Golden Age, June 7, 1933

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Vol. XIV-No. 358

June 7, 1933

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CONTENTS

LABOR AND ECONOMICS

Great War or 1933 .... 3.',2

'IX' Crisis in Europe

Cei’sis of World Financial

I’l'-TRINS

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

/•jono Tiii'. Highway

(h.tuIIs in Church nt ILinuib.ii . . 5 33

York's Host Popukii’ Niuncs . .'.51

Dwidly Alan and Deadly Auto . . 351

Another Man Convert1, d .... -'55 1 ii■ Iiviu:ires in Britain

MANUFACTURING AND MINING

'Tmiicipal Ownership Pays , .

2 '.009.000.000 Barreis of Oil . . . .'53

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

‘■p>uy American” Canipaign , . , 553

Britain Spending /lore for Army.

Navy and Air.......554

Dciions Hold World's 1’vcuri.L . . 554

Air Express Around the World . . 55.5

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

C ilorado Shale Police Abolished . . 553

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

T.reels Become Poison-proof . , . 554

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Cirnieti d with America by

'1'ck'phone......

The Ed vert on Stroboscope .... 554

First Seagoing Drydock . ... .' 54

Diesel Railway Engine in Brii.ini . 555

HOME AND HEALTH

Tomato Juice and Sauerkraut Juice...........553

Alan AVho Never Called a D.,etor . 554

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

Japanese Boycott in South China . 554

Palestine’s Happy Faces .... 554

A Building Boom in I’aie'-iine . . 554

Town Halls in Turkey

Turkey A’vill Try to Control Narcotic Drugs

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Open Letter to President Roosevelt on Conditions

at Summit, N.J

Judge Rutherford's Kindi, y

Warning to One oe the:

Conspirators

Editorial in the summit "Herald”

“The AIonitok” Prm.i in:.;

Judge Rutherford'.; Chilienge 553 Negroes Tiring of ShmUeis . . . 5.53 The Spirit of Murder at

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Volume XIV Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, June 7, 1933 Number 358

An Open Letter to President Roosevelt on Conditions at Summit, New Jersey

AS THE president of the whole people of these United States, claiming faith in Jehovah the God of the Bible, and in the Scriptures as His Word, your attention is here brought to a condition of official lawlessness in Summit, New Jersey, which is well worthy of your attention as the chief magistrate of this country.

The man most prominently m e n -tioned herein, and to whose record w’e desire to call your attention, is one of the bravest veterans America ever sent to the front in the World War. He was one of the United States Marines, a machine gunner of the Second Division, in every important engagement from Chateau-Thier-ry to the end of the war.

Summit police Cmtri, OF THE CITY OF SUMMIT

Warrant

VIOLATION OF ORDINANCE

CONCERNING DISTRIBUTION OF HANDBILLS

Complainant _ .VL

Residence

THE BACK

OF THE WARRANT

At Chateau-Thier-ry, as you know7, the one American division wore out five seasoned German divisions. For twenty-seven days Dan Morgan was out there in Belleau Woods without vyater to vrash his hands, often W’ithout food, while all around him death decimated the ranks.

To live at all, he and his comrades had to take

the bits of food left in the pockets of the men slain. To live at all, they had to bury in shell holes men that W’ere so rotten they pulled apart ■while they were being dragged aw a y. To live at all, on one occasion, he had to hide for a week in a trench in which the legs of a dead man dangled. There were absolutely no sanitary arrangements. On one occasion, i n a later conflict, he lived three days in the hottest weather in the sump of an abandoned toilet.

If you want to know what the World War was really like, Mr. President, you should read his book, When the World Went Mad. Just addresshim, Dan Morgan, 153 Main Street, Fort Lee, N.J., send $1.75, and he will send you the book as soon as he gets out of prison.

This fearless man is now lingering in prison, not because he wrong, but because he is

has committed any

the victim of conspirators, who are detennined to destroy him, if possible, because he is exercising his God-given privilege to go forth from home to home comforting the people in the Scriptures and preaching to them the gospel 647

of tlio Kingdom, the preaching of which necessarily exposes the duplicity cd a great religious organization.

The Right to Preach the Gospel

You well know, Mr. President, that in this country, as in England, there is a most complete freedom of expression of opinion on any subject, whether by spoken word or written document, that the people here are at liberty to discuss any subject under the sun as openly as possible and in any way they choose; that any person has full liberty to say that the Constitution should be changed, that the people should change their religions, or even, if they s o desired, that there should be no religion at a 11. They have fullest absolute right to criticize a n y church o r a n y teachings whatever, and to set forward their o yv n teachings i n any manner they see fit. That right is being denied at Summit, New Jersey.

WARRANT ORDINANCE

You know that lie teaches, and has a right to teach, that the Devil lias overreached all the governments and all the churches of the world, and that there is absolutely no way of escape but for those in power to come squarely over on the Lord’s side, if they will, and for the people to do it anyway, abandoning all institutions of men that are not four-square with the Word.

Summit Police court

CITY OF SUMMIT, COUNTY’ OF UNION, STATE OF NEW JERSEY,1

at the City of Summit did on the

OF THE CITY OF SUMMIT

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EAS,

To any Officer or member of the Police Force of the City of Summit, or any Constable of said County. Greetings:

on oath, before

Summit, that

on this day made complaint

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of the Summit Police Court of the City of

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id to persons in the

City of Summit,printed adverting matter, to wit, pamphlets, advertising the Watchtower International Broadcast of Brooklyn, New York, and Judge Rutherford’s books, without first obtaining a permit to do so from the City Clerk and the written approval of the Chief of Police, in violation of an ordinance entitled “An Ordinance Concerning Distribution of handbills or other written or printed matter in the City of Summit,” passed May 7, 1929. These are therefore, in the name of the City of Summit to authorize and command you forthwith to apprehend the said

and him forthwith bring or cause to come before mj. Robert B. Williams, Jftstice of the Summit Police Court of the City of Summit, to answer unto the said City of Summit, in an action of Debt for a penalty of Twenty Dollars, and have you then and there this writ.

