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Vol. XV - No. 379 March 28,1934

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LABOR AND ECONOMICS

Cuba Remembers the Poor . . . 402

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

What a Land Is the Great U.S.A.! 395

Illumination of Schoolrooms . . 398 Makes 50 Any Way You Figure It 398 The Golden Calf

Lynchings Greatly Increased . . 401 Street Begging to Be Discouraged 402 The N.A.A.C.P

Wisconsin State Prison ... . . 402 Prison Comforts

May Teach Their Own Children . 404 Kidnapers’ Profits

Traditional Record Not

in Scriptures

Lord Tavistock and Ruskin . . 403

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Foolishness of Interest System , 400

American Air Transport . . . 400

Performance of New Plane . . 400

‘Bugs’Baer Sizes It L’p .... 402

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

League of Nations—Anglo-Papal

Conquest of the U. S. . . . 387

Shall Discrimination, Censorship, and Interference of Radio Continue, or Square Deal? . . . 393

What McFadden’s Bill

Aims to Correct

Free Radio Essential to People’s

Liberties

The Federal Octopus

A Glimpse at the Devil's World . 401 Newfoundland Ends Self

Government

The Silver Cost of the War . . . 403

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

Common Salt and Poisoned Dogs . 408

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Geographic Theater.....392

Bewildering List of New Inventions 403 ‘1 Treasures of the Snow and Hail ’ ’ 404 The Quest for World Power . 406 Last Summer’s Heat in

Land of Sunshine

HOME AND HEALTH

How Shaw Cleared His Brain . . 399

Deathbeds Usually Peaceful . . 399

Two Odd Suggestions

Give the Flapjack a Chance . . 408

Goes to Jail Fourteen Times . . 408

Effect of Pasteurization of Milk . 409

Moths and Borax

More Whole-Wheat Recipes . . 409

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

Seeing the World

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Earth’s New Overlordship . . 410

The Radio Witness Work . . 414

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The Golden Age

Volume XV Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, March 28, 1934 Number 379

League of Nations—Anglo-Papal Conquest of the U. S*

Mr. John A. Kennedy, writing in the New York American of March 8, 1934, says of this propaganda scheme (and we doubt if even he begins to see the magnitude of the stakes for which Britain and the Boman hierarchy are playing):

The most comprehensive propaganda machine ever set up In America Is now engaged In an effort to force the United States into the League of Nations and its World Court, a survey discloses.

Backed by funds of approximately $15,000,000, It Is reaching out In an effort to control public opinion through schools, libraries, colleges, churches and civic and professional organizations on the subject of American participation In International affairs.

Already it Is having Its effect in Washington where a flood of petitions, seeking ratification of the League Court, are being received by the Senate.

Internationalists In that body are seeking Immediate action on the Court at this session of Congress.

IN MODERN conquest bankers are more powerful than bullets. Propaganda is many more times effective than machine guns. It is not our business to keep the United States out of the League of Nations, but it is our business to expose the crooked bunch that is trying to inveigle this country into it. There is more to this issue than even the legislators at Washington have seemed to appreciate. The League of Nations is the Devil’s counterfeit for God’s kingdom. Thus this is more than a question of mere ‘entanglements by foreign alliances’. It is one in which each legislator comes into responsibility before his Maker. Hence we here set ourselves to prove, as briefly as possible, the following facts:

(1) The British government, i.e., the international bankers, are back of the League of Nations.

(2) The Federal Council of Churches is in league with the British government.

(3) The Roman Catholic hierarchy is supporting the Federal Council of Churches.

(4) The National Broadcasting Company and the Columbia Broadcasting System are in league with the Federal Council of Churches and the Catholic hierarchy.

The Idea of a League of Nations

In 1511, again in 1538, and again in the seventeenth century there were what were called “Holy Leagues” of nations. The British government was not in any of those leagues. In the past two hundred years it has had extensive experience in India in governing twenty or more native states representing a conglomeration of peoples, religions and interests that is equaled in complexity only by the League of Nations w’hich meets at Geneva.

Early in the war Britain conceived the idea of getting all nations into the conflict and having a league of nations at its close which would be dominated by Great Britain. The idea of a league of nations did not originate in the United States, though it was often mentioned here. Whittier had a poem about it, and he had been dead for twenty-seven years.

In the year 1918, before the war was ended, the National Committee of the Churches on the

Moral Aims of the War prepared a brochure entitled “League of Nations Outlined for Discussion”. This work was copyrighted by The World Conference for International Friendship Through the Churches, 70 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. It stated, among other things, that “the time has arrived when the free nations must undertake the orderly development of the world, its economic betterment and education for self-government.” “The co-operation of the Allies has been the world’s most successful experiment in brotherhood.” “In England the powerful British Labor Party, the Anglican and free churches, business and other organizations, have declared in favor of the program.” “In England Premier Lloyd George, former Premier Asquith, Viscount Bryce, Viscount Grey, Arthur J. Balfour, the archbishop of Canterbury, and hundreds

of other prominent men and women in all walks of life, are ardent advocates of a league of nations.”

“Great Britain Is the League”

What happened after the World War is well known. President Wilson was the spokesman for the League of Nations, put forward by himself, General Jan Smuts and others, but it was Great Britain’s hand that shaped the covenant and the Treaty of Versailles.

Under the terms, five of the belligerents among the Allies, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States, were in the first class of belligerent powers, i.e., the class with general interests. Germany was forced to sign the treaty June 28,1919. Great Britain ratified in 33 days, but it took Italy 101 days, France 107 days, and Japan 124 days to ratify. The United States has not yet ratified, but desperate efforts are being made to cause it to do so.

