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Vol. XIV-No. 365
September 13, 1933
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SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
While We Are About It . . . 774
In the Next War.......782
Filtration's.........785
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION Morgan, King of Bolsheviki . . . 782 Shrinkage in World Business , . 785 Six Families Rule Japan .... 791 Uncle Sam Trims M. P. Salaries . 791 Paragraphs from The Arbitrator . 793 The Way Bankers Help Country . 794
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
Selections from Japanese Readers 780 Ethics of Taxpaying.....782
Too Many Governments .... 782 What America Got Oct
of World War.......783
Kellogg Peace Pact in Manchuria 783 Jobless Turned by Tear Gas . . . 784 World Idiotic Conference .... 789 Traffic Delayed at Rivington St. . 790 New Declaration of Independence . 793
AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY
Tuberculin Cattle Testing Job . 778 Advantages of Electrical Hotbeds . 786 Petunias Keep Down Bugs . . .786 Half Million Butterflies . . . .786 Ramie as Substitute for Linen . .791 Machinery and American Farmer . 791 Only a Poor Pussy Cat . . . .794 Separating Oil from Water . . .784
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Fire-resisting Cement .... 785 Artificial Fog in Four Minutes . . 786 Wonders of Polarograph .... 790 Eye Glasses for Nearly Blind . . 799
HOME AND HEALTH
Gives Mental Aid to Pope . . .776 Making the People Healthy . . 776 Sun-Bathing........777
Danger from Excessive Sun-Bathing 777 Macfadden One-Cent Restaurants 777 Bletonism in West Australia . .780 Near Death from Buttermilk . .784 Pioneer's Breakfast Food .... 784 Canning Human Blood in Russia . 790
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
One-Sixth of World’s Surface . 781 200,000 Jews in Palestine .... 787 As to Whipping African Natives . 792
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
World’s Champion Conspirators
Against Honesty'......771
How Was Miracle Performed ? . . 775 Trexler on Lutheran Church . . .775 The Great Negation.....779
That Is Not Half of It . . . .779 Betting on Church Attendance . . 789 Demons Read Woman’s Mind . . 791 “One Day Nearer Hell’’ . . . .792 Obedience to the Lord
Brings Strength......795
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Volume XIV
Brooklyn, N, Y., Wednesday, September 13, 1933
Number 365
The World’s Champion Conspirators Against Honesty
AT THE moment, the conspiracy of Gog, the Devil’s prime minister, is under full swing to get Judge Rutherford off the air from every radio station in the United States that can be bullied, bluffed, cajoled or forced into going back on its contracts, and disappointing its patrons, by that institution of the Devil, the Roman Catholic church, that is now about to perish.
We who have been out in the door-to-door witness work, and who are out in it regularly, know that the people are with Judge Rutherford. With rare exceptions, they are all listening to him, no matter what church they attend, and this is especially true in cities where his talks have been a regular radio feature. To millions of Catholics, as well as others, his “comfort of the scriptures” (Romans 15:4) is comfort indeed.
Visit their homes and you will know the reason why. Brutal, selfish and scheming priests rob them regularly of every comfort of life, stripping them down to bare floors, the coarsest foods, and on the walls a few religious gewgaws that cost the people fifty times what they are worth, and are neither truthful, artistic, convincing nor comforting. Poor things!
Into these comfortless homes from which the priests, by one wretched device after another, have taken every cent that can be wrung, to provide them with extravagant religious edifices, palatial homes, limousines, wines, travel, and huge additional sums for gambling on the stock market and investing in tax-free real estate, have come Judge Rutherford's radio addresses, borne on the wings of the wind, without money and without price, as a blessed boon from heaven. Not infrequently some good Catholic soul refers to him in such a way as to clearly reveal the fact that she regards him as a brother beloved in the Lord, whom in her spiritual weakness, and sickness, and poverty, he has visited with the one message of peace and hope and truth that has ever come to her undistorted.
Enough to Make the Angels Weep
It is enough to make the angels weep to think that men should take away from their fellow pilgrims through this vale of tears the one comfort that they have. Only the Devil, and those that have the spirit of the Devil, would be willing to do it. In selecting the priests of the Roman Catholic church to direct his dirty work in the earth, the Devil has chosen the fittest of all instruments.
Wherever they have had a free hand, as in Spain and Mexico, the priests of the Roman Catholic church have shown that they are the world’s champions as liars and as conspirators against common honesty. There is no depth of littleness of soul to which they will not descend in order to further the interests of the most crooked, most devilish system that ever disgraced this planet, by which we mean the Devil's own masterpiece, his “church”.
We know how the people feel. Does anybody suppose that more than 140,000,000 copies of Judge Rutherford’s books could have been placed in the hands of the people without the people's being friendly to them? Why, over 80,000,000 of these were placed in the United States alone, and that is more than two books to every family in the United States; much more.
And now notice that the institution that has set about to force Judge Rutherford off the air has only 20,000,000 members in this country. In other words, fifteen percent of the people in this land have the unmitigated gall to say to the other eighty-five percent, ‘You shall not have any truth, you shall not have any comfort; you shall have only the papal slop that was fed to Spain and Mexico until it made them so deathly
sick that they vomited it all up and now refuse to have it at all.’
Ecuador, a nominally Roman Catholic country, is so sick of the Roman Catholic religion that it is actually against the law for any Roman Catholic priest to enter the country. If they had been a blessing, or if, indeed, they had ever been anything but a curse to the country, do you suppose for a minute that such a law could have been passed?
When it comes to lying innuendo, and to veiled and open threats of loss of business or loss of employment, there is no institution ever formed by the Devil, and certainly none ever formed by man, that could do or would do the things that the Roman Catholic institution will do to gain her end. Lying is admittedly all right, but murder is all right, too. As Cardinal O'Connell admitted at the Eucharistic show in Dublin, ‘anything at all is all right’ for Roman Catholics in the United States, ‘as long as they can get away with it.’ Just now they are trying to get away with the job of putting Judge Rutherford off the air.
