Golden Age, July 1, 1936

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PHILISTIA [CATHOLIC ACTION]

A MURDERESS FOR 1500 YEARS

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KING’S APPEARING

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Vol. XVII - No. 438

July 1, 1936 CONTENTS

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

IN THE GOOD SHEPHERD’S ORPHANAGE 624

KING’S APPEARING 625

Prison Conditions 631

Women Prisoners 631

Nazism Not Dead in Austria 631

60,000 Girl Baby Slaves in Japan 633

Small Sense of Humor 633

The Well-nurtured Australians 634

Church Chronicle Getting Sore 634

Free Speech in New Zealand 634

THE ROCK FOUNDATION 636

Meddlesome Mayors Should Be Careful 639

In Darkest California 639

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Gross Glockner Road 631

Bicycles in China 632

Japanese Trade in the Philippines 633

Lancashire on the Decline 633

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

Here and in Germany 629

MOB LAW IN LAGRANGE, GEORGIA 630

Socialists Distress Austrian Government 631

Greek Catholic Superstitions 631

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

World’s Deadliest Air Weapon 633

Australia’s Flying Doctors 634

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

After the Tourist Trade 631

China Will Militarize 632

The Swallowing of China 632

Sven Hedin in Chinese Turkestan 632

American Trucks in Tibet 632

The Banana and the Sausage 633

Japan Now Self-Sufficient 633

Broadcasting Truth in Singapore 634

Canada’s Reindeer Herd Thriving 635

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

PHILISTIA [CATHOLIC ACTION] A MURDERESS FOR 1500 YEARS 611

The Communist Bugaboo 611

“Both Ends Against the Middle” 612

Political Rackets 613

“Massachusetts—There She Stands” 613

Mexico Slipping 614

The Capture of New York City 614

Red Mass and Patronage Rackets 615

The Act of Treason 616

Rejoicing in Murder 616

Trained Grafters 617

Preparations for War 617

An Illegal Government 617

Other Rackets 619-622

Priests Instigate Murder 621

An Ex-Jesuit’s Idea 623

Why the Thieves Picked on Kali 633

“Blessing” the Creator’s Property 639

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The Golden Age

Volume XVII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, July 1, 1936 Number 438

Philistia [Catholic Action] a Murderess for 1500 Years

(In Three Parts—Part 3)

CALL out the militia, declare martial law, man the machine guns, attack with gas bombs; for a Roman Catholic judge sees Communism rife in American schools and colleges, and maybe tomorrow there will be barricades in the streets of Podunk.

Shed a few tears, heave a heavy sigh, because a Roman Catholic priest says that 70 percent of Americans profess no religion and refuse to tip their hats or kiss the foot of any slimy Jesuit in lace pants. More than that, they refuse to acknowledge that any ecclesiastical bohunk in cute boudoir costumes embroidered in gold is the cream par-excellence of piety, unselfishness and love.

Yea, mourn for the poor Hierarchy that has its hand in everybody's pocket, that commits murder for power and pelf, that has all the blood of the innocents in its skirts; yea, wince and whine because the poor Hierarchy wants to control the schools and colleges, just as she took over the movies—with lies and propaganda. Shed great big scalding tears for the Scarlet Lady who now holds the United States in the palm of her hand and who is now moving forward to an early and fiery remedy for any honest person's refusal to tip his hat to the beasts that sit in ecclesiastical chairs.

Cry aloud with anguish, because the Hierarchy has gobbled up the Protestant church and is looking for more goats to swallow. Sigh out loud, all those that think the Hierarchy is all sweetness and light, because honest men are stubborn men and do not kowtow to "harlots".

Uncle: “Why, those dirty bolsheviks’.”

The Communist Bugaboo

According to their own statements, the alleged 20,000,000 Roman Catholics of the United States are terribly frightened over the activities of considerably less than one percent as many Communists. They not only have started special S. J. anti-Communist schools in Philadelphia and Detroit, but allege that 100,000 Catholic students in 15 Catholic universities in the Middle West are likewise pursuing anti-Communist studies.

The simple will wonder what it is about Communist political ideas that has so frightened the Hierarchy. The thing is all a colossal humbug. What the Hierarchy seeks is some means of stopping the work of Jehovah's witnesses, who have no more to do with Communism than with the Roman Camorra itself.

The Hearst bugaboo is pure propaganda, intended to make Fascism at Jesuit hands popular and palatable when the trap is sprung. Coughlin's S. J. will be an S. J. organization, without a doubt. And S. J. means Jesuit.

Stalin, Russian dictator, was educated to be a priest, probably a Greek Catholic one, and when his second wife died he had her buried in consecrated ground of a Moscow convent.

In an address at Cincinnati by the Jesuit Daniel A. Lord, S. J. of St. Louis, Mo., after praising both cultures, Communism and Roman Catholicism, and admitting that they had much in common, as illustrated by the Jesuit "reductions" in Paraguay, and their views as to property, frankly admitted that both systems "are in favor of world revolution" and "if anything, the Catholic is more the revolutionist".

The admissions of Catholic spokesmen that they intend to gain world control and to accompany it by the destruction of all real protestants should be heeded. These men mean what they say in this connection. All counterbalancing claims that they are patriots and interested in democracy are pure moonshine.

"Both Ends Against the Middle"

At the Jesuit University of St. Louis one of the clever teachers ridiculed the United States Constitution, as did also the Catholic periodical misnamed America. But what is this? Oh, it is just the Reverend E. J. Higgins, chaplain of the Catholic war veterans, broadcasting a letter to President Roosevelt over WLWL. And what does Mr. Higgins say? Oh, first he mentions that Pope Pius XI is the "real 'forgotten man' in the drama of nations", and then he tells Mr. Roosevelt that "in opening the treasure vaults of Uncle Sam (!), you killed Communism with one stroke here in America", and then, and then, "Catholic veterans are ready to a man to defend the Constitution" which the Jesuit priest of St. Louis, the pope, the president and many others detest and hate and are trying to change so that its framers would not know it.