The reason why Great Britain was so prompt to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League of Nations is that the League is Britain’s own child, the agency through which it hopes to govern the entire world throughout the future as it has governed India in the past.

In the London Daily Express, April 30, 1931, appears in bold-face type a truth which to the editor of the Daily Express required no argument. It merely said, “Great Britain is the League. We are its one great strength.”

In May, 1926, Judge Rutherford himself told the British government that very thing to its face. Speaking to an audience that packed out the huge Royal Albert Hall, London, he said:

No one will attempt to deny that the British world power is the earthly agency that was responsible for the formation of the League of Nations compact. The British Empire is the very bulwark thereof. Let Britain withdraw and there will be no League of Nations. But who is primarily responsible for the League of Nations compact? Is it formed and does it exist by divine right and authority? I answer, No. The Devil is its father, the British Empire is its mother, and the other nations which support it are its wet nurses. At this time the advocates of the League of Nations are desperately striving to unite its belligerent members. With fear and trembling they see that unholy offspring of Satan headed for perdition, even as the Lord foretold.—Revelation 17: 8.

The day following Judge Rutherford’s address the Daily News of London, one of the leading newspapers, carried a full report thereof; the regular circulation of that paper at that time was 800,000 copies per day, and in addition thereto many extra copies were printed and distributed. Thus Britain had notice served upon it at its very seat of government. Shortly thereafter millions of copies of that same address were distributed freely from house to house throughout the United States. The president and other members of the government at Washington were personally served with copies thereof.

Of the 57 member states of the League of Nations, seven are Australia, Canada, Great Britain, India, Irish Free State, New Zealand, and South Africa. The population of Australia is the same as that of Ohio; that of Canada a little more than that of Pennsylvania; New Zealand has less than Connecticut; the Irish Free State has less than Indiana; and there are twice as many whites in the little state of New Jersey as there are in the whole Union of South Africa. Great Britain itself has a population equal to that of New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois, and Ohio, which states include about 40 percent of the population of the United States.

It was and is the idea of British statesmen that if and when the United States joins this League of Nations it must come in on the same basis as, let us say, New Zealand. The only difference is to be that the United States shall have a chromo, i.e., be a permanent member of the council.

Federation of Churches Is the Tool

Here we prove point (2), The Federal Council of Churches is in league with the British government. In January 1919 the august body of ecclesiastics composing the council of the church federation issued the following blasphemous proclamation:

‘ ‘ The time has come to organize the world for truth, right, justice and humanity. To this end as Christians we urge the establishment of a League of Free Nations at the coming Peace Conference. Such a league is not merely a peace expedient: it is rather the political expression of the kingdom of God on earth. . . . The church can give a spirit of good will, without which no League of Nations can endure.”

The tool which the British government has used and is using to coax the United States into the League of Nations is the Federal Council of Churches. We present herewith excerpts from the annual reports of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America:

“We have repeatedly urged all the members of the churches to write strongly worded letters to their senators urging them to take a stand in favor of the ratification of the League Covenant, to urge their friends to write to their senators and for the local world alliance to send a strong resolution to the senators and to Mr. Lodge, the chairman of the foreign relations committee.” ... “A prayer on the League of Nations was prepared and distributed among the preachers of the country. This prayer was read from the pulpits of many churches.” . . . “Throughout the whole year we have urged the preachers of the United States to present in sermons and in classes the great idea of the League of Nations. It is estimated that we have reached fully ten million people in our campaign.”—From the Report of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ for 1919.

"The Supreme Hope for the Future"

“The League of Nations. The supreme hope for the future is in the League of Nations. This is the one worth-while definite thing that has come out of the war. The call for our nation to enter this league and help make it a really effective instrument for righting wrong and adjusting national difficulties is the greatest moral call that has ever been given to the church in all its history. The peace of the world and the hope for humanity rest upon the proper strengthening and functioning of the League.” . . . “There is one clear and incisive call to the Churches of Christ in America at the present time, and that is the call for co-operation on the part of all men and women of good will to the end that our nation may speedily and heartily become a part of this great, international enterprise.” . . . “Of the nation as of the individual it is true that the way of love and trust is the way of salvation and that he that would be greatest must be servant of all. We welcome, therefore, the development of a league of nations which shall be in truth an association of free peoples for the achieving of world peace, for mutual disarmament and for constructive service, and we call upon our own nation to join with other nations in moving along this new pathway of hope.”—Report for 1920, pages 157, 158, and 313.

Catholic Hierarchy Supports Federation

Point (3) charges, The Roman Catholic hierarchy is supporting the Federal Council of Churches. This is a hard point, but, if you are hard to convince, read the following excerpts:

“Before the Paris Covenant was published this committee had edited and published a series of six lessons on the League of Nations, which were distributed to the churches and about one hundred thousand copies were used. The entire work cost about one hundred thousand dollars, and through the commission on international justice and good will all the leading Protestant denominations were enlisted, and through the church peace union and the world alliance the Roman Catholics and Jews were brought in so that the national committee on the churches and the moral aims of the war may be said to be probably the most representative committee that has ever attempted to speak in America for the total religious life of our people. When the war came to a victorious end, we were at once faced with the necessity of setting to work to help build a new world order in which the repetition of such a disaster to civilization would be made forever impossible. ”—Report for 1920, page 160.

