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TEACHING TO SERVE GOD, OR MAMMON?

FLAG "EDUCATION"

ROMANISM VS. WILLIAM PENN

MEDICAL ITEMS

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December 4, 1935 CONTENTS

LABOR AND ECONOMICS

The Hopes of the Martians 152

Cost of Crime 152

Adolf Weiss on Relief 152

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

TEACHING TO SERVE GOD, OR MAMMON? 131

Flag "Education" 135

Locating the "Fakes and Frauds" 138

Patriotism by Gesture 138

Not All Boneheads in Minnesota 138

What the Teachers Must Be 139

RANSOM 145

Took Golden Age Under Protest 146

Broadcasting Truth in Australia 147

Proposed Bounty on Blondes 155

The Rush to Ruin 155

OBEDIENCE BRINGS VISIONS OF THE SON OF GOD 156

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Aluminum Trust 97.71% Perfect 143

RADIO CORPORATION AND NEW DEAL 147

Fordlandia, on the Amazon 149

Ford Motor Company 153

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

ROMANISM VERSUS WILLIAM PENN 136

Sinclair's 150-Word Statement 144

Daniels' Statement on Mexico 152

Nazi Persecution of Jews 150

Freedom at Port Moresby 151

The Kellogg Peace Pact 159

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

Growing Bananas in Australia 151

Tubercular Cattle for Meat? 154

Russian Thistles as Stock Feed 154

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Pollution of Human Blood Stream 138

Bengali on a Linotype 139

The Schick Test 142

HOME AND HEALTH

Whooping Cough Vaccine Racket 141

Free Medical Broadcasting 140

Dr. Kingsbury Scores the A.M.A. 140

Missoula Runs out of Tick Serum 141

Navy Casting Out Aluminum 143

Aluminum Feet 143

Out of the Depths 143

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

A Knowledge of 500 Languages 138

Deaf Mutes of 14 Nations 139

Golden Coach to Junk Yard 150

Weather Changes in England 150

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

British Ecclesiastical Warmongers 142

Clergy Still for War 148

Another Church-Army Card 148

The Replacement of Jesus 149

General Feng Yuhsiang 151

The Chicago Heifer Exchange 155

"Bloody Sweat" Demonism in Italy 158

Selassie's Priests Like Others 159

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The Golden Age

Volume XVII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, December 4, 1935 Number 423

Teaching to Serve God, or Mammon?

By Lester Whitlock (Illinois)

THE American public school has been hailed with due respect, since its foundation, for the making of our nation. It is given credit for making such responsible leaders as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and other "great" men of America. By means of it the ignorance of the Dark Ages has been dispelled by present educational enlightenment. But such enlightenment has also brought us a ray of knowledge on the imperfection and possibly the injurious reaction of the source of our information.

In John 8:32 we read, "The truth will make us free"; but Satan is a liar, and the father of lies. (John 8:44) By this standard we may say, "Where source is known, credit is given."

The former "three R's" have made way for also a new list of subjects, the complete list now containing arithmetic, grammar, physiology, geography, history, and civics. Their merits (or demerits) will be discussed in the order given.

The fundamental principles of arithmetic, of course, are the processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. But after these have been learned, we enlarge on each. The teaching of interest, stocks and bonds, stock exchange, and profit and loss are examples.

Are the above-mentioned absolutely necessary to promote the career of the American boy or girl? Was not the interest system forbidden to the Jews by Jehovah? Is it necessary to instruct our boys and girls in a system that is denounced by the Most High?

But let us go on down the list. Stocks and bonds! We all admit their purpose is for making money or receiving a profit at the expense of some company or individual. Is this the system by which our boys and girls must make their way in life? Are these the ideals which the American school instills in their young minds? Does not the scripture teach that the love of money is the root of all evil?—1 Timothy 6:10.

Are we instructing the coming generation that they too may be swindled by "Merger, Morgan and Murder" on Bolivian bonds?

And thus it goes. Stock exchange, another means of ill-gotten gains; profit and loss, a means by which we hook the next man for hooking us the last time.

Are these the high ideals which our great American schools instill into the lives and minds of our children? But let us delve into more atrocious crimes.

Physiology, a study of the body in reference to health, should be the most important of all school subjects. Yet, if things are taught which are detrimental to health, then this subject also becomes detrimental.

We were impressed by a picture in the physiology textbook of a rural school. A little six-year-old girl sat innocently holding out her arm to a doctor, well up in years, who was about to inject "pure virgin serum" (decayed pus) into her arm. It read, "Vaccination will prevent diseases among school children."

Imagine, a little innocent child with a slender outstretched arm, facing a doctor, well along in years, holding a needle containing poison as dangerous as the virus of a rattler! Imagine, a group of innocent school children studying this picture lesson, facing a teacher who knows the fallacy of this fiendish practice! What must he tell them? In the name of common decency, what must he tell them? Will he have the courage to tell them the book is wrong, the doctor is wrong, the system is wrong, and thus preserve their innocent lives from the pus-shooter fiends? Can he face the school board with a clear eye of defiance if harassed because of his actions?

The writer of this article, being a teacher, met this test in a little rural school in southern Illinois. The results were inevitable, but the children were saved.

At a meeting of the Illinois Medical Association, one of their former presidents addressed them as follows: "Talk vaccination, advocate it, have it preached from the pulpit, for every person is a possible prospect for vaccination; yet if we wait for an epidemic to develop, only a small percent will require our treatment." Is the American school a salesroom for the medical profession?

Geography is the study of earth, its relationship toward man, how he gains a livelihood, and his relationship to others.

We are thrilled to read the Biblical account of the garden of Eden, earth's paradise, and contrast this with the present condition of the earth, which has degenerated during these some thousands of years.