.mder my hand and the Seal of the said Court this___

day of..J

Court.

THE MOST ASTOXISIIIXG WARRANT EVER PRINTED

You are aware that Judge Rutherford teaches, and has a right to teach, that Christ Jesus, the Anointed King of Jehovah God, has set up His invisible ridership over all the countries of the world, including the United States; you know that he teaches, and has a right to teach, that you and every other person in these United States must bend to the teachings of that King, and bring your life and your official acts into accord therewith, or perish in the battle of Armageddon which he holds, and which the Scriptures disclose, is just ahead.

Summit Has Decided Against God

The town of Summit, New Jersey, has, by its official spokesmen or executives, taken its stand firmly and perhaps irrevocably against God and on the side of the Devil. In the three etchings which are reproduced in this issue we present the proof of a conspiracy by these officials to deprive American citizens of their unquestionable and inalienable rights. Against these acts of conspiracy we protest.

It is the view of Judge Rutherford, and it is our view, and we have full and absolute right

to hold such views, and to express them, that the building of great churches which stand idle all the week while thousands of the very poor have not where to lay their heads, huddling in improvised shelters on the edges of garbage dumps, is worse than foolish; it is criminal.

But it is not foolish and it is not criminal to teach the people over the radio and by the printed page that the Devil i s the one to blame for all their misfortunes, and that Christ Jesus has come as their great Deliverer. Nobody has to accept these truths unless he wishes t o do so, and to live in God’s Kingdom, and on the other hand nobody in S u m m i t, N e w Jersey, o r elsewhere has the slightest r i g h t in human or divine law or in justice, reason or c o m m o n sense to take such m cans of suppression as we bring to your notice in these etchings.

Summit Police Court

OF THE CITY OF SUMMIT

stated by this question, and see how manifestly this was the very thing that was done at Summit, New Jersey.

The throne of iniquity or lawlessness is the throne of the Devil, the rulership or authority of the Wicked One that showed Jesus all the kingdoms o f the world in a moment o f time, and offered the rule of all those kingdoms to Jesus if He w o u 1 d b u t prostrate himself before Satan, as Judas, Dilate and others have done.

Jesus indignantly refused; Judas w a s first o n one side and then on the other; and Pilate o b e y e d hesitatingly. Jesus was right, and the other two were wrong. H a d Jesus yielded to the Devil, everything‘religious’ would have been entrusted to Him, as it has been to the clergy, and then ruin w o u 1 d have been ahead for us all. It is noteworthy that Jesus neve r asked

CITY OF SUMMIT, \

COUNTY OF UNION, V STATE OF NEW JERSEY.)

of the City of Summit complains of

International Broadcast of Brooklyn, New York, and Judge Rutherford’s books, without first

obtaining a permit to do so from the City Clerk and the written approval of the Chief of Police, in violation of an ordinance entitled “An Ordinance Concerning Distribution of handbills or

other written or printed matter in the City of Summit,’’ passed May 7th, 1929, and the amend

ments thereof,

and is liable to a penalty within the intent and meaning of the said ordinances. Complainant thcrefoie piays that the said

THE EQUALLY ASTONISHING COMPLAINT

“Framing Mischief by a Laic”

In Psalm 94, verse 20, the important question is asked of Jehovah God: “Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which fram-eth mischief by a law?-’ See what is plainly

the priests, scribes or Pharisees, Herod or Caesar, or any of their agents, whether He might do the work His Father, Jehovah God, had entrusted Him to do. We meekly but firmly follow His example.

Clcdherixg Together Against the Innocent

Thore is more about this framing of mischief by a law. Ln Psalm 94 it is written: "They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.” The Psalm goes on to tell what will be the outcome of such conspiracies against Jehovah's witnesses in the earth. It says: ‘‘But [Jehovah] is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge. And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own v i -kedness; vea, [Jehovah] our God shall cut th-m off.”—Psalm 94: 20-23.

In another of God's prophecies (Isaiah 59) this framing of mischief by a law is called ‘conceiving mischief’. The thought is the same. Referring to such works of oppression as have boon done at Summit, the prophet says :

"Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth fol’ ji'stiee, nor any pleadeth for truth; they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.”—Isaiah 59:3,4.

This Warrant Ordinance of the Summit Police Court is not some legislation carefully considered by honest men and intended for the welfare of the people. It is ‘mischief framed into a law’. It has a bad motive, an evil motive, an accursed motive back of it. It is intended to bring forth and does bring forth iniquity, which is injustice. The prophet continues:

‘‘They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.”—Isaiah 59:5-8.

Conspiracies Always Fail

There is more in the Scriptures about this framing of mischief into a law. It is mentioned again in the seventh Psalm, where it is again referred to as ‘conceiving mischief’. This language indicates that the framing of an illegal act into a law is of no actual consequence. It is merely a vain imagination. The mind wishes to do something unjust, something illegal, but the law enacted is of no weight, no more than if it had never been thought of. The psalmist says:

‘‘Behold, he travaileth with [lawlessness], and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and dinged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate."—Psalm 7: 14-16.