It is a wonderful world. First, the president tells Congress to go ahead with legislation whether or not it is constitutional. When the Supreme Court ditches some of it he sneers at the decision. In St. Louis a 'high and mighty' Jesuit also sneers at it. And then Patrick Cardinal Hayes in an appeal to Catholics said: "There is not one person under the dome of this cathedral who would refuse to lay down his life" in defense of the Constitution—the same one the president swore to uphold. "You pays your money and you takes your choice."

At a meeting of Legionnaires in Philadelphia, Michael J. Kane, of Aliquippa, proposed Legionnaires carry ball cartridges in their rifles and "shoot a few Communists in the eye" if they needed to. And then the League Against War and Fascism wants Margiotti, attorney general of Pennsylvania, to start action against his fellow Catholic and fellow Fascist. But why expect Margiotti to be as bold against the priests as he was against the little folks at Canonsburg, deprived of their educational rights because they refused to place any object above their devotion to Jehovah God?

The Roman Catholic Hierarchy, having devoted all their abilities to keeping the common people, their so-called "children of the church", in ignorance, seem now to be really distressed because in Central America many of their subjects are turning to Communism.

The countries there are being plastered with posters showing pictures of the bishops and archbishops of Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama urging the people not to have anything to do with Communism. This is probably like locking the stable door when the last faint clatter of the horse's hoofs is dying in the distance.

The Golden Age No. 429, page 323, in footnote said:

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.

It took only 73 days to straighten out this little snarl between Mr. Hitler and the Vatican, and the papers of April 25 said that on that day amnesty was granted to these offenders. The reason for the amnesty was said to be due to the fact that more votes against Hitler were to be found in the districts where the priests had been indicted as Communists than in communities where such action had not been taken, and it was thought the amnesty would remove any cause of friction with the Vatican.

One has to hand it to the Jesuits for clever work in dodging blame and throwing it upon other people, even if they do occasionally get caught. Protestant ministers in Germany, at about the time the 150 priests were caught possessing large quantities of Communist literature, suddenly discovered that they were receiving great quantities of such literature through the mails. In other words, the Jesuits were pouring out their stuff into Protestant hands in hopes that the Protestants would be caught with it and thus get into trouble. In this instance the Protestants were too clever for them. They compared notes, saw what was going on, and adopted the plan of opening all suspicious mail in the presence of the postmen.

Political Rackets

The percentage of Catholics in the United States, counting babies and all, is estimated at less than 16 percent. It is therefore of interest that figures published by The Fellowship Forum in their issue of March 15, 1936, show that 31 percent of the employees of the Department of State are Catholics, 33 percent of the Geological Survey, 39 percent of the Land Office, 41 percent of the Department of the Interior and of the Department of Pensions, 43 percent of the Treasury Department, 53 percent of the War Department, 54 percent of the Patent Office, 60 percent of the Bureau of Education, 89 percent of the U.S. Shipping Board, 90 percent of the Department of Justice and of the National Park Service, 92 percent of the Government Printing Office, 93 percent of Indian Affairs, and 100 percent of the Alaskan Railroad. Also, that in the U.S. Soldiers Home in Washington all nurses are nuns, no Protestants being allowed.

Last fall the WPA in South Dakota required all previously registered workers to re-register and reveal his or her religious creed. No matter what may be the ostensible object of this rule, the real object is to make sure, when the final showdown comes, that only Roman Catholics shall have a full stomach. There could be no other motive.

In an address to 5,000 police at the eighteenth annual communion breakfast of the Holy Name Society of the Police Department, at the Hotel Astor in New York city on March 29, 1936, Governor Curley, backed by Coughlin to be the next U.S. senator from Massachusetts, described himself as the only Catholic governor in the whole United States.

The Mother of Racketeers

"Massachusetts—There She Stands"

What it will mean all over the country when the Roman Hierarchy has everything in its grasp as fully as it has in Massachusetts can be judged from some of the expenditures of the Curley Roman Fascist administration: $35 for a lamp shade for the governor's office; $85 for a radio set for his car; $88.68 for quill pens; $103 for a pen desk set; $114 for velvet curtains; $280 for vase and candlesticks; $337 for cigars for the governor's office; $353 for chairs for the governor's office; $442 for trip to Saratoga by Col. Hanken; $580.14 expense at Mayflower Hotel, Washington; $834 for meals for advisory council at the Ritz Carlton; $886 for leather-bound copies of the governor's inaugural address, for gifts; $904.83 for desk and chairs for the lieutenant governor's office; $1,300 to charter S. S. Romans for Cape Cod inspection; $1,672.50 for brochures of the State House, for gifts; $1,811.63 for expenses for Edmond Hoy on official duty to Washington, New York, Hartford and Bridgeport; $1,877 for expenses at Mayflower Hotel, Washington; $2,045 for meals at Parker House for Executive Department; $2,100 for Richard D. Grant for fares and meals for the governor and his party; $2,300 for flowers; $3,972 for traveling expenses for Lieut. Gov. Hurley; and $4,197.15 for taxicab fares for governor's office. All who think the $26,317.33 contained less than $20,000 of pure graft, signify it by saluting the papal flag.

Fascist Massachusetts does love the automobile. Every time any of Gov. Curley's official family goes anywhere it is by auto. Thus, the railway fare to Springfield and return the same day is $4.50, but when the governor's secretary made the trip he went by taxicab at an expense to the state of $36. The charge for going two blocks in Boston was $1. The lieutenant governor charged the state $394.80 for the use of his own machine for one single month, and averaged well over $300 per month regularly.

Once the Hierarchy gets its tools into office, where they can get their hands on the people's money, it is surely a cause for great happiness in the headquarters of the prince of this world to see how they can make the money fly. In the bills for thousands of dollars for taxi fares one bill of $12 was for transportation of a friend of the governor to and from a wedding.

The State of Massachusetts is tied hand and foot by Roman Catholic politicians. Practically every person endorsing the State Teachers' Oath Law is a Dorgan, a Walsh, a Reardon, or some similar name, while the most intelligent people in the state, virtually all the college presidents, the editors and other thinkers, desired the law repealed, but all in vain. Rome has the state by the throat.