A pupil in school asked what was necessary to cause the earth to bring forth its increase equal to its original state. The teacher, in detail, told of the possibilities of the earth if brought to perfection. But the boy, with a look of despair, sighed, "Will that ever come to pass? If so, when?" Did that teacher have the courage to answer a child's question and thus remove despair and in its stead place joy and confidence? He did. But, sad to say, the boy in his enthusiasm took the story home, it grew to a rumor, spread over the district, and the teacher was removed at the end of the term for teaching false religion in school. (Matthew 5: 11, 12) Are the American schools for the purpose of suppressing the truth? Can they not make way for the present enlightenment?—2 Timothy 3: 7; Proverbs 4: 18.

History, the study of man's actions in the past, is one of the most interesting studies in the American school if properly used. Yet, strange to say, the truths of history must be as flexible as India rubber to fit the situation into which they are oftentimes pressed.

George Washington, our great American patriot, founded our present government and secured the location of the capital at Washington, D.C. Why didn't they mention that in order to get it thus located he log-rolled, or voted for every other fellow's measure, right or wrong, in order to secure the victory of his own?

Alexander Hamilton, known as America's great financier, is given credit for putting our government "on its feet"; yet why is his policy withheld that "if America is to be a successful nation it must legislate in favor of the wealthy class"? (Proverbs 22: 16) Are we so ashamed of the history of this great republic that we must conceal our rags beneath garments of silk? (Matthew 23: 27) Will the American boy respect these and us any the more after he has learned the facts? Is the American school a school of deception?

Civics is the study of the workings of our local, state and national government and how we are benefited by them.

For years a desirable government has been the efforts of man. Yet, looking back down the ages, the strongest and most desirable government lasted only for a while, was corrupted, and fell. Nation after nation has risen up, and, like the story of the "great stone face", has cried, "Here it is! Here is his likeness!" But after a short time the people, seeing its undesirableness, say, "No, not yet," and still look forward to the coming of the ideal government.

In civics we study of corporations, private utilities, service commissions, laws, judges, etc. The corporations are praised for their worthiness, the private utilities for their services, the commissions for their benefits, and the judges for their performance of duty.

Should we tell the boys and girls that the corporations have their part in making the textbooks to suppress prejudice against them? Should we tell the boys and girls that the private utilities have their part in making the textbooks so that they may charge exorbitant electric, power, and transportation rates without arousing the ire of the people? Should we tell them the legislators and judges write their own "epitaph" in the textbooks so that they may hold sway among the next generation? (Proverbs 20: 6) Do the American schools really resort to treachery in order to hold sway?

Reading, without doubt, stands paramount in the list of subjects in the American public schools. It is the gateway to wisdom and learning. It is through reading that we receive our knowledge and proof of our previous learning. Reading, above all other subjects, has the power of interesting the American boy and girl and getting closer to his inner self.

Many a boy or girl has been inspired to become more useful and successful in life through the gateway of reading. Even Abraham Lincoln is said to have received his greatest inspiration to become president through the reading of The Life of George Washington.

Yet, with all its importance, if reading should cause the American boy or girl to get the wrong view of life and thus cause them to fall by the wayside either morally or spiritually, then it has become a vain thing.

The American home was founded upon the principle of "worshiping God according to the dictates of one's own conscience", and upon this principle the American school falls in line. Almost every American teacher is instructed either by the law or by the parents to teach no religion in school whatsoever, so that all may be free to worship God as they see fit and thus receive no teaching abominable to them.

The American school "reader", however, does not hold so true to this doctrine, and thus the teacher is faced with the gravest of all situations: placed upon the precipice of understanding, he alone is held responsible should the student fall into the abyss of falsity. Let us see, then, what the American school has to offer the young reader and on which the teacher is not allowed to lend a helping hand.

Elson Reader, Book 2, "How the Days Got Their Names": Here we find eight-year-old children being taught the names of pagan gods and their duties. Strange but true, it states in each case that —— is the god of ——, etc. Imagine the situation of the teacher whose mouth must be closed as the mouths of the lions with which Daniel abode for a night.

Does the American school teach a pagan religion? (Exodus 20:3)

Elson Reader, Book 7, "In Flanders' Fields"—McCrae:

"We are the dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders' fields."

Here we find dead men 'really talking'. Yet Ecclesiastes 9:10 says 'there is no knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest'. Also Psalm 6:5.

Does the American school teach disrespect for God's Word?

Elson Reader, Book 4, "Annabel Lee"—Poe:

"We loved with a love . . .

. . . that even the winged seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me.

This was the reason that . . .

A wind came out of the cloud, by night,

Chilling . . . killing my Annabel Lee."

Here we find the angels in heaven so jealous of a couple that they committed murder.

Does the American school teach that the angels in heaven are a bunch of gangsters?

"Snowbound"—Whittier:

"How many a poor one's blessing went

With thee below that low green tent

Whose curtain never outward swings!"

The scripture teaches, 'All in their graves shall come forth.' Doesn't the American school believe in an earthly resurrection?

"Safe in thy immortality,

What change can reach the wealth I hold?"

Doesn't that sound like the American school teaches the immortality of the soul?

"And looking from some heavenly hill

Do those large eyes behold me still?"

'David hath not ascended unto heaven.—Acts 2:34.

"All hearts confess the saints elect

Who, twain in faith, in love agree."

Does this coincide with Ephesians 4:5, which reads, "One Lord, one faith, one baptism"? (Read What Is Truth? by J. F. Rutherford, page 22.)

Young and Field Reader, Book 6:

"And the soul of 'Father Damien' ascended like a dove unto heaven, unto the one who gave it."

Strange, it seems, these "heavier than air" souls of Catholic priests always go up.

"Hamlet"—Shakespeare:

"To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;—

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, . . ."

We never would have suspected the American school if it hadn't put that one in print. Does the American school teach "eternal torment after death"?

Not only does the American school teach a false religion. Examine these outbursts!—

Elson Reader, Book 4; Patrick Henry:

"We shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active and the brave."

Surely Jehovah does not participate in Satan's schemes to gain dominion over many lands or to take sides in political skirmishes.

Could it then be possible that the American school would desecrate the name of Jehovah God?

