Golden Age, September 9, 1936

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September 9, 1936 CONTENTS

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

THE CONSPIRACY AT PHILADELPHIA 781

WARNING TO CATHOLICS 781

LOYALTY 785

KINGDOM PUBLISHERS 786

Bigotry of Ohio School Board 787

Amon Ngoma, Northern Rhodesia 788

Bezprizorni Again Active 790

Death Sentence for Drug Addicts 792

Millions Starving in China 792

Human Life in Manchuria 793

A Petition for a Murderer 795

The Ransom and Vindication 796

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Getting Rid of Some Dirty Food 783

Russia Has Biggest Airplane 791

The Arctic Open Sea Route 791

Developments in Russia 791

Japanese Invasion of Markets 793

Japan Takes Manchuria's Oil 793

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

INTERNATIONAL MURDERERS—

THE SUPER-GANGSTERS OF "CHRISTENDOM" 771

Sacrifices of Italian People 773

Hierarchy in High Feather 775

Ethiopians Never Had a Chance 779

Italian Atrocities in Tripoli 780

Curious Support of Malefactors 788

Perspiration in Northern Rhodesia 788

Rio de Janeiro Police 789

Tells Truth About Communism 789

Getting Ready for Japanese War 791

Ripley's View of Russia 791

What Became of the Ingrians 791

Fascism in Philippines? 792

Filipinos Frightened 792

Japanese Provoke Russians 793

Sufferings of Sir John Latham 795

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

Electrification of Farms 784

Imports of Farm Products 784

Bilbo's Muzzled Pecan Pickers 784

Cotton Production in Brazil 789

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin 790

Artificial Germination of Wheat 790

HOME AND HEALTH

Let the Serum Worshipers Explain 784

Have the Hatters Been in Persia? 794

Water Scarce in Central Australia 795

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

Lake Titicaca, Bolivia 789

Peacock Throne to Be Sold for Junk 794

Cannibalism on Malekula Island 795

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Alabama Baptists Join Inquisition 787

False Christianity Makes Crooks 788

Worship of a Sword in Japan 793

Blaspheming God in Tasmania 795

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The Golden Age

Volume XVII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, September 9, 1936 Number 443

International Murderers — The Super-Gangsters of "Christendom"

(Part 2)

AS A result of business operations in which he caused the murder and betrayal of nobody knows how many men and women, Dutch Schultz had an income in the last six weeks of his life amounting to $827,253; that being the case, he was gladly received into the Roman Catholic fold. He died cursing and swearing, and the Rev. John A. Toomey, Jesuit, was glad to explain how he was entirely acceptable to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and therefore to God. And The Literary Digest, because, like most other magazines, it loves to grovel before the Hierarchy, was delighted to publish how Dutch had proved that the life of the racketeer is, after all, the only life worth while. It gets everything in this life and everything in the next.

Most great men have some pattern or ideal before their minds, and their life is bent to the accomplishment of that ideal as nearly as possible. If Dutch had any model to which to work, it should have been something like this:

Munition makers' lives remind us

We can make our lives sublime;

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time.

Where Dutch made his great error as a gangster is that he did not make his alliance with the Roman Catholic Hierarchy earlier. Had he done so and split 50-50 with his spiritual backers, he could have been a power in the United States, as Mussolini is a power in Italy.

Restorers of the Holy (?) Roman Empire

That Dutch Schultz was a child of the Devil goes without saying. How about Mussolini? The Reverend W. D. Herrstrom, of Akron, Ohio, in an address at Toronto, Canada, stated that Il Duce regularly goes into seclusion for hours at a time "and converses with some unknown supernatural forces". Those unknown supernatural forces are the same as converse with the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. The end which they have in view is the re-establishment of the Holy (?) Roman Empire; hence Cardinal Pacelli, of Vatican City, refers with great respect to Il Duce as "the most cultured restorer of Imperial Rome".

Mussolini's talks with devils have not been in vain. They have surely put the thought in this man's mind that in collusion with the Roman Catholic Hierarchy he will again make Rome mistress of the entire world. The Roman Emperor Augustus was a Fascist. He overawed the Roman people by keeping always, in the "eternal" city, a picked corps of imperial guards. A letter just received from Italy has on it a stamp showing the head of Emperor Augustus, Mussolini's ideal. After his death Augustus was numbered among the gods; why not Mussolini? The five million Italian boys and girls who make up the Balilla scouts are obligated to pray for Mussolini before each meal. In these prayers the children make mention of the fact that Italy has been the "favorite child for centuries"; thus the idea is fostered in the child's mind of the close union between Mussolini and the 'deity'.

Victor Emmanuel III, now hailed as emperor of Rome's revived empire, has Mussolini to thank for his new title. Before the Ethiopian war, it is reported, Mussolini put his finger on a map of Ethiopia and said: "That's where we start." That leaves everybody wondering what will be his next point of attack. Incidentally, the cost of conquering Ethiopia is estimated to have been $815,000,000, which Italy could in no way spare, and hundreds of millions more must be expended on the country to make it livable for Europeans—to say nothing at all of the promised "uplifting" of the natives.

Debunking the Heroes

Mussolini's ideal, Augustus, plunged his country into civil war, arranged for his enemies to destroy one another, and then destroyed the survivors himself. Affecting great modesty and moderation he "yielded to the pressing entreaties of the Senate that he should govern the people". One of his major policies, like that of Mussolini, was "to retain old names and forms". History says that Augustus was really ruled by his wife and by his vanity. His last act was to call for a mirror and applaud himself as he passed out.

George Seldes' book Sawdust Caesar denounces Mussolini as an editor who accepted a bribe to help throw Italy to the side of the Allies in the World War; a patriot who fled to Switzerland to avoid military service, and a veteran of the war whose wounds were received when an Italian trench mortar exploded, sending 44 splinters into his hind quarters; a leader of blackshirts who offered their services to both sides in a strike; the conqueror of Corfu with casualties of sixteen children and four unarmed adults; the marcher on Rome, which march was effected comfortably in a sleeping car.