Mexico Slipping

An article in the New York Times accredits Patrick J. Scanlon, managing editor of The Tablet, as interested in the promotion of a Roman Catholic boycott of Mexican goods. The attempt, of course, was one of many the Roman Hierarchy has made, through various channels, to regain its lost power in Mexico, and there is some reason to believe that when President Cardenas exiled ex-President Calles it was a first step toward surrender to the Hierarchy.

According to Mexican laws, only 25 priests may legally serve in the 115 churches in Mexico city. Actually, however, more than that number serve, without interference by the government. Eighteen of the churches have been taken over for use as schools or libraries, inasmuch as they are government property and not needed for the purpose for which they were built.

Democratic politicians of Cincinnati who thought they could always count on the Roman Catholic vote received a shock when 18,000 letters were issued by Reverend William J. Anthony, of St. Peter's Cathedral, urging votes for two Republicans because the latter had voted in favor of the Roman parochial school bill.

A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, states that the reason why Alcala Zamora, "father of the second republic," lost his job as president was that the duly elected members of the parliament no longer trusted him because he is a Catholic.

The Capture of New York City

As one comes into New York harbor the first thing he sees is a gigantic cross in green electric lights atop one of the skyscrapers; it seems to suggest to him that he is approaching a Catholic city. When he goes to the new post office to get his mail he finds it directly opposite St. Peter's church, and in the heart of the district devoted to the selling of holy junk of all kinds forbidden in the Scriptures. When he goes to the new city hall he finds it built around St. Andrew's church, as if that were part of it.

The busiest place in New York is Times Square; in many respects the busiest place on earth. Now it seems that the Park Department will erect a monument there, to cover a site 27 feet by 24 feet, in honor of Francis P. Duffy, Roman Catholic chaplain of the 165th Infantry.

The reason for cluttering up the city is perfectly plain. It is to get the Roman Catholic idea more firmly implanted in the public mind; that nobody is anything and the country is nothing unless trailing along behind the papal kite. Wait until the tail breaks loose, and then see what happens to both the kite and the tail. You might as well laugh; it is surely coming. Jehovah's kingdom will correct it all.

Every government job in New York now has the "Holy Name Society" tag. The last one was the Holy Name Society of the New York Post Office. First the society goes and has "mass" in St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth avenue and then marches through the heart of New York to the Hotel Astor, "led by their spiritual adviser." The object of it all is to get as much space as possible in the papers and bluff the other employees to a standstill. And it works.

The public is sick to death of the Roman Hierarchy publicity stunts, but continues nevertheless to be fed more and ever more, with the Protestants feebly aping them. At hand is upward of a column in the New York Times telling of some more of these breakfasts by the "United States Custom House Holy Name Society", the "Brooklyn Post Office Holy Name Society", "Department of Sanitation Holy Name Society," etc., etc., ad nauseam, the object of which is to try to bluff the public and all Protestant government employees into thinking that they must turn Catholic or else—.

In Australia the thing went so far that when one of the so-called "eucharistic" publicity stunts was pulled off, they even had the city's harlots lined up to attend the show. Maybe that will come next in America.

At one of these fandangoes the Reverend Thomas J. Higgins, boasting of the great things Catholics have done since St. Bartholomew's Massacre, said:

A few weeks ago a motion picture came out portraying the life and work of Louis Pasteur, whom the world had almost forgotten as one of the most intense Catholics that ever lived. Every day we are dependent on his achievements.

Here is one for Mr. Higgins. The Pasteur treatment should be judged by its works. From 1922 to 1932 there were 15 cases of human rabies at the Los Angeles county hospital; all were given the Pasteur treatment, and every one of the 15 died; and this is the usual result. It is denied that the treatment is of any value at all.

Red Mass Racket

As in New York, so in Australia, the Roman Hierarchy is working the Red Mass racket to a finish. Beginning last year, the attempt is made to make it appear that the legal profession is in some way identified with the doctrine of the mass, and Jews and Protestants as well as Catholics are sought to add to the numbers present, so as to make as big a report in the papers as possible.

At Brisbane, at the Red Mass starting off the legal year, oh, how glad the newspapers were to tell about the "impressive and colorful ceremony", the "robes of scarlet and ermine", the "full-bottomed wigs", the "barristers in wigs and gowns", and the "members of the land police, magistrates, industrial magistrates and coronial courts' benches", and so forth ad infinitum.

Everywhere, in every public place, the Roman Hierarchy is sticking its nose into everything. The obvious intent is to make it appear that in some way everything on earth that amounts to anything is officially or unofficially connected with the Roman Hierarchy. Just why the Hierarchy should wish to appear to be the mainstay of the legal profession, when its own ecclesiastical law books openly teach its followers to commit perjury, theft and murder, is one of life's curious oddities soon to be disposed of.

At the meeting of the Farleyized, Roman-Catholicized Western Pennsylvania Postmasters' Association, held, for some reason, in St. Joseph's parochial school hall, at Tarentum, Pa., the spokesman, Reverend Father Dennis Haggerty said that some modern literature is dressed up to make a fine appearance but it is really very dangerous. He suggested that postmasters might be able to warn the recipients against such literature when they see it in his mails. Thanks awfully, Mr. Haggerty.

And now the next time some postmaster with the map of Ireland spread all over his face, and a string of beads around his neck, and a pocketful of holy junk, tells you, O ye subscribers, not to read The Golden Age any longer, you can cheerfully explain to him that while there is some fine discrimination in the Scriptures between sheol, hades, gehenna and tartarus, yet, as far as you are concerned, it is quite immaterial to you which destination he selects, as long as he does, with reasonable efficiency, the job for which you are paying his wages.

Also, you can explain to him that when you want any assistance from Farley or from him as to what you shall read, you will send for him, and until you do send for him he shall be careful henceforth to keep his advice to himself.

Oh, by the way; the next paragraph in The Valley Daily News, of Tarentum, goes on to say:

James J. McNany, postmaster at Du Bois, lauded the efficiency of the Post Office Department and heaped praise upon Postmaster General James J. Farley for the contributions he made to this condition. He referred to Farley, who is also national chairman of the Democratic party, as a "master mind".

Ever hear of Boss Tweed, one-time Big Shot of Tammany Hall, in New York city? He was a master mind, too. All you have to do is to wait.