“The commission on international justice and good will has never had a year when its opportunities and tasks were so great. Immediately following the conference on limitation of armaments came the question of informing the public with regard to its achievements and their significance and of securing public sentiment to bring about the ratification of the treaties. This was carried on by our usual procedure, through communications sent to the local council of churches and to the secular and religious members, a special mass meeting in Washington and a special letter sent to all local churches in the constituency of the Federal Council. This letter was sent out by the church peace union together with similar communications from the National Catholic Welfare Council and the two national organizations of Jewish rabbis.” —Report for 1922.

Willing to Accept Any Substitute

The clergy have shown with unanimity that they do not desire God’s kingdom, for which Jesus taught us to pray, and that they are willing, nay, eager, to accept any substitute for it. Everybody knows that the various peace conferences in Europe have been a succession of dreary failures. The Watchtower (edited by Judge Rutherford), in its issue of July 15,1923, says on this point:

“When the League of Nations compact was formulated in 1919, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America called upon the people of the earth to support it and hailed it as the savior of mankind, employing the statement: ‘It is the political expression of God’s kingdom on earth.’ The American people repudiated the League of Nations at the polls; but the professional politicians, big business and big preachers are still trying to inveigle the people of this land into the League. A press dispatch from Washington under date of May 31, 1923, says:

‘A call to 125,000 congregations in America to rally to the support of President Harding’s proposal that the United States enter the Permanent Court of International Justice was issued here today by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. With the Federal Council are affiliated thirty communions with an adult membership of more than 20,000,000 persons.’ ”

A few years ago there was a campaign put on by 140,000 clergymen of the United States to force the United States into the League of Nations.

We continue with citations from the annual reports of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America in further confirmation, showing that in the years since the war the Federal Council has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. Instead of putting its hope in God and in His Word, it is putting it in men in whom nobody any longer has any confidence whatever.

“The prophecies of Micah and Isaiah at last begin to receive fulfilment. Mighty nations are actually scrapping weapons that cost them hundreds of millions. These are epochal days in the history of the kingdom of God.” . . . “Disarmament Sunday was widely observed in every part of the land. In response to the same appeal, a petition to President Harding was signed by 22,500 clergymen of all denominations. ’ ’ —Report for 1921.

“As is now well known, an official statement was issued by the Government after the conference was over stating that of the thirteen million letters, telegrams and other requests which came to the government, urging a reduction of armaments in some form, more than twelve million bore on their face evidence of having come from people who were thinking of the problem in religious terms.”—Report for 1924.

“Before the war closed the churches with practical unanimity were calling for the formation of a league of nations in which justice, fair dealing and security would be assured to all alike, great and small, powerful and weak. When the concrete plan, however, came to our people, in the treaty of Versailles, and became a decisive political issue, the churches and the Federal Council ceased to urge American membership in the League.”—Report for 1928.

“Fifty-three nations, including the United States, have renounced war as an instrument of national policy. They have agreed that the settlement of all disputes ‘shall never be sought except by pacific means.’ The churches rejoice in this great moral victory. When the proposal for a renunciation of war treaty was first made by Mr. Briand, the members of our churches were quick to respond. From pulpits and pews there was voiced a strong desire that the United States co-operate with other nations in putting aw7ay forever the instruments of war. When the pact was finally negotiated 180,000 members and friends of the various communions in the United States signed the memorial prepared and distributed by the commission petitioning the Senate to ratify the treaty.”— Report for 1929.

British Connections of Federal Council

“The outstanding event of the year in the movement for world peace was the London Naval Conference, which convened on January 21st and continued until April 22nd. In this conference the churches of the United States took keen interest. During the autumn of 1929 the Federal Council conferred with the archbishop of Canterbury and the outstanding leaders of the British free churches and agreements were reached to observe Sunday January 19th as a special day of prayer. The evangelical churches of France and Japan were also invited to join in observing the day. Christian people in all these lands welcomed that significant gathering of statesmen and followed its proceedings with prayer until it closed. When it appeared that the conference was in danger of adjourning without an agreement having been reached, the administrative committee, on February 28th, expressed its earnest hope ‘that the American delegation at the London Naval Conference will find the way to translate into fact the spirit of President Hoover’s address on Armistice Day, 1929, in which he said, “We will reduce our naval strength in proportion to any other. ’ ’ ’ Having said that it only remains for the others to say how low they will go. It cannot be too low for us. ’ ’—Report for 1930.

“The heads of more than twenty denominations joined with the officials of the Federal Council in recommending to the churches and allied religious organizations the observance of Sunday, November 8th, as a special day of prayer in the interest of world peace and the reduction of armaments. From many pulpits and pews the prayer was offered ‘that the governments represented at the disarmament conference may succeed in so scaling down armaments and armament budgets as to enable them to give greater attention to the spiritual, social and humanitarian needs of their respective peoples. ’ ’ ’—Report for 1931.

Federal Council Makes a Good Tool

It is well known that England gets along in India by playing peoples of one race and religion against peoples of another race and religion. For this reason, and because the Anglican church is part and parcel of the British Empire, it more readily occurs to British statesmen to make use of a church organization for political purposes than it would to some American statesmen.

Anyone who will carefully consider the foregoing citations from the Federal Council’s annual reports will observe that the only reason why the Federal Council has remained silent some of the time in recent years on the subject of the United States’ joining the League of Nations has been of a political nature.

