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PROTEST AND PETITION "EDITORIALS” "HOLY YEAR” FOR INDIANS? JURY HONORED JEHOVAH ON "CORRECTION OF A LIE” IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

LATIN AMERICA RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORLD TRIBULATION

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Vol. XV - No. 371 December 6, 1933

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LABOR AND ECONOMICS

Railroads Pull Over Good One . 152

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

More About “Correction of Lie’’ 142

Important Announcement to

Radio Station Owners . . . 145

Bouquets.........150

Says Negroes Are Human . . . 151

Wells Hopes for Better Day . . 151

Reverend Eiekhoff, Traffic Cop . 152

MANUFACTURING AND MINING

Big Diamond Found in Brazil . 150

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Chile Was Held Baek .... 151

Need No More Office Buildings . 151

British and Japanese Clash . . 152

Banks Cut Down Payrolls . . . 153

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

Who Are Mexican Citizens? . . 150

Tshekedi Reinstated as King . . 150

The Soviet Housecleaning . . . 150

Eleventh Member of Labor Board 151

Illness of League of Nations . . 151

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

Plan to Change African Climate . 152

Quebec Revival of Domestic Arts . 153

Gardens of the Blind .... 158

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

England's Electric System . . 150

X-Ray Vision Through Closed Lids 151

Gas-Proof Rooms for Children . 151

No Barnacles on New Steel . . 151 Improvements in Bricks .... 153

HOME AND HEALTH

Preparation for Fasting . . . 159

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

Latin America—Question Mark

of 20th Century (Part 4) . . 147 Earthquakes Reverse Min River . 150 Population of Manchuria . . . 150 Harvest in the Ukraine .... 150 All in Step but Banker .... 150 League Palace a Mile Long . . 152 Floods from Subterranean Rivers 153 Churches Continue to Burn . . 153

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

“Editorials” on Religious

Intolerance

How About “Holy Year”

FOR INDIANS ?

Do Something to Appease

Torturers

Bishop Hickey’s Funeral . . 136 Few People Endorse Persecution . 136 Protest and Petition to Congress 137 Jury Feared and Honored Jehovah 139

Not All Clergy Are Alike . . 145

Willing to Try Honest Work . . 146 “Very Reverends” Coming Around 152 “Clergy Who Censor the Psalms” 153 Responsibility for World

Tribulation.......154

The Radio Witness Work . 152, 158

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Volume XV Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, December 6, 1933 Number 371

“ Editorials ” on Religious Tolerance

THE only thing necessary to be an editor of some publications is to have a vacuum above the ears into which at stated times quantities of bean soup may be poured as needed. If the soup is too warm it may be chilled slightly before being poured in.

On Monday, October 30, 1933, the following “Editorial” appeared in the San Francisco Evening News. The next morning the same “Editorial” appeared in the Olean Times-Herald, Olean, N. Y., three thousand miles away. The Olean editor indicated that the soup was slightly fermented, because, uneasily, he added the words “Mark of Democracy” after the other two words that go to make up the title.

Also, he had a better proofreader than the “Editor” in San Francisco. It will be observed that that worthy gentleman, in the tenth paragraph, intimates that “there is no sign that a revival of tolerance threatens us”. That is the absolute truth, but that was not the way the sentence appeared on his propaganda sheet, and the San Francisco man will probably be fined for not noticing that he said “tolerance” where he was supposed to say “intolerance”. Blunders in reprinting propaganda are inexcusable.

The Olean “Editor” beat the San Francisco man to it in another way. As an evidence of superior brain power, not only did the Olean man add three words to the title of the “Editorial”, but he actually inserted four asterisks in two different places in the body of the “Editorial”, once after the fifth paragraph and once after the eighth paragraph. In every other respect the two “Editorials” are alike, word for word, to the last punctuation mark.

RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE

During the next three months a Protestant minister, a Catholic priest, and a Jewish rabbi will tour the United States together, to preside in 37 cities at interdenominational discussions of religious tolerance.

Nothing has happened in this country recently to indicate that any revival of religious intolerance is to be feared. But it has had a fearful flare-up across the ocean, and of all menaces to the peace of mankind it is one of the most contagious.

This tour can be looked on as a kind of vaccination, and it can be made an exceedingly valuable thing.

Full religious tolerance is one of those blessings whose true worth usually is not appreciated until they disappear. It is a comparatively new thing in the world.

Its roots have not sunk as deeply into the substratum of civilized society as might be wished. If it is to be preserved, we must be eternally vigilant.

We need to realize, too, that it is one of the essential ingredients in the democracy which we cherish. As the first nation to make a go of democracy, we have an especial reason for defending it.

Democracy is more than just the abolition of autocratic government. In its broad sense, it is a scheme of society under which each individual is permitted to live his own life as he sees fit.

He not only has his vote, and his free and unchallenged choice of occupation; he has the right to worship as he pleases, and to do it without suffering the slightest discrimination, in any form, because of it.

Any infringement on this right is a denial of the very essence of democracy. A democracy must have full religious tolerance, because of the simple fact that the moment it ceases to do so it ceases to be a democracy. All Americans who think their democracy worth preserving automatically must be defenders of religious tolerance.

All this is worth repeating these days, even though there is no sign that a revival of tolerance threatens us. Unbridled intolerance is aflame beyond the sea. There is in America, unfortunately, enough ignorance and prejudice to provide a feeding ground for it if embers should fly our way.

By reexamining the question now, and reaffirming our determination not to let intolerance get a foothold, we can strengthen the foundations of our free society.

We cannot spend all our time examining all the propaganda that appears in the daily press, because, if we did, there would not be time to do anything else, or even to finish that. Newspapers are operated by men of wealth and used as smoke screens to help them rifle the pockets of the people. They are not interested in the people. Their constant aim is to conceal the truth about God’s kingdom and to prevent the people from ascertaining just how evil and rotten the Devil’s kingdom really is. This so-called “Editorial” appeared as such in numerous other papers besides the San Francisco Evening News and the Olean Times-Herald, and copies of the same have been received at this office. It is all very disgraceful.

