Golden Age, February 12, 1936
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Vol. XVII - No. 428
February 12, 1936 CONTENTS
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
God’s Providences in New Zealand 292
Fined for Remembering Lord’s Death 295
St. Louis Police Must Be Polite 300
Old Age Pensions for Indians 303
MAN 305
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES IN GERMANY, AND NEARER HOME 306
The Little “Red” Schoolhouse 310
Foes of Constitution Observe It 312
CREATION AND VINDICATION 315
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
Fuel for Five Years Ahead 297
Free Port on Staten Island 300
California’s State-Owned Railroad 301
Success of High-Speed Trains 301
Sixty Hours Flying Time to Manila 302
The China Clipper 302
Round-the-World Air Mails 302
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
A New Zealander’s Disappointment 293
Peace Ballot in Britain a Success 293
A Pathetic Letter from Germany 295
Major Weigel in South-West Africa 295
The Demons in the Swine 297
Italian Demonstrations Against War 297
Fascism’s Opening Wedge 298
Attack on Constitutional Government 298
The World War and the New Deal 299
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Herring for Fertilizer 295
Eighty-seven Typewriter Dialects 296
Old-Style Locomotives Must Go 301
HOME AND HEALTH
Tried Everything Else 294
Osteopaths Up Against It in Britain 294
Vaccination in Australia 294
Aluminum Utensils in Turkey 296
One Reason for Insanity Increase 304
Aluminum Utensils in Restaurants 304
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
CONDENSATIONS OF CANADIAN NEWS 291
Air Excursions to Isle of Wight 293
Old Age Pensions for Indians 303
Youth Hostels 303
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
ITALIANS CONTROL LAST CONSISTORY 308
“Organized to Commit Murder” 309
The Most Expensive Show on Earth 311
Coughlin Lines Up Behind Ratti 311
The Lady Missed the Show 311
Rome Afraid of the Movies 312
Catholic Daughters on Birth Control 312
PROTESTANT PARAGRAPHS 313
Spiritism in a Congregational Pulpit 314
He Got the Rings Back 314
Jobs for Rev. Arthur Edwards 314
Keeping Things on the Move 318
WHAT YOU GET FOR $2 319
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The Golden Age
Volume XVII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, February 12, 1936 Number 428
Condensations of Canadian News
CROWDED out by the stress of events in Germany, Massachusetts, and Central Africa, 51 neatly typed pages of "Events in Canada", by our Canadian correspondent, enough to fill a Golden Age, now demand attention. They must be condensed desperately, with the hope of treating the Canadians better at some future time.
They have discovered a new, picturesque and safer route from Hudson bay to Hudson strait. It will lengthen the navigation season ten days.
Tariff walls between the United States and Canada have broken down somewhat, to the mutual advantage of both countries.
There is serious talk of diverting the flow of the Nipigon river from Hudson bay to Lake Superior: the claim is that 392,000 horsepower could be developed at an expense of $3,000,000. This would raise the water levels at Montreal 1.4 inches and benefit all the Lakes.
Canada's second largest business is caring for tourists from the United States. Wheat comes first.
The Government is getting after the Quebec hotels to bring them to a higher standard.
Canada will shortly have a Blue Book on its tropical, hot-water valleys in the Liard valley of the far north, where grass grows seven feet long.
Ambrose Small, Toronto theater man, disappeared in 1919, the next day after selling his theater interests for one million dollars in cash. His wife has just died, leaving the whole fortune to the Roman Catholic "church", and it is supposed Ambrose was bumped off to make sure the church would get the swag.
Group hospitalization is being advertised widely in Canada; it is an arrangement whereby subscribers pay so much a week to a hospital fund. A confidence man in Vancouver stood up four surgeons in the same day for $15 each, on the ground that he wanted to have his appendix taken out immediately. He did not show up at the time and place agreed upon.
The Canadian kids have a paragraph of their own. Some of their answers to examination questions are: "Instead of ships going overland, they go by water, which is easier." "Hemp is a kind of hair used on cowboys." "The religion of India is the cask system." "The people of China are Budests, and of Japan Budapests." "Lines which join places having the same atmospheric pressure are called baritones." "A continental shelf is a shallow body of water where fish come to spoon." "Gutta percha is the chief beverage of the people of Brazil." "Laura Secord was a notable woman clad only in slippers." "The advantage of the Soo Canal is that boats can sail through it instead of having to portage around." "Australia is a very fertile country because so many British people have settled there." "The Saar is a piece of land that the Russian Saar owned." "China has remained so little influenced by other countries because it is smarter." "The chief seaport of Paris is Bologny."
Concerning the epidemic of flag-saluting patriotism in the United States, the Vancouver New Herald said: "There are two ways to end such incidents. The one is to stop trying to build up synthetic patriotism; the other, to adopt a state religion and compel observance on penalty of the stake and the gallows. The first method is much more satisfactory than the second." (And yet 22 of the 'Idiotic States of America' have fallen for the Roman Hierarchy plan.)
In Westmount, Quebec, where Jehovah's witnesses have been arrested time and again, all workers in the district visited the city en masse, American style, called on the chief of police and the mayor, and placed 1,200 pieces of literature in the town, all without interference. A similar method was used in stopping the senseless persecutions in Ville St. Pierre (where two women were sent to jail for ten days by one of Quebec’s rotten judges, without even knowing that they had been on trial).
Harry H. Stevens, former minister of trade and commerce, has made the official statement that twelve men practically own and control Canada, which, for that reason, is all ripe for Fascism.
Twice in seven years wounded geese have flown to the home of Jack Miner, Kingsville, where they had previously been treated kindly, and walked straight up the path to the front door, so that they might die among friends.
In a village in Manitoba there will be made a two-year test of a health insurance scheme in which everybody in the town will be given free medical care, free hospitalization, including surgery, and free medicine, all at the general expense of the taxpayers. Everybody will be vaccinated and serumized for diphtheria.
In three months Uncle Sam bought ten million bushels of Canadian wheat, “brain trust” plan.