With the change in political leadership March 4, 1933, the hopes of Great Britain and of the Federal Council of Churches that the United States could be inveigled into the League were revived and strengthened. The new attempt to get the United States in is not made under the name of the Federal Council of Churches, but under the name of the League of Nations Association, Inc. But the names back of the association, Raymond B. Fosdick, president, and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, chairman of the Council, reveal that the persons who are interested in getting the United States into the League of Nations now are the same people who were interested in getting it into the League fifteen years ago. The following is a portion of the account of the new movement to crowd the United States in as it appeared in the New York Times of February 15, 1934:

ACTION ON LEAGUE URGED IN PETITION

Nation-wide plea to be made for naming of an official delegate to Geneva. Is backed by 15 groups.

1,000,000 signatures sought for request for statement of terms of membership.

Immediate appointment by the United States of an official representative to the League of Nations is urged in a petition just started which is to be circulated throughout the nation by fifteen organizations interested in world peace.

The petition, which will be presented to President Roosevelt as soon as it contains 1,000,000 signatures, also asks that the government define the specific terms under which the United States might be willing to accept membership in the League.

The League of Nations Association, of which Raymond B. Fosdick is president and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler chairman of the council, started the movement and has sent several thousand copies of the petition to branches of the participating organizations in every State in the Union.

The Appeal Itself

The petition sheets provide for twenty signatures each beneath the following heading:

We, CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES,

Anxious to avoid war and organize peace in which prosperity can thrive,

Believing that the collective system of the world community which includes the Kellogg-Briand Paet (Pact of Paris) to which the United States is a party, and the League of Nations, can best prevent war,

Mindful of the fact that the United States is participating in many activities of the League of Nations,

Aware that without the privilege of membership in the League the United States is placed at a disadvantage, and the moral integrity of the world community is weakened,

Urge that the United States reinforce the League’s contribution to peace by stating the terms under which full membership would be possible; and by appointing in the meantime an official diplomatic representative to the League of Nations to participate in its deliberations.

At the bottom of the signature sheet is the inquiry, clear across the sheet:

“In a world as dark as this, why blow out the only light there is?”

On the outside of the petition sheet or folder, which is more than twice the size it needs to be for the number of names contained, appears the following letter, and it will be observed that those who have written the letter are so deeply impressed with what they regard as their wise saying that they have repeated it:

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ASSOCIATION, INC.

National Headquarters:

6 East 39th Street, New York, N. Y.

Raymond B. Fosdick Clark JI. Eichelbergeb

President Acting Driector

S. Van B. Nichols

Treasurer

Friends of the League of Nations:

Our generation has witnessed the attempt to build a new instrument of social control, a new type of collective machinery, based on the belief that in a world economically and politically interdependent old ideas of isolation must give way to a realistic method of international consultation and teamwork.

In this moment of nationalist reaction we need to be reminded that it takes faith and patience to develop a community of the nations of the world. No new social institution is ever born to its maximum strength or has gone forward without occasional threats of a return to the old order. The cause of the League of Nations today is more vital than at any time since its founding. As President Roosevelt so clearly pointed out in a recent speech, “the old policies, alliances, combinations and balances of power have proved themselves inadequate for the preservation of world peace.” We believe that the alternative to such a procedure is the League machinery.

At the present moment there are two currents of public opinion making for closer American relationship with the League of Nations. Since it is a definite policy of our Government to give open cooperation to the League, many citizens wish that this relationship could be regularized and increased by the appointment of an official diplomatic representative.

Also, there is increasing discussion as to the terms on which the United States might become a full member of the League. This discussion has been given impetus by the movement throughout the world for a revision of the Covenant. If such revision were to be undertaken in the light of the fifteen years’ history and with the idea of preserving rather than destroying the democracy of the League, the United States might well participate.

The League of Nations Association hopes to demonstrate the strength of these viewpoints in the United States. After you have added your signature to this petition and secured those of your friends, will you return it promptly?

(Signed) Raymond B. Fosdick,

President

IN A WORLD AS DARK AS THIS, WHY BLOW OUT THE ONLY LIGHT THERE IS?

The Community of Interest

The community of interest between the Federal Council of Churches, the Anglican church (the religious wing of the British government), and the Roman hierarchy is sufficiently established from the reports of the Federal Council herein published, especially those portions which we have printed in italics.

Not only has the pope worked with the Federal Council of Churches to get the United States into the League of Nations, but last fall, when Italy threatened to leave the League, the Vatican newspaper departed from its customary secretiveness, evasiveness and unreliability and openly took a stand on behalf of the League. Most of the nations in the League are nominally Roman Catholic, and the pope figures that any method of bringing the United States under their joint pressure must necessarily work out to the Hierarchy’s advantage.

The Fourth Point

The fourth point, that the National Broadcasting Company and the Columbia Broadcasting System are in league with the Federation of Churches and the Catholic hierarchy, is supported by evidence that, by the time this is in print, will have been presented to Congress, and thereafter we can publish it without violating any proprieties. At this point we confine ourselves to the fact that is known to all men, i.e., that these chain companies broadcast programs of these religious systems without money and without price, are willing to give them more time on the same basis, and will allow only such “religious” material to be broadcast as they approve. This evidence, in detail, will be made available to Congress. At the moment, this is not the place for it in any detail.

The way matters now stand, to put it bluntly, the international bankers, the backers of the broadcasting systems, the same ones who ruined the United States financially, now decide what “religious” matter may be fed to the American mind, and as blind but dutiful and obedient servants of the Devil, “the prince of this world,” they are looking forward to the time when they can control the whole world. The British government and the Roman hierarchy, financed by these same international bankers, are happy in the anticipation of sharing in the benefits when the United States has been swallowed up in the League of Nations, the Devil’s substitute for the kingdom of God on earth.

