Golden Age, August 12, 1936

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INTERNATIONAL MURDERERS

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Vol. XVII - No. 441

August 12, 1936 CONTENTS

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

Bible Prohibited in Colombia 720

GIVING TESTIMONY 721

EXCITING TIMES IN THE IRISH FREE STATE 722

THE "SUNDAY WORKER" 724

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN THE LIMELIGHT 725

"THE MONITOR" 726

The Devil Getting Sore, In Nova Scotia 728

Enterprising Witnesses in N. Z. 730

Teasing the U.A.P. 730

MURDERERS, AND THEIR FINISH 731

WILL THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY DEBATE? 719

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

INTERNATIONAL MURDERERS—THE SUPER-GANGSTERS OF "CHRISTENDOM" 707

"Making the World Safe" 708

Bids for Cannon Fodder 709

"These Superior Minds" 710

Some of the Latest Inventions 711

Munitions, Militarism, Fascism 712

The New Deal in Great Britain 715

France Is Arming Germany 723

Suffering Jews of Poland 723

Britain's Biggest Landlord 727

Airplanes to Australia Soon 730

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

WILL IT HAPPEN HERE? 718

Celebrations in Spain 720

Politicians Double-Cross Gambler 720

Stanley Baldwin Inconsistent 727

Paid Ralph Conner to Be Patriotic 728

The Lord Willingdon Decrees 729

Facing the Facts in Australia 730

Against War and Fascism 730

HOME AND HEALTH

Peering Up Through Iron Bars 727

Awoke from a Four Years' Sleep 727

Housing in England 727

A Million Down with Malaria 729

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

Origin of Foolscap Paper 727

Canadian Condensations 728

The Crown of Adishwar 729

Poor Little Hyderabad Kid 729

Will Celebrate with Radios 729

Kangaroos Plentiful in Wagga 730

In the Land of Too Much Food 735

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Confesses Clergy Hate Bible 727

Jesuitism in Canada 728

Wail from Victoria and Tasmania 730

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Volume XVII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, August 12, 1936 Number 441

International Murderers—The Super-Gangsters of “Christendom”

DUTCH SCHULTZ, New York’s racketeer, missed his calling. He had all the instincts of an international munition maker but lacked the training and the backing to get into the billionaire class of murderers. To be sure, at the close of his earthly life he received the “blessing” of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and was received into the fold and was glorified in The Literary Digest, but it was too late to do him any good.

The munition maker gets his in this life, and gets it by the billion. Newspapers write what he tells them to write. Popes and prelates are stockholders in his assassination enterprises. Banks do what he tells them. When he speaks governments are silent or reverse their policies. Politicians are his clerks. And when he goes out of this life he literally leaves millions of mourners behind him, including the armless, legless and sightless soldiers and those who went insane as a result of his gangster activities.

Preparing to honor future "Unknown Soldiers"

The notion has been widely spread that war makes men manly and that, therefore, since the making of munitions is necessary to modern warfare, it is a calling that is in every way honorable. But in these days there are some who see differently, and occasionally there is even one such among the clergy. The following is from the pen of the Anglican clergyman Dean Inge, in his work Christian Ethics and Modern Problems:

“The notion that war is good for the virility of a nation is absolutely untrue, at least under modern conditions. The courage which it evokes it did not implant; the injury which it does to the racial stock continues to impair the quality of the race for many generations. There is no difference of opinion among eugenists on this point.

Thucydides tells how an Athenian ungenerously taunted a Spartan prisoner by asking him whether all their brave men had been killed. “The arrow would be a useful weapon,” was the reply, “if it picked out the best men to hit.” So would the bullet. An epigram in the Greek Anthology says bluntly that the war-god spares not the good, but the bad. . . This is more true of modern than of ancient war.

“The effect of war,” says Professor Starr Jordan, writing in the year before the Great War, “is to spoil the breed by the simple process of the reversion of selection.” . . . Nations have always chosen for war the best men they could get, and they have always got better than those whom they left at home.

This counter-selection was one cause of the decline of Greece and Rome, and in the same way at the beginning of the modern period the vigorous race of Spaniards was enfeebled by war and persecution. “Castile makes men and wastes them,” says an old writer. Some persons naively expressed surprise that after a hundred years of peace in Europe Englishmen fought better than ever. And yet Japan, after two hundred years of peace, has astonished the world by the valor of her soldiers in her war with Russia. Napoleon "peopled Hades with the élite of Europe"; the evil which he did can never be measured.

Starr Jordan thinks that the United States has never fully recovered from the dysgenic slaughter of the Civil War from 1861 to 1865, in which nearly one in thirty of the whole population lost their lives. The statement often repeated that the Napoleonic War lowered the average height of Frenchmen, some have said by three inches, seems to be untrue; but there is no doubt that the war increased defects and infirmities in the next generation. That "war children" tend to be inferior was known before the Great War.

There is really no doubt whatever that war, next to wholesale class-bribery by taxation, is the most dysgenic factor in modern life. I cannot refrain from quoting the vigorous language in which Santayana (in 1905) emphasizes this truth, preaching, alas! to deaf ears: "There are panegyrists of war who say that without a periodical bleeding a race decays and loses its manhood. Experience is directly opposed to this shameless assertion. It is war that wastes a nation's wealth, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation."

It happens also in the educational field that there is here and there a guide of youth who is not influenced by the golden tide that flows into the coffers of the munition makers. Thus Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, president of DePauw University, is quoted in the Indianapolis Star as saying:

Propaganda traceable directly to munition makers states there is Communism in American colleges. But who are the munition makers? They are men who profiteered when American soldiers were dying in France. They are selling war supplies to potential enemies at this moment. Research conducted by college professors has brought their treachery to light. They would discredit the colleges. Why?