The Vancouver Province thinks the Canadian government is making a mistake to suppose that young men will be willing to be herded permanently into old people’s homes for the young.
The Ontario government adopted an “Adopt-a-Baby” campaign, and in two weeks were out of babies, all the youngsters having found good homes.
The golden-eyed fishes of Lake Manitoba, accounted by some the finest eating fish in the world, are now almost extinct.
Persons convicted of crime in Canada no longer have the privilege of appeal to the British Privy Council. In other words, in a retrograde, priest-ridden province like Quebec the legal decisions obtainable are the last word until Armageddon.
Canada has made some shipments of hogs and cattle to the United States; a natural result of the AAA laws.
Canada has rulers galore: 96 senators, 245 members of the House of Commons, and 44,000 civil servants at and from Ottawa; in the provincial legislatures, 63 for Alberta, 47 for British Columbia, 55 for Manitoba, 48 for New Brunswick, 30 for Nova Scotia, 90 for Ontario, 30 for Prince Edward Island, 114 for Quebec, and 63 for Saskatchewan.
A Roman Catholic judge of Quebec ruled that a Protestant and Catholic when married by properly appointed officials are not properly married unless married by a priest. That is Roman Catholic Fascism, pure and simple.
Families on relief in Toronto are allowed $5.69 per week for groceries, meat, vegetables, butter, bread, and milk, for a family of five. Clothing is supplied. Shoes are repaired by city order. Water is paid for by the city; also light and gas.
God’s Providences in New Zealand
SAYS Carl W. Reichardt, of New Zealand: “The Golden Age is the only paper with any real news. I have just finished reading No. 411, and it was reading. Judge Rutherford’s address ‘Government’ sure was some address. If it isn’t the truth, well, I don’t know what truth is. I have read all Judge Rutherford’s books, about fifteen of them, the last five being autographed copies, and the way they explain the Bible, well, they make it as clear as daylight, and the sooner God’s kingdom under Christ is established, the better. I have been lending my books to my neighbors; several have taken notice and firmly believe what they say about God’s Word. One very good thing I have learned from The Golden Age: the articles on aluminum are the absolute truth. It is a funny thing how some people will take notice and others, well, I don’t know what to make of them; they won’t listen at all.
“I must tell you about a rather thrilling experience. I was down in Wellington for a day or two, and while there I met a friend of mine. While talking together about different things we got to discussing the Bible. I could see he had hold of the wrong idea, so I told him a bit about it. He told me to come out to his place, which I did. Well, he had a big Roman Catholic Bible there. I showed him a few things and he started to think then, but had to go out on an errand. While he was out I was wondering how to go on when he came back; I was wishing I had some of my books. While I was waiting a lady called at the door. The little boy went out to see what she wanted. Of course, he told her there was nobody home, as both his parents were out, so she turned to go away. While doing so she spotted me standing by the window, so she came back and said to the boy, ‘I want to see that man.’ I went out and as I saw what she was carrying I said to her, ‘You have got Judge Rutherford’s books.’ She looked at me as if she did not know what to say. I asked her if she had a full set of the books; she did not, but she would get them; her car was down the road a bit. She was not long getting them, and also booklets; so I made a present of them to my friend. He was pleased to get them. He knew all about the Catholic Hierarchy; he did not have much good to say about them. He said they were robbers and worse.” New Zealand—Great Britain
A New Zealander’s Cry of Disappointment
A NEW ZEALAND subscriber, an ex-service man, writes of his homeland disappointedly. First he encloses a clipping showing that in Hollford Valley 250 men have camped four years in tents without floors, surrounded on all sides by millions of feet of timber, and with a sawmill only a short distance away. At times the snow is two feet deep around these tents. The subscriber wants to know why these 250 men have not been men enough to rectify these conditions, in spite of the numerous notices in the camp that any man taking a stick of timber will be dismissed and prosecuted. And then he sets down his own story as follows:
“One of the Roman emperors (a Caesar) once remarked that: If you gave the great mass of the people sufficient wine to drink, and circuses and bull fights and gladiator fights to amuse them, you could do anything you liked to them (or with them)—knock them down, kick them, abuse them, insult them—and they would stand for it. They are certainly like that in New Zealand today, still. If you give them a couple of glasses of beer, a tin of tobacco, and a free pass to a football match or a boxing tournament (even if you told them that there was no money and no food this week), they wouldn’t ‘buck’ at all; only grumble for a few seconds, and soon forget all about it, in the excitement of the prospect of seeing a ball game or wrestling match. No depth of mind, no mental ballast; like a ship with all sails set, but no ballast or cargo, and no one at the helm, at the mercy of every change of wind that blows. You can’t have much respect for them. Lots of coolies in Asia have more mental depth or ballast in them than lots of ‘poor whites’ seem to have.”
S. J. League in New Zealand
A N S. J. League will be formed in New Zealand. Instead of being under the control of “Reverend” Charles E. Coughlin, it will be managed by “Reverend Father” Charles Higgins, who received his instructions from Mr. Coughlin. “S. J.” stands both for Coughlin’s so-called “Social Justice” and also for “Society of Jesus” [Jesuits].
Air Excursions to Isle of Wight
LAST season air excursions to the Isle of Wight were popular. Americans in large numbers made use of the time between their boat trains and the boats themselves, at Southampton, to hop to the Isle of Wight and enjoy its many interesting oddities.
Swell Dressers in Britain
THE London News Chronicle tells about the swell dressers at the Abbey church of Downside. It says:
“The eye was caught by the high white Roman mitre worn by Cardinal Seredi over his scarlet skull-cap; the long scarlet train of Cardinal MacRoy of Armagh [the same one that dodged the rain at the show in Sydney]; the brown habit and bare sandalled feet of the Franciscans . . . ; the superbly-enamelled and jewelled crosses on the breasts of some of the bishops and the white silk shoes of the abbot, with their exquisite gold embroidery, under his black cappa magna and its 14-foot train. The massed blacks of the 80 Downside monks threw into relief the vivid purples and reds of the visiting clergy.”