The Buenos Aires Herald reports Cardinal Maffi, of Pisa, as saying of Mussolini, "As a priest I weep; as an Italian I am ashamed"; and then the Herald goes on to say on its own account:

It is indeed one of the most deplorable scandals of our age that the common tramp, schemer, deserter, liar, and seducer, has been permitted to hoodwink the masses by means of the cleverest and most sustained propagandist 'ramp' on record.

It is now Mussolini's claim that he has ten million men under arms, the biggest army any nation has ever seen. In view of this statement, consider what changes have taken place in the mind of this man who is on record as saying, twenty-three years ago:

The nationalist, conservative and clerical Italy of today wants to make the sword her law and the army the school of the nation. We foresaw this moral degeneration and therefore are not surprised by it. But those who believe that this dominance of militarism is a sign of strength are mistaken.

Regarding the tragic death of the noble-minded Matteotti, The Star of India claims that it was the general plan of Mussolini to castrate Matteotti, but that De Bono, who had charge of the devilish work, was careless and the victim bled to death, as is often the case in this inhuman operation.

The story goes that Mussolini chanced to go alone to a movie in a small Italian town. His picture was shown; all stood but himself. The proprietor came, tapped him on the shoulder, and said: "I feel the same as you do, but you had better stand up; it's safer."

The Financial Sinews of War

Though it is well known and has been widely published that the pope has taken care of Mussolini's most pressing financial necessities, yet Italy has been in a bad way financially. It is now some years since the United States was told by Italy that Italy was in no financial position to pay anything on borrowed money, though the prosecution of the Ethiopian war cost $5,000,000 a day, at the very least.

Dr. Giovanni Macerata, writing from Venice, said:

It's a question of life or death. Italy could not go on with the crisis—1,000,000 idlers, industry and commerce ruined, 50,000 doctors, professors and engineers without any possibility to find a job like me, who cannot find a chair, and I don't know what to do. Therefore, the war in Africa is a necessity. If we conquer one-half Abyssinia we shall send there in 100 years 5,000,000 Italians.

Whatever the financial necessities of the case, what the Italian government had to do they certainly did. The soldiers were paid less than four cents a day. In many cases they were invited to make voluntary contributions reducing their pay to three cents a day. In six months before the war started 240,000 soldiers and laborers went through the Suez canal, and in three months the canal tolls were ten million dollars.

The munition makers were impartial. The six tanks of latest pattern owned by the Ethiopian emperor, Haile Selassie, and which the Italian soldiers were expected to face, were made in Italy.

While the war was on it was not so much fun to be a financier of any kind in Italy. Carlo Feltinelli, lumber king, died of fright at Milan when he was confronted in court with evidence that he had offered a bribe of 60,000,000 lire to settle claims that the government had against him.

Oil on Troubled Waters

Many months before the outbreak of the war it was known in every part of the earth that Mussolini had decided to take over Ethiopia. About the time he was making his preliminary declarations to this effect, the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company sent Francis W. Rickett to Ethiopia to seek oil concessions. The matter was kept so secret that officials of Socony Vacuum and Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which two companies own the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company, denied all knowledge of the transactions which had come to a climax at the end of August by their publication to the world. Borah described the whole situation as buying an interest in the Italo-Ethiopian war, then threatening. The storm raised about the incorporation in Delaware of the new Standard Oil brat styled African Exploration Development Company, when it was disclosed that the Ethiopian concession had been granted to it, was so great that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is believed to have personally interfered, and the deal was called off. Meantime Leo Y. Chertok, former representative of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, one of the world’s largest makers of war munitions, claims to have privately raised $1,000,000 to get similar concessions. A report from Rome stated that Italy would welcome any commercial enterprise of a neutral character undertaken in Ethiopia.

In the months of August and September, 1935, eight times as much oil, crude and refined, was shipped from New Orleans to Italy as went to the same destination in the corresponding months of the previous year.

Before the so-called sanctions went into effect the United States Department of Commerce disclosed that more American motor trucks were being shipped to Eritrea, Italian Africa, than to any other part of the world. Ten days later it was announced that Henry Ford had discontinued sending trucks to Italian Africa, and would send no more until the war was over.

October 1934, exports of iron and steel scrap to Italy, $179,000; October 1935, $454,000. October 1934, shipments of oil to Italy and Italian Africa, $337,000; October 1935, $1,185,000. October 1934, refined copper exports to Italy, $188,000; October 1935, $534,000.

Italians overrunning Ethiopia expressed some disappointment at finding British weapons and munitions in the hands of such Ethiopians as were captured.

Sacrifices of Italian People

Mussolini had to have gold to pay for his war munitions, and so Italian people everywhere were encouraged to give up all their jewelry, even wedding rings, and accept iron rings in their place. In the territory covered by New York, New England and northern New Jersey 100,000 iron rings were given to Italo-American couples who sent their gold rings to Mussolini to help pay the cost of the Ethiopian war. The iron rings were “blessed” by Catholic priests, regardless of how long the couples were married or how many children they had, and then they were married all over again and lived happy ever after, maybe. In Chicago alone 4,000 of these old-timers were remarried in a single day, that is, “renewed their marriage vows.”

Mussolini had to have brass for cartridges, and so American Italians in large numbers sent greetings to their native land printed on sheets of copper and brass, and women sent lipsticks which were in fact nothing less than cartridge shells.

While the war was on Italy had meatless days and meatless schools; a committee of war widows had every home in the land under surveillance and rules; one-fifth of the train service was canceled; 2,500,000 schoolboys received officer training; every one of the 3,646,000 farms was regimented as to what acreage it must plant and what crops must be raised; wages in southern Italy were between four shillings and ten shillings (96c to $2.40) for a week of 60 to 100 hours. On these wages the people could barely exist. In Calabria roads were built by the unemployed at wages of a penny an hour. These unemployed must sign the register daily and agree to take any jobs offered anybody, regardless of whether they have had experience or not. Many soldiers went to Ethiopia as a change from the intolerable conditions at home; but conditions in Ethiopia were still worse.