Yet once again we read in the Psalm about this framing of mischief into a law. Of the wicked it is written that "under his tongue is mischief and vanity’’. But let us have the whole statement, and see what awaits those who seek to entrap innocent followers of Christ Jesus who are diligently doing good in obedience to the commands of God and not doing wrong to anybody. Please note:

“The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blessetli the covetous, whom Jehovah ab-horeth. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in ah his thoughts. His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight. . . . He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved; for I shall never be in adversity. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud ; under his tongue is mischief and vanity. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places doth lie murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. lie both in wait secretly, as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. He crouchctli, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his .strong ones. He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he v.ill never see it.”—Psalm 10: 2-11,

Conspirators Denounced as Murderers

Just consider that a little. Those that frame mischief by a law are denounced as friends of the covetous clergy, whom Jehovah abhors. They are said to be full of cursing, deceit and fraud. They are accused of having lurking places in the villages where they cook up mischief against the poor men and women -who love Jehovah God and are trying to do His will. They are charged with secretly plotting to commit murder; they are denounced as secretly trying to find some way to catch the poor and draw them into their net, into prison, and they do this by calling into play the strong-arm squad, the police, who do what they are told without ever considering whether it is legal or illegal, right or wrong.

Let us hear the conclusion of the matter. Continuing, the tenth Psalm represents the servants of God as saying:

“Arise, 0 [Jehovah] ; 0 God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Wherefore doth the wicked [despise] God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief [framed into a law] and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. [Jehovah] is King for ever and ever: the heathen [meaning the hypocrites] are perished out of his land. [Jehovah], thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear; to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth [the Devil, and his crowd] may no more oppress. ’ ’—Psalm 10:12-18.

Give Us the New Deal, Mr. President

Give us the new deal, Mr. President, in this matter of religious persecution. Call a halt on these strong-arm squads that consider the distribution of godless comic sheets on Sunday perfectly proper, but through pressure from priests and preachers of numerically powerful religious bodies, trespass upon our rights and lock up men like Dan Morgan. This outrage is only one of scores to which our people have been subjected of late, in most flagrant defiance of the laws of God, the fundamental law of the land and the fundamental laws of the states themselves.

And now, Mr. President, we feel sure that you and all our regular readers will be greatly interested in the following letter of Judge J. F. Rutherford concerning this Summit outrage. Conditions there, as respects conspiracy to blockade the spread of the pure truth of God’s Word, are in some respects the -worst, the most brazen, of which we have ever heard. Who would have supposed that a warrant like this signed by Patrick J. Kelly could ever have been printed in these United States?

Judge Rutherford’s Kindly Warning to One of the Conspirators

May 15, 1933.

Mr. Patrick J. Kelly,

Clerk of the Summit Police Court, Summit, N. J.

Sir:

Just now a copy of a warrant issued by the Summit Police Court has been sent to me, that is to say, a photostatic copy. It seems that the local court has entered into a conspiracy, anticipating in advance that there would be a violation of your city ordinance, to arrest witnesses to Jehovah’s kingdom. I note that you have printed those warrants in which the name of the Watchtower International Broadcast of Brooklyn and my own name are included. You have thus deliberately and with malice aforethought put yourself against Jehovah’s witnesses and on the side of the enemy of God and mankind, Satan; but take notice that Jehovah will recompense you and all your company duly and in due time for your wickedness.

You may think you are injuring men and women and that by so doing you can stop the witness to Jehovah’s kingdom; but you will never succeed. These men and women have wholly devoted their lives to the Lord and His kingdom, and the Lord, the great Jehovah God, will see to it that they are duly vindicated for such ill treatment. They are doing harm to nobody, but are only trying to notify the people of how their relief can come to them from this oppressive system that the Devil has put upon the whole world and how he has used it to oppress mankind, and God’s provision for their relief and blessing.

I do not expect this letter to do any good, but the purpose is to serve notice upon you and your associates that you are fighting against Jehovah God and His kingdom and in due time you will receive what is written in His Word as a judgment against all deliberately wicked doers. Just keep this letter and see what comes to pass in the Lord’s due time. He has declared that all mankind shall know that He is supreme, and the time to prove it is near at hand.

The wicked inquisition instituted in Spain and Mexico years ago is being repeated by men in this country like yourself in apparently a more refined form, but which is as cruel and vicious as ever, and it is not going unnoticed by the Lord. If these men were engaged in the racketeer business of beerselling or doing injury to mankind in some other way, you men would wink at it; but when they go about trying to do good to their fellow creatures by trying to help them to understand God’s gracious purposes for their blessing, you see to it that they are punished. The Lord will reward you, be assured of that one fact, and He will do it so thoroughly and completely that you will never forget it.

This letter is intended for you and the magistrate and all of you of like spirit who are bent on doing injury to men and women who are only trying to do good to their fellow creatures. Anyone with the disposition manifested in the warrant must have a malicious heart, that is, one rcgardL'.s of social duty to his follow creatures and bent on doing injury to others. Your conduct proves that the Catholics and Protestants of so-called “organized religion'’ and labeled “Christianity''’ is but another commercial organization and carried on by the Devil for the purpose of keeping the people in blindness; and for fear’ that the common people might know the truth, you lend yourself to the Devil to do injury to the Lord’s faithful and true witnesses.

Don’t you think it is a pity that police officials do not busy Uiemsilves with crooks and noted criminals insiu’.d of the nan and women who are trying to help their fellow creatures in this time of distress? As certain as you read these lines, the day will come when you will v.eop tears of bitterness for the crooked way in which the priests and clergy have led you into this trap of the enemy.

Sincerely,

EDITORIAL IN THE SUMMIT HERALD, MAY 16, 1933

TOLERANCE OR PERSECUTION

Considerable excitement and interest was created last summer and now again on a recent Sunday by the influx of a large group of Jehovah’s witnesses, who, after the police had received many complaints, were arrested as violating the ordinance of distributing literature without a permit. As reported in the news columns, it will be noted that a number of those who were arrested were committed to the county jail in default of paying a fine.

