Golden Age, February 26, 1936

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AMERICA SCORNS

JESUIT INSULTS

TO THE STARS AND STRIPES

CHURCH

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN

FIJI, NEW ZEALAND

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AGRICULTURE

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Vol. XVII - No. 429

February 26, 1936 CONTENTS

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

AMERICA SCORNS JESUIT INSULTS

TO STARS AND STRIPES 323

CHURCH 337

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES 338

An Old-Timer in New Zealand 339

Report on a Case at Verona, N. J. 339

In New England 340

Witnessing in the Rockies 340

The Business of the Journalist 342

Time Grovels Before the Hierarchy 342

South Dakota Loses Population 342

The Firecracker Nuisance 342

Pfwhat Mrs. Hooley Said 342

Bathroom Rebel of 2 342

New Teeth at 80 342

MORE PENNSYLVANIA PARAGRAPHS 345

THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH 347

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

Coal Operators on Emergency Relief 344

Mooney Is Still in Prison 344

Courtesy Cards to Politicians 344

Negroes on Southern Juries 344

The Guardian on the Second Coming 344

Jersey's Official Prayers 344

Compulsory Flag Salutes 344

WITH JUSTICE AND PEACE AND BRASS KNUCKLES 350

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

What Can the Farmer Do? 343

Dangers to Farm Children 343

$675,000 to Swift & Company 343

Millions of Kinds of Insects 343

Shelling Beans with a Wringer 343

Want Ad for a New Deal Farm 343

Every American a Detective 343

Successful Wars on Pests 343

Farmer Gets 46% of the Price 343

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

Unholy Roman Empire vs. Seventh World Power 341

Pizarro Was a Piker 341

Within One Week 341

Electric Soil-Heating in Canada 341

"Kindness to the Dead" 341

Composition of Canadian Cabinet 341

Air Mail Rates in Australia 341

HOW TO PAY YOUR DEBTS 351

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The Golden Age

Volume XVII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, February 26, 1936 Number 429

America Scorns Jesuit Insults to the Stars and Stripes

THE worst insult ever given to the American flag is the present conspiracy originated by the Devil or his prime minister Gog to force the free American people to bow to the emblem of their military power. If this scheme, which the American Legion has been betrayed into backing, were to succeed, the American republic would be at an end, replaced by a Jesuit-Fascist régime in which all that the flag stands for would be dragged in the dust.

A surprisingly large number of editors of the greatest newspapers in the United States see the situation clearly. They well know that in America the people are supposed to rule; the government is supposed to be the servant. The Jesuit idea is the reverse, that the pope and those who bow to his will are the rulers and that the people should be, and, it is their intention, must be made to be, for ever subject to their will.

American press comment on this issue has grown to such an extent that space is no longer available for the copious extracts of which the theme is worthy. Hence it becomes necessary to condense. For convenience the condensations are arranged in alphabetical order of the states.

"Here’s where you come in.”

Alabama

Birmingham Age-Herald: "From what source springs patriotism, one may ask? Is it patriotism to stand before a flag and raise your hand to your right brow if your heart is not in the action? If love of country is to be inculcated, it would seem that the proper thing to do would be to have that government so wise and kind and good as to deserve respect. Many a parent has learned to his sorrow that you cannot command a child's love. You can force obedience, but not respect. One somehow expects better things of Massachusetts than this spectacle of bringing a child into court for refusing a salute it did not feel because it recognized only a higher and more powerful government." (See also The Golden Age No. 421, page 69.)

Birmingham News: "In modern America certain groups of people have taken it upon themselves to dictate what shall be taught and what shall be learned in the public school system. They forget that this nation was founded on a belief in the sacredness of liberty and freedom to all. . . . Their shortsightedness cannot be condemned too strongly. . . . We are in no danger from Communism in America. We have a representative and a beneficent leadership. We have an enlightened people. Communism* does not grow in such an environment. We do face a danger from Fascism, a philosophy which is

*Jesuits Caught with the Goods

American radio listeners and newspaper readers, February 12, 1936, were greatly interested in the news from Germany that 150 priests and others had been arrested, caught with possessing and distributing Communist literature. It is perfectly apparent that the Communist scare in America is of Jesuit manufacture. The attempt, in both countries, is to secure absolute Papal control.

furthered by those groups which advocate restriction of freedom in our public school system."

Arizona

Tucson Daily Star: "The teaching of patriotism as a special course is the wrong way of developing patriotic citizens, while the salute to the flag can cloak the activities of the more dangerous scoundrels. There are many teachers who would be safer and better to have in the schools who resent taking the oath than many others who will take it with alacrity. Many teachers, who are good Americans, and who as teachers are interested only in teaching their courses in a way which will prepare their students for life in any form of society, detest having their patriotism questioned or measured by pomp and display."

For the first time in history, since the Roman Empire was founded, there is here presented an actual photograph of a Roman triumph. Notice with what dignity Emperor Ambrose stands on the deck of the chariot. Notice, too, the almost human expression of the horses, and how happy the various characters seem to be who are taking part in the celebration—at least they don’t seem to be unhappy.

California

The Hemet News: ". . . that method of patriot making is foreign to all that America and its constitution and flag stand for. What that is has been expressed by numerous phrases, freedom of conscience, academic freedom, free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion. But it all sums up to the same thing, the liberty of the individual to his own private opinions, the liberty to form them by examining all the evidence available, the liberty to express them freely, even to the extent of criticism of those who occupy positions of political authority over him. That is the very cornerstone of our democratic republic. Persecuting little children because they have been brought up . . . with conscientious scruples against doing obeisance to a symbol of earthly authority, insulting teachers by questioning their good citizenship, harrying college students because in their youthful enthusiasm they may feel they have found something better than the existing order, these are not the way to promote the ideals of government of the people, by the people and for the people. What they do is only to ape the methods of those systems of European government which we would avoid. . . . However different their economic objectives may be, there is something strikingly similar about the political governments of Russia, Italy and Germany. The emphasis on military force, the suppression of free speech, the suppression of a free press, meddling with religion, the blood purge, are common to all of them. They are hateful to the American sense of civil liberty. They are no less hateful when the spirit which is back of them appears in our own land under the guise of protecting our own institutions from foreign influence."