Gigantic power corporations, through subsidized propaganda, state that Communism is rampant in American colleges. Why? Read the testimony given before the Federal Trade Commission. Why have power corporations sought to control newspapers, to subsidize and thereby control educational institutions, and to gain control of legislative institutions that should be dedicated to the common good? College research has revealed the menacing nature of these unpatriotic activities that are in fact destroying democracy. Hence, a subtle, cowardly and indirect attack upon our institutions of higher learning.

Selfish reactionaries, with no constructive answer to the terrible problems of unemployment, sickness and old age, subsidize so-called patriotic societies, and these in turn propagandize the nation. They call proposals to eliminate child labor, to reduce unemployment, to provide for disability due to sickness, and to care for old age, communistic.

"Making the World Safe"

When the munition makers saw their dreams coming true in 1914 and realized that there would be a great market for their wares if the war could be kept going, they did all that was humanly, and one could almost say, inhumanly possible to whip up enthusiasm for a cause in which their pawns, the common people, had little interest or little desire to participate.

Every statesman on the side of the Allies insisted with all his lung power that the World War was fought to make a better world, one that would have no militarism; there would be permanent peace. The net result for Uncle Sam was a debt of $32,000,000,000, and the net results for the world were Stalin, Hitler, Horthy, Mussolini, and more to follow soon. Making the world safe for hypocrisy was surely expensive. On March 31, 1917, the federal debt of the United States was $1,282,044,346. On March 16, 1936, it was $31,859,000,000.

When it became apparent to the munition makers that Italy would strangle Ethiopia there was great happiness in their midst. All the things that would help men to kill one another went like hot cakes. This was a great comfort to clergymen holding munition shares. Cotton linters, used in making explosives, were at an all-time high, and so was the trade in scrap iron, useful for many war purposes. In 1934 the French purchased 25,494 tons of benzols (useful for explosives), as against 9,284 tons the year before. Metallic cartridges, rifles, machine and heavy ordnance guns, explosives, projectiles and gunpowder were in great demand.

The munition makers are always on the job when there is a chance to sell something wherewith one man may take the life of another, or a million men take the lives of a million, but they sometimes err. They recently lost 537 barrels of guns at Palestine. Plans were laid to smuggle in the guns as cement. When half the drums had been landed, one was found damaged. It was opened and found packed with revolvers and cartridges. The other drums were also opened. Nobody claimed them. Billionaire gangsters cannot afford to get caught.

Item: The Savage Arms Company, one of the lesser firms of munition makers, reported sales for the year 1934 as $2,336,662.48.

Bids for Cannon Fodder

From the time that the knights went to battle on horseback looking like a Baltimore heater with a teakettle on top of it the makers of armor plate, guns, bullets and other war junk have appealed to the vanity of men and women to help them increase the market for their goods.

There are plenty of men that for the sake of donning a uniform would do things to which they would never otherwise stoop, and there are plenty of women who rejoice to have their sons butchered so that they can boast and get their names in the papers. However, some of the mothers have both hearts and brains. Mrs. Frieda Wandless, Camden, N. J., seems to be one of these. In a letter to the Camden Courier, January 12, 1936, she said:

War is the ignoble trick of slitting open the blood vessels of the excited working class to "satisfy" the "honor" and save the pride and business of crowned and uncrowned cowards of the ruling class. There never is a war and never can be a war until the workingmen are willing to do the marching, the trench-digging and the actual fighting, bleeding and dying. And the workingmen are never willing to butcher and be butchered wholesale until the capitalist class or "highly educated" hirelings of the capitalist class craftily or ignorantly excite the humble toilers to the fiend's stupid mood of savage hate.

First come the powerful editorials, the "great speeches," the eloquent sermons, and prayers for war.

Then the fife and drum, then the brainstorm of the humble, humbugged workingmen, then the recruiting, then the hand-waving and "good-bye boys, good-bye," then the butchering and the blood, then the tears and taxes.

But every lily-fingered snob, every socially gilt-edged coward, every pro-war preacher, every self-exempting political shark and every well-fed money glutton, who dares help excite the working class for the hell of war—these, every one of these, in case of war, should be forced to dance on the firing line to the hideous music of the cannon's roar until his own torn carcass decorates a "great battle" field.

I have taught my son that the most degrading thing a man can do is to become a soldier. He will not assassinate some other mother's son and then hide his stained fists in the folds of a flag and call it patriotism.

MOTHERS! Cover yourselves with GLORY—Trade in your best son, and receive a GOLD STAR in exchange.

Boys and Girls Waking Up

Veterans of Future Wars, started at Princeton University as a satire on militarism and hypocrisy, has grown to 360 posts with 30,000 members; one post in every state except Nevada.

The future Veterans say their organization is permanent and that the next time Hearst and the munition makers and bankers want to drag the United States into a war, they will have something to say.

The young men at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Omaha, Nebraska, have organized the first chapter of Chaplains of Future Wars, and thereby greatly amused and encouraged those who got such huge satisfaction out of the organization of the Veterans of Future Wars and the Gold Star Mothers of Veterans of Future Wars. All the hypocrites are getting sore now at the boys and girls that are on to them.

In Germany, Italy and other countries which are villeinholds of the munition makers the preparation of cannon fodder begins while the child is playing with his toys. In San Diego last winter the toystores carried motorized field artillery tanks and machine guns. In Chicago the collection and burning of toy guns from school children resulted in six hundred less accidents from guns in 1935 than in 1934. Parents can turn such symbols of war and hate into effective object lessons by telling the children something (not all) of the horror they represent.

Methods of Murderers

It is not often that one gets a chance to read the letter of a would-be murderer, before the murder is committed. Here is one by Federal Laboratories, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., to its agent in Minneapolis:

"We have ordered the Cudahy Packing Co. clips (for machine guns) shipped from auto-ordnance direct to the sheriff of Washington County. He will have to give us Affidavit No. 3 on this shipment and it must come immediately. Otherwise we've got to get the proper order from Cudahy Packing Co., and run through a complete new shipment, returning the other clips. . . . We believe the Government will approve shipping these clips to Cudahy, but if they want extra clips, that is just what has to be done, even though a previous order went through because they are not a law-enforcement body. I am counting on you not getting us in 'dutch' on this." [But he did.]