"Evils of War"—Henry Clay:

"Pestilence and famine, no doubt for wise although inscrutable purposes, are inflictions of Providence, to which it is our duty, therefore, to bow with obedience, humble submission, and resignation."

Does not the scripture teach that God is the Author of every good and perfect gift, is all merciful, and just? Can we thus accuse God of such horrible crimes, Him who is a God of love? —2 Corinthians 13:11.

Is it possible that the American school would tell a lie on the Creator?—Romans 1:25.

If these be true, what spirit must the American boy possess when he is hailed thus?—

"Hats off! Along the street there comes

A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,

A flash of color beneath the sky;

Hats off! The flag is passing by."

Or thus?—

"There is the national flag. He must be cold indeed who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. . . . And all together, bunting, stripes, and stars, waving in the sky make the flag of our country to be cherished by all our hearts and upheld by all of our hands."

Can it be possible we are preparing for another war by teaching our children as Germany did? Read this by Henry Ward Beecher (Elson Reader, Book 4):

"Let us resolve, come weal or woe, we will in life and in death, now and forever, stand by the Stars and Stripes. They have floated over our cradles; let it be our prayer and our struggle that they shall float over our graves."

We are inclined to believe that there are more flags on the battlefield than in the cemetery. Is the American school a recruiting station for a future war?

Elson Reader, Book 7, "In Flanders' Fields" —McCrae:

"If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders' fields."

Doesn't that answer the question why we had to feed the flower of our country to mouths of cannon?

A noisy lullaby, we think.

"America's Answer"—R. W. Lillard:

"Fear not that ye have died for naught;

The torch ye threw to us we caught."

And hand in hand, side by side, they faced the foe and made the world safe for "hypocrisy", did they not?

Imagine the chagrin of a bonus marcher's son when he reads the following (Elson Reader, Book 4, "Citizenship"—William P. Frye):

"What right has the republic to demand his life, his property, in its hour of peril, if when his hour of peril comes it fails him?"

Of such the scripture says: "Rob not the poor, because he is poor; neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; for the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them." (Proverbs 22:22, 23) Such was the case at Washington, D.C.

What, then, can we as teachers hold outward as a standard of truth to the boys and girls of America?

Must we continue to teach the basic principles of present (big) business, the heathen practices of medicine, the bestowing of honors on men, and the permanent degeneration of the earth?

Must we continue to teach the infallibility of the American Republic, the never-ceasing services of the large corporations, and the supremacy of our legislators and executives?

Must we continue to teach little children a pagan religion, that the dead are not dead; that the angels in heaven are fiends; that the earthly resurrection is a mistake?

Must we continue to represent Jehovah as a participant in bloody wars for selfish gains, Jehovah as a fiend who causes much suffering by means of plagues, famines and pestilences?

Must we continue to teach the fiendish doctrine of eternal torment?

In short, must we continue to desecrate the name of Jehovah God in order that our school curriculum may be carried out to the letter?

Let every teacher decide this question for himself.

But after teaching the ways of big business, the honor of man's name, the pus-shooters doctrine, the permanent degeneration of the earth; after teaching the infallibility of the American Republic, the never-ceasing services of the large corporations, and the supremacy of our legislators and executives; after teaching false doctrines and desecration of Jehovah's name, can we, who know "the Kingdom is the hope of the world", say at life's journey's end as the apostle Paul: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith."

Flag "Education"

"The Spirit of '36"

SEEING that the politicians of their state are trying to make the United States flag and the United States Constitution as ridiculous as possible, on the day when the professors of Williams College took their oaths of allegiance as required by the new Nazi law in Massachusetts, students goose-stepped on the campus, clicked their heels, and gave salutes similar to those bestowed by the Nazis. One student, Francis B. Sayre, Jr., son of the assistant secretary of state, and grandson of President Wilson, and himself born in the White House, amused all mankind that will ever hear of it by carrying a large swastika flag down past long lines of cheering students. The students had a good time marching behind two youths with fife and drum representing the decadent "spirit of '36" that believes in hammering patriotism into the youth with a potato masher. To these depths of foolishness America has been led by the idiotic politicians that knew no better than to sacrifice everything for the sake of getting the Roman Catholic vote.

Patriotism by Force

REFERRING to the bigotry shown in the Lynn case, the Waterbury Republican said:

"Quite aside from religion and patriotism, one wonders by what mental process intelligent adults are able to justify such attitudes . . . Denying an eight-year-old boy a place in the public schools because he will not lift his hand to his forehead is so ridiculous that one wonders if such a thing could have happened . . . One notes a growing tendency to suppress individualism, to regiment not only business and industry, but human conduct and character. If the Massachusetts boy had saluted the flag, the authorities would have been satisfied, though the very act of lifting his hand had engendered a hatred for the thing it symbolized. He was expelled from school, then, not because he had less patriotism than his schoolmates, but because he refused to conform. When we honestly want to inspire patriotism and not satisfy some stubborn notion of discipline, we will do it by granting to the individual the greatest possible liberty of action and the unqualified right to do his own thinking.

Making Fools Out of the Bay-Staters

THE attempts of our fierce patriots to drill love of country into the hearts of youth are leading to ludicrous consequences. By means of compulsory oaths of allegiance, salutes to the flag, and high-sounding creeds, learned by rote and repeated with hand uplifted, they intend by main force to make good Americans of the boys and girls who fill our schools. And in order that the school child may be constantly reminded of his patriotic duty, they obtain the enactment of laws providing that school busses must be painted red, white and blue. All hail to Massachusetts for setting her sister states such an example of real red-blooded, one-hundred-percent, honest-to-God patriotism. What noble thoughts of mother-land must well up within the little breasts of the children as they are trundled over the hills in busses painted as much like circus wagons as the arch-patriots of Massachusetts could make them.—The Glens Falls (N. Y.) Times.

