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LABOR AND ECONOMICS
HOME AND HEALTH
Buying Power Less than Half . . IS ’ Public Utility Items.....19
Power (liven Away at Penn Yau ,19 j (Tnby Burns Her Bonds .... 19 | Holyoke's Profitable Utility Plants 1'1 1 I’ood Destroyed—Want of Judgment 2 )
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
The Fedei:\i. Hiner-.e Swindle . . 7 Bn; Biwiness Items......IS
Interest T<dl Continues to Rise . . 1 -.' te; l Kings Snub the Dictator . . 1 ' I lirinkage of World Trade . . . . I ; How Big Banks Care for Little One- U Tennessee Electric Power Compal)v 19 Consolidated Gas Company . . . .19 P-.isines; Under the Recovery Act . 29 Transportation Notes.....21
Steel Bails IM ay Go......21 ,
Flight New York to Damascus . . I World’s Largest Drydock' . . . .21 Highways Cost $15,091) per Mile . .21 Italians Have Fastest Steamer . . .2:1 American Locomotives Too Heavy . 22 World’s Greatest Bridge Project . . 22
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
NRA Items
Some of Kooseeelt's Powers . . . 20
Jersey’s Sick Municipal Governments 26
Achievements or Medical
Procession
And Yet—
Very Inexpensive Do lor .... 11 No More Cancer Explorations . .11 Remarkable Recovery of Light . .11 Time Required for Digestion . .12 Advertising Doctor Cri!e . . . . 1 1 Cost of Removing an Cippembx . , 12
Medical Notes
Where Vaccination CertifitaN i .\re
Necessary
One Sixth of Jobless Ill
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
Fa ents in Canada
IIoneat Catholics in Baltin >::l . :ji)
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Sending Forth Truth unto the
Clouds
Le\ied for Church for 19 Year-, . . 6
The Big Intolerance Di ive .... 19
The Radio Witness Work .... 10
Churchianity and Christianity
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Religion and Warfare
King of Swazis a Jonadab . . . .21
''Too Controversial "
Obedience Brings Joy
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crhe Golden Age
Volume XV
Brooklyn, N. Y.t Wednesday, October 11, 1933
Number 367
Sending Forth the Truth unto the Clouds
‘‘God shall send foi’th his mercy and his truth.
JUDGE RUTHERFORD’S lecture, October 1, 1933, entitled “The True God”, broadcast on 104 stations, thoroughly covered the entire United States, from Maine to California and from Florida to the state of Washington. Only 8 of the 48 states were not directly represented in the chain; several of these are small or sparsely settled, and all were covered thoroughly.
It is really true that God is now sending forth His mercy and His truth, and none can say Him nay. It is really true that God’s mercy toward those who really wish to honor His name is great unto the heavens, and it is because of that mercy that the truth regarding the Fountain of all mercies still rises unto the clouds, to the dismay of all His adversaries. The broadcast of October 1 was a triumph over the enemy in an hour when he was looking for exactly opposite results. We review the facts.
Judge Rutherford’s broadcast last spring on “Effect of Holy Year on Peace and Prosperity” angered the Devil greatly, as did also the published challenge:
“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.”
Unable to make defense of their doctrines, and not daring to publicly debate the above question, all the power of the Roman Catholic system in America was suddenly put to work to force Judge Rutherford off the air, and we had an exhibition of Roman Catholic bigotry in
truth unto the clouds.”—Psalm 57: 3
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy ,10.
this country that is enough to make any decent American hang his head for shame to think that a thing like it could be done in this enlightened day.
How the Devil Operates
The heaviest pressure was brought to bear in New England, where the city of Providence cringes under the lash of a bigoted bishop. In that city two station managements broke their contracts and gave up their manhood and independence, because covertly threatened with a boycott which it was hinted would include 400,-000 Catholics. The owners of these stations had other businesses which they foolishly believed would be ruined unless they complied with the threats. The Providence Visitor was the paper used as the “bludgeon”. Had the men who owned these stations stood their ground, nothing such as they anticipated would have occurred.
A similar campaign of intimidation was put on in St. Paul, where The Catholic Bulletin was the “thumb-screw” used and the radio people were bluffed into believing that “some 515,000 Catholic people in the state of Minnesota” would turn against them and against their advertisers unless they showed the white feather.
In St. Louis the bludgeoning was entrusted to The Watchman. This sheet, after an exhibition of bigotry unmatched in this part of the world, had the hypocrisy to say, “The Watchman wishes to thank the officers of KMOX in the name of its readers for this step [refusing to broadcast Judge Rutherford’s lectures] in the work of preventing the spread of bigotry.” Most bigoted of all institutions under the sun, the Roman Catholic system takes the position that any questioning of its doctrines by others is an act of bigotry. Needless to say, this very doctrine itself is bigotry of the worst kind.
In Baltimore the sheet entrusted with the work of bigotry, The Catholic Review, failed completely in its attempt to force two stations (one owned and operated by Roman Catholics) to give up the broadcasts of Judge Rutherford’s lectures. After writing several columns of lurid editorials The Review was finally forced to shamefacedly admit in print that “this week The Review has received just one letter of protest against Rutherford's address. Just one protest! And The Review is read by 125,(100 Catholics.’’
The Blessing of Jehovah God
It is true that by resorting to methods peculiarly un-American the Roman Catholic hierarchy, operating through its papers, was able to frighten 28 stations into temporarily discontinuing the Rutherford broadcasts, but more than offsetting this is the fact that thirty stations desired to get into the network for October 1-8-15 that could not be accommodated, and numerous other stations were anxious to take the broadcasts except for the. fact that local church organizations that had previously engaged the required periods positively refused to stand aside for these vitally important messages, even though station managers were entirely willing to give them other time in their schedules on the day of the chain broadcasts.