The Big Business and Big Church crowd that are advertising the League of Nations as “the only light there is” manifestly should know and certainly have no excuse for not knowing that Jesus referred to himself and to the kingdom of God, for which He taught His followers to pray, and of which He is the Head and Representative, when He said, “I am the light of the world.” (John 8:12) The League of Nations is in no sense of the word the light of the world, but most emphatically a part of the darkness of this world and under the rule of the prince of darkness, rather than the prince of light and life.

“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”—2 Corinthians 11:13-15.

Geographic Theater

A GEOGRAPHIC theater has been organized for the purpose of presenting programs combining motion pictures, lantern slides and native music depicting scenery, customs and peoples of many lands, as well as the findings of scientific researchers working with camera, microscope and telescope, whether under sea, on the earth, or in the air. For the present the programs of the new corporation are being presented in the hotel Waldorf-Astoria. The venture seems to be a commendable one.

Shall Discrimination, Censorship, and Interference of Radio Continue, or a Square Deal?

(Speech of Hon. Louis T. McFadden, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, March 1, 1934. From the Congressional Record)

Mr. McFadden. Mr. Chairman, I want to call the attention of the House to a bill I introduced on March 9, 1933, House Resolution 19, which is pending before the Rules Committee, proposing that the House authorize the appointment of a select committee of seven men to examine into the present radio situation.

I have repeatedly asked the Chairman of the Rules Committee for a hearing on the bill but I have had no response. The country is thoroughly aroused upon this subject, and wants full action at once.

Likewise, on the 14th of February of this year I introduced a resolution following some remarks which I made on the floor of this House on January 31 last in regard to discrimination, censorship, and interference of radio. Radio broadcasting calls for a “new deal”—“a fair new deal.” This bill is a fair bill; it deals squarely with the question of politics, religion, and education by radio. The gentleman from Texas, Mr. Rayburn, Chairman of the Committee on-Interstate and Foreign Commerce, following the message of the President, has introduced a bill proposing to establish a new bureau called the “Bureau of Communications.” This bill proposes to take from the Interstate Commerce Commission supervision of the radio and put it under the jurisdiction of the new Commission, which will supervise telegraph, telephone, and radio.

At the other end of the Capitol Senator Dill has introduced a bill, S. 2910, quite similar.

I now call attention to the present censorship, directly and indirectly, in radio broadcasting. The two bills that have been introduced at the instance of the President to conform to his message do not deal clearly with the question of censorship. If the Rayburn-Dill bills are to become law, the subjects covered in my bill, H.R. 7986, should be included therein. The two major chain broadcasting systems have a self-established censorship policy, which includes politics, education, and religion. In this they are attempting to tell the American people what they shall hear and what they shall not hear. The attention of the membership of the House is directed to the fact that these two bills propose that this new commission, when it is organized, shall make a study of all phases of broadcasting and report at the next session of Congress. I say this subject must be dealt with fully now to prevent further entrenchment of selfish interests.

In remarks I made on the floor of the House on the 31st of January I called attention to the political censorship of radio. During the present year very important elections are to take place; the full membership of the House is to be elected and one third of the Senate. If radio during this summer is to be controlled partisan-ly, it means something to the membership of this House and the country. Likewise the question of international relations will be discussed all during this year, and if this present censorship referred to is to keep off the air broadcasts that are in opposition to their views it means partisanship a plenty.

One phase of censorship which has been set up by the chain broadcasting associations, which control 80 percent, directly and indirectly, of the broadcasting of the United States, is to assume to censor all religious talks that may take place over the radio. The N.B.C. have vested the censorship in the so-called “Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America” under the guise of its religious contribution to the radio audience, whereas it is used as a smoke screen to prevent other programs of wide public interest to be given because the latter may be considered to be inimical to its own selfish interests. This policy applies not only to religious programs but to political and educational programs as well. And they are permitting James J. Farley, Postmaster General and chairman of the Democratic Committee, to censor political broadcasts, and the Columbia System are cooperating in the political censorship.

I submit that the so-called “Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America” do not represent all the God-fearing people in the United States, nor does the Democratic Party possess all the God-fearing people. And the American people have certain vested rights as to what they shall hear over the radio. It is a well-known fact that the so-called “Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America” are working in cooperation with many other organizations in pacifistic movements in the United States, going so far as to voice their cooperation in matters pending before Congress,

such as their opposition to the recent Vinson naval bill; likewise, their opposition will be voiced against the Army appropriation bill; and at the present time, they are cooperating in the program to have this country join the League of Nations and adherence to the World Court. In fact, this censorship is being used to involve the United States in international affairs.

I hope in answer to a request made of the chairman of the radio committee of the House (which is the Merchant Marine, Fisheries, and Radio Committee) that they are going to give some consideration and a hearing on my bill.