The Mendacious, Hypocritical Catholic Press
Nobody who knows anything about the machinations of the Roman Catholic system would need to be told that their church papers, edited by priests, are anything more than a tissue of lies from end to end. One would expect that. But it is incredible the depths of meanness and smallness to which the editors of such papers descend. The editorials of the twenty-one Catholic papers surveyed are all much alike. We give a sample taken from The Catholic Neivs (New York) of August 5.
In reprinting this editorial we have put in italics the lies or unsupported distortions which run all through it, and have put in CAPITALS the two statements of fact around which this whole great network of lies is woven. Judge Rutherford tells the truth about hell and purgatory; that is objectionable to the spokesmen for the Catholic fifteen percent of the population (though not to many of the individual Catholics themselves), and so:
PC TH ERF ORD INSULTS AGAIN
“Apparently the management of Station WMCA has forgotten the promise made to a representative of The Catholic News on July 11, that ‘Judge’ Rutherford and the Watchtower Service of Brooklyn would not be permitted to assail the Catholic Church in their electrical transcriptions broadcast every Sunday over that station. For some time Rutherford’s (inti-Catholic radio campaigns in other cities, especially in the West, have been denounced in the Catholic press, and many stations, as a result, have canceled their contracts with him. Here in New York his broadcasts over WMCA did not assume a decidedly anti-Catholic tone until a few months ago. Early in July the station began to receive protests from Catholics that the Rutherford talks spoke insultingly of the Pope and Catholic institutions. When a representative of The Catholic News personally presented the grievances of Catholic New Yorkers on July 11 the station’s director said that in future WMCA would insist in knowing beforehand what each week’s electrical transcription was to say, and he gave assurances that any that contained an attack upon the Catholic Church or other religion would not be broadcast. ‘We will not tolerate over this public station,’ said the manager, ‘an insult to any religion, Protestant, Catholic or Jewish.’
“For a feiv Sundays this promise was kept. But last Sunday morning’s Rutherford broadcast over WMCA was decidedly anti-Catholic. Its title was ‘SINNERS IN PURGATORY’ and its whole tenor was to ridicule the Catholic belief in a middle state after death. Rutherford after quoting Cardinal Gibbons’ reasonable explanation of prayers for the dead in ‘The Faith of Our Fathers’ proceeded outrageously to distort the meaning of what the late Cardinal wrote. The doctrine of purgatory, Rutherford said, was designed to induce people to contribute money to the clergy to pray for the dead. The doctrine, he said, was as false as Satan himself. He quoted, in his peculiarly jumbled fashion, many bits of Scripture to back up his assertion there was nothing in the Bible that authorizes prayers for the dead, but, of course, he omitted the one well-known to Catholics: ‘It is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins.’ 1
“There was much more in last Sunday’s Rutherford broadcast insulting to Catholics. Evidently WMCA’s management senses the offensiveness of what Rutherford has to say, for before and after each broadcast the announcer solemnly declares that ‘the opinions expressed are peculiarly Judge Rutherford’s and should not be accepted as the editorial expression of Station WMCA.’ That disclaimer does not absolve the station for responsibility for what Rutherford says. lie is and always has been assailing all religion that is not fashioned on his own peculiar lines. The preceding Sunday, in a talk on ‘IS HELL HOT?’ he declared that ‘the hell fire doctrine taught by the clergy is driving millions out of the churches.’
“Rutherford, as every one who listens to him soon discovers, has strange religious notions. He is entitled to expound these ideas to his heart's content, even over the radio, we will concede. But he has no right to misrepresent and attack the teachings of Protestant, Catholic or Jewish bodies in order to get over his philosophy, and no radio station with a sense of decency and fair play would permit him in such a manner to insult multitudes of their listeners-in. Speakers on religious topics are to be heard on all the reputable radio stations. But no one can truthfully say that Dr. Cadman, Dr. Fosdick, Dr. Poling, Dr. Reisner or any other eminent Protestant clergyman ever assails the cherished beliefs of Catholics or Jews, or that the speakers on the ‘Catholic Hour’ speak disparagingly of their Protestant brethren. It remains for a Rutherford to violate the canons of gentlemanly conduct on the air, and the station that permits him to do so is guilty of as grave an infraction as himself. In view of the fact that WMCA seems bent upon permitting Rutherford to insult the Catholics of New York every Sunday the Catholic people ought to make it their business to let the management of the station know how they feel toward WMCA.”
Twenty-five Lies and Two Truths
The foregoing editorial contains twenty-five lies and two truths. Everything in italics has the full force and effect of a lie. It takes time and space to answer lies, and we are short of both; but by glancing over the article the lies can be at once located. Why bother to deny them or to answer them ? What answer that will convince him can be made to a liar? Even while the answer is being made he frames yet other lies.
The two truths are that Judge Rutherford lectured on “Sinners in Purgatory” and “Is Hell Hot?” lie had a perfect right to lecture on these subjects, and there are millions who wish to hear them discussed and are interested also to read what this Bible scholar has to say. If there are untold millions of the human family in either or both of these places, is it not important to know of their condition ? And if the priests and other clergy have deceived the people on these subjects, as they have on everything else, do the people not have a right to look into the matter ?
The real fact of the business is that the people are listening, and reading and thinking, and that is something that the clergy are desperately determined must not occur. They will do all the thinking that is done, the same as they did in Mexico and Spain and Ecuador, and everybody else must keep silent.
If here and there a radio manager has some integrity and tries to see that Judge Rutherford's friends get a fair deal, the first thing he knows the pressure is exerted on him from a new angle. Advertisers over his station are warned that their goods will be boycotted unless they desist from broadcasting over the same stations as Judge Rutherford.
In St. Louis, W. L. Mittendorf, a faithful postal employee, as a result of pressure brought by D. J. Casey, business manager of The Sunday Watchman, Roman Catholic paper of that city, was told in so many words by the postmaster that he would either have to give up his connections with the Watch Tower organization or else lose his job in the postal service. He went on to say that Mr. Farley, the postmaster general, is a Roman Catholic, and that unless Mr. Mittendorf came to some agreement with The Sunday Watchman it would mean his job.