Patronage Racket

Roosevelt made Farley Postmaster General so that Civil Service in the Post Office Department might be wrecked. He knew Farley would do the job, and he did. In 1933 out of 3,369 presidential postmasters confirmed by the senate only 25 were postal employees advanced from the ranks. Now that these offices have been largely filled with politicians who can do little more than read and write their own names, there is a sudden spasm for "Civil Service", all for political effect.

Under the Wilson administration, in the days of the World War, in a single year, 315,533 positions in the Federal executive service were filled, all by Civil Service rules and practices. The United States Government had not at that time sold out to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.

In the present administration there has been no world war, yet 235,000 persons were added to the direct full-time pay roll of the Federal government but only one in 107 among the new personnel is under Civil Service. During the first 21 months of Mr. Roosevelt's administration he signed bills exempting 41,400 new jobs from Civil Service administration, and transferred 2,448 classified positions from the Civil Service to the appointive lists.

Six weeks before Roosevelt was inaugurated, a book, sarcastically called the "Plum Book", was wriggled through the Senate and the Government printing office, cataloguing 33,600 jobs, then held by experienced workers, that would at once be given to Democratic politicians. In years to come it will be seen that when the United States government was wrecked it was wrecked from the inside.

The Act of Treason

In their "Merry-Go-Round" of Washington politics Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen made the following statement of Roosevelt's ineffectual attempt to put the Roman Hierarchy in possession of information they had no business to have. They said:

One instance which peeved the president particularly occurred with the chief code expert of the War Department. He has charge of putting messages into secret cipher before cabling them abroad. Roosevelt has a cousin, a Catholic clergyman, who wanted certain information. So the president gave him a personal note to the chief code expert, asking that he make the information available. The code expert refused. The relative went back to the president, who became considerably irked, and wrote a second note to the code expert. But again the code expert refused to supply the desired information. "There are some things," he said, "which I cannot divulge even to the president."

Westbrook Pegler, writing in the Columbus (Ohio) Citizen of the hoodlums that captured Italy and Germany, and that are now busily engaged in Massachusetts and New Jersey and all over the United States in capturing the United States, says rather pointedly:

The people who are howling down communism and shouting up Mussolini and Hitler in the United States are the same sort who financed and helped organize Mussolini and Hitler, and they are using the same stooge—Bolshevism. . . . And not enough Americans actually realize what a low and villainous lot of murderers they were, what evil mediocrities and neighborhood ne'er-do-wells, what deadbeats, chippy-chasing street-corner roués and bums who made up the original bands of patriots in Italy and Germany.

Pegler is just back from a trip that took him all over Europe. He took a close look at first hand both at Fascism (Catholic Action) in Italy and Nazism (Catholic Action) in Germany.

The Associated Press contains a dispatch from Rome saying:

Persons close to the Catholic church say Mussolini draws most of his inspiration in religious matters from a simple Jesuit priest, Father Tacchi-Venturi.

Did you notice how that word "simple" was worked in?

Rejoicing in Murder

The papers of May 7, 1936, contain a half-page picture of a "priest performing the Catholic rites" in front of a row of machine gunners. The headline sets it out as, "Mussolini's devout soldiers receive the blessing of the church." Why not? The "church" has always stood for murder and is never so happy as when engaged in it in one form or another.

The hypocrite in skirts in front of the machine gunners has a broad grin on his face. Why, sure! What else would he have? Would he have any look of sorrow to think of the human creatures that would be riddled by those machine guns? Not he. It would be a real joy to see anybody suffering the "tortures of the damned" if he thought the Hierarchy could by any means make a nickel out of it.

Fifteen hundred German pilgrims to the pope had the right idea. They "Heil Hitler"ed before they left for Rome, and when they left the pope they cried three times "Heil Papst". It is all in the family.

One by one the cardinals are lining up for Hitler, and soon the pretense that there was ever any real friction between the pope and der Fuehrer will be discarded as useless baggage. Cardinal Schulte, Roman Catholic archbishop of Cologne, telegraphed a hearty welcome to the German war department when it sent troops to the left bank of the Rhine.

Frederick T. Birchall, Berlin correspondent of the New York Times, writes under date of April 19: There is every reason for believing that the relations between Berlin and Rome are most cordial and under stress might become more so.

And why not? Hitler is a Catholic.

By contrast with the treatment of Jehovah's witnesses, Das Schwarze Korps, official organ of Hitler's Blackshirt Guards, said:

No Catholic priest has been arrested because of his spiritual or welfare work, but priestly robes are no safeguard against punishment for treasonable activities. No Catholic institution or organization has been dissolved or penalized because it is dedicated to religious practices.

Trained Grafters

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Toole, of Pittsburgh, owning a $4,000 home and having $11,780 in Pittsburgh banks, applied for relief, got it, and in two years and two months obtained $706 from the Allegheny County Emergency Relief Board. Not certain if they are Catholics. They will now get three years in jail, to think it over.

If the Hierarchy wants to make a saint out of somebody, why doesn't it pay its own bills for such little items as disinterment and transportation? Why mix two governments up in something that is none of their concern? Father Damien had lain in his grave 59 years.

The removal of his body from the Molokai (Hawaii) leper colony caused quite a flurry. The body was disinterred "at the request of the king of the Belgians" and rushed to Panama by United States army planes and the United States cruiser Republic, when it was taken to Belgium, where, after the usual fuss and feathers, it will be made into a Roman Catholic "saint". Father Damien died of leprosy, but the faithful will kiss his bones gratefully, if he is made a "saint".

The disinterment revived old charges that Damien, instead of being a saint, had died because he consorted with women lepers, so contracting the disease. He was said to be narrow-minded, bigoted, and dirty of body, despite the statement in Young and Field School Reader, Book 6, "And the soul of Father Damien ascended like a dove unto heaven, unto the one who gave it."

“You’re next, my little man”

Preparations for War

In order to have a war it is necessary to have soldiers; and to have soldiers it is necessary to train good boys to think that it is a noble and manly thing to kill, provided it is done on a huge scale.

Aping Italy, America will have a Balilla, called the Knights of America. Catholic boys will be trained in athletics, including jiu-jitsu, and will also be given instruction in military and political science.

