Golden Age, November 6, 1935
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Vol. XVII - No. 421
November 6, 1935 CONTENTS
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Fisher’s Opinion of Hot Money 87
International Brain Trust (?) 88
Attempts to Raise Needed Revenue 89
Cure for “Loitering” 89
Where the Increases Went 89
Wages in Southern Italy 95
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
MANY EDITORS ARE FOR THE PEOPLE 67
A Teacher with Brains 70
ASSOCIATED PRESS AGAINST PEOPLE 71
Americans Resent Hitlerization 76
CARDINAL O’CONNELL UNCONVINCED 78
IT GARBLES FACTS AND DECEIVES THE PEOPLE 80
THE BUSINESS OF TELLING THE TRUTH 82
Professor Pashby’s Lather 83
Another Massachusetts Incident 83
LOP-SIDED NEWS 84
WARNING (Part 2) 85
The Foe of Education 90
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
The Interest Curse 87
Bankers Want the Veterans’ Money 87
Infantile Brain Trust 88
International Brain Trust (?) 88
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
The New Deal Mail Service 88
NRA Dead in Post Offices Too 88
Why Not Make It 100 Percent? 89
Garbage Collector Not Suspected 89
British Imprisonment for Debt 89
New Deal Wire Tappers 90
Costs Something to Run League 90
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
From Pushing to the Front 88
Counterfeiters More Clever 89
Waterways to Aklavik 90
Blistering Heat in January 90
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
“Release unto Us Barabbas” 86
“I Am Going, Too” 86
In Northern New Brunswick 86
Scattering Sunshine in Oklahoma 86
Hierarchy Has Few Friends in Austria 89
Arrested for Breaking into Convent 90
Mrs. Brady Heads the Girl Scouts 90
Drove to the Right Shop 90
THE KNOWLEDGE AND VINDICATION OF GOD’S NAME 91
Partnership Between Pope and Mussolini 95
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The Golden Age
Volume XVII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, November 6, 1935 Number 421
Many Editors Are for the People
THE Nashville Tennessean said editorially:
The situation that arose out of a Lynn, Mass., schoolboy’s refusal to salute the American flag has been handled in a bungling, inhuman and un-American manner by the Lynn school board.
The boy, eight-year-old Carleton B. Nichols, Jr., is a member of a family associated with a religious sect called Jehovah’s witnesses, and his refusal to salute and take the required pledge to the Stars and Stripes was based on religious scruples and not on any lack of love for his country.
Mrs. Costa S. Mitchell, whose four children in near-by Saugus have taken the same stand as the Nichols boy, explains her position in this way:
“This is the best country in the world. I was born here and I’ve always lived here and always want to live here. But I can’t give allegiance to the flag because that would be putting Jehovah second.”
Little Carleton Nichols, described as a “good boy”, had no mark against his record except that he would not take an oath of allegiance which some group of law or rule makers had decreed all school children should take. There was nothing in the dispatches dealing with the case to indicate that he was anything except a good schoolboy and that he might grow up to be a useful citizen if given an opportunity.
Because his parents felt that saluting the Stars and Stripes would be putting God second to the flag, this boy, in obedience to them, had the courage to stand out against teachers and pupils giving the salute.
Many men in America engaged in the newspaper business honestly and sincerely desire to serve the people by telling them the truth. Some of them have the courage to do so, while others are hindered because of the sinister influence exercised over them by the entrenched forces of a foreign power.
The issue is now beginning to be made clear. The question is proper, How many American editors will stand by American fundamental principles and battle for the cause of righteousness? and how many will fall to the seductive influence of a religio-political gang that is trying to seize the rule of America as that gang now rules Germany?
In this issue of THE GOLDEN AGE are reproduced the editorials of some of the honest, fearless editors, which the people will be glad to read. There are also published in this issue garbled statements by other newspapermen which clearly were made to mislead and deceive the people and thereby enable a foreign power to move forward in its nefarious work.
THE GOLDEN AGE hereby calls upon all honest Americans to show their appreciation of the fearless, honest, sincere editors of American newspapers, and to express their disapproval of a bunch of traitors to American principles.
It was unfortunate that an issue was made of this matter, and unfortunate that the best solution the Lynn school committee could find was to expel this boy from school. The solution was beneficial neither to the boy nor to society. Society, represented in this case by the Lynn school board, has a duty toward this boy, and it has failed miserably in the discharge of that duty. He is branded as an outcast unfit to associate with other children in the public schools, and unless his parents are able financially to send him to a private school he is denied the education which society owes to him. The likely result would be that this lad of character, bearing resentment against such cruel treatment, would grow to manhood unsocial and bitter.
It seems that if this mistake is corrected, the Lynn school board must make the correction, for the city solicitor announced that the board was within its rights in making regulations and predicted it would be upheld by the court in expelling the boy.
And unless this wrong is promptly righted, traces of the damage caused will remain for a long time to come and might persist throughout the life of this boy.
"Patriotism, Liberty"
IN THE Cincinnati Enquirer in one editorial on the Lynn case it said, in part:
It is unfortunate that there is not another word than patriotism to describe that misshapen thing by which men seek to coerce their fellows into an attitude of loyalty. They do great disservice to the cause of genuine patriotism by annihilating intellectual and religious liberty in the name of the flag.
In another, separated by two days from the one above quoted, it said under the caption "The Flag of Liberty":
It is a curious case that has arisen in Lynn, Mass., in which an eight-year-old boy has been expelled from a public school for his refusal to salute the American flag. His father taught him, in consonance with his own religious beliefs, that it is "sinful to pledge allegiance to an earthly kingdom". And the parent has been more successful than the school as teacher, which is not at all surprising. The case promises to become a cause célèbre, and may wind up in the Supreme Court before the last word is spoken.
There really are two quite distinct questions involved. One is theoretical, and raises the issue whether the school should attempt to coerce a pupil in order to "teach" patriotism. The other question is more practical, and centers about the future of a youth who is denied a public school education.