That Is Just Plain Murder
Now all that that means is that the Roman Catholic organization is an organization of murderers, within the plain teaching of Jesus himself, in Matthew 5: 21, 22; for nobody but a murderer would insist that a man must discontinue his service of Jehovah God or they would deprive his family of a livelihood. There is not another institution on this planet that would make a threat like that, or carry out a threat like that, than the Roman Catholic church. But they would do it and gloat over it.
The real reason why these liars and murderers are after Judge Rutherford is that he has for years pleaded with the big religionists to publicly debate over the radio whether they serve Jehovah God, as they claim, or whether, in fact, they are really part and parcel of the Devil’s organization. Judge Rutherford has offered to defray half the expense.
In his letter to the Roman Catholic press, Judge Rutherford says some things that ought to strike home to any true Catholic, and will appeal to many of them. He says:
“Why should the people be denied the opportunity of learning what God’s Word teaches, merely because those divine truths when uttered ‘offend the sensibilities’ of certain men who are not in harmony with God? I agree that one man has no right to attack another’ man personally; but when any man brings forth a doctrine relating to God’s dealing with the human race and asks the people to believe that doctrine, then it is the right and duty of others who do not agree to call attention to the fact that such doctrines promulgated do not proceed from God but proceed from God’s enemy the Devil.
“I have nothing against Catholics as men or women, I only take issue with the doctrines which that organization teaches. If the Catholic clergy want to be fair, why don't they accept my proposition to publicly discuss these questions or doctrines and then let the people determine for themselves which is truth? The gag and bludgeon method can never make any of the people free, but, in the language of Jesus, ‘the truth shall make you free.’ (John 8: 32) You claim to speak for millions of Catholics; but I tell you that you do not speak for them. There are millions of good people in the Catholic organization who do not believe what you say. Why not let them all have an opportunity to hear both sides of the question discussed and then let them speak for themselves? You are not their guardians except by self-appointment.”
And While We Are About It
Vatican Continues to Crack
THE Vatican continues to crack. The Lapidary Hall, in which the pope has received thousands of visitors in the last few weeks, now shows a dozen cracks in the walls and has been closed. The hall flanks the section of the Vatican library, which collapsed two years ago.
Blessing Cars in Hungary
NOTICE where Cardinal Seredi, in Hungary, blessed all kinds of cars, including “big military cars”, and cannot help but wonder just what goes with a blessing on a big military car. Is it the same kind of blessing that goes with Lewisite gas, or mustard gas, or is it of the flame-thrower type? Further light is wanted on this item.
Spanish Monasteries Pay Taxes
NOT only are the Spanish monasteries deprived of the privilege of teaching, which has hitherto been one of their many lines of business, but the laws now provide that they must pay taxes on all their other business enterprises. As they are engaged in about every kind of business, this makes a very considerable addition to the government’s revenue.
Ambrose Has Six Chefs
EXPLAINING why Ambrose has six chefs, but not telling us how it is that the six of them manage to keep busy cooking for one man, a dispatch from Rome says: “Abhorrent as such things must be to Pius XI, he knows and supports the fact that as monarch, as king, as Christ's vicar on earth, he must bear with such attempts to make his simplicity appear opulent.” His sorrow is like that of the Wall Street gang wflien they meet a beggar by the way.
Roman Catholic Floggings in the Philippines rpiIE Philadelphia Daily News contains a A quarter-page picture of the so-called Peni-tencia flogging in the Philippines. Attired only in trousers, with ropes fastened around their legs in such fashion that they can only hobble, the so-called “penitents” are lashed with whips imbedded with glass. After hours of beating the so-called “penitents” are allowed to wash off the blood and are given food. The Philippine Islands are under the protection of the United States Government.
The “Grievous Errors” of the Spanish
THE pope made eight charges against the Spanish Republic. They are said to be serious enough that if Ambrose had the nerve to do it he would excommunicate the whole works, but, if he did that, collections would fall off to less than they now are, and they are now small enough. One of the eight ‘sins’ committed by the Spanish is that they have separated church and state. Perhaps they have been influenced by Spanish-speaking persons in other lands. Take Mexico, for example. Vera Cruz will permit but one priest to hold up 100,000 people. In Yucatan they permit nine priests to collect from 400,000. In Mexico city twenty-five priests have to get all the money that is obtained from 1,250,000 people. The papal delegate to Mexico was expelled as a pernicious foreigner. Ecuador has a law that no foreign clergyman may enter the country. Maybe the Spanish people have heard of these things. Or then again, maybe the things they have done are based upon their own experience and express their honest conviction of what is best for them as a people. Scolding them will change nothing.
Addressed, the Wrong Department
AN INDIGNANT subscriber, who some time ago sent in an item to the effect that there are on view in Rome ‘a small roll of butter and a small cake of cheese made from the milk of the virgin’, wants to know why no mention was made of this in the list of relics cited in “La Bottega del Papa”.
If we never had any problems harder than this one, how simple life would be! This subscriber must have addressed the relic department of the magazine, whereas the dairy products department should have been addressed. And then, mind you, he wants to blame us for it.
The Holy Staircase
OTHING is said in the Scriptures about Christ’s climbing a staircase in the palace
of Pontius Pilate, or any other staircase anywhere ; nobody even knows that the palace had a staircase; everything may have been on the level. Nevertheless it is rumored from Rome that the pope will climb the “Holy Staircase” at the Lateran Palace, which staircase, so the dispatch declares, is “believed to be the identical staircase which Christ climbed in the palace of Pontius Pilate at Jerusalem”. That is, it is believed by those that believe it, but it is not believed by those that don’t believe it; and, believe it or not, we don’t believe it. Believe it?
How Was This Miracle Performed?