I want the membership of the House to understand that my bill is necessary, pending the putting into operation fully of the President’s plan as represented by the Rayburn-Dill bill establishing a new commission of communications, and I am now requesting the chairmen of all three committees that they give consideration to the subject covered in my bill No. 7986, which is as follows:

A bill to amend the Radio Act of 1927, approved February 23, 1927, as amended (44 Stat. 1162).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Radio Act of 1927, approved February 23, 1927, as amended (44 Stat. 1162), is amended by the addition of two new sections to follow section 28 of said Act (44 Stat. 1172), said new sections to read as follows:

“No person, persons, company, association, or corporation owning and operating a radio broadcasting station, and receiving and broadcasting radio programs for hire, shall discriminate in the use of such station in favor of a program of speech sponsored by any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office, and/or by any religious, charitable, or educational company, corporation, association, or society or any other like association or society, and against or to the exclusion of another person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office, or of another religious, charitable, or educational company, corporation, association, or society chartered or licensed under the laws of the United States, because and for the reason that such, person, religious, charitable, or educational company, corporation, association, or society holds and promulgates and advocates views contrary to those expressed in programs that have been broadcast. The owner, lessee, or operator of any broadcasting station contracting for or accepting and broadcasting radio programs for one legally qualified candidate for a public office, and for one class of religious, charitable, or educational company, corporation, association or society, and refusing to contract for or to accept and broadcast for hire radio programs of speech offered for broadcast by another legally qualified candidate for a public office, or by any other religious, charitable, or educational company, corporation, association, or society within the provisions of this section, because or for the reason that such legally qualified candidate, or such religious, charitable, or educational company, corporation, association, or society holds or promulgates a contrary or different view from that which is expressed by the person or parties broadcasting programs, shall be deemed guilty of an unlawful discrimination. AR persons, companies, corporations, or associations owning and operating a radio station who shall be guilty of a misdemeanor shaU be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, and in addition thereto may be required to forfeit the license for operating such broadcasting station.

“No person, persons, company, association, society, or corporation shall by threats, or by coercion, or by misrepresentation, or any other like manner interfere with or prevent, or attempt to interfere with or prevent, the broadcasting of any radio program by any owner, lessee, or operator of any radio broadcasting station; or interfere with or attempt to interfere with, or to prevent any owner, lessee, or operator of any radio broadcasting station from entering into a contract with another person, persons, company, association, society, or corporation, to accept, receive, and broadcast programs of speech and music by radio. No person, persons, company, association, society, or corporation shaU induce or attempt to induce any person, persons, company, association, society, or corporation to withdraw business or financial support or social intercourse from any radio broadcasting station, or the owner, lessee, or operator of any radio broadcasting station in the use and operation of such radio station or in the broadcasting of any and aU programs offered to be broadcast, or which may be broadcast at any such station. Any person, persons, association, society, or corporation violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, or in the case of an individual or the responsible officials of an association or corporation, by imprisonment for a term of not less than sixty days nor more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. ’ ’

(By unanimous consent, Mr. McFadden was granted leave to extend his remarks in the Record.)

What McFadden’s Bill Aims to Correct

The following letter to Judge Rutherford was written by a lover of truth who had KMOX closed to him as a means of hearing the judge's lectures. Boycott, openly published, openly threatened, In the Roman Catholic paper, “The Sunday Watchman," St. Louis, closed the station tu this listener and to a million others who desired to hear. McFadden, famous for his bold speech on the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, believes In an upright, honest deal for everybody.

An Appreciation

St. Louis, Mo. “I have listened to your programs with much joy. For years I have read the Scriptures reluctantly, as I have not been able to get a great deal of meaning out of them. Really I have never been classed as a Bible student, but some of your books, Creation being the first one, were bought by my wife. She told me about it, but I did not even look at it until perhaps a year or so later.

“One day, while alone, I picked up the book, opened it, and it opened at one of the sacred pictures. I became interested and have read and reread your books. I also have read and understood more of the Bible, and had pleasure in it, than ever previously in the fifty-two years of my life. I have claimed to be a Baptist all my life, but I have not been to church for over two years. I sang in the choir, and always tried to enter into the spirit of the worship. My friends tell me that they would not read books that would cause me to stop going to church.

“Before studying your helpful books I used my radio to get sermons of all creeds, and I thought I was getting a lot of comfort out of them. But now I rarely listen to a discourse; if at all, just for a brief period. I prefer to get my Bible and read it in silence, to try to get the promises understood, rather than to listen to some of the statements made by the ‘learned’ ones.

“At first, when reading your books, I thought some of your statements were radical; but after further study I deem them true, and, I am sure, classed as radical by those that do not understand. I am reminded of the text, ‘Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.’ I feel that the truth is being unfolded to me and it is freeing me indeed of the vague, superstitious ideas I once held.

“I find that I speak often and freely of Jehovah God and His promises to my relatives and friends; that is more than I ever did for years. I find there is much to be understood, and I study every chance I get to learn more of Jehovah and His workings for the benefit of man. Ever so often, in speaking to passers-by I am led from the tone of their answers to know they have read some of your works.

“I am reading Light, Deliverance, Creation, Harp of God, Prophecy, Government, and Life. Of the two books of Light I am just getting started on Volume I. I am getting an insight into Revelation that I never saw before. Of the several books I have bought I have only four books at home, having loaned them out, and they were never returned. I find one can read one of these books time and again and continually find something new and of interest. I get your programs over KMOX and also from Columbia, Mo.; I do not recall the station designation.

“I thought you would be glad to hear from some of your listeners in Missouri. I know you cannot answer all reports coming in, but if you have anything I have not read, mention it; I may be glad to read. Your story of Job I have read only once. I am going to read it several times again to get a better understanding of the picture. I may write you later of some of my impressions, and responses from others with whom I come in contact.”

What a Land Is the Great U.S.A. I

(From the Herald and Examiner, Chicago, rearranged)

/CONSTITUTION defied and evaded, Laws ignored with a thumb to the nose;

Codes of honor distressingly faded

In an era of bunk and of pose;

Gangsters romping and robbing and shooting, Judges black as the depths of the sea,

Tales of brokers with penchants for looting— What a country we’ve turned out to be!