Hardships of the Soldiers

Two months before the war began 5,000 Italian soldiers suffering from malaria, dysentery and typhoid passed through the canal returning toward Italy. Ten Italian soldiers died every day from the heat. Also, many thousands were sent back as invalids to the Mediterranean region, but were not returned to the mainland of Italy, lest their appearance and their tales should somewhat cool the war fever.

London papers estimated that, to escape being pressed into the war, at least 10,000 Italian deserters found their way into Switzerland, 2,000 into Germany, and 2,000 into Yugoslavia. These men had to flee over dangerous mountain passes in the nighttime, and in the dead of winter, with the certainty that if caught they would be slain. In many instances they were penniless.

The flame of rebellion burned hotly among the 1,000,000 Tyrolese, Croats and Slovenes who came under Italian rule in 1919. It is estimated that 1,500 of these fled over the Austrian border alone, and other large numbers made their way into Yugoslavia, Switzerland and France.

Hardships of the Disaffected

In those days it was hard to smile in a land where gasoline was the equivalent of $1.08 a gallon and nobody can afford to run automobiles unless well to do. A tourist returning from Italy was asked his outstanding impression of Rome, and replied, "Nobody laughs or smiles."

During the war, and perhaps even yet, a university professor of Italy might not visit any foreign country without informing the minister of education two months in advance, so that he might be told what he could say while abroad. Any Italian citizen who circulated anything deemed detrimental to Italian prestige abroad could be punished with imprisonment of from five to twenty-four years. No Italian may even now give out statistics of his country without first submitting them to the Central Institute of Statistics for approval. No public meeting of any kind, for any purpose, may be held without permission of the government secured a month in advance. It is possible, even yet, to arrest a person without a warrant, court-martial him in secret and also put him in jail secretly, so that, to all intents and purposes, he vanishes from sight.

On the island of Ponza there is a prison camp. The 287 there imprisoned were allowed to have some hours each day outside the camp, where they could read or write or think. The privilege was withdrawn. As a result the 287 protested by handing in their permits to leave camp at all. This enraged the prison authorities, so that additions of from four to fourteen months were added to the terms the prisoners must serve. A French wife of one of the prisoners came to inquire as to the fate of her husband. She was about to become a mother, but despite her condition she was knocked down and kicked until, for a month, her own life and that of her unborn child were despaired of.

The 7,000 exiles on the island of Asinara petitioned the government to discontinue their meat rations as long as the "sanctions" of the League continued against Italy. One can imagine the arguments used to get them to make the petition. The very fact that on that little barren island there are 7,000 men cut off from families and friends speaks volumes.

According to the London Daily Herald Dr. Augusto Monti, of Italy, cared for the two small children of a political prisoner. He thereby incurred the hostility of the government and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. He is alleged to have courageously said to his Fascist "judge",

I am ashamed that in a country which boasts of being civilized a person can be accused of being merciful towards two children left alone in their home.

Ethiopians in South Carolina

It is claimed that among the Negroes of South Carolina there are some ex-slaves known as Gullahs, who still preserve a number of words of the pure Gullah, Ethiopian, tongue brought here by their ancestors who came in chains in the hold of Boston ships.

"God's Gift to the World"(?)

It is the theory of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy that the pope is God's gift to the world (although the papacy is purely an Italian racket and the pope is elected to his job by his fellow politicians in the "religious" business); and it is also the theory of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy that war is God's gift to the world, because it produces so much human suffering and such an opportunity for the clergy and other grafters to make money by the barrel.

The way the pope helped to finance the Italian war was like this. Millions of Catholics contributed to the papal cause. The money could not go into Italy on account of "sanctions". Mussolini and the pope made a swap. Mussolini gave the pope Italian money and then took over the contributions (from Germany) in cannons, bombs, machine guns, poison gas or whatever was necessary to carry on the war.

Have a laugh. The pope gave Mussolini a "gold" medal to commemorate the re-establishment of the papal temporal power. In due time Mussolini turned over his supposedly solid gold medal to help build up the Italian war chest, but when they came to melt it they discovered it was only gold-plated. One bunko-steerer swindling another is too funny for words.

When the war began all the church bells of Italy rang, including St. Peter's at Rome. When it was over, and the other Italian church bells rang in celebration of the victory, St. Peter's bell diplomatically remained silent.

While the war was in progress, many so-called "Protestants", including the "Most Reverend" Cosmo G. Lang, archbishop of Canterbury, expressed grievous disappointment that "no Christian voice was heard in Italy to remonstrate against the use of barbarous poison gas". Other and numerous attempts were made to smoke the pope out and get him to discourage the slaughter of the Ethiopians, but all in vain. No pope has ever wanted any war stopped if he could see any way by which the Roman Catholic Hierarchy would profit by its continuance.

The "gift" and the coming "recompense"

A few of the British papers had the courage and the honesty to poke fun at the international hypocrite headquarters. Thus, under the title "Funk Hole in Rome", Cassandra, in the London Daily Mirror, said: "All's right with the world. God's in his heaven and the pope's in his gas-proof shelter." Whom was Cassandra kidding then?

As soon as the defenseless Ethiopians had been conquered the pope hailed it as "a happy triumph for a great and good people", and thanked "God" for the Italian victory. The Jesuits once had control in Ethiopia, but were expelled. They will now make another attempt at the spiritual subjugation of the Coptic Christians.

Hierarchy in High Feather

The end of the war was virtually coincident with the pope's 79th birthday. On that occasion Patrick Cardinal Hayes, of New York city, as in duty bound, acclaimed Pope Pius XI as "God's special gift to the church and the world, during these critical times", and the pope himself was to have broadcast his acknowledgment of that alleged fact, but, although the electricians put forth their best effort, the static in the air prevented the message from getting through. It will now be for the theologians to explain how the pope could try to get such a man-honoring message through and fail, and Judge Rutherford's address of February 23, which honored only God and exposed the Roman Catholic Hierarchy as the biggest swindle on earth, went all the way through to Australia in splendid shape, despite the fact that the electricians on the job felt sure it wouldn't at that hour in the morning, and the program was switched around over the north pole when it was partly finished, without affecting reception at all; and all reception ended when the address itself ended.