TN ITS issue of June 22, 1933, The Catholic Register, of Kansas City, said feelingly:
“ ‘The Holy Year,’ the subject of his next talk, is to be the three-ring circus. This same speech, when broadcast on April 23 from a limited number of stations, caused a storm of protest wherever it was heard. It resulted in the Canadian government barring Rutherford from the air and in numerous broadcasting stations in this country dropping his speeches from their schedules.”
It so happens that the telegram which Hector Charlesworth sent out to Canadian radio stations ordering Judge Rutherford’s lectures off the air was sent, not on April 24, as one would judge from the foregoing “information”, but on the previous January 16.
Now is that not interesting? According to The Catholic Register, the renowned Charlesworth, whose only claim to being a Catholic is that he married a Catholic wife, has the gift of prophecy. Foreseeing that, ninety-seven days later, Judge Rutherford would let the gas out of the pope’s “Holy Year” balloon, he was so moved that he straightway shut him off the air.
As a consequence of his being shut off the air in Canada, the people were so incensed at his “Holy Year” speech, which they were thus deprived of hearing, that they had Charlesworth wire ninety-seven days ahead of time that nothing like that which he had arranged should not be done should not be done some more!
This true Roman Catholic logic fits nicely into the arrangement by which, for a consideration, a priest will use his influence with “the grandmother of God” to pass that influence on to “the mother of God”, who in turn will beg God himself to do the right thing by the poor sinner Christ came to save, but which sinner He is so mad at that He will keep him frying, baking and roasting in torment for hundreds of years—unless his relatives are forehanded and generous with the long green in his behalf, by buying masses and other things which the “church” has for sale.
Doctor Trexler on the Lutheran Church
everend Doctor Samuel Trexler, in an address opening the United Lutheran Synod of New York, at Buffalo, described the Lutheran church as follows, and it sounds as if he must have been out in the witness work:
1 ‘ The greatest fault of the church is her worldliness. She adopts her patterns from the passing things about her. Thus the progress of the church is too parallel to the progress of the world. When the world is on the height the church is there too; when the world is in the valleys the church is there too. It would be well if the church were there to minister, but she is there more frequently as a beggar. Where is the spirit of the martyr, the crusader, the reformer, the pioneer? Everywhere man is today gripped with the spirit of fear, which is not the spirit of God. The church does not stand as a positive conviction like a rock among shifting sands. She does not express to the world power and love and a sound mind, but ranks rather as a galvanic battery whose force is run down.”
Perhaps one reason why Reverend Trexler is depressed over the condition of the Lutheran church is that, so it seems from his report, some of the brethren have collected a fund for missionary purposes but have hung on to it and used it for themselves. On this point he said:
‘‘It is fundamentally wrong to use funds gathered for others on ourselves. How can we expect God to prosper our work in the face of such malfeasance?”
Margaret Sanger Gives Mental Aid to the Pope
Margaret Saxger has made a study of the whole difficult subject of birth control, and writes on it intelligently and convincingly. In an article in The Nation, entitled “My Answer to the Pope on Birth Control”, she says, in part:
The pope has no respect for the mental powers of the individual. He writes:
Wherefore, let the faithful also be on their guard against the overrated independence of private judgment and that false autonomy of human reason. For it is quite foreign to everyone bearing the name of Christian to trust his own mental powers with such pride as to agree only with those things which he can examine from tlieir inner nature ... a characteristic of all true followers of Christ, lettered and unlettered, is to suffer themselves to be guided and led in all things that touch upon faith or morals of the holy Church of God, through its supreme pastor, the Roman pontiff, who is himself guided by Jesus Christ our Lord.
That is what the pope says. Now let us see what Jesus says. Saint Matthew quotes Him thus: “Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?” Saint Mark quotes the same statement. But did Jesus say that every wife had to bear children as fast as they would come? Did He ever ads-ocate rearing large families as a duty toward God ? Did He ever say anything against the limitation of offspring? Did He ever say anything that by any twist of argument can be interpreted to mean that He disapproved of contraception? If He did, why does not the pope cite chapter and verse ?
Having answered, point by point, those parts of the pope’s encyclical which refer to birth control, I want to add that his attitude in general seems to be conditioned by a disapproval of human enjoyment and an apparent relishing of the theory that suffering is good for our souls. He speaks of himself as “looking with paternal eye ... as from a watch-tower.” It is a tower set in splendor, surrounded by walls that shut out the world of broken homes, of sick and sorrowladen mothers, poverty-stricken fathers, and pathetic, unwanted children. In that remote tower he sits comfortably, takes counsel from a pile of old books and from bachelor advisers, and then writes scolding sermons about the marriage problems of intelligent people. I wish he could come down into real life for a few weeks, walk the earth and mingle with the poor “ye have always with you.” He would hear true stories from Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish women which I should think would be enough to shake sense into the head of any man.
Making the People Healthy
IT IS a great responsibility, this of malting the people healthy. It takes a great mind to comprehend how filling the human blood stream with pus is really a good thing. In England and Wales only 88 children under five years of age died of smallpox in the 24 years ending December, 1928, but 232 died of vaccination. That shows the difficulties in the way.
Some of us can remember back to 1890, when the world was thrilled with the news that Doctor Robert Koch, of Germany, had discovered a cure for tuberculosis. He repudiated that cure, tuberculin, because the facts made it necessary, hut the ones that made the serum made a new market for it by the grafting of it into cattle. Grafting is the right word.
When tuberculin is injected into cattle, the cattle are made sick, the milk becomes ropey and stringy and its flow is diminished, the calves born are defective; sometimes the cattle die. In 1932 tuberculin was injected into all Indian children in Montana; the consent of their parents was not asked.
The necessity for vaccination may be judged from the following quotations from The Truth Teller:
In the year 1926, Oklahoma reported 868 eases of smallpox without a single death. West Virginia had 387 cases, New York 305, North Dakota 276, all without a single death.
In 1927 Michigan reported 1,469 cases of smallpox, Idaho 759, Montana 575, New York 376, North Dakota 208, all without a single death.