The big coast-to-coast hook-up of 104 stations was made entirely without aid of the so-called “regular” chain broadcasting systems. The Watch Tower organization made its own arrangements, as is its custom. Jehovah’s blessing was manifestly upon the efforts.
In a very special sense it was fulfilled on October 1 that God’s truth reached unto the clouds. Indeed, while we may not know of it, it is entirely possible that on that day not merely one but many persons that were sailing along in airplanes beneath the clouds or even above them, were listening to Judge Rutherford's lecture on “The True God”.
Those who heard Judge Rutherford's address on “The True God” were charmed by its kindness, its goodness and its truth. It seems right to spend a moment thinking of how God identifies himself with truth, and especially the most important of all truths, those about himself. “This is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God.”—John 17:3.
Moses delighted to refer to Jehovah as “a God of truth”. (Deuteronomy 32: 4) David said that “all the paths of [Jehovah] are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies” (Psalm 25:10); that He is a God “plenteous in mercy and truth” (Psalm 86:15) ; that “the truth of [Jehovah] endureth for ever” (Psalm 117:2); and then, as stated in the text at the head of this article, and elsewhere stated in the psalms, “Thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.”—Psalm 108: 4.
God’s Watchcare over His Truth
“God shall send forth . . . his truth.” He will give it His own attention. What must be the futility of all efforts to impede what He has declared shall go forward! How chagrined the Devil must feel when he reflects on the fact that in the United States (and possessions) there are now on the air each week, with transcriptions, 2G1 stations laden with essential, all-important information about The True God! Throughout the world the stations broadcasting the truth number more than three hundred.
Some stations were so disappointed at not being included in the coast-to-coast network of October 1-8-15 that they expressed their keen regret by wire. Some of these will be accommodated, of course, on future programs. A great station that believes that its broadcasts reach 2,000,000 listeners in a district embracing Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri, wrote, “We feel very keenly the loss of your three great programs which will be broadcast on October 1, 8 and 15. It is doubly regrettable because all that stood between us and the acceptance of your offer was your return of our station form as requested in our wire. We don’t know whether you or ourselves are to blame for this grievous loss to our audience.”
The Kouiier, published at Atlanta by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in its issue of September, 1933, said in part:
“Roman Catholic newspapers the country over have broken out in a rash of criticism of what they term anti-Catholic radio programs. They are in particular begging the Federal Radio Commission to place a ban on Judge Joseph F. Rutherford’s ‘Watchtower’ programs. . . . The Catholic attack on the Rutherford programs is one of the hottest they have launched on any Protestant project recently. Some spineless stations have already eliminated the feature to which the Catholics object, while others, with more backbone, have told their Catholic critics to go stick their heads in a bucket of holy water.”
A Brief Answer to a Long Article
THE Catholic Ballet!,in its issue of August 18, 1933, devotes six columns to what purports to be an open letter to Judge Rutherford. It is written on such a low plane as not to justify much space in our columns. The priest who wrote it misstates the facts, missapplies the Scriptures, uses some of the prophecies in an effort to support his wrongful position, and then tries to answer the proper application of other prophecies to himself and other priests by saying that the prophets have been dead since 600 B.C., thus showing his deliberate purpose to deceive Catholics. At one time we thought to answer the whole article, but later thought it not worth while to devote so much space to it. From the original draft we cite two paragraphs from the Bulletin (Cleveland), with our replies thereto :
Rome Addresses Her Followers as Apostates
O ye listeners to this false prophet, remember, he deceived you once, and the Lord etics out, "Woe to you, apostate children, that you would Take counsel and not of me.” (Isaiah 30:1) No matter how he pleads with you, ‘‘Consent not to him. hear him not.” (Deuteronomy 13:8) He is blind and the leader of the blind and till who follow shall fall into the ditch. (Matthew 15: 14)
It seems to us a peculiarly appropriate thing that a Roman Catholic writer should address his fellow Catholics as "apostate children”, for it is very true that they have all apostatized from the true faith, and instead of taking counsel of Jehovah God, and drinking at His fountain of pure truth, the Scriptures, they have fed on the effluvia of papal bulls until they are sick unto death.
The text Deuteronomy 13: 8, 9 was addressed to the Jews, who were being enticed by another to worship wicked ones in violation of Exodus 20: 2-5. We are glad that the Catholic Universe Bulletin made use of this citation and applied it to Judge Rutherford, for now it shows how a misunderstanding of the Scriptures may make murderers out of people that are thus misled.
The text in full reads as follows in the Douai), and shows just why the Roman Catholic officials at Plainfield wanted to kill Judge Rutherford, and half felt as if they had a commission to do it, in spite of the laws of the land to the contrary; and why it is a dangerous thing to have a bigoted Catholic in any official position, or even as a neighbor:
‘‘Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him, but thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people. With stones shall he be stoned to death.”*
In Matthew 15:14 (Douaif) Jesus is speaking about the unfaithfulness of the scribes and Pharisees, the clergy of that day, who represented the similarly unfaithful clergy of our own time. Concerning all of these he said: "Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.”
Blindest of all the blind leaders of the blind is the ‘pope’. Not discerning that the governments of this world belong to the Devil (Luke 4: 5-7) the ‘pope’ has done the exact opposite of what Jesus did when confronted with the same temptation, i.e., the offer of temporal power as a ruler of earth.
Jesus said, "Get thee behind me, Satan”; but the ‘pope’ in effect said, "Thou art my father and I am thy child,” and threw himself headlong into his arms, accepting from earthly monarchs the little kingdom of Vatican City, over which he now reigns as a potentate. Now, when Satan’s reign has ended, and his governments are in distress, the ‘pope’ and all who cling to him are booked for a one-way ride to the ash-can.