Now look for a moment at the barefaced lie put out by these three “Job’s comforters” that are touring the United States in the interest of hypocrisy. The statement appears, “Nothing has happened in this country recently to indicate that any revival of religious intolerance is to be feared.” Nobody could invent a worse lie than that.

Judge Rutherford on the Stand

“Judge Rutherford, have you been subjected to anv intolerance during the TIolv Year’ of 1933?”

“I have.”

“Name some of the incidents.”

“In December the 'pope’ announced that 1933 would be a ‘Holy Year’. At that time my lectures on Bible themes, and particularly on The Kingdom of God, The Hope of the World, were being broadcast on upward of 300 radio stations, of which 25 were in Canada. As soon as the pope’s ‘Holy Year’ had been proclaimed, but even before it had actually begun, the Canadian censor, Hector Charlesworth (who is under Roman Catholic influence), without any law giving him the right so to do, and without any hearings, but solely on the complaints of clergymen, ordered those broadcasts to cease. This was done despite petitions of more than 400,000 names requesting that they be continued.”

“But that was in Canada. Were you subjected to any intolerance in the United States?”

“I was.”

“What intolerances have you noticed in the United States in 1933?”

“It has been the most intolerant year in American history, excepting only 1918. On April 16, 23 and 30 I broadcast over the United States three addresses on timely and important topics, ‘The Way of Escape,’ ‘Effect of Holy Year on Peace and Prosperity,’ and ‘Kingdom Blessings for the People’. Millions of people no doubt heard these addresses, for many thousands of them wrote to me about them, yet intolerance is so rooted and grounded in the Roman Catholic system that from that time to this all the power of the hierarchy has been used to force me off the air in the United States, and a number of stations were compelled, by threats of boycott, and other un-American methods, to discontinue broadcasts which I have abundant proof that the people themselves desired to hear.”

“Do you know of any other instances in 1933 ?”

“The year has been filled with them. In New Jersey some twenty-five towns under Roman Catholic control have thrown into prison men and women who were wholly within their rights in preaching the gospel from door to door. This was notably done at Summit and Plainfield. In the latter town fifty-six men and women were jailed for ten days each after farcical trials without a parallel in judicial history. This was while I was in Europe. On my return I lectured in Plainfield on this very subject of ‘Religious Intolerance : Why Practiced Now1, and the Roman Catholic police administration under Mr. Flynn had sixty armed men in the audience, covering me with machine guns and other weapons of intimidation, but the address was given, and broadcast all over New Jersey at the same time.”

“What, in your opinion, is the motive behind the sending of these three men all over the United States to tell the people there is now no intolerance in America?”

“To lull the people to sleep, so that when their liberties are suddenly snatched away there will be no protest.”

An Outstanding Libel of the “Holy Year”

The Devil always practices fraud and deception to accomplish his wicked purposes, and inasmuch as the Catholic hierarchy are his visible representatives on earth, it is natural to expect that this institution -would and does resort to the same methods of fraud, lying and deceit to overreach the people that he has always found hitherto have so well served his ends.

As an illustration of the wickedness of the Devil and his crowd we now invite our readers to consider the following statement which appears on page 1 of The Catholic Register, Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, October 19, 1933, Volume XXXIV, No. 7, column 4, top of column:

“WITNESSES OF JEHOVAH” HELD Thirty-one Eutherford Followers Arrested for Sedition in Canada

The arrest of sixteen men and thirteen women, members of an organization known as “Witnesses of Jehovah”, who had come to Quebec from Ontario and Montreal and flooded the city with anticlerical literature, was followed by the arrest of two more associates.

All of those arrested are reported to be affiliated with the “International bible Students”. They are being held charged with violation of Article 13-1 of the penal code in having taken part in a seditious conspiracy.

“Jehovah's Witnesses” is a term applied by “Judge” Joseph F. Eutherford, anti-Catholic and anti-clerical radio lecturer and ex-convict, to his followers in the International Bible Students’ Association.

Of them, he wrote recently to the Catholic press of America as follows: “I know that already your hierarchy is seeking some apparent legal excuse to kill all of Jehovah’s witnesses.” The charge of sedition on which the ‘‘Witnesses” are held in Canada, is one of several on which .Rutherford himself was convicted during the World War and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary.

His radio addresses, which created a storm of protest particularly in Kansas and Missouri during the past summer and lesulted in cancellations by most of the broadcasting stations handling them, have been barred from all Canadian stations.

In June of 1918, when the United States was engaged in the World War, Rutherford wrote to a follower who had refused military duty as follows: ‘‘to be shot for being a conscientious objector is a quick method of entering the presence of the Lord.”

Let all the honest and fair-minded take note of the lies in the foregoing. The sedition with which Jehovah’s witnesses were charged in Canada was the distributing of a booklet exposing the fears of the Catholics concerning Purgatory. The Catholic hierarchy have used this blasphemous statement for years to defraud the people and obtain from them wrongfully money to carry on their wicked work.

Being interested in the statement in the foregoing article describing Judge Rutherford as “anti-Catholic and anti-clerical radio lecturer and ex-convict” and having shared with him his experiences in 1918 (and hoping to share them throughout eternity) we called up one of the best lawyers in the United States, Frederick W. Sparks, of Brooklyn, N. Y., to see what he had to say on the subject, and this is what he said:

Replying to your telephone inquiry in reference to whether you are an ex-convict because of your conviction in the case of United States vs. Woodworth, ct al.: The reversal of the judgment of conviction by the Circuit Court of Appeals and the Government’s failure to retry you, leaves your status as if you had never been convicted, and to publish an article describing you as an ex-convict, in my opinion, is libelous.

On the strength of that opinion, and honestly desiring to see truth triumph in the earth, and the servants of the Devil get all that is coming to them, we profoundly and sincerely hope that Judge Rutherford will sue these people for libel, and push the case to the limit. Why let a bunch of lying, cowardly poltroons drag the name of the faithful and true for ever in the dust? A good lawsuit for about a million dollars damages against these Roman Catholic roosters that have so much to say about “Religious Tolerance” in the “Holy Year” would, it seems to us, be a good thing—and help to fumigate the “Holy Year” at that.

