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Vol. XVI - No. 412

July 3, 1935 CONTENTS

LABOR AND ECONOMICS

GOVERNMENT AND MISGOVERNMENT . 611

Gathering at the Festal Board . . 612

Government Running on Hot Air . 612

At the Shrine of the Golden Calf . 613

The Courageous, Silent Sufferers . 614

Relief in Montgomery County, Ill. 615

Thirty-seven Percent Idle . . . 616

Young People Out of Work . . . 617

Unemployment in Britain . . . 620

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

Child Victims of the New Germany 618

JUDGE RUTHERFORD'S LECTURES IN EUROPE . . . . . . . . . 623

WATCH TOWER GRANTED HIGHEST AWARD . . . . . . . . 624

FATHERS . . . . . . . . . . . 625

ONE HAOLE IN HAWAII NEI . . . 628

LOOKING BACKWARD—INTO THE FUTURE . . . . . . . 630

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Butler Names the Big Shots . . . 613

The Dickstein Committee . . . . 614

Harvey Charges Monomania . . . 615

King George's Wages $52,460 a Week 620

Why America Entered World War 621

Ordinary Letters Go by Air Mail . 622

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

"War Is a Racket" . . . . . . . 612

Navy Conspiring Against Government . . . . . . . . . 612

Front Trench for Munition Makers 613

Patriots of International Murderers 613

Building New Wars . . . . . . . 613

175,418 Units of Government . . 615

Britain's Rush to Rearm . . . . 620

Why England Invented the League 621

How Capitalism Spreads Fascism . 622

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

National Resources Board . . . . 614

What to Do with the Milk Surplus . 621

England's Milk Marketing Board . 621

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Fleming Stands by Bible . . . . 622

Smallest Wireless Set . . . . . . 622

HOME AND HEALTH

Remarkable Operation on Eye . . 622

MORDANTS AND ALUMS . . . . . . 631

NEW NEWS ABOUT NICOTINE . . . 633

No Such Thing as Pure Vaccine . 634

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Paper Removal of Intolerance . . 626

Anthony Kubitsky of West Hazelton 626

Laughing at the Chattanooga News 627

"Three Faiths in Brotherhood" . 627

WINE—ITS MANUFACTURE AND USE UNSCRIPTURAL? . . . 635

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The Golden Age

Volume XVI Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, July 3, 1935 Number 412

Government and Misgovernment

(A full report of the convention of Jehovah's witnesses at Washington will appear in The Golden Age No. 413.)

WHEN Uncle Sam took over the government of Puerto Rico, 37 years ago, the island was in great need of a wise and noble administration. The results may now be appraised. Here are two bulletins put out by the Government itself.

The first mentions that Uncle Sam has so ruled on the mainland as to enable one man to have an income of over $5,000,000 a year; one has over $4,000,000; one has over $3,000,000; 8 have over $2,000,000; 6 have over $1,500,000; 29 have over $1,000,000; 28 have over $750,000; 56 have over $500,000; 55 have over $400,000; 84 have over $300,000; 101 have over $250,000; 187 have over $200,000; 405 have over $150,000; 1,085 have over $100,000; 5,927 have over $50,000; 18,168 have over $25,000, and 28,189 have incomes of over $15,000 a year. But perhaps these incomes on the mainland may not, after all, be the best index as to what Uncle Sam has been able to do for the downtrodden workers of Puerto Rico. So here is what the greatest and wisest and best government on earth has been able to do in 37 years, according to the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor:

Approximately half of the 123 women who were sewing on handkerchiefs were making about 1 cent an hour; 30 percent were earning about 2 cents an hour, and a very few were earning as much as 6 cents. For the group of 323 home workers as a whole, that is, not only those working on handkerchiefs but those on household linens, dresses, cotton nightgowns, silk lingerie, men's pants and shirts, the earnings are somewhat lower than those of the handkerchief workers. Reduced to an hourly basis, almost one-third of the 323 were earning less than 1 cent an hour, about one-half were earning 1 or 2 cents, and comparatively few—slightly more than one-twentieth—were earning from 4 to 8 cents.

The scale of hourly earnings ran somewhat higher in men's pants and shirts than in other lines, and was lowest in cotton nightgowns and household linens. None of the 94 home workers in gowns and linens earned as much as 3 cents an hour, and almost three-fourths were earning less than a cent an hour.

In silk lingerie most of the women were earning 1 to 2 or 3 cents an hour; in dresses and handkerchiefs few were earning as much as 3 cents.

In one little shop, inside workers were embroidering on handkerchiefs the same designs as done by home workers. A very good inside worker was finishing eight pieces a day, paid at the rate of 45 cents a dozen. Speeding all day, almost without interruption, that worker was able to make 30 cents a day, or between 3 and 4 cents an hour.

A fairly simple design of cotton nightgowns for which contractor pays agent 43 cents a dozen and agent pays home worker 30 cents; the agent's sister, a particularly fast and good sewer, can finish six gowns a day, working from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.; that is 15 cents for at least 10 hours of work, or about 1 1/2 cents an hour.

A very ornate embroidery design and scallop trimming around neck and armholes. Design consists of 1 1/2 yards of double hemstitching and 120 each of eyelets and embroidered leaves, dots, and stems. The contractor pays $1.43 a dozen gowns for this work, and agent pays home worker $1.25. The agent estimated that a swift worker might do all the embroidery but hemstitching on one gown in a day, working morning, afternoon, and night. She would earn not over 10 cents for such a day's work, probably averaging about 1 cent an hour.

Hand scalloping and ornate embroidery on cotton pillowcases for which the rate is $1 per dozen pieces. A manager stated, "A girl must be very rapid to make two, working steadily all day." If a girl could make two a day (and no girl doing this type of work reported such an accomplishment) she would earn 16 or 17 cents, less than 2 cents an hour.

Starvation is rife in Puerto Rico. 'My country, 'tis of thee—land of the noble free—of thee I sing.'

Lying About Uncle Sam

IT IS not true that Uncle Sam, in the first eight months of the current fiscal year, expended $2,500,000,000 more than he took in. Actually it was only $2,249,923,235.