The Senate Munitions Committee, after two years of investigation of methods of the munition makers in contacting officials of the War and Navy departments, excoriated their methods, saying, in part:

"Almost without exception, the American munitions companies have at times resorted to such unusual approaches, questionable favors and commissions, and methods of 'doing the needful', as to constitute in effect a form of bribery of officials or their close friends in order to secure business." . . . Such methods were "highly unethical, a disgrace to American business and a reflection upon those American governmental agencies which have unwittingly aided in the transactions so contaminated." . . . "Throughout the World War, the munitions companies insisted on their pound of flesh and did not let patriotism stand in the way of profits."

The evidence before the Senate Munitions Committee showed that the munition makers not only conspired with manufacturers to jeopardize the lives of their employees and repeatedly bribed officers of the government itself, but they even double-crossed their own countrymen in the manner set forth in the following citations:

"The committee finds, from official documents which it has not entered into the record, that the sales of munitions to certain South American nations in excess of their normal capacity to pay, was one of the causes for the defaults on certain South American bonds, and that the sales of the munitions were, in effect, financed by the American bond purchasers, and the loss on the bonds was borne by the same people."

"These Superior Minds"

In time of war (more likely than not brought about through their connivance with politicians and military men) the munition makers suddenly become, in the eyes of the press, the clergy and the people, the superior minds of the country. H. M. Tomlinson writes interestingly of these in his book entitled Mars His Idiot:

These superior minds to whom we so innocently confide our destinies—is it not strange that their "superiority" in public life exhibits itself in disastrous imbecilities that would land the private individual in the booby hatch if he were guilty of such conduct in his private life? Isn't it about time that we ceased to pay them such unmerited respect? It may be time, and past time; but we don't seem to have learned it. The tendency, indeed, is to concede them an even more unquestioning obedience, in the name of the state—which is precisely the name they conjured with in 1914.

Through the hearings of the Senate Munitions Committee the names of some of the leading domestic customers of the munition makers have become known, i.e., Weirton Steel Company, Cudahy Packing Company, H. C. Frick Coke Co., Southern Natural Gas Co., Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Corporation, and the Gulf States Steel Company. Some of the concerns did not wish it known that they are buying poison gas and Thompson machine guns, revolvers, etc. All the concerns named are very patriotic and would salute the flag instanter.

The munition makers have proved not only that they are willing to promote bloodshed between nations and to help shoot strikers into submission, but that they certainly must share at least a measure of responsibility for a situation which has developed in the United States where "the armaments of crime in revolvers, machine guns, and sawed-off shotguns exceed the total side-arm equipment of the government's soldiers and sailors"; and where "the armed forces of gangdom outnumber the 200,000 men in our army and navy".

Nothing that will provide revenue is overlooked. Thus, bullet-proof vests are provided for those who can afford them and who feel the need of them. The salesmen of these vests have to have good nerves. Their method of demonstrating their wares is to let a guard fire three rifle shots at them. If the bullets are deflected by the vest, then it is a good vest; if not,—well, it hasn't happened yet.

But the major business of the munition makers is war. Defining war as a racket, General Smedley D. Butler, America's best-known military man, said: A racket is best described as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only the "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the very many.

Britain a Munition Center

While the United States is a great munition manufacturer, Great Britain is a manufacturing country and specializes in munitions. War always brings temporary prosperity to those countries furnishing the munitions. The arming of Italy for the Ethiopian conflict put large sums of money in circulation in Britain; so much so that in the month of July 1935 the railroads carried over 6,000,000 more people than in July 1934, while railway receipts showed an increase of over £400,000.

Sir Harry Duncan McGowan, chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., stated in his testimony before a royal commission that he had no objections at all to selling arms to both sides, and that peace was not his job.

It is interesting to know that the vice-president of the Young Men's Christian Association of Great Britain holds 20,000 shares of stock in the munitions firm of Imperial Chemical Industries. This seems quite appropriate, in a way, for in the World War the Y.M.C.A. was to be found on all fronts, actively peddling tobacco and such other things as they have for sale.

The London Daily Herald publishes a list of the thirteen concerns engaged in the munition business in Britain and points out how £500 invested a year ago in five British firms would by today have made a profit of £4,600. It seems only fair that in the event of war those who made this profit should be in the front lines.

Onward, Civilization!

P.S. The potato crop was good, but there was no one left to eat it.

Some of the Latest Inventions

Within a radius of ten miles from the operating station, Britain is now able to send up robot planes that will go up 10,000 feet, fly 100 miles an hour, go through dives and rolls and other feats of a piloted plane and return safely to the ground. Washington Army spokesmen see no practical value in the device, for the reason that there is no way for a pilotless plane to determine where the target is.

The Flying Flea, the world's smallest navigable airplane, crossed the English Channel August 13 in 52 minutes. It has a wing span of twelve feet, a twenty-horsepower engine, and carried 4 1/2 gallons of gasoline, sufficient to carry it 180 miles. It stands only breast high and its cruising speed is 60 miles an hour. It is navigable only in calm weather.

The spray gun (invented in Czechoslovakia) will enable a single fighting plane to spray a whole squadron at once; it fires bullets on the blunderbuss principle, shooting with equal effect at every plane within range.

At hand a picture of Sir Herbert A. Lawrence weeping over the Menin Gate, Belgium, whereon are inscribed the names of 58,600 British soldiers butchered at Ypres. Lawrence was weeping over the wrong thing. He is chairman of the billion-dollar Vickers-Armstrong firm, with war munition plants scattered all over the world. Instead of weeping over a gate he should do his weeping over his guns, at his factories.

