Golden Age, June 17, 1936
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A MURDERESS FOR 1500 YEARS
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THIEF IN HEAVEN
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Vol. XVII - No. 437
June 17, 1936 CONTENTS
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Halliburton’s Idea of Justice 595
The Company Union at Orange 595
Creating Markets for Lard 595
Spending $14,000 on Monkeys 603
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
THIEF IN HEAVEN 593
EXPELLED FROM HER HOME FOR LOYALTY TO GOD 594
More News About Monessen 595
Something New in Chicago: A Police Censor 603
THE TRANSFIGURATION AND VINDICATION 604
A NEW WHO’S WHO 607
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
The Joys of Motoring 597
Through Highways in Eastern World 597
American Highway Casualties 597
The Ocean or the Automobile? 597
Automatic Aids to Safe Driving 597
The Cotton Highway of Mississippi 597
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
Blatant Fascism in Massachusetts 599
Brodsky Flays the Swastika 599
Professional Patriots in New York 599
New York to End Slums 600
Blasphemers of the Holy Name 600
Mayor La Guardia Shows Sense 600
Jew Stand on Flag Saluting Right 600
In the City of Bayonne 601
Camden Police Officials in Distress 601
Judge Le Boeuf’s Ruling 601
Jersey Justice a Racket 601
Maryland Still Has Some Liberty 602
Anarchists in Louisville 602
Suits Against Harlan County “Authorities” 602
Uses of an Officer of the Law 603
The Dawes $80,000,000 Haul 603
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Bromine for Ethyl Gasoline 596
Thousand-Hour Phonograph Disk 596
Late Wrinkles in Glass 596
The Most Accurate Time 596
The Ridiculous Evolution Theory 596
HOME AND HEALTH
WATER 598
Sanitariums in Polar Regions 598
Stuttering Cases Aided by Crawling 598
Mental Cures at Sykesville, Md. 602
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
PHILISTIA [CATHOLIC ACTION] A MURDERESS FOR 1500 YEARS 579
Universal Prayers for the Pope 579
A Pictorial Visit to Vatican City 581
Religious Susceptibilities 583
Seizure of the Press 584
Compare the Handwriting 586
Massachusetts—There She Lies Flat 590
The Coughlin Camouflage 591
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The Golden Age
Volume XVII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, June 17, 1936 Number 437
Philistia [Catholic Action] a Murderess for 1500 Years
(In Three Parts—Part 2)
ON SUNDAY May 3, 1936, 381 Catholic churches in the New York diocese united in "prayer for the persecuted people" of the world, which was all the more remarkable because the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is more responsible for the bitter persecution of Jehovah's witnesses all over the earth than all other influences put together.
On the same day that these prayers to the Devil were being offered in New York and vicinity, 49 of Jehovah's witnesses were being stoned and arrested in Hazleton and Mauch Chunk, Pa., for taking the message of God's kingdom to the homes of the people, encouraging them to look forward to the happy days when there will be no Devil to deceive the people and no Hierarchy to do his will in the earth.
At Mauch Chunk the tools of the Hierarchy were so eager to get Jehovah's witnesses into trouble that they arrested them illegally on Sunday (which cannot be done in Pennsylvania on that day without a warrant), tried them illegally on Sunday, and sentenced them to the county prison. The sheriff of the county was out of town at the time. When he came home he demanded the commitment papers, which could not be legally issued on Sunday, and not finding them, opened the doors and told the witnesses to go free. A comical answer to the prayers in the New York diocese.
Universal Prayers for the Pope
Bishop Hayes, formerly of Montana, but now of Rome, wants everybody to pray for the pope. Within a few days after his request mobs were setting fire to churches, monasteries and convents all over Spain, shouting, "Burn all the pope's property." More than thirty convents and churches were burned. Liberal papers in Spain stated that professional agitators did the firing.
Isn't it a trifle inconsistent to want people to pray for the pope whose very lives are in danger because there is a pope? If the pope wants others to pray for him he should at least backtrack on this idea that as soon as the Catholic church is strong enough it proposes to take the lives of all the other people in the world.
Universal Prayers for the Pope
Here we have Bishop Ralph Hayes, rector of the American college in Rome, dressed in his fireman's uniform. His purgatorial highness made the headlines by hailing Ambrose as the pope of peace. The former bishop of Montana threw aside all restraint and in his usual flowery and romantic style, unembarrassed by facts or figures (magnanimously forgetting the papal twins Mussolini and Hitler), literally plastered the pope with pious platitudes. But he saved the best for last. "Not only Catholics, but Protestants, Jews and peoples of no creed—all men who love peace, justice and charity—may well join in the official prayers of the church for the supreme pontiff. 'May the Lord preserve Pope Pius XI, give him life and make him blessed and the earth deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.'" Golden Age readers, knowing who are his enemies, will benefit gastronomically—a good laugh aids digestion.
--The Orangeman’s prayer “To hell with the pope” is the only general prayer for the pope that will receive any favorable action in the place where favor is worth while.—Psalm 55:15.
The Sydney Morning Herald of October 22 reports receipt by the Catholic publication Australian Messenger of a cable from the pope asking for prayers for something special he has on his mind. Whatever it was it was something the pope did not wish to broadcast.
The pope closed the “holy year” with a prayer. It was not a prayer to the Father in secret, as Jesus instructed, but it was a prayer broadcast over the radio, addressed to the virgin Mary, and intended for the newspapers. The principal receiving apparatus was in the land of Magog.—Ezekiel 38:2, 3.
On the strength of the prediction of a fortune teller the pope expects he will live until he is 93. The pope’s Easter candle was eight feet high and three inches thick. The report does not mention the size and number of his Easter eggs and Easter bunnies.
A Zurich paper says that Ambrose likes to have them step on the gas and move right along down the pike when he goes riding on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays in his plain Fiat car. On Wednesdays he takes another Fiat car, No. 521, but the public is left in deep distress to know which car he takes on Thursdays and Sundays. He has three others, for use on these days, but three cars do not divide up into two days, nohow.