For the first time in history, since the Roman Empire was founded, there is here presented an actual photograph of a Roman triumph. Notice with what dignity Emperor Ambrose stands on the deck of the chariot. Notice, too, the almost human expression of the horses, and how happy the various characters seem to be who are taking part in the celebration—at least they don't seem to be unhappy.

Hollywood Citizen-News: "This matter of being forcibly shoved into outward acts of so-called 'loyalty' suits the Hitler-Mussolini combination well, but is distasteful to the intelligent American. If there is anything which cannot be regimented, it's loyalty. There are places where flag saluting can be demanded with perfect propriety, but that place is hardly the public school. . . . Let's interpret for the youngsters the meaning of 'with liberty and justice for all'. . . . They should be told how frequently criminals control such important offices as that of a sheriff or a district attorney or a chief of police and how under such conditions we cannot expect justice. They should be told how some governors appoint judges for purely political purposes without integrity and ability entering into the consideration and how such appointments result in the frequent denial of ‘justice’ that even children hear about. They should be told how the ‘republic’ for which the flag stands is worth our prizing most highly, how it brings us liberty that people in dictator-ruled countries such as Russia, Italy and Germany and military-ruled countries such as Japan do not enjoy. They should be led to a true love of that ‘republic’ rather than to a pretended love, and taught that true love does not tolerate dishonest government.”

San Diego Union: (See The Golden Age No. 426, page 249.)

The San Francisco Chronicle: “Jehovah’s witnesses are an international organization. They deem it an act of idolatry to salute the flag; it makes no difference if the flag of their country is American, German or Russian. This is distressing to citizens who have given no thought to liberal or philosophical viewpoints. The issue is not new. It is one which has been fought in many countries, and its history is written in blood. It is being contested today in Nazi Germany and Communistic Russia. A close historical analogy to Jehovah’s witnesses is that of the Quakers. Jehovah’s witnesses refuse to salute the flag as an act of idolatry. Ancient Quakers refused to doff their hats in courts of law for like reason, or to bear arms in defense of their country, and were sent to jail for it. Thousands of them fled to America for religious freedom.”

San Francisco News: “Now the school authorities of Sacramento act like so many German Nazis by expelling a boy . . . for refusing to salute the flag. This is a humorless and stupid attempt to stamp out nonconformity and to compel an act that nine children out of ten do willingly and that has no significance nor value unless it is done willingly.”

San Francisco News: “Who can tell what will be the far-reaching result of persecuting a little child because she refuses to salute the flag in school? Her action seems to me to be heroic. In the face of public opinion and promised punishment she refused to do what she had been taught to believe to be wrong, the worship of an image.—Elizabeth Ashe.”

Bow down like this? — to things like this?

Colorado

Denver Post: “Where do some people get the idea that the United States, in particular, and humanity, in general, would be benefited by interfering with the rights of others? Before any group passes resolutions favoring the curtailment of the rights of others they should apply their bigotry to themselves by taking an oath of loyalty to their employers and to their employees. Do they not realize that the state and United States constitutions guarantee the fundamental rights of every citizen and that an oath, taken voluntarily or through coercion, cannot change those constitutional rights? Who is to interpret the constitution? Those who would curtail the rights of others? No two of them would agree among themselves.”

Connecticut

Waterbury Republican: (See The Golden Age No. 423, page 135.)

District of Columbia

Washington Star: (See The Golden Age No. 426, page 250.)

Idaho

Boise Valley Herald: “Making gestures of reverential salutation to the flag, therefore, is of value only in nurturing military-minded standards of patriotic devotion rather than of nurturing and developing civic-minded standards of patriotic devotion. Therefore, the farther we analyze into this saluting-the-flag school-board requirement, the more firmly we are convinced that it is a scheme that is being used to break down popular regard for constitutional government and to make easier the approach to a Fascist dictatorship.” Illinois

Chicago Tribune: (See The Golden Age No. 421, page 70.)

Chicago Svenska Tribunen-Nyheter: "The American flag stands, among other things, for absolute religious freedom—that is not the least reason why we venerate it. It was naturally never the American fathers' wish or will that it should be used as a weapon against such freedom. This freedom ought, in accordance with these forefathers' spirit, be so great that people who for religious reasons do not want to salute the flag with outward demonstrations should be freed therefrom. . . . It is our opinion that those little children in Silver Lake ought to be presented with a medal for moral bravery instead of being found fault with. Personal liberty, national liberty, religious liberty, are, however, our biggest and most precious gifts. When even small children, through protest, understand to try to defend them, it is high time that we older ones consider what belongs to our peace." (Translation)

Decatur Herald: "Five boys and girls of Canonsburg, Pa., are likely to be taken away from their parents and sent off to jail, for the glory of the Stars and Stripes, and the vindication of professional patriots. At the least, they are to be denied the privilege of education in Pennsylvania public schools. . . . They are not interested in any theory of government except our own and, left alone, would be the most inoffensive of citizens. Alas, the busy men and women who imagine they see a bolshevik hiding under every bush have undertaken to make people patriotic by law. . . . No dangerous Communists, boring from within the school system, are caught or inconvenienced in the least. The little matter of an oath wouldn't bother them. But five children who never heard of Marx or Lenin are turned out of the schools, where they might have learned something about the United States constitution and national ideals."

The nation is safe.

Indiana

Evansville Journal: "Some old-fashioned patriots, who would die in a minute for their country if it would do any good, have a feeling that compulsion takes the value out of it—that saluting the flag, as Shakespeare said of kissing, 'goes by favor,' that it does no good to anybody to salute unless the saluter wants to do it. . . . It is only a step from this sort of thing to compulsory Fascist salutes and Nazi goose-stepping and Heil-Hitlering."