The common people of Great Britain, those who would be slaughtered in event of another world war, are interested just now in the aspect of a war-mad and highly armed Germany, and the fact that large numbers of military planes of British manufacture were sold to Germany with the full knowledge and consent of the British air ministry.

Awaiting the return trips of planes sold by and with the connivance of their own militarists, the British Government has issued elaborate instructions for the accumulation of gas masks, protective clothing and "decontaminating" powder: there will be a national school of instruction in anti-gas drill, air-raid warnings, and rescue and repair work, which are expected to be necessary when the air over Albion is made black with the wings of hostile planes.

Describing Europe's darkened cities, in anticipation of air raids, Walter Duranty says of the people that

. . . their hearts are anguished by terror of the future and by memories of the past. Greater and faster airplanes, bigger and better bombs, newer and deadlier gases—the people think of that as they slink along the darkened streets.

The experts working on the poison gas problem have not yet been able to discover how to save a baby from suffocation when the parents working the pump which supplies air to the baby are killed or disabled and unable to work it longer. The theologians who think these poison gas nations are part of Christ's government will make a careful study of just what Christ could really have meant by taking little children up into His arms and blessing them.

Munitions a Barometer of Prosperity

It seems too bad to have to say it, but it appears that the prosperity of Great Britain is largely bound up in the munition business. In the years of comparative prosperity, from 1928 to 1933, British exports shrank from £844,000,000 to £416,000,000; shipping revenue sank from £130,000,000 to £65,000,000; income from foreign investments sank from £270,000,000 to £155,000,000, and income from insurance and banking services sank from £65,000,000 to £30,000,000. Thus the fountain of England's prosperity dried up from a total of £1,309,000,000 income for her four principal streams to £666,000,000, or only a little more than half.

With the prospect of an Italian attack upon Ethiopia there was marked and immediate improvement, so that within two or three months from the date when it was certain that Mussolini would make the attack (midsummer of 1935) there were more persons employed in Britain than at any previous time within fourteen years.

This feeling of prosperity extended from the British people to the British government, so that by defaulting on the payment of her obligations to the United States Britain was able to expend on armaments £34,000,000 more than in the previous year.

Militarism grows by what it feeds upon, and the sale of war munitions to Japan comes back to plague the British authorities at Singapore. Japanese spies have been detained there; one died while being "cross-examined"; the port was closed to foreign soldiers, sailors and airmen; army, navy and airforce maneuvers were held amid greatest secrecy.

An interesting sidelight on the current prosperity in the war munitions market is afforded by an expression in a letter of a subscriber who wishes to remain unknown. He is connected with one of the great soap concerns of the world. He states that one of the by-products of the soap company with which he is connected is glycerin, and at the time of his writing glycerin was practically off the market, being absorbed by the munition manufacturers as fast as it could be produced.

When business is good in the manufacture of munitions of war the government receipts from income taxes are higher than in normal years; but that is like feeding oneself by sucking the blood from a gaping wound. In the fiscal year 1932-1933 there were 84,175 persons in Great Britain each with income in excess of £2,000 a year. The total income of the 84,175 persons was £441,101,427, and the income tax thereon was £47,750,450, which is about 10.8 percent.

Militarism Leads to Fascism

The standing armies and reserves of Europe are now estimated as follows: Britain 1,337,000, Germany 1,600,000, Italy 2,229,000, Russia 3,800,000, France 4,684,000, Denmark, 37,000, Lithuania 50,000, Bulgaria 56,000, Hungary 70,000, Sweden 80,000, Norway 135,000, Holland 135,000, Greece 137,000, Austria 270,000, Yugoslavia 290,000, Spain 360,000, Rumania 380,000, Czechoslovakia 390,000, Switzerland 495,000, Belgium 667,000, Poland 973,000; total 18,175,000. These dangers of the world have between them at least 19,629 planes, of which Britain has 1,750, Germany 2,800, Russia 3,000, Italy 3,700, and France 4,000. No wonder Europe has a headache.

Stripped of the glamor that surrounds them, Fascists are merely salesmen or advance agents for the munition makers; and, disappointing as it is to have to say it, Fascism, i.e., Catholic Action, is making headway in the most democratic country in the world. In the East End of London a Jewess asked one of Mosley's men to desist from writing on the walls of her own home "Kill the Jews", whereupon the Blackshirt spat in her face. This is really the full size of Fascism, or Nazism, or Catholic Action, wherever it appears.

Fascism is merely a return to the hated forms of government when the dictators of long ago, the Caesars, the Charlemagnes and the Napoleons, led millions of men along 'the path of glory' to the grave and left behind them the agonized cries of women and children bereft of their caretakers. The lying publicity agents directly or indirectly under the control of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy never cease to hold up militarism for the admiration of what was once a deluded populace. It is not as easy as it once was, because something is happening to the heels of the war horses. (Genesis 49:16-18) In the New York World-Telegram Westbrook Pegler writes of the efforts still put forth by the Devil to make militarism popular with the men and with the ladies, even in the days of poison gas. He said:

There is no question that the gunmen now occupy the highest position in the regard of people, for when it came to burying King George and the nations of the world were asked to send representatives they sent professional killers, and the splendor of their uniform so filled the public eye and mind that the wasted little man lying in the box on a gun carriage was only the occasion for the display. The highest honors which it is possible to bestow are reserved for warriors, and they wear the most beautiful costumes that the world can produce. Some of them, like the savages, wear feathers on their hats; and the more feathers and the more gaudy the feathers, the greater the killer. Some wear pink hats, some blue, some green; some wear fur trimmings, and a few dress up in breastplates and helmets of real gold, with plumes of white horsehair trailing down their necks. A certain English type of warrior wears white leather breeches and high black boots which are lined with white leather. Certain others in Scotland and the Balkans wear skirts. Nowadays in Europe various nations recognize that the professional killer's mentality is such that he feels depressed in ordinary clothes but is stimulated by beautiful costumes, and therefore in Austria, for example, certain officers are wearing white greatcoats, lined with scarlet, and black top boots with silver spurs. Even Soviet officers are adopting beautiful red uniforms.

