Stanley (Jr.); Dockey, E. L.; Donley, Carl Trent; Downie, Malcolm Macpherson; Droge, George Henry; Duncan, Harold Billet; Dunham, A. P. R.; Dweck, Samuel; Eckley, Fred Garfield; Edwardes, James Campbell; Eicher, Charles Emile; Elmore, Oscar Lee; Elrod, William A.; Emde, Harry S.; Emery, Wilfred Vryburgh; Enervold, Johan Henrik; Erickson, John T.; Eyerich, George; Fanning, Edward; Feaster, Lenox M.; Fekel, Charles John; Ferdinand, Baw Joseph; Ferrari, Charles L.; Ferrari, Joseph; Ferrari, Ralph; Feuerbacher, Max R.; Finch, John; Fischer, William R.; Fisher, Arthur W.; Fleury, Maurice; Flinn, Edgar Allan; Forsyth, Thomas; Franz, Kenneth Lyle; Franz, Fred William; Fredianelli, Bruno John; Fredianelli, Charles; Fredianelli, George; Friend, Maxwell G.; Frost, Charles E.; Fulton, Proctor; Fulton, Paul Tower; Gacek, Walter; Gangas, George D.; Garrett, Floyd Franklin; Garrett, Nicholas Isaac; Geyer, Benjamin P.; Gillespie, Ray E.; Gillis, John Harm; Gilmer, Charles Mathews; Gilworth, Lewis Gorden; Glass, Russell Ellsworth; Goff, Cecil Joseph; Goff, Gerald Dean; Goff, Sid Williams; Goings, Chester; Gonzalez, Raymond; Good, Forrest Gilmore; Goshen, Elijah W.; Goux, Arthur R.; Graber, John Arthur; Greenlees, Leo K.; Guiver, Ernest L.; Hackenberg, Chauncy F.; Haigh, Joseph Horace; Hall, Paul Marshall; Hallberg, Robert Vincent; Hammer, Paul; Haney, Arthur; Hannan, George Edwin; Hannan, William Trenchard; Hardy, Ray Leota; Harteva, Kaarlo Jalmari; Haslett, Donald; Hatzfeld, Robert Henry; Heath, William Pratt (Jr.); Hemery, Jesse; Hemingway, John Tom; Henschel, Milton George; Heisler, Charles Russell; Hibbard, Olin J.; Hibshman, Clarence Leroy; Hibshman, David Zinn; Hillering, Thurston Andrew; Hodman, Albert Stanley; Hoffmann, David N.; Hojnacki, Roman Victor; Hollister, Frederick Stevens; Holman, George Stevens; Holmes, Calvin Henry; Hopkins, J. C.; Hoppe, Karl; Houghton, Leonard; Howarth, Joseph; Howlett, Matthew Arnold; Hutt, William Daniel; Hughes, Alfred Pryce; Hugh, Friedrich Eugene; Hurley, Joseph B.; Huscock, Charles; Huzzey, Clarence Seward; Ihrie, Elmer Carl; Ilett, Ambrose E.; Inglehs, Art; Jackson, William Kirk; James, Herbert William; Jansen, Klaus Momrad; Jewulski, Theodore Geo.; Johnson, Gay Wilbur; Johnson, James Wilbur; Johnson, Leonard R. S.; Johnson, Maple Milner; Johnson, Samuel E.; Jones, George; Jones, James Wiley; Jones, Ralph Theodore; Jones, Stanley Ernest; Judson, Henry G.; Kalle, Rudolph; Karanassios, Athanasius; Kellaris, Alexander Nicholas; Keller, Eduardo Francisco; Kelly, George W.; Kennedy, Edgar Claire; Kennedy, Keith; Kershaw, Arthur; Killian, Dave Rice; King, Harold George; Kipland, Powell Means; Kjorlich, Donald Otto; Klein, Karl Frederick; Klein, Theophilus Erhart; Knote, Clarence Elmer; Knorr, Nathan Homer; Knowles, Dale G.; Kosel, Andrew D.; Koski, John Wallace; Kurzen, John Godfrey (Sr.); Kurzen, John Godfrey (Jr.); Kurzen, Russell Walter; Kusiak, Mike; Kutch, John Andrew; Lagana, Andrew; Laguna, John; Lang, Albert Sherman; Lardereld, Nicholas Martin; Larson, Max Harry; Latch, Winfield Scott (Jr.); Latrix, James W.; Lazenby, Robert W.; Learned, Alvin Eugene; Learned, Charles Dillard; Le Clair, Joseph O.; Leffler, Ralph H.; Leiwe, Charles Raymond; Lemons, Paul H.; Lordin, Joe; Lester, Cornelius; Linden, Marcus; Lindsay, Ludwell Moses; Lopp, Foster Leon; Lubeck, Joseph; Lundgren, H. E.; Lunstrum, Dave A. T.; Lukaszewski, Frederick; Lutz, John; Mann, Clayton Hubert; MacAulay, Dan; Macmillan, Alexander Hugh; Mann, Albert Herod; Maples, Lovie Raymond; Markus, John Frederick; Marsh, Emmet Cleal; Martin, Louis R.; Martinsen, Martinus; Mason, Bernard Brock; McClure, Milton A.; McCumber, Charles E. (Jr.); McCormick, Gilbert Yarwood; McCumber, Clarence Lacy; McDaniel, Elmer James; McGowan, John; McLemore, Lester