How About a “Holy Year” for the Indians?

IT OCCASIONALLY happens that an honest man gets into the Roman Catholic priesthood. The Reverend Peter Heuel, Burns, Oregon, seems to be such a man. In a conflict between a millionaire lumber firm and the Indians whom he had been teaching, he stood by the Indians and was summarily suspended for ten years.

All efforts to get justice failed, but he did enlist the interest of a fellow priest, Joseph Schell, sick and bedfast in St. Anthony’s Hospital, Pendleton, Oregon. Joseph knows how to write and is writing some mighty interesting things to his superior officers. We select extracts from a series of printed letters which Reverend Schell is now circulating in leaflet form.

First is a letter to the Most Reverend Archbishop Edward D. Howard, D.D., Portland, Oregon, dated August 22, 1932, in which Mr. Schell pays his respects to his archbishop and to his bishop, Joseph F. McGrath, Baker City, Oregon:

Our Lord received a blow in his face for having told the truth to the High Priest. St. John the Baptist lost his head for having told the truth. I fared better; the Archbishop A. Christie, your predecessor, with his fist to my face, said: “I’ll break your face if you do not keep your mouth shut” (regarding the land frauds). A priest in Seattle was kicked in the back by his bishop, O’Dea. Do you want moie facts?

Judas, the first bishop worshiper of Mammon, betrayed and sold Truth and Justice—Our Loid—for money. Today, the followers of Judas are many, betraying and selling truth and justice for money. The Rev. Heuel’s case is an example. There are many such cases, to the disgrace of the church administration, which invites and defends such crimes. “Get the money, and all is well.”

There is little in law that appeals to the gold-ridden church dignitaries. Like Judas, they want money. Law to these worshipers of Mammon is the law of selfish power and aggrandizement. Their only concept of law, peace and government is an adjustment of affairs that will favor their vain and selfish ambitions.

It seems that Bishop McGrath himself is not without conscience. When the millionaires were after Heuel’s scalp he told Heuel of it and offered him another place, but Heuel stuck by the poor Indians, to do what he could to keep them from being despoiled. The sick man, Joseph Schell, knew all this, and so that the archbishop would realize that he did know of it, he wrote him again on November 25, 1932, with what the apostle would describe as “great plainness of speech”. Quotations are from his leaflet No. 2:

The Rev. Heuel had evidence that his removal from Burns was wanted by Edward Hines, a multimillionaire, who could not deprive the helpless Indians of their rights and property as long as Heuel was with them.

Well, Mr. Hines had previously given to Cardinal Mundelein one million dollars, as a gift. For this, Rome had deeorated him with church titles of distinction and of nobility, like Commander of St. Gregory the Great, etc. Hines pressed Bishop McGrath hard, who was slow and hesitating. Then two spokesmen of Mr. Hines went to see the bishop. One of them testified that they asked for Rev. Heuel’s removal from Burns, or they would go higher up and get his (the bishop’s) removal. Then, the bishop suspended Heuel, ez informata conscientia, for ten years, saying to Heuel that he did not know why he was suspended, that Rome was doing it, and that he must have recourse to Rome, but should avoid trouble for which he might be sorry. And also that it was useless to appeal to the apostolic delegate at Washington, T>. C., who did not know anything of it. Had Hines bribed some cardinal in Rome to order Rev. Heuel’s ruin?

At that time, I myself informed Bishop McGrath that he should have told Hines and his agents to go to hell with their money, just as St. Peter had told Simon the Magician, and not to sacrifice a priest upon the altar of Mammon at the request of Bines.

The Rev. Heuel appealed again and again, but was ignored everywhere. And two years later Rome referred his appeal to you for investigation and trial. It is the unwritten law of the church, that in order to uphold authority, an unjust bishop must win against a just and innocent priest. You are expected to put aside or piously pervert canon law, and call evil good, and good evil.

I would like to remind you that the Rev. Heuel must know the charges before he can defend himself. He must know and hear his accusers before he can probe the witnesses, if they were bought to testify; and how they are connected with Hines in business or otherwise; if there were charges before or after the suspension, or if Bishop McGrath was hiding his iniquity under the cover of ex vnfor.mata conscientia. Remember, also, that in foro externo all things must be proven and unfolded in the presence of both contestants.

You must also know that Hines’ Lumber Co. at Burns and his interest in timber, including Indian rights, represents millions of dollars. Also, that the Hines New Townsite Co., near Burns, lias such investors as Cardinal Mundelein, heading the list with one hundred thousand dollais. The other investors are Catholic institutions like the Catholic University of Washington, D. C., religious orders of men and women and many priests, who have invested to the amount of over half a million dollars. And all this has been found in the files of the Hines New Townsite Co. This company has now gone bankrupt and the investors lost their money. All the property was sold by the sheriff on March 25, 1933.

After Edward Hines had bribed the church with one million dollars, he expected the church to patronize him, and help and protect him in his business ventures. This the church did by investing money and by suspending Rev. Heuel. But this poor priest who had converted all the Indians there to the Catholic faith, refused to sell and betray the Indians. Hence this concerted action of Hines’ interests and the bribed church administration to crush the Rev. Heuel through suspension and starvation, an old priest of GO years. Such is the power of money with faithless church dignitaries, and such is actual church government by consecrated politicians.

Not seeming to get results, the man on the sick bed next tackled the “Holy Office” at Vatican City, and on March 12,1933, told them some things that must have made mighty interesting reading about the time the “Holy Year’' started. He said in part (we are still quoting from his leaflet No. 2):

Each bishop must pay to Rome a large sum of money for the favor of being made a bishop. Again, he must pay a large sum of money to Rome for his coveted transfer from a poor to a wealthier diocese. Again he must pay a large sum of money to Rome for being named an archbishop, and an enormous fortune for the title of Cardinal. The monsignors must pay to Rome large sums of money for their title and for permission to wear purple, and to strut around the bishop for a share of public admiration with the bishop. I heard bitter complaints by a bishop who had to buy Roman Bulls three times.