The "prosperity" of 1935-1936

Fascism Leads to Cruelty

Prisons are an invention of the Devil. Bad as is the reputation of British prisons for cruelty, these places where man discloses his inhumanity to man will be much worse under Fascism than they now are; but they are now bad enough, as one may discern from the following details of floggings as they occur in British prisons, supplied by the International News Service:

The cat, a 28-inch corded whip, composed of nine strips each interspersed with knots every six inches, on a short handle, is usually administered in doses of 12, 18, 24 or 36 strokes on the back of a criminal, stripped to the waist and tied to a steel tripod-like whipping post. Floggings are carried out in a part of the prison well away from the cells. If more than 12 strokes have been ordered, two wardens, one using the right arm and the other the left, alternately wield the lash. A prison doctor always is in attendance at a flogging, and after each stroke of the cat he examines the criminal to see if the man can stand the strain of further punishment. . . . Several criminals have committed suicide sooner than face the punishment.

Bad as are social conditions now, they will be much worse if, as and when Fascism (militarism—Catholic Action) gets control of Britain. As it is, British health authorities have taken note of the fact that between 80 percent and 90 percent of babies are born sound and well, but that by the time they are of school age 30 percent to 40 percent of them are defective. This situation will now be studied to see what can be done to correct it. It is discerned that these defectives are, for the most part, the children of badly housed and overworked mothers.

British magistrates have recently penalized a father who thrashed an ill and delirious seven-year-old son; a mother who tied her seven-year-old son with his ankles bound to his wrists; another mother who deliberately scalded her child; a foster mother who literally covered a baby girl with bruises; and parents who kept a child so long in a box-chair that the child grew to the shape of the chair. It is observed that fathers are more prone to treat their children cruelly than mothers. All together, more than 500 parents were sent to prison for cruelties to their offspring. These cruelties are mostly in the slum districts, where there is no place for the children to play outside the home and there are no real comforts for any persons in the home.

Under present social conditions the munition makers and their office boys, the politicians, and their "blessers", the clergy, have more than heart could wish. (Psalm 73:7) But the common people, millions of them, do not live, but merely exist, and under Fascism their condition is bound to become very much worse. As respects present conditions Colin Campbell, chairman of the National Provincial bank, one of Britain's five big banks, in his annual address to the shareholders, said:

"It has been estimated that if the undernourished classes in this country were able to enjoy a full diet there would be increased trade in foodstuffs amounting to about £200,000,000 a year, giving revived activity to British farming without harming the oversea trade or shipping."

"Deliverance"—What a Contrast

With the foregoing in mind, let the honest-hearted contrast the above terrible conditions and the worse ones that are quite likely just ahead with the following from pages 356-359 of Judge Rutherford's book Deliverance, and explain, if they can, why the distributors or publishers of this literature are thrown into prison by Fascist-minded members of the strong-arm squad at the behest of the clergy, and surely with the consent of the munition makers and their liegemen, the politicians:

The prophet of God likens the kingdom on earth to two great mountains, the one on the north and the other on the south, with a great valley between, known as the valley of blessings, the valley of happiness.—Zechariah 14:4.

It is the spring of the thirtieth century. A thousand years have passed since The Nation was born. A day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day. (2 Pet. 3:8) Come to the mountain, that from there we may take a view of the valley of blessing. Observe that the sun shines in that valley from morning until evening. It is always bright in that valley. Look at the indescribable combinations of colors, both of flowers and of trees. Everything has life. The cherry trees are in bloom, likewise the orange and magnolia; the roses, the hyacinths, the carnations, the honeysuckles and many like beautiful flowers line the valley, sprinkling with smiles its green velvet carpet. The air is laden with sweet perfume, wafted by the soft south wind that sings through the trees. It is the mating time, and the little birds are vying with each other in singing songs of felicitation.

Hark! There comes the sound of tramping multitudes. From every point of the compass great streams of humanity pour into the valley. They are marching in perfect order, but there is a complete absence of the military air. They are bearing neither gun nor sword nor any other instrument of defense or offense. Now such things would be entirely out of place. They are relics of an almost-forgotten past. See, there is but one cannon; and the bluebirds are nesting in its mouth with no fear of ever being disturbed. Mark with what buoyancy of step the people walk. There are among them no lame, no halt, no blind, no deformed ones. No, there is not even an old man among them. Where are the old folks? These have been restored to the days of their youth, and their flesh has become as fresh as a babe's.

There are no poor there, no beggars among them, nor by the wayside. No, not now, because all have plenty. There are no sick nor afflicted there; no, because all enjoy health and strength. There are no vicious, nor cold, hard faces amongst them; no, not these, because they have all come over the highway and reached the end thereof and have been fully restored. See, their faces are all wreathed in smiles. On comes host upon host. They are bearing numerous banners, and upon each one are inscribed the words: "Holiness unto the Lord." (Zech. 14:20) Both men and women are grace and beauty personified. Yes; they are now all of the royal house, because they are children of the King.

It is a perfect day, and everything of creation bears the mark of perfection. Wafted over the valley come the strong, clear, sweet tones of a silver trumpet. At its call the great multitude kneels in silent thanksgiving to God. Another sound of the silver trumpet and there are heard the perfect voices of multitudes, and now in complete harmony they are singing: "Deliverance is complete; praise God!"

The "New Deal" in Great Britain

A long step in the direction of Fascism in Great Britain is the creation of special boards stipulating how much the farmer shall grow, and how much shall be marketed, and what the price and size of potatoes and other products must be. I. Hillier, Isle of Wight, referring to England's Milk Board swindle, says that it "has pushed the price of milk up to 2s. 2d. per gallon (6½d. per quart) retail and 3½d. per gallon only for milk chocolate manufacture, etc. The Milk Board is now virtually owner of one-fifth of all the dairy farms and cows in the country; not a bad rakeoff without any money involved. They are now on a potato ramp, levying a tax of £5 on potato growers; for this amount they will fix a price for potatoes and size of riddle over which they must pass. They are now debating their remuneration. There are also pig boards, egg, bacon and beef, etc., anything to make the lot of the poor poorer and the rich richer, it seems."