The Temple of Jehovah
"And now at the temple of Jehovah Christ pronounces”— Strange no one hears Christ except the ventriloquistie judge. And what and where is this "temple of Jehovah”? Why dear bless your innocent heart, there ain’t no such temple “at anywhere”. According to the judge, "The temple is Christ’s righteous organization,” of which, we suspect, the judge is the visible head, the acting pope, the busy leader, etc., and which you can join for fifty-five cents and more or less faith in Rutherford.
God's temple, or dwelling place, is His organization for the vindication of His name, composed of Jesus Christ, the Chief Foundation Stone, the Vindicator, and the 144,000 members of His corporate body, The Christ. (Apocalypse 7:3-8; 14:1) This temple, this Servant, was brought together in the first resurrection in the spring of the year 1918, at which time the sleeping members of The Christ were awakened, and the judgment of the living members began. Jehovah's witnesses is another name for the col-
’•It was probably a misunderstanding of this scripture that caused a Scranton citizen recently to hit the editor in the face with his list. At the time he did this he loudly shouted that we were circulating bigotry. The poor sap! The only violence ever vi-dted upon Jehovah's witnesses is by Roman Catholics, whose whole training is that of the bigot and persecutor.
lective Servant whom Jesus, “The man whose name is The Branch,” began to gather together into a compact organization immediately after the Foundation Stone was laid in Zion in 1918. Jesus was made Jehovah's King in 1914, and the text Zechariah 6:12,13 says that He shall build the temple of the Lord at the time He is made king. In Revelation 11:17,18 we are told that when Christ takes His power and begins His reign it is coincident with a world war and that then, and not until then, the temple of God is opened in the heavens. We have condensed this all it will bear, but it is all true. Nobody is under any compulsion to accept this great truth, or to receive the blessings that follow its understanding and acceptance.
The Roman “church” is especially avaricious and especially shameless. None of the prisoners of this system can be born, get christened, get confirmed, go to church, get married, have a baby, or even turn over on their back and die, without being hounded for money at every step of the way. Wherever men or women are paid for their services, there the black-robed messengers of avarice stand with outstretched hands, looking for a rake-off to stow away under their maternity gowns. They never travel alone. They do not dare. They travel in pairs, so that if one should squeal as to where all the foundlings come from, the other will be there to report it to the jailer when they get back to their prison.
Because of this vicious system of racketeering the politics of American cities are so rotten that things are fairly falling apart. Surely this system is a fine specimen to accuse Judge Rutherford of covetousness. A silent virgin is an unanswerable reproach to a loud-mouthed harlot.
And Lest We Forget —
Chicken Fanciers Blessed
ope Bn’s, who has been exhibiting some prize chickens at the International Poultry Congress, blessed his fellow exhibitors. Just what this will mean to them is unknown. It looks as if it might be a hard winter for somebody.
Spreading Hard Luck
ROM an advertisement in the Cleveland Plain Dealer of January 29:
Help wanted: women and men: to sell in their territory the recorded words and voice of His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, bestowing the benediction and papal blessing: first time offered; sells on sight to every Catholic; earn big commissions, spare, full time; cash in tremendous demand. Holy Record Corp., 2 West 46, Dept. 17, New York.
An Expensive Faith
oleslaw Uklejewski, of Manitoba, writes us: “I have been a Bible student now for
about six months and have a common Bible. But in the community where I live faithful Catholics do not want to believe in this Bible. So, in order that I might better proclaim the truth to them, I sent $5 to Winnipeg for a Catholic Bible; but they want $15 for it. Their faith is expensive. Most Catholics around here are like parrots, because the parrot also speaks but does not understand.”
Levied for Church for 19 Years
OR nineteen years workers for the Helvetia Coal Company, Yatesboro, Pa., had the money to support the Roman Catholic church taken out of their pay envelopes, if they were Catholics; and for the last two years the same plan was worked for the local Presbyterian church. The miners at this mine are said to have recently averaged to receive but about $4 per week for their work. The compulsory contribution to the church is 50c per month.
Society of the Divine Savior
HE Society of the Divine Savior, Salvatorian Seminary, “Father” Bede, S.D.L., superior,
St. Nazianz, Wisconsin, would like to have the names of Catholic adults who have coin of the realm that could be obtained to help support the seminary. It is suggested that printed lists be sent in, such as are issued by some parishes, showing the names of parishioners who have contributed during the year. It would be a big help if before the lists are sent in they would be checked up so as to make sure that they can probably come across with the long green if worked hard enough. What is the use of paying postage to work a list of names if you can’t get anything out of them ?
The Federal Reserve Swindle
THE clergy tell the unsuspecting and gullible citizens that the United States of America is a Christian nation and that it is operated according to the will of God, but they fail to tell the people which god. Every person who believes in the Bible knows that the all-wise, just and loving Jehovah God and Christ Jesus would not approve of any government that swindles the people or permits them to be swindled by heartless corporations. Satan is the god of this world and the oppressor of humankind. The clergy, big business and professional politicians stand together, and the people hold the bag, which is usually empty, especially at this time. The following taken from the Congressional Record speaks for itself.
The compilation from the Record is from addresses of Hon. Louis T. McFadden, so highly respected in his own state of Pennsylvania that he was nominated for Congress by all three parties, republican, democratic and prohibition.