Gathering at the Festal Board

THE Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says, "In the past two years there has been an increase of 105,000 in the number of Government employees in the city of Washington alone." In other words, if you have noticed a great change for the better, this is the reason, and if you have noticed a great change for the worse, this is also it. The Post-Gazette goes on to say:

There can be but one result if these activities on the part of the Government continue. It will mean "one big state" ruled from Washington. And "one big state" governed by one administration, regimenting all classes of industries and agriculture—and to a degree, also labor—all this is exactly what now exists in Italy under the Fascist government and in Germany under Hitler. If that is the kind of government the Administration wants us to have, we are very close to it, and unless we try to stop it—and now—we are likely to be in it before we know it, since few of us pay much attention to the laws that are being passed except for those which happen to interest us personally. But already the Administration has enacted measures which put us so close to the borderline of fascism that it would not require much more to render American independence and freedom a thing of the past.

Government Running on Hot Air

DEMANDING the immediate repeal of both the NRA and the AAA, Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, astonished the United States Senate and the world at large when he said, in part:

"We can't go on running a government on hot air. We can't go on just trying to pull money out of the heavens. The whole philosophy of this administration has been to increase and not to decrease unemployment. Unless we about-face and walk back toward sanity, we'll rue the day we have reached. We have pursued the mad policies that have brought Europe to the brink of war. Eventually we will just be taxed to death under the present program. We have come to treat a billion dollars as if it were a hundred thousand. We are pursuing a policy that as long as we can borrow we can provide. Let us be men and have courage to abandon all of this."

Throwing Things at the NRA

TODAY the NRA has no friends, except those politicians who depend upon it for a livelihood. The New York American says:

The NRA ought to be killed, and the anti-trust laws ought to be revived. The president would merely be living up to his promises if he killed the NRA. It has been definitely damaging to business, definitely obstructive to recovery. It is an utter failure.

"War Is a Racket"

IN HIS informative book War Is a Racket, published by the Round Table Press, Inc., of New York, General Smedley D. Butler asks the pertinent question,

"Who provides the profits—these nice little profits of 20, 100, 300, 1,500 and 1,800 percent? We all pay them—in taxation. We paid the bankers their profits when we bought Liberty Bonds at $100 and sold them back at $84 or $86 to the bankers. These bankers collected $100 plus. It was a simple manipulation. The bankers control the security marts. It was easy for them to depress the price of these bonds. Then all of us, the people, got frightened and sold the bonds at $84 or $86. The bankers bought them. Then these same bankers stimulated a boom and government bonds went to par and above. Then the bankers collected their profits. And the soldiers bought about $2,000,000,000 worth of these bonds. In the government hospital at Marion, Ind., 1,000 of these boys are in pens! Five hundred of them are in a barracks with steel bars and wires all around outside the buildings and on the porches. These already have been mentally destroyed. These boys don't even look like human [creatures]. Most soldiers got no money at all on paydays."

Navy Conspiring Against the Government

THERE is a happy land not far away where trusted officials of the Navy conspired with the New York, Bethlehem and Newport News shipbuilding companies to award $30,000,000 of ships away from government yards to these private yards. From 1927 to 1934 the 'big three' above named discussed their prices before they submitted bids to the Navy department, agreed which ships each company wanted, and arranged their bids so that each company would get the right ships at the right price, which price was 100 percent advance over previous prices charged the Navy. The Navy men who engineered this deal will never have to work any more; that much is certain.

Grafting in War Department

GRAFTING in the War Department enabled one contractor to clean up $7,000,000 over and above his legitimate claim. An officer received $2,500 as a 'loan' from a lobbyist, which has never been repaid. Government business is carried on in hotel rooms and in private homes; army officers receive the most lavish entertainment at the hands of lobbyists. The Department of Justice may take a hand. It's a great world.

At the Shrine of the Golden Calf

THE decision as to whether the United States shall worship a solid gold calf or a filled-gold calf has been duly made, and it is decided by 5 to 4 that a filled calf is as good to worship as a solid one. It created plenty of excitement. Santa Fe stock went up $10 a share, and cotton $1 a bale. In an hour 1,000,000 shares changed hands. The general sympathy of the public was with the filled-gold calf idea, but the solid-golders took their sorrows seriously. Justice McReynolds, speaking for the minority, said: "We are confronted with a condition in which the dollar may be reduced to 50 cents today, 30 cents tomorrow, 10 cents the next day, and 1 cent the day after. The Constitution, as we have known it, is gone. This is Nero at his worst." "The impending legal and moral chaos is appalling."

Front Trench for Munition Makers

REPRESENTATIVE O'MALLEY, Wisconsin Democrat, has introduced a bill to force those who profit most by war to serve in the ranks and answer the military roll call before anyone else may be called. O'Malley would like to see Henry Ford, Andrew Mellon, J. P. Morgan, the Rockefellers and the du Ponts all in the uniform of buck privates, and thinks it might be quite amusing to the du Ponts to be shot with munitions of their own manufacture sold by them to the enemy countries they are now arming. The du Ponts, by the way, are alleged to have offered to see to it that any Fascist organization seeking to overthrow the United States government by force of arms would be armed by the Remington Arms Company on credit through the du Ponts.

Butler Names the Big Shots

GENERAL SMEDLEY D. BUTLER claims, in effect, that the American Legion is controlled by the bankers, and lists as persons that should be questioned about the plot to seize the government of the United States: Grayson M. P. Murphy, Wall Street broker; Louis McHenry Howe, secretary to President Roosevelt; Governor Ely, of Massachusetts; General Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff of the United States Army; Alfred E. Smith, and the Legion Commanders Hanford McNider, Frank N. Belgrano and William Doyle. The name of President Roosevelt was also involved.

Patriots of International Murderers, Limited

INTERNATIONAL MURDERERS, LIMITED, would not help Germany to rearm. Of course not. But they sold 'mail planes' to Germany exactly like the fighting planes they sold to the United States Navy. They also sold Germany, for industrial purposes, powder, bullets and machine guns. And the joke of it is that these self-confessed patriots, that paid munitions dividends of 39,000 percent and 1,143,275 percent, let the foreigners have lower prices than they charged to Uncle Sam. These are the men that bust up peace conferences, by men used to such work, that are hired for the purpose, like William B. Shearer. In case of war these are the men that supply the United States with advice and really run the country. They admit that bribery and double-crossing is their regular course of conduct; and even if they did not admit it, the facts prove it.