The British miners are desperately trying to get 50c per week more for their work, setting forth that on their present wages their entire earnings go for food to merely keep them alive. But no matter what comes, every girl in Britain will insist that the abbot’s white silk shoes, in their gold embroidery, are just too lovely for anything, and his 14-foot train was just too grand for words. Probably some of the half-starved miners could supply the missing words, but they can’t get any such bad words published in The Golden Age—not on a bet.
Peace Ballot in Britain a Huge Success
BRITISH people earnestly want peace, and said so pointedly when 11,627,765 men and women, 38 percent of all the residents of Great Britain over 18 years of age, voted in the peace ballot. Of this great number, 11,090,387 voted for Britain to stay in the League of Nations, 10,470,489 voted for reduction of armaments by international agreement, 10,417,329 for prohibition of the private manufacture of armaments by international agreement, 10,027,608 for economic pressure on one nation that insists on attacking another, and 9,533,558 for the abolition of national military and naval aircraft by international agreement. The vote is utterly worthless and impractical except as an expression of a real desire for peace and safety on the part of the voters. The governments will go along and do as they are told by the International Murderers, Limited, the real bosses in Britain as they are everywhere. What the people need, and their only possible relief from these intolerable conditions, is the kingdom of God which is about to destroy all the works of the Devil all over the world.
British Health Hints
Tried Everything Else
By Mrs. E. M. Kerriush (Tasmania)
I FEEL I would like to tell you a little story. About two years ago I had a little boy of nine very sick for about twelve months. He always had pains and was so sick we took him to three doctors. He did not seem to get any better. In fact, his knees began to give way and he could hardly walk. We were getting very worried and took him to the doctor again, who said he was afraid our son had paralysis.
One day Mrs. K., one of your workers, said, "How is your boy?" I told her he did not seem to improve, with all the medicine he had taken. Mrs. K. said to me, "Now, what do you cook in?" Well, I thought that a strange question, as if that had anything to do with my son's illness. I said, "Here are the pots and pans, all aluminum." The lady said, "Well, if you want your boy to get better, throw all that wretched stuff out." I thought it over and, knowing I had tried all I knew to help my boy, decided to try what cooking in iron pots and pans would do.
In a month from that day my boy was a new child. He lost his pains and was not sick, and his legs began to get the strength back in them. Really, it was wonderful. And from that day I have not used an aluminum pot, and never will. I proved it was slowly poisoning my child. In fact, the whole family was often sick after a meal, but since leaving off cooking in the wretched stuff we are all so different. I have your worker, Mrs. K., to thank for telling me about it. I am so pleased to see in this week's Golden Age quite a lot about aluminum. Do tell the world about it; for it is deadly stuff. I thought you would like to hear from Tasmania from a very grateful person.
Osteopaths Up Against It in Britain
IT IS well known that millions of people believe that osteopathy is a method of healing which is as suitable for the treatment of diseases of any description as is any other method, yet in England recently the opinions of these millions were set aside as of no consequence; the osteopaths were to be investigated by a committee of their natural enemies, the allopaths; they were condemned in advance as being only 2,000 to 3,000 practitioners, only 170 of whom, in the opinion of those who know nothing on the subject, are "qualified". Their one school in Britain was denounced before investigation as "of negligible importance, inefficient for its purpose, and, above all, in thoroughly dishonest hands". It seems too bad that a few men whose own methods are so generally distrusted should be given the power to throttle the wishes of millions of people as to the methods they wish used to help them when they are ill.
The Bishop of Toronto
IN A four-page two-color leaflet bearing his picture and the text (sic) "Suffer Little Children to come unto me and forbid them not: for of such is the Kingdom of God" (Luke 18:16) the bishop of Toronto advises parents to have their children given the latest toxoid treatment, in lieu of the so-called "toxin-antitoxin", now discredited. Parents should probably hurry up and do this before somebody discovers that the toxoid is just as worthless or evil in its effects as the toxin-antitoxin, but just why the bishop of Toronto should rush into print to misuse a text of God's Word in a campaign to help out the serum-peddlers is hard to understand.
Vaccination in Australia
NATHANIEL ANDERSON, in The Open Door, says:
"In Australia the parents do not believe in vaccination. They are 30 to 1 against it as a dangerous practice. No other country in the world, I am informed, has experimented in non-vaccination so enormously. In the whole of Australian history only three children have died of smallpox. I have heard of this, but for some mysterious reason the vaccinators in America have not, nor have the authorities who might stop the sale of vaccine as a very possible poison in the blood of the child."
Old Recipe for Tapeworm
IN AN old doctor's book appears the following recipe for tapeworm: Chew and swallow the bark of slippery elm, continuing at intervals until you find the head and pass no more joints. —Mrs. J. Howard.
Constable Reid's Lonely Beat
CONSTABLE T. REID, Australia, has the longest and loneliest beat in the world; it is 300 miles from north to south and 252 miles from east to west, centering on the little town of Newcastle Waters. He has two native assistants.
British Airplane Factories Busy
BRITISH airplane factories are so busy turning out military planes that no civilian can obtain delivery of a private plane.
Germany
A Pathetic Letter from Germany
A PATHETIC letter from Germany says: "The situation is getting increasingly difficult, and soon it may be impossible even to write a letter. Many brethren are in prison camps, and if Jehovah would not deliver them they would never come out. They are not permitted to have a Bible, are cut off from all studies, and cannot bring the truth to anyone. Nevertheless, there are faithful ones who are continuously active to feed the hungry ones, until they too are imprisoned. We all are continuously spied upon by our neighbors. Every eight to fourteen days the police search our homes, turning everything upside down, in order to discover forbidden literature. Where a trial is held, the public is excluded. I know brethren who were taken into custody and then were deported to a concentration camp; later a trial followed, after which they spent two or more months in prison; and at the end of their prison terms they have been brought again to camp, which they do not leave any more."