The Government is in the banking business as never before. Against its will it has been made the backer of horsethieves and card sharps, bootleggers, smugglers, speculators, and swindlers in all parts of the world. Through the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks the riffraff of every country is operating on the public credit of the United States Government. Meanwhile, and on account of it, we ourselves are in the midst of the greatest depression we have ever known. Thus the menace to our prosperity, so feared by Senator Lodge, has indeed struck home. From the Atlantic to the Pacific our country has been ravaged and laid waste by the evil practices of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks and the interests which control them. At no time in our history has the general welfare of the people of the United States been at a lower level or the mind of the people so filled with despair.
Before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, while the Federal Reserve bill was under discussion, Mr. Crozier, of Cincinnati, said:
In other words, the imperial power of elasticity of the public currency is wielded exclusively by these central corporations owned by the banks. This is a life and death power over ail local banks and all business. It can be used to create or destroy prosperity, to ward oft' or cause stringencies and panics. By making money artificially scarce interest rates throughout the country can be titbitrarily raised and the bank tax on all business and cost of living increased for the profit of the banks owning ihe-e regional central banks, and without the slightest benefit to the people. These 12 corporations together cover the whole country and monopolize and use for private gain every dollar of the public currency and all public revenues of the I'niled Slates. Not a dollar can be put into circulation among the people by their Government without the consent of and on terms fixed by these 12 private money trusts.
In defiance of this and all other warnings, the proponents of the Federal Reserve Act created the 12 private credit corporations and gave them an absolute monopoly of the currency of the United States, not of Federal Reserve notes alone, but of all the currency, the Federal Reserve Act providing ways by means of which the gold and general currency in the hands of the American people could be obtained by the Federal Reserve banks in exchange for Federal Reserve notes, which are not money but merely promises to pay money.
I believe that the nations of the world would have settled down after the World War more peacefully if we had not had this standing temptation here—this pool of our bank depositors’ money given to private interests and used by them in connection with illimitable drafts upon the public credit of the United States Government. The Federal Reserve Board invited the world to come in and to carry away cash, credit, goods, and everything else of value that was movable. Values amounting to many billions of dollars have been taken out of this country by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks for the benefit of their foreign principals. The United States has been ransacked and pillaged. Our structures have been gutted and only the walls are left standing. While this crime was being perpetrated everything the world could rake up to sell us was brought in here at our own expense by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks until our markets were swamped with unnceded and unwanted imported goods priced far above their value and thus made to equal the dollar volume of our honest exports and to kill or reduce our favorable balance of trade. As agents of the foreign central banks, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks try by every means within their power to reduce our favorable balance of trade. They act for their foreign principals, and they accept fees from foreigners for acting against the best interests of the United States. Naturally there has been great competition among foreigners for the favors of the Federal Reserve Board.
Air. Chairman, I believe that the national-bank depositors of the United States are entitled to know what the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks are doing with their money. There are millions of national-bank depositors in this country who do not know that a percentage of every dollar they deposit in a member bank of the Federal Reserve system goes automatically to the American agents of foreign banks and that all of their deposits can be paid away to foreigners without their knowledge or consent by the crooked machinery of the Federal Reserve act and the questionable practices of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. Air. Chairman, the American people should be told the truth by their servants in office.
In 1928, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks presented the staggering amount of $60,598,690,000 to their member banks at the expense of the wage earners and taxpayers of the United States. In 1929, the year of the stock market crash, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks advanced fifty-eight billions to member banks. In 1930, while the speculating banks were getting out of the stock market at the expense of the general public, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks advanced them $13,022,782,000. This shows that when the banks were gambling on the public credit of the United States Government as represented by Federal Reserve currency, they were subsidized to any amount they required by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. When the swindle began to fail, the banks knew it in advance and withdrew from the market. They got out with whole skins and left the people of the United States to pay the piper.
It will take us 20 years to redeem our Government, 20 years of penal servitude to pay off the gambling debts of the traitorous Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks and to earn again that vast flood of American wages and savings, bank deposits, and United States Government credit which the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks exported out of this country to their foreign principals.
Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power but the truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will. No man and no body of men is more entrenched in power than the arrogant credit monopoly which operates the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. These evil-doers have robbed this country of more than enough money to pay the national debt. What the National Government has permitted the Federal Reserve Board to steal from the people should now be restored to the people. The people have a valid claim against the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. If that claim is enforced, Americans will not need to stand in breadlines or to suffer and die of starvation in the streets. Homes will be saved, families will be kept together and American children will not be dispersed and abandoned. The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks owe the United States Government an immense sum of money. We ought to find out the exact amount of the people’s claim. We should know the amount of the indebtedness of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks to the people and we should collect that amount immediately. We certainly should investigate this treacherous and disloyal conduct of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks.
The wealth of the United States and the working capital of the United States has been taken away from them and has either been locked in the vaults of certain banks and great corporations or exported to foreign countries for the benefit of the foreign customers of those banks and corporations. So far as the people of the United States arc concerned, the cupboard is bare. It is true that the warehouses and coal yards and grain elevators are full, but the warehouses and coal yards and grain elevators are padlocked and the great banks and corporations hold the keys. The saek of the United States by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks and their confederates is the greatest crime in history.