It was widely advertised that Hempstead, N. Y., would be policed by Boy Scouts; also that all the scouts that would do police duty are members of Troop 22 of Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic church. Are all Boy Scouts now Roman Catholics? If not, why all the anxiety to have boy policemen who are only Roman Catholics?

Boy Scouts are non-sectarian. So were the movies, so were the newspapers, so were the schools, so was the radio, so was everything else, until Rome stepped in and grabbed it all. Here is a headline that Boy Scouts from 75 troops marched into St. Patrick's Cathedral on such and such a date. Pretty soon they will be called the Holy Name Boy Scouts, along with Holy Name policemen, Holy Name mail carriers, Holy Name customs officers, Holy Name this, and Holy Name that, ad nauseam. The account said, "Carried ahead of the troop banners were the Papal flag and the American flag!"

An Illegal Government

In southern California the Knights of Columbus not only are training marching patrols but are planning how to train aviators and navigators. What's the big idea of this? The answer is that the Roman Hierarchy fully intends to take over all the affairs of the United States Government, and is getting ready to do it.

Eager, always, to show their enthusiasm for murder, no matter what form it takes, the archbishop of Taranto, Italy, performed mass in an Italian submarine, submerged to a depth of 900 feet. It was relayed by radio throughout Italy.

It makes a difference who you are. A correspondent sent in a clipping 11 lines long showing 11 nuns caught stealing. He said:

Here are 11 of them caught stealing, and got one inch. One eight-year-old [child of one of Jehovah's witnesses] made the front page of all the papers in the United States. What a difference it makes who you are.

And it does make a difference who you are. Thus the Washington News states that when a committee of three came to the police headquarters and complained of being awakened by chimes every morning at seven o'clock, which chimes were new, and on a Roman Catholic church, and were not in tune, the police "searched in vain for some police regulation covering the question". Of course they searched in vain. How else would they search, when the person disturbing other people was a member of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy? What do the people think the police are?

Catholic Action

Thanks to the persistence with which it has been pursued during the last twelve years, the "Catholic Action" movement has gradually spread throughout the Catholic world. In all countries in which they represent a real force, Catholics are now organized on the initiative and under the direction of their bishops into big national federations, which in turn are divided into diocesan federations, grouping men, women, boys and girls in uniform associations. The perfecting of this organization represents the most important attempt made by the clergy for some time to organize the faithful with a view to action.—Hartford (Conn.) Catholic Transcript.

For burying their dead fourteen Greek Catholic women of the Dodecanese islands, in the Aegean sea, were sentenced to three months' imprisonment and 800 liras fines. The Italian government, still maintaining control over the islands (contrary to its sworn promises), asserts that burial certificates must be issued by the Roman Catholic church, which the Greek population denies.

The Greek paper Dodecanesios, published in New York city, asserts that in suppressing the Greek population of these islands the Italians have been guilty of starving prisoners, brutally beating them, depriving them of sleep, and pulling out their nails with pincers. They name D. Fantenou, P. Kefalan, J. Prosfigan and D. Bolan of the island of Rhodes as persons upon whom these terrible outrages were performed.

At San Juan, Puerto Rico, the blackshirted Cadets of the Republic, after denouncing Uncle Sam as an international bully, engaged in operating the despotism of plutocracy, marched to the cathedral for a blessing upon their acts. They entered the cathedral flying a black flag with a white cross. They knew where to go for their blessing.

At Val Alain, Quebec, the village priest, Abbe Belanger, advised his "flock" to tar and feather a man in the community. They did so, and five of them were arrested and brought to Quebec city. Though they were brought before a Catholic judge, and with the priest (not arrested) pleading for them, the judge nevertheless proved to be to some extent an honorable and courageous man and sentenced all five to two months in prison. Apparently the priest, however, the instigator of the crime, was allowed to go entirely free.

There is still some liberty in Canada, in spite of Roman Catholic boasts that the church is "mistress of all public institutions in Quebec" and will soon be (according to Cardinal Villeneuve) "mistress of all public institutions in Canada".

Judge Noel Belleau, a mere tool of the Hierarchy in Quebec, fined G. C. Barrett (of Belleville, Ontario) and G. H. Brodie (of Toronto) $300 each and sentenced them to two months each in prison for circulating in Quebec literature showing that God's kingdom, and not the Roman Hierarchy, is the hope of the world. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, where the conviction was quashed, and the Appeal Court of Quebec received a richly merited rebuke for its act of cowardice in sustaining Belleau in his findings for the Roman Hierarchy and against the Watch Tower.

Radio-priest Coughlin requires each member to put up 10c a month to keep the show going. His total contributions for January and February, 1936, were $101,060, which is $50,530 per month, and shows a membership of 505,300 instead of the boasted 8,000,000 members. That pricks one more gasbag.

Business Rackets

At hand a circular letter put out by a priest in Arizona. It is the greatest mixture of masses, hens, and real estate ever concocted. One of the real estate propositions is near a Golden Age subscriber's home, who says of it:

This half section, one mile south of here, could not be sold today for $1500; there is not one drop of water on it; the party who lives on it has to haul his water two miles for house use and stock.

Now see the picture the priest paints:

Half section farm one mile from Ipswich. Perfect land. Rich black loam. Water in pasture. 280 under plow. Fair buildings. Suitable for those seven productions (poultry, fruit, pigeons, capons, honey, alfalfa, dairy). Can be made to yield $16,000 a year. Price $24,225. $225 cash down.

In his circular letter the priest indicates his willingness to sell masses, rosaries, books and real estate, and tells of his profits in the following lurid language:

Alfalfa brings $60 per acre. My plums and strawberries $500 per acre each. My hens $4.39. A young man with $400 to start is now worth $65,000. Two girls dropped $400 a month teaching, now make $10,000 a year. A widow with five small children and $600 to start makes $4,000 a year.

Probably if you saw this priest you would note the seat of his pants is out (if he wears pants) and they are fringed at the bottom like a portiere, and his shoes dropping off his feet. These priests have been at the business of lying for so long that it does not seem to occur to them that there is a limit to human gullibility.