Undoubtedly it is a proper function of a state-supported school to inculcate a sane patriotism, and the rendering of homage to the national flag is surely a proper means to that end. But to attempt to coerce anyone is hardly a suitable method of teaching. It savors rather strongly of the Nazi tactics that Americans have been so quick to condemn. And obviously the eight-year-old in question is not going to be a better citizen tomorrow for being deprived of a public school education today.
The American flag is now a symbol of our national greatness, but long before our nation was strong and great, the Stars and Stripes were the symbols of liberty. That liberty included the right to complete freedom of religious and political belief. A good many of us are still old-fashioned enough to believe the flag still represents genuine liberty. If the word has not lost its meaning entirely, liberty ought still to include the right to think for one's self.
In ousting a child for his refusal to salute the flag, the school authorities of Lynn are dishonoring the flag they pretend to be glorifying, for they are denying the liberty of which our national emblem is a proud symbol.
Five Miles from Salem Witch Burnings
[The Nation, October 23, 1935]
AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD boy in Lynn, Massachusetts, because his family belongs to a religious sect called Jehovah's witnesses which denies allegiance to any temporal power, has refused to participate in the flag salute ceremony which the school board imposes upon the pupils once a week. After a fortnight of hysterics the local authorities, at a loss as to how to cope with this particular crime, decided that expulsion from school was the only method of dealing with the situation. Under the regulations of our public school system, their next step will presumably have to be to arrest the boy or his parents for truancy. When city solicitor Patrick F. Shanahan was asked what effect the failure of the boy to take part in the flag salute had on the class, he said, "It didn't seem to have any serious effect. The children are very young and things went on as usual." This would seem to indicate that the eight-year-olds of Lynn are considerably smarter than their elders, and need be expected to commit thoroughly silly acts only when they grow up. When the American tradition of freedom of worship conflicts with the American tradition of compulsory education, it would seem to be the part of wisdom to say as little about the matter as possible. By making the situation a cause célèbre, instead of letting little Carleton Nichols remain quietly in his seat and fix his thoughts on Jehovah while the other children were rapidly enunciating, "I-pledge-allegiance-to-my-flag-and-to-the-republic-for-which-it-stands-etc.," the Lynn school board has got itself into a pretty dilemma, has attracted the attention of all sorts of professional protestants, and is in the process of denying to an American citizen the free public schooling to which the law entitles him.
Forced Patriotism
THE Seattle Star said editorially:
"The folks who think that patriotism can be forced, and that public ceremonies and the taking of oaths for this and that are true demonstrations of loyalty, are exceeding even that silliest of nutty performances. . . . We know, if we understand our history, that the greatest traitors have been those who took the longest and loudest oaths of loyalty. We have that classic example of the rascal who betrayed the Master with a kiss. . . . What this country needs is fewer loud-mouthed loyalty howlers and more of the silent, sincere doers."
"Salute, or Go to Jail!"
UNDER the heading "Salute, or Go to Jail!" the Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald says editorially:
"Massachusetts, the land where the Pilgrims came more than 300 years ago in a search for religious liberty, is being swept these days by a great wave of some kind of patriotism. Teachers are compelled to swear allegiance to the flag, and now several students are being punished, along with their parents, because they won't salute the flag. . . . From what source springs patriotism, one may ask? Is it patriotism to stand before a flag and raise your hand to your right eyebrow if your heart is not in the action? If love of country is to be inculcated, it would seem that the proper thing to do would be to have that government so wise and good and kind as to deserve respect. Many a parent has learned to his sorrow that you cannot demand a child's love. You can force obedience, but not respect. One somehow expects better things of Massachusetts than this spectacle of bringing a child into court for refusing a salute it did not feel because it recognized only a higher and more powerful government. . . . But Massachusetts has not always been tolerant of freedom of worship. The Massachusetts Bay Colony expelled Roger Williams and burned women as witches. The men who applied the torch at Salem probably number among their descendants the men who made this school law and who are now seeking to develop patriotism with threats of prison."
Making a Mockery of Patriotism
THE Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer, under the heading "The Flag and Castor Oil", said editorially:
"To pass a law requiring that little children must formally salute the flag under penalty of ostracism from the public schools is to make a pompous mockery of the natural patriotism of American children. It is to put love of country into the category of such things good for children as castor oil and neck washing. It is to make the flag not a thing of the American child's natural reverence and adoration, not a symbol of enthusiasm, but a symbol of force. It is to make the flag not a banner to which the love of the child goes up, but a standard from which force may come down hard upon the child. In a perverse world, children are entitled to their share of perversity, and it is to dare that perversity to say to the child, You'll love this flag or get your breeches burned. And if children, being human, don't love that which they are ordered to love under penalty of punishment, then not the communists, but the pompous, foolish patrioteers, who would make the flag as ridiculous as themselves, will be to blame."
Compulsion Is Undemocratic
THE Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N. Y., said:
"The difference between a democratic and a republican form of government and a dictatorial régime, whether the dictation comes under the head of Fascism, Naziism or Communism, is that under the first type patriotism is spontaneous and voluntary, but under the second type it is compulsory. . . . Massachusetts requires by law that the pupils of every public school salute the flag every five days. This is taking the heart out of patriotism, removing its vital element of spontaneity. . . . Salutes and lip-service to dictator governments are necessary. The dictators know that allegiance must be compelled. Compulsion of this sort has never been necessary in this country, and it will be a sorry commentary on its ideals if they ever become accepted as necessary."
"Parrot Patriotism"
THE Dallas (Texas) Dispatch, commenting on the Lynn (Mass.) case, said:
"Flag pledges are invariably demanded by politicians, a great many of whom are engaged in the unpatriotic business of cheating, lying to and grafting from the American people. It may be observed that not one politician has, as yet, suggested that all politicians be forced to repeat a flag pledge once weekly. That would be carrying the thing too far. There is a notion, widely held by politicians, that patriotism is a word-of-mouth affair, and that if one but does lip-service to the flag, as politicians do lip-service to American ideals, all will be well. This is the custom in Fascist and Communist dictatorships, where force takes the place of reason and people are pawns in serfdom to the state."