Peru Tribune: "When the boy's father was questioned by Ridgeview school officials about the lad's attitude, the father upheld him and gave the principal an article written by Judge Rutherford. . . . The literature was later turned over to an American Legion Committee. School officials said that although he is stubborn and insistent, the boy otherwise is a good student and is obedient to the faculty. When interviewed this morning, the boy's father said that neither he nor the boy felt any disrespect for the American government or the flag, but explained that it was simply their belief that to salute a flag is contrary to the Word of God."

Kansas

Arlington Enterprise: "Those who go through the land working up compulsory demonstrations of allegiance to the flag and the nation ought to know that any crook, profiteer or traitor will willingly rise up in public assemblage and give evidence of a pretended loyalty."

Girard American Freeman: "The law was rushed through various state legislatures at the demand of the Hearst press, the American Legion, the Elks, and other Fascist elements, as an entering wedge against semi-free education and civil rights.”

Topeka Daily Capital: (See The Golden Age No. 426, page 245.)

Kentucky

Louisville Times: “The expressed purpose behind these laws is repugnant to the ideas of those who wrenched their freedom from a dictatorial monarch, antagonistic to the principles of the Constitution and to the idea of free education as carried on in this country. The implications of the movement are that the school becomes the agency of the State to develop minds willing to the dictates of government. —By Raymond A. Kent, president of the University of Louisville.”

Louisiana

Shreveport Journal: “Twenty-two states have passed such laws, seven of them in the past year. In twenty other states teachers’ oaths bills are pending or are expected to be introduced when legislatures open again [pushed by] the Daughters of the American Revolution, the American Legion and its auxiliary and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.”

It’s in the bag—maybe.

Maryland

Baltimore Evening Sun: “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. . . . The United States today is full of people who are doing their best to erect the nation into a deity, and to compel all people to fall down and worship it. A good many plain people are doing so. All these teachers’ oaths, all this flag-saluting by school children, all this drum-beating, flag-waving, goose-stepping, is not patriotism, but a new and heretical religion, which tends straight toward making some future Duce or Fuehrer a living Buddha, a reincarnation of God.—Gerald W. Johnson.”

(See also The Golden Age No. 420, page 38; No. 422, page 104; No. 423, page 137.)

Baltimore: “Confident of their strength, forces are gathering to push still further the intolerance against which Jefferson warned the people in his day. A victory for intolerance is but the signal for a fresh assault. The assault is upon one of our principles of which we should be proudest, essential freedom within the framework of public good. The flag salute controversy follows naturally. An armed soldier, to tell you when to take off your hat, will follow just as naturally. This is the antithesis of that ‘habit of freedom’ which Jefferson extolled. It is the coercion of a people by fanatics.—Dr. Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins University.”

Massachusetts

Boston Herald: “Is it not incongruous that many of the Beacon Hill legislators who sponsored and voted for the teachers’ oath bill belong to the political party which is responsible for the passing of much unconstitutional legislation in Washington? Is this faithfulness to the oath of allegiance to the Constitution?—Harold P. Houghton.”

(See also The Golden Age No. 426, pages 246 and 249.)

Boston Post: “Much of this talk about the ‘Red menace’ is only a ‘red herring’ device in practical politics used by ignorant, bigoted or self-seeking minorities to cast suspicion upon or weaken the position of those who block their selfish way. Some of these super-patriots work themselves up into an alarmist attitude. They seem to enjoy scaring themselves or they wish to make folk’s ‘flesh creep’. They try to say that the Communists will violently overthrow our government. Where are all these Communists? In the election of 1932 the conditions were perfect for registering the largest possible number of communistic votes. William Z. Foster was the Communist presidential candidate. As vigorous a campaign as their numbers would allow was waged by the Communists. With what result? They got a total of fewer than 90,000 votes in the entire country. Over against the 38,000,000 votes cast, the communistic vote was too insignificant to make anybody's 'flesh creep'. —President Daniel L. Marsh, of Boston University." (See also The Golden Age No. 426, page 251, and No. 427, page 267.)

Boston Transcript: (See The Golden Age No. 423, page 135, and No. 426, page 251.)

Boston Traveler: (See The Golden Age No. 422, page 126; also No. 424, page 183.)

Brockton Enterprise: "True 'patriotism' is defined as 'devotion to the welfare of one's country', and I fail to see any amount of patriotism in the acts of men whose energies are directed against small, harmless children and their widowed mothers, who have done no harm to anyone, intend to harm no one, but want to live in peace with their God and their neighbors. The 'patriotism' of George Washington and Patrick Henry and other truly great Americans was not directed to injure and ostracize well-meaning small children who had refused to salute an emblem. I can't think of heroic Washington, of liberty-loving Patrick Henry, of fatherly Benjamin Franklin and of benevolent and magnanimous Abraham Lincoln doing the things which are being done today under the name of patriotism.—A. B. Chickering."

Brockton Enterprise: (See The Golden Age No. 426, page 239.)

Greenfield Shopping News: (See The Golden Age No. 426, page 251.)

Nobody fooled—not even Coughlin.

Michigan

Ann Arbor Daily News: (See The Golden Age No. 422, page 102.)

Detroit Times: "If the state can co-ordinate and regiment its citizens, it can—and WILL—take from them their two most precious possessions—CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES. Hitler and his accomplices follow the line of historical national depravity: First, power seized under the camouflage of a terrorized 'election'; then the abrogation of all civil liberties; then the destruction of all religious liberties and the rise of a 'state church', always another political engine of destruction."

Minnesota

Fergus Falls Daily Journal: "Saluting the flag is all right and desirable, but to send children to jail and make martyrs of them because they refuse is the height of absurdity. That kind of 'patriotism' is not going to make anyone love either the flag or the nation. It merely gives the Communists and other enemies something to rave about."

