Golden Age, September 11, 1935
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September 11, 1935 CONTENTS
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Justice in Jersey 777
Which Is the Greater Success? 777
Andrew Mellon Loves His Children 778
Grand Larceny of Two Potatoes 778
50,000,000 Unemployed in China 781
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
PRINCE OF PEACE 785
AN ORDINANCE THAT FAILED 786
BULLETIN AND AFFIDAVIT CIRCULATED BY JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES 787
Clergymen Unite to Prevent Freedom of Speech 797
Free Speech for Everybody 798
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
A Squawk from the Brokers 778
Guidonia, Italy's New Air Center 779
Egypt's New Road to Palestine 779
Money Got Away Nineteen Times 782
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
"WHAT IS FASCISM?" 771
"The Protocols of Zion" 776
"With a Little Wisdom" 777
The Conspiracy Against America 778
Persecution of Conscientious Objectors 780
Jerusalem to Be Greatly Improved 781
Australian Native Woman's Appeal 781
With Archbishop Curley in Chair 782
Alphabet of Civilization 784
Early Christians and War 784
Free Speech at Marked Tree 797
AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY
Homesteaders in Alaska 777
Rumanian Priest's Brilliant Idea 779
Too Much of Potatoes and Milk 780
Largest Grape Vine in the World 780
Mass Bankruptcy Inevitable 781
HOME AND HEALTH
SERUMS IN HOGS 792
Chicago Has Medical Liberty 792
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNIZATION EXPOSED 793
Beware of Painkiller Drugs 796
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
Civilization 'n' Lotteries 777
Church Fires in England 780
Stefansson Says Irish Discovered America 780
Babylon Had Some Freak Customs 781
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Demonism in the Congo 779
Encouraging Jude to Do His Bit 782
Roman Hierarchy Foe of Education 782
Blasphemy in Maryland 783
Stigmata Not Uncommon 783
Another Blasphemy Case in Quebec 784
OBEDIENCE BRINGS PROMOTION 789
The Lady Holds Her Nose 799
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The Golden Age
Volume XVI
Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, September 11, 1935
Number 417
“What Is Fascism?” By David Wilkie (Great Britain)
(In Three Parts—Part 1)
THE Church of Rome is definitely not a “religious” body such as, for example, the Baptists, the Congregational church, the Unitarian church, or the Salvation Army. It is a religio-political organization, as much political as religious. The pope regards religious belief merely as a means to the realization of world dominion, an “empire” ruled over by the Roman Society of Priests, of which he is the head. Of course, he is bound to pretend to his followers that he is acting only as their spiritual chief.
The Jesuits have captured the Church of Rome; the pope, indeed, is their nominee. The Jesuit Order is the “political priesthood” (per se) of the Church of Rome. Both the general of the Jesuits and the pope are capitalists, or rather financiers, of world-wide influence. It is the Jesuits who are the real managers, the organizers, and the financiers of Fascism throughout the world. They work behind the scenes, of course, using other people as their tools (and many as their dupes) as they have always done.
An All-Time Political Machine
Think over this carefully. According to official Roman Catholic figures there are, roughly, 400 Jesuit priests in Great Britain and about 2,880 in the United States. Has any political party in the country a larger staff of full-time organizers than this? These Jesuits know the innermost secrets of almost every Foreign Office in Europe. Has any party in the country a better intelligence service? In this country, too, they have their agents and spies, i.e., Roman Catholics, in the press, the police, the army, the civil service, in society, and in all political parties.
JESUIT CONTROL OF THE WORLD
—BY FASCISM
It is difficult to popularize a tyranny, and, as everybody knows, the Roman Catholic hierarchy is the most perfect example of tyranny the world has known.
The job of the Jesuits is to make it seem desirable, even necessary, that the government of mankind should be turned over to the Roman hierarchy.
The curiously interesting methods by which men are persuaded to put their worst enemies in control of their destinies are set forth in this article.
The writer of the article, a university man of high standing, conceals his identity under a nom de plume. He is one of the few men who, having inside knowledge, dares tell the truth.
Every reader of The Golden Age will be fascinated, but more than fascinated; for he will be instructed as to just how the Devil is working his game.
The article takes down the screens and lets the honest reader see just how the Jesuits are planning world control by Fascism, and how they are succeeding. If liberty is lost, all is lost; and liberty is lost wherever the Jesuits succeed in forcing a dictator upon the people. This the people sagely suspect.
They have tremendous funds at their command. What’s to stop the Jesuits from capturing political power in any country? They have the machine; all they need is a political “story” and a “party”. Fascism supplies both the story and the party. Its “creed” (promptly cast overboard by every Fascist leader the moment he comes to power) is simply a salestale to put Fascism across a gullible public in order to establish, in the end, a Jesuit dictatorship. Every Fascist is merely a tool and a dupe of the Jesuits. The rank and file do not know this, but their leaders (who are “in the know”) do.
Socialists have made the mistake of reasoning that a movement, in this case Fascism, which stands for “private ownership” must, necessarily, be “capitalist”. Socialists have missed this fact: that “private ownership” existed before “capitalism” was heard of.
The Church of Rome’s ideas about property are not the same as “capitalism’s”. Fascism wouldn’t be Roman Catholic if it were capitalist.
Fascism an Instrument of Rome
Fascism is not an instrument of capitalism; it is an instrument of Rome. Its aim is not to "reinstate" capitalism, but to take advantage of the political and economic situation in its entirety to re-establish the political supremacy of the Vatican. This, to use Cardinal Bellarmine's words—the "pontifical supremacy", temporal as well as spiritual, remember—is the "fundamental article" of the Roman Catholic religion. The aim of Fascism is to establish, by force, the Romish rule, and to continue it by force, with book-burnings, suppression of the press and of freedom of speech, and with the torture and terrorist methods of the Inquisition up to date.