The Vatican, by the way, has 250 autos for the little city’s 716 inhabitants, which is a record of one chariot for every three persons. The United States comes next, with one for every five. The Vatican cars bear the initials SCV to indicate that they are from the Sovrana Città del Vaticano.
The first ten cars have red figures on a white background and are for the personal use of the pope and his retinue. The car that the pope likes best has an easy chair in the back, instead of an ordinary seat. Angelo Stroppa has been his chauffeur for twelve years.
Do Men Like Lace Petticoats?
Do men like lace petticoats? Do they? Does a cat like cream? As a matter of fact all the men are jealous of the girls on this lace business. Here is a picture of seven priests out in front of St. Bernard’s church, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Three of them are dressed in as nice lace petticoats as you ever saw, and all the fellows are just burning up over it. The men have always had to buy the lace and let the girls wear it, while they dress in ugly pants and go around looking like old-fashioned clothespins, instead of dollies, as they might, if they would all go into the priest business.
A clipping from New Zealand discloses that only certain girls may wear purple. It took a bishop, a dean and a common or garden variety of priest to confer this right on H. F. Holbrook, Roman Catholic parish priest of Grey Lynn, New Zealand. Lots of the girls will be jealous now. But some of them, with the wrong kind of complexion, will just turn up their noses in a curt way, and say that they never did like purple, anyway.
The girls of Texas put one over on their northern sisters that will be the talk of dressmakers for months to come. In April, at Galveston, there was a huge celebration in charge of the Most Reverend C. E. Byrne, bishop of Galveston. The women’s page bristled with this information: “Bishop Byrne has ordered white silk vestments, hand embroidered with Texas bluebonnets, for the ministers who celebrate the mass. The vestments will be trimmed in gold.” Now won’t that make the northern ladies turn green with envy?
Concerning the winter style show at Vatican City the papers say: “Priests and prelates in gold and silver vestments, in black, white, red and purple robes, will gather around the kneeling cardinals. They will form a rainbow of color in a vast mass of black worn by the tens of thousands” of plain mutts that pay for the show. The girls certainly do love to climb into glittering harness and put it all over on the plain menfolks.
Without Honor or Decency
Of the full-length prostration of the batch of new cardinals before the pope, the account says:
“Two prelates waved fans of ostrich feathers at the papal throne when the pope took his seat there at the altar, while the papal anthem ‘Tu es Petrus’ was played. The ceremony of adoration was carried out. Each member of the College of Cardinals passed before the pope and kissed his papal ring. The new cardinals were led by older ones to the throne where they knelt and kissed the pope’s red-slippered foot, his ring and embraced him.”
Then they got their red hats and fell headlong, ---
Here is a snapshot of the Maternity Hospital where all manner of lies are brought forth. It is this peculiar institution that has given the Hierarchy the odd name of "mother". It is rumored around here (much to the disgust of other "holy" orders) that the great majority of the children are fathered by the Jesuits. Due to an increased birth rate there is a scarcity of beds. A collection is being taken to reduce the shortage. Above is Fra Musarone holding two of the latest arrivals.
Nursery and Orphanage. In this colossal nursery all the newborn lies are carefully nursed and fed so they can grow up to be big, strong and useful lies in the world. In addition, in her role as "mother", all orphan lies, wandering useless lies, that have no place to roost, are taken in and nourished faithfully, without regard to their origin or parentage. Room for all is at a premium, and a collection is being taken to enlarge the plant. In the foreground is the graveyard (we're afraid the mortality is high), and in the middle ground a poor little papal lie, victim of the Ethiopian campaign, is being interred.
The Plaster-cast Factory, where images, idols, crucifixes, altars, etc., are modeled, cast, molded, carved, painted, gilded, and so forth. Also all kinds of "lucky medals" and other junk. Although there is plenty of plaster of Paris, gold leaf is scarce, and a collection is being lifted to increase the supply. The shipping room is just to the left. However, before they are shipped to the buyers, they are sent to—
The Blessing Factory, where the new blessing machine (not to be confused with prayer wheels) will bless them. (Ha, ha! you thought the pope did it, didn't you?) This machine was not invented by Edison (suspicion, however, rests on Marconi), but it is thoroughly modern, except for the chain drive, just forward the cog, where it should be a worm drive. A collection is being taken to correct this error. By throwing the machine in reverse the blesser becomes an anathemicter. Be handy soon, eh?
Looks plush, doesn't it? Well, there may be a little gristle—after all, you can't trust the oily morgue to do a clean job. Here is Friar Bunko bathing what will some day be the famous parts of several "saints". Friar Bunko would like to come to the U.S. Says he's tired of scrubbing the bones of dirty crooks who should be buried in the potter's field and hadn't ought to be made saints' relics. In the background is a cartload of more bones arriving. (Poor Fra Bunko!) At present they are delivered by cart drawn by an ancient plug, but a collection is being taken to buy a nice cat-over-engine truck to do the work.
"Holy Water Distillery and Petticoat Factory. Thousands of priests in the world, and they all have to have their petties. The petticoat factory had a deficit last year, and a collection, etc. In the foreground is the new jail and the sacred bull stable. Yes, you are right: Someone is cleaning the sacred bull stable; probably Ambrose. The stuff he is throwing out is used to sweeten the sacred strawberries.
A PICTORIAL VISIT TO VATICAN CITY — UNCENSORED PHOTOS FROM THE STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER-
--after which, in an inner chamber, their lips were opened and closed by the pope, to indicate that they are to talk when he says talk, and shut up when he says shut up.
After changing her "religion" from Episcopalian to Roman Catholic, and living with Alfonso king of Spain for thirty years, in which time she bore him six children, Victoria, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, without any hearing, was adjudged by old man Ratti's so-called "Rota" as never married to her husband at all. Of course, this "decision" of the Rota is entirely without honor, entirely without reason, entirely without justice and entirely without decency, and without force. It is merely a decision of the Roman Hierarchy, which is, in fact, a decision of the Devil himself.
Vatican City has built itself a new three-cell jail. Swiss Guards dressed in medieval boiler plate will have it in charge. What is this jail for, in this holy (?) city of 716 holy (?) men?