Glenwood Herald: "If there are people who believe as part of their religion that they should not salute the flag, they have a right to refuse to do this and this does not necessarily stamp them as unpatriotic. It is customary for bystanders to doff their hats when the flag goes by. We have often seen some of the most patriotic men forget this formality. We have also seen men who do things that are very unpatriotic and who are the first to salute the flag when there is a crowd to see them do it. [Judge Edward E. Barsness.]"

Minneapolis Tribune: (See The Golden Age No. 424, page 184.)

Willmar Daily Tribune: (See The Golden Age No. 424, page 181.)

Missouri

Kansas City Foreign Service: "The growth of Communism in the United States has been emphasized in recent weeks in newspaper reports. Mere school children in various sections of the country have suddenly rebelled against the salute to the flag.

Obviously, this lack of respect for the symbol of America's principles of democracy was not conceived by the children themselves." [This is from a Knights of Columbus publication, printed in the same city where the editor of the Roman Catholic Register boasted he could get anybody arrested whom he chose and had two judges who would do his bidding. The title of this Jesuit sheet shows the limitless gall of those who expect to do to the United States foreign service what has been done to the British foreign service, i.e., to Jesuitize it. Robert Anthony Eden, Great Britain's new foreign minister, now has the British lion by the tail, and of the Eden family the boast is made that "male and female, all are counts and countesses of the Holy Roman Empire". Foreign Service well knows that the school children who refuse to salute a flag are the children of Jehovah's witnesses only, and that their outcry of "Communism in the United States" is the rankest and rottenest kind of Jesuit propaganda.]

St. Louis Globe Democrat: "Dr. Compton [Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science] credited the American Legion with an earnest desire to 'promote the national welfare as they see it' and to insure 100-percent Americanism in sponsoring such bills. But he said he believes the Legion's ideal of 100-percent Americanism is 'different from that of the founders of our country, and particularly of Thomas Jefferson, the father of American democracy'."

St. Louis Star Times: "Being aware of the fact that an intelligent nation imbued with the spirit of democracy makes poor timber for Fascist slaves, our reactionaries subtly carry on a campaign to suppress education. One of the fundamentals of Fascism is a denial of freedom—a denial of learning. . . . During the Middle Ages, mankind groped through 600 years of darkness in which progress and civilization stopped, because knowledge and freedom were suppressed. All who dared to question or inquire, or who sought by learning to probe their way through this darkness, were persecuted, tortured or burned at the stake.—Edward Schmidt." (See also The Golden Age No. 421, pages 69 and 83.)

Nobody fooled by the munition-makers’ saints.

Montana

Butte Montana Standard: "An eastern newspaper, waxing satirical at the efforts of the Massachusetts school authorities to make pupils and parents take more seriously the oath of allegiance to the country's flag, cites an instance, not the first of its kind, in which a Massachusetts school child showed little real familiarity with the actual words of the pledge, to say nothing of their meaning as an expression of patriotism. As recited by this pupil, at the request of a visiting superintendent, who had just heard the oath glibly chanted in unison by the class, the phraseology was: 'I pledge a legion to my flag, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation invisible, with liberty and mustard for all.' The story is a parallel to the one widely quoted in the press a few years ago; when a school child, required to write from memory the words of the national anthem, began it thus: 'Oh, say, can you see from the darn surly lie—?'"

Great Falls Tribune: "Teaching patriotism by compulsory ceremonies is one of the results arising from the quite recent red-hunts in American schools started with little reason or cause by such intolerant leaders as W. R. Hearst and Hamilton Fish. . . . The politicians who have Fascist ideas in the backs of their minds in the present intolerant tendency to restrict freedom of speech and belief should heed the ridicule which is greeting them from unimpressed youth and should reconsider some of their methods of promoting patriotism and loyalty."

Nebraska

Omaha World-Herald: (See The Golden Age No. 424, page 182.)

New Jersey

Asbury Park Evening Press: (See The Golden Age No. 424, page 179.)

Asbury Park Evening News: (See The Golden Age No. 426, page 244.)

Bayonne Times: (See The Golden Age No. 428, page 310.)

Camden Courier Post: "When they refuse for conscience' sake to salute the flag, why should they be harassed for this? As the good Quaker governor and founder of Pennsylvania said, to coerce people to do what their conscience forbids makes hypocrites out of them when they comply from fear and not from loyalty or truth's sake.—I. J. Ransom."

Kearny Leader and Bergen Ledger: "Sentiment has finally crystallized. You are confronted with Fascism, compulsion, coercion, fear and force on the one hand and American fundamentals, principles and ideals on the other hand. There is no middle of the road here. It is for you to choose." (See also The Golden Age No. 427, page 265.)

Trenton State Gazette: "It costs little and means less to be a blatant breast-beater, an oratorical patrioteer, an incessant flag-waver or one of the countless others who are always prepared to give liberal lip-service to the cause of their country. The salute to the flag is at best just a gesture which is by no means expressive of a depth of love for the country and its institutions or of a willingness to make vital sacrifices in order that they may be maintained."

Dammed by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, sired by the Fascist press, nursed by the Roman members of the American Legion and their allies, its true colors cloaked in the flag of a free people, the hideous thing stalks through the land lighting the fires of persecution of the people of Jehovah God. The fearful stench that accompanies it is the odor of the bloodshed and burning flesh of the victims of the “Holy Inquisition”.

New York

Auburn Citizen-Advertiser: "In the vast amount of misleading information on the subject which certain newspapers have recently printed, the impression has been deliberately given that Jehovah's witnesses are a group of long-haired radicals who desire to replace the Stars and Stripes with the red flag of Bolshevism. Nothing, however, could be further from their thoughts or wishes."

Buffalo Courier Express: (See The Golden Age No. 420, page 45.)

Buffalo Evening News: "Compulsory oaths of allegiance exacted from teachers, compulsory salutes to the flag forced upon school children, were diagnosed as only twin symptoms of the deeper disease of hatred of all liberty by Dr. Isaiah Bowman, president of the Johns Hopkins university, in his address before the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, at the University of Virginia."