In the course of its history the Jesuit Order has been expelled from the following countries and places (by Roman Catholics as well as Protestants), not for religious reasons, but on political grounds:
Country or Place / Date of Expulsion
England / 1579
England / 1581
England / 1586
Japan / 1587
Hungary / 1588
Transylvania / 1588
Bordeaux / 1589
The whole of France / 1594
Holland / 1596
Touron / 1597
Berne / 1597
England / 1602
Denmark / 1606
Thorn / 1606
Venice / 1607
Kingdom of Amurs (Japan) / 1613
Bohemia / 1618
Moravia / 1619
Netherlands / 1622
China / 1623
India / 1623
Malta / 1634
Holland / 1708
Russia / 1723
Savoy / 1729
Paraguay / 1733
Portugal / 1759
Brazil / 1759
France / 1764
Spain / 1767
Two Sicilies / 1768
Mexico / 1768
Naples / 1767
Duchy of Parma / 1767
Malta / 1768
Suppressed by Pope Clement XIV / 1773
Russia / 1776
France / 1804
Naples / 1810
Moscow / 1816
St. Petersburg / 1816
Canton of Soleure / 1816
Belgium / 1818
Brest¹ / October 1819
Russia² / March 20 1820
Spain / 1820-1825
Rouen Cathedral³ / March 1825
Belgium⁴ / Sept. 1826
Eight colleges in France⁵ / June 16 1828
Great Britain and Ireland / April 13 1829
France / 1831
Saxony⁶ / Sept. 1831
Portugal / May 24 1834
Spain / July 1835-44
Rheims⁷ / Dec. 1838
Lucerne⁸ / 1845
France / 1845
The whole of Switzerland / Sept. 6 1847
Bavaria / Feb. 17 1848
Sardinia⁹ / March 2 1848
Naples / March 11 1848
Papal States / March 29 1848
Linz / April 10 1848
Vienna / April 16 1848
Styria / May 8 1848
Archduchy of Austria / May 8 1848
Austrian Empire / May 8 1848
Galicia / July 1848
Sardinia / July 19 1848
Sicily / July 21 1848
Spain / 1854-1858
Paraguay / June 28 1858
Several Italian States / 1859
Sicily / June 1860
Spain / 1868
Italy / 1873
Germany / 1873
France / 1880
¹By the inhabitants. ²For ever. ³By the people. ⁴From all private and public schools in Belgium. ⁵Namely, Aix, Billon, Dole, Forculquier, Mont-Morillon, St. Acheul, and St. Ann. ⁶Prohibited from entering. ⁷By the inhabitants. ⁸For ever. ⁹Expelled from all their establishments.
It is worth recording that when Pope Clement suppressed the Jesuits on August 21, 1773 (they were "re-established" by Pius VII, in 1814), part of his words were: "We have remarked to our deep regret that our admonitions to them (the Jesuits) to serve God and not to mix themselves up with other matters, especially secular and political, and many other practical measures, have been almost powerless and of no effect. . . ."
Let the Scoffers Scoff
If I regard the Jesuit Order as a menace (as I most certainly do), I can support my attitude, as the above table shows, by saying that this has been the experience of generations of governments and statesmen in every country in Europe. Let the scoffers scoff that off.
Take away from the Communist party the Catholic-born element in Glasgow, Dundee, Newcastle, Liverpool, Bristol, and Cardiff, and it is a well-known fact that the Communist party in Britain would cease to exist. Take away the Scoto-Irish element in Scotland, and the Anglo-Irish element in England, in London and Liverpool particularly, and there would be no "Communist Party of Great Britain". Every member of the House of Commons knows that the Catholic population of Britain is the spawning-ground for the Communist party.
The truth about Communism and Fascism is that there is ample evidence to show that the Roman Catholic church has been, and is, the spawning-ground of both of them. (This is exactly what was "arranged" in Germany; the Roman Catholic Rhineland was the hotbed of "Communism", and Roman Catholic Bavaria the homing-ground of "Nazism".) The Communist party in Britain, and in most countries, is one half captured by the Jesuits, and the fake, promoted, systematic conflict of these two antidemocratic forces, "Communism" and "Fascism", is a conspiracy to lead the public to accept "Fascism" as the alternative to "Communism".
Tammany Is a Sample
Any man who ignores the existence of the Jesuit order is unfit to govern. They are the Grand Masters of Devilry behind Tammany Hall (the U.S.A. Roman Catholic graft institution called after "St. Tammany"); the Zinoviev Letter; the murders of President Duca of Rumania, Barthou, King Alexander of Yugoslavia, President Obregon of Mexico, Sir Henry Wilson; the "Holy Vehme"; Eugene Chen (really a Mr. Bernard Achem, a R.C. from Trinidad); the Moplah risings in India; Ivar Kreuger; the Zimmermann Note; Señor Gil Robles; Skoropadsky's Ukrainian "Nationalist" movement; the "Protocols of Zion"; the German-Irish Society; Adolf Hitler; etc., etc., etc. The climax of their machinations during the last 100 years is, they have virtually recreated the "Holy Roman (Catholic) Empire" in the heart of Europe—Fascist Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Hungary. And these countries, as "swords of the Vatican", are about to plunge Europe into war, to spread the power of the Jesuits over the rest of Europe by military force.
Fascism in Austria
To get the exemplar of the Vienna massacre one has to turn to the history of the Albigensians in France, or the massacre of the Huguenots, begun on St. Bartholomew's Day:
"The growing influence of Admiral de Coligny filled Catherine de Medici with terror. An attempt to have him assassinated miscarried, so she ordered, purely as a 'measure of public safety', the murder of all Protestant leaders in Paris. The provinces adopted the measure, and between August 24 and October 3 fifty thousand Protestants were put to death. For that Catherine received the congratulations of all the Roman Catholic States, and the pope celebrated the occasion by having a special medal struck and bonfires lighted."
The late Dr. Dollfuss, dictator of Austria and a "zealous" Roman Catholic, was leader of the Austrian "Christian Socialists (i.e., Roman Catholic) Party". His successor, Dr. Schusnigg, is the leader of the Austrian "Clerical Volunteers"; he is another very "zealous" Roman Catholic.
The massacre in Vienna was St. Bartholomew's Day over again, with Austrian Social Democrats taking the place of French Huguenots.
On one side were ranged the Social Democrats; and on the other, as Fascists in the army and in the Dollfuss front, the "Holy Roman Catholics", the minions of the pope. The result was the holocaust of St. Bartholomew's Day over again: "Rationalism" instead of "Protestantism"; the slaughter of men, women, and children; cruel and ruthless—worthy of the superstition-sotted, confession-poisoned, priest-drenched dupes of the Haroun of Rome.
The Dollfuss Massacre
"The papal nuncio in Vienna and the Catholic bishops Gfollner and Waitz were pushing the Government (i.e., the Dollfuss régime) forward along the path to Fascism. Here was the right opportunity, they thought... to transform Austria into a Catholic authoritarian State," says Otto Bauer, the Austrian workers' leader, in his pamphlet Austrian Democracy Under Fire, page 22. It was, in fact, the bishop of Linz and Mgr. Sibylla, the papal nuncio, who urged Dollfuss to begin the massacre, said Otto Bauer (see Sunday Times February 18, 1934). The Roman Catholic "statesmen" in the pre-Dollfuss Government, Vaugoin, Bishop Seipel and Prince Starhemberg, paved the way for Dollfuss' "iron rule", just as the succession of Roman Catholic chancellors in Germany, Wirth, Marx, Bruening, and Papen, prepared the way for Hitler.