There is little doubt that these persons from out of town have violated a local ordinance, but there is a feeling on the part of some people in the community that these numerous complaints by our residents to the police are evidence of intolerance not generally characteristic of this community. In a letter to the Herald, one of our estimable citizens comments on this matter as follows:

“I was interested in one of ‘Jehovah's witnesses’ who accosted me. He was a good-looking, well dressed young man. He spoke quietly, but with an evident conviction. I answered him softly, telling him that while I did not subscribe to his faith, I respected his and all other religious faiths. He responded with gracious thanks and was on his way briskly. In no way could he have been accused of any discourtesy, much less of offense.

“Surely if we deal with such persons gently, we will do much more to influence them toward rational behaviour than by locking them in jail.’’

It is cpiite true that those accosted and those whose homes have been visited by the “Jehovah’s witnesses’’ may heartily disagree with the religious cult they represent and also with their methods of spreading their views, hut certainly if these “witnesses” act in an orderly and courteous manner and are not offensive or persistent in their efforts to hold up people with their propaganda, their efforts would be harmless; and if they have the satisfaction of free access once in a while they might see that they were not making progress and those who feel they have been disturbed would likely not be disturbed thereafter.

Whether this attitude is correct or not we cannot say. Nevertheless it is a thought on the subject and might be worth a trial in the community.

The Great War of 1933

THE Great War of 1933, in the words of a noted London journalist, J. L. Hodson, in the News Chronicle, is the great war of knowing what to do with the unemployed. He has just finished visiting Sweden, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Italy, Holland, Belgium and France, where he made careful inquiry into the numbers of the unemployed and methods being taken to provide for them. His conclusions are that “only the Great War dwarfed this one of 1933 in horror. In every country in Europe suicides are piling up in hundreds or thousands. In every country undernourishment exists, and in some it is extremely grave. Nowhere in Europe did I find the campaign being prosecuted with genius or even adequate thought and vitality. If ever complacence was an outrage it is now.”

The Rloniior Publishes Judge Rutherford’s Challenge

HE MONITOR, Aurora, Ido., in its issue of May 13, 1933, publishes in full Judge Euth-erlord's challenge to the pope, addressed to The Catholic Bullet hi, and published in our issue of May 24. The challenge is:

“RESOLVED, That the Holy Scriptures prove beyond doubt that the head of the papal church system and its many priests who act officially under its direction do not act by the authority of Jehovah God and Christ Jesus and do not represent God and Christ on earth, but said Catholic institution is a part of this world and operates under the supervision of the god of this world, that is to say, Satan, the Devil, and that thereby the people are deceived and kept in ignorance of the truth, which truth is now vital for them to know.”

Commenting on the challenge and the letter of which it was a part, the editor, Mr. Charles Murphy, had the following front-page editorial. Every reader of The Golden Age yvill admire this splendid defense of common decency.

WHY THE RUTHERFORD CHALLENGE

By Chas. Murphy

It is given to but few institutions to build so powerfully and to attract so huge a following as has the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. Few religious leaders in America have ever commanded so large an audience or claimed through the love and faith of his people, the allegiance of so vast an army as has been mobilized under the leadership of Judge Rutherford, the President of that society.

He has recently been broadcasting over a nationwide hook-up, and the truth on Romanism and her tin-scriptural position has had his attention. This has followed a series of talks over powerful Mexican stations in which he was equally emphatic. I have reason to know that whether Judge Rutherford is speaking or writing, lie is always careful to know his citations and proofs will stand up under attack—so, when in reply to a recent Rutherford Broadcast The Catholic Bulletin of St. Paul resorted to the usual papal tactics of calling names instead of attempting to disprove his statements, it tackled the wrong man.

Rutherford is wholly without fear, and he knows his AB C’s both ways from the middle, so he lost no time in replying and adding a challenge to Rome to pick out her man and meet him in debate on the air.

He has favored The Monitor with a copy of his reply to the papal editor which we consider worthy of widest possible publicity so Rome may have the full benefit of it as the papal organization once more shows its yellow streak and refuses, through fear of Truth, to submit its claims to the people.

Along the Highway

Municipal Ownership Pays

HE Olyphant (Pa.) electric light plant showed a net profit of $19,597.82 during 1932, to compare with $17,949.60 in the preceding year, despite the fact that the rates had been reduced from ten to eight cents per kilowatt hour.

“Buy American’’ Campaign

IT IS claimed that the “Buy American” campaign, offsetting in America the “Buy British” campaign of the British Empire, has already considerably increased the American output of chinaware, several orders which would normally have gone to Europe having landed here.

Tomato Juice and Sauerkraut Juice

REFRESHING, body-building tonic may be made by mixing equal parts of tomato juice and sauerkraut juice. Drink one or two glasses daily, as a general tonic and blood strengthener. So says T. R. Weeks, pioneer.

Colorado State Police Abolished

OLORADO has abolished its state police.

The principal achievement of these police was in a coal strike in 1927, when seven unarmed minors were killed and twenty wounded. Theoretically, their job of late years was to enforce the prohibition law.

23,000,600,000 Barrels of Oil

IT IS estimated that there have so far been extracted from the earth about 23,000,000,000 barrels of oil, differing greatly in appearance, quality, odor and usefulness. All this crude oil would not till a hole in the ground one mile square and one mile deep.

Overalls in Church at Hannibal

T THE Prince Avenue Baptist church, Hannibal, Mo., the pastor preached dressed in overalls. It would be a wonderful thing if all the clergy would get used to these plain but practical items of apparel which will be in such demand in clerical circles shortly.

The Crisis in Europe

TN ITS issue of March 12 the London Sunday Times said: “At no time since 1914 has there been so much open and alarmed talk about war, or a situation more immediately threatening.”

Britain Spending More for Army, Navy and Air T^OR 1933 Britain’s na\y budget is up £3,093,700 over last year; the army estimate is up £1,462,000, and the air force estimates are up £26,000. Fifteen capital ships and cruisers now have catapults for aircraft.