Glens Falls Times: (See The Golden Age No. 423, page 135.)

The Literary Digest (New York): "There is a great deal in the papers about flag-saluting and teachers required to take the oath of allegiance. I would like to know why. This country is credited to be the foremost country in the world, where people can worship God the way they choose, possess the right to assemble, and have a free press. Is America becoming more like foreign countries?—R. Ross."

The Nation (New York): (See The Golden Age No. 421, page 68.) New York Daily News: "Patriotism can no more be instilled into a loyal person by the forced presence of the flag than can the love of God be put into an atheist's heart by placing a Bible in his hand.—Mayor LaGuardia."

New York Daily News: "Mayor LaGuardia is absolutely right. Patriotism can only be instilled into the hearts and conscience of persons through education. It cannot be forced on one through legislation, for one immediately resents the attempt made to change his private convictions.—Wm. W. Steffen."

New York Post: (See The Golden Age No. 426, page 245.)

New York Post: "It [the flag-saluting law] is the greatest menace to academic freedom that we have had in this country in many years, and apparently Hearst is the man largely responsible for it. It is a typical piece of Hearst propaganda.—Prof. Kirtley F. Mather, of Harvard."

New York Sunday Mirror: "Jehovah's witnesses are guaranteed the right to worship God as they see fit, and if their idea of worship includes not saluting the flag of any nation, they have a perfect right to that practice.—W. Y. Verne."

New York Times: "To require every disloyal group to wrap itself in the flag is to make patriotism the first 'refuge of a scoundrel'."

New York World-Telegram: "The cult of so-called patriotism is spreading across the land. . . . This last generation has seen the birth or the very rapid growth of a host of patriotic societies, admission to many of which depends upon the accident of birth. They have been conspicuous in the development of this patriotic ritualism. It would be difficult indeed to show they have accomplished anything but a feeling of resentment.—Tyler Dennett, president of Williams College."

New York World-Telegram: "Of late the law makers seem intent upon making the symbol of our land serve as a matador's scarf. . . . Most shamefully, all this is done in the name of patriotism. Obviously, it is quite the reverse.—Heywood Broun."

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: (See The Golden Age No. 421, page 69.)

Rochester Times Union: (See The Golden Age No. 421, page 70.)

From Akron Beacon Journal—by permission.

North Carolina

Raleigh News and Observer: (See The Golden Age No. 421, page 69; No. 426, page 247; No. 428, page 298.)

North Dakota

Bismarck Tribune: (See The Golden Age No. 424, page 184.)

Ohio

Akron Beacon Journal: "At its state convention Friday in Columbus the Ohio Education Association wisely resolved that larger problems face the schools than that of compelling school children to salute the flag." (See also The Golden Age No. 427, page 266.)

Akron Times Press: "After all, the flag is made as a banner and emblem of the people, for the people; and not the people of the flag or for the flag. How many times have the attorney general and the boards of education throughout the state failed to salute the flag? Then why impose upon school children what they have failed to do themselves?—Albert R. Wells."

Bellaire Daily Leader: "Loyalty is something one lives, not something one professes, in spite of views to the contrary held by misguided patriots and owners of low-class newspapers. The tyranny of public opinion in a democracy may become as dangerous as the absolutism of the despot.—American Association of University Professors."

Cincinnati Enquirer: “The salute to the flag is a symbolic act representing the devotion of the individual to the idea of national unity. When it is enforced, it ceases to have any meaning, and smacks more of Fascism than of democracy. Any autocratic state can, at the point of the bayonet, compel its people to salute and perform other acts of loyalty. But compulsion inevitably destroys the foundation of that loyalty, which grows out of the individual’s own appreciation of the blessings of national unity and freedom. A democracy which is tottering may feel obliged to compel a show of patriotism on the part of disaffected groups. But in using force, it abandons the code of freedom which is a democracy’s only reason for existence.” (See also The Golden Age No. 421, page 68.)

Cincinnati Post: “But when will some people understand that once the slightest restriction is imposed on freedom of opinion we are on our way to losing the things most worthwhile in our system of government? Tell me who is to be the judge as to what constitutes a seditious utterance and what guarantee there is that restrictions will not develop into a powerful weapon wielded by those in power against any and all opposition? There is but one answer: Any such power is greatly abused. . . . For example, consider New Jersey’s anti-Nazi law. Who do you suppose was its first victim? Not a Nazi, but a member of a violently anti-Nazi group, Jehovah’s witnesses.—James Werner.”

Cleveland News: (See The Golden Age No. 424, page 183.)

Cleveland News: “Perhaps the attorney general of this state and others need to be informed that there is a religious body in this state which has had an organized existence in Ohio of some 125 years, whose religious principles are violated or infringed by requiring its children to salute the flag, or to sing, or to remove the hat as an act of respect, or by requiring its members to remove their hats in court. These people have a right under the state constitution not to be penalized for their belief.—Kenneth Morse.”

Cleveland News: “Why should some people get so excited when some citizens claim allegiance to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ? Those people are not reds, orange or royal purple. They simply do not swear allegiance to any earthly organization or nation.—Earl M. Smith.”

Cleveland News: “If our schools, churches and government cannot teach loyalty and respect for our flag, laws certainly will not. Compulsion will only make hypocrites and ‘reds’. We had better stick to our American creed of Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’.—Edna K. Wooley.”

Cleveland News: “Any fool can stand there and salute the American flag and yet not have a spark of Americanism in him. Saluting a flag does not make you patriotic.—Henry L. Young.”

Cleveland Plain Dealer: “A forced salute flies in the face of the spirit of true patriotism. Unlike the loyalty oath laws which are now raising controversy in many states, it does not involve a question of academic freedom. Rather, it is a matter of good taste and common sense. If boards of education generally do not allow synthetic emotion to run away with their judgment there should be no flag salute crises in Ohio.” (See also The Golden Age No. 424, page 182.)