The Universe, Roman Catholic paper, April 6, stated: "The new Constitution (of Austria) now to be promulgated is based upon the conception of a Catholic Corporative State." The first article of the old Constitution laid it down that "Her laws originate from Almighty God". In plain English, Austria's laws will henceforth originate in the will of the pope, who is "God Almighty's" interpreter.
Everything Austrian in the future is to be worked in the interests of one man, Ambrose Ratti, a foreigner and a tyrant. That's what the Fascist "patriots" have done for Austria!
As is to be expected, therefore, it was reported in the Austrian Reichpost, March 23, 1934, that Bishop Innizer had been made "leader" of the Youth Movement in Austria. And the Vienna correspondent of the New Statesman and Nation stated, July 14: "Workers' rights survive on paper, or rather as Catholic workers'
rights in the Einheitgewerkschaftsbund," i.e., Unity Association League.
Then came the murder of Dollfuss. And after Dollfuss, Dr. Schusnigg was appointed chancellor. Schusnigg is the leader of the "Ostmarkische Sturmscharen", the Clerical Volunteers! And Schusnigg has as his deputy Prince Starhemberg, another papist, who marched alongside Hitler at the time of Hitler's 1923 Munich 'putsch'. Starhemberg is also the "friend" of Mussolini. Observe this chain of pals: Hitler, Starhemberg, Mussolini.
Who rules in Austria? The capitalists? Bunkum. The capitalists, like the workers, have the thumb on them. Austria's laws "originate" from "Almighty God". "Almighty God" rules in Austria: "His Excellency," "His Eminence," the pope. As a London Daily Telegraph correspondent reported, Austria is now an "Autocratic Roman Catholic State".
Fascism in Spain
There are two Fascist parties in Spain. One is led by Gil Robles, and the other by Primo de Rivera, eldest son of the late monarchist-dictator of Spain.
There was a pen portrait of Gil Robles in an article in the Daily Herald (Britain) May 17, 1934, by Don Fernando de los Rios, late Spanish minister of education and foreign affairs:
"In the first speech of his electoral campaign last year, he (Gil Robles) spoke of the necessity of purging Spain of Jewish sympathizers and freemasons. At a recent mass meeting of his supporters at the Escorial, where they took an oath of allegiance, they had to repeat, hands lifted in the air, that 'the leader can do no wrong'." Just a political version, you see, of the "Papal Infallibility" doctrine—"The pope can make no mistake."
In Spain the attachment of the Roman Catholic church to Fascism is open and unconcealed. It was reported in the Spanish press, April 1, 1934, that three Roman Catholic priests had been arrested for taking part at a Fascist meeting at Oviedo.
The Spanish Fascist movement is frankly one of "Catholic reaction" (to use Mr. Vernon Bartlett's expression, News Chronicle, March 13, 1934) against the recent Spanish reforms, which drove out the Jesuits, prohibited priests from interfering in politics, and gave Spain a democratic constitution.
The other Fascist party in Spain, led by Primo de Rivera, calls itself "Falange Española". That there is no breach between "Nazism" and "Fascism" is illustrated by the following from the Madrid correspondent of The Times:
"J.O.N.S., an incipient Nazi organization, has recently concluded an alliance with the Fascist group, Falange Española, whose leading spirit is the young Marqués Primo de Rivera."
Incidentally, Primo de Rivera's younger brother visited Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist headquarters at Chelsea, London, some time ago.
The following is a report from the News Chronicle of June 4, 1934. The headlines, cross-heads, and bold type appeared in the report:
FRUSTRATED BY PHONE ERROR
Secret Plan Revealed
Nuncio Who Got Wrong Number
From our own Correspondent
MADRID, Sunday.
A telephone comedy of errors that has resulted in a diplomatic upheaval between Spain and the Vatican has just been revealed.*
A few days ago, shortly before the Spanish foreign minister, Señor Pita Romero, was due to leave for Rome to negotiate the concordat with the pope, Monsignor Tedeschini, the papal nuncio in Madrid, rang up a secretary at the Vatican in order to instruct him secretly on how to deal with Spain's foreign minister when he arrived.
By a curious coincidence the name of the Spanish attaché at the Rome embassy is almost identical with that of the secretary at the Vatican whom the nuncio was ringing up, and by an error at the Rome telephone exchange the papal nuncio at Madrid was connected with the attaché at the Spanish embassy.
* See The Golden Age No. 393, page 24.
ASTONISHED DIPLOMAT
All unaware that he was talking to the wrong man, the papal nuncio gave the Spanish attaché confidential instruction to extend to the Spanish foreign minister every hope of the early signature of the concordat, but to delay the actual signature.
The reason, he confidentially explained to the astonished attaché, was that he felt sure that Señor Gil Robles, the Spanish Fascist and Catholic leader, would soon be in office and then the concordat could be arranged on terms more favorable to the [Roman] church.
The attaché hung up the receiver without revealing his identity and immediately rang up the Madrid foreign office and gave word for word the secret instructions he had just involuntarily received.
NUNCIO CONFRONTED
The acting foreign minister, Señor Rocha, then called on the nuncio, who blandly expressed his confidence that the concordat would soon be signed. Señor Rocha cut him short by showing him the full text of the secret instructions that the nuncio had just phoned to Rome.
Despite his great diplomatic experience it was some time before Monsignor Tedeschini found his breath.
He finally explained that he had acted under Señor Gil Robles’ formal promise that he would soon be in power.
This diplomatic comedy is much commented upon here and the Labor papers are demanding the withdrawal of the Spanish envoy in view of the Vatican’s duplicity.
This exposes the trickery the “Holy” Roman church is capable of; and it shows, too, quite unmistakably, what Fascism is in Spain.
[Continue:]
As a special correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor reported, July 24, 1934: “That Spain’s problem is now definitely Vatican versus Labor is a conviction that is rapidly growing.”