Naturally, these pious-faced hypocrites, who follow and protect Mammon, cannot serve God in truth, justice and mercy, as seen in the Rev. Heuel case. They want absolute secrecy to protect their misdeeds, and want their hired cardinals to prevent any harm therefrom, by suppressing truth, and preventing justice, as seen in the Rev. Heuel case. And such is church government by consecrated hirelings.

Due to this general and official bribery in the church administration, there are more than two thousand tramp priests astray in America, as well as many members of religious houses of men and women. Today, I have been informed, that a priest of this Baker diocese has joined the ministry of the Episcopal church. Also, that a Franciscan father is about to become a bishop in the Episcopal church. Such are the wrecks found in the slimy trail of official corruption in our church.

To be crucified one has only to preach the gospel to the high priests.

I invite contradiction, because it will help bring out more proofs about this damnable condition in the church administration, which banishes truth and justice for the protection of bribery and corruption.

I also have helped the poor and the oppressed, and through it I came into conflict with their powerful oppressors, who bought the help of my bishop to get me out of the way. Thus I was betrayed and sold twice to predatory wealth by two bishops. First, by Archbishop Christie of Portland, Oregon, in the Oregon gigantic land frauds; and, second, by Bishop Scannell of Omaha, Neb., in the round-up of powerful Indian swindlers.

For years I had pleaded and appealed to the church administration for a hearing and redress, but all in vain. Then I went to Rome, where, for three months, I have studied and observed the prevailing conditions. There I saw and understood, that the church administration ruled according to money, and not according to truth and justice. Hence I know what I am writing about, and I can challenge contradiction. The cardinals ignore the Gospel and protect those offering gifts and bribes. They call it charity, and see to it that this unChristian charity covers all the sins and the misdeeds of the malefactors of whom they are the paid protectors.

After seven weeks from this date, if nothing is done for the relief of and satisfaction to Rev. Heuel, his case with all the letters will be printed and spread in Rome and over all America. Truth shall out, and the scandalized public, more conscientious than the faithless church dignitaries, will be heai d from. * * *

There seems to be nothing in our church, priests included, that Rome is not willing to sell or trade for gold, glory and political influence. But all in vain. The nations want no more church government nor anything like it in their state politics. They want no return to the middle ages, nor to church tribunals and their kind of justice; hence the worldwide separation of church and state. Centuries have shown that politics, wealth and vanity m our church government, while profitable to the consecrated church politicians, personally, are highly injurious to Christianity and humanity. If the church administration in Borne would be Christian and openly honest, in fact, there would be no Ileuel case, nor many others like it, nor their public scandals, nor worldly politics in the church. As Bome is, so are and must be the bishops and the clergy.

I am in the hospital, sick and bedfast. Each morning I am lifted into a chair to say mass. As soon as I helped the Bev. Ileuel about his case, Bishop McGrath took steps to oust me from the Sisters’ Hospital, but without success. Then he deprived me of mass intentions, my only income for needs, sent to him through the Extension Society for priests in need. Such is my treatment in my physical helplessness, at the hands of a faithless bishop, because I am helping the Bev. Ileuel.

In the course of his duties, the Bev. Heuel accidentally came across some exclusive lane of church graft. He was warned to keep away. He knew not how to be deaf, blind and dumb about it, and protected the helpless victims, the Indians he had converted to the Catholic faith. Then came from Bome a ‘ ‘ lettre de Cachet ’ ’ to Bishop McGrath, ordering him to put the Bev. Heuel out of the way for ten years, with suspension and starvation. Bev. Heuel complained and appealed. Then, two years later, an order came from Bome for a hearing of the case in the Metropolitan Court of Portland, Oregon, only to prove ‘ ‘ under the seal of absolute secrecy ’ ’ that the pious grafters in silk and ermine are right when doing wrong, and that Bev. Heuel in rough clothes and penniless is wrong when doing right.

And such is actual church government which covertly frowns upon truth, justice and Christianity, and upholds pious graft as seen here. And thus priests must, either in silence, without the light of truth and the air of justice, live in a poisonous atmosphere that kills their faith and souls, or be ruined and starved without recourse. Not secrecy, but wholesome publicity is needed to stop official misdeeds and abuses, and the many evils and scandals therefrom.

We do not know that they need any hints from us, but for the benefit of the sisters that serve in St. Anthony’s Hospital, we explain that the approved method of popes for putting people out of the way that they wish to get rid of, without drawing any suspicion upon themselves, is to have the prisoner fed powdered diamond dust in his soup. Different from any other stone, this dust cuts into the small intestines and starts ulcers which do not heal. It takes about five months to kill a man by this method, but it is quite safe, and has been used many times in the church. AVell, good-bye, Joe; you were a good scout and deserved to live (and may, even yet).

Do Something to Appease the Torturers

Fb. Anselm Francis, S. A., spiritual director of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, St. Christopher’s Inn, Graymoor, Garrison, N. Y., is anxious that something should be done to stay the wrath of the torturers that are running this place called “purgatory”. He tells something of the infamous way they have of running this place, in the language of St. Theresa:

“Methinks that a red-hot iron ball is going through my temples, that a fiery pike pierces me through from head to foot, and a burning dagger is piercing my heart from right to left; whilst my head is squeezed with a fiery helmet and constantly struck with a hammer. My bones are falling into dust, the marrow is dried up, each of my joints endures a special torment I can neither name nor describe.’’

That seems rather bad, but Fr. Anselm reassures us, for in the next breath he says that “God has been very good to us”. Maybe so, maybe so, but if He would do things like that ■when He was good, we hate to think what He ■would do if He ever once lost His temper.

Fr. Anselm goes more into details about the goodness. There were some beds to be endowed. Of these, 110 had been taken at $100 a bed; that is $11,000 to the good; isn’t that something? Of course, things are rather bad in “purgatory” ; that is to be admitted; but they are not so bad at Graymoor.