Insulting American Negroes
Here is a little book, intended for circulation among American Negroes, entitled "Blessed Martin" and bearing the words "Imprimatur Jacobus Josephus Episcopus Columbensis", meaning that it has the official endorsement of the Roman Catholic bishop of Colombia.
Page 5 says: "Whenever reviled, he would thank his persecutors for their interest in him, beg pardon for his faults and promise to do better in the future. With this he was wont to kiss their feet." The book does not show who the revilers were, but everybody knows the gang that like to have their feet kissed, and so can guess.
The next page says: "Even rats shared his attention and benefited by his kindness. When they were going to be destroyed in the convent he came to their rescue by sending one of them to gather the rest and lead them into the garden. There he fed them, happy to have prevented the suffering of even the least of God's creatures."
The Roman Catholic Penitentes of New Mexico have rites and ceremonies so savage that the penalty for disclosing them is burial alive at night. So long as the Roman Cult has such disgraceful goings on done in its name, it should cease its pretense of being the custodian of the world's morals and start house cleaning.
Albert Fall, of New Mexico, joined the same church as Doheny, Dutch Schultz, Mwanalesa and Al Capone. When they all "get to heaven", they can join in singing, "Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here," etc.
The Reverend John A. Toomey, Jesuit, who accepted Dutch Schultz into the Roman Catholic fold, is going to have to do some tall explaining when he meets that gentleman on the golden streets. Dutch will call his attention to the fact that his earnings through murders and general racketeering operations amounted to $827,253 in the six weeks before he was croaked, and will probably want an accounting.
Hierarchical Holiness
At Florence there was something unusually sacred. A cartload of fireworks was shot off in front of the cathedral. The sacred thing about it was the sacred bulls, of which there were four, white ones, with golden hoofs. They drew the cart. Just why a bull has to have his hoofs gilded to be a holy bull was not explained. The staff artist seems to have had this and other holy bulls in mind in the last scene on page 581. Or had he?
The San Antonio Light contains a four-column picture of Reverend Benjamin Sliva, S.J., blessing cats, dogs, canaries and chickens. As a result of this blessing the cats will have more kittens, the dogs will have more fleas and more pups, the canaries will sing better, and the chickens will sit more stylishly on the roost, pigeons will have more squabs; goats will have a better flow of milk, sheep will have more lambs; chickens will lay more eggs, and guinea pigs—hold on, now, this thing has gone far enough; they just couldn't have more descendants, no matter what the priest said. And, besides, who would pay for the feed?
When Captain Mollison and his wife landed in the mud at Bridgeport, and came near breaking their necks, and did, in fact, land in a hospital, it came out that they each had on them medals of St. Christopher, Roman Catholic 'protector of travelers'. And now comes the news that on St. Christopher's day automobiles were blessed at the church of St. Christopher at Baldwin, N. Y.; just when the authorities were trying to reduce accidents, too.
Robert Ripley says that pious Queen Isabella of Spain was proud of the fact that she had but two baths in her life: one when she was born, and the other when she was married. The Spanish Jew (?) Christopher Columbus was glad to accept her jewels and light out for a better world. Her Catholic piety smelled to heaven.
A FEW INCIDENTS WHEN RELIGIOUS SUSCEPTIBILITIES WERE "SHOCKED", DOWN THROUGH THE CENTURIES
Because they shocked the religious susceptibilities of the Roman emperors by refusing to acknowledge them as gods, thousands of early Christians were tortured, crucified and thrown to the wild beasts in the arena.
Because the apostle Paul proclaimed Christ Jesus and Jehovah and branded as a false god Diana of the Ephesians (an idol) the religious susceptibilities of the silversmiths and idol-makers were shocked, and a riot ensued.—Acts 19:24-41.
Portrait of priest taking good care of his religious susceptibilities.
Unemployed "reverends"—their religious susceptibilities hurt even unto death.—Jeremiah 25:36.
Because Jehovah's witnesses have shocked the religious susceptibilities of Hitler and his Roman Catholic Nazi party by refusing to acknowledge him as Savior and Father, they are imprisoned, beaten and killed.
When school children refuse to salute the flag because of conscience, the Hierarchy, considering themselves as the "higher powers" and the flag their own (since Roosevelt), have their religious susceptibilities shocked some more.
Because they shocked the religious susceptibilities of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy by refusing to acknowledge that church as God's representative on earth, millions of innocent persons suffered torture, exile and death by fire, at the hands of the "Holy Inquisition".
The religious susceptibilities of the Reverend Gold Brick, Bluesky, Wildcat Stock in the Hereafter salesmen are shocked when anyone reveals the true value of their wares.
Today a world-wide effort is made to spare the religious susceptibilities of modern Neros, Caligulas, Diocletians, Torquemadas and Baal worshipers, by cruelly persecuting a class of people who hail Jehovah as God and Christ as King and refuse to acknowledge that salvation is by a dictator, a flag or any man.
--Playing the Ignorant for Suckers
Having done, and still continuing to do, all that is humanly possible to keep the people in ignorance of God and His Word, the Roman Hierarchy makes no bones whatever of playing the public for suckers by methods that are not one particle higher than those of the medicine men of Borneo.
St. Joseph's House, 16th St. and Allegheny Ave., Philadelphia, sent Jake Mayer a Cord of St. Joseph 37 inches long, to be tied around his waist and to make him innocent. Jake's waist was too big for the 37-inch cord, so he sent it on here. The cord won't do for The Golden Age; not at all. The knots are not evenly spaced: the distances apart, from knot to knot, are respectively 1-5/32 inches, 1-5/16 inches, 1-3/16 inches, 1-17/32 inches, 1-5/16 inches and 1-3/8 inches, and you can immediately see for yourself they would be of no good for an editor to get made innocent. The cord is common grocery cord, approved by the Sacred Congregation of Rites, 1859, and enriched by Pius IX. Don't betray your ignorance by asking how it was enriched; it is enough for you to know it was enriched. But it is of no good in here. Even the secretary won't wear it; and besides, he couldn't get it on.
Twelve times, for various reasons, the "Society of the Divine Word, St. Paul's Mission House, Epworth, Iowa", said, "Go to Joseph," stating that this invitation is "from Jesus". The statement is wholly false. Jesus made no such request.