The lesser clergy stood behind the pope as he stood behind Mussolini, and the spirit of the big devil and the little devils is manifest in their utterances. Thus Cardinal Pacelli said:

Rome was ordained and prepared by providence to be the capital of the world and the central seat of religion. The Rome of the emperors was a historical preparation for the spiritual and universal empire of Jesus Christ. No city will wrest from Rome its destiny as the city of God.

Bishop Margaria gave up his gold beads and pectoral cross to Mussolini to aid him in winning, and said:

The entire Roman Catholic clergy of Italy had invoked the blessing of God on the Italian troops and prayed constantly for victory.

When the queen of Italy (along with some 10,000,000 other women and men) gave up her wedding ring, the account says, as she dropped that and another ring into the urn in front of the "Unknown Soldier's" tomb "a military archbishop advanced and 'blessed' two iron rings" which were given to her in their place. Did you get that—a military archbishop?

The city of Faenza, Italy, gave a "miraculous image of the virgin" to troops going to Ethiopia. The crown prince and princess knelt before it, the archbishop "blessed" it, and thousands of men, women and children marched behind it to the boat; others threw themselves on their knees praying the image for victory.

"With the Help of God"

Italian aviators showered their fellow Christians and fellow League members in Ethiopia with the warning that those who opposed the Italians would die, that the safe course was for them to turn traitor, and that the Italian army was blessed by God, meaning that the pope had personally "blessed" Mussolini October 12.

The Italian planes, after burning the faces off many Ethiopians by the use of mustard gas, dropped leaflets over Addis Ababa that shortly "with the help of God" they would occupy the country for civilization. Inasmuch as the pope financed the war, and himself claims to be so much the triple-crowned ruler of heaven, earth and hell that he can even order God himself to come down and be sacrificed, as often as he sees fit, it is plain that when he referred to the "help of God" he meant the god that is mentioned in 2 Corinthians 4:4, the "god of this world"; the same that Jesus referred to as "the prince of this world", the Devil.

A telegram from the daughter of the emperor of Ethiopia protested against gas attacks by Italian airmen, stating that Ethiopians had no gas masks and were suffering torture beyond description: that hundreds of them were screaming in pain, many of them unrecognizable because the skin was burned off their faces. The Italians covenanted not to use gas attacks. The pope was until recently, and probably still is, a stockholder in a poison-gas factory.

The keen desire of the pope for Ethiopian conquest was manifest in the fact that the only ecclesiastical seminary within the confines of Vatican City is for the education of Ethiopian students for the priesthood. Italy now dominating Ethiopia, the pope confidently expects to take over its whole religious establishment, or rather to retake it, as the Jesuits once had it, before being expelled.

The Abuna, head of the Coptic church of Ethiopia, called world attention to the fact that in an instance where Italian troops were forced to retreat they burned all the churches in the neighborhood as they did so. Manifestly the revived Roman Empire fully intends that Roman architecture shall be manifest in the churches that now, so it is said, dot almost every hill in the country. The Ethiopians referred to their war with Italy as a war between Christians and Catholics.

The Coptic Religion

The Coptic religion, surviving in Ethiopia after 1,600 years, considers every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday a holy day, with some additional ones, at New Year and Easter. Though a great mixture, it still holds to the truth that when Christ died He really died, and did not merely seem to die, as is maintained by the Roman Catholic sect, and other heretical religions. The plain Bible truth on this subject was denounced as heresy by the council of Charleston in the year 450 (A.D.). They were the heretics themselves, and the heresy that Christ when on earth was both human and divine is held today by nearly all who claim to be Christians. It teaches that when Christ died and cried out "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" He was merely acting a part, and addressing a part of himself which did not die. This is, in truth and in fact, a complete denial of the central truth of the Bible that Christ died for the sins of the world.

Of the principal actors in the Italo-Ethiopian travesty H. Detjen, of Wisconsin, writes, interestingly:

Mussolini, of Italy, is from the home seat of the Roman Hierarchy, the pope claiming to be vicegerent of Christ, and a fit subject to prove to all the world that so-called "Christianity" is a fake. On the other side, the black-skinned man claims to be a direct descendant from King Solomon, son of David; yet Jehovah stated the Kingdom would be taken from Solomon's line for disobedience, and the title assumed by Haile Selassie, "King of Kings" and "Lion of the tribe of Judah" applies to no man on earth. So neither actor in this fight is a true and faithful witness to the only and omnipotent Creator of heaven and earth, Jehovah God, but both parties in the controversy may be under direct guidance of Gog, the spirit creature set by Satan to destroy every vestige and remembrance of Jesus, the Christ, from among the children of men on earth today.

Fascism Knocks at John Bull's Door

Romulus and Remus, suckled by the wolf, built up Rome in the first place, and the pope and Mussolini are thoroughly imbued with the idea that by the use of Fascism they can do it again. During the war the Italian press, owned body and soul by the Mussolini government, attacked Britain savagely. Thus the paper Tevere said:

The English have made every continent white with human bones, and today, with the cruelest violence, they are continuing to outrage those human rights which they champion at Geneva—but only at Geneva.

During the war a traveler reported that all over Italy he found lawyers, teachers and the common people fully convinced that the British empire is about to be dismembered and that Italy is to take its place in Egypt, Arabia, Iraq, Palestine, Africa, India, and even Australia. The whole country was aflame with the idea, implanted, of course, by the pope's backing of Mussolini, and this view was broadcast all over the East and Near East by the Italian Government.

For a time there were anti-British disorders, smashing British store windows, daubing them with black enamel, forcing hotels to change their names, defacing signs, etc. It was reported that some Italians spat in the faces of some British. If true, it is just as well to study a little history and do a little thinking. British bulldogs are all right as playmates, but once they start in to use their jaws it is not so easy to get along with them. The dispatches that mentioned affronts to the British said also that King Victor Emmanuel approved the war in Ethiopia. Why would he not? He is a Roman Catholic, is he not? And he wishes to do all possible to show his accord with the pope. And, now that the war is over, he is an emperor.