This effort to boost the prices of things (for the benefit of the big business crowd) is similar to the Papal AAA arrangement in the U.S.A. The net result was that the poor of Britain, who, as elsewhere, live largely on potatoes, had to pay twice as much for their food in April 1936 as before. Somehow their pay seems not to have been doubled.

However, these hungry and undernourished and ill-clad millions will doubtless forget their troubles when they see or read or hear about the coronation of the king, whose full regalia consists of the spurs, the scepter with the cross, the pointed sword of temporal justice, the pointed sword of spiritual justice, the sword of mercy, the sword of state, the scepter with the dove, the orb, St. Edward's crown, the paten, chalice and Bible. The vestments are the amice, the colobium sidonis, the supertunica, the armilla and the imperial mantle. It is appropriate to have the king well supplied with swords. This emblem of the munition makers appears in four different forms in the coronation ceremonies.

Then, too, why worry about the price of milk and potatoes and other nonessentials, when it is known that the prospective heir to the British throne, the son of the duke and duchess of Connaught, was properly baptized with water from the Jordan, at 3s. 6d. for a half pint, and that the clergy who performed the "service" included the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishop of London, and another ghostly adviser? It seems annoying that so many folks are always thinking about milk and bread and potatoes and other mundane things when it should be understood that the clergy and the kings and queens are busy attending to "more important" matters.

A glorious conversation between a glorious munition maker and the glorious Ratti on the glorious occasion of the glorious wounded of the most recent glorious war gloriously staggering under the newly built glorious triumphal arch.

Munition maker: What would the common man do to gain distinction without me? My, my, just look at all the medals!

Papa: What glory is yours—and mine! Let us not forget the millions of dead—.

Munition maker: Course not. Won't hurt not to. How about a national shrine—unknown soldier stuff, you know? I'll contribute a dollar.

Papa: I was wondering who would pay for the masses for all these millions.

Munition maker: You still fooling around with them masses? Seems to me, what with your profit from our gilt-edge stock, you should be satisfied without asking me. Oh, well, I'll contribute a dollar. Let their relatives pay as usual.

Papa: A dollar hardly covers it. You forget who I am.

Munition maker: O.K., Hog! Here's $2 to shut up.

Papa: (Moving off) He'll pay for this. I'll sick the Jesuits on him.

Munition maker: (Under his breath) The greedy swine. Never satisfied. I've a good notion to send him one of our latest-type time bombs.

Not that royalty is unwilling to come down to the common level, when it seems expedient. For instance, an item in The Universe, January 24, 1936, states that in September, 1931, the new king of England, then prince of Wales, visited the Roman Catholic grotto of Lourdes, and at the proper signal knelt in the mud along with all the others.

The general trend toward Fascism is likewise a trend toward Catholicism, and the foregoing concession to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is of a piece with the fact that the kings of England apparently no longer take an oath at their coronation to resist the encroachments of the Hierarchy. King George V did not take this oath, and during his reign diplomatic relations between Britain and the Vatican were established. Incidentally, the duke of Norfolk, whose hereditary right it is to plan all the details of a royal funeral and to stand next to the king on the occasion of the coronation, assisting in placing the crown upon his head, is a Catholic.

Fascism does not interfere with the munitions business, as has been noted. Nor does it set aside the king business. It rather leads to the greater security of those who can trace their descent to one or another royal dictator. It is interesting, in this connection, to note that the following present and past rulers of Europe trace their descent to King George III, whose dictatorial and Fascistic tendencies made him the villain of American school histories of a bygone day: Leopold III, of Belgium; Kaiser Wilhelm II, late ruler of Germany; King Carol of Rumania; King Peter II of Yugoslavia; Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia; the crown prince Gustaf Adolf, of Sweden; King Alfonso XII, late king of Spain; King Haakon VII, of Norway; and King Edward VIII, of England.

Thwarting Fascist Crop Reduction

Just when the British New-Dealers thought they had crops limited sufficiently to insure the speculators a "reasonable" profit on their investments, up bobs a farmer at Babingley Hall, King's Lynn, Norfolk, W. Parker by name, who now grows an oat that has no husk and hence has a yield automatically increased by 50 percent. These oats, sown at 45 pounds per acre, instead of 168 pounds for ordinary oats, produce an average yield of 24 hundredweight, equal to 36 hundredweight of ordinary oats.

In spite of difficulties such as these the Woolworth Company, which has 600 stores in Britain, is still making huge profits. Since 1931 the total profits on the British stores amount to more than £18,000,000.

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company seems also to be doing quite well, thanks to the Ethiopian massacre. In the London Daily Herald Francis Williams remarks that in the next dividends of that company there should be a nice extra sum earned by the British government in helping Italy to bomb defenseless Ethiopian villages. Britain owns 56 percent of the stock of the company.

It is affirmed that as late as December 12, 1935, a British oil company was still supplying oil to Italy. June 18, 1936, Foreign Minister Eden expressed his intentions to put an end to "sanctions" altogether, and they did end July 15.

British sympathy with Italy is not altogether lacking. These nations appear to have similar objectives, and Britain cannot be wholly indifferent to the flattery of imitation. In fact, in some respects the British are but carrying out what Rome, in its history, has exemplified, and may, with the United States, well be referred to as "the noblest Romans of them all".