Edward Laurence Doheny, knight of the black satchel (in which the bribe money was carried), is dead. Worth $100,000,000, he was declared innocent of giving to a U.S. Government official the $100,000 bribe which Albert Fall was found guilty of accepting!

At his funeral the Most Reverend John J. Cantwell, assisted by Most Reverend Francis Kelly, and Right Reverend J. Cawley, helped everybody to see that Doheny "rose, without benefit of social position, but by a brilliant intelligence, rugged constitution and undying faith, to become one of the leading men of his time". Nothing was said about the black satchel or the $100,000 bribe of Fall.

Knifing the Florists

At Pana, Illinois, Reverend L. J. Mattingly, of St. Patrick's church, has ruled that henceforth there must be no flowers in the cemetery. The money must go to the priest—for masses. Why should the florist get it, when the priest wants it for himself?

John G. O'Farrell Rowe, in The Irish Catholic, makes it plain that there are female Jesuits, operating under the name of The Grail. After two and one-half years absorbing Jesuit ideas they get jobs in factories, workshops, etc., wearing no religious habit, and are thus able to collect job and graft information more readily than if their identity were known.

Every time the child labor amendment is up in New York state or Massachusetts, it is always noticed that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is against the children and the amendment is defeated. This got on the nerves of the Massachusetts representative of the American Federation of Labor, Robert J. Watt, secretary, and he tried to find out from the so-called "apostolic delegate" "whether the child labor amendment may not be considered a matter of economic and social legislation on which Catholic priests, laymen and legislators may speak and vote according to their individual judgment as citizens of the United States."

Good idea. How would it do to send a committee to call on the pope himself to find out, if he gets full charge of the United States, just what subjects can be discussed openly in the United States, anyway? The whole list could be put on the back of one of Mr. Farley's postage stamps.

Building Rackets

In the restoration of five old Spanish missions near San Antonio, Texas, the work is being done by relief labor. Benevolent Uncle Sam! It would be interesting to know how many Protestants are being employed in the restoration of these Roman Catholic missions; also how many Protestant buildings are being restored.

The Very Reverend Father John Power, P.P. K.C.H.S., Parkfield Road, Saltley, Birmingham 8, England, wanted £36,000 to build parochial schools. His bid for it, in the advertising literature just at hand, is that for nine successive days he intended to say mass at the following places in rotation: at the tomb of the Lord; at Calvary; at Joseph's house in Nazareth (didn’t the angels carry this to Loretto, Italy?); at the place where Jesus was nailed to the “cross”; at the place where He was scourged; at the place where He was crowned with thorns; in the garden of Gethsemane; in the stable where Jesus was born; and at the place where the annunciation was made to the virgin Mary.

For a little more he would be willing to say mass at the identical spot where each and every event and item of Biblical history occurred. Wonder what he would charge for a mass said on the spot where Balaam clubbed his ass. This would appeal to the poetic side of human nature, as it could be called “The mass of Balaam’s ass”.

A subscriber in Saskatchewan says:

Seven or eight years ago the Little Flower cropped up in the local church here: a pilgrimage was staged in her honor. It was a wow. The “girls” were there with their lace petticoats, jewels and embroidery. It was announced the following Sunday that $20,000 had been gathered in, and this sum was to be used to erect a shrine to the Little Flower. Seven pilgrimages have been held since, each one poorer than the one before. The last, No. 8, was a complete flop. After all these years the shrine has advanced no farther than the basement, while the recipient of the coin has been enjoying the comforts of a 25-room house, the only brick house in the town.

A few months ago an architect in northern Ireland was trying to get something for his work for designing buildings for a Roman Catholic priest. The priest meantime died, but the answer returned for him was that the architect was to take his pay in “prayers”.

The same stunt was pulled off in Detroit, and a jury awarded $16,000 to architect Peter R. Rossello for designing a church, convent and school buildings. The priest on the job said that the $16,000 worth of work was accepted as a charity donation.

Panhandling Rackets

The Society of the Divine Word, of Techny, Ill., in advertising sent out by its “Annuity Department”, entitled “How to Invest”, explains how by giving up your pile you can receive interest at 5 percent to 7 percent as long as you live. Those who handle big money count on doubling it every ten years, and some feel that if they don’t double in seven years it is time to get new efficiency experts on the job of knocking down and dragging out the public. It will therefore appear that offering to pay around 6 percent a year, provided the payments stop at death, and there is never a chance of getting a cent back on the principal, is fairly safe for the “S.V.D.” (“Society of the Divine Word”).

The advertising states that this idea of giving up his whole pile and getting interest on it only while he lives is “an attractive appeal to the average practical Catholic”. Alas, yes! The literature explains that the “Annuity Contract” is “a legal document acknowledging the receipt of a certain sum of money”. The literature also assures the victim that he will have a happier death and eternal remembrance.

Many have wondered how they could eat their cake and keep it, too; but the problem is solved. You just send $2,000 to the Very Reverend Fr. Anthony O.M.C. Provincial, St. Anthony’s Monastery, 2222 West Market St., Louisville, Ky., and, according to the advertising matter, Franciscan Life Revenue Bonds are fully secured and will give you the returns from your worldly possessions as long as you need and can use them, and the absolute guarantee of heavenly rewards at a time when nothing but prayers count and only masses can bring relief and consolation to your soul which is hoping for release from “purgatory”.

Wipe Off That Grin

Somebody sent in “The Monthly Record of St. Mary’s Church”, McKee’s Rocks, Pa., showing what each one put in the collection during December. Business was down a little, and still the haul was $967.50 for just the item “House Collection” of which details were published.

Mary Alfons was alphabetically the first name on the list, and Mary parted with $30, the most of anybody. Looks a little fishy that the first one on the list put in the most. Probably somebody helped a trifle on that, so as to get the others to put up more. One gave up $27, one $20, one $14, five $12, three $11, seven $10, five $9, nine $7, eleven $6, twenty-six $5, seventeen $4, one $3.50, twenty-seven $3, fifty-five $2, one $1.50, and eighty-six just managed to raise the $1 necessary to get into the published list.

Whatever they gave up this way is just that much less the priests will be able to get out of them by the skillfully planned lotteries (in violation of the laws of the United States) now being operated by priests and other gangsters in every part of the country.