New York Teachers Resent Being Hitlerized

THIS matter of being forcibly shoved into outward acts of so-called "loyalty" to this or that suits the Hitler-Mussolini-Ratti combination well, but is distasteful to the intelligent. When Professor Mather, able teacher of geology at Harvard, declared his unwillingness to being crowded into signing the Teacher's Oath law of Massachusetts, the New York Times learned that the Teachers College staff of Columbia University were almost unanimous in their opinion that Professor Mather's stand was right, and was the stand that all intelligent educators should take, even if (as was finally the case with Mather) fear does lead them the opposite way. Wonder if Thomas Dorgan, author of the Teachers' Oath bill, was educated in a parochial school, where, as is well known, the constitutions of both state and nation are held in contempt and derision.

America's Pattern of Fascism

CO-OPERATION between legionnaires and law enforcement officers has become an accepted part of America's pattern of emerging Fascism. Here in our own State, the Cradle of Liberty, we have the sorry spectacle of school boards at war with little children. And now that teachers have become State officials by taking the oath of office, they forget the rule of the spirit. The job must be retained, no matter what souls may be crushed. Let us put the blame for these silly loyalty laws right where it belongs—on the General Court. We voters can retire our servants to private life, however, when we choose.—Maud Grant Parks, in the Boston Transcript.

Romanism versus William Penn

CHARLES J. MARGIOTTI, Roman Catholic attorney general of the State of Pennsylvania, ruled that "religious scruples cannot be considered as justification for refusing to salute the flag"; and so Otto Meng, a citizen of that state who is well posted on its history, wrote the Pittsburgh Press as follows:

131 Kendall Avenue

Bellevue, Pa.

October 28, 1935

Editor, Pittsburgh Press,

Pittsburgh, Pa.

DEAR SIR:

The Margiotti Compulsory Flag Salute ruling is contrary to the best traditions of the State of Pennsylvania. It is also impractical, and unjust.

When William Penn appeared in the presence of King Charles II to receive the grant of land which is now Pennsylvania he declined to bow and to remove his hat. His worship and obeisance were reserved for Jehovah God, and Him alone. He also refused to have an oath administered even in a court of law. This attitude on his part might legally have been construed as high treason punishable by hanging, in which event the brightest chapter in the dark and bloody history of America's settlement would never have been written. Penn's noble example of faith in God and justice to the Indians would never have been given. The world would never have learned of the "disloyal" conscientious objector and pacifist who declined the offer of a regiment of soldiers to enforce his claim and who won the love of the Indian by a humane consideration of his rights. Pennsylvania would have been strangled in her infancy.

The ruling is impractical because it defeats its own purpose, as evidenced by a parallel experience, the dismal failure of a legal experiment known as the 18th Amendment. We now know, as the result of bitter experience, that men's appetites cannot be regulated or controlled by law. We have yet to learn that patriotic devotion cannot be induced by compulsion. The hates and hypocrisies of history have been fostered by force and threats of violence. Not so its loves, which grow only under the sunlight of the good example of those who are faithfully devoted to the service of Jehovah God.

The ruling is unjust because it works an injury upon a minority which is law-abiding, clean-living and industrious, whose only offense is that they innocently hold to the belief that Christ's kingdom was (in fulfillment of prophecy) established in 1914, that Christ is now smiting the nations with the rod of iron, that they will be completely destroyed in the impending Battle of Armageddon, following which Christ's authority will be undisputed and world-wide; that then, and not until then, can school children consistently be asked to pledge allegiance to "one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all".

Respectfully,

OTTO MENG.

Margiotti Has the Bull by the Tail

REFUSAL to salute the flag at the behest of chauvinistic educators, as part of the compulsory school routine, is becoming too stubborn to yield to the stuff-and-nonsense dictums of absent-minded professors. If the disinclination to salute the flag spreads much farther it will become a major issue in the politics of public education. Minersville, Pa., is not the only place on the map noted for its reticence in parading its patriotism, and our public educators are slow to learn that they can no more force patriotism than the tyrant Gessler could force William Tell to kowtow to his uplifted cap, or King Nebuchadnezzar could bring Daniel to his knees in obeisance to his image. When such a ceremony takes on the appearance of petty tyranny and military despotism it would serve the interests of patriotism to discard it or ignore the few infractions. There are places where the salute can be demanded with perfect propriety, as in the army, but that place is hardly the public school. Insistence on its salute by local school boards will simply promote parochial schools, which the government seeks to discourage. Educators will do a great deal for patriotism if they will stick to their knitting and keep anti-American textbooks out of the curricula and set the good example of keeping their left hand out of the public coffers while saluting the flag with their right. The Beacon hopes that the flag-saluting issue will be kept out of sight in the local school district. Since writing this, Attorney General Margiotti has unwisely taken the bull by the tail instead of the horns, and, as thousands of our city's matadors can attest, when this happens there is trouble in the offing. —Altoona (Pa.) Beacon.

Should Join the Dominicans

THE minister's daughter at Lynn that started the flag row with her unwelcome and unnecessary assault upon the integrity of an eight-year-old boy, the minister's daughter at Canonsburg that participated in the torture of a frail child, and the minister himself that suspended the Sperling boy at Lakewood, N. J., should join the Dominican torturers.

The Attorney General of Pennsylvania

THE children of Pennsylvania are to be taught to love the flag, even if they have to be choked and beaten to encourage their "love". (This was done in at least two cases.) The attorney general of Pennsylvania, Charles J. Margiotti, has ruled, in the case of an admittedly excellent teacher who refused to worship the flag: "Whether such refusal be based upon conscientious or religious scruples, or upon any other reason, it should be followed by immediate dismissal." The attorney general is not charged with favoring the beating of pupils, but his "ruling" implies that coercion is all right, and that freedom of conscience and religion are to be wholly ignored. This logically leads to such misguided efforts to foster "respect" for the flag. Obviously his ruling is contrary to the fundamental laws of the land. On the other hand, being a Roman Catholic, Margiotti would, no doubt, favor appointment of Roman Catholic teachers, who have no scruples about "saluting", because it means nothing to them to profess outwardly what they deny inwardly. In one case on record these Catholic instruments of a foreign power wore their black habits while teaching children in one of America's public schools. The very fact that this outfit is so strong for saluting flags should lead one to suspect that there is something rotten, and that it is not as far away as Denmark, either. The truth, plain and unvarnished, is the most dreaded enemy of the Romish ecclesiastical crowd, and since Jehovah's witnesses stand for the truth they are rightly considered to be the worst enemies of the Papal cult. Hence, the flag-salute test is a good way to weed them out everywhere.