Britons Hold World’s Records

BRITONS hold the world’s airplane distance record, 5,341 miles, from Cranwell, England, to Walfish Bay, South West Africa; the altitude record of 43,976 feet; and the speed record of 407^ miles an hour.

Man Who Never Called a Doctor

\ T SOUTHEND, England, a man has just died who never called a doctor. He passed away at the age of 94. This man also had a brother who never called a doctor; he died at the same age.

Connected with America by Telephone

SOME of the countries connected with America by telephone arc, all of Europe, except Greece; all of Central America, Australia, Siam, Java, Sumatra, South Africa, Egypt, most of South America, Bermuda, and the Bahamas.

Japanese Boycott in South China

IN SOUTH CHINA the anti-Japanese boycott has been so successful that the Japanese have lost 95 percent of their trade. The destruction of Canton, akin to that of Shanghai, in the war that was not war, is now in order.

New York’s Most Popular Names

IN THE new’ city directory of New York there are 94 linear column feet of the name Smith, 84 column feet of Cohen, 67 of Brown, 57 of Miller, 48 of Johnson, 37 of Williams, and 33 of Jones.

Deadly Man and Deadly Auto

TN 1931 we had in the United States 11,160 J- murders and 20,088 suicides; total 31,248.

In the same year we had 31,693 deaths from automobile accidents; so, of the two killers, the automobile seems a little the worse.

The Edgerton Stroboscope

WITH the Edgerton stroboscope, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thousands of snapshots a second may be taken of rapidly moving machine parts. By this means flaws can be detected as they develop.

Insects Become Poison-proof

fTUIE disappointing discovery has been made that insects frequently become immune to one poison and another has to be tried. Thus the mixture once used to fight the San Jose scale becomes ineffective in an orchard where it has been several times used.

First Seagoing Drydock

Uncle Sam -will shortly have the first seagoing drydock. It is to be 393 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 33 feet high from keel to top deck, sufficiently large to repair a destroyer. It will have a ship’s bow, to allow easy towing, and have a hinged gate at the stern.

Palestine’s Happy Faces

Major H. L. Nathan, British member of Parliament, back from a trip to Palestine, says: “One sees more bright faces to the square mile in Palestine than to the hundred square miles in England, France or America.”

A Building Boom in Palestine

A DISPATCH from Jerusalem under date of January 27 states that at that time there was then being experienced a building boom the like of which Palestine has not witnessed since 1925, that builders were unable to keep pace with the unusual demand, and that there was an acute shortage of laborers.

Town Halls in Turkey

TOWN halls are being established throughout Turkey. These halls, called “People’s Houses”, are intended to be centers where the spokesmen for the government can give lectures to the people on all phases of Turkish life.

Turkey Will Try to Control Narcotic Drugs

President Mustapha Kemal, of Turkey, has announced that hereafter Turkey will close all private factories manufacturing narcotic drugs and will confine this trade to a single factory owned and managed by the government. Turkey has hitherto been one of the worst offenders in the trade in narcotics.

Another Man Converted

ANOTHER man lias been converted and will hereafter try to lead an honest life. The want ad columns of a Philadelphia paper tell us about it:

Educated man, white, age 40, former minister, drive truck, work hard at anything for food or clothes. Powell, 4454 N. Uber St.

Negroes Tiring of Shouters

TWO educated Negro ministers and sociolo--L gists who have been studying Negro churches and church work in Atlanta give it as their opinion that the shouting sermon is rapidly on the wane in colored churches. The people are waking up; they have been bluffed long enough and now they want to know something.

Diesel Railway Engine in Britain

"DUNNING easily at 65 miles an hour, the first ■*-*’ Diesel electric train in England made the 113-mile run from London to Birmingham on 27 gallons of fuel, costing a total of about $1.20. Financiers are delighted, and mine owners and miners dismayed, at the possibilities herein suggested.

Millionaires in Britain, 798

TN GREAT BRITAIN, in the fiscal year 1929

1930 the following were the number of incomes over £40,000:

Between

£40,000

and

£50,000

Between

£50,000

and

£75,000

Between

£75,000

and

£100,000

Over

£100,000

Air Express Around the World

THERE is now air express service to most important points in the world, the gap between New York and Plymouth being bridged by the fast transatlantic steamers. The rate from New York to Cape Town or to points in India is $2.10 per pound. The time from Los Angeles to Karachi, India, is IS days.

The Spirit of Murder at Honea Path

TN THE eyes of Almighty God, it is not neces-ary to actually take the life of a fellow man to become a murderer. Jesus makes this perfectly plain in His magnification of the law of Jehovah God. Read carefully His analysis of the Sixth Commandment:

“Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shall not kill: and whosoever shall kill shall he in danger of the judgment: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother icilhout a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall soy to his brother, Raca [maegin, Vain fellow], shall be in danger of the council: hut whosoever shall sav, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.”—Matthew 5 : 21,22. [Words in italics are spurious.]

By the terms of this analysis it will be perfectly clour to every one of our readers that the unnamed clergyman in the following communication is a murderer in the sight of God, and would doubtless have been cjuite content to be one in the eyes of his fellow men had not the angels of God stayed his hand at the opportune time.

Not only is this clergyman a murderer, but he is entirely outside of the temple of God and at the present time entirely outside of eternal life. The Scriptures are very explicit on this point:

“Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.”—1 John 3:15.

The sadly confused condition that the people are in may be discerned from the fact that at first practically all the people in this enterprising little city were ready to follow this murderer to their own ruin. But by the time the great Jehovah God had carried the affair to its logical end the situation was completely reversed.

It takes the common people cprite a little time to realize that the kingdom of God is really established, and that the judgments of Jehovah are really abroad in the land, though contested by Satan and his minions at every stage; but when they finally see through the smoke and confusion with which the adversary purposely beclouds the issue, the bulk of them are ready to cry out, “Lo, this is our God: we have waited for him, and he will [come and] save us.” Poor things! How badly they need the help such as Jehovah’s witnesses and His anerels brought them at Honea Path! (*S'ee page 556)

The GOLDEN AGE

Report on Honea Path By Anton Koerber

Anderson, S.C., May 1, 1933.