Building New Wars

A BULLETIN of the Socialist Party National Headquarters, Chicago, says:

All signs point unmistakably to the fact that we are being pushed gradually, surely, closer and closer to the precipice of war. The patrioteers and publicists, the munition makers and the profit takers, the coupon clippers and the wage slicers, the Hearst scaremongers and the jingo journalists, the subversive propagandists for war in high places, all are whooping it up for another war. The excuse doesn't matter. Excuses can easily be found, as they have been found before. President Roosevelt, urging a starvation wage on public works, skyrockets the military budget to its highest peacetime peak. The government, impotent to set its house in order and provide subsistence and comfort to the army of the unemployed, strengthens its military bases; stages naval maneuvers in the Pacific, builds more and better warships; proposes to militarize the CCC, and enlarges our standing army.

Getting Ready for Another War

ADDRESSING the Merchants and Manufacturers Association at Brooklyn, General Smedley D. Butler said, in part:

"The whole world is getting ready for another war, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. If we don't watch our step we'll be hearing the beating of war drums in the near future. The forty million trained soldiers of Europe are not being trained for knitting. War is legalized wholesale murder. Our troubles started when a group of millionaires took over the country in 1896. We are in the grip of the great financial giants struggling for control of the world."

The Dickstein Committee

SAYS Tom Cullen, in Upton Sinclair's Epic News:

"The so-called Dickstein Committee deliberately suppressed evidence of Fascism because that evidence led to Wall Street and involved some of the biggest financiers in the United States—J. P. Morgan & Company, Kuhn, Loeb & Company. Therefore the Dickstein committee has proved itself an accomplice to the Fascist plot to undermine the government of the United States. . . . The Dickstein committee was forced to investigate Fascist activities when it learned that General Smedley D. Butler was about to 'break' a story to the New York Post and the Philadelphia Record that he had been offered a $3,000,000 bribe to organize a Fascist army and march on Washington! Butler was offered $3,000,000 to ride a white horse at the head of an army of 500,000 storm troopers, with a promise of $300,000,000 if he needed it. The committee heard Butler's testimony behind closed doors; then it released garbled statements of what Butler had said to the press, later issuing parts of his testimony. But the important parts of Butler's testimony have been suppressed, and no reason has been given for the suppression. Why? Because Wall Street interests such as J. P. Morgan are involved."

Federal Bureau of Investigation

THE new Federal Bureau of Investigation, resembling in some senses the O.G.P.U. of Russia, will have the proper legal status to continue its work of disposing of such public enemies as John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson and numerous others it has helped out of this world in the recent past. It has great powers for good, and, if misdirected, great powers for evil. It is the nation's shock troops in the war against crime.

The Courageous, Silent Sufferers

FEDERAL RELIEF ADMINISTRATOR HOPKINS struck the nail on the head when he said recently:

"There are probably far more people who are in need of relief but who won't go and apply for it because their pride restrains them. They far outnumber those who are on relief rolls and do not need help. They have fought a bitter losing fight for from three to five years, and no living person can properly appraise the sufferings they have endured in silence."

Proposed Ban on Titles

REPRESENTATIVE KNUTSON, Minnesota Republican, has offered a bill to prevent acceptance of titles from foreign governments by American citizens. The bill should have been in full force and effect from July 4, 1776.

Judge Alexander Ackerman, of Tampa

FEDERAL JUDGE ALEXANDER ACKERMAN, of Tampa, Fla., granting an injunction restraining the NRA from instituting criminal prosecution against a grocery, said of an order sent out by the NRA:

"A perusal of this remarkable document would cause any citizen to wonder whether he is still living under and is protected by the Constitution of the United States or whether he is in the country of a Stalin, a Mussolini or a Hitler. The picture presented is enough to shock the sensibilities of a person trained in the belief that we are living under a constitutional government where the citizen is governed by laws and not by men."

National Resources Board

THE National Resources Board, after months of strenuous labor by highly paid executives, finally came to the conclusion respecting the 1934 drought that "the drought was serious because of a scarcity of water, caused by insufficient rainfall". Now isn't that wonderful? Wonder what the National Un-Resources Board would find on the cotton plowed under and pigs destroyed. For a few million dollars they might tell that there are fewer pigs and less cotton, and that makes a scarcity of pigs and cotton due to the fact that there is now an insufficient supply of each.

Casualties of the World War

IN THE World War the Allies mobilized 42,188,810 men, of whom 22,089,709 were killed, wounded, prisoners or missing. The Central Powers in the same conflict mobilized 22,850,000, of whom 15,404,477 were killed, wounded, prisoners or missing. The murder business is very profitable. The munition makers had a good thing out of the World War and would like to have another.

Joy over High Prices for Food

WASHINGTON is reported jubilant over higher prices for food. Secretary Wallace estimated that in the first half of 1935 prices would climb 11 percent even if there were no recurrence of drought. But the country may get the drought too; so the prospect is good that if enough food is destroyed the prices of eatables will be high enough to suit everybody, including the millions out of work.

Harvey Charges Monomania

W. H. HARVEY, otherwise known as "Coin" Harvey, famous as one of the world's best reasoners on financial questions, declares his belief, in The Liberty Bell, that Franklin D. Roosevelt is insane on the subject of destruction, believes he is bankrupting and wrecking the country so that the people will, in desperation, back him in declaration of martial law and dictatorship, and insists that the penal island where the liberals will be taken has already been selected and the governor thereof, one Judge Wilson, has already been appointed. Mr. Harvey, now 83 years of age, usually knows what he is talking about. The story is repeated for what it is worth.

Relief in Montgomery County, Illinois

GOVERNMENT officials were so enthusiastic about relief of the poor in Montgomery county, Illinois, that they even copied names from tombstones so that nobody would be overlooked. As Cardinal Big Bill O'Connell said in Ireland, "In America we have been accustomed to think that anything is all right so long as you can get away with it."