Nazi "Manhood"
NAZI "manhood" was exemplified in a Silesian town the other day, when a football match was held between German and Polish teams. One of the best Polish players was a Jew named Baumgartner. The Nazis threw stones at him until the play was suspended, and then rushed on the field and beat him to death. To a Nazi this seems noble and manly. The spirit shows in youth. At the French border a dozen German lads twelve to fifteen years of age rushed across the border and attacked a single French lad named Dannier, stabbing him repeatedly. What a wonderful country Nazi Germany is to live in! and what a grand land the United States will be when the Pashby-minded have fully 'swastika-ized' it!
Major Weigel in South-West Africa
MAJOR WEIGEL, territorial group leader of the Nazis in South-West Africa, wrote many letters which now make interesting reading in the office of the attorney general for South-West Africa. In one of these letters he said: "We must preserve the German character of the territory until it really becomes German again. Soon the Hitler flag will be flying in all streets even in the capitals of German South-West Africa." Maybe that is just prophesying, but the attorney general invited Major Weigel and others involved to explain the source of their inspiration. South-West Africa is now British mandated area.
For Obeying the Lord Jesus
SAID the Koelnische Zeitung Stadt-Anzeiger, Cologne, Germany:
A 38-year-old man was a member of the Association of Earnest Bible Students, which has been suppressed by decree of the Secret State Police of September 28, 1934. Instead of obeying the law, the defendant held it expedient to celebrate, on April 17, 1935, in his home, the Memorial, together with his wife and her friend. The result was a charge for violation of the law. Brought before the bars of the Emergency Court, the defendant stated that he knew of the decree, but he did not consider himself guilty of a crime by celebrating the Memorial together with only two other persons. They simply ate of the bread and drank of the wine and read from the Bible. A similar testimony was given by the two women. The prosecution was of the opinion that this was a case of violation of the law, since the Bible Students as enemies of the State are prohibited to assemble themselves. The verdict was six weeks' imprisonment for the man, and 150 marks fine for each of the women.
Fined for Remembering the Lord's Death
THE Hannoverischer Anzeiger, narrating the sentencing of several of Jehovah's witnesses to 200 marks fine each, or a term in prison, said:
The charge against them was that despite the law of the government, forbidding them all meetings, propaganda and teaching activities, they congregated on April 17, 1935, in order to celebrate the Memorial according to their own way. The state prosecution pointed out that those so-called meetings are nothing else than assemblies under disguise, and moved for prison sentences of three and two months.
There is no redress against verdicts of the so-called "Emergency Courts", and neither revision nor appeal is granted. After pronouncement of judgment the sentence is immediately carried out by the executives of the state prosecution.
No Potato Bugs in Germany
IN Germany one is liable to punishment by law if there are potato bugs in his garden. It seems like a good law.
Herring for Fertilizer
THE British Herring Industry Board has decided that hereafter all herring not sold for human consumption will be turned into fertilizer and thus be made to render some return to those that catch them, and also be of some benefit to others. This surely seems like a more sensible plan than to throw them back into the sea or burn them, as was previously done.
Turkey and Miscellaneous
Aluminum Utensils in Turkey
A DISPATCH from Trebizond, Turkey, says: "Nineteen persons died and two were taken to a hospital after eating poisoned food at a gay picnic party today. The victims included eight women, six children, and five men. The food was cooked in unsanitary utensils, it is believed." There is only one thing about this Aluminum Trust murder that is gratifying, and that is the absence of the usual hypocritical sentence that an investigation is under way to determine the cause. Every reader of The Golden Age knows the cause, but these highly paid and highly inefficient health authorities never will find the cause, because they are determined not to know it. As these aluminum utensil salesmen spread abroad over all the earth, and continue their boasts about what a perfect metal aluminum is in which to cook, these deaths will mount to staggering totals. By the way, here is a label of a box of sardines beautifully packed in aluminum. The next time you get a can of sardines at your favorite chain store, be sure to examine it carefully, for if you eat sardines packed next to aluminum and your wings don't fit, don't come bothering around here.
Turkey Bans Clerical Garb
AT NOON, June 13, 1935, the new law went into effect making it illegal for anybody to wear ecclesiastical garb in public, in Turkey. This is probably a hard blow for the clerics, who love to wear long garments to deceive. The people are getting onto them, however. What a wonderful world it will be when Jehovah has done His "strange work" at Armageddon and the mountebank era will be for ever in the past.
Brick-red Snow in Turkey
THE last snow of the season, in a district 100 miles square in northeastern Turkey, was one inch deep, and of a brick-red color. It has not yet been determined whether the coloring was due to dust storms of red earth, or to pollens or swarms of insect bodies. All three of these reasons have been ascribed to red snows in the past.
Turkey Getting Ready for War
TURKEY, like the rest of the world, is warmad, and has given orders for the compulsory military training of children of both sexes. Five hundred airplanes will be purchased. The Dardanelles will be fortified.
Had to Stay in the Coop
ALL Turks had to stay cooped up in their homes until 3:00 p.m., Sunday, October 20, while the census took place. The total number of Turks is about 20,000,000. Freemasonry has just been interdicted in Turkey, in accordance with the Devil's general scheme of making the whole world Fascist and tyrannical.
Mount Ararat in Eruption
MOUNT ARARAT, where the ark landed, is now in eruption, following violent earthquakes in that part of Turkey. It is estimated that 2,000 were killed in the quakes, with 1,600 houses destroyed. Mount Ararat is always snow-covered.
Mexico Now Able to Help the Poor
"REVEREND" G. A. McDONALD, St. Louis Jesuit, in an address at the Jesuit University, as reported in the Star-Times, shows conclusively that the upset of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Mexico has been a great blessing to the country as a whole. In time past the Hierarchy crowd owned everything in the country, from the days of the archrobber Cortez down to those of Porfirio Diaz. But now, says "Father" McDonald, "the Indian peons, or poor rural element, are made to take over the confiscated properties the government has snatched from the Catholic population. . . . Formerly, the peon was accustomed to receiving a few centavos per day for his labor in addition to his board and keep. Now he says: 'See! I make more in one week than formerly all year.'" "Father" McDonald grieves for the old days when the clergy had everything their own way. He grieves too late.