The rising in Asturias in October of last year was a fight between reformers and Jesuits for Oviedo city, the center of the Spanish armament industry. The Reformers were beaten, owing to the introduction against them of levies of Moors, and the treachery of certain Catalonian leaders. Since the Asturian rising the Spanish Fascists and the Roman Catholic-owned press have been loudly demanding a wholesale slaughter of the leading spirits of the rising. The Government, however, more wary than the fanatical Fascist-Clericals, has turned a deaf ear to these demands. The vigor of the Asturian defense, many of them miners, by the way, and the knowledge that what the Asturians stood for has many friends in Spain, and in Europe, has prevented the Government from committing further excesses which might inflame the Reformers, and tempt them to another rising which, if it did not succeed—and it might (there are not enough Moorish janissaries to cover the whole of Spain, and even if there were their employment on a national scale would in all probability defeat its object)—would at least do incalculable damage.
Honest and Overzealous Reformers
The Reformers made the mistake at the beginning of the revolution of being overzealous in the application of their democratic ideals. Without any apprenticeship in the new ideas, votes were granted to women, and the women, easily swayed in the confessional and still in fear of the priests, voted for the friends of the Clerics and against reform. Characteristically, no sooner did the reactionaries find themselves in legal control than they started to abuse their authority, to use all the forces of the state at their disposal to subdue and crush the opposition by force. It was this that caused the Asturian affair. Fortunately for the Reformers, stalemate has been reached, owing to the fact that they (i.e., the Reformers) have many sympathizers in the army and the police; otherwise there would have been no necessity to use Moors in Asturias. The reactionaries (Fascists) are straining every nerve to raise a dependable private army.
Spain, where the “Holy” Inquisition came into being (the appellation “Holy” reminds one of another “Holy”, which has not yet received pontifical blessing, however, the anti-Jew, Nazi “Holy Vehme” in Germany), is, no doubt, a fertile soil for anti-Semitism. Gil Robles’ cry of “Down with the Jews!” and the overt Jesuit alliance with Gil Robles definitely identifies the Jesuits in Spain with anti-Semitism. For centuries Roman Catholics have hounded Jews with the cry of “Christ Killers!” When, or where, did a Jew ever prosper in a Roman Catholic country? It was a pope who compelled Jews to wear the so-called “Medal of Infamy”; and the establishment of the Inquisition (established to hunt, burn, and torture Jews in Spain) was sanctioned and confirmed by papal decrees, and the Constitution of the Inquisition was drawn up by a Dominican priest, Dominicans were the “judges” of this awful secret tribunal, and Dominican novitiates in many cases acted as the torturers. (It is significant that, during the reign of the “Bloody Mary” in England, the Dominican house was at Smithfield, where the autos-da-fé were held.) Within living memory Jews were massacred in Limerick, (R.C.) Ireland, on the charge, the timeworn one, of holding a “Black Mass”. One cannot conceive of such a thing’s happening in Protestant England, or Scotland, or Wales. Indeed a “Black Mass” has no significance or meaning to anybody BUT a Roman Catholic. And in France, at the time of the Dreyfus affair, it was Papists and Jesuits, as is historically well known, who were ranged openly against Dreyfus. The defeat of the antiDreyfusites was followed immediately with legislation against Roman Catholicism—in which Jean Jaures, who was assassinated in 1914, took a leading part.
Anti-Semitic Propaganda
The Fascists in Spain will make the most of anti-Semitism. Whether it will help them any, or much, is a moot point. Anyway, it will take more than ingenuity to prove that there is anything like a "Jewish menace" in Spain, where, until the revolution, the Jesuits were the big landowners and business monopolists. The only "menace" there is in Spain (and it is obvious to anybody who looks for one) is the menace of a corrupt, absolutist "Church", supported by secret orders, who brought Spain to decay and its people to depths of illiteracy—as they reduced Poland, too, to impoverishment and, finally, servitude.*
One more quotation, from an article on Spain by a V. S. Prichett in The Fortnightly Review, July, 1935, a highly reputable British magazine: "The question is, What will Señor Gil Robles do? Before last October the answer was some kind of Fascism; now it is, Nothing this year. His strength is that he has the rich and powerful backing of the adaptable Jesuits . . . The Jesuits have already bought up many of the best provincial newspapers, and they are determined to redeem Spain from anti-Clericalism, Socialism, and indeed Liberal policy . . . for Spanish clericalism will put the clock back if it gets the chance."
For Dirty Work, Call the Jesuits
And again from a recent observer, a Leah Manning, an ex-M. P. for Islington, London, in her newly published book, What I Saw in Spain, calls Gil Robles' party "a Vatican party", and "a Jesuito-Fascist organization". Yes, in Spain the Jesuito-Fascist alliance is stark and obvious. It is indeed not an "alliance", for Gil Robles is a tool of the Jesuits, not an equal. And the same is true of every other Fascist boss in Europe (and candidate for the job), but in most cases the truth is hidden from public view by the Jesuits, the world's masters in the art of 'back stage' politics, as well as the world's champions in the art of 'gulling' the masses. To make the people of Italy believe, when it is expedient, that Mussolini is not a militarist, but a cooing dove, is surely child's play to a gang of experts who have been making almost whole nations believe, for generations, that a bit of paste is the body of the Son of God. If they (i.e., the Jesuits) have not a correct appraisement of the gullibility of mankind, after a 1,000 years' experience at the game, then who has? It is a historical truism, When you want dirty work done, call in the Jesuits. But (and since this is an article on Spain, the simile is becoming) the Jesuits, like the Moors who were invited to Spain, have the knack of pinching the prize which they have been called in only to safeguard. They got their postwar start in Italy, thanks to the—at least neutrality, of U.S.A., Britain, and France (and they got a start, too, in Poland), and now it won't be their fault if they don't soon own and control a half of the continent of Europe. But alas! and fortunately for others, it is ALSO a historical truism that the triumphs of the Jesuits are always short-lived.
"The Protocols of Zion"
IN the trial at Berne, evidence was produced that the so-called "Protocols of Zion", an alleged scheme of the Jews for a world super-government, were the work of a Russian writer named Nilus, and consisted, in 170 passages, of plagiarisms from an essay written by the French author Maurice Joly, in 1864, entitled "A Dialogue in Hades Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu". The Jews never had anything to do with these protocols, yet it was because of these that the Nazi persecutions in Germany were begun and carried on with such bitterness. Efforts to prove that the Jews had discussed these protocols at the first Zionist Congress at Basle in 1897 were proved to be false. Two stenographers who attended all the sessions testified that the published report of the Basle proceedings was correct in every detail and that the subject of the protocols was not even mentioned.