175,418 Units of Government

THOSE who have investigated the matter claim that in the United States there are 175,418 units of government. To this may be added the fact that thousands of these units are maintained against all reason and common sense, in complete violation of the best interests of the taxpayers.

The United States Has Had Enough

THE United States has had enough. It is punishable by fine or imprisonment to sell here, or even to buy here, any securities issued by those countries that are in default in their payments of interest on the moneys they have borrowed from the one-time liberal friend of all mankind.

Flood-Control Project in Ohio

A $30,000,000 flood-control project is under way in the Muskingum valley, Ohio. There will be fourteen dams. One village, Tappan, of 500 inhabitants, will be moved from the valley to a hill. Another village, Zoar, will be surrounded by a protective dike.

Single Police Head for Michigan

MICHIGAN is considering the appointment of a single police head to direct the activities now distributed among 1,764 sheriffs, police chiefs and similar officials. It is also considering sentencing of all persons by a board of penology, after a study of each convict by psychiatrists.

Sees a Malign Paternalism Looming

SAYS Q. Forrest Walker, of R. H. Macy & Company: "Our codes tend to foster monopoly. They harass and intimidate small enterprises through the economic tyranny of trade majorities. If we persist in price fixing, our 'benign co-operation' must be displaced by a malign paternalism."

Tax-Exempt Property

IN Philadelphia, as a result of favors passed this way and that, over 16 1/2 percent of the total taxable property is tax-exempt. In Martic township, Lancaster county, 76 percent of the taxable property is tax-exempt. In the latter case, there are large public utility holdings, tax-exempt in Pennsylvania.

Crime Increasing in Georgia

THE president of the Georgia Bar Association says that crime is increasing in Georgia at an alarming rate of speed. The worst of it is that this is what the Georgia people really want, as is indicated in reports of conditions at the Fort McPherson concentration camp for hosiery strikers.

Too Many Tax-free Securities

IT IS alleged by Congressman Treadway, of Massachusetts, that there are now outstanding about $50,000,000,000 of securities which are tax-free. He wants this injustice ended. The Du Pont gang last year made $46,701,465. Wonder how much of that went into tax-free securities.

Seven Billions in 29 Months

IN THE effort to relieve unemployment conditions the United States has expended $7,000,000,000 in the past 29 months, with the net result that conditions are not much worse, if any, at the end than they were at the beginning.

No Two of One Family on Relief

NEW YORK city has a wonderful "assistant home relief director", and if you could see some of the homes you would know that she is needed badly enough. Seeing that there is so much poverty and suffering she conceived the rule and put it in force that no two members of one family could be on the city's relief pay roll. That is, she put it in force with one grand and glorious exception. She paid herself $70 a week, and her hubby was on the same pay roll at $29 a week. When this was brought out at an aldermanic hearing, and she squalled and explained that she and her hubby were of the privileged classes, women rushed to comfort her, a court attaché brought her a glass of water, and her lawyers slobbered the dictionary from one end to another explaining what a fine woman she was, and what a great sorrow it was to have her placed in such an embarrassing position, etc., etc., to the end of the chapter. At the same hearing it was also brought out that the "assistant executive director" was pulling down $7,500 a year out of the relief funds, while at the same time he was getting $4,500 from the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities. This alphabet system of relief is great, when you get to understand all the wrinkles. If you know just how to relieve the poor you can get away with $12,000 of their money a year, and after a while you can get your conscience so trained that you could eat pot roast made of human babies and rather enjoy it, if it didn't get into the papers.

37 Percent of City's Population Idle

THIRTY-SEVEN percent of New York city's population is now idle, according to latest reports. In the periodical Labor, Washington, D.C., this information appears in a column article bearing the headlines: "Middle Class Now Being Wiped Out, Survey Discloses; Destitution Reaches Families Once in Relatively Comfortable Circumstances; Losing Heroic Struggle; Deluge of Relief Demands Expected Unless Jobs Are Immediately Provided." However, on paper, the future is not so dark for everybody, for in their book The Economic Consequences of the New Deal Benjamin Stolbert and Warren Jay Vinton point out that in the year 1933, the first year of the New Deal, the number of persons with annual incomes of over $1,000,000 increased from 20 to 46. The interest machine is sucking the life out of the debtor class, and rapidly destroying the nation.

Mecklenburg's Treatment of Negroes

LAST August a Negro, L. Bogan, was chained to a wall in a solitary confinement camp in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, and died in the shackles. During the past winter, on a terrible night in January, two Negroes in the same camp were similarly chained. During the night their feet froze, and they had to have them amputated. The jailer, Captain Rape, was probably a Baptist, that being the principal faith in those parts. No doubt he is a strong believer in eternal torture and is trying to be like the god he worships. Tanganyika papers, please copy. Should any papers in Central Africa copy this item they are requested to omit the fact that when Robert Barnes, one of the Negroes whose feet were frozen off, was so ill, because of his terrible fever, that he vomited, Captain Rape knocked him down. America does not wish the kind-hearted savages of Africa to know just how infinitely mean some of the white men of America, who profess to be Christians, can be. The man who died in the shackles was buried sub rosa by his killers. This is the regular procedure, so it seems. One Negro testified to a North Carolina legislative committee that he had helped bury six Negroes who had thus died in the dungeon. They were not placed in coffins, nor even wrapped in blankets. One of the legislative investigators was heard to say to his comrades, "Where are we? Can this be North Carolina? Is it possible that we have been living alongside of this? My God! men, where are we?"

Murderers Stand by Each Other

THE international murderers stand by each other. Zaharoff plays one country against another all over Europe, promoting wars wherever possible, so as to boost the munitions business. Schwab says he is "merely a brilliant business man"; which may be true, and gives a new slant on what a brilliant business man really is.

Iowa's Sonorous $5 Prayers

BY A VOTE of 37 to 6 the State of Iowa has decided that silent prayers are ineffective, or at least beneath the dignity of the Hawkeye State, and so will continue to pay $5 in each house every morning for prayers of the sonorous variety offered by the gentlemen who for reasons unknown are supposed to have special contact with the Almighty.