Dear Brother Rutherford,

Jehovah is our strength and song. This fact we learned more of in the Anderson (S.C.) campaign on April 30.

The Lord provided a fine assembly point at Brother Marchbank’s home, and a beautiful day for the occasion. Three hundred witnesses reported for action on time and proceeded to give testimony in Anderson, Iva City and Honea Path, S.C. In Anderson, where Jehovah’s witnesses have been threatened recently, no opposition was encountered whatever. The mayor granted permission to stretch a large banner across the main street advertising the Kingdom message given Sunday morning over the radio. The police and other officials accorded us every courtesy, and the people received us very kindly and manifested much favorable interest in the message.

At Iva City, where pioneer L. C. Ross was recently arrested and convicted, the mayor welcomed us and assured us there would be no interference on his part, and we had none. R. G. Watson, the magistrate who brought charges against Brother Ross in the case referred to, has been removed from office since then and, of course, could not officially interfere.

At Honea Path, where continual interference has been experienced for the past seven years, we met different conditions. Apparently the Devil had laid a trap at this place, because the most vicious spirit I have ever seen was manifest by the officials of Honea Path, as the following report will show.

The usual letter and list of names were filed with the chief of police. We entered the town about 9:30 a.m., and about 10:00 a.m. seven witnesses were arrested by order of the mayor, who on two former occasions had tried and convicted Jehovah’s witnesses. Hearing of the vicious attitude of the chief, two brethren were sent to learn of the treatment of the ones arrested and when the trial would be. These were threatened with violence and ordered out of town. I then called upon the mayor to learn of the disposition and treatment of the Lord’s people arrested. An immediate hearing was held before the mayor. Brother McLamb accompanied me and we presented our case amid threats of violence by the chief of police and several detectives to intimidate us in giving testimony, and the mayor refused to stop them.

Near the end of the hearing a door opened and there stood a clergyman with about 70 manifesting the mob spirit, making threats to me regarding the churches and the American government and our literature relative thereto. The mayor then, in the presence of the mob, proceeded to denounce the Watch Tower organization in a speech that wound up with the command to the police to arrest every one of them who took a penny of the people’s money.

As we attempted to depart the clergy with his mob blocked our path and demanded we answer certain questions regarding the sabbath day, the churches and the American government. I did, by the Lord’s grace, showing that one of the reasons for the people’s present condition was due to the defaming of Jehovah’s name by political rulers who acted upon the counsel of the Devil’s agents, the clergy. Then asked him some questions, which he refused to answer, and he was glad to let the matter drop. The crowd partly divided upon this issue, but the chief of police became abusive and swung them in line again with a threatening attitude.

Then requested to see the arrested witnesses. This request was granted by the mayor, and I encouraged the witnesses behind bars to trust in the Lord and assured them we would not leave them there.

Most of our 300 were working in Anderson and were back to the assembly point by that time, so I returned and acquainted the others with the facts. All volunteered to go to Honea Path; so the 300 were organized into several contingents of 70 each and we proceeded to a point selected three miles outside the town. From here a contingent of 70 were sent into action at a time.

The police arrested them immediately, in small groups, until 38 were in jail. Police had orders to arrest only those actually found placing books and receiving money or goods. I cite herewith only a few incidents to show the devilish spirit to secure the evidence they desired. In one case an officer appeared at the door with several others, stuck a gun against the stomach of Jie brother v lines? ing, end demanded he sell a book and accept the money on such terms, in thn presence of the witnesses there in the house. Another case; Members of the chief’s family took books, gave money, then followed the car and arrested the driver several miles out, leaving the others stranded. Another officer appeared at the door and struck a brother in the jaw, knocking him off the porch. In a number of other cases the officers stood by while R F C mon hired by the mayor struck our people, and when protest was made to the chief and mayor they replied to 'beat it before the other eye was blackened'.

But the Lord’s angels were with us. At first the people would have nothing to do with us, for fear of the strong-arm squad. But after the third contingent of 70 came into town they began to ask questions, and soon the whole town suddenly awoke to the fact that we really had a message of the Kingdom for them. By the time the fourth contingent of 70 came to town nearly everyone had taken books or booklets to learn what it was all about. In the meanwhile Jehovah’s witnesses were arrested under every kind of charge, including violation of parking rules, blocking traffic, spreading propaganda against the American government, disturbing the peace, etc.

They learned we were parked on the highway several miles out with some cars, and sent the county sheriff after us. Some farmers came along and offered their farm from which to operate, but we located a schoolhouse and grounds and operated from there, continuing to send in groups of 70 fresh troops every hour. By G p.m. the people had received the witness three or four times. By 7 p.m. the tide had turned; most of the people had a book or booklet and realized that men and women serving God had been treated shamefully by the officials. By 8 p.m. a large number had gathered at the town hall asking for the mayor to speak and explain their action to the people; but he stayed inside.

At 9 p.m. the county sheriff asked me what we would do now. He was advised we would continue to witness all night if necessary, and the people wanted to hear it. By 10 p.m. the scene was as follows: About forty witnesses were in jail. Several others were in the sheriff’s office. Those in the jail were singing praises to Jehovah; another group were around the town hall mingling with the people, who were asking many questions on the Bible and glad to get Ilie literature. Then there was another group working at the homes in the town.