"A Big School Board and a Little Boy"
THE St. Louis Star-Times says editorially:
"The Lynn, Massachusetts, school board has finally arisen in all its majesty and expelled an eight-year-old child from the public schools because the boy obeyed his father's religion-inspired order that he should not salute the American flag. Does Old Glory swing more proudly to the breeze now that this action has been taken, or does it droop a trifle? . . . the Lynn school board falls into error. It cannot distinguish between a voluntary and an enforced salute. It cannot see that compulsory saluting of the flag makes the flag less worthy of a voluntary salute. Let us establish the principle in the United States that American liberty includes the right to refuse to salute the flag, and practically everybody who believes in liberty will not only be willing to salute it, but will thrill with pride at doing so."
A Teacher with Brains
DANE S. DUNLOP, a teacher with brains, wrote the following from Kalamazoo, Michigan, published in the Chicago Daily Tribune of October 2, 1935:
"Today's Tribune reports that again Carleton Nichols, Jr., aged 8, refused to salute the American flag in morning exercises in a schoolroom in Boston. He was sent to the cloakroom until the exercises were finished, and his father was arrested. Evidently the school authorities need instruction in psychology, pedagogy, Americanism, religion, history and politics. The way they are acting would do credit to Hitler, Mussolini, a barroom bouncer, and the Emperor Diocletian. The modern Romans and Germans are so degenerate that no strong faction still resists the dictators, but in Diocletian's day he could make martyrs of the Christians but not conquer them. That is still the glory of Christianity among some of its adherents. I never heard of the sect, 'Jehovah's witnesses,' until this Nichols affair, and probably would not approve of their ideas when they depart from standard church ideas. But neither Christianity nor Americanism, which has discarded persecution as a cure for religious divergencies, finds any expression in the recent Boston oppression. Is it necessary for Roger Williams to rise from his grave to teach again his doctrine of religious toleration? I have given the salute to the flag in morning exercises in school, day after day. Usually I have pupils take turn in leading the school in giving the salute. While I never had a case of refusal because of religious views to give the flag salute, I am sure I would tell the child that America is such a fine country that it offers religious freedom to all citizens, and cause him to love America instead of looking upon his native land as his oppressor. The Boston course of action merely serves to furnish fuel for the class of disturbers who claim Americanism means merely rights for rich men instead of for every citizen. That child should be offered every opportunity to learn that his religious rights will be respected."
In Darkest Germany
IN Darkest Germany one of Jehovah's witnesses was acquitted at a trial. As soon as he reached the street he was seized by one of the Nazis and dragged off to a concentration camp. What do Americans think of a "government" where one private citizen can grab another and, without a shadow of law or justice, deprive him of his liberty? Some idea of the terrible mental condition of the German people may be found in that such a large hole was made by people collecting 'sacred earth' at a spot where Hitler had done some digging that the authorities were forced to fence in the hole thus made.
Brodsky and the Swastika
NEW YORK CITY'S magistrate Brodsky made America laugh when he said of the swastika:
"The prominent display of the Nazi flag carries with it some of the same sinister implication as a pirate ship sailing defiantly into the harbor of a nation, one of whose ships it has just scuttled, with the Black Flag of piracy flying aloft. In a large sense indeed it might seem as though whatever disturbances attended the sailing of the Bremen were provoked by the flaunting of this emblem to those who regard it as a defiant challenge to society. In the minds of these defendants the emblem of the Nazi régime stands for war on religious freedom—in brief, a throwback to primitive conditions."
Says Let the Nichols Lad Alone
W. MARTIN JONES, Jr., writing in the Rochester (N. Y.) Times Union, said:
"There has been much talk of late about some boy who refused to salute the flag. But a close scrutiny reveals that boy is made of the right kind of material after all. For he is loyal, but his loyalty is to his father, who has a special twist of mind on this subject in preference to the flag. . . . Reverence for the flag is like reverence for anything else. It is an operation of the mind and must come from within. It cannot be forced from without by means of laws and punishments. To attempt such methods can only drive respect away and erect hate instead of love."
The Flag Oath in Pennsylvania
A DISPATCH from Canonsburg, Pa., states that in the public schools there the pupils swear allegiance daily as follows: "I give my hands, my head and my heart to my God, my country and my flag: one God, one country, one flag." Not being able conscientiously to take this oath, Grace Estep and Murray Estep, Jehovah's witnesses, suddenly found their pictures and their story occupying front-page space recently in the Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and many other Pennsylvania papers.
Swastika-ism Not Admired in Canada
SWASTIKA-ISM is not admired in Canada. The Toronto Mail and Empire, commenting on the Lynn case, said:
"It is questionable whether forcing children to salute a flag really inculcates patriotism. A simple way out of the difficulty would be for the state to admit that just as persons having conscientious objections to war are not required to fight, so persons having conscientious objections to saluting the flag should not be obliged to do so. It wouldn't hurt the flag."
The Associated Press Against the People
“A MAN in Jerusalem, whom they call Jesus, and who appears to be an ordinary carpenter that came down from Nazareth, is trying to start a new kind of organization here. Evidently he is trying to get worship for himself, even though he says he is not. This fellow is the head of a new CULT. He claims not to be interested in Roman politics, and he may be honest. You can depend on it, however, that the Jewish clergy will stand by Rome and take whatever action we direct against this man Jesus. The fellows that are following him are ordinary fishermen and men of like low order. Their leader Jesus is telling them something to the effect that soon a kingdom will take the place of the rule of Rome. It will be easy for us to turn the clergy against him and his crowd, because they know on which side their bread is buttered. This man teaches a peculiar kind of doctrine. He says ‘hate is murder’, and he teaches people to be good to each other. But my acquaintance with the Jewish clergy shows that they are the greatest hypocrites on earth, and I don’t know but that this man Jesus is one like them. Anyhow I am keeping my eye on him, and my secret service men are keeping in close touch with him. None of the big men amongst the Jews have any use for this man Jesus; therefore I don’t think we need to fear him. He delivered a sermon the other day that sets forth a peculiar and unusual doctrine, but it is not of public news and I will not transmit even the substance of it to you except to say this: He pronounced this unusual rule: ‘Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.’ His bunch seem to be very meek, and no doubt their object is to get hold of the earth, which properly belongs to us. You may not be surprised at anything that happens. I will keep you advised.”