In 1928, Nebraska reported 1,472 cases of smallpox, Arkansas 241, Connecticut 170, Wyoming 163, Minnesota 130, all without a single death.
In 1929, Wisconsin reported 758 cases of smallpox, Alabama 378, Minnesota 321, New York 291, Vermont 216, Arkansas 213, all without a single death.
During these same years many states reported but one death from smallpox, with many hundreds of cases, during a single year. Ohio reported 2,133, Texas 1,898, Washington 1,772, Georgia 957, Virginia 596, Mississippi 639, Nebraska 691, Idaho 611, Utah 586, and Montana 547.
Quite a large number of states reported over 1,000 cases of smallpox with but two deaths in a single year.
A few years ago the Russell Sage Foundation issued a nation-wide report showing the average distance from homes to doctors, and the public health statistics for1 the same year showed that the districts where the homes averaged the greatest distance from doctors were the healthiest districts in the nation.
Sun-Bathing By Dr. La June Foster (Calif.)
SUN-BATHING is one of the forms of bathing most conducive to health and longevity; but it, as well as many other good things, can be done incorrectly and overdone and so the benefits be lost. Remember, the skin must become used to the rays of the sun gradually. It is best to expose the body but a few minutes at a time, at first two and one-half minutes to a side, making ten minutes in all the first day, then gradually building up to one-half hour, or to an hour in some cases. This is best done by increasing the exposure five minutes each day. Blondes can stand less exposure than brunettes; nervous types, less exposure than phlegmatic types of people. In all types the head and eyes and back of the neck should always be well protected from the rays of the sun, to prevent sunstroke. If you are dizzy during the sun bath it is a sign you need to shorten your exposure, or if your body feels fatigued after the bath it indicates the same. Follow the sun bath with a tepid sponge and a period of rest; then by a cool or cold shower after the rest.
The proper time for sun-bathing is in the early morning. It is then that we get more light and less heat, and it gives a more beneficial effect than an overexposure to the infra-red rays of the sun, which are in many cases too heating and stimulating. The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing.
Do not take the sun bath too close to meal time, especially not after a full meal, as the rays of the sun draw the blood away from the internal organs to the surface of the body and interfere with digestion. During the summer months, when we are getting more sun, we need to make our diet much lighter, consisting principally of fruit and vegetables and some dairy products. Limit starches and sweets and heavy proteins (meats, etc.) at this time; also fats and seasoning and condiments. The sun is germicidal and antiseptic in effect; it kills bacteria, overcomes toxemia, aids respiration and assimilation and elimination, strengthens vital functions, is energizing. The sun stimulates the natural agents that nourish the nervous system. It stimulates the growth and development of the red blood corpuscles.
Danger from Excessive Sun-Bathing
From Polish Golden Age
T THE Paris Medical Conference Dr. Mathieu De Fossey explained the results of his study and actual experimentation made on ten patients, that excessive sun-bathing is very dangerous. It is quite evident that excessive sun-bathing, nowadays so fashionable, is very harmful to the health. In the first instance, it acts on the liver, causing it to be overflowed with blood, thereby making room for subsequent ailments and later anaphylaxis. The doctor claimed later in his lecture that artificial silk allows the ultra-violet rays to penetrate.
The Macfadden One-Cent Restaurants
A T FIVE places in New York and Brooklyn, and one in Washington, the hungry may now secure good food, excellently cooked, at the Macfadden One-Cent Restaurants. All foods are cooked by the slow process in double boilers; all the flavor is retained; that is the right way to cook any food.
The dishes that may be had for lc each are all kinds of soups, cracked wheat, steamed cornmeal, steamed Scotch oatmeal, steamed hominy grits, bread pudding, stewed prunes, stewed raisins, honey tea, raisin coffee, black coffee, milk for coffee, whole-wheat doughnut, 2 slices whole-wheat bread, 2 slices whole-wheat raisin bread.
In the two-cent category are creamed codfish on toast, rice pudding, cornmeal pudding, wholewheat pudding, stewed apricots, stewed mission figs, stewed peaches, buttermilk, light cream for coffee, whole-wheat apple or prune pie, wholewheat muffin with raisins, cole slaw.
In the three-cent list are meat cakes, fruit salad, V2 grape fruit, sliced peaches, crushed pineapple, sweet milk, whole-wheat crumb cake, whole-wheat coffee ring, whole-wheat ginger cake with whipped cream, lettuce and tomatoes, and tuna fish salad; also cream of asparagus soup.
The usual price for a full meal in these restaurants is 10c.
The Tuberculin Cattle Testing Job
FROM all we can learn of its operation the tuberculin testing of cattle merely provides work for veterinaries. So far as benefiting the farmer or the taxpayer, the thing is a total loss. One farmer told us he lost his entire herd, and he felt sure there was no reason for it. Another told us that he lost his best cattle but was allowed to keep the poorest ones. Another followed his cattle to the butcher shop at Pittston and found that none of the cattle condemned as tuberculous were so at all.
A woman writes in from New Hampshire that against her protest, and without a warrant, six men entered her premises, where they shot tuberculin into a young bull, three heifers, one twelve-year-old milch cow and a two-month-old calf. These animals were used only for the food supply of the family and had belonged to the family for four animal generations.
The lady, who seems to be a true American, does not relish the way things are going in this country at present. She says in part:
The second time they came I had my barn doors padlocked. I did this on the advice of Mayor Charles E. Carroll, of Laconia, and the county solicitor, Theo. Jewett. They both said the “vets” would not dare to break in without a court order. Of course, we knew they had no court order, as I had never been haled into court on the ease, and that meant a jury trial, which I had never had. In fact, I had never had any charge preferred against me, and the state officials are entirely lawless, including the assistant attorney general, Thornton Lorimer, who ordered them here the second time.