In the meanwhile county police, state police and newspaper reporters came from Anderson and Greenville. The mayor was questioned as to what his objections were, and the people answered for him and told how we had been treated. The mayor then began to try to compromise with us. lie made the proposition that he would release all other violators except those charged with selling books. After this was refused, he proposed to release all if I would sign a bond for their appearance in the morning. After this was refused the sheriff and several other county officials came over, and after learning that we were Christians doing a good work and would not be run out of the country like a dog with his tail between his legs, he reported back to the mayor. The mayor had gone home, as if the matter were closed for the night.

A group of us wont to the schoolhouse and offered up prayer to the Lord. When we returned to town, a short time afterward, the brethren had just been released and they and the town folks were rejoicing together. Learned later county sheriff demanded mayor to release Jehovah’s witnesses.

The groups were well organized, and within a short time the drivers had found their respective groups and were headed back to the assembly point. At 12 midnight, after all reported in O.K., under the moon and stars, we had a short service of praise to Jehovah for His loving-kindness and all departed for home rejoicing as never before, reminding each other of the day’s text, “The battle is not yours, but God's.”

Following is a report of the witness results for the day: Books, 77; booklets, 1,813; total, 1,890; cars, 67; witnesses, 302; hours, 2,775; testimonies, 7,234; obtainers, 1,517.

The people stated that they were confident Jehovah's witnesses would not be interfered with again, and welcomed us back any time.

Jehovah's witnesses assembled here are grateful for this privilege of service, and gave expression to the fact that they are ready at all times to praise the name of our God Jehovah.

They join me in sending much love and greetings in His name.

Causes of World Financial Distress By W. Sharples (England)

In Two Parts—Part 1

ALL thinking- men and women know that there is something sadly wrong in the world today. The prime minister of Great Britain, Ramsay MacDonald, has just recently said, “We see nothing more and nothing less than a world crumbling under our feet.”

All world leaders are perplexed, the masses bewildered, and an ever’ increasing number are in distress and great need. None of earth’s wise men can discern what is the cause of the depression, and so cannot offer an intelligent explanation to the people. From time to time statements are made in the hope they might prove true; such as, “We have had similar conditions before; there are cycles of depression and good trade; carry on.” “All will yet be well; it must be so.”

But these only act as a sleeping draught might on a much worried man. The faculties are dulled for a time, but when the effect of the draught has worn off conditions are always the same or a little worse.

There is something approaching that looms like an apparition out of the mists of the past; something that is the embodiment of evil that frightens by its unseen presence even those who dwell in seeming safety. Because it is so big that men appreciate something of their inability to cope with the dreadful specter they try to laugh and say, “Who cares?” “It will never come.” “Things must go on.” “Let us eat, drink and be merry, and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.”

But every night’s debauch has its morning to follow; and each jest now made, each laugh raised, every optimistic speech recorded, only serves to make more evident the approaching crisis which stands even now on the threshold of every nation, knock, knock, knocking, at the door.

Can we name this gaunt specter that threatens all and sundry, terrifies all who have courage enough to look, and fills with dread foreboding those who feel rather than see its presence?

Yea, it has a very apt name.

It Is Nemesis!

There are certain fixed principles by which Jehovah God works. One of these ought to be well known to all “Christian nations”; namely, ‘What a man sows, that shall he also reap.’ This applies to nations as well as to individuals, and that which now draws near is retribution, terrible retribution, especially on those nations that, having heard that justice is the foundation of God’s throne, have claimed to be His representatives and yet have been unjust, unmerciful, avaricious and blasphemous in their dealings with other nations less enlightened than themselves, and even with their own nationals. "What has been sown in the past has now to be reaped, but in the economy of Jehovah the fruitage of past sowing is compressed into a comparatively short period of time; hence the ‘time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation’!

“Christian” nations have ruled the world. They have made laws, instituted customs, created monopolies, and, enforcing their will upon others, have claimed that their conduct was just and that they did these things in the name of God. It would therefore follow, if their claim were true, that in the end these things would bring God’s approval. Jehovah would uphold their works, make still more secure their throne and authority, and the fruit of their sowing would be world prosperity and an outlook bright with hope like sunshine at the dawn of a new day. What is the truth of the matter?

The causes of the present crisis are many and varied, and it would not be possible within the limits of this article to touch upon more than one. But since the root of all evil is the love of money, an examination of its beginning, its use and abuse, and its relationship to the present world depression, may enable us to see something of the inflexible law of justice, giving us a view of Nemesis on the track of the vanquished nations and that must indeed drink of the wrath to come.

If the picture seems black and reveals a further storm ahead let not the reader despair. Remedy there is, though in no human hands: one that will wipe all tears away and bring the sunshine of the love of God into the hearts of those who love the things that are right and hate those that are evil; one that even now is like a beacon set upon a hill, carrying the news far and wide to the people that the Sun of Righteousness is rising, with healing in His beams. It warms the heart with a life-giving glow bringing assurance amidst present turmoil; and after the manure of present trouble will come forth the flowers of spring. They will bud and bios-som and bring forth their fragrance, beauty and fruit; but the rain of truth must first wash this evil-smelling thing into the soil and then the sun can do its work. Then the human race will rejoice indeed, loved ones will be restored to family life, man will inherit the promised Canaan of rest, and nothing anywhere will ever again make him afraid. Jehovah will hasten it, too; for so His Word declares.

the Beginning

From earliest days the human race has exchanged its sheep and cattle, fruits and nuts, corn and wine; and this was the beginning of trade. At first this was merely an exchange of the goods themselves; but this does not seem to have lasted very long. It was soon found desirable to have a standard of exchange common to all goods and that would enable men to reduce their goods and labor to a value that could be stored for future use, transferred to other districts, etc.

It was therefore necessary to have a substance that would bo easily portable, have a high intrinsic value, he readily divisible, and be indestructible. Men soon found that gold and silver had all these qualities. These metals had to be searched for, purified and minted, and the value of the metal in its ultimate form would be reckoned according to the time so spent and the desire the owner had to retain it or have in its place some other thing. How quickly this idea grew into a regular system of buying and selling with gold and silver, the standards by which all other goods were valued, is clearly recorded in the history of the human race; and let it be borne in mind that there is no divine commandment against such use of these metals. Indeed there is evidence that it was a divinely given means whereby the human family could have been properly served to the great benefit of the nations.