God and Country

ONCE upon a time there was an apple-knocker by the name of William Tell. Probably there isn't a literate person in the United States that doesn't know about William's famous stunt of shooting the apple off his little boy's head. But it seems that some portions of the population have forgotten just what it was that inspired this feat of archery. To jog the memory a bit, let us recall that William had refused to obey an order to bow before the cap of the tyrannical Austrian governor of Switzerland, hung upon a post in the governor's absence. As punishment William was sentenced to shoot the apple off his son's head. So popular did the archer become due to his action that he was shortly able to lead an uprising which threw off the yoke of foreign rule. Now the moral to this tale is that for many centuries compulsory kowtowing to symbols of authority has been very unpopular with freedom-loving peoples. The good folk of Massachusetts, and to a lesser extent those of Connecticut, seem to have forgotten this. As a consequence we have these absurd incidents involving various members of a religious sect known as Jehovah's witnesses who have run afoul of a law, inspired by misguided patriotic zeal, requiring all school pupils to salute the American flag every day. The surprising thing about this situation is not the refusal of Jehovah's witnesses, but that others not belonging to the sect have not likewise refused. Pick a thousand good, loyal, patriotic citizens, tell them they must salute the flag each time they see it, and promptly about 600 of them will rebel. That's simply typical American perversity. If there is anything which cannot be regimented, it's loyalty. Also, there is still some constitutional privilege concerning freedom of religion in the United States. Possibly from a strictly legalistic viewpoint the Massachusetts cases do not involve this right, but in principle they certainly do. So far as we know it is still "God and my country", and not the other way around.—Columbus (Ohio) Daily Citizen.

"Deadly Heresy"

BUT to require ordinary citizens to pay the same formal respect to the flag (as soldiers, sailors and public officials) is to assume that all citizens are servants of the Government. This is deadly heresy, because the truth is that the Government is the servant of the citizens. The other thought is a survival of the old monarchical idea, which prevailed when there were no citizens, but only subjects. The American Revolution was fought to defeat the monarchical idea; so those who would reintroduce it in this country are striving to undo the work of George Washington, are raising a counter-revolution after a century and a half. They ought to be branded for what they are—false Americans, whose hearts yearn back to the system which our forefathers overthrew, the spiritual, if not the lineal, descendants of the Tories of Revolutionary times. They are at heart enemies of the thing the republic stands for.—Gerald W. Johnson, in the Baltimore Evening Sun.

Other Educational Essays

Locating the "Fakes and Frauds"

A HUE and cry is being raised throughout the country because members of the religious sect known as Jehovah's witnesses refuse to salute the flag. Surely the excitement is far-fetched and artificial. Why bother? In the years that have passed Quakers would not take an oath, hence we have affirmations; nor would they remove their hats. Yet the world has gone on and the country has met no danger from them. If the 100-percenters would only have the principles of the flag in their hearts and in their minds and guide their actions by them, it would be vastly better. Lip-service and protestations coming from any source have no meaning, and usually the 100-percenters are fakes and frauds.—Clement H. Congdon, editor and publisher, Philadelphia (Pa.) Sunday Transcript.

Patriotism by Gesture

ANOTHER Massachusetts child has been barred from the public schools for refusal to salute the American flag. It is the ninth such case since recent enactment of a law requiring school children to take the oath of allegiance and salute the emblem. Undoubtedly intended to promote patriotism and respect for American authority, the Massachusetts law apparently succeeds only in making the State and our vaunted 'patriotism' seem a little ridiculous. The salute is intended, of course, to be merely an outward evidence of respect. But it is by no means necessary to a proper feeling of patriotism. When imposed upon the ordinary citizen by operation of law, it becomes meaningless in its original purpose, and quite obnoxious.—The Wheeling (W.Va.) Intelligencer.

Not All Boneheads in Minnesota

A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD girl at Monroe Junior high school, St. Paul, Minnesota, refused to salute the flag on religious grounds, and after a careful consideration of the basic and other laws on the subject the city corporation counsel, the superintendent of schools and the commissioner of education moved that she was within her rights and that the subject is closed. Too bad that Massachusetts could not import a few level-headed citizens from the Gopher State. It seems, in recent years, that America, the real America, has drifted west. Persecution of liberty-lovers are, thus far, mainly in Catholic Massachusetts and the East.

An Entirely Unfair School Superintendent

A DISPATCH from Rockford, Illinois, states that the superintendent of schools, William W. Ankenbrand, has ruled that teachers who are not comely need not apply to him for jobs. Rockford should get another superintendent of schools, and, above all, should avoid getting another with such an (to an American) uncomely name as Ankenbrand. If the teachers must be handsome they should at least be hired by men with handsome names.

St. Louis Kiddies to Get Their Money

ST. LOUIS kiddies put $92,500 in the Savings Trust Company and the National Bridge Trust Company, both of which failed. The courts having refused to put the claims of the children in the preferred class, Dr. Henry J. Gerling, superintendent of schools, gave $25,000 from his personal fortune, so that the faith of the children in the honesty of grown folks could be restored.

A Working Knowledge of 500 Languages

IN THE person of George E. Hay, 81 years of age, a retired proofreader, London claims as a citizen a man who has a working knowledge of about 500 languages. It goes to say that he has a marvelous memory. Even though retired, his recreation is the studying of foreign languages. His work as proofreader was principally in the correction of some thirty of the Asiatic languages.