I have resisted the test in a lawful manner by refusing to give my consent to have my cattle injected with tuberculin. Needless to say, my confidence in government has been destroyed, inasmuch as public officials of the state of New Hampshire have violated the fundamental law of the land, namely, the constitution of the United States and the state constitution, when they came to my home without due process of law and forcibly injected my cattle with filth.
I was brought up to respect law, and by that I mean I was taught to believe that I had certain Godgiven, inalienable rights that must be respected by officials and other citizens as well as my duty to obey those laws. I was taught that nowhere in all the world was the individual’s rights so respected and protected as in these United States.
Now I have this to say, that there has arisen in our midst a sinister thing, namely State Medicine, a thing more terrible than Roman Papacy ever was: Medical Popery! And if this fiendish thing is not put down, we shall be a nation of rotten flesh and gibbering idiots. Public health! What hypocrisy! It reminds me of the Spanish Inquisition, where the Roman church said in devilish glee, “No blood was shed!” Public health today includes putting filthy serums and vaccines, made from inoculating poor helpless animals with horrible diseases and torturing them uselessly, not to improve the health of humanity, God knows, but to enrich the human devils who attempt to force their horrible concoctions upon the helpless children of this and other countries, as well as upon our animals.
It is self-evident that sanitation and hygiene are responsible for better health as well as the higher standards of living enjoyed previously through the advance of material prosperity. It is also self-evident that the Medical Trust was alarmed at the loss of business to themselves as the health of the nation advanced and they must do something to keep alive disease and therefore keep alive their profession of “ministering to the sick” ! But first there must be sick people. How could they be sure there would be sick people and business for themselves? By inoculating disease into the nucleus population, the children. Also anyone else they can ensnare. When a profession becomes commercialized, such as the healing of the sick, it becomes, not an act of mercy, but a grinning archdevil.
I read in one issue of The Golden Age an article about the necessity for search warrants in the seizure of liquor under the prohibition law. Now, if it was necessary then, certainly it was necessary for the state “vet” to go to the trouble of causing a charge to be preferred before he could have legally injected my cattle. You understand, I am not in business, and was bootlegging no milk.
One of the main reasons why prohibition was so unpopular was the fact of lawless procedure as well as the violation of the individual’s personal rights to eat or drink to suit himself. As I understand it, the American Bar Association helped to arouse sentiment against it because of the lawlessness it engendered in the so-called “law enforcement” officers. . . .
We are alarmed because our home is not safe from these periodical raids and if we do not do something immediately the “vet” will return and further inject my cattle with tuberculin. Have I no rights at all? They inject them every six months. It is a deliberate attack on a private home. We are outraged. Why should we be forced to submit to this diseasing of our cattle? We depend on these animals for our food supply. Why should we have to have our food supply poisoned at the source? We have lived here twenty-five years. I was told by the State Attendance man if I did not like the laws of New Hampshire I could move out. I told him I had not heard of New Hampshire’s seceding from the Union, and I was an American citizen, not just a citizen of New Hampshire, and if he did not like that he could go [South], And as far as I know we are both still in New Hampshire and likely to meet in court any day.
The Great Negation By Edward C. Leigh (Missouri)
THERE is a sevening process running all through creation. For instance, scientists, with no idea of this, worked out (1) light, (2) heat, (3) sound, (4) motion, (5) weight or gravity, (6) chemical activity, and (7) electricity. Each one of these has seven degrees or rates of vibration. Six circular objects of the same size, with a seventh in the center, make a ‘wheel within a wheel’.
There are seven prime colors: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red; there are seven notes in the musical scale: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si. The invisible tilings of God are made understandable by the creative processes. Light corresponds to truth; darkness, to error.
Cold is no positive, but a negative of heat, its absence; as silence is of sound and darkness of light, and as the primeval dust is of attraction or cohesion. Then, by the same token, evil is no necessary law of creation, but is the absence of good, as death is of life, and when the Great Negation is snuffed out, all evils, all negatives, will be snuffed out with their father or originator and there will be a spotless universe.
Heat is a positive; cold, an absence of heat. Stick an iron rod into the fire. When hot plunge one end into water; the heat will travel along the rod and you cannot hold it; cold, the negative, is dead; it does not travel. It will slowly communicate, but does not travel as heat travels.
Presumably life is vibration, the right kind of vibration. Sin, evil, is wrong vibration, declining vibration. Where Paul says “the motions of sin” we would say “the vibrations of sin”. A motion, a shake, a vibration, are all the same. Isaiah says, in the thirtieth chapter, “In battles of shaking" (vibrations) will God contend with Satan. The wave offering was a vibratory movement.
The physical forces are all wave motions, frequencies. Thought is a vibration, and life too, I suppose. Death is deadness, stillness, silence, motionless. The whale, monster in the sea, is likened to Satan. Whalers have observed that the leader of the herd, scattered over five to ten miles square, seems to vibrate sailing, cruising directions to all in a few moments. Certainly Satan must have some similar process for directing his war on truth. God’s invisible things are illustrated by the works of creation everywhere. Satan’s first lie was a great negation of good.
And That Is Not the Half of It
Reverend Doctor George Lang paid his compliments to his fellow Presbyterians in the following address to the Presbyterian synod of Alabama:
In the midst of a society shot through with racketeering, and its “front” of hypocrisy and skepticism in polities, business and industry, we have remained silent with the silence of unfeeling moral indifference, with silences of doubt, and have had no outraged consciences because we have stubbornly refused to have our consciences exposed to the evils which abound about us. . . . Only the blind could fail to see that our civilization was a cheap superstructure sustained by no secure foundations in character, no high purposes, and dedicated to no high ends. ... To look back on our witness in this decadent society is to sec ourselves in sorry cowardice, ineffective, and without real influence. It is not to be wondered at that we stand today discredited in moral and spiritual leadership. We did unworthy deference to men who were, and are, inferiors both intellectually and morally. . . . We have cheapened our ministry, we have made it common; we have reduced it to the level of pose and palaver; so that even in our human relations we are insincere and unreal . . . surely we will no longer apologize for our ministry of mind, or heart, or will, to a perverse generation whose most characteristic marks are superficiality, gaudiness, vulgarity, insincerity, bad manners, moronic thought, and “wisecracking” platitudes. . . . How many of our elders or deacons read anything more penetrating than the familiar columnist of bright and snappy sayings ? . . . It is particularly offensive that these “outstanding men” who sense little that is splendid in communication or appreciation are elected even to the offices of the church, where social promotion is easier than in any other group. . . . Look at what only you may see: the ruins of a civilization; its poverty and its heartless cruelty. . . . We have little to hope for from our laymen. . . . Their loftiest spiritual level is a cautious morality whose achievement is respectability; and their highest intellectual attainment is some outmoded conceit. In the debacle of their civilization they have shown neither imagination nor courage. They have lost their heads; they are afraid and cowardly. It is the institutions they have erected which need a moral house-cleaning; all of them, without exception.