All who today are familiar with the life and teaching of Christ Jesus when on earth would know that the above statement set forth in dispatch is garbled, and false, and made for the very purpose of deceiving the simple and to bolster up the big moguls who were then running the earth. Likewise today at Rome another like gang operates, and their agents throughout the earth send dispatches to Rome and all over the land which are garbled and far from the truth and made for the very purpose of deceiving the simple and trustful people, and to bolster up the ungodly crowd that think that they own the earth and are trying to run it.
The World’s Greatest News-gathering Agency
The Associated Press claims to be the world’s greatest news-gathering and distributing organization. It was founded and incorporated in 1900. Less than ten years ago, so it claims, over 1,000 important newspapers comprised this cooperative union. Of its membership it says:
“The membership of The Associated Press includes persons of every conceivable political, economic and religious advocacy. The one thing upon which they are united, so far as the Associated Press news service is concerned, is that it shall be wholly free from partisan activity, or even the expression of any opinion whatever. The service is intended to be limited to the reporting of news without bias. To this end the news service is intentionally and necessarily subjected to the criticism of its fifteen directors, . . . members and indeed the reading public. It is the theory of the organization that, in a self-governing country like ours, the citizens, if given the facts, must be able to form their own opinions respecting them.”
Why, in actual practice, does not The Associated Press live up to these high principles? And why, in fact, should it resort to the shameful garbling of news as revealed on pages 80-81* of this issue? Look at those pages, study them, see for yourself what was done, and say if you can harmonize it with the foregoing.
Judge Rutherford stated truthfully, “Jehovah’s witnesses are not a sect or cult,” and gave the reason for his statement, Scripturally, as shown in text of his address (see page 81), under subheading “FATE”. This was an essential part of the statement which The Associated Press asked him to make, yet in the opening sentence of its alleged “factual” report of Judge Rutherford’s address he is referred to as “prominent in the religious cult”; in the next sentence the offensive term “a member of the cult” is used again; and in the fifth paragraph the same falsehood appears as “Members of the cult”.
* On page 80, in the garbled story marked “FIRST MUTILATION”, The Golden Age has inserted in the left margin bold figures opposite each of the parts The Associated Press picked from the speech of Judge Rutherford. On page 81 corresponding figures appear with the true text of the speech. The connecting lines serve to show how the press association twisted the speech. (A ruler will aid you in following the lines.) Note also the essential parts of the speech that were suppressed.
A Challenge To The Associated Press
If The Associated Press is really “without bias” and really without “religious advocacy” it has abundant power to get the clergy of the land together, to select from their midst their best spokesman, to answer Judge Rutherford’s contention that “the clergy claim to represent Jehovah God but in fact represent the Devil, and are against the best interests of the people”.
The Associated Press could well afford to take up this challenge with Judge Rutherford, agree upon the questions to be discussed, and the radio stations to use for a nation-wide broadcast. Jehovah’s witnesses would bear half the expense. If The Associated Press would then carry the debate in full the following morning, the whole country would have a chance to see who are the impostors and who have the truth. One who speaks the truth cannot properly be referred to as a member of a cult. When Jesus said, “Thy word is truth,” He did not give any license to anybody to refer to the Scriptures or their proper use as the work of a cult.
If The Associated Press will seek diligently among its employees it will not find one man in any responsible position who will admit that he believes that an infinitely loving God deliberately arranged in advance to roast almost the whole human family in the strangling fumes of burning sulphur, for something that the first man upon earth did six thousand years ago. And yet this one doctrine of the inherent immortality of man is the one and only doctrine that binds together all branches of so-called “churches”, be they Catholic, Protestant or nondescript.
The Associated Press, perhaps unconsciously, is committed to “religious advocacy” of the majority against a minority; it is not “without bias”, and it dares not face the issue or accept the challenge.
But in the long run it would be far better for all concerned if it could pluck up courage to let the whole truth come out. The people could then judge for themselves, and “in a self-governing country like ours, the citizens, if given the facts” would then have a chance “to form their own opinions”.
FRANK B. NOYES, WASHINGTON STAR PRESIDENT
W. J. PAPE, WATERBURY REPUBLICAN FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
HOUSTON HARTE, SAN ANGELO STANDARD SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
KENT COOPER, GENERAL MANAGER
JACKSON S. ELLIOTT, ASST. GENERAL MANAGER
J. R. YOUATT, TREASURER
DIRECTORS
FRANK B. NOYES, WASHINGTON STAR
CLARK HOWELL, ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
W. H. COWLES, SPOKANE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
E. LANSING RAY, ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT
STUART H. PERRY, ADRIAN TELEGRAM
ROBERT McLEAN, PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN
A. L. KIRCHHOFER, BUFFALO EVENING NEWS
ROBERT R. McCORMICK, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
FREDERICK E. MURPHY, MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE
PAUL PATTERSON, BALTIMORE SUN
GEORGE B. LONGAN, KANSAS CITY STAR
L. K. NICHOLSON, NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE
PAUL BELLAMY, CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
JOHN COWLES, DES MOINES REGISTER
FRANK E. GANNETT, ROCHESTER TIMES-UNION
The Associated Press
GENERAL OFFICE
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October 16, 1935.