A Manitoba business man relates that when he was a lad in eastern Canada the priest told that when the church bell rang it could be heard in Rome. Doubting this, the lad, a good stone thrower, got on the opposite side of the church and threw rocks at the bell to make it ring, so he could judge how far the sound would go. One of the rocks hit the bell. The priest came running out and told the people that an angel had rung the bell and they were all to kneel down and pray. The businessman said he never had any more use for the hypocrites from that moment.
Seizure of the Press
Whenever there is a fire or a flood or anything else, it has been observed, the most conspicuous personage is always a Catholic priest if there is one within reach. Thus, in the account of the rescue of passengers from the Dixie, which went on the reef below Miami, one of the four headlines was "Priest Clung to One Place and Prayed for Five Hours, Giving Absolution", and then halfway down the column under the subhead "Priest First Passenger", the same story is given all over again, and it is explained that next to the purser he was the first to get away from the ship.
Anything at all that helps to keep the Roman Catholic church in the public eye (like a cinder) is considered a great gain to the church. The news associations do all possible to help carry forward this idea, as do editors and reporters. Where Rome is involved, the truth is murdered.
A friend in Massachusetts belabored diligently in the Berkshire Eagle and the North Adams Transcript, in which, as usual, he was represented as trying to hand out copies of The Golden Age "to discourage the school children from saluting the flag", sends in copies of the papers, and says: "As I am the representative spoken of, it is very amusing to me. Hardly a word of truth is spoken in either article." One of the cudgel-wielders said, "I am a Catholic." But that was quite unnecessary.
A dispatch from Manila tells of the death of two children and the injury of twenty-seven more when a Roman Catholic church burned in the Philippines, but somebody fell down on the job very badly, for in the dispatch there was no mention of some priest or nuns that made heroic rescues, etc. The Roman Cult should look into this and see to it that no more truthful accounts be sent out from the Philippines. Nothing should be sent out until the truth is so twisted and mutilated to suit the purposes of the Hierarchy that nobody familiar with the facts would ever recognize it.
The Zeppelin designer and navigator, Dr. Hugo Eckener, was man enough to refuse to vote for Hitler; hence Hitler ordered that his name be not hereafter mentioned in Germany. The publicity, as far as that was humanly possible, was transferred from Eckener to the pope, in the following manner:
Having pushed the Protestant Eckener aside, the pope graciously "consented" (stop your laughing) that the "Reverend Paul Schulte, flying padre", should go to Friedrichshaven "bringing with him a papal document authorizing the celebration of mass aboard the Hindenburg".
Schulte did not pay his fare. Not on your life. He was not listed among the 50 passengers.
He was on the pay roll as one of the crew. Do you think the Hierarchy has any intentions whatever of paying for its own publicity? If you do, you just don't know the Hierarchy. It took the New York Times almost a column to spread out this slop, but Fascism is willing to do anything whatever to help forward the scheme of the Devil, and Gog, his prime minister, and the pope, his vicar, to gain control of the whole earth.
One comical thing happened in New York. The radio announcer Mark Harley said, "One of the features of the trip will be the 'daily mess' by Father Schulte." He quickly, and confusedly, made the change from "mess" to "mass"; but he might as well have let it stand. In any event, it is simon-pure idolatry, and idolatry is a mess of superstitions—nothing else.
"Their Reward"—Gratified Vanity
The Lord spoke about those that love to pray in the synagogues and other places so as to be seen of men, and said of them, 'Verily they have "their reward"'—gratified vanity. And now cometh the newspaper story that at a convent fire in Providence, Rhode Island, thirteen nuns "calmly completed mass" for nine minutes while four companies of firemen were fighting the blaze. Then they walked out—and 'verily they have "their reward"'.
The Commonweal boasts of how the Hierarchy prevents freedom of the press in the Protestant state of Georgia. If there is a hint of disclosing any unfavorable facts regarding the "church" there are immediately letters from various Catholic associations, threats of reader boycotts, advertising cancellations, suit and bribery. The Commonweal does not mention any of these, for they are regular practices in every state.
In Georgia a different scheme was used. A woman criticized the church and set forth some truth. A Catholic organization replied by a paid advertisement. When the woman sought to make a response she was referred to the advertising columns, which she could not afford to patronize. So, by one means or another, the Hierarchy proceeds in every land to stifle education and free speech—its definite objectives.
Beginning to sense the danger to themselves if radio censorship, which is gradually being introduced, becomes an accomplished fact, the newspaper publishers of the United States have adopted a resolution protesting against such violations of the First Amendment to the Constitution. They have been rather slow in waking up.
With the Devil managing "Christendom", one of the most unpleasing of persons is he who corrects errors. Writing on this subject The Davey Company, in a piece of advertising literature, says: "Robert Etienne, 16th Century Parisian publisher, first divided the New Testament into verses. He did this while riding on horseback between Paris and Lyons. Robert made the error of correcting errors in the French translation. The medieval churchmen became indignant at this apparent blasphemy. Robert barely escaped with his hide to Geneva. This ancient book craftsman made the error of knowing too much."
Seizure of the Movies
American films are now completely subject to the pope. An INS dispatch from Rome tells of the reception by the pope of Clyde Pettijohn, general counsel of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. Pettijohn has been working under the direction of Cardinal Mundelein, of Chicago.
N. B. Maysmith, British Columbia, says:
An investigation of Hollywood film releases during the past year will show that ALL films, where it was possible to depict religion as an upbuilding and helpful influence, have shown the Catholic church and its priests or nuns. If it was found necessary to ridicule religion it was always the Protestant churches and preachers that were used. Such pictures as Dante's "Inferno" are ideal for putting over an abundance of propaganda thinly veiled as entertainment. News reels are used to show scenes of cardinals and bishops, of eucharistic congresses and various Catholic ceremonies. In many productions, such as Shanghai, Catholic scenes are introduced which are entirely foreign to the natural setting of the scene, and which were evidently inserted in the script after it was written. In "Steamboat Round the Bend", Will Rogers' last picture, there is a scene ridiculing an "evangelist" and his teachings, but this scene depicts a Protestant preacher. Historical films, which to be true to fact should show the hypocrisy and evil works of the Catholic church, are so changed as to glorify this devilish system. True, the propaganda, in some instances, is very subtle, as in a hospital scene, where nuns are shown walking in the corridors, implying that it is a Catholic hospital, although there is nothing in the picture to suggest that any of the characters are Catholics. In another film a young man seeking comfort in mental distress enters a Catholic church and kneels before the altar. These individual instances are of themselves of little importance, but the continuous depicting of Catholicism as the only helpful church influence is bound to have its effect eventually, not only on the impressionable child mind, but also on the mature mind of the adult.