More is wanted. There are 7 stained-glass windows that will set somebody back $125 apiece, 4 statues that, all together, will cost $525, 5 shrines or altars that, it is calculated, will wreck $6,500, and bells for the tower will mean another $750; but there is one nice thing about all this, and that is that these trimmings can all be paid for in installments.

But what Fr. Anselm really wanted to tell us about is “purgatory”. He asks, “Who would believe purgatory is as it is unless the saints said so?” And we answer, Nobody; and as far as we are concerned we don’t believe a word of it. That will be a disappointment to Fr. Anselm, for we know he would like to have us send in a few dollars to light some vigil lights for the poor souls in that place where they have a boss that shows such a dreadfully mean disposition.

Feeling that he had not said quite all he should about “purgatory” (for it is admitted that you never can sell anything unless you tell something about it, at least enough to make the people want it) Fr. Anselm proceeds to quote something said by ‘‘Father” Faber:

“St. Collette was wont on the feasts of martyrs to suffer the same tortures as they had endured; she felt herself roasted with St. Lawrence, flayed like St. Bartholomew and crucified like St. Peter. Sometimes it seemed to her that her limbs were broken with iron bars, or that her eyes were replaced by two burning lamps. This lasted for fifty years. Is this purgatory ? According to St. Augustine, it is only a shadow.’’

Of course, it is none of our business, but it seems to us that the thing Fr. Anselm and all the other “purgatory” experts should give attention to is getting the one that runs this place to manifest a better disposition. But maybe Fr, Anselm feels that will come about naturally if the people will only just do the reasonable thing and come across liberally for his stained-glass windows, statues, shrines, bells and candles. He ought to know.

Bishop Hickey’s Funeral

TDishop Hickey, of Rhode Island, would, we think, be alive today if he had not busied himself interfering with the broadcasting of the truth by Judge Rutherford. The bishop went out in style, but he is as dead now as though he had never lived. He might better not have opposed the message of God’s kingdom, and remained alive, but he elected to oppose it, and die.

One account of the pitiful attempt of the Devil to draw some glory to himself even in the death of one of his tools says:

“There [in the cathedral] he will lie until the interment procession is begun after the pontifical mass Monday and the imparting of the five pontifical absolutions. The bishop is vested with cassock, sash, roche, amice, alb and cincture. His pectoral cross, which he would finger as he gave his sermons and public addresses, is resting on his breast. Over the alb are his stole and tunic with a dalmatic under the purple chasuble. His hands are gloved and he is wearing his episcopal ring over the gloves. He is wearing sandals and under his mitre is the zuchetto, a small cap. Although all the vestments are purple the mitre is white. ”

It would seem as though anybody who had any sense ought to be able to see that that is all nonsense. The man is dead; the point of the matter is that, if he had not opposed the truth, he might still be alive, though we joyfully yield to the judgment of God, and believe it is better as it is, for he was God's enemy, though claiming to be His friend. His funeral was held “under a sunless October sky”.

The account says that the news of his death “was flashed over the radio stations”. Those were the very radio stations that he caused to cancel their contracts and shut Judge Rutherford off the air. The judge may not speak over those stations, but the Lord may, enough to show His hand, and that is quite enough. We do not taunt; we state the facts; the man is dead.

The stories of the bishop's death repeat over and over again that on the day he died “he was in apparent good health”. We believe that he was, and that he was put to death by one of the holy angels of God because he interfered with the proclamation of the truth in the earth.

It takes seven regular newspaper columns to merely list the names of the “most reverends”, “very reverends,” “reverends,” governors, United States senators, congressmen, majors, lieutenants, judges, state officials, chamber of commerce officials, doctors, city officials and other dignitaries that attended Bishop Hickey’s funeral, but we think he might better not have opposed Judge Rutherford’s work, and remained alive. However, he made his own choice, and is dead.

Few People Endorse Persecution

IT IS very apparent that few people really endorse persecution. Thus, on October 22 every house in the Roman Catholic city of Summit, N. J., was twice visited by Jehovah’s witnesses, and although seven were arrested and detained for a few hours, and although the newspapers claimed that police headquarters was deluged by complaints that the witnesses had been ringing their doorbells, yet not a person was willing to sign a complaint.

A Protest and Petition to Congress

Against Censorship and Domination of Radio in the United States by the Tope’ and Other Selfish Interests

MUCH is being macle by the Roman Catholic press of the fact that the present occupant of the White House in Washington has done more to favor the aspirations of the papacy in America than any of his predecessors in fifty years. One of the items in their rejoicing is the appointment by President Roosevelt of a Knight of Columbus, James H. Hanley, a Nebraskan lawyer, as Federal Radio Commissioner.

One of the things expected of the new commissioner, by Catholics, is that he, as a loyal subject of the ‘pope’, should cleverly find some way to get Judge Rutherford off the air. This was plainly stated in The Catholic Citizen (Milwaukee, Wis.), June 24, 1933, when that paper admitted:

“A formal protest will be macle shortly to the Federal Radio Commission requesting that Rutherford be denied the privilege of broadcasting his attacks on the clergy. The petition to the Commission is to be filed through the National Council of Catholic Men and the National Council of Catholic Women. Mr. Caravati of the N.C.C.M. has already had an informal discussion with Mr. Hanley of the Commission. ’ ’

The same item, with added details, appeared two days previously in The Catholic Register, of Kansas City. Therein it was indicated that the Bob Shuler (Los Angeles) case (discussed in our issue of March 1, 1933) would be used as an excuse and a precedent. Shuler had said some uncomplimentary things of the Roman Catholic church, and an associate justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia gave expression to the opinion, and stated, among other things, that Shuler had no right to “offend the religious susceptibilities” of others, and ruled his station off the air. Since -when, in America, did it become illegal for any person to offend the religious susceptibilities of another?