Eighty-seven Typewriter Dialects
THE Remington typewriter was invented in 1867. Mark Twain was the first author to prepare manuscript on a typewriter. The Remington company now makes machines that write in 87 languages and dialects, including Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Siamese, and Persian.
Coughlin Not in Favor
IT IS of interest to note that Coughlin "expressed alarm at labor's intention to seek a thirty-hour week". It must be that the thirty-hour week would really be a good thing for the people.
Italy
The Demons in the Swine
SAID Mark Twain, one of the keenest observers and castigators of hypocrisy:
"The loud little handful, as usual, will shout for the war. The pulpit will, warily and cautiously, object, at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers, as earlier, but do not dare to say so. And now the whole nation, pulpit and all, will take up the war cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
The Italian people have just been through this farce, with a fair prospect of other nations following suit.
Well in Morning, Dead in Afternoon
A DISPATCH from Halifax, Nova Scotia, tells of an interview with a Scottish shipmaster who recently passed through Suez and landed at Naples. He declares that among the Italian invaders of Ethiopia there have been many deaths, many cases of mysterious blindness, and that from some unknown fever men who were in sound health in the morning were dead in the afternoon. The shipmaster, John Smith, found the Italians in Naples afraid to discuss the war.
All Italy Shivered
ALL Italy shivered over a gruesome tale of 14 Italian soldiers speared by two Ethiopian warriors; but the story was not allowed to get into the papers. So says Italian correspondence.
Italian Demonstrations Against War
ITALIAN demonstrations against war have occurred at Parma, Leghorn, Siena, Palermo, Mauro, Corleone, Vittoria, Acuasanta, Milan and Pavia. Mussolini spends much time muttering to himself and is alleged to have said several times that the probable end of his career is that he will die a prisoner on one of Britain's desert islands. In order to keep the poor Italian suckers in line on the feast day of St. Januarius the so-called "blood" was "liquified" and within a few minutes crowds thronged the streets saying, "There will be no war." That was on September 20. Within ten days the war had begun, showing that the "saint" (a heathen deity, by the way) lied.
"Folden Together as Thorns"
THERE are family jars in Fascism. It is hard for two tyrants to get along together, even though they have found from experience that they can occasionally make good use of each other—for selfish ends. The pope had a holiday coming off on Monday, October 28. Mussolini did not want two holidays coming in succession; so he ordered all Italian banks and commercial establishments kept open on Sunday, October 27, and the pope nearly had a fit. He might just as well have had his show a day earlier, and let business go on as usual on the Monday in question.
Fuel for Five Years Ahead
ITALIAN railways bartered for a five years' supply of coal from Poland. In exchange Poland received the magnificent 15,000-ton motor ship Pilsudski, and her sister ship the Batory, now plying between the Polish port of Gdynia and New York. The barter price for the two ships was $5,849,700. They are believed to be the first vessels ever built on a barter basis. They were constructed at the port of Trieste.
Catholic Action Halts in Italy
THE Catholic Action Organization in Italy halted its program of social service on account of its interest in Mussolini's war, and its eagerness to help him, in all possible ways, to make the most out of it. It confidently figures that the present stand of the pope by the side of Mussolini in his African venture will all be forgotten by the people when the anticipated profits of the Ethiopian campaign come rolling in.
Fascism
Fascism's Opening Wedge
BEGINNING at once, the people of France must not speak disrespectfully of Hitler, Mussolini, Sir Samuel Hoare and other heads of foreign governments.
Calling Mussolini a "tyrant" or Hitler a "madman" will bring from three months to a year in jail, plus a fine of 100 to 3,000 francs.
Suppression of the public right to criticize public officials is a traditional entering wedge of Fascism.
The whole history of even minor abridgments of free speech shows that they invariably are followed by major abridgments of free speech, and eventual suppression of all minority opinion.
France has been ripe for the Fascisti for some time. The Croix de Feu, the French war veterans, have been militantly advocating a Fascist government, and Premier Laval, of late, seems to have fallen in with their schemes.
It would only be one step from a ban on criticism of Mussolini, Hitler et al. to a ban on criticism of any and all public officials. And it will be only one step from that to a denial of the right to criticize any act of the French Government.
Intolerance of minority opinion is NECESSARY to Fascist rule. Based essentially on tyranny, suppression, intimidation, ruthlessness—it cannot stand the spotlight of an informed public opinion.
That's why, when Fascism even gets one foot in the front door, democracy quickly goes out the window.
So it has been in Italy. So it has been in Germany. So it has been in Poland. So is it likely to be in France.
HOW PLAIN THE WARNING TO AMERICA!—Philadelphia Record.
An Attack on Constitutional Government
WHAT we are witnessing in Washington is far more serious than an attack on the Constitution only. It is an attack on constitutional government—an attempt to set up in its place and stead the converse and opposite of constitutional government; to replace the liberty of the citizen with the subjection of the citizen; to convert government the servant of the people into government the master of the people.
In short, its hardly disavowed aim is the complete reversal of the American conception of the relation between the state and the individual. The plain purpose is to depress the individual and elevate the state to a position of undisputed supremacy, although to do such a thing would violate every conviction that has characterized us since we became a nation.—Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson.
"Known and Read of All Men"
THE pledge to the flag, which has caused such a hullabaloo, was written by Francis Bellamy for the Youth's Companion in 1892. That publication, which had such a great influence on the parents, grandparents and forebears of many of our present citizens, was forced to cease publication a decade or less ago, due to lack of patronage.
Members of minorities such as Jehovah's witnesses and Quakers or Friends are law-abiding citizens. If we were all like them we would need few peace officers, courts and jails. They love this country and obey its laws. Respect for our flag and love for our country cannot be obtained by force, but by being tolerant to all religions.—The Frederick (Okla.) Press.