Cleveland Press: “Can he [E. L. Bowsher, state education director], as an educator, explain just how a child is made into a better, more patriotic citizen by saluting the flag against his will, or by parroting an oath of allegiance he doesn’t believe, or—above all—by being kicked out of school because he refuses to obey such an un-American rule? We hope the great majority of Ohio school boards will have enough common sense, enough of the real spirit of American democracy, to refrain from using the power the attorney general says they have.”

Cleveland Press: “A true Christian does not limit his Christianity by national boundaries, nor does he make a flag a fetish, and I defy anyone to name a man in the history of the world that served his God by serving his flag. In my few short years of existence I have noticed that when a man starts yapping about his flag and his country, it usually means money in his pocket.—W. M. K.”

Columbus Citizen: “I think those people who are refusing to salute the flag are receiving an unfair deal. They do not refuse to salute the flag because of disrespect for it.

“What the flag stands for is very good. But do we have liberty and freedom in this country? If we do, why do these people receive so much criticism for exercising the rights granted them by the Constitution of the United States?

“Certainly, they are not refusing to salute the flag for any seditious act, but because it is against their religious beliefs. They do not bow to any man, symbol or emblem, but worship God, and pray for the setting up of His kingdom.

"I think this should be given more careful consideration by all honest thinking people.—J. W. H."

Columbus Citizen: "What I would like to know is why all governments cannot allow those persons who would do what Jehovah God says, to go ahead and serve that Jehovah God. Then we would have some people in all nations who would not salute military flags and go to war. Perhaps that would lead to universal peace. . . . If the governments wish to escape the wrath of God . . . they should at least refrain from forcing the Christians in their midst to violate their conscience.—World Patriot and Peace Lover." (See also The Golden Age No. 423, page 137, and No. 427, page 267.)

Columbus Ohio State Journal: (See The Golden Age No. 421, page 83.)

Dayton Daily News: "Fascism is a subtle growth. It grew in Italy and Germany under the cloak of radical reforms, movements to help the common man. Like Huey Long's 'share our wealth'. It wears, often, the garment of patriotism, as when some of us impose by force our patriotic opinions on others of us. There is the Nichols boy in Massachusetts, disbarred from school because, as a result of a religious dogma, he refuses to salute the flag as the law requires. That is budding Fascism."

Massillon Evening Independent: (Same as in Evansville [Ind.] Journal, which see.)

Steubenville Herald-Star: "If they [several boards of education] believe it necessary for school children to repeat an oath of allegiance to the flag five mornings each week, they should be willing to join in the ceremony. If patriotism is to be made a matter of words and gestures, they should be willing to set an example for their communities by participation in ceremonies at scheduled periods. It's probable that after a few days of it, they would be ready to subscribe to moderation in the form, if not in the spirit, of that admirable sentiment which is called patriotism."

Toledo Blade: "Patriotism, to the Fathers, was not the spontaneous result of flag-waving and oath-taking, but rather, was a love of country resulting from a developing appreciation of free access to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The fallacy of the ultra-nationalistic position will be shown in future history by the decadence of Italy, Germany, and Japan. It is too late for those countries to learn that humanity does not exist for the state, but the state exists for humanity.—Eldred W. Johnston."

Youngstown Telegram: (Same as first above in Cleveland Press.)

Is This Next?

Can any American tell why anybody should object because a truly American newspaper publishes a truly American cartoon pointing the great lesson to be seen in this? (Taken from the Columbus Citizen, and used with much appreciation by The Golden Age, with the Citizen's permission.)

Oklahoma

Frederick Press: (See The Golden Age No. 428, page 298.)

Oklahoma News: "In Germany, loyal subjects of the dictator must continually prove their loyalty by going about shouting 'Heil, Hitler'. One who does not go into patriotic spasms on sight of a crooked cross or toothbrush mustache is likely to be considered disloyal—and clapped into jail. It all looks rather silly from here. Yet the flag-wavers arise in this 'land of the free' to protest that one who dislikes to make a public exhibition of his patriotism is not a good citizen and should be deported. To my mind, the doubt ful loyalty is that of people who make a great display of it with much hat-tipping, flag-saluting and martial music. Still, such as these would set themselves up as judges, and want to force others to perform public salutes and to take unnecessary oaths of allegiance to our Government. . . . Among these ‘flag-wavers’ are individuals who are quick to criticize many acts of our Government, especially during the present administration. Under the sort of government they seem to want—a strict dictatorship—these self-styled patriots would find themselves without the right of self-expression they so enjoy under our present form of government.—Guy Phillips.”

Oregon

Portland Oregon Journal: “What is the matter with this old world, and especially with those educators who try to compel little children of 8, 9 and 10 years of age to do that which their conscience forbids them to do? What is the matter with the American flag, that laws have to be passed compelling children to salute it? Has it lost any of its honor or glory or the principles for which it originally stood? I was born in the United States nearly 64 years ago and I have never been asked to salute the flag. . . . If Clifford Carpenter, county superintendent of schools, and Principal Treichel, of Everett, Wash., feel it is the thing to do to salute the flag, by all means let them do so; but after they have done so, will they be any more loyal to the flag than before? Will they be among the first to defend the flag should the United States enter into war? Maybe so, but those who are loudest in demand for such outward appearance are often the ones least loyal in time of greatest need.—G. W. Hughart.”

Portland Press Herald: “The most infamous traitors and despicable hypocrites in the nation will wave their hats the highest and cheer the loudest to conceal their treachery. They will do this also to lead the public in blind submission to their intrigues. The foreign imperialists or ‘Dollar Diplomats’ who intrigue in foreign affairs and expect the American flag and American cannon to support their designs are among the loudest in their demands for flag-waving loyalty. The armament and munition manufacturers are among the first to take off their hats to the flag and to insist that all American citizens follow them. These traitors are among the first to demand a salute to the flag. Those who are among the truly loyal to the honor of our flag resent this demand for a pledge of loyalty from such people. What right has any American citizen to demand that another citizen demonstrate his allegiance to the flag? Such a demand is an insult. It is an assumption of authority that in itself is a violation of allegiance to the flag.—J. J. Stanley.”