Allow that two men are cast away on an uninhabited isle and one of them says something that offends the religious susceptibilities of the other, what is going to happen? Which one must go and jump into the sea ? and why ? Which one must come and have his tongue cut out? and why? The judge who delivered himself of that opinion may be in full possession of his mental faculties, but he seems to us to be over-zealous to act as protector of the most tyrannical institution under the sun.

Hanley Under the Lash

And so Hanley, under the lash of the priests (and supposedly also of Amleto Giovanni Ci-cognani, archbishop and personal representative in the United States of Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, ‘pope,’ of Vatican City), started in to try to “get” Judge Rutherford. It has not been easy going. Thus, under the headline “Less Than 100 Complained”, the New York Times, November 26, 1933, made the interesting admission that though, for six weeks, Hanley (misprinted “Haney” in the Times) solicited complaints from a nation of radio listeners, yet in that time he was unable to evoke even a hundred responses.

An analysis of these responses shows that there w’as objection to “too much duplication of chain programs, too much offensive sales talk, too many programs tending to develop religious agitation and too much trafficking in radio facilities; also a tendency toward monopoly by certain groups”.

That makes five kinds of complaints distributed among the “short” one hundred, so that, if we divide the number equally we have Commissioner Hanley’s admission that in the whole United States, in a period of six weeks’ agitation of the subject, he was able to find but about twenty people who thought there were “too many programs tending to develop religious agitation”.

In the United States we have some 213 sects flourishing, and if we make a careful mathematical computation it appears that before each of these sects could have one chance to do some of this wholesome provocation of thought it would normally have to wait 447 days before it could stir up one person enough to make one complaint.

Under the circumstances lawyer Hanley only stultifies himself when he tries to screen the plain inference that the only reason why he is checking up on Judge Rutherford, and trying to get him off the air, is that he himself is a subject of the ‘pope’ and, in obedience to papal influence, and contrary to American policy, is trying to make America a closed preserve for the Roman Catholic religion.

Shall the Radio Listeners Have a Square Deal?

Judge Rutherford and his friends are tired of

all this humbug. They, In common with others, have heard a great deal lately about Tolerance and the New Deal. If this New Deal means that our liberties are going to be taken away from us by a bunch of cheap politicians at the behest of the ‘pope’, then we are going to find it out, and find it out now.

A Protest and Petition is going in to Congress so that the representatives of all the people of this country, and not merely the one Roman Catholic representative on the Federal Radio Commission, will know what is going on and will have a chance to say something about it. Even as this is being written, the following is being placed in the homes of all the people:

ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF LIBERTY?

Do You Wish Intrenched, Selfish Interests to

Deprive the People of the Right to Hear by Radio What Is Desirable?

NDER the pretext of “tolerance” that intrenched, selfish crowd is now engaged in a movement to force the radio stations to broadcast only what pleases them and to thus deprive the people of their just rights to hear the truth. They are trying to force off the air men who are faithfully telling the people God’s Word of truth concerning the cause of world distress and what is His remedy. Nothing could be of greater importance to you than to hear those truths now.

True democracy is fast disappearing from the earth. In behalf of truth and righteousness you still have the opportunity to protest and petition. To enable you to exercise this right, a petition is now being circulated. It is of the greatest importance that you act quickly. Sign the petition calling upon the Congress to safeguard the rights of the common people.

The foregoing is the general invitation which is now going out in printed form to the American people to participate in the Protest and Petition which is now being circulated all over the country. Action in the matter will bo completed promptly—early in the year. The following is the form of the Protest and Petition:

To THE CONGRESS of the United States of America: G rectings!

We, undersigned people of the United States of America, capable of determining for ourselves what we wish to hear broadcast by radio, without censorship by the clergy or anyone else, hereby PROTEST to the Congress against certain wrongful interference with our rights.

The radio act provides, as we understand, for the broadcasting of that which is in the public interest.

The message of the true God, JEHOVAH, as expressed by Him in the prophecies of His Word (the Bible) and as now being given to the people of this nation by Judge Rutherford and others of JEHOVAH’S witnesses, is of interest to us. When broadcast, it is convenient for us to hear it in our homes and is necessary for our welfare. We are entitled to hear and desire to hear that message. We disapprove of every attempt to prevent our hearing it broadcast.

The National Broadcasting Company, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and others, have wrongfully by threats, coercion and other improper influence prevented many stations from broadcasting this message of truth, thus depriving stations of legitimate income and depriving millions of American citizens of the privilege of hearing ■what they wish to hear; and against this wrongful action we vigorously PROTEST.

Exercising the right guaranteed to us by the Constitution of the United States, we therefore respectfully petition the Congress to act at once to safeguard the inherent rights of the American people relative to the radio.

Any Jonadab, or other reader of The Golden Age, residing in the United States, and desiring t-o participate in this work, should write in immediately for as many blank petition forms (space for 25 names to a form) as he will faithfully have filled and returned within the time set.

San Clemente Out to Save Money

SAN CLEMENTE is out to save money. As an initial step this California beach town eliminated all street lighting, abolished the paid fire department, reduced the city water department to one man, eliminated the engineering department, halted all street repair work, cut off all donations to the chamber of commerce, stopped giving aid to the resident unemployed, closed the municipal golf course, and began collection of water bills and assessments by foreclosures.

In the Story on Next Page—

What a wonderful God we have, who knew just how to put right there in the jury room with them, when they were fighting for eleven hours a battle that all must fight, what He had caused one of His servants to write to an unjust judge, to enable them to determine whether or not they were going to stand by their covenants with Jehovah God, even though the heavens fall I

A Jury That Feared and Honored Jehovah God

THIS article is not written to praise men and women who did their plain duty, in the face of considerable difficulty, in the suit for false arrest and imprisonment brought by Daniel E. Morgan against William A. O’Hara, acting magistrate of the city of Pittston, Pa., Luke Keating, chief of police of that city, and Thomas Reddington, patrolman, which suit was tried in the Federal Courthouse, Scranton, Pa., November 1-4 inclusive, 1933, and resulted in a verdict in Morgan's behalf. In effect, The Golden Age was on trial.