German Newspapers Dying Rapidly
SINCE the Nazis came into power in Germany, in January, 1933, German newspapers have died off at the rate of more than one a day. In two years more than 1,000 papers were forced by the government to cease publication or found further publication unprofitable.
* The first partitioning of Poland was made by Frederick of Prussia and Catherine of Russia, the two European monarchs who gave the Jesuits harborage in their domains on the request of Voltaire, after the papal suppression of the Order.
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Civilization 'n' Lotteries 'n' Everything
HEADLINES from New York papers in one month, covering eight columns of news: "Bars 152 from Mails to Curb Sweepstakes; Postoffice Department Acts on Lotteries; Individuals and Firms Are Hit by Order"; "Mayor Blamed for Existence of Policy Evil; Society for Prevention of Crime Demands Prompt Action to Suppress Racket"; "Vast Numbers Play Policy in the City; Doubt Is Cast, However, on Estimate that Annual Receipts from the Game Are $100,000,000"; "Perjury Charged to 77 Bondsmen; Blanshard Says They Swore Falsely 1,584 Times in Nine Months Last Year; Prosecutors Get Report; Extent of Policy Racket Also Shown in Summary of Inquiry Prepared for Mayor; Eight Higher-ups Named; Little Bondsmen Terrorized"; "$3,000,000 Fake; Buyers Get Receipts and Nothing More; Insider Tells How Pals Abroad Send Apparently Bona Fide Acknowledgments"; "5,000,000 Slips in Italian Lottery Seized; Boss Banker Arrested in Raids Here"; "$2,000,000 Lottery Unmolested Here; That Is the Estimated Weekly 'Take' in Metropolitan Area of 'Italian Game'; Politician Linked to It; Notorious Underworld Figures Reported Involved; Numbers Sold Throughout Nation; Played Mostly by Italians; Winning Numbers Cabled Here." And so, at length, man "robes the earth in the glory of his moral achievements". Anything or anybody that doesn't like it can move on.
Homesteaders in Alaska
IN THE fertile Matanuska valley, Alaska, 200 carefully selected settlers from Minnesota, Wisconsin and northern Michigan were settled by the Government on 40-acre farms, where they are working out their destinies. They started with nothing, but will have homes worth $3,000 each in which to live. The winters are dry and cold (down to 35 degrees below zero), the summers short but sunny, with plenty of mosquitoes. It is a good dairy country. Cabbages have been grown which weighed forty pounds. The settlers selected are all young.
California Again Distinguishes Itself
CALIFORNIA has again distinguished itself. This time it sent a 19-year-old boy to the gallows, although he had been granted a stay of execution. Meantime Mooney still remains in prison, and is still innocent.
"With a Little Wisdom"
IN AN address at the Catholic University, Washington, D.C., Dr. Parker T. Moon, of Columbia University, said that "with a little wisdom we could so strengthen and improve the League of Nations and the World Court that war would become as obsolete as dueling". Archbishop Michael J. Curley, of Baltimore, was in the chair when Mr. Moon admitted for himself and the archbishop, and others, wherein is the great lack that has made the League of Nations a jest and a byword in every corner of Japan, Germany, Italy and everywhere else. "Lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?" Mr. Moon will never find the little wisdom he now lacks: the League will perish, and deserves no better fate.
Justice in Jersey
AT Mount Holly, N. J., a man out of work and out of money had an old automobile for which a dealer promised to give him $7 if he would deliver it. The poor man took two tags from a car in a junk yard and made delivery. New Jersey's efficient guardians of law and order witnessed the great crime. They arrested the poor man, he was brought into court and fined $5 and $2 costs. When he heard the sentence he fainted, and when he awoke in the hospital the doctor said he was on the verge of starvation. The $7 which he had hoped would provide food for his family went to support the troopers. Why not? How can they keep neatly dressed and fully armed without some income?
Which Is the Greater Success?
WHICH is the greater success, increasing the national debt from 22 billions to 33 billions, or increasing the accumulated deficit from 2 billions to 11 billions? Which is the greater, the AAA, with its 7,000 jobholders, or the Federal Housing Commission with its 29 'great men' at combined salaries of $124,900? The 20,000,000 people now on relief are the ones that want the answer.
Untermeyer's Opinion of the League
SAMUEL UNTERMEYER, admittedly one of the best-informed men in the United States, says of the League of Nations:
"It would have been far better for civilization and the peace of the world that the League should never have been born."
Big Business and Politics
Andrew Mellon Loves His Children
ANDREW MELLON loves his children. In 1931 he gave Ailsa and Paul, then in their twenties, $66,000,000 in stocks to give them a start in life. Not all parents can do that. Here is a story in The American Guardian of conditions in 1934 near Keysville, Ga., accredited to the pen of Erskine Caldwell:
"In one of the two rooms a six-year-old boy licked the paper bag the meat had been brought in. His legs were scarcely any larger than a medium-sized dog's leg, and his belly was as large as that of a 130-pound woman's. Suffering from rickets and anemia, his legs were unable to carry him for more than a dozen steps at a time; suffering from malnutrition, his belly was swollen several times its normal size. His face was bony and white. He was starving to death. In the other room of the house, without chairs, beds, or tables, a woman lay rolled up in some quilts trying to sleep. On the floor before an open fire lay two babies, neither a year old, sucking the dry teats of a mongrel bitch. A young girl, somewhere between fifteen and twenty, squatted on the corner of the hearth trying to keep warm. The dog got up and crawled to the hearth. She sat on her haunches before the blazing pine-knots, shivering and whining. After a while the girl spoke to the dog and the animal slunk away from the warmth of the fire and lay down again beside the two babies. The infants cuddled against the warmth of the dog's flanks, searching tearfully for the dry teats."
Here is hoping that Ailsa and Paul will know what to do with their $66,000,000 worth of stocks—while they have them.
Uncle Sam's Narcotic Farm
UNCLE SAM'S $4,000,000 narcotic farm at Lexington, Ky., will have 350 employees, with an annual pay roll of $500,000, and other expenses will be $250,000 more. The farm will care for 1,400 inmates. In other words, the care of those 1,400 poor drug addicts will represent an outlay of around $1,000,000 a year, when the interest on the original investment is taken into consideration.
The Conspiracy Against America
THE alphabetical list of the conspirators against America, some of whom even have the impudence to count on America to come to their rescue in case of another world war, are Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia. Finland is to be congratulated on being the only nation in Europe honest enough to even try to pay its debts.