Selections from Japanese Readers (Edited by the Japanese Ministry of Education)
First Selection
(a) Citizen’s Ambition.
“What shall Japan contribute to the world? All Japanese must awaken to their duty to execute the Divine Punishment. By attacking or by punitive treatment, the powers of the world must be broken down in order to fulfil the Divine Mission of Japan. Some day, when, having swept away all rottenness and subjugated all arrogant and impolite countries of the world, Japan shall be the King of the world and lord over the whole universe. ’ ’
From New National Language Reader. Vol. 6. Lesson 28. (Published by San Sin Tang)
Second Selection
(b) The Pacific Ocean.
“The King of all oceans, you Pacific Ocean! How proud is your beautiful water! Washing the shores of North and South America to the east, touching the sandy beaches of Asia and Australia to the west, reaching the continent around South Pole to the south and meeting the Arctic Ocean to the north, you measure ten thousand miles from north to south and eleven thousand miles from east to west and occupy an area covering one third of the earth’s surface. Japan situates on the west. We must live up to this unsurpassable honor and possess an ambition as big as this Pacific Ocean. Going in and out the extensive shores, we must take with our own hands this heaven-sent treasure. ’ ’
From Reader for Higher Primary, Lesson 32.
Other Japanese Items
The Manchurian Refugees’ Relief Association, Shanghai, China, declares that Japanese troops have an apparatus for pulling heads out a foot before decapitation; that they have an apparatus for automatically cutting victims into pieces; that they burn victims alive by binding them with cotton saturated with oil; that they have trained dogs to bite victims to death; that they bury victims alive, and that they bump two victims together until both are slain.
Photographs of the crude but efficient guillotines are unquestionably genuine. They resemble old-style hand-operated contrivances used in butcher shops for slicing purposes. In one of the pictures three headless bodies are shown; the heads themselves are on the other side of the guillotine and are also visible. The face of the executioner is the face of a devil. Two officers hold the victim and stretch his neck over the block while a third does the slicing.
At Fushun, Manchuria, because Chinese soldiers had marched through the place, when the Japanese came to it they gathered three thousand men, women and children on a hilltop, promising them food. They were requested to stand quiet while their pictures wrere taken. A machine gun was set up and they were mowed down to the last one. This story is vouched for by Edward Hunter, Far Eastern correspondent of International News Service.
Bletonism in West Australia By E. Davies (Australia)
T NOTICED an article in The Golden Age of J- December 9, 1931, regarding the divining rod. I have had a fair bit of experience watching those who use the rod, and I have not seen one use it who loved the Creator. Also, I have seen the rod work, and have seen people made fools of repeatedly. The diviners have stated water could be got at certain depths, and often double the distance has been bored and no water obtained, even after the stick or twig snapped from the invisible power or pressure on it.
If it were a God-given power it would not affect the health of the people. This practice of divining has the same influence over persons who continue the practice as seances have on people. They get sleepy and dreamy and lose the clear luster of the eye; they get a queer look instead.
We had a man call on us a while ago who divines for water for a living. He walked around our block for an hour or so and then said he would lie down for a w’hile, as he always felt ill after doing that work. He was a man only in his forties, but looked over seventy years old.
Another thing. If electricity had to do with the stick, and the finding of water, who puts the knowledge in the brain to say at what depth the water will be found? Surely not God, for He has not been ruling the world. When His kingdom is established He will send the rain in its season, and men will not be walking about with little twigs speculating on the unseen.
Moreover, all that I have seen using the rod, if perchance they get water, take all the credit to their clever knowledge and superior powers. I think the demons are at the bottom of it.
One-Sixth of the World’s Surface
THIS account of Soviet Russia, by Russell Wright, is that of a friendly critic, looking for a better day for mankind, and willing to give full credit for what has been accomplished by American engineers in transforming a nation of peasants into a self-contained industrial and agricultural economy. We note some of the points made in his interesting book.
Of the Russian population of 102,000,000, less than 3,000,000 are members of the Communist party, but these 3,000,000 are determined that all of Russia shall be educated in what is necessary to make a good citizen. In the days of the czar, in the year 1912, there were only 34,630 books published in all of Russia; in one year recently the output was 242,000,000; in the same year the output in America was 50,000,000. Russia wants to learn.
Every young man must serve in the Red Army, and before he may have permission to return home he must know how to read and write. People may get intoxicated if they wish, but only bottled liquors are sold, and the drinking must be done at home. No attention is paid to days of the week.
Drunkards, thieves and lazy persons are held up to public obloquy. On the walls of the factories they are cartooned by name, and in some factories they are required to receive their pay at special windows, where they are objects of ridicule. Electric power, at Dneprostroy, the world’s largest hydroelectric station, is produced at one-eighth of lc per kilowatt hour. Suppose you compare this with what you have to pay.
The traveler will find tipping uncommon, whereas in other countries of Europe there is an endeavor to clean his pockets of money. Soldiers often assist the workers on their off-day. The wages of workers range all the way from eighty rubles ($40) per month for farm hands to four hundred rubles ($200) for good mechanics.