At Zurich, Ontario, on the shores of Lake Huron, is a small French settlement. When the priest came to town, four years ago, he had an old Ford coupe and the church was in debt. Now the poor farmers have scraped enough together to buy him a brand-new Chevrolet and pay off the mortgage. Recently, to pay off the insurance on the church, the priest taxed 1c for every tooth of every member of the congregation. Families of ten were taxed $3.40, but families of five got through for half that sum. He got the money.

Educational Rackets

A New Jersey gentleman, formerly a Catholic, tells of a convent largely supported by his grandfather:

After my sister was there for several years, the mother superior boasted to my grandfather of how she got out of paying taxes on the convent by telling the board of appraisers, when they called, that she had free pupils in the institution, "but I am sure no gentleman would ask their names." So the judge did not ask the names; and when my mother was unable to pay longer, all her (my sister's) clothing was packed and she was sent home to sleep on the floor, for we had no place to put her. In that convent my sister met the man that wrecked her life.

At the time of the founding of the Spanish Republic, five years ago, only 30 percent of the people could read and write. That is what parochial schools did for the people, and what they will do anywhere. The children were required to attend many services during the day to receive so-called "religious instruction". Instead of learning to read and write, they were kept busy making lace, washing clothes, and making candy. In many instances, when they had completed their school life all they had achieved was to have been slaves for the Roman Hierarchy. They could not even write their own names.

Priests Instigate Murder

Determined to educate the Mexican people, the Mexican government held a pageant at Ciudad Gonzales, to impress the people with the importance of learning something besides prostrating themselves before priests. A parade was held in which bands of music led a procession among which were forty teachers. As the parade passed a Catholic church, a mob rushed out, led by two Catholic priests, and opened fire. Eighteen persons were killed, including a police inspector, two policemen and a soldier. One man was killed by a blow from a hatchet. Many of the wounded said they were hit by bullets fired from the church tower.

Immediately, as soon as the news reached Mexico city, the president of the republic rushed there by special train and made a personal investigation. He declared from the pulpit of the church that the ones responsible for the murder were the priests of the church. This is the kind of business a real president of Mexico or any other country ought to do, instead of gallivanting around kowtowing to this bunch of roosters in black feathers. But Mexico seems to be slipping some, and there are indications that Cardenas is playing to get the church back in power in Mexico.

Education is making wonderful progress in the parochial schools. In the St. Louis News-Democrat, James Moore, uncle of one of the children involved, said:

A priest of one of the Catholic churches in Belleville gave tickets for a show, to sell for 50c, to the boys and girls of that school and told them that they had to sell them or they would be slapped.

Noticing that there are many taxpayers who have no children to send to any school, and many taxpayers whose children long since grew up, and many taxpayers are bachelors of both sexes, and half the Roman Catholic children are in the public schools anyway, The New Age suggests that it would be just as reasonable to demand that the cost of private roads, private streets and private bridges be paid out of the public purse as to expect it to pay for the peculiar things taught in parochial schools.

The chaplain of St. Anne's church, 1299 Irving St., San Francisco, Calif., sent out a circular letter inviting a selected list of young people, 18 to 30 years of age, to join a social club, and then says, and spells it that way:

The principle activities of this club will be dancing, dramatics and athletics.

Parochial school spelling books must be a joy to behold. A letter at hand from one manifestly educated in one of these centers of "learning" spells certain well-known words as follows: "intelect," "naueating," "falsfying," and "Taltz". Incidentally, this gem was from Ohio, where Catholics, as one of the important steps in seizing control of the state, are demanding state funds to maintain schools.

Gambling and Liquor Rackets

The Pittsburgh Press contains a three-column illustrated story of the Knights of Columbus lottery racket, approved by the board of governors of the New York K. of C. chapter and Michael F. Walsh, of Brooklyn, N. Y., state deputy of the order. In the Pittsburgh haul, besides 25,000 of the New York chapter lottery tickets, there was also found $15,000 worth of merchandise obtained fraudulently.

The Knights of Columbus are very anxious to straighten out Mexico’s religious affairs.

The same issue of the New York Times that told about arrests of the Knights of Columbus sweepstakes gang (which put out 700,000 tickets at $1 each and had on hand only $14,000 in cash when they were grabbed) also told about efforts at Albany to make lotteries legal if operated for “charitable, educational and religious institutions”. The Times said:

The police said the Knights of Columbus acted in good faith in hiring the promoters [of the lottery swindle] and was in no way connected with the use of the mails to defraud.

Why, of course they said it. Why would they not?

On a tip from Reverend George Drew Egbert, pastor of the First Congregational church of Flushing, N. Y., president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, New York police inadvertently raided a regular Monte Carlo gambling ring at the Hotel Commodore, New York city, where professional gamblers were splitting 50-50 on the profits with a Catholic institution and two others not plainly indicated as such. It was comical to see how the story was all smoothed up in the newspapers. Thus the New York American said:

In raiding the games which have been features of charity functions here for years the police were acting in a routine way in checking up on a complaint made to them, Commissioner Valentine explained.

Well, here is hoping that Cardinal Patrick Hayes accepts the apology, or off goes somebody’s head. The police got $5,000 worth of gambling equipment, and let out nine professional gamblers on bail of $500 each.

It seems that some organized religious group, not mentioned, but guessed, induced the Michigan Legislature to pass a law making the gambling games of Beano and Keno legal in Michigan if sponsored by religious or charitable organizations. The Episcopalians, not having any gambling or red light annex, wired the governor to veto the bill, as they considered its passage would be a real humiliation to the Christian people of Michigan.

The poverty-stricken Carthusian monks, Grenoble, France, lost $1,500,000 at one shot. An avalanche of mud destroyed their distillery in which they had much booze laid up for many years. It is supposed to take twenty-five years to ripen Chartreuse liquor.

International thieves seem to have discovered that there are good pickings at cathedrals. At Pamplona, Spain, recently, they got away with 100 pieces of jewelry, valued, all together, at $400,000. Of what possible benefit it could be to Christ or anybody else to have nearly a half million dollars’ worth of jewels in a so-called “church” building is something that is not explained.