Grand Larceny of Two Potatoes
THE Illustrated Daily News of Los Angeles publishes side by side the pictures of two men. One is that of a man 70 years of age who pleaded guilty to the theft of two potatoes to keep from starving. He has a rather good face; his principal crime was that of being jobless and starving. Next to him is a well-dressed man just released from prison who was tried on one of forty-three counts of grand larceny. He served 2½ years of a five- to fifty-year sentence and was then granted parole. He has the crafty eyes, cruel nose and cynical mouth that should give him a good place among the principal of the flock.
A Squawk from the Brokers
WALL STREET brokerage firms, about a thousand of them, are squawking that they are ruined. It may be added, also, that the firms that are now going to the wall because they have no customers are quite generally the same concerns that thought it was quite the pleasant thing to do to ruin their customers when they did have them.
Sedition Against International Murderers
IT HAVING been well demonstrated that International Murderers, Limited, are stronger than the governments, the next logical step is to make it a crime of sedition to say anything against the munition makers. The pope quotes Jesus as saying, "You shall hear of wars and seditions." He wants to be known as the upholder of the status quo.
Picking American Taxpayers' Pockets
THE refusal of all the nations of Europe (excepting only honest Finland) to pay the money which they borrowed from Uncle Sam, and which indebtedness as of April 1, 1935, was $13,438,703,671.61, imposes an annual burden on the head of every American family of more than $20, just to pay the interest on it.
Civil Service Reform Discounted
THE National Civil Service Reform League, following its fifty-third annual meeting, said of the spoils system as it affects the Post Office: "Almost eighty percent of the 'service' postmasters (career men, risen from the ranks) who held office at the beginning of 1933 have been dropped."
European and African Items
Guidonia, Italy's New Air Center
GUIDONIA, Italy's new air center, is claimed by Mussolini to be the most nearly perfect testing center in the world for air research. The buildings occupy 570,000 square feet and contain the most modern machinery for conducting investigations under all conditions likely to be met with. One department is devoted to study of engines under stratosphere conditions. There is a tank a third of a mile long for studying the resistance to motion through water of seaplane floats. Mussolini says there is a hard period ahead for Italy; probably referring to his plans regarding Abyssinia. He intends that there shall be plenty of soldiers, now and later. On Easter Monday, accepting his offer, 2,206 young couples were wed in Rome, receiving 500 lire each (about $41.50).
Demonism in the Congo
AN African correspondent of the London Times, himself skeptical of the Hindu rope trick, relates seeing a crate of chickens burned and a man beheaded by a magician, yet neither the crate nor the chickens were damaged in the slightest and the beheaded man was not injured in the least, though the correspondent saw his head roll in the sand and the blood spout from the beheaded trunk. The only explanation of these items is that these things took place in the mind of the correspondent, but actually did not take place at all. The demons made the impressions so real that the correspondent believed them to have actually occurred. This is the true explanation of demonistic phenomena, nearly all of it.
Mussolini Afraid of Truth
IN THREE months Mussolini expelled four foreign correspondents from Italy because they pointed out his weak financial position and the fact that the Italian people are not enthusiastic about his grandiose scheme of conquest. That shows he is afraid of the truth. Every dictator is the same; none of them can bear the blazing light of publicity on their acts and motives.
Austrian Children to Be Militarized
FOLLOWING the example of Italy, Austria's children are to be militarized. School children will be taken by their teachers to see troops, will be instructed in the manual of arms, in military formations and in field gunnery.
Rumanian Priest's Brilliant Idea
IN NORTHERN Rumania the "Reverend" Theodore Postolesco had a brilliant idea, which worked well for a time but resulted in his losing his job. He planted cabbages, turnips, garlic and onions between the graves of the deceased parishioners, and pastured his cow in the churchyard. The congregation labored to convert him from the error of his way, but all in vain, so they put it up to the bishop, and the "Reverend" Postolesco is looking for work as a market gardener or dairy hand.
Another Dictatorship, in Bulgaria
ONE more European government has gone dictatorship-wise; this time Bulgaria. The king learned the military leaders were planning to take over his government, so he invited all the principal ones to the palace to talk things over; then he had 200 military students surround the palace and disarm and arrest the officers, and that's that. Now he is monarch of all he surveys, and the Bulgarian people hail him as the savior of the country.
Bulgaria's Religious Bums Discouraged
BULGARIA'S religious bums are disheartened. The public no longer feels the urge to keep alive worthless spongers and parasites, and therefore the monks and priests of Bulgaria have been forced to leave the monasteries and flock to the towns to get something to eat and wear. The greatest monasteries in the country are now almost completely deserted.
Egypt's New Road to Palestine
NO DETAILS of the route are at hand, but it is claimed that the Egyptian government is about to build a motor road from Cairo to Jerusalem that will substantially follow the route taken by Moses when he led the 2,000,000 Israelites into the Promised Land. The new road will cost $10,000,000. It will have wells every ten miles, marked by beacons.
Pedigreed Livestock in Vienna
IN Vienna anybody who has $75,000 can have himself made into a duke; he can get to be a count for $40,000, and a baron for $10,000. The titles are conferred by marriage or adoption. Money is scarce, and people who have pure bunk to sell are trying to get something on it before it lands in the ash can for keeps.
British, French and Polish Notes
Too Much of Potatoes and Milk
A WHOLESOME, well-balanced meal may be had of baked potatoes and milk. Britain has millions on relief, and does not begin to raise enough food to provide all inhabitants with eatables, yet, following the brilliant example of the United States, vigorous steps have been taken to cut down food production. Farmers may produce only so much milk and so many potatoes. Fines of $75,000 have been collected from potato growers who have harvested too much to suit the financial powers.
Church Fires in England
ENGLAND is having a series of church fires similar to that which took place some time ago in the province of Quebec. It is not certain whether these fires were set by haters of these devilish man-traps, or whether they were set by the owners of the traps, to collect the insurance on buildings no longer used. The one explanation is as likely as the other. In each of three British church fires the outbreak began in the vestry.
Stefansson Says Irish Discovered America
VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON, Arctic explorer, says that no man knows who discovered America, but that he is sure it was an Irishman. In A.D. 820 an Irish monk wrote of colonization of Iceland by the Irish, and records at the Vatican show there was a continuous line of bishops in Greenland from A.D. 1126 until 36 years after Christopher Columbus landed on San Salvador.