Young People Out of Work in Massachusetts

A SURVEY in Massachusetts showed that 60,000 persons 16 to 24 years old, or one out of every two seeking work, were unemployed. About 12,000,000 young people, it was calculated, have reached the age of employability since October, 1929; and if half of them are unemployed, as is the case in Massachusetts, then these constitute about one half of all the unemployed in the country. In other words, here is a so-called "civilization" that has nothing to offer to its young people but a choice between idleness and crime. And one breeds the other. If this is Christ's kingdom, pray, where is the Devil's kingdom?

States in the Bread Line

WRITING informatively and convincingly of the fact that forty-four of the states of the Union are virtually standing in the bread line for whatever Uncle Sam will give them, Frank R. Kent, in the Baltimore Sun, says:

"There is nothing else to do. There is not only no nourishment in bucking the Administration, but any rejection of the conditions is punishable by a ruinous withdrawal of funds or a replacement of state with Federal personnel. In at least four states the Federal government stepped in last year and took charge of the distribution of relief funds because the governors of those states would not 'play ball' with the Roosevelt Administration."

In Clergy-Ridden New Jersey

IN CLERGY-RIDDEN New Jersey, where the politicians are so anxious to please the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and other representatives of the Devil, that they throw Jehovah's witnesses into prison for bringing the message of God's kingdom to the attention of the people, conditions are so rotten that, in Bayonne, a rival candidate by the name of Daly charges Mayor Donohue with having expended $32,000 of the taxpayers' money to administer a fund of $1,000 for braces for crippled children. How it was that the mayor chanced to let the last $1,000 slip through his fingers was not explained.

Temporary Relief Getting Permanent

NEW YORK state has what it calls a State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration. In 1932 this Temporary Administration had 195,735 families to minister to; in 1933 there were 371,253; and in 1934 there were 519,278, which is one-sixth of all the families in the state.

Highwaymen on the Highways

THE New Way Lumber Company, of Texas, engaged in delivering lumber by truck all over the greatest state in the Union, reports grafting by officers set to watch the highways. A load of lumber is weighed at a licensed and bonded weighmaster's. When it gets out on the road the driver is liable to be arrested and thrown into jail on the ground that his load is 400 to 4,000 pounds over the weight allowed by law. Business honor and honor among officers of the law are getting scarcer and scarcer. The New Way Lumber Company seems to think the highwaymen posing as law-enforcement officers in the Lone Star State are in reality stool pigeons of the railroad companies.

The Uses of Portland Cops

TWO cops in Portland, Oreg., had their attention called to the fact that the front door of a pharmacy had been jimmied. The two newsboys who summoned the cops went with them into the store, where they saw the cops take a camera, a number of cartons of cigarettes, several boxes of candy and $20 in money, to add to the considerable list of things stolen earlier by other thieves, not in uniform. They reported it, and the cops lost their jobs. In New York, about the same time, two cops got up to three years in prison for stealing $60 worth of candy.

Victims of International Murderers, Limited

IF THOSE who, directly and indirectly, during the World War, died to make the world safe for Hypocrisy, were to stand holding hands with each other, the loop would go around the earth twice, in the latitude of New York. Does anybody think that Jehovah God is going to overlook a thing like that? Did not every one of those that miserably perished in the war, famine and pestilence have every whit as much right to live and enjoy the blessings of God as those who survive?

The Greatest Kidnaping Racket

THE greatest kidnaping racket, the granddaddy of all the others, is the scheme of swiping human souls by the million, running them into a bake oven and not letting any of them out for a thousand years, and only then when their relatives pay and pay and pay the fraternity that the Mexican government, for the good of its citizens, chased out of the country.

Hitler's Government

Child Victims of the New Germany

LADY VIOLET BONHAM-CARTER has given to the world the following letter from a boy of 13, the son of a Jewish father, brought up a Protestant by his mother. It sets before the world the civilization of Hitler, and those that have united with him to make Germany a byword and a hissing in all the earth. The letter is authenticated by Samuel Untermyer. The child is now safe in Paris.

"I was the only Jew in my class. Until Easter I was a Protestant, then they found out that my father was a Jew and so I became one. After that everything was different. No one would be friends with me. No one would answer me. In school no one would sit next to me. They all used to want to before, as I was the best in the class and they all wanted to crib. Now I had to sit all alone on the back bench. At first I was frightfully unhappy—more so as the masters who always used to like me could not stand the sight of me any more. When they came into the classroom everyone had to jump up and with right hand outstretched shout 'Heil Hitler!' I did too—or I didn't. I don't know. If I did, then the whole class would shout 'The Jew is profaning our greeting!' And if I didn't the master shouted 'You wait, you Marxist bastard!' Then I was ordered to shout 'Heil Hitler!' alone three times. The whole class laughed. I was so afraid, I wanted to cry. And then I used often to be late so that I shouldn't have to shout 'Heil, Hitler!' The master used to give me extra work to do as a punishment. He wrote in the class book, 'For Jewish slovenliness.'

"Once I did not know the answer—I used always to know before—so he asked me if the only thing I could do was 'Fires and murders like my father'. Once when I could not answer, the history master said I should be slaughtered like father. I tried to pull myself together, but tears used to sometimes come and then they used to say I was a dirty coward like the rest of the Marxists. The worst thing of all was in the breaks' in the courtyard. We children of Jewish and Marxists parents had to go into a corner of the courtyard by ourselves. Then there was always trouble. The others shouted nasty things at us and threw stones. Once I defended myself, so they hit me and bullied me fearfully. Those in charge didn't even come near.

"At singing it was worse still. I had to learn the text of the Horst Wessel Lied and the other songs and then I had to say them alone. Again they used to laugh and shout horrid things.

"In drawing I had to do nothing but swastikas. Once I got detention because I drew a crooked one. Then the master wrote in his book, 'For ridiculing the German symbol.'

"Before I used to be the best pupil. Now I was the worst. Whether I got something right or wrong, I always got the worst marks. I was the scapegoat for everything."