Freedom of the Press
THE relationship between government and the press has always been recognized as a matter of large importance. Whenever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Wherever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press.—Calvin Coolidge, in an address on January 17, 1925.
Forced Patriotism
COMPULSION in patriotism seems sure to defeat its own ends. The perpetuity of this country and of its institutions does not depend on the forced salute of the flag or signing an oath of loyalty to the constitution. It depends on making those institutions function successfully to provide economic opportunity and civil and religious liberty.—Salem (Oregon) Statesman.
The Way to Kill Patriotism
IS IT true patriotism that compels a citizen to stand and salute the flag contrary to one's religious convictions? It seems to us that it is destroying the very principles for which the flag stands—liberty and freedom.—D. E. Taylor, in Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer.
U. S. and State Governments
The World War and the New Deal
FROM 1780 to 1913 inclusive the expenditures of the United States Government were $24,521,000,000. During the four years of the World War the direct cost of U. S. participation in that supreme effort to provide the people with the "New Freedom" was $26,250,000,000. But the New Deal is still more expensive; to date it has cost $30,720,000,000, with contingent obligations of $9,400,000,000 more, making a total expense of $40,120,000,000. The pay roll has jumped from 644,000 employees to 729,769. The personnel of the armed forces and the 469,000 in the CCC are not included in this.
Getting Ready for Next Great Peace Conference
GETTING ready for the next great peace conference, the United States started work on 23 war vessels, in addition to 62 aircraft carriers, light and heavy cruisers, light and heavy destroyers and submarines, already under way. Uncle Sam had to build all these war vessels to keep up with the quota which was set by the naval and military men at the London Naval Conference. If it were not for these peace conferences it might be necessary, in the interests of economy, to close up some of the shipyards and armor plate mills.
Simon Neglected to Regulate Weather
SIMON STUCKY, Hutchinson, Kansas, planted oats as a forage crop. Just as he was about to mow, heavy rains came on. As soon as the rains were over he mowed the oats anyway, but the Government came along, estimated his stack contained 560 bushels of oats, and burned both stacks because the oats were grown on contracted land. The result will be that Simon will have no feed for his 20 cattle this winter. Where Simon fell down was that he neglected to regulate the weather.
Where the Burden of Government Falls
IN AN address at Boise, Idaho, United States Senator William E. Borah declared that while the last session of Congress imposed a tax of $250,000,000 on the rich it imposed $9,750,000,000 burdens upon the common man, where the great weight of government always falls. Cost of government has far outstripped increase of population and increase of national wealth, and taxes and indebtedness must increase now until the debacle.
An Honest Judge in Baltimore
JUDGE EUGENE O'DUNNE, of Baltimore, had before him two youths who turned over to the police an old copper pot containing gold coins of the value of $28,872, which they had found in the cellar of the rented home where they lived. Claimants from all directions came rushing in to get the gold, which had evidently been buried before 1858. The judge awarded the money to the boys themselves. At the time of the find their families were on relief. Now each family will have a home of its own, and something besides, for the education of the boys.
Murderers Must Pay for Meals
THE State of Michigan charges its prisoners 70c a day for meals, and, if they have any money, makes an effort to collect. One young man, in prison for life for killing his mother, inherited $250,000 from her by his act. The death penalty for murderers is a divine provision which is ignored in the State of Michigan. One reason why there are so many murders in the United States is this maudlin sympathy for the killers instead of proper sympathy for their victims. Efforts to "improve" upon God's law can have only bad results.
Old Age Pensioners in Missouri
WHEN the old age pension law went into effect in Kansas City, a crowd of over 1,000, all over seventy years of age, stood in line for registration until scores were overcome from exhaustion. Many fainted and had to be given first aid. Large numbers were supported by crutches and canes. The Federal Government has made the surprising discovery that every fifth person on the national relief rolls is physically or mentally defective and unemployable even if employment were obtainable.
The Incipient Midwestern Statesman
A DOCTOR with a sense of humor writes in from a certain midwestern state: "Here's one for the book. A ———— politician was elected to the state legislature at the last election. After the election he asked one of his fellow politicians for train fare to Washington. Said the second politician, 'What in the h—— do you want to go to Washington for?' Replied the first politician, 'Well, ain't I elected to office?' 'But,' said the second, 'you must go to ———— [the state capital], not Washington.'"
Municipal Governments
St. Louis Police Must Be Polite
ST. LOUIS has a sensible chief of police. He has instructed officers to be polite to the citizens and taxpayers, and to cease altogether the rude, sarcastic, slurring remarks and mannerisms which, in so many cities, especially in New Jersey, have caused the citizens to hate those that ought to be the friends of all decent people. Why a man, when he gets into a uniform, must cease to be a human creature, is something no decent person will ever understand.
Joseph Connelly and Chin King
JOSEPH CONNELLY, gangster, went into Chinatown, New York city, and, displaying a detective badge, demanded money from Chin King. Chin took him for a walk to get the money, and for two blocks told every Chinaman he met that he was being held up. At the end of the second block two real detectives appeared and arrested Connelly, and then Connelly wished for the first time that he had known how to speak Chinese.
Park Assaults and Robberies
AFTER a series of assaults and robberies in Central and Morningside parks, New York city, 505 were arrested, of whom 116 were found in need of hospital treatment. Fifty of the group were starving, and while the report does not say that any of the 50 starving ones were criminals, it appears very much as not a good thing to have too many starving men around at any one time.
Toy Guns Cause Crime
THE Kings County (New York) grand jury called attention to the fact that many burglaries and hold-ups are now successfully carried through with the use of imitation guns, and urges a prohibition of their sale. Who has not had his heart come up in his mouth at seeing children point at each other what seemed to be real weapons, or even have had them pointed at himself?
Gun Toters Now Betray Themselves
A NEW device, placed at a subway entrance, or other place where the people are passing through in numbers, will locate and identify those that carry guns, knives, files or other metallic objects on their persons, and they will not know that they have been thus detected.