George Bernard Shaw, famous London playwright, found himself greatly shocked to discover that Will Hays is really under the dictation of the Vatican and "that what professed to be an American Purity League was really a Roman Catholic censorship actually dictated by the Vatican". George should read The Golden Age and keep up to date. This was brought to attention of these readers long ago.
Catholic censorship of films is under way even in the supposedly Protestant city of Geneva, Switzerland. The parochial notice board lists all the movies in the city, and marks them TARM according to what films may be seen or not seen, and by whom. Below the list are the significant words, "To live is to choose."
Believe as I Believe, or Else—
One of Jehovah's witnesses, a former Catholic, sent The Golden Age a letter from his sister, still an ardent Catholic, urging his return to the "prison" from which he escaped. One of her arguments was:
"I belong to a study club, organized by Catholic Action. The purpose of these clubs is to expose just such racketeers in religion as is this man you have so much faith in, namely, Judge Rutherford. If Rutherford had lived in Europe, in the great Catholic countries of Italy and Austria, or in the Lutheran countries of Denmark and Norway, or in Presbyterian and Episcopalian England, he would not be here today—his evil tongue would have been silenced long ago." . . . "If Rutherford would live up to the golden rule, I am sure the number of his present followers would be doubled."
How is that for an argument? In one sentence is a covert threat of murder, and in another a plea that the one who would escape murder at the hands of his supposedly Christian enemies must make sure that he lives up to the golden rule or he will get it where Anna wears her beads.
This is the attitude fostered by the Roman church, though in his public utterances the pope is often "moved to tears" while his voice "trembles with emotion". At the recent congress in Rome of the International Federal Cinematographic Press he cried because the movies were so terrible, and reminded those present that he was "the father of all souls", thereby intimating that he was the one to set the standard of what was to be presented on the screen. In the United States, which is admittedly the greatest center of film production, the pope grabbed everything, as has been shown, and is having things his own way. What more does he want?
Compare the Address, the Handwriting, and the Signature
(See page 587)
For reasons best known to himself this gentleman (?)—and who but a member of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy would stoop to such a thing?—did not want "his" flock to get Judge Rutherford's address for fear they would learn the truth about how they have been swindled and oppressed. But he wanted some truth himself, and got it, too. And to make sure the flock would know all about it, his three-page letter marked "a" was put in 400,000 homes in Philadelphia and Camden. Two days afterward the gentleman whose name is Dennis (referred to in letter on page 588) left in a hurry for Rome.
Attempted Seizure of Radio
All readers of The Golden Age know of the desperate attempts made by the Catholic press of America (the pope's own voice, so he says) to crowd Judge Rutherford off the air, and that by methods that would have been a disgrace to use at a dog fight. Intimidation, boycott, threats, slander and misrepresentation were freely resorted to. The attempt was unsuccessful, less than thirty stations capitulating out of more than three hundred attacked. The Roman Hierarchy, however, once started on any course of infamy, is very persistent.
John F. Daniels, editor of the Roman Catholic magazine misnamed Wisdom, broadcast over WLWL the following brazenly false and misleading statement: "The World Telegram last week printed a large account of the work of Judge Rutherford and his associates who are intent on disseminating fallacious statements regarding the 'church'. Rutherford has been denied the right to broadcast because of assertions he has made over the air regarding the Catholic church."
The millions who listen regularly to Judge Rutherford over scores of stations in every part ---
--of the earth that carry his lectures will be interested in this lie, and will also be interested in the infamous presumption that free speech has ceased in the world for anybody who dares to tell the truth, the plain, simple truth, about the worst defamers of God's holy name (and admittedly potential murderers) that ever lived on the earth.
A WBBR Experience
Radio station WBBR, Brooklyn, N. Y., for a considerable period carried a weekly program by an excellent Hungarian orchestra, featuring the native folk music of that music-loving people. With the support of the Hungarian newspapers that orchestra attained unusual popularity among the Hungarian people, their fan mail amounting to thousands of letters. At length WBBR followed their broadcast with a Hungarian translation of Judge Rutherford's lecture "Government". The results were immediate and most gratifying.
When the group next came in, one of their number, Zilahy, a prominent Hungarian actor and singer, stated that he had been summoned to a special meeting of the New Jersey bishops of both the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, six in all, representing Camden, Trenton and New Brunswick. The idea was to reprimand him sharply for associating himself with Jehovah's witnesses, threatening to excommunicate him if he did not sever his connections with WBBR immediately. They were mad as hornets.
Zilahy, however, stood his ground manfully, telling them, in effect, that WBBR was really doing them a favor in permitting them to broadcast, that he admires and practices free speech for everybody, and if they think Judge Rutherford is wrong the manly thing for them to do is to hire a radio station and tell the world all about it. The incident set all the Hungarians of the Metropolitan district to thinking, and, as they are a reading people, the situation is interesting.
Applying the whitewash brush via radio is more to the Hierarchy's liking. For instance, President Roosevelt, in a message delivered for him over the NBC network, seemed to give Myles Coverdale a place in the Roman fold when his translation of the Bible took place. He was described by the president as "an Augustinian friar, later the bishop of Exeter".
As a matter of fact Coverdale laid aside his monk's habit in 1525, and began to preach against papal errors. He joined Tyndale at Hamburg in 1528, and his own translation of the Bible was published in 1535, ten years after he had ceased to be a Roman Catholic. But, of course, the Hierarchy and its friends are not interested in giving the people the facts, or in using the radio as a means of giving the people truthful information. It is to be used as far as possible to further the schemes of the Hierarchy.