How the Nazis Exterminate Opposition

IN AN address before the Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Associations, December 13, 1933, Samuel Untermyer said, in part:

"Here is one characteristic incident, related to me recently by a young writer of great talent from the West. He became alarmed at the reports of what was happening in Germany, because his mother was still living there, and took a trip to the little town in which she lived. Whilst there, one of her neighbors, who was a widow with two sons, both of whom had served in the German army in the World War, came to his mother's home in great agony and explained that a few days previously Nazi soldiers had come to her home and had forcibly taken her sons away, without reason or explanation. She suspected, from their arrogant and insulting conduct, that their visit boded no good, and so, having heard nothing from them after a few days, she began to make inquiries, the result of which was that two sealed coffins, said to contain the bodies of her sons, were delivered at her place with instructions that under no circumstances were they to be opened. A courageous man in that community dared, however, to open the coffins, and was confronted by the gruesome sight of the bodies of the two young men, having been so mangled and emasculated that there was not an unbroken bone left in either body, from the top of their heads to their feet. There was, of course, no remedy. There is never any remedy in Germany for any atrocity committed by German soldiers. The word 'Sadists' was invented for such people. They are human [creatures] turned into wild beasts."

Mails Not Delivered in Germany

D. C. KAEFER, manufacturing chemist, of Chicago, reports that in the last year the German government has seized 21 pieces of mail that he sent to his mother, living near Berlin. Mr. Kaefer insists that none of this mail could by any stretch of the imagination be considered anti-Nazi propaganda. It consisted of books, pictures, newspapers, magazines and guide books of Chicago's Exposition. Some of it was registered.

100,000 Refugees from Germany

AT THE end of February it was estimated that 100,000 had escaped from Germany, the majority of them young men and women, husky, looking as if they would be valuable citizens of any country. Though they had salvaged nothing but the clothes on their backs they were all glad to escape with their lives, and were said to be fairly cheerful, especially the women.

Why Germany Readopted Conscription

IT IS believed that the real reason why Germany has readopted conscription is that the huge army of its unemployed young men could not be provided with any kind of useful work. In three months last winter, in Germany, 700,000 were added to the army of the workless. German army officers are buying fine horses all over Denmark, Norway and Sweden. A decree has been issued that farms may be condemned anywhere, for garrisons and drill and target practice grounds. Physical training is required of all males.

“The Sole Master of This Earth”

IN HIS book My Battle (Mein Kampf) Hitler shows what are his real ambitions for himself and his followers when he says: “It is necessary, then, for better or worse, to resort to war if one wishes seriously to arrive at pacifism. In reality the humanitarian and passive idea will perhaps be excellent on that day when the man superior to all others will have conquered and subjugated the world first of all in such a measure that he becomes the sole master of this earth. First, then, the battle, and afterwards—perhaps—pacifism.”

Where Hitler Gets His Money

IT IS well known that, to start with, Hitler got his money for the Nazi movement from Thyssen and Krupp, the great German industrialists. It is now noted that his rearmament move came on the heels of a loan of $200,000,000 by Sir Henry Deterding, rival of the Standard Oil crowd.

German Judges Must Be Nazis

WITH the outward pomp which the German people seem to so highly regard, the administration of justice has been turned over to the Reich, with the distinct understanding that the judges must be active supporters of the National Socialist viewpoint. A German judge is a mere clerk of the government in power.

British Politicians Admire Hitler

AMERICANS will be interested and surprised that Lloyd George has expressed his admiration of the new Germany, while Dr. A. J. Macdonald, rector of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet street, London, has four columns in the London Daily Mail entitled “Why I Believe in Hitler”.

Nazi Destruction of Labor’s Property

THE Nazi government in Germany forcibly seized the accumulated property of the German Labor movement, amounting in value to about $270,000,000; a great part of this property has been totally destroyed. Among the properties taken over were 339 buildings, 86 of which were trade union headquarters, 233 were local peoples’ houses, 16 were health centers with more than 2,000 beds, and 4 were trade union schools. The German Labor Bank, with 240 branches, was forcibly seized. The German Consumers’ Society, which had 46 co-operative factories and 4,000,000 members, with property worth $100,000,000, was seized. Also 126 newspaper dailies and 84 printing establishments were seized. In many instances safes were opened and robbed of their contents, all in the name of the ‘New German Government’.

Imitating Hitler

THE American Legion at San Francisco demanded death for those advocating Communism, and imprisonment up to 100 years for distribution of literature advocating class antagonism or promulgating doctrines inimical to the state; the imprisonment to be on some Devil’s island off Alaska. All these punishments seem too mild. Why not go the limit of compelling all such persons to become members of the body of men that passed the resolutions? That would be the worst kind of punishment that could be inflicted upon true Americans. In their efforts to get the people ready for Fascism in America the Big Business crowd are only making a laughingstock of themselves.

Wages Under Hitler

UNDER the Hitler régime wages in Germany have reached the lowest level in fifty years. The official records show that only 1 percent of the workers receive an average weekly wage of more than $13.50, while 50 percent receive between $3.50 and $7.30, and 13½ percent receive less than $3.50.

German Junkers Plant at Moscow

AT THE German Junkers plant at Moscow there is now turned out every day one huge all-metal four-engined bombing plane capable of a top speed of 170 miles an hour. Russia’s air fleet is now the largest in the world.

British Items

Unemployment in Britain

IN Britain the people do not take it kindly, having their unemployment allowances reduced. At Merthyr Tydvil they broke through a police cordon, smashed the windows and overturned the furniture in the office of the Unemployment Assistance Board when 1,000 women marched to the office to complain of cuts in their allowances. In Sheffield 30,000 engaged in a fierce fight with the police in which 30 were hurt. Women used umbrellas as weapons. Concerning the Means Test, which was the basis for these complaints, George Lansbury, Labor statesman, said: "The Labor party protested and pleaded in vain against the dreadful regulations and we were defeated every time. With the banks full of idle money, with our streets filled with despairing men and women, and with an increasing daily toll of robberies and suicides, brought on by despair, the Government tells us nothing can be done." So many thousands of protests went up from all over Great Britain that the government was forced to abandon the cuts in relief compensation. In South Wales even the Sunday schools went on strike against the regulations.