Markets falling each day to new levels, As the masters of man wring their hands;

Trade beset by strange furies and devils Through weird forces no man understands;

Gunmen working their will with derision, Vice, corruption and graft riding high;

Crooks who laugh off a high court’s decision— What a country to live in, or die!

Indignation a lost public virtue, Lawlessness looked upon with a wink;

And a shallow belief it won’t hurt you

Just to grin at iniquity’s sink;

People herding each day in the bread lines, Children’s eyes that have never known bliss;

Morals knocked for a goal in the headlines— What a jolly old country is this!

Coppers framing up women defenseless, Lawyers shaking them down for their all.

Paid reformers quite futile and senseless, Justice pinned with her back to the wall;

Holdups, murders, assaults, executions, Scandals touching the great ev’ry day;

Graft in private and state institutions—

What a land is the great U. S. A.!

Free Radio Essential to People’s Liberties

GENUINE lovers of truth and of freedom to worship God according to the dictates of one’s conscience are in favor of the exercise of such rights and privileges over the radio. Those who interfere with efforts to preserve such rights and privileges to the people are at once convicted of the charge that they are seeking to steal away the freedom of the people for their own selfish ends.

The employment of coercive measures to prevent the people from hearing what they wish to hear, and efforts to force them to accept only certain views, which happen to please or serve the purpose of a minority, or even a majority, are contrary to the fundamental law of the land; and what is more, it is contrary to the divine law.

The function of proper government, it has been truly said, is not to give the people certain rights, but to secure to them the rights which are naturally and properly theirs. It is therefore the responsibility of those who are the governmental representatives of the people to safeguard the inherent and inalienable rights of the people.

The most fundamental and the most important of human rights is the right to worship God without hindrance. Worship must be voluntary and free. It cannot be coerced or exacted under compulsion. The free exercise of the right to worship God is therefore a fundamental necessity. No one could properly worship God who was not persuaded that his course of action was right. Coercion in the worship and service of God is as repugnant to justice and proper human sentiment as it is contrary to consistency. Efforts to coerce the conscience of the individual have constituted some of the most terrible violations of justice and love that have ever been perpetrated.

Churches Oppose Free Speech

To safeguard the liberties of the people, and particularly freedom of worship, is the preeminent duty of the American Congress. It is for them to take cognizance of any effort to abridge the liberties of the people to hear, consider and discuss what they please. That such efforts are being made continually in various fields is well known, and, outwardly at least, Catholics, Protestants, Jews and others express themselves as deploring interference with the rights of the people. Outwardly and in theory nearly everyone is in favor of free speech. In practice, and inwardly, however, the church organizations and allied interests seek to interfere with freedom of speech over the air and otherwise, and thus abridge the free worship of others. The use of coercive measures to prevent the people from hearing what they wish to hear, and efforts to permit only such views to come to them as happen to be in line with the aims and objectives of a minority, or even a majority, have been made, notably by the so-called “religious leaders” of the people.

A case that is now well known to the people generally is the efforts made to prevent the broadcasting of Judge Rutherford’s lectures, sponsored by Jehovah’s witnesses, who seek to broadcast the Scriptural explanation of the times in which we live. Judge Rutherford’s lectures are broadcast over hundreds of radio stations and have aroused the determined opposition of the clergy class, particularly the Catholics. They concede that Jehovah’s witnesses have the right to broadcast their views, but at the same time seek to prevent it by coercive means.

Criticism of Clergy in Order

Their efforts to throttle the Watchtower programs, which feature Judge Rutherford, are “justified” by them in the charge that he has attacked the clergy and the pope. This, however is untrue. Judge Rutherford voices, not his own, nor any man’s opinions, and does not attack individuals. He deals with timely Scriptural truths and shows their unquestionable application to world conditions at this time. His references to the pope, so bitterly resented by the Catholic press, and misrepresented by them, were not in any sense personal. They were not aimed at the head of the Roman Catholic hierarchy as an individual. It was the official pronouncements and actions of the Catholic pope that were being given consideration, in view of a world-wide movement which he sought to inaugurate. Clearly the public actions and statements of the Roman pontiff are proper subjects for discussion and criticism in non-Catholic circles.

It is understood that Catholics themselves are not permitted to question any action of the hierarchy or its head, even the most trivial. It is for them to decide whether they will submit to this unscriptural bondage, but it is manifestly intolerable for them to seek to impose these

same restrictions upon others or to censor reference to the hierarchy and its head in the press or over the radio. If Paul took the liberty to “withstand” Peter, is the Roman pope, who un-scripturally claims to be a successor to Peter, to be above criticism? The attempt of the Catholic press to subject non-Catholics to the restrictions current within the confines of the Roman fold is a poor piece of business.

The American people, in fact, all people, should be free to hear the truth on every subject, and they should, especially, be permitted to freely discuss and try by the Scriptures any movement or course of procedure in which their cooperation is solicited, as in the case of the so-called ‘Holy Year”.

Judge Rutherford took occasion to freely discuss and even to criticize the public pronouncements and official actions of the Roman pontiff. It was this one lecture that aroused the already strong animosity of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States to a point where they could no longer keep it under control, and as a result they launched a campaign of misrepresentation and intolerance by which they hoped to effectively silence this frank and bold exponent of the truth.

Judge Rutherford, following in the footsteps of Christ Jesus, sets forth the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, in his discourses. He does not shun to declare the whole counsel of God, including the divine disapproval of clerical sham and oppression, just as Jesus did.