Police Official Glad for Violence
DISPATCHES from Detroit represent Police Inspector Hoffman as saying respecting the bombing of the Young Communists' League in that city, "I'm glad they did it. Any red-blooded American would have been glad to blow the Reds' place to bits." Is that just the kind of language to come from an officer of the law? Are we to understand that "red-blooded Americans" are those who blow up places and people they don't happen to like, so taking the law into their own hands? One instinctively fears that one of Hoffman's own men did the job. At last accounts he was looking for the men who rented the place. But why?
Free Port on Staten Island
AFTER years of discussion it is now decided there will be a free port on Staten Island where goods can be reshipped to foreign points without the payment of duties. Europe has had such ports for a generation, and found them exceedingly profitable enterprises. The area will be isolated, enclosed and policed under the supervision of Federal officials. Goods cannot leave this area for domestic use without being assessed the full customs duties.
Destruction of Property by Boys
NEW YORK CITY police will try to do something to curtail the destruction of property by boys. A property can hardly remain vacant any time now without half the window-panes being stoned out. The boys gain access to the interior, strip it of everything salable, and all that can be done with it is to have it torn down before it falls on innocent children.
Robot Detective Nabs a Thief
A MAN walked into a radio store in San Francisco, and, seeing nobody around, picked up a portable radio set and started for the door. An employee grabbed him before he got away; an electric eye had seen him come through the door, and buzzed the information to the workroom in the rear.
Hell Holes to Be Cleaned
THE Alexandria (Va.) and Peekskill (N.Y.) jails are to be cleaned or else closed. At Peekskill it was found that blankets had not been washed in three years, nor mattresses aired in twenty-one years.
Railroads
California's State-Owned Railroad
CALIFORNIA'S state-owned railroad connects the piers of San Francisco, which are also state-owned. The War Department says of this arrangement:
"San Francisco bay is the best harbor on the Pacific coast and one of the finest in the world. The large sheltered deep water area and a great amount of shore line offer almost unlimited opportunities for terminal and industrial water-front development. San Francisco is the only port in the United States where the waterfront is owned and has been developed by the State, and where, also, the public terminal developments have been connected with one another and with rail carriers by a belt line, owned and operated by the State. San Francisco is a shining example of efficient control of terminal and interchange facilities. There is no friction, no congestion, no delays at this port. Traffic moves to and from the piers with smoothness and facility, which is noticeably absent at some ports not adequately co-ordinated. The flat switching charge between any two points on the Belt Line serves to avoid the overdevelopment and congestion which tend to occur where ports are improperly divided into zones for switching purposes. In this respect, San Francisco is an example of efficiency which many ports would do well to emulate."
The city of Cincinnati owns a railroad over 300 miles long.
Success of High-Speed Trains
HIGH-SPEED trains are being put in operation on all the principal railroads, and with great success. Thus, the Burlington put on a high-speed train between Kansas City and Omaha. It replaced two slow steam trains that were losing money and is now running loaded each trip at less than one-fourth the cost of the steam trains displaced. The Diesel train weighs one-fourth as much as the two steam trains displaced. Now that the railroads have awakened, the day of the bus is past, in a considerable measure.
Chicago-Portland Streamline Train
UNTIL now the regular running time between Chicago and Portland, Oregon, 2,250 miles, has been about 60 hours. The new streamline train over the Union Pacific made its first trip in 39¾ hours, which is now its schedule six times per month. This is a tremendous advance forward, enabling businessmen who travel between the two cities, and prefer to go by rail, to get through with the loss of only one day between the two points.
Old-Style Locomotives Must Go
OLD-STYLE locomotives must go. General Motors Corporation will soon be building Diesel-engine locomotives by the same methods in general use in building automobiles. The assembly line will be 500 feet long and 104 feet wide. The windows of the plant will extend around the building in an unbroken band. The plant, located at McCook, Illinois, begins operation November 1. Mankind has made much progress in material comfort and convenience, but none of these things have brought or will bring them real happiness until the kingdom of God establishes righteousness in the earth.
Railroads Killed Their Own Golden Goose
IRVING L. KOCH, Interstate Commerce Commissioner, points out that the people resented the tremendous increase in passenger rates made in 1920, with the result that by 1933 traffic had fallen until it was only a quarter of the 1920 business, and the average passenger was traveling fewer miles on rails than in any previous period since 1880. The only possible way for the railroads to get their business back is to give the people the old rates of 2c a mile.
New B. & O. Chicago-St. Louis Train
THE B. & O. is putting in operation a new Diesel-motored electric streamlined train between Chicago and St. Louis which will make the 284-mile run in 5 hours flat, cutting the running time between the two cities by 1½ hours. The center of gravity of the train is low; there is a combination lunch counter and dining car. A new coupling method eliminates all slack.
Railways Reduce Time to Chicago
THE Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Lines have cut thirty minutes out of the running time to Chicago, now making the trip of 896 or 980 miles in 16½ hours. The Central trains have to run much faster than the Pennsy to make it in the same time, but have no grades worth mentioning.
Faster Trains to Washington
THE Pennsylvania Railroad's running time between New York and Washington has been reduced thirty minutes. The fastest train now makes the 235 miles in 225 minutes, and there are thirty-four trains that will make the distance in an average time of 250 minutes. The new electric service is superb.
Aviation
Sixty Hours Flying Time to Manila
THE second outward trip from San Francisco with mail and passengers by airplane arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands, in exactly the same flying time, 60 hours 4 minutes, as was required by the sister ship two weeks previous. The Commonwealth of the Philippines was inaugurated by proclamation of President Roosevelt, and took effect November 15. In ten years, if nothing happens, the Philippines will be entirely free. In the 37 years of American domination the United States set up 5,534 schools, by contrast with the 2,000 which Spain set up in 300 years, with the result that the Philippine standard of living is three times as high as that of the Japanese, Chinese and Malayan neighbors.