Says Bertrand Russell in The Reader's Digest:

When, for example, the Transvaal was found to contain gold, the British invaded it. Lord Salisbury assured the nation that "we seek no gold fields". But somehow or other we happened to go where gold fields were, and to find ourselves in possession of them at the end of the Boer war. Everybody knows that the British went to southern Persia from a desire to benefit the southern Persians, but it is doubtful if we should have taken so much interest in their welfare if they had not inhabited a country full of oil. Not dissimilar remarks might be made about some of the doings of the United States in Central America. In like manner, the motives of Japan in Manchuria are the noblest possible; but they happen, by some curious accident, to coincide with the interests of the Japanese.

No Intention to Let Go

Nor has Britain any intention to let go what she has thus far been successful in seizing possession of. Hence she prizes her military and naval organizations and rewards those who render conspicuous service. Those who give their lives get medals, cenotaphs and memorial services, while those who gave directions are rewarded in a more temporal way. The commander-in-chief of her military forces in France, Earl Haig, received an earldom and $500,000 in cash; Earl Beatty, admiral of the fleet, also received $500,000; and Earl Jellicoe, in command at the battle of Jutland, received $250,000. Not bad!

The British fleet still serves a useful purpose in the Empire, and when danger seems to threaten, as during the Italo-Ethiopian unpleasantness, the "Mistress of the Seas" is not slow to take action. At that time the government summoned pensioners to return to the navy for three years, promising them they should continue to receive their pensions in addition to getting the standard rate of pay for the service performed.

Also, for the first time since 1914 Britain called the Naval Reserve, and when the British fleet was engaged in maneuvers off Malta they exploded a few depth bombs, among other exercises, and, so says the account, Italian submarines came popping up like corks. Just a bit of repartee between empires.

Angry because the young men of Britain are unresponsive to the British government's urgent cry for more soldiers, the munition makers are pushing hard to popularize Fascism. But a little while ago who would have supposed that such a man as Sir Oswald Mosley could fill London's largest auditorium, Royal Albert Hall, and hold his audience one and three-fourths hours while he poured forth the foolish stuff that has driven Germany and Italy mad and is bent upon conquering the world for the Roman Catholic Hierarchy? Edward VIII sent a telegram to Hitler congratulating him on his birthday. Next year, when Edward VIII is crowned, each peer will swear to him "life and limb and earthly worship".

British papers contain strange stories of men justifying an attack upon a woman because she did not stand up when the orchestra played "God Save the King"; of the rush to make 30,000,000 gas masks for adults and 3,000,000 for infants, and at the same time of the sabotage of seven warships within a few weeks one of another.

William Philip Simms, publicist, says that in twenty-five years he has never seen so crazy a situation as that now confronting Britain, and George Lansbury, M.P., says of peace-loving men and women that "they act as if some unseen power were driving them on—a power which mankind cannot overcome". " 'Tis true, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis true." Gog, the prime minister of the Devil, is the evil force driving mankind toward Armageddon.

The munition makers are always boasting of their new devices for slaughtering peace-loving men, and then making a great to-do later about decorating the soldiers or their graves with military insignia or wreaths or crosses as the case may be. As these murderers work in fullest accord with the military officials everywhere, the cartoonist thinks new shells should be attached to the soldiers in the manner shown below, so that on arrival at his destination he could promptly claim his empty reward while the militarists, lords and ladies clap their hands in glee at the new invention.

(Continued in next issue)

Cincinnati papers contain pictures of artillery trucks of which sixteen are to be delivered to the Roman Catholic Xavier University, by Oct. 23, 1936. If you want to see what the International Murderers are really up to, read the article on next page, "WILL IT HAPPEN HERE?"

--Will It Happen Here?

THE confiding and unsuspecting citizens who believe that a dictatorship just can't happen in this country are in for the shock of their lives some day in the sweet by and by, if the plans of the militarists, munition makers and other disciples of Cain are carried out.

Until recently there was tucked away in the archives of the War Department a complete set of secret plans for the establishment of the iron rule in this country. It was designed that these plans should rest quietly in their cubby holes until the proper time arrived. A war or threat of war would be the signal to put them in operation. Then they would be brought forth, rushed through Congress as emergency measures, and John Citizen would suddenly find himself all sewed up in the army.

While engaged in the interesting task of bringing to light the unholy activities of the munition makers Senator Bennett Clark discovered these hidden plans, and dragged them out in the open for all to see and observe. Possibly by that act Senator Clark has saved his country from being Hitlerized and Mussolinized in very disgraceful fashion.

Let us assume, Mr. John Citizen, that you are a male person of the age of eighteen years or upward and that war has been declared between the United States and some other nation. The War Department plans are put in operation. What is your place in the picture?

It is all laid out for you. First, you are suddenly inducted into the army. No need to volunteer. The whole male population by law comes under military control. You may be told to go with the doughboys as machine-gun nutriment. Or you may be told to labor in the factory, or on the farm, or in a ditch. You will not have anything to say about your wages, place of labor, or condition of servitude. These will be arranged for you by the kind-hearted military.

And remember, John, that it will not do any good to kick. Your wages may be next door to nothing, but a strike by you and your fellow laborers will not be healthy. You might receive different jobs, but they would probably be out on the front line where cannon ball and shrapnel make hideous noises, and there is no good place to sleep. Or you and your family may be shut off without food, and left to expire without the aid of a physician.

If you are in business when all this happens, you may wake up some morning and find a gentleman in uniform taking over your plant. You will be told that you can take a vacation—'going over the top', or indulging in some other open-air activity. Will you be paid for your business? Probably, yes; but somebody else will determine the price. The president in this most gracious scheme will have authority to take over any business or property and pay for it as he sees fit.

Or if you continue in business you will be saved much worry and figuring. You will be told what to pay for goods; at what price to sell; what to pay for help; and how much help you may have. If you are printing a newspaper or a magazine you might just as well shut off the juice and shoot the editor, for your opportunities to print facts and express opinions will have been put into a complete state of innocuous desuetude.