Must Take His Pay in Prayers
ARCHITECT O'NEILL, of Ballycastle, Ireland, must take his pay in prayers for the work he did in designing the Ballycastle convent. He had hoped to get $5,225 in cash, but lost his suit, and even though the priest who engaged him, and who would normally have done the praying, is dead, still it is prayers for him for all his work, instead of cash.
All Nations Hiding Their Gold
ALL nations are hiding their gold. Recent accounts have told of French, British, American and now of German steps to protect gold reserves against bandits. The German safety vaults are so arranged that they can be flooded with water by the touch of a button, and then submerged in poison gas.
Censorship of Lottery News
CENSORSHIP of lottery news worked perfectly in England, and the Irish sweepstakes swindle is done, as far as England is concerned. It is estimated that in recent years $25,000,000 of English money was sent to Ireland as bets on the sweepstakes. For years the police and civic authorities tried to stamp out the nuisance, and failed, but the minute the news could no longer be circulated through the newspapers the English interest passed away in a night.
Largest Grape Vine in the World
THE largest grape vine in the world grows at Kippen, Stirlingshire, Scotland; it covers 5,000 square feet; last year's yield was 2,096 bunches. The longest spread of branches is 300 feet; the roots extend the same distance from the parent stem. The branches are carried from one hothouse to another in pipes, so that the vine may grow without limitation. The average weight of the bunches of grapes grown on this vine is six pounds.
Persecutions of Conscientious Objectors
CONSCIENTIOUS objectors are being persecuted in France. Louis Vidal was imprisoned for refusing to put on the uniform, went on a hunger strike, was forcibly fed, served a year, came out, and went through the same procedure a second time, except that his sentence was two years; and when he comes out he will still be liable for service. He is but 21 years old.
Too Ill to Hang
A POLISH criminal killed a judge. He was imprisoned and sentenced to death by hanging. When the morning came to hang him he was found to be suffering with an excruciating heart attack. The physicians pronounced him too ill to be hanged; so he was left in his cell until he should get well enough to be led to the gallows.
Lived in a Tomb 17 Years
AT Vukovar, Yugoslavia, a poor man who had lost home, money and other property lived for seventeen years in the tomb of his father. Friends supplied him with food; finally, when he had reached 75 years of age, they induced him to enter the poorhouse.
Asian and Australasian Items
Jerusalem to Be Greatly Improved
JERUSALEM is to be greatly improved, and by all accounts needs it. A park system will be established, arterial highways will be built, and water supply and sewage systems brought up to date. The Rockefeller Museum of Antiquities, completed after four years, stands near the Herod Gate and is the finest building in the Near East. The building itself covers an area of 9,700 square feet and cost $2,000,000. It has large grounds surrounding it. At present there is no unemployment in Palestine. In 24 years the population of Tel Aviv grew from 515 persons to 120,000. The export of oranges in 1921 was 930,000 boxes; for 1940 it is expected to be 20,000,000 boxes. Palestine now has the highest wage scale of any country in the East.
Sold the Wrong Waste Paper
THERE is a shortage of writing paper in Tomsk, Siberia, so the keeper of the archives there sold some thousands of old documents as writing paper. In a short time farmers and others were surprised to receive orders from the Soviet government on one side and when they turned the letter over to see what was on the back they found, perhaps, a prayer for the restoration of the czar. Now the archive keeper is in trouble for spreading propaganda contrary to the Soviet scheme of things.
Babylon Had Some Freak Customs
ANCIENT Babylon had some freak customs. One was that a first wife might adopt a young girl as her sister and then lend her to her husband as a second wife. If the first wife thereafter was divorced she could decamp, taking all of the property of wife No. 2 with her when she left, but if she merely became jealous she could move out but take nothing with her. Another freak custom was that if some hot-tempered man killed another man’s slave, then one of his own slaves must be slain in a similar manner.
Heavy Jewish Immigration into Palestine
IN THE first five months of 1935 more than 24,000 Jews entered Palestine. During the past thirty-three years Jews the world over have contributed about $20,000,000 to purchase land in Palestine as the national property of the Jewish people. The property purchased is held on fifty-year leases and cannot be sold at any time. In other words, the jubilee arrangement in embryo.
An Australian Native Woman’s Appeal
THE Adelaide News reports Mrs. A. Morgan, a full-blooded aborigine, of Australia, as having said to a Women’s Committee:
“We are black, and that means we are nothing. There is no sanctity for our womanhood; any white man can insult us, and we have no redress. We want education and the chance to emancipate ourselves. The teachers sent to us are not always qualified, and their educational standard does not reach above the second grade. It is wrong for the Government to take girls away from the tribe as soon as they reach the age of 14: when placed at domestic service they are often seduced by white men. The missionaries use the blacks for their own ends, and what do my people receive in return? We do not resent the white people’s being here, but we think we should all be given some part of the land that was ours, so that we can make a home. Our people should be educated, and then we would cease to be what we are now, and become an asset to Australia.”
Molasses Smuggled into Australia
CLEVER swindlers obtained possession of 50 or more tins in which opium had been smuggled into Australia. They got the tins out of the country, filled them with molasses, smuggled them back in and sold them to the Chinese at fabulous prices, thus cheating the poor Chinks out of hundreds of dollars, though, in this instance, they gained more than they lost.
Mass Bankruptcy Inevitable
AT A meeting of 200 wheat growers in Adelaide, Australia, it was determined to go on strike, on the ground that “there is no alternative to mass bankruptcy to alleviate the present intolerable conditions of farmers under existing legislation”.
Men Requested to Retain Their Hats
IN EACH of the seven elevators of the building of the Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, is a sign requesting men to please keep their hats on their heads, as in the rush hours it makes a difference of four persons that can be carried in each elevator.
50,000,000 Unemployed in China
THE Associated Press contains a dispatch from Nanking, China, that the number of unemployed in China on June 22, 1935, was estimated at 50,000,000.
Papal Kingdom Items
Encouraging Jude to Do His Bit
AT HAND, from the Ave Maria Shrine, 1009 South Sixth Street, St. Louis, Mo., a printed prayer to St. Jude asking for favors and then encouraging him to do his bit by putting up the following argument: "I promise you, O blessed Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor and I will never cease to honor you as my special and powerful patron to do all in my power to encourage devotion to you." At the start-off the prayer helps to get Jude in the humor to do something, by the remark that "the name of the traitor has caused you to be forgotten by many". Ordinary novenas, i.e., silent prayers represented by the burnings of candles for nine days, $1; hanging lamps instead of candles, $1.50; candles for thirty days, $3. This is really 10 percent off. The method by which Jude takes these burning candles as just so many prayers is not explained.