Judge J. F. Rutherford,
President,
Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dear Judge Rutherford:
We have a carbon copy of a circular letter presumably written by A. R. Goux of the Peoples Pulpit Association, to which was attached a copy of what is described as a broadcast made October 11, both in relation to your speech on October 6.
If the person making the statements with respect to The Associated Press had sought to inform himself, a grievous injury to The Associated Press could have been avoided. It also would have prevented the Golden Age magazine from being used as a medium of carrying editorial comment unjustly and unfairly attacking The Associated Press—which I am sure cannot be the policy of any spokesman or organ representing your Society.
The only purpose of this letter, however, is to advise you correctly that The Associated Press carried a story of about 500 words in the evening of October 6, immediately on receiving a copy of your manuscript after the broadcast. We quoted you factually, the story being sent in full to New England and elsewhere.
Sincerely yours,
Lloyd Stratton
Executive Assistant
Lloyd Stratton:GH
More to It than the People’s Opinions
There is more to this question of the supremacy of God’s government and God’s truth than the opinions of any people. All must face the issue, Will they bow to the will of the Devil, conforming themselves to his governments and his churches, or will they, while they can yet do so, take their stand unequivocally on God’s side? All must make the choice. Those that make the wrong choice will perish at Armageddon, just ahead; those that make the right choice may live through it and be of the millions now living that shall never die. What if the choice is a little humbling to human pride? Can anybody afford to go proudly into a death from which there can be no waking, when a more humble-minded course might bring him everlasting life?
It is Jehovah God, and not Jehovah’s witnesses, that has written on Belshazzar’s walls that Satan’s kingdom has been weighed in the balance and found wanting, and that it must perish at Armageddon. In that crash everything of his organization, including all its publicity agencies, will disappear, but there is a chance that some of the individuals may survive. It is for them to take their stand on the side of truth before the fierce anger of Jehovah is expressed. —Zephaniah 2:1-3.
The letters of The Associated Press to Judge Rutherford and to the editor of The Golden Age, herewith reproduced, are scrubby and pusillanimous when viewed in the light of the facts set forth at pages 80-81.
The rebuke which The Golden Age carried in its last issue was deserved by The Associated Press.
Why is it that this great newsgathering association is afraid to quote what Judge Rutherford said about the Roman Catholic Hierarchy? The Associated Press takes its stand, in effect, with the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and against Jehovah's witnesses. The Associated Press shields the Hierarchy and studiously lends itself to hide from the people the truth about the iniquities and abominable practices and schemes of the Hierarchy. Is such a course in the public interest and for the public welfare?
Some Recent History
While faithfully performing his duty in the spring of 1933, Judge Rutherford made sound and reasonable statements exposing the hypocritical teachings, methods and schemes of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. At that time he was broadcasting regularly over more than 300 radio stations in the United States. Instantly the Hierarchy ordered and launched a campaign of coercion, boycott and intimidation of the most shameless sort, to try to force radio stations in all parts of the country to cancel their contracts with Jehovah's witnesses. Less than 30 stations yielded to that pressure.
FRANK B. NOYES, WASHINGTON STAR PRESIDENT
W. J. PAPE, WATERBURY REPUBLICAN FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
HOUSTON HARTE, SAN ANGELO STANDARD SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
KENT COOPER, GENERAL MANAGER
JACKSON S. ELLIOTT, ASST. GENERAL MANAGER
J. R. YOUATT, TREASURER
DIRECTORS
FRANK B. NOYES, WASHINGTON STAR
CLARK HOWELL, ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
W. H. COWLES, SPOKANE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
E. LANSING RAY, ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT
STUART H. PERRY, ADRIAN TELEGRAM
ROBERT MCLEAN, PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN
J. R. KNOWLAND, OAKLAND TRIBUNE
ROBERT R. MCCORMICK, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
FREDERICK E. MURPHY, MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE
PAUL PATTERSON, BALTIMORE SUN
GEORGE B. LONGAN, KANSAS CITY STAR
L. K. NICHOLSON, NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE
PAUL BELLAMY, CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
JOHN COWLES, DES MOINES REGISTER
FRANK E. GANNETT, ROCHESTER TIMES UNION
The Associated Press
GENERAL OFFICE
383 MADISON AVENUE AT 46TH ST.
NEW YORK, N. Y.
October 16, 1933.
Mr. C. J. Woodworth,
The Golden Age Publishing Co.,
117 Adams St.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dear Mr. Woodworth:
I enclose copy of a letter written to Judge Rutherford, further in regard to which we have received a copy of your issue of October 25.
The Associated Press is charged with being "cowardly and unfair." We do not know who is responsible for such misguided and badly informed statements, or who undertook to attack The Associated Press, in the manner indicated in a broadcast made October 11. I am telling you, however, the charges have absolutely no basis in fact.
The record of The Associated Press in covering the news of the Lynn story is clear, unbiased, impartial and complete. So is the news we carried from Judge Rutherford. It ought to be apparent The Associated Press was interested in all news elements by the fact it offered to quote Judge Rutherford's views. The inferences about the Roman Catholic church are not only misplaced, but are inaccurate and irrelevant so far as The Associated Press is concerned. The work of The Associated Press recognizes no government, race or creed.
I trust the Golden Age will promptly and voluntarily take all steps to correct the injustice done.
Sincerely yours,
Lloyd Stratton
Executive Assistant
Lloyd Stratton:GH
The Associated Press must have known about this infamous procedure, for the front pages of Catholic papers everywhere in the country carried extensive details under bold headlines for weeks; yet The Associated Press was virtually if not altogether silent while this right of free speech was being ruthlessly taken from a minority.
Others may do as they like, but Jehovah's witnesses and their friends will not yield to tyrannies of any sort. Within a few weeks 2,500,000 Americans, friends of Jehovah's witnesses, presented Congress with the largest petition that up to that time had ever come before that body. That petition was an appeal for the preservation of the right of free speech over the radio. It was a subject that should have appealed to The Associated Press, but neither at that time nor at the time of either of the two Congressional hearings held thereafter did that great newsgathering agency show any genuine interest. In other words, it quietly took the side of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.