CHANCERY OFFICE
1712 Summer Street
Philadelphia
April 30, 1936.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Having consulted His Eminence, Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, regarding the letter of Rev. James J. Clarke, C. S. Sp., rector of the Church of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, Philadelphia, he informed me that this letter has his entire approval, and that His Eminence joins in the protest; moreover, that he will take further and more drastic action if the broadcasting of Judge Rutherford is permitted to continue.
Dennis Cardinal Dougherty is Archbishop of Philadelphia.
J. Carroll McCormick,
CHANCELLOR
Archdiocese of Philadelphis.
Vanzetti and "Clerical Action"
In one of the Latin American countries, before the death of the misguided idealist Vanzetti, slain in Massachusetts to make a Roman holiday, one of the threatening letters received at a United States consulate was signed "El Clero Enaccion", which is Spanish for "Clergy in Action". This information comes to The Golden Age from a person once in the Government's employ, and is evidently correct. The priest that signed "El Clero Enaccion" was one of the unusually stupid ones that did not realize he was giving his racket away.
Seizure of Schools Under Way
Rome seeks to control education all over the world. What she would do if she had the control is exemplified by what she has done where she has had it. The following are the percentages of illiteracy in the countries where Rome has had full sway: Argentina 62, Bolivia 40, Brazil 75, Chile 40, Colombia 60, Costa Rica 47, Cuba 52, Dominican Republic 70, Guatemala 65, Haiti 58, Mexico 62, Nicaragua 40, Panama 38, Peru 46, Puerto Rico 66, Salvador 55, Uruguay 39, Venezuela 72.
Fascism (Catholic Action) looks to the slavery of the masses, with all power in the hands of a few. This is frankly admitted by The Catholic World, which is on record as saying:
We do not indeed prize as highly as some of our countrymen seem to do the simple ability to read, write, and cipher. The best ordered and administered State is that in which a few are well educated and lead, and the many are trained to obedience, are willing to be directed, content to follow, and do not aspire to be leaders. We believe the peasantry in old Roman Catholic countries two centuries ago were better educated, although for the most part unable to read and write, than are the great body of the American people of today.
It ought to be perfectly apparent from this admission that Theodore Roosevelt knew just what he was talking about when he said that the Roman Catholic church is not suited to American principles and ideals.
In the Toronto Evening Telegram Kate Dowling, referring to the so-called parochial schools of the Hierarchy, said, "It is impossible to name any other one thing that has created as much strife and ill-will in Ontario as Roman Catholic separate schools. . . . There is an abundance of evidence to prove that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy will never abide by any contract or settlement they accept for very long. They will always be back very soon with fresh demands." Suppose every one of the 207 sects in the United States should demand a slice of the public funds for separate schools, as does the Roman Catholic sect. All can see the confusion that would result. The big dogs would get it all.
The Roman Hierarchy is making strenuous efforts to prevent the facts of history from being known by the rising generation. It is noteworthy that in every possible place Catholics are being made teachers of "history"—even at Harvard University.
In Mexico other methods are resorted to. In Acejeme three Roman Catholics, all men, shot a woman seven times, cut her with machetes, beat her with clubs, dragged her body to the center of the town, and burned it. This was because she had championed the Mexican government's educational program instead of the one steadfastly maintained by the church for 400 years and which resulted in 62 percent illiteracy.
In the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, two of Jehovah's witnesses, Mr. and Mrs. Carlos V. Calderon, engaged in the most important educational work in the world, were going from house to house telling the poor and priest-ridden people of God's gracious provision for them, when they were foully murdered, a Catholic priest being the one responsible for the commission of the crime.
Catholic papers lay much stress upon a new Catholic dictionary for boys and girls. The word "Catholic" is omitted from the title, which will be "Webster Dictionary for Boys and Girls". Catholic educators are clever enough to know that if they are to enslave adults they must first enslave the minds of children; and what better plan exists than to poison their minds by false definitions? This works well in Christian Science, and should work in Roman Catholicism.
Educators by the Nose
The Roman Hierarchy has St. Paul's (Minnesota) educators by the nose. All Catholic children must be excused forty minutes on Mondays and Tuesdays to be pumped full of Romish doctrines. This interrupts the school work altogether unnecessarily, as Saturdays and Sundays could be used for this worse than useless "instruction". The plan makes the state back up the church, at least in appearance.
In a single county in Texas 42 Protestant schoolteachers were discharged and 42 nuns took their places. (In North Dakota nuns may wear their black habits while teaching in public schools!) The checks to pay the nuns were all made out to the Mother Superior, who retained $77.50 out of each check, allowing the nuns to retain $22.50; so says the Texas Baptist Standard.
The Fascist (Catholic Action) scheme to Hitlerize the United States is in full swing. In twenty-two states teachers who have spent their whole lives making good Americans are now forced to take oaths to do what they have always done.
So determined is the Jesuit grip on Massachusetts that in five minutes the Curley gang ousted the capable Protestant state commissioner of education, Dr. Payson Smith, after eighteen years of faithful service, all because he opposed the Fascist Teachers' Oath Act. They then put in his place James G. Reardon, 36-year-old superintendent of schools in Adams, Knight of Columbus, who is, of course, for everything the pope is for. Dr. Smith is over 60 years of age.
Massachusetts—
There She Lies Flat
At the moment it looks as if the efforts to make statesmen out of house painters and bus drivers is not wholly a success. Hitler, the man that sold out the liberties of the German people to the munition makers and the pope, was a house painter. Dorgan, responsible for turning the people of Massachusetts into a flag-worshiping bunch of hypocrites, was a bus driver. Hitler could not have used good paint or put it on in an honest manner; that's flat. There is still hope for Dorgan, however, as his attitude toward "flag-salutin'" has undergone modification.
Ignace Opielouski once a Roman Catholic, became one of Jehovah's witnesses. When his three children were sentenced to a reform school because they refused to salute the flag, their case was appealed to a higher court. Meantime, Attorney James F. Mahoney, representing the town, announces that, while the appeal is pending, the children may not go on with their studies. Guess Mahoney's "religion", and guess what "church" is back of the whole infamy. Also guess what "church" has Massachusetts right by the nose and is swinging it around in circles. Nellie Shea is the principal of the school.