Romulus and Remus knocking at John Bull's door

If the League had concluded to use military sanctions against Italy a trained army of 5,941,949 veterans ready for service, together with a trained reserve of 36,456,517 men, would have been available, equipped with 13,917 planes and 1,165 fighting ships, representing the military resources of the 49 nations voting to go along with the League program.

Up to the latter part of May the Ethiopians were still occupying the western part of their country, even though the capital had fallen, but when the League of Nations insisted on letting the Ethiopian representative have his usual place at the council table, Baron Pompei Aloisi, chief of the Italian delegation, rose and with dignity intimated that Ethiopia had ceased to exist and that he did not see how he could spend any of his time sitting up with a corpse. That was not just what he said, but it was what he meant. Incidentally, Ethiopia paid the League of Nations $126,144 and got nothing. When Haile Selassie rose in the League of Nations assembly to insist upon Ethiopian rights the Italian press representatives shouted "Murderer!" and otherwise acted so boisterously as to be forcibly ejected.

Tales from the Battlefields

When first the Italian troops invaded Ethiopia a great effort was made to swing Ethiopian sentiment around to the side of the invaders. At the fall of Aksum, the so-called "holy city" of Ethiopia, the military forces remained far outside the city, while the priests surrendered. The Italian general kissed the Byzantine cross carried by the head priest. A B.U.P. dispatch from Adowa to the London Daily Express said:

Everything is being done by the Italians to avoid offending the religious susceptibilities of the people. The Italians know that the Coptic church dreads the spread of Roman Catholicism following the Italian invasion.

Subsequently, when it became perfectly apparent to everybody that the Italians would win their objective, there were scenes of needless butchery such as characterized the slaughter of the fleeing Germans on the morning of November 11, 1918. Edward J. Neil, of the Associated Press, accompanied a squadron of Italian bombing planes over Ethiopia. The dispatch which he sent was, in part, as follows:

Our plane wheeled, dove and thundered at them less than 600 feet from the ground, so close we could see the black men sawing desperately at the reins of their mules. Then Francesco started pulling levers. We dropped twenty-four fifty-one-pounders in clusters, and I saw at least ten strike squarely in the middle of frantic groups. Shattered bodies were easily visible, flying through the air. Pietro radioed headquarters: "Found thousand quadrupeds at zone indicated. They received our caresses. Estimate 200 Ethiopians killed, 100 animals. Rest fled, demoralized."

Ethiopians were stirred by tales coming from Adowa, Aksum, Adigrat and Adda Garima that Italian soldiers in captured areas ravished Ethiopian women and girls wholesale, including nuns and priests' wives; and both Ethiopians and Americans were stirred by Italian bombing of the American Mission Hospital at Dessye. The hospital was marked by a large American flag and red cross, and its location was well known to the Italian consulate and Italian armies. It was the first place in Dessye attacked, although it is far removed from the town. Americans insist the bombing could not have been accidental. Forty-five bombs were dropped on the property, five of which hit the hospital.

Fascistic and Other Barbarities

Italy justly accuses Ethiopia of barbarities in the castration of prisoners, and then the public press reminds everybody that for centuries prior to 1878 the Roman Catholic Hierarchy caused the castration of 3,500 boys every year because it liked fine music in its choirs. The boys who survived the terrible operation and who did not develop adequate voices were sold to serve as eunuchs in Turkish harems.

There were castrati in the papal choir as late as 1913, and may still be. The practice was carried on for centuries merely to gratify the insufferable vanity of the popes and their enjoyment of high-class music at the expense of many ruined lives.

Referring to the rule of the Amharas in Ethiopia, Lieut. Cyril Rocke, of London, in an open letter to the archbishop of Canterbury, said:

Does your Grace of Canterbury realize that, in Abyssinia, countless little male children are castrated every year to qualify them for the slave market of the ruling race of that fair and unhappy country? The mutilation takes the form of the removal of the child's testicles by the crudest methods, after which the wounds caused by the act of abscission are cauterized by the application of red-hot irons. The Abyssinian experts who perform this operation do not use anesthetics. This happens to countless unfortunate little children every year, of whom the writer has seen and spoken to a considerable number.

As a ruler Haile Selassie was not all that could be desired. When he went forth to battle he dressed in plain clothes and stayed in the rear, in as safe a place as he could get, but his double, wearing a false beard and carrying a red umbrella, to make him look like a king, was put in the front lines to take the punishment.

Selassie was going to stay in Addis Ababa and be the last man to die, but thought better of it. A British warship carried him to Palestine, along with ten tons of baggage. Part of the baggage was 100 iron-bound boxes, said to contain most of the money of the Ethiopian realm. This report has been vehemently denied.

“What Abyssinia Is”

One would not anticipate a very nice picture of Ethiopia from an Italian, and certainly the state of things there is far from attractive in the 72-page booklet The Last Stronghold of Slavery; What Abyssinia Is, by Prof. G. C. Baravelli, of the Rome University. It seems hard to think of a land where a hand or foot may be cut off for the smallest theft; where a person was hanged for stealing oranges from the larder of the empress; where one-fourth of the inhabitants are slaves; where fresh meat is eaten raw; where fifty thousand lepers are at large; where the only sanitary conveniences are dogs and jackals and hyenas; where there are no educated women and only one man in ten can read; where the clergy own one-third of the country and their hand is so heavy on the peasants that the very men that grow their food have nothing left for themselves; where as a result of this clergy misrule there are great and fertile districts, once the homes of hundreds of thousands of people, which have now become uninhabited deserts; where willful premeditated murder is raised to the rank of a respected institution and warriors are proud of killing children, women and the old and helpless; where a man’s standing in his tribe depends on the number of emasculations to his credit, and warriors even kill pregnant women so as to emasculate their unborn children; where a would-be regicide was tormented in the presence of the emperor and thousands of guests. According to Prof. Baravelli, and in this he quotes from a French author named Griaule, the man was bound in strips of cloth smeared with wax and honey, was then set alight like a torch, and as he leaped and writhed in his death agonies eight eunuchs prodded him with spears in hips and legs, to add to his agonies.