Pollution of Human Blood Stream

ALFRED PULFORD, M.D., in Truthteller for June, expresses his opinion that the increase of insanity of 840 percent in less than 50 years is due to the pollution of the blood stream with serums, vaccines and toxoids, and believes that 25 percent of heart disease among school children, and the world-wide spread of sleeping sickness and infantile paralysis, are largely due to the same cause.

University of Virginia

THE University of Virginia, supported by taxes on blacks as well as whites, refused to receive into its classrooms Alice C. Jackson, daughter of a Negro druggist. Miss Jackson, a graduate of Smith College last year, desired to go further with her studies in the Romance languages.

Money Back in 49 Years?

A SUBSCRIBER sends in an enrollment blank which explains that applicants may enter government service at from 16 to 65 years; the blank is put out by a private concern in Denver which apparently gives instruction in forestry. On the blank, above the student's signature appear these words, "If I fail to pass or am not offered an appointment before the termination of my eligibility, my fee is to be returned to me." The man's son is 16 years of age. The father wants to know if the son will get his money back in 49 years. Not that you could notice it. The son will pass. Never fear. And when he "passes" the responsibility of the 'school' also passes. The catch is all in the little word "or". But if the unexpected should happen, and the boy should not "pass", it would still be 49 years before one could be sure whether or not he would be offered an appointment. By that time he might be alive and so might the proprietor of the 'school'; but they might not. In either event the collection would be difficult. If these schools do not teach people anything else, they should at least teach them to be careful not to fall for clever ads.

Deaf Mutes of 14 Nations

DEAF mutes of fourteen nations have been holding a convention in London under the auspices of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. They have a natural sign language that enables persons of various races and tongues to make themselves understood without the utterance of a sound. For example: The American Indians, the Australian aborigines and the deaf mutes indicate a house by placing the two hands, with the tips of the fingers together, in the form of a pointed arch; a snake is indicated by a sinuous forward movement of the hand; the command to go is by the hand raised sharply as if throwing something over the shoulder. One of the most touching scenes ever held in London was when 700 of these acted out prayers and hymns at a meeting held in St. Paul's cathedral without the uttering of a sound.

Bengali on a Linotype

BY REDUCING the number of characters from the original 600, and by doubling up, the Bengali language has now been reduced to the range of the linotype keyboard and, as a matter of fact, the first Bengali linotype machine has already been delivered in Calcutta.

What the Teachers Must Be

NEW YORK teachers must be habitually neat, clean, orderly, refined, good-mannered, tactful, courteous, co-operative, unselfish, industrious, reliable, honest, integrious, kind, cheerful, affectionate, sympathetic and skillful in teaching and adapting a thorough knowledge of subject matter to the needs of the pupils. They must habitually use correct English in writing, speaking and teaching, must maintain discipline, be loyal to the public school system, to the fellow teachers and supervisors and to organized Society; must have the spirit of service and enjoy good health, mental, moral, emotional and physical. They must be young, good-looking, not too fat or too thin, well dressed and agreeable, and, if a woman, unmarried. In the South they may not be Republicans, and in most communities must not be Socialists, Communists, Negroes, Jewish, Catholic or foreign-born. In some places college graduates are rejected, as lacking imagination, vision, courage and personality.

Site of New York's World's Fair

NEW YORK plans to have a world's fair in 1939 that will far surpass anything else-where ever attempted. The site, two miles long by one-third of a mile wide, is at the population center of Greater New York, adjacent to Kew Gardens and Flushing, and is at present unoccupied. It will require some filling. It will have an airport. It can be reached by ships at Flushing bay. The cost of getting there is but 5c. There are 11,000,000 people within the forty-mile zone.

Hungry School Children in Arizona

DR. S. D. RING, county school superintendent of Maricopa county, Arizona, is reported as saying that "many children who are attending school go to their classes daily without breakfasts and only have morsels found in garbage cans for their noonday meals. Teachers have witnessed the starving children taking food that other students had discarded, from garbage cans". Ethiopian papers (if there are any), please copy.

The European Jargon

OF THE 3,500 languages now in use in various parts of the earth, 120 are regularly broadcast from European radio stations.

Medical Education

Free Medical Broadcasting

THE American people are duly appreciative of the acts of the National Broadcasting Company and the Columbia Broadcasting System in allotting free time on the air to the American Medical Association. When the Citizens Medical Reference Bureau, Inc. (which is against compulsory medicine or surgery for children or adults), desired some time to present their views they found they could have no time allotted. They found also that, in the case of the Columbia Broadcasting System, their application had to be submitted to a board of six allopathic M.D.'s. Unable to get on the air, the Bureau registered the following protest:

"The allopathic school of medicine probably represents the opinion of the majority of the citizens, but it is none the less true that there is a considerable body of the citizens, including many doctors, who feel that one perhaps more important element in public health is the centering of the thought of the public on health rather than disease, on confidence rather than fear, on sanitary engineering rather than medication. It is also our feeling that entire freedom should be given both adults and children and parents of children in the selection of the brand of medicine or surgery they prefer to rely upon. There is also the obvious fact that more exaggerated claims have been made from time to time by commercial houses and commercially minded individuals as to the healing properties of certain substances, vaccines, antitoxins, etc., than unprejudiced analysis of the results achieved would support. Our feeling is that governmental agencies or semi-public agencies, such as the radio, should not be encouraged to adopt a salesmanship attitude of assuring the public that one particular system is the only one with healing efficacy and without danger if there is any considerable body of intelligent citizens holding to the contrary. At the very least, the opposition should be given their opportunity to present the facts on the other side intelligently, amicably, and fairly. In no sense do we question the serious and kindly intent of those men and women within or out of the medical profession who are earnestly devoting their time and labor to the relief of human suffering, nor do we differ from anyone as to his right to urge the wisdom of the means of healing recommended by him.

Curious Combination of Bone Diseases

A COMMERCIAL artist of Azusa, Calif., has two curious bone diseases threatening to kill him within two years. By the operation of one of these he has lost four inches in height in one year. By the operation of the other his hat size has increased in the same time from 6 7/8 to 8 1/4.