Largest Convention Held in Washington
In June, 1935, Jehovah's witnesses to the number of 20,000 assembled at the nation's capital city in what the Press of Washington called "the largest religious convention ever held" there, and what that city's officials admitted was the most orderly. On that occasion Judge Rutherford spoke on "Government", a record-breaking assembly in and around the Washington Auditorium hearing that speech, which was simultaneously broadcast on a world-wide network consisting of the most unique and extensive combination of wire and wireless communication facilities, public-address appliances and sound equipment. From all parts of the United States as well as from thirty-eight foreign countries listeners' messages of appreciation of that speech were flashed to the speaker at Washington. According to communications experts, it was the most successful international broadcast ever made.
The Associated Press was as silent as the grave with reference to that news.
From the time of its birth, in 1900, until now The Associated Press has had for its president a Washingtonian, Frank B. Noyes of The Evening Star. On June 3, 1935, The Star had Judge Rutherford's address on "Government" all in type, two full pages of text matter, but at the last minute refused to print it, even as a paid advertisement, because he had referred to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy as a foreign power seeking to grab control of the United States government. Let the people judge whether or not Frank Noyes and his associates are afraid of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.
In the Lynn affair The Associated Press has followed its usual course as respects the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and Jehovah's witnesses. It has completely shielded the Hierarchy from the blazing light of truth, but it has not been afraid to identify the Nichols boy as a child of one of Jehovah's witnesses. Why?
The Associated Press claims that it was fair in its stories sent forth from Lynn. Its course is not so regarded among those who prefer to tell the truth. If it was afraid to quote Judge Rutherford's mention of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy it should have been much more afraid to mention Jehovah's witnesses. It was unwilling to risk offending the Hierarchy, yet it did not hesitate to link a gesture of friendship by a stranger to Jehovah's witnesses with Vanzetti, and thus lead the unthinking to the conclusion that the former were in some manner bound in with the latter.
Jehovah's witnesses Are Followers of Christ
Jehovah's witnesses have placed with the people more than two hundred million copies of Judge Rutherford's books explaining the Bible truths now due to be known and understood. The people have received those books at their own doorsteps. There is not a road too rough, nor a lane too long, nor a language or dialect too difficult, to stand in the way of the work of Jehovah's witnesses. This generation can never say it did not know what is coming and what everything indicates is just at hand, Armageddon.
People in all lands of earth who have read these books know that Jehovah's witnesses are not Communists, not Anarchists, not Socialists, not Townsendites, not Technocrats, not Douglassites, not Coughlinites, not Monarchists, and assuredly not Romanists. They are followers of Christ, who came to earth to bear witness to the truth in obedience to the command of His Father, Jehovah; and they, too, will be heard. It is to the interest of every true American that they shall be heard.
When It Is a Little Different
Jehovah's witnesses could stand it very well, ordinarily, to have it distinctly understood that The Associated Press is the mouthpiece of the Devil's organization, his official spokesman, and that they need not expect and will not receive any assistance in their work of proclaiming the Kingdom of Jehovah God as the one and only hope of the world.
But conditions are a little different when they have been publicized all over the country, as they were in the Lynn case, and been put in an unfavorable light, and then are several times asked for a statement (as was done by The Associated Press on October 1, October 2, October 3, October 4, and October 6), and then when the statement was prepared, and given radio publicity, such a job was done by that press association as is shown in detail on pages 80-81.
Many Editors Disagree with AP Methods
This issue presents many editorials from America's leading newspapers, which editorials are the exact opposite in tone and spirit of the attitude which The Associated Press has maintained for years against Jehovah's witnesses and the Kingdom message which it is their duty and privilege to bear.
Thus the editor of the Boston Traveler, published where the fires against Jehovah's witnesses have recently been blazing so furiously, said in the issue of October 10:
What, please, can be done to the child; what kind of disciplinary measure? Stood in a corner? Kept after school? Slapped on the wrist? Expelled? Even our courts allow members of a religious group to "affirm" rather than "take oath", when giving testimony. And upon this testimony a life may depend, yet the courts have no cause to worry about the veracity of the witness. This youngster in Lynn who refuses to pledge allegiance to the flag consistently says he does so because his religion forbids it. Apparently he would refuse, whatever country he was in. So where the treason to the United States?
Nine days earlier the same capable and fearless editor said to his readers:
If the child, believing it to be sinful to salute the flag, had saluted it, it is likely that all trouble would have been avoided. And thus we see what can come of compulsory pledges of allegiance.
Some people with about the mentality of the ordinary priest or preacher entirely lose their heads when they get to thinking about such purely human inventions as the flags which fly over the various nations of earth. An instance is the following paragraph from the National Geographic Magazine of September, 1934, in an article on "Flags of the World":
"It has been said that flags were divinely ordained; that when Jehovah made His covenant with mankind that all flesh should never again be destroyed by a flood, He sealed the pledge by unfurling across the heavens the great banner of the ages—the rainbow itself."
In The Golden Age, issues Nos. 417, 418, 419, there is furnished proof that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, the most wicked crowd in the world, is moving to subjugate all the peoples of the earth to variations of the Mussolini-Hitler forms of government, i.e., Roman Catholic Fascism. This central idea of Judge Rutherford's speech on "Saluting a Flag" was deliberately cut out by The Associated Press and was relegated to the waste basket as being not a "news element", but only "inferences" "inaccurate and irrelevant".
The Duty of Jehovah's witnesses
The Associated Press could start the fires of persecution burning against Jehovah's witnesses in every corner of the United States, and it could thus become the handmaid of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, but when it was given the opportunity, which it had five times requested, to read and to present to the public Judge Rutherford's address on "Saluting a Flag" it would do nothing whatever to quench the flames it had started or even to mitigate their severity. As a sample of one of the hundreds, or by this time thousands, of examples of unnecessary suffering brought upon Jehovah's witnesses by this cowardly knuckling to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, there is herewith presented a report received within the last few minutes which all true Americans are requested to read, and to hang their heads in shame that such conditions could prevail this side of the accursed government that operates on the other side of the Rhine.