A former emperor used to fire his pistol at anyone in the street who failed to bow when he passed. Spies and perjurers have their tongues cut out. Prisoners are given neither food nor shelter. Debtors are chained to their creditors, sometimes for two years. Prices of slaves range from 80 thalers for boys up to 250 thalers for virgins.

The priests always have slaves and are the defenders of the institution. Slaves are bred like cattle, as has always been done by slave-owners everywhere. (There was a time in the United States when males were routed and advertised, like farm animals.) Slaves are always hungry, are often flogged, and are sometimes hung by the feet over a fire sprinkled with berberi, the hottest of hot peppers. Little girls are raped. Little boys are lashed to death (as happened recently in the Transvaal at the hands of a Dutch farmer, Oscar Youngblood).

Prof. Baravelli has written a book to make the blood stand still in one’s veins. He frankly admits Italy’s desire to subjugate Ethiopia and make it an Italian colony. Britain is represented as standing athwart Italian ambitions. The work was printed in August, 1935.

Ethiopians Never Had a Chance

In the Italo-Ethiopian war the Ethiopian rulers never had a chance. Italy was permitted to arm; the Ethiopians were not permitted to do so until too late. Many brave deeds were undertaken by the dark-skinned warriors, as riding against tanks, leaping upon them and shooting the men inside, but it all amounted to nothing in the final reckoning. One of Haile Selassie’s worst misfortunes was to have the wrong kind of son-in-law, Dedjasmatch Gugsa, who went over to the Italians with part of the Ethiopian army. Britain was afraid of losing control of her Sudan water supply; but water still seeks its level, and though the shadow of the Holy (?) Roman Empire rises across the path to the East, still Britain continues to control Suez. There was nothing to the talk of a black uprising in Africa; blacks are not bloodthirsty and quarrelsome like the whites.

After the Italian bombing of the unfortified city of Adowa, inhabited only by women, children and decrepit and sick, Emperor Haile Selassie issued a statement in which he said:

We still repose confidence in the conscience and heart of mankind to save a struggling and innocent people from a mighty aggressor. I can never forget the repeated expressions of friendship, sympathy and good will from the great nations of North and South America which, like ourselves, suffered and sacrificed for the sacred cause of independence. We hope this message of gratitude will reach every heart overseas that has sympathized with our cause and beaten with our heart in our struggle to keep our homes, our lives and our liberties against a State whose attack on us constitutes the greatest act of international immorality of modern times. Handicapped as we are by lack of arms and with a mighty military machine already on our soil threatening to annihilate us, we nevertheless face the future with courage.

The International Red Cross refused to send gas masks to Ethiopia during the Italian invasion, on the ground that the purpose for which the masks would be used was not specified. While the Ethiopians were thinking up reasons for wanting the masks they were quickly reduced to a condition where it did not make any difference whether they had them or not. After the skin has been burned off one’s face he is not interested in much of anything except to be put out of his misery.

Civilization Has Already Begun

Italy is hard at work civilizing Ethiopians. An army of conscripted Italians is conscripting Ethiopians to build roads for them at wages of 8c a day, without board. The reason Italy is invading Ethiopia is to save the Ethiopians from being slave-drivers.

A picture in the London News Chronicle shows a physician at Harar, Ethiopia, giving the children their first steps in education. He seems to be scratching a child’s arm and will probably rub in some pus of uncertain origin. Let it be hoped that it will not make the child blind, as has happened in America, for it is hard for blind children to be educated for useful work, even in this country.

Italy will rule Ethiopia by the selection of chieftains from districts with which they are familiar. Civil and religious liberty will be proclaimed and a native army organized under Italian officers.

Before Addis Ababa fell into the hands of the Italian forces, Herr Adel, Austrian banker, had been living in the Belgian legation for twenty years. He came home May 9 and found all his servants missing. When he complained to the military governor he was asked to return the next morning. Returning, he found that all these faithful servants had been shot. They had guarded his house during the looting, and, having been found with arms in their possession, had been slain by the Italian garrison. For sending out this information, four newspaper correspondents were expelled.

Italian Atrocities in Tripoli in 1911

From The Nile Society, 79 Buckingham Palace Road, London, S.W. 1, comes a sixteen-page booklet entitled Italian Atrocities in Tripoli in 1911. It contains nine photographic reproductions of soldiers jeering at naked, dying women; soldiers examining a corpse to see if it needs another bullet; a pile of fifty men and boys shot down after they had surrendered their weapons; and women marching to a fate worse than death over the dead bodies of their menfolk. The illustrations are from a work by the British war correspondent Francis McCullough in his work Italy’s War in the Desert. Can you imagine soldiers kicking a wounded and dying man in the back even while blood was gushing from his mouth and nostrils? Mussolini protested against the needless murders in Tripoli at the time they took place. McCullough says of the murderers themselves:

They believe in war for war’s sake. They believe that the shedding of blood makes a nation virile, unifies it, intensifies the patriotism of its inhabitants. Their motto is: “If you feel decadent, go out and murder somebody.” They preached this extraordinary doctrine without any attempt at excuse or palliation.

General Graziani, the civilizer of Tripoli, has been slated to civilize Ethiopia. The American Guardian explains about his civilizing methods. When the Italians came to Tripoli it had a population of 2,660,000; now only 80,000 are left. Graziani civilized them; he exterminated them. One of his feats was to take an 84-year-old man who had protested his brutalities, carry him up, bound hand and foot, in an airplane, and at 2,000 feet throw him overboard upon the rocks below. The pope backed Mussolini in his Ethiopian campaign, and will be much interested financially in the results Graziani will obtain in the way of civilization for Ethiopia.

Of a troop of Arab youths from Tripoli, Mussolini asked, “Have we marched straight ahead up to this time?” When the answer came “Yes”, he replied: “Today, May 24, I declare to you that we will march just as straight ahead in the future.” This seems to imply further conquests ahead, as he used the expression before beginning the war on Ethiopia.