Dr. Kingsbury Scores the A.M.A.

DR. JOHN A. KINGSBURY, former commissioner of charities of New York city, in an address at Montreal, Quebec, made the following statements:

"I do not hesitate to say that the American Medical Association has resorted to every trick known to politicians and political organizations to prejudice the public and to sway legislators in an effort to stem the rising tide of public sentiment favoring health insurance. Like certain big business organizations that are seeking to defeat other aspects of the New Deal program, so-called 'organized medicine' has passed resolutions based on selfishness and prejudice. Like ordinary lobby groups, they have sent thousands of telegrams to the president and to Congress, seeking to exert pressure without reference to the merit of proposals under consideration. They have sought to use personal influence on those in high places, have spent tens of thousands of dollars on publicity campaigns of misinformation, have spread false rumors and resorted to scurvy attack of personalities."

A.M.A. Would Censor Radio

IN CONVENTION at Atlantic City the American Medical Association went on record as favoring radio censorship, with itself, of course, as the censor, of all matters affecting public health. In view of the fact that over half of the people of the country are on record as favoring other means of keeping well or of getting well than are of interest to the A.M.A., this is rich, to say the least. It smacks of the same spirit as shown by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in seeking to censor religious programs. All of these would-be censors should be tied up in a bag together and the hose turned on them.

Honey for Wounds

DR. N. ZAISS, of Vienna, reports wonderful results in treating wounds with honey. The wound is completely filled with strips of gauze dipped in honey. The wound is said to be perfectly clean in 24 hours, any pollution at that time adhering to the dressing material, which is changed daily. After a slight transient smarting the honey is cooling and soothing, and is altogether antiseptic.

500 Adrenalin Revivals

IT IS claimed that by the use of adrenalin and one other means not named not less than 500 persons in New York and Chicago have been restored to life after death had occurred and there was otherwise no hope.

Serum "Education"

The Whooping Cough Vaccine Racket

SAYS Gordon White, M.D., in the Medical Record, New York, June 5, 1935:

"Recently some papers appeared in medical journals by not disinterested physicians extolling certain vaccines for the prevention of whooping cough. Following these publications a host of high-pressure salesmen came down to boost these products. These vaccines are, as yet, unapproved by the American Medical Association, or any health department or health authority. Their prophylactic value is still in the experimental stage. It will require many years of study and observation in institutions for children to prove their usefulness. In the end these vaccines may turn out to be either most valuable or entirely useless. In spite of the uncertainty of the prophylactic effect of these vaccines, and in order to make a few paltry dollars, a large number of physicians, especially of the younger set, have descended like locusts on innocent infants and children vaccinating every one of them that comes their way, leaving in their wake swollen arms, infections, high temperature and other discomforts. The use of vaccines or serums in children must have a definite, proved therapeutic or prophylactic indication. No foreign protein should be injected into children on a possible chance that it may do some good in the future. It is well for these enterprising doctors to stop, look and listen before this unsavory practice becomes the talk of the town."

Why the Typhoid Vaccine Was a Poor Seller

DR. JOHN DILL ROBERTSON, former commissioner of health of Chicago, in an address published in the Illinois Medical Journal, July, 1926, explained why the typhoid vaccine was a poor seller. He said:

"When the typhoid fever vaccine was first produced it was freely predicted that we would be able to conquer typhoid in our city through its use. Experiments showed that this vaccine, like that for diphtheria, toxin-antitoxin, was difficult to sell to the people. Sanitarians, with their pasteurization, their chlorination, their food coverings, their screenings, their elimination of toilets from backyards, the elimination of horses by the automobile, all together, did what it was hoped the typhoid immunizing agent would do."

Who Is to Blame for These Deaths?

AT Elizabeth City, N. C., the mother of 19-month-old Doris Hurdle caused her to be vaccinated with one of the diphtheria serums on Wednesday, July 10. This was done without the father's approval. The child was well when the poison was injected, but died at three o'clock Friday morning, July 12. Thereupon the mother committed suicide. Who is responsible?

Missoula Runs Out of Tick Serum

AN ITEM in the Sunday Missoulian, Missoula, Montana, explains that only 1,000 Missoulians were vaccinated against bites of wood ticks in 1935, as against 2,000, which is the usual number. The item explains that these vaccinations are given in the Missoula county health office. The population of Missoula county is 21,782. What happens to the 19,782 who are never vaccinated against bites of the wood tick (which number, in 1935, is 20,782) remains unexplained; but one can guess. And the guess is that they are just as well off without the serum as they would be with it. There are said to be 15,000 kinds of small bugs or beetles. Some claim that there are more. Would it be good sense to be vaccinated against bites of each kind of bug? If one were in the serum business, the answer might possibly be yes. And so it does not seem to matter seriously that in Missoula somebody let the wood tick serum get too much chilled and the health authorities could give only 1,000 shots of it, where they had planned to give twice as many. Anyway, as the story stands, the serum dispensers lost only half their business; but 90 percent of the people of the county never were customers, anyway. They have to get along just as they did before the serum was invented.

This Business of Government Doctors

THIS business of government doctors for everybody, if it ever comes, will be one of the worst evils imaginable. In Coventry, England, after six months of inefficient government doctoring, Miss Harriet Taylor, 10 Ena Road, had two halves of a cedar-wood pencil 4 1/2 inches long, and the black lead which the pencil had contained, cut out of her leg by another doctor, who knew his business. The so-called "panel" doctor refused to believe the pencil had penetrated her leg, refused to send her to a hospital, and medical "courtesy" makes it impossible for her to disclose his name. If that is not tyranny, name something that is.

Chaulmoogra Oil Working Well

CHAULMOOGRA oil, extracted from the seeds of a fruit resembling grapefruit, is found to work out well in the treatment of leprosy. Out of 750 lepers received at the Federal Hospital for Lepers, Caryville, La., 171 have been paroled as symptom-free. Leprosy is not rapidly contagious, but is contracted only by prolonged contact, such as living together.