A number of families of Jehovah's witnesses live in Nemacolin, a mining town located in Greene county, Pennsylvania. About the latter part of September the school board discovered that little Lillian Koroly, six years of age, and her brother Mike Koroly, Jr., eight years old, were not taking part in the school's flag saluting exercises. The teacher asked Lillian why she did not salute the flag, and the little child replied, "Because the flag belongs to the Devil."
The teacher informed the parents concerning the matter, and the father of the children went to see the principal and explain why his children had taken this stand. He said he taught his children the scriptures concerning the true worship of Jehovah God and that they must take their individual stand in order to have life everlasting. He said the reason why his children were not saluting the flag was because Jehovah says, in Exodus 20:3-5, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God." Because of this scripture Mr. Koroly believed that Jehovah alone is worthy of full devotion and adoration.
In further proof of his stand he read from Deuteronomy 4:10, "And I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children." Again, in Deuteronomy 11:18-20, "Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates."
A little later on it was discovered that Louis Wielkiewicz, about ten years of age, was also not saluting the flag. His teacher said, "I will give you ten chances to salute the flag," but the child continued to maintain his stand. The principal of the school sent Louis home and told him not to come back to school any more until he was willing to salute the flag. The boy's father took him to the principal and explained why Jehovah's witnesses and their children do not salute the flag. Mr. Wielkiewicz requested the principal to read from the book Preservation, pages 72-74, concerning Mordecai's refusing to bow down and worship Haman. The principal stated that this did not apply to flag saluting.
Mr. Wielkiewicz asked the principal if he could send the boy back to school with the understanding that the child would be left to his own free will in regard to saluting the flag. The principal refused to take the child back. As the result, little Mike Koroly, Jr., and Louis Wielkiewicz were expelled from school until the school board held a meeting.
The children's parents were present at the board meeting and Mr. Wielkiewicz asked permission to say a few words in support of the stand taken by the children. He read Exodus 20:3-5, and pages 42-45 of The Kingdom, the Hope of the World, which shows that the three companions of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, did not bow down to the golden image which was set up. They did not say as some do today, "I can salute the flag with a mental reservation that I do not mean it." Such would be a compromise in order to obtain the favor of men. "Daniel's three companions refused to bow down because to do so would have been proof of unfaithfulness to God. For this they were cast into a furnace of fire; but God delivered them. At the present time many people who claim to be devoted to God, when the band plays, 'God Save the King,' or some similar national air, unhesitatingly stand up, like others, thereby giving approval to a form of adulation of men. That is an endorsement of Satan's organization. Such excuse themselves by saying, 'I can do this with a mental reservation that I do not mean it.' But such is a compromise in order to obtain the approval of men. Daniel's three companions refused to do that, and God approved them and delivered them." Mr. Wielkiewicz told the school board they were responsible to Jehovah God for the action taken against the children. The board replied stating they would take all the responsibility on their shoulders.
Young Louis was sent home on three different occasions, and Mike Koroly twice, because they would not salute the flag. Each was severely whipped, and Louis was whipped on several occasions, the last one being administered on October 7. On October 19 the boy was still bearing the black-and-blue marks on his thighs. The children have been expelled from school until they will consent to salute the flag.
Americans Resent Hitlerization
Americans resent Hitlerization. It is one thing for the Jesuits to promote a Ratti-Mussolini partnership in Italy or a Ratti-Hitler partnership in Germany, and quite another and a different thing to accomplish the same result in the United States; and the effeminate silence of The Associated Press, where they should boldly mention the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, does much to help the Jesuits gain their objective, yet there is bound to be a big awakening before long respecting this Vatican City monstrosity that presumes to try to put true Americans off the air in America itself.
The Boston Herald, though it asked for Judge Rutherford's address on "Saluting a Flag" and yet lacked the courage to publish one word of that address because it feared the boycott methods of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, nevertheless did have sufficient courage to publish the following letter from Marion M. Jaques, of Newton Centre, in its issue of October 14:
"It seems to be a popular political pastime to smother our teachers and pupils under oaths and pledges. Dr. Mather has many supporters because of his disapproval of the teacher's oath; it is time some one took up cudgels for the little Lynn pupil, now expelled from school for failure to 'pledge allegiance to the flag'.
"It is hypocrisy to teach children 'liberty and justice for all' and then expel from school an eight-year-old boy whose juvenile mind places 'liberty and justice' in divinity instead of 'one nation, indivisible'. It is possible the child is right. At any rate, he needs all the education our public schools can give him. A classroom is disrupted for days, teacher and principal consult, committees are called, a hearing is held, and finally a child is turned away from the very door through which he should pass daily to learn true citizenship; citizenship taught by an understanding teacher, one who could explain the difference between religious allegiance to his God and political allegiance to the flag of his republic. If he then can acknowledge only one as worthy of his devotion, he is still entitled to and should have an education under the state law which requires children under 16 to attend school.
"The pledge to the flag, by the way, was written in 1892 by one Francis Bellamy, a member of the staff of the Youth's Companion. Its use in the schools is neither nation-wide nor constitutionally obligatory. I do not recall having to repeat it when I registered to vote. (Beacon Hill should do something about this.) As a clubwoman I rise and add my voice to others when I am asked to do so, but I do not feel that my love for or allegiance to my native land is materially increased by the verbal repetition or the gymnastic gesture.
"The 'letter' is too much with us."
If You Are an American
If you are an American do you wish to have your news garbled as The Associated Press garbled Judge Rutherford's address, shown in the exhibit on pages 80-81 of this issue?
Take the time to examine those pages critically, and judge for yourself whether Jehovah's witnesses have had a fair deal.