Salem Statesman: (See The Golden Age No. 428, page 298.)

Munition-maker Patriotism

Pennsylvania

(See also page 345.)

Easton Herald: (See The Golden Age No. 426, page 251.)

Kittanning Leader-Times: (See The Golden Age No. 422, page 101.)

Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: “Threats of violence may cause a man to kneel before the tyrant’s god, but all of earth’s power cannot force him to believe or lessen the scorn and rebellion in his heart. When the law forces citizens to salute the flag, it is playing with dynamite. It makes an issue of the matter and thus invites antagonism and rebellion. At the least, it changes a spontaneous tribute to an empty formality.—Robert Quillen.” (See also The Golden Age No. 426, page 248.)

Philadelphia Public Ledger: (See The Golden Age No. 424, page 180.) Philadelphia Sunday Transcript: (See The Golden Age No. 423, page 138.)

Pittsburgh Courier: (See The Golden Age No. 424, page 185.)

Washington Observer: "I believe pupils are safer under the direction of those with religious convictions, though they may not salute the flag, than one who daily goes through the flag salute without leaving any religious impressions. If there were more worshipers of the Creator there would be more loyalists to that which He has created.—Mrs. Jas. B. Minton."

West Philadelphia Chronicle: "Today we rank among Public Enemies Number One many men who would salute the flag every day but whose whole plan of life is selfish and antisocial. Beware of flag worship, which puts the show above the substance and gives an exaggerated emphasis to a ceremonial.—Dr. Arthur C. Baldwin."

Rhode Island

Providence Journal: (See The Golden Age No. 426, page 247.)

Westerly Sun: (Same as in Evansville [Ind.] Journal.)

Tennessee

Nashville Tennessean: (See The Golden Age No. 421, page 67.)

Springfield Robertson County Times: "See that the nation itself commands respect and admiration from its citizens, and its flag will do likewise. But compulsory allegiance smacks of militarism and savagery, and has no place in the United States of 1935."

Texas

Dallas Dispatch: (See The Golden Age No. 421, page 69.)

Dallas News: (See The Golden Age No. 426, pages 247 and 249.)

Washington

Seattle Star: "Being a native-born citizen of the United States and loving my country and its flag, I feel that I have a right to say a few words on the question of the three little girls who refused to salute our flag. There was no disloyalty in their hearts against the flag. They just wanted to take a firm stand in their loyalty to their Creator. They, in their childish hearts, know that the flag, amongst millions of other things of earth, is being given more worship than the living God. We have in our midst one little girl who is being paid $5,000 just to amuse the public, while these innocent little tots will likely be thrown into a hateful, disgraceful reform school for punishment because they showed their allegiance to their Lord and Master. This proves what I have repeatedly said, the power of the beast lies in our schools and educational halls. I love the flag, but I could not let it stand between me and my God. They talk of the cruelty of the persecution of the religious element by the scourges of 'Red Russia' and 'Hitlerism'. Have we not got it right here in our midst? It is just the continuation of the 'Pharisees'.—S. A. Shaw."

Seattle Star: "Three innocent, unsuspecting slips of girls who, until a few days ago were just plain doll-playing, rope-skipping little Americans, are about to be transformed into full-fledged patriots by compelling them to salute the flag—or else the reformatory for them. Idiocy? Yes, but there is a more fitting and damning term—tyranny! . . . It is just possible, too, that these little victims of arrogance intuitively understand that American patriotism consists quite as much in contempt for tyranny as in fealty to the flag.—Frank E. Snively." (See also The Golden Age No. 421, page 68.)

Tacoma Labor Advocate: "It is partly a question of religious freedom, too. And since the flag has stood for the principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we take it that religious liberty is not the last or least of such forms of general freedom as the revolutionary fathers proclaimed. We would do well to remember that among the most indomitable of the revolutionists of 1776 were to be found the descendants of those who left Europe to seek in North America freedom to worship God in their own fashion. Our own view is that a forcible reverence and a forcible respect, extracted from young or old, is more harmful than beneficial, even to the acts demanded."

West Virginia

West Virginia University Daily Athenaeum: "In states and nations where Communism and Fascism reign one finds the government's control of freedom of teaching is the fundamental basis of the government. Only what those in power see fit can be taught in the schools—this is one of their main strokes utilized in staying in power. The by-word there is to keep the people ignorant. Is that what the proponents of this legislation in the United States are trying to do?"

Wheeling Intelligencer: (See The Golden Age No. 423, page 138.)

How about the eventual showdown?

Jesuits Beaten Before They Start

Although, for business reasons, not one of the 150 American newspapers above cited saw fit to mention the Jesuits as back of the sudden attempt to make the American people fall down before their own flag and worship it, yet every one of them knows that fact. Jehovah's witnesses saw to it that the information was placed in their hands.

The Jesuits fooled nobody when they opened their "S. J." school against Communists in Philadelphia. How silly to teach thousands how to fight a movement that has but 90,000 voters in the United States! Coughlin's "S. J." school against Communists in Detroit is equally silly. Coughlin is now questioning if there will ever be another election in the United States. He probably thinks mere bluffing has risen to the point where uniformed gangsters and other members of a minority in the United States can take over all the public and private interests of 127,000,000 people merely because they tried it in Italy and Germany and got away with it. Results may be very different when this thing is tried in the good old U.S.A.

To be sure, it looks very bad at present, with the American Legion and other professional patriots, and with some shortsighted and incompetent editors on the side of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, but when the attempt is made, if it is made, to march on Washington and seize control of everything, then it will very likely be good-bye to the Hierarchy.

To try to throw a scare into the rest of America The Catholic News, on its front page, January 18, 1936, carried a five-column scare headline "Holy Name Convention Here", beneath which was the supposedly startling information: "Widespread Society's Session in New York Next September 17-20; Convention, First in Twelve Years, Called at Invitation of Cardinal; Represents 2,500,000 Men."