The Devil, Gog, the pope, other clerical stockholders, the conscienceless munition makers, the conscienceless newspapers, and the conscienceless politicians of “Christendom” are looking forward expectantly to a continuous boom in the greatest of all rackets—bloody, beastly, hideous, devilish war. International murderers, incorporated and unincorporated, preferred and common, are happy in the sorrows they so cheerfully cause. But read Zechariah 14:12.

The Conspiracy at Philadelphia

THE petition now being widely circulated by thousands of persons and signed by millions of tolerant and fair-minded Americans, Catholic, Protestant and otherwise, is one of the most remarkable things that have taken place in recent years. The bringing of action against Hierarchical agents and their intolerant and bigoted interference with the free and lawful use of the radio by defenders of the Bible is a matter of coincident interest.

Now another step in the defense of fairness, tolerance and freedom of speech and worship has been taken in the filing of an affidavit by a representative of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society and of the Peoples Pulpit Association with the Federal Communications Commission, the United States Department of Justice, and other Federal agencies. This affidavit is both unique and significant, being the first of its kind and tenor to have been presented to a legally constituted commission in order to protect the God-given and Constitutionally acknowledged rights of freedom of speech and worship from the depredations of an intolerant and coercive foreign power.

Because of its importance and significance, the substance of the affidavit is herewith presented, omitting legal phrase and detail for the sake of brevity and readability:

The Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society and Peoples Pulpit Association by means of this affidavit present to the Federal Communications Commission the facts concerning a case which is a marked example of malicious interference with the broadcasting in Pennsylvania of radio programs which are in the public interest, the case being illustrative of similar interference in dozens of other cases in other states.

For some years past not less than twenty broadcast stations have been and still are the objects of such interference "by a foreign power headed and ruled by one Pope Pius XI", through his allies and representatives.

The allies or agents of this foreign power that are involved in the Pennsylvania case mentioned are Dennis J. Dougherty, Hugh L. Lamb, J. Carroll McCormick, James J. Clarke and Albert A. Cormier, the last named being an unofficial agent of the Hierarchy, vice-president and secretary of the Pennsylvania Broadcasting Company, and general manager of its station WIP.

WARNING TO CATHOLICS

(From Catholic Action of The South, Peter M. H. Wynhoven, Editor-in-chief.)

Information has reached us that a petition is being circulated in some sections of New Orleans for the purpose of getting the Rutherford programs back on the air in this section. A parishioner in an uptown parish stated that she had signed a petition, not knowing clearly what it was, and found out only later. We caution the Catholics of New Orleans not to sign any petition presented to them without reading it over carefully to ascertain its purpose.

We are not at all interested in the programs of Rutherford if they are intended to express his beliefs or his principles. He is entitled to legitimate freedom of speech, just as any other citizen, and far be it from us to seek interference with this right of any citizen.

But if such programs are intended to revile the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and cast aspersions and slurs upon our beliefs and our Church, as was done in previous programs, we do protest and object to such programs inasmuch as they are a prostitution and abuse of free speech and an offense against a large body of law-abiding citizens.

The Golden Age invites readers to note that the above "warning" sets forth the Hierarchy's attitude toward Judge Rutherford's lectures. Judge Rutherford definitely denies that he intends to "revile or cast aspersions and slurs" upon the Catholic church or anybody else, nor has he done so. He has, of course, discussed the doctrines of the Hierarchy in the light of the Bible, for the reason that the Hierarchy makes the claim that these are in harmony with the Bible's teachings. The teachings and claims of any individual or institution, whether political or religious, are properly subject to discussion. The petition being circulated by Jehovah's witnesses merely contends for this point, and requests that a public discussion by radio of the questions at issue be arranged. Judge Rutherford stands ready to back up his statements by Scriptures and physical facts. Is the Hierarchy willing to do the same with respect to its claims and assertions?

During a period of more than ten years many thousands of persons had become accustomed to depend upon WIP for the lectures of Judge Rutherford, which were broadcast in English and also reproduced in foreign translations. According to records kept by WIP the Society and Association were consistent users, under contract, of the facilities of WIP, the entire period of this continuous use being admittedly one of the longest of record at the station. Bills were always paid promptly, payments aggregating more than $20,000.

In addition to the cost of broadcasting, the Society, at large additional expenditure of money, time and energy, widely advertised these WIP broadcasts.

The Pennsylvania Broadcasting Company, owner of WIP, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gimbel Brothers, Ellis A. Gimbel, Sr., one of the six original Gimbel Brothers, being chairman of the board of directors both of Gimbel Brothers, Inc., and of the Pennsylvania Broadcasting Company. For almost a century the retail department-store business carried on by Gimbel Brothers has grown until it is one of the larger department-store enterprises in the United States, operating vast merchandising establishments in Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Milwaukee, Atlantic City, Palm Beach, and other places, with assets aggregating $75,000,000, about.

On June 30, 1933, Mr. Ellis A. Gimbel told three representatives of the Society that he had received from 'the highest authority of the Roman Catholic Church in Philadelphia' a letter demanding that the Watch Tower Bible talks be discontinued. Withdrawal of trade and business from the Gimbel stores by Roman Catholic patrons was threatened. Mr. Gimbel and associates yielded to the Hierarchy's demand and the Watch Tower programs were taken off WIP. Mr. Gimbel was asked to give the Society a copy of the letter he had received, but chose to ignore the request.

Drawing a bead on the target

However, on April 1, 1934, WIP renewed its contract with the Society for the broadcasting of Judge Rutherford's lectures, and these continued each Sunday until March 29, 1936, and included the forceful address of February 23, 1936, on "Separating the Nations". (See The Golden Age No. 430.) A copy of the lecture was filed with the Commission as a part of the affidavit.

Arrangements for the renewal of the WIP contract, which expired March 31, 1936, were completed when on March 30 two representatives of the Watch Tower visited the offices of WIP, by prior arrangement, in order to execute the formal contract, and were then suddenly told, by Cormier, already mentioned, that 'the Judge Rutherford program was off WIP'. The Society was denied copies of correspondence with Priest Clarke which led to this action on the part of WIP. Various other communications of a coercive and threatening character were received by WIP and brought about this violation of the legal rights of both Judge Rutherford and the Society.