Serum and Other Peddlers

Cruelty to Children

THE terrible years preceding Armageddon are showing ominously in human misconduct. In Great Britain, for now seven successive years, cases of violence against children have increased, until last year there were 4,814 cases in court. In more than one-fourth of the cases the father had been unemployed for a long period. One man who admitted he could make £4 a week preferred to exist on the dole and had his young wife and a six-month-old infant living in a hencoop in a back yard. To enter it one had to double up and crawl in.

The Schick Test

IN THE Lancet, of October 6, 1923, Dr. Peters, lecturer on infectious diseases, in the University of Bristol, wrote that one of his Fever Hospital nurses, not allowed in the diphtheria wards until six weeks after the last of two or three doses of toxin-antitoxin, developed diphtheria two months after completion of the immunizing dose, and two other nurses developed diphtheria while being immunized, and not in contact with any known case of the disease. In Vienna early in 1924, seven children were inoculated with toxin-antitoxin in a children's hospital, and promptly died of heart failure. Its use has now been forbidden in Austria. The slogan in New York city is, "Every baby under six immunized by June 1."

Immunity from Diphtheria

ANNIE RILEY HALE, in an open letter to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, reminds the first lady of the land that "according to figures furnished by the U. S. Public Health Bureau in November, 1924, the natural immunity from diphtheria for the whole population is five times greater than that even promised for the immunizing serum by the manufacturers and users of it. In the light of this fact, where is the excuse for even one death by the artificial immunization?"

A Brief "Case History"

J. O. SAMPSON, pioneer, writing from the home of his host in North Carolina, said: "Less than a week ago his little boy of 4 years 10 months took a cold and fever. The local doctor was called, giving a pill each call, which revived the child. Finally he administered antitoxin; then followed an operation in the hospital; the funeral was yesterday at 3 p.m."

British Ecclesiastical Warmongers

BRITISH ecclesiastical warmongers are getting what is coming to them in a book published in London, entitled Arms and the Clergy. In "sermons" preached in 1914-1917 some choice expressions were: "God could stop this war, but in mercy abstains from doing so." "I beseech you, my hearers, to continue this war in the Christian spirit." "God calls England to send every man it can into the battlefield." "Kill Germans, not for the sake of killing, but to save the world, to kill the good as well as the bad, to kill the young men as well as the old, to kill those who have shown kindness to our wounded as well as those fiends who crucified the Canadian sergeant. As I have said a thousand times, I look upon it as a war for purity." The book contains 100 pages of pro-war speeches by the ecclesiastical murderers, and makes a good companion volume to a similar production in America entitled Preachers Present Arms, reviewed in our issue of November 22, 1933 (No. 370).

"Pope Leads 30,000 in Prayer"

A HEADLINE in the New York Times says, "Pope Leads 30,000 in Prayer for Peace." Concerning this "great" prayer the account says: "His Holiness' head bowed low and he remained a long time on his knees pleading in Latin prayer for world peace. At this point the throng of worshippers bowed their heads and joined him in silent appeal." The account does not say what scriptures were read at this time, but an appropriate one would have been Matthew 6:6-8, which reads as follows: "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him."

Landlord Removed the Roof

IN Marinette, Wis., a landlord who was trying to force a widow and her eight children to move conceived the brilliant idea of removing the roof. The idea worked all right, but it rained, the woman's furniture was spoiled, she was humiliated in the sight of her neighbors, and she sued the landlord and received a judgment for $600 damages.

Aluminum "Education"

Aluminum Trust 97.71 Percent Perfect

IT WOULD not be quite correct to state that the Aluminum Trust holds all the departments of public health in the United States in the hollow of its hand. Indications are that there is a slip somewhere; not a serious one, but sufficient to draw to their attention. For example, here is the usual stupid report to a stupid public health official. It goes ahead and gives all the details of two women being poisoned in a public restaurant, an A No. 1, first-class place, too. The food with which they were poisoned was all first-class food, and well cooked. The report occupies 421 words. In the course of the report the inspector said in parenthesis ten fatal words that gave the whole thing away. Those words were "(the pot or kettle being of the usual material, aluminum)". To be sure, those ten words of truth constitute but 2.29 percent of the total, and that still leaves the Aluminum Trust 97.71 percent master of the situation; yet, in a job where it is desired to kill every last man, woman and child in the United States by aluminum poisoning rather than have the truth come to the light, one wonders how it was that these ten words were overlooked. Of course, the head of the "health" department overlooked the ten words. He would have overlooked them if the whole 421 words had been devoted to an angry protest against aluminum poisoning, but in that case the poor inspector would have been fired forthwith, for the poisoning must go on. After this inspector has made enough reports he will learn that nobody is interested in learning that the poisonings were due to the food's being cooked and left to stand in aluminum containers, and will say nothing further on the subject. And then the Aluminum Trust will have scored a 100-percent record.

Navy Casting Out Aluminum

C. W. SCHMITS, of California, discloses that the navy is making progress. He says: "A civilian employee working in the United States navy yard at Mare Island, California, has informed me that the aluminum cooking utensils and other culinary implements heretofore made of that metal are being discarded from the ships' galleys and are being replaced with utensils of stainless steel. It is evident that unhealthy seamen make poor fighters and are an expensive upkeep. I wonder if the navy officials have been reading The Golden Age."

Aluminum Feet

A FLORIDA subscriber writes: "Repairing our home and painting our garage, husband hired a neighbor to do our work. He had been ailing eight months with sores on his legs and feet. One doctor pronounced it 'muck sores', another said 'athlete's foot'. His feet were running sores full of pus and would bleed. He had on an old pair of loose storm rubbers, his feet all bandaged. Had tried all kinds of medicines, salves and washes. I handed him a copy of The Golden Age and he read the articles on aluminum. His wife had just returned from the hospital after operations for tumors and ulcerated womb. They threw away all their aluminumware a year ago. Both at this time are feeling fine. He can wear his Sunday shoes. Feet healed up fine."

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