Examining this headline, the fear that the Hierarchy will make September 17-20 or thereabouts the date when it will undertake its proposed seizure of America and butchery of all Protestants is tempered somewhat by the news that this convention merely "represents" 2,500,000 men. Still, these "Holy Name" men are all armed police or firemen, and moving swiftly might easily duplicate what was done in Russia in 1917. In the states and provinces of Russia, in Europe and Asia, in 1932, there were 168,409,200 population, all held in rigorous control by 1,872,488 Bolsheviks, as of January 1, 1934. In other words, less than 1 1/4 percent of the people in Russia have anything whatever to say about how they are governed. In America the group that confesses a determination to slaughter the Protestants as soon as strong enough is almost 20 percent of the population, and in virtual control of the army and navy, all the arms and ammunition, the public offices and the nation's gold. What is to prevent it from going ahead with another St. Bartholomew's massacre? Nothing at all except the hand of Almighty God.

The pretense that the Roman Hierarchy is afraid America will go Communist is just a bedtime story, to lull the American people to sleep until the pope gets ready to pull off his big act.

Church

A five-minute talk by Judge Rutherford

THE word church is improperly applied to religious organizations which meet at some building and perform a formal ceremony. There are many such organizations amongst men. There is but one real church, and the members thereof in no regular earthly place. The true meaning of the term church is, a body of Christians whom the Lord takes out from the world and uses to the honor of His name. The church is the creation of God, and the Head of that organization is Christ Jesus, as it is written in 1 Timothy 3:15: "The church of the living God." That Christ is the Head, it is written, in Colossians 1:18: "[Christ Jesus] is the head of the body, the church." At Hebrews 12:23 it is stated that it is the "church of the firstborn" whose names are recorded in heaven. It follows, therefore, that man cannot create an organization which is the church, and that the recording of names on earthly books amounts to nothing.

God has never tried to induce anyone to join His church. A creature becomes a member of the church only after he has voluntarily and fully devoted himself to God and has then proved his faithfulness and obedience to God. He must first do the will of God and receive His approval, and then God sets him in the church, as it is written in 1 Corinthians 12: 'God sets the members in the body of the church as it pleases Him.'

Has God organized the church and brought men into it merely for the purpose of taking them to heaven? Most emphatically no. God takes men out from the world to serve and obey Him, and He makes them members of His church and uses them in honor of His own name; and concerning this it is written, at Acts 15:14: "God at the first did visit the [nations] to take out of them a people for his name." The Devil boasted that he could turn all men away from God. To prove the Devil a liar and that God is the only source of life, God favors man with the opportunity to prove his devotion and integrity toward the Lord; and that He does in vindication of His own name, and He uses such faithful ones to proclaim His name and His purpose.

How does one become a member of the church? He first receives some knowledge that Jehovah is the true God and that Christ Jesus is the Savior of man. He believes these truths and shows his desire to be in harmony therewith by devoting himself to God and agreeing to do His will. Everyone who is made a member of the church must follow in the same way that Jesus went, because Jesus is the head and foundation of the church. It is written, at 1 Peter 2:21: "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps." Christ Jesus declared himself wholly on the side of God. He devoted His life to telling God's truth, and for this reason the Devil and his agents caused Jesus great suffering. All who have wholly devoted themselves to God and faithfully given testimony concerning Him and His kingdom have likewise been made to suffer much indignity and many persecutions at the hand of Satan and his agents. Such faithful followers of Christ Jesus are permitted to suffer in this manner in order that they may prove their faithfulness and integrity toward God. Having done this they are made members of the church, which is the body of Christ. They must be faithful to God under all conditions even unto death; and for this reason Jesus says to His followers: "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee [the] crown of life." (Revelation 2:10) The apostle Paul was a striking example of this truth, as is stated at 2 Timothy 4:7, 8: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."

There are not many persons who love the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ and His kingdom, but it is only those who do love Him and who have, under the test, proved their absolute devotion to God that will be made members of His church. To prove one's love for God and His kingdom he must fight the good fight of faith; meaning that men must fully trust in God and His Word and refuse to compromise with those denying the Lord and His kingdom. The church, of which Christ Jesus is the Head, constitutes Jehovah's organization to carry forward His purpose concerning the human race both now and in the future days. The eternal abiding place of the church is in heaven, and those who go to make up the church are the only men that will ever be changed into spirit creatures and be in heaven. While on the earth each one of these must prove his integrity toward God by faithfully and loyally doing the will of God in looking out for and safeguarding the interests of the Kingdom which the Lord has committed unto them. God has plainly marked out the duty and work of His faithful ones while on the earth, and has fully commissioned them to do that specific work.

[The foregoing short talk is one of a series published in The Golden Age as a special feature by arrangement with the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, Brooklyn, N. Y., who are the distributors of these talks in the form of phonograph records. The records are supplied at a nominal rate to those who desire them for use in the home circle and in calling to the attention of acquaintances and relatives the important Bible truths now due to be understood. Inquiries concerning the records should be addressed to the Society.]

Jehovah’s witnesses in Fiji, New Zealand, New Jersey, New England, and the Rockies

WHEN I entered Suva Gaol [Jail] on a sentence of £25 or three months hard labor because I had been teaching people to honor God rather than man (the charge read, “action prejudicial to the peace and good order of the colony”), I was told that no distinction would be made in my case, that I was merely a prisoner and, as such, had no rights, as there was no favoritism in jail.

Now, while Indians, Fijians, Chinese and Europeans are accustomed to different food, they are all entitled to decent sleep, surely. But do they get it? No.

Europeans have a mosquito net, one blanket, one sheet, one pillow, and what I call a corrugated mattress, while we have electric light in the cells from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., and at 5:30 in the morning it is switched on for us to rise by, and it creates the illusion of warming the cell.

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