You may decide to assert your constitutional rights before a court, but you will be informed that the constitution isn't working these days; that you are in the army now and subject to the army laws, and that you might just as well take it and like it.

So then your hope will be for the war to end. The war may end. The shot and shell will stop screaming. Murder on mass scale will cease, but you will find yourself still under the dictatorship. Although the battles have ceased, the president will have the authority to determine when the emergency ends; and, until he so proclaims, the dictatorship will continue.

Do you suppose, John, that any dictator is going to release his control of a hundred million people just because a little matter of shooting bullets and stabbing humans has ceased? Dictators aren't built that way, and plenty of good reasons will be found to continue the broad- and tender-hearted arrangement.

These plans for dictatorship are all in print in the form of proposed legislation before Congress. They call for complete control of the actions, the lives, and the very thoughts of the people. A war emergency is all that is needed to put on a dictatorship in these United States that will make Hitler look like a piker. Day by day in every way the dictatorships get bigger and more powerful, and when the Roman Catholic Hierarchy gets its claws on this country by means of a military dictatorship only the power of Almighty God through His Kingdom will bring freedom to the people.

Will the Roman Catholic Hierarchy Debate?

THE effort being made by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy to silence Judge Rutherford and to prevent the further broadcasting of Biblical discussions is characteristic of that organization. It is of interest, however, that many Catholics have imbibed of the true spirit of freedom to such an extent that they do not endorse or support the activities of the Hierarchy in this connection.

On the other hand, the petition being circulated that this matter be discussed in an open and aboveboard manner is characteristic of the true American tradition, and also in harmony with the Scriptures. When God condescends to reason with those who are out of the way, are those professing to be His representatives to resent any attempt on the part of others to ascertain the bases of their claims? If the Hierarchy is indeed the agency of God for the government of the world, will they refuse to bring forth their "strong causes" and give their proofs of such assignment?

Yes, Judge Rutherford has questioned the right of the Hierarchy to teach "in the name of God" certain doctrines which millions reject as being out of harmony with the Scriptures. But he is willing to debate the proposition, fairly and openly, and give the Hierarchy an opportunity to justify its statements that Judge Rutherford misrepresents their teachings. Millions will sign the petition asking that the matter be debated and discussed in the open. But, will the Hierarchy debate?

There are those who insist that the Hierarchy or its agents will never reason with those who disagree with them. They will silence them as soon as possible. Not only that, any reference to the Catholic Hierarchy and its methods, unless it is laudatory and obsequious, is resented by the Hierarchy. Is not the day past when any institution in the earth can assume a sacrosanct attitude?

"Kin ye fayture it, Kathy? Oi was ilivated to the office of ghrand Hierarchical cinsor down at the Vatican lodge, this noight."

"Aye, Dennis, an' 'tis a foine toime fer ye t' be blatherin' o' lodge promotions, whin our little bairne is dyin' av petitionitis."

Will the Hierarchy debate? Certainly it should be willing to accept so fair a challenge, so considerate an offer. But the Hierarchy has not itself followed such a liberal and generous course. When WBBR, in Brooklyn, N. Y., for instance, made some statements by radio which, while entirely true, were not altogether complimentary of the methods of the Hierarchy, that institution, through the magazine of the International Catholic Truth Society, called Light, in the May (1936) number, wrote the following mild rebuke:

What can be done about it? Station WBBR is not a commercial station. Therefore it has no advertisers to boycott. It has, however, a Federal license which should be revoked and, perhaps, a New York State corporate charter which should be dissolved.

That is the policy being pursued against Station WBBR in Brooklyn, and that is the policy which all Catholics should pursue against any radio station whose programs are characterized by religious intolerance.

Could anything be more outrageously arrogant and intolerant than this proposition to wipe out WBBR and also to dissolve its corporate charter? And this, according to the article in which the highhanded action is recommended, because station WBBR broadcast three news items which the Hierarchy disapproved.

In America the Congress is not above criticism. Nor is the president himself exempted from having his acts discussed adversely in any newspaper that may differ with him. His office does not place his actions above the judgment of the people whom he serves. But the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, as the remnant of an obsolete past, still insists that the priestly tribe can do no wrong and that they are above the law of the land and above the criticism of the people.

The Hierarchy has for centuries used the method of the boycott and the "strong arm" to silence those who have dared to disagree with them. They have used the rack, the stake and the dungeon. Now they use the boycott and the political influence to silence those who would tell the truth.

But the people are beginning to wake up. They are beginning to see that the Hierarchy is not the representative of God, but is a political organization seeking to control the world. They are beginning to see that the Hierarchy is afraid of the truth.

If the Hierarchy is right, why should they be afraid to debate? If they have the truth, why should they seek to silence those who disagree with them? The truth has nothing to fear from discussion. It is only error that seeks to hide in the darkness.

The petition which is being circulated is a challenge to the Hierarchy. It is a challenge to them to come out into the open and defend their doctrines. It is a challenge to them to show that they are indeed the representatives of God.

Will they accept the challenge? Or will they continue to use the methods of the dark ages to silence those who would tell the truth? The people are waiting for the answer.

do no wrong, though everybody knows very well to the contrary.

But the Hierarchy attachés insist that WBBR must be silenced, and rendered hors de combat completely; for has it not presumed to mention the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in other than laudatory terms? That is enough for the Hierarchy. WBBR, as far as it is concerned, is condemned to death.

Here is a beautiful condition of affairs. The Catholic Hierarchy exists in the United States because of the general freedom conceded to be the right of all to practice what they please in the way of "divine service" even though such "service" may be only the dusty remnants of idol worship. The responsibility is placed upon the individual for his own acts. And now, in the name of "religious freedom" the Hierarchy seeks to throttle an organization and ban it from the air waves because it happens to disagree with the Hierarchy. By the same token the Hierarchy should be banned from the air waves and all its institutions dissolved, because of the invidious criticism it has leveled against those who are not Catholic Hierarchy subjects. But, not to digress:

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