Mr. Chairman, the bank holidays in the several States were brought about by the corrupt and dishonest Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. Those institutions manipulated money and credit and caused the St:ites to order bank holidays. Those holidays were ‘’frame-ups'’. They were dress rehearsals for the national-bank holiday which Franklin D. Roosevelt promised Sir Ronald Lindsay that he would declare. There was no national emergency here when Roosevelt took office except the bankruptcy of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks—a bankruptcy which Ims been going on under cover for several years and which has been concealed from the people so that the people would continue to permit their bank deposits and their bank reserves and their gold and the funds of the United States Treasury to be impounded in the bankrupt institutions. Under cover, the predatory international bankers have been stealthily transferring the burden of the Federal Reserve debts to the people’s Treasury and to the people themselves. They have been using the farms and the homes of the United States to pay for their thievery. That is the only national emergency there has been here since the depression began. Someone asked Mr. Ogden Mills what caused the depression. lie answered quite truthfully, “The Federal Reserve lent so much money abroad that it broke down the system.” Mr. Chairman, those who have lost everything they possessed through the evil practices of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks should at least be told the truth about how it happened. The veterans of the World War should know that the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks paid the dole in England, and are still paying il, and that that is the reason why the resident agents of England in this country have cut the pensions of the United States soldiers $400,000,000 a year.
At noon on the 4th of March 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with his hand on the Bible, took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. At midnight on the 5th of March 1933 he confiscated the property of American citizens. He took the currency of the United States off the gold standard of value. He repudiated the internal debt of the Government to its own citizens. He destroyed the value of the American dollar. He released, or endeavored to release, the Federal Reserve banks from their contractual liability to redeem Federal Reserve currency in gold or lawful money on a parity with gold. He depreciated the value of the national currency. The people of the United States are now using irredeemable paper slips for ircney. The Treasury cannot redeem that paper in gold or silver. The gold and silver of the Treasury has unlawfully been given to the corrupt and dishonest Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. And the administration has since had the effrontery to raid the country for more gold for the private interests by telling our patriotic citizens that their gold is needed to protect the currency. It is not being used to protect the currency. It is being used to protect the corrupt and dishonest Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. The directors of those institutions have committed criminal offenses against the United States Government, including the offense of making false entries on their books and the still more serious offense of unlawfully abstracting funds from the United States Treasury. Roosevelt's gold raid is intended to help them out of the pit they dug for themselves when they gambled away the wealth and savings of the American people.
Roosevelt's next haul for the international bankers was a reduction in the pay of all Federal employees. The poor clerk in a Government office is compelled to give up 15 percent of his salary while the international bankers are presented with all the gold in the country. Next in order are the veterans of all wars, many of whom are aged and infirm and others sick and disabled. Those men had their lives adjusted for them by acts of Congress determining the amount of their pensions, and, while it is meet that every citizen should sacrifice himself for the good of the United States, I see no reason why these poor people, these aged Civil War veterans, mid war widows, and half-starved veterans of the World War should be compelled to give up their pensions for the financial benefit of the international vultures who have looted the Treasury, bankrupted the country, and traitorously delivered the United States to a foreign foe. There are many ways or raising revenue that are better than this barbarous act of injustice. Why not collect from the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks the amount they owe to the United States Treasury in interest on all the Federal Reserve currency they have taken from the United States Government ? That would put billions of dollars into the United States Treasury. If Franklin D. Roosevelt is as honest as he pretends to be he will have that done immediately. And. in addition, why not compel the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks to disclose their profits and to pay the Government its share? Until that is done, it is rank dishonesty to talk of maintaining the credit of the United States Government.
Before he was elected Mr. Roosevelt advocated a return to the earlier practices of the Federal Reserve system, thus admitting its corruptness. The Democratic platform advocated a change in the personnel of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. Those remarks were campaign bait. As a prominent democrat lately remarked to me, and he is not very far away from where I am standing at the present moment, ‘‘There is no new deal. The same old crowd is in control.”
Mr. Chairman, wo know from assertions made here by the Honorable John N. Garner, the present Vice President of the United States, that there is a condition in the United States Treasury which would cause American citizens, if they knew what it was, to lose all confidence in their Government. That is a condition which Roosevelt will not have investigated, lie has brought with him from Wall Street, James Warburg, the son of Paul M. Warburg. Air. Warburg is 1lie head of the Bank of f.lanhattan Co. Mr. Warburg, alien born and the son of an alien who did not become naturalized here until several years after this Warburg's birth, is a son of a former partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., a grandson of another partner, a nephew of a former partner, and a nephew of a present partner. He holds no office in our Government, but I am told that he is in daily attendance at the Treasury, and that he has private quarters there. In other words, Air. Chairman, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. now control and occupy the United States Treasury.
Mr. Chairman, I demand that all the gold in the custody of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks be placed in the Treasury of the United States. The Federal Reserve banks cannot be relieved of their contractual liabilities and at the same time keep the gold belonging to the Treasury and to the people in their private possession. That gold must be placed in the people’s Treasury in the custody of the United States Government.
The Soviet Government has been given United States Treasury funds by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks acting through the Chase Bank and the Guaranty Trust Co. and other banks in New York City. England, no less than Germany, has drawn money from us through the Federal Reserve banks and has re-lent it at high rates of interest to the Soviet Government or has used it to finance her sales to Soviet Russia and her engineering works within the Russian boundaries. The Dnicpcrstroy Dam was built with funds unlawfully taken from the United States Treasury by the corrupt and dishonest Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks.
One would not suppose that Mr. McFadden would dare use such language as the foregoing regarding the most important financial institution in the world, and he certainly would not do it, unless he believed every word of it to be the truth. This is also our opinion, that America’s greatest financiers are the biggest crooks that breathe.
The Big Intolerance Drive
IT SEEMS there is to be a big drive against intolerance. Prominent men from 44 states have agreed that Catholics, Jews and Protestants must get along together amicably and they might as well begin now as any time. The country will be traversed by units of clergymen, one from each of the three groups named going to make up a single unit.
One cannot but wonder if this all had its start in Plainfield, N. J., with the address on “Religious Intolerance: Why” by Judge Rutherford, on July 30. At the very moment when Judge Rutherford was giving that address a woman 71 years of age was in the Plainfield jail for giving out invitations to the lecture, and she had sixteen companions.