The standard rent charged to workers is 10 percent of their wage. At the Verbliud state farm, farm hands and mechanics are allowed free rent, light, heat, furniture and working clothing in addition to their wage; if they choose, they can get three meals of good food each day in the communal kitchen for seventy kopecks (35c). There is no unemployment. Everyone who wishes to eat is expected to work.
The seven-hour day is universal; there is one full day of rest in every five; each worker has two weeks vacation per year, with full pay; if his work is liable to be injurious to the health, as in mining or chemical plants, the annual vacation is a full month. All over Russia there are rest homes, sanitariums, where workers can go when they need a rest.
In no case may a minor under fourteen be employed; minors between the ages of fourteen and sixteen may work not more than four hours per day. Women receive equal pay for equal work. Expectant mothers are given eight weeks’ leave of absence, with full pay, both before and after confinement, with medical assistance; after they return to work they are allowed pay for the time spent in nursing their little ones in the nurseries attached to every factory. Marriages and divorces are $1 each, and one is as simple as the other, generally speaking.
A worker who thinks he has been unjustly dismissed from his job has the right to appeal to the Supreme Court, the highest court of the nation. Prisoners are granted vacations, of three days, seven days, or one month, per year, depending on their record. They are paid wages, which are saved for them until the day of release ; every prisoner is allowed to go anywhere in the prison he may wish.
Any stranger entering a Russian city will be entertained for one night in a Peasant’s Home, of which there are 1,500 in Russia. Such homes, and all restaurants, factories and public buildings, contain lecture rooms where an intensive educational work is constantly under way.
In Russia there is unemployment relief, permanent disability relief, old age pensions, medical assistance, temporary assistance in case of sickness, and many other things space does not permit to mention. Mr. Wright has written an interesting book, and manifestly truthful.
Haircut for a Bushel of Corn
BARBER at Marshallville, Ga., accepts a bushel of corn for a haircut. As a result he has plenty of customers. It is all a matter of cooperation.
An Elephant’s Revenge
N INDIAN elephant, brutally treated by his mahout, waited until the mahout was asleep and then tickled him with a long straw sufficiently until he turned within reach of his trunk. He then seized him and stamped him to death.
of Taxpaying
only one man, just one, J. P. Morgan. That is true of almost every other operation.
“Morgan and his associates would be able to enter into the deal if they wanted to, and compel a sale if they wanted to.
“They can control in any of these corporations the raising or lowering of wages; they can change the conditions of labor; they can raise or lower the price of the output of any manufacturing establishment, simply because they control the money of the United States.
“The railroad officials are only their servants. The presidents and officers of these various manufacturing corporations are compelled, whether they like it or not, to obey the mandate that comes from Wall Street.
“J. P. Morgan, with the assistance and cooperation of a few of the interlocking corporations which reach all over the nation in their influence, controls every railroad of the United States. They control practically every public utility; they control all the large insurance companies.
“Why do they want to mix in the insurance business? In the real insuring of people they have no interest. They want the money. They want to be the depositories of the large funds, the enormous funds, the billions of dollars which are necessary in the operation of these great insurance companies.”
The Ethics
WE ASK you, 0 gentle reader, to say who should be foremost in paying taxes in these United Sates? Should it be the one who has everything in the country in his possession, and thus has most to lose when the whole thing goes down kersmash ? Or should he content himself with the thought that it is enough for him to own everything, and that it is the plain duty of the common people to be honest and patriotic and pay their taxes and let him alone in the full enjoyment of that which he has gotten?
Newspapers shriek that J. P. Morgan paid no income taxes for the last three years. They do not say that he hires the best lawyers and certified public accountants available; they don’t need to; everybody knows that he does; and if you don’t know what lawyers and accountants are for, and the kind of work they do for hire, then you are unsophisticated.
In a recent address in the United States Senate, Senator Norris said some things that give room for thought to those who now learn that J. P. Morgan and Captain Kidd have ceased paying income taxes:
. . . “if the government of the United States wanted to take over the railroads, they would have to see
Morgan, King of the Bolshevik!
DENOUNCING J. P. Morgan as the king of all Bolsheviks, Senator M. M. Neely castigated the world’s most powerful financial monarch as follows:
“While Morgan was escaping the payment of an income tax, more than 140,000 American farmers had the last acre of their land sold from under their feet in satisfaction of taxes they were too poor to pay. During the same period thousands of jobless working men had the roofs sold from over their heads to satisfy their taxes. But Morgan, the mightiest of millionaires, with his palatial English manor house, his mansions in New York and on Long Island, his shooting lodge in Scotland, his luxurious sea-going yacht that cost millions, his innumerable priceless treasures of art collected from all corners of the earth, with all of his luxury, power and pelf, was not moved by heartbreaking tragedies in the lives of the nation’s distressed to contribute a farthing to the support of the Federal government, and thereby relieve the unfortunate of a part of their burdens. ’ ’
In the Next War
AN ENTHUSIASTIC veteran of the Spanish-American war, in a Decoration Day address at Coffeyville, Kansas, has worked out a new 782
program for the drafting of soldiers. The ones that have most at stake are the big financiers; so in the front ranks he would put such men as J. P. Morgan, Andrew Mellon, Henry Ford, John J. Raskob, William Woodin, William G. McAdoo and all the other members of the National Economy League. The troops would all go to the front, men and women, in the order of their fortunes. Those that have nothing, and therefore have nothing to lose, would not have to go at all. Seems like a good plan.
Too Many Governments
INCLUDING the national government, the state, county, city, township and school district governments, it is calculated that there are in the United States somewhere between a quarter million and a half million governments. It is now coming to be appreciated that these are too many to function efficiently, and the expense is too great to be borne. It will be interesting to many to know that New7 York city spends more on her police than the revenue of thirty-five states, and that the cities of Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis spend more for garbage removal than the entire expenses of the state of Nevada.
What America Got Out of the World War
By Huey P. Long (La.) in a speech in the United States Senate
IWAS not in favor of the war with Germany. I am not in favor of it now.
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