In the provinces of Campeche and Tabasco, Mexico, the governor requires that before any priests may serve in the Catholic churches of that part of the world they must first be married. What do you suppose is the reason for that? Ask any well-informed Mexican man, and he can tell you.

Good Friday Racket

“Good Friday,” not mentioned as such in the Scriptures, has become a racket in Quebec and in many other places. In Quebec city all the theaters and business places except tobacco shops and restaurants were closed for the day, and a period of mourning for a dead Christ was observed for one minute at 4:00 p.m. At the same time the fire-alarm bell tolled 19 times. The legislature recessed and only one newspaper was published. This pretense of sorrow over the death of Jesus is accompanied by the most venomous hatred of His true followers, and would be accompanied by their murder if only the Hierarchy felt that the due time had arrived.

At the Vatican, on Good Friday priests banged their prayer books violently on the benches in commemoration of the death of Christ. The dispatch announcing this nonsense stated:

The mourning atmosphere was accentuated in Rome tonight by the closing of all motion picture theaters and other amusement resorts.

Confessional and Purgatory Rackets

According to “The Salvatorian Fathers, Salvatorian Seminary, St. Nazians, Manitowoc Co., Wisconsin”, it “not infrequently happens” that those in “purgatory” are “utterly unaided and forgotten after death”, but if you come across with ten dollars “they get as near a personal foundation as possible”. What shame that the wretch who runs the "purgatory" shambles or bake oven is so contemptible that the only thing that will persuade him to do the right thing is bribery!

Walter J. Doherty, of Oklahoma county, Oklahoma, died recently, leaving property worth $49,835.89. Out of this, $1,000 was to go to a priest in Fort Worth, Tex., to be used for masses for the repose of Doherty's soul while in the bake oven. Anybody who has looked into the matter would be liable to say offhand that Doherty's estate had been stung for a cool $1,000 for which there never could, by any possibility, be the slightest return whatever. But it was not quite that bad. The state of Oklahoma collected $16.12 out of the $1,000, and, as a result, the estate was stung for only $983.88.

Mary Ann Walsh, commonly known as Mary Ann Shannahan, of Brownsville and Jamberoo, Australia, died at the age of 83 and left £500 to the Roman Catholic archbishop of Sydney, for the repose of the souls of herself and relatives "whose souls may be in purgatory". When Mary Ann wakes up, and finds her "hotel" in other hands, and comes to know that "purgatory" was only an ecclesiastical money-making invention, she will almost wish she had had somebody stuff the £500 under her head and take a chance on its being good some years or centuries hence.

The Irish Press, Dublin, is quite disturbed by the report that the Hitler government will tax "purgatory" transactions, on the ground that the priest is a "worker at the altar" and whatever he takes in for masses is just so much business revenue; which, after all, is all it is.

A communication from Mrs. Ed. Perry, of Georgia, says:

At St. Augustine, Fla., I knew a Catholic woman whose husband had died and she wanted to rent her cottage. I went over to look at it. She was sick in bed. I went in and sat by the bed. As she turned over her gown came open and I saw around her waist a metal band weighing, so she said, about three pounds. She said the priest had put it on, and fastened it and blessed it. She could not take it off without his knowing it. The priest made her believe that it would ward off evil spirits and that no man could ever take advantage of her while that metal was there. It looked like a big spider.

The Devil always knows where to find cruel, merciless people that, for a chance to get their hands into the public till, are willing to undertake any job whatever, no matter how much agony they may bring to others. Colliers' magazine says:

Nuns direct and operate a number of women's prisons in various parts of the world. Sometimes they have taken over the management of penitentiaries after others have failed in disciplining the inmates. Three of the most famous prisons they run today are in Rennes, France, in Mislea, Rumania, and in Maria-Nosztra, Hungary, 90 percent of the convicts in the last one being murderesses.

Rome is determined to go ahead, but is slipping backward. The Knights of Columbus are sponsoring 1,100 Boy Scout troops, half the total of the country, but, whereas they claimed a million members in 1920 for their own K. of C. organization, fifteen years later they claimed but a half million. Last year she added 858 priests, but the number of new converts decreased by 391 over the year previous. She is like a dog barking into a hollow log. When the zeppelin Hindenburg came to New York, and the papers had it all fixed up for the glory to go to the Roman Catholic church because some priest said mass on board, not one of the Hindenburg's officers attended the show.

An Ex-Jesuit's Idea

E. Boyd Barrett, twenty years a Jesuit, in his book Rome Stoops to Conquer, says of the objectives of the Roman Hierarchy in America:

Never was the Catholic church in any country in the world since Christendom began so rich, so highly organized, so influential, so loyally soldiered by her subjects as she is today in the United States. Never had she a more accomplished and resolute generalissimo than Pius XI. Never was she tempted to make a supreme effort by stakes more large and glorious than those at issue here and now. The effort, the fight, may be drawn out. It may last for five or ten years. Even if it last for twenty—what is twenty years in the life of Rome? The fight must be fought to a finish—opposition must be worn down if it cannot be swept away. Rome's immortal destiny hangs on the outcome. That destiny overshadows the land. Were Rome to fail to dominate American thought and American lives, her civilization, her moral code, all her glorious incredible dogmas would perish from the earth. Should Rome triumph, she will ascend to a higher state than ever she has enjoyed heretofore. Therefore she must win—if it be given her to win what, as she claims, God has promised—what her prophets have foretold. Then will the vast West be hers wherein to set up anew her earthly kingdom. And in the fight, as she has ever fought when battles were most desperate in the past, Rome will use steel, and gold, and silvery lie. Rome will stoop to conquer.

In the Good Shepherd’s Orphanage, Denver, Colo. By a former “Guest”

BACK in 1913 I was in a convent orphanage at the age of 9½ years. My mother put me in there because my health was bad and she had to work twelve to fourteen hours a day. I needed attention, as the doctor ordered I must not be left alone, having spent time in a hospital three times in one and a half years. I was just getting over a month’s stay in bed with a heart attack. That was all she could do. Father was not to be found, and was considered as dead; that was why I was in the Good Shepherd’s Orphanage.

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