When the case came to trial in a higher court it was literally laughed out of court and the counsel for the prosecutors or persecutors admitted openly, ‘It is another victory for Jehovah’s witnesses.’ The following details of this trial were broadcast over WBBR September 15. They will be of interest to many of our readers.
Many of you remember that the day before that memorable speech on “Religious Intolerance” given by Judge Rutherford in Plainfield, New Jersey, on July 30, seventeen of Jehovah’s witnesses were arrested and locked up by the Plainfield police. They had been going from house to house in Plainfield distributing invitations to attend that lecture.
Those seventeen persons were held in jail over night. Immediately after the conclusion of his speech at the Strand Theater, Judge Rutherford arranged for release of these men and women under a bond of ten dollars for each. Their case was set for trial on August 7. On that day the city judge, William De Meza, at the request of the city attorney, William Newcorn, adjourned the hearing until September 14, one of the reasons stated being that William Newcorn desired to go away on vacation and also for the reason that there had been so much publicity regarding the case.
On September 14, yesterday, the seventeen appeared in Plainfield court and according to traditional practice of the court each was given ten dollars or ten days in the county jail, excepting one, who on being asked her age and stating it to be seventy-one, was dismissed with a suspended sentence.
The other sixteen were locked up and later the same day the attorney who represented them applied to Union county judge McGrath for a writ of habeas corpus, which was allowed. Under this ruling of Judge McGrath the sheriff was ordered to present the sixteen persons in court this [Friday, September 15] afternoon. This was done, and then followed a searching inquiry by the judge, who for about one hour listened to the presentations of attorney Jacob Karkus and his learned adversary, William Newcorn. Newcorn, on behalf of the city of Plainfield, tried to insist that the law of the city must be upheld; that these people had flagrantly and defiantly violated the law in not applying first to the chief of police for a permit to distribute the announcements of the mass meeting to be addressed by Judge Rutherford. It was clearly brought out by reading from the law book of the city of Plainfield, which was produced by the city clerk, that there is not even a law on the books of the kind which it was claimed justified the arrest of these persons; and furthermore, that there is no law in Plainfield that provides for a person to request a permit to distribute announcements of the kind used by Jehovah’s witnesses. After patiently and studiously drawing out all these facts for the court record, the judge suddenly announced his decision, that each and all of the persons held in custody by the sheriff of Union county be forthwith discharged; and they were immediately released. Upon hearing the decision, William Newcorn hastened to the bar and tried to tell the judge privately what terrible things these people had done in Plainfield. The judge listened and then let out one big, hearty laugh, and William Newcorn retreated to another part of the room, to join his city elerk, to whom he then spoke, sarcastically but truly: “Another victory for Jehovah’s witnesses.”
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Achievements of Medical Profession
CASE 1. At the Grady Hospital, Emory division, a hospital for the treatment of Negro patients, 426 infants, a great majority less than 24 hours old, a lumbar puncture was made in order to study the spinal fluid.
Case 2. Opening the brains of unsuspecting state hospital patients and brain material withdrawn performed by Edo. J. Eile Christian, Al.D., at Pontiac State Hospital, -Michigan.
Case 3. One thousand experiments on babies by Dr. L. Emmett Holt at the Babies Hospital. Most of experiments consisted of the ophthalmic test, the injection of tuberculin into the eye.
Case 4. Dr. Hideyo Noguchi vivisects 400 charity patients in New York, 146 of whom were children and babies. He injected an emulsion of culture1 of the supposed causative agent of the terrible disease known as syphilis. He was advised by Professor Welch, ex-president of the American Medical Association, to try this on human subjects.
Baking animals alive to discover effect of heat upon blood count. Pneumonia given to dogs. Making frogs jump with their eyes burnt out. Making cats vomit after poison. Blooding dogs’ kidneys by obstruction (female dogs). Maiding intestines of animals. Tying intestines of dogs. Working cats on treadmill, then immersing in cold water. De-nervmg eyes of cats. De-pan-creatizing animals. Pouring boiling water into dog's intestines till it fainted with pain. Rotting dog's liver with poison. Removing internal organs of dogs. Starving dogs to a shadow. Gall bladder tortures. Making cats walk with their brains protruding. Putting mustard oil in cat's eyes. Intestinal obstruction in monkeys, dogs, etc. Inflicting sores, inoculating with poison. Torturing pregnant animals. Mashing, scraping and "puddling-’ brains of cats. Sex gland tortures—freezing, starving, poisoning. Suspending dogs by ears and removing nerves. Denerving hearts of cats.
When you pay taxes you are paying for all the foregoing, ami being taught that it is pure science, whereas it is pristine, unadulterated, Simon-pure bunk, in exactly the same class as the eternal torture "spiritual food” fed to us in days of yore by the dog-collared ’sons of Ananias’.
And Yet —
A Very Inexpensive Doctor
WE 11 AVE thrown away all our aluminum,” said Mrs. AV Carnes, Iowa, “and I feel like new. I used to doctor all the time, but I haven't had a doctor since I quit using aluminum, and that was last December.”
No More Cancer Explorations
DOCTORS had me under the X-ray, exploring for cancer,” said J. N. Peterson, of Minnesota. “Two and one-half years of total abstinence from aluminum dope have brought about a complete recovery, for which I owe your publication all credit and thanks. More power to you! The truth will prevail.”
Remarkable Recovery of Sight
T WAS blind and couldn’t work,” said Ellen J- Williams, of Georgia. “My arms would fall dead at my side and my whole right side became useless. Two years ago I discarded my aluminum ware, and my eyesight has come back. I don’t use glasses now and am regaining use of my body gradually. I am sixty-five years of age. Thanks to The Golden Age for this information.”