The AP dispatch of October 6 (reproduced at page 80, and marked "FIRST MUTILATION") is the 500-word "story" prepared at the press association's headquarters and "sent from New York on the trunk circuits serving all members of The Associated Press in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, etc. Members of The Associated Press are located in nearly all the principal cities of New England."
The "SECOND MUTILATION" (page 81, lower right corner) is just an example, showing how each member newspaper of the press association finally presents such a "story" to the reading public. That "second mutilation" was the dispatch sent out on October 7 from Lynn by the Associated Press representative after he had regarbled the "story" received by him from his New York headquarters. That twice-garbled "story", published by the New Britain (Conn.) Daily Herald (reproduced in facsimile at page 81), is set out here for the reader's convenience:
Lynn, Mass., Oct. 7 (AP)—Attempts to make Carlton B. Nichols, Jr., 8, of Lynn, salute the flag received condemnation from two widely separated places.
In New York city yesterday Joseph F. Rutherford, prominent in the religious cult "Jehovah's Witnesses" to which Carlton and his family belong, branded the attempts to make the lad salute as "in line with Hitlerism."
In the Universalist church in Bridgewater, Mass., Edward Holton James, of Concord, nephew of William James, the psychologist, and Henry James, the author, said:
"Today we have a set of political busybodies who are trying to push down the throats of teachers and children a vulgarized, contaminated patriotism which sickens the heart of every genuine American."
Rutherford, a former Missouri circuit judge and president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract society, said in an address:
"The Hitler government, a stench in the nostrils of all honest people, requires all persons of Germany to give a certain salute and to cry out: 'Heil Hitler,' and those who refuse to do so are severely punished.
"SHOT-GUN METHODS"
"True and honest men of America, in which class Jehovah's Witnesses are included, do not need shotgun methods or prisons to compel them to do what is right.
"Real American citizens who love the bill of rights and the fundamental law of the land, who believe in freedom of thought and speech, and above all in the right of man to worship according to the dictates of his conscience, will condemn the lad for the stand he has taken. It is foolish to attempt to make good citizens by compelling them to act as hypocrites."
The boy has refused to salute, saying the flag is an emblem of the devil and saluting is against his religious beliefs.
James said "we ought so to use the flag as not to cause anyone to look upon it with dislike. No idea of coercion, compulsion or dictation ever should be associated with the American flag, which is a symbol of freedom. Take freedom away and it ceases to represent any moral principle."
James, who was active in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the lad's father, were arrested last week for "disturbing school" when they attended exercises at which Carlton refused to salute.
Roger N. Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties league said in New York the league had offered to defend young Nichols.
The foregoing AP dispatch of October 7 from Lynn was published also in the Providence (R. I.) Evening Bulletin on October 7. No other member newspaper of The Associated Press, so far as is known, paid any attention to either the AP garbled story sent from New York "to New England and elsewhere" on October 6 or the AP regarbled story sent out from Lynn on October 7. Typical is the attitude expressed by the publisher of the Waterbury (Conn.) Republican, W. J. Pape, who is also First Vice-President of The Associated Press. Writing October 23 to the operators of radio station WBBR at New York, he said: "We find that the interview with Judge Rutherford sent out by the A.P. on October 6 was not used in any of our editions. . . . and in the judgment of our news desk the Rutherford interview was not of sufficient interest to be carried."
Editors Will Be Next
Pape would not want his own children tortured or abused, but is willing that the children of Jehovah's witnesses should bear without relief what The Associated Press has brought upon them; but if the receivers of Dutch Schultz into their "fold" finish their job here Pape's children will come next—unless he is a Papist.
No doubt the screws will be put on all the editors quoted in this issue who have dared to take their stand on the side of freedom of worship and on the side of common sense.
No doubt there will now be a grand rush of politicians to protect the United States government from the terrible dangers it faces at the hands of an eight-year-old boy!
In this campaign of foolishness, if the future is to be judged by the past, the politicians will be ably assisted by the priests and preachers, whose usefulness to the people of the United States is far less than that of the one eight-year-old boy in Lynn who has tried, not in vain, to show what it means to have true courage and to take a real stand for Jehovah God.
It is just too bad that the Associated Press copy writers who mutilated Judge Rutherford's address on "Saluting a Flag" could not have a term in school in the same class with Carleton B. Nichols, Jr.
Cardinal O'Connell Unconvinced
ANYBODY who knows even the least little bit about American politics knows that Cardinal William O'Connell of Boston holds the State of Massachusetts in the palm of his hand.
Cardinal O'Connell is interested in education. All good Catholics are required to educate their children in parochial schools and to keep them out of "the sink holes of iniquity, the godless American public schools".
Cardinal O'Connell is interested in children. That is known, because every time the Child Labor Amendment comes up in Massachusetts the cardinal publicly takes his stand against the kids, the great power of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy's political machine is put in operation, and the boys in the State House do what they are told, like so many frightened sheep.
And this brings one to Mr. Shanahan, the gentleman who was so honest as to admit that there is no law under which Carleton B. Nichols could be compelled to salute the flag, which he conscientiously believed he ought not to do; but after Mr. Shanahan had had time to hear from Mr. O'Connell, how different everything looked to him!
It is not necessary to say anything about the Lynn school board, except that they are as completely under the thumb of Mr. Shanahan as he is under the thumb of William O'Connell, or as Mr. O'Connell is under the thumb of Ambrose Ratti, or as Ambrose Ratti is under the thumb of the Devil.
But that all may see the argument of Attorney Moyle, which it was decided in advance would not suit the Devil, would not suit Mr. Ratti, would not suit Mr. O'Connell, would not suit Mr. Shanahan, and would not suit the Lynn school board, it is given in full herewith.
The Boston Post, once the issues are squarely drawn, would hardly dare run the risk of losing its advertisers by championing the cause of Carleton B. Nichols, even though its initial write-up was so fair and honorable.
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