Let Honesty and Truth Prevail

The petition circulated by Jehovah’s witnesses and others, calling upon Congress to safeguard the right of the people to hear over the radio whatsoever they wish to hear, received a wide response. It manifested that the people want to have the truth told. The clergy, to shield themselves in their inconsistent position before the people, not only have sought to misrepresent and oppose Judge Rutherford, but have also misrepresented the petition which was signed by nearly two and a half million persons. They have branded it as a fraud, and have thus sought to obscure the real issue.

It was charged by them that the name of a Michigan priest was used to induce the people to sign the petition. The absurdity of the charge was pointed out in the preceding issue of The Golden Age. It was neither desirable nor necessary to use the name of a Catholic priest and lecturer to obtain signers to a petition for free speech. On the contrary, it would be inappropriate, in view of the traditional attitude of Catholicism toward freedom of speech, or indeed any kind of freedom except freedom to support the Catholic hierarchy, right or wrong.

The necessity of calling attention to Catholic interference with free speech was imperative, and was a responsibility not evaded for policy’s sake or for any other reason. The Petition and Protest states the simple truth, and Jehovah’s witnesses have no desire to represent either themselves or their activities as other than what they are in fact.

In circulating the petition for freedom of the air channels those who engaged in that work were particularly interested in the continuance of Judge Rutherford’s lectures, and frankly so represented themselves. It might have been simpler, and it would doubtless have met with an even greater response, to present the petition merely as a demand for freedom of speech over the radio, without mentioning the notorious example of interference with that right, a factor which would inevitably prejudice some Catholics. The fact that Judge Rutherford was mentioned particularly shows that there was no desire whatever to misrepresent the matter.

The Real Issue

Regardless, however, of whether every single signer to the petition realized fully the significance of that document, the question at issue remains: Shall the radio be made the tool of selfish interests, or shall it be the means of frank and open consideration of questions concerning the public interest, convenience and necessity, both materially and spiritually?

The question is, further, whether any person or group shall be allowed by boycott, threats and other coercive measures to browbeat and compel any citizen or radio station to do anything that it would not otherwise consider doing. Petition or no petition, this is the issue, and it is up to Congress to take appropriate action. Bill H.R. 7986, now before the Congress for consideration, meets the needs of the case exactly, and, if passed, will prevent further interference with the free use of the radio or unjust discrimination against some and in favor of other broadcasters.

Illumination of Schoolrooms

THE United States Public Health Service has made a study of the illumination of schoolrooms, and makes its findings as follows:

The ideal schoolroom is 32 feet long and 23 feet wide, to provide comfortable room for about 30 children. A width of more than 23 feet is not desirable, because the row of seats farthest from the window will not receive proper illumination.

The illumination is of great importance. Longcontinued study of natural lighting has shown certain definite fundamental requirements. These are as follows: The windows should extend to as near the ceiling as possible, and the ceiling should never be under 12 feet high. Unilateral lighting is considered to be the best system. This means that the windows should be on only one side of the room, so that the light will come from the left, and these windows should extend as far back towards the rear wall as possible.

Every child should be able to see some sky when seated at his desk. The area of glass in the windows should equal at least 20 percent of the floor space. Shades should be provided for each window, two to each window being preferable, the two shades being placed at the middle of the window, so that one pulls up and the other down. It should always be remembered that the best light enters through the upper third of the window.

To provide the best light and to avoid all glare is the ideal plan. The walls of the room should, therefore, be covered with a flat paint. A light buff or cream is desirable. The ceiling should be flat white. Blackboards should be limited to the front of the room and right side. The rear of the rooms should be free from blackboards, and blackboards should never be placed between windows. As a matter of fact, if enough window space is provided, there will not be space enough between the windows for blackboards.

Makes 50 Any Way You Figure It

By A. M. Eckard (California)

YOU will notice in the following square of figures that all the horizontal lines; all the vertical lines; both diagonals; all adjoining groups of four squares, such as 5, 18, 16, 11, or 6,17, 20, 7; opposite pairs, such as 5,16,12,17; the four corners; all total 50. There are at least 26 combinations totaling 50 in this square of figures. Figures can be placed in these squares to total any sum desired over 40.

(Experimenting with this table shows that every time each digit is increased or reduced by 1 the total is increased or reduced by 4, and hence 2 or any fourth number above 2 can be obtained by reducing or increasing the digits. Reducing the digits by 5 gives totals of 30; below that total some of the digits would have to be shown as minus quantities. We use Mr. Eckard’s figures to show how 30 may be obtained :

0 13 10 7

11 6 1 12

5 8 15 2

14 3 4 9

Deducting 12 from each of the digits in Mr. Eckard’s table gives us a total of 2 each way, but brings in minus quantities. We show the table thus modified, and the results are apparent :

-7 6 3 0

4-1-6 5

-2 1 8-5

7-4-32

The number 1 as a total can be obtained by a reduction of J from each of the foregoing digits, and therefore if each of the digits is thereafter increased by | any number whatever can be obtained from the same table. The total of 1 would be obtained as follows:

-7j 5| 2| -i

3| _i| _6i 4f

-21 t 7| -5J

6| -4| -3J If

—Ed.)

How George Bernard Shaw Cleared His Brain

B. Porter, of Connecticut, writes: “A story • of how George Bernard Shaw gained his health and his marvelous physique, and how he maintains them at seventy-four, is told in a recent issue of a popular magazine.

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