Jehovah's witnesses in Columbus, Georgia, placed copies of The Golden Age Nos. 420, 421 and 422 in the hands of all editors and school principals of the city. One of the school principals is a Roman Catholic. Immediately after the copies had been left with him he, or somebody for him, caused the publication of a front-page broadside accusing Jehovah's witnesses with distributing The Golden Age among the school children. The principal knew this was a lie. Being a Roman Catholic, he naturally wanted to show that he is opposed to the truth. There is no need to get rattled. Let the liars lie; they are in for it now and later. No person should expect any editor who is under Catholic control to tell the truth on any subject whatever.
The Jesuit battle for control of America's pocketbook is nearly won. Thus the Jesuit magazine America now admits that "for the past three years the Federal Government has spent nearly $400,000 per day on schools in the States. . . . In making these allotments, the Government has drawn no distinction between public and private institutions, between schools conducted by Catholics and schools from which religion is barred."
Another hourl, Master, to grace your harem
Always Hypocrites, Never Sincere
Perceiving, from the distribution of millions of copies of the booklet Loyalty, containing Judge Rutherford's address on "Saluting a Flag", and from The Watchtower and The Golden Age and the public press in general, the bitter hatred and contempt of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy engendered by the flag salute laws in the State of O'Connell, Curley and Reardon (sometimes still called "Massachusetts"), the Hierarchy now comes out strong (on paper, and for the purposes of the record), first, with a guarded declaration against free speech, and, second, with a protestation that it does not believe in making the schools the playthings of politics, nor the organs of a false patriotism, and is against teachers' oaths of allegiance, etc. This is like a horse thief condemning horse stealing.
Writing of the rapid spread of the Roman church in the days when its harlotry was desired by every cutthroat that sought to make himself powerful at the expense of his fellow men, Mark Twain said, bitingly:
In two or three little centuries it (the Roman church) had converted a nation of men to a nation of worms. Before the day of the church's supremacy in the world men were men, and held their heads up, and had a man's pride and spirit and independence; and what of greatness and position a person got, he got mainly by achievement, not by birth. But then the church came to the front, with an ax to grind; and she was wise, subtle, and knew more than one way to skin a cat—or a nation; she invented 'divine right of things' and propped it all around, brick by brick, with the Beatitudes—wrenching them from their good purpose to make them fortify an evil one; she preached (to the commoner) humility, obedience to superiors, the faculty of self-sacrifice; she preached (to the commoner) meekness under insult; preached (still to the commoner, always to the commoner) patience, meanness of spirit, non-resistance under oppression; and she introduced heritable ranks and aristocracies, and taught all the Christian populations of earth to bow down to them and worship them. . . .
The fame of the miracle went abroad into all lands. From every land came monks to join; they came even as the fishes come, in shoals, and the monastery added building to building, and yet others to these, and so spread wide its arms and took them in. And nuns came also; and more again, and yet more, and built over against the monastery on the yon side of the vale, and added building to building, until mighty was the nunnery. And these were friendly unto those, and they joined their loving labors together, and together they built a fair great foundling asylum midway of the valley between.—"The Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court."
In Will Rogers' dramatization of scenes from this famous book, this and all other reflections on the Roman system were carefully eliminated.
The Coughlin Camouflage
Referring to some unnamed but easily identified radio priest as pouring out "weekly under the blessed name of social justice the most poisonous and inflammatory economic and social nonsense", President James Rowland Angell, of Yale University, wonders why the sudden demand that the teachers must all be put under loyalty oaths while such radio speakers, and editors, movie magnates and others, all of them far more powerful purveyors of propaganda, are left unscathed.
Democratic "statesmen" are working desperately to keep Coughlin's name in the paper. Thus John J. O'Connor, Roman Catholic, chairman of the House of Representatives Rules Committee, wired Coughlin: "Just heard your libelous radio rambling. The truth is not in you. You are a disgrace to my church or any other church, and especially to the citizenship of America which you recently embraced. You do not dare print what you said about me. If you will please come to Washington I shall guarantee to kick you all the way from the Capitol to the White House with clerical garb and all the silver in your pockets, which you got by speculating in Wall Street while I was voting for all farm bills. Come on." Coughlin then said he would come, and O'Connor apologized. The net result was that Coughlin was made to appear as persecuted and heroic. It kept his name in the paper.
"Father" Coughlin's old church, insured at $30,000, burned to the ground just as his new $750,000 was in good shape to take over all the radio equipment and other accessories of the burned structure. The old church burned because the wires were crossed [though some said the Black Legion burned it]; the $30,000 will come in good, now that there are reports that Coughlin's influence is waning. Among the things saved were, so reported, a piece of the true cross and a bone of St. Theresa. If Coughlin could get together all the pieces of the true cross that are on exhibition in various parts of the world, and could fasten them together, he could build a bigger church than the one that was burned, and have enough left over to erect a ten-story building. (This figure of speech is sometimes called hyperbole.)
The Adelaide (Australia) Advertiser criticizes Coughlin as follows:
There are critics who find in his category of "Points" one ominous omission, the failure to include among the sixteen a single word about democratic government. Exacting critics have discovered a second omission. Liberty of conscience is conceded, but what of liberty of speech? There is no despotism in Europe in which liberty of conscience is disallowed. Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini have magnanimously permitted the millions they dragoon to retain their thoughts as long as they keep them to themselves; but liberty of speech they have treated as another matter. It is ominous also that it is only at the cost of political freedom that these dictators establish themselves, and still maintain their despotic power (in two cases after the lapse of years) in spite of Rich Rumbold's memorable declaration when, as Macaulay tells us, this political martyr stood on the scaffold in 1685, that he could "never believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden".