Loran; McLunan, Roy G.; McKoy, George Edward; McWilliams, Robert Garland; Merriott, Robert; Millar, John Evans; Miller, Grant Dallas; Mock, Wayne Hubert; Morgan, Robert Emil; Moyer, Ralph Kratz; Moyer, Willard Kratz; Muniz, Juan; Nathan, Jack; Nelson, Moses; Nester, Ralph Kendall; Oertel, Henry Carl; Olson, Howard Charles; Oman, Enok; Orrell, Eugene Dallas; Pacholke, Theodore Ervin; Paine, Robert Edward; Palo, William J.; Papadem, George Drakos; Papegoerge, Demetrius; Papayioproulos, Aristokles P.; Paschall, Arthur Lee; Pate, Arden; Peach, Arthur Frederick; Perron, John Alvord; Peterson, Charles Taze Russell; Peterson, William; Phillips, Frederick Edward; Phillips, George Ross; Photinos, Peter; Pierce, Jack Robert; Pillars, Oscar Lawrence; Platt, Frank Gorden; Poloney, Paul S. (Jr.); Powers, Jack Daniel; Price, Frank William; Price, Modene; Prose, Calvin Sheridan; Puddiner, Michael Philip; Quackenbush, Colin Dale; Quackenbush, Myron Neil; Rademaker, William; Rainbow, John Charles; Rann, George A.; Reddish, Henry Caldwell; Rees, Philip D. M.; Reid, Walter Alexander; Reusch, Lyle Elvern; Reynolds, Stanley Edward; Rice, Everett J.; Richards, David John; Richards, John; Riemer, Hugo Henry; Robb, John Birrell; Robert, Charles; Rober, Lester Lee; Rosenberger, James Alex.; Rowitsch, Frederick A.; Rowitsch, Robert Monroe; Ruege, Guenther Arthur; Rusk, Talmage John; Russell, George M.; Ruth, William E.; Rutimann, Alfred; Ryan, Roy Ansil; Sabo, Lewis M.; Sampson, Joseph Ormonde; Santos, Joseph; Scnavey, Beryl E.; Schedel, Wilhelm; Schieman, Harold C.; Schmale, Carl; Schnell, William Jacob; Schroeder, Karl Darrenger; Seal, Alfred Wayne; Secord, Arthur Henry; Shawyer, Caleb Grandison; Shelton, Joseph Philip; Short, W. Clayton; Siebenthal, Oliver; Sillaway, Charles Eugene; Sioras, John P.; Skinner, Francis Edwin; Slattum, Morris Truman; Slaughter, Fred; Slik, Henry; Smith, Hollis Adrian; Smith, Thomas Erskine; Smoker, Leon Charles; Southworth, Charles Herbert; Spencer, Melburn; Starbuck, Floyd Bailey; Steel, Albert Leroy; Steele, Robert C.; Stewart, Donald M.; Stewart, Harold Lloyd; Stierle, Walter R.; Stoitz, Mervin M.; Stone, Roscoe Allan; Stover, George William; Stratigos, Peter George; Suiter, Grant; Suley, Walter; Sullivan, Thomas J.; Sutton, Howard David; Suvak, Andrew; Swayze, Roy A.; Swingle, Lyman Alex.; Taavisainen, Karl Henrik; Talarico, Perley Louis; Talma, Gilbert Louis; Taylor, Walter Benjamin; Teasdale, Sidney Ernest; Tedesco, Angelo B.; Telischak, Mike; Tharp, Dan; Thomas, Ralph Chester; Thomas, Robert Wayne; Thomson, George F. W.; Thorn, Walter John; Tompkins, Carroll Kenneth; Toutjian, Shield H.; Ulrich, Clarence; Umlauf, Jacob; Valle, Charles Mack; Vallotis, Gust Constantinos; Van Amburgh, William Edwin; Van Daalen, Arthur Frederick; Van Daalen, Emil Henry; Van Daalen, Homer Samuel; Vanice, Ernest Ray; Van Sipma, Samuel Martin; Van Zee, Fred Post; Voigt, Walter; Wagner, Andrew K.; Wagner, Charles Wilmer; Wagoner, Paul V.; Waldekens, John; Wallace, Francis Brady; Wargo, Michael (Jr.); Wargo, Paul; Wargo, Pete; Weeden, Henry Barrett; Werner, Arnold; West, James Athea; Wetzler, Harold David (Jr.); Wheelock, Richard B.; White, W. C.; Wiburg, Carl Emil; Wilda, Edmund C.; Wiedenmann, David; Wileite, C. de; Willett, Frank Allan; Williams, Claude Marvin; Williams, Donald Kenneth; Williams, Floyd Wallace; Williams, James A.; Wilson, Ennis Robert; Wilson, Frank C.; Wise, Charles A.; Woodburn, Sydney; Woodworth, Clayton J.; Woodworth, Harold; Woodworth, W. Eldon; Worslee, Arthur Albert; Yost, Earl A.; Young, Warren; Yuchniewicz, Stanley; Yuille, Nathaniel Alston; Zakrewski, Arthur; Zeil, Robert; Zilke, Robert; Zinser, Henry Frederick; Zobel, William; Zuercher, Franz
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