How He Lost His Mother
Oil YES!” said Harry E. Childs, of Michigan, "we did have a fine set of aluminum cooking dishes. But never again; we dumped them all overboard. I will acknowledge that it hurt somewhat to see all that invested capital on the ash Jieap, and to have to start all over again. I have advertised aluminum poisoning well and widely, and we have spoiled the sale of a lot of it. Aly mother died of cancer. We are quite sure it was aluminum that caused it.'*
Cabbage a la Gall Stones
A SUBSCRIBER, Airs. Alary E. Lovette, writes: “Our health is 99 percent better since discarding our aluminum ware. I had a sore throat continually, also stomach, bowel and bladder trouble. Often had to resort to pain pills. I nearly died from eating cabbage cooked in an aluminum kettle. The doctor was called at one o’clock at night and pronounced it ‘gall stones'. For one week I was terribly ill; then put on a strict diet. Having discarded all aluminum ware, also alum baking powders, I am no longer on a diet and am getting much better.”
Time Required for Gastric Digestion of Foods By Dr. La June Foster (California)
THE digestibility of foods and the time required for their digestion depend largely upon our mental and physical condition and dietic habits. Proper preparation and combination of foods greatly aid in their thorough and quick digestion. Moderation and simplicity also are important factors.
It is well to let at least live hours elapse between meals; more if the digestion is weak, and especially should this time be allowed if the meal contains heavy cereals and proteins. The stomach needs complete rest from its labors. Two meals a day is a solution in some cases, or three light meals in proper combinations. The total digestion of the average meal and the passage of the residue into the intestines takes about eight hours. The stomach is merely a receptacle for food and a preliminary organ of digestion. The main part of the digestion is performed in the small intestine.
The digestibility of foods is by no means an indication of their wholesomeness; but it is a guide to go by in knowing how soon it is safe to put more foods into the stomach and what kind will mix most readily, in case, for any reason, the digestion of the last food taken has been retarded.
FRUITS, AND TIME REQUIRED FOR DIGESTION
The various acid fruit juices, such as orange, lemon, grapefruit, apple, raspberry, blackberry, pineapple, and tomato juice, take one hour.
Two-IIour Class. Watermelons, tomatoes, strawberries, raspberries, raisins, fresh prunes, plums, pears, peaches, oranges, gooseberries, fresh figs, cherries, cantaloupes, blackberries, avacados and apples.
Three-Hour Class. Fresh green peas, green onions, steamed celery, beets, salsify and baked sweet potatoes.
Three-and-One-Half-Hour Class. Raw celery, grated cucumber, canned green peas, steamed kale, mustard leaves, parsnips, spinach and Swiss chard.
Most nuts take about three hours to digest.
Most cereals take three to three and one-half hours for digestion. Hot biscuits take four and one-half hours. Cereals in gruel form such as barley and rice gruel, take about one and one-half hours.
Cereals in three-and-one-half-hour class are boiled barley, corn meal mush, pop corn, cooked macaroni, cooked oatmeal, and rolled oats, rye bread, whole-wheat bread, and boiled whole wheat. Whole rice boiled takes one and one-half hours.
Legumes (peas, beans, lentils, etc.) take about three and one-half hours; except in puree form or made in soup form, about one and one-half to two and one-half hours.
milk and dairy products (time to digest)
Cow's milk, buttermilk, cream, whey ami egg whites take two hours. Butter, cottage cheese and whole eggs take three hours; cream cheese, nearly four hours; yolk of an egg and poached egg, two and one-half hours.
Most meat and fish products take from three to four hours for digestion.
Advertising Doctor Crile
TAoctor George W. Crile, A.M., M.D., Ph.D., attending surgeon of the Cleveland General Hospital, ranks very high in the medical profession. He needs no advertisement from us, but we are giving him one anyway, and free. In his book of experiments, page 31, he speaks of pouring boiling water into a dog’s intestines; it caused a rise of temperature; should think it might. On the next page he speaks of tearing out the eye and manipulating and bruising the socket after the eye had been torn out; never had this done, but cannot imagine it would be pleasant. On page 46 he speaks of forcing air into a dog’s stomach until it finally burst; great man, that. On page 48, he applied a Bunsen flame to the nose of a fox terrier, and it seems that the dog struggled; now isn’t that astonishing? How this man ever kept out of the ministry, we do not understand.
Cost of Removing an Appendix
OW much would you think it would cost to remove from your anatomy that interesting little organ, the appendix, that aids the peristaltic action of the colon, and lubricates it with a minute quantity of oil, needed for its proper operation ? It all depends upon the size of the roll of bills carried in the pants pocket adjacent to the appendix in question. A Pasadena doctor figured that he could get $10,000 from the movie actor, Tom Mix, but Tom gave him $300, which was plenty, and told him to whistle for the other $9,700. The last we knew, they were fighting about it in the courts.
Five Minutes Rest per Hour
CAREFUL measurements, with an apparatus designed for the purpose, show that it is in the interest of efficiency for all workers, mental as well as manual, to have live minutes of rest in every hour. Prolonged mental concentration reduces the proper action of the lungs and the amount of oxygen in the lungs, and mental fatigue results.
Where Vaccination Certificates Are Necessary
ANTIGUA, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, British Honduras, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic (which also required that “married women traveling alone need declaration from husband justifying the trip and proof of marriage’’), Dutch Guiana, Ecuador, Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela, Virgin Islands.