The China Clipper
THE China Clipper, first regular mail plane across the Pacific, carried 110,000 letters (nearly two tons) and covered the 8,110 miles from San Francisco to Manila in 60 hours 4 minutes of actual flying time. The ship stopped over night at Honolulu, Midway, Wake and Guam en route, and so took five days to make the trip. The clipper carries a crew of seven. When operating on the long hop to Honolulu she has berths for seventeen passengers. Beyond, the trips are all by daylight and there are convenient accommodations for 43 passengers. There are four engines; the wing span is 130 feet; the over-all length, 89 1/2 feet; the height, 24 feet; high speed, 179 miles per hour.
Round-the-World Air Mails
THE Royal Dutch air lines, and also British and French air lines, are expected to connect with the Pan-American Airways at Manila and Hong Kong, and thus to provide air mail service around the world. The Pan-American line will inaugurate the service with a weekly mail from San Francisco to Canton, China. At first the planes will carry 800 pounds of mail, at a charge of $2 per mile and $1 per one thousand miles for each additional pound.
Around the World by Air
CONNECTING with the American air lines at Manila, in the Philippines, it is expected that air service around the world will be in effect in the very near future, possibly by the time this issue of The Golden Age is in the hands of its readers. There are unlimited funds in the hands of the projectors, and years of experience.
An Extraordinary Achievement
ONE of the most extraordinary achievements of all time was the flight of the China Clipper from San Francisco to Manila and back in 122 hours 42 minutes of flying time. The engineers, working for five years on the plan, had set a flying schedule of 130 hours.
Lightning Killed All on Plane
IT IS not so safe to go racing through an electric storm in an airplane. In the Arabian desert a Dutch plane crashed. An examination of the wreck disclosed that the seven persons on board had all been killed by a flash of lightning before the fall of the plane occurred.
Graf Zeppelin Still on the Job
THE Graf Zeppelin, now eight years old, continues to ply between Germany and Brazil, while the United States continues to remember the Shenandoah, the Macon and the Akron and to wonder why it is that Germans can do what Americans are unable to do.
Airplane Wing De-Icers
TO PREVENT ice from forming on the edges of airplane wings, and thus causing accidents, a rubber overshoe now fits over the edge and is alternately inflated and deflated, cracking off the ice crystals as rapidly as they form. This invention will save many valuable lives.
Lateral Curvature of the Earth
ON THE fourteen-mile vertical trip into the stratosphere pictures were taken showing the horizon 300 miles distant, and showing plainly the lateral curvature of the earth.
New Air Line London to Durban
A NEW line of seaplanes, London to Durban, is projected to supplement the nine-day overland air mail line. The new line will travel via the east coast of Africa, and is expected to make the journey in four days.
Transportation Time Cut to Less than 1 Percent
FIFTY years ago William H. Jackson journeyed from Salt Lake City to Yellowstone Park; the trip took him thirty days. Lately he made the journey by plane. It took him three hours.
Social and Educational
Old Age Pensions for Indians
AMONG interesting items brought out at the Senate hearings on old age pensions for the Indians was the fact that only in New York State have the whites ever honestly fulfilled any treaty made with the Indians. Even at this late date 18 percent of the Indians are homeless. Many of them are compelled to depend upon garbage dumps for means to live at all. Old Indians have been known to come to Indian agents on their knees, seeking food. Tuberculosis is common. The doctors often go away and leave them to die in places where there are no chairs, no tables, no dishes and no food. The Indian agents are for the most part absolutely heartless. The whites take advantage of the Indians in every possible and conceivable form. If an Indian has good lands the white tries to get the lands away, and has been known to pay largely in notes unsecured, non-interest-bearing, nontransferable, and therefore worthless. The Indians are the personification of kindness and generosity toward the helpless among their own people, and never turn anybody away, white or Indian. Reverend Heuel testified that he has an affidavit where an Indian agent stole every month $1,500 from the meat allowance for the Indians, by means of true weight bills and false weight bills. He told of where one family of 12 people got 6 cans of milk to last them an entire month. On the La Jolla (California) Indian reservation one old lady 106 years of age slept at night in an ash pit, that being the only warm place she could find. Thomas L. Sloan, an Omaha Indian, tells of a family of Indian farmers who were capable and honest men, living practically like white people, and rented out some of their land, who were compelled to go to an agency and trade with their trader and were charged at least 100 percent more than they had been paying at the town store where they had been trading. They were also compelled to make their leases of land through the Indian Office, instead of being permitted to handle this matter themselves as they had been doing in an entirely satisfactory and efficient way. He stated that "by the restrictive imposition of rules and regulations which changed and prevented a natural development in the course of their lives", the Indians had been prevented from making progress. The Indian sums it all up in his philosophy: "White man no good: lie too much."
Most Surprised Man in Fort Scott
THE most surprised man in Fort Scott, Kansas, was the Arkansas Negro who went to sleep in a shed. During the night the shed took fire and burned down, but the Negro slept soundly through it all, awoke in the morning, and crawled out of the ashes unharmed. Something akin to his surprise awaits the millions who were buffaloed into believing that when they were dead they would be in "purgatory", and who, when they awake, in the resurrection, will find themselves right back where they went to sleep, and then realize how awfully they were deceived. Meantime, too, the old house of their deception will be for ever gone.
1,575 Thieves per Day on Subway
ON THE Independent Subway System of New York, from the first day of its operation, there has been an average of 1,575 bogus slugs daily dropped into the turnstile slots. Does it seem possible that so many people would risk a term in prison for so small a theft? The slugs cost probably 1c each; so the amount of the theft can be only about 4c in each instance. 1,560,000 of these bogus nickels, along with 4,000 guns of various types, 450 slot machines, and 200 knives, blackjacks, brass knuckles and sabers were recently taken up Long Island Sound and dropped in 150 feet of water.
Youth Hostels in New England
THE first loop of youth hostels in the United States has begun service in New England. It begins at North Hadley, Massachusetts, and extends 400 miles through the finest scenery of New England. Fees are $1 a year, 25c a night at each hostel, and the cost of food, ice and wood. Each visitor must bring a sleeping sack of two sheets sewn together. Visits are for one night, prolonged to three in case of rain. Information can be obtained from the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
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