King George's Wages $52,460 a Week

THE fiery anti-royalist, John McGovern, member from Glasgow, denounced King George as a parasite drawing $52,460 a week, one of a class living on the common people with no effort of their own to provide the means of life they enjoy. Denouncing an expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars in Glasgow alone on the king's silver jubilee celebration he said: "I say it should be spent in erecting black flags throughout the length and breadth of this country for a day of national mourning for the common people who are being destroyed and degraded by this national government. If your class goes to war you will appeal to the workingmen to help you, and I hope when that day dawns the workers will use their rifles on the ruling classes." Pretty savage talk for the house of Parliament, is it not?

Divorces Up, Births Down

IN THE year 1933 the number of decrees of divorce in Britain was the highest recorded, and the birth rate per thousand of population was the lowest, thus showing the gradual breaking down of the human family in one of the choice centers of civilization.

Britain's Rush to Rearm

BRITAIN has never been unarmed, and never intended to disarm; it has now laid aside all pretense, has virtually thrown the League of Nations overboard, and announces its intention to abandon disarmament and build up its forces on land and sea and in the air. The money to pay for all this is money owing to Uncle Sam, which will never be paid. The money was loaned with the understanding that thereby the world would be made safe for democracy. Concerning this propaganda former premier Baldwin said in the House of Commons: "The greatest mistake made after the World War was the spreading of the belief that the world was safe for democracy. The world never has been unsafer for democracy than it is today." Even if they are a little late with their admissions, it is nice to have all the great statesmen admit that no greater liars have ever lived than those that were responsible for the murder of 50,000,000 human creatures in 1914-1918.

Birmingham, Best-Governed City in the World

BIRMINGHAM owns and operates its own electric light, water, gas, street-car, bus, banking and market services and has the best sewage-disposal plant in the world. Half its garbage goes into marketable fats and fertilizers; the other half is used to generate electricity. A comfortable workingman's home can be rented from the city for less than $11.50 per month. Sizable garden allotments can be rented at $2.50 per year each. The city has the best civic orchestra and civic art gallery in Britain. There are two dozen civic swimming pools, five civic golf courses, 3,500 acres of civic parks and playgrounds, six civic cemeteries, and a civic hospital that cost $6,000,000. There are 32,000 civic employees, but the civic tax rate of less than $20 a head per year is only 40 percent of what it is in Toronto, itself one of the best-governed cities in America. In Birmingham public ownership of public utilities dates back 66 years.

Preferred Suicide to the Lash

AT Dartmoor prison, England, a prisoner lashed every night with the cat-o'-nine-tails committed suicide by hanging rather than be slowly tortured to death. The conscience of the British government is officially in the care of the Church of England. Queen Victoria approved flogging.

Why England Invented the League

ACCORDING to H. L. Mencken, England invented the League of Nations to put a curb on France. He says, in part:

Holland, Switzerland, Spain and the Scandinavian countries were too smart to succumb, but the United States was easier, for the English could tackle us in our own language, and tackle us they surely did. When we fell at last it was at a critical moment, for Germany was winning. Our help turned the tide and saved England, whose back was to the wall. Moreover, we did the job free of charge, and even paid most of the bills. . . . The idea behind it was to line up the "enlightened opinion of the world" against the French appetite for power and glory. This enlightened opinion, of course, was to be supplied by England, with the United States standing by as stooge, bouncer and paymaster. But as Wilson passed out of the picture the United States began to see a red light, and in the end flatly refused to join. . . . Once more England has been outmaneuvered by France, and is hanging out on a limb.

Mencken describes the League of Nations as "A Transparent Falseface for Dog-Eat-Dog Diplomacy".

What to Do with the Milk Surplus

LORD DE LA WARR, of England, referring to the disposition of England's surplus milk, said:

"The problem of today is to bring together the overproducer and the underconsumer. Remember the 2,000,000 good men and women, with their 6,000,000 or 7,000,000 dependents, who are out of work and living on a bare minimum of subsistence. In every back street in every town there are children at whom you only have to glance to see that they are not being given a chance to grow into strong and healthy citizens."

The Church at Avalon

A SUBSCRIBER wants to know if it is true that the carpenter Jesus built the first Christian church at Avalon some time before He was thirty years of age, as claimed by Anglo-Israelites. The thing is preposterous; Jesus was a Jew, born under the law; and there was no Christian church till Pentecost, at which time Jesus was no longer a man.

Gladstone Involved in Spiritism

A BOOK recently published in London contained the surprising information that W. E. Gladstone was involved in spiritism, and attended seances, and that he considered it "the most important work which is being done in the world—by far the most important".

William Kenworthy, Unemployed

WILLIAM KENWORTHY, unemployed, in an address broadcast over Britain by the British Broadcasting Company, said, in part:

"Is it to be wondered at that I doubt the sanity and justice of mankind when I read of goods and foodstuffs rotting in barns and warehouses and even being destroyed; when I see that the five big joint stock banks made a total profit last year of nearly £9,000,000, and another large concern £5,000,000, £14,000,000 all together, enough to feed 100,000 families for twelve months? . . . I find the church rift with animosities, sickly with moth-eaten pageantry, and utterly divorced in practice from the principles it professes."

David Knight, Unemployed

DAVID KNIGHT, 21 years of age, a Welsh miner, unemployed for two years, sang in a public house because he loved to sing. He was overheard by two men, vacationing in Wales, who knew the value of his throat. Within two weeks he was the biggest hit of the season at one of the theaters in the city of Reading. He never had on a dress suit in his life until he stepped upon the Reading stage. His mother is a widow, and the whole family was workless when this opportunity came to him like rain out of a clear sky.

Why America Entered the World War

NOT until seventeen years afterwards did it leak out that in March, 1917, Walter Hines Page, American ambassador to Great Britain, cabled to President Wilson:

"If we should go to war with Germany all the money (gold from transatlantic trade) would be kept in our country; trade would be continued and enlarged until war ends, and after the war Europe would continue to buy food from us, as well as an enormous supply of things to re-equip her peace industries. Perhaps our going to war is the only way we can maintain our present pre-eminent trade position and avert a panic."