The rule is set down in the Scriptures, “Them that honour me I will honour” (1 Samuel 2: 30); and therefore it seems entirely fitting that we here give the names and addresses of the jury that sat in this case, for three days gave it their undivided attention, and finally rendered a just verdict:

Mrs. Corrine L. Biggan, Harrisburg, Pa.

Mrs. Elizabeth Ruth, Scranton, Pa.

George W. Frisbie, 1028 Electric St., Scranton, Pa.

John H. Deppen, Herndon, Pa.

C. J. Slauterback, RFD, Mifflintown, Pa.

Millard Hoffman, McClure, Pa.

Marie D. Wirth,

436 Hickory St., Scranton, Pa.

David Nicholas,

1702 N. Sumner Ave., Scranton, Pa.

Samuel A. Fishburn, Harrisburg, Pa.

Mrs. P. M. Bullard, Newberry, Pa.

D. B. Fultz, Blairs Mills, Pa.

John B. Dobson.

The trial was held in an unfriendly atmosphere, in the courtroom and outside of it. Not a newspaper had a friendly or a truthful word to say for the plaintiff’s side of the case from the beginning to the close, nor even afterward. At the outset, the judge on the bench seemed hostile to the plaintiff’s viewpoint; he became more friendly toward the close.

It was impossible for the jury to know what it was all about until they were locked in the jury room with Golden Age No. 313, which was put in evidence and in their possession. This paper, issue of September 16, 1931, had been represented to them as everything that is evil. Their minds must have been in a maze as they left the courtroom; anybody’s mind would have been, the truth was so carefully concealed—and is concealed from the public to this day.

What the Jury Was Told

Mr. Lewis, district attorney of Luzerne county, was to have testified at the trial that he authorized the confinement of Morgan and 22 others on charges of conspiracy and incitement to riot, and did this over a telephone, without seeing The Golden Age which they distributed, and without any evidence that they had done anything unlawful. He was a candidate for reelection that fall and wanted to be sure of the Roman Catholic vote. He did not arrive in the courtroom until just after the case had closed. It is just as well; he was spared any incentive to commit perjury.

Mr. Flannery, assistant district attorney of Luzerne county, was the counsel for the defendants. He let it be known, or surmised, that he had received his training at the Methodist Seminary at Kingston. Everybody thought he meant he had been trained to be a Methodist preacher, until, in the climax of his peroration, he eulogized the Roman Catholic church so ful-somely that he spilled the beans. His intimation was that he was defending the Methodists of the Roman Catholic town of Pittston against the attacks of the "awful Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society people’. He carefully concealed the fact, and it was not even mentioned at the trial, that a Roman Catholic priest in Pittston was the inciter of the whole trouble. The original complaint came from him; it was a complaint from one Roman Catholic to another. At first the Pittston police department freely admitted this over the telephone. In fact, the officers acted, not as Americans, and without regard to law, but as and for the Roman Catholic church, which to them is the highest law of the land.

Mr. Langan, mayor of the city of Pittston, testified that when Jehovah’s witnesses distributed The Golden Age gratis in his city on the afternoon of September 20,1931, they were also placing booklets with the people and receiving contributions therefor. As a matter of fact, while both these acts are strictly legal and proper, his sworn statement was false; no booklets were placed that day by anybody. Mr. Langan is a Roman Catholic.

Mr. O’Hara, the committing magistrate, testified under oath that all of the 23 Watch Tower people had confessed that they were guilty and had asked that they be confined in prison; he well knew that he was committing perjury when he gave such testimony. He is a Roman Catholic and proud of it. A poor unfortunate tool of the Roman hierarchy, when he was asked to point out under which section of the ordinance he had

authorized the arrests, he could not do so. After he had named one section on the witness stand he shifted to another, equally ridiculous.

Who Were the Riotous?

Mr. Reddington, patrolman, admitted that when Morgan asked him his name he had lied and said it was McGinness. Having lied so well to Morgan, he lied some more on the stand, lied when he said he saw Morgan giving out papers, lied as to the place where he seized him, and lied as to all the attendant circumstances. He is a Roman Catholic, no doubt.

About eight more of the toughest-looking people one could imagine were put on the stand and testified, one after another, that The Golden Age had vilified the American Legion and certain other institutions, and to prevent a riot in the city they had rushed to police headquarters to have the plaintiffs locked up and the good name of the city saved. Each and all, they overlooked the fact that the American Legion is not mentioned in that issue of The Golden Age in any way, shape or manner.

Thereupon the chief of police, Mr. Keating, went into action and caused the arrests. He admitted that he had seen no riotous conduct on the part of Jehovah’s witnesses, and it was manifest from the testimony adduced that nobody else had seen such, and yet he cheerfully proposed to confine 23 men and women in jail thirty days on hearsay testimony and to hold them each on $1,500 bail on the charges of conspiracy and incitement to riot. He forgot to say that several of the defendants were arrested while sitting quietly in their automobiles, without any testimony whatever being adduced that they had done anything else, and that several were arrested who had merely driven to the police headquarters to inquire what had become of relatives and friends.

It never seemed to have occurred to Mr. Keating that he should find out whether the work done by Jehovah’s witnesses was a lawful one, as indeed it was; but on the testimony of men who confessed that they were themselves on the point of committing illegal acts, he caused the arrest and confinement of the law-abiding and allowed the lawless, and admittedly lawless and disorderly Roman Catholic citizens, to go scot-free. In other words, as a Roman Catholic official, in a Roman Catholic town, he acted, not as an American, but as a Roman Catholic, flouting the law he had sworn to uphold.

More Lies for the Jury

Throughout the three days of the trial it was drilled into the jury, over and over again, that The Golden Age was a terrible paper, an awful paper; that it not only attacked all organized religion, Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian (Catholic not mentioned, of course), but that it made wholesale onslaughts on the Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., Boy Scouts, and Salvation Army, besides the American Legion.