One-Sixth of Jobless III
A SURVEY of 1,600 families receiving relief in New York city disclosed that the head of the family had been out of work for an average of twenty-two months, and the family had been receiving relief aid for nine months. On the day the inspection was made one-sixth of all the persons on relief were ill. If that would not make your heart ache, nothing would. It is bad enough to be ill under the most favorable conditions, but to be ill and out of work in a country that is bursting because it has too much of everything, is pretty nearly the limit of misery.
In view of such conditions one wonders what there is about property that is so sacred that it may not be taken over by the state for the adequate care of those that are being destroyed through no fault of their own. The state that has encouraged such faulty distribution should not hesitate to take prompt and drastic measures to make correction.
Twenty-eight Kittens
rpiIE learned doctors of the Rockefeller In--L stitute put twenty-eight kittens to death; and here is how they7 did it. The cats were killed in pairs. The first cat of the pair was cut open crosswise more than halfway around, and the intestines were taken out. Then the entire mass of his kidneys and adjacent parts was removed and placed in a jar. That finished cat No. 1, and, as there was no further use for him, he was put to death, and could be thankful that he got away7 from the learned doctors so easily.
It was cat No. 2 of each pair that was in hard luck. The second cat was treated the same way7 as the first one, except that the whole interior work’s of cat No. 1 was sewed in, in place of the apparatus with which the eat came into the world. It was great fun for the learned doctors. One cat had kittens two days before this highly7 intelligent ( ?) experiment, and another gave birth to her kittens two days after such an appalling operation as having the abdominal wall cut transversely.
Of course, all fourteen of the cats Nos. 2 died, but the learned doctors could and did watch all the details of their torture to the very end, which in one instance was delayed over a month. To be sure, they learned nothing, for the good and sufficient reason that nothing is ever learned by7 vivisection, but they had the peculiar satisfaction, if satisfaction it be, of being able to record minutely7 the sufferings which they witnessed. They saw and recorded at length the refusals of food, coughing, copious discharges from the nose, peritonitis, convulsions, emaciation, enlargement of kidneys, hemorrhages, adhesions of intestines, vomiting, abscesses, high temperatures, evidences of pain, and finally7 death.
Does it seem to be a desirable thing to be a learned doctor and have a share in such things? It might be for the Devil and for those who have his spirit, but how a human creature could sink so low is hard to understand.
Humanity Shines at Its Best
IN THE midst of the skyscraper apartment section of upper New York, a two-month-old puppy fell into a crevice in a great pile of rocks. In order to get that pup out of his predicament two squads of police and one from the Consolidated Gas Company7 rigged up hoisting apparatus, moved four tons of rocks, and finally drilled a hole through which a lank young man was lowered head first to a place where he could get hold of the canine explorer and drag him forth to the light of day. It is said that traffic conditions were confused for ten blocks around that pup, and that literally hundreds of people waited for hours to see if he could be gotten out alive. It is not thought that there were any vivi-sectors in the crowd.
Events in Canada By Our Canadian Correspondent
THE numerous prison riots have caused an investigation into prison conditions which has brought to light the terrible cruelty heaped upon some of the inmates of these places. The Toronto Globe, speaking thereof, says:
The unusual spectacle of convicts in Kingston penitentiary acting as their own counsel while being tried before a court on charges of rioting has been interesting because of the legal talent revealed. But there also have been startling consequences. An astonishing light has been thrown on prison life. Who but an inmate of the institution would have summoned as a witness a man serving a life term and who had spent 23 years in solitary confinement? This was a master stroke by the convict Sam Behan.
To objection by the crown prosecutor that the shocking experience of this witness had nothing to do with the charges against Behan, the convict counsel replied: “It has everything to do with them. What has happened to this man can happen to me.”
Twenty-three years in solitary confinement! The mind almost fails to grasp the horror of such punishment. This man, emaciated and broken in spirit, gave his evidence in so low a tone that it had to be repeated to the court. Could a witness called from the grave have created a more heartbreaking impression?
Twenty-three years in solitary confinement! Without even the comradeship of other criminals, this unfortunate man had spent nearly half of the fifty-five years of his life. What conduct merited such punishment? The public does not know, but the public conscience will demand an explanation. Penitentiaries are the property of the people of this country; under their administration and in a secondary way the people share the responsibility for what goes on within the stone walls.
Twenty-three years in solitary confinement! Is that a common punishment for even the most refractory inmate of a penitentiary? No convict in this country ever has been sentenced to such torture of mind and body. Why and by whom is the sentence imposed? Human nature cannot stand such utter misery, long continued. Had it not been for Sam Behan, who knows what goes on behind prison walls, nothing would have come out about this emaciated and broken man who has spent the best years of his life in silence and alone.
What are the responsible authorities going to do about business such as this? There is in the public mind no thought that convicted criminals should be coddled and entertained; but there is also in the public mind a sense of proportion that regards this man’s punishment as something terrible to contemplate. Twenty-three years of solitary confinement!
Prison Witness Flogged
Prisoners have been subjected, not alone to solitary confinement, but also to terrible flogging, and in this connection the Toronto Star editorially says:
At a trial in Kingston yesterday morning a convict witness did not appear and it was explained that there had been new trouble at the penitentiary in which he had participated with unfortunate results to himself. When one of the counsel asked if he had received twenty lashes, a deputy warden said it was only five. In the afternoon the convict appeared in court with weals upon his back and said he had been flogged. According to the dispatches the warden denied on the stand that the man had been beaten wrongfully by him or on his orders. That he should receive any sort of beating just prior to appearing as a court witness is, of course, very unfortunate. It was explained that the convicts were getting out of hand again and that stern measures had been found necessary. But, as counsel pointed out, “if they had him in a position for lashes, he was in a position to be put in his cell.”
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