They used to call it St. Vitus; now it's St. Dennis

After setting forth the foregoing facts in correct legal terminology, the affidavit concludes as follows:

The effect of the decision of said licensee's principals, aforesaid Ellis A. Gimbel senior, Arthur C. Kaufman, Albert A. Cormier, and others, in acceding under coercion to the malicious and wrongful demands made of them on behalf of the aforesaid foreign power and its representatives, is, undeniably,

They used to call it St. Vitus; now it's St. Dennis (a) to deprive many thousands of persons, who rightfully depend upon aforesaid licensee's station WIP, of legitimate and proper program material consisting of said lectures of Judge Rutherford and answers to questions on the Holy Scriptures, and

(b) to cause said licensee of station WIP on and after the 30th day of March 1936, until now, to operate said station contrary to the public interest and in violation of law, and

(c) to embarrass the Federal Communications Commission, needlessly, in its effort to administer in an orderly manner the provisions of law, and

(d) to deprive said Society and Association, wrongfully and needlessly, of legal right and equality of opportunity to continue to hire and use said licensee's station WIP even as said Society and Association did hire and use said station in the public interest for more than a decade and now desires to do in furtherance of the chartered purpose of said Society and Association, to wit, "the dissemination of Bible truths" for the mental and moral improvement of men and women.

The affidavit brings to the attention of the duly constituted commission abuses which should give them the greatest concern and which they should be the most eager to correct.

The petition which is now being circulated in all parts of the United States will serve to show that public opinion is definitely on the side of fairness and toleration, as well as freedom of speech and of worship. The desirability of a frank and open discussion of matters affecting the public interest is emphatically demonstrated.

Miscellany

Getting Rid of Some of the Dirty Food

GETTING rid of some of the dirty food, in March the Food and Drug Administration destroyed 11,410 pounds of butter damaged by the flood, 11,255 gallons of olive oil adulterated to as much as 70 percent with tea-seed oil, 2,784 jars of Limburger decorated with mouse hairs, 50 filthy cheeses, 115 jars of short-weight cheeses, 246 pounds of decayed shrimp, 12 gallons of decomposed oysters, 34,134 cases of putrid salmon, 9,400 pounds of wormy codfish, and 596 cases of tuna fish that had seen better days. There is always something to be thankful for.

Friction Between Italy and Sweden

SWEDEN was disturbed when Italian airmen in Ethiopia wounded two Swedish doctors and killed 28 wounded Ethiopians in an attack on a Red Cross unit. The Italians ordered all Swedish missionaries to leave its African territories, where some of them have worked for seventy years.

Following Germany's Example

FOLLOWING Germany's example, Austria is conscripting all men between 18 and 42 for service with or without arms. This has startled all Europe, and the Balkans are in ferment.

Crusade Against Jews in Rumania

A DREADFUL crusade against the Jews is on in Rumania, and the government supports it. Billboards shriek against them, and the main headlines of half the papers attack them. In the elections armed soldiers terrorize the people and virtually compel them to support the party which is devoted to bitter persecution of the one million Jews included in the total population of eighteen millions.

Prosperity in Norway

THE Norwegian Labor party, now in control of the Norwegian government, is experiencing considerable success in its work. Factories are busy, unemployment has greatly decreased, new roads are being built, labor disputes have been settled, homes have been financed, subsidies have been granted the farmers, and travel has been stimulated.

Spanish Language in Puerto Rico

AN INVESTIGATION by educational experts supports the opinion that in Puerto Rico, where the average child has less than three years in school, the children will learn more if instruction is given in the native Spanish language, and instruction in English is dropped.

Agriculture

Electrification of Farms

IN HOLLAND all farms are electrically equipped; in Germany, 90 percent of them; in Sweden, 50 percent; and in the United States, 10 percent. In the latter country the big financiers have been too busy working out the details of utility holding-company rackets, figuring on how to gobble smaller companies, and how to boost rates of those already swallowed to give any proper attention to the needs of the farmers. Electrification of farms in Switzerland, Belgium, France, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Japan has progressed far beyond that in the United States.

Imports of Farm Products

UNDER the plan of destroying foods and other agricultural products, great progress was made in encouraging farmers abroad to send their goods to the United States. This worked so well that in 1935, as compared with 1934, importations of oats were doubled; so was carpet wool; wheat was more than tripled, tallow was sextupled, animal fats and oils were nine times as much, butter was eleven times as much, corn was fourteen times as much, fresh pork was thirty times as much, and fresh beef imports were more than 61 times as much.

Proposal to Abandon 1,000,000 Farms

DR. ALONZO E. TAYLOR, director of the Food Research Institute of Stanford University, says the only way to make farming pay in the United States is to retire 1,000,000 farms, embracing 250,000,000 acres of land. Very good! That will make farming pay, for those that are left in the business. Ah, yes! And what shall be done with the 4,000,000 people now managing to skimp along on the 1,000,000 farms? Oh, they can be put on WPA agricultural projects—the er—the er—abandoned farms.

Bilbo's Muzzled Pecan Pickers

AT A senate hearing at Washington it was charged by Senator Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, that his colleague from that state, Rev. Theo. G. Bilbo, muzzles the little colored boys that pick his pecan nuts in the fall, and searches them at night so they cannot take any away. Now if Bilbo will put that system in operation on the $4,880,000,000 election campaign fund he will receive the applause of the taxpayers. But see 1 Corinthians 9:9.

The Burning of Blue Grass Seed

J. V. SHIPP, a seed dealer in Kentucky, explains that the so-called "blue grass seed" which was burned at Paris, Ky., was trash from recleaning the honest-to-goodness blue grass seed, and, though it looks like the genuine, is not, and when it was burned that was the proper thing to do with it. He states that the sale of this trash has hurt the state of Kentucky and been a detriment to seed men.

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