Roman Hierarchy, the Foe of Education
K. W. GUNN, of Canada, enclosing a clipping which mentions that a Montreal publication had to go out of business May 1 on account of criticism by Cardinal Villeneuve, archbishop of Quebec, said:
"Few people in the United States, and this country too, have any conception of the power that the Roman hierarchy exercises over the press and freedom of opinion. A number of years ago a French Canadian editor started a campaign for a better educational system for the French boys and girls, in order that they might be on a better footing with their English-speaking brothers and sisters. His worthy efforts cost him a newspaper. The hierarchy broke him at once. The province of Quebec is one of the most backward spots on the face of the earth. Sufficient radical opinion exists in a country like France not to permit too extreme clerical oppression. The recent trials of Jehovah's witnesses in the city of Quebec are other examples of the same tyranny."
The Dead Committee
TIRED of being ridden by the Roman hierarchy, the parishioners of the Roman Catholic Lithuanian church at Gary, Ind., went on strike until their pastor was removed. When the new pastor was appointed they waited on him and presented the reasonable proposition that as they paid all the bills, anyway, they would like to take the collections, count the money and handle the finances generally. Nothing doing. The new pastor had twenty priests come to give him counsel, and the next Sunday had a coffin in church, with six candles lighted; each candle, so he said, represented a member of the committee. One by one, as their names were read, each member of the committee was declared to be dead. Some of their wives took it so much to heart that they inquired of the pastor if they should remarry. He said no; he would revive the penitent.
Money Got Away Nineteen Times
THE New Britain Daily Herald shows that in a certain Catholic church in that city the big money for marriage got away from the priest nineteen times last year. The young people, trying to embrace their rights, were married by justices of the peace. Afterwards they had their marriages "validated" by the priest in the downstairs chapel, instead of upstairs, where it would cost more money. The bishop has now ruled in favor of this priest; so the young people hereafter will not dare run to New York to get married for less money. The Herald says: "These marriages, while legal, are not recognized by the church, according to Father Lawlor, who said persons married by justices of the peace receive nothing more than a certificate that is a beautiful work of art."
With Archbishop Curley in the Chair
WITH Archbishop Curley in the chair, Dr. Parker T. Moon, professor of international relations at Columbia University, delivered the commencement address at the Catholic University in Washington, and said that with a little patching here and a little patching there, strengthening, stiffening, washing and ironing, and, above all, a coat of whitewash, the League of Nations would be just as good as ever. That was not just what he said, but, in substance, it was what he meant. He still clings to the exploded idea that the League ever was of any good, or ever will be of any good. Possibly he thinks it can be galvanized into life by some proclamation from Rome; and that is just possible, too.
Mother Superior Changes Her Mind
THE Roman Catholic "Mother Superior" convicted in the assassination of General Alvaro Obregon, president of Mexico, in 1928, has renounced her faith and married, in prison, a fellow conspirator in the crime. Both prisoners are at the Islas Marinas penal colony.
Blasphemy in Maryland
IN Exodus 20:4 is the specific command: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath." Would you suppose that in the face of that command anybody on earth would dare assume to try to make a picture of Jehovah God, the Creator of heaven and earth, and the One that issued the command? But here is a so-called "Enrollment Certificate" that certifies that the deceased members of such-and-such a family have been enrolled as beneficiaries of our 'spiritual treasury of good works for the holy souls', "to share for all time in all the masses, prayers and missionary labors of the missionary servants of the most holy and blessed trinity. [Signed] Rev. Theophilus Milroy, M.S.M.T., Holy Trinity Heights, Silver Spring, Maryland." While attempting to analyze the picture some observations and questions intrude themselves. The largest single object in the picture is the "Spiritual Treasury for the Holy Souls". In the picture it is 5-7/8 inches long. The next biggest thing is the priest, with his back turned to the audience. From the tip of his fingers, holding aloft the little piece of bread, to the hem of his lace petticoat is 3-13/16 inches. The next largest item in the picture is styled "Blessed Mother" and also "Dispensatrix of Grace"; height in the picture, an even 3 inches. Next in height is the figure of St. Joseph, also exactly 3 inches. Next in height is Jesus, still nailed to the 'cross' and still bleeding. From the crown of His head to the point of His pierced foot is 2-11/16 inches. The priest, at 3-13/16 inches, is larger by 42 percent. The next one in size, according to the certificate, is God, seated upon His throne. Not counting the halo or the dove above, the length allotted is 2-7/16 inches, but would be somewhat more if standing, though even then less than the priest. Peter, standing, was allotted 2-3/8 inches. Heaven, according to the certificate, is much crowded. Apparently the apostles Matthew, Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Simon Zelotes and James the Less failed to make the grade, for they are not shown, but St. Anthony, St. Catherine, St. Agnes, Little Flower, St. Ann, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Cecilia, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Joseph, St. Francis Assisi, St. John Baptist, and St. Rose of Lima all got good jobs. Only two were carrying crucifixes; none carry beads. The bake oven below the priest, shown in most such pictures, is omitted. The certificate is free, but friends of the holy souls are encouraged to give $10, $25, $50 or $100 as an alms; also to help pay the cost of the certificates, which, if they cost 2c each, cost too much.
"In the Heart of Gertrude"
A LEAFLET on St. Gertrude says: "It is said that during fifteen consecutive years she was always favored with the visible presence of Jesus Christ. She died in 1334, after having been an abbess for forty-four years. She is sometimes represented as holding a heart in her hand. It is an allusion to the words of our Lord, 'You will find me in the heart of Gertrude.'" Those familiar with the Lord's Word know exactly what it was that appeared to Gertrude for fifteen years; it was the same kind of creature that appeared to the witch of Endor and that besought the Lord that they might go into the swine. They just made a fool of Gertrude, and used her for forty-four years to keep others in ignorance and bondage; and she probably led them a hard life, too. As for the Lord's directing anybody away from Jehovah God and directing them to the heart of a spirit medium as a place to find Him, there is not a shadow of truth in it.
Stigmata Not Uncommon
STIGMATA (marks representing wounds in hands and feet and in the forehead) are not uncommon, a French author having collected 321 examples as early as 1894. Theodore Schwann, Catholic professor at Louvain, and a noted biologist, who carefully looked into the subject, refused to admit for stigmatization other than a perfectly natural character. It is six times as common in women as in men, and is often associated with sexual and mental irregularities. It is the business of reporters to write up such stuff in a thrilling, weepy style, so as to peddle their papers better.
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