England's Milk Marketing Board

ENGLAND has a law that makes it a crime for a farmer to sell a pint of milk to a neighbor. Basil William Jude, farmer, of Great Ellingham, sold milk to his neighbors at four cents a quart, because he considered it a crime to charge six cents, which is the price set by the Marketing Board. He was arrested and fined $50, but is still selling milk at four cents a quart Sir Ambrose Fleming Stands by the Bible

SIR AMBROSE FLEMING, D.Sc., F.R.S., famous scientist, inventor of the thermionic valve which makes wireless telephony possible, in a presidential address in London to the Victoria Institute and Philosophical Society of Great Britain, denounced the childish and foolish evolution theory as unproved and unprovable, and said: "We can quite appropriately assert that the origin of man is to be looked for in the creative power of a self-conscious Creator and supreme intelligence and will." As a consequence "a resolution was carried by a large majority protesting the continued teaching of the theory of evolution in the schools, colleges and pulpits of Great Britain and the dominions".

Remarkable Operation on Eye

IN Calcutta, India, a Hindu girl 20 years of age was totally blind in one eye. A graft was taken from an eye removed from an eighty-year-old man and grafted onto her eye by cross stitches, in the form of a cart wheel. Six days later, when the stitches were removed, she could read large print and could count fingers held thirty feet away.

Death from Misadventure

WINIFRED ANNIE EDWARDS, 20 years of age, probationer nurse, was given employment at a hospital in Birmingham, England, but was first vaccinated, and, as a result, lived but a few days. The coroner's verdict was "Death from misadventure". When one dies from vaccination it is nice to know just how the death will be reported in the records.

Poor Relief in Britain

POOR relief in Britain in 1933 was 26.4 percent in excess of the previous year; and in 1934, was 21 percent over 1933. In June, 1934, 1,325,807 persons in Britain were completely destitute. During the year they received something like $12 each, paid in food.

Less Liberty Than in 2,000 Years

GENERAL JAN CHRISTIAN SMUTS told a group of students in London that there is today less freedom of thought, speech, action and self-expression in Europe than there has previously been in the past 2,000 years.

How Capitalism Spreads Fascism

THE merry game of the capitalistic crowd of turning peaceable unemployed civilians into prospective cannon fodder goes on in every land. The anti-Fascist League of Durban, South Africa, objected to 500 out-of-workers' being given military training in their city at the expense of the taxpayers, saying: "The intention behind this move is obvious: it is the compulsory militarization of men who through their economic plight are unable to resist this encroachment on their rights and civil liberties as citizens of this country. It is an unfair advantage taken by the government, of people beaten down to starvation and submission by four years of economic depression." The same thing is in progress in America.

Smallest Wireless Sets

ROBERT E. SMITH, Tottenham, England, claims to have made the smallest radio receiving sets in the world; one goes on a finger ring; six go in a matchbox. In each case there is a wooden base one-half inch square, a crystal holder, with crystal, and a tuning coil of 200 turns of wire. An aerial of twenty feet of wire is used, and earphones. Reception has been had of both regional and national programs.

Ordinary Letters Go by Air Mail

ARRANGEMENTS are now in effect in the British Isles by which all ordinary mail is sent by air if it will hasten its delivery. Thus all the mail for Scotland and the north of Ireland that accumulates in London after the last train has left at night goes by plane the first thing in the morning and in most instances is delivered before noon.

Britain Will Move the Woolwich Arsenal

ON ACCOUNT of the development of bombing aircraft the great Woolwich Arsenal of Britain will move to an unnamed location in the west and north. Two new airplane lines have been opened from Britain to Sweden, one via Holland and the other via Norway.

Four Air Routes London to Budapest

LONDON now has four air routes to Budapest. One is via Paris, the second via Rotterdam and Berlin, the third via Amsterdam, Leipzig, Prague and Vienna, and the fourth and last is a straight hop without stops.

Judge Rutherford’s Lectures in Europe

ECHO from Turin:

It is with great interest that I am listening in on Wednesday and Saturday evenings to whatever the speaker of Radio Toulouse has to tell us on your account. I regret not knowing this gentleman personally, whom I have had the pleasure of hearing for several years now; his clear, cordial and persuasive voice perfectly suits the important items of vital interest with which you are dealing.—E. D., T——, Italy.

The son of a sexton gets the truth:

I have received your esteemed letter and your catalogue, which has attracted my attention. I am entirely satisfied with the wonderful, pure truths which you are publishing regarding the Catholic system which has transformed the admirable revelation of Jesus Christ into a vulgar, shameful commerce. It is due to the statutes of the pope and the bad examples given by the majority of the clergy and Catholics that mankind has completely lost faith, has become materialistic (no God, no master!), and for this reason crimes are a daily occurrence.

I am 55 years old, was brought up as the third son of a sexton right in Catholicism, and therefore really know. I am so pleased with your teachings that I really wish to offer you my services. If at some occasion I could be helpful to you at the place where I live or in the neighborhood, in case you would like to give lectures, I would do everything in my power to assist and protect you. . . .

—J. B., Isère, France.

“By their fruits ye shall know them”:

For about ten months we have been reading your booklets and some Age d’Or* copies. Furthermore, we are following with ever increasing interest your short talks by Radio Toulouse. We have in our house some domestics who before entering our service bought some of your publications. Their employers had taken hold of these booklets, read them, then burned them right before the girls, without reimbursing the poor maidservants their modest sum. As for us, we lent a Harp of God to somebody a while ago; maybe we shall never see it again, for, on pretext of saving our souls, they might have destroyed these “anti-dogmatic” writings!

In the hope that we may see the end of this wicked, cowardly and hypocritical world, we are ready to endure whatever may now be coming.—T., Landes.

* The Golden Age, French edition.

Best wishes:

Please receive, from a propagandist of universal peace by Esperanto, best wishes for the prosperity of your noble and ideal cause, which you publish in such a clear and comprehensive way. . . . —M. D., Paris.

At the Riviera:

Would you please send me the book Deliverance. It was impossible to get your address here in Cannes, and it was by radio that I received it again last night. I had already had your book when at Versailles and it was a great aid to me, but having left it behind at my departure, I must get it again to have it always with me. Are there any adherents of yours in these parts? If so, I should like to get in touch with them, as I have nothing to do just at this moment and I could work together with them spreading the holy word. . . . —R. P., Cannes.

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