In the early infancy of the race no one was compelled to find either gold or silver before he could have the wherewithal to live. Men were free and land was free, and there was room and place for all to rear their flocks or sow and reap, ami all could live by the labor of their own hands without let or hindrance. To any of these who had a piece of gold or silver, when exchange was <L sired by another the question would be as to what time and energy had been used in finding and smelting, and according to a mental comparison as to the time taken to rear the flocks or raise the corn would the exchange be made. Thus the matter resolved itself into an exchange of value which had been made through work on both sides. As transactions succeeded one another and always the coin remained, while other things were consumed or destroyed, little by little money came into common use, and it was a real blessing to mankind.

But, working behind the scenes, Satan seems to have visualized a monetary system which he could use to gratify his desire to have a kingdom of his own. So what seems to have been divinely provided for man’s benefit Satan turned to his own selfish interests. He has ever worked thus, hiding his real intentions behind a morality all his own. With an outward show of righteousness his heart has been evil continually, and while he has pretended to be a light-bearer to the human race he has gloated over their misery, torture and death. Now men can see why he has been permitted to carry on so long; for the Creator is causing hidden things to come to light and the Devil's secrets are now made known. The time draws near when his evil schemes shall recoil upon his own head and he will witness the complete undoing of his work before he himself goes into the pit he dug for the race, there to die and rot; and the stench will sicken men for ever of any desire for evil and it shall be no more.

Satan Planted the Love of Money

The love of money was planted in the human breast by Satan, but there is nothing wrong with a proper use of gold and silver. God foreknew the need for men to have a ready means of exchange and has given us evidence of this in His Word. In Genesis, chapter two, we read of a river leaving the garden of Eden and dividing into four streams, one of which flows into a land where there is gold, and the account says “the gold of that land is good”. Jehovah, speaking through the psalmist, says, 'All the silver and the gold is mine.’ The Israelites despoiled the Egyptians of their gold and silver; and afterwards these metals were used in the construction of the tabernacle. These scriptures show that gold was approved by God for use by the human race. In Ezekiel 28 we are given a pen picture of the creation of Lucifer, the overlord of man. He was covered, as it were, with every precious stone and gold. What does this symbol suggest? Twice more in the Scriptures these stones are mentioned, and with great significance. Once they are shown, in Exodus 28, as being set in the breastplate of judgment worn by the high priest, and there they are typical of their only other mention in Scripture, Revelation 21, where they are shown adorning the foundations of the holy city, new Jerusalem. These things seem to suggest that Satan was endowed with all the scintillating wisdom and other attributes necessary to carry out the purposes of Jehovah, to the intent that the human race might be fruitful and fill the earth and subdue it in peace and good will, and that gold would play an important part which Satan, or rather Lucifer, well understood; and undoubtedly he could have supplied the needs of the human family as it grew into communities, cities and nations by a proper world system of exchange. Instead of this, however, Ezekiel 28 shows he utilized this very thing to get unto himself riches and honor. We quote: “With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee . . . gold and silver into thy treasures”; and the next verses show that because he was able to use this power for a selfish purpose he set his heart to continue in that evil way.

So let us trace the history of these precious metals as they were gradually formed into that all-compelling system which has drawn within its octopus-like arms all the nations of earth. Let us reason upon the known facts, that we may see how Satan worked the matter, bringing into bondage all peoples, making all subscribe to and support his system, and crowning his perfidy by rewarding those who manifested his spirit of ultraselfishness, making them the world’s heroes and great men. This it is that helped to form that vicious circle of financial, political, and religious control which has blasphemed the God of heaven and earth while professing to be His appointed kings, princes and priests.

The Dawn of the City

The earth rightfully belongs to the children of men; God has provided for them a dwelling place. Under His beneficent arrangement man did not rule over man, but the animals were subject to man’s domination. Men were free; they could roam the earth’s surface and fend for themselves, and Satan could exercise control only over individuals. As he feared this condition, he set about to alter it. It would suit his purpose if men could be constrained to dwell together and be compelled to remain thus. Having control over the animals through mankind, Satan seems to have set out to make them vicious. Clearly they were not vicious when they came out of the ark. It would seem to be reasonable to say that since, after the flood, God gave men the right to slay animals for food and yet definitely forbade the drinking of the blood, probably the animals were made vicious by Nimrod and his satellites by feeding them on blood and raw flesh. It is well known that once blood has been tasted the appetite is whetted for more; and it would be a short step for beasts to pass from being fed with blood to seeking it for themselves by slaying weaker animals.

Then Satan through his representative Nimrod made a show of physical prowess in subduing this new ferocity aroused for the very purpose, and thus begat in the human race the first hero worship. This led to their seeking the protection of other men instead of putting their trust in their Creator, and gave to Satan his opportunity to bring men under the bondage of leadership, which led to the building of towns and cities to shut out the supposed common foe. Animals are naturally afraid of men. Satan made men afraid of animals, though it is certain Jehovah never purposed it to be so, neither will it be so in the future. By this method Satan had prepared the human race for further subjection to his rule, fostering in the human heart two great evil principles, pride and fear, which, beginning in a small matter, have swelled up until they enter into every phase of human life.

Once the people had been constrained by fear to live in communities; then some were chosen to be leaders, others emulated these, and thus came jealousy and envy, leading in turn to lust, hate and murder, and the race was brought completely under Satan’s control. As people herded together gold and silver would circulate the quicker, and some would begin to filch and steal to get rich quick, just as they do today, for money would begin to have a new value.

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