A. H. Kent, of Iowa, demands to know:
Who is this mighty Coughlin that claims to hold eight million voters in the hollow of his hand, and covers the integrity of certain political candidates with the sanctifying influence of his priestly robes? What manner of man this, that can deliver one-fifth the nation's voters, roped, hogtied and branded at the corral of politicians of his own choosing? Can it be that the technique of ward heelers and boodlers has become so purified at the shrine of the Little Flower that it now floats, untainted and undetected, on the sterilized air of the N.B.C.? That such things can be is the more surprising when we consider that since Barnum's time the birth rate on suckers has dropped to one every three minutes. Anyway, we thought Coughlin himself would be the last money changer to be driven from Wall Street when China dumped her silver.
The Baltimore Catholic Review is not proud of Coughlin's injection of the Catholic church into politics. It asks a question from the job-seeking candidates that advertises their conversion to every one of Coughlin's sixteen "points" and follows the question with a statement:
Are the men who are to be elected to Congress this year to be representatives of the people of the country, or are they to be mere puppets carrying out every order issued by Father Coughlin? Conditions have reached a new high in danger when one man seeks to tell the country that not only does he know everything on a particular question, but goes beyond that and seeks to make the lawmakers acknowledge obsequiously and cowardly that he knows all and they know nothing.
No Sensible Person Wants Anarchy
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is well aware of the fact that no sensible person wants anarchy. Past masters in the arts of propaganda, adepts at inflaming "public opinion" against imaginary foes, and alert in the excitement thus created to move several steps forward toward their objectives, the agents of the Hierarchy a few years back had the United States scared stiff for fear a handful of anarchists would take away the liberties of 120,000,000 Americans overnight.
Vanzetti and "Clergy in Action"
Vanzetti, it will be remembered, was put to death for a pay roll robbery which he was alleged to have committed in Bridgewater on the same day when 125 reputable citizens of Plymouth testified he was in Plymouth all day peddling fish from door to door. It now appears that the hue and cry that he was an anarchist (he shook hands with his executioner just before he was slain) was in all probability "Clergy in Action", intended to get American sapheads too excited about an imaginary anarchist uprising to be able to use their brains when the real villains, "El Clero," should begin to pull off their stuff—the seizure of America.
The potential dangers to true Americanism are the tools of the pope. This time it is the express men. March 22, 1936, 2,600 employees of the Railway Express Company had a "communion mass" at St. Patrick's Cathedral, followed by a Holy Name Society breakfast at the Hotel Astor. A week later 5,000 New York police went through with a similar program.
The natural effect of these procedures, first by customs employees, then by firemen, then by post office employees, then by police, then by express employees, etc., is to overawe and intimidate the non-Catholics in those organizations, and also to intimidate and overawe the public at large, making everybody think that everything in the United States is already in the hands of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy (and it is nearly so in fact) and, that being the case, they might as well join up and go along and participate in the racket plunder to follow.
Only two years ago the leading Roman Catholic journals were declaring that the United States Constitution is old and decrepit and should be destroyed, so that they and Mr. Roosevelt and the NRA could do as they please with the country's assets, and now there is a complete flip-flop. According to the New York Times the Roman Catholic Carroll Club, after being "blessed" by Cardinal Hayes, went on public record (always public, and as public as possible) that the Roman Catholic philosophy was the foundation of the United States Constitution, and is the bulwark of its security. Did you ever hear about the fox and the sour grapes? Well, this is the real fox, and the grapes are temporarily beyond its reach.
(To be continued) Thief in Heaven
A five-minute talk by Judge Rutherford
WHEN Jesus was dying, the thief, who was also being crucified, said to Jesus: "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." Note that the thief said nothing about heaven. (Luke 23:42, 43) Manifestly the thief had learned that Jesus expected to receive His kingdom in due time and the thief had desired to be remembered favorably when that time should arrive. Jesus answered the thief's request in these words: "I say unto thee today [at this time], Shalt thou be with me in paradise?" Note that the answer of Jesus is also in the form of a question. When making the request the thief showed he was on the side of Jesus, and the words of Jesus are to this effect: 'Shall you be on my side in paradise?' If so, then the presumption will follow that Jesus would remember him favorably.
Paradise has no reference to heaven. The word paradise means a beautiful garden or park, that is, a glorious earthly place. Note now that Jehovah has said concerning the earth (Isaiah 60:13): "I will make the place of my feet glorious." We know that He referred to the earth, because He also said (Isaiah 66:1): "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool." God made the earth to be inhabited by perfect man who serves and obeys Him. He committed to Jesus all power in heaven and in earth. God declares His purpose to have Jesus regenerate the things of the earth and give life to those men who are fully obedient to Him. It is His purpose, as the Scriptures show, to make the earth a glorious place like unto a beautiful garden or park and to permit obedient men to dwell there for ever. That work of making the earth glorious He does during the reign of Christ Jesus as King. Paradise therefore means the earth made glorious by the Lord Jesus Christ after the coming of His kingdom.
Jesus died and was buried and on the third day was raised out of death, and forty days later He ascended into heaven. It is certain that Jesus did not go to heaven the day that He died. The words of Jesus have been so twisted and misapplied that He is made to say that the thief should be with Him in paradise the day that He did die, whereas Jesus merely asked the thief would he be on His side in paradise. The thief did not go to heaven, and never will be in heaven; but during the reign of Christ he will be awakened out of death, because the Lord declares that there shall be a resurrection of the good and the bad. (John 5:29) If the thief when awakened out of death takes his stand on the side of the Lord and fully obeys the Lord Jesus Christ then he will be with Jesus in paradise, because those who obey the Lord shall live and shall not again die. Such is positively true, because Jesus used these words, at John 11:26: "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." And at John 8:51: "If a man keep my saying [obey me], he shall never see death."
When the thief died he was an unjust man, because he was and had been wicked. It is written, in Acts 24:15: "There shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." Then the thief, awakened out of death, will have the opportunity to prove his integrity to the Lord by obeying, and if fully obedient to Christ, of course, he will then be with the Lord or on the Lord's side and Jesus will remember him and give him life by means of regeneration. That means that the everlasting home of the thief will be on earth, and the earth, brought to a glorious condition, will be a veritable paradise. Man's arch enemy Satan has seized upon these words of the thief to Jesus and misapplied them in order to deceive the people, but now the time has come to learn the truth and it is your privilege to fully inform yourself that you may know the right way in which to go that you may live in everlasting happiness.
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