The papers took this up and heralded it all over Lackawanna county and Luzerne county— what a terrible sheet The Golden Age is!—and then Attorney McCaughey for the plaintiff, in his closing address, read all that the issue contained about the YT.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., Boy Scouts and Salvation Army and endorsed it 100 percent. The story, if you look it up, is of where, at Virginia, Minnesota, the Community Chesters were short $6,000 in their funds and, instead of making each of the above-named social units bear a part of their disappointment, they kept the contributions to those institutions up to par and took the whole $6,000 out of the fund for the relief of the poor—a dirty trick.

The jury did not know, and could not know, that that very morning, in the near-by Roman Catholic town of Swoyersville, for distributing that very paper, there was a plot in the home of the Roman Catholic burgess to waylay and murder five carloads of Jehovah’s witnesses.

The whole story of that eventful morning and afternoon is told in Golden Age No. 329, issue of April 27, 1932. The leading article is a study of the Wickersham report entitled “Lawlessness by Officers of the Law”. The next article occupies seven pages and is entitled: “On the Roman Catholic Front—Illegalities at Pittston and Swoyersville—Every God-fearing, law-abiding citizen of Pittston and Swoyersville will read this with profoundest concern.”

The jury that sat on the Morgan case did not have the benefit of that clear statement of the facts (indeed, they do not have it yet), and that makes it all the more remarkable that they could have arrived so directly, so truly, so faithfully, at what must have been for them the solution of a difficult problem. But now let us show you how God arranged the whole affair.

The Jury Helped from on High

Well, the jury listened to conflicting evidence and conflicting pleas of lawyers for three days, and then, according to their own story, they vent into the jury room and the first thing they said was, in effect, “We are here in the presence of Almighty God and we must see that justice is rendered in this case.” Another report said, “Every man and woman on that jury loves God and wants to do His will.” Another said: “No doubt Morgan and his friends are this moment on their knees before God asking that justice may be done; we must decide this thing truly, justly, in the fear of God.”

The rest is only imagination, for we were not there, and, in the few moments of interview accorded, only a few impressions could he gathered. But we can imagine the jury taking their seats and saying, “Now let us read this paper and see just what it says.” And they had but to read the first line and they knew what it was all about. This is what they read:

American Rights and Liberties at Swoyersville On May 10, 1931, the Roman Catholic priest of Swoyersville, Pa., caused the arrest of Nicholas Bele-kon, Mike Wargo, John Wargo and Mike Hubal, charged with selling books without a license. After being in jail four hours, they were brought before a magistrate, where complaints were made and warrants issued. The original complainants were the Catholic priest, a police officer and three other witnesses, but the charges were drawn only in the name of the officer and two of the witnesses. Judas and Caiaphas disappeared from the scene before Jesus was formally arraigned.

They read that page, and turned it over, and then they found just what the Lord wanted them to have, for there right before them was Judge Rutherford’s letter to Judge Valentine, occupying six full pages of The Golden Age, which contained the very help that they needed and that up to that moment had been denied them. There they saw for themselves that the lie oft-repeated in the courtroom and in the papers that the Watch Tower people are communists has not a vestige of truth in it, and they were able to see clearly just what we are doing and trying to do, and why we are so desperately in earnest about it. In other words, Judge Rutherford wras right there in that jury room, counseling those good men and women in a crucial hour of their lives.

The Jury Passed the Crucial Test

The jury passed the crucial test. The Golden Age was on trial; the Watch Tower was on trial; Judge Rutherford was on trial; Jehovah God heard their prayer. They stayed in that jury room eleven hours, fighting it out. They had to find the truth in that one issue of The Golden Age or not at all; and they found it. What a rebuke to the insincere, many of whom do not know to this day that the Lord’s organization is all one, all knit together, all aiming at the same thing, and all under the one directing Head!

Do you know what happened to that jury while they were there in that jury room? Let us try to tell you just what Judge Rutherford has shown us in the Scriptures. Right then and there, we believe, they took their stand for ever on the Lord’s side; right then and there they came to those that were in prison and did something substantial for their comfort. The verdict was not large ($250), and was not expected to be, but it was a just verdict.

These men and women took their stand for Jehovah God, and for the people of Jehovah God, in the face of district attorneys, assistant district attorneys, mayors, magistrates, police chiefs, city commissioners, the clergy, and the newspapers (all of them) in the cities where they live, and they did it because they feared God and because they love Him.

And now do you know what the Lord’s verdict is for them, for these Jonadabs; here it is, and nothing could be plainer:

“Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

And if you were to talk with these sweet-spirited, honest-hearted, lovable Jonadabs that composed that jury, you would find it all true, that they cannot yet see what we see so clearly, that they have really and truly passed from death unto life and if they maintain their present condition of heart they will, without a question of doubt, be among the millions now living that will never die.

More About “The Correction of a Lie”

THE first letter of this series appeared in The Golden Age No. 370, page 109, under the title “The Correction of a Lie”. No liar is really clever. The farther he goes in trying to cover himself, the more of a fool he shows himself to be. The correspondence plainly shows that no permit to make these calls on Sunday was asked by Parkhurst or issued by the Plainfield police department.

Plainfield Courier-News Plainfield, New Jersey C. 1'. STOUT, Publisher

Oct. 25, 1933. Mr. A. R. Goux

Peoples Pulpit Association Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dear AIk. Goux:

Your letter to Mr. C. F. Stout, relative to a news item which appeared in The Courier-News, has been referred to me, inasmuch as the matter of news comes under my supervision.

Would you be good enough to tell me whether Charles Parkhurst is a member of your organization?

Very truly yours,

Norman Nairn, Managing Editor

PEOPLES PULPIT ASSOCIATION

124 Columbia Heights - Brooklyn - New York

October 29, 1933 Norman Nairn

Managing Editor, Courier-News Plainfield, N. J.

Sir :

Thanks for your letter of October 25, acknowledging on behalf of your employer, C. F. Stout, my letter to him of October 24. For your convenient consideration, this reply is prepared in seven parts.

first

You ask, “Would you be good enough to tell me whether Charles Parkhurst is a member of your organization ? ’ ’

That name (“Charles Parkhurst”) was given to you, as I suppose